According to Luo Zhixue's early requirements, the Army Officers Academy had already been established before the Chu Empire was officially founded. If we go back further, it can be traced back to the Suiying Academy in the Funiu Mountain period.

The early Suiying School was not only the first school to train military officers in the Chu Empire and even the entire land of China, it was also the first school in the land of China to adopt a new academic system and teach various new subjects.

In the early days of the camp school, there were infantry, artillery, cavalry and baggage departments. These so-called departments can actually be regarded as departments, not a separate subject.

In fact, formal class students in each of the above subjects must learn basic science and engineering knowledge, especially mathematics, as well as astronomy and geography.

Taking formal class students in the artillery department as an example, they need to learn mathematics, geometry, physics, chemistry, and geography. Only after possessing these basic science knowledge can they learn advanced artillery skills, especially the crucial shooting skills.

Calculation of yuan.

If an artillery officer wants to temporarily calculate the shooting elements on the battlefield, basic mathematics and geometry knowledge are indispensable. Otherwise, there is no way to calculate the shooting elements.

Officers in other departments also need to learn basic science content. Later, due to the demand for manufacturing guns, the camp school also started an ordnance department to train R&D and production technicians who design and produce various weapons.

This series of subjects were taught by Luo Zhixue himself in the early days. In this way, while cultivating the first batch of military talents for the Chu Empire, he also trained a small number of basic science personnel.

Later, the Suiying Academy was reformed into the Army Officer Academy. The Ordnance Department was divided into two, leaving some teachers and students to stay in the Ordnance Department, while some teachers and students became independent and joined other disciplines.

Finally, the Royal Institute of Technology was established, and began to select all kinds of talents to study science and engineering on a large scale.

At the same time, during this period, the Chu Empire also began large-scale recruitment to recruit various types of personnel who knew science and engineering. During this period, the Chu Empire also swept across the Yangtze River Basin and occupied the pan-Jiangnan region. A considerable number of people came into contact with

Talents with Western education were recruited and served in the Royal Institute of Technology, the Imperial College or the Education Department of the Ministry of Ethnic Education.

Among them is Song Yingxing, a low-level official in the former Ming Dynasty. His book "Tiangong Kaiwu" is quite good. In the past two years, Song Yingxing continued to edit his work, and adopted a more concise, more detailed, and more scientific attitude.

The text is re-edited.

It has been compiled and published, and has become a very good popular science book on science and engineering in the Chu Empire.

However, Song Yingxing himself is not satisfied with Tiangong Kaiwu, because many of the contents of Tiangong Kaiwu have lagged behind the times, and as an encyclopedia of crafts, it is actually too complicated and confusing, and there are many mistakes.

Things have no actual value.

To this end, Song Xingyu has begun to write a new popular science work. He is very ambitious and wants to popularize the currently known world and some phenomena. He named this book "The Study of Nature"

In this regard, the superiors were extremely supportive and provided a lot of information and personnel to assist him in writing.

As a popular science book, this book raises a question at the very beginning and provides a basic answer, that is, when a chopstick is inserted into a cup, why are the chopsticks broken?

This is a very classic and common optical problem, and the answer is very simple for future generations, that is, the refraction of light, the refraction phenomenon that occurs when light passes through different media.

Gewu Ziranli also answered the same question.

However, as a popular science book, the book does not go into depth, such as explaining why light refracts...

It is not easy to explain these problems in detail, and it is even impossible at the current technical level.

With the current level of optical research in the Da Chu Empire, it is impossible to explain why light is refracted. After all, the researchers in the Da Chu Empire don't even know what a spectrum is... Luo Zhixue never mentioned it when he taught in person in the early days.

When Luo Zhixue taught these things in person in the early days, he only briefly talked about the refraction phenomenon of light. This was for the purpose of manufacturing optical equipment such as telescopes and microscopes.

Otherwise, as the emperor, Luo Zhixue is so busy, how would he have time to be a teacher and teach about optics...

Furthermore, anything involving photons is very difficult to do. Not to mention the Chu Empire, which is in its infancy in science and engineering. Even in the 21st century, people’s understanding of photons tends to be superficial, and there are still many optical phenomena.

Scientists can't explain it, but it exists in reality.

Song Yingxing is not a researcher, at most he is a hobbyist, and he is interested in many things... This covers a lot of areas, and naturally he does not have enough time and energy to delve into a certain field.
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This is also reflected in the books he wrote. The previous set of "Starting Heavenly Things" is very comprehensive as an encyclopedia of crafts, but it doesn't actually explain much about the theory.

The popular science books now written for ordinary people will not be very technical books either. They are just popular science books, but they will cover a very wide range, allowing people to have a basic understanding of the world they live in.

cognition.

For example, you know that the earth you are on is round; the earth flies around the sun, and the sun flies around the center of the galaxy; the air is not empty, but contains various gases and tiny particles; wound infection

It is because of bacterial infection. There are many pathogenic microorganisms in raw water. It must be boiled before drinking. Wash hands frequently to prevent germs from entering the mouth or eyes through the hands. Water at high altitudes can be used at a lower temperature.

The temperature is boiling etc.

It is better to say that it is science popularization, but it is better to say that it is to popularize some scientific common sense that can be used in daily life to the public.

Even Emperor Luo Zhixue heard about this huge popular science book, which is currently under preparation and is expected to take many years to be completed, and personally ordered all departments to provide support and cooperation.

To this end, the Ministry of Ethics and Education also set up a special research laboratory for Song Yingxing, allocating special funds and personnel to compile this important popular science work.

A book that focuses on popularizing science will be of great use to the empire. It can effectively enhance the people's basic understanding of the world and popularize scientific concepts.

However, in addition to the investigation of nature edited by Song Yingxing, the Chu Empire also had a real "Encyclopedia" project.

This project is not presided over by a certain person, but is personally responsible for it by the Ministry of Ethics and Education, with the intention of recording all known knowledge of mankind.

All knowledge is not limited to science and engineering knowledge, but also includes humanities and arts, social sciences, philosophy and even folk customs, entertainment games, etc.

The principle is to record everything as long as it is there, and record it professionally!

And the knowledge it collects is all professional, with the intention of providing all known professional knowledge to knowledge explorers.

According to Luo Zhixue's idea, this kind of encyclopedia will continue to be compiled, and new versions will be continuously released as the times progress and knowledge grows.

Until the demise of the empire... Well, for this kind of encyclopedia book, there is a high probability that the Chu Empire has perished, and subsequent empires or republics will continue to compile this set of books, until China and even mankind appear.

Until the disaster.

Of course, it is unknown in what form it will exist. In the early stage, it will exist on paper, and in the mid-term, it may become an electronic version. Only people in the future will know what it will become in the future!

This encyclopedia is not only used for popularizing science, but also for recording, and it is also used as a reference book. Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to this.

The compilation of various new-style books basically shows Luo Zhixue’s determination to promote comprehensive new-style education.

And what is new education?

The academic system is naturally important, but it is not decisive. The most important thing is what you study.

In addition to the traditional literature such as the Four Books and Five Classics, the new pedagogy will also learn mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy and geography.

What is compared with new education is traditional education. What is traditional education?

When I was a child, I read the Three Character Classic and various enlightenment books, and then studied the Four Books and Five Classics...and then...no more...it was so overwhelming that the students learned arithmetic on their own.

This is because the Ming Dynasty paid great attention to the eight-part essay. In the past two hundred years, students devoted themselves to studying how to write the eight-part essay.

The eight-part essay is actually not all bad, at least it is fair... Because this thing has strict formats and requirements, it can objectively evaluate the level of the essay, which is very important for the fairness of the imperial examination.
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In addition, being able to write eight-part essays in a good way, especially those with eight-part essays such as cut-and-answer questions, is actually very demanding for candidates. Not only must they have a strong literary foundation, but they must also be able to talk nonsense, and they must also

Can you justify yourself... People with weak brains cannot write.

Therefore, people who can pass the Jinshi exam are actually not stupid... Well, they may just lack other common sense. Exam-oriented education is like this. In order to pass the exam, students will ignore other things and focus on the exam content.

When future generations take exams in physics and chemistry, they will still pass the exams without common sense.

But the biggest benefit of exam-oriented education is fairness!

No matter what the test is, it is more about brains and hard work. As for the external environment such as teachers, it is also affected, but it is not harmful...

It’s better than not even giving you a chance to take a fair exam.

Don’t expect absolute fairness at any time!

When you envy and hate your classmates from rich families who have private tutors and go to good school districts, children from rural areas are still envious that you can go to school in the city; children from poor families are still envious and jealous that children from rural areas can go to school!

It would be good to have a relative fairness, and the ancient imperial examinations, the imperial examinations in the Great Chu Empire, and the admissions examinations of the four new colleges are to maintain a fair degree of fairness as much as possible.

Since last year, the Dachu Empire Army Officer Academy has taken the lead in conducting large-scale regional admissions examinations. This is because more and more students want to apply for the school.

The so-called regional examination actually refers to organizing an examination in each province, and then admitting a certain number of places. Each province has a certain number of places, and candidates in each province compete internally for these places.

This is to prevent candidates from some places with better education from directly occupying most of the admission quotas of the Army Officer Academy.

Compared with civilian officials, the military pays more attention to local balance, and it is impossible for military academy students to get together with students from a few provinces.

Therefore, the Army Officers Academy adopts a very simple principle. Each province allocates quotas according to its population, and then candidates in each province compete internally.

This is a similar concept to the northern and southern rankings in the imperial examination system, except that the imperial examination is only a northern and southern ranking, while the Army Officer Academy directly comes up with a provincial ranking.

Under this model, competition within the Jiangnan region, which has a relatively good reading culture, will naturally become more intense!

In Jiangnan Province, where internal competition is fierce, Fang Beitong failed the exam last year, but he was unwilling to accept it and continued to study hard after failing the exam. He is bound to pass the exam this year.

After arriving in Suzhou, the provincial capital of Jiangnan Province, Fang Beitong and several friends stayed temporarily at the home of a friend who had already made an appointment, resting and continuing to review.

Not only them, but also some students who took the provincial examination in Suzhou have not left, but are preparing to continue taking the entrance examinations of the four colleges.

This year's entrance examination is a joint examination of the four schools. Anyone who has passed the preliminary examination of the college can take part. It will be ranked according to the scores in liberal arts and sciences, and the candidates will be admitted according to their own wishes and rankings.

The reason for the joint entrance examination is to avoid duplication of resources and to avoid candidates having to go back and forth. After all, many candidates do not have to go to a specific school. If they can be admitted to other schools, they will go to other schools, so they will take multiple exams.

The school’s entrance exam.

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For this reason, the imperial officials simply held a joint examination for the four schools.

On August 27, not long after the Jiangnan Provincial Township Examination ended, the four-school joint examination in the Jiangnan Provincial Examination Center officially started.

Fang Beitong also entered the examination room to take the exam like many other students. Because of the large scale, to facilitate management and to prevent cheating, the exam system is still the same as the traditional imperial examination. Candidates go in for three days and then take different subjects every day.<
To be continued...