Chapter 22 Becoming the Prince's Chamberlain and Formulating a Plan for Transforming His Thoughts
In March of the fourth year of Tianxi, Meng Ming's filial piety period expired, and he returned to Tokyo from Beihai County, his grandmother and mother and sisters and sisters also returned, and Uncle Xiang's family also came. Now I'm bringing my kids to Tokyo. Because my father is filial piety at home, I came to help. Meng Ming went home to make arrangements, and called Qin Li, the head of the farm, Han Ziyi, the shopkeeper of the bookstore, and Jiao Fu, the housekeeper of the house, together to get to know Uncle Xiang; And set up a banquet in Fanlou to entertain grandma, uncle and aunt, that is, a family dinner. At the same time, he called these principals, shopkeepers, and stewards. During the banquet, Meng Ming also talked to Uncle Xiang about some of the situation at home in Tokyo, and in the past two years since his father was away, he asked him to temporarily preside over the overall situation, mainly responsible for the bookstore and farm; The internal affairs of the family are taken care of by the mother. This time allowed Uncle Xiang to familiarize himself with the business. Meng Ming sorted out the income of the past three years, and the net income of the family was 1.1 million yuan. Meng Ming was also a little dumbfounded, but his mentality quickly calmed down, Tokyo has a population of 1.5 million, and it is not a strange thing that he is worth more than a million, it is very much.
When Meng Ming was worried about whether to report to the prince, the imperial court came to the imperial decree again, asking Meng Ming to be the prince's attendant, became the prince's lecturer, and asked him to report the next day. Meng Ming thought about it, according to historical records, Zhenzong will die next year. Soon entered the era of Renzong, although Song Renzong is a rare benevolent monarch in history, but there are also many people who evaluate him as "indecisive", "lenient and less decisive", that is, "indecisive and lack of perseverance". In fact, the formation of this character, according to historical records, Liu E has an unshirkable responsibility. Liu E listened to the government after Zhenzong's death, she had an arbitrary personality, dismissed all the ministers who opposed her from the court, and took care of all political affairs, and the government had to be approved by her. After listening to the government for another eleven years, Renzong basically had no right to speak, so he caused the character characteristics of "indefinite" and "lenient and less decisive". The situation is very different now than it was in history. With Kou Zhun and other auxiliary ministers here, Liu E also has great constraints. Therefore, Zhao Zhen has room to think about political affairs, has the right to speak, has the right to decide, and is independent in thought. If you add culture in the future, there will be no leniency and less breaking.
The next day, Meng Ming went to the Prince's Mansion, Yan Shu and Chen Zhizhong were still there, and now Wang Zeng, Lu Yijian, and Lu Zongdao were added, all of whom were future prime ministers. The companions are still Cao Yu and Guo Shouxin, so they added Zhao Yunchu, the son of King Jing, who is also Zhao Mingyue's younger brother. Meng Ming wants to talk about the "Pinyin Literacy Law", "Three Character Classic", "Di Zi Gui" has been promoted throughout the country, this "Pinyin Literacy Law" because no one understands, it has not been promoted, in fact, "Pinyin Literacy Law" should be promoted first, this is the initiative of the Red Dynasty in later generations, it is a literacy weapon in the early days of the liberation of the Red Dynasty, and tens of millions of people have lost their illiteracy. Before that, Meng Ming made a small wooden blackboard, and made chalk and chalk erasers, which he brought with him today.
There are a total of 63 Chinese pinyin. Among them, there are 23 initials and 24 finals (6 single finals, 9 compound finals, 5 anterior nasal finals, 4 posterior nasal finals,) and 16 are read as a whole. 23 initials: b p m f d t n l g k h j q x zh ch sh r z c s y w; 24 finals: 8 compound finals ai ei ui ao ou iu ie üe 1 special finals 1 er, 5 anterior nasal finals an en in un ün, and 4 ang eng ing ong after nasal finals. The advantage of pinyin is that the pronunciation is accurate, and the pronunciation of the cut rhyme method is inaccurate due to the different accents in different places. There may be more than a dozen pronunciations of a word. Pinyin can unify pronunciation and form a unified official dialect.
Meng Ming came to the first lesson, and he fixed the blackboard to the wooden frame and wrote on it with chalk. Today, I taught 6 a o e i u ü in a single vowel, and Meng Ming taught it according to the learning method of his childhood in his previous life. Every time Meng Ming recited a pinyin, he asked the prince and his companions to read along, comparing the mouth shape and pronunciation position. The prince and his companions quickly learned. Meng Ming re-listed the Chinese characters with the same pronunciation on the alphabet, which was more intuitive. I saw that these princely lecturers who came also listened with relish. Meng Ming's teaching methods are very different from theirs, which is heuristic and interesting. He also added a few fairy tales and alphabet songs as he spoke. So students learn fast and remember well.
Meng Ming finished speaking for three quarters of an hour. Then Lu Zongdao talked about the article "The Ruler is Lenient", but it is just a rehash of the same old tune, and there is nothing new at all. It can be seen that he is an old-fashioned and upright person. People say: Zongdao is upright, evil and less tolerant, dare to speak out in case of trouble, not for petty. He seemed dissatisfied with the way I taught. Yan Shu was talking about poetry, and he actually talked about Meng Ming's "Breaking the Array. For Kou Xiangfu to send the strong words of the Battle of Lanzhou", he talked about the writing and allusions in it. Chen Zhizhong is talking about the scriptures.
Until the end of the class, it was almost an hour and two minutes. I was about to go home after class, and was stopped by Lu Zongdao on the way, and said: "Meng Shi said, please stay, the old man wants to disturb him", I stopped and saw Lu Zongdao said to Meng Ming: "Meng Shi said that the prince will inherit the unification in the future, and he must teach the prince to be square, not Meng Lang, your teaching pharaoh does not agree," but an upright person. Meng Ming said: "Master Lu, I think it's inappropriate, the kid is taught." However, children are not specialized, and they need to use special methods, which goes against their nature, and often achieves half the result. Therefore do not teach it in the way of adults." Regarding Lu Zongdao's point of view, Meng Ming could not let him change, and Meng Ming said: "Master Lu, my point of view is: "Practice brings true knowledge", and time will prove everything." After saying that, Meng Ming retreated. Lu Zongdao was also reflecting on what I said for a while. He stood for a long time before leaving.
In the past, all dynasties and generations respected Confucianism, but Confucianism was more suitable for moral education, and it was of positive significance for the cultivation of personal character and for standardizing the moral standards required by society. But it is not very suitable for governing the country. Many dynasties were "Confucianism and Confucianism". In the Great Song Dynasty, before the emergence of science, there was still the style of the Tang Dynasty, the society was still open, did not move towards conservatism or even imprisonment, whether it was from the folk customs, or to social thought, the new things were not excluded, but treated rationally. Meng Ming's ideas and teachings would never be accepted in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and were regarded as heretical. The coming era of Renzong is the most humane era in history, and it is also the best era for scholars, and there will be no punishment for words, and there will be no literary prison. However, in the later period of the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, the ills of the Song Dynasty were numerous, and the Song Dynasty began to decline. His Shirenzong Zhao Zhen had a chance, the famous Qingli New Deal in history, but in the end it was gone. It is because of Renzong's "indefiniteness", "leniency and less judgment", and character determines the ass. It should be too late to change his mind now, after all, Renzong is only eleven years old.
Meng Ming felt that to change Renzong's thinking, he had to change the concept that many outdated ideas left over from thousands of years should be eliminated. The current imperial examination only examines scriptures, theories, and poems. Scientific knowledge that promotes social progress is not valued, arithmetic is not the mainstream, and the status of craftsmen is low. Meng Ming decided to establish a university: based on science and engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry and other subjects. Cultivate professional and technical personnel. Meng Ming is now fighting alone, and urgently recommends a team of like-minded people. And planted these ideas in Renzong's head. In this day and age, reform is top-down.