Taixue

After resting in the palace for a few days, Xiang Zhuang brought a large group of civil and military officials to the Taixue located in the south of Ziling City. After the Chu State moved the capital, the Taixue also moved to Ziling. Today, the Chu State's Taixue, under the guidance and influence of Xiang Zhuang, has gradually taken the prototype of a comprehensive university in later generations. (　　　)

In terms of institutions and functions, the Imperial Academy has also been divided into four colleges, namely the Military Academy, the Political Academy, the Luban Academy and the Multi-School Academy.

The function of the Military Academy is to transport middle and senior officers, that is, generals and schools for the army. Of course, for the moment, the students who went out of the Military Academy are still only low-level officers, and they are still far from being promoted to generals and schools. However, in the foreseeable future, the generals in the Chu army will be graduates of the Military Academy without exception.

The only function of the Political Academy is to train qualified local officials for the State of Chu. Since the State of Chu achieved true centralization, it can forcibly promote graduates from the Political Academy to serve as grassroots officials in various places. This has played a great role in promoting the stability and development of the entire State of Chu, especially Jingxiang, which was newly incorporated into the rule of Chu, and Bashu.

Because these students have received strict college education, have a deep understanding of the new law, and are loyal fans and followers of the centralized system.

In the foreseeable future, the officials trained by the Political Academy will become another powerful weapon of the Chu State. The well-equipped and well-trained Chu Army is a sharp sword for expanding territory. Officials with professional background and knowledge will be the cornerstone of Chu State's rule of the world. With this huge team of high-quality officials, Da Chu will never repeat the mistakes of Da Qin.

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It is said that ten years of tree and a hundred years of planting people, education is the foundation of the country. Through the Imperial Academy, if necessary guidance is not provided, the future Great Chu Empire will be extremely powerful in military, politically stable, and industry and commerce will be extremely prosperous, but there will be no great development in literature, philosophy and other fields. (《》)

This situation is obviously not possible. Xiang Zhuang does not want the Chinese people to become a group of barbarians who only know how to expand their territory and fight and kill. If the Chinese civilization continues to be glorious and lasts for thousands of years, all disciplines such as astronomy, geography, literature, art, philosophy and medicine cannot be left behind.

However, today, Xiang Zhuang is going to inspect Luban College among the four major colleges.

Luban Academy is actually a later generation of science colleges, with two functions: one is to conduct invention research, and the other is to cultivate excellent craftsmen. The great man said that science and technology are the primary productive forces, which is an irrefutable truth. As a time traveler, Xiang Zhuang certainly would not underestimate the development of science and technology, especially military technology.

When she walked into the gate of Luban College, Xiangzhuang saw the bus with more than 50 students working.

The school system of the Imperial College is three years, and the national examination is also once every three years. The number of students admitted each time is about 600. In other words, there are only one class of students, and it would be great if Luban College can recruit more than 50 students. If it were the School of the Chinese Academy, there were only a dozen students in each class, and dozens of old masters taught more than a dozen students, which was so painful when they were idle.

The bus was taking the students to splice two large trucks, unload the pack horses, then load the shaft of the rear truck onto the carriage of the front truck, and nailed large iron nails about a foot long on the specially made base under the shaft bracket. Finally, the space between the carriage and the ground was blocked with spare iron-covered wooden boards, and immediately became a wall about a meter high!

After two large trucks were completed, the students moved dozens of large sacks from the carriage and stacked them on the inside of the car wall. They brought two bed crossbows and placed them on the cover of the car. More than a dozen students stood on the sack behind the car wall with their knives, and immediately put on a defensive posture outside the car wall, but it was a simulation drill.

Xiang Zhuang's eyes suddenly lit up. This is a good thing!

Seeing that the bus was just busy with his own work, Xiang said unhappily: "What are you doing if your husband loses?"

When the bus troop heard the sound, he looked back and saw that it was Xiang Zhuang. Xiang and a group of civil and military ministers quickly put down their work and came forward. He couldn't help but say to Xiang Zhuang, "King, how do you see this baggage cart?"

Xiang Zhuang did not answer, but strode to the two big cars, and the students quickly moved away. (")

After turning around the wall of two large trucks, Xiang Zhuang said: "Yes, if the terrain is right, a hundred such logistics vehicles can be arranged into a solid military fortress within half a quarter of an hour. Even on a flat field, such a vehicle array can effectively block the harassment of the cavalry. It's great, it's really good."

"Master, look at the ladders that have been improved by Ji Zhen!"

After receiving the recognition and praise from Xiangzhuang, the bus was very excited. He led more than ten emperors and ministers of Xiangzhuang to the playground not far away. He saw a huge tower-shaped building standing on the playground. The tower-shaped building was about four meters high, two meters wide at the top, four meters wide at the bottom, and more than ten meters deep at the front and back. There were more than a dozen huge wooden wheels arranged on the left and right sides of the bottom.

This giant tower looks like a well railing, but the suspension bridge hanging from the front of the well railing means it is a cloud ladder.

"Ji Zhen, come here." The bus waved to a student and ordered, "Tell me about it."

The student walked up and bowed to Xiang Zhuang somewhat restrainedly, explaining: "The cloud ladder improved by the student is very different from the previous cloud ladder. You see, the structure of this cloud ladder is not different from the well railing. There is also an arrow tower in the neck. However, through the suspension bridge suspended forward under the arrow tower, infantry can directly climb to the top of the city, so this is even more a cloud ladder!"

This is actually the siege tower in the Western world, but in real history, it did not appear until the eighth century. Xiang Zhuang just mentioned the bus. Unexpectedly, the student in front of him was really built, even more terrifying than the siege tower, because an arrow tower was added at the top of this ladder, which could accommodate at least ten archers to shoot down.

"Are you Ji Zhen?" Xiang Zhuang looked at the student in front of him and said, "You also invented the water wheel?"

The student quickly bowed and said in panic: "I dare not deceive the king. The water wheel was created by the student under the guidance of the President Gongshu. I really dare not be greedy for merit."

Xiang Zhuang smiled slightly and said to the bus: "Honey, you have someone to succeed."

The bus did not hide his love for this student and said, "This boy is much smarter than the old minister. In addition to this ladder and water wheel, he also improved the farmers' plows, plows, rakes and other farm tools, which greatly improved the yield of crops such as rice, wheat and cotton in Chu."

"This is a great achievement." Xiang Zhuang turned to Xiang and asked, "Ziyi, how should I reward according to Chu Law?"

Now, the laws, courses, orders, etc. that were issued in more than ten years have been divided into one law, which is the current Chu law. There are special provisions for rewards and punishments in the Chu law. At that moment, he replied: "According to the Chu law, Ji Zhen should give him five titles, rewarding 100 taels of gold, 20 pieces of brocade, and one house with his brother!"

Ji Zhen quickly bowed to the ground and said happily: "Student thanked me for your king!"

Xiang Zhuang stepped forward to help Ji Zhen up and then sent the bus lane: "My husband lost, how has the large crossbow improved?"

As early as several years ago, the Gongshu crossbow had been finalized, but due to the technology, the output was very low. Since then, no matter how hard the bus tried, it was still impossible to improve the process. Two years ago, Xiang Zhuang simply gave up riding small crossbows, allowing the bus crossbow to change its thinking and manufacture large crossbows for infantry.

This time, Xiang Zhuang came mainly for the large crossbow.

The bus slapped his forehead and said, "The old minister almost forgot the matter. Please come here to the king."

At that moment, the bus took Xiang Zhuang and his party to the other end of the playground, and asked more than a dozen students to push out a strange-shaped bed crossbow from a warehouse, saying that it was a bed crossbow because it had a bed frame, and the arrows contained in the arrow box were two fingers thick, but it had a towering large arrow box than ordinary bed crossbows.

Through a aiming mechanism next to the arrow cassette, the bus personally adjusted the shooting angle of the crossbow and aimed at a wooden wall two hundred steps away in front of him. Then the bus waved the wooden hammer and smashed the machine. With a muffled sound of the urn, five big arrows as thick as two fingers burst out from the arrow cassette, and shot towards the wooden wall two hundred steps away like lightning.

It was soon after that, the giant arrow shot through the wooden wall. Two of them deviated from the target and pierced into the ground halfway. Although the other three arrows hit the target, they had a very large distance between them. Obviously, the large crossbow also inherited the shortcomings of the bed crossbow. Although the range was long and the penetration was strong, the hit accuracy was very low.

The bus was a little embarrassed and scratched his head and said, "Well, the accuracy is a little lower, but it can be continuously fired!"

As soon as the bus waved, two or more students pushed the arrow cassette to the front of the crossbow bed. After waiting for the hook to the bow string, more than a dozen other students pulled the iron cable connected to the hinge and pulled it back hard. Amid the crunching sound of the crossbow arms, the large crossbow quickly tightened the string, which was much faster than the speed of strangling the winch by ordinary bed crossbows.

The bus again smashed the wooden hammer, and five giant arrows roared out. This time the situation was slightly better. All five giant arrows hit the wooden wall two hundred steps away. The wooden wall that was more than two inches thick could not stop the penetration of the giant arrows. It was shot through like a piece of paper. Xiang Zhuang estimated that the range of this giant crossbow was at least 500 steps!

This large crossbow is a bit bulky. It is estimated that at least two pack horses are needed to drag and pull during marching. It requires more than a dozen soldiers to operate together during combat. Its accuracy is very low, but its advantage lies in the fast firing rate. The lethality of hundreds of crossbows is still quite terrifying. It can be regarded as a killing weapon to curb cavalry!

Xiang Zhuang asked: "My husband lost, can this large crossbow be made in large quantities?"

"This is OK." The bus lane, "but the cost is very high, because the yew trees that cut the crossbow arms must be an old tree of more than fifty years old, and the requirements for bowstrings are also very high."

Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but smile in his eyes. As long as it can be mass-produced, it would not be a problem to have a higher cost. With this weapon, the Chu army no longer had to worry about the cavalry of the Han Dynasty.


Chapter completed!