After listening to Ma Liang and Li Zhong's words, Li Yuanjia was not surprised at all.

The two of them are the little servants of the palace, but they studied with Chen Qian for two years, and then followed Wang Pu to learn how to make paper for half a year, and also followed Han Shan to learn how to build sewers or something, but that's all. Let them take care of the blacksmiths of the palace, or teach the students to read and write, they can barely expect more. Moreover, as far as Li Yuanjiati's request is concerned, let alone them, even the best scholars of this era may not have any good way.

So for this result, Li Yuanjia also guessed it a long time ago.

However, after listening carefully to the "crying" of Li Zhong and the others, Li Yuanjia put on a thoughtful look, circled around the desk shared by the two of them a few times, and suddenly seemed to have a flash of inspiration, and looked up in surprise and asked: "In that case, why don't you arrange every word according to the number of strokes?" Wouldn't it be easy to find them then? ”

"How many strokes? What do you mean? ”

After listening to Li Yuanjia's words, Ma Liang and Li Zhong's eyes widened at the same time.

The time to study was too short, and the two of them didn't even know what "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" was, otherwise they wouldn't have taken Li Yuanjia's words for granted that day. Now when I hear the words how many strokes, my eyes are even darker-when Chen Qian and Huang Licheng taught them, they didn't say anything about stroke order and strokes.

"It's very simple, it takes a few strokes to read a word!"

Raising his eyebrows, Li Yuanjia gave the two students the simplest explanation: "Some words only need one stroke, such as one word; And some characters require three strokes, such as mountain characters...... If you put the words that need to be written in one stroke into one category, the words that need to be written in two strokes are grouped into one category...... By analogy, wouldn't it be much easier to find all the words by dividing them into dozens of categories? ”

"Sizzle...... That's right! ”

After listening to Li Yuanjia's words, Li Zhong gasped and cried out excitedly.

As the manager of the movable type printing workshop, he is much more sensitive to this kind of thing than Ma Liang, so as soon as he heard Li Yuanjia's words, he immediately thought of the subtlety - not only can it be used to count the characters in those books, but at the same time, this method can also be used to manage the movable type made in his workshop, right?

Compared with Li Zhong, who had already figured it out, Ma Liang's reaction was much slower, and he opened his eyes and said blankly: "Right for what?" What's going on? Li Zhong, do you already understand? ”

Ignoring Ma Liang, who was unresponsive, Li Yuanjia glanced at Li Zhong, who was already excited at this time, and chuckled: "Since you have figured it out, you should know what to do later, right?" ”

"Yes, King!"

Taking a deep breath, Li Zhong nodded heavily.

It would be stupid for him not to know what to do when he figured it out. However, looking at the thick stack of uncounted books on the table, Li Zhong's face became bitter again-even if there is a new method, it is definitely not possible to complete them in half a month!

Opening his mouth, Li Zhong wanted to say something, but he didn't dare to say it for a while.

Looking at his expression, Li Yuanjia actually knew what he was thinking. He smiled in his heart and said, "But anyway, it's really difficult to complete it in one month, so let's give you another three months to finish these books!" ”

"King Xie, we will definitely finish it in three months!"

After listening to Li Yuanjia's words, he was immediately overjoyed, and Li Zhong hurriedly bowed and thanked him.

“……”

Li Zhong was busy thanking him, and Ma Liang was still busy being confused.

Li Yuanjia didn't bother to pay attention to him, anyway, if someone wanted to understand, his goal would be achieved. The dictionary of the future is basically like this, either according to the order of strokes, or according to pinyin, it is too difficult to get a set of pinyin out this year, and the awkward Tang Dynasty accent can toss Li Yuanjia to death! However, strokes can be used in any era, so they are basically unaffected.

However, before leaving, Li Yuanjia suddenly said to Li Zhong: "By the way, before starting this time, take a good look at the book "Shuowen Jie Zi", and use the method of radical arrangement in the study, and you can also classify it again, otherwise there are many words under one stroke......"

After deliberately wasting more than half a month, Li Yuanjia finally let Li Zhong and the others understand how to count the number of words in each word in those books.

Of course, counting words is not the most important thing, but how to arrange a dictionary.

A shrunken dictionary with only 1,000 or 2,000 words will be the foundation of the future Hanwang version of the big dictionary, and it is also the prototype of the movable type font that Li Yuanjia will do in the future.

This kind of thing, of course, can't be done in a month.

The reason why Li Yuanjia embarrassed those two guys was actually to introduce this method of writing dictionaries. And he didn't expect to be able to do it in three months, in fact, he thought that three years to be able to do this simplified dictionary was already very good......

……

The troublesome thing is naturally for Li Zhong and them to do, and Li Yuanjia only needs to enjoy the final success. And in the last month of Zhenguan's eleventh year, there are really not many things he is willing to do!

Anyway, as soon as the time entered December, Li Yuanjia almost didn't go out.

However, the reason why he became an otaku this time was not to keep filial piety, nor to make the emperor feel that he was honest, but because the winter in Chang'an City this year was too cold!

Every morning, Li Yuanjia would feel that Chunyan and Liu Mei were particularly pitiful.

Because he didn't allow his maid to live in his own house, the two girls could only live in the next room, and every morning, they had to get up early and wait for Li Yuanjia to get up - they couldn't shrink into the quilt on this cold day, and the taste was really indescribable......

Because the weather was too cold, Li Yuanjia's early exercise had to stop.

It's not that he's afraid of the cold, but if you want to go out in this kind of weather, you have to wrap in layers of fur, put on heavy leather shoes, and it's hard to walk, how can you run? And even if he can run, Li Yuanjia doesn't dare, because if he wears such a thick run, he will inevitably sweat, and when the time comes, he will catch a cold if he is not careful!

The cold, a disease that modern people don't have to worry about, was dangerous in ancient times.

So after suffocating in the house for more than ten days, Li Yuanjia began to pay attention to indoor sports, such as table tennis, billiards and the like. But it's a pity that when he really wanted to make one and try it, he reluctantly found that with the technical level of this era, if he wanted the craftsmen to make a table tennis ball or billiards, it was simply making it difficult for them, and there was no difficulty that could not have results......

……

Dizzy, come out to play, forgot to set up the release, this is to make up for yesterday!