Establish the Thirteenth University!
This was what Lu Wenzheng had been plotting all along.
The influence brought by a university was simply too great—politics, the economy, comprehensive martial strength, and so on. Its impact was all-encompassing!
As the Imperial Inspector of Feng Province, a true High-Ranking Regional Official and a Level 17 official, Lu Wenzheng—
If he rose one more level, he would reach the pinnacle of Great Blue Dynasty's civil official system.
Yet someone of his stature had to be constantly overshadowed by Datong Prefecture within his own jurisdiction. That was something Lu Wenzheng could not tolerate.
Thus, he and his family had been quietly planning to establish a new university all along.
The Great Blue Dynasty had a total of twenty-three provinces, yet only Twelve Universities. There were not enough to go around for every province.
It was not that the imperial court did not want to establish more universities. Rather, establishing each university involved massive resource subsidies, and the imperial court simply could not provide that many resources.
Therefore, establishing the Thirteenth University was not something that could be accomplished overnight.
Especially when Feng Province already had a Wu'an University.
The turning point came several years after the Twelve Universities were established. An imperial cabinet minister argued that the Twelve Universities' educational methods were too "gentle." The students they cultivated lacked trials of life and death, like flowers carefully sheltered from the elements, and their growth potential was inferior to that of the great sects of the martial world.
But the Twelve Universities had only recently been established, and everything still needed time to be tested. In the end, the matter came to nothing.
Lu Wenzheng, however, saw an opportunity in it. He began secretly maneuvering through the Lu family's influence, spending more than a decade laying