Chapter 92: The Enthronement Meeting (II)
The area of Daqing Hall is less than two-thirds of the Taihe Hall of the Imperial City of Xincangzhou City.
But there are more than three times as many courtiers here as there are in the Taihe Palace.
The small Daqing Hall is almost crowded with nearly three hundred people at this moment, just like the military training of later generations, lined up in four columns, standing neatly, Jiang Yin saw at a glance that the civil officials were headed by Zhao Pu and Xue Juzheng, and the military attaches were Cao Bin and Mi Xin.
As Jiang Yin stepped on the dragon chair, the last note of "King Qin's Breaking Array Music" also came to an abrupt end, and then Jiang Yin sat on the dragon chair and looked at the stunned expressions of everyone in the audience with satisfaction.
And Zhao Pu had just reacted at this moment, only to see him pounce forward, kneel on the ground and shout: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”
As soon as he shouted like this, the civil and military officials who were still there also knelt down in unison, shouting long live.
Jiang Yin nodded with satisfaction with the performance of these people in the audience and said, "Zhong Aiqing is exempt from courtesy. ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The civil and military officials also stood up again with their embroidered robes.
"Aiqing in the back, maybe you heard my voice?" Jiang Yin asked at the back, although he was already very loud, but the five-grade officials in the distance still listened faintly.
In fact, it's no wonder, after all, the hall is so big, no matter how loud a person's voice is, it is unlikely to spread so far.
The emperor will not really speak to them, only when something is played, they may go up to the front to ask His Majesty some questions, under normal circumstances, those people in the back will not be able to hear what the emperor is saying at all.
After their officials went to the court, when they went to dinner together, they would talk about the problems at the court.
But Jiang Yin couldn't understand this kind of behavior very much.
These officials are considered to be ranked in the fifth rank, not a special official, but they also get up early in the morning, and as a result, they come to a meeting, and they can't hear anything, so they should be indiscriminate, what is this called a big court meeting.
So Jiang Yin prepared a microphone early.
"Hey, hey, hey." Jiang Yin picked up the microphone and fed it a few times, and this time, his voice resounded throughout the hall.
The realizations of the ministers were varied, whether they were shocked, frightened, or novel, in short, everyone was very curious about why the emperor's voice suddenly became as loud as it was, and there was a kind of penetrating heartstrings, as if it had a magical power in the ears.
Of course, these ancient people didn't know what the electromagnetic rotation was, let alone what the amplification circuit was, and even if they gave them a speaker, they couldn't identify what it was.
"I can hear what I'm saying now." Jiang Yin approached the microphone and said.
Everyone in the audience nodded.
"Okay, then I won't talk nonsense, today's court meeting, I want to announce to the hundred officials that the former emperor Zhao Guangyi Chan is located in me, changed the country name Song to the new Song Dynasty, continued to set the capital Bianjing, and changed the year name to Tianchen, what are your opinions?"
Everyone already knows the news, so no one will jump out against it.
"Well, it seems that you Aiqing don't have any opinions, so let's arrange it and let the surrounding countries know about my new Song Dynasty country as soon as possible." Jiang Yin paused and then continued: "Three days ago, I issued the "Discussion on the Improvement of Characters" and "Annotations on the Correction of Characters" to various civil officials and military attache groups, as well as the "Discussion on the Reform of the Army" and the "Division of the Military System by Military Ranks". ”
"Your Majesty, Weichen feels that this "Proposal for Character Improvement" needs to be discussed." An old minister stood up from the crowd, but Jiang Yin didn't know this person at all, but seeing that he had a white beard and stood relatively forward, he must be a big official, so he waved his hand and said, "Aiqing might as well speak out." ”
The old minister didn't care so much, and said directly: "Chinese characters are the law of the ancestors, and every stroke has been passed down for thousands of years, but His Majesty wants to abolish the traditional characters and simplify the complex in the "Text Improvement Proposal", which is really putting the cart before the horse, and it is really unwise to disrespect the ancient law. ”
Jiang Yin still wanted to refute it, but he didn't want to hula and many people came out, knelt on the ground together, and said in unison: "The ministers seconded the proposal!" ”
In fact, about this traditional and simplified, to be honest, there is not much difference, and the reading barrier is not very big, but because Jiang Yin is a modern person, the environment in which he lives allows him to know the convenience brought by simplified characters.
Whether it is easier for children to learn, more convenient for printing books, or easier for the spread of culture, these simplified characters have advantages, so he planned to implement simplified characters in the Great Song Dynasty.
But now it seems that changing the text involves the interests of many forces in the Great Song Dynasty, the first of which is the civil official class, these civil officials have never learned simplified characters, although they can understand it, but once it is promoted nationwide, they will undoubtedly need to relearn the new simplified characters.
The second is the printing workshops of the Great Song Dynasty, whether it is government-run or private, the engraving and engraving can be in traditional characters, once the simplified characters are to be implemented, those original engravings may need to be overturned and redone, which is not only a huge amount of work, but also a huge capital expenditure.
Printing can also be linked to the interests of more parties, so the implementation of simplified Chinese characters was desperately opposed by the civil service class as soon as it was born.
Looking at the more and more Wenchen kneeling in the audience, Jiang Yin was also a little big, and now he realized the hardship of being an emperor, even if he was strong enough to have strange stones and a brain that could not be forgotten, but he still couldn't convince these ignorant ancients.
In the end, it was Zhao Pu who stood up.
"Your Majesty, Wei Chen thinks that the politics and law of changing traditional Chinese characters to simplified Chinese characters in the "Discussion on Character Improvement" can be put aside, and we can promote the Arabic numerals and addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculation methods in the "Discussion on Character Improvement" in the Great Song Dynasty.
I have to say that Zhao Pu is really a good hand at being an official, not only not offending the civil official group, but also giving Jiang Yin a step down.
With so many civil officials kneeling at the moment, Jiang Yin naturally has no way to forcibly change the traditional Chinese to the simplified Chinese, so he can only follow Zhao Pu's words and say: "What Prime Minister Zhao said is reasonable, since many of the ministers oppose this traditional to simplified Chinese, then this matter will be put aside for the time being, and we will discuss it again in the future, and first promote the Arabic numerals and addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculation methods in the "Discussion on Character Improvement" in my new Song Dynasty, do you have any objections?" ”
"The ministers have no objections." The white-bearded old man took the lead in getting up, and the officials behind him also stood up, but seeing that their faces were full of smiles, as if they had won a victory, Jiang Yin was also a little crying and laughing.
The first court meeting after Jiang Yin ascended the throne continued in this atmosphere of back and forth and bargaining......
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