Although Yelu Chachui's concession was surprising, it also made the people of the southern faction feel happy, and after Sacha set off for the Mingtong River, the northern faction, which was the most likely military force of the Great Liao, could be recaptured as the center, which would be of great benefit to the real unification of the northeast.

After Xiao Miansi, Yelu Wuzhi and Han Yanhui met, they all felt that the state affairs of the Liao State were promising in the future, as long as the forces of the three factions could be unified and the forces could be made in one place, the northeast would be thousands of miles in diameter, and it would be enough to become an independent power of ten thousand times, and no matter how strong the Tiance Datang was, it was not irresistible, "Probably God bless the Khitan." ”

Yelu Wu has kept an eye on it, and has always been very concerned about the dynamics of the mixed river. And the development of things also went smoothly beyond his imagination, after Sacto reached the mixed Tongjiang River, although some lower-level soldiers were not very happy to suddenly be sent from the center to take charge of the military power, but the middle and high-level generals were obviously instructed by Yelu Chacto and cooperated very much with Sacha's takeover, so the excess of military power in the north seemed to be very smooth, and it was basically completed in just a few days. It's just that it will take time for the tribes such as Muwei and Nuzhi to also sincerely follow.

In this regard, Yelu Wu was very pleased, feeling that Yelu Cha was able to take care of the overall situation after all, and the earth queen also dispelled her doubts and trusted Ye Lu Cha even more, although she did not really give him the actual power to govern the military power of the entire Northeast under the name of "Generalissimo of Northeast Soldiers and Horses", but she began to discuss with him about anything, and tacitly agreed that Yelu Cha had retained the scale of his 3,000 personal guards - after all, Yelu Cha had already handed over most of the military power, if even 3,000 people were not reserved at this time, It will inevitably chill people's hearts.

There was only one person who was extremely angry in the whole affair - and that was Jeruanduan, who thought that his son's heart was blinded by a ghost, and asked a shaman to exorcise evil spirits in the house, which became a big joke in the city of Tokyo.

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After the beginning of spring, Zhang Mai led a large army. There are also more than 200 students who crossed the Tianshan Mountains and came all the way to Qiuzi.

Students who came to the Western Regions from the Central Plains felt an academic atmosphere completely different from the inherent Chinese civilization in this land that was completely different from the Central Plains.

This is far from the flood of civilization they think they are, on the contrary. Central Asia was originally a place where several major civilizations gathered, and the connection between the Chinese civilization and this place was far beyond the imagination of later generations, and it is very likely that Mo Dao Zhou and King Mu had already arrived here during his western tour, and even as far away as the origin of civilization in the Yanhuang Age, it is also likely to have a close relationship with this side. After the Qin and Han dynasties, the influence of the Han civilization on this place became more and more obvious, and at the same time, the Han civilization also drew nutrients from here endlessly.

Art from Persia and Buddhism from India were all introduced to the Central Plains after the transformation of the Western Regions. For the Han civilization, the Western Regions was not only a strategically important town that "broke the arm of the desert north", not only a military herdsman's land, not only a source of economic wealth, but also a cultural window to the outside world, and a key existence nourished by foreign culture -- this can be seen from the fact that the Han and Tang dynasties who owned the Western Regions always showed an open mind regardless of their rise and fall.

After the Anshi Rebellion, due to the long and frequent wars, there were continuous faults in the development of civilization in Central Asia. After Zhang Mai conquered the Western Regions and unified the four towns, the Western Regions achieved peace for more than ten years. The opening of trade routes injected funds into the prosperity of academics, and the needs of national defense stimulated the accelerated production of various inventions, and Zhang Mai himself attached great importance to the collation and development of academics, and wrote his own outline articles. It is used as a stepping stone to becoming an official, but when it is placed here by the grandmasters and masters of Central Asia, the knowledge in it clearly points out the development direction of academic studies including physics, chemistry, medicine and biology. Academic progress requires a large reserve of talents, continuous trial and error in research and profound accumulation of knowledge, but the key to academic breakthroughs lies in the direction.

When Zhang Mai was in Shule, he had already established the Archimedes Academy, which focused on the study of physics. It was headed by Sadi, a Central Asian mechanical master from Ningyuan, and established the Dihuang Pavilion, which mainly studied chemistry, and was headed by the alchemist Khalid. These two institutions started as R&D institutions, although they were also accompanied by the cultivation of talents, but before Zhang Mai occupied only the western half of Tianshan, education was not one of the most important.

With the eastward expansion of Tiance, the two institutions have changed, academic research, applied research and development, and talent education have become a success, and the location has gradually moved eastward, the old site of Shule has become the alma mater, the Qiuzi side has become the main campus, and the Liangzhou side has opened a branch. The focus of applied research and development is on the Liangzhou Branch, and the academic research is still based on Qiuci, as for talent education, it is a three-headed parallel, Shule alma mater mainly recruits young students of all ethnic groups from Lingxi, India, Tubo and other places, Qiuci main institute recruits Hu and Han students from the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, Khotan Guasha and other places, and the Liangzhou branch is mainly Han teenagers, and regularly sends students to Qiuci Academy and Shule alma mater every year.

At the same time, Shule was also responsible for collecting all the literature and classics including Greece, Persia, Tianfang, and India, covering the philosophical science of ancient Greece, the legal technology of ancient Tianfang (including ancient Babylon and Persia), the mythological logic of ancient India, the religion of ancient Israel, etc., and then transferred to Qiuci, sorted out in the main courtyard of Qiuci, and then transferred to the Liangzhou branch to translate into Chinese. Liangzhou, on the other hand, collected a large number of various technologies from the Central Plains, imported them into Qiuci and corroborated them with the culture, science and technology of various countries, and under the guidance of the outline of "Shixue", they looked for breakthroughs in science and technology, perfected the dialectic of legal principles, exhaustively studied philosophical and religious metaphysics, and finally turned them into real inventions and applications.

In the past ten years, even during the most intense period of the war, these works have not been interrupted - fortunately, the opening of the Silk Road has brought an endless supply of financial resources to the Tiance regime, and in the war with the Khitan Shijin, Zheng Wei was often troubled by food, not money, and academic research needed more money, not food. Of course, because the road was too far away, it was difficult for the grain produced in the Western Regions and the western part of Hexi to be transported eastward, so all this wealth was gathered in Qiuzi, creating the most beautiful, peaceful and prosperous oasis of this era.

Since the scholars of Central Asia have received the support of Zhang Mai, the "Heavenly Khan", and have more than a dozen outlines of "Shixue" that indicate the direction of development of various subjects, and have such an academic environment, after ten years of accumulation and germination, they are now full of vitality. Qiuci Zhengyuan has more than a dozen great craftsmen including Huaxia, Persian, Tianfang, Indian, Hexi, Tubo and other ethnic groups, and dozens of Mesozoic scholars. As well as more than 300 young students of all ethnic groups, for the Western Regions, this is an era of unprecedented academic prosperity, an era that is bound to be completed, and an era that is constantly breaking through the inherent academic barriers. In the eyes of the masters, even the Loulan in ancient legends cannot be compared.

Compared with Central Asia, Zhang Mai found that it was difficult for him to implement the "Shixue" in the Central Plains, and he did not know when it began - perhaps since Dong Zhongshu proposed to "overthrow the Confucianism of the Hundred Schools of Thought" - the scholars of the Central Plains always habitually used the Treatise on the Five Classics of Meng to explain all the knowledge they had learned, which ensured a specious unity of all scholarship on the one hand, but at the same time actually suppressed the development of various schools and factions. After the promulgation of the world, the first reaction was to try to bring practical learning into the category of Confucianism. Emphasis is often given to those disciplines that are related to ethics. Disciplines other than ethics are habitually ignored. Although these Shandong masters are all wise and wise people, the powerful inertia forged by the Qin and Han dynasties for eight or nine hundred years is not something that any individual can easily get rid of by his own strength.

However, there is no such problem in the Western Regions, and the children of the Western Regions enter these two institutions to study at first, or they are only looking for a future, but because they are not polluted by the pan-ethics of Confucianism, they retain the purity of each discipline. And in the past ten years, the children of the Han family from Hexi and Qinxi entered Qiuzi. It's all part of the atmosphere.

The current Qiuzi not only has the Archimedes-Mozi Gewu Academy. Ge Honghua College, which was the predecessor of Dihuang Pavilion, also established the Awu Arhat-Zoroastrian Theological Seminary, the Xuanzang Buddhist College and the Socrates-Lao Dan Philosophy Academy, which is the smallest but located in the core, as for the Qihuang Medical College, which focuses on the study of biology and medicine, and the Yugong Geography College, which focuses on the study of geography and geology, the main hospital is located in Liangzhou, and the Qihuang Medical College also has a branch in Qiuci.

Many faculties are circled around the Faculty of Philosophy. On the periphery, there are churches and temples including Buddhism, Taoism, Nestorianism, Tianfangjiao, Yici Leye Sect, Zoroastrianism, Brahmanism and Mingjiao - many colleges are planned by Zhang Mai himself, and each religion is built according to the college jungle, which is the choice of each sect, because the free and lively academic atmosphere that has been formed in the jungle of Qiuzi College has a strong attraction to all religions. Many religious masters considered this place to be the closest to heaven and therefore naturally formed a temple complex in its outer circle.

In recent years, the jungle of Qiuci Academy has been able to achieve such rapid development, not only thanks to Zhang Mai's support and guidance, but also the various religions have spontaneously invested immeasurable financial, material and human resources, and the political and social stability of Qiuci in recent years is also related to the tacit efforts of the major religions.

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After the formation of the jungle of Qiuci Academy, Zhang Mai came for the first time, and the masters and scholars of the major colleges and temples and churches rushed to greet them with their respective disciples when they heard the news.

The layout of the academy jungle is that the branch of Qihuang Medical College is in the east, the Archimedes-Mozi Gewu College is in the west, the Gehonghua College of Dihuang Pavilion is in the south, the Awu Arhat-Zoroastrian Theological Seminary and the Xuanzang Buddhist College are in the north, and the Socrates-Lao Dan Philosophy Institute is in the center. There is no wall or gate in the jungle of the whole college, with the Tianshan Mountains in the north and the desert in the east. At present, although there are only about 300 students officially enrolled, the number of religious believers on the periphery of the college and the various service providers attached to the college also exceeds 3,000.

After a hundred years of war in the Central Plains, Wenhua has been lost for a long time, and he never expected that there would be such a large-scale academy jungle in the distant Western Regions.

Zhang Mai held his son in one hand and his daughter in the other, and behind him were two hundred young students from the Han family headed by Wang Pu. He entered from the east, and the first thing he saw was the Qihuang Medical College, and two statues were set up at the gate of the college, one was the Yellow Emperor and the other was Qibo, and the two statues were discussed - this "Qihuang Meeting" was a consultative meeting on the origin of Chinese medicine in the legend, and the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" was sorted out according to the content of this meeting. It is the theoretical foundation of Chinese medicine. And the Yellow Emperor is the ancestor of China, and the students of the Central Plains hurriedly saluted when they saw it, and they no longer dared to have the arrogance of the Central Plains scholars when they came to Fanbang.

After more than ten years of integration and development, coupled with the permission and introduction of anatomy, the medical level of Tiance Datang is now enough to look down on all countries in the world, and the medical team with the army has not only saved many soldiers who have been injured on the battlefield over the years. And every veteran who has been on the battlefield and has not died is an immeasurable combat effectiveness, Tiance Iron Cavalry has been able to fight stronger and stronger in the war over the years, and Huatuo Medical College and its students, medical nurses, etc. are really indispensable.

The medical strength of the Qiuci Branch is slightly inferior to that of the Liangzhou Hospital, but it is also from the Western Regions, and the people of the Western Regions, but after asking God and worshiping the Buddha to no avail, they will rush here to seek medical treatment if possible, so the branch of Qihuang Medical College is located. One-third is a research site, one-third is a teaching site, and the other one-third has become the largest hospital in the Western Regions, and the existence of the Qiuci Medical Branch has a great relationship with the peace of the jungle of the Qiuci Academy in these years, and those thieves who crisscross the Western Regions and the barbarians who hide in the desert, no matter how barbaric they are, do not dare to offend Qiuci now. First, no one knows if they will have to come here one day to seek medical help, and secondly, this is a place to treat sentient beings. If it is violated, it will be the wrath of the people.

Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine, Tianzhu medicine, and Persian medicine are blended here, anatomy and acupuncture coexist, and the theory of bloodletting is also being confirmed.

For these 200 Central Plains students, they are not very unfamiliar. Medicine is one of the few disciplines that is not discriminated against by the Central Plains Shilin (but it is not taken very seriously).

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After visiting the Qihuang Medical Branch, the group turned to the south, the eastern wood seat was the main birth, and the southern fire station was destroyed. In order to welcome Zhang Mai's arrival, the Ge Honghua Academy made a loud noise--it was a cannon.

The students in the Central Plains were all taken aback, Zhang Yunyan and Zhang Yunzhen screamed, and threw themselves into their father's arms at the same time, Zhang Mai patted his daughter's hair with his hand to comfort him, but scolded his son: "Manly man, you are so daring!" ”

He then asked the dean, "Is the artillery ready for use?" ”

If Wang Pu was amazed by the situation of the Qihuang Medical Branch just now, then seeing the two deans of Ge Honghua College now made him feel awkward, because the head dean of the School of Chemistry was actually a Hu man, and the vice president was a Taoist priest.

Khalid was asked by Zhang Mai, and said with some shame: "The artillery specified by the Great Khan still has some difficulties that have not been overcome...... But it's not that our gunpowder is a problem, it's that the barrel made by their Gewu Academy is not suitable! As for the firecracker, it was also something that they had created in the Gewu Academy, which was not suitable! ”

Zhang Mai nodded and said: "Artillery guns are things that can only be done by working closely with the two academies, you have to be careful, but you don't have to be in a hurry, now that my country's military is in an advantage, I don't need artillery guns to save my life, and I can afford to wait." ”

At this time, the vice president stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, although the artillery fire gun has not been successful, the alchemy technique of the poor road has made great progress. As he spoke, he took out a pill the size of a pigeon's egg and said: "The Nine Turns of Rejuvenation Pill refined by the Poor Dao here, although it cannot live forever, but it can greatly boost its strength and prolong its life after a long time. ”

Wang Pu's face changed a little for a while, the Confucian disciples most disdainfully these Taoist priests who bewitch people with immortals, ghosts and gods, Khaled's face was also a little unsightly, he and the vice president were one an alchemist, the other was an alchemist, and they were sent by Zhang Mai to study chemistry, which was really not their intention, but Zhang Mai hated him the most, although he was allowed to take alchemy as a private hobby, but he specially sent a secretary to monitor him, strictly restricting him from teaching students alchemy that deviated from the direction of practical learning, So he didn't dare to say it all these years, but the vice president took out his alchemy to flatter.

Zhang Yunyan looked at the golden pill, shining with a strange brilliance in the sunlight, and thought to himself, is this the legendary golden pill? I couldn't help but be very curious.

Zhang Mai said: "Is there such a golden pill?" ”

The vice president had also heard some rumors that Zhang Mai didn't like strange powers, and he was also a little apprehensive when he offered the golden pill, but at this time he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "The refining of the golden pill is the most difficult, but it is probably that God will also bless the longevity of His Majesty, and the alchemy of the golden pill in this furnace of the poor road has all succeeded, and there are as many as nine grains in total!" ”

Look at him and take out all the gold pills. Zhang Mai nodded and said to Ma Xiaochun next to him, "Hey, he's eaten it all." ”

Ma Xiaochun was almost a roundworm in Zhang Mai's stomach, and with a sneer, he commanded two attendants to hold the vice president of the Taoist priest and forced him to swallow the golden pills one by one.

Zhang Mai said to his two children: "These so-called golden pills contain a lot of lead, mercury, and sulfur. It's all highly poisonous things, people will definitely not be able to grow forever after eating, and it is almost the same as dying, and mercury poisoning will make people have headaches, abdominal pain, body aches, mouth necrosis, kidney poisoning, skin ulcers, and it will be miserable when you die! ”

Zhang Yunyan and Zhang Yunzhen were shocked when they heard this.

Zhang Mai turned his head and asked Wang Pu and said, "You are good at studying the law, I was angry just now." Sai He ate poison, but broke the law? ”

Wang Pu said: "This person sacrificed poison to the marshal, and the crime is the same as killing the king, although the correction platform has abolished the law of punishing the nine clans, but the crime of killing the king should also be punished!" The marshal poured his own medicine into his body, what a crime! ”

Zhang Mai said: "Let's send him to medical school, and if he doesn't die, try to treat him as much as possible." Alleviate his suffering, and make a specimen if he dies. It was sent all the way to the Central Plains, sent to Liangzhou, Kaifeng, Yedu, and finally sent to Yanjing, which also made people see what the result of eating the so-called Jindan was! ”

Wang Pu already knew what the specimen was at this time, and although he hated this Taoist priest for using pills to charm the monarch, he felt that it was too cruel to make him into a specimen. It seems to be against the heart of the benevolent, but he didn't persuade him, knowing that Zhang Mai did such an extreme thing, most likely to warn the world - the biggest intention is probably to warn his children!

After the vice dean was dragged down, his students were shivering. Zhang Mai said again: "Don't be afraid, I have even abolished my relatives, let alone teachers and students?" Don't engage in these alchemy in the future. ”

Zhang Yunzhen said: "This Taoist priest is so bad, why does my father still let him be the vice president." ”

Zhang Mai said with a smile: "You don't understand, although these people have taken the wrong path in alchemy, just like the alchemy that Dean Khalid is addicted to, because alchemy has inadvertently cultivated a set of good abilities, in today's world, in chemical operations, they are great experts." As long as they remove the chaff, their disciples and re-disciples may appear as great masters of chemistry. ”

As he spoke, he patted Khalid on the shoulder and said, "Actually, you have presided over refining things such as oil refining bombs, and you have advanced the research related to artillery and firearms to the point where you are already a great master. ”

Khalid was praised by Zhang Mai, his bones were a little lighter, even the students behind him were honored, and those dressed as Taoist priests looked depressed, like defeated roosters.

At this time, a young Taoist priest in his twenties stepped forward ruthlessly and said, "Your Majesty, Xiaodao has another thing to offer. ”

Everyone was slightly surprised, thinking that the marshal had just dealt with one by extreme means, and you still dared to take the lead? But I don't know what to offer this time, is it holy water or fairy peach?

Zhang Mai asked, "What do you want to offer?" ”

The young Taoist priest said: "Xiao Dao and a few junior disciples, according to the guidance of the chemistry chapter in the practice of His Majesty, purified the gunpowder, and kneaded it into a bag, called the Boom Bag, ignited and exploded, and the power was extremely great, and it could be used to open up mountains and build roads, but this thing was quite dangerous, and I did not dare to present it in front of His Majesty." ”

Zhang Mai's heart moved, and he said, "Bring me the gunpowder you have purified." ”

The young Taoist priest took out a small packet of things from his arms, Zhang Mai opened and twisted it, in recent years, he has been concerned about the development of gunpowder, and has been in contact with it from time to time, and has substantial experience in the nature of gunpowder is not limited to the theoretical knowledge of the previous life, and after twisting, he feels that the purity of this gunpowder is far from being comparable to the gunpowder offered by the main academy and the branch of chemistry before.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Mai said: "Prepare a test for me, only the accompanying generals and the deans of the academies are allowed to watch together, and the rest of the idle people will all disperse." ”

The Academy of Chemistry has always had a valley for experiments in the desert, and when everyone rode there, the young Taoist priest prepared only three earth-shattering bags, one was placed in the middle of a herd of cattle and sheep, one was placed under a pile of stones, and one was placed near a pile of wooden men wearing armor, and asked Zhang Mai to retreat to a safe distance, Liu Heihu ordered to set up a heightened shield in Zhang Mai, and the young Taoist priest went to light the bombardment bag.

Seeing that the fire was approaching, Zhang Mai hurriedly asked his son and daughter to plug their ears, and then heard three consecutive booms, and at the same time, the screams of cattle and sheep were scattered, blood splashed all over the sky, gravel was smashed, and the armor was also blown to pieces.

Zhang Yunzhen was scared and cried, Zhang Yunyan didn't dare to cry, all the scholars were stunned under the power of this thunder, Zhang Mai laughed and shouted: "Okay! Good! ”

Liu Heihu suddenly cried bitterly: "This bombardment is too late!" If the gunpowder bag buried in the Huanma Heights in the Guanzhong War had such power, Brother Xi might not have to die! ”

Wang Pu was relatively calm among the scholars, but he thought in his heart: "How can such a militaristic weapon be studied in the Western Regions, if it is leaked to foreign countries, this is a great disaster for the country!" Thinking in his heart, he couldn't help but whisper to Zhang Mai nearby.

Zhang Mai said with a smile: "The School of Chemistry also has a branch in Liangzhou - I originally wanted to move the main school to Liangzhou, and only keep one branch in Qiuci - just like a medical school, but as a transitional period, the two colleges are still studying in parallel, and the financial resources and manpower invested in Liangzhou are still above that of Qiuci, and the progress of Liangzhou is always far inferior to that of Qiuci, so my plan to move the main school of chemistry to the east has been temporarily shelved, and the reason for this, I don't know whether it is inevitable or accidental, you can think about it." ”

Wang Pu said: "Although this is the case, but now that there is such a big weapon as the bombardment bag, it is necessary to quickly rein in the manpower and move all to the Central Plains, and all relevant personnel must be monitored, and the people are not allowed to practice this technique privately, otherwise it will be a problem for the country if it is leaked to a foreign country, and if it is obtained by those who have malicious intentions to rebel, it is a big trouble!" ”

Zhang Mai said: "That's not the case! Technical secrecy is important, but even more important is technological progress. In the long run, the proliferation of technology is almost inevitable, and to sacrifice progress for secrecy is to choke on food! At present, the secrecy work in Qiuzi and Liangzhou is very strict, and everything that can be done has been done, but I will not limit it to the point where it may suffocate technology for the sake of secrecy. He paused, and then said: "My Chinese astronomy was originally unique in the world, but since the law strictly forbade the people to study astronomy privately, the study of astronomical law has deteriorated, and any discipline, once it becomes a royal 'private study', will definitely regress and shrink." We cannot fail to learn this lesson. ”

He looked at the corpses of cattle and sheep everywhere, flying sand and gravel, and broken armor, and said to the students: "When I was in Luntai, I said that there are two major difficulties in the fundamental solution of the problem between the Western Regions and Mobei, the second of which is how to abolish the force of the barbarian nation. Do you have any experience with this question now? ”

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