Since the school is in the city, not far from the boutique department store, so it will not take long to drive to the place, and when he gets off the car at the place, Yin Ruizhi sees a small church in front of him, with a Chinese plaque on it, with the three words "Shengai Church" written on it.

"We're coming here?" Yin Ruizhi looked at the church of Shengai Church.

"No, no, no, you're wrong." Li Zhigao pointed to the door of a mansion with two stone lions in front of the door next to the church, "That's where we're going." ”

Yin Ruizhi turned his head to take a look, and found that there was indeed a big mansion door next to it, it seemed that the house occupied a lot of land, and there were two gun-wielding soldiers wearing American-style regimental training uniforms standing guard at the gate, and there was a big plaque in the middle of the mansion door, which read "Taiping Academy".

"Taiping Academy?"

"Right!" Li Zhigao took off his sunglasses, changed into a pair of flat black-framed glasses, and instantly became a scholar, and then said to Yin Ruizhi, "Okay, the place has arrived, but don't talk nonsense after you go in, just watch and listen more, understand?" ”

Waiting for Yin Ruizhi to nod, Li Zhigao said to Li Li again: "Your sister is going to school in this school, but although you are her sister, the school rules in this school are very strict, and you can't talk to each other casually during class, so you can visit, but you can't talk more during your sister's class, disrupt the order of the class, and you can only talk to her after class, can you promise me?" ”

"Yes." Li Li also nodded.

After instructing the two of them, Li Zhigao led people to swagger over.

When they got closer, they found that the gate was closed, and although the two soldiers standing guard had already seen Li Zhigao and others coming, and they all knew Li Zhigao, they still sent someone over to salute and inquire in an orderly manner.

After Li Zhigao showed his ID and introduced Yin Ruizhi and Li Li in the back, the other party finally let him go and opened the school gate.

After walking into the gate, Yin Ruizhi finally couldn't help but say, "Do you still have soldiers standing guard here?" ”

"Of course, I'm teaching in a closed area here, so in order to avoid idle people waiting to disturb me, I sent troops to guard it." Li Zhigao said lightly, "After all, my school is a little different from other schools. ”

"Isn't the school yours, why do you have to show your ID when you come in?" Yin Ruizhi asked again.

"Although they all know me, but the rules are the rules, no matter who they are, they have to show their ID to come in." Li Zhigao smiled, "If you want to come in, you must either have a teacher ID, a student ID, or my special pass, otherwise no matter who you are, you will not be allowed to enter." ”

Yin Ruizhi didn't say anything more, continued to look carefully, and found that there was a lot of space here, with winding corridors, pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, ponds, gardens, pavilions, pavilions and other buildings complementing each other, showing a different kind of delicacy everywhere, just like a big garden of a rich family.

"What's wrong with this place, it's a bit like a garden for a big family?"

"You're right." Li Zhigao smiled, "This house was originally a private garden of a Hui merchant, because the place is big enough, the scenery is good, and it is not far from my boutique department store, so I bought it later and transformed it into a school." Well, so, what you see is the garden style of the Hui school, but in order to be more suitable for the school, I have changed some buildings, such as demolishing a few archways and opening up more square lawns, just so that students can have a place for collective activities. ”

At this moment, suddenly a team of students ran from the opposite side, this team of students are very young, only thirteen or fourteen years old, there are men and women, they are all wearing blue sportswear, in a long snake formation, under the leadership of a Chinese male teacher who is also wearing blue sportswear, with the whistle is running silently.

Seeing the students coming, Li Zhigao took the initiative to lead people to avoid the side and give way to the students, and this team of students obviously saw Li Zhigao and others, and at most nodded to Li Zhigao with gratitude or reverence, but they didn't dare to speak casually, nor did they dare to stop, just continued to maintain the formation and kept running forward.

Just as the group of students was about to run away, suddenly, the male teacher who was leading the whistle in front of the head let go of the whistle, opened his throat and shouted: "Strive for self-improvement and revitalize China!" ”

When he roared, all the students also shouted: "Strive for self-improvement and revitalize China!" ”

The trumpet sounded three times before the teacher blew the whistle again, and the students followed silently again.

"This, this is ......" Obviously, Yin Ruizhi was once again stunned by this scene.

"Don't be nervous, they're just in gym class." Li Zhigao shrugged his shoulders helplessly, knowing that the teacher was deliberate, "There is still a lack of a big playground here, so you can only run around, run, it's normal to shout slogans, it's okay, don't mind." ”

Continue to walk forward, turn a few corners, and finally come to an attic and stop, look at the plaque on it, written "Department of Modern Chinese Medicine" six big characters.

At this time, it seemed that a lecture was being held inside, so Li Zhigao didn't push the door in, but only stood outside with Yin Ruizhi, Li Li and others, looking in through the window.

Through the large glass window, you can see that there is a lot of space inside, there are many desks and benches, more than forty students are listening to the lecture, and on the podium, which is at least twenty inches above the ground, there is a young blonde woman in a nun's dress, constantly giving a lecture in slightly stiff Chinese.

Seeing the female foreigner in a nun's clothes, Yin Ruizhi may not know her, but Li Zhigao and Li Li both know each other, that is Sister Emily of the Holy Love Church.

By the way, Emily don't look at this dress, in fact, she is not a nun in the strict sense, a real nun, only Catholicism exists, it is an existence similar to a nun, and Emily is Christian, her real identity is only a second-level female friar, although there are certain precepts, but there are no complicated restrictions as nuns, and in the future, Emily will be promoted, and she can also be a female priest, which is completely different from a nun.

It's just that because many people in China can't tell the difference between Catholicism and Christianity, they call her Sister Emily, but the nun is limited to Chinese, which is different from the nun in English. Li Zhigao was also confused at first, and later learned the reason.

Whether Emily was a nun or a monk, there is no doubt that she did have a very pious heart and a good heart to save the world, and in this respect she was indeed admirable, or rather, most of the clergy who came to China at this time, except for a very few, were very good missionaries.

Although the lecturers wore nun clothes, the students below were not, although they were male and female, old and young, foreigners and Chinese, but no matter who they were, they all wore the same new clothes.

The appearance of the new clothes is different, they are all lined with white shirts, wearing the same style of red tie as Li Zhigao, and wearing dark blue short-sleeved small lapel suits outside, the only difference is that the boys wear pants on the lower body, while the girls wear long skirts, and there is basically no big difference in others.

Finding that they were all watching, Li Zhigao smiled and said to Yin Ruizhi next to him: "How about it, my student's school uniform looks good, right?" ”

Hearing him say this, Yin Ruizhi could only nod, although these clothes made Yin Ruizhi feel very weird, but it was undeniable that these clothes were indeed very good-looking.

"It's just their summer uniform." Li Zhigao whispered proudly, "In addition to summer clothes, they also have autumn and winter clothes, sportswear, such as those who ran just now, they are wearing sportswear specially worn for sports." Doesn't it feel beautiful to see them like this? ”

"It's beautiful." Yin Ruizhi continued to nod, "But is it necessary?" They are just students, and the most important thing for students is to study well, what's the use of dressing nicely? And these clothes are worth a lot of money, and those who can enter this kind of school and can afford these equipment are definitely not the children of ordinary people. ”

"You're wrong." Li Zhigao smiled and shook his head, "To tell you the truth, my students here, except for those foreigners who come to study, are basically orphans of all ages and children of poor families that I bought. In other words, so far, not a single child of a large family has come to study with me. As for their clothes, stationery, accommodation, food, etc., I provided them out of my own pocket, which means that these people study here for free. ”

"Wouldn't it? They, you mean, the Chinese students here are all orphans and children of poor families that you bought? Yin Ruizhi was surprised.

"Yes." Li Zhigao nodded lightly, "Because my school is a bit maverick, except for a very few teachers who use Chinese, most of the teachers are foreigners, and the students basically learn physics, chemistry, medicine and other physical sciences, and they don't learn much poetry and articles, and the students are mixed and matched classes, so at present, except for the children I bought and the children of poor families, large families will not send their children to this kind of school where foreign teachers are the mainstay, male and female students are mixed, and they don't teach articles and poems very much." ”

Listening to Li Zhigao's words, Yin Ruizhi nodded involuntarily, because if it is true, with the current social environment, big families, no, no big families, ordinary people will not send their children to study.

"But if it's really free, then the children of poor families are still happy to send it, right?"

"That's not bad, but I don't have enough to make free education available to the poor, so I'm only going to choose good students." Li Zhigao smiled slightly, "To put it simply, my criteria for selecting students are good health, flexible brains, and if you want to come in, you have to sign a long-term contract, just like a master chooses an apprentice." ”

"Oh, then why do you want to use a foreigner as a teacher? Still engaging in a mix of male and female students? Yin Ruizhi said, "You are so rich, you can use Chinese teachers, and it is not difficult to set up a male and female branch school, right?" Isn't there much less resistance to doing so? ”

"You're probably right." Li Zhigao smiled faintly, "But that's too troublesome, and to be honest, the level of Chinese teachers is not enough, so I can only invite foreigners to be teachers." ”

"How do you know that the level of Chinese teachers is not enough?" Yin Ruizhi said dissatisfiedly, "Don't think that foreigners are good at everything, at least in terms of poetry and articles, Chinese are better." ”

"You're right, but I don't need a teacher in poetry and essays." Li Zhigao pursed his lips, "I just need students to be able to read and write, it doesn't matter if they can write articles and make poems, the important thing is to learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well." ”

"Students can't optical, mathematical, physical and chemical." Yin Ruizhi retorted, "You can't learn these things, you have to learn the truth of being a man, my Chinese articles and poems are the principles of teaching people to be a man, such as ......"

"Stop! Stop it! Li Zhigao simply waved his hand, "I am in charge of my school, anyway, I don't need poetry and articles, it's decided!" ”

In fact, Li Zhigao has no way to find a foreigner as a teacher, he attached great importance to education from the beginning, but unfortunately he can get new equipment, new technology and new teaching materials from modern society, but there is a great lack of teachers who can understand these, to understand Li Zhigao's new teaching materials, there must be a certain degree of basic knowledge to lay a foundation, especially in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

You must know that the textbooks are not just taught according to the textbook, but you still have to do problems in mathematics, physics and chemistry, solve problems, if the basic knowledge is not solid, you will not be able to do the questions, where is the ability to explain to students?

And a country's educational strength is not mainly to see how many talents can be used in the wind and snow, but to see how many talents in mathematics, physics and chemistry, only with a large number of mathematics, physics and chemistry talents, can there be strong industry, agriculture and science and technology, just a bunch of literati who chant poetry against each other, will only make the country more and more chaotic, at least Li Zhigao thinks so.

If you want students to learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, China can't find many good teachers at this time, even if there are, they are mostly a little bit of application, but the basic knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry is not good, at least not as solid as abroad, after all, at this time in basic education, especially in mathematics, physics and chemistry, foreign countries are doing better than China.

Li Zhigao has read a lot of novels before, and he sends people abroad to study at every turn, but in fact, for him, there is no need at all.

Because at this time, although the level of education and technology in foreign countries was better than that of the Qing Dynasty, it could not be compared with modern society at all, so only teachers with solid basic skills, that is, solid basic knowledge, needed to come and educate students with the textbooks provided by Li Zhigao, which could completely educate students faster and better, which was much stronger than in foreign schools.

Li Zhigao believes that as long as foreign teachers are invited to come and use the new teaching materials that he has handled in modern society to educate students, then as long as two or three years, when these students grow up, they will be a proper iron core under his hands, and they can continue to learn the advanced knowledge provided by themselves, which is much better than sending them to foreign countries to study.

After three or five years, the Chinese students taught by foreigners will be able to train their own first-generation teachers, and those who have completed their studies can become teachers again.

To put it mildly, the technology mastered by Li Zhigao is the most advanced in the world, what Li Zhigao lacks is just people with solid basic knowledge to learn these things, as long as there are enough people with solid basic knowledge, then you can study and cultivate by yourself, and then it is the time to really exert your strength.

Li Zhigao ran a school, but he didn't want students to become university scholars, he started to teach mathematics, physics and chemistry, only with a large number of talents in mathematics, physics and chemistry can he play with the various new equipment and new technologies provided by Li Zhigao in the future.

If you want to talk about the education of basic knowledge, the best thing to do at this time is Britain and Germany, Germany is not mentioned, although it is good, but I am not familiar with German, and Taiping Mansion is not Germany's sphere of influence, it is the British sphere of influence, so at present it can only be the United Kingdom's choice.

This plan to introduce British teachers has already been done, but after all, the road is far away, even if they are offered a very high salary, they will not be able to come for a while, so for the time being, most of the teachers here are foreigners in China, especially those Christian foreigners, among which the most foreigners are in the Holy Love Church.

That is to say, at present, the foreign teachers here are basically a mix of Americans and British, most of them are from the church, and most of them teach mathematics, physics and chemistry at the level of primary and junior high school students.

Of course, Li Zhigao doesn't want to say more to Yin Ruizhi for the time being, after all, the generation gap is relatively large, and he can't explain it for a while, so he can only let her stay here for a while, for a long time, let her slowly understand her good intentions, if she can't understand it by then, then there is no need to understand.

For today's Li Zhigao, there is no need for him to always accommodate others, those who can keep up with his own footsteps are his own people, and if he can't keep up with himself, he can only be pulled farther and farther away by himself, and finally eliminated by himself and history.