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Emperor Chongzhen had actually anticipated the demand for talents. After the factory guard's news was confirmed, he immediately summoned Sun Yuanhua, the Minister of Rites, who temporarily took over the post of Minister of Rites.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Xu Guangqi's apprentice and asked with a smile: "Does Sun Qing know what they are talking about in the teahouses and restaurants in the capital?"

"I don't know, I don't know." Sun Yuanhua was also an old man in his fifties, but he suddenly rose to a high position because of his teacher. He was a little panicked. He couldn't answer the emperor's questions for a while, and he looked a little flustered.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw it from above, he said straight to the point: "There should be a shortage of talents such as shopkeepers and clerks in business. You can find out about this by walking on the street."

"Your Majesty, your Majesty!" Sun Yuanhua didn't know what the emperor meant by this, but he thought that the emperor was definitely right when he said this, so he flattered him a little.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about this. He looked at Sun Yuanhua and said, "Xu Qing should have mentioned it to you before he left. One of his ambitions is to teach new knowledge to the people of the Ming Dynasty. Now, the opportunity has come!"

"..." Sun Yuanhua was a little confused. He knew about this, but he couldn't understand what the shortage of shopkeepers and assistants had to do with it. Besides, if the court had money, it could still impart new knowledge to the people of Ming Dynasty. What does it mean that the opportunity has come?

He was a little embarrassed when he didn't understand, so he had to bow, look at the ground, pretend to listen, and wait for the emperor to finish what he said.

Emperor Chongzhen knew that his ideas were not something that ordinary ministers could follow, so he continued to speak slowly: "The Ming Royal Cement Company and the Ming Construction Bank need a large number of manpower. The recruitment of these manpower must be qualified and the candidates must be selected on the basis of merit. There should be no doubt about it!”

This is easy to understand, Sun Yuanhua nodded. But he still didn't understand, what could this have to do with that?

"But there are too many people to recruit, and there are probably fewer people who want to be qualified. Even if they can be recruited, the original employer of these people will be short of people. What should we do?" Emperor Chongzhen said this and finally told his story Purpose said, "The best way is to train some qualified talents in a short period of time."

Having said this, he picked up a notebook from the imperial case, handed it to the chamberlain beside him, and passed it to Sun Yuanhua. At the same time, he said: "Here are a set of rules for pinyin annotation. You can take a look at it first. If you can simplify it, Some, or if you can optimize it further, then optimize it a little bit more, and then label all Chinese characters according to this, and then publish it all over the world. Well, you can set up a printing dictionary company under the name of the Ministry of Household Affairs to specialize in selling this. If you want to imitate others Anyone who steals printing will be arrested by the government!"

In the original history, literacy with pinyin annotation also appeared in the late Ming Dynasty, that is, "Qieyun Shengyuan", but it was not until the end of Chongzhen period. At this time, Fang Yizhi, the author of "Qieyun Shengyuan" and later known as one of the Four Young Masters of Fushe, was only eighteen years old and still a young boy, doing some angry youth things.

Emperor Chongzhen was afraid that Sun Yuanhua still didn't understand, so he explained: "The clerks and shopkeepers must be literate first. With this set of pinyin annotation method, as long as they learn the rules and have a dictionary in hand, aspiring people can , you should be able to learn by yourself. I believe that some people will learn it in order to change their lives."

At this time, Sun Yuanhua had already looked at the thing in his hand, but he couldn't understand it very clearly. Fortunately, if he continued to look at it, there were Chinese characters that were reversed to annotate the pinyin, so he could know how to pronounce it. But even so, he was still confused.

Emperor Chongzhen saw it clearly and smiled in his heart again: "I have already explained it in the inner study hall. I will call a chamberlain to explain it to you later. At least in the inner study hall, this set of pinyin annotations is useful. You should pay attention to it. Of."

"Wei Chen obeys the order!" Sun Yuanhua was relieved upon hearing this. He remembered that the emperor had just allowed him to set up a company under the Ministry of Rites for this purpose, and he suddenly felt very motivated. If you mention this kind of thing back home, someone will definitely rush to do it.

Emperor Chongzhen picked up another book from the imperial case, and asked his chamberlain to show it to Sun Yuanhua. At the same time, he said: "This is another piece of arithmetic and financial knowledge that I compiled after reading the Western learning presented by Xu Qing and you. . Please take it and spread it out. Among the clerks and shopkeepers recruited, whoever understands this first will be given priority."

Having said this, he paused, thought for a moment and then said: "You can have people teach the clerks and shopkeepers in the capital, explain these knowledge, and then organize exams. But remember one thing, this kind of teaching and solving doubts is to gain It is to have more available manpower in a short period of time. It can be carried out in different levels. For example, if you are illiterate, but you can understand these common senses; if you are literate, you can also understand these common senses. It is best. A certain fee can be charged to make this event possible. That’s it.”

This is similar to the training class of later generations. It is purely voluntary. I hope that under the stimulation of economic power, I can use this basic knowledge to open up an opening for the old reading system and slowly start to spread it.

Emperor Chongzhen's purpose was naturally to wait until economic conditions allowed and the Ming people's ideological concepts changed, to promote so-called miscellaneous studies, promote compulsory education, and systematically study from an early age. Otherwise, without these preparations, even if the court has money, there will definitely be great resistance to direct promotion. After all, the ideological concepts at this time were still mainly based on the classics and history, and they had to take the eight-legged essay.

Haha, money can make the world go round! Let’s use the economic stick to slowly grind it with you. Emperor Chongzhen thought in his mind. Seeing Sun Yuanhua, a supporter of Western learning, holding the thing in his hand, although he did not object, but still half understood, he knew that this would not be that easy, but as long as he did it, he would eventually be able to promote the pace of Ming technology. , moving forward slowly.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen did not place any hope on how quickly the Ministry of Rites could get these things done. Therefore, he is already doing it in the inner study hall, which is equivalent to walking two paths together.

After all, the emperor has absolute authority in the inner study hall, and the eunuchs can do whatever they want, and no one will nag about it. The inner study hall is an excellent experimental field!

Seeing Sun Yuanhua leave the palace, Emperor Chongzhen stretched himself and entered the chat group to take a look as he habitually did when meeting his ministers.

When he saw that there were private chats in the group, he clicked on the chat mode filter and chose to display only private chats. Suddenly, the chat area only displayed the content of the private chat. After spending some achievement points to check, I found that it was Wei Mulan reporting Lu Xiangsheng's battle report to Liu Xingzuo.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be very happy. It is true that Lu Xiangsheng fought well in the first battle, wiping out a thousand Jianlu prisoners, while his own side only suffered 21 casualties, and the Korean volunteers suffered more than 500 casualties. More importantly, a lot of food was seized, which can at least alleviate the food problem in the Lower East River.

Haha, North Korea is now a bit like the Anti-Japanese War in later generations. Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly made a sound and remembered something.