For the aristocratic circle of Tokyo City, there is basically no secret at all, and the quarrel between the husband and wife of which family yesterday will spread all over the city the next day. It is precisely because of this that the day after Princess Dening sent Shu'er to Zhao Yan to study, the nobles of the entire Tokyo City knew about it, plus Zhao Yan's reputation accumulated by lecturing, it seems that he is already a generation of Wenzong, although the content of Zhao Yan's speech is not of much help to the imperial examination, but for many nobles, the imperial examination is not particularly important, as long as their own children have the ability, relying on the family's shadow, they can also get a good official position.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that during the entire summer vacation, people kept coming to visit Zhao Yan, in order to send their children to him to study. Zhao Yan also expected this situation, so he quickly gave a unified answer, that is, before the end of the summer vacation, there will be an admissions exam, and all school-age children can participate in it, and because the school's teachers are limited, only thirty students will be enrolled this time, although this makes many people dissatisfied, but Zhao Yan has no way to do it.

In the last two days of the summer vacation, the admissions exam finally began, and Zhao Yan had already released the news, so on the morning of this day, people who intended to send their children rushed to the door of Xianwei, and the admissions exam for the elementary school was held here, after all, the place of Qingshui Elementary School was too small to conduct large-scale exams.

Zhao Yan's enrollment of students this time requires that they must be between six and eight years old, and originally he wanted to add a male or female non-restriction, but was opposed by Yan Yuru and others, because Zhao Yan made men and women also very bold, and this kind of thing was done, but it must not be said in a big way, so it only needs to stipulate the age of the students. As for men and women, there is no need to add it deliberately.

Zhao Yan has always had the advantage of humbly accepting other people's construction, so he didn't insist on it anymore, in fact, when he waited until the day of enrollment, he found that all the boys were sent, which also made him sigh, it seems that in ancient times, there was a difference between men and women. It's still very important, even if it's a woman from a noble family, it's hard to get an education like a boy.

There are more than 100 students who came to participate in the enrollment this time, which seems to be a lot, but in fact, it is already very impressive, after all, the people who come here are all nobles from the capital, and they also want the age of the children to be right, these two conditions are excluded, and there are many fewer people who can come here to participate in the enrollment.

In fact, Zhao Yan didn't want to just recruit children from aristocratic families, but children from ordinary people's families even if they wanted to study. is mainly to participate in the imperial examination to change his fate, so even if he is willing to teach, I am afraid that people are still unwilling to learn, unless it is like the children of Shangshuizhuang, in order to just know two words and calculate an account. As for the children of these aristocratic families, they are not so eager for the imperial examination, and it is for them to be able to learn some useful knowledge. It is far better than memorizing a few Confucian classics.

It took a full day to complete the exam, mainly because the children who took it were too young. Although he has received a certain amount of enlightenment education, the things he learns are too different from what Zhao Yan wants to teach, so for these children's exams, the main ones are interviews, Zhao Yan, Yan Yuru, and Ouyang Wanling serve as examiners, and then let those children come in one by one. Ask a few more questions, and as long as you meet the requirements, you can enroll.

Waiting until the next day, that is, the last day of the summer vacation, Zhao Yan finally announced the list of thirty children who were admitted, and the children and their families on the list were naturally very happy. Most of the children who failed to make the list were crying and making trouble, and the families of these children were even more unwilling, and they pleaded with Zhao Yan one after another, but unfortunately Zhao Yan had no choice about this matter, after all, the school's resources were limited, and it was impossible for him to enroll more than a hundred students at once.

Next is the tense and busy start time, the students have been at home for a long time, and they all miss the school life very much, which is even the same for future generations of students, but as long as they stay in the school for two days, they will immediately feel bored, in contrast, Zhao Yan feels that his students are better, especially those children in Shangshuizhuang, most of them cherish the opportunity to learn, especially when they see that the new students have spent a lot of effort to squeeze into the school, which makes them know how lucky they are to be able to enter the school to study.

Ouyang Wanling also officially entered the primary school as a teacher, Zhao Yan was worried that she would not do well at first, but soon he put his mind at ease, Ouyang Wanling's personality is gentle, and she treats students very gently, plus she is Ouyang Xiu's granddaughter, and she is not worse than her own students in terms of identity, plus there is Zhao Yan, the strict principal, so that no one dares to make trouble for those students, so Ouyang Wanling slowly became comfortable with teaching after adapting to the identity of the teacher.

At the same time, the lectures on the micro side have also resumed, and the number of people who came to the second half of the year was a little smaller than in the first half of the year, but most of the students who attended the lectures were fixed, and there were even many people who rented houses directly in Sheung Shui Zhuang, which was also convenient for them to attend the lectures.

This afternoon, Zhao Yan did not leave the microscope after finishing the lecture, but followed Cao Yan and others to the courtyard behind the microscope, because according to Liu Yu, the skilled hand in charge of making the microscope, they finally assembled the microscope this afternoon, and now ask Zhao Yan and them to inspect it.

When Zhao Yan and the others arrived in a hurry, Liu Ye, a skillful hand, stood in front of the door with an excited face, and when he saw them, he immediately stepped forward and saluted: "Qiyu County King, the microscope has finally been assembled, but the villains dare not move it, and please try it out in person." ”

"Yes, yes, if the microscope is successfully manufactured, you will all be a great achievement!" Zhao Yan was also very happy and said that if the microscope could be successfully copied, it would be enough to show that the craftsmanship of the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty was superb, and perhaps they could make many things that were even more unexpected to him in the future.

At the moment, under the leadership of the skillful Liu, Zhao Yan and the others entered the hall in the courtyard, only to see that the semi-finished microscope he saw last time had been completed, and now it was placed on the thick wooden table in the middle, and there was a circle of craftsmen around, and when they saw Zhao Yan and their arrival, they all showed excited expressions.

Zhao Yan didn't talk nonsense, a few steps to the microscope, and then carefully inspected the microscope, speaking of which, although this microscope is very different from the microscope he originally designed, but the function is still the same, so Zhao Yan is also very familiar, after inspecting it, he found that there is no problem with the appearance, and then he has to test the most important function, that is, whether the object can be enlarged?

Thinking of this, Zhao Yan immediately picked up a piece of glass next to him, then pulled out a hair and put it on it, covered it with a coverslip and put it on the table under the objective lens, and adjusted the mirror below to reflect the light.

At the beginning, the lens was blurry, and only a little bright light could be seen, but the microscope was like this, so Zhao Yan was also very patient and slowly adjusted, until the image in the lens slowly became clear, Zhao Yan finally shouted excitedly: "I can see clearly, although it is blurry than my microscope, it is relatively clear!" ”

Hearing Zhao Yan's shout, Cao Tong and the others next to him, who were originally nervous, also shouted in surprise, and no longer had the usual appearance of fairy wind bones, as for the skillful Liu Those craftsmen were also cheering, and after half a year of hard work, they finally succeeded in developing this microscope.

Next, Zhao Yan asked Cao Tong and others to take turns to use this newly developed microscope, Cao Yan and they were used to using Zhao Yan's microscope before, and now as soon as they used this microscope, they immediately felt the obvious difference between the two, but this difference is not unbearable, so on the whole they are still very satisfied.

As for the craftsmen such as the skillful Liu, they had also heard Cao Tong mention the role of the microscope before, but they had no idea, only knew that they worked according to the drawings provided by Zhao Yan, and until today they completed the microscope by themselves, and saw with their own eyes that a hair became like a leather whip under the microscope, which surprised them at the same time, and couldn't help but feel a sense of pride, because this kind of microscope was made by them.

"Grandfather, now that the microscope research has been successful, what are you going to do next?" Zhao Yan pulled Cao Yan aside at this time, and then asked in a low voice.

"What else can I do? Of course, let the skillful Liu and others continue to make microscopes, and strive to let all the avenues of our Taoist sect have a microscope, so that they can cooperate with us in preaching in the future! Cao Yan said with a natural face, the teachings of the Daomen are already being revised, and a lot of scientific knowledge taught by Zhao Yan has been added to it, and with a microscope, it is easier for people to believe in their teachings.

"Don't just care about your Taoist temple, I also need a microscope in my elementary school, so you'd better provide me with one too, otherwise I'll have to take my microscope to the primary school and let my students use it." Zhao Yan said with a smile at this time.

"Don't, your students are all hairy children, what if the microscope is broken, I will find a way to give you this newly developed microscope." Cao Yan hurriedly stopped when he heard Zhao Yan's words, although the microscope had been successfully developed, there was still a gap compared to Zhao Yan's, and he was reluctant to let those children use it.

"Hehe, just wait for your words grandfather, the matter is settled, and you will notify me when the microscope is ready!" Zhao Yan was actually reluctant to let the students use it, after all, there was only one microscope he brought, and there was no place to repair it if it was broken, so it was more reliable to use the microscope made by Da Song himself.

But just as Zhao Yan was about to turn around and say goodbye, Cao Tong suddenly grabbed him and said, "Son-in-law, don't leave yet, it's no problem to give you a microscope, but you also have to help me go to the official family to ask for a favor, otherwise we won't be able to make a microscope at all!" (To be continued......) R1292