After Li Congjing received the military report of Lingnan Pacification, he called Mo Li and Feng Dao to Chongwen Palace, and said to him: "Fujian and Lingnan are pacified very quickly, which is in line with our best expectations. There are more than 300 states in the territory of the Tang Dynasty www.biquge.info, and there is now only Annan (Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, Jiaozhi) in the south, and there are feudal towns. ”

"Since the Liu clan was entrenched in Lingnan, the soldiers and civilians of Annam were forced to isolate themselves from the Central Plains, and they could no longer see the face of the sky, and they also suffered from the feudal towns, which can be said to be the people's livelihood. Now, the country of our Datang is prospering, and the north and south of the river are returning to peace, don't the people of Annan want to return? I will, that is, I ordered Guo Weifa to guard the army to go south, and occupy Luocheng (Jiaozhou) within the year, if there are thieves who are not subordinate, they will all be destroyed! ”

"As for Nanzhao (Dali)...... At the beginning, Wei Gao was in Xichuan, opened the Qingxi Road to pass through the barbarians, selected the barbarian children to gather in Chengdu, taught books and etiquette, and went after learning, followed by other children, such as 50 years, thousands of the barbarian children learned in Chengdu, and the border was peaceful for 50 years...... Viewed in this way, the barbarians are not indoctrinable. And since Nanzhao has been transformed by my Tang Dynasty for many years, he is my Tang people, how can he not know the way to serve the country with loyalty? Since it is known that the loyal monarch serves the country, the official should go to the Luoyang Dynasty to see Yu I to describe his duties, and the people should welcome the king into the country to ensure local peace. ”

"Order Guo Wei, personally lead the guards and the army into Nanzhao, if the road is blocked by thieves, and there are traitors and coercion in the city, you should remember the responsibility of the king to seek rebellion against thieves and defeat the ministers! Once there was nothing to do in the south, Dali Province was set up here. ”

After speaking, Li Congjing asked Mo Li and Feng Dao, "Do you have any objections?" ”

The two bowed their heads in unison and said, "The minister has no objection." ”

The southwestern border of the Tang Dynasty is mainly Nanzhao.

Because of its land in the west of Shu and Lingnan in the east, Xichuan, which repeatedly invaded Shu in the past, Yongzhou in Lingnan and other places, especially Yongzhou, is an important town for the Tang Dynasty to defend against Nanzhao in Lingnan, and it is also the place of four wars. And when Nanzhao invaded Lingnan, Yongzhou and other places, he colluded with the barbarians in Annan, which made the Annan Protectorate often destroyed.

Only by pacifying Nanzhao can Annan be completely pacified.

More than 30 years ago, Zheng Maisi, a minister of the Han Dynasty, killed the king of Nanzhao, and a few years later, Zheng Maisi killed 800 members of the Nanzhao royal family and established the Great Changhe Kingdom. A few years ago, the Great Changhe Kingdom was destroyed at the hands of the courtiers, and now the Nanzhao is called Da Yi Ning, called the Great Yi Ning State.

Before noon, Li Congjing and Mo Li and others were discussing in the palace, and in the afternoon, Li Congjing left the palace and came to Luoyang College.

Luoyang College was built in the spring of the second year of Changxing, and now four years have passed, and the first batch of students should also graduate this winter. Li Congjing personally came to the college to attend the "graduation ceremony" of the first batch of students.

The college carries the hope of Li Congjing to develop Datang in an all-round way and promote the historical process, and the relationship is not something that can be described by a "hundred-year plan" or "a thousand-year plan".

In Li Congjing's vision, in addition to helping Datang prosper and govern the country, the more important mission of the college students is to become "pioneers who promote the progress of the times".

It may be too early to talk about this, but in a few decades, the academy will inevitably be home to many of the world's top talents, artists, politicians, engineers and even scientists.

In a word, Li Congjing must cultivate those talents who have promoted social progress and changed the face of society cultivated in Western universities; Talents that have not been cultivated in Western universities must also be cultivated by Li Congjing.

It took hundreds of years for Western universities to train politicians, philosophers, and scientists, and Li Congjing took decades to do -- and even lay a stable foundation at the worst.

Knowledge changes society, talent advances history, and the basic rules that Western society takes the lead in developing, Li Congjing knows, so he must let Datang take the lead.

Only when the college first cultivates countless outstanding and advanced talents and allows them to enter all walks of life, can Datang's society develop in an all-round way. In the end, Datang was ahead of the world, possessing "advanced knowledge" and "advanced thinking", and developed into "advanced science and technology" and "advanced civilization system", and grew into a "modern empire" as soon as possible.

The "graduation ceremony" was not held in the Lun Gaku, but in the main square.

Because of the relationship between the court's attention and appeal, there were many onlookers, officials in Luoyang City and even ordinary people, but all the scholars with ink on their chests were all kinds of people, and the square that could accommodate 10,000 people was crowded.

In the center of the square, hundreds of students who graduated today sat on the ground, and in front of the students, was the Mr. College who was sitting on the desk. Around them, there were Luoyang officials, and there were many scholars who had no seats but could stand.

The elimination rate of the college is 50 percent, which is ridiculously high, which means that only half of the qualified graduates can get the resignation. These students are now dressed in light cyan nine-grade official robes, nine-stone belts, and fish bags—this is the standard attire for graduates of Luoyang Academy.

Regardless of whether they are officials in the future or not, if they can successfully graduate, they will have the rank of Datang Nine Rank Officials.

With the respect of the emperor, Li Congjing stepped onto the high platform and personally delivered a graduation speech.

It is a rare sunny day in winter, and the sun is warm.

The students sat in the middle of the square, the stars arching over the moon.

In the face of these pillars who carried too much hope for him and also carried the hope of Datang, Li Congjing was full of emotion for a while.

Some of them are in their teens, some are in their twenties.

After several years of cold windows, once they have completed their studies, they are all high-spirited, ready to devote themselves to the world, and show what they have learned and ambitions in their lives.

Li Congjing looked at them, "Wearing a nine-grade official robe, and getting a fish talisman to tell you to be a good student, it means that you have succeeded in your studies." However, academic success does not mean that the school has been completed. The world is big, the sea of learning is endless, his body is not dead, and he is not going to study. The world is a battlefield and an academy. ”

“...... Before going to the 'battlefield', you must first ask yourself who you are waiting for and what your responsibilities are. I hope that before you join the 'battle array', you will first think clearly about what Datang is. I hope that you will think clearly about what it means to Datang. ”

“...... The family and the country are fortunate, and the world is peaceful. But I am brilliant and prosperous, and I should not enjoy peace. Chengping all over the world, vain life is complacent and slack, and loses the ambition to forge ahead, people have no enterprising heart, they are immersed in drunken paper and gold fans, then nothing can be achieved, the country has no enterprising heart, then the disaster of fighting for power and profit, and the death of foreign criminals. ”

“...... How big is the world? How wide are the rivers and seas? Wait, find out for yourself. But I want to tell you and others that there is a world outside the world, there are rivers and seas on the side of the rivers and seas, and there are countless feats there, waiting for you to create, there are thousands of volumes of history, there is a beginning and no end, enough to engrave the names of Er! ”

“...... There are meritorious people abroad, and there are people at home. If you want to make great contributions to the country, you must first govern the country and all the people. Every person of the Tang Dynasty should regard the food and clothes of the Tang Dynasty as the destiny of heaven, and a green vegetable and an ear of wheat should be regarded as a god. It is necessary to know that the family and the country are the foundation, and it is necessary to know that the Tang people are the sky. ”

Finally, Li Congjing concluded: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and the thousand-year-old Tang Dynasty begins with Erzhong!" ”

On that day, the academy mountain roared with a tsunami, boiling and the sky was boiling.

After returning to the palace, Li Congjing summoned several gentlemen and several graduates of the academy in the Guangxian Palace.

Wang Buqi introduced a gentleman from the academy to Li Congjing, unexpectedly, this person did not have the official title of doctor, just a teaching assistant, and he was relatively old, in his forties, he looked a little like an old farmer, Li Congjing's eyes were sharp, and he noticed the calluses on this person's hands.

"Teaching assistant Huang Guangshi, from the home of the eunuch, when the Central Plains was in turmoil, he avoided disaster in the township, and then was summoned by the imperial court to serve as an assistant teacher in the college." Wang Buqi briefly introduced this person.

Li Congjing had done some understanding before, and then he looked at Huang Guangshi and asked gently: "I heard, Qingshan is good at weaving?" ”

Huang Guangshi was not too restrained, after all, he came from the family of the official eunuch, and replied: "In the past, the ministers avoided disasters in the township, and their livelihood was difficult, so they learned some weaving skills from others to subsidize their families. In addition to reading, the minister has a lot of observations, and has an understanding over the years. After entering Luoyang, I got acquainted with many craftsmen of the college, and often talked about this matter, and the minister knew that the current weaving technique was quite worthy of improvement......

Huang Guangshi is a person who reads and does not read his brain to death, but reads alive, which is also related to his habit of reading miscellaneous books, and he said that the weaving improvement technique, focusing on the improvement of "defending, elastic, spinning, weaving" tools, and "wrong yarn color matching, heald thread flowering" cotton pattern manufacturing technology.

To tell the truth, Li Congjing doesn't know these things very well, and he doesn't know that the famous Huang Daopo of the Song Dynasty relied on these things to make a name for himself. These processes have greatly promoted the development of the cotton textile industry. However, although Li Congjing did not know the details, he knew that this was a very practical technique when he heard Huang Guangshi's description of the improvement of the effect after the experiment.

This thing is a basic matter of the national economy and people's livelihood.

Huang Guangshi has a good daughter-in-law, and also benefits from the incentive system of the college, if it were not for the college to encourage Mr. and students to improve the technical methods of hundreds of industries, people like Huang Guangshi would only think about getting promoted and making a fortune step by step, who would tinker with those "strange and weird" things that were despised by scholars?

That's where "bootstrapping" comes in.

After Huang Guangshi, Li Congjing saw the person who stepped forward and showed a smile full of meaning, "Good boy, what good things do you have that you can show me?" ”

Standing in front of Li Congjing turned out to be Li Congke's son Li Chongmei, that is, a gentleman who did not know Zhao Pu.

Li Chongmei is a clever ghost, and she does a lot of naughty things, but what he took out this time really shocked Li Congjing.

"The minister often goes to the military camp with his father, and he also likes anecdotes in the army, and he does not hide it from His Majesty, and the minister and the men in the military camp can call him brother and brother......" Li Chongmei said with a smile, it is normal for a young man to be curious and not have any utilitarianism, "So the minister found that when the army was out on the march, when steaming meat during the march, because the iron pot had no characteristics, it often took too long, which affected the march. My father also told his ministers an interesting story: the meat was not cooked well, the enemy had already been killed, the army left in a hurry, less than twenty miles, and found that the enemy army did not chase after it, and the scouts reported after checking it, and the enemy army actually gathered in front of the iron pot, waiting to eat meat......"

After a lot of nonsense, Li Chongmei finally got to the point, "After observing the minister, he found that if the iron pot is sealed, it can speed up the cooking of meat and greatly reduce the time of cooking meat, so after studying with Zhao Pu for a long time, he finally made a special iron pot......"

What Li Chongmei said is the prototype of the pressure cooker.

The pressure cooker was invented in the 17th century in the West.

This did help the marching army to fight a war.

But after Li Congjing saw something, he was so surprised that he almost couldn't help himself.

The first industrial revolution in human history originated with the steam engine.

Why was the first steam engine made? Inspired by the way steam escapes from a pressure cooker!

How could Li Congjing not be surprised?

Coincidence, or necessity?

If there is no academy, if there is no Li Congjing's various guidance methods, if the reader still only knows how to bury his head in the sage book, there will be no Huang Guangshi and Li Chongmei in front of him.