"General, you ......" When Jiang Chuan raised his head, he happened to see Qi Xuan's puzzled expression.

He didn't react for a while, thinking that Qi Xuan felt that his handwriting was not good-looking, no, General Ben had practiced with Pang Zhonghua for a long time when he was a child, and every time he left his name on the street to sell insurance and fitness cards, people praised his handwriting for being good-looking, is it so high that your eyes are so high?

He leaned over to take a look, only to realize that Qi Xuan's doubts came from the simplified Chinese characters he had written.

Simplified Chinese characters are commonplace for him, but of course they are very strange for pure ancients like Qi Xuan. In the eyes of the ancients, these words were simply incomplete words written by half-literate people.

So Qi Xuan was surprised and puzzled, the general wrote more than a dozen drafts in one go, could it be that he was semi-literate? That's weird, isn't it? looks like a very literate person, how can he be semi-literate?

Facing Qi Xuan's puzzled eyes, Jiang Chuan's mind turned, and he smiled slightly in a very relaxed tone: "I don't understand, right?" It's called Simplified Chinese, and I invented it. ”

"Huh? General, you invented it? "Qi Xuan obviously feels incredible, you are not Cangjie, can you still invent words? And these things don't look like words used by serious people.

Seeing Qi Xuan's questioning eyes, Jiang Chuan coughed slightly, and said in a very solemn tone: "Miss Qi, do you know why there are so few people in the world who can read and write?" ”

Without waiting for Qi Xuan to answer, Jiang Chuan himself continued: "In addition to economic and political reasons, a very important reason is that the font we have been using before is too cumbersome, complicated and difficult to write. You can't deny that, right? ”

Before Qi Xuan could come up with a reason, she was taken away by Jiang Chuan's words, and after thinking about it slightly, it seemed to make some sense.

It's just that she's been used to it since she was a child, so she hasn't thought about it before. After Jiang Chuan said this, he started to think about this problem.

Of course, there are many factors for the low literacy rate in ancient times, and although the complexity of fonts is also one of the reasons, it is definitely the least important reason.

Of course, Jiang Chuan mainly wanted to fool Qi Xuan, so he exaggerated. Although a young lady like Qi Xuan from an official family is literate and well-versed in poetry, it is difficult for her to think about these social issues outside of her own pattern, so she is easy to be led away by Jiang Chuan.

Therefore, these characters are not the result of General Ben's inability to write, but precisely in order to improve the efficiency of writing, so that more people can recognize and write, and the original font is improved, I call them simplified characters, so it is logical that the existing popular font is called traditional characters. So, do you understand? Jiang Chuan talked eloquently, followed by good temptations, and continued to fool other girls.

Of course, it is absolutely impossible for Jiang Daren to admit the fact that he is not very good at writing traditional characters, in that case, he will really be put into the hat of illiteracy. In his previous life, he was a high-achieving student who was comparable to a student at Brewster University, how could he be said to be illiterate.

"Simplified? Traditional? But how do you pronounce these words? Although Qi Xuan felt that something was wrong, she didn't know how to refute it, chewing on these two words and asking.

"That's a good question, and it shows that you're a good thinker. General Ben, of course, also took this issue into account. This is the word pinyin? Oh, I know you don't understand, it's a long story, it's hard to say. All in all, you sort out this manuscript now, oh, by the way, you don't know a lot of simplified characters, okay, then I'll dictate it, and you can copy it. ”

Jiang Chuan finally found that he still made a fool of himself, and after writing for a long time, the little secretary didn't know him, and in the end he had to dictate it himself, so he asked Qi Xuan to transcribe it again in traditional Chinese.

If you want to popularize simplified Chinese characters, you have to promote pinyin, then you have to write your own teaching materials, establish a school, and then you have to go to class by yourself, and teach a group of people to read every day: "Ah, Oh, Goose, Hey, Wu, Fish......" I think the picture is too beautiful.

After all, it is easier to learn traditional Chinese characters by yourself, after all, you only need to learn traditional Chinese characters by yourself, which is countless times easier than having to let all your subordinates learn simplified Chinese characters.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan quickly gave up his plan to promote simplified Chinese characters, and if he wanted to do it, he would have to wait until he had enough manpower and territory to go, and it would be much easier to implement it with national power.

By the time Qi Xuan finished transcribing, it was already in the middle of the moon, and both of them were too tired.

Jiang Chuan got up and stretched his waist, and then he felt that his stomach was already hungry.

"General, I'll go get some food." Qi Xuan herself was also grunting with hunger, got up and whispered, her face was slightly red, for fear that Jiang Chuan would hear it.

"Okay," Jiang Chuan nodded.

When Qi Xuan went to get food, Jiang Chuan looked through the manuscript she had just copied, and it was neatly written in small letters, full of beauty. And the handwriting is not as delicate as what ordinary girls write, but there is a sense of fortitude, which makes Jiang Chuan secretly surprised.

The ancients liked to write from the right, and they wrote vertically, which made Jiang Chuan very unaccustomed. He still maintains the habit of writing horizontally from the left, starting from the left, and using punctuation to break sentences.

You must know that in ancient times, there was no punctuation, and what the ancients wrote, the place where the sentence should be broken leaves you blank at most. Some people don't even leave blank spaces, and you have to figure out how to break the sentence yourself, so many times it is easy to make misunderstandings.

Qi Xuan was surprised when she saw Jiang Chuan use punctuation marks for the first time, and later after Jiang Chuan popularized the use of punctuation marks to her, she quickly discovered the benefits of these humble symbols, making the meaning of the document simple and clear, and easier to understand.

As a result, she quickly learned the use of punctuation. The more you use them, the more you realize the benefits of these little symbols, so you have now started to get used to punctuation.

Punctuation was also used for some of the documents sorted out for Liu Ji, which made Liu Ji very surprised at a glance, and when he asked, he knew that it was Jiang Chuan's initiative, and naturally he had some admiration for Jiang Chuan.

Master Jiang was thick-skinned and endured it with a smile. No one came to expose him anyway.

And at Jiang Chuan's request, Qi Xuan's manuscript format was also written horizontally from left to right, which made Jiang Chuan feel very comfortable, and he no longer had to feel the awkward feeling of writing from right to left and from top to bottom.

Now the only thing that makes him unhappy is the traditional Chinese characters, many traditional Chinese characters he basically knows, and he can guess the context if he doesn't know it, but writing is a big problem.

Although it is not realistic to promote simplified Chinese characters at present, he can teach Qi Xuan first, so that he doesn't have to dictate it after writing it every time like today, and then let Qi Xuan copy it.