In the history of Chinese dictionaries, Shuowen Jie Zi has a high historical status.

It is the first Chinese dictionary arranged according to radicals, the first to give a specific explanation of the "Six Books", and the first Chinese dictionary to systematically analyze the glyphs of Chinese characters and examine the etymology of characters. The book is written entirely in small seals, with more than 500 radicals, nearly 10,000 Chinese characters, and more than 1,000 variants, which can be said to play an extremely important role in the history of linguistics.

As a book collector, Li Yuanjia's study will naturally not lack "Explaining Words".

Merely......

As a man with a golden finger, when Li Yuanjia recalled the entire content of "Shuowen Jie Zi", he once again confirmed one thing: this book is completely unsuitable for him, or it is not suitable for the little guys taught by Chen Qian and them!

Without him, the difficulty is a little too great.

For example, the simplest method of checking characters, although "Shuowen Jie Zi" uses radicals for the first time, it does not sort them according to the number of strokes of the radicals, but ranks those with similar or similar shapes. This is equivalent to dividing all the radicals into several categories, and the order of each category is not meaningless, for example, the words with similar meanings are placed together; The positive ones come first, and the negative ones come last; Proper nouns come first, common nouns come after, and so on......

This arrangement, anyway, Li Yuanjia feels that it is far less convenient than sorting by the number of strokes.

Perhaps the arrangement of "Shuowen Jie Zi" has many advantages, such as making it easier for readers to better understand their meaning, but Li Yuanjia always firmly believes that people more than a thousand years later use the number of strokes to sort, there must be a reason for him! Otherwise, the good things of the ancestors should be given up for Mao?

Moreover, the book "Explaining Words" is, to put it bluntly, for literati.

In other words, most of the books in this era are actually for the literati, and the whole "classical Chinese" requires readers to spend a lot of time and energy to understand them, and even understand the origin and origin of each sentence. Therefore, in the view of pragmatist Li Yuanjia, the role of "Shuowen Jie Zi" is really limited for himself.

To put it bluntly, he has no interest in cultivating real literati of this era.

That was the matter of the emperor and the families.

What Li Yuanjia needs is to know two or three thousand commonly used words, and occasionally there are words he doesn't know can be found out through the dictionary to find out how it is written, and he can figure out the simplest meaning. As for the rest of the time, Li Yuanjia hopes that they will master some mathematical knowledge, and if possible, they can also learn a little basic physics or chemistry, or even the simplest "scientific research methods......

"So...... Make up your own dictionary? ”

When this thought rose in Li Yuanjia's heart, he couldn't suppress it, and it kept circling in his mind.

For a person with a modern education, it is certainly not difficult to compile a simple version of the dictionary.

Tapping his fingers on the tabletop, Li Yuanjia secretly calculated: "You don't need to do as much as "Saying Wen Jie Zi", three or five thousand are enough!" Compile five words in one day...... No, no, my dictionary doesn't have to be so complicated, it's the simplest word meaning introduction, no need to trace back to the source, I do ten a day by myself, it's absolutely no problem! If you count it like this, more than a year is definitely enough......"

"So, do you want to get the pinyin out too? Uh, it doesn't seem to work, the pronunciation of these years is too weird, and Hanyu Pinyin is completely useless! If you start a new one...... Tsk, it's troublesome to think about. ”

"What about simplified words? On the grounds that it is for the next people, is it okay to make the simplified words out? Will those aristocratic families attack me madly because of this? In fact, only more than a thousand, or even hundreds of the most commonly used simplified words are enough, and taking them out will definitely greatly reduce the time cost of learning......"

"King! King?! ”

Just when Li Yuanjia's thoughts flew far beyond the scope of the location, and he began to seriously ponder whether it was feasible to make simplified characters in the Zhenguan period, a louder and louder cry woke him up from this state of daze!

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

"King, Chen joins the army and asks to see you!"

"Chen joins the army? Chen Zhi? ”

After coming back to his senses, Li Yuanjia immediately waved his hand hurriedly and said, "I know, please join the army Chen to stay in the side room for a while, and I will go over in a while." ”

"Yes, King!"

Glancing at Li Yuanjia a little strangely, Han Shan Shili stepped back.

Then at this moment, Li Yuanjia suddenly felt a thrill all over his body, and he felt that his back was probably soaking wet - what happened just now? Why did such an idea pop up all of a sudden?

was rewarded by Li Shimin, and he floated away?

How inflated is this to make you feel that compiling a dictionary is an easy task? And I want to "invent" pinyin, and even want to make simplified words?

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

"Wake up! Li Yuanjia, wake up! ”

After patting his cheek twice, Li Yuanjiashen began to whisper to himself: "Remember, you are just a sixteen-year-old boy, just a prince of the Tang Dynasty...... Don't forget, this is the time of the great family! Don't forget, it's only been seven years since the Xuanwumen Incident! ”

Remember, you can't die by yourself!

After taking a deep breath, Li Yuanjia calmed down his mood and warned himself again: Just imagine those things in your head just now, at least the simplification of the word thing must not be touched!

Even dictionaries and pinyin can't be thought about in a short period of time.

"At least until you achieve your goal, absolutely not!"

Patting his cheek again, Li Yuanjia admonished himself again. For his future in this world, he already has a complete and feasible plan, and there must be no mistakes, and because of his embarrassing identity, the dictionary and pinyin may not be too exaggerated, but if you want to simplify the words, it will really be unpleasant for yourself......

……

After cleaning up his mood, Li Yuanjia went to the side room to see Chen Zhi.

After seeing the ceremony, Chen Zhi hurriedly smiled and said, "King, Lu Ming and I have just raised another five hundred catties of iron materials, and I have sent them to you today." And within a month, I promise to send you another 500 catties! ”

"Oh? So fast this time? ”

After listening to Chen Zhi's words, Li Yuanjia suddenly perked up.

In fact, the demand for iron in the palace has not been as exaggerated as before in recent times, but if there is more inventory, Li Yuanjia can do it in advance with some ideas, which is something that cannot be sought.

With joy in his heart, Li Yuanjia really praised Chen Zhi a few words.

And after thanking Li Yuanjia, Chen Zhi hesitated for a moment and said, "King, I have something to ask for......