In the next few days, Gao Buyi has been busy in the Xuanzheng Hall and Taiyechi Palace. Since Geng Wenjing took office, the disaster situation in Chang'an Mansion has been greatly alleviated. After thinking about it again and again, Gao Buyi decided to hold the talent selection ceremony as scheduled.
Since at the beginning of the year, the imperial edict that one can take an examination in Chang'an had spread throughout the country, so on this day, in front of the Hot Spring Palace, which was chosen as the site of Datang College, there was a sea of people and a lot of excitement.
Early that morning, Gao Buyi came to the Hot Spring Palace with sixteen concubines who were going to be teachers and students in the college, as well as Wang Guifei and Yang Guifei.
According to Xuanzong's previous habit, he spent almost nine months of the year in the Hot Spring Palace with Concubine Yang. This was the first time this year. Standing halfway up the mountain, Gao Buyi was a little unhappy: "I didn't mean Are you ready? The entire Hot Spring Palace was transformed into an academy, why was it only half completed?"
"Your Majesty loves talents, and I feel the same way. However, there are no less than 300 houses and palaces here. I think it is not too comfortable to study, so the student dormitories can accommodate eight to sixteen people according to the size. This is enough to accommodate more than a thousand people. There will be leftover after being converted into dormitories, schools, teachers' offices, dining halls, laboratories, sports facilities, etc., so in order to cause unnecessary waste, no further expansion was done." Pei An bowed. Report.
Li Shizhi also said from the side: "There are many hot springs in this mountain, especially the most concentrated on the mountainside. According to His Majesty's instructions, most of them are introduced into the colleges below for the use of gentlemen and students, and those higher up are introduced into other courtyards for the palace. This way Don’t interfere with each other.”
Gao Buyi nodded: "Okay, let's leave it like this for the time being. There is no need to set up restricted areas up and down the mountain. It is very convenient to enter the academy after exiting this door, so that's it."
"yes!"
"Is that also the palace area in the distance?" Gao Buyi asked, pointing to the looming buildings in the trees in the distance.
"Your Majesty, that place is no longer within the scope of the palace, but some temples and Taoist temples."
Gao Buyi nodded again: "Okay, this assessment will be left to the two beauties. Wang Guifei has a talent in this area, so I made her the deputy dean, and you two serve as the supervisor and judge respectively. , the other sixteen concubines, six of them are qualified to be teachers in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, the others are all students, no matter who they are in the academy, they must be treated equally, you make arrangements."
"yes!"
"Wang Guifei, if you want to be the deputy dean, I have made you the executive deputy dean who handles the daily affairs of the college. This has fulfilled your wish. You also know my philosophy of running the school. I hope you can live up to my expectations. For this reason, I I have specially prepared the dean’s office for you in the college. You go and see if you like it. I will consider it a great achievement for you to run the college well for me.”
"I obey the decree! Your Majesty, please rest assured."
"Okay! You all go and do your work. I'm going to see how Lux has arranged some scientific research departments to move to the academy. Don't make any mistakes."
"yes!"
After Wang Guifei and the others left, Yang Guifei came closer happily, finally being able to be alone with the emperor again.
Gao Buyi saw Yang Guifei coming over and said with a smile: "You always like to be quiet. It's been a long time since I came to the Hot Spring Palace. You have a good rest while I go to the academy." After saying that, before Yang Guifei could speak, Gao Buyi was dressed in casual clothes when she came. Accompanied by Shangguan Pei Hui, Buyi walked down the palace gate and came to Datang Academy.
This made Concubine Yang, who was full of joy, instantly turn pale. She flicked her wide gauze sleeves and walked into the palace without looking back.
In order to separate Datang College from the old schools from the beginning, Gao Buyi set up eight categories in it, including Chinese studies, mathematics, physics, chemistry, agriculture, mechanics, engineering, and music and dance, divided into three categories: upper, middle, and lower. After completing three, two, and two years of study at each level, they will be automatically upgraded through assessment. There is no restriction on male or female students. Those who are under the age of twenty, and those who are over twenty years old will be directly appointed to official positions in the DPRK after passing the assessment.
He asked Lux to move research talents such as steam engines and petroleum oil distillation devices to Datang College. The development of steam engines has been 80% completed, and the petroleum oil distillation devices have been updated and are relatively mature. As a team of professionals in mechanics and engineering, For this purpose, they were also given blueprints for gasoline steam engines, steam rollers, steam forklifts, steam trucks, and steam trains.
Gao Buyi also set up three subcategories of literature, economics and traditional Chinese medicine in Chinese studies, and classified two subcategories of civil engineering and mining engineering in engineering. He invited masters from the palace to teach, and he himself worked as a mathematician in the imperial palace. With the help of the master, basic mathematics, physics, chemistry, and agriculture textbooks were compiled, and the rest can only be improved by the college.
After walking around the college, all aspects of the arrangements were satisfactory. Some of the children of princes and ministers who had passed his interview had already entered the school. They were wearing the college's standard horse-faced skirts and were walking hurriedly, looking at Very energetic.
"This is a normal academy. I feel heartbroken when I listen to those outside the academy shaking their heads and reciting. It's a waste of time." Gao Buyi said with emotion.
"But Your Majesty, most academies have been like this in the past thousand years, and many of them are only taught privately and are not passed on to the outside world. Even money cannot buy knowledge." Shangguan Pei Hui said softly.
"I know what you are talking about is passed down from master to apprentice or from family to family, right? Don't you know that although it can improve one's status, good knowledge does not spread for long. Doing knowledge - doing knowledge - is Everyone needs to participate, so that we can continue to innovate and make progress, just like the relationship between a small river and a big river."
"May I ask Your Majesty, what are big rivers and small rivers?"
"Learning is like a big river, and people who do knowledge are like a small river. Only when the small river flows into the big river with abundant water, can the big river not be blocked and eventually converge into the ocean!"
"It's very profound."
"Haha! Just a little insight, Hui'er, do you know the reason why you applied to be a gentleman, but I appointed you as the deputy dean?"
"I don't know."
"Haha! Because it's easier for you to accept new things, and you also master the essence of traditional knowledge, so only by letting you be the senior leader of the college can you integrate and promote the old knowledge well. In this regard, both you and Wang Guifei are both Women are not inferior to men, and I didn’t know until now that Wang Guifei is proficient in the art of Qi Huang.”
"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty! In fact, our Datang is full of talents now."
"It's not enough. What is needed to govern the country is political talent, not fantasy or romantic literary giants. Of course, their existence can sublimate people's material pursuit to spiritual pursuit. This is similar to the meaning of Taoism, Buddhism, etc., but This is not necessary for the real society of the Tang Dynasty, which is full of holes. If the country wants to be rich, it must have more hard workers. Only hard work can prosper the country. The simplest truth is that people must eat food before they are hungry. Even if you are not dead, you must use food to worship gods. You have never seen gold, silver and jewelry used, haha, food is the foundation, and food needs people to grow and make it. Those who grow food and make food are doers."
"Your Majesty is right, but can I ask a question boldly?"
"ask."
"Your Majesty doesn't seem to believe in gods?"
"The gods are in my heart, and I am my own god, but I have to eat enough before I can be my own god."
"I don't understand very well."
"I ask you, every time you go to worship the gods, do you always tell yourself the words in your heart?"
"Yes."
"Let's treat those words as small goals, because they were said in front of the gods, which is equivalent to making an oath, and the gods are the ones who supervise the execution of our oaths. In order not to break faith with the gods, we will do everything possible to complete it. After that vow is successful, we will happily thank the gods for the miraculous appearance. In fact, if you think about the whole process, isn't it you who should be grateful?"
"It seems to make sense."
"So, you are your own god. This is why hard-working people can always achieve their dreams when they worship gods, but lazy people will get nothing no matter how devoutly they worship gods. The so-called sincerity leads to spiritual success, which means that hard work can lead to success. Harvest, do you understand?”
"I understand. Thank you Your Majesty for opening up your spiritual wisdom!" After listening to Gao Buyi's words, Shangguan Pei Hui suddenly became enlightened, as if she had a telepathy from heaven and man. This was her great opportunity.
