The seventh picture: First meeting the dean ()

Shangling Academy is a relatively large academy, which is also an important problem I am currently facing: I can’t find the classroom! Xiaofeng didn’t tell me the specific location of the study in the morning, and now during class, I am probably the only student wandering around the entire academy. Apart from some workers who cleaned and nurtured the seedlings. After asking a few people that didn’t know about it, I had to give up.

In fact, Shangling Academy is not only famous because it is the second largest academy in the country, but also because of the scenery in the academy. From the architectural layout, shape, to the greening of the academy, the scenery of the academy is allocated by famous artists. At the same time, due to its special historical reasons, the academy has been more than 300 years since its establishment. Every year, the imperial court has allocated special funds for the construction and repair of the academy. The academy’s recruitment of the other party is mostly rich. Tuition has also become a source of economic income to maintain the normal operation of the academy. Therefore, when the construction work of the academy is carried out, a large amount of manpower is used, and many people are even more famous craftsmen at that time. Therefore, the architectural level of Shangling Academy can rank among the top in the country, and can even lead the development of architectural style at that time.

The architectural characteristics of the entire academy are somewhat similar to the ancient gardens in Suzhou. The layout of the courtyard seems to be chaotic and has no fixed references. However, because of this chaos, when combined with the scenery in the courtyard, it is a harmonious beauty. The courtyard has lush trees, flowers blooming, pavilions, towers, and rockery. It embellishes it, and there are hundreds of birds singing in the forest. It is not so much a park, but rather a park. As a modern society, I am used to the high-rise buildings in modern society, and the construction site where reinforced concrete and dust fly. Suddenly, I am used to the construction site where the skyscrapers in modern society are used to the flying construction site.

When I came to this beautiful place, I felt like I was in a fairyland. Although there are parks and other resting places in modern society, the river water has long been polluted by industrial and domestic wastewater. Due to pollution in the park, no matter how green the grass is, it is covered with dust. No matter how beautiful the fragrance of flowers is, it also smells of oil smoke. As for birds, they can only be seen in the bird cage of the elderly. There is no industrial pollution here and no turbid air, and students also have good care of the environment they live in. Compared with modern society, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is a paradise on earth.

I walked along the path in the academy and slowly enjoyed the beautiful scenery in the academy. Before I knew it, I had already passed through the entire academy. When I came to a forest, I vaguely heard shouting in front of me, and there were neat sounds of horns. I was a little strange: It was during class now, and I was probably the only one in the entire campus. Why are there still people shouting there? I passed through the woods, and the scene in front of me was really surprised: There was a small lake in front of me, with a pile of wood and stone piles piled up on the edge of the lake, and many naked workers were driving huge wooden piles down more than ten meters away from the lake. The wooden piles were pitch black in color, which may be the reason for the carbonization treatment.

In front of me, the workers first used wood, mud and stone to separate the lake water from the construction site. However, they used a tall shelf on the foundation, then used ropes to drop heavy objects, and first pulled the heavy objects to the top, placed the logs to be punched down under the rack, and loosened the ropes after fixing them, and relied on the gravity of the heavy objects to hit the logs downwards and pushed them into the ground. This is probably an early version of the pile foundation. After the foundation is ready, water will be released, so it will be convenient for construction. Now, because of advanced construction technology and construction machinery, the foundation construction work can be carried out underwater. At that time, only by separating the water from the construction site can construction be carried out. Moreover, one of the biggest characteristics of garden buildings is that there are more water buildings.

There are no garden construction projects in the projects I have participated in, and there are very few garden constructions nowadays. The proportion of casting with reinforced concrete accounts for a large proportion, and finally decorated with wood grains on it. Therefore, I have never seen such pure human and natural wood construction projects, so I am particularly interested and enjoyed it.

"Young man, why are you interested in this?" A voice suddenly came from behind me.

I was surprised and looked back and saw that it was an old man, probably in his sixties. He was wearing a simple blue shirt at that time, and his hair and beard were already a little gray. He was behind his back with his hands, and he was smiling at me.

"Hello, old man!" I turned around and bowed, using a student's etiquette to meet the teacher as a greeting, which would not make people disgusted no matter what.

"Haha..., don't be too polite!" The old man laughed, stepped forward a few steps, stood side by side with me, and looked at the busy construction site.

"Depending on your appearance, you should be a student here. Why didn't you attend class, but came here instead?" The old man looked at my outfit, the standard college student outfit.

My face turned slightly red, and I scratched the back of my head with my hands, "Actually, I'm not afraid of laughing at the sir. The reason I came here is because I really don't know where to go to class?" In fact, this is also a shameful thing, but this old man gave me a kindness and courage. I didn't have to be restrained in front of him, so I told the reason why I didn't attend class.

"Oh?" the old man was stunned, "Did you come to school on the first day?"

"It should be." I replied helplessly. I didn't know whether Deng Long came here to go to school before, and the family had never told me that, so I had to use an ambiguous answer to cover it up.

The old man looked at me and smiled helplessly. Entering Shangling Academy to study means that he can achieve success and rise to the top in the future. However, the number of places he enrolls every year is limited, and the opportunity for admission is very rare. Therefore, many people have sharpened their heads and want to squeeze in. I think this is the first time I have seen this indifferent tone for going to school.

"I heard that you didn't seem to be interested in studying?" the old man asked.

Interested? Only the psychopath is interested. I am just a traveler. I asked me to follow the old men with seventy and eighty-year-old bearded ones and a lot of beards to read about things like this saint, that saint has said. God! That's better to kill me!

Looking at the disdain on my face, the old man was a little angry but curious. As the highest existence of Shangling College, he has seen many rich people who whispered to come in and study for many years, and also saw many students who came in and cried with joy. Because of this, he felt very satisfied in his heart. After all, on the one hand, it proved the value of Shangling College. Today, someone disdained his pride, which made him somewhat angry. What was curious is why the person in front of him was disdainful of Shangling College.

Of course I don’t know who he is, because the dean of Shangling Academy has always been a mystery, and there are only a few people who can know his identity. What’s more, I, a newbie who doesn’t even know about the classroom, thinks of him as an ordinary worker of Shangling Academy, but I just look a little kinder.

"I want to hear your evaluation of the academy?" The old man continued to ask when he saw that I did not answer his words.

"You really want to listen?" I asked. To be honest, although Shangling Academy was the second largest in the country in this dynasty, this academy is purely based on the imperial examinations as its main purpose in my eyes, like a high school that was striving for the rate of admission to the school. Compared with colleges, it is not the same level.

"Yes!" The old man became more and more interested, because he listened to my tone and had the attitude of not strikingly speaking.

"Then I will tell you, don't be angry after hearing it." I don't think there is anything to be wary of this old man. In my eyes, it's just a gardener. Even if I say you, a little gardener, why should I do anything to me? At worst, I'll shake my sleeves and stop doing it.

"I'm not angry!" the old man said with a smile.

"Okay!" I took a deep breath and said, "There is no use for scholars!"

"What?" The old man's eyes widened, "Is there a scholar who has no use?"

"Not bad?" I nodded and said, "Just relying on their slightest bits, the superiors cannot pick and the inferiors cannot resist. I really don't know what they can do if they fail to pass the imperial examination?"

The old man was a little dissatisfied after hearing this and said, "Their knowledge and upbringing?"

"Knowledge? Education?" I laughed: "What you call knowledge education is what those saints say? Who are those people who can't listen to it? Why don't there be any saints come out to give them a meal when they are poor and poor? The so-called literary can make peace, and martial arts can make a country! Students who come out of martial arts can kill enemies, kill one enough, kill two enough to earn one. This is called a good man. And what about those talents? Just a few words of saints cannot make peace. Many people take the imperial examinations to glorify their ancestors and become officials? What is an official? The word "official" is a two-mouthed one, and they can be said to be an official. How many people really think about the people? The stability of a country is not the words of a saint, but the people who are looked down upon are the real cornerstone of the country."

The old man was shocked because no one had ever said these words to him, and he could not find any reason to object.

Seeing the old man having nothing to say, I was actually not happy either. In fact, I am also a scholar without any power!

"Hey!" I sighed secretly, "It's a scholar who has no use!"
Chapter completed!