Chapter 386: Taixue

After resting in the palace for a few days, Xiang Zhuang took a large group of civil and military officials to Taixue located in the south of Ziling City, after the Chu State moved the capital, Taixue also moved to Ziling, and now the Chu State Taixue, under the guidance and influence of Xiang Zhuang, has gradually had the prototype of a comprehensive university in later generations. (《》)

In terms of institutions and functions, Taixue has also been divided into four colleges, namely the Military Academy, the Political Academy, the Luban Academy, and the Zhuzi Academy.

Of course, for the time being, the cadets who go out of the military academy are only low-level officers, and they are still far from being promoted to generals, but in the foreseeable future, the generals in the Chu army will be graduates of the military academy without exception.

The only function of the Political Academy is to train qualified magistrates for the Chu State, and since the Chu State has achieved a centralized power in the true sense, it can compulsorily push the graduates of the Political Academy to serve as grassroots officials in various places, which has played a great role in promoting the stability and development of the entire Chu State, especially the Jingxiang and Bashu newly incorporated into the rule of the Chu State.

Because all of these students have received a rigorous academy education, they have a deep understanding of the new law, and they are loyal supporters and followers of the centralized system.

In the foreseeable future, these officials trained by the School of Political Science will become another powerful weapon of the Chu State, the well-equipped and well-trained Chu army is the sword to expand the territory, and the officials who are born in the professional class and have profound knowledge will be the cornerstone of the Chu State's rule over the world, with this large team of high-quality officials, the Great Chu will never repeat the mistakes of the Great Qin.

Zhuzi Academy is actually a miscellaneous college, literature, music, philosophy and other disciplines have professors, but there are very few students who choose Zhuzi Academy, most of the students who study too much will choose the Military Academy or the Political Academy, not many choose Luban Academy, and even fewer are willing to enter Zhuzi Academy.

It is said that ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, education is the foundation of the country, through Taixue, if the necessary guidance is not carried out, the future Great Chu Empire will be incomparably strong militarily, politically incomparably stable, and incomparably prosperous in industry and commerce, but in the fields of literature, philosophy and other fields, I am afraid there will not be much development. (《》)

Xiang Zhuang didn't want the Huaxia people to become a group of barbarians who only knew how to expand their territory and only knew how to fight and kill, if they wanted the Chinese civilization to continue to be brilliant and endure thousands of years, astronomy and geography, literature and art, philosophy and medicine and other disciplines could not be left behind.

But today, what Xiang Zhuang is going to inspect is Luban College, one of the four colleges.

Luban College is actually the Academy of Sciences of later generations, with two functions, one is to engage in invention research, and the other is to cultivate excellent craftsmen, the great man said that science and technology are the primary productive forces, which is an unbreakable truth, as a traverser, Xiang Zhuang will certainly not despise the development of science and technology, especially military science and technology.

Walking into the gate of Luban College, Xiang Zhuang saw that the bus was busy with more than 50 students.

The school system of Taixue is three years, and the national examination is also once every three years, and the number of students admitted each time is about 600, that is to say, there is only one student in the school, and it is good that Luban College can recruit more than 50 students.

The bus is taking the trainees to splice two carts, unloading the pack horses, and then putting the wheels of the rear cars on the carriage of the front car, and nailing a large iron nail with a length of feet on the special base under the wheel support, and finally covering the gap between the carriage and the ground with a spare wooden board covered with iron sheets, which immediately became a wall of a height of several feet! ..., after connecting the two carts, the trainees moved dozens of hemp bags from the carriage and stacked them on the inside of the car wall, and moved two bed crossbows to the cover of the car, and more than a dozen students stood on the sack behind the car wall with knives, and immediately put on a condescending defensive posture outside the car wall, but it was a simulated exercise.

Xiang Zhuang's eyes suddenly lit up, this is a good thing!

Xiang saw that the bus was only busy with his own work, and immediately said unhappily: "My husband lost, why should I do it?" ”

When the bus heard the sound and looked back, he saw that it was Xiang Zhuang, Xiang He and a group of civil and military ministers, so he hurriedly put down his work and came forward, and couldn't help but say to Xiang Zhuang happily: "King, what do you think of this baggage car?" ”

Xiang Zhuang did not answer, but strode to the side of the two carts, and the students hurriedly got out of the way. (《》)

After turning around the wall formed by the splicing of two large carts twice, Xiang Zhuang said: "Yes, if the terrain is right, a hundred such baggage carts can be arranged into a strong military fortress in half an hour, even on a flat field, such a car formation can effectively block the cavalry attack, yes, really good." ”

"King, take a look at the cloud ladder that has been improved by Ji Zhen!"

Got Xiang Zhuang's affirmation and praise, the bus was greatly excited, and now led Xiang Zhuang Junchen more than ten people to the playground not far away, only to see a huge tower-shaped building standing on the playground, this tower-shaped building is about four zhang high, two zhang wide at the top, four zhang wide at the bottom, the depth before and after is more than ten zhang, and there are more than a dozen huge wooden wheels arranged on the left and right sides of the bottom.

The tower looks like a shaft, but the suspension bridge that hangs out of the front of the shaft indicates that it is a ladder.

"Ji Zhen, come here." The bus beckoned to one of the trainees and ordered, "Talk to the king." ”

The student stepped forward, waved at Xiang Zhuang with some restraint, and explained: "This ladder improved by the student is very different from the previous ladder, you see, the structure of this ladder is no different from the well, and there is also an arrow tower in the neck, but through the suspension bridge hanging forward under the arrow tower, the infantry can directly climb to the head of the city, so this is a ladder!" ”

This is actually the siege tower in the Western world, but in the real history, it will not appear until the eighth century, Xiang Zhuang just mentioned it to the bus, but he didn't expect that the student in front of him really built it, and it was even more terrible than the siege tower, because there was an arrow tower at the top of this ladder, which could accommodate at least ten archers to shoot down.

"You're Ji Zhen?" Xiang Zhuang looked at the students in front of him and said, "You also invented the water wheel?" ”

The student hurriedly bowed down and said in a panic: "Don't dare to deceive the king, the water wheel was created by the student under the guidance of the dean of the public loss, and I really don't dare to be greedy." ”

Xiang Zhuang smiled slightly, and said to the public: "My husband loses, you have a successor." ”

Gong Che made no secret of his love for this student, and said: "This kid is much smarter than Lao Chen, in addition to this ladder and water wheel, he also improved the farmer's ploughshares, ploughs, harrows and other agricultural tools, so that the yield of rice, wheat and cotton crops in Chu has been greatly improved. ”

"That's a big deal." Xiang Zhuang looked back at Xiang He and asked, "Ziyi, according to the Chu Law, how should I be rewarded?" ”

Now, the laws, lessons, and orders that have been promulgated one after another for more than ten years have all been merged into a law, which is now the Chu Law, and the Chu Law has special provisions for rewards and punishments. ”

Ji Zhen hurriedly bowed to the ground and said happily: "The student thanked my king!" ”

Xiang Zhuang stepped forward to help Ji Zhen up, and then to the public lane: "Husband loses, how has the large-scale repeater improved?" "..., as early as several years ago, the public crossbow has been finalized, but due to the process of production is very low, no matter how hard the bus is, it has never been able to improve the process, two years ago Xiang Zhuang simply gave up riding a small crossbow, so that the bus to change the way of thinking, to manufacture a large crossbow for infantry.

This time, Xiang Zhuang mainly came for the large repeater.

The bus slapped his forehead and said, "The old minister almost forgot about the business, the king is here, please." ”

At that moment, the bus took Xiang Zhuang and his party to the other end of the playground, and asked more than a dozen students to push out a strange-shaped bed crossbow from a warehouse, saying that it was a bed crossbow because it had a bed frame, and the arrows in the arrow box were two fingers thick, but it had a towering large arrow box than an ordinary bed crossbow.

Through an aiming mechanism next to the arrow box, the bus car personally adjusted the angle of the crossbow and aimed at a two-person high wooden wall two hundred paces ahead, so the bus car swung a wooden hammer and smashed down the machine, only to hear a muffled sound of the urn, five huge arrows two fingers thick burst out of the arrow box, and shot at the wooden wall two hundred steps away like lightning.

When it was too late, the giant arrows pierced through the plank wall, two of which missed the target and pierced the ground halfway, and the other three arrows hit the target, but they were very far apart from each other, and it was obvious that the large repeater also inherited the shortcomings of the bed crossbow, although the range was long and penetrating, but the accuracy of the hit was very low.

The bus was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "Well, the accuracy is lower, but it can shoot continuously!" ”

At that moment, the bus waved his hand, and two or so students struggled to push the arrow box to the front of the crossbow bed, and after the standby hooked the bowstring, the other dozen students pulled the iron cable attached to the hinge and struggled to pull it back, and in the crunch of the crossbow arm, this large repeater was quickly wound, which was much faster than the speed of the ordinary bed crossbow tightening the winch.

The bus lost the wooden hammer again, and five giant arrows roared out, this time the situation was slightly better, all five giant arrows hit the wooden wall two hundred steps away, and the wooden wall more than two inches thick could not block the penetration of the giant arrows at all, like a piece of paper was shot through, Xiang Zhuang estimated that the range of this giant crossbow was five hundred steps at least!

This large repeater is a little more bulky, it is estimated that at least two pack horses are needed to drag it when marching, and more than a dozen soldiers are needed to operate it together during the battle, and the accuracy is very low, but it is better than the fast rate of fire, the salvo of hundreds of repeaters, its lethality is still quite terrifying, it can be regarded as a big killer to contain the cavalry!

When Xiang Zhuang asked: "My husband loses, can this large repeater be made in large quantities?" ”

"This one does." "But the cost is very high, because the yew wood used to sharpen the crossbow arm must be more than 50 years old, and the bowstring requirements are also very high." ”

Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but show a smile in his eyes, as long as it can be mass-produced, it is not a problem to have a higher cost, and the Chu army has this sharp weapon, so there is no need to worry about the cavalry of the Han State......,