Chapter 151: Not Submitting to Yun Shu

Yan Ning asked, "Stay behind to serve as a teaching assistant?"

The Minister of Revenue said with a smile, "That's right. How could the divine doctor Qian or the imperial physicians have so much time to teach basic courses? Wouldn't it be better if there were a few people helping out?"

"Also, if my daughter goes to study, she won't take up a boarding spot, and she will have a carriage to pick her up and drop her off every day."

Yan Ning had absolutely no reason to refuse.

She also revealed a smile: "That is no problem at all; there are plenty of classrooms anyway."

Yan Ning began to ponder; it was indeed as the Minister of Revenue said, to find people in the Capital to study, and then have them stay behind to serve as teaching assistants.

At this moment, the Minister of Revenue beamed with joy and began to chat with Yan Ning: "Your Highness, you don't know, my daughter reads medical books every day and even wants to take Doctor Qian as her master, but, Doctor Qian says there isn't enough time..."

In fact, it was a polite refusal.

But now it was different; although she would be studying with many people, at least it could be considered taking on a master.

Yan Ning pondered for a moment, "I still need to look for a few more people in the Capital to study medicine."

The Minister of War on the side said, "I have two maidservants in my manor who are also particularly eager to learn..."

Yan Ning refused without even thinking.

"That won't do; we don't accept maidservants here."

A maidservant's deed of sale is held in the hands of her master; she does whatever the master tells her to do. Who knows, after painstakingly training her for several years, she might end up becoming a manor physician for a wealthy family.

How could that be allowed?

She opened the Medical Academy for the purpose of helping more women be able to see a doctor.

The Minister of War was not annoyed, and in his heart, he thought of his own daughters...

Forget it, he wouldn't think about it.

They only liked composing poetry and had no interest in anything else.

There was no rush to find medical women in the Capital; when the time came, she would issue official seals to the teachers of the Medical Academy, and she wouldn't have to worry about not being able to retain talent.

After the Minister of Revenue returned, his face beamed with joy.

"Yan'er, if there were a place where you could learn medical skills, would you be willing to go?"

Chu Yan said hurriedly, "Father, I am willing. Where is it? Is it over at Doctor Qian's?"

The Minister of Revenue said, "His Highness is currently running a Medical Academy and is having Doctor Qian and the imperial physicians teach classes together. Father has secured a spot for you, but..."

Chu Yan's eyes lit up, and she hugged her father and acted like a spoiled child: "Father, you are the best!"

The Minister of Revenue continued: "It's just that it requires you to stay at the Medical Academy as a teaching assistant."

Chu Yan was obsessed with medical skills, so naturally, she was willing.

The Minister of Revenue also muttered: "Being a teaching assistant is quite good. I heard that the teachers at the Medical Academy are to be treated like those at the Imperial Academy, all counting as Imperial Officials."

Not many days later, every region began searching for suitable girls to go to the Medical Academy in the Capital to study medicine.

Everyone was racking their brains to try to send their daughters to the Capital.

That was a place where imperial physicians taught medical skills!

However, the rules for selecting people were somewhat strange: they did not want the daughters of officials, nor did they want the daughters of wealthy merchants. They would select one who was willing to learn medical skills, then investigate her reputation, and if it was acceptable, she could be selected.

This kind of random selection was like seeing who had good luck.

Someone asked with dissatisfaction: "Why not accept the daughters of wealthy merchants? Although my Wang family are merchants, we have done no shortage of good deeds in our daily lives. By what right can a merchant's daughter not be selected?"

The person who came to select them explained for once: "Because His Highness is worried that some people might rely on official positions or wealth to influence the selection."

The Head of the Family of the Wang family could only remain silent.

Indeed, this was the simplest and crudest selection method.

If it weren't for the time being so rushed, Yan Ning would have wanted to create an exam paper and let those who passed enter the Medical Academy.

Yan Ning, who was far away in the Capital, was currently discussing with her father how to select the medical students.

Imperial Academy, Science Class.

There were twenty people in the class in total, all of whom had mediocre grades but were relatively good at mathematics. The oldest was thirty, and the youngest was about the same age as Yun Shu, only fifteen years old.

There were thirty people in total who were selected to be able to enter the Science Class, but in the end, only twenty people chose to go to the Science Class.

Because they hadn't memorized the Four Books and Five Classics well and got dizzy when they saw a stack of characters, they could only take an unconventional path and try to join the newly established Science Class.

The courses taught in the Science Class were temporarily only Physics and Mathematics.

The Mathematics class was taught by two old gentlemen, plus Yun Shu, making three people; the Physics class was taught only by Yun Shu.

On the first day of the Science Class, they saw a fifteen-year-old youth holding a stack of books come out and begin to distribute the textbooks to them.

There were two books in total: "Basic Mathematics" and "Basic Physics".

Yun Shu said, "From now on, I will teach Physics, and I will also teach some Mathematics. These few days, you should flip through the textbooks yourselves; there will be a small quiz in seven days."

He pondered for a moment and added a sentence: "If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask me."

The people below the podium laughed non-stop.

What did he mean by "ask him if you don't understand"? A fifteen-year-old youth actually dared to make such wild claims.

And what was this about an exam in seven days? Where was there ever an exam right at the start of school?

Yun Shu looked at their expressions, which were within his expectations. He didn't react much and directly handed the textbooks to them.

Anyway, he only taught two days every ten days.

Take it or leave it.

After a few people received the textbooks, they frowned: "Why are these Simplified Chinese Characters, and why are they engraved in horizontal format?"

"Could it be that the person who wrote the book doesn't know Traditional Chinese Characters?"

"Geez, then how is he going to teach us?"

Yun Shu didn't expect that there would be people who would discriminate against using Simplified Chinese Characters.

He said with a cold face: "His Majesty and the Crown Princess are promoting Simplified Chinese Characters; do you have some sort of objection?"

The scene suddenly turned cold.

A few people even had cold sweat seeping from their backs; how could they dare to discuss the Crown Princess?

Fortunately, after Yun Shu finished distributing the books, he sat at the podium and began to write and draw.

What Yun Shu was writing was a graduate school final exam paper, copied from Yan Ning's Tablet Computer, just to pass the time.

There were only simple drafts and answers, basically without any steps written out.

While writing, he felt several gazes sizing him up.

Yun Shu frowned; these few people were truly...

Forget it, after teaching for these few days, he would go back to researching the Steamship.

In two days, he had written several Mathematics papers, but he forgot to take them when he left.

The next day, Doctor Jiang came over to teach them Mathematics.

Doctor Jiang was an old gentleman nearing sixty; although he was only an Eighth Rank official, he was erudite, especially in Mathematics, which he was quite formidable at.

The students, who were originally unruly and defiant, suddenly became like quails, not daring to speak.

Doctor Jiang said to everyone, "Everyone, look at the textbooks first; later, I will answer your questions."

Everyone immediately read their books quietly.

There was a messy pile of papers on the lesson plan; were a few of them Mathematics problems?

At this time, everyone was reviewing their books, and Doctor Jiang was quite idle, so he picked up those few Mathematics papers to look at.

There were a few relatively simple problems on the paper that he knew how to do, but he still wrote and drew, deducing for a long time, and the answers he obtained were exactly the same as the ones Yun Shu had written.

There were also some difficult problems for which he had no clue.

This exam paper was somewhat interesting.

It had been a long time since Doctor Jiang had encountered such challenging problems.

He didn't even care that he still had to teach, taking paper and pen to deduce those slightly more difficult problems.

He refused to believe that he could not solve the problems that Yun Shu had created.