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After seeing off Zen Master Faqing, Sima An breathed a long sigh of relief. The emperor said, "After taking a walk in this pure land of Buddhism, my heart is indeed much more peaceful." Especially the addition of the word "indeed", it is enough to show that the emperor's purpose of going to Da Ci'en Temple was to seek a peace of mind.
Sima An was now much calmer, and his anxious heart was relieved. He quickly gave a call to Nanjing, asking the three ministers who stayed behind to be careful and not to let anyone stir up trouble again.
Sima An had just finished writing the letter when his son Sima An came in to pay his respects.
He then asked curiously, "Father, I am really confused. Why did Master Faqing suddenly come to visit you?"
"Humph!" Sima An was extremely dissatisfied with his son, who was now a close minister to the emperor. He said, "Use your brain first in everything from now on."
"Yes, I know I was wrong."
Sima An sighed secretly, he is still too young.
"The emperor summoned you to Xijing this time. The meaning is self-evident. Tell me, how are you doing with the Royal Primary School?"
Sima Kai did not dare to show any pride, and replied cautiously: "My father, by the time we entered the capital, we had set up 552 imperial elementary schools, with a total of 62,127 eligible boys enrolled free of charge.
The elementary school provides three meals a day. One of the main meals consists of rice and a small amount of meat and vegetables. The other two meals consist of coarse grains such as sweet potatoes, which are enough to fill you up.
All subsequent supply funds for each school will be transferred through the bank account, and the bank will directly send the funds to the elementary school teachers every month to avoid being exploited by local officials.
Sima An said noncommittally: "Although these measures are good, they cannot completely eliminate the future problems."
The emperor was obviously very concerned about this matter. Whether it was handled well or not was related to his son's future. Sima An had to inquire about it carefully to help him make up for it.
"Don't worry, father. The number of students, teaching conditions, and use of funds are supervised by local officials, so there shouldn't be any problems."
"Should?" Sima An snorted again, "There are so many things that should be done. Can you guarantee that local officials will not collude with the teachers to falsely report the number of students and embezzle school funds?"
"this... ... ... "
"It is your blessing to be able to work for His Majesty, but if you don't do it well, your future will end here."
"Please give me some instructions, father."
"With your Majesty's order in hand, who can organize this royal elementary school? It seems that the key is not how many elementary schools you organize, but the subsequent teaching and management. If you don't have the corresponding means to prevent the elementary schools you organize from becoming a formality, do you think your Majesty will be satisfied?"
"this... ... ... "
"What's this? Go down and think carefully first. Don't ask your father everything. Can your father take care of you for the rest of your life?"
"Yes, yes, father." Sima Kai bowed his head. In the cold weather, he felt hot all over.
He thought he had done it perfectly, but when it came to his father, it turned out to be full of loopholes. Fortunately, his father pointed out the matters that should be paid attention to, and it was still in time to remedy the situation. Otherwise, if he had reported it to the emperor, it would have been really bad.
"Wait a minute." Sima An stopped his son who was about to leave and continued, "Your Majesty intends to establish a polytechnic in each of the three capitals. I'm afraid this matter will be handed over to you in the future."
"Polytechnic Institute?" Sima Kai was a little confused. At first, he thought the emperor wanted to set up a school of Zhu Xi's and Cheng Yi's Neo-Confucianism, but he immediately felt something was wrong. As far as he knew, the emperor didn't seem to be very interested in Zhu Xi's and Cheng Yi's Neo-Confucianism and would definitely not set up such a school on purpose.
"This polytechnic institute integrates teaching and research in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. I only know a little about the details, and Your Majesty will explain it to you in due time. But the key point is that I think that if Your Majesty runs such an institute, it will eventually cause public dissatisfaction. They dare not target Your Majesty, but may point the finger at you. You should also think about how to deal with it first, so as not to get burned."
"Yes, thank you for your reminder, father. I will take note of it."
It takes ten years to grow a tree, and a hundred years to cultivate a person. If a country wants to be prosperous and strong, education must come first. Only one year after the Qin Dynasty was established, Qin Mu was eager to spend a huge amount of money to build a royal elementary school. It goes without saying how much he valued this.
In addition to the traditional textbooks such as Three Character Classic and Thousands of Poems, the elementary school also added courses such as mathematics, history, and geography. But it is obvious that there is still an intermediate educational link between these elementary schools and the upcoming polytechnic college that needs to be improved.
Qin Mu knew all these, but he couldn't perfect them now. Even the teachers of the three polytechnics were a problem. In mathematics, there were many talents available, but physics and chemistry were a bit troublesome.
Now it seems that we are only teaching 50 steps out of 100, and teachers and students are crossing the river by feeling the stones according to the textbook.
After training several batches of talents, we will have the teaching staff, and then we can slowly fill in the missing links.
These days, Qin Mu has accelerated the compilation of textbooks on physics and chemistry. It's funny to say that he only knows the basics, but he has taken on the responsibility of compiling textbooks. If this happened in later generations, it would be so funny that it would kill people.
But Xu Ruoshi and Li Xiangjun, who were standing by his side, were astounded by him and felt that he was omniscient and omnipotent.
They would even look at him strangely from time to time, as if they were carefully studying whether he was a human being.
Qin Mu wrote some knowledge about mechanics. In short, he wrote down everything he knew or could think of.
Finally he threw away his pen and Li Xiangjun brought him an apple.
"Xiangjun, stand still."
"Your Majesty, what are you doing?"
Qin Mu placed the apple a few inches above her head and then let go.
"Ah, Your Majesty... you..." Li Xiangjun, who was hit by an apple, was confused. What's so fun about this game
"Hahaha... Xiangjun, um, and Ruoshi, you smart people, I'm going to ask you a question now, Ruoshi, quickly pick up the apple."
Xu Ruoshi quickly picked up the apple and carefully wiped it with a handkerchief before handing it back to him.
Qin Mu took it and asked, "Look, when I let go of it, why did the apple fall to the ground instead of upwards?"
Li Xiangjun and Xu Ruoshi looked at each other, and finally Li Xiangjun went forward to feel his temperature before saying, "Your Majesty, I don't think he has a fever, but Your Majesty should still call the imperial physician to take a look."
Poof! What? Qin Mu couldn't help but put his arm around her slender waist and slapped her perky buttocks twice.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. Your Majesty, please forgive me. I meant well..."
"Forget it, it's boring, boring, I won't talk to you anymore."
"Your Majesty, don't all these things fall down? If you ask me that, of course I will... Hehe..."
"Newton..."
"What Newton?"
"Hiss!" Qin Mu vaguely remembered that Newton seemed to be a person of this era, but he was not sure whether his memory was accurate.
No, we have to go to Europe as soon as possible and bring these talents back. Newton is definitely a first-class genius, and there are only a few of him in the world.
China is currently lacking talent in this area. What a pity! I was not an expert in world history before, so I don’t know what famous scientists there were in the West at that time. Otherwise, I could have followed the map and brought them all back.
Seeing Qin Mu talking to himself and pacing back and forth, as if he was in distress, Li Xiangjun and Xu Ruoshi looked at each other again, but did not dare to disturb him.
Qin Mu felt so upset that he wanted to rush to Europe immediately to check the household registration.
Before, he had tried to trick the Portuguese into helping him find a "heretic" like Galileo, but now that he had started fighting with the Portuguese, he naturally could not expect any follow-up to his request for the Portuguese to find the "heretic".
During World War I and World War II, America's biggest gain was not how much war money it made, but the large number of talents it gained. In order to escape the war, countless talents fled to the United States, the only safe haven, and all the benefits went to the Americans.
Technology is the primary productive force, and talent is the father of technology, talent, talent.
It is of course necessary to run an engineering college to train engineering talents.
But if we can gather a group of talents from Europe, it can not only speed up the technological development of Daqin, but also slow down the development of European technology. This way, Daqin will be firmly at the forefront of world science and technology.
Fight, no matter what, we must send the navy to Europe.
Europeans can come to East Asia to colonize. With the national strength of the Qin Dynasty, I don’t believe that they cannot conquer Europe. Newton, let’s see where you can run!
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