"Teacher Fei Mu, are there any difficulties for the teachers in the academy now? Wu Feng strolled along the path by the lake and asked Fei Mu, who was silent while accompanying him.

"Thank you for your concern, the conditions of the academy are quite good now, and there are no problems at present. Fei Mu was telling the truth.

These teachers from Yanjing came to Qingyang, Wufeng provided them with quite favorable conditions, provided them with housing in Qingyang City, and those who were willing to live in the school could also live in the school, and many older teachers preferred the quiet environment of the school, and finally chose to live in the school. Since the school is still a certain distance from the city, Wufeng also specially approved the school to allocate more than ten official carriages for the use of teachers.

The road from Qingpu to Qingyang City is in good condition, and it only takes less than half an hour for the carriage to arrive. The salaries of the teachers are also quite generous, far higher than those of the Imperial University and the Imperial College. In all fairness, Li Wufeng should attach great importance to this aspect. Although Fei Mu was very dissatisfied with Li Wufeng's performance in the Emperor's Affairs Academy, he could not admire his foresight when he saw that he attached so much importance to the education and training of military officers.

"However, in general, the teaching capacity of the school is far from sufficient, although it is enough to cope with the current task, but with the gradual expansion of the number of students, I think this problem is gradually exposed. Fei Mu is a very strict person, you can know from his academic attitude, he is not afraid to interrupt Wu Feng's good interest, but still raised this question.

Wu Feng frowned, obviously he didn't want to hear these unsatisfactory things when he was in the right mood now, but after thinking about it, didn't he just take a fancy to Fei Mu's advantage? He then smiled and said: "I will consider this, I have asked the Department of Culture, Education and Health to send people to the Western Continent to recruit teachers, and I have also invited some scholars from their side to visit us, and asked them to be visiting professors of our two colleges here, I think it won't be long before these people arrive." ”

"Oh, that's really the case? That's great, we have long wanted to exchange teaching experience with our counterparts in the Western Continent, I heard that they attach great importance to education there, whether it is a school run by a political axe or a private school, the level is quite high, and the overall quality of teachers is also higher than the average level on our side. But the distance is long, will these people be willing to come? Also, I am afraid that famous scholars will not come all the way here to be guest teachers. Fei Mu was overjoyed at first, but then he was a little discouraged, obviously a little skeptical of Wufeng's statement.

"Teacher Fei Mu, you don't have to worry about this. You may not know much about the current situation in the Western Continent, and now there are endless wars and chaos between the countries in the Western Continent. Hierarchy and other reasons and conflicts continue, the chaos is even far more than the Eastern Continent, ordinary people are displaced, life is difficult, even those scholars are not all living comfortably, so when I send people to go, I also selectively invite and recruit those who are not satisfied with the life, I think there is a huge Western Continent, I can always find some people who are willing to come to us, not to mention the situation on our side due to a large number of immigrants from the Western Continent, the people on the Western Continent should also have heard of it, so this Principal Fei Mu, although you can rest assured, I, Li Wufeng, am still absolutely sure。 Wu Feng explained with a smile, with the information he had, he was quite satisfied with his plan and full of confidence, "When the time comes, you will definitely be overjoyed." ”

"If that's the case, it's a great thing at first sight. In the face of Wu Feng's pledge, Fei Mu's doubts naturally disappeared without a trace, "Although our Eastern Continent and Western Continent have been experiencing frequent economic exchanges in recent decades, to be honest, we have not seen much cultural exchanges, on the contrary, some negative things have been continuously spread to our Eastern Continent through commercial exchanges, which is indeed sad." It is a sad reality that I have spent nearly 20 years at Imperial University and the Imperial College of Affairs, and I have not seen much bilateral exchange in the field of education. If we can communicate with our counterparts in the western continent this time, I believe it will be of great benefit to the improvement of our teaching level. ”

"Yes, I hope that when the time comes, our school will also benefit a lot from this, and adults can't favor one over the other. A hearty voice sounded on the path of the woods beside it, and then two well-dressed gentlemen stepped out.

"Hey, Principal Qin, you've only arrived at this time, your lordship has already promised us, and the scholars who came have all been taken over by us. Facing the tall and thin middle-aged man walking in front, Fei Mu had a rare smile on his face.

"Dean Fei, you are too selfish like this, right, before the person arrives, you will swallow it alone, are you not afraid that you will not digest it?" The middle-aged man was obviously very familiar with Fei Mu, and joked with a smile.

Wu Feng had actually discovered the two of them a long time ago, but he knew that there were guards all around, and others couldn't approach them at all, and the two were obviously people who didn't know martial arts, so they didn't point it out.

The people who came were Qin Tieliu, the executive vice president of Northwest University, and Ma Yuan, the director of teaching, who were also talents poached by Wu Feng from Imperial University.

Qin Tieliu was born in the Qin family of the six major families of the empire, he was erudite and talented since he was a child, and after entering the Imperial University, he was the best among the graduates of that class, and the imperial government and the opposition believed that he would be the future political star of the empire, but to people's surprise, he refused to enter the political development, but stayed at the Imperial University to teach, which made many people sigh. However, he was at home in the Imperial University, receiving high praise for both teaching and administration, and was soon promoted to the position of deputy director of the imperialist university, which was full of talents.

He married a woman he knew in the Qinglou as his wife, and this woman was a female slave at the time! Such a shocking thing immediately spread throughout the upper class of Yanjing, and relatives, friends, and family members were all shocked, and they all came forward to persuade him not to do such a "feat" that damaged the image of the entire scholar clan, but he resolutely refused.

The custom of the empire has always been that marriage should be the right thing, especially the scholars of the upper class of the empire, and they pay more attention to it, the main wife must be a nobleman, at least she should be from a wealthy Shu family, and the civilian class is unacceptable, let alone a slave. Of course, concubines, outer rooms, and mistresses are not too subject to this restriction, but the main wife must not be sloppy.

Therefore, his move immediately caused a strong reaction from the upper class of Yanjing, the Qin family immediately announced the severance of relations with him, and many of his friends also broke off contact with him after the persuasion failed. Many nobles even proposed to the Imperial Bureau of Culture, Education and Health that he should be expelled from the Imperial University in order to set the record straight, but this suggestion was not accepted because the imperial law did not explicitly stipulate that nobles could not marry slaves. It is said that this incident even alarmed His Majesty the Emperor, but His Majesty did not express his opinion on the matter, but remained silent.

Later, his wedding was very deserted, and few people attended, except for a few friends who were quite close and did not care much about the aristocracy, and Fei Mu was one of them. Fei Mu had also persuaded him beforehand that if he was really good with that woman, he could take her as a concubine after marrying a wife, but he was not accepted by Qin Tieliu, but later several of his concubines were from the Shu clan and commoners, which made all his friends sigh that his behavior was unique.

The two people who approached greeted Wu Feng, Ling Tianfang, and Lu Man, and Wu Feng also warmly whispered to the two.

"I heard that adults came to participate in the graduation ceremony of the cadets of the Military Academy, Ma Yuan and I also came to join in the fun, just now I heard the words of the adults in the forest, I was really overjoyed, our school teachers are in short supply, Ma Yuan and I are very sad about this, it turns out that the adults still have this trick, just to solve our urgent needs. Qin Tieliu's rich voice has a persuasive power, which makes people involuntarily want to get close to him,

"Principal Qin, can you not be noisy, today, Lord Li is here to attend the graduation ceremony of our academy students, and by the way, to solve the practical problems of our academy, why do you act like this? I think it is better to wait for the adults to come to your side one day, and you can make another request, okay?" Although Fei Mu was up, there was a rare smile in the corner of his eyes, the relationship between the two was quite good, and he didn't mind the verbal dispute.

"There is no need for the two to argue, I think this time to go to the West Continent to recruit talents, the gain must be not small, should be able to meet the current needs of the two schools, I specifically told the people sent out, as long as it is a talent, the more the merrier, try to recruit as many as possible, even if you spend more funds, I don't care." Wu Feng interrupted the argument between the two with a smile.

"In the past two or three hundred years, the Western Continent has developed quite rapidly in terms of politics, economy, culture and art, especially the political, economic, cultural and artistic development of several important countries, and I have heard of it in the empire. The eastern and western continents are competing with each other, with several powerful countries such as Famini in the west and the Tang River Empire in the east. Especially in our Tang River Empire, culture and art through hundreds of years of peacetime development, has reached a very high level, it is not an exaggeration to say that it flourished for a while, painting, music, philosophy, astronomy, architecture and many other aspects have produced talents, creating one miracle after another, especially, architecture is not comparable to the Western Continent, which is also related to the empire's emphasis on education. ”

sighed softly, "But in the past few hundred years, the development of the Western Continent has also been quite fast, especially in mathematics, science, astronomy, geography, music, and painting have also reached a peak period of development. Qin Tieliu's words were full of a sense of distress. "Even music, painting, and astronomy, which we were far ahead of, no longer have any advantages to speak of, and it is fair to say that each has its own merits at present. On the other hand, in the past 100 years, the imperial government and the opposition have been full of conservative thoughts, content with the status quo, conservative in the old ways, and without any sense of innovation and creativity. ”

At this moment, the lakeside seemed extraordinarily quiet, and everyone was silently thinking about Qin Tieliu's deafening words, even Wufeng was no exception.

After a long time, it was Qin Tieliu who broke the silence, "Maybe Qin's words are a bit alarmist, but this is true, but it is a pity that no one in the imperial court can see the hidden crisis." ”

"Gao Jian! Gao Jian!" Wu Feng smiled and clapped his hands in appreciation, "Li hasn't heard such a thought-provoking argument for a long time, I agree with Principal Qin's point of view, but don't we have a way to deal with it?"

Everyone else was still digesting and absorbing the ideas put forward by Qin Tieliu, while Wu Feng had already thought about countermeasures.

"When the adults saw it, there was a cause and an effect, and if there was a stand, there was a break. With such a large empire and a population of tens of millions, how could it be helpless! Moreover, the superiority of the Western Continent over us has only just emerged, and as long as reasonable countermeasures are taken, I believe that it will not be long before we will be able to regain the superiority. Qin Tieliu was not worried about this, "It's a pity that there are still people in the imperial court who can clearly realize their own shortcomings like adults? Most of them are people who are greedy for pleasure or arrogant. Qin Tieliu's tone turned low.

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