The reason why Liu Bei took out simplified Chinese characters and Hanyu Pinyin was fundamentally out of fear for the future. In modern times, experts and scholars in many countries are studying why China can always be chaotic and divisive

Back to the situation of great unification. Why was it possible to form a unified empire in the end?

There are various theories about this, but in Liu Bei's view, the most important thing is that Chinese characters are hieroglyphs, and then the policy of writing and writing by the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty pioneered by Qin Shi Huang strengthened this point.

In a troubled era, some so-called writers whose brains were in the water even said that if Chinese characters do not die, China will die, but in fact, if Chinese characters die, China will really forget.

It's very simple, for example, when a southerner meets a northerner, the two sides open their mouths to say hello.

As soon as the southerner spoke: "Come monkey, grunt, grunt." ”

The northerner opened his mouth: "Hello, crackling, crackling." ”

Both sides complained about what kind of bird language they spoke. However, it doesn't matter, take out the pen and ink, the two sides talk in writing, it turns out that they are saying hello, and they are all happy, if this is a foreign alphabet, it will be broken, and the monkey and you are not good

It's going to be the same. For example, the Annam monkeys, such as the Goryeo sticks, all changed the Chinese characters to alphabet characters, and began to completely de-sinicize, a few decades ago, when I walked to the stick's house, there were Chinese character symbols everywhere, as for now, even Han

The city was renamed Seoul, but in fact, Seoul is just the Korean pronunciation of Seoul.

Historically, the Three Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, China was divided for a few catties and four hundred years, if it is an alphabet like Europe, because of everyone's different accents, they have already developed their own scripts, and then want to unify, but it is better than ascending to the sky

It's difficult, but China doesn't have this problem, and as soon as the Sui and Tang dynasties were unified, there was no problem with language communication at all.

Therefore, Liu Bei wanted to use Cai Yong's fame to spread simplified Chinese characters and Chinese pinyin as much as possible through the compilation of dictionaries and the implementation of pinyin literacy education. To do so is to say that it is impossible to eradicate illiteracy, human beings

Before industrialization, there simply weren't enough financial resources to eradicate illiteracy. In the world, only the devil family is said to have reached half the literacy rate before industrialization, although I doubt that this statistic is bragging, or just unification

Counting the samurai class, the common people are not counted as people.

But it is very necessary to increase the number of literate people and increase the proportion of the population, so that not only can the quality and productivity of the population be improved, as well as the development of science and technology, but most importantly, in case we are not able to commit historical nihilism

China has still embarked on the old path in history, which can strengthen the inheritance of Chinese civilization and increase the certainty of future generations.

If Liu Bei can reverse the future and thus commit the mistake of historical nihilism, then letting more literate people will also help to educate the Quartet in the future and make it more convenient for cultural dissemination.

On the carriage, Liu Bei talked eloquently: "Since the first emperor of Qin, the book has the same text and the car has the same track, in fact, there is only one language with the same sound." And if you want to have the same phone, in fact, you want to standardize the pronunciation of Chinese characters. I want the pronunciation of kanji

The most important thing is to have a simple and clear phonetic transcription. ”

Liu Bei pointed to the Hanyu pinyin on the paper and began to teach Cai Yong and Cai Wenji how to pronounce and so on, and then Liu Bei pointed out that it was possible to compile a dictionary that classified the characters by radicals or syllables, and annotated each word with what it meant

In this way, as long as you have a dictionary in hand, it is very convenient to learn words. People who want to be literate only need to look up the dictionary after a simple education to be literate, and they can also standardize the pronunciation standards, and even Liu Bei even has a name in the dictionary

Well, it's called the Great Chinese Dictionary.

Cai Yong and Cai Wenji are both extremely smart people, Liu Bei's remarks came out, and the two naturally understood, especially Cai Yong's eyes lit up, and they only heard Liu Bei say: "The adult is a great Confucian in the world, who does not respect it in the sea, right."

It's a big job! In the future, celebrities will be eternal, and they will be idle things, and I don't know what the adults want. ”

Cai Yong had already been willing to do a thousand or ten thousand, but he still had to make a face, and said at the moment: "Actually summed up the pronunciation of Chinese characters in just twenty-six letters, that stranger is really a great sage like Cangjie, such a compilation of Chinese characters."

The old man is old, that is, he can be a counselor from the side, and his life wish is enough. ”

Liu Bei said with a smile: "I'm afraid that stranger can't be found, and this matter will be supported by adults, this is not for the fame and fortune of a family and a surname, but for the foundation of my Chinese for thousands of generations, please don't postpone it any longer." "Yes

At the foot of this step, Cai Yong borrowed the slope to get off the donkey and agreed.

As for simplified characters, the difference between characters in this era is not as big as that of traditional characters, and it is said that the main reference source of simplified characters is Wang Xizhi's Zhengcao Seventeen Ti, and Wang Xizhi is a figure in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty

It's only two hundred years away.

And Cai Yong, a university scholar, immediately understood that as long as simplified Chinese characters were promoted, it would be difficult to reverse the replacement of Han Li in the future, and at most it would be a matter of time.

It's like Lishu replacing Xiaoshu, you must know that in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Lishu, which was only used by slaves and civilians at most, could not be elegant. The words written by slaves are called Lishu, but to

In the end, Lishu became one of the symbols of the Han Dynasty, and it was called Han Li.

There is no other reason, it is just simple and practical.

Cai Yong and Liu Bei immediately discussed, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became.

In Cai Yong's view, Liu Bei is really a great talent in the world. Whether it is astronomy and geography, medicine and astrology, Confucian classics, Huang Lao learning, Legalist thought, and even the almost disappeared Mohist spirit, there are still relatively rare ones at this time

Buddhist scriptures and mysteries, they all come when you open your mouth, and you can have them casually. Immediately let Cai Yong admire the five bodies to the ground, as for Cai Wenji is also Wen Ji's eyes have flashed stars, originally thought that Liu Bei was just a Wufuer, but there was actually a thought

Such a great talent in the world.

In fact, this is also normal, that is, among the big families of that family, the books accumulated over hundreds of years are not as good as a casual library in later generations, or even a roadside bookshelf. Top gate valves like Hongnong Yang's, Runan Yuan's, too

Just learn one book, and in this way, these two families have been four generations and three dukes.

In the end, Liu Bei said that even if the dictionary was successfully compiled, there was still no improvement in papermaking, and only when papermaking was perfected could his ideas be realized.

You know, in this year, papermaking is not perfect, and better paper is expensive to death. I don't know if printing has been invented or not, and the main carrier of literature is still bamboo slips. The Jin Dynasty produced a literary scholar named Zuo Si, who used ten

In a few years, he made a song "Sandu Fu", so the noble families competed to write it, and Luoyang was expensive for it. It's just that the rich family copied this endowment, which made the price of paper in the entire Luoyang City rise, which shows how much paper can be used.

Cai Yong sighed and wondered, I was afraid that the idea of this dictionary was not taught by a stranger, but Liu Bei's own idea.

Xin said that Lu Zhi alone could not hand over this kind of disciple. There is no other reason, to be able to access such a huge amount of information, in this kind of world, it may only be possible to see it among the top family gates.

Without such an environment, it is a genius. The level of exposure is different, and I can't cultivate such talents. It is because of the monopoly of knowledge that the family is so expensive that it can last for hundreds or thousands of years in the world.

I remembered that Lu Zhi said before that Liu Bei had washed the wine and clothes, and his voice was like this, and now he has become like this, and secretly thought to himself, it must be a gift from God.