On the roof of the six-storey science and engineering building of Daming Institute of Technology, there is a bronze bell weighing 2,000 catties, the name of this bell is called Xingshi Bell, and this name is naturally from the hand of Liu Hongji.

The Faculty of Engineering has a clear curriculum for each department, and the instructors generally stare at the pendulum at the back of the school, and at the end of a class, they will call the end of class as the bell for the end of class.

The pendulum was passed from Matteo Ricci of Italy to the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period, and now it has not been popularized in the Ming Dynasty for decades, for the simple reason that it is too expensive.

Ordinary people can't afford it, and the wealthy people who are influenced by Confucianism prefer to use the original missing carvings, leaky pots, leaky arrows or sundials to keep time, and they are not very cold to foreign pendulums.

But Liu Hongjian scoffed at this, which timing tool is more scientific and accurate, no one knows better than him, in the one acre and three points of land in the College of Engineering, he has the final say, and the problems that money can solve are not problems, so that every school in the College of Engineering and even the office area of the teaching has a big pendulum.

The big bell on the roof of the Polytechnic Building is not usually used, and it only rings when there is a major event to announce and the whole college needs to be notified.

Bell - bell - bell - bell -

The bell rang loudly and melodiously, directly enveloping the entire School of Engineering and its surroundings, whether in the dormitory, in the school, or still lingering outside the School of Engineering, students and teachers walked towards the spacious playground in front of the Science and Technology Building.

Soon the playground was filled with students from all over the world, and without prior notice, the students were talking to each other about what had summoned them.

Liu Hongjian stood on the pedestal in front of the Polytechnic Building with Song Yingxing, Xu Ji and a group of teachers, and Xu Ji, who was already gray-haired, glanced at Song Yingxing, as if he was asking the other party what the mountain elder was going to do.

However, Song Yingxing only shook his head slightly, because Liu Hongjian just said that he wanted to come to the College of Engineering to take a look, who knew that he would ring the awakening bell as soon as he came.

"Silence! Quiet! Seeing that Liu Hong coughed lightly, Niu Dabang naturally knew that his master was going to start pretending, oh he wasn't going to start speaking, so he shouted directly at the playground with his own loudspeaker.

"Benshan hasn't been to the engineering college for a long time, but you all have worked hard to learn?" Liu Hong gradually waved his hand at the more than 1,000 students on the playground and smiled.

Most of these students are fifteen or sixteen years old, and in Liu Hongchuan's eyes, they are just a group of middle school students, but now they are more like their brothers.

"Yes!" A hundred and ten students in the front row shouted.

"What? This king didn't hear clearly, did the academy not give you a full meal? Be louder! Liu Hong gradually pretended to be unhappy.

"Yes!" Thousands of people shouted in unison, and the decibel level instantly increased by more than ten times.

"Well, this is still like this, this king opened the mountain to find a way for you to make a living, and I hope that you can use the skills you have learned to seek some benefits for the people of Daming while supporting your family.

Listening to Song Shanchang, it only took one year for students to complete all the courses, and Ben Wang was very pleased. Liu Hong gradually rewarded and said with a smile.

As soon as Liu Hong finished speaking, the students on the playground immediately showed joy, and they each looked at their classmates, and they all saw the same joy in the eyes of their classmates.

The duration of the Daming Institute of Technology was originally two years, but Liu Hong gradually underestimated the learning energy and research spirit of the ancients.

Even though the college stipulates that all students must choose one compulsory subject and two elective subjects, the teaching progress of the teachers is still changed again and again, because the students who have the ability to learn on their own have already finished what they want to teach.

They are all children of poor families, if it weren't for the fact that the family is too poor, who can predict that there will be no champion among these people?

They can't afford to study in the government school, and now they finally have such a free college to teach them to read and write, and teach them the way of science and engineering.

It's not all about repaying the college, although the college bears all the expenses, they don't want to eat and drink here, after all, there are poor family members at home, and most of them just want to finish what the college teaches as soon as possible, so that they can go out to earn a living and reduce the burden on their families.

In addition, the textbooks of various subjects in the College of Engineering are still relatively thin, and even the engineering experts who are looking for in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty cannot have endless knowledge to learn like the universities of later generations.

"It's just that the school system set by our academy is two years, and the rules can't be broken, even if you think you're already very good, that's not good!" Liu Hongjian emphasized.

A group of students who were all about to cheer calmed down instantly, oh no, wilted in an instant.

They originally thought that Mr. Shan had not come to the engineering college for several months, but this time he came to ring the wake-up bell, and he must have come to announce their early graduation.

But they never expected that instead of letting them graduate, they also solemnly stated that they would not be able to graduate early in the future, which was definitely bad news for them.

"Don't be so downcast! You are still so young and have a lot to learn, so why rush this time? Liu Hongjian didn't expect that a casual remark would hit this group of young people so hard.

He has never lived a hard life, and as soon as he came to Daming, he became an earl, and he couldn't understand the hunger and cold in the cold winter and the hopelessness of the family in the struggle between life and death.

"Confucius said that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read ten thousand books, and now you have just finished learning what the academy has given you, but in the eyes of this king, this is far from enough." Liu Hong's eyes gradually stared at the students on the playground who were listening to him carefully.

Uncle Song and Uncle Xu glanced at each other, and said in their hearts that the mountain elder began to talk again, and this sentence was obviously said by Dong Qichang and Master Dong.

Dong Qichang was an official to the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and died in the ninth year of Chongzhen, if Uncle Dong knew that this guy was making up and arranging him, it is estimated that the coffin board would be kicked away.

"This king is not distressed to raise you for another year, why are you in a hurry? The School of Engineering should not be just a showmanship!

Now Ben Wang announces that all students of the School of Engineering will go out for internship in the second academic year! Liu Hong gradually revealed his final intention.

Whether it is mining or smelting, whether it is civil engineering or water conservancy engineering, it is shallow on paper, and it will eventually have to be tested by actual combat.

"Internship?" Not only the students on the playground, but also the teachers on the pedestal were puzzled, it was the first time they had heard of this term.

"The Mining Department can go to all over the country to prospect for minerals, whether it is coal mines, iron mines, or gold, silver and copper mines.

Whether it is Kanhe from the Smelting Department to go to the smelting workshops of the Ministry of Industry, or to the workshops under the command of Xishan Shanghe, as well as those who study civil engineering and water conservancy, they are all for this king to go out of the academy and use his ability to prove to this king.

The internship period is one year, there is no monthly silver during the internship, but each workshop will provide food, and the mining department will be issued by the academy according to the exploration distance, and the king will be waiting for you here after a year, whether it is a mule or a horse, then pull it out and go on a walk.

Daming is full of treasures, it's up to you to pick them up! Liu Hong said solemnly.

PS: Pushing a friend's book "Rising in the Tang Dynasty" Tianbao's eight-year-old Datang should have been surging with undercurrents and going into decline. However, here he came.

Friends who are short of books can read it.