Royal Gold Medal County Magistrate

The morning assembly concluded.

Fang Zheng stood outside the palace gate, watching the morning sun with a hint of emotion.

It's not easy! Nothing is easy.

After expending a great deal of effort, the foundation has finally been laid. Further development will be much easier.

As long as some of the existing achievements of Taoyuan County are brought out, and the officials see the potential of science, naturally no one will dare to underestimate it again.

Solid benefits, no one will refuse.

I, Fang Zheng, the father of science, am destined to be recorded in history!

I need to leave some famous quotes, set some rules, and warn future generations not to scribble on my face in textbooks, or else points will be deducted from the college entrance examination!

Thinking about it, Fang Zheng laughed, his smile very arrogant.

Li Yuanzhao walked out behind him, looking at him with a strange expression, "Lao Fang, you're smiling very lewdly."

"Oh... I thought of something happy."

"How are you planning to handle the Academy of Sciences and the College?" Li Yuanzhao asked.

Fang Zheng pondered for a moment, then said, "I've already had some ideas. A place close to the officialdom is not suitable for research. I want to build it further away, so as to avoid people from the Ministry of Works coming to make trouble later."

"There is a large area of vacant land in the eastern suburbs, why not build it there? The Royal Academy of Sciences and the College are close to each other, which will be convenient for research and study in the future."

"As for more specific details... that requires detailed planning. I'll go back and study it further, and divide it into academic levels, titles, and the like."

"Hmm? Academic levels?"

Fang Zheng smiled slightly, "Simply put, it's to be promoted step by step according to grades. The lowest level is called First-Level, passing the exam promotes to Second-Level, and only those who study well, have high moral character, excellent qualities, and outstanding potential can be admitted to Third-Level."

"That's not right, shouldn't the lower the number, the higher the grade?" Li Yuanzhao wondered, this seemed to be the opposite of the court's rules.

"No, the bigger the number, the more awesome it is. Three is bigger than one, Third-Level is the best!" Fang Zheng began to forcefully explain.

Li Yuanzhao curled his lips, noncommittal, and then asked, "However, it seems a bit inappropriate to build the Royal Academy of Sciences in the eastern suburbs, it's too far away, aren't you afraid of what outsiders will say?"

Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment.

Indeed, it would be easy to attract criticism to build something with the name of Royal in the remote suburbs, but from a practical point of view, it is better to build it further away.

"Your Highness, the Academy of Sciences will focus on academics and research in the future. I think we should try to avoid getting involved in some of the bad habits of the court, and create a good environment for them."

"What bad habits?" Li Yuanzhao asked curiously.

"Hehe, research looks at true knowledge, while power only looks at size, Your Highness."

People's hearts are all converging, and almost all the people of Great Jing, both high and low, have the idea of sharpening their heads to enter the officialdom.

What can the officialdom do?

The management position has always been suppressing the scientific research position.

In case the Academy of Sciences introduces some unhealthy trends, the students who come in the future will not think about doing science.

Thinking all day about 'There are five leaders coming, but only four seats, how do I arrange them.' This kind of stupid question.

Then what kind of research is that!

He is still hoping to use the Academy of Sciences to popularize scientific ideas and concepts to the world.

Great Jing lacks the soil for science, and coupled with the worship of ancient ideas in people's hearts, popular science is conceivable to be extremely difficult.

Not to mention the current environment, isn't it the same way even after the birth of science for hundreds of years in later generations?

Open Douyin, all kinds of blindly praising the ancient people's top technology, waiting for modern scientists on the top of the mountain, and calling the ancestors awesome.

Are the ancestors awesome? Awesome, humanities and social sciences are awesome, but the ancients only had some relatively elementary practical technologies and did not sum up science.

Science has not yet been born. An ordinary Qin Dynasty citizen can still live normally if he travels to the Ming Dynasty.

If you travel to the Qing Dynasty, you may not be able to adapt a little.

When you get to modern times, you will be scared to shit all over the place.

If you really have that filial piety to worship your ancestors, you might as well burn a few pairs of black silk stockings for your ancestors during the New Year and festivals, so that your ancestors can have a taste, and besides, no one burns this stuff, and the inflation in the underworld is serious, maybe it is hard currency.

"Your Highness, the development of the Academy of Sciences will definitely not be smooth at the beginning. We must sort it out from the beginning, and try to avoid intersecting with other government offices as much as possible in the early stage, so as not to have an impact. When it grows stronger in the later stage and has its own strength and culture, it can be relocated or whatever. It is more convenient to operate independently in the early stage."

"What's more... isn't it more free to be away from the palace? We'll have to come here often in the future!"

Li Yuanzhao grinned and smiled: "Yes, it's better to be far away from the palace, so as to avoid a lot of trouble. I'm really looking forward to what the Academy of Sciences can come up with."

"Your Highness, wait and see, there will be no shortage of things that will brighten your eyes."

While the two were talking and laughing, a small eunuch hurriedly ran out from the palace, just brushed past Fang Zheng and the two, and suddenly turned back.

Looking at Fang Zheng obsequiously, "Master Fang, you are here."

Fang Zheng blinked, somewhat puzzled, "What's the matter with me?"

The little eunuch smiled flatteringly: "It's nothing, this servant congratulates Master Fang, the Ministry of Rites has set the auspicious day. The Empress's decree orders you to enter the palace tomorrow for a trial marriage."

Li Yuanzhao: "......"

Fang Zheng: "......"

The two looked at each other, both with dull eyes.

Fang Zheng's scalp suddenly went numb: "Trial marriage? Trial whose marriage! Does this thing come with a trial?"

Li Yuanzhao looked at Fang Zheng with a mysterious expression, without saying a word.

The little eunuch explained with lowered eyebrows and obedient eyes: "Of course it's the Fifth Princess, this is the rule in the palace. Although the auspicious day has been selected, there is still a trial marriage before that, but it's just a formality."

"Lao... Fang... aren't you going to explain?" Li Yuanzhao suddenly glared!

Fang Zheng felt a chill all over his body and exclaimed: "What am I explaining! No... listen to my explanation..."

"The princess and I are in love! What do you want to do? What do you want to do??"

Li Yuanzhao approached step by step, and with a sudden pounce, the two rolled into a ball.

"Your Highness! Your Highness! What are you doing~ This is in public... Listen to my explanation!"

"I won't listen, I won't listen! I treat you as a brother, and you steal my home!"

Li Yuanzhao didn't use any force, pinching the flesh on Fang Zheng's upper arm one by one.

"Ah! Don't you have any face! What does my marrying a wife have to do with you!"

Fang Zheng wailed repeatedly, and in his eagerness, he shouted: "One hundred short muskets! Three cannons! .. Don't pinch, add two thousand rounds of ammunition!"

"Deal."

Li Yuanzhao let go, panting heavily, but still stared at him with a sneer.

Fang Zheng was chilled by the princess-protecting madman: "You can't go back on your word, do you still want Miaohan to marry someone else, making her unhappy for the rest of her life? Or do you want her to be lonely for the rest of her life?"

As soon as this was said, Li Yuanzhao seemed to be exhausted, his shoulders drooping.

With a slumped face, he sighed: "I knew it, you two have been hooking up... I can't stop it. Forget it... forget it, let the fertile water not flow to outsiders."

Fang Zheng breathed a sigh of relief and hurried forward to comfort him: "That's right, we will be a family from now on, you have to think it through!"

"It feels really weird!... Remember to send the cannons over tomorrow."

Fang Zheng wiped a handful of cold sweat. Send it, send it, anyway, he didn't promise to send shells, and the guns can be fired at will.

The two sat on the steps in front of the palace, silently, the little eunuch on the side was already terrified, neither leaving nor staying.

After a long time, Li Yuanzhao said dejectedly: "Be nice to her, she is the only sister who has been closest to me since she was a child."

"That's natural." Fang Zheng's hanging heart finally let go, and he tentatively asked: "What does trial marriage mean?"

"What else can it mean, it's just to test whether you are a real man."

"Huh?"