Li Zicheng took advantage of his early leisure and seized the time to teach the students of the girls' school.

In the months after the beginning of the year, he spent more time in the girls' school than in the military, so the progress of the course was relatively fast, and these students were older than the students of later generations, and their intelligence level and life experience were much richer, so when he was teaching, he often determined the corresponding teaching content according to the students' classroom conditions.

According to Sun Mengjie's statistics, they have now learned more than 500 Chinese characters, but the classics of the Ming Dynasty are not marked with simplified Chinese characters, and they still cannot read normally.

The content of Li Zicheng's teaching today is a Tang poem, Meng Haoran's "Spring Dawn", these students are all girls, naturally not suitable for the taste of "Man Jianghong" and "Liangzhou Ci", which are golden and iron horses, or poems with a strong atmosphere of life are more suitable for them, and more importantly, Li Zicheng's own literary literacy is not too high, and he can't accurately interpret some poems, so it's better to pick familiar ones.

Li Zicheng wrote 20 words on the blackboard along with the title and asked, "Do you know which great poet of the Tang Dynasty the author of this poem is?" ”

Silent for a long time, only to see a dazed little tender face wrapped in long hair swaying from side to side, like countless tadpoles swaying in the water and grass, Li Zicheng then remembered that these students basically have no foundation in Chinese studies and literature, although they are close to adulthood, if they want to talk about knowledge, they will be at the level of the first and second grades in later generations.

He had no choice but to teach the method, "There was a great poet named Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty, ......"

"Li Bai? I know, is this a poem written by Li Bai? No wonder ......"

"The author is not Li Bai, but Li Bai's friend, Meng Haoran," Li Zicheng put the three words "Meng Haoran" on the blackboard, "However, it may be because of the relationship between friends, their styles are somewhat similar." ”

After Li Zicheng taught all the new words, he wanted to explain the meaning of the poet itself and help the students memorize on the basis of understanding, but found that Chen Qiudie's eyes were hazy, and he almost couldn't sit still, not only his eyelids were fighting, but even his body was shaking, as if he had drunk high distilled spirit, so he smiled and said: "In the spring, what do you think is the most comfortable?" ”

"Spring? Naturally, it's an outing! ”

"Climbing the mountain, the distance is not too far, the mountain road is not too long, such a hill is most suitable for us girls!"

"Picking flowers, in the spring, the mountains are all over the field, red, yellow, white, and even blue, just look at it, and you are drunk......"

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It turns out that these girls have an optimistic attitude towards life, and they are ...... No matter what it is, they shouldn't be locked in this small world, it seems that when they are free, take them to the wilderness to go on a hike, and let them feel the change of the season, but today, I still have to go back to class.

Li Zicheng smiled slightly, "You all have a point, but Mr. thinks that the happiest thing in spring is to sleep, go to bed early at night and sleep well, otherwise, during the day, like Chen Qiudie, he will protest against Mr.'s teaching!" ”

Everyone turned their eyes to Chen Qiudie, and when they saw his appearance, they couldn't help laughing, and the sound of warblers filled the entire classroom.

Chen Qiudie heard her name called her by her in a hazy way, and thought that she was going to ask a question, so she hurriedly got up from her seat, "Ah......"

Sun Mengjie pulled her with a smile, asked her to sit down first, covered her mouth with one hand, and smiled silently.

Chen Qiudie blinked, as if he understood the current situation, so he threw two swords at Li Zicheng hatefully.

He stayed in Chen Qiudie's room last night, speaking of which Chen Qiudie didn't rest well, he couldn't get out of it, seeing the shy appearance on Sun Mengjie's face, he knew that the joke was bigger, fortunately, fortunately, among these students, only Sun Mengjie and Chen Qiudie vaguely understood, and they were their own women.

Li Zicheng directly ignored Chen Qiudie's eyes and continued to explain: "The poet Meng Haoran is the same, he sleeps in the morning, and when he wakes up, the sky is already bright, and there are birds everywhere......

Today's Chinese class is particularly smooth, although Chen Qiudie dozed off in the middle, it did not affect the teaching, on the contrary, after Chen Qiudie was "named and criticized" by Li Zicheng, all the students cheered up, lest they fall into the eyes of Mr. Chen Qiudie and be classified as the same kind of Chen Qiudie.

But Li Zicheng felt that he was not only too tired to teach word by word, but also did not have enough time, and once there was something wrong with the military and politics, the girls' school would have to suspend classes, so he had already planned to write a dictionary.

To complete a brand new dictionary, the workload can be imagined, not only Li Zicheng can not complete it alone, but also the entire Xiningwei, I am afraid it will be difficult to complete it for a while and a half, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Manchu Qing Dynasty, to complete such a work, it will take several years to concentrate the talents and materials of the whole country.

In fact, in Xining, it is difficult to find a few literate people, so he can only adopt the "take-it-or-leave-it" doctrine, and first compile a dictionary for the students, the number of words is not too much, three to five thousand is enough.

Even these three or five thousand dictionaries are not as easy to write as speaking, and they also have to phoneticize, paraphrase, and even close phrases for each word.

So the last time he saw a book called "The Repertoire" at John Tong's place, he felt that God was shining on him, and whenever he had free time, he adapted the "Repertoire".

"Vocabulary" is a real dictionary, written by Mr. Mei Shengsheng, a native of Nanzhili, and is estimated to have been written in the 43rd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1615 AD).

What made Li Zicheng ecstatic was that the "Vocabulary" was completely classified according to radicals, and he did not know how many radicals there were in Chinese characters, which was clearly stated in the "Vocabulary": two hundred and fourteen, although they are not necessarily exactly the same as the modern Chinese of later generations, it doesn't matter, this dictionary is only a temporary emergency and is of an excessive nature.

As for the use of reverse cuts, straight sounds, and pronunciation proximity to phonetic Chinese characters in the "Vocabulary", Li Zicheng abandoned all of them.

Due to its excessive nature, Li Zicheng did not name the dictionary, but only gave the name of the dictionary broadly to distinguish it from the vocabulary.

There are two ways to look up words with a dictionary, one is based on radicals, Li Zicheng copied the "Vocabulary" as it is; Another way to look up words is the main purpose of Li Zicheng's dictionary, which is based on pinyin, which is what he teaches in girls' schools, so such a dictionary can only be used normally by graduates of girls' schools.

There were too many words on the "Vocabulary", and Li Zicheng made appropriate deletions, including a total of more than 4,600 words.

The biggest problem is not the order of arrangement, but the traditional and ancient Chinese used in the dictionary, Li Zicheng needs to "translate" it a little bit, and so far, the entire translation work is less than 20%.

If this continues, plus printing, the "Dictionary" does not know when it will come out, so Li Zicheng directly circled all the Chinese characters that need to be included, remarked them in simplified Chinese, and the rest of the "translation" and paraphrasing work is ready to be handed over to Sun Lin.

Sun Lin is a typical chronic son, he doesn't talk much, his ass can be torn on the bench for a long time, and he is the only male student in the girls' school, and now his duties are quartermasters, and there are not many affairs at hand.

Of course, it is difficult for Sun Lin to translate the traditional and ancient Chinese on the "Vocabulary" directly, Li Zicheng is ready to open a small stove for him alone, and when Sun Lin basically learns the method, he will translate it again, and finally it will be reviewed by Zhu Youzhen.

At the end of class, Li Zicheng found Sun Lin alone and asked him to accept this work, and this "Vocabulary" was handed over to him for the time being, but there was still a long way to go for him to take on such a job.

In order to encourage Sun Lin and improve her motivation, Li Zicheng asked Li Dan to be Sun Lin's assistant.

Originally, there was a math class later, but Li Zicheng wanted to go to the Xining Catholic Church, so he asked the students to recite Meng Haoran's "Spring Dawn" by themselves.

John Tong himself was reading the Bible to the believers, and when he heard that Li Zicheng was visiting, he hurriedly handed over the matter of interpreting the scriptures to his assistant Angelita, who was also from the Holy Roman Empire, and after coming to Xining, he changed his Chinese name to "Anger", and after John Tang was officially promoted to bishop, he also rose to the top and became the pastor of the Xining Catholic Church.

"Why do you have time to come to church?" Tang Ruowang gave Li Zicheng a seat on the one hand, and asked the clergy to serve tea to Li Zicheng, he stayed in Daming for more than ten years, he had already learned the etiquette of Daming, including Chinese, and he was also very slippery, if he was a "Da Ming Tong", it was not an exaggeration.

"Haha, Mr. Tang, Ao, you should call Bishop Tang!" Li Zicheng was unceremonious, and put one on the wooden chair, but motioned for Tang Ruowang to sit down opposite, completely like he was in his own home.

"My lord made fun of me," John Tang sat down opposite Li Zicheng, "If there is no great support from adults, where would I be a bishop?" If you don't support it, I, the bishop, probably won't be able to do it for a day. ”

It's good to know, Li Zicheng said in his heart, this John Tang is really not a fool, but he supports and even uses extraordinary means to assist John Tang in promoting Catholicism in the Xining area, not all for John Tang, or Catholicism itself, but for the grand plan in his heart, however, these naturally can't drink John Tang said, "Lord Bishop is not an ordinary busy, I won't beat around the bush, I came here this time, but I hope that Lord Bishop can take time to build a telescope." ”

"Telescopes? What do adults want to do with this? Do adults have time to observe the heavens? ”

"I don't have time to watch the sky," Li Zicheng took out two pieces of polished glass from his sleeve, and now it is a convex lens, "I have almost polished the glass, as long as it is slightly polished and deformed, the bishop proposed in detail the method of improvement in the book "Telescope Theory", I don't know how to make it, right?" ”

"Glass?" Tang Ruowang's eyes lit up suddenly, "In our Europe, there are only Venetian merchants, they are strange goods, and the prices are ridiculously high, where did the adults get them?" Is the price high? ”