"Your Highness, this is the telescope you wanted. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

The supervisor said while holding a stick about one meter two long and four .5 centimeters in diameter.

After the Confucian trouble, Xiao Ming instructed the glass workshop to make astronomical telescopes, and after measuring the current technical level of Qingzhou, Xiao Ming finally chose the Keplerian astronomical telescope that appeared in the mid-17th century.

Compared with the Galilean telescope, which uses a plano-convex lens as the objective lens and a concave lens as the eyepiece, the Keplerian telescope uses two biconvex lenses as the objective lens and the eyepiece respectively, which makes the magnification significantly improved.

The lens of the double convex lens can also be polished with the craftsmanship level of the glass workshop, after all, this lens is just protruding outward on both sides, and the same as a modern magnifying glass.

After receiving the first astronomical telescope in Dayu, Xiao Ming looked at the sky.

At this time, it was already evening, a quarter moon hung in the sky, and in the telescope, the crater above the moon was clearly visible, and it was in the quarter moon at this time, and the contrast between light and dark was remarkable.

Looking at this round of bright moon, Xiao Ming fell into deep thought, this incident against Confucianism was victorious under his deliberate operation, and the confrontation of the new interest class of the feudal state in the face of the old interest class showed a one-sided trend, which was a great encouragement to him.

But for him, the real old interest groups outside the feudal state have not launched a final attack on him, but have been dormant.

In particular, there is a behemoth who is sitting in his fiefdom, and he wants to prepare a sharp sword for this behemoth, a sharp sword that can be slain at any time, and this sharp sword is astronomy.

But now that he has an astronomical telescope, he has a bit of a headache about who will delve into this science.

Like modern feudal dynasties, astronomy or astronomy is the study of emperors, and during the Ming Dynasty, the people were forbidden to study this knowledge, and the idea of divine authority made the emperors of the past dynasties very jealous of this matter.

In the past two years, Xiao Ming wanted to establish an astronomy academy more than once, but in the end he still postponed this plan, because once the matter was publicized, it was basically tantamount to a rebellion.

What is the purpose of a vassal king who asks his subordinates to study astrology? Denying the emperor's divine authority to the emperor, or preparing to start anew?

For this reason, he had no choice but to study astronomy in secret, waiting until the time was right to use the sword.

"Silence, understand?"

Xiao Ming said in a deep voice, the reason why he concealed it like this was just that he didn't want to make trouble, after all, the imperial court was a backer for him.

After Xie Ziyun was beaten and driven away by the villagers, Qingzhou made a fuss for more than a month, and the incident of Confucianism making trouble in the government gradually subsided.

And immediately after that, the private schools in various parts of the feudal country were closed one after another, and all the children of the common people who used to study in private schools poured into the public schools to study.

Because the decree published in the newspaper is very clear, if you study in a private school, you cannot participate in the selection of feudal officials, you can only participate in the imperial examination, and if you study in a public school, you can participate in the examination of the feudal state, and you can also participate in the imperial examination, so why not?

The most important point is that you don't need to pay money to study in the public school.

"Your Highness, this is the Qingzhou Gongyu, according to His Highness's meaning, this Qingzhou Gongyu is divided into two parts, in which children between the ages of six and twelve are divided into the building on the left side of the Gongyu to study, and the people between the ages of thirteen and sixteen are placed in the building on the right side to study, and through the examination of the Gongyu, it is determined that these people are finally able to enter the Bowen College."

While walking, Zhan Xingchang introduced the situation of the Qingzhou princess to Xiao Ming.

The location of Qingzhou Gongxiao is only 100 meters away from Bowen College, and there are a total of 72 antique schools in the Gongxiao, which are lined up with blue tiles and red bricks.

There is a blackboard and a lectern in front of each school, which initially has the characteristics of a modern teacher.

According to the data provided by Zhan Xingchang, the number of people in Qingzhou City has reached 450,000, and the number of children who can enter the public school is about 6,000.

The vegetation in the public is dense, the rockery pond and water echo each other, and there is a large stadium on the side of the school.

During the period of the construction of the public court, he rarely came, but this time, taking advantage of the anger in the fiefdom, he felt that the opportunity to open up the public was here, which was the beginning of his popularization of education.

After all, although under his intervention, Qingzhou's military industry is not very different from that of Europe, but in general, he is still too far behind in terms of talent reserves.

"The pressure of recruiting 6,000 people this time may be very great, but your government can withstand it, in addition, in teaching and educating people, this king is not afraid of spending money, remember, the salary for these teaching gentlemen must be high, and the selection must be strict, so that these teaching gentlemen can teach wholeheartedly, without distractions, this king does not want to be filled with a group of indiscriminate teaching gentlemen, who can't be a teacher, don't have to think about it." Xiao Ming's tone is very serious, and the most intolerable thing he is a teacher who misleads people's children, so he would rather give a high salary than hire a high-level teacher.

Zhan Xingchang had a smile on his face, there are few vassal kings in the Great Yu Kingdom who can attach so much importance to teaching, for these vassal kings and even the gate lord clan, they only hope that the people will be illiterate, so that they can make their position stable, it has never changed for so many years, but everything has changed here.

Now just the Qingzhou Duke has cultivated 6,000 people, and the entire fiefdom can cultivate 40,000 or 50,000 people at one time, what a terrible number.

"Yes, Your Highness, in this matter of public affairs, the officials fully support Your Highness, and they will not be unswerving." Zhan Xingchang said categorically.

Xiao Ming nodded and continued: "Also, you can't be too rigid in the public service, for students who can receive high-level education in advance, they can skip the level of learning, so that they can also cultivate usable people earlier." ”

After all, in this era, men can get married and have children at the age of thirteen, and the children of the scholar clan at the age of fifteen or sixteen can even enter the ranks.

Moreover, it is not necessary for him to follow the modern quality education, which is very inconsistent with the current reality, and it is enough for these schoolchildren to be able to master the knowledge system of the eighteenth century.

Because of this, the things they learn will not be as complicated as in modern times, and the time for receiving education will be greatly shortened, and after the age of eighteen or nineteen, they will be able to contribute to the construction of Qingzhou.