Fu Tang

After Li Congjia got the news, his first reaction was to turn his head to look at Shi Xueting: "Why do I have another younger brother? Are there still people who try to get relatives out of thin air these days?"

Shi Xueting was also a little surprised, and hurried to ask someone to investigate, but after the investigation, he said with a look of disbelief: "It's Li Congshan."

Li Congshan?The former Southern Tang prince?

Li Congjia was completely confused: "No... isn't he already dead? I sent someone to look for him before, how did he get into Pang Qian's hands?"

Although Li Congjia didn't care much about his brothers, he wasn't indifferent to the point of letting them die, especially Li Congshan, who was quite unlucky. It wasn't his turn to be the prince, but Li Hongji was outraged by the public, and Li Congjia ran away quietly. As a result, he could only face the difficulties.

Of course, Li Congshan may be more willing to be the prince, but he certainly doesn't want to be a prince of subjugation, or a prince of subjugation where the emperor ran away and left him to procrastinate for time.

So Li Congjia never gave up looking for Li Congshan. He asked Shi Xueting to send someone to look for him before the Zhou Kingdom split, and it turned out that Li Congshan was killed when the Zhou Kingdom was in turmoil. At first, Li Congjia didn't believe it. However, the news that came back later was that Li Congshan was dead, so he gave up looking for it.

Now tell him that Li Congshan is in Pang Qian's hands?

Li Congjia felt extremely headache at that time. If the country was in danger, he could completely ignore Li Congshan's life and death and let his subordinates attack directly. very urgent.

That is to say, if Li Congjia insisted on fighting, some people would think that he was a cold-blooded monster who was too aggressive, who didn't even care about his own brother's life or death.

In fact, if possible, Li Congjia did not want to ignore Li Congshan's life, but he felt that now is the best time, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, even if they can't take it down, at least half of it will be taken down, so Datang still has some barriers to stop it. Khitan invaded, otherwise, I'm afraid it will be the same as the Song Dynasty in history. I have been thinking about Yanyun sixteen states for many years, but I can't get them back for many years.

Li Congjia said depressingly: "How did Li Congshan get there? He is really capable. Since he can run, why didn't he come to us?"

But before Shi Xueting could speak, he explained himself: "Probably he doesn't trust us."

In fact, it should be Li Jing who Li Congshan doesn't trust, but in Li Congshan's eyes, Li Congjia, as a vested interest, probably isn't trustworthy either.

"Let's have a meeting."

Even if we stop, we have to discuss it with everyone, and think about how to rescue Li Congshan by the way, but this is probably a lawsuit with Xiuguo, so Li Congjia thought about it and called the cabinet directly.

After everyone was seated, Li Congjia said calmly: "Everyone knows about the situation in Xiuguo, so let's all share our thoughts."

Zhou Zong and others looked at each other, but it turned out that Wang Pu stood up. Li Congjia was a little surprised. In the past, everyone would pay attention to seniority and ask Zhou Zong to say a few words first, and then the people below continued. Why did Wang Pu speak first today?

Just when Li Congjia was wondering, he heard Wang Pu say: "My Majesty, the sad prince Li Congshan passed away a long time ago, and the one with Xiuguo must be a fake."

Prince Ai was conferred on Li Congshan after Li Congjia came to power. After all, he was formally established as a prince by Li Jing. It is impossible for Li Congjia to ignore his existence, but he was indeed unlucky, so he was given such a posthumous title.

Li Congjia's first reaction after listening to Wang Pu's words was: What the hell?

He looked around in a daze, and then heard Zhou Zong say: "The false emperor Pang Qian's methods are really disgusting, how could His Majesty be confused by him?"

Zhou Zong sensed that Li Congjia wanted to retreat. In fact, except for Li Congjia, everyone else was worried that he would retreat. From the standpoint of the country, the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were much more important than Li Congshan. Li Congshan is not their family member, so they can look at this matter objectively and rationally.

The only thing they were worried about was that Li Congjia was acting on his emotions. Judging from his past behavior, he was good to his brother. They heard that he wanted to reform something because of his brother two days ago.

It was only then that Li Congjia realized that these people were planning to...don't admit it!

Regardless of whether he is the real Li Congshan or not, they insist that it is a fake anyway!Prince Ai's posthumous title has been given, and the living must become dead!

Li Congjia never expected that these people would be so straightforward. It took him a long time before he whispered, "But...but if it's really Liulang..."

"Your Majesty!" Li Hongji stood up and said, "You can't be impulsive for the sake of the country and the people of the world. Qilang died young, and I am also heartbroken, but I can't be used by villains because of this!"

Li Congjia looked at Li Hongji for a while, and then said sleepwalkingly: "Then... then... please trouble Xu Cifu to write the book."

Xu Xuan responded emotionally: "I will live up to your Majesty's trust!"

After everyone left, Li Congjia went back and told Shi Xueting what happened today, and asked after a long while: "You said...they agree so much, did they decide to give up Qilang long ago?"

Shi Xueting said: "Everyone is also thinking about the country."

In fact, Shi Xueting had thought of this possibility before. After all, he doesn't really believe in the integrity of those people. When facing national affairs, as long as they can achieve their goals, these people will be as rogue as possible. , but Shi Xueting was not ashamed to tell Li Congjia directly before, and always felt that if he really said it, it would be like he was talking bad about others.

And it would be nice for Li Congjia to experience it for himself, but Shi Xueting knew Li Congjia after all. Although Li Congjia didn't say it, Shi Xueting also felt that he had a sense of crisis.

Li Congjia's sense of crisis is that if these ministers join forces to force him to make a decision, he alone may really be unable to resist these people.

No wonder the emperors of all dynasties liked to pay attention to checks and balances, and they were unwilling to let all the ministers form a group.

It's just that Li Congjia just thought about it. He still has confidence in the bottom line of moral integrity of those under him.

As long as this bottom line is kept, Li Congjia thinks it doesn't matter if he gives in a little bit.

"Forget it, let them do it, I'd better do what I'm good at."

Li Congjia knew without guessing that after Xu Xuan finished writing this letter, he probably could scold Pang Qian so much that he wanted to vomit blood.

In fact, Xu Xuan was also very rude. First of all, he accused Pang Qian of being despicable and indecent. He actually used the dead to make a fuss. It is an offense to Datang that a random person from anywhere dares to pretend to be Prince Ai.

To sum it up: boy, we won't take your threat, wash your neck and wait, I will beat you in two days.

Li Congjia felt very satisfied after reading the Calligraphy. Xu Xuan was able to grasp the key points and elevate his personal image a bit: it actually said that he was so sad that he was being used by others and could not sleep at night.

In fact, Li Congjia really couldn't sleep at night, but the reason was not because of Li Congshan, but because he discovered that the implementation of simplified Chinese characters...it's not easy at all!

First of all, the simplified characters of later generations not only simplified the strokes, but even merged many characters into one character, which led to the emergence of polyphonic characters with different homonyms, and these polyphonic characters naturally have different meanings.

However, most of the characters are still divided, so to simplify, it is not just to make out the simplified characters in his mind, he has to re-analyze these characters systematically, which parts need to be simplified and which parts cannot be simplified , how to simplify the specific effect.

Li Congjia just thought about it roughly, and felt that his brain was about to explode. This kind of thing is simply not something that one person can handle.

Li Congjia thought about it. Anyway, except for the Yanyun sixteen prefectures recently, the Tang Dynasty is in a state of recuperation and has no major political affairs. What I often do is to run to the academy.

As a result, Li Congqian and Li Congxin were very hard-pressed. Before that, the two of them were like bullies in the academy.

Although the students in this college are relatively equal in front of the teachers, there is absolutely no equality between students. These two are the emperor's younger brothers. Don't say that no one dares to make trouble for them. Even if they make trouble for others, others will I can only admit that I am unlucky.

And these two guys have been spoiled by Zhou Ehuang since they were young. After all, Zhou Ehuang knows where his future position is, and he is always worried that he can't take care of these two children. He will be accused of not being qualified to be a mother. The lady stared at it with red eyes, she didn't want to lose her position because of such a little thing.

So these two little overlords bullied this one every day, and robbed that one. Many teachers in the academy also turned a blind eye to what many children would do because what they did was not too much.

But ever since Li Congjia started running to the academy, these two classmates of the little bully were so excited that the little bully didn't dare to bully anyone anymore!

Then... Li Congjia has a group of fans, at least for children of this age, who can suppress those who bully them, Li Congjia is strong enough, not to mention that every time he meets Li Congjia occasionally, Li Congjia will talk to them in a pleasant manner, Occasionally, I can give them two pieces of candy to eat, good people, big good people!

Fan Zhi was also very surprised that Li Congjia came over so frequently: "I thought that Your Majesty just came on a whim."

Li Congjia said with a smile: "This idea may have come up on a whim, but I really want to try it. If it can be simplified, it will be much easier for future records."

Fan Zhi thought about it seriously and said: "Since ancient times, characters have been constantly changing. Your Majesty wants to simplify. This is not a problem, but I have read some examples of simplification proposed by Your Majesty. This is not acceptable."

Li Congjia was a little unconvinced: "Why not?"

This has been verified by my big rabbit country for decades. At least the literacy rate has reached a very high proportion. Can you tell me no?Just kidding?

Fan Zhi said: "Many of our current characters are evolved from oracle bone inscriptions, and many of their glyphs can ensure that students can think of what it is after seeing the character, but after simplifying... I can't get it out. "

After hearing this, Li Congjia said, "You mean pictographs?"

"Pictographic characters?" Fan Zhi repeated it, nodded vigorously and said, "Well, the meaning of this word is very accurate, that's what it means. If you change it, it will only be more difficult for students to learn."

After hearing this, Li Congjia was very puzzled. He didn't find it very difficult when he was studying.

Thinking back to when he was in preschool education... Fuck, when he was studying, he first learned Chinese Pinyin!

We all know that Chinese characters are notoriously difficult to learn. Latin languages ​​are basically the kind of existence that you can speak and write, but Chinese characters are not, so the appearance of Chinese pinyin is basically an indirect reduction. The difficulty of learning, at least knowing the pronunciation, is always much easier.

Today's students do not have Chinese pinyin, so they can only understand the meaning of words through the shape of the characters, and many even have to memorize them by rote. Isn't it difficult to learn?

Thinking of this, Li Congjia was a little timid. He could simplify the text, because after all, it was simplified on the basis of the current text, but things like Chinese pinyin... forget it.

Although Datang had exchanges with Western countries in the past, there were not many literary exchanges. Most of them were foreign countries who admired the culture of Datang and came to Datang to learn.

More importantly, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, for many years to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Central Plains had almost no contact with the outside world, not even the Western Regions, let alone farther Western countries.

In this case, even if someone has explored the Western language family before, I am afraid that there are not many, and the inheritance has even been broken.

Li Congjia, who is the farthest person who has been to Shazhou, suddenly came up with Latin-based pinyin. Anyone can see that something is wrong, okay?At that time, if you are not careful, you may lose your vest.

But Li Congjia was not reconciled. There are benefits to simplifying characters, at least literacy will be easier. He thought for a while and said: "This is not urgent. If this is the case, why not find some experts to study how to try our best to simplify the characters. Let’s take a look at these characters, and there are some more uncommon characters. I will write a complete book of rare characters, and record all kinds of meanings on it. If you can use them, you don’t need them. If someone sees these characters in historical materials and books in the future, they don’t understand the meaning. , how about letting them go to the Daquan of Rare Chinese Characters to find the meaning?"

Fan Zhi was quite moved. He had no strong objection before. As a great Confucian, how could he live without pursuit?

Everyone knows that he was a good official, and he has been devoted to his duties all these years. However, the most mentioned about him in later generations is an official of Zhou State. There may not be any records after he surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. If he can participate in this Biography didn't dare to think about the matter, but how can it be mixed up with a name that goes down in history, right?

Li Congjia's proposal this time was not returned. Fan Zhi said that he would discuss it with others. Li Congjia directly dropped Xu Kai and threw it to Fan Zhi and Wei Renpu.

In fact, he also knew that Wei Renpu might not be able to help much in this matter, but he and Fan Zhi used to be ministers in the same dynasty and came here together, so it is not good to favor one over the other. How to deal with it will give Fan Zhi a headache.

When he came back, Li Zhongyu asked: "Father, I heard from my husband that the simplified characters are just for more people to learn?"

Li Zhongyu didn't remember the word literacy, so he had to use his own understanding to describe it.

Li Congjia was a little surprised that even Li Zhongyu knew about it, but he didn't keep it secret, so he nodded and said, "Yes."

Li Congqian next to him asked, "Brother, is it easy to write after simplifying?"

If Li Congjia dared to say that it was true before, but now, Li Congjia is not sure and can only say: "It depends on the final result, but it must be simpler than the current one."

He can guarantee this. If he can't guarantee this, then it is meaningless to proceed with this matter.

Li Zhongyu couldn't help asking: "If you want more people to study, why simplify the characters? Wouldn't it be better to let those people also go to the academy to study?"

You are a pig, you can write less after you say simplification!Li Congqian and Li Congxin glared at Li Zhongyu, so what about the prince?The prince is also their nephew!

Li Congjia looked at Li Zhongyu with some surprise. He never expected that this kid would be a good seed to promote compulsory education. This idea is very good. Li Congjia readily decided to write it down first and let Li Zhongyu do it in the future.

But now he has to explain.

Li Congjia said: "It is unrealistic for everyone to go to school. Many people's learning conditions are not good and their study time is limited. Most of them give up because it is too difficult to learn characters. More people know him, and if everyone is really allowed to study in academies, there is still a big problem-where can I find so many academies?"

Li Zhongyu suddenly realized, he touched his head in embarrassment and said, "It's my son who thinks so easily."

Li Congjia patted him on the shoulder and said: "Your idea is good, but before you think of any solution in the future, first think about whether there is any imperfection."

Li Zhongyu nodded seriously, Li Congjia thought for a long time, but still didn't tell Li Zhongyu the core issue, of course, this also had something to do with Li Congqian and Li Congxin being beside him.

In fact, the main reason for not promoting compulsory education is that it will cause a backlash from the scholar-official class. Now it is simplifying the text, which will reduce the burden on everyone. If he doesn’t say it, maybe not many people will think of it. It is easier to read characters.

The promotion of compulsory education is adding competitors to the broad class of scholar-bureaucrats. They must not agree. Even if Li Congjia is the emperor, if the scholar-bureaucrats collectively oppose or secretly resist, this plan can only be aborted.

Why is Rabbit Country successful?That's because the Rabbit Kingdom has been destroyed and then established, and the so-called aristocratic families have almost disappeared. At that time, there was an extreme shortage of talents, much less than Li Congjia now.

Such a large country urgently needs talents to develop, even the scholar class can't resist this kind of thing, and the scholars in that period also hoped that more scholars would appear to develop the country.

Today's Tang Dynasty is not facing such a severe situation. It can be said that these years of wars have really suffered great losses. It is the common people who are difficult to recover, and the scholar-bureaucrat class has basically been preserved.

Given Li Congjia's [-] courage, he would not dare to tell these people ostentatiously that I want to dismantle your benefits and distribute them to the common people.

So he can only do it a little bit, starting with simplifying the text. Anyway, once the text is simplified to a certain level, it will be easier to learn, and more people will learn it. This can be regarded as indirectly achieving Li Congjia's goal.

As for things like making everyone in the world literate...it can't be done in the future Rabbit Country with such a high literacy rate, so he doesn't want to challenge himself anymore.

But what Li Congjia cares about is the inheritance of some characters proposed by Fan Zhi. The simplified characters in Li Congjia's mind have indeed been simplified to the extreme. In fact, characters are also a process of continuous elimination. If some characters are really not suitable for use, then eliminate Li Congjia would not feel such a pity for them.

He just suddenly remembered another thing from this incident. From ancient times to the present, many historical materials and inheritances are sometimes lost not because of writing, but because of the damage caused by war. After all, there are always some crazy guys. The first thing to do in a palace or something is to set fire to it. With this fire, it is unknown how many books have been burned.

The folks are even more miserable. The inheritance is cut off because there is no record, and then too many people die, and many crafts will be lost. If simplified characters can be implemented and these people can record their crafts, then even if they encounter wars in the future, There is always the possibility of saving it.

After Li Congjia asked Fan Zhi and the others to work on the general outline of simplified characters, he turned around and issued an order: He wants to collect books from all over the world, regardless of the genre!