Chapter 494
Shen Long took out a few strings of pearls from his sleeves and handed them to Wang Anshi. These pearls may not be too expensive individually, but it is rare to have so many of them of the same size, round and shiny without any flaws. They are definitely rare treasures in the world. "Purchase land, build Just pay for the school building from here, and find a cleaner place outside the city."
Han Dachui had Hengqu Academy, and Shi Yue also had Baishuitan Academy. These two academies were the solid foundation for them to change the Song Dynasty. With these two examples in mind, Shen Long would of course have to follow suit, otherwise he would just rely on himself to plagiarize the scientific inventions of later generations. It's not of much use, is it? It's not enough to just know it but not know why.
"The Taoist priest has been so kind to us in the Song Dynasty, and running a school is a good thing. How can we ask the Taoist priest to pay for it?" Wang Anshi quickly shied away, "When I tell the officials, the officials will definitely allocate funds to the Taoist priest. Land and money to build school buildings.”
In Wang Anshi's view, with so many high-yielding and improved varieties, Zhao Xu would definitely be happy and would definitely give Shen Long a reward. It would be no problem for Shen Long to ask for land, money or the like.
Shen Long didn't think so. By accepting Zhao Xu's kindness, the imperial court would have an excuse to intervene in school affairs. He still wanted the school to be more independent; and if Zhao Xu rewarded him, he would not be allowed to see him. How to salute? Although the Song Dynasty did not like to kowtow as much as the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Xu probably didn’t like to see people looking at him levelly, right?
"I still have this little money. If Jiefu wants to help, why not come forward and invite people like Su Zirong, Shen Cunzhong, Wei Pu, and Jia Xian to come to the school as teachers!" Shen Long alone can't teach it.
"Shen Cunzhong has just died. I'm afraid it will take a few years before he can return to Beijing. Su Zirong is fine. As for Wei Pu and Jia Xian, I have sent people to look for them. I believe they will get a reply soon." Wang Anshi said, Su Song and Shen Kuo both He was a Jinshi and had served as an official, so it was easy to find him. Wei Pu and Jia Xian were not famous at the moment, and there were not many records in later generations. Fortunately, Wang Anshi was a senior official, so it was easy to find him.
"If Su Zirong is free that day, you can make an appointment. I will chat with him about arithmetic. As for Shen Cunzhong, let's exchange letters first. If there are other similar people, we can also introduce them." The matter was settled. Seeing Shen Long's insistence, Wang Anshi had no choice but to accept the pearl and prepare to find someone to sell it.
After Wang Shao left, Wang Anshi asked, "Dare I ask what kind of knowledge the principal plans to teach in the school?" Wang Anshi was now both excited and a little worried. The discovery of oracle bone inscriptions had caused an uproar among the scholars, and he was always worried about Shen Shen. Long Hui came up with something that shook the foundation of Confucianism.
"These are the ones taught by Yuan Ze before." Shen Long led Wang Anshi into the covered courtyard, went to the second entrance, entered his study room, pointed to the bookshelf on the opposite wall and said, "Here, that's it. "
I saw the four characters "natural science" written on the top of the bookshelf. Wang Anshi didn't understand what this meant for a while. When he took a closer look, he saw "Physics", "Chemistry", "Biology", "Mathematics" written on different bookshelves. "Astronomy", "Geology" and other words, I took out a few books and flipped through a few pages, but I felt like it was like a heavenly book and I couldn't understand it at all.
"These books are a bit deep, Jiefu should read some simple ones!" Shen Long saw the "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" Wang Anshi was holding and almost couldn't help laughing. This book even made me laugh. I can’t understand it, let alone you.
He walked over and took out a copy of "Junior High School Physics" and handed it to Wang Anshi. This book was modified by himself. He removed those foreign physicists, as well as the too advanced electricity and other contents, and retained only the purest and most suitable for the present. Knowledge.
"Magnetism, mechanics, optics, density..." Wang Anshi looked through it slowly, feeling much better this time. At least he had seen most of the physical phenomena described in the book in reality.
Then he picked up "Junior High School Chemistry", "Junior High School Biology" and other books and looked through them. The contents were almost the same, and there was no content related to politics at all. Wang Anshi felt relieved a little. In his opinion, Daoist Shen, this It was to teach the Song Dynasty how to make fire guns, how to cultivate fine seeds, and how to smelt steel. This was of great benefit to the Song Dynasty without any harm.
Does he understand the profound theories that production tools promote the development of productivity, productivity determines production relations, and the economic base determines the superstructure? When these seeds develop and grow, the old world will be crushed by the wheels of history.
There is no need to be too ahead of the curve. The level of junior high school students in later generations will be enough to conquer the world. As long as a few thousand junior high school students can be trained, a relatively primitive industrial system can be established. Shen Long thought of Little Butterfly's junior high school students who were famous all over the world. Story, can I imitate this myself?
After the oracle bone inscriptions, Wang Anshi once again shocked the court. Zhao Xu was overjoyed with the sweet potatoes, corns, peanuts and other crops he brought out, especially after Wang Anshi explained the yield, drought tolerance and other advantages of these crops in detail; the court was also in a state of confusion. The voice of praise, if they didn't know Wang Anshi's character, some people might have shouted auspiciousness.
When Zhao Xu summoned Wang Anshi and his son alone, Wang Anshi pointed out that corn and immature potatoes could be planted in the northwest, which could save countless grains for pacifying the northwest. Zhao Xu was even happier. Wang Anshi had already modified Pingrong by Wang Shao. The plan was handed over to him. On one hand, Zhao Xu was happy that the Song Dynasty had produced such a scholar who understood the art of war, but on the other hand, he began to have a headache of transporting food. Now that he had these, he was much better.
It only takes a few more seasons of planting expansion to accumulate enough seeds to send to the northwest. By then, the northwest will not have to worry about food shortages.
Therefore, Zhao Xu rewarded Wang Yu greatly, but Shen Long refused to mention him, so all the credit became Wang Yu's. Then he immediately agreed to the request for planting in Yuzhuang and allocated a large amount of land for Wang Yu's use.
Wang Anshi also quickly found a suitable land and bought it with the money from selling pearls. He helped Shen Long contact Su Song and invited Jia Xian, Wei Pu, Qian Yi, Li Jie and others to work in Shen Long's house. It is planned that the school will also offer medicine and architecture subjects.
On the day of the appointment, Shen Long saw Su Song, Jia Xian, Wei Pu, Qian Yi, Li Jie and others outside the school site outside the city. Shen Long was very happy. These people were more important to him than Sima. Guang, Wen Yanbo, and Han Qi are much heavier and more useful than them.
"It is also a good thing to have a school to teach the art of investigating objects. In this way, the construction of the school will be free of Ming Zhong!" Su Song said, stroking his beard. Ming Zhong is the name of Li Jie, the number one architect in the Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!