The People's Army's victory over the Ming Army quickly became the favorite topic of conversation among most people in Guangzhou, but soon, a new topic appeared - Wenhua Bookstore.

The Wenhua Bookstore was established by the People's Army, and there is currently only one bookstore in the city of Guangzhou or under the rule of the entire People's Army, but in the future, the Wenhua Bookstore will be organized in all the cities under the rule of the People's Army.

In the only Wenhua bookstore, there are currently only four books for sale: one is "Translation of Traditional and Simplified Common Characters", one is "Elementary Mathematics", and "General Knowledge" (traditional Chinese version) and (simplified Chinese version).

The reason why the People's Army opened the Wenhua Bookstore was very simple, there were intellectuals of the "old era" who wanted to join the People's Army, but the People's Army did not accept them easily, unless these intellectuals were willing to start as petty officials or soldiers.

In fact, there are really a very small number of intellectuals who start as small officials, and the People's Army will carefully observe such people, and if their character and loyalty are recognized by the People's Army, they will focus on cultivating them.

With the People's Army's victory over the Ming Army again, Fang Nan felt that it was time to accept the refuge of those intellectuals of the old era, but the People's Army would not accept everyone, and only by passing the People's Army's examination could he become an official, and the four books currently sold in Wenhua Bookstore were prepared for those intellectuals' exams.

The intellectuals of the old era used traditional characters, and the KPA system used simplified characters, and those intellectuals of the old era who wanted to integrate into the KPA system had to be able to use simplified characters, not the KPA system and vice versa.

Simplified Chinese characters and pinyin appeared in order to make it easier for people to learn the written word, and the People's Army will also vigorously promote simplified Chinese characters, but now they can't hold on, so it will be very difficult to promote simplified Chinese characters in the future.

Even if the intellectuals of the old era were unwilling to use simplified Chinese characters and not join the People's Army, the People's Army did not have to do it, and in Yong'an County, Haifeng County, and the surrounding areas, which were first captured by the People's Army, the schools opened by the People's Army were teaching many teenagers simplified Chinese characters, and in three years at most, they could make the official system of the People's Military Government rapidly expand.

Graduates of three-year education are more worthy of the trust of the People's Army, but the problem of trust in these intellectuals of the old era has always existed.

If these old-time intellectuals are willing to learn simplified characters, this is a good place to start.

Of course, it is impossible to become an official of the People's Army Government just by knowing simplified characters, and their talents are high enough in literature, but they are not good enough in arithmetic, and they need to be improved.

In addition to mathematics, common sense is also a very important one, and "common sense" includes geography, biology, physics, life knowledge and other aspects.

An intellectuals of the old era may have a lot of confusion after learning "Common Sense", such as why the earth is round, this content cannot be explained clearly, just through books to tell you a conclusion, you must believe, if you don't believe it, you can not learn, you don't need to enter the people's army system as an official.

For the convenience of these intellectuals of the old era, the Common Sense was divided into simplified and traditional Chinese versions, but simplified characters had to be used for exams.

As long as the intellectuals of the old era learn simplified Chinese characters and pass the exams in mathematics and general knowledge, the KPA will be able to accept them, and when they learn knowledge, they will gradually integrate into the KPA system, and their thinking is changing, and the KPA does not need people who retain the ideas of the old times to join in.

The opening of a bookstore by the People's Army did not actually attract attention, but the People's Army issued a proclamation in the city of Guangzhou, announcing to everyone that the People's Army would hold an examination in six months, and those who passed the examination could be appointed to the post of the highest county magistrate.

The county magistrate under the rule of the People's Army is the magistrate of the county under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and it seems that the county magistrate is just a small official, but the county magistrate who can manage the smallest minority of 10,000 people in a county cannot be regarded as "small", and I don't know how many low-level literati and scholars dream of becoming the head of a county.

Therefore, after the People's Army issued this announcement, it immediately attracted the attention of some intellectuals in the old era, mainly those wealthy gentry and businessmen from families, and the intellectuals who were still loyal to the Ming Court could not take the examination at all, no matter if they would also pay attention to this matter, the People's Army's examination was not equivalent to the imperial examination of the Ming Court.

Read the announcement carefully, the intellectuals of the old era found some key points on the announcement, the exam is divided into two subjects of mathematics (arithmetic) and general knowledge, there is no test content such as writing articles, and it is indicated that the exam needs to be answered in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese characters are not allowed, and the content of the exam can be purchased at Wenhua Bookstore to read.

Because of this announcement by the People's Army, the Wenhua Bookstore attracted more attention, but the intellectuals of the old era talked more about it in simplified Chinese.

In fact, the intellectuals of the old era in Guangzhou discovered that the People's Army was using the so-called "simplified characters" soon after the People's Army took control of the city, and some of them could not read the simplified characters when they used traditional characters, while those who used simplified characters could barely understand the traditional characters.

The intellectuals of the old era directly gave a "great rebellion" to the People's Army that used simplified Chinese characters, and criticized the simplified Chinese characters of the People's Army at the gatherings, but fortunately, the People's Army would not arrest these people because of this incident.

None of them thought that if they wanted to become an official in the People's Military Government, they would have to learn this simplified Chinese character.

Obviously, the vast majority of old-age intellectuals were reluctant to learn simplified characters, which was an insult to them.

The People's Army did not let this matter go, and Fang Nan personally went down and issued a proclamation in the name of the Governor of the People's Army, explaining why simplified Chinese characters were used.

"Simplified Chinese characters are derived from traditional Chinese characters, one simple and one complex, just to make it easier for everyone to learn and write characters.

In fact, simplified Chinese characters are not the first to be created by the People's Army, and many of the simplified characters used by the People's Army are derived from predecessors.

For example, in the Han Dynasty Historical Tour "Urgent Chapter", there are: Shidong Chen Sun checked the account Xiang Lou to clip the cheeks and Xia Bei learned to see that he was a pseudo-long Zhang Sui asked Juele to read and change Dan;

The king of the Jin Dynasty used it: taste the advent of the Zhu when the question of Dun Xu Erwen Mi in the future will end up entangled with the door and the kidney for the soup when the legend is written, Sun Jue, Chen saw the stem, Shun Dong, and the danger will be invited;

Su Shi of the Song Dynasty used: Gu Gailai fell into hunger and mistaken to ask Wan Erjia to hear the prayer and pray for the time, Cheng Quna Ji

In order to facilitate the writing of these simplified characters, our descendants just took out the words used by our predecessors, so what is wrong? ”

Regarding Fang Nan's words, a large number of intellectuals of the old era immediately defended them, but there were also some people who originally wanted to join the People's Army who chose to believe it and prepared to start studying in order to face the first "imperial examination" under the rule of the People's Army half a year later.