A few days later, Shen Kuo personally found Zhao Yan and expressed his willingness to enter the academy to take up a position, which also made Zhao Yan very happy, and immediately announced that Shen Kuo was the vice president of the academy to assist him in managing the affairs of the entire academy, and when Zhao Yan was not in the academy, Shen Kuo had the right to deal with the affairs within the academy, which was very important to Zhao Yan and the most important reason for him to recruit Shen Kuo.

Since Shen Kuo is in the academy, then he can only resign from the official position of the weapons supervisor, speaking of which Shen Kuo has made great achievements when he served as the weapons supervisor, Zhao Shu is also very satisfied with him, and is about to promote him by one level, but he didn't expect Shen Kuo to resign, and he still went to Zhao Yan's academy to serve as a forced courtyard, which made him very puzzled, so he called Zhao Yan to be trained.

With the addition of Shen Kuo, the manpower of the college is basically recruited, Zhao Yan took the time to gather everyone to the microcosm for a meeting, first discussed the problem of enrollment, which is also the biggest problem that the college will face next, as a result, a group of people discussed for an hour, and finally determined the enrollment process.

Next, Zhao Yan asked everyone to help think about what kind of name should be given to the college, but this topic detonated the meeting all of a sudden, even if the people who were not active in speaking just now, they were all vying to speak, and almost everyone who participated in the meeting proposed one or more names, but now there were hundreds of names as alternatives, and the discussion lasted for nearly three hours without any results.

The reason why there was so much interest in the name of the academy. In fact, it is also normal, the people who can enter the academy are not stupid, they know that the academy they are in will definitely be famous in the future, and it is not difficult to even pass it on to future generations, in this case, if the name of the academy is chosen by one of them. Then this person is likely to go down in history with the Academy.

It is precisely because of the above interests that these people are so concerned about the name of the academy, but there is only one academy, so the name must only be unique, and now there are hundreds of alternate names, and only one can be selected from them, so Zhao Yan and the others discussed all the names one by one, removing some ambiguous or bad names. Eight names were selected from them.

Zhao Yan himself also mentioned a name, that is, Tsinghua University, which is the school he dreamed of going to in the future, but unfortunately his name was ruthlessly eliminated in the first round, Zhao Yan was slandered by himself, and felt that the people he recruited were really visionless, and even the most famous university name in China in later generations was eliminated.

The remaining eight names were used as alternatives, and Shen Kuo asked Zhao Yan to choose one of them. This not only shows the authority of Zhao Yan's position, but also avoids controversy from others. However, Zhao Yan thinks that since he took out the name of the academy for everyone to discuss, this should also be regarded as a kind of expression of democracy, since this is the case, it is better to be democratic to the end and let everyone vote for the name of the academy.

For Zhao Yan's proposal for the form of voting, everyone welcomed it. Then under the chairmanship of Zhao Yan, everyone voted on the eight names, and in the end, the name "Gewu" led by a narrow number of votes and became the name of the academy, and since then. The academy founded by Zhao Yan finally has an official name, that is, Gewu College.

The word "Gewu" is actually connected with "Zhizhi", Gewu Zhizhi is also very famous in later generations, most people know this word from the doctrine of Ercheng, Zhu Xi or Wang Yangming, but in fact, Gewu Zhizhi comes from the "Book of Rites. University", many scholars in later generations have interpreted this name, and its basic meaning can be interpreted as "the truth of exhaustive study of things", which is very in line with the scientific spirit of later generations, so it is also very appropriate to use Gewu to name the college.

On the third day when the name of Gewu College was officially established, the enrollment of the college was officially launched, and the location of enrollment was in the microscopic level, no, it should be called Gewu College now, because the news of the establishment of the college had already been released, and people who wanted to sign up have been paying attention to the news of the college, especially those who often come to listen to lectures, and they are guarding the front of the college every day.

The enrollment conditions of Gewu College are far from being compared with the college entrance examination in later generations, and it can even be said that it is very relaxed, before the enrollment Zhao Yan has prepared some papers, on which there are some simple questions, as long as you can be literate, and have some basic mathematical knowledge, you can pass the entrance exam.

But this is only the first exam, Tong guò this exam is equivalent to getting a ticket to enter the Gewu Academy, but a student wants to stay in school, you have to choose a subject as the main rest, but after choosing this subject, you also have to take an exam, this time it is the lecturer of this subject to take the exam in person, only through this exam, can you really become a student of the college, and each student has three opportunities to choose the subject, if you fail to take the exam three times, then you can only regret leaving.

After ten days of intense enrollment, Gewu College has enrolled nearly three hundred students, almost all of whom are those who often come to listen to Zhao Yan's lectures, and there are also many students who come to visit, but most of them have not been able to pass the entrance exam, in fact, Zhao Yan also wants to recruit more students, but the number of lecturers in the college is limited, and the people who can be called professors are less than one hand, it can be said that the teacher resources are insufficient, if there are too many students, the teacher can't take care of it at all, So Zhao Yan could only endure the pain of keeping some students out of the school gate.

After the enrollment ended, after a few days of preparation, Gewu College also officially opened, on this day Zhao Yan came to the front of the college early, leading the school's professors and lecturers to welcome the new students, but what Zhao Yan didn't expect was that when he first came to the college, he saw a large number of people kneeling in front of the door, and there were many lecturers and students of the college around him, and they were also whispering.

"What's going on?" Zhao Yan saw Shen Kuo standing in front of the door at a glance, and immediately strode forward and asked.

Shen Kuo was also anxious, and when he saw Zhao Yan coming, he couldn't help but show a little joy on his face and said: "Dean, these are all people who failed to study in the admissions, and many of them came here, but they couldn't enter the academy for various reasons, which made them a little unwilling, and they felt shameless to go home, so they knelt here and wanted to ask the academy to give them another chance!" ”

As soon as Shen Kuo's words fell, he saw a young scholar kneeling at the front step forward and said: "The king of the county, in the lower Cheng Muyang, is a person from Jiangling Mansion, and he can be regarded as a scholarly family, but he is stupid, and he really can't read the sage's subtle words, but is only interested in some habitual phenomena around him, such as why birds can fly in the sky, why water flows down, why water freezes when it is cold, etc., these questions have been bothering me, but later when I heard some knowledge passed on to the south by the king of the county, Solved a lot of doubts in my heart at once, so I rushed to Tokyo not far away, just to be able to study under the county king's door, I didn't expect to just meet the enrollment of Gewu College, I thought it was a big opportunity, but I didn't expect to be shallow in the next school, and I couldn't pass the guò school exam, if I let it go back like this, I was really unwilling, so I wanted to ask the county king to give the next chance! ”

As soon as Cheng Muyang's words fell, the people behind him who were studying also felt a kind of resonance, and they all said loudly: "Please give me another chance!" ”

Zhao Yan heard Cheng Muyang's words, and saw the eager eyes of those students behind him, and he was also greatly moved for a while, especially Cheng Muyang's experience, which made him feel that in the era of the Northern Song Dynasty, some people who are good at thinking have noticed some phenomena around them, but now it is not like the later generations that have ready-made answers to solve the doubts in their hearts, so they can only rely on themselves to find the answers, maybe they can only find some plausible answers in their lifetime, But now when they find out that Zhao Yan has the answers they need, these people will put down their dignity and beg bitterly, in order to satisfy their thirst for knowledge.

Shen Kuo next to him saw that Zhao Yan was loose, for fear that he would really take these students in his head, which would break the rules of the academy, and secondly, the academy really didn't have so many lecturers, so Shen Kuo hurriedly reminded Zhao Yan in a low voice: "Dean, you have to calm down, although these people are pitiful, they really have no conditions to accept them now, so it's better to let them go home and wait for a while, and it's not too late to come back at this time next year." ”

"Thank you Brother Cun for reminding me, but I was not overwhelmed by the enthusiasm, but suddenly had an idea, if it is feasible, it can solve the affairs of people like Cheng Muyang, and I don't have to worry about taking up too many of our teaching resources!" Zhao Yan suddenly said in a low voice at this time.

"Dean, please tell me, what is the best of both worlds?" Shen Kuo couldn't help but light up when he heard Zhao Yan's words, people are not grass and trees, and Shen Kuo is also very sympathetic to Cheng Muyang and these people, but his previous reason made him have to remind Zhao Yan like that, if there is a better way, he will naturally agree with it.

At that moment, Zhao Yan whispered his thoughts, but Shen Kuo was a little embarrassed at first, but soon felt that this method was not impossible, and finally nodded, but he didn't know that Zhao Yan's idea had also become one of the characteristics of Gewu Academy. (To be continued......) R1071