There was another silence in the cabinet, and everyone knew that what Meng Chuanding said was correct.

The Royal Academy is a freak in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen had previously said that he would throw the Royal Academy to the cabinet, but the previous cabinet bosses did not want it...

Now that I want it, Emperor Chongzhen doesn’t want to give the Royal Academy and the Shaofu, and bring in countless gold and silver to the treasury every year. So what if you spend money like water?

The money spent is the stream, and the Yellow River is earned back. Which one is more important? There is only one opportunity. Now that the cabinet wants to get the Royal Academy, Emperor Chongzhen is not willing to do so.

This creates a strange phenomenon.

Theoretically, the Royal College, which should be under the jurisdiction of the cabinet, cannot be involved in the cabinet at all. It is involved in the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Works. Except for the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Personnel, almost all the remaining six departments have business transactions, but they are not managed by any department.

Since the Royal Academy was completed, it has been constantly expanding, especially the perverted Agriculture College. All the governors and the Assam governors' departments in the Ming Dynasty have some branches. Even the Jiaozhi Buds' departments and the Assam governors' departments that have just been brought back have their branches.

Of course, their so-called branch is more like a research base, with various seeds planted in different places, saying that the branch is actually not large enough.

Also, after the expansion of this behemoth, its area has been countless times larger than that of the early Xiaohuangzhuang. The people around have moved again and again, but still cannot meet the land occupation needs of the Royal Academy.

Now Meng Chuanding has made his idea to split the Royal Academy, which is undoubtedly correct in theory.

Because Royal Academy is too big and has too comprehensive classification!

Not only the Ming Dynasty, but also the Royal Academy is the best in the world. No matter what subject it is, the Royal Academy can firmly sit in the first place.

But this is not a good thing.

At the very least, all scientific research forces in the entire Ming Dynasty were concentrated on the Royal Academy, and other regions would create an illusion of being extremely backward. It would be better to split the Royal Academy and let each region have its own top-notch aspects and facilitate the circulation of talents.

But when this idea was fed back to Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen was spitting out venom like a poisonous snake, and the target was Zhang Zhiji in front of him.

"You are stupid, are you stupid, right? Well? Who told you that armor cannot resist the bullets of muskets? What armor cannot resist is my Ming Dynasty bullets. Is the bullets of the barbarians called bullets?

You have tried those Spanish and Dutch barbarians' muskets, and they can't wear armor at all. They just want to stop wearing armor because my Ming Dynasty muskets can penetrate armor. I just want to stop wearing it? I tell you, dream!"

After being slandered by Emperor Chongzhen, Zhang Zhiji couldn't help but whisper: "Don't the European barbarians also have my Ming Dynasty musket?"

Emperor Chongzhen's face tightened and snorted coldly: "Tell me again? What can European barbarians do if they have muskets? Without bullets, how can that thing be better than a fire stick? As for bullets, do you think they can make it?"

Emperor Chongzhen was so angry that he wanted to cry out that he was so stupid that he was so stupid that he was so stupid.

With the emergence of Chongzhen's 19-type single-shot rifle and rear-loaded bullets, a large number of soldiers from the Governor's Office of the Five Army agreed after verification that the equipment of armor should be cancelled.

This statement cannot be considered wrong, but the key to the problem is to see who the opponent is. If the opponent's equipment is the same as that of the Ming Dynasty, the damage you will suffer when wearing armor may be greater than if you don't wear armor.

But looking at the whole world, is there any military equipment of the same level as the Ming Dynasty? When shooting at a long distance, the armor is useless. Once it enters the attack range of bows, arrows, swords and guns? Do you still have to play kite tactics?

Cold weapons and the original firearms used by the barbarians are difficult to cause damage to the armor equipped by the Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers' safety is only one layer. Now I want to cancel the armor? When will the barbarians' muskets develop similar to those of the Ming Dynasty, there will be a few decades left!

Zhang Zhiji also had to admit that what Emperor Chongzhen said was reasonable.

Now, not only the Jinyiwei has scattered a large number of spies on the European continent, but the Governor's Office of the Five Army has also sent a large number of spies there. The focus is on their military trends and military equipment.

Judging from the current situation, the gap between the military equipment between the two sides is about twenty years or so, unless the Ming Dynasty exports a large number of steam engines to Europe now, it is possible to change this situation, otherwise there is basically no hope.

Moreover, because the Ming Dynasty provided a large amount of military equipment and instructors to the Holy Roman Empire, the entire Europe is now shrouded in the shadow of the Holy Roman Empire, and almost everyone is trying to find ways to get more advanced muskets and cannons from the Ming Dynasty.

As for the development of this kind of thing by himself, even if various countries have the will, they will not have the time to be cowardly for more than 20 years. This time, Ferdinand III did not intend to endure it anymore, so he chose to go back and confronted the barbarians with the desire to live and die.

In this case, European barbarians can only choose to find a way to buy arms that are stronger or less weak than the Holy Roman Empire, and then find a way to improve the arms level of their own country after they fight back.

The Ming Dynasty could not give them this time.

When the Holy Roman Empire and the barbarians both suffered losses and could not support them, the Ming Dynasty would probably intervene directly, and wait until they improve their technological level?

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Zhang Zhiji who was being squirted and laughed in his heart.

It is not scary for Emperor Chongzhen to criticize others. What is scary is that if he doesn’t criticize others, it is very likely that he will be stabbing people with a knife.

In fact, everyone knows the reason why Zhang Zhiji is being criticized now. This is nothing big, it will be fine if it has been over this period of time.

After waving his hand and ordering Zhang Zhiji to get out quickly, Emperor Chongzhen asked about Lu Xiangsheng's intention, and then rejected the idea of ​​Lu Xiangsheng's just proposed to split the Royal Academy.

There are many things like splitting the colleges in later generations. For example, Nanjing Central National University was the highest institution of learning in China during the Republic of China and the largest university in the Republic of China with the most complete and large-scale secondary departments. It was later renamed Nanjing University.

It can be said that the first university in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China was not that Emperor Chongzhen was struggling with which Tsinghua and Peking University should go to when he was in elementary school, but Nanjing University. It was not until it was split in the adjustment of the department that Nanjing University was suppressed by Tsinghua and Peking University.

During the department adjustment implemented by Nanjing University in the Celestial Dynasty, it merged with relevant departments of Jinling University, Jiaotong University and other schools, becoming Nanjing University, Southeast University, Hohai University, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Normal University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Nanjing Forestry University, and the Fifth Military Medical University. Later, it was adjusted one after another from Jiangnan University, Nanjing University of Technology, Jiangsu University, etc.

The adjusted Nanjing University is no longer in its glory. Many universities that have been artificially strengthened have bright and beautiful surfaces, but in fact they have formed a monopoly on academic terms and cannot cause many disgusting and bullshit things.

The Qiu-Bei dispute is a typical case.

Fields Medal winner Yau Chengtong directly criticized his previous student, the well-known professor of mit, in two speeches, and this was the case that Emperor Chongzhen at that time ate a big melon.

What is the specific inside story? Emperor Chongzhen, who has limited technical skills, was unable to dig out more inside information and information, but this matter has always been kept in mind.

Now these guys from the Ming Dynasty are planning to split the Royal Academy. Is it really a good cycle of reincarnation?

What a big truth! I am the truth of heaven!

If you don’t allow splitting, you don’t allow splitting. The construction of other universities will be slower. At worst, you can wait for the students of Beijing University to go to the Royal College to study for one or two years after graduation, and then be assigned to several universities.

Now that the Royal College is split, relying on the split branch to support each university, it can indeed strengthen some undergraduate subjects, but the combined university can produce some chemical reactions and may result in an academic explosion.

If the separation and academic phenomenon in later generations are too far away, then the Ming Dynasty itself also has this problem.

For example, the Donglin Party and various Confucianism peaks are actually thinking about how to monopolize the academic voice and then make benefits through this monopoly.

Another reason is that the land area of ​​the Ming Dynasty was too large, and it was certain that the possibility of a large population explosion in the future was a foregone conclusion.

As I continue to draw back new territory, and with the continuous improvement of the Royal College Agricultural College and the Beijing University Agricultural College have made continuous improvements in crops and animal husbandry, the land in the Ming Dynasty can feed more people.

At the same time, the medical skills in the two medical colleges will be further developed, and the survival rate of newborns will be greatly improved in the future, and the mortality rate of young, middle-aged and elderly people will also be further reduced.

If the two reasons are combined together, a population explosion will eventually occur, causing the current 300 million population to go directly to the 400 million or even 500 million mark.

Once the population increases, greater educational needs will be generated.

To put it bluntly, the current universities in the Ming Dynasty cannot even be considered a nonsense in the face of huge future demands. What they need at that time will be more social schools, county schools, government schools, and universities.

It corresponds to the later education system, namely elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university.

There is nothing to say about social science. Now the Ming Dynasty has the most lacking social science, and the same is true for county schools and prefecture schools. What really restricted the development of Ming Dynasty in science and technology was the university.

The current positioning of Royal is not only similar to the black technology research base of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but also a cradle, a cradle for cultivating lecturers from other universities, rather than rushing to split it up, and relying on various branches to create several academic-style universities.

After the Ming Dynasty, it will appear in some universities with particularly high-end majors, but the most suitable one is to build several other universities first and then select suitable talents from the graduates of Beijing University to build them.

Finally, it spreads step by step to form more universities, and finally achieves that every administrative department has a comprehensive university.

As for whether a certain university is outstanding or not in a certain field, it has nothing to do with the current Emperor Chongzhen. It is estimated that by that day, Emperor Chongzhen will be completely disgusted.

After habitually buckled his fingers and knocked on the table for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly said, "Then several universities in Nanjing, Chang'an and Luoyang will start to build at the same time. After the construction is completed, people will be drawn from the graduates of the Beijing University to teach.

As for the split of the Royal Academy, Lu Aiqing will reject it and will not discuss it anymore."

Lu Xiangsheng bowed and said, "Your Majesty, it is obvious to retain the advantages of the Royal Academy. Even if the other universities are delayed for a few more years, it doesn't matter.

But the biggest problem at the moment is that after the continuous expansion of the Royal Academy, the area of ​​the land in southern Jing is almost unable to accommodate the giant Royal Academy.

If it continues, where will you find a place for the Royal Academy in ten or twenty years? At that time, just guarding the Royal Academy in Jingying will be inadequate, right?"

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "About this matter, I will go back to discuss with Song Aiqing to see if some experimental and over-occupation projects will be moved outward.

But the matter of splitting the Royal Academy is not even thought about, and we cannot split the Royal Academy for a few universities. That is simply killing the chicken to get eggs!"

Emperor Chongzhen had already said this, and Lu Xiangsheng knew that there was no way to persuade him anymore, and there was no possibility of splitting the Royal Academy.

Since that's the case, let's build first. First build universities in Nanjing, Luoyang and Chang'an. After the completion of the university in two or three years or even three or five years, the students who graduated from Beijing University can be assigned to be lecturers.

Emperor Chongzhen continued: "There are also universities, so don't worry about the area they cover too much. Anyway, some places in the Ming Dynasty can build universities, and there is no shortage of a few acres of land. However, the standards of universities must be built higher and must not be built lower."

Even if others don’t know how great the role of a university is, Emperor Chongzhen is very clear about it. No matter when it is, the most expensive one is always talented. Whether it is high-end talents or a large number of mid- and low-end talents, they are talented.

Moreover, it is both cheap and efficient to use student dogs as scientific research coolies. After a large number of student dogs are cultivated, those who are not qualified to enter the Royal Academy will eventually flow into society. Who knows if there will be a few big bulls in it?
Chapter completed!