Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 309 The slave is about to fight to the death (please subscribe!)
An extremely luxurious house in the north of Yingtian City, the three-entry courtyard covers an area of ​​more than ten mu, with hundreds of various houses and a very spacious backyard.

This place was originally the residence of Yu Chenglong, Governor of Liangjiang in the Puppet Qing Dynasty, but now it has been confiscated and turned into Daming Gewuzhizhi College.

Just to mention, Da Ming hadn't freed up his hands to deal with Yu Jackie, and as a result, the old guy died of anger in the dungeon.

Before he died, he was still muttering: The slaves are about to fight to the death, why did the master vote first!
It turned out that Yu Chenglong was pissed to death by Wattay who surrendered.

However, the internal reconstruction of the college is not yet complete, but since it is a ready-made house, it looks quite complete from the outside.

So Zhu Kezang simply ordered the official listing, and the "sense of existence" of the college should be known as soon as possible, so as to increase its influence.

In addition, after the registration is completed, the enrollment work will start accordingly. When the teachers from Chengtian Mansion and Guangzhou Mansion arrive at Yingtian Mansion, classes can start at any time.

Zhu Kezang was very hungry for talents in natural sciences, and he would definitely delay it as soon as possible.

He changed into his uniform in the carriage, and he was only a mile away from Gewu Zhizhi College, and he saw a large number of officials and students waiting respectfully outside the main entrance, and the crowds of ordinary people watching the excitement were even more crowded.

The process of listing the plaque is very simple. The plaque engraved with the gold-plated characters of "Daming Gewuzhizhi College" has actually been hung on the lintel early in the morning. Zhu Kezang just lifted the red silk covering the plaque and knocked on it symbolically. With a snap of the fixing nail, the ceremony is over.

The highlight of the ceremony was the speech delivered by Da Ming Zi himself.

Zhu Kezang first briefly said that in the future, the Ming court would attach importance to Ge Zhixue and select some outstanding graduates to work in the Ministry of Industry.

Even in the future imperial examinations, Gezhixue will be added, and the future will be greatly brightened.

Then he greatly praised Huang Lvzhuang, the future teacher of Daming Gewu Zhizhi College, and others for their contribution to the Northern Expedition of the imperial court.

It described in detail that they first completed the rubber vulcanization process through experiments, and thus created the Daming bicycle.

Afterwards, they risked their lives to try out explosives.

Because of this powerful explosive, Da Ming was able to blow up Yingtian City in the end.

"Thanks to the contributions of Huang Luzhuang and others, Daming at least reduced the casualties of tens of thousands of people in the process of recovering Yingtian Mansion. The imperial court has decided to reward Huang Luzhuang and others with ten thousand taels of silver, and give priority to selection to serve in the Ministry of Industry."

His words immediately sparked heated discussions among the scholars present.

"I saw the explosion of Yingtian City that day. The movement was like a landslide! It turned out that it was made by the teacher of Gezhi Academy..."

"This knowledge is so powerful! It's like fairy art, I must study it."

"The establishment of Gewu Zhizhi Academy can ask the emperor to preside over it in person. It seems that the imperial court attaches great importance to this!"

"Didn't you hear what the emperor said? You will be rewarded with 1 taels, and you will be given priority as an official in the Ministry of Industry! This is a step up..."

"I have failed the imperial examination for more than ten years, maybe I can try my best."

"I read the volume "Elements of Geometry" at the beginning of the year, and my father reprimanded me for saying it was a strange skill. Here, look, the emperor has said that you can enter the court and become an official if you learn these 'skills and tricks'!"

"I don't care if I can be an official or not. I just want to be like that Teacher Huang and teach the Tartars a lesson based on what I have learned!"

"By the way, when I first came here, I saw that there was a registration office outside the side gate of the college. Brothers, why don't we go and register together."

"I have the same intention, let's go together..."

Affected by the “Eastward Spread of Western Learning” at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of natural science works translated from Europe were very popular among scholars, but they were always regarded as “heretics” that could not be put on the table, and scholars had to focus on the Four Books and Five Classics .

Recently, Zhu Kezang’s “bright future” speech has officially set the tone for Gezhixue, which is commonly known as Western learning in the past. In a word, studying Gezhixue can lead to success!

In addition, the recovery of the old capital by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty made all the Han people proud and elated, and Huang Luzhuang and others who made great efforts in the process immediately became heroes and idols in the hearts of everyone.

By the way, Huang Luzhuang was packaged by Daming as a mediocre scholar who was not valued in the puppet Qing Dynasty. Once he entered Daming, he was immediately discovered by the emperor, and now he is flourishing.

This kind of resume is the favorite of scholars. Famous officials meet Mingjun.

The power of idols is infinite, and the status of Huang Luzhuang and the others as Gezhixue teachers has also attracted countless young people to follow suit.

By the way, the dean of Gewu Zhizhi Academy is Yan Yuan, the Jijiu of the Imperial Academy.

As soon as Zhu Kezang's speech ended, the registration office of Gewu Zhizhi Academy was already full of people.

Zhu Kezang himself did not expect that more than [-] scholars came to sign up on the day the college was listed.

After leaving Gewu Zhizhi Academy, seeing that it was still dark, Zhu Kezang ordered his guard Shen Cheng to say: "The time is just right, the Forbidden City has been under construction for several days. Let's go and take a look along the way."

Yingtianfu is on the north side of the Forbidden City.

As the sky darkened, most of the craftsmen packed up their tools and returned home, but the materials and wooden frames piled up everywhere showed that this was a busy construction site.

Because the Forbidden City is too big, in order to quickly use the palace, Zhu Kezang decided to temporarily repair the palace complex on the northwest side and the section from the Meridian Gate to the Taihe Gate.

The former is the place where the emperor and the queen mother live, and the latter can be used as a place for court meetings, which can be said to be the most urgent place.

The reason why he took time out of his busy schedule to visit here was because the renovation of the Forbidden City was closely related to the plan to move the capital.

The construction site is under the joint responsibility of Tang Duanhu, a disciple of Wang Fuzhi, and the old eunuch Li, who are in charge of the Ministry of Industry's Cleaning and Cleaning Department. They are still in charge of the craftsmen near the Chonghua Palace in the Forbidden City. When they heard that the emperor was coming, they hurried Come and see you.

As a result, before Zhu Kezang could speak, Tang Duanhu said anxiously: "Your Majesty, I originally planned to look for you tomorrow morning, but I didn't expect you to come first."

He paused, and his tone was quite helpless: "The silver dollars used for repairs... I'm afraid they won't last for three days."

Zhu Kezang was taken aback, "Xu Xing (Tang Duanhu's character), I just allocated [-] silver dollars to you five days ago, and it will be used up. It costs more than the Hanging Garden!"

The old eunuch Li on the side hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the price of golden nanmu has skyrocketed recently. In order to save money, the slaves and Mr. Tang bought more than 3 taels of wood at a time, so..."

"These profiteers, can't they use the wood from the side?" Zhu Kezang asked with a frown.

The two looked at each other, and said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, this regulation is like this, and we didn't..."

"Isn't there still about 1 taels, which can only last for three days?"

"Your majesty doesn't know that each brick of the imperial kiln costs one tael of silver, a piece of glazed gold tile is worth four silver coins, and each pot of paint..."

Zhu Kezang suddenly remembered that the floor tiles of the Forbidden City had been auctioned at a high price of 80 in later generations. It turned out that this thing was not cheap in the seventeenth century.

Although distressed, Yingtianfu Forbidden City must be a good spectacle, so he waved his hand and said: "I will allocate money to you guys tomorrow, remember to use good materials!"

"Please remember..."

(End of this chapter)