I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 968 Extra Four

Entering the gate of Xiazhou University, Wei Liushun and Liao Xuexian saw a statue more than ten meters high. The Holy Emperor Wanli was wearing a windbreaker, with his left hand on his waist and his right hand waving upwards, as if he was greeting thousands of subjects, or pointing the way for everyone.

A dozen freshmen put down their luggage and saluted the statue with their arms crossed.

Complete the admission procedures for new students, assign dormitories, and put luggage away.

Wei Liushun, Liao Xuexian and more than 40 other freshmen gathered near the statue and were led by senior students from the Student Union to visit the campus.

"Xiazhou University was built in imitation of Wanli University. Except for some modifications due to the terrain, it is almost exactly the same." The old student turned around and said with a smile, "I didn't say that, it was our professor who said that.

There are more than a dozen professors and associate professors in our school who graduated from Wanli University, and some of them worked there as professors for a period of time. "

The old student continued the introduction.

"That area is the teaching building, there are 16 buildings in total, and the maple forest area is for the Physics Department, Mathematics Department, Chemistry Department, and Mechanical Department of the Institute of Technology.

See that building with a sphere on top? That’s the Department of Astronomy. The building next to it is the Department of Geography. A little further away, with neat rows of trees, is the College of Agriculture.

On the other side of the lake is the medical school, and on the other side of the lake are the College of Arts, the School of Law, and the School of Business.

The building with carved beams and painted buildings is the library, which contains 410,000 books of various kinds. Okay, this is the sports area.

In front is a standard football field. Currently, Xiazhou University has four football teams participating in the Genzhou Football League. The best performing team is the Genzhou Division Football Team of the Polytechnic Institute, which won the third place in the league last year.

Wei Liushun, Liao Xuexian and others looked at the empty playground, where some people were playing small games, some were practicing receiving serves, some were practicing passing, and some were practicing dribbling. Dozens of people were sparsely distributed on the green field.

On the standard circular track, some students are running in circles.

The old student led everyone to continue the tour.

"There are twelve standard basketball courts and six standard volleyball courts. Students, do you see that oval-shaped building? That's the indoor gymnasium.

There are two basketball courts and two volleyball courts with spectator seats.”

He pointed to a place a little further away and said, "That building with a fence and a roof is the swimming pool. It's for boys on odd days and for girls on even days. Don't get confused and don't try to fish in troubled waters.

The school's political education department and the student union's discipline department focus on this. If you are caught once, your credits will be deducted. If you are caught three times, you will be considered a repeat offender and will be expelled from school."

Everyone looked at each other, their hearts trembled.

"That's the student dormitory area. You've just been assigned the dormitories. If you come from that side, we won't go over there. This is the East Canteen. Our school has four large canteens in the east, west, north and south. Teachers and students share the same canteen. It's up to everyone to choose.

This is the laboratory building of the Institute of Technology. The first floor is for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the humming sound is from the machine tools. The second and third floors are for the Department of Physics, and the fourth floor is for the Department of Chemistry.

I would like to advise all junior students not to go to the fourth floor unless necessary."

"Why?" a female freshman asked curiously.

“Do you have anyone from the Chemistry Department?”

Liao Xuexian raised his hand hesitantly.

"Bless you, junior. The Department of Chemistry is a very mysterious place in Xiazhou University. Among all the departments and colleges in Xiazhou University, the Department of Chemistry leads the way in the casualties of teachers and students."

How come there are casualties when reading a book? Isn’t this the same as going down a mine to mine?
Wei Liushun muttered to himself.

“There are many chemical reagents in the chemistry department, and you don’t know which ones are highly toxic.

It looks like boiled water, but it is actually a strong acid and a strong base.

You don't know what will explode when mixed with fire. But many chemical experiments require heating with alcohol lamps.

Fellow juniors, I am not trying to scare you, but more than half of the painful lessons learned in the school safety education department are from the chemistry department. "

After saying that, the old man patted Liao Xuexian on the shoulder, making him begin to doubt his life.

"This building is the Medical Biology Building. It is a laboratory building shared by the Medical School and the Biology Department of the Institute of Technology. It is also the most terrifying location of our Xiazhou University."

"The most terrifying place?"

"Yes, don't you smell a faint pungent smell? That's the potion used to soak corpses. There are more than a dozen corpses in it."

The four girls screamed in fear, "Why is there a dead body?"

"They are cadaver teachers. Medical students dissect them to understand and learn the secrets of the human body. Catheters use their own bodies to contribute to the advancement of our medicine. We should respect them."

Dissect the body!

Everyone was still in shock, and the four girls couldn't help but huddle together, feeling fortunate that they did not impulsively apply to medical school.

This time, a horse-drawn carriage came and stopped in front of the building, and then a group of students helped to carry things from the carriage.

The old students know the students inside.

"Sui Qingfeng, what are you doing?"

"Old Yang, we are moving skeletal specimens." After saying that, he deliberately lifted the canvas packaging of the long object on his shoulder, revealing a grinning skull. Wei Liushun and others were so scared that they stepped back one after another, and the four girls screamed.

The senior student turned around and glanced at them. "What are you afraid of? You all have to come here to get close to these bone specimens for your general education classes this semester. This is called understanding the essence of human beings and eliminating cognitive obstacles."

He turned around and started chatting with his fellow countryman from Yaoshi County, "Old Sui, are there any new people coming to your medical school?"

"Yes, a total of fifty bodies, all shipped from India, including men and women, old and young, of all ages."

The two looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.

When leaving, Wei Liushun asked curiously: "Senior, why do the bone specimens of the medical school have to be transported from Tianzhu?"

"Not to mention our skeletal specimens, all the skeletal specimens of the Ming Dynasty were shipped from India. Even the medical schools in Persia, Ottoman Empire, Portugal and other countries that studied our Ming Dynasty medicine also purchased their human skeletal specimens from there.

Firstly, since they were not local skeletons, people did not have any psychological burden. Secondly, the human skeleton specimens there were cheap and good quality.

I heard that for five silver dollars a piece, any kind of human skeleton specimen you want can be found there quickly.

It’s a magical place.”

He continued walking along the tree-lined path with Wei Liushun and other freshmen, introducing them as he walked.

"That's West Lake. The lake over there is called East Lake, and this lake is twice as big, so it's called West Lake. There's a maple forest over there, and a willow forest over there.

It is said that the willow trees there were transplanted from Jiangnan by the people of the Agricultural College with great difficulty.”

The senior student turned around and said, "This is a popular place on campus, but as a senior, I want to remind you. If you are married or have an engagement in your family, please don't come here too often."

If things get out of hand, it's not just a matter of moral corruption. The Ming criminal law has adultery as a crime, and the punishment is severe."

The freshmen looked at each other, trying to hold back their smiles, with hormones boiling in their eyes.

The old man, who had long since eliminated the Wushan Mountains as not a cloud, saw this and shook his head, saying, “It’s great to be young!”

After walking for a while, we saw a square and magnificent building.

"This is the school's auditorium, which also has three lecture halls. Famous professors and scholars from our family come to visit and give presentations here. Hey, why are there so many people? Let me take a look first."

The old student squeezed into the crowd and then ran out excitedly.

"Damn it! You guys are so lucky. Houhu Lord Zhao Shizhen is visiting our school today. He's only going to give a lecture, but you guys caught up with him. Come in quickly.

The notice has just been posted, and the ink hasn't dried yet. If the news gets out soon, we won't even be able to squeeze through the door."

Wei Liushun and more than 20 others followed the old man and ran inside, through the front hall, and into the auditorium. The auditorium, which could seat more than a thousand people, was already two-thirds full. There were so many well-informed people.

Just as Wei Liushun and others sat down, more students poured in from the three doors on the left, middle and right of the hall.

Dozens of teachers and security guards quickly began to maintain order.

In less than ten minutes, all the seats were occupied. The middle and left and right corridors, the left, middle and right main entrances at the back, and the emergency exits on both sides were all packed with people.

A rough look showed that there were at least two thousand people.

Wei Liushun and Liao Xuexian asked the old man while breathing slightly.

"Senior, is it really Hou Hu Gong?"

"If it's genuine, this notice written jointly by the school's professorial council and the academic affairs department must be true."

The students sitting together were very excited.

“I didn’t expect it to be Hou Hu Gong!”

"I read his Theory of Natural Species Evolution when I was in junior high school. It's natural selection, the fittest survive. The strong prey on the weak, the fittest survive."

"I read it when I was a freshman in high school and was stunned. Natural species are constantly changing, and all organisms are struggling for survival. Each species is constantly evolving to adapt to the natural environment and continue to reproduce."

"If Hou Hugong only said this, it would not be enough to show his greatness. After he proposed the Theory of Natural Species Evolution, he specifically asked why humans are a kind of animal and why they can stand out from millions of animals and establish civilization.

The key point is that animals will abandon their injured companions, so they will always be animals.

Humans, however, started by taking care of injured companions and gradually developed intelligent civilization. It is the intelligence of making and using tools, as well as the sociality of collaboration between people, that makes us stand out from animals. "

The senior student interrupted their excitement, "Okay, calm down. The lecture will start soon. Mr. Hou Hu has been excavating fossils all over the world in recent years to improve his theory of species evolution. It is a rare opportunity for him to come to our Xiazhou University.

Listen carefully later."

Ten minutes later, the lecture began. Zhao Shizhen was wearing a gray-yellow hunting suit with a small lapel, a waist and multiple pockets. The fabric was a wear-resistant and breathable cotton, linen and wool blend.

Straight but not tight pants and a pair of soft leather riding boots.

This clothing evolved from military uniform and is used for field work and hunting, so it is called hunting suit.

Zhao Shizhen's face was very dark, the kind that was tanned, which made his eyes look even more sparkling.

He walked to the front of the electric pickup, moved his stool away, and said with a smile: "I'm used to standing, so I'll talk while standing."

He took out a meerschaum pipe and a pack of Donghai cigarettes from the Shanghai Cigarette Factory, took out two cigarettes, tore open the cigarette paper, and stuffed the tobacco into the pipe bowl.

Then he took out a kerosene lighter and lit the tobacco.

After taking two puffs, Zhao Shizhen continued.

"I am very grateful to President Hu of Xiazhou University for inviting me to give a speech here. President Hu and I are old acquaintances. That year, President Hu was ordered to come to Genzhou to develop, and I followed Shen Wanxiang and Wang Yongji.

Many of you are not familiar with them. Shen Wanxiang is now the Minister of the Honglu Temple. Wang Yongji was the favorite disciple of Zhuo Wugong and is now the president of Southeast University.

At that time, they were sent as envoys to Portugal, the Ottoman Empire and Persia, and I accompanied them. At that time, I parted ways with Principal Hu in Dagu.

Principal Hu stayed in Xiazhou for five years and then returned to his ancestral home on rotation. However, less than two years later, after completing the 100-day mourning period, he took the initiative to apply to come to Xiazhou to prepare for the establishment of Xiazhou University.

In the past eight years, Xiazhou University has grown from Taiping College to what it is today, and President Hu has made great contributions to this.”

Hu Yinglin, who was sitting in the front row, stood up, turned around and bowed to the teachers and students.

There was thunderous applause.

When the applause died down, Zhao Shizhen continued speaking, his voice carried throughout the venue through two large loudspeakers.

"Everyone knows that I am most famous for 'Evolution of Natural Species'. I will not talk about that today. I will talk about other things, such as what you can't hear in class."

There was a burst of laughter in the hall.

Zhao Shizhen also laughed, "This theory of mine was created and perfected based on what I saw and realized when I traveled around the world during the first circumnavigation of the Ming Dynasty in the fifth year of the Wanli reign.

What I want to say today is, classmates, to study, don’t stay in the classroom, be brave and go out.

read more, walk more.

The teachings of the ancients are correct.

I am also a professor and distinguished professor at Wanli University, Peking University, Nanjing University, Southeast University, and your Xiazhou University.

I haven't been teaching for two days, but I know quite a few college students.

You are full of vigor and vitality, you are the essence of the Ming Dynasty and the future. But I see that many college students are very naive.

They were so naive that they had no worries about food and clothing. When they saw the Ming Dynasty thriving, they thought the whole world was like this.

They grew up in an environment of Chinese civilization and thought that the whole world was similarly civilized.

Their catchphrase is, how bad can those people be?
I would say that this is the reason why they rarely travel and see the world. They use their own thoughts to weave a thick cocoon and wrap themselves up tightly. "

Zhao Shizhen held a pipe in his left hand and a pickup in his right hand, puffing smoke and dragging an electric wire as he walked back and forth within a radius of two or three meters.

"When I entered Xiazhou University today, I met the delivery truck of human skeleton specimens ordered by your medical school. Coincidentally, this batch of skeleton specimens traveled with me on the 'Jiaozhou' steamship, crossing the Pacific Ocean from Shanghai to Xiazhou Taiping City.

Do you know why the medical schools in Ming, Ottoman, Persian, Portuguese, Venice, the Netherlands, and England all ordered human skeleton specimens from India?"

Everyone was silent.

“Because in many places in India, the production and sale of human bone specimens has formed an industrial chain.

Gangsters, businessmen, officials, and nobles profited from it. According to the requirements from medical schools in various countries, they found suitable populations, quickly turned them into anonymous corpses, and then made them into human skeletal specimens.

According to incomplete statistics from the Ming Dynasty's Commercial Office in Tianzhu in Zhengling City, Tianzhu exports 15,000 human skeletal specimens to the Ming Dynasty every year.

In the past twenty years, in order to build a universal health care system, the Ming Dynasty has established 44 medical schools and 112 nursing schools in its hometown alone.

There are 4,760 hospitals and 13,798 health centers and clinics.

Human skeletal specimens are standard equipment for these hospitals and medical schools, especially medical schools, which generally require dozens of them.

In the first two years, the donations were made in the Ming Dynasty, but after the third year of the Wanli reign, all were imported from India.

Zhao Shizhen spoke very quickly and his words were deafening.

"If it weren't for the poor technology of preserving corpses, I'm sure Tianzhu would have become the main source of cadaver teachers for Daming Medical College and Hospital."

Zhao Shizhen put the pickup on the table, picked up his pipe and started tapping on the edge of the table.

The meeting room was completely silent, with only the sound of tapping.

But to the ears of more than 2,000 students, it was like a hammer hitting their hearts.

***
The new book "Tianqi Ming Dynasty" is about another good grandson of the Ming Dynasty, the grandson of Emperor Wanli, Emperor Tianqi.

Everyone is welcome to taste it.

(End of this chapter)