Good landscapes are the Summer Palace of later generations. During the Jin Dynasty, Wan Yanliang built a palace here. The wet nurse of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty built Yuanjing Temple here and then abandoned it. Later Wuzong built a palace here and named it Haoshan Garden. From then on
It became a royal garden and was taken over by Wei Zhongxian during the reign of Emperor Xizong. It was abandoned after the fall of Wei Zhongxian.
A year ago, Chang Yu raised funds to build the Royal Academy in the name of the royal family, and the site was chosen in Haoshanyuan.
At that time, many people expressed confusion and even complained about why the school was built when the imperial government's finances were insufficient. Chang Yu's answer was firm. No matter how poor you are, you cannot lack education. What's more, the construction of the school was not preceded by the imperial government's financial expenditure, but by the royal family taking the lead in raising donations.
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And in the context of the refugee siege at that time, he needed to provide more jobs, divert these refugees, and start work together with the military hospital, ordnance factory and Tongzhou Farm to provide a large number of jobs and allow the refugees to have a job in a very short period of time.
Working and earning money can support the family in Hukou and at the same time reduce the pressure of epidemic prevention in the capital.
As for why the school should be built outside the city?
He said that he could concentrate on studying.
But there are Imperial Colleges and private schools in the capital. Why should we build another school and bear the name of the royal family? Is it to gain fame and reputation for the royal family?
Chang Yu explained that the audience of students from the Imperial Academy and private schools was limited, while the students from the Royal Academy had no distinction of origin or seniority. Everyone could come to study here, and it was free of charge. This showed that the emperor's grace was not just for fame.
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The biggest difference between the Imperial Academy and the Imperial Academy is that the academic content taught does not focus on the Four Books and Five Classics, nor is it for the purpose of imperial examinations. Instead, those subjects that are regarded as heretical by mainstream academics are their major courses, such as agriculture.
This is also the most puzzling part. After all, going to school in ancient times was all about scientific examinations. What are you trying to do by teaching these things? Isn’t it misleading the students?
This is really not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences. Force can protect the country, but science and education can rejuvenate the country! This is related to a topic that future generations of experts often sigh and feel ashamed about: In the past five hundred years, the Chinese people have not had any
Inventions or discoveries that can be recorded in history mean that the impact on mankind is almost zero.
Are Chinese people stupid?
Obviously not, we have four major inventions.
But these four great inventions have been gnawed at for thousands of years and have stalled.
Just ask, what inventions and discoveries have we made in five hundred years?
Instead, I'm looking at the West.
Whether it is airplanes, cannons, trains, automobiles, electricity, steam engines, engines, generators... or various physical laws, chemical formulas, do any of them have something to do with us? Even our most daily QR codes are still
Invented by the Japanese!
The year before Emperor Chongzhen died, Newton was born. Forty years later, when Kangxi was beating Wu Sangui, he talked about universal gravitation, Newton's laws of motion, reflecting telescopes, and the binomial law of calculus...
This is just Newton. In his era when a hundred schools of thought were contending, countless physicists, chemists, mathematicians and mathematicians sprung up... In just one or two hundred years, the West has made great achievements in physics, chemistry, astronomy, industrial technology, etc.
Facing the east, a dimensionally reduced crushing force was formed!
At the same time, during the two hundred years of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, we were admiring flowers and fighting birds, fireworks and willows, and among others, we were reading poems and songs, watching orioles and swallows, reading fortunes and reading fortunes, burning incense and worshiping Buddha...
What exactly caused all this?
Large environmental and institutional issues.
This can only be understood but not explained in detail. Even in later generations, our academic environment is still criticized, and countless scientific research talents have drained...
What Chang Yu is doing now is to change everything. He doesn't know how effective it will be, but if he doesn't do it, there will be no chance of change at all.
Haoshanyuan has beautiful scenery, with mountains and water, but it is not quiet because there are many people.
There are more people, not more students, but more workers.
Building a school is not as simple as building a military hospital or ordnance factory. It only requires a large yard, large walls, and some factory dormitories.
The school is very particular, and it is impossible for the Royal Academy to just build a few thatched houses. It is a big project, and it is also a very particular project. It involves cutting mountains and cutting stones, digging earth and burning bricks, and erecting railings and painting buildings. Even if there are
Thousands of workers are working day and night, and the progress is very slow. It has been more than half a year since the construction started, and an independent college has just been built, which can accommodate hundreds of students. The entire project will take more than two years to complete at the earliest.
The Royal Academy was designed by the Ministry of Works, and officials from the Ministry of Works were stationed at the construction site to supervise the work and did not dare to slack off in the slightest.
In order to avoid unnecessary commotion, Chang Yu and his party did not enter the construction site. Instead, they got off the car and walked around to Wengshan Mountain to get a bird's eye view of the entire construction site halfway up the mountain. Thousands of migrant workers were busy, and there were several courtyards in the shade of trees in the distance.
, that is part of the completed school, with hundreds of students studying hard inside. Most of these students are refugee orphans, and there are also children from ordinary people's families in the surrounding areas. Some of the teachers who teach them are professors from the Imperial College, and some are hired from outside.
Famous people in various disciplines in the world.
The children of wealthy families in Beijing either have tutors or attend private schools. They disdain to go out to the city to study together with these orphans or children of ordinary people. Even ordinary people in the city are not willing to send their children here.
It doesn't matter, Chang Yu is not worried at all.
These are all temporary. He believes that it won't be long before many people are struggling to come to the Royal Academy to study. It's just a matter of time.
When it was almost noon, a group of people climbed to the top of the mountain. Princess Kunxing was out of breath but in good spirits. She looked around and looked around and couldn't stop for a while. Chang Yu and his entourage cleaned up a clean place and then collected firewood for barbecue.
When it was time to start eating, an official from the Ministry of Works who oversaw the work came to see him.
The official didn't know Princess Kunxing and was just trying to flatter Chang Yu. Chang Yu asked her about the construction for a while and then sent her away. Then she looked at the foot of the mountain in silence for a long time. Princess Kunxing noticed something strange.
So he came over and asked him what happened?
Chang Yu smiled bitterly. The funds to build the Royal Academy far exceeded his expectations. At that time, he scraped together and thought that 500,000 taels would be enough. But now it seems that he was still too naive.
In short, lack of money!
"How much is missing?" Princess Kunxing asked cautiously.
Chang Yu stretched out five fingers and teased Princess Kunxing: "Ajiu, do you want to donate some?"
"I do have some private money, but it's far less than this amount. If you don't mind it, just take it." Princess Kunxing is very free and easy. She always supports what Chang Yu does, and as a princess, she has almost nothing to do on weekdays.
The place and necessity of spending money. Some people may think that her luxury brand store is not very profitable. Yes, it is very profitable, but most of it goes to her father. After all, the craftsmen are royal, the materials are also royal, and of course the income is too.
It's royal.
"You can do it if you are willing." Chang Yu smiled calmly: "Although the requirements are many, it is not too difficult for me. There are other ways."
"It's not that difficult, so why are you so sad?" Kun Xing raised his eyebrows, and Chang Yu laughed: "I'm just in a dilemma, who is the better person to cheat with this money?"
Princess Kunxing was speechless when she heard this and rolled her eyes: "You love to deceive people so much. If things go on like this, everyone will avoid you."
"You don't understand this." Chang Yu said with a bad smile: "Some people are just mean. The more you cheat them, the more they will cling to you." Princess Kunxing frowned: "Who is like this..." Suddenly, it seemed like he thought of
What's the matter? He couldn't help but sigh: "He has a lot of money, so you can cheat him as much as you like."
After having enough water and food, after a short rest, the group continued to visit the mountains and rivers. Although Princess Kunxing was in high spirits, she was not physically strong enough as Chang Yu expected, so she did not really carry him on her back, but instead chopped small pieces of wood from local materials.
Shu tied up a soft sedan and asked his entourage to carry him. Princess Kunxing was overjoyed to do this for the first time.
After some fun, it was almost dusk, so we headed back home.