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Chapter 511 Of course the early investment is burning money
The wheel of history soon came to Xiaokang for eight years.

Three days after the Lantern Festival, on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, under the strong promotion and escort of the imperial court, the first batch of students enrolled in Nanjing University finally enrolled on schedule.

The number of students enrolled in the first session was relatively small, also considering that the school has just been established and the number of teachers is really not enough.Including Newton, there are a total of more than [-] Western scholars recruited today, and at least half of them are only a few years after graduation from the four famous universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Leiden and Leipzig.

In fact, there were only four or five people who were originally lecturers and professors in the four famous universities.But the only consolation is that Zhu Shuren didn't find a single theologian or jurist. At least [-]% to [-]% of them teach mathematics and mechanics and optics, and some dabble in natural history and chemistry.

In the end, only more than [-]% of them were involved in philosophy, and Daming would not raise people who only understand Western philosophy, and such people are not needed nowadays.So even if you teach philosophy, you must at least have a good command of logic at the same time, so it can complement the educational needs of Daming. After all, the traditional philosophy of various schools of thought in Ming Dynasty despises logic and has certain shortcomings that can be made up for.

There are more than [-] Western scholars who have been newly dug out, plus a dozen researchers who have come here in the early years and left behind from the Descartes era.

There are also 30 to [-] researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who were temporarily invited to play guest roles. These researchers are not teaching at Nanjing University full-time, and some of them are also involved in the R&D work of the Academy of Sciences. Equivalent to up to [-] people full-time.

So all added up, the number of teachers is only 70 to 300, teaching more than [-] students, which is already quite tense.Especially considering that Nanjing University has to enroll students every year, and this year the first batch of [-] students will enter, and it will only increase year by year in the future.If there are three-year students who want to teach there at the same time, the total can exceed one thousand.

Seventy teachers teach one thousand students, and the students have to take many courses, such as mathematics, physics and chemistry, natural history and logic, five major categories of subjects, and there are absolutely not enough teachers.

In the actual course of running the school in the future, we will definitely have to wait for the first batch of students to be promoted to sophomores and juniors, then pick out the best grades and award teaching assistant positions in advance.In this way, students can help lead a group of students in the future and reduce the pressure on teachers.After the earliest talents leave the division, the relevant talent gap can be quickly plugged.

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Due to the lack of manpower, the first half of the eighth year of Xiaokang, Nanjing University's school running was really lacklustre.Many things are running in chaos and stretched.

Gu Yanwu, who was in charge of the Ministry of Etiquette and education, was also a little ashamed, and pleaded guilty to Zhu Shuren several times for the slow adjustment of the university.

But Zhu Shuren said very generously that these are all problems that arise during the development process, and they will certainly be resolved with development.Don't take these temporary difficulties to heart. As long as Daming's scientific and educational talent team can steadily expand, everything else will be minor.

Feeling Zhu Shuren's trust and kindness, Gu Yanwu also strives to handle affairs more fairly, not to interfere with the work of specific scientific and educational personnel, and to let them develop freely.

Most of the students have the inherent Ming Dynasty thinking of respecting teachers and respecting the way, or they dare not question, or they are not used to the new learning in various ways, and the cultural differences have also brought about a lot of internal friction.Temporarily low learning efficiency is also something that can't be helped.It is difficult for any new thing to appear at the beginning.

In the blink of an eye, in midsummer, Nanjing University was also requested by Zhu Shuren to arrange winter and summer vacations, but the difference was only one month, not as generous as later generations.The summer vacation is only from the tenth day of the sixth lunar month to the tenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which is the hottest time.

In fact, because everyone's learning progress can't keep up, many students with poor grades need to make up lessons during summer vacation.And with good grades, they may be pulled by the teacher who is a researcher to do some odd jobs in the Academy of Sciences.

The Academy of Sciences, which delayed a lot of work due to lack of manpower in the first half of the year, only managed to recover some progress during the summer vacation.

Fang Ziling is still in charge of the Daming Academy of Sciences now, so she couldn't help but take advantage of the opportunity of summer vacation to complain to her husband, saying that since the establishment of Nanjing University, it has been more than half a year, and she has not seen any achievements in feeding back to the Academy of Sciences. Project stalled.

Zhu Shuren smiled and comforted his wife: "This is normal. When you first invest, you won't see an immediate return. If it was so immediate, countless profit-seekers would have invested in science and education.

It is because it has to lose money at the beginning and cannot be effective immediately, so the court needs to be far-sighted and overcome all difficulties.Anyway, my Ming Dynasty has no obvious side troubles now, and other research can also take a breather and lay a solid foundation.

I didn't expect that within five years, the scientific research progress of running a university would surpass that of not running a university and just work hard.I have been mentally prepared to make a net loss within five years, and barely stop losses and turn losses within ten years. After 15 or 20 years, it will be pure profit.It takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to grow people. "

Fang Ziling actually knew this truth, so he didn't dwell on it.But she quickly cited a new problem, that is, Newton, the chief professor of the School of Mathematics, has not received very good teaching feedback. Many students have reported that his lectures are not logical, often jumping, and unconstrained.

The students who followed him got worse grades than those taught by other professors.The average math score of the first semester final exam of the Newton class was at the bottom of the school.

After Zhu Shuren heard the words, he couldn't help being taken aback, but he remembered many jokes in history about Newton Einstein and his ilk who were not good at teaching.

It's easy for these geniuses to speak freely. He thinks he has understood it, so he skips a lot of the process, and then jumps directly to the back.Whether Newton was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, or Einstein gave occasional guest lectures when he was at Princeton, it is a keynote.

Zhu Shuren couldn't help asking: "But now there are only a few people who can teach calculus, and you and I have only just learned it. Can other mathematics professors teach better than Newton?"

Fang Ziling: "That's not the case, but the freshmen haven't learned calculus yet. They are still supplementing the basics of algebra and geometry in the first half of this year, and they only learned the derivative in the second half of the year. If they are faster next year, they may learn it in the second half of the year." Calculus it.

Many of our professors are actually learning while teaching.They already understood the basics of algebraic geometry when they were in Europe, and some of them were from the same school as Newton, and they learned derivation under Professor Barrow's class when they were in Europe, so they only need to make up for integrals, and they can teach all mathematics subjects. "

Zhu Shuren nodded: "Then reduce Newton's class hours and let him teach other professors calculus, derivation and basic algebraic geometry instead of teaching ordinary students, that's a waste of talent.

If there is nothing else that can interest him and is worth teaching after teaching calculus, then give him 1000 taels of silver per month, let him do what he likes, and don't need to report regularly. When he thinks that there are achievements to report , will report naturally.

In the future, his class time will be reduced to ten classes per month, and he will not be able to fall in love with him.There will be a routine professor exchange meeting once a week, and the rest of the time is completely free to arrange. "

Fang Ziling was a little surprised when she heard the words. She knew that her husband valued Professor Niu very much, but she still didn't expect to reach this level.

Calculated in this way, Newton will only be busy with teaching work for one and a half days a week at most, and the remaining four and a half days are at his own disposal—now Nanjing University works six days a week, mainly for the teaching posts that allow Europa to come. Personnel rest on Sundays to deal with private spiritual life.But it's not good and unfair, so the scholars and students of Ming Dynasty also have one day off every seven days.

Zhu Shuren’s arrangement was quickly carried out. Taking Newton as an opportunity, other talented scholars who were not good at teaching were more or less exempted based on their academic performance, and the atmosphere at Nanjing University became more relaxed for a while.

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After being adjusted according to the new teaching management plan, the science and education work of Nanjing University continued smoothly in the second semester.Because it is still in the stage of investment loss, there are no achievements worth repeating.

Other aspects of Ming's internal affairs were nothing more than continuing to implement the reform of abolishing Ding and dividing nationality in the northern provinces on the one hand, and on the other hand continuing to reclaim wasteland and open up borders, and reform land in the southwest.

Nothing major happened during the process, it was all physical labor.

Time came to the early winter of the eighth year of Xiaokang, and the imperial court finally had a side problem worth a big book that needed to be dealt with, and that was the Luzon issue that had been procrastinated for more than a year.

In the first half of last year, when Ming Dynasty finally settled Vietnam, Zheng Zuo of Vietnam frantically let out rumors in Guangdong and Guangxi, trying to divert hatred and conflicts, and drag the Spanish colonists into trouble.Now that the matter has been clarified, the battle must be fought.

There was no action immediately before. On the one hand, Zheng Chenggong's navy had just fought two sea battles in the Vietnam War last year, and it was more or less damaged.

After all, the main fleet of Ming Dynasty at that time, although under the idea of ​​"key armor protection" suggested by Zhu Shuren, relied on the built-in steel plate armor cabin to protect the command cabin and ammunition cabin, ensuring that the capital ship could not be sunk no matter how it was bombarded.

However, this kind of key armor protection idea cannot prevent the damage of the superstructure during shelling.At that time, Zheng Chenggong was almost at a one-to-five to one-to-six strength disadvantage, relying on the final decision of the big ship and giant guns to win.After the battle, too many superstructures were destroyed, the gun deck facilities on each floor were also damaged, and there were still a large number of wounded soldiers.

These wounded soldiers and veterans who have participated in the bloody naval battle are rare and precious treasures, so they have also received Zhu Shuren's personal care, so that they can recuperate.

Because Ming really lacked soldiers with rich experience in modern naval warfare and artillery warfare. After many years of land warfare and annihilation of the country, at least they could train hundreds of thousands of troops.But the battle between the gunboats, except for the battle of destroying the country of the Le Dynasty in Vietnam, was not possible at all. After all, Ming's previous opponents did not have a large-scale Western purchase fleet at all.

Therefore, all the wounded soldiers were finally transported back to Fuzhou for treatment after their injuries stabilized a little.The Affiliated Hospital of the Daming Academy of Sciences in Nanjing also set up a branch in other provinces for the first time, and it was set up in Fuzhou, using all the achievements in trauma medical technology progress over the years.

In the same period, the British used 3% dilute sulfuric acid to sterilize the scalpel, 2% dilute sulfuric acid to sterilize the wrapped gauze and then neutralize it with soda water, and other hygienic measures, all of which were in the "Daming Second Military Hospital" in Fuzhou got applied.

Today, after more than a year of rest, the wounded soldiers have all recovered and recuperated to their best condition.The damaged battleships were all repaired, and all the bombed and worn cannons were replaced with new ones.As winter entered again, the problems of tropical diseases and intense heat eased temporarily, and Zheng Chenggong's fangs were completely exposed.

For this reason, Zhu Shuren personally moved forward by more than a month. He went south from Nanjing in early September, inspected the coast of Zhejiang and northern Fujian, and finally arrived in Fuzhou in early October to inspect the army, boost the morale of the soldiers, and accept Zheng Chenggong's oath.

Then the fleet pulled anchor and set sail. Zheng Chenggong personally led Chen Jinnan, Liu Guoxuan and other generals, leading [-] warships, [-] troop carriers, and several supply ships.

The entire fleet has a total of 3 sailors and sailors, 3 landing soldiers, a total of more than [-], and launched an expedition to Luzon.

The fleet set sail from Fuzhou on the eighth day of October. After eight days of sailing, on the [-]th they took a rest at Chikan Port in the south of Dayuan Island to resupply the fresh water and fresh fruits, vegetables and meat consumed on the way.

Then he went south again. After 1 days of sailing, he first arrived at Lingayen Bay, where the Spanish army was not on guard. Zheng Chenggong sent Liu Guoxuan to lead [-] troops to land here, set up a bridgehead, and sent a number of light and small warships to provide coastal waters. Patrol escort.

Zheng Chenggong himself led the main force of more than [-] people to continue south along the coast and head straight for Manila Bay.

Lingayen City is located about 240 miles due north on the north shore of Manila Bay, three hundred miles away from Manila City. There is also a bay in the north of Lingayen City, which can be landed, but it is not a deep-water anchorage, and it is not suitable for the largest warships to dock.

Historically, whenever the rulers of the Philippines lacked a ruling foundation and could be destroyed with one blow, the offensive troops often chose to land directly in Manila Bay.
But if the ruler has a certain degree of control, it may be a protracted battle. To be on the safe side, it would be safer to open up a beachhead in Lingayen first.Anyway, after landing and occupying an enclosure of more than 200 miles, it is not too far and too troublesome. These places are supposed to be controlled.

Therefore, during the Seven Years War in history, in order to attack Spain, Britain chose to send a fleet to land directly in Manila and beat up the Spanish fleet.But in the end the war ended and the treaty was signed, Spain softened, and Britain still had to return Manila to Spain.However, when the United States and Japan competed for the Philippines during World War II, the plan was for long-term rule, and they fought steadily from Lingayen Bay.

What Zhu Shuren wants now is long-term peace and stability, instead of beating up and leaving like the British, he persuaded Zheng Chenggong to be cautious when planning before the war.Zheng Chenggong trusted Zhu Shuren unconditionally. The regent said that it would be more stable to fight this way, so he made detailed plans strictly around this plan.

The Spaniards did not expect that Zheng Chenggong would divide his troops to build a bridgehead first, so the Ming army successfully landed and gained a foothold, and welcomed many Han Chinese who had been mutilated and fled to the mountains and countryside on Luzon Island.

Han farm owners took out military rations to supply the imperial army one after another, and welcomed the king's army with pots of rice.After all, the Spaniards had provoked the natives to slaughter the Han people before, killing them three times in decades, each time at least [-] to [-] people. How could they not want Daming to help them avenge this kind of bloody feud.

In particular, about two-thirds of the Han Chinese in Luzon are Fujianese who went to Nanyang, and another third were Chaoshan people who went to Nanyang.And Zheng Chenggong, who attacked this time, is also from Fujian. He belongs to the same village as these people, so it is more suitable to unite the local people.

Of course, there is one thing to say, the ease of wooing is limited to the Han Chinese who only account for a small half of the local population, and the South Island aborigines, Kunlun slaves, and savages who account for more than [-]% to [-]% of the population will definitely not welcome the Ming army.

Under the instigation of the Spanish colonists, they had a vendetta against the Han people, and the Spaniards were also very good at using one indigenous nation against another, and the conflict between the two sides has long been difficult to resolve.

After Zheng Chenggong learned about the local situation, he didn't expect the natives to win him over.

Anyway, if you can’t win over, it’s enough to win over the Han Chinese who account for [-] to [-] percent, and it’s enough for other hostile indigenous groups to use swords, guns and cannons to reason.

(End of this chapter)