There is a large courtyard on the outskirts of Dafeng City, which is surrounded by tall walls.
There are rivers on three sides of the yard, and only one side is connected to the road outside. This road goes straight for three kilometers to the Huaihai Navy's ammunition factory.
This yard, like the ammunition factory, has no one living around it, so it stands alone.
There is a checkpoint on the only road leading outside the yard, and soldiers with loaded weapons stand guard there.
There is no door number on the courtyard, so people passing by from a distance don't know what it is for.
However, there are several such yards around Dafeng, and they are also guarded by guards. Anyone who works in the industrial area knows that this is a unit with a relatively high level of confidentiality. Don't approach it when nothing happens, otherwise you will be charged.
It's over.
A convoy followed the only road and arrived at the checkpoint. A young official stepped forward and handed over his certificate.
After the officer guarding the checkpoint read the certificate, he immediately saluted the carriage. Then he asked people to move the horse away. The guards stood on both sides of the checkpoint and watched the convoy drive towards the large yard.
Introduced scholars like Schönbai are usually brought to the academy for exchanges. At the same time, it also allows them to experience the academic atmosphere of Huaihai Navy.
Therefore, Schönbai was not taken directly to Dafeng City like little Krupp, but was first taken to Huaihai Academy in Gaoyou.
After a year of construction, the academy has begun to take shape. The academy is so large that it has no walls and only has a huge Chinese-style gatehouse at the entrance to the road.
There are four strong and powerful characters on the gate tower - "Huaihai Academy".
Dong Shuheng also thought about using the term "university" at the beginning. This word is not a rare word, but the current interpretation is different from that of later generations.
In the end, we decided to use the name academy. An academy is a place for reading. Naturally, it is not limited to the Four Books and Five Classics. In fact, many academies now teach the study of managing the world and applying it.
In addition, Huaihai Academy emphasizes both Chinese and Western studies. No matter which college or major, you must study both Chinese and Western studies.
Even in subjects such as chemistry and physics, there were many explorations in medieval and ancient times. However, ancient Chinese works mostly used the deductive method, unlike the current Western studies that mostly use the inductive method.
The teaching methods of the two are also different. In terms of Chinese studies, the teacher explains it and lets the students summarize it.
Western learning, on the other hand, explains the principles clearly and allows students to explore how to apply them themselves.
The two teaching models miraculously exist in the same academy, creating a collision of knowledge in the students' brains. In this collision of knowledge, many new discoveries and new perspectives naturally burst out.
Through this exchange and collision, both Chinese and foreign teachers at Huaihai Academy feel that they are making rapid progress.
For example, some foreign teachers in the academy were not top talents when they were in China. They only mastered a lot of knowledge, but did not have much innovation and development.
But after I came to teach in the academy, I often participated in discussions and exchanges with Chinese teachers. This benefited them a lot.
Not all Chinese people study natural science. People like Xu Shou and Hua Hengfang are not rare cases either.
It's just that the Chinese group natural science into practical science, and it's a relatively partial type of practical science. Although it's partial, some people still study it.
At first, like Krupp, Schönbai believed that China was an ignorant and backward country in the East.
Although Europeans used to say that China was full of gold, since Europeans colonized America and India.
They found that these ancient oriental countries were generally like this, and they still stayed in the way they were before the European Middle Ages.
But ever since he set foot in Haimen Port, he began to doubt his own opinion. The pier was very busy, and the pier was full of ocean-going cargo ships loading and unloading cargo.
This scene is very similar to the docks in the West.
Key personnel like Schönbai are naturally received by dedicated personnel.
After resting for two days at the reception center in Haimen Port, Schönbai gradually regained his energy. At his age, he was really not suitable for another ocean voyage.
The voyage along this journey almost cost him half his life.
Moreover, he had to learn Chinese with other people. It has to be said that Chinese is the most difficult language that Schonbe has ever seen. Every word has several meanings, and a sentence can be expressed in many ways. Even the same language
A sentence is said with different tone and intonation, and the meaning expressed is also different.
As a scholar, Schönbai considers himself to be very capable of learning. Although he is not young, he has not yet reached the level of brain degeneration. Learning Chinese like this still gives him a headache.
The official who entertained him spoke German, which surprised Schönbai and made him feel a little relaxed. At least he could communicate with the other party in a relaxed manner.
When he was at the port, the Chinese official who received him told him that he and some scholars would first go to the academy to have an exchange, and then they would be assigned their respective jobs.
Schönbai knew that this so-called academy should refer to a university. This may be a unique name for universities in China.
It seems that he has returned to his old profession. Wang Tao once promised that he would arrange for him to be the dean of the School of Chemistry.
Maybe the School of Chemistry is under that university. He was somewhat looking forward to what the university would be like in this far east?
Nowadays, many universities in the West are actually very small, and some do not even have serious teaching buildings. There are only a few universities supported by the royal family, which are beginning to take shape.
To put it bluntly, there is still a lack of money. There are constant wars between European countries. Who will use the extra money to build houses for universities?
Only occasionally a few enlightened monarchs or nobles would support the construction of universities with their own money.
Unlike Young Krupp and the others, Schönbei and his party went to Huaihai Academy. They took the Huaihai Navy's passenger ship on the Yangtze River.
This kind of inland river passenger ship produced by Huaihai Navy Shipyard is very comfortable to sit on, and there are special guest rooms inside, because this kind of passenger ship is used for long-distance shipping on the Yangtze River.
Since we were sailing on the Yangtze River, it was no longer as bumpy as the sea. Schoenby did not stay in the cabin to rest. He walked to the deck and found a seat to sit down.
After entering the Yangtze River Estuary, you can see many Western ships. The Chinese official told him that there is an open city to the south - Shanghai.
These foreign ships all came out of Shanghai. Only then did Schoenbach realize that China is not a closed country.
As we went upstream along the Shangjiang River, the river gradually narrowed. But Schönbai still felt that this river was wider than any other river he had seen in Europe.
Schönbai once read a travel book that introduced this big river. The Chinese call it the Yangtze River. It is said that it is more than 6,000 kilometers long, which ranks among the top rivers in the world.
"If you have the opportunity, you must take a trip along the Yangtze River." Schönbai thought in his heart.
After traveling for some distance, the passenger ship turned into a tributary.
Oh, no, it cannot be considered a tributary. The Chinese say this is a canal, and it was dug more than two thousand years ago and reached its current size more than a thousand years ago.
According to the Chinese, this canal is nearly two thousand kilometers long from north to south. Considering its long history, this is really a breathtaking project, and can even be said to be a miracle.
"China is really a place that creates miracles!" Schönbai sighed in his heart.
After entering the canal, the ship first passed by a huge city, which was Yangzhou that many Europeans mentioned in their travel notes.
A section of the canal near Yangzhou is lined with docks. Various ships come and go, making this section of the channel a bit congested, so that passenger ships have to slow down.
Schönba is just the place where you can slowly enjoy the scenery on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
The water network in this place is dense, and the climate is obviously very good. The first thing that comes into view next to the canal is a huge market.
Schönbai can guarantee that he has never seen such a big market, and it is a specialized market, not the kind of market sandwiched in a residential area.
Judging from the houses, this market has just been built not long ago. Sitting on the boat, you can see that the market is divided into different areas. You can identify them by the things people move in and out.
Every major category of commodities is concentrated in one place. Judging from the busyness of various means of transport in the water and on the shore, the daily transaction volume here must be very large.
Passing through this busy canal market area, you can see neat farmland as far as the eye can see. This is a plain area with no mountains. This endless feeling makes people feel very comfortable.
However, it didn't take long for them to enter a huge lake. A staff member came to inform them that their destination was approaching and asked everyone to prepare to salute.
Schönbai was alone, with basically nothing except a large box of books and manuscripts.
Since Wang Tao promised him that after arriving in China, someone would prepare everything for him, he simply didn't bring it with him.
He left what little wealth he had left to his family, and he came out with peace of mind.
Suddenly, there was a commotion on the boat, and someone pointed in the direction of the shore and screamed.
Schoenbai also followed the sound and saw a large group of buildings on the shore at a glance. Among them were the types of buildings he had seen in Europe, as well as Chinese-style buildings. There were also some architectural styles that he had never seen before.
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In addition to the various beautiful buildings, this building complex is also very large.
It feels like I can catch up with a small European city.
The boat docked at the pier on the shore, and they were told that this was Huaihai Academy. The pier was actually inside the campus, and the lake outside the pier was also part of the school.
Schönbai was shocked by the grandeur of this school. After disembarking, the scholars who came with the ship were picked up by various colleges.
Schoenby was informed that he had to go see the dean of the college first. Schoenby was very happy. The dean of the college personally received him, obviously he valued him very much.
In Europe, the presidents of universities are highly respected people and are basically deeply respected. Therefore, although Schönbai was also an old scholar, he did not show off. He changed into neat clothes and went to see the dean of the college solemnly.