"Dad...Dad...,Dad...Dad..."

"My good daughter, one more call, one more call."

In the blink of an eye, Zhao Ling'er was almost one year old. For nearly a year, the Song Dynasty was relatively peaceful. The only major event was that the Liao Kingdom had a small-scale attack on the Song Dynasty, which was repelled by Li Jilong.

At the beginning of this year, Taizong ordered the reform of Yuan Duangong. It was already close to the autumn of the first year of Duangong.

Zhao Ling'er, who is almost one year old, has already begun to learn to speak. Teaching her daughter to speak every day has become Zhao Weiji's greatest pleasure at this stage.

During this year, Huating County began to develop significantly due to Zhao Weiji's capital injection, and the construction of the port was nearing completion. The city began to gradually become lively.

The most lively place in the city now is not any market, but a school.

This school named: Tsinghua Academy can be said to be Zhao Weiji's biggest success this year. Through the influence left by his grandfather, Zhao Weiji summoned scholars who had not been successful in their career to compile a general history.

This academy was established.

After one year, the academy has grown to a considerable scale. There are more than 100 teachers working in the academy, and as many as 1,000 students are studying there.

Relying on the academy, Huating County also began to become famous, and a large number of immigrants began to pour in.

But this academy is an anomaly among the officials. All the officials have only one word to describe this academy: deviant.

Yes, Zhao Weiji's academy is very weird. Except for the compilation of general history, which is considered orthodox academic research, all other research in this academy is incompatible with this era.

The biggest characteristic of Tsinghua Academy is that it does not teach classics or poetry. As an academy, it does not teach anything that is required for the imperial examination.

The academy is divided into two parts: liberal arts and science.

The main subjects taught in liberal arts are: history, law, and economics. The main subjects taught in science are: arithmetic, engineering, and astronomy.

In Shilin's view, these are all things that are laughable. Although it is necessary to read history books for personal literature, what can you do by just reading history books? The law is even more ridiculous. Is it specially trained to train litigants? Also

The so-called economics is to teach people how to do business. As for arithmetic and engineering, there is a special term in this era: strange skills and yinqiao. Only astronomy is considered serious, but it is just a heresy.

Indeed, when Zhao Weiji was preparing to establish this school, everyone around him opposed it, but he had his own ideas.

First of all, establishing a traditional academy is actually risky. The reason is very simple. The people you train will eventually take the imperial examination and enter the officialdom. Can Zhao Guangyi allow Zhao Weiji's talents to spread throughout his court? The answer is no.

Secondly, Zhao Weiji hopes to use this academy to cultivate the talents he needs.

As a later generation, Zhao Weiji is very aware of the shortcomings of this country in talent training. The imperial examination system has led to the country's focus on cultivating political talents.

Zhao Weiji needs political talents, but what he needs even more are scientific and technological talents and financial talents.

When Zhao Weiji was about to leave the court, he had other plans. Although I can't beat you Zhao Guangyi in the court for the time being, Zhao Weiji knows two things that Zhao Guangyi doesn't know: science and technology are the primary productive forces and economic decision-making.

Superstructure.

So he established such a deviant school.

He needs this school to provide all the talents he will need in the future. Politics is cultivated by history and law, business talents are cultivated by economics, and scientific and technological talents are produced by arithmetic, engineering and astronomy.

But when he first started to establish the college, he encountered great difficulties.

Through the influence of his grandfather Wang Pu during his lifetime, he easily attracted a group of people and established a history school on the pretext of compiling a general history, but he ran into difficulties later.

In this era, there are only a few people who are truly proficient in law: Mr. Xing Ming or the Censor. Where can I find people who can teach?

Fortunately, Kou Zhun helped Zhao Weiji at this time. Kou Zhun had a good friend who was Dou Yi's youngest son. Dou Yi was the person who participated in the compilation of the Song Dynasty's law "Song Tong Xing". His youngest son's official career was not very smooth.

He decided to retire to Linquan, so he was introduced to Zhao Weiji by Kou Zhun.

If the first two subjects can be considered branches of orthodox subjects, the last three subjects are completely out of reach in this society.

Economics is mainly taught by the heads of various industries under Zhao Weiji, and he is responsible for adding some modern economic knowledge.

Zhao Weiji was almost solely responsible for arithmetic, because many of the great mathematicians of the Song Dynasty had not yet been born.

As for engineering, Zhao Weiji is most proud of it so far. He has persuaded quite a number of skilled craftsmen to give up their sectarian views and teach their skills among students. In addition, he originally studied engineering physics, so engineering is now all

The best developed in the discipline.

As for astronomy, Zhao Weiji still found some people from Si Tianjian through Zhao Weizheng's relationship and came to teach.

In this way, after the basic preparations were completed, the college began to officially recruit students.

But a new problem arises: who wants to study in their academy?

Everyone knows that if you study in this academy, you will definitely not think about becoming an official. The most you can do is become a historian or find a job in Sitian Prison.

So at first many people were not optimistic that such an academy could succeed.

But the actual result is not that bad, because there are always people who are not suitable for studying but have good talents in other aspects. In addition, Zhao Weiji promised that Zhao Weiji will be responsible for the future of all academy graduates. In addition, once they enter the academy to study

If so, tuition is waived, so it still attracts a considerable number of people to come to study.

And soon the academy began to produce results. Only half a year after its establishment, the compilation of the general history began to attract attention from all aspects.

Then the engineering department directly came up with the horse-growing and ox-turning carts, and began to promote their use throughout Huating County.

The Song Dynasty was originally based on agriculture, and now new and highly efficient agricultural tools have been invented or transformed, which is indeed very interesting.

As a result, this academy gradually began to become famous.

In fact, when the academy began to slowly get on the right track, Zhao Weiji felt for the first time that his famous family had really set the technology tree wrong.

Many people who have no talent in reading Confucian classics have amazing talents in arithmetic, engineering and other fields. When Zhao Weiji was preparing to leave school after school that day, he met two engineering students who were debating.

"I think this blaster can be improved a bit."

"How to improve?"

"For example, let's say the bullet is transformed into the shape of an arrow."

"What's the use of this? Although bullets transformed into arrow shapes can fly farther, the biggest problem with the musket is that it can't hit anyone."

"Well... Teacher Zhao is here, we can ask him for advice."

Zhao Weiji is a teacher in the academy, so he doesn't want students to call him Prince.

Two students came over and repeated what they had just discussed.

"I think there is some truth in what you both said. Of course the range is important, but accuracy is also important. I think you can use the research of muskets as a special topic. If you need anything, just go to the school's materials office and apply.

"

After Zhao Weiji's approval, the two boys left in a hurry.

Indeed, when students gradually develop areas in which they are good at, the atmosphere of the entire school begins to continue to develop in a good direction.

The previous education system could only train officials, but not everyone was suitable for being an official, so the elimination rate was very high. But now Tsinghua Academy is very different. Students can roughly reflect their suitability when taking the entrance exam.

In this way, the yield rate will be much higher.

…

"How's his latest farce going?"

"Back to the emperor, I heard that his academy is quite prosperous now."

"That's right, it's free stuff."

It can be seen that Zhao Guangyi still doesn't think highly of these so-called unorthodox things.

"Just let him fool around, he has money anyway, right?"

The current state of Zhao Weiji is what makes Zhao Guangyi most at ease. He hangs out with businessmen, craftsmen, and old scholars all day long, and there is no trace of his decisive killing in the battlefield of the Northern Expedition.

"Forget about him for now, what's going on in the north?"

"The Khitan seems to have become more peaceful after being defeated by General Li last time."

Li Jilong was indeed selected as one of the Twenty-Four Heroes in history. After completely taking charge of his role, he gave Zhao Guangyi a lot of face. His victories against Dangxiang and Khitan made the ministers in the DPRK sing praises non-stop.

It seems that everyone has forgotten that before his rise, there was only one Zhao Weiji available to the Song Dynasty. And he was also recommended by Zhao Weiji.

The whole period was smooth sailing for Zhao Guangyi. He had won the northern battlefield and the country was basically at peace. And the farce-like academy didn't seem so useless. At least the new farm tools were pretty good.

Moreover, Zhao Weiji is also quite good at life, and he directly attributes the credit for the new farm tools to Zhao Guangyi. It is precisely because of Zhao Guangyi's correct leadership that we can produce new creations.

But Zhao Guangyi didn't know that Zhao Weiji was digging holes while flattering Zhao Guangyi.

Under Zhao Weiji's instigation, a legendary group will step onto the stage of history in advance, forming a super strong storm sweeping the entire Central Plains. At this time, Zhao Guangyi did not have any awareness, and even the entire court did not have any awareness.

This class they once looked down upon the most is about to make a counterattack.
Chapter completed!