Royal College campus.

Since Nanjing moved to the capital, Zhu Yicheng generously set up an area in the western suburbs as a campus.

This is where the ruins of the Summer Palace or the Summer Palace are located in later generations. Of course, there was no title of the Summer Palace or the Summer Palace in this era. However, during the reign of Kangxi, a small courtyard was built there. The real Summer Palace and the Summer Palace were built on this basis later from the late Yongzheng period to the Qianlong period.

Zhu Yicheng was not interested in building any royal gardens. He was not the kind of emperor like Qianlong who was comfortable and enjoyable, so he directly assigned that area to the Royal Academy for teaching. After several years of construction and expansion, the Royal Academy has now expanded more than ten times based on the original courtyard, which has surpassed the original Nanjing Old Academy in terms of scale.

As the chief of the mountain, that is, the principal, Wu Sidao is extremely competent. Although he rarely interferes in daily school management, the Royal Academy has become more and more perfect in his hands and has now become the first college of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, the entire Royal College has 563 teachers, teachers and staff, and 3,595 students. The college is divided into eight grades. According to regulations, students can enter school at the age of seven to eight, and have one year of education, two years of basic school (primary school), three years of middle school (junior and high school), and two years of university.

The structure of this grade was decided after discussion by Wu Sidao and Zhu Yicheng. The first year of the school year, students only divided into classes and not subjects. The same is true in primary school. However, in the middle school, the subjects will be divided into different subjects according to the students' interests, hobbies, and specialties. However, this subject is not completely fixed. As long as students have the energy or ability, they can divide into two or even three subjects at the same time, and the application can be adjusted separately between the subjects.

However, the university stage will be different in the last two years. Royal College stipulates that when entering university, disciplines must be fixed, and no application for distribution between subjects shall be carried out unless otherwise specified. Of course, it is not prohibited for students' interdisciplinary study schools. As long as the assessment can be met, Royal College still encourages them.

There are many disciplines in the college, from the initial few disciplines to now being divided into four major disciplines, including liberal arts and arts, military disciplines, including dozens of disciplines, and the faculty is also increasing. Among the teachers of the college, there are not only great scholars, but also scholars from the Royal Academy of Sciences (Academics), but also many officers at all levels who have retired from the military, including active service.

A lively cheer came from the other side of the playground. You can tell that the senior students in the college were playing football matches.

Speaking of football games, the original origin of football came from China. It was found in the Han Dynasty and was called Cuju in the Song Dynasty.

Gao Qu, Gao Taiwei, the middle-aged and middle-aged Water Margin, is famous for Cuju. This traditional game has always been circulated and later spread to Western countries. This is why modern football was born on the basis of Cuju in the UK.

Now, the football played by these students is very close to modern football in later generations. Whether it is used, the venue, rules, etc., it is no different from modern football. This kind of confrontational and motivating sports is extremely popular for half-aged men in the college. Running on the green field, dribbling the ball, and shooting, bringing them extremely physical and mental satisfaction.

"Come on! Come on!"

On the side of the football field, a group of boys and girls tried their best to encourage the students on the court. Among them, the one who shouted the most was a girl.

Although the girl has not grown up yet because she is young, she is not short. She is wearing a uniform similar to a new military uniform in the academy. Her long hair is tied into a ponytail and looks neat. Her rosy face is full of heroic elegance. When she saw a strong boy on the court passing two people straight into the other party’s penalty area, she couldn’t help but wave her fists and shouted loudly.

After another person, the boy shot without hesitation when he saw the goal kicking wide in front of him. He saw the football draw a graceful arc in the air and flew towards the goal. Although the goalkeeper jumped high and rushed to the ball, unfortunately the angle of the shot was too tricky. The football passed the goalkeeper's fingertips at a close distance and drilled directly into the upper right corner of the goal.

"The goal has been scored! Finally scored! Long live! Long live!"

The girl suddenly jumped up, so excited that she couldn't help herself, and the same was true around her. Everyone cheered loudly, cheering for the supportive team to win the final victory.

Within a few minutes after the goal, the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game. Everyone was even more excited at this time and couldn't help but throw the things in their hands into the sky to celebrate this difficult and hard-won victory.

"Brother, you are so awesome!" The girl jumped and ran towards the field. Her target was the player who just scored the world. Judging from her eyebrows, the two were very similar, but the young man's face was more distinct.

After running forward, the girl handed over the towel she had prepared in her hand, looking at the heroic elder brother's eyes full of admiration from the stars.

"Hey! I said, sister, I won't take you like this. I have made a contribution to the big brother's goal. If it weren't for my pass, this ball wouldn't be so easy to score? You can't be more favorable than the other!" A young man couldn't help but say, but his words were more jokes than complaining. His face looked a little similar to those of the two young girls, but his head was slightly shorter than that of the young man.

"You are the only one who loves to show off, you are indispensable, I will give it to you!" The girl glared at him, took out another towel and threw it over. The boy took the towel and smiled and wiped the sweat on his face.

"Let's go! Go and drink herbal tea. I specially asked my mother to help cook it." The girl pulled up her elder brother's hand, then greeted the young man who was wiping his sweat, jumped and ran towards the venue.

When they arrived at the place, the girl opened a bottle and poured out two bowls of herbal tea from it. The two boys took it and took a sip and praised: "Miss Zhuang's herbal tea is cooked well. It's a pleasure to drink this sip after sweating."

"This is naturally. My mother specially learned from the imperial chef from Guangdong. There is no second place in this palace." The girl said proudly.

These three young girls are the children of Zhu Yicheng, the emperor of the Ming Empire. The oldest one is naturally the crown prince Zhu Bo. As for the other young man, the second prince Zhu Bo, the young man with a heroic look is the eldest princess Zhu Qingyan.

Nowadays, the three of them are all senior students of Royal College. In fact, they are not the oldest in terms of age. However, they entered the school early, so they are about to graduate from the grade level.

The subject of Prince Zhu Bo, majoring in politics, is naturally inseparable from his identity. The so-called politics is a Western term. In fact, politics in China is the so-called imperial art. This discipline did not form a system before, and it was established under the leadership of Wu Sidao after the establishment of the Royal Academy.

In addition to politics, Zhu Bo, a minor in military staff science. Compared with other military subjects, staff science is a major subject, which basically covers two major military branches of the army and the navy, and also includes military command, military terrain, tactical maps, earthwork, artillery tactics, maritime operations and other disciplines.

The second prince Zhu Bowei liked to be with Zhu Bo since he was a child, so the subject he studied was basically the same as that of Zhu Bo, but his major was staff and political minor.

As for the eldest princess Zhu Qingyan, she did not practice politics. She only practiced one navy. She has a big idea since she was a child, and she has a lot of interest in the sea than her two brothers. Moreover, her dream has always been to be able to drive a ship across the world and go and see the whole world.

"Brother, the college has begun to solicit graduation internship opinions. What are you planning?" Zhu Qingyan sat aside and watched them finish herbal tea with a smile, and then asked.

"What? Inquiring about the news? So blatant?" Zhu Bo said deliberately.

"Brother..." Zhu Qingyan pulled Zhu Bo's arm and acted coquettishly, which immediately made Zhu Bo laugh.

Touching the sister's head, Zhu Bo smiled and said, "This is naturally ready. I plan to go to the Navy for an internship first, and then transfer to the Army."

"I said sister, why don't you ask me?" Zhu Bowei said a little aggrievedly from the side.

Zhu Qingyan laughed and reached out to line Zhu Bowei's shoulders: "Do you still need to ask? Since the elder brother has made such a decision, you must have followed the elder brother, right?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Bowei smiled embarrassedly. He did have this idea. The three brothers and sisters grew up together and almost entered the Royal Academy. Among Zhu Yicheng's children, the three of them had the longest time together, and they had a great understanding of each other.

"Second brother, I think you should think carefully." Unexpectedly, Uncle Zhu suddenly said this, and then in the slightly puzzled eyes of the two, Uncle Zhu said: "We will be adults after a few years of internship. Maybe the father will give you and me a crown before our internship, so I think you should be careful about the future now, so you can't always follow me."

Zhu Boqiu was slightly stunned by his words. He didn't expect his elder brother to say such things. But Zhu Boqiu knew Zhu Boqiu in his heart. He said this not to be aware of him. You should know that the position of the prince is deeply rooted. There have been few disputes between the prince in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, Zhu Boqiu, as the legitimate son and the eldest son of the emperor, is much better than his own in terms of background and ability.

Furthermore, after getting along for so many years, Zhu Bo has a clear understanding of his own care. The friendship between brothers is extremely strong, let alone Zhu Bo’s character. Zhu Bo would never think that the prince’s brother was worried about his fighting for the throne and said these words to him.

Zhu Bo? This reminds Zhu Boshi that it is actually for his future. Although he is a royal child, he has many helplessness at the same time. Especially princes like Zhu Boshi are different from the prince. The prince’s internship in the army is just a transition. In the end, he will still be around the emperor to observe politics and learn how to manage the country in the future.

But Zhu Boshi is different. He is not a problem following his brother when he was a teenager, but when he is an adult, he must have a future plan. Zhu Boshi is for his younger brother, hoping that he can make changes at this critical moment of his life choice and think about his future.

"I understand, brother, I will think about this matter carefully." After thinking about it, Zhu Boqi replied very seriously.

Zhu Bo smiled with relief, put his hand on his younger brother's shoulder to pat it to show encouragement, and then asked Zhu Qingyan: "What about you? What are you planning? Do you still want to be a navy?"

"This is natural!" Zhu Qingyan said proudly: "Brother, you don't know. Being a navy has always been what I want."

"But... the Ming Navy has no women, I'm worried that your application will be rejected."

"It's okay, I've thought about it a long time ago that I can join the Marine Corps, and I can also get on the ship!" Zhu Qingyan said proudly. Seeing her like this, Zhu Bo couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head. His sister is good at everything, but she is too big and strong. It seems that she is determined to enter the navy.

"I said, sister, what if you go to the Navy, what will happen to my brother-in-law? This trip will take at least half a year or even longer. Can't he just stay in the empty room?" Zhu Boqi asked jokingly.

"Be careful of your tongue!" Zhu Qingyan glared at him: "Brother-in-law? Who is your brother-in-law? Don't talk nonsense..."

"Qingyan! I've been looking for you for a long time, so you're here!"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a voice calling her sounding from behind. Zhu Qingyan subconsciously looked back and saw a few steps away walking towards him. The boy was also handsome, but there was a little more literary spirit in his face. He waved happily at Zhu Qingyan.

When he saw him, Zhu Qingyan was stunned at first, then his face suddenly turned red because this person was Dong Dashan's second son Dong Hua, who was the "brother-in-law" that Zhu Bowei joked about just now.

"You...why are you here?" Zhu Qingyan asked softly. Now she looks like she is as crazy as she cheers for the team just now, and she is no longer as strong as she is towards her younger brother Zhu Bowei, as if she is like an ordinary little girl.

"I have something to ask you for something, good thing!" Dong Hua said with a smile, then saw the prince and the second prince beside him, blinking at them and said, "Two classmates, I will talk to Qingyan. Please give me some convenience?"

Bo Zhu smiled and nodded, pulled the younger brother beside him and walked without hesitation. After walking for a while, Bo Zhu turned around and looked at Zhu Qingyan and Dong Hua who were standing there, and wondered: "I said, brother, why did this eldest sister be defeated by this kid Dong Hua? It's so strange."

"Everything defeats one thing, isn't everything in the world like this?" Zhu Bo said with a smile: "But that's fine. Your elder sister also needs someone like Dong Hua to be her husband. To be honest, I really don't want your elder sister to go to the sea. If Dong Hua can persuade her, it wouldn't be a good thing."
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