"Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate ......"

The Mutual Aid Primary School next to the Wendeng County Ya has already started classes, considering the various ages of the students, Li Kuan did not let Chu Suiliang distinguish between Mengxue and primary school, and directly distinguished them according to their literacy level, and divided them into six classes.

"Brother Liu, this is the newly established school of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, most of the masters in it are invited by Chang'an City, and even His Royal Highness the King of Chu will occasionally come to teach in person."

Chen Jin and Liu Wenfei have already sold the first batch of goods, and Wendeng is prosperous.

"Brother Chen, is it really allowed here for the children of our merchant family to also go in and study? If His Royal Highness the King of Chu teaches in person, wouldn't they be considered the prince's protégé? ”

Liu Wenfei was quickly weighing in his heart whether to take his son from Chang'an like Chen Jin.

"Not only the children of merchants can go to study, but also the children of craftsmen in the name of the East China Sea Fishery, shipbuilding workshops, salt drying farms, etc., can also go to learn, because of this reason, craftsmen from all counties in Dengzhou Prefecture have been running to Wendeng recently, and they all want to join various workshops."

Chen Jin obviously made some understanding, after all, it was related to his son's future.

Chinese people have always attached great importance to education, and ordinary people have no way to support scholars; But whoever the family can afford to support, basically they will give full support.

The Mutual Aid Primary School does not charge tuition, and also provides books for free, and each student only needs to prepare pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Even, if there is a certain level of craftsman in the workshop, the children's school is free of charge, and lunch is also provided.

"It seems that His Royal Highness the King of Chu is preparing to leave something to do in Dengzhou. Brother Chen, I will arrange for the old servant at home to return to Chang'an in a while and bring the dog over to school here. ”

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Shipbuilding workshops.

"Qian San, I heard that your eldest and second lang have been sent to Mutual Aid Primary School?"

"Yes, Steward Wang said that I brought four apprentices, and my performance was very good, and I specially allowed my two children to go to school together."

"That'...... Is your salary enough? I heard that reading is very expensive, and in the past, the son of the landlord's family in our village could read it, after all, a book cost two or three yuan. ”

After lunch, there is a half-hour break in the workshop, and these craftsmen, who have been busy for most of the day, gather together to chat with each other and gossip about various things.

"The Mutual Aid Primary School didn't charge me money, saying that it was free admission, but Steward Wang said that he wanted me to take my apprentices well, not hide my secrets, and build this clipper boat as soon as possible."

Qian San smiled innocently, with a happy expression on his face.

"No money? Are you sure? The workshop also provides lunch for everyone to eat, which is surprising enough, I didn't expect to be able to send the baby to school, I also quickly asked someone to let my eldest brother come over to help, his skills are much better than mine. ”

……

In the corner of the Mutual Aid Primary School is a newly built library where Chu Suiliang's compilation team for the Tang Dictionary is based.

"You Shao, what do you think of the initials and finals according to this?"

The first person invited by Chu Suiliang was Shangguanyi, who was also in the Hongwen Pavilion that year, Li Kuan was also very powerful, and he was transferred from Chang'an to the Chu Wangfu as a gongcao to join the army and participate in the compilation of pinyin and dictionaries.

He was accompanied by Xu Jingzong, who served as Hucao to join the army, and there were several other scholars who had newly entered the Hongwen Pavilion.

To be honest, when Li Kuan saw these two names, he was still stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Chu Suiliang's eyes to be so vicious, and the two people he selected were prime minister-level figures who left famous names in history.

A few of them were responsible for compiling pinyin and dictionaries, and Li Kuan was completely relieved.

Of course, in order to improve efficiency, Li Kuan will also "inadvertently" give some opinions, such as pinyin can be divided into initials and finals, and the dictionary can be sorted according to radicals and pinyin.

Every time Li Kuan put forward some small opinions, he could get the admiration of several future prime ministers, which could be regarded as making Li Kuan have a good time.

"Dengshan, this is basically the same as what we discussed a few days ago, but there are two or three changes in the finals, I think it's okay to follow this, just let those people in the school try it out and see how it works."

If Shangguanyi was a little emotional at the beginning, then now he is willing and wholeheartedly involved in the compilation of pinyin and dictionaries.

Everyone is not a fool, and naturally knows what a great achievement this work will be, and what a great opportunity to be able to participate.

So, these days, almost all of them are soaked in this library.

Anyway, the candle shop has an unlimited supply of whale oil candles, even if you want to stay up all night.

"Didn't the prince let those craftsmen come to the night school at night, or we would let these craftsmen try some pinyin first. Many of them are illiterate, which is just used to test the effect of this pinyin. ”

Xu Jingzong put forward his opinions on the side.

"The Yan tribe's proposal is good, we can go over and teach it tonight."

Chu Suiliang felt that Xu Jingzong's proposal was very good, and immediately prepared to put it into action.

There is no way, Li Kuan's time is very tight, he is afraid that if he does it slowly, this "fat job" will be given to others.

"The printing workshop is next to the school, should we print a part of the "Thousand Character Text" with pinyin first? In this way, those craftsmen can also learn the pronunciation of Chinese characters on their own when they return home. ”

A few people gossiped and basically made a plan.

Next, the most time-consuming thing is to incorporate commonly used Chinese characters into the dictionary and annotate them with the corresponding pinyin.

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"Lord Wang, these sailors have been trained by us for many months, do you really want to let them go?"

Recently, several groups of people from Chang'an have come to Dengzhou Prefecture, and several of them want to participate in the fishing at sea.

As an experienced fisherman in the East China Sea, its sailors were naturally the first to be dug up, and Tuesday Fu came to the county office early in the morning to find Li Kuan, for this matter.

"Erfu, these people have all come to visit me before they came into contact with the sailors of the East China Sea fishery, and this king has no objection in principle."

For Datang to turn his attention to the sea, Li Kuan alone is definitely not enough; So people like Xiao Kai obviously came to pick up the bargain, Li Kuan didn't refuse, and even took the initiative to help.

This kind of thing, as the captain of the East China Sea fishing industry, must be more difficult to understand.

"Lord Wang, if this happens, we may have to go further in the future, and the price may fall."

"These influences are naturally known to the king, but Erfu, you have to look forward, there are more people going to sea, and everyone will naturally put more energy into shipbuilding and training sailors, which will eventually promote the development of the fishing industry, and we can also benefit from it."

No matter what Zhou Fu thought, he was finally executed according to Li Kuan's opinion, and this directly made the sailor of Dengzhou Mansion a very popular profession.