Chapter 124: Pinyin and Punctuation
"By the way, Yuan Hao, how are the textbooks prepared for the opening of the academy?"
Jinling Academy is about to open in ten days, and Yuan Shu still attaches great importance to his future talent training base.
Tian Feng said: "It's all been printed." Some of the books you have given your special account have already been compiled and printed. ”
Yuan Shu nodded: "Have you read the book I asked people to compile Kang Degong?" What's the reaction? ”
Tian Feng remembered the excited reaction of the respected Zheng Xuan after reading these two books, and said with a smile: "Kang Degong is very shocked and excited, thinking that this is a literary change, which is beneficial to all the people in the world, and I hope we will promote it as soon as possible." ”
Yuan Shu seemed to see the old man's shocked expression, and smiled secretly: "That's good." Since even Kant considered this method desirable, he would not object to anything compared to other scholars. Then the promotion of pinyin and punctuation began to be implemented in all colleges. ”
That's right, in order to be able to increase the number of poor talents, Yuan Shu decisively came up with another big killer, pinyin and punctuation.
Prior to this, Yuan Shu distributed enlightenment readings in various academies that he specially sent people to compile, which were thousand-character texts, hundred family names, and arithmetic scriptures.
In the past, although the enlightenment reading materials of the Han Dynasty were not bad, they were still more simple and practical in comparison with the thousand-character text and the surname of the hundred families.
As for the arithmetic, it was compiled by Yuan Shu based on the nine chapters of arithmetic and the mathematical knowledge of modern elementary schools, excluding the Arabic numerals and calculation symbols. After all, these things are easy to be attacked and will not be accepted by many people.
These three enlightenment books were specially selected by Yuan Shu. Generally, children should be able to master it in a year, and then they can at least use it for practical purposes, without worrying about food and clothing, and it is not in vain for them to work hard for a year.
As for those with good grades and fast learning, they will naturally be discovered by the master and sent to the academy in the state and county to receive a better education.
Yuan Shu designed a relatively complete system of admission and rewards. As long as a student can be admitted to a state or county academy, not only will the student be rewarded, but the master will also have a lot of rewards and merits.
Relying on these three books, Yuan Shu also gained a lot of prestige among Shilin. Many families have chosen these three books as their initiation readings.
Now when it comes to Yuan Shu, everyone thinks of not only the son-in-law of the Yuan family, the third prince of the fourth world, not only the princes of one party, but also a rich and talented person.
In fact, Yuan Shu originally wanted to sort out the three-character scripture, but this thing is more complicated. Each subsection is an allusion, Yuan Shu asked the people under his command to consult the classics, and now more than 600 words have been made, and the remaining 1,000 words Yuan Shu intends to do charity.
The talents under his command have a lot of shining points, so I choose a little bit of stories to add and let them follow suit. In addition, the families also have a lot of inventory in their hands, and if Yuan Shu can add some of their ancestors or even individuals, these families will definitely be willing to pay "some" price.
After all, the thousand-character texts and hundred family names compiled by Yuan Shu are all classics, and they will spread throughout the Han Dynasty within three years at most, and they are likely to be passed down through the ages.
And the Three Character Scripture is even more classic than the former, as long as Yuan Shu reveals a little bit of information and gives them a chance to pass on their fame for centuries, these families will definitely go crazy one by one.
But it's a bit of a waste to release it now, and in two years, the thousand-character text, the hundred family names and this pinyin punctuation will spread all over the world, and Yuan Shu will be ruthless.
And now that Yuan Shu wants to promote pinyin and punctuation, the benefits of this thing are obvious, and with these two things, the difficulty of learning Chinese has been reduced by at least half.
However, this thing infringes on the interests of the family and the scholars of the Han family, and Yuan Shu's hard promotion may cause public outrage. Therefore, Yuan Shu waited until Zheng Xuan agreed and supported the promotion of this matter.
After all, those scholars learned knowledge one by one, and they learned to read and write with great effort. However, Yuan Shu now made it more difficult for them to obtain the knowledge that they had paid a lot of effort to obtain in an instant, and it was greatly reduced. How can this balance their hearts? Not everyone is very open-minded.
It's like you worked hard to get admitted to college, but as soon as you were admitted to university, Yuan Shu announced that you can be admitted to university next year, and the score will be reduced by a part, and the difficulty will be reduced by more than half. How can this be easily accepted?
But in order to strengthen the poor family and cultivate more talents, this thing still has to be done, so in order to avoid the resistance and slander of the scholars, Yuan Shu had to pull out such a banner as Zheng Xuan.
What the? You say this is against tradition? Even the great Confucian Zheng Xuan, who has spent his life studying and sorting out ancient cultural heritage, supports it, do you know the tradition better than him?
You say these are disrespectful to knowledge? Even Zheng Xuan, a Confucian who traveled the world and worked hard for most of his life, didn't say anything about his hard work, and he supported this matter, what qualifications do you have to object?
The name of Confucianism is not Zheng Xuan's self-styled! It is recognized and worshiped by the whole world. The whole world can be counted on two hands worthy of this title. In the hearts of the people of the world, they represent nobleness, gentlemen, and truth!
Even Zheng Xuan supported this matter, and no one dared to express any opinion unless a few more great Confucians unanimously opposed it.
And those Confucians are full of discipline one by one, even if they have some selfishness and scruples, they are unwilling to speak out in support. But it will never go against the integrity of one's heart and oppose it against one's heart.
This is the style of Confucianism in this era. The head can be broken and the blood can flow, but the beliefs and bones cannot be changed.
As long as these pinyin and punctuation are successfully promoted, coupled with the thousand-character text and hundred family names compiled by Yuan Shu before, Yuan Shu's prestige among Shilin will definitely rise to a new height.
Not to mention anything else, even the great Confucians such as Zheng Xuan and Cai Yong have to put Yuan Shu at a level, not to mention other scholars.
Relying on his power and the small knowledge of his previous life, Yuan Shu was able to cast an unbreakable golden body alive.
In the future, in terms of academics and in Shilin, people who did not have a certain weight in what Yuan Shu said would never dare to speak out against and question.
After the three-character scripture comes out, Yuan Shu's reputation is definitely comparable to Zheng Xuan. Even if Yuan Shu did everything in physics and chemistry later, the other scholars would not oppose and attack. At most, he will only feel that he is lonely and unheard, and his knowledge is shallow, and he will sigh at Yuan Shu's erudition.
As a monarch, Yuan Shu can't wait to add more labels to himself, such as the god of war, the god of war, the great Confucian, etc.
However, Yuan Shu's small figure and cleverness, it is probably impossible to establish prestige in the generals, and he can only rely on plagiarism to mix up some reputation among scholars, ordinary people and craftsmen. For example, Yuan Shu is now about to have the name of virtue and wisdom.