Volume 15 Chapter 31 A Common Language

As soon as Bi Maokang's words came out, most of the representatives of the envoys of the following countries and the envoys of the vassal states showed shocked expressions, and the establishment of a new world pattern was indeed a bit big.

If an official from another country had said this, most people would have scoffed at it, joking that the new world pattern is something you can build if you want to? When other countries don't exist!

However, when the officials of the Ming Empire said this, the effect was different, because the Ming Empire had the ability to establish a new pattern of the world, so most people showed shocked looks, the heart of the Ming Empire is really big!

Of course, there are also some people who look confused, some because they are not good enough to learn Chinese, and they don't know what it means to establish a new pattern of the world, and some don't know Chinese at all, and they don't know what Bi Maokang is talking about.

Bi Maokang didn't pay attention to everyone's shock and confusion, he continued casually: "Next, I would like to invite Lord Zhou of the Ming Empire, the prince of the Ming Empire, to tell you about the importance of a common language. ”

With that, he bowed slightly, turned and walked backstage.

People who know Chinese are looking forward to the direction of the left and right backstage, waiting for the appearance of the zodiac week, and those who don't know Chinese are even more confused, what is this person doing, saying two words that he doesn't understand and going down directly!

Soon, Huang Daozhou walked to the front desk from Shi Shiran from the left backstage, and said with a smile: "Maybe, there are still a large number of people who don't know what Master Bi is talking about just now, is Lord Bi playing the piano to the cow?" “

Many people in the audience began to look around when they heard this, and when they saw the blank expressions on the faces of those who didn't understand Chinese, they couldn't help but chuckle.

Especially Schvila, who was sitting in the front row, I don't know if it was to show that he understood, or if Huang Daozhou's words were really funny, he actually laughed out loud without an image!

Duke Useda, who was next to him, frowned, and asked coldly in Spanish, "Count Schwila, what are you laughing at?" “

Hearing this, Shi Vera held back a smile and explained in Spanish: "This Lord Huang told a joke just now. “

Useda couldn't help but ask, "What kind of joke, so funny?" “

"Uh" Schvila's embarrassment, how to explain this to Useda, as soon as he explained, didn't he just make it clear to Useda, I'm laughing at you!

Fortunately, at this time, Huang Daozhou on the stage spoke again, he raised his hand and said: "Okay, I won't play the piano to the cow, now I will tell you about the importance of a common language, please take out the book under your respective name tags and turn to the second page." “

When Schvera heard this, he immediately looked at the triangle name plate with his name written on it and exclaimed, "This is actually a book!" “

Indeed, the rectangular block underneath the name tag resembles a wooden plank, because it is printed with a realistic wood grain on its surface, and if you don't look closely, you can't really tell that this is a book.

He curiously picked up the name tag, took out the mat below, opened it and saw that it was really a book, and the name of the book was printed on the place where the name tag was pressed, a row of Chinese characters, a row of Portuguese characters, and the meaning was the same, that is: to establish a new pattern of the world!

Seeing Schvila's movements, Useda couldn't help but pull out the book under his name tag, which was printed with a row of Chinese characters and a row of Spanish, but he was also deeply attracted by the name of establishing a new pattern of the world.

Without Schvera's teaching, he immediately opened the book, and the first page was a map of the world, the same as the one on the stage, but many times smaller.

The second page is the text, the left half of the page is pure Chinese characters, he can't understand any of them, the right half of the page is pure Spanish, he can naturally understand, the title is: The importance of a common language, the speaker translated it turned out to be not the Ming Empire's Guozi Priest Wine Huang Daozhou, but the Ming Empire's Minister of Education Huang Daozhou!

Naturally, these were all written by Zhu Cijiong, who had high hopes for this meeting, so he took great pains to prepare for this lecture.

Don't underestimate this lecture, it seems that it is just a few people giving a speech on the stage, but in fact, it is not so simple.

First of all, Zhu Cijiong has been drawing the huge world map for several days, and he has a vague outline of the world map of later generations in his mind, but this specific size is not so easy to determine, and the territory of each country is not the same as that of later generations, and he still has to take the map of each country to check one by one, which is difficult to imagine.

Then, the content of Bi Maokang, Huang Daozhou and others' speeches was not something they came up with by themselves, Zhu Cijiong summoned them to the study one by one, taught them carefully, and then they went back to write the manuscript and handed it over to Zhu Cijiong for personal review, during which Zhu Cijiong spent a lot of effort.

In the end, the books on everyone's table were not printed with a few brushes, there were not only Chinese characters on them, but also the characters of other four countries, and I didn't know how much to prepare just the small lead characters used for printing, and the translation of each sentence had to be considered, which also took Zhu Cijiong a lot of time.

Like the official position of Huang Daozhou, if it is literally translated as the Ming Empire's Guozi Eunuch's sacrificial wine, it will be funny, people don't know what the Guozijian does, and the sacrificial wine, why do you want to sacrifice wine, or what kind of wine is sacrificed, and no one understands these two words when translated literally!

Zhu Cijiong thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to change it to the Minister of Education of the Ming Empire, so the meaning is very clear, of course, there is no Ministry of Education in the Ming Dynasty now, but, according to Zhu Cijiong's thoughts, many yamen in the imperial court will definitely be reorganized in the future.

Back to the lecture scene, as soon as Huang Daozhou's words fell, the whole class sounded a burst of exclamations and flipping books, and the majority of those present actually understood Chinese, needless to say, the vassal states are all learning Chinese, including Spain, Portugal and the Holy Roman Empire, there are many representatives who know Chinese, many of these people have learned Chinese in the Ming Dynasty, and some have studied in Chinese schools in Europe.

In short, now all countries in the world, especially the allies of the Ming Dynasty, learning Chinese has become a fashion, but this fashion has not yet formed a trend, a trend, and the task of the Zodiac Zhou is to turn learning Chinese into a trend.

When everyone opened the book, he vividly narrated the content of the book: "Language is a tool for communication between people...... “

From the very beginning of the knotted rope account, he talked about the formation of various Chinese languages, the limitations and difficulties of exchanges between countries before the Age of Discovery, and the economic, cultural and even military exchanges between countries after the Age of Discovery, and talked about the importance of a common language from all aspects.

In the end, he concluded that Chinese is the most suitable common language for all countries in the world.

Because Chinese is the oldest and most comprehensive language, no matter what it is, it can be accurately expressed in Chinese;

In addition, the Ming Empire was vast and had many vassal states, and in terms of area alone, the Chinese-speaking areas accounted for at least 20% of the world;

In addition, the population of the Chinese language is also the largest, and now the population of the Ming Empire and all vassal states together accounts for nearly forty percent of the world;

Also, now the technology of the Ming Dynasty is also the most advanced in the world, if you want to learn the technology of the Ming Dynasty, you must first master the Chinese;

Also, now in the world, Daming's goods are also the most popular, if you want to do business with Daming, how can you do it without learning Chinese;

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