"In addition to the Royal Army and Navy funds, the royal family will cut unnecessary expenses and spend 100,000 pounds from the royal family's funds to prepare a new independent college in London. The university's courses will focus on new studies, teaching in Chinese and English languages, and establishing disciplines such as medicine, economy, law, humanities, engineering, biology, astronomy, etc.."

When the MPs proposed to Sofia to cancel the establishment of new disciplines at Oxford and Cambridge, Sofia easily agreed to their proposal, while at the same time put forward the idea of ​​establishing Queen's College.

The new college is not in Cambridge or Oxford, but builds school buildings on royal land on the Thames in central London.

"No one here understands new learning. Do you need to hire an oriental lecturer to teach our students?" the councillors asked.

"That's right." Sophia did not hide her intentions.

The MPs looked at each other and finally had nothing to say. It was a good thing for the kingdom to cut their own expenses to build schools.

As early as when the first British envoys arrived in the East, Chu Yun asked a group of Chinese lecturers to go to Britain with the envoys. However, both Charles and other nobles did not see the value of these Chinese lecturers. They just took wages to live in London, occasionally traveled in England, Scotland and other places, recruiting several students who wanted to learn Chinese.

Sofia needed a lot of teachers to establish Queen's College. Before she hired professional lecturers and professors, she had to find the Chinese lecturers who Chu Yun sent here to spread culture and asked them to hire them as teachers in the preparatory class of Queen's College.

Because Queen's College uses bilingual Chinese and English teaching, students who enter school must learn Chinese. Before looking for support from Chu Yun, Sofia needs to call up young people with high qualifications in various places to learn Chinese and prepare for learning advanced technology.

After the Queen formed a cabinet and specially approved the Bank of England, she specially established the Queen's College. A series of actions have caused widespread debate among the people. Even ordinary citizens now know that their Queen is constantly changing the places she looks dissatisfied.

Only after the Civil War did all groups feel confused about the future of the kingdom and the pressure on change was the least, and Sophia just caught up with this opportunity.

Some counts and viscounts loyal to the royal family heard that the queen planned to reduce the royal family's daily expenses and invested 100,000 pounds to build a new university. At this time, they stood up to support the queen and took out some of their property to help the queen achieve this favorable thing. Sophia actually received 50,000 pounds of donations from these nobles.

In addition to the nobles loyal to the royal family, there were also a few London businessmen who wanted to gain the favor of the queen, which also donated money, which led to an astonishing 200,000 pounds in the start-up capital for the establishment of the Queen's College.

£200,000 is a considerable huge sum of money in this era, even if the Navy asked for shipbuilding to catch up with the Netherlands, it was only 1 million pounds.

Sofia asked several English nobles and Chinese to form an examination committee, set up an examination room in London, and screened the candidates through interviews.

The Queen's College not only recruits nobles, but even for ordinary children, as long as they are quick-responsive in the assessment, they also have the opportunity to be recruited for school. For civilians with excellent performance, the Queen's College will also give 10 shillings a monthly living allowance. It is also divided into men's classes and women's classes, allowing women to enroll.

The Queen's College is titled Queen and is not managed by the church, but is managed by the Queen's designated dean as the investor.

This makes the Queen's College unique. Most of the cabinet members developed by royal institutions such as the Privy Council are designated by the Queen. Are the students of the Queen's College the Queen's College the Queen's students?

If you perform well in Queen's College, you may be able to enter the cabinet.

Based on this idea, many nobles and civilians want to send their children in. If they have good luck in the future, they will make a profit.

The first batch of Queen's College recruited 200 students. The youngest was only 15 years old and the older one was only 25 years old. They were divided into 8 men's classes and 2 women's classes, and they studied Chinese in temporary school buildings on royal land.

Queen Sophia came to inspect the construction of the school building and also delivered a speech in front of the students: "Language is a bridge of communication and the fastest way to understand culture. When I was studying in the East, I made a lot of jokes because I didn't understand language and even more so in Eastern culture. I hope you can avoid the jokes I made..."

Speaking of this, she seemed to think of the embarrassing scene of not knowing how to use chopsticks before.

"Before the arrival of more professional lecturers in the East, it is expected that this group of students will be trained for two years, and they will also learn about some of the most basic common sense and Eastern culture." The Chinese lecturer said to the Queen after she gave her speech.

"I'll ask the royal minister to pay your salary on time."

"We admire our admiration for the ability of Her Majesty the Queen to think about the situation of her people. The purpose of the Army Lord sent us here a few years ago was to promote cultural exchanges. We were called up and naturally willing to serve Her Majesty Queen," said several Chinese lecturers.

Sofia chatted with several people and walked out of the temporary school building, and the cabinet minister was already waiting outside.

They were ministers appointed by the Queen, loyal to the royal family, and were even more respectful to Sophia.

"Why are you here?" Sophia knew that the cabinet was looking for her, and there must be some important things.

"The diplomatic envoys from Portugal took a boat to our city of London. They wanted to meet you, Queen." said the Prime Minister of the Cabinet respectfully.

"Portugal? Is it what King Philip IV of Spain meant?" Sophia was a little surprised.

The Spanish king was the common king of Portugal and Spain, just as Sophia was the common king of Scotland and England.

"No... the Spanish fought for years, competed for hegemony with France, and continued to recruit soldiers and taxes in Portugal, which led to the overwhelming burden of the Portuguese. The Portuguese nobles supported the Duke of Braganza to become the new Portuguese king, occupied the palace of Lisbon, executed the Spanish ministers in the local area, and forced the Spanish garrison to surrender. Portugal was afraid that the Spanish king would take revenge, so they came to seek the protection of Her Majesty the Queen." The Prime Minister said.
Chapter completed!