Zhu Yousong turned around when he heard this, and happened to see Huang Liji saluting him, Zhu Yousong frowned, and said, "Ah, it turned out to be a university scholar in person, and the university scholar is looking for me?" ”

Huang Liji knew that Zhu Yousong had a life, and it was not easy to greet Zhu Yousong, so he went straight to the point and said: "Your Highness, there is indeed a matter for His Royal Highness to solve the doubts of the old minister. ”

Zhu Yousong was happy in his heart, and said in surprise: "The university scholar is full of wealth, but the palace is only shallow in learning, how can I solve the confusion of the university scholar?" ”

This is not that Zhu Yousong is humble, whether it is a clean official or a corrupt official, whether it is a loyal minister or a minister, if you want to live in a temple from a cloth cloth, you have to participate in the imperial examination.

However, since Zhu Yousong and their ancestors founded the Bagu Scholars, they have been rotten in the limited topics in the past few hundred years, and they want to write novel ideas in the articles written by their predecessors, and stand out from the students who have been in the cold window for ten years, which is a hundred times more difficult than the college entrance examination where thousands of troops have crossed the single-plank bridge.

After all, the college entrance examination in later generations was once a year, and in the Ming generation, according to the usual imperial examination, it was once every three years. The examination is once every three years, plus the candidates who fall behind and take the re-examination, which accumulates a large number of candidates, but each time the imperial examination is selected, there are probably only two or three hundred people who can obtain the name of Jinshi, which is not lower than the difficulty of being admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University in later generations, and even surpasses it.

Let's not talk about Huang Liji's historical reputation, no matter how people say it, he is also a Jinshi who has passed the three tests, in terms of knowledge alone, Huang Liji's diploma is genuine, so Zhu Yousong will be surprised when he sees Huang Liji asking him questions.

When Huang Liji heard this, he thought that Zhu Yousong had the intention to shirk, and hurriedly complimented: "Alas~, Your Highness is too modest, and only His Highness can explain this matter to the old minister." ”

Zhu Yousong saw that Huang Liji's attitude was respectful and not fake, so he had to hesitate and said: "I don't know what makes the university scholar embarrassed?" Zhu Yousong only asked Huang Liji what was going on, but he didn't give him a packing ticket, for fear that Huang Liji would ask him questions he didn't know, and he would be too full of words to get off the stage.

Seeing that he agreed, Huang Liji hurriedly took out the notice from his arms. Although this place is leeward and sunny, his warm equipment is not the same level as Zhu Yousong, and he only thinks that he can solve this matter in a few words, and then rush back to the warm pavilion of the cabinet to drink a cup of hot tea to warm up.

Huang Liji held the notice in his hand, and said with a tangled face: "Earlier, the old man received a notice from the emperor, and after the cabinet used the seal, he had to copy it to the major ministries. This time I came to meet the saint, just because of this notice, but I didn't want to make such a thing as a craftsman's camp, and this matter is not easy to mention again, Your Highness looks at this notice, can you tell the old man? ”

Zhu Yousong took the notice in Huang Liji's hand, and saw that it was written about the regulations for the distribution of year-end bonuses, and there was nothing strange about it. After a brief scan, he asked, "What's wrong with that?" ”

"What's wrong? This is a big mistake! ”

Huang Li said a sentence before he said: "Since ancient times, my Chinese characters have been from right to left, from top to bottom, but this notice starts from left and ends with right, which makes no sense!" The emperor also said that all future official documents should be written in accordance with the format of this notice, and that there should always be a clear understanding of the questions below. ”

After Huang Liji's reminder, Zhu Yousong was able to save Zhu Youzhen from discussing this matter with him a while ago, and said with a smile: "I know something about this notice, and the emperor naturally has his deep meaning in such a layout, so I will briefly talk about it." ”

Huang Liji said respectfully: "Thank you, Your Highness." ”

Zhu Yousong waved his hand and coughed lightly: "I talked about this matter when the palace and the emperor chatted a while ago, and the emperor's judgment was: people's eyes are on the left and right, not on the top and bottom. In the trial room, looking horizontally left and right, it is very labor-saving, if you look up and down, you will look up and down, which is quite laborious. In this case, it is easier to see that the horizontal line is easier to move vertically. And the right hand writes, must be from left to right, one stroke at a time, rarely from right to left. Coming out from left to right, there is no inconvenience. ”

Zhu Yousong slightly embellished the words in the open letter written by Qian Xuantong, the pioneer of the New Culture Movement and the editor of the "New Youth" magazine, and then said it to Huang Liji as it was.

Huang Liji listened to Zhu Yousong's words, and was slightly stunned, the rules of Chinese characters have been passed down for thousands of years, and their ancestors have written them like this for generations, why do they have to change it just now?

He just listened to Zhu Yousong's words, and he had some understanding in his heart, but even if he thought Zhu Yousong was reasonable, but the habit had already been formed, could it be that he really wanted to write in this way in the future?

Zhu Yousong saw Huang Liji's hesitant appearance, knowing that he couldn't digest these things for a while, it is estimated that a large part of the reason why he came to face the saint today is Zhu Youzhen's strange style of acting, and the rules of writing are still used to this day, how can you say that you will change it?

Now that the rules of writing have been changed, it is estimated that Zhu Youzhen's punctuation marks and Hanyu Pinyin are also about to come out, which is the educational reform measure that Zhu Youzhen once said, one ring after another.

Zhu Yousong said: "There are also broken sentences in the article, there is no punctuation, every time a child is enlightened, it must be taught by Xixi, the emperor is really inconvenient to think about this method, and is studying a set of punctuation marks to facilitate people to break the sentence and enlighten, and the emperor will discuss this matter with you after a few days." ”

Huang Liji hadn't come back to his senses yet, and when he heard the punctuation marks that Zhu Yousong said, he was slightly stunned: "Huh? ”

Zhu Yousong said with a smile: "There is also Hanyu Pinyin, this is to facilitate the promotion of official dialect and improve the efficiency of enlightenment, and it is impossible to say that in two days, the emperor will also find scholars to come over to discuss together." ”

Huang Liji was stunned again: "Huh? ”

……

Huang Liji listened to Zhu Yousong's words, and only felt that he didn't seem to have a brain today, and he didn't know what the prince of Fu Wang in front of him was talking about, but he only knew that when the Son of Heaven was really unpredictable, he thought of which one was which, not only to change the rules of writing, but also to add what punctuation, Chinese Pinyin?

Huang Liji's knowledge is not indispensable, but he has no objection to this matter, and can only say that he, the head of the cabinet, still does not want to do anything to disgust Zhu Youzhen during the period when the eunuch case is still unsettled. If the DPRK and China were all echoing worms like Huang Liji, it would be much less resistant to Zhu Youzhen's reform.

After all, for thousands of years, Chinese writing has been top-down, left-to-right. Zhu Youzhen said that he would change it, and Huang Liji, the head of the cabinet, was an example for hundreds of officials, but he didn't raise any opinions at all, and it just looked at the reaction of the civil and military officials after this notice was issued.

A gust of cold wind passed, Zhu Yousong shrunk his neck, and said secretly: "Zhu Youzhen, this guy wants to do everything, he wants to do everything, if these things want to be implemented, I can't say that the court will have to quarrel for a while." ”

Zhu Yousong glanced at the weak winter day, held the Shang Fang sword given to him by Zhu Youzhen in his arms, and went straight to the palace gate.