The next morning, after breakfast in the royal palace, Zhao Ming, led by the guards, went to Nanjing Imperial University on the shore of Xuanwu Lake.

Since Zhao Ming took office, he has opened many universities in Nanjing, the most famous of which are the Imperial Continental University, the Imperial Political University, and the Imperial University. There was originally an Imperial Naval University, but it had moved to Xiamen, Fujian not long ago.

The navy officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty now mainly came from the southeast coast, with Fujianese occupying most of them.

Although Zhao Ming had thought of changing this situation, Fujian has inherent advantages, with many mountains and few lands and few people. In order to make a living, most people have experience in going overseas, so they have more advantages than other regions.

Now that the three universities that remain in Nanjing are left, Lu Da naturally trained army officers for the court, and worked with the Ministry of Works to study and improve new weapons to ensure that the Ming Dynasty was in the leading position in military ordnance.

The imperial court re-trained the Jinshi who passed the science and technology exam, taught some administrative experience and various knowledge, and turned them into qualified imperial officials.

Imperial University is a comprehensive university, which teaches both Confucian classics, traditional Chinese miscellaneous studies, and some Western sciences brought about by Western learning from the east.

Among these three universities, Zhao Ming took charge of the president of Lu and Massachusetts, but what Zhao Ming valued the most was actually Imperial University.

Lu Da and Masahida can only make the Ming Dynasty strong for a while. If you want to make the Ming Dynasty great again, you hope it is actually at Imperial University.

China's cultural education attaches importance to educating people, and the core is to teach people to be a gentleman, attaches more importance to the inner world, but lacks the desire to learn from the external world and the real thing.

Although this desire for knowledge also exists in China. Thousands of years ago, Qu Yuan expressed his curiosity about the universe in "Ask to the Sky".

During the Ming Dynasty, there were also thousands of households flying into the sky and using rockets to kill themselves. This was such an amazing thing.

But overall, in Confucian culture, there is still a lack of interest in exploring external things.

Zhao Ming’s expectation for Imperial University is to change this phenomenon, absorb foreign cultures and science, realize cultural exchanges, promote the development of the society and science of the Ming Dynasty, and increase people’s interest in exploring the essence of physical objects.

Only by mentioning people's exploration and pursuing the essence and injecting new genes into culture can Chinese culture remain prosperous.

Imperial University is located outside Xuanwu Lake, northwest of Zijin Mountain, covering an area of ​​more than 1,000 acres, and the scale exceeds Zhao Ming's regent's mansion.

At this time, Zhao Ming and his group, under the escort of the guards, came to the gate of Imperial University. Chen Yujie had already led several people to wait.

Compared with the Qing Dynasty, the literati and officials of the Ming Dynasty were more able to accept and learn foreign cultures and absorb what was useful to China into Chinese culture.

Since the Wanli Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has begun to contact Western things without being defeated by Westerners, and has started a wave of Western learning to spread to the east.

However, decades have passed, the old generation of scholars and officials who have accepted and translated Western books, devoted themselves to studying Western learning, and integrated Western learning with mixed learning, such as Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao, Li Tianjing and others, have passed away.

The missionaries who entered China back then were already dead, and most of the people had withered.

The cultural exchanges of Western learning spread to the east were interrupted for many years in the war, and Zhao Ming was equivalent to restarting this trend.

However, Zhao Ming had limited ability, so he could only let Xu Guangqi's nephew Chen Yujie be a jealous person. He also sent missionaries such as Johnson Chan, who were captured in Beijing to the university and hired some missionaries from Macau to teach some things about nature, astronomy, mathematics, surveying and mapping, and smelting.

In addition to miscellaneous Chinese books on various dynasties and Song Yingxing's "The Originality of Geometrics", the textbooks used by the university are also translated by Xu Guangqi's literati and literati, "Taixi Water Method", "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs", "Complete Meaning", "Measurement Method", "Search of Circles and Eight Lines" and other books translated by Xu Guangqi's literati.

"I welcome the regent!" Chen Yujie and others saluted.

Zhao Ming waved his hand, "I'm here to take a break before college. You should go on a casual walk. You should go to class, don't care about me."

At present, Zhao Ming only brought a small number of guards, accompanied by Chen Yujie, and visited the interior of the Imperial University in casual clothes.

Zhao Ming stopped outside several classrooms. Some of the professors inside talked about Confucian classics, some talked about nine chapters of arithmetic, and some listened to missionaries explaining geography.

"According to the regent, Confucian classics and miscellaneous courses account for 60% of the total courses, and the rest are Western courses such as mathematics, astronomy, and nature. However, there are actually many overlapping parts in the two courses. The school is studying and integrating some overlapping together to teach!" Chen Yujie introduced.

Although Zhao Ming attaches great importance to science, he attaches more importance to being a human being. He does not hope that the students of Imperial University will be influenced by too many Western robber cultures and become egoists and have less public intentions.

Zhao Ming nodded with satisfaction and then said, "Go to the laboratory to have a look!"

Zhao Ming was not good at how to educate, but when he established the Imperial University, he put forward several requirements for Chen Yujie. One of them was to build laboratories of various categories and theories to verify the knowledge in the certificate, explore unknown things, and to establish a research system that explores the essence of things.

The group came to a building, and there were signs hanging in each room, saying a certain laboratory.

At this time, most laboratories were empty, with only a few, and students were conducting experiments.

Zhao Ming walked out of a laboratory and found that Song Yingxing was also there. The latter found Zhao Ming and hurriedly ordered the students to do the experiment themselves, so he walked out quickly.

"I will be in charge of the regency!" Song Yingxing said.

Zhao Ming smiled and said, "Song Aiqing is here today!"

Song Yingxing said: "I am a professor here. Today, the students want to verify the refinement of copper in my book "The Work of Heaven and the Creation of Things", so I came here in person!"

Zhao Ming nodded and looked at the students' experiment tools. It was relatively simple, and the bottles were covered with varied glass. He couldn't help but say: "I have time, so I will also study the firing of glass, improve the firing process, and create a batch of equipment for the experiment!"

Song Yingxing said: "This Ministry of Works is actually researching and improving the existing technology!"

Zhao Ming didn't expect that they had already thought of it, so he asked himself another topic of concern: "Have you made any progress in the iron armored ships I made?"

Now Western ships are equipped with flowering bullets, and the Ming Dynasty's advantage in weapons on ships has been tied by the Western barbarians, so Zhao Ming began to eagerly hope that the ironclad ships can make progress and allow the navy to equip early iron-shelled ships to maintain its advantage.

Song Yingxing said: "Reporting to the Regent, there has been progress and will be able to go into the water next year. However, initially estimated that the ships have a deep draft and may be difficult to navigate at sea!"
Chapter completed!