Early the next morning, after Zhao Ming had breakfast in the palace, he went to Nanjing Imperial University on the shore of Xuanwu Lake under the leadership of the guards.Since Zhao Ming took power, he has opened a number of universities in Nanjing, the most famous of which is the Imperial Land University, the Imperial Political University, and the Imperial University, and there was originally an Imperial Naval University, but it has recently moved to Xiamen, Fujian.At present, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty's naval divisions are mainly from the southeast coast, and most of them are Fujianese.Although Zhao Ming once wanted to change this situation, Fujian has innate advantages, more mountains and less land, more people and less land, in order to make a living, most of the people have experience in going to sea, so it is more advantageous than other regions.Now staying in the three universities in Nanjing, Lu Tiantian is training army officers for the imperial court, and together with the Ministry of Industry, he researches and improves new weapons to ensure that the Ming Dynasty is in a leading position in armaments.NCCU was the imperial court's retraining of jinshi who had passed the science and technology exams, teaching them some administrative experience and various knowledge, and turning them into qualified imperial officials.Imperial University, on the other hand, is a comprehensive university that teaches both Confucian classics and traditional Chinese miscellaneous, as well as some Western sciences brought by the West.Among these three universities, Zhao Ming led himself as the president of Lu University and Chengchi University, but what Zhao Ming valued most was actually Imperial University.Lu Da and NCCU can only make the Ming Dynasty strong for a while, and if you want to make the Ming Dynasty great again, hope is actually in the Imperial University.China's cultural education attaches great importance to educating people, the core of which is to teach people to be a man, to shape a person into a gentleman, and to pay more attention to the inside, but lack the desire to learn about the external world and physical objects.Although this desire for knowledge is also present in China, thousands of years ago, Qu Yuan expressed his curiosity about the universe in "Wentian".During the Ming Dynasty, there were also thousands of households flying into the sky and blowing themselves up with rockets, such an amazing thing.But on the whole, in Confucian culture, there is still a lack of interest in exploring external things.Zhao Ming's expectation for the Imperial University is to change this phenomenon, absorb foreign culture and science, achieve cultural exchanges, promote the social and scientific development of the Ming Dynasty, and increase people's interest in exploring the essence of physical objects.Only by mentioning people's exploration, as well as the desire to pursue the essence, and injecting new genes into the culture, can we maintain the long-term prosperity of Chinese culture.The Imperial University is located outside Xuanwu Lake, northwest of the Purple Mountain, covering an area of more than 1,000 acres, which is larger than Zhao Ming's regent mansion.At this time, Zhao Ming and his entourage, under the escort of the guards, came to the gate of the Imperial University, and Chen Yujie, who was offering wine, had already led a few people to wait.Compared with the Qing Dynasty, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty were more able to accept and learn from foreign cultures, and absorbed what was useful to China into Chinese culture.From the beginning of the Wanli Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty began to come into contact with Western things without being defeated by Westerners, and started a wave of Western learning from the East.However, decades have passed, and the older generation of scholars and doctors, such as Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao, Li Tianjing, and others, who once accepted and translated Western books and devoted themselves to the study of Western studies and miscellaneous studies, have passed away.The missionaries who entered China back then have also died, and most of them have withered.The cultural exchange between the West and the East has been interrupted for many years in the war, and Zhao Ming is tantamount to restarting this trend.However, Zhao Ming's ability was limited, so he could only let Xu Guangqi's nephew Chen Yujie be a taboo for alcohol, and sent missionaries such as John Tang who was captured in Beijing to the university, and hired some missionaries from Macao to teach some things about nature, astronomy, mathematics, surveying and mapping, and smelting.In addition to the miscellaneous books of the Chinese dynasties and Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations", the textbooks used by the university are also translated by Xu Guangqi's scholars and doctors, such as "Geometric Originals", "Taixi Water Law", "Agricultural Administration Quanshu", "Measurement Quanyi", "Measurement Method", "Cutting Circle Eight Line Table" and other books."
Greetings to the regent!"
Chen Yujie and the others saluted.Zhao Ming waved his hand, "The widow takes advantage of the fact that the university is still on vacation, come and walk around, you should go to class, don't care about the widow." ”At the moment, Zhao Ming only brought a small number of guards, accompanied by Chen Yujie, and toured the interior of the Imperial University in civilian clothes.Zhao Ming stopped outside several classrooms, where professors lectured on Confucian classics, nine chapters on arithmetic, and some on geography as missionaries explained."
According to the regent's meaning, for the Confucian classics, there are also miscellaneous courses, accounting for sixty percent of the total curriculum, and the rest is about mathematics, astronomy, nature and other Western courses, but in the two courses, there are actually many overlapping parts, and the school is studying and teaching some of the overlapping ones!"
Chen Yujie introduced.Although Zhao Ming attaches great importance to science, he attaches more importance to being a human being, and he does not want the students of the professors at Imperial University to be influenced by too much Western bandit culture and become egoists and less public-minded.Zhao Ming bowed his head in satisfaction, and immediately said, "Go to the laboratory and have a look!"
”Zhao Ming is not good at how to educate, but when he established the Imperial University, he put forward several requirements for Chen Yujie, one of which is to prepare for the establishment of laboratories for various categories and doctrines to verify the knowledge in the book, explore unknown things, and ask for the establishment of a research system to explore the essence of things.The group came to a building, and on each room, there was a sign that said so-and-so laboratory.At this time, most of the labs were empty, and only a few were filled with students conducting experiments.Zhao Ming walked outside a laboratory and found that Song Yingxing was also there, and the latter found Zhao Ming and hurriedly instructed the students to do their own experiments, so he walked out quickly."
See the regent!"
Song Yingxing saluted.Zhao Ming smiled and said, "Song Aiqing is here today!"
”Song Yingxing said: "The minister is a professor here, and today the students want to verify the refining of copper in the minister's book "Heavenly Creation", so the minister will come over in person!"
”Zhao Ming nodded, looked at the tools of the student's experiment, it was relatively simple, the bottles were all variegated glass, and couldn't help but say: "Aiqing has time, also study the firing of glass, improve the firing process, and make a batch of equipment for the experiment!"
”Song Yingxing said: "This ministry is actually already researching and improving the existing process!"
”Zhao Ming didn't expect that they had already thought of it, so he asked himself another topic that he was more concerned about: "Has there been any progress in the ironclad ship made by the widow Aiqing?"
”Now that Western ships have been equipped with flowering shells, the Ming Dynasty's superiority in weapons on ships has been equaled by Xiyi, so Zhao Ming began to eagerly hope that ironclad ships can make progress and equip the navy with early iron-hulled ships to maintain their advantage.Song Yingxing said: "Back to the regent, there has been progress, and it will be launched next year, but the preliminary estimate is that the draft of the ship is very deep, and I am afraid it will be difficult to sail at sea!"
”Zhao Ming frowned slightly, "Let's take a look another day!"
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