Chapter 33 The White Dove's Succession

Dongquan University was founded. ()

The name was chosen because there is a spring around the school site chosen by Gil, and the water is warm in winter, and the water is steaming on it, and the water tastes so sweet, and the surrounding residents love it.

When the school was first built, the surrounding residents were worried that the school would destroy the spring, so people came to check on it every day. When Jill learned about this, he said that the spring would be preserved in the future, and that Jill would pay for the restoration of the pond around the spring's eyes so that the water could accumulate and be easily accessible. As for the name of this university, it was originally called Fandra University or Beihai University, but the surrounding residents naturally called this university Dongquan University, and Jill did not object much.

"Just Winterspring University," Jill said after listening to Ivan's report, and wrote a few strokes on his stack of materials, and then motioned for the name of the school to be this.

In his communication with Jill, Ivan has a general understanding of Jill's goal.

"Mr. Jill," Ivan asked, "did you go to college at Rhodoc?" The university you describe is very similar to that of the Rhodocs. When I was in Zhivadin, I had heard the lectures of scholars in the square, and they said that this is how the Rhodoks built the university. ”

Jill smiled regretfully, "No, I didn't go to college. I'd love to read it if I had the chance, but I'm too busy right now. ”

"People are not so busy that they don't have time to study," Ivan said solemnly, "and this is what one of my Zenda teachers told me." If I can recruit a group of scholars from among the Zen masters in Vikchia, I think they are very good at teaching. There is a proverb that says, 'If you beat a Zen master, you beat a scholar.'" ”

"Well, I've already written recruitment notices on some ports, but those Chanda people are still nominally slaves of the Wiki now, and they have to go through the process of the Wikibians, what do you think we should do?" , Jill asked.

Ivan had a look of shame on his face, "Actually, it's not that difficult, except that in the main towns, the lords will give some positions such as teachers or librarians to the Zen masters, and in the ignorant and poor places, I have seen that everyone seriously underestimates the Zen masters. For example, in the town where I used to live, the winemaker was a Karadian professor, and the other postman was a graduate of Zenda College. ”

"Is it easy to get them to dissolve their master-servant relationship with the master of Vekia?"

"I don't know," Ivan said truthfully, "but I think I can give it a try, and I can go back to Wikia." Now that I have a permanent job here, I can also take my family over by the way. ”

"Ah", Jill nodded, "I'll let Martin arrange your trip." Sorry, I haven't asked about your family, what other family do you have? ”

"My mom and sister. They had a very hard time, I used to be a little better when I was a steward, but then I got into a lawsuit and my family was poor. I left them at one of my relatives' house before I left, and this time I picked them up."

"Well, okay, take me to say hello to them!", Jill almost couldn't resist asking Ivan about his father, but since Ivan didn't say anything, Jill didn't ask more.

Ivan left soon after.

With Ivan's departure, many people have seen the recruitment notice and come to Jill one after another.

Since Jill's school is not well-known, not many people come, and many people just take a fancy to the generous remuneration offered by Jill and want to give it a try. But when they arrived, they saw a newly built dock, a dilapidated town, and a large and chaotic construction site, and many of them immediately turned around and went back.

For this situation, Jill is also fully prepared.

As for what the school was going to be, Jill made it clear in the recruitment notice. Unlike other academies that have to set the knowledge and form of what is taught, Jill's approach is to completely respect the opinions of scholars, in other words, what Jill is doing is: you come here, you teach what you want, and you teach how you want.

This loose form is easy to think of the style of the Zen Academy, where countless scholars will fight for each other in one school. This is commonplace for a Zen master: from the old to the young, as long as the views can be justified, they can be put in the lecture hall for reference.

This form of university has long since disappeared because the deteriorating living conditions have forced people to give up a lot of things.

Now Jill is preparing to rebuild the system, although not much can he do: even with the name of the university, Jill now only has an accounting school and a law school.

These two classes can quickly produce young people who can find jobs: the former can absorb the children of the merchant family, and then train them to be good guild helpers; The latter allowed young men to enter the castles to serve the lords or the king's ministers.

Of the only two faculties, the School of Accounting is particularly shabby: it has only two faculty members.

The two teachers begged for food almost all the way, they applied for an interview at Vekia, and passed the exam with flying colors. So one of Martin's assistants sent there gave them a sum of money and a certificate, and sent them on a cargo ship.

The cargo ship ran into a floating iceberg on a sea of broken ice, and had to turn back to the beach and wait for two weeks, a delay that once again cornered two ambitious young men, and their fares were exhausted. When they disembarked, their eyes were red with hunger.

According to the uploaded ship's owner's recollection, after this boat run, the rats on board were extinct for half a year, so that superstitious sailors always thought that the ship was about to sink and demanded a complete replacement of the planks at the bottom of the ship--- which is a common saying, if the rats on a ship escaped from the cabin, it means that the ship's luck has been exhausted.

Later, the owner of the ship had no choice but to find a group of magic sticks to jump on the ship, and then said in the tone of the gods that the bad luck had been removed, and the owner invited a few more mice to upload it, and the sailors agreed to go to sea.

The two Rhodoks begged for two crutches and trudged to the door of Winterspring University, then used their last strength to wake up the janitor.

After that, Jill had to spend half a year trying to persuade the two men to stop hiding food, "Gentlemen, don't worry, you will never go hungry again, I will keep you well fed and clothed." ”

But this persuasion doesn't seem to work, and Taylor and Cauchy always have their rooms stocked with food.

It makes them look like Vekia ranger hunters preparing to spend the winter in the forest, storing sacks of grain in barns in late fall, processing barrels of cured meat, then chopping firewood and stacking it next to the wall, baking their rooms warm before the snow comes, and finally comfortably hiding in them for the winter. Of course, it is also very easy to solve as a pastime, if you know how to read, you can put a bunch of myths and knights in the house, if you don't know how to read, put a woman, of course, it is not excluded that some ranger hunters will put men in the house.

These two poor men reminded people of those difficult years--- and every Nord man remembered the days when he lived with fishy fish and bitter wild herbs. So when they saw these two people, the craftsmen and school workers of Nord were very sympathetic, and they would often be given half a ham or a basket of eggs to them. In return, two people are responsible for tutoring the artisans or helping them sort out their accounts for a year.

Many of the people who come to Jill's place are law students or frustrated clerks in the city, and these people are asking to join the law school of Winterspring University, and as for the odd-looking accounting school, no one wants to go--- not all of them have mathematical talents, and it is a shame for these scholars to train talents for those who deal with money.

In the end, Jill reluctantly told Taylor and Cauchy that there were only two of them left in the School of Mathematics, and they were temporarily divided into dean and vice dean.

"By the way, considering the hard work you put into building the academy, you can name this academy. Let me know when you've thought about it. ”

Jill was going to give the two of them enough time to think about it, but they only saw the two of them look at each other, and then resolutely said to Jill solemnly: "No need, we have already discussed our academy, which is called Lobida Academy."

Jill saw that the eyes of the two were full of eagerness and sincerity, tenderness and emotion, and suddenly felt a chill on his body, as if goosebumps were squeezed out, "Well, if the two gentlemen have already settled down, this one''' will be Lopida." In the past two days, you have given me a summary of the philosophy of the academy and what you are going to teach, and I will have someone send you a copy of the "Outline of Accounts" in the afternoon, so that you must study it. ”

Two people said there was no problem.

After Jill hastily ended the conversation and fled, Taylor and Cauchy's hands clasped tightly together.

"Taylor, I guess, that's what people call 'great friendships.'"

"Yes", Taylor looked into the distance, "we have gone through all the hardships, and finally come to this day, we have our own job, we have our own career, we have our own Lobida, we have to work hard"

"yes"

At this time, there was a sudden sound of a copper basin falling to the ground.

Ruona was carrying a pot of freshly bought strawberries to be sent to the new teacher to try, and when she saw Taylor and Cauchy with their hands entangled, she couldn't help but give them away, dropping strawberries all over the ground, and only looked at the two of them blankly with her mouth open.

"Huh? Isn't this the principal's wife'''? ”

Ruona hurriedly grabbed the copper basin, brushed her hair, and then showed an embarrassed smile, "You continue, you continue", then turned and staggered away, almost hitting the door.

Then Ruona also ran away, and Renault probed his brain to come in and pick up two strawberries to taste, but Ruona turned around and grabbed her ears and carried them away.

"Cauchy, why are Principal Gil and his wife running so fast, as if they had seen something strange?"

"Maybe they're touched by our great friendship, tomorrow we're going to start dedicating our youth to the 'Lobida Academy', but we can't relax, Taylor."

The two of them shook hands deeply and slowly, and looked at the sunset in the distance with blazing eyes.

While the law school professors were arguing over textbooks, the two deans of Lopida College quickly finalized the teaching plan and textbooks with two votes in favor and unanimous votes.

Jill soon received a book list.

"A first-year book for freshmen at Lobida Academy.

"On the Gold Coins" by Chandappasque;

Economics in Astronomy by Swadia Goblins;

On the Absurdity of Economics in Astronomy by Swadia Sabel;

"Team Management Co-ordination Method" by Rodok Kim:

On Commerce, by Imam Salang Said;

"Outline of Accounts" by Berger, Minister of Finance of Nord;

"Discussion of Higher Mathematical Problems" by Rhodoc Taylor;

"Detailed Explanations of Answers to After-class Exercises for Discussion of Advanced Mathematics Problems" by Rhodoc Cauchy (Note: Purchased, but students should be reminded that this book is the only reference book for final exam questions);

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Jill examined it carefully, and found that there was no problem, so he gave the manifest to a clerk and asked him to take it to the White Pigeon Exchange, and then order it with the printing houses of various countries.

"What about the last two copies, these don't seem to be ordered, because the two of you made them up yourself. I can hire a printer to print a batch first, but the academy is only responsible for half of the cost, and the typesetting requires two people to work on their own. ”

"That's easy to say," Taylor nodded, "I'll put together the sample tomorrow, and I can start printing the book next week." Before we had students, we were both idle, and we still had time to complete these two great works. ”

Cauchy was flipping through the list of books in his hand, thinking about what books he needed.

"Well, that's fine", Jill pinched the bridge of his nose tiredly, and then squeezed his eye sockets, "In another half a year, the academy will start recruiting new students, and before that, I hope you two will work harder." ”

"Well, it's natural," Taylor said, "but for Lopida Academy to grow, we can't do it alone, we need help." ”

"Ivan wrote to me the other day that he had found some Zen masters who were willing to work here on Vicchia, and that you should choose among them when the time comes," Gil said. But what I want to tell you first is that the dean of the college will not be fixed, and if the two of them are not satisfactory in terms of teaching performance and management ability in the future, I will consider changing the new person. ”

Taylor and Cauchy smiled at each other, "Mr. Principal, we can go to the podium with our eyes closed in mathematics, don't worry."

Jill smiled, and then sent the guest.

After a long period of hard work, the college has finally improved, although the scale is still small, almost equivalent to a small regional church school, but this is only the beginning, and it will always get better in the future.

A lot has happened these days. The Swadiya counteroffensive finally began, and a surprise coup d'état took place within Salander, with the Kugits retreating in succession.

And, listening to the sailors, in the south, a brat named Arcadio seems to be famous.

"Arcadio", Jill smiled, the kind of smile that the elder brother unconsciously showed when he heard the news of his brother. But the smile immediately retracted, and Jill's expression became a little solemn, and finally sighed silently.

As the news of Jill's school spreads one after another, and Jill's reputation gradually increases, people have forgotten how this 'scheming craftsman' got started.

The culmination of Jill's popularity was a sudden earthquake, and while the Nords did not suffer much damage inland, the well-maintained docks of the Nords were in shambles.

At a time when the vast majority of North Sea ports had to be reworked and rebuilt, the port of Fendra was almost unscathed.

It was discovered that several load-bearing structures in the port of Fendra had saved the life of the port of Fendra in the disaster, and the memory has not faded: it is clearly remembered that it was a man named Gil who insisted on reinforcing the dock at his own expense.

Soon, Gil was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Fendra--- which allowed Gil to meet King Nord at the annual King's Dinner as Finner's representative.

The hiccup passed quickly, and Jill continued to be busy with her college business. The start of school has gradually arrived, and Jill's work is coming to an end. In his spare time, Jill would wear a cloak and quietly go to a corner of the tavern to sit down and listen to the stories of the people, which made Jill feel very comfortable, and the days ahead were still long, and how beautiful life seemed to be.

One day, Jill hears a group of sailors talking about the wedding of a lucky boy in the South.

Jill listened silently under the cloak, and on this day, Jill drank twice as much wine as usual, and paid the tavernkeeper more tips as he left.

Snow falls in the North Sea, and the cold wind howls.

But Jill felt warm in his heart, and Jill looked at the sky and showed a little smile these days.

He disappeared into the snow.

The year after Jill learned the news, Jill's mother wrapped me in a hot towel and shouted excitedly outside the delivery room,

"Master, the young master is a boy"