Cai Yong said indignantly: "Your Majesty, Chinese characters are the treasures left by our ancestors, and articles are the cultural crystallization of our Han nationality and our precious wealth!" If we simplify Chinese characters and implement vernacular Chinese, wouldn't we forget our ancestors? In this way, the country will no longer be a country, Your Majesty! Please also ask the emperor to think twice! ”

Hehe, simplifying Chinese characters, is it a dictionary that forgets its ancestors? Is it going to be a country or not?

Sure enough, it was as expected!

didn't wait for Lu Bu to speak, only to hear Xun Yu also say in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, what Mr. Bo said is very true, Chinese characters must not be changed lightly, and articles must not be changed lightly, otherwise, I am afraid that it will cause people all over the world to be scolded, Your Majesty!" ”

Well, as expected, these two are staunch opponents.

However, at least Xun Yu's reason sounds more acceptable than Cai Yong.

Lu Bu couldn't help but ask in a deep voice: "Aiqing, I don't know what you think?" ”

Pang Tong, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, as well as Xi Zhicai and Xu You, all held opposing views.

And Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, and Lu Su were silent.

It seems that even young people will find it difficult to accept the text reform proposed by Lu Bu for a while.

This is the limitation of history!

Lu Bu couldn't help frowning and asked, "I want to ask you a few questions, Chinese characters can be dated with evidence, probably dating back to the Shang Dynasty more than 1,500 years ago, when the Shang Dynasty used oracle bone script. Then I would like to ask you a question, why did oracle bone inscription not become the mainstream script and was gradually abandoned? ”

When Lu Bu raised this question, the eleven ministers all had thoughtful expressions on their faces, but everyone was silent.

The question raised by Lu Bu made them feel that in fact, the writing reform proposed by the emperor was not unreasonable.

But emotionally, they can't accept it, and they refuse to accept it.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Lu Bu directly nominated: "Fengxiao, you come to answer my question just now." ”

Guo Jia had no choice but to reply: "Back to the emperor, it was because the oracle bone inscription at that time was very cumbersome and imperfect, and then after continuous improvement and development, it finally formed our current script." But now our writing is perfect! Why reform? ”

Lu Bu said earnestly: "Ladies and gentlemen, in the Shang Dynasty, there began to be writing, which was for oracle bone inscriptions. Because the oracle bone inscription is not perfect, it has been continuously improved and modified to form the inscription. ”

"But the text is still very cumbersome, and finally reformed into a golden script, to the Qin Dynasty, once again simplified into a small seal, and in the Han Dynasty it was changed to a lishu! You see, how many changes have taken place in Chinese characters through different dynasties? ”

"Our ancestors did not rest on their laurels! When they find that the text is too cumbersome to keep up with the times, they will carry out drastic reforms! ”

"They don't stick to the old ways, they don't think of forgetting their ancestors. Why is it that now that I propose to simplify Chinese characters and implement vernacular Chinese, you will say that I have forgotten my ancestors? I want to ask you, what is the truth of this? Are we not as good as the ancients? ”

The emperor's words made the eleven ministers difficult to refute for a while.

But they remained silent, and it was clear that they did not really approve of the emperor's reforms.

Lu Bu couldn't help but say in a deep voice: "Text reform is imperative!" I've made up my mind! It's up to you to carry it out! ”

What the?

After listening to the emperor's words, these eleven ministers couldn't help but secretly complain in their hearts.

Your Majesty, didn't you roast us on the fire?

If the eleven of us carry out the reform of the written language, will we not be scolded to death by all the people who have to read the books all the time?

Because they themselves don't agree with the emperor's reform!

Xun Yu, Cai Yong and others wanted to call themselves sick, but when they saw the emperor's face, they endured it again.

After hesitating for a long time, Xun Yu couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, the reform of writing is a matter of great importance, and it is bound to cause opposition from scholars all over the world. The minister believes that this matter must be cautious and not act blindly, so as not to cause a catastrophe. ”

Lu Bu sneered: "I have made up my mind, don't say it anymore." Words have to be changed, and I will do it myself. You only need to be responsible for the specific implementation issues. I want to see who dares to jump out and oppose it? Can't my will be carried out in Dahua? ”

Your Majesty, this is really moving!

Seeing the emperor's state at this time, these eleven ministers couldn't help but secretly complain in their hearts.

Once the emperor showed such a demeanor, it meant that their dissuasion, and the emperor could not listen to it at all.

Alas!

Once the text reform is implemented, I don't know how much turmoil and turmoil it will cause!

What they need to do now is to keep this turmoil as controllable as possible.

Next, they had to vaccinate their protégés.

You can't let everybody jump out and make trouble.

Even if they don't support it, they can't jump out and make trouble.

To be honest, if they hadn't followed Lu Bu from the earliest, it wouldn't have been that they had too deep feelings for Dahua and the emperor.

Even if they were, they would have jumped out against it!

At the same time, they were also a little curious.

It's just a matter of implementing the vernacular, which is easy to understand.

I don't know if the emperor wants to simplify Chinese characters, how to simplify it?

With so many Chinese characters, each one of them has to be simplified and thoughtful, isn't this a small project?

Even if you brainstorm ideas, it will take a long time to complete.

I'm afraid it will take a few years for the emperor to get the word alone, right?

I hope so, if there is a buffer of a few years, if they release the news first, it is estimated that the storm will be smaller by then.

……

Simplifying Chinese characters is actually the easiest thing for Lu Bu.

Because Lu Bu doesn't need to catch the knife himself at all, there are ready-made templates in the future, or very mature templates, he just needs to use them.

Even, these things don't need to be compared by him one by one.

In later generations, on the Internet, you can directly look up these things.

Download it directly, reformat and print it, and you're done.

The comparison table between simplified and traditional Chinese characters, printed out, was actually done in just two pages.

There are about 85,000 simplified Chinese characters.

But this time, Lu Bu was not ready to launch them all.

This time, Lu Bu was ready to launch only 3,000 simplified words.

According to statistics, 1,000 commonly used characters can cover about 92 percent of written materials, 2,000 Chinese characters can cover more than 98 percent of written materials, and 3,000 characters can cover 99 percent.

(End of chapter)