Last year's autumn examination, Yufeng Academy won a total of 86 new imperial examination candidates, and Xiangshan Academy won a total of 20.

In addition, 36 people who were juren before, a total of 142 science disciples were qualified for this examination.

However, Jiao Hong and five others had to give up the exam because their parents and grandparents at home suddenly died, and they had to give up the exam and stayed in mourning and did not go to Beijing... Such a high rate of worry was not a problem with the Feng Shui of the Science School, but a normal phenomenon.

In this era, people's life expectancy was not long, and when they were in high school, they were all old. After being promoted, they were ecstatic and were ecstatic. After eating, they had a day of banquets and excessive drinking, they would naturally be prone to joy and sadness.

Therefore, in the end, 137 disciples participated in the examination, accounting for 7.2% of the total number of candidates.

The admission rate of this fifth-year Longqing examination is 21%, which means that one Jinshi was awarded by five candidates.

But the science disciples got an admission rate of 59.1%, nearly five students won three Jinshi...

Such a terrifying admission rate completely proves that science is the study of the imperial examination. Even if it is not specially created for the imperial examination, it can definitely greatly improve the imperial examination results. No matter how Mr. Zhao explains this, their science has nothing to do with the imperial examination, and no one believes it...

Of course, information flow in this era is slow, unlike later generations, where there will be experts who will completely dig up the three generations of science schools on the day they will be released.

Under Zhao Hao's deliberate and low-key handling, the terrifying admission rate of the science disciples was only noticed after half a year. Then Xiangshan Academy and Yufeng Academy were crossed by scholars who were studying...

Therefore, Xiangshan Academy at this time still maintained the tranquility of the past.

In the academy, eighty-one Chinese juren had no time to celebrate, and they welcomed their long-awaited ultimate special training to make their final preparations for the palace examination on the fifteenth of next month!

Moreover, Teacher Zhao will personally serve as the speaker of the ultimate special training as promised!

Many Chinese-style picks, as soon as they think of it, are finally qualified to listen to the teacher's teaching in person, can't help but burst into tears in excitement.

It’s not that the senior brothers have not taught well, but as disciples, they have never been qualified to listen to the master’s teachings, so that they always have a clear and painful consciousness. They are just a trivial registered disciple... The one who holds the name is not a real disciple. At least they will not be taken seriously by the teacher!

Now, they finally passed the Jinshi exam and became formal disciples and listened to the teacher's teachings with their own ears. Is there anything happier in the world than this? No more!

Mr. Zhao will never admit that he is having sex with a pussy...

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Although Xiangshan in spring is not as red as late autumn, the flowers are everywhere, and the purples are colorful and dazzling.

Because Xiangshan is a royal industry, logging of trees is prohibited, so that it can maintain a beautiful forest-like environment. On both sides of the mountain road leading to Xiangshan Academy, towering trees shine on the sun. The mottled sunlight shines through the dense branches and leaves, sprinkling on unknown wild flowers beside the road. The breeze blows the tender green leaves and makes a rustling sound, and the gurgling streams appear, making pedestrians feel more happy.

Mr. Zhao got off the car down the mountain and chatted happily with Yu Youding, Wang Wuyang and others who came to greet him.

Everyone is an old acquaintance, and the only thing worth mentioning is Yu Youding. His name is Tonglu, and he is Tanhua, who is a student of Shen Shi. He has been in the Hanlin Academy for many years and has a close relationship with King Shen. Moreover, he is from Ningbo, Zhejiang, and Ningbo has always wanted to join Jiangnan integration, but does not want to be marginalized.

Although Mr. Zhao created a Jiangnan Economic Mutual Aid Association and added several prefectures such as Ning Shaotai and Huichiguang to the scene, this kind of peripheral organization was obviously just a job. After a year, as expected, the ten prefectures in Jiangnan were prosperous, and the market was booming, and scholars, farmers, industry and commerce gained considerable benefits. The entire integrated area was like a magnet, firmly attracting people and money from surrounding areas and rapidly moving towards the ten prefectures in Jiangnan.

And those outer prefectures can also drink some soup to offset the outflow of population and wealth, but it is absolutely impossible to keep up with the changes in the ten prefectures in Jiangnan.

People from Shaoxing, Taizhou and Huizhou think this is not bad either. But Ningbo is in pain.

Because Ningbo originally had a Maritime Trade Center, which was the center of the Ming Dynasty's foreign trade and one of the most prosperous commercial cities. However, after the tribute competition, the court closed the Maritime Trade Center. Later, the international trade center built by Wang Zhi in Shuangyu was destroyed.

After these two heavy blows, Ningbo's vitality was severely damaged, and it was the key target of the Japanese pirates' robbery... As a result, the wealthy people in Ningbo went north to the provincial capital, Suzhou and even Jinling to avoid disasters. The merchants went south to Fujian and Guangdong to continue smuggling. Ningbo was completely depressed and finally withdrew from the ranks of first-tier cities in the Ming Dynasty. Even after so many years of suppressing the Japanese tragedy, there was no improvement.

Seeing that the ten palaces in Jiangnan were moving thousands of miles a day and were moving Ningbo farther and farther away, the wealthy families in Ningbo were anxious and were most eager to get on the boat in Jiangnan.

At Yu Youding's age, he happened to have experienced the forty years of Ningbo's decline from prosperity. He also wanted to help his hometown, so he wanted to take the opportunity to lobby Zhao Hao and let Ningbo join. Therefore, he responded to all his requests to Mr. Zhao and gave his disciples full of their responsibilities.

A good friend who takes the initiative to help, does his best and has a promising future will naturally be respected and friendship from Mr. Zhao.

"I'm going to bother Brother Tonglu again this time. I'm so sorry." Zhao Hao smiled at Yu Youding Dao, who was in his forties, beside him.

"Hey, what's the matter with the young master? I'm so honored to be hired as a tenured professor and contribute to the academy." Even if Yu Youding had something to ask for, he could still maintain a calm and elegant manner: "Besides, I am a poor Hanlin, I also need this rich sacrificial gift."

"I'm joking and joking." Mr. Zhao laughed loudly. Yu Youding was a rich man in life, especially when he liked guests, and he was not a cunning person. Such people say that they are poor, so you must not take it seriously.

Because there is a kind of poor thing, it is not that you earn too little, but that you spend too much...

After laughing for a while, Yu Youding couldn't help but sigh: "Young master has done his best to every disciple, cooking gold and jade, but he has no desires. The peaches and plums do not speak, and the paths are formed under it. It's really inexplicable."

"Yes, it's much better than our teacher." Wang Xijue said carelessly on the side.

"That's definitely incomparable." Yu Youding had a similar temper as him, and immediately nodded with deep consent.

"Oh, the teacher has passed away, so don't mention the past." Although Shen Shixing spoke cautiously, he agreed with him.

The teacher who made the three of them unanimously negative reviews was the leader of their subject, Yuan Wei, the "Prime Minister of Qing Ci" who entered the cabinet by writing Qing Ci.

At that time, Yuan Wei was old and had no energy, and could not write good articles. So whenever he had social engagements, or wrote green poems to Emperor Jiajing, or even official documents in the cabinet, Yuan Wei asked these three students to go to his private residence and draft them on his behalf. If he was not satisfied, he would first scold him sternly, and then speak ill of him. Especially when he and Yu Youding were fellow villagers, he would be even less particular when scolding others.

Once, Yuan Wei thought that his Qingci was not well written, so he cursed: "How did you get the name "You Ding"? You should call it "Yu Bai Ding"!" Then he kept calling him this, and now someone calls him "Yu Bai Ding" behind his back.

Yuan Wei was extremely stingy. Sometimes when he entered Zhixiyuan, he locked the door and left. Moreover, he didn't even prepare food, wine and food in the house. The three of them were hungry from morning to night and always returned with food...

However, their revolutionary friendship was also formed at that time. It is not ruled out that they can join the cabinet together in the future. It is not ruled out that the contribution of the "Hell Special Training" of Master Yuan is due to the "Hell Special Training", although that was not his original intention.

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While talking and laughing, everyone came to the gate of the academy covered with towering ancient trees.

Around Xiangshan Academy, countless tall magnolias are planted, with dozens or hundreds of years old, adding some background to this young school. The style of the school’s door is simple and ancient, with two cylinders of gray granite stone pillars as the base, and an isosceles triangle made of the same material with carved flowers as the top of the door.

The four words "Xiangshan Academy" engraved on the door are rigorous and not ostentatious, but are written by the emperor's emperor's pen.

When you walk into the geometric figures to form the gate, you will see the openness in front of you. It is the academy playground. In the center of the playground, there is a tall tower composed of white walls and black bricks, a square and circular pattern. It is the bell tower of the original temple...

According to Mr. Zhao's plan, Wang Wuyang, who was responsible for supervising the bell tower, doubled the bell tower. A clock computer room was installed on the top of the bell tower, and an outward circular clock face with a diameter of two meters was installed on both sides to report the day and night of the academy.

Although Western clocks have become the standard equipment for the homes of top wealthy people in the Ming Dynasty, even if they imitate according to their structure, they still took more than half a year for their disciples. Currently, 90% of the parts in the clock computer room are made of hardwood, but the error per day is no more than five minutes, so it should be no problem to use them for a few years first.

After understanding the principles of clocks, the genius disciples also made a huge globe with brass and installed it on the spire of the tower. The globe can rotate with time and turn around a day.

So Wang Xijue, a liberal arts man, called this tower "scientific top ball".

Because Zhao Hao spent a huge amount of money to build this bell tower, not just to report the time, he also installed a huge Foucault pendulum inside the bell tower.

Installing a Foucault pendulum for each academy is a symbol of science. Mr. Zhao has always been a long-cherished wish.

This object is just a single pendulum, and its purpose is to prove the rotation of the earth. However, in order to achieve observational effects, it must be built large enough.

The long pendulum is twenty feet long and the pendulum weighs fifty-six kilograms. The beams hanging at the top of the tower, and the connection between the beams and the pendulums are specially designed to minimize friction.

This kind of swing inertia and momentum is large, so it is basically not affected by the rotation of the earth and swings on its own, and the swing time is very long.

There is a stencil cast at the bottom of the pendulum, and each swing will leave a scratch on the flat white sand tray below.

According to people's experience, the pendulum should always swing back and forth on a plane, so only a scratch is left on the sand table.

But when observing its actual swing trajectory, people will find that every time the pendulum swings, it will slightly deviate from the original trajectory and rotate.

Moreover, the rotation period is different at different latitudes. For example, in Beijing, the trajectory of the pendulum is clockwise, with a cycle of 30 hours.

The smaller the rotation range and longer the cycle, the clear difference can be observed in Nanjing and Guangzhou. If a Foucault pendulum is built on the equator, it will not rotate. If one is built on the southern hemisphere in the future, the rotation will become counterclockwise, which will be proved simply and clearly with facts that the earth is rotating around the earth's axis.

However, only Yufeng Academy has built another Folk pendulum. When the disciples from Kunshan discovered that the rotation cycle of the Folk pendulum of the same size was shortened by 18 hours in Beijing, it was completely in line with the results calculated using the formula in the book. The disciples believed that the earth was a ball rotating around the axis.
Chapter completed!