In the south of Kaifeng Fucheng, there is a place called Qingcheng, which is the mound of the southern suburbs of the Son of Heaven to worship the heavens, and the so-called mound is an eighty-one feet high earthen platform made of loess. Next to this earthen platform, there is also a palace dedicated to the rest of the Son of Heaven before and after the festival ceremony, which is called Qingcheng Palace. They are all very old houses, which were built when the Great Song Dynasty opened, and they took more than 100 years.

However, in the spring of this year, the imperial court allocated a large amount of money and instructed the general to renovate the dilapidated Qingcheng Palace, which was completed by the end of the year, and it was considered a new look.

And the first nobleman to stay in it was not Zhao Ji who came to worship the sky, but the daughter-in-law of him and Concubine Xiaoliang, Princess Yelu Nanxian of Cheng'an who married from Liao.

Before entering the cave room with Zhao Qianshun, she would have been living in the Qingcheng Palace. After Yelu Nanxian and the courtiers, concubines, slaves and maids who were married from the Great Liao Kingdom settled in the Qingcheng Palace, the mission of Wu Haogu and Zhao Anhui was basically completed - the two of them were considered to welcome relatives, one on behalf of Zhao Qianshun's father Zhao Ji, and the other on behalf of Zhao Qianshun's mother Concubine Xiaoliang. After the event, these two people, as well as a great monk Zhishen who came south together with the wedding team, took their respective attachés and entered the city.

Wu Haogu is now familiar with Zhao Anhui, although the two are very different in age, and they were once enemies on the battlefield, but it does not prevent them from communicating along the way. As for the great monk Zhishen, he and Zhao Anhui became friends with him.

The three of them talked and laughed, and entered the city together from the Nanxun Gate. When I entered the city, it was just in the afternoon, and when the pig dealers and sheep dealers drove the animals into the city, the streets were full of vehicles pulling pigs and sheep to be slaughtered, and the smell was not very good. However, it did not affect the interest of the three of them in the slightest.

What they are talking about now is a big deal of several millions, and it is also related to the great cause of whether the Great Song Dynasty officials can really become the Khan of Heaven, and whether Buddhism and Confucianism can join hands to go to the world.

After entering the Nanxun Gate, they did not continue along the old Royal Street (that is, the original Royal Street, because Zhao Ji now lives in Qionglin Palace, so the avenue in front of Qionglin Palace is called the New Royal Street, and the original Royal Street will become the old Royal Street), but turned left and went to Yinan Bridge.

"Isn't this a martial arts? Why are there so many red houses now? ”

When Zhao Anhui rode up to the bustling Yinan Bridge, he suddenly found himself in front of him on his right side of the red house. And they are all two-story and three-story buildings, one next to the other, which means a little wide of ten million.

But in Zhao Anhui's memory (he once came to Kaifeng Mansion as an envoy of Western Xia), that red house should be where the martial arts are located. Could it be that these red houses are all inhabited by martial arts students?

"It's not a martial arts, it's a building built by a Wanjia trading house. And now there is no martial arts," Wu Haogu replied, "Martial arts, Taixue, and Guozixue have all been merged into the Biyong Academy Palace and moved to the Western Imperial City. Zhao Thorn History (Zhao Anhui has the official of the Thorn History), this Biyong School Palace is very different from the original Guozi Jian Zhuxue......"

The so-called Western Imperial City is a separate area around the Qionglin Palace, separated by the city wall and the rest of the West City. Among them, the east and south walls of the West Imperial City are borrowed from the west city wall and part of the south city wall of Kaifeng Mansion, which are newly built city walls, and the hard red bricks are wrapped in rammed earth, which are tall and solid. The west and north walls of the West Imperial City are also newly built, connecting the west city wall and the south city wall of Kaifeng Mansion, and the height, thickness and materials used are also the same as the newly built West City District of Kaifeng Mansion and part of the north and south city walls.

The Biyong Xue Palace is in the Western Imperial City, covering an area second only to the existence of Qionglin Palace.

Different from the original civil and military disciplines, and the Guozijian Zhuxue, which was divided into the noble and cold sects, the school system of the Biyong School Palace generally imitated the Yuntai School Palace, and it also took the evil road of truth - the truth is true, but it is cultivating practical talents for capitalism, which is naturally an evil road!

The Biyong Academy also has six basic disciplines, including "Confucianism", "Literature", "Arithmetic", "Gewuxue", "Biology" and "Martial Arts", as well as five professional disciplines such as "Military Science", "Music and Law", "Geography", "History" and "Law". The professional disciplines are not as good as the two Yuntai Palaces, and there are no affiliated junior colleges, and there is no distinction between "generalists", "doctors" and "junior colleges". In fact, it is a new type of school for training officers and civil servants. Like the original Guozijian Sanxue, the new Biyong School Palace also adopted the "outer house", "inner house" and "upper house", but unlike the original Guozi Sanxue, the new Biyong's three houses are based on the principle of shallow to deep, using textbooks of different difficulties.

In addition, because there are eleven basic and professional disciplines, the number of teachers in the Biyong School Palace is far more than the original Guozijian Sanxue, and the number of students is not as large as the original Guozijian Sanxue. There are less than 900 students in total, and according to the enrollment plan of the Biyong Academy, 400 students from all states and counties across the country will be enrolled in the outer hall every year, while the inner and upper houses have only 350 and 300 students respectively.

In other words, in the future, there will be a maximum of less than 300 students (some will be eliminated in the graduation exam) students who will graduate from the Biyong Academy every year.

And all students who graduate from the Biyong Academy can be exempted from the left list and participate in the right list Jinshi exam. Compared with the Yuntai School Palace, although the Biyong School Palace is inferior in terms of education level and scale, it has more political privileges, and the students can be exempted, that is, they can participate in the provincial examination of Zuobang Jinshi. And the Yuntai School Palace and the students can only participate in the provincial examination of the right list of Jinshi - of course, the graduates of the Biyong School Palace can also participate in the provincial examination of the right list of Jinshi. In addition, the various prefecture armies of the Great Song Dynasty can recommend scholars who are both civil and military to participate in the provincial examination of the right list.

Of course, it is basically impossible for the recommended students of the prefecture and state armies to pass the provincial examination of the right list. Because the subjects of the Jinshi examination on the right list will correspond to the six basic subjects and five professional subjects of the Biyong Academy. You must pass all of them to be eligible to pass the provincial exam.

Those students who have not been educated by the Biyong School Palace and the Yuntai School Palace, how can they pass all the eleven subjects?

As for the source of students in the Biyong School Palace and the Yuntai School Palace, there are three ways to come, one is the exam; the second is that the children of pro-noble officials go to school through the back door; The third is the recommendation of the Fuzhou army - the recommended quota of the students of each Fuzhou army is linked to the number of new government soldiers recruited, and the government soldiers cannot be provided or the court does not need the Fuzhou army to provide government soldiers, then the quota is zero. However, the students of the state army of the prefecture can still pass the exam to enter the Biyong School Palace and the Yuntai School Palace.

Moreover, now the imperial court also encourages the opening of a "new-style school palace" similar to the Yuntai School Palace, as long as it passes the review of the Ministry of Rites and the Guozijian, you can obtain qualifications.

By the way, Guozijian still exists as a yamen, but it no longer directly runs an official school, but has become similar to the existence of the Ministry of Education in later generations.

"I see...... After listening to Wu Haogu's introduction to the Biyong Academy, Yuntai Academy, and the left and right list of Jinshi, Zhao Anhui finally understood a little, but new questions arose, "In the future, there will be 300 students in one Biyong Academy Palace alone to complete their studies in a year, and the Yuntai Academy Palace is larger, and the number of students may be twice as large as that of the Biyong Academy." That's 900 people, 900 a year, 2,700 in three years...... How much does the right list Jinshi take? What about the rest? ”

In fact, there is more than 900 this number, and there are two colleges in the north and south of the Yuntai Academy, and there are seven junior colleges such as "Knight", "Engineering", "Construction", "Ship Administration", "Law", "Medicine", "Calligraphy and Painting". Moreover, each junior college has to subdivide its majors, and when these junior colleges reach the expected scale, the Yuntai department alone can graduate about 1,200 students in a year.

If you add the Biyong Academy and the Gezhi Academy, which will open soon, it is possible to have more than 2,000 students a year in the foreseeable future.

Compared with the millions of college graduates a year in later generations, the number of "college" and "junior college" students in 2,000 a year seems to be very small.

However, 2,000 in a year, 6,000 in three years, and the number of Zhengju Famous Jinshi is only 600 per subject (one subject in three years), which is less than one-tenth of the number of "university" and "junior college" students. And Jinshi can't let the school palace monopolize it, there are still so many scholars in the country who read in front of the window! They are the authentic readers......

Therefore, the way out for these 2,000 or even more (and certainly more and more) "school students" every year must be industry and commerce...... That is, to serve the capital of all evils! Just like the millions of college students in the Celestial Empire in later generations, no matter how much they hate capital and despise businessmen, the vast majority of them can only choose to be in the company of industry and commerce. According to the standards of the Song Dynasty, these people are all the last industrial and commercial enterprises - hehe, Wu Haogu, the richest man in the Great Song Dynasty, is a short-sighted, despicable and shameless businessman, those who work and run errands for Wu Haogu, the Great Song Dynasty will give them a noble scholar?

Therefore, those new-style academic palaces that are based on practical science and take "empirical" and "rational" as their guiding ideology are for industry and commerce and for the advent of capitalism.

Wu Haogu, whose soul comes from later generations, knows very well that what can really dominate the world is not power, but science! It's the truth!

If the industrial and commercial intellectuals have mastered the science and truth that can obviously overwhelm the intellectuals of the landlord class, and when all the students of the world have learned mathematics, physics and chemistry well and sold them to the capitalists, then it is in fact the industrial and commercial capital, the economic base, that determines the superstructure, that dominates the world!

"Except for the right list of Jinshi," of course Wu Haogu will not tell the truth to Zhao Anhui, the domination of industry and commerce in the current Great Song Dynasty is a rebellion, "Joining the army, being a curtain and participating in the doctoral group to spread the Confucian Avenue is also the way out for the students of the Academy!" ”