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Compared with the high-profile of Tianqing Library, the opening of Jiangdan Library is much more low-key.

After all, the former is open to the public, while the latter only accepts students from the school.

The Jiangdan library is located in the Jiangdan Shushu, and they are all serious teaching aids, not as complicated as the Tianqing library.

There are quite a few reading rooms.The reading room also uses light-colored glazed windows, which is very popular among teachers and students in the school.Gentlemen like to prepare lessons here, and students like to study here.

As a friend school, Mr. Qingfeng, the Imperial Academy, felt a little pressure.

Before, everyone didn't think there was anything wrong with the window paper, but after seeing the Tianqing Library, they all felt that it was called bright.

No one has mentioned this request to Mr. Qingfeng face to face, and everyone knows that the glass window is expensive.Except for the lack of glazed windows, the other hardware facilities of the Guozijian are all top-notch.

"But, you see, there are Jiangdan Schools..." The students slammed their mouths, full of displeasure.

The relationship between the two schools is so good, some things cannot be said clearly.But their Guozijian is indeed higher than Jiangdan Shushu, right?Why doesn't their Guozijian have something that Jiangdan Shushu has?

The food in Jiangdan Shushu is better than theirs, and they don't care about it anymore. After all, the students in Jiangdan Shushu have to feed pigs and farm land, which they don't need.

But this library, this glazed window!

The thief wants it!

The students were discussing behind their backs, and it's not like the gentlemen didn't hear the news here, and they also murmured in their hearts.But they are much more sensible than the students, and they are all high-ranking court officials anyway, knowing that the funds for their Guozijian are allocated by the court.Even if the Guozijian has a little school-run property of its own, it usually costs money to improve the food and add teaching equipment.

Generally speaking, the Guozijian now has the money to simply build a small building. The most important books in the library can be said, and there are many books in the Guozijian itself.

But what open space is there in the Guozijian to build a building?How much would it cost to buy a piece of land next to the Imperial College?Liuli Chuang or something, it's better to dream faster.

Jiangdan Shushu is much better in this respect.If you want to spend money, Xu Mingxu, who is making sacrificial wine, just nods himself.

The Tu family is not short of money at all.

Jiang Dan Shushu has earned a lot of money from all kinds of miscellaneous studies over the years.

The glazed windows are all produced by themselves, and the Guozijian is simply incomparable in this condition.

The weather is getting hotter, and Mr. Qingfeng is very anxious by the atmosphere in the Imperial College. He slapped him with a big slap, and the new edition of the book borrowed from the Tianqing Library trembled on the table: "If you have time to think, you have something to do." No, you might as well think about the punctuation mark!"

A master twirled his beard, not very energetic: "What do you think about punctuation marks?"

Another teacher followed suit and yawned: "It's good to use. In the future, we should focus on using children's enlightenment books."

Literacy and hyphenation is a compulsory course for every reader.

However, with the increase in the number of literate people and the increase in the types of books, people who can read books are no longer limited to readers.For example, professional books such as "Nong Jing" are more necessary for farmers to understand.The use of punctuation marks is also added when printing.

The large-scale printing this time is just a few more punctuation marks.

Is the punctuation new?

no.When Pengcheng Printing Society first came out, punctuation marks were added, although there was only one period at that time.

Now it's just a few more punctuation marks, what's the big deal?Speaking of printed books, sentence punctuation has long been common.The difference between now and before is that a few punctuation points are added in the blank space of the sentence.

This kind of behavior has no effect on readers like them, but it greatly facilitates their reading for ordinary people.These ordinary people can obtain more knowledge more easily from some miscellaneous books, which in turn can better serve them, those in power.

Mr. Qingfeng was a little confused by the calm performance of his subordinates.Was he really the one who made such a fuss?

In the conference room, the gentlemen of the Guozijian were all bored and yawned one by one.

A while ago, I was very tired for proofreading and printing various books, and with the blessing of the warm spring breeze, I was in a state of falling asleep at any time.

When Xu Mingxu brought people in, no one noticed him for a long time.

He couldn't help laughing, and greeted softly: "Sir, I'm here." Then he said to the others, "I've kept you waiting for a long time."

In fact, there is still a quarter of an hour before the agreed meeting time, but no one cares about it.Xu Mingxu came out of the Imperial College, and everyone is his own.Although these gentlemen are also court officials, the nature of their work determines that they stay away from power struggles and their minds are relatively simple.

Mr. Qingfeng said that there are peaches and plums all over the world, but there are not many disciples who can be included in the door.Xu Mingxu was undoubtedly the one he was very satisfied with.

As soon as he saw Xu Mingxu, he showed a smiling face: "Come in when you come, what are you doing standing at the door?"

"Yes." Xu Mingxu is now the sacrificial drinker of Jiang Dan Shushu, and his official position is slightly higher than that of the gentlemen of the Imperial College, so he sat at the head of Mr. Qingfeng.

In his hand he held a large book that was one foot wide and two feet long, and not too thick, and in the other hand he held a cardboard box.

He put the two things on the conference table, and the muffled sound showed that the weight of the two things was not light.

A gentleman said: "Why don't you let someone help you carry such a heavy thing?"

The "weak scholar" who tossed hundreds of catties of stone locks every day smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's not too heavy." He pushed the big book to the middle of the conference table first, then opened it and said, " Our Dalang asked me to ask, what color do you want for the glazed window? Today we choose the color first, and then we can let the workshop start to make it later.

It's just that the workshops are slow to start now, and I'm afraid they have to change rooms one by one.It will take a month to replace everything.I have had the windows measured.

Yesterday, our Dalang went to discuss with Master Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, and gave us a piece of open space next door to the Imperial College.I'm going to build a library there, just across a street.Or shall we build a bridge within the two courtyard walls? "

He kept saying "our big brother", but the gentlemen had no time to make fun of him, and were all attracted by the big book in his hand.

Inside the large book that was opened, there were pieces of flat and square colored glaze the size of a palm, with colors and numbers marked on the underside of the colored glaze.

The sample book is divided into pages according to the color system, and each page is arranged from light to dark.Except that there is no colorless and transparent one, almost all colors are available.

The gentlemen's eyes lit up.

A sample book was quickly turned to the end, but before deciding what color glass window to use, there was still one problem to be determined.

Mr. Qingfeng said to his students: "Qilang, our Guozijian Library can build it, but I'm afraid we don't have the money to replace the windows."

Xu Mingxu was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then he smiled and said, "What are you talking about, sir? Dalang and I have been taken care of by the gentlemen. Now that we have the ability to change a few windows for the Imperial College, can we ask the gentlemen to pay for it?" ?”

After some courtesies, the gentlemen are not pedantic people, so they quickly selected a light-colored colored glaze.

Xu Mingxu carefully wrote down the number, put the sample book aside, and then opened the cardboard box that was just put aside, there was a stack of books inside.

The number of books is enough for each person, and he distributed them first: "This is a new enlightenment textbook compiled by the students, and the use of punctuation marks is added in it."

There are quite a few families of big men, but there are only a few textbooks for children's enlightenment.These so-called newly compiled enlightenment textbooks are actually typesetting and printing according to the original textbooks with punctuation marks added, and they are divided into volumes according to the difficulty of the content.The newly added content, as Xu Mingxu said, is just the meaning and usage of punctuation marks.

Although Guozijian is in charge of the education of the world, it pays more attention to cultivating high-end talents. In short, it is a place dedicated to cultivating imperial officials for the country.For these enlightenment textbooks, they feel that they are not bad, but they are only good.

"good."

Xu Mingxu also knew this, so he didn't continue the discussion, but took out another document and distributed it to the gentlemen as usual: "Students still have a little immature idea here. Regarding the promotion of Mandarin..."

Guanhua, generally the dialect of the capital city established by the state power, is called Guanhua, and it was called Yayan in the early days.

However, times have changed and dynasties have changed countless times. All kinds of Mandarin are now very confusing. In some places, the students and teachers can't even speak Mandarin, and they all use dialects.

If they're local all the time, it's not a big deal.But once they leave the local area and some officials with outstanding political achievements enter the central government, some chicken-and-duck talks will happen.Some places with strong accents even require translation.

If it's just a conversation between people of equal status, it's okay to use an interpreter; but if a courtier meets the emperor, can the courtier take an interpreter with him?

The emperor asked a question, and the emperor couldn't understand a word of the content of his own answer. Do you still want to be promoted?

Leaving aside these contents, during the court meeting, the two sides set up a battle to tear each other up. If you are so imposing, if others don't understand what you say, what's the point?

Don't think this is just unfounded worry, many of these are from Tu Hao's personal experience.He has not been an official for a long time. When he was a good scholar, he did a lot of translation for Uncle Zhang.That is to say, he has many refugees from all over the world, so he can understand some local dialects.However, it is not uncommon for him to encounter a situation where it really doesn't make sense and he can only talk with a pen in the end.

This is true of officials, and even more so of many businessmen.

The Han Dynasty has a vast territory, and the dialects of different regions are very different.

The problems brought about by this language difference are not only low communication efficiency, but also sometimes some fallacies in information transmission.

Xu Mingxu has traveled to many places, and his family's property is spread all over Dahan, so he has a deep understanding of this aspect.Recently, he was relatively free, so he brought up this matter.

Naturally, Tu Hao's help was indispensable.

The current Mandarin is not the same as the Mandarin he used in his previous life, but he is someone who has seen it anyway, so it is okay to give Xu Mingxu an entry point.Anyway, it was about the initial consonant and the final consonant. As for whether it was a phonetic alphabet or an old-fashioned phonetic alphabet, it didn't matter to Tu Hao.

He personally prefers the phonetic alphabet, but in terms of the usage habits of people in this era, he is not sure which one is more used to.For example, he once taught his subordinates to use Arabic numerals, and more people in the outside world still use more accustomed codes to keep accounts.

He himself feels that it doesn't matter, the main problem is the habit of using it.As for unification in these areas, that is not his job, but Master Zhang's job.

The author has something to say:

Remarks: The old-style pinyin is the original pinyin used in the Republic of China period, including the current Taiwan area (ㄊㄞˊㄨㄢㄆㄧㄣㄧㄣ← like this); the code in the text is Suzhou code (〡〢〣〤〥〦〧〨 〩十←[-] to [-]), but the overhead background, let’s empty Suzhou_(:з」∠)_

Uncle Zhang (.皮.メ): Don't find me a job, I want to go out to play!

Prince Tuantuan (-ω-): Go, go, I'll take care of you.

Master Uncle Zhang (. 炸. メ): Hey!I'm still here, so you're about to rebel?

Prince Tuantuan (-ω-): Then you do it, I will nourish the liver.

Uncle Zhang (.皮.メ): I don’t know how to help Lao Tzu work, it’s not filial!

Prince Tuantuan (￣ω￣): ...Does the big fat dad want your mother to beat you up?

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