The meeting is over.
Fang Zhengyi stood outside the palace gate, looking at the rising sun with some emotion.
It's not easy! It's not easy to do anything.
After all the hard work, we have finally laid the foundation, which will make subsequent development much easier.
As long as we bring out some of Taoyuan County's existing achievements and let all officials see the potential of science earlier, naturally no one will dare to despise it anymore.
No one will refuse real benefits.
I, Fang Zhengyi, the father of science, am destined to go down in history!
I need to leave behind some famous quotes and set some rules to warn future generations that they should not scribble on my face in textbooks, otherwise they will lose points in the college entrance examination!
As he was thinking about it, Fang Zheng suddenly laughed, and his smile was very arrogant.
Li Yuanzhao walked out behind him, looked at him strangely and said, "Lao Fang, your smile is very obscene."
"Oh..I thought of something happy."
"What are you going to do with the Academy of Sciences and the College?" Li Yuanzhao asked.
Fang Zheng thought for a moment and said, "I already have some ideas. A place close to the officialdom is not suitable for research. I want to build it farther away so that people from the Ministry of Works can avoid making trouble later."
"There is still a large area of idle land in the eastern suburbs, so why not build it there? The Royal Academy of Sciences is adjacent to the college, which will be convenient for research and study in the future."
"As for being more specific... that requires detailed planning. I will go back and study it further, and come up with examination levels, job titles, and the like."
"Hmm? Examination level?"
Fang Zhengyi smiled slightly: "To put it simply, you will be admitted step by step according to your grades. The lowest level is called a first-tier university. If you pass the exam, you will be promoted to a second-tier university. Only those who study well, have good character, excellent qualities, and outstanding potential can be admitted to a third-tier university."
"That's not right. The lower the number, the higher the grade." Li Yuanzhao wondered. This seemed to be contrary to the rules of the court.
"No, the bigger the number, the better. Three to one, three is the best!" Fang Zheng forced an explanation at first.
Li Yuanzhao curled his lips and did not comment. He then asked, "However, it seems a bit inappropriate to build the Royal Academy of Sciences in the eastern suburbs. It's too far away. Aren't you afraid of what outsiders will say?"
Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment.
Indeed, building a palace in the remote suburbs in the name of the royal family does cause some controversy, but from a practical point of view, it is better to build it farther away.
"Your Highness, the Academy of Sciences will focus on academic research in the future. I think there are some bad trends in the court, and we should try our best to avoid them and create a good environment for them."
"What bad habits?" Li Yuanzhao asked curiously.
"Haha, research is about true knowledge, power is about size, Your Highness."
People's hearts are all similar. No matter whether they are high or low, almost all the people are trying their best to enter the officialdom.
What can officials do?
Management positions have always been superior to scientific research positions.
If the Academy of Sciences introduces any unhealthy trends, the students recruited there in the future will not be interested in doing science.
I kept thinking about stupid questions like "There are five leaders here, but only four seats. How should I arrange them?"
What about the research on der?
He also hopes to use the Academy of Sciences to popularize scientific ideas and concepts throughout the world.
Dajing lacks scientific soil in the first place, and people are obsessed with the idea of revering the past, so it is understandable that popularizing science is extremely difficult.
Not to mention the current environment, wasn't science the same hundreds of years after its birth?
When you open TikTok, you will see all kinds of blind praise for the ancients’ Zenith technology, saying that they had been waiting for modern scientists on the top of the mountain for a long time, and they simply say that our ancestors are awesome.
Were our ancestors awesome? Awesome, and they were great in humanities and social sciences, but the ancients only had some relatively basic practical technologies and did not summarize any science.
Before science was born, an ordinary citizen from the Qin Dynasty could live a normal life if he traveled through time to the Ming Dynasty.
It would probably be difficult to adapt to traveling back to the Qing Dynasty.
In modern times, people would be so scared that they would shit all over the floor.
If you really have the filial piety to worship your ancestors, you might as well burn a few black silk threads for your ancestors during the New Year and other festivals to let them have a taste. Besides, no one burns this thing, and with the serious inflation in the underworld, it might be hard currency.
"Your Highness, the development of the Academy of Sciences will definitely not be smooth at the beginning. We have to sort it out from the beginning. In the early stage, we must avoid intersections with other government offices as much as possible to avoid any impact. When it grows stronger and has its own strength and culture, we can move or do whatever we want. In the early stage, it is more convenient to operate independently."
"Besides...if we are far away from the palace, we won't be free. We should come here more often in the future!"
Li Yuanzhao grinned. "Yes, it's better to stay away from the palace and avoid a lot of trouble. I'm looking forward to what the Academy of Sciences can come up with."
"Your Highness, just wait and see. There will be something that will amaze you."
While the two were chatting and laughing, a young eunuch hurriedly ran out of the hall, brushed past Fang Zheng and the other two, and suddenly turned back.
Looking at Fang Zheng, he flattered: "Master Fang, you are here."
Fang Zheng blinked and asked in confusion, "What do you want from me?"
The young eunuch smiled charmingly and said, "It's alright. I congratulate Lord Fang. The Ministry of Rites has already set an auspicious date. The Empress has ordered you to enter the palace tomorrow for a trial marriage."
Li Yuanzhao: “…”
Fang Zhengyi: "..."
The two looked at each other, both with dull eyes.
Fang Zheng's scalp suddenly went numb: "Trial marriage? Whose marriage are you trying out? Is there a trial for this thing?"
Li Yuanzhao looked at Fang Zhengyi mysteriously without saying a word.
The young eunuch explained with a humble look, "Of course it's the Fifth Princess. This is the palace's rule. Although an auspicious date has been chosen, there is still a trial marriage before that. It's just a formality."
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