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Qin Hui then became the loyal lackey of the King of Liang.
To facilitate the teachers and students of the Imperial Academy
A canteen was also established in the Imperial Academy.
The imperial court also provides subsidies to students of the Imperial Academy.
One thousand coins per month.
The imperial court would also provide accommodation for impoverished students selected from other regions.
It can be said that the imperial court provided many convenient conditions for the students of the Imperial Academy.
This is so that these students can focus on their studies.
After completing their studies, they will serve the imperial court.
These are basically continuations of Song Dynasty policies.
The food in the Imperial Academy's dining hall was comparable to that of some restaurants in the city.
Some of the dishes are even famous throughout the city.
The famous "Imperial Academy Steamed Buns"
It was made in the Imperial Academy's dining hall.
Later, he received praise from Emperor Renzong of Song.
Famous
Merchants in the city bought the recipe for a high price.
They still sell them in the city under the name of Taixue Steamed Buns.
Chapter 1734 Physics Textbook
The steamed buns at that time were actually the baozi of later generations.
The steamed buns that Wu Dalang sold were the modern steamed buns.
Taixue steamed buns were essentially meat-filled dumplings.
It tastes delicious.
On one occasion, Emperor Renzong of Song, Zhao Zhen, came to inspect the Imperial Academy.
The food served at the Imperial Academy that day consisted of steamed buns.
After eating the steamed buns, Emperor Renzong of Song immediately praised them,
"To support scholars in this way is a way to have no shame!"
The emperor's golden words of evaluation,
The Imperial Academy steamed buns were immediately made known to spread throughout Tokyo.
This attracted merchants to purchase the product.
This made Taixue steamed buns a famous snack in Tokyo.
I had lunch at the Imperial Academy's dining hall.
Take a short break.
Zhao Yuan then headed to Kaibao Temple, surrounded by teachers and students of the Imperial Academy.
Many city dwellers saw Prince Liang leading the teachers and students of the Imperial Academy through the streets.
They followed behind, filled with curiosity.
It's making a bigger and bigger splash.
When we arrived at Kaibao Temple,
Several thousand people had already followed behind.
The monks in charge of receiving guests at Kaibao Temple were so frightened that they almost closed the temple to visitors.
Zhao Yuan ignored the temple abbot and the others who came to greet him.
Instead, he led everyone toward the iron pagoda in the temple.
The Kaibao Temple Iron Pagoda is not actually made of iron.
Instead, it is a brick tower.
It's just because the glazed tiles on the surface are iron-brown.
It looks just like an iron tower.
Therefore, it is called the Iron Tower.
The tower is 180 feet tall and has thirteen stories.
Each layer is an equilateral octagon.
The iron pagoda of Kaibao Temple is famous.
It's not because the Porcelain Tower is famous now,
Rather, it's because he has a wealth of allusions and stories.
When the Kaibao Temple Pagoda was first built, it was not a glazed tile pagoda.
It was a wooden tower.
The original Kaibao Temple wooden pagoda was built under the supervision of Yu Hao, a famous craftsman of the Song Dynasty.
Octagonal and thirteen-story
Three hundred and sixty feet tall,
Above, a pagoda housing a thousand Buddhas and ten thousand Bodhisattvas was erected, and below, a heavenly palace was built to enshrine the Buddha's relics.
It took eight years to complete.
When the wooden pagoda was first completed,
The officials and common people in the city then discovered that the wooden pagoda was not straight.
Instead, it slopes towards the northwest.
Yu Hao is a renowned master craftsman.
Naturally, no one would doubt that he hadn't designed it properly.
So, out of curiosity, he asked Yu Hao the reason, and Yu Hao replied...
"The capital is flat with no mountains, and is mostly windy from the northwest."
"It will be corrected in no more than a hundred years."
This tower is extremely magnificent.
It is the tallest of all the towers in Tokyo.
Moreover, the system is very sophisticated.
Its magnificent architecture,
The brilliance of gold and jade
These are all unprecedented.
Therefore, it was praised as "the best in the world".
Unfortunately, this magnificent wooden pagoda designed and built by Yu Hao only lasted for fifty-six years.
It was struck by lightning and burned down in June of the fourth year of the Qingli reign of Emperor Renzong of Song.
By then, the wooden pagoda had already been straightened by the northwest wind.
People all over the world are still curious to see if the story of the wooden pagoda will continue.
Will it tilt towards the southeast?
Yu Hao is hailed as "the reincarnation of Lu Ban" (a legendary master craftsman).
He also authored the three-volume *Mu Jing* (木经).
It is an important architectural treatise from the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, people felt that Yu Hao couldn't have simply thought about issues only a few decades in advance.
Perhaps after the wooden pagoda is blown upright,
It also helps to resist the northwest wind.
The arrangement should not allow it to tilt towards the southeast.
But a fire made it impossible to find out the answer forever.
Five years later,
Emperor Renzong of Song then issued an edict to build this iron-colored glazed brick pagoda, modeled after the wooden pagoda.
Similarly, it was initially tilted towards the northwest upon completion.
Then, under the constant blowing of the northwest wind,
Slowly become positive.
At this point, it had already begun to tilt towards the southeast.
However, it is not noticeable without careful observation.
Although later craftsmen imitated Yu Hao's design,
But they didn't have Yu Hao's abilities.
They couldn't build a 360-foot tower.
They had no choice but to reduce the original height by half.
They built a 180-foot iron tower.
Many people who come here specifically to see the Eiffel Tower are not actually there.
Instead, they were reminiscing about the reincarnation of Lu Ban—Yu Hao.
What Zhao Yuan needed to do was to conduct the experiments Galileo did at the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Choosing the Eiffel Tower,
It is also a tribute to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
However, the Kaibao Temple Iron Pagoda undoubtedly has a more legendary history than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is due to poor design.
This caused the tower to begin leaning during construction.
Therefore, work was temporarily suspended.
However, the Kaibao Temple Iron Pagoda was designed with wind factors in mind from the very beginning.
The leaning tower was intentionally created.
Finally, it straightened again under the influence of the wind.
Moreover, Zhao Yuan's experiments were more rigorous than Galileo's.
If the two experiments are conducted simultaneously
Zhao Yuan was also confident that the Iron Tower Experiment would be remembered for all time.
The Kaibao Temple Pagoda was originally built to enshrine the relics of King Ashoka.
In order to make believers worship,
An open space was left in front of the tower.
Several feet away from the iron tower,