After the land was in hand, on the second day, Sun Yuanqi put down what he was doing and took Lao Zheng, Zhou Zongwu, Zhang Chun, and Liu Bin to run again.

This time the goal is clear, but it is much faster than the previous one. Even so, from Deshengmen to the river, there are forty miles. According to the title deed, both sides of the river beach are under the name of Sun Yuanqi.

Sun Yuan got out of the carriage and explained the relevant matters to several students while watching: Zhang Chun and Liu Bin went around first, and after they went back, they would roughly draw the terrain in the vicinity for reference when designing. Zhou Zongwu followed him, holding a pen and paper in his hand, recording some things he could think of at any time.

This small river is only seven or eight meters wide, and flows quietly on a riverbed about ten meters wide. Now because of the drought and the hot weather, you can roll up your pants and wade through it. What if it's winter? What if the river is swollen? So, when the architectural design office came, now build a bridge over the river. By the way, the school gate should be built on the south side of the river, so that the river will become a scene in the school.

After crossing the river, there are three or four hundred meters from the river to the foot of the mountain, and it is a slightly sloping flat land, overgrown with weeds and small trees, and the ground is full of large and small pebbles. A few people walked forward one foot deep and one foot shallow, and Sun Yuanqi's first thought was that after crossing the bridge, it had to be a wide and thick cement road. Otherwise, if it rains, you won't be able to leave!

After walking for a while, Sun Yuanqi instructed: A playground will be built here in the future, and there will be a gymnasium and a large lecture hall.

As he spoke, he reached the foot of the mountain. The oncoming mountain is not high, it is estimated to be only one or two hundred meters, and the mountain is gentle. This kind of wild mountain is rarely visited on weekdays, and there is not even a road up the mountain

"Mr. Sun," Lao Zheng pushed aside a branch in front of him, "this mountain is barren enough, why do you have to build a road first?" ”

Sun Yuan nodded: "I have to build a road!" ”

"There are so many idlers in the family, and they don't work every day, so it's better to let them come, and they are idle anyway." It seems that Lao Zheng has long been indignant about raising a large group of idlers.

Sun Yuanqi thought to himself: Yes, you can't just keep it like this. But if the road is built first, and then the designer comes to see it and says that it will affect the overall plan of the school, isn't that adding to the chaos? We can't do the work of a layman directing an insider!

"In this way, after going back, let Lao Zhao take the gang to level the river beach first, and then build a row of houses. One is that when you come later, you have a place to stay; Second, make preliminary preparations for large-scale construction in the future. ”

Zhou Zongwu, who was walking at the end, asked curiously: "Sir, this mountain is so wild, do you say there are any wild beasts or bandits?" ”

"Who knows!" Sun Yuanqi replied angrily.

"Wild beasts, rabbits, snakes, and wolves are estimated to be there. What about the bandits, I don't think so, this place is too remote, there are not even people, what do they rob and eat? However, Mr. Sun, this place is too remote, so I am afraid that some bad people will think about it. "Lao Zheng is more thoughtful.

"Well, aren't those boxers a good family, and when it's built, they'll stay as security guards." Indeed, the safety of students should not be taken lightly, in case a student is bitten by a wolf or kidnapped by bandits, who will dare to apply for this school in the future? "In addition, first-year students who enter middle school and university must participate in military training and participate in the safety and security of the school in the first year of entering the school!"

"Sir, you say, after three or five years, how many people will be in the school?" Zhou Zongwu has been following Sun Yuan since he built the physics institute, and he is also full of longing for the future of the school.

"This year, we will recruit twenty or thirty people. Next year, it is estimated that thirty or forty people will be enrolled. By the year after that, another forty or fifty people will be enrolled. That is, after three years, there are about a hundred students in school. Five years from now, there will be more than 200 people, right? When it comes to the future, Sun Yuanqi is full of confidence, after all, the construction of university halls in various places is imminent, at that time, as a college of science and engineering specializing in the study of the most advanced technology, as a higher level of research institutes, there must be many people who apply for the examination.

"Two hundred!" Zhou Zongwu looked excited.

"Two hundred!" Lao Zheng also smacked his mouth, "Eating, drinking, and sleeping are all problems!" ”

Sun Yuanqi understood what Lao Zheng meant: "Yes, these are big problems. Two hundred people, just eating rice every day, have to weigh hundreds of catties, all of which have to be transported from the city to here. It's not enough to eat rice, you also have to eat firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, vegetables, meat, eggs, and fruits...... That's what you just eat. Drinking water, you can't drink water directly from the river, right? You have to build a waterworks, you have to lay water pipes, and you have to build a boiling water house to provide boiling water on the one hand, and hot water to the bathroom on the other. It can't be winter, so let the students run to the city to take a bath, right? Speaking of toilets, toilets have to be built everywhere there are people. Someone has to be responsible for the cleaning of toilets and the discharge of wastewater. Finally, when it comes to sleeping, it's not just that there is a room, there is a problem with beds. When sleeping in a dormitory, you have to consider heating in winter and heatstroke prevention in summer, right? You can't go to bed as soon as it's dark, and you have to have lights, desks and chairs in the dormitory. When it comes to electric lights, you have to think of ways to generate electricity, which is a big problem......"

Sun Yuanqi counted them one by one with his fingers, and in the end, he was a little lacking in confidence: he had only left school for two or three months, and he only had more than 80,000 US dollars and 10,000 taels of silver tickets on him, could this school be built? It is no wonder that the old campuses of many universities are in the urban area, which can save a lot of trouble, at least bathing, accommodation, and meals can be solved outside the school.

A hill one or two hundred meters high, and he climbed to the top of the mountain while talking. It is said to be the top of the mountain, but in fact it is just a small platform, and from then on, the mountain peak gradually rises and falls. According to the title deed, the continuous peaks and mountains are all in Sun Yuanqi's name. In the future, when the university is popular, you can move the dormitories and the like to the back hill and expand the campus area along the way. Not now, after all, safety comes first.

The flat slope at the top of the hill is not very large. Sun Yuanqi pondered: How about the library built here in the future?

Standing on the top of the hill and looking around: in front of you is a shiny river, and there will be a majestic school gate and a wide bridge in the future; Then along the slope of the river, there is a flat playground, as well as a well-developed gymnasium, which can accommodate hundreds of people...... Thinking of this, Sun Yuanqi was excited, yes, I can use my knowledge and strength to change the fate of students, change the fate of China, and influence the pace of world development! In this regard, I should not be afraid of any hardships and obstacles!

After returning to the city from the mountain, he instructed Lao Zhao to lead the Boxers in a few days, bring dry food, and set up camp at the foot of the mountain, concentrating on leveling the land. Lao Zhao and those people didn't have a second word: After coming for so long, the owner has been eating and drinking well, and now he has given himself such a job, what is there to complain about?

Before dawn the next day, Lao Zhao took a group of people to prepare dry food and work tools. They are all from the countryside, and they are good at doing this work. On the third day, the group brought enough dry food, pots and pans, and left the city. Sun Yuanqi was afraid that they would not be able to find a place to work, so he deliberately told Zhou Zongwu the location and what the leveling would be, and asked him to go with Lao Zhao.

After settling down this matter, Sun Yuanqi wrote letters to Yale and MIT in the United States, with three main themes:

The first is to settle the morale of the army. Send a research proposal to each lab: the plan for Yale is to isolate the new element lutetium (Lu) with atomic number 71 from ytterbium. In 1878,. G. Mariniak isolated the oxide of ytterbium from erbium earth, which is called ytterbium soil. It was not until 1907-1908 that Wellespe, Austria, and Huerban, France, pointed out that ytterbium was a mixture of lutetium oxide and ytterbium oxide, and found lutetium from ytterbium respectively. Lutetium was also the last rare earth element to be discovered. Sun Yuanqi did not say so bluntly in his heart, only said that according to the periodic table and other theories, there is another unknown rare earth element in the world, which is very likely to be contained in ytterbium separated from ytterbium phosphate ore and black rare gold ore. As for how to separate, it can be handed over to the colleagues of the Yale Element Laboratory, and those who can enter the laboratory are not stupid. The plan for MIT was to invent quadrude, five-stage transistor, and high-frequency signal generator and detector for reception.

The second is to procrastinate for time. Tell the two universities that the peace agreement between China and the Eight-Nation Alliance has not yet been reached, and it is estimated that it will take some time, and it is not safe for you to send people here now. For the sake of your personal safety, you can come back after Christmas and New Year's Day, and when everyone is busy with their work, I will go back to the United States with you, how about it?

The third is to request support. I'm working the preliminary preparations for the lab, but I don't have enough people, can you send me a few assistants first? The assistant should preferably be a Ph.D. or master's degree in science and engineering.

Of course, with regard to the third subject, I also wrote to Mr. Rutherford of Canada.

Next, it's time to publish the prospectus in the newspaper. After all, it's July, and the exam in August has to give people a period of time to register and review, right?

Speaking of admissions, the school doesn't even have a name now! As the saying goes: "If the name is not right, the word is not good, and if the word is not good, the thing will not be done." "Gotta have a good name. Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton? These are all nicknames, and they don't work in China. In China, of course, Tsinghua University is the best, the key is that "Qing" and "Hua" are both national names, how dare we dare to touch this fishy private school? Don't catch the fox, it's a commotion. What about Peking University? "Beijing" is the name of the national capital, and I dare not use it indiscriminately. What about Fudan? Aurora University doesn't know if there is one, what is "Dan"?

Come to think of it, there is no suitable one. Suddenly, I remembered my first article published in Science, which seemed to have the name of the school on it. I hurriedly flipped through the bookshelf to the issue of the magazine, and sure enough, it had a strange name: "NationalKingshim University".

My own school, which is completely private, so there is no need to add the word "National". "Kingshim" was originally a transliteration of "Jingshi", but now that Jingshi University Hall has another English name, it seems that it will no longer be translated like this, and at this time, Jingshi University Hall has gone bankrupt and closed down, and there is not so much taboo. "Kingshim", what is written in Chinese? "Jingshi", that is taboo. "In this world"? "Golden Stone"? "Amazing"? "Jinshi"? "Cautionary"? "Golden Lion"? "In recent times"? ...... "Jingshi", this name is good, and it is used in the world, which meets Chinese's expectations for reading.

Sun Yuanqi spread out the paper and began to write the "Jingshi University Admissions Guide":

Kingshim University is a comprehensive university with the purpose of applying the world to the world, strengthening the country and benefiting the people, and focusing on cultivating academic and scientific research talents, teaching teachers and technical forces of other schools. Formerly known as the Physics Institute of Yale University, Professor Sun Yuanqi, Ph.D., it was founded in 1898.

The newly established Jingshi University is a relatively complete school from general education to higher education in terms of education system, and will include an affiliated primary school, a three-year higher primary school, a three-year elementary middle school, and a three-year higher high school. Higher education is divided into four-year undergraduate education, three-year master's education and three-year doctoral education.

At the undergraduate level, the newly established university will establish a faculty of arts, a faculty of science, a faculty of engineering, and a medical school. The Faculty of Arts is divided into the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, the Department of Foreign Chinese Language and Literature, the Department of History, the Department of Philosophy, and the Department of Education. The Faculty of Science is divided into the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Physics, the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Geography, the Department of Biology, etc. The School of Engineering is divided into the Department of Electronics, the Department of Chemical Engineering, the Department of Nuclear Engineering, the Department of Geology, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, etc. The School of Medicine is divided into the Department of Western Medicine, the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Department of Medicine. At the postgraduate education level, graduate schools and national colleges are established. The undergraduate level will be responsible for the education and teaching of students, and the graduate level will be responsible for the research and innovation of students. Among them, the research institute mainly includes science, engineering, medicine, pharmacy and other disciplines. The Academy of Chinese Studies is responsible for the study of traditional Chinese culture, including classics, history, literature, etc.

Because the school was founded and the establishment of a joint laboratory with Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was imminent, the School of Science, the School of Engineering, and the Research Institute were first opened in August of this year (the 27th year of Guangxu, 1901). The Department of Mathematics, the Department of Physics, the Department of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science, the Department of Electronics of the Faculty of Engineering, and the research majors of the corresponding disciplines of the Institute are also open to students from all over the country.

1. Enrollment Numbers

1. Faculty of Science: 5 in the Department of Mathematics, 8 in the Department of Physics, and 5 in the Department of Chemistry; Faculty of Engineering: 8 people from the Department of Electronics. Graduate School: 1 major in mathematics, 3 majors in physics, 2 majors in chemistry; 3 majoring in electronics. A total of 35 people.

2. This number is for reference only. The specific number of applicants will be adjusted according to the merits of the candidates.

3. The University welcomes foreign students to observe and borrow, and audit students can participate in the next entrance examination; Those who pass the examination will be given the corresponding certificate, and those who pass the main disciplines of the major will be given a certificate of graduation, but will not be awarded a graduation certificate and a degree certificate.

II. Application Requirements

1. Good conduct, good health, no bad habits (such as opium, gambling, alcoholism, etc.);

2. Essence of learning, interested in scientific research;

3. The corresponding academic ability should reach the level of higher secondary school (for specific standards, please refer to the textbook of senior high school of the Commercial Press);

4. The age is generally not more than 30 years old (those born after the first month of the tenth year of Tongzhi).

3. Registration

1. Applicants must meet the corresponding application conditions, and if there is fraud, they will be disqualified.

2. Applicants should carefully fill in the "Registration Form" attached to this "Enrollment Guide", cut it out and send it to the Preparatory Committee of Jingshi University, No. 3 Zhiqiu Hutong, Beijing;

3. The deadline for registration is the twenty-first day of the sixth lunar month of the 27th year of Guangxu (August 5, 1901 in the Western calendar), subject to the postmark.

4. Entrance exams

1. The entrance examination adopts the principle of national unified examination and merit-based admission.

2. The examination time is tentatively set for the second and third days of the sixth lunar month of the 27th year of Guangxu (August 15 and 16, 1901 in the Western calendar);

3. The examination rooms are located in Beijing and Shanghai, and students from all over the world will take the examination according to the location filled in the "Registration Form", and the specific location of the examination room will be notified separately;

4. Candidates should go to the corresponding examination room to collect the admission ticket the day before the examination (the first day of the seventh month of the 27th year of Guangxu in the lunar calendar, August 14, 1901 in the Western calendar), and take the examination with the voucher the next day.

5. The test subjects are six subjects, including Chinese, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and English, of which the results of biology and English are used as reference and are not included in the total score; For the content of the examination, please refer to the "Textbook of Higher Schools" (compiled by Sun Yuanqi and published by the Commercial Press).

5. Duration of study

The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering are both four years, and upon graduation a diploma is awarded, and a bachelor's degree is awarded as appropriate. The Graduate School lasts for three years, and upon graduation, a graduation certificate is awarded and a master's degree is awarded.

6. Tuition fees

The school waives tuition fees for all students and provides corresponding financial subsidies according to the degree of outstanding performance.

7. Accommodation

The school is responsible for settling accommodation.

8. Consultation

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This advertisement appeared on the second week of July in domestic newspapers such as Zilin Xi Bao, Wen Wei Po, Zhongwai Daily, and Guowen Bao, which were full page. This cost Sun Yuanqi four or five hundred taels of silver.

The students of the Physics Institute have been able to get close to the water. Sun Yuanqi stood in the courtyard and shouted: "If you have applied for a new school, come to me to get the "Registration Form". ”

Hulala, one or twenty people all gathered around: "Me! "Give me one!" "I want one too!" "And me"......

Sun Yuanqi looked at the stack of nearly twenty registration forms on the table, all of which were from the Physics Institute, and thought: This time, more than half of the 35 people recruited will not be students under him, right? Isn't this inbreeding by academic fate?

After a few more days, I finally looked forward to Zhan Daniu's reply, and the time was already mid-July.

Sun Yuanqi looked pious and respectfully opened the letter. Sure enough, people have a very big demeanor, and first praised themselves as a young and promising junior brother; Immediately afterwards, he said that he was ashamed of being a senior and achieved nothing; In the end, I reluctantly recommended two architectural design firms that I thought were good, hoping that Sun Yuanqi would make up his own mind. The end is drip-proof.

In the foreign country, I can't count on it for a while. However, since it was recommended by Zhan Daniu, Sun Yuanqi still wrote a letter to the Boston-based design office, hoping that they could go to China in person to design the long-term plan and overall layout of the university for him. These are long-term tasks, and there is no rush for a while.

The architectural design firm called Chenggu in China is actually opened by a foreigner in China, and according to Zhan Daniu, the quality and reputation are absolutely reliable. The office is based in Shanghai. Sun Yuanqi wrote another letter, asking them to design and build lecture halls, libraries, school gates, bridges, etc., which he urgently needed at the moment. After all, school is still about two months away.

I don't know if the name Yank Johnson is powerful, or the magic of the dollar in his hand, Chenggu Architectural Design Office soon arrived in Beijing, combined with Sun Yuanqi's opinions, and began to design and build those important projects.

From July to August, Sun Yuanqi stayed at the construction site outside the city, except for some matters related to the exam, and spent the rest of his days on construction sites outside the city, discussing plans with designers during the day, supervising the construction of workers, and translating and compiling university textbooks at night.

Since he was preparing to return to China to prepare for the university, Sun Yuan has been compiling textbooks. Now the textbooks that will be compiled will be sent directly to the Commercial Press in Shanghai, and they will be published under the title of "Business and Economic University Textbook Series". In return, the Commercial Press also agreed to provide a venue for the Shanghai test center of the Jingshi University Entrance Examination. In fact, the Commercial Press not only serves as a test center, but also prints the exam papers there, and even the invigilators for the exams are all staff members of the Commercial Press. There's no way, who let Sun Yuanqi be a bare-bones commander by himself?

The test paper was done by Sun Yuanqi himself, in his previous life, others abused him with the test papers, and now, it is his turn to abuse others with the test papers! The test paper is divided into two parts, the first part is the basic questions, which are all high school knowledge, and students who take the undergraduate exam can do this; The second part is an additional question, which is the knowledge in the university, if anyone feels that they have grown a bull's head, they can try this part after completing the first part. The second part is prepared for admission to graduate school.

Out of the test papers, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, English are no problem, the key is the difficulty in the Chinese. In these years, do you still test pinyin and grammar? There was no one around me to ask, so I had to ask two questions: the first question was to write the section of "Many Helpers for the Righteous and Little Help for the Unjust" in "Mencius"; The second question is an essay on "The Pros and Cons of Scientific and Technological Development for Human Beings", with no restrictions on the style of writing, at least 800 words. Haha, the ancient version of the topic essay!

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