In the past few days when Li Shimin went on patrol, the public opinion of the people in Chang'an mainly revolved around two things.

One is the program on the stage of Wangjianglou, Dongzhu's appearance frequency in Wangjianglou is very high, there will be three or four performances a day, she brought a few grassland style songs, and now it has become a popular pop song that the people of Chang'an love to hum when they have nothing to do, and everyone's recognition of this grassland girl is very high, which is a preliminary opening up of the situation.

In Yuan Tiangang's description, in the future, the shareholders of Wangjianglou headed by Sun Zhengming and some new magnates will raise more than 10 million yuan to build this industrial-based new city, covering an area that is likely to be the entire Weinan boundary.

At that time, there will be many large-scale workshops in this city, many of which are new industries that Datang has never had, and Sun Zhengming will invest unlimited additional funds in these industries.

This news suddenly made the family excited, and there were many people who found to send New Year's gifts to Sun Xiangfu's house from the beginning, and Sun Xiangfu, who returned to Chang'an, hid out to give New Year's gifts as soon as possible, but he didn't dare to let anyone come to get a piece of the pie.

When he entered the Yu family, the first thing Sun Xiangfu saw was the resentful eyes of his father-in-law Yu Chang, Wangjianglou is such a lucrative business, Sun Xiangfu didn't pull the Yu family into the gang, after all, when Sun Xiangfu planned this matter, he and Yu Xiuer had just met.

But the matter of Weinan New City, it is not even a matter of the Yu family, so it is a bit uninteresting, you know, this investment plan, in addition to making profits, is still a good thing to follow the footsteps of the emperor and promote the development of the country!

The Yu family is in Guanzhong, and it can be regarded as a second- or third-rate family, and the family foundation is thicker than Qin Qiong's upstarts, and there are many people in the clan who study and become officials.

After a salute, Sun Xiangfu was invited by Yu Chang to the study to serve tea, Old Man Yu Shinan was also there, and Yu Xiuer went to the back hall to meet her mother.

After a while, when the tea was ready, there were only three of them left in the study, and before Yu Chang could speak, Sun Xiangfu took the lead in placing a few exquisitely crafted boxes in front of Yu Shinan's case.

"What is this?" Yu Shinan took a wooden box, looked at Sun Xiangfu and asked.

"This is reading glasses, because I don't know Grandpa's degree, yes, my grandson-in-law asked my subordinates to make a few more pairs, Grandpa can try it on, which one is the clearest, just use that one."

"Degrees?"

Sun Xiangfu couldn't explain this word to Yu Shijia, so he opened the box, only to see that inside the box, there were frames made of rosewood, which were inlaid with glasses of different thicknesses, Sun Xiangfu opened one of them, the lenses were on Yu Shinan's nose, two hooks, hung on the ears, and a thin gold chain on the hook was put on Yu Shinan's neck to prevent the glasses from falling.

"Hey, it's clear, my eyes can see clearly, this crystal mirror, it's really magical······" After the lens arrived in front of Yu Shinan's eyes, he immediately felt that the things in his eyes had changed, and let out a burst of exclamation.

"Hehe, grandpa, don't worry, try on the other pairs, and use the clearest one."

The degree of presbyopia is different, and the thickness of the lenses needed is also different, Sun Xiangfu smiled, and took out several other pairs of glasses for Yu Shinan to try on one by one, and finally picked out a pair of reading glasses that were most suitable for Yu Shinan, and then put the rest of the glasses into the box.

"What, is the virtuous son-in-law going to take back the New Year's gift that was sent to my house?"

"Of course not, of course not, the rest of the glasses, please put away the father-in-law, this thing is very expensive, you can't show it at will."

Sun Xiangfu felt that Yu Chang's mood was wrong early on, and at this moment, with a somewhat flattering smile, he placed the glasses in the box in front of Yu Chang.

There is no need for Sun Xiangfu to teach, Yu Chang picked up one of them and tried it on, however, he was not yet forty years old, he did not have presbyopia at all, and when he put these glasses on his face, he felt that the whole world was blurred, and Sun Xiangfu had to explain to him with a smile the use of these glasses.

"Well, although this thing can only solve the eye diseases of the elderly, it is also very rare."

Yu Chang, who had no glasses, had a look of disappointment on his face, but he remembered what he was going to say to Sun Xiangfu today, and said, "Virtuous son-in-law, you have so many skilled craftsmen under you, why don't you get some industries and cooperate with our own family to operate, just cheaper for those outsiders?" ”

Sun Xiangfu heard this, so he said as a difficult color, "It's not that I haven't thought about it, but I really can't, if the interests of the world are taken up by us, I'm afraid it's not a good thing, but a way to take trouble." ”

Hearing this, Yu Shinan nodded with satisfaction, looked at Yu Chang and said, "As an elder, you haven't seen it clearly, interests are not a good thing, throughout the ages, how many talented people have ended up miserably because they didn't deal with this thing well, our Yu family's money is enough." ”

"What my father taught me was that my son was in love."

The Yu family's tutoring is very strict, even at Yu Chang's age, when he is taught by Yu Shinan, he has to bow down and listen.

After Yu Chang was taught by Yu Shinan, Sun Xiangfu said, "Actually, the son-in-law also thought about it for the Yu family, it is really a scholarly family of the Yu family, and it is not suitable for contaminating too much copper business, but well!" In fact, the cultural industry can also be very profitable, and the son-in-law has some plans to tell his grandfather and father-in-law! ”

"Cultural industry?"

Yu Chang's father and son both looked at Sun Xiangfu, if he could have an industry that would not lose his share and make money for the Yu family, then the Yu family naturally had no reason to refuse, after all, after Sun Xiangfu made more things, the expenses of the children of the Yu family were also large, although it was not so much that they could not afford it, but everyone wanted to live a more comfortable life, as a literati family, who would not want to talk about some face!

"Yes, Grandpa has made annotations for Hanyu Pinyin before, and promoted it in Mengxue, which is already a great literary contribution, but just this, is not enough, since the Xia Shang Zhou, to the Qin and Han dynasties, and then to today's Tang Dynasty, the style and structure of the text have been changing, Hanyu Pinyin can make Mengtong more simple, accurate learning of Chinese characters, but it can not make it easier and more accurate for everyone to use Chinese characters, yes, grandpa wants to ask Grandpa to come forward and edit a dictionary. Annotate all the characters, and, promote a simplified character that is easier to write. ”

"Simplified?"

When Sun Xiangfu said this, Yu Shinan and Yu Chang both looked at Sun Xiangfu with surprised eyes, they knew the history of the change of words, and they knew that Sun Xiangfu wanted to make a big change to the words of the Tang Dynasty.

"Yes, my grandson-in-law thinks that at present, our Datang characters, there are still too many strokes, too complicated, any word, strokes are as many as a dozen strokes, not only writing occupies space, wasting pen, ink and paper, Mengtong is also difficult to learn, it is out of place, since from ancient times to the present, the character and book style and structure have been changing, why, can't we have a big change in our hands!

Previously, the grandson-in-law had already talked to His Majesty about our Datang culture and education, and His Majesty also thought so in his heart that a style that can express or disseminate knowledge more easily and accurately is more suitable for our Datang, so the grandson-in-law has such an idea. ”

Sun Xiangfu said this, Yu Chang was the first to get excited, he didn't think as deeply as Yu Shinan, he just felt that since it was something that the emperor wanted to do, then, his Yu family came to help complete it, no matter what, it must be a great achievement!

Then he said, "Father, do it, and do it with all your might." If the people of the whole world learn the text with your literal annotations, then you will become a generation of scholars······"

Although Yu Shinan was a little excited at the moment, reason still told him that this matter was not something he could do alone, and he had to ask the emperor to find a group of learned people to complete it together, although there were some works such as Xu Shen's "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" in the Eastern Han Dynasty as the blueprint, but, how to explain a word, you can't listen to his family's words, in this matter, as long as his Yu family takes the lead, the credit is already big enough.

As for the simplified Chinese characters that Sun Xiangfu said, it is more of a thing that needs to be pondered, creating fonts, it is not such a simple thing, it is not a short-term achievement, after careful consideration, Yu Shinan said, "What do you think about simplified characters?" ”

On the way back, Sun Xiangfu had been thinking about how to simply implement education, so he naturally had some preparations, took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve, spread them out on Yu Shinan's table, and said, "Grandpa, please see." ”

What is written on the paper is the first 80 words of the thousand-character text, one is the simplified version, the other is the traditional version, among them, the simplified version, only about half a page is used, and the traditional version, the lack is to fill the whole page, the reason is not it, some traditional Chinese strokes are numerous, and the brush words, the strokes are thick, if you want not to write wrong, do not let the font stick together, you must enlarge, a page, only write eighty words, it feels like the whole surface is ink, and the simplified version, is simple and clean, neat and symmetrical.

"Actually, the so-called simplified Chinese characters are not all the words of our Datang Dynasty are changed all over again, most of the words with few strokes, in fact, there is no need to change, only change the words with many strokes, and simplify and change some of the radicals and radicals, and the whole word can become simple."

With the comparison, you can see the difference, Sun Xiangfu proposed that this simplified character can indeed make it easier for ordinary people to learn words, and it can save a lot of pen, ink and paper consumption, which is enough for Yu Shinan to give the emperor a book.

However, Sun Xiangfu has said before that if you want to use these cultural products to make money, can you make money by changing the word?

Seeing that Yu Shinan did not comment on his modified font, but looked at him with a puzzled look, Sun Xiangfu explained, "Grandpa is a calligrapher, after this dictionary is successfully compiled, carve, printed, and sold in your font, if you want to come to the world, you will buy a copy to use!" In addition, you can also print your calligraphy and sell it for those who need to practice calligraphy to copy and learn, so that everyone in the world will become your students in calligraphy. ”

As the top calligrapher of this period, who doesn't want his literal annotations? His calligraphy font, who doesn't want to learn? If these things are taken out for publication and sale, it is estimated that the literati of this period will buy them for study and collection.

Of course, making a profit is just a matter of incident, raising the name of Yu Shinan is also a matter of incident, and the most important thing is to promote more simple and easy-to-learn words in Datang, gradually reduce the cost of reading, and quietly, remove the family's monopoly on culture.