I'm really not doing business

Chapter 776: Talent Allocation at the Royal Institute of Technology

There were gaps in the Ming Dynasty's laws, so the Ming Dynasty directly copied the Tang Dynasty's Law Commentaries and filled the gaps in just one month. This was not stealing but the legacy of ancestors. The Ming Dynasty itself claimed that it inherited the Tang system.

The Ministry of Rites believed that this kind of copying behavior was: all dynasties adopted the criminal codes of previous dynasties that were suitable for the present, in order to make up for the omissions, and took the text of the "Law Commentary" to explain it, and made it a common law, which was righteousness.

As for scholars, is copying just copying? It is inheriting the wisdom of our ancestors.

In fact, it was not only the Ming Dynasty that copied the Tang Code. When Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin revised the "Song Criminal Code", he also almost copied the Tang Code. The Liao Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, Japan, Korea, and Annan all copied it. Even though they had ready-made laws in front of them, they insisted on revising their own laws. As a result, they made them look neither fish nor fowl and became a laughing stock.

For example, the Yuan Dynasty's law "Yuan Dianzhang" was based mainly on customary law, which made it impossible for most people to accept this strange law. Yuan Dianzhang was not well accepted in the Central Plains, and most people were not particularly convinced. In judicial practice, everyone still used the old law, which resulted in the Yuan Dynasty only lasting a hundred years and ending hastily.

The legislative principle of "Tang Law Commentary" is: morality and etiquette are the basis of politics and education, and punishment is the purpose of politics and education.

That is: morality is the foundation and fundamental standard of law, and law is an effective means to spread morality and ensure its implementation.

Laws are legal provisions, and comments are judicial interpretations.

This is why in the Tang Dynasty laws, there are specific provisions for using animals to eat people and for false accusations. Morally, the people are the foundation of the country, so when the laws are formulated, things like leading animals to eat people will not be allowed to happen.

The Chinese Greyhound is a meat-eater. It is a fierce dog that is extremely ferocious. It is extremely unfriendly to strangers and has a strong desire to attack. Those who can afford to raise a Chinese Greyhound are all powerful people and meat eaters.

The main target of livestock attacks is this type of professional hunting dogs. Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been special leather muzzles to prevent the small dogs from biting people. Apparently, when Xining Hou Song Shien took the two small dogs out, they were neither tied up nor muzzled. If he had done any of the above, he would not have let the dogs hurt people, nor would he have to seek dignity for himself.

Even if it is very difficult to enforce when livestock is used against people, the law still needs to make clear provisions.

The word "virtue" is actually very simple, it means universal consensus.

When there is a conflict between general consensus and the law, people will generally feel uncomfortable and will question and distrust the law;

If the laws cannot be amended in a timely manner, or if the general consensus is not followed during the revision of the laws, then people's doubts and distrust will intensify, and eventually the trust between the people and the court will be broken.

When everyone is cheering for the lawbreakers, is the law itself still legitimate?
The final result is that the country loses its credibility and people begin to doubt.

History has demonstrated time and again the consequences of a country losing its credibility, but it seems that later generations always ignore the lessons of history, close their eyes, cover their ears, shake their bodies, and pretend that they are still moving forward.

This is not surprising, as a poem says:
When the high pavilion is hanging clothes and adjusting the tripod, it is a pity that the world has complaints;

The water that overturned the boat is the tears of mankind; you would not know until it flows horizontally.

What is more interesting is that the Ming Dynasty did not follow the Tang Code. For example, the Tang Code stipulated that if barbarians of the same kind offended each other, they would be punished according to their own customs; if different kinds offended each other, they would be punished according to the law. That is to say, if barbarians harmed each other, they would be punished according to their own customs; if different kinds harmed each other, they would be punished according to the law.

However, the Ming Dynasty Code stipulates that any foreigner who commits a crime shall be sentenced according to the law; this means that any foreign barbarian who operates in China shall be judged according to Chinese law, rather than according to the customs and laws of their own country.

In this regard, the laws of the Ming Dynasty were more overbearing, and the Ming Dynasty showed less respect for the barbarians. This was because judging according to the customs and laws of the barbarians could easily create de facto judicial privileges for the barbarians. So the Ming Dynasty simply adopted a one-size-fits-all approach, requiring anyone operating in the Ming Dynasty to follow the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Juzheng's memorial to the emperor advocated stopping the implementation of the Single Whip Law across the country, which was also based on the general consensus that the people are the foundation of the country, that a solid foundation will ensure national stability, and that the country cannot be led to eat beasts.

Without completing the transformation to a commodity economy, the emperor, for the sake of his own treasury and the national treasury of the court, forcefully implemented the monetary tax content of the Single Whip System. The emperor, together with the ministers in the court and the local officials, was cannibalizing others, and was escorting the powerful, wealthy, and local gentry in their cannibalism.

In the Central Plains, an emperor who leads beasts to eat people will have to pay a price, and the price is his country.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng was virtuous and postponed the implementation of the Single Whip Law, which also reduced the resentment of Ming officials about the new regulations in the Performance Evaluation System.

During the period when the Ming Dynasty was tinkering with its laws to fill the gap between livestock and people, Yao Guangqi, the magistrate of Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, submitted a memorial with a lot of content, one of which was that he doubted whether gold could be made from salt.

Exchanging salt for gold may sound a bit weird.

"What are you talking about! Can you make money from salt? The private salt dealers Huang Chao and Zhang Shicheng, which one of them didn't dominate a region? Of course you can make money, and you can make gold." Zhu Yijun pointed at Yao Guangqi's memorial and said with certainty: "Even if Yao Guangqi regards salt as coarse salt and cannot sell it, it is refined salt in the West!"

"Why did Legazpi return to Ming from Madrid? He couldn't survive in Taixi after staying in Ming for too long."

“Of course salt makes money!”

Since 1600, with the approval of Queen Elizabeth I of England, the British East India Company had an indefinite royal charter and began to explore colonization in India. The entire colonial expedition lasted for 117 years. In 1717, the British East India Company defeated the Mughal Emperor and obtained the power of tax exemption.

At this point, England officially began colonizing India.

From the British East India Company until 1930, for a period of 213 years, India completely implemented a salt monopoly, strongly prohibiting Indians from mining and freely trading salt. The colonial governors used salt to control India's finances and people.

You can make money by selling salt. If you have high morals, you will earn less; if you have low morals, you will earn more; if you have no morals, you can earn even more.

Gandhi, who started the non-violent non-cooperation movement, launched the Salt March against the salt monopoly in 1930. He would rather dry up the sea water than buy salt from the Liverpool Company. After the non-violent non-cooperation movement lasted for 17 years, India finally gained independence.

The British, this troublemaker, dealt a heavy blow to India before leaving. The partition of India and Pakistan was a deadly nail planted in India's heart.

Salt, both in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, is closely related to wealth, war, and power.

Yao Guangqi's doubts were normal, because in his opinion, the technology of the graded salt pond board drying method was simple, the salt quality was good and the output was high. If it was promoted from the Haifeng San Salt Field to the whole Shandong Province, and then from Shandong to the coastal areas of Daming, within a few years, the salt output would completely meet the needs of Daming.

In his opinion, this simple technology will inevitably spread abroad, and by then all the Thai and Western colonies will produce salt in this way, and salt production will rise to a state of absolute overcapacity.

By then, salt, as a common commodity, no longer had the conditions for monopoly. With such a large-scale output, how could salt be sold at a high price? Where could the responsibility of collecting and storing gold be undertaken?
Yao Guangqi fell into the typical Ming Dynasty thinking, that if the Ming Dynasty can do it, the barbarians can do it too. Many things have repeatedly proved that what the Ming Dynasty can do easily, the barbarians really cannot do.

In the eyes of the literati, the technology of drying salt is relatively simple. Isn't it just three pools, a shack, a pile of boards, and a group of obedient salt workers? But it is really difficult to realize. The three pools do not need cement pouring, so they have to be rebuilt every time it rains, and cleaning the silt in the sedimentation tank every day is also a big deal.

As for a group of obedient salt and stove farmers, that would be even more of a luxury.

In Tongzhen, Luzon, the Ming Dynasty would rather use more expensive Ming people than recruit local barbarians on a large scale, because these barbarians were really lazy and didn't want to work.

Western colonists had no interest in building colonies. They didn't care whether the natives could eat salt. They only cared about whether they could collect taxes.

Even after a long time, there will only be the Ming Dynasty that can mass-produce fine salt.

During the Age of Discovery, bulk commodities such as silver, spices, cotton, salt, and saltpeter were the economic pillars of the British Empire. Whoever controlled these bulk commodities was the British Empire.

The Ming Dynasty can really enjoy the benefits of salt for a very long time.

If there were really places that wanted to compete with the Ming Dynasty in industry, the Ming Dynasty would have had so many ships and so many cannons. The naval guns were of such a large caliber and loaded with so much gunpowder that they would have come in handy. The technology of three pools, sheds, and drying boards was exclusive to the Ming Dynasty. Without the franchise license of the Ming Emperor, how could they dare to build a salt field?

This is no longer an ordinary traitor. We must strike hard and defeat him! Just continue to maintain hegemony.

This was the answer given by Zhu Yijun. He wanted to make this money. If anyone didn't let him make it, he would use cannons to send the opponent into the sky.

Zhu Yijun made it very clear to the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty's capital camp and the navy that they could receive twenty silver coins in food and wages a year, and that was all provided by the Ming Dynasty court.

Yao Guangqi's memorial mainly discussed the current new policy line of the Ming Dynasty, which was a reform movement based on changing production relations. The abolition of slavery and the redistribution of means of production were the main means of changing production relations.

Zhejiang was returning the land, Songjiang Prefecture was also returning the land, and Yao Guangqi had already completed the return of land in Shanghai County. The public land within the city and its surrounding areas of Shanghai County was returned through various means, including forced rent reductions, cash redemption, ship permit exchange and other relatively friendly methods. Of course, in this process, there were also unfriendly methods such as tax inspections, property confiscations, exiles, etc.

In Shanghai County, landlords who owned more than 50 hectares of arable land have nominally disappeared.

The standard for the land return order implemented in Zhejiang was 100 hectares, while Songjiang Prefecture was more radical from the beginning and used 50 hectares as the standard.

Now Yao Guangqi wants to lower the standard of Shanghai County's land return order to 20 hectares. The ultimate goal is to further reduce it to one hectare within ten years, which means that ten acres of land is the upper limit for a family to own.

"Isn't his approach a bit too radical?" Zhu Yijun felt that Yao Guangqi's standard was a bit hasty. There were only 130 million people in the Ming Dynasty, and a household, not each person, could only have ten acres of land, which was absolutely impossible to support a family.

Feng Bao said very solemnly: "Your Majesty, Songjiang Prefecture is different from other places. The shipping capacity of the Yangtze River is almost eight times that of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal."

Before the Ming Dynasty's grain transport by sea, the Grand Canal's annual transport capacity was only 108 million jin (about million tons). After the grain transport by sea, the transport capacity was finally released completely. After all, the grain transport ships took four months, which was a waste of time.

The sea transportation of grain released the transportation capacity of the Grand Canal. Over a decade, the transportation capacity of the Grand Canal began to grow rapidly.

In the year-end audit of the 14th year of Wanli, the transportation capacity of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was increased to 600 million jin, basically realizing the strategy of transporting coal from the north to the south, goods from the south to the north, and silver from the south to the north. The convection of coal and silver has completed a virtuous cycle.

The Ming Dynasty's broken financial and taxation system meant that most of the taxes collected at the customs along the way remained in the local areas. In order to spend these taxes, various reasonable names were used to spend money on widening, dredging and repairing the canal, which became the best place for local government offices along the way to spend their money. In this way, they could report to their superiors and subordinates.

Various local government offices have steadily increased the transportation capacity of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal through the widening and maintenance of the waterway.

For the local government offices along the way, the stability and smoothness of the river means taxes, and taxes mean power. The government offices focused on cracking down on various gangs along the canal, and public security became stable. An extremely dazzling economic belt gradually formed along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

In the 14th year of the Wanli reign, the transport capacity of the entire Yangtze River basin was eight times that of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, reaching 4.8 billion jin. This was even though the local currency offices concealed the information and opened the door for their own connections to pass through, and there was a lot of concealment.

Of these 4.8 billion jin of goods, nearly half flowed to Songjiang Prefecture. If Beiya was the brain of the Ming Dynasty and the Grand Canal was the aorta, then the Yangtze River Basin headed by Songjiang Prefecture was the heart of the Ming Dynasty's economy.

Feng Bao took out his thick memo, flipped through it for a long time, and then said, "County Magistrate Yao is really not radical. Some time ago, students from Songjiang Maritime School went on a picnic in Lucheng, Kunshan County. I don't know who started it, but they talked about the corruption of the court, the incompetence of the ministers, and the local officials who only knew how to fight for their own positions without caring about the lives of the people." "A group of students started to go to the countryside."

"What are they going to do? Let me take a look." Zhu Yijun was full of doubts and reached out to take Feng Bao's memorandum.

Feng Bao said helplessly: "These students want to take the people with them to fight for land!"

"Ah? You are really brave." Zhu Yijun blinked and looked at it for a long time before he understood the whole picture of the matter from the memo.

Yao Guangqi, the magistrate of Shanghai, Xu Bingzheng, the magistrate of Qingpu, and Shen Shixing, the governor of Songjiang, were really very conservative. The order for returning farmland to Songjiang Prefecture required more than 50 hectares. However, the students of the Maritime Academy were extremely radical and believed that these officials were just sitting there doing nothing. So the students chose to lead the common people in reclaiming their land!

Fortunately, the governor of Taicang Prefecture in Suzhou Prefecture reacted promptly and sent these people back to the Maritime Academy before they caused any major disaster, thus avoiding huge turmoil. The Songjiang Shanghai Maritime Academy immediately suspended the annual Kunshan Lucheng Lotus Festival.

This was originally going to be an exchange meeting between students from the Maritime School and students from Suzhou, but it was directly cancelled.

At the beginning, both Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture reported the matter, and both were rather vague in their responses, roughly meaning that the students were young and frivolous and too reckless, and that they did not blame them excessively.

However, these students show very obvious tendencies towards the young and vigorous group. Young people who are young, strong, energetic, and still firmly believe in a beautiful order and a harmonious world are the young and vigorous group. Another characteristic of the young and vigorous group is a kind of impatience that they feel time is running out.

The Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun was a member of the young and vigorous faction.

"I am actually mainly worried about doubling the enforcement." Zhu Yijun did not hide it. All land over 20 hectares needed to be returned, and finally to one hectare. It looked like doubling the enforcement. On the surface, they were loyal to the emperor and the country, but secretly they were doubling the enforcement, exacerbating conflicts and confrontations to achieve the purpose of opposing the government order.

Yao Guangqi was a handsome and elegant young man, but the scary scar on his face was left by his desperate battle with pirates for the kelp of the people. It was indeed an impulse, and he had regretted it before, but if it happened again, he would probably do the same thing again.

At that time, Yao Guangqi was just a farmer who was growing kelp in the sea. If anyone stole his food, he would naturally fight to the death with the opponent.

Your Majesty's vigilance against Yao Guangqi is somewhat inhumane.

Feng Bao reflected on himself and thought that he might have been too harsh on the civil officials, which made the emperor so vigilant. After reflection, Feng Bao decided to make further efforts.

On February 2, the fifteenth year of the Wanli reign, the dragon raised its head and spring thunder rumbled. Under the gusts of north wind, a drizzle fell in the capital. The spring haze was swept away from the entire capital, and the air became fresher. Nearly four million people lived near the capital, and the coal smoke from winter heating would shroud the entire capital of the Ming Dynasty in a choking turbidity.

After the court meeting, Zhu Yijun did not disband the cabinet ministers, but took the ministers to Beitucheng. The third phase of the Ming Royal Institute of Technology had been completed, and the Ming Emperor was going to attend the unveiling ceremony. On the way to Beitucheng, Zhu Yijun took a small train, which was not very fast. Zhao Mengyou led three iron horses in front to clear the way and eliminate hidden dangers.

Dozens of small trains, with whistles blaring, passed through Deshengmen one after another. Zhu Yijun got off at Beitucheng Station and looked towards the Institute of Technology in the east.

"Auxiliary Wang is very capable. I have made the right decision in assigning this task to him." Zhu Yijun and his entourage arrived at the gate of the Polytechnic Institute, which was the first high-standard polytechnic institute in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Chonggu quickly bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty gave too much silver."

The emperor himself invested in the entire three-phase project, which took four and a half years to complete. A total of 3.6 million silver coins were allocated from the imperial treasury for its construction. In December of the 14th year of Wanli, the Ministry of Works completed the acceptance inspection. The school officially opened on the 16th day of the first lunar month. On the second day of the second lunar month, it was finally cleaned up and the emperor came to inspect it.

Three million six hundred thousand silvers, with a remaining amount of one hundred thousand silvers for the six former emperors' tombs, and the entire campus covers an area of ​​2100 acres, which is equivalent to the size of two imperial palaces.

The Royal Institute of Technology has two departments, the basic department and the secondary department. The basic department is the compulsory course, and the required contents include classics, science, historical anecdotes, various schools of thought, mathematics, the study of things, geography and so on. The secondary department is the elective course, which includes medicine, mathematics, agriculture, mineral divination, surveying and mapping, engineering, business, mechanical manufacturing, interpretation, astronomy and so on, in total there are seven departments and thirty-five subjects.

Every student in school must pass not only the required courses, but also one elective subject.

The chief academic officer of the Royal Institute of Technology was originally Wan Shihe. After Wan Shihe retired, Shen Li replaced him.

Under the Chief Priest, there are two chief instructors who are in charge of compulsory and elective courses. The school has 180 classrooms, a Sutra Repository on the first floor, and a Yilun Hall specifically used for the emperor to give lectures. Every year, the university hall's sacrificial ceremony is presided over by the Chief Priest, and the ceremony is also held here. There are more than 2,000 school dormitories and more than 400 miscellaneous buildings such as washrooms and canteens.

"We have recruited more than 9,000 students in total, and we increase the number by 2,500 each year." Shen Li bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, 2,500 students may seem like a lot, but when you divide them into 35 subjects, they become extremely scarce. They are snatched away before they even leave the school."

"Your Majesty, the government office is a bit behind the private houses. Last September, the school graduated the first batch of students. They went to the government office to work and were exempted from the 60-silver loan for student aid. However, the private houses provided the students with an annual salary of more than 30 silver silver."

The plaque of the Royal Institute of Technology is written by the emperor himself, and there is a stone tablet at the entrance with the words: Nothing is clearer than effectiveness, and nothing is more certain than evidence.

Standing in front of the lying stone, Shen Li reported on the students' situation. The university hall, which was of the same size as the Imperial College, looked large, but was far from enough.

Last year, 1,400 students graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology. Only less than 400 students stayed in school or took the entrance exam for the Academy of Natural Sciences. The rest were all snatched away by private households. Among them, only ten accounting students were retained by the court, and the remaining seventy went to work as accountants in private households, merchant gangs, and business firms. The starting annual salary for an accountant was twenty-four silver coins.

The problem of talent shortage is very serious.

During the court meeting this morning, the Ministry of Revenue slammed the table in the Wenhua Hall and questioned the Ministry of Rites. It was agreed that there would be 20 auditing clerks using abacus, but the Ministry of Rites only gave three people.

The Ministry of Revenue had the biggest talent gap in its year-end audit, with a shortage of at least 200 people to complete the audit accounts on schedule. The Polytechnic Institute had worked so hard to train so many accountants, but in the end, all of them went to the private sector. One can imagine the Ministry of Revenue's anger.

The Ministry of Revenue originally planned to spend fifteen years to build an audit team of more than 500 people to thoroughly sort out the accounts of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, do you want to force Bi Bu to stay in office?" Shen Li said in a low voice.

Before the emperor even entered the palace, the Ministry of Rites gave him a big problem: to learn civil and martial arts and serve the imperial family. However, due to the issue of salary, many students chose to join the public. The purpose of establishing the Royal Institute of Technology to solve the shortage of talent in the court was not effectively accomplished.

Shen Li's meaning was very clear. He wanted to promote loyalty to the emperor education at the Royal Institute of Technology. After the court had selected candidates, he would let the people choose.

"If there are not enough people, just build more schools. There is no need to force them to stay." Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "This kind of thing cannot be forced."

The result of forcing is disunity and willingness to leave. Zhu Yijun can only wish them a bright future. This is a supply and demand issue, and solving the problem from the supply perspective is the fundamental solution.

Forcibly imposing a ratio will cause people to lose confidence and will defeat the original purpose of the Royal Institute of Technology.

"The Polytechnic Institute has been repaired, but it still costs 200,000 silver coins a year, of which 60,000 silver coins are tuition fees for students." Shen Li reminded His Majesty that if he did not force the proportion to stay in the court, the end result would be that the emperor would spend a large amount of money to build it and spend 200,000 silver coins a year on its maintenance, all of which would be a wedding dress for others.

Your Majesty, who has always been in the business of making money, will lose money in this matter, and will lose both his wife and his soldiers, and suffer a great defeat.

Tuition is a living and academic subsidy for students, which comes from direct allocations from the imperial treasury. Each student receives six silver coins a year to subsidize students' food, drink and living expenses. Six silver coins are already a lot, and can buy twelve dan of rice, which is one thousand eight hundred kilograms of rice. Even a big eater cannot finish it.

The main purpose of this money is to buy pens, ink, paper, inkstone and books, all of which are extremely expensive.

"From a financial perspective, running schools and education is indeed a money-losing business, and the more schools you build, the more you lose. But the talents we cultivate have enabled the Ming Dynasty to make great progress in all walks of life, and that's enough."

"Besides, didn't the Mongols send overseas students?" Zhu Yijun said with a smile, "It can fill the gap."

It is impossible to lose money, so we can only learn from England’s great shortcomings and virtues and fill the deficit of Ming Dynasty’s higher education institutions by exploiting international students.

As for the deficit in basic education, it cannot be solved by exploiting international students. Basic education is a public service investment and it is a long-term national strategy that must be implemented even if it means losing money.

"Then it would be better to cancel tuition and provide incentives instead," Wang Guoguang immediately added.

They ate and drank what the emperor gave them, and even the places where they studied were built with the emperor's own money. They received the emperor's favor, but without gratitude, they all rushed for their high salaries.

It would be better to put the subsidy given by the emperor into the annual salary of the official office, so as to provide a better incentive for students to stay.

"Grand Tutor, education cannot be calculated in this way. Additional incentives can be given. Why should these tuition fees be cut? How can students who come from poor and laboring families complete these four years of study?" Zhu Yijun stood in front of the lying stone, still refusing to change his mind.

Students studying science and engineering were at most from poor families and did not have much spare money. The four-year tuition fee was 120 silver coins. Even if the emperor provided an interest-free student loan of 60 silver coins, 60 silver coins was still a huge burden for students from poor families or even peasant families.

Zhu Yijun also saw this situation, so he gave each student six silver coins every year so that they could study hard and not be troubled by life.

Zhang Juzheng took a step forward and said, "Your Majesty's treasury is rich, and everyone knows it. For Your Majesty, 60,000 silver is nothing, but it is not a good thing to give too much. Your Majesty's favor is easy to be taken for granted. If you are willing to serve Your Majesty, you should give more."

"Everyone gets tuition fees. It seems fair to everyone, but it's actually very unfair. It's unfair to students who want to serve their country."

"What you said makes sense, sir. Let's follow the Ministry of Rites' decision." Zhu Yijun thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Since you are willing to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, you should get more points."

Zhu Yijun agreed with Zhang Juzheng's proposal. The emperor's kindness was not enough, and the students should be made aware that it was the emperor's kindness.

Specifically speaking, it is very simple. Upon admission, students are asked whether they are willing to serve the court. If they are willing, they will receive a tuition fee. After receiving the tuition fee, they will have to serve the court for five years before they can decide where to go next.

There were many courtiers accompanying the emperor to visit the Royal Institute of Technology. They were all whispering, and no one knew what had happened before. The emperor and the ministers were discussing something in front of the gate of the Institute of Technology, but it seemed that they had finally convinced His Majesty.

Zhu Yijun walked into the Royal Institute of Technology. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a large square with a Sutra Library. On the left hand side, there was also a bell and drum tower for telling time.

On the right side of the Sutra Library is the teaching building for the Ming Dynasty’s compulsory courses, Qingze Garden.

"Is this the Chonggu Tower that is rumored among the people?" Zhu Yijun walked across the square on the bluestone pavement, stood in front of Qingze Garden, looked carefully at this Chinese-style concrete structure building, and asked with a smile.

"I am ashamed." Wang Chonggu quickly bowed his head and said.

All the teaching buildings of the Royal Institute of Technology were designed by him. It is a U-shaped building, mainly for the lighting of all the classrooms. It has a total of five floors. Wang Chonggu named it Chengxian Building, which means the general design of the teaching building. All teaching buildings can be added or reduced on it, but people generally call it Chonggu Building.

(End of this chapter)