"Dad...... Dad...... Dad...... Father....... ”

"Good daughter, one more, one more."

In the blink of an eye, Zhao Ling'er was almost a year old, and the Great Song Dynasty was still calm for nearly a year, and the only major event was that the Liao State had such a small-scale attack on the Song Dynasty, and it was also repelled by Li Jilong.

At the beginning of this year, Taizong ordered to change the end of the arch, and it was close to the autumn of the first year of the end arch.

Zhao Ling'er, who is almost a year old, has begun to learn to speak, and teaching her daughter to speak every day has become Zhao Weiji's greatest pleasure at this stage.

In this year, Huating County began to develop greatly due to Zhao Weiji's capital injection, and the construction of the port was nearing completion. The city is also starting to come alive.

The liveliest place in town now is not any bazaar, but a school.

This school called: Tsinghua Academy can be said to be Zhao Weiji's biggest success this year. Through the influence left by his grandfather, Zhao Weiji gathered scholars who had not been in a good career and established this academy on the grounds of compiling a general history.

After a year, the academy has become quite large. There are more than 100 gentlemen working in the academy, and as many as 1,000 students are studying.

Relying on the academy, Huating County also began to become famous, and a large number of immigrants began to pour in.

But this academy is an outlier in Shilin, and all the people in Shilin have only four words for this academy: deviant.

That's right, Zhao Weiji's academy is very weird. Except for the compilation of the general history, which is still an orthodox academic study, all the other studies of this academy are out of step with this era.

The biggest feature of Tsinghua Academy is that it does not teach scriptures and teachings, and does not teach poetry. As a college, it doesn't teach anything that has to be examined in the imperial examination.

The college is divided into two sections: Liberal Arts and Science.

The liberal arts teach history, law, and economics. The main subjects of science are: arithmetic, engineering, and astronomical phenomena.

In Shilin's opinion, these are the things that are going to laugh off the big teeth. Although you have to read history books for all humanities, what can you do just by reading history books? The law is even more funny, is it specialized in cultivating litigants? And that kind of economy, which is to teach people how to do business. As for arithmetic and engineering, there is a special term in this era: miraculous skills and ingenuity. Only astrology is serious, but it is only a sideshow.

It is true that when Zhao Weiji was preparing to establish this school, everyone around him was against him doing so, but he had his ideas.

First of all, there are risks associated with establishing a traditional seowon. The reason is very simple, the people you have cultivated will eventually participate in the imperial examination and enter the officialdom, can Zhao Guangyi allow Zhao Weiji's peach and plum to spread all over his court, the answer is no.

Secondly, Zhao Weiji hopes to use this academy to cultivate the talents he needs.

As a later generation, Zhao Weiji is too aware of the country's shortcomings in talent training, and the imperial examination system has led to the country's focus on cultivating political talents.

Zhao Weiji needs political talents, but he needs more scientific and technological talents and financial talents.

When Zhao Weiji was about to leave the court, he had other plans, although I couldn't fight you Zhao Guangyi in the court for the time being, but Zhao Weiji knew two things that Zhao Guangyi didn't know: science and technology are the primary productive forces and the economy determines the superstructure.

That's why he built such a deviant school.

He needed this school to provide all the talent he would need in the future, from history and law in politics to business and economics. Scientific and technological talents are produced in arithmetic, engineering and astronomical science.

But when he first started to establish the academy, he encountered great difficulties.

Through the influence of his grandfather Wang Pu during his lifetime, he was easily anxious to get a group of people and established a history school under the pretext of compiling a general history, but the latter was difficult.

In this era, there are only a few people who are really proficient in the law: the criminal master or the imperial history. Where can I find someone who can teach?

Fortunately, at this time, Kou Zhun did Zhao Weiji a favor, and Kou Zhun had a friend who was Dou Yi's youngest son. Dou Yi was the one who participated in the compilation of the Great Song Dynasty law, "Song Unified Punishment". His youngest son decided to retire to Linquan because his career was not too smooth, so he was introduced to Zhao Weiji by Kou Zhun.

If the first two are still branches of the orthodox disciplines, the latter three are completely unavailable in this society.

The economy is mainly taught by the heads of Zhao Weiji's industries, and he is responsible for supplementing it with some modern economic knowledge.

Arithmetic was almost entirely in charge of Zhao Weiji, because many of the great mathematicians of the Song Dynasty had not yet been born at this time.

As for engineering, Zhao Weiji is the proudest so far, he persuaded a considerable number of skilled craftsmen to give up the view of the door, and take out the skills to teach among the students, plus he himself originally studied engineering physics, so engineering is now the best development of all disciplines.

In terms of astrology, Zhao Weiji still found some people from the original Si Tianjian through Zhao Weizheng's relationship and came to teach.

In this way, after the basic preparations were made, the college began to officially recruit students.

But a new problem has arisen, who wants to study in their academy.

Everyone knows that if you study in this academy, you must not think about being an official, at most you will get a historian or find an errand in Si Tianjian.

So at the beginning, many people were not optimistic that such a college could succeed.

But the result of the fact is not so bad, because there are always people who are not suitable for studying but have good talents in other aspects, plus Zhao Weiji promised that all those who graduated from the academy will be responsible for the future of those who graduate from the academy Zhao Weiji is responsible for the future, plus once they enter the academy to study, the tuition fee is exempted, so it still attracts a considerable number of people to study.

And soon the academy began to produce results, and it was only half a year after the establishment of the academy, and the compilation of the general history began to attract attention from all sides.

Then the engineering department directly got the rice horse and ox to turn the overturner, and began to promote the use of it throughout Huating County.

The Great Song Dynasty was also based on agriculture, and at this moment, new and efficient agricultural tools have been invented or transformed, which is indeed very interesting.

As a result, this academy gradually began to become famous.

In fact, when this academy began to slowly get on the right track, Zhao Weiji felt for the first time that his famous clan had really crooked the technology tree before.

Many people who do not have any talent in reading Confucian classics have amazing talents in arithmetic, engineering, and other aspects. When Zhao Weiji was about to leave school after school that day, he met two engineering students who were debating.

"I think this assault could be improved."

"How can it be improved?"

"For example, the bullet is transformed into the shape of an arrow."

"What's the use of that? Although the bullets in the shape of arrows can fly farther, the biggest problem with the assault gun is that it can't hit people. ”

"This ...... Mr. Zhao is here, we can ask him. ”

In the academy, Zhao Weiji's identity is a teacher, so he doesn't want students to call him Wangye.

Two students came over and repeated what they had just discussed.

"I think you both have some truth in what you said, of course range is important, but accuracy is also a must for you. I think you can take the study of assault guns as a special subject, and if you need anything, you can just go to the school's materials office and apply. ”

After Zhao Weiji's approval, the two boys left in a hurry.

Indeed, when students gradually develop their own areas of expertise, the atmosphere of the whole school begins to develop for the better.

The previous education system could only train officials, but not everyone was suitable for becoming officials, so the elimination rate was high. However, the current Tsinghua Academy is very different, and students can roughly reflect the direction they are suitable for when they take the entrance examination, so that the success rate is much higher.

……

"How's his recent farce?"

"Back to the emperor, I heard that his academy seems to be quite prosperous now."

"Yes, it's free."

It can be seen that Zhao Guangyi still doesn't look down on these so-called unorthodox things in his heart.

"Just let him fool around, he's rich anyway, isn't he."

Zhao Weiji, who is in this state now, is the most reassuring to Zhao Guangyi, and he mixes with merchants, craftsmen, and old scholars all day long, where is there still a shadow of decisiveness in the Northern Expedition.

"Don't mention him yet, how is it in the north?"

"The last time the Khitan was defeated by General Li, it seems that it has settled down a lot."

Li Jilong is not a general who has been selected as the twenty-four meritorious heroes in history, and after completely taking charge of himself, he gave Zhao Guangyi a long face, a victory over the party and a victory over the Khitan, so that the ministers of the court have begun to sing praises non-stop, as if everyone has forgotten that before his rise, there was only one Zhao Weiji available in the Song court. And he was also recommended by Zhao Weiji.

The whole period of time was smooth sailing for Zhao Guangyi, with victory on the northern battlefield and basically peace in the country. And that farcical academy doesn't seem to be so useless, at least the new farm tools are still very good.

And Zhao Weiji is also quite good at being a person, and directly attributed the credit for the new farm tools to Zhao Guangyi. It is precisely because of Zhao Guangyi's correct leadership that we can produce new creations.

But Zhao Guangyi didn't know that Zhao Weiji was digging a pit while making Zhao Guangyi's sycophants comfortable.

Under the instigation of Zhao Weiji, a legendary group will step onto the stage of history in advance, forming a super storm that will sweep across the entire Central Plains. At this time, Zhao Guangyi did not have any awareness, and even the entire imperial court did not notice it, and this class that they once looked down on the most was about to counterattack.