Chapter 314: Opening a New World
"How's it being considered?"
Looking at Jian Yi, who was still thinking about it, Zhu Gaoxu knew that once he agreed to take over this matter, it meant that he would make a separation from his past self.
Many people in the government and the opposition praised Jianyi because Jianyi did not violate their interests, and there were indeed no black spots in Jianyi.
But if Jian Yi takes over the pilot of the Sichuan New Deal, it means that he will become the driving force behind the promotion of the New Deal to the south, and many of his friends in the past will leave him.
If it is done, he may become a Qing official who is grateful to the people of Sichuan, and he will even be built as a temple to pay tribute to him, which will be passed down through the ages.
failed, and there was no place for him to stand on top of the temple, and everyone shouted and beat him from then on.
Jian Yi is not Zhu Gaoxu's old team, so he is not sure whether Zhu Gaoxu will protect himself if he fails, so he has a lot of concerns and can only ask tentatively.
"To pilot the Sichuan New Deal, how much support and investment is His Highness ready to give to his ministers?"
Jian Yi asked this, he must have wanted to do this in his heart, so Zhu Gaoxu didn't hide it, and got straight to the point:
"Once the new deal is opened, Sichuan's taxes will be distributed by you, and I will send at least 3,000 officials from outside the customs to cooperate with you on errands, and let the soldiers and horses of the Sichuan Metropolitan Division cooperate with you to measure the acres of land and count the population."
"Don't worry about the impeachment on top of the temple, I will cover it for you, you just let it go."
"But I want to tell you that Sichuan's new policy will take seven years at the earliest to announce the end of the first phase, and the opening time is in March of the fourth year of Yongle, you need to leave Sichuan today to find out the situation in Sichuan officialdom."
"Once you take over this matter, you will have to leave the capital for at least nine years."
"But I also promise that if you come back, there will be a place for you in the Six Shangshu."
Zhu Gaoxu and Jian Yi talked in advance about the support he could give and the gains that Jian Yi could get.
Today's Jianyi is just forty, and he is not young in this era.
Nine years later, he was forty-nine years old, and he was only a few months away from turning half a hundred.
It's hard to say how long he can stay in the position of the six Shangshu, so how to measure it depends on himself.
Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu did not look away from himself, but looked directly at the righteousness he was thinking about.
After a while, Jian Yi slowly got up and bowed towards Zhu Gaoxu.
Seeing this situation, Zhu Gaoxu was a little disappointed, thinking that Jian Yi wanted to resign.
"Minister, I am willing to take on this important responsibility."
Jian Yi suddenly responded to this errand, which made Zhu Gaoxu stunned for a moment, and then reacted, his expression moved:
"The people of Sichuan are blessed to have villagers like you."
"Go back and prepare, and the decree will be issued by the end of April at the latest."
Zhu Gaoxu gave Jian Yi a month to prepare, and Jian Yi didn't say much when he heard this, and after bowing down, he got up and left the Wuying Palace.
Compared with when he came, when he left, he seemed to have a frank back and less concessions.
Looking at his departing back, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Yi Shuha: "You recommended a good person." ”
"The slave and maid are afraid, but they are just picking up people's teeth." Yisha shook his head in return, and Zhu Gaoxu also lowered his head to deal with the mountain of notes.
Time passed, and as the days passed, Jian Yi also reached the day when he took office.
Many former colleagues were upset with him, after all, as a left waiter, he seemed to be the future secretary of the ministry, and now he was transferred to Sichuan, no matter how you look at it, it looks like decentralization.
However, only Jianyi himself knows that when he goes, as soon as the new Sichuan deal opens, this group of colleagues who fight for him will also stand on the opposite side of him and spit on him.
But so what, the muddy water in this temple in the capital is too much, and he doesn't want to mix it up.
A small boat, he went to Sichuan.
At the same time, with the end of the draft, there are also twenty-two new Fengyi in the East Palace.
Since Guo Yan is six months pregnant, these twenty-two Fengyi in the East Palace can only be taught the rules by the two Guo Mansion maids who married back then, and the two Fengyi now.
At the end of April, as the rules were established, Guo Yan began to urge Zhu Gaoxu to turn over the brand.
"These twenty-two signs depend on your own mood, Your Highness, as long as you are modest, no matter how you turn them, it will be fine."
In the former dormitory in early May, Guo Yan, who had a slightly big belly, sat on a chair, and the female official next to him held a tray with twenty-two brand-new signs on it.
She was persuading Zhu Gaoxu, who was eating next to her, to turn over the sign, maybe she was pregnant, and she unconsciously felt that Zhu Gaochu didn't turn over the sign because of herself.
However, in this regard, Zhu Gaoxu, who deals with government affairs every day, looked at the pile of signs with some pain: "Recently, when I was dealing with official business, I still had to get up at 4 o'clock every day, and the rest time was only three and a half hours, and I was physically and mentally exhausted. ”
"After this period of time, I'll turn over the cards again."
Because the war to conquer the south was about to begin, the affairs of the Governor's Mansion of the Six Armies dragged Zhu Gaoxu not to mention, and the Taixue built by Yuhuatai was about to be completed, so Zhu Gaoxu seemed very busy.
It's not that he doesn't want to turn over the signs, but he really doesn't have the energy.
Putting down the dishes and chopsticks, Zhu Gaoxu also happened to explain to Guo Yan: "Taixue has been completed, I'm afraid I will have to go to live in Taixue in the next few months, you still have two and a half months to give birth, be careful in everything, but don't worry too much." ”
"I don't need to talk about the experience of this group of female medical officers in Jilin Hospital, you also know how well they deliver and postpartum care when you are in Jilin, I will be very happy whether it is male or female, as long as the mother and child are safe."
Zhu Gaoxu carefully explained everything, and then saw Guo Yan nodding with a smile.
Although she was a little fat at this time because of pregnancy, she was not too out of shape under deliberate control.
Although she wanted Zhu Gaoxu to turn over the brand, she didn't want to share him with others in her heart.
Just taking advantage of Zhu Gaoxu's going to Taixue in the past few months, she can exercise well after giving birth, and continue to cultivate the relationship between husband and wife when Zhu Gaochu comes back to live permanently.
Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu hugged her and stroked her back, and then asked Yizha to pack up for herself after washing.
The next day, Zhu Gaoxu went to Taixue under the escort of more than 100 cavalrymen.
Located in the southeast of Yuhuatai, Taixue covers an area of 200 acres, the whole body is paved with cement road, surrounded by two zhang high, two feet thick courtyard wall enclosed, there are three internal teaching buildings, each four floors high, there are 20 classrooms, each can accommodate 200 people.
The classroom structure is all the lecture halls of the later universities, with a height of two feet, covering an area of four points, and enough space for more than 200 people to study together.
In addition, there are 10 large canteens built of concrete and pig iron, each of which can accommodate 200 students to eat, ensuring daylight and shelter from the wind and rain.
In addition to the teaching building and the large canteen, there are 500 small courtyards covering an area of one-third, one for every four students, which can accommodate 2,000 people.
Outside of these are the laboratories for hands-on experiments, each covering an area of two acres, for a total of 30.
On the whole, Taixue at this time is not large, but there is enough open space in the southeast, so it is very convenient to expand in the future.
As for the classroom, Zhu Gaoxu did not have the energy to teach more than 300 students, so he could only teach the 47 first-class students himself, and then they would teach the more than 300 second-class students.
After entering Taixue, Zhu Gaoxu saw many students coming and going.
They were almost the most outstanding of the more than 20,000 students in Bohai last year, but because the population base of Bohai was too small, Zhu Gaoxu was not sure how many of them could be talented.
"Hope you can keep up with me......"
Looking at the Bohai students talking and laughing outside the window, Zhu Gaoxu in the car sighed.
His identity is destined not to give this group of students too much time, there are only five months between now and October, when the government is the busiest, and he needs to finish the course for the next year in five months, and then let the forty-seven first-class students eat it thoroughly and pass it on to the remaining three hundred or so second-class students.
In the middle of February of the following year, he will come to Taixue again, and the next year's course will be taught to the first batch of first-class students in a few months, and then they will continue to lead the team to study.
This situation needs to continue until the first batch of first-class 47 students fully understand the relevant knowledge, and then they will teach them by word and deed to the second, third, and fourth batches...... and other first-class students in the future.
This situation needs to be maintained for three years, and after three years, Zhu Gaoxu will be liberated, because the knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry he has mastered will be left in Taixue and passed on by them from generation to generation.
Graduating first-class students will switch to topics, and each topic is solved, which represents the further growth of Daming's productivity.
Zhu Gaoxu didn't know if he would be able to see a steam engine that could be used on trains and agriculture in his lifetime, but if he could, he really wanted to see one.
Soon, the carriage stopped in front of a separate courtyard guarded by soldiers.
Zhu Gaoxu stepped out of the carriage and walked into the small courtyard accompanied by Yishaha.
The small courtyard covers an area of half an acre, which is already very large for Zhu Gaoxu personally.
"Are all the textbooks printed?"
Zhu Gaoxu walked around with satisfaction, and then sat down in the middle hall and asked about Yifuha's preparations.
"Your Highness, rest assured, everything is ready, as long as you want, you can start lecturing now."
"However......" Yisha looked at Zhu Gaoxu worriedly: "If you stay up like this, the slave is worried about your body." ”
"The old man can't teach, so I can only teach." Zhu Gaoxu shrugged helplessly, but he also knew that he couldn't teach while dealing with the music, so he said to Yishuha:
"From today onwards, the East Palace's performance will be divided into three percent and transferred to Wuyingdian as appropriate, if the old man asks, he will say that I am taking the students to study more powerful and better firearms."
It is impossible for Zhu Gaoxu to say that he is studying the steam engine, after all, he has no bottom in his heart about this thing.
So after thinking about it, he might as well say that he was developing firearms, anyway, the flintlock pistol was still being studied in the Ordnance Bureau in Liaodong, and when Zheng He found a good quality flint to bring back, the flintlock pistol could also be equipped with the troops in advance.
Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu looked at the courtyard gate, only to see two soldiers walking in with a thick pile of songs.
Seeing this situation, Zhu Gaoxu could only sigh, and then arranged: "Taixue's daily class time is from morning to noon (7-11 o'clock), and it is not until 13-17 o'clock. ”
"In addition, let people prepare more candles in the study room of this courtyard, although the old man can share a lot for me, but I still have to deal with the sparseness after the daily hour and the unitary hour."
"Yes......" Yizha looked at Zhu Gaoxu, who was burdened, and although he responded, his eyes were full of worry.
After sitting for a while, Zhu Gaoxu went to the study to deal with the notes sent one by one.
Among them, the household department and the six armies are the best to deal with the governor's office and the official department, and the more difficult thing to deal with is the performance of the Ministry of Industry.
In addition, Zhu Gaoxu also had to deal with the recitals in Liaodong and Shandong separately, and he was busy until he fell asleep.
Before dawn the next day, he got up to wash up, disposed of some of the notes that had piled up again in the study at some point, and then hurried to the teaching building.
Taking a deep breath, when he pushed open the door of the classroom, the forty-seven students sitting inside stood up in unison, looking at him excitedly.
Zhu Gaoxu has only been in Nanjing for two and a half years, and for this group of students who studied five years ago, they are no strangers to Zhu Gaoxu, after all, he often goes to the official school in Jilin.
"Your Highness......"
The students were about to sing, but Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand to stop them: "It's okay to call Jiaoxi." ”
"Yes, ...... Teaching"
"Teaching and Learning ......"
They responded to Zhu Gaoxu, who also took out a book called Physics.
"Open the physics book and start with "What is Physics" today......
Zhu Gaoxu took out a charcoal pen and began to write on the wooden board in class, and the students below also began to take notes.
They were told before the class what their task was, that they were not only responsible for learning, but also for imparting knowledge.
In Taixue, they don't have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, let alone books.
They were engrossed, and the speed of writing could even keep up with the speed of Zhu Gaoxu's lectures.
In order not to waste time, they began to ask questions after Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking and writing notes, and according to Zhu Gaoxu's answers, they annotated the questions next to the questions.
They never imagined that one day they would be taught by His Royal Highness Bohai and now the crown prince.
After all, it was forty-seven people out of more than 20,000 people, and with respect for Zhu Gaoxu and a desire for new knowledge, the progress of this day's course reached a level that Zhu Gaoxu could not have imagined.
From "What is Physics" at the beginning to "The Relationship between Physics and Scientific Development and Technological Progress", more than half of the content of the two chapters and ten pages was explained by Zhu Gaoxu.
The advent of physics has opened a new door for them.
Before today, if they were asked what physics was, they would have to look at each other and not answer anything.
But after today, when others ask them what physics is, then they can roughly explain what physics is, and even talk about science from physics, to scientific development in China over the past 4,000 years, and various technological progress.
Of course, they hadn't finished all the technical advances in the second chapter, but the book was in their hands, and they could already read it on their own based on what they had learned in class.
Zhu Gaoxu's official and Taixue textbooks are all textbooks printed with text and illustrations.
This kind of textbook is very easy to learn, and the content of the vernacular is also convenient for students to learn on their own.
When the day's classes ended, Zhu Gaoxu looked at the group of students who did not leave the classroom, but studied by themselves, and he couldn't help but speak: "Sure enough, a scholar is a scholar, even an ancient scholar is much stronger than a scholar like me." ”
"I'm afraid that the textbooks for three years in middle school will be thoroughly eaten by them in less than a year."
"But it's okay, it saves me a lot of time and energy, but I always feel a sense of frustration......"
Touching his smooth chin, Zhu Gaoxu walked out of the teaching building with the textbook.
Many second-class students wait outside early, starting later than first-class students, who are almost open all year round except for the first month and February.
Band B students start three months later than Band A students and do not start school until mid-August.
They didn't dare to disturb Zhu Gaoxu, but looked up at him from a distance, and they didn't even get into the carriage and leave, and they chattered and discussed.
Time passed quickly, and Zhu Gaoxu continued to teach the next day, but this time he was not teaching yesterday's physics, but "Geography and Biology".
Zhu Gaoxu's knowledge of geography is enough to support a textbook, but his knowledge of biology is not enough, so he puts the two disciplines together.
Compared to physics, Geography and Biology is like a storybook.
From "How the Earth Formed" to "How the Earth Gives Birth to Life", the content of this day is more intuitive for students than physics.
The ancients wrote very early on in the "Illustration of the Armillary Sphere": "The armillary sky is like a chicken." The celestial bodies are round like projectiles, and the earth is like a chicken in the middle of the yellow, living alone, the sky is big and the earth is small. But when Zhu Gaoxu successively said the relationship between the universe, the Milky Way, the solar system, the earth and the sun and the moon, the students' worldview was still impacted.
Especially when Zhu Gaoxu said that human beings gradually evolved from single cells, this made the students who thought that Nuwa created human beings feel the collapse of their worldview.
Fortunately, they have unconditional trust in Zhu Gaoxu, and they will also ask questions about the knowledge he tells after the record.
Zhu Gaoxu will answer these questions very well, and compared with those legends, these answers are undoubtedly more representative.
In order to convince the students, Zhu Gaoxu even took out a simple microscope that he ordered someone to make.
Although it did not reach the millionths of a millimeter observation in modern times and later generations, the crude simple microscope allowed students to see things that were invisible to the naked eye.
Zhu Gaoxu didn't know how many times the size of things that this microscope could observe, but he thought it should be no less than the simple microscope of Leeuwenhoek in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
It has to be said that the advent of the microscope has brought a whole new world to the students' field of vision, and for the first time, they have seen the internal structure of tiny animals and plants, as well as everything from the human body to plant fibers.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhu Gaoxu also explained to them the relationship between "microorganisms" and "medicine", but when the students asked if they would learn microorganisms in the future, Zhu Gaoxu could only smile dumbly:
"I will learn, but there will not be many chapters, because there is too little knowledge about this, and I don't have time to study it, so I can only rely on your observations and records after graduation."
"As long as we are good at observing and documenting, this knowledge will be passed down from generation to generation, and one day our children and grandchildren will know more about microorganisms than we do."
"Many diseases that were considered incurable in this era will be conquered in the future and become curable everywhere."
"But whether you can develop to this point depends on whether any of you is willing to take this step."
Zhu Gaoxu explained with a smile, and then closed the textbook: "Okay, today's lesson is over here, you can rest well." ”
"Teaching and learning to walk slowly ......"
Seeing Zhu Gaoxu say this, the students got up together, bowed to Zhu Gaoxu, and sent him away.
Seeing them like this, Zhu Gaoxu also left satisfied, he knew that he had sown the seeds, as for whether the seeds would germinate and when, it was up to them.
"Teaching?"
Just as Zhu Gaoxu was leaving the class, a sound of surprise came from a house in the Xi'an neighborhood of Nanjing, followed by laughter.
"As the prince of a country, it is really ridiculous to let go of the government and take a group of students to mess around."
In the middle hall, Li Zhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who had not yet changed his regular clothes, couldn't help laughing when he got the news of Taixue.
He didn't think that Zhu Gaochu could teach anything new, but he just thought that Zhu Gaochu was putting on a show for fame.
"Let's see, how long that one can last, I hope it doesn't become a laughing stock."
In another house, Yang Shiqi, who is a university scholar, did not laugh at Zhu Gaoxu, after all, he and Xie Jin suffered a lot of losses from Zhu Gaoxu in the temple.
Even Xie Jin, who thought highly of himself, did not dare to say that he was more versatile than Zhu Gaoxu, because they had really studied the textbooks of Liaodong official studies.
Although he was unable to obtain all the knowledge, judging from some of the knowledge, Zhu Gaoxu may really be a generalist who has been difficult to produce for hundreds of years.
Yang Shiqi didn't think that Zhu Gaochu would put on a show for the so-called fame, in his opinion, Zhu Gaochu must have his purpose in doing this.
"You say, if the prince puts those things in Liaodong on the imperial examination, then can my Jiangzuo students still cope with the imperial examination?"
Yang Shiqi closed his eyes and subconsciously asked the steward of the mansion.
The steward was stunned when he heard this, and then replied: "Those things in Liaodong, except for "Arithmetic", the rest seem to be difficult to get into the elegant hall, and I am afraid it is not so easy to get into the imperial examination. ”
"It's not easy, but it's easy for that one." Yang Shiqi glanced at the steward: "Don't forget the identity of that person." ”
The steward only reacted at this time, Zhu Gaoxu's identity is the crown prince, and he is still the prince with real power, so he can be said to be half an emperor.
In addition, the relationship between Zhu Gaoxu and the emperor can be described as close, so it is very difficult to provoke their relationship.
Once their father and son decided to take these things to the imperial examination, it was unlikely that they would be able to do so even if they were hindered by the courtiers.
Now the entire government and the opposition know that the official schools in Liaodong have accommodated more than 100,000 students, which is second only to the official schools in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi.
Once these hundreds of thousands of students complete their studies, the temple may change at that time.
"Think of a way to see if you can get all the textbooks in Liaodong in your hands, and let Jiangzuo's official schools also implement them as textbooks."
Yang Shiqi closed his eyes and recuperated, but after thinking about it, the steward shook his head and said, "I'm afraid the other scholars won't agree." ”
"Humph!" Hearing the steward say this, Yang Shiqi snorted coldly: "If you can't be flexible as an official and a person, you will only suffer misfortune and be abandoned by your surroundings." ”
"Only by keeping a low profile can you live a long time." Yang Shiqi sighed as he spoke:
"As long as you live a long time, anything can be achieved......
"Ming Taizong Record": "In May of the second year, Gengshen sent the prince to run Taixue. ”
"Bohai Chronicle": "At the beginning of May, the Shangban Taixue was taught in Yuhuatai, and the students regarded it as an ancient and modern genius, gathering hundreds of schools. ”
(End of chapter)