Wu Dapeng had a little idea of his own about the huge cost of preparing for the ironclad battleship, but when he saw that his other friends were very praised, he chose to be silent.

Judging from the existing military conditions, they are already an invincible existence, so why bother to get another iron guy to scare others?!

However, it is considered that it may be an opportunity to improve shipbuilding technology as a whole...... He could only agree.

Let's wait until they start construction.

Of course, Wu Dapeng also has his own work tasks...... The previous plan to attract talent has only just begun.

He thought about it for a long time and decided to change his mind.

He openly published in the "Liuqiu Times" that he would convene the world's first symposium on intellectuals, and the main contents of the discussion were the relationship between man and nature, science and technology and society, and the role and responsibility of intellectuals in the development of today's society.

He also claimed in the newspaper that he would invite a large number of celebrities who had Qingwang, knowledge, and level in the Great Song Dynasty to come to the Badaohe area for exchanges, and the federal empire covered all the transportation and boat fares, and provided food and accommodation for the participants and their entourage.

Of course, these expenses are nothing, but Song Ziqiang believes that the intellectuals who are really knowledgeable and level have already come to the island, and those pedantic and blind people are still messing around in the lower levels of the Great Song Dynasty...... What's the use of you bringing them here?!

Wu Dapeng said: "People with a higher IQ are screened out, not cultivated, no matter what kind of education, in the end, people with a higher IQ are selected...... Such a person may not be able to live a good life in a social system like the Great Song Dynasty, just because there are too few outlets.

So, if we can provide another possible way out, maybe we will gather a large number of talents...... At least they are the ones who can take the initiative to export cultural ideas to other peoples, right? ”

"People with higher IQs don't become officials, they will go into business, and they will also learn a skill...... Look at it, when the time comes, you must have got a group of rotten people to come here, spending time and energy in vain, and wasting money. ”

Wu Dapeng said patiently:

"Doing business requires capital, and not everyone can run it.

Studying technology? The scholars of this era still have some habits of despising laborers...... When the time comes, you can see what kind of people I will attract. ”

The personnel selected by Wu Dapeng have certain conditions, and they must be between 30 and 40 years old...... Too young, maybe young and proud; If he exceeds forty, he may really accept his fate, and it is not good to change him.

He had a large number of lists of people who were waiting for officials, and a list of people who were asking for the shrine, and he first selected a group of people to send letters one after another, and the letters also included ferry tickets to the Badaohe area and a certain amount of carriage and horse expenses.

One by one, such letters of invitation were mailed through the Imperial Post Office, and there was no need for a person to deliver them.

Post offices in the Federal Empire are now spread across the major cities of the Great Song Dynasty...... Perhaps in the near future, as far as Europe and North and South America could be delivered!

At first, such a post office was like a passenger ship on the Liuqiu Strait, a money-losing business, but after less than three years, with the addition of the express delivery industry, it slowly became a non-money-losing business, and even began to have a small profit...... With the great development of the express delivery business, the post office business has also been reborn and has begun to expand greatly.

In overseas areas, wherever there was a federal imperial post office, it naturally became a place where the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty and the citizens of the empire were gathered.

Such an invitation was delivered to an ordinary person on an ordinary afternoon.

This person's name is Ye Li, the word is too white, the word Shunyu, originally from Hangzhou, born in 1242.

He has been gifted since childhood, worshipping Yiwu Shi Nanxue, a doctor of Taixue, as a teacher, and a student in Beijing.

In that year, when the Tatar robbers went south, he thought that Jia Rudao led the troops to resist, and after he luckily relieved the siege of Ezhou, he took the Tatar robbers' retreat to the north as his own credit, deceived the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, and was able to serve as the prime minister again, and he was more domineering, implementing the public land law, indiscriminately issuing paper money, and squeezing the people from the people!

No one inside or outside the court dared to criticize ...... Ye Li and Guo Zijian's classmate Kang Di and other eighty-three people wrote to the emperor of the Song Dynasty and attacked Jia Nidao.

Jia Rudao was furious, and learned that the letter to the imperial court was drafted by Ye Li, and he especially hated a sentence in the book: "The previous use of soldiers was just a blessing in heaven, and only then did it have the merit of preserving half of the Song Dynasty!" ”

Jia Rudao claimed that this student was smearing his military exploits and engaging in historical nihilism...... That's probably what it means.

Jia Rudao instigated his party follower Yin Liu Lianggui of Lin'an Mansion to demote Ye Li to Zhangzhou for residential surveillance in the name of Ye Li picking quarrels and provoking trouble; His classmate Kang Di was demoted to residential surveillance in Taizhou.

Of course, they will still be given a way out and let them work as temporary workers in the state school.

State schools and county schools are local educational institutions, and the salaries of employees are quite good, and even temporary workers can support their families...... It's just a little more bitter.

The teachers and students of Zhangzhou State School and the temporary workers are provided by the State School for free, and the Great Song Dynasty Government has allocated some land and money to support the students, plus donations from people who are enthusiastic about public welfare undertakings in the society, which are the main economic sources of the State School.

The school buildings in Zhangzhou include dormitories, lecture halls, storage rooms, library pavilions, Confucian temples, bathrooms, carved book storage, etc.

In the morning, teachers and students go to the Confucian Temple to worship the ancestors, and then go to the classroom to recite them.

Ye Li went to the library to prepare books, and teachers and students would come to check them when the time came; If someone wants to borrow a book, he has to do a good job of registering it.

Originally, the educational content of state studies was mainly based on Confucian classics, and the study of poetry and contemporary literature was also studied.

Before Xining, the old notes of the Han and Tang dynasties were usually used.

After Wang Anshi's "Three Classics and New Meanings" came out, in addition to the Yuanyou period, from the central Taixue to the local also Fangzhou County, all of which were changed to Wang Xue.

It is not until now, with the rise of academic schools, that it has begun to break the situation of Wang Xue's domination of the world, or Cheng Zhu Lixue, or Lu Jiuyuan's psychology, or Lu Zuqian's Central Plains philology, or Ye Shi, Chen Liang's merit, showing a scene of various theories competing to rise.

Therefore, there are many books in the library and the representative works of various academic schools are collected, and professionals are really needed to classify and sort them.

Ye Li also found a book published by Liuqiu Times Publishing House among a number of books donated by people from the society who were willing to help students.

It's a whole series, and the titles all start with "Elementary School...... He looked at it carefully, and felt quite good, and when he tasted it carefully, he felt that he could reasonably explain all the little things that happened around him.

In particular, there were two books that caught his attention: "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Wealth of the People".

After reading it, he covered the paper and thought for a long time, and suddenly understood Jia Rudao's helplessness in implementing the public land law at that time...... It seems that the indiscriminate issuance of banknotes is also a kind of helplessness!

Well, I was too young then...... There is no enthusiasm and no heart to think about it.

It wasn't until he saw in the "Liuqiu Times" and "Minsheng Daily" that there was another student incident in Lin'an City, and he suddenly smiled bitterly, alas, wasn't he so impulsive back then...... Now, he would have persuaded them as hard as Naja did.

However, he had no way to explain his transformation to others, telling Jia Pingzhang that he had really done something wrong back then.

He only occasionally corresponded with his classmate Kang Di to talk about his heart...... The two have always been close to each other.

On an ordinary afternoon, a postman delivered a letter, the envelope of which was unusual, extraordinarily large, with a dignified atmosphere, and as if it had been coated with gold dust.

The most unexpected thing is that the letter turned out to be for himself......