Shipin Dalizheng

Chapter 358 Taixue College

Years ago, He Daban went to the Chu family to collect the debt in person. The Chu family did not dare to refuse and paid the full amount. He Daban saw with his own eyes that the Chu family carried out boxes of cash from the warehouse. Huipin said that her family's business was not good and was losing money, so the claim that there was no money was self-defeating.

Emperor Xuanning decided to use his own private treasury to build the Imperial Academy. He didn't care whether the court officials agreed or the Ministry of Revenue allocated funds. After all, the money was not his.

This matter naturally fell on the head of the Ministry of Works. Lord Qu, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works, even visited Rong Tang and listened to many opinions on the location, floor area, number of specialties required, construction style and layout of the Imperial College. He made some revisions and finally finalized the drawings.

Taiyuan College is divided into eight major disciplines: agriculture, engineering, medicine, mathematics, national defense, and natural disaster emergency response. Each discipline is divided into research and practice. To put it bluntly, some require talking, while others require hands-on practice.

Before the six major subjects were even established, the principals of each subject had already been determined. The professor of engineering was Sima Xin, who had two subordinates: the research assistant Tang Fuyun, and the practical assistant was a craftsman official from the Ministry of Works.

The agricultural instructor is a sixth-rank official in the Ministry of Agriculture under the Ministry of Revenue. He is mainly responsible for promoting the second harvest of rice and studying the possibility of double-season rice harvest in the north. He cooperates with the engineering department.

The medical department is very exciting. There is no distinction between primary and secondary. There are two major teachers on the left and right. Doctor Mo is a traditional moderate, while Zhang Pojun is a heretic radical. Rong Tang promised them that they can accept students based on their abilities.

Tang Tiantian was the natural choice to teach mathematics, with Cui Minshu as her assistant. The other assistant was an older official from the Ministry of Revenue.

Of course, there were also people who strongly protested against women being teachers. In the end, they had a competition in public, and Tang Tiantian and Cui Minshu defeated more than a hundred challengers.

The National Defense Department can also be understood as the selection of military generals. Several experienced veterans from Fu Xinzhuang will teach battlefield fighting skills, and occasionally border guards will be invited to explain military tactics.

As for the Disaster Emergency Response Department, that's a matter of opinion. The main thing is to invite people who have participated in disaster relief and rescue to share their experience and study the feasibility of various self-rescue methods. This department has no teachers for the time being, and Rong Tang will take on the temporary role.

On the sixth day of the second month, the Imperial Academy was built at Wulingpo, twenty or thirty miles away from Shangjing. Emperor Xuanning personally dug a shovel of soil, wrote the name of the academy, patted his butt and returned to the palace.

On February 13th, the forty-nine-day rest period for the former Nanyue Emperor expired, and he was carried out of the Jingyang Palace and buried in the imperial mausoleum as the late emperor's second son. To honor his spirit, a group of rebels brought from Jiangnan were beheaded and buried with him on the same day.

Yao, who lived for an extra month and a half, fulfilled her oath and was torn into pieces by five horses on that day. Her most beloved grandson Jin Yaohui and her nephew Yao Decai also took a one-way bus to the underworld.

Jin Shizhao watched helplessly as his newly recognized son's head fell to the ground. No one cared about him and Old Lady Jin. After the execution, the bodies of the Yao family members were thrown into a mass grave in the northern suburbs.

At the last moment of his life, he looked at the crows pecking at the corpse beside him, and many others staring at him hungrily. What came to his mind was nineteen years ago, when he had just passed the imperial examination and was riding a horse in a parade through the streets, and saw colorful lanterns hanging at the gate of the Jian'an Earl's Mansion recruiting a son-in-law.

A classmate was filled with envy, "Even if we pass the imperial examination and become Jinshi, we still have to be sent to a remote area to serve as a county magistrate. If we are lucky, we can be promoted in a few years, but if we are not lucky, we will never be able to enter the capital. If I become the son-in-law of the Earl of Jian'an, I can directly stay in the capital to serve and save decades of hard work. It's a pity that I'm already married."

He already had a cousin at that time, and he had already decided in his heart that his cousin would be his future wife. However, he was still moved after hearing these words. For some unknown reason, he discussed with his old mother at home and decided that it would be better to marry into the Rong family and avoid decades of detours.

His mother agreed, and so did his cousin. He still remembered the solemn words he vowed to his cousin: "I only see her as a stepping stone to wealth and fame, and I won't be tempted by her. Don't worry, I will never touch her in my lifetime. A noble lady has to maintain her dignity, and she would never reveal anything to others. When you give birth to my Jin family's eldest son, in a few years, he will be born into the Rong family, and the title of nobility in charge of the Rong family will also pass to the Jin family."

His plan was so good and his implementation was perfect. Just when he was about to get the title, no, just a moment before, Rong Tang appeared and easily shattered his dream.

"Why? Why did you show up? I've been waiting for so long, so long..."

He muttered to himself, imagining all kinds of possibilities. If he had not had such a bad idea in the beginning and had just become a poor county magistrate, perhaps he would still be a county magistrate today, but at least he would still be alive.

Or, he could simply abandon his cousin and live wholeheartedly with Rong. They would have biological children, he would be in a high position and powerful, and the children would inherit the title and live a life of wealth and honor.

No, both kinds of life have regrets. If he could live his life again, he would still choose this shortcut. Glory and wealth are really tempting, but he would be more rigorous and let Rong die earlier.

He didn't want his cousin anymore, a stupid country woman who would only hold him back.

There was a sound of "ding" and it was a crow pecking at the top of the head. It was painful, but the most terrifying thing was the fear. "Don't peck me, I'm not dead yet."

But the next second, he felt his body become lighter, floating above the pit of corpses, watching with his own eyes dozens or even hundreds of crows pecking at his flesh and blood, and the pain continued to come in waves.

"Don't peck me, it hurts. I'm not dead yet. Wait, I'm flying. I'm dead, but why does it still hurt so much..."

He screamed and wailed in the dark, as if he saw the scene before Rong's death.

He and Yao worked together to pour the last bowl of poison into Rong's mouth. Rong stared at him intently, "Jin Shizhao, you won't live long. You will die miserably, and you will suffer pain for ten thousand years after death. After thousands of lives as an animal, you will eventually die at my hands."

Then, Rong Tang twisted the Buddhist beads in one hand and looked at him coldly, "Every action has its consequences, and I am your retribution."

After the funeral, the Ministry of Rites revised the history books, bringing the battle to a perfect end.

During this time, the historian, having learned his lesson, also came to question Rong Tang about the details of events in Jiangnan. Rong Tang repeatedly confirmed that it was the deposed Emperor Nangong He who, believing himself unworthy of the position, willingly deposed himself. This was due to the Xuanning Emperor's prestige and divine mandate. Furthermore, the Emperor's broad-mindedness and virtuous wisdom were the reason for his inclusion in the book.

Without violating historical facts, the historian flattered Emperor Xuanning a little, but still attracted a lot of cold stares when he read it out in the court.

Fortunately, although Rong Tang only attended court occasionally, he could always shout out, "Your Majesty is wise and wise" at the most critical moment.

In this process of constant post-processing, constant exploration, and constant trial, several disciplines of Taiyuan College have been running in a bumpy trial manner even though they have not been fully built.

The story goes like this: after several rounds of fistfights, Dr. Mo and Zhang Pojun divided up the two largest courtyards of the former Jin family residence, which was to be used as the Annan Marquis's residence, and each opened a school to recruit disciples. The disciples they accepted today would become the first batch of students in the medical school.

As you can imagine, as soon as the sign was put up, the medical circle in Beijing exploded, and people swarmed into the Annan Earl's Mansion like bees to sign up with them, but everyone was looking for the same person, Doctor Mo.

Isn't Zhang Pojun famous? On the contrary, after all these years of operation, his reputation is much higher than that of Dr. Mo. It's a pity that they are both the opposite. Just think about it, who would dare to seek treatment from an evil doctor?

Zhang Pojun was unable to recruit anyone and became anxious, so he went out to recruit able-bodied men himself. Finally, he recruited a few of them, who could be called bumblebees. They were coroners from Jingzhao Prefecture and the Ministry of Justice.

He said, "These guys are definitely medical wizards. They dare to perform autopsies."