Chongzhen Undergraduates

The first class the students attended was very special. Zhu Youjian arranged for everyone to visit various equipment.From small parts to swords, all utensils are disassembled.

The ancients said: Look at a thousand swords and know the weapon!

Zhu Youjian has no time to teach the most basic theoretical knowledge, so these students must start by observing the structure.

Almost all of Daming's daily utensils are included here, and Zhu Youjian stands in front of each item to explain.He said what he thought, and then, several recorders followed behind him, including Ding Jixing of course.

This time, a full ten days.Zhu Youjian is really tired, very tired.This was more tiring than his fighting in a rock, so tired that he fell asleep directly on the pillow.

Wang Chengen walked into the dormitory lightly, took off Zhu Youjian's shoes, slowly flattened his body, and then glanced at Ding Jixing next to him.Ding Jixing fell asleep on the chair tilted, holding a notebook and pen in his hand.

Together with another guard, Wang Chengen lifted Ding Jixing to another bed and laid him flat.Then he closed the door gently and let out a long breath.On the field outside, a large group of students were still arguing with each other about the method of making this certain item.

"Order the kitchen to add a dish tonight, stewed braised pork." Wang Chengen said to the guards.

"Stewed meat again, their life is too good." The guard swallowed unconsciously when he heard the braised pork.Every time the students eat meat, these guards can only watch, and it will be their turn when the students finish eating.

"You want to eat meat? It's a pity you lost their lives. Boy, if you can understand what's in that textbook, you can eat meat too." Wang Chengen knocked the guard on the head.

"I can't, I can only move two hundred catties of stones." The guard stuck out his tongue in embarrassment.

"Who wants to eat meat?" Princess Changping ran out from the corner, startling Wang Chengen.

"Okay my princess, why did you come here in such hot weather?" Wang Chengen hurriedly pulled the princess from under the sun to under the eaves.

"Father asked me to come, and said that I will be the teacher here in the future." Jiu'er was very happy, as soon as he left the palace, he seemed to be a different person.

"You are a teacher? What teacher?"

"Arithmetic teacher. My father said that I have no problem teaching them arithmetic now. Besides, I am both a teacher and a student here. I am also the first female student here."

Science and engineering, of course, mathematics.But Daming has no qualified math teachers, so Zhu Youjian can only transfer Chang Ping to teach the students.At the same time, she is also the first female student here. She and her companions belong to another college, which is the business school next door.It is still under construction.

When eating in the evening, Chang Ping picked up a few large pieces of braised pork and stuffed them into his mouth at the same time. He didn't look like a royal princess at all. A large group of students looked at her in surprise.

"What are you looking at? Carefully goug your eyes." Jiu'er threatened Bi Xiangdong.

Zhu Youjian happened to be passing by, and he tapped Chang Ping's head with his fingers: "You girl, why do you eat so much fat. Be careful of too much fat."

"What is fat?" Ding Jixing's question immediately popped up. Zhu Youjian sighed, and then sat beside Jiu'er, explaining what fat is.

After talking about fat, let’s talk about carbohydrates, and then talk about protein, then talk about cellulose, minerals, and vitamins.When these were finished, there were three layers inside and three layers outside.The food in the cafeteria is already cold.

Wang Chengen was in a hurry, there were so many people surrounding the emperor, he couldn't squeeze in, he could only jump around outside and stare blankly.

Curiosity is the driving force behind all learning.Zhu Youjian is very pleased that this group of students are very curious, so the learning progress is very fast.

Chapter 62: Let Words Spread Faster

Zhu Youjian is not satisfied with this progress.

But there is no way, the cultivation of talents is not something that can be accomplished overnight.Even if a steam engine fell from the sky now, these students would not be able to build it just by looking at it.

Under the current conditions, either choose students who know the basics of cultural courses; or choose young craftsmen who know technology.

This question is a good choice. Although the students can read and write, they don't know anything about technology.Although most craftsmen are illiterate, they know how to do it.

In Central Plains culture, everyone wants to learn from people who manage people, but despises people who do things.

The students of the Institute of Technology still need a lot of knowledge imparting, but Zhu Youjian doesn't have much time, he can only stay here for half a month at most.

In the remaining half a month, he taught another subject, the English alphabet.

In order to prevent the students from knowing that this is written by foreigners, Zhu Youjian borrowed the pinyin usage of later generations to cover up the original meaning of the English letters.

Because the formulas in science and engineering or middle mathematics use a large number of letters, Zhu Youjian has no ability to create substitutes.

There is no pinyin in Ming Dynasty, and literacy is passed on by word of mouth.Or use homophones to mark; the other is to cut characters, using two Chinese characters to phonetically mark another Chinese character.

No matter what the method is, it is very difficult and the speed of transmission is very slow.The complexity and difficulty of Chinese characters is the reason why education cannot be popularized. After the Opium War, only people with insight could cut the pronunciation of Chinese characters.

Zhu Youjian also thought of this question when he saw the students taking literacy classes.How to quickly popularize knowledge is the current top priority.

As for whether it belongs to the Han family, who would really care.

Alphabet lessons are easy to learn, and a nursery rhyme is enough.For young people, a little hard work is nothing more than that the letters are not easy to write with a brush.

The second alphabet lesson is pinyin.For a set of letters, two different pronunciations, everyone is very strange.

When Zhu Youjian used letters to fully mark the pronunciation of Chinese characters, Ding Jixing was completely restless.He has enough reasons to be shocked, thinking how difficult it was for him to learn to read, and the past situation is vivid in his memory.

"Emperor, Your Majesty. This pinyin..." Ding Jixing was trembling, too excited to speak.

"You like it? I'll give you the naming rights!" Zhu Youjian didn't care, anyway, he still wanted to try his best to ask for it.

"What is naming rights?"

"It means you invented it."

"Ah! You can't do that. You'll be struck by lightning if you do so."

Zhu Youjian scolded in his heart: Boom your sister!I have stolen too many things, you are cursing me clearly.Let this matter be on your shoulders today, so you don't have to bombard me more.

"Wang Chengen, remember. As long as the students learn pinyin, this method of phonetic notation will be called 'Ding's phonetic notation' in the future." Zhu Youjian smiled at Ding Jixing.

This is how Ding's phonetic notation was born.

Zhu Youjian didn't expect how much change would be brought about after the solution of the phonetic notation problem.More than ten years later, people discovered that the literacy rate of Ming Dynasty increased exponentially after the spread of the phonetic method.

Ding Jixing also became an expert in Chinese characters because of the naming rights.

Before Zhu Youjian left, another [-] young craftsmen were transferred from the Ministry of Industry to the Polytechnic Institute.

These people are not counted as students of the Academy, but as apprentices.Responsible for helping the first [-] students, each student leads four apprentices.

"Father, I want an apprentice too." Jiu'er pouted and said.

"Don't you have twenty?"

"They are almost surpassing me, so they don't need me to teach."

"Learning so fast?" Zhu Youjian didn't expect that this group made the fastest progress.

"Not everyone is fast, but the fastest learners among them are Cheng Xin and Tong Meng."

It is possible for a group of people to have several geniuses.Zhu Youjian was very happy. Although the Central Plains culture has always paid attention to liberal arts education, there have always been geniuses appearing in the first subject of mathematics.

Among Princess Changping's [-] people, most of them are the sons and daughters of officials in the capital, so it's normal to have a little background.Moreover, the teaching materials for arithmetic are ready-made, and there is no need for Zhu Youjian to formulate them separately.