I write novels in the East Palace

Literacy education is easier said than done, especially at the grassroots level.Even in the era in which Zhou Chengyi lived, the Literacy Department was not abolished until after the millennium, which shows how heavy the task is.

Although only 14 million people are registered in the Ministry of Household Registration, the lack of transportation makes the gap between these [-] million people greater than that of [-] billion people, and the social structure where the main production force of the small peasant economy cannot keep up is also doomed. The difficulty of reading and class solidification.

Zhou Chengyi knew without thinking about the difficulty of promoting literacy education.

Mere punctuation marks are enough to make most of the Confucian scholars who read sage books use their tongues as arrows and pens as knives to implement verbal criticism in an attempt to snuff out the flames, let alone literacy education, which can directly collapse the monopoly system of academic elites policy.

But these are not Zhou Chengyi's considerations. He has always only been responsible for proposing, and occasionally participated in the resolution process. As for the difficulties and pressures, just leave them to his cheap father.

Anyway, he believed that the emperor must see the great benefits behind the difficulties of this policy.

Zhou Chengyi put the consequences behind him and began to think about suitable means.

When it comes to literacy, Zhou Chengyi first thinks of reading and writing. Reading corresponds to pinyin, and writing corresponds to simplified characters.

Fortunately for the latter, from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the present, the transformation from big and small seal script to official script and then to regular script, in fact, the birth of each typeface is a process of simplification. would be too hindered.

As for pinyin, dictionaries have existed since ancient times, and so have phonetic symbols. Zhou Chengyi is also not worried that his proposal to re-study more convenient and useful phonetic symbols will be rejected. Dissatisfied.

This kind of question is useless, you still have to find someone to experiment, and there is an experimental field called Nanshufang in the palace!

Zhou Chengyi produced the pinyin list silently all night, and got a few phonetic fragments along the way, most of which were the drafts of his "Fox Dream".

It's a coincidence that South Study Room held a "teacher-student get-together" today to welcome homeroom teacher Du Bingruo and subject teacher Luo Yi who had just finished taking the exam and got their grades on the spot, but had been on duty for nearly [-] days ahead of schedule.

——Speaking of this matter, it was because Zhou Chengyi was forced to supervise the country, and he was too busy to find time, so he simply put pressure on the Ministry of Officials, set up an internship, and let these two people in first to fill his vacancy Besides.

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials is a rigid person, and most of the people under him are solidified in their thinking, and they keep saying that they are not in compliance with the regulations. Zhou Chengyi backhandedly threw out the teacher evaluation system that is still being tried in the South Study Room, showing a friendly smile, "I think this seems to be placed on the You six are also very suitable."

The next day, Du Bingruo and Luo Yi came to South Study to report.

It was precisely because of this "welcome party" that almost all the masters who taught in the South Study Room were there, not only Ou Luoye, but also Grand Master Shen.

When they were above the imperial court, they didn't feel anything at all. Now that they have restored their respective identities, Zhou Chengyi looked at this old man who was over fifty years old with inexplicable embarrassment. In fact, Zhao Guangfu and others also felt a little embarrassed when they saw Zhou Chengyi.

The prince is usually approachable and approachable. Although there are always quarrels, they never really blush. They are also accustomed to treating the prince as a colleague. It was not until the "disaster relief and corruption" case that shocked the government and the public that the prince's brutal methods made them suddenly realize. , Chu Jun is also a king.

Both parties were a little silent, but Taishi Shen, the party concerned, remained the same, nodding his head in an easy-going greeting, "Good morning, Your Highness."

Zhou Chengyi also returned the gift, handing out the things in his hand, "You guys have a look at this."

He turned his head and wrote the pinyin table and the corresponding pronunciation on the blackboard completely.

Grand Master Shen was the first to reach out, but he didn't expect that his hand was black, and what he got was Zhou Chengyi's draft before he got out the quill pen. He was instantly shocked by the dog crawling characters, and couldn't bear to look directly at it.

Afterwards, Ou Luoye also got the manuscript of Goupao, but as a foreigner, his calligraphy is not very good at the moment, so he is not qualified to laugh at him. He immediately focused on the phonetic notation, and said in surprise, "Roman letter!"

His country was split from Rome, and it was not surprising that he could recognize it at a glance.In fact, he also used the Roman alphabet for phonetic notation when learning Chinese. He tried to get started, but found that he couldn't spell it at all.

Zhou Chengyi was halfway through transcribing when he heard the strange pronunciation behind him, he bent his fingers and tapped twice on the blackboard, "Here is the pronunciation, try again."

Afterwards, the correct pronunciation was pronounced one after another, and the key was basically unified. If there were individual mistakes, Zhou Chengyi would correct them aloud.

No one thought it strange that Zhou Chengyi knew the Roman alphabet, just like Fan language, the natives thought they learned it from foreigners, and the only foreigner thought he knew it.People from both parties will not ask questions about the "knowledge" answer, and Zhou Chengyi always shows it openly, without feeling guilty at all.

Therefore, no one doubted Zhou Chengyi.

After listening to him finish all the pronunciation and usage, Grand Master Shen said thoughtfully, "This accent is not Chang'an official dialect or Luoyang official dialect, it seems to be from Yandu?"

Yandu is the Beijing of the later generations. It was the capital of Yan State in ancient times, so it got this name.

Zhou Chengyi expressed his affirmation and gave his own explanation, "The terrain in the south is rugged and the dialects are mixed. The mandarin has been popularized in the north for many years, and the accent is relatively uniform because of the military strategists. Although there are differences, most of the words are interoperable. It’s a lot less, so a compromise is taken.”

"It makes sense." Grand Master Shen nodded, "Your method is better than the ancient method of homophonic notation, so it should be widely used."

Considerable affirmation was given.

Lu Guangfu read the short manuscript in his hand twice to the phonetic notation table, and it was rare that he did not raise any objections.

Du Bingruo couldn't put it down even more, and said with great joy, "This method is very wonderful. As long as you learn this pinyin table, even if you don't ask others for help, you can know the characters you don't know through phonetic notation."

Everyone also saw the beauty of this method and nodded repeatedly, but there was no objection, and they even took the initiative to propose that this method should be promoted.

Zhou Chengyi, the radical group, was underwhelmed and conservative, and quickly pulled him back, "I think this method should be tried in the South Study Room for the time being, and we'll see the effect."

Everyone agrees.

Zhou Chengyi later talked about simplified characters, and it happened that his original manuscript had a lot of simplified characters, so he used them directly.

In this regard, the masters are divided into two groups. Some people think that the simplification is too much and the original intention is lost.

Zhao Guangfu is one of them, and the first to bear the brunt is the dream word in "Fox Dream": "Dream, dreaming during sleep. The clover on it means that the eyes are not clear, and the lower part means that people are in bed at night, and it is just a dream." After omitting it like this, it loses its meaning, which is not beautiful.”

Luo Yi objected, "It's not lacking in the upper eye, and it's also in the lower night. The changes are clear and appropriate, and the redundant cumbersomeness is removed."

In short, the two sides debated endlessly and could not reach an agreement. In the end, they both suppressed it for the time being, and only agreed on one point, that is: to get a dictionary with phonetic notation.

After Zhou Chengyi asked the question, he sat next to him drinking tea and watching the play, waiting for them to quarrel, and when the quarrel was almost over, he retreated as if he had finished his career.

They didn't wait for others to react at all.

Simplified characters were suppressed, but the teaching of pinyin was in full swing, and a special class was even taught, which was also spread to the emperor.

The emperor even agreed to the simplified characters, and handed it over to the Hanlin Academy.

Zhou Chengyi always felt that the emperor agreed too quickly, as if there was some conspiracy waiting behind.

Sure enough, a few days later, the emperor suddenly asked him to go to the government hall, and when he entered, there were only Prime Minister Fang, Zhong Liyue and Jiang Shangshu.

Jiang Shangshu was Jiang Yusheng's father, Jiang Shilang. After the prince's supervision of the country ended, the emperor returned home. The Minister of Industry, Shen Taishi, etc. submitted their resignation forms.

Jiang Shilang was promoted to be the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, but Jiang Yusheng didn't know why he didn't visit the Imperial Academy with his colleagues, nor did he enter his father's base camp, the Ministry of Industry, but went straight to the cradle of the Ministry of Housing without looking back.

The household department has gone through a lot of turmoil, ransacked homes, detained more than half of the vacancies, and even the minister was dismissed. Now it is in a high-pressure environment where he dare not do any small tricks. Jiang Yusheng obviously has a better job. Choice, but no hesitation.

It was only later that Zhou Chengyi found out that Jiang Yusheng entered the household registration department for the convenience of checking the household registration, and wanted to find Zhi Ge and the fourth young master.

That's right, this person is also a participant in the folk "Looking for the Fourth Young Master" activity, and he can even be called a veteran.

"Everyone is here, sit down." The emperor waved his hand, and Wang He immediately asked the little eunuch to bring four chairs.

The emperor has been busy with political affairs recently, and he talked as if he was on a schedule. After greeting him, he cut straight to the point and pointed his eyes at Zhou Chengyi, "I can help you promote simplified Chinese characters and pinyin, but there is one condition."

Zhou Chengyi realized that it was definitely not a trivial matter for the emperor to say that, and he had an inexplicable premonition that this matter might be related to the conversation he had with the emperor earlier.

What a great deal the emperor proposed to exchange at equal value. If you don’t take it for nothing, you have to go further and take more!

Zhou Chengyi's thoughts moved slightly, and he raised his hand to interrupt, "Father, I want to do more than that." But the chicken thief didn't say that he wanted to engage in literacy education.

"I can agree to anything else." The emperor rubbed his eyebrows, his expression was a little tired, he didn't think so far, and only promised, "As long as you can handle this matter well."

Zhou Chengyi succeeded in his treacherous scheme and immediately said: "A gentleman will never back down on his word! Father, if you have anything to do, just tell me, and I will do my best."

But the emperor paused, raised his eyes to scan him, "It seems that it's not a trivial matter where you are."

"It's okay to go back on your word now, father, you'd better talk about yours first." Zhou Chengyi signaled.

The emperor leaned forward and said slowly, "I have decided to recruit female officials for the imperial examination."

The author has something to say: Little Theater

Emperor: Let the prince go if there is trouble.

Zhou Chengyi: If you want to make trouble, find your father.

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