Chapter 345: Junior sister is looking for trouble.
Chapter 345: Junior sister is looking for trouble.
Gongsun Erniang said angrily: "We love other schools, why don't other schools love us?"
"Who says they don't love us equally?"
Ye Kun felt guilty and smiled, "Confucianism and Taoism are now inferior to our Mohism. How dare they not love us all? Zhang Mi also said that in the future, a hundred flowers should bloom and a hundred schools of thought should be respected."
Gongsun Erniang still insisted: "But Zhang Mi wants to build a hundred Taoist temples to worship the Taoist Taishang Laojun. Why doesn't our Mohist ancestor build a temple?"
"Junior sister, I have already made a plan to build a Mozi College in the university, one is to worship the ancestor, the other is to teach Mozi culture. Don't worry, I will not treat the ancestor unfairly."
"That's pretty much it."
Gongsun's expression improved slightly, and he added, "We in the Mohist School are also serving as supervisors in the university, and we are also going to form an embassy to preach in the Western Regions."
Ye Kun smiled and said, "No problem. I will appoint you as the university supervisor. I will also leave the task of forming the diplomatic mission to you."
The current university has not yet been built. Only a group of low houses have been built to be used as classrooms temporarily, and teaching has begun on an experimental basis.
When the construction is completed in the future and hundreds of scholars move into the university, I guess there will be fights every day!
Junior Sister Gongsun and Ding Ding, as well as Pang Jia and Sun Yi, none of them are easy to mess with!
Under pressure from his junior sister, Ye Kun temporarily modified the university plan and established Mozi College, Confucius College, Laozi College, Sunzi College...
The Sun Tzu Academy is for studying the art of war, and future military academy students will also come here for exchanges and further studies.
The chief engineer of the university construction was the Chengdu craftsman Gongshu Ke, who was said to be a descendant of Gongshu Ban and had in-depth research on building bridges, roads and palaces.
In the past two years, Gongshu Ke often stayed in Lao He's laboratory, learned a lot of theory and practice, and made great progress in technology.
Based on Ye Kun's suggestion, Gongshu Ke designed three teaching buildings, five stories high, to save land. The foundations used reinforced concrete, and all the rooms had large windows and large glass, in order to create a shock!
Because there is no five-story building in the current Dading Kingdom.
There are only some towers with five or seven floors.
Ye Kun looked at the drawings sent by Gongshu Ke and found them really amazing, with a reasonable design and a complete sewer system.
The construction of the university started on October 6th, employing tens of thousands of craftsmen and laborers.
Ye Kun also ordered young teachers and young students to take time out to participate in labor practice, enrich their experience, and put their knowledge into practice.
At the university construction site, Gongshu Ke came to see Ye Kun and asked, "Master Ye, I suddenly thought of a question, but I don't know whether I should say it or not..."
"Mr. Gongshu, please feel free to speak."
"Then I'll be frank." Gongshu Ke opened the blueprint and said:
"I'm not worried about the other buildings, the main ones are the three buildings. They are five stories high and fifty or six feet high. In the summer, they may attract lightning or even... a fire."
Ye Kun smiled: "This is what I forgot to say. It's okay. A lightning rod can solve it."
"Lord Ye, can you still avoid the thunder?" Gongshu Ke was shocked!
The King of Hanzhong is so powerful that he can even avoid heavenly thunder. He is like a living god!
Ye Kun smiled and said, "Mr. Gongshu, what do you think the thunder and lightning in the sky are?"
Gongshu Ke thought about it seriously, and finally answered honestly: "I don't know."
Everyone knew that Ye Kun was very talented and learned, so Gongshu Ke didn't dare to show off his skills.
Ye Kun nodded and explained: "Taoism says that everything has yin and yang. The white and black clouds in the sky also have yin and yang. When the yin and yang clouds meet, it is discharge, producing lightning and thunder."
Gongshu Ke seemed to understand: "Then what about the lightning rod that Lord Ye mentioned?"
"It's just a wire, with the upper end passing through the roof, pointing to the sky, and the lower end buried underground. In this way, when lightning strikes the wire, the current will be conducted underground. Because the earth is very large, it will quickly absorb the current, ensuring the safety of the building."
"Is there any verification?" Gongshu Ke still didn't quite believe it.
Ye Kun pointed to the sky and said, "It's winter now, there's no thunder. Remember to come to me next summer and I'll verify it for you."
Gongshu Ke was very satisfied and bowed before leaving.
Ye Kun went to the university's temporary headquarters office again to help everyone revise the textbooks.
Today's textbooks have abandoned bamboo slips and wooden tablets and are all made of paper.
In the past two years, papermaking technology has also developed rapidly, and output has soared, enough to meet the needs of some teaching materials.
Ye Kun knew nothing about papermaking technology, but he invested heavily to encourage craftsmen to do more research and experiments, and at the same time recruited talents from all over the world to offer suggestions.
He even arranged to bribe Jiangdong merchants and steal Jiangdong's papermaking technology.
A large amount of money was invested, allowing workers to make unlimited trial and error, which greatly motivated the workers and enabled technical difficulties to be overcome one by one.
Today's paper mills can produce hundreds of kilograms of writing paper every day.
The straw paper used for wiping was made of bamboo, which had a higher yield. With an output of over a thousand kilograms per day, the officials, gentry, and all the soldiers in Yizhou could use straw paper to wipe their butts freely.
With the development of papermaking industry, printing industry will be put on daily basis.
For simple primary school teaching materials, Ye Kun used woodblock printing.
Woodblock printing is like carving a seal. You use suitable wood to carve a short poem or a short article, and then stamp it repeatedly.
However, for complex university textbooks, woodblock printing was not enough, and movable type printing had to be invented.
Movable type printing is also very simple. Each word is carved out separately and made into keycaps like computer keyboards. Then it is pressed on a large board to form a large carved plate.
Ye Kun has already approved this project and assigned He Tiantian and Pang Jia to be in charge of it, leading skilled craftsmen to speed up research and development.
Pang Jia was good at making mechanisms, and woodblock printing was child's play for him.
In the temporary office, Wen Axiu's Chinese teaching materials group was proofreading the teaching materials.
Seeing Ye Kun, Wen Axiu smiled and said, "My lord, come and take a look at this final draft, okay?"
“Here, I’m the principal.”
Ye Kun smiled and took the final draft to look at it.
This is the final draft of the first semester of university. It is relatively simple and contains some essential theories from various schools of thought, as well as some general principles for governing a country and maintaining peace.
Wen Axiu smiled and said, "In this textbook, there are more articles on Confucianism, Taoism, and the School of Military Science. There are no articles on Mohism, only some Mozi's quotations. I'm afraid your junior sister Gongsun Erniang will be unhappy again. So, I put the Mozi's quotations in the first lesson."
Ye Kun shrugged: "There should be a lot of Mohist articles, but unfortunately they were all lost during the book burning and burying of scholars. Even if Junior Sister is unhappy, I can't do anything about it. I can't just write a few random articles and pretend that they were written by old Mozi, right?"
None of Mozi's articles have been handed down.
Only some fragments of Mozi's remarks were found in the classics.
While they were chatting, Zhuge Feng and Gongsun Erniang came with heavy looks on their faces.
"What's wrong, junior sister?"
Ye Kun thought Gongsun Erniang was here to cause trouble, and he felt a little scared.
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