[Today is still the third watch, this is the first watch. The two more that I owed before will also be made up as soon as possible. Some friends are talking about this, so I'll make a guarantee here, and there will be no less than eighty chapters in total this month. 】

Lu Huiqing was about to arrive in the capital, and the atmosphere in the court became a little weird.

In any case, it was a hero who defeated the Liao army and completely returned the Lingwu homeland to China. Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there are only a handful of handsome ministers who can be compared with him.

If the merit is recorded by the land seized and the number of beheadings, Lu Huiqing is definitely above Han Gang and Guo Kui.

And such a hero, Mo said that he was promoted to the eastern class and became the prime minister, but he was rejected from the capital by the ministers in the court, and everyone knew how much fire he would have in his heart.

If you go to the palace and point at Han Jiang, Cai Qu, and Zhang Dian and scold, then no one will have any face.

Although that is unlikely, it is still the old saying that happens anyway.

The courtiers in Beijing, some are worried about this, some are ready to watch a good show, and some people worship the gods and Buddhas all over the heavens, hoping that he can fight to the death with Cai Qu and Zhang Dian.

However, before Lu Huiqing returned to Beijing, Guo Kui came back first.

He returned to Beijing earlier than Lu Huiqing, but the officials in the court almost forgot about him. is no longer in charge of the troops outside Beijing, Guo Kui does not have much say in the court-although there is not much-compared to Lu Huiqing, it is still a little worse. I can add to the chaos

On this day, Zhang Dan, who knew the affairs of the Privy Council, was ordered by Empress Taishang to go out of the suburbs of the city together with several three government officers in Beijing to greet him.

Su Song escaped this errand, and said to Han Gang in a relaxed mood: "I don't know if Guo Zhongtong dares to accept this gift." ”

"What would he not dare?" Han Gang said, there should be no special thoughts on the queen's side, if you really want to set up Guo Kui, you can send the prime minister to greet her, and you will never use just one Zhangdu, "It's not that you can't afford it." It is the will of the Empress Taishang, of course, it can be accepted. But Lu Huiqing came back, according to the etiquette, who should go out to greet him? ”

"It is impossible for Han Zihua to go, but Cai Chizheng is indispensable. And Yukun, you, definitely can't get out. ”

"Of course you can't get out, who will let you be a subordinate? We still have to do our best. Han Gang said with a smile: "Although the Xuanhui Yuan is the combined name of the northern and southern envoys, the status of the southern envoy is still on the northern envoy, that is, the charge and the seal, when the two envoys are in Beijing, they are all stamped with the seal of the southern envoy. ”

"Fortunately, Lu Jifu can't come back......"

Su Song looked outside the hall, the Xuanhui Academy had no serious affairs to do, and the area occupied was much smaller than that of the Privy Council, if Lu Huiqing came back, the Editorial Bureau of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that had just moved over would have to move away.

"It's good to come back, and the matter of Xuanhui Yuan can also be pushed on him."

Su Song laughed, but did not reply to Han Gang's words.

Seeing Su Song's reaction, Han Gang could only shake his head. He didn't want Lu Huiqing to come back, everyone knew about it, and it seemed that it was useless to cover it up. If Lu Huiqing came back just to compete with Cai Qu for a seat, Han Gang really didn't mind, but as soon as Lu Huiqing came back, he would inevitably exert his efforts in the new school, which made him feel uncomfortable.

"When will the artillery be good?" After a while, Su Song asked again,

"Soon, the model has been done two days ago, and it should be cast tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. However, casting is only the beginning, and there are too many places to experiment. After all, it's new, and there's a lot to improve. In terms of use, there must also be a set of procedures. ”

"I heard Zihou say the day before yesterday, are you going to let Cousin Ling do this?"

Han Gang nodded, "I just don't know when Lu Dao will be able to return to Beijing." ”

The order of the Privy Council was issued, and it would take time to send it to Li Xin, and when he returned, I don't know how much time had passed.

After the end of the war, Li Xin, the defeated general, was recalled to the capital as soon as possible, and after the merits and demerits were offset, he was hung in the West Courtyard of the judges. However, Han Gang insisted on returning to Beijing, and he was impeached halfway through, and suffered along with Li Xin. Seeing this, Xiang Empress directly asked the inquisitor West Court to transfer Li Xin to Jingnan, so as not to become a pond fish.

Han Gang had discussed with Zhang Dian before, and they wanted to transfer Li Xin back and arrange for him to be in charge of artillery experiments and the protection of the Firearms Bureau.

After all, artillery is made of metal, and its use and maintenance are no more complicated than crossbows made of bamboo and wood horns, and much simpler than bed crossbows and thunderbolts. However, in the past, bed crossbows were used, and the details were rarely exhausted, and thunderbolt guns were used as they were made.

However, because the artillery uses explosive gunpowder, it is not well maintained and preserved, and the danger is much greater than that of the bed crossbow. Moreover, the elite artillery is a skilled class, in order to be able to unleash the power of the artillery to the fullest, Han Gang felt that at least a set of suitable artillery manuals should be compiled.

This is Li Xin's task. When he can successfully complete this matter, he will be able to occupy an advantageous position in the army. Although Han Gang has no chance to be in Sanya, or even Hengban, his qualifications in firearms will become more and more important with the passage of time and the popularity of firearms.

"It should be fast, and I use a horse to deliver it." Su Song sighed with emotion, "Now that the imperial court issues documents, except for the Di newspaper, there is almost no need to hand it in steps." ”

"How can you get these benefits without fighting?" Han Gang said with a smile. Back then, Su Song also opposed the use of troops outside.

"It's not about winning." Su Song corrected.

These young people have never experienced the situation of being oppressed by the Western Xia and Liao States in the past, and they don't know the tragic situation in the capital after the successive fiascos of Sanchuankou, Haoshuichuan, and Dingchuanzhai in Ludao.

Su Song was a little depressed, stopped gossiping, and looked down at the manuscript in his hand.

This "Compendium of Materia Medica" Editing Bureau has been in operation, even when Han Gang was in the field, he never stopped. However, the classification standards formulated by Han Gang were too unique, and the members of the Editing Bureau had a hard time sorting out the various medicinal materials.

However, there are thousands of prescriptions that are ready to be attached to the most important part of the pharmacopoeia, but they are almost all organized. It depends on the situation, before the compilation of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the new version of the "Taiyi Bureau" will come out first.

What Su Song is reviewing is this three-volume collection of prescriptions, this is the second revision, and when the three proofreadings are completed, it can be sent to print.

However, this edition of the prescription collection is different from the books of the past, and it is punctuated. And it is not the common punctuation mark that adds a dot to the outside of the word at the end of the sentence as a logo, but a punctuation mark with a comma, colon, period, quotation marks and other initial systems.

Under Hanoka's chairmanship, all the books on medical care published by the Department of Health and Welfare and the Tai Medical Bureau over the past few years have been added to the end of sentences. In order to prevent misidentification, injuring people and killing people. It was for this reason that Han Gang used to get Zhao Ji to agree to his approach. Even later, the distinction between commas, periods, and question marks was slowly added, making it more difficult to misrecognize.

In the past two years, even two newspapers have adopted period-dot commas in newspapers to identify sentence readings. Their newspaper is for the people to read, not to embarrass the people, understanding that this year, no one will have a hard time with money.

But the complete punctuation system, Han Gang has never used it publicly. However, Su Song is very accustomed to reading it, and the previous three issues of "Nature" all took the initiative to add punctuation marks to print together.

Han Gang hopes to change thousands of years of tradition through subtlety, so as to avoid the trouble of learning sentence reading in the future.

This is the same as simplification, which is the first step towards universal education. It's not just a matter of punctuating and writing less. It is also part of the formalization of writing. Only with simple and easy-to-understand general rules can it be convenient for culture to be popularized among the general public. After the text is standardized, if you know 500 words, you will be able to understand the newspaper with guesswork, and if you can know 1,500 words, there will be no problem in daily use.

And it can't be like the oracle bone inscription, where a word appears here for one meaning and there for another. Or look at the two words that are reversed, but they are actually one word. Such a situation is very common on oracle bones and utensils unearthed in Yin Ruins.

The most typical is the giant bronze Dafang Ding, the inscription on it, it looks like it should be a division, but Lu Dalin, who is famous for his gold and stone, insisted that it was the queen. Anyway, this matter didn't come out of the Shilin process, and Han Gang didn't pay attention to it.

Many of the common characters that are common to the people now are the same as the simplified characters of later generations, but there are also many irregularities and differences. If he could compile a dictionary with the simplified characters that had been standardized in later generations as the core in the name of vulgar characters, Han Gang's plan for the future would be more likely to succeed.

It is important to know that the price of books is too high nowadays, and the reason why the circulation of newspapers can no longer be expanded is also because of printing problems. Only by simplifying the characters can we further reduce the font size and print more words on the same size of paper. And with the use of normalized punctuation, a page of a book will be able to print much less text, and all books will have to be much thicker without shrinking the font size.

In addition, due to textual factors, the revision is a hard job, and the Fujian version of the book is not as good as the Guozijian edition or the Beijing edition, which saves too much effort in the revision. But this also lowered the price of the Fujian version of the book. All the way to Fujian, the number of jinshi in each subject far exceeds that of other roads, and even the capital cannot be compared, among them, the Fujian version of the book, which is famous for its shoddy production, also has a great credit.

But if it can be replaced with a simplified word, most of the manual work will be saved in the proofreading. The price of books will be greatly reduced, so that more people will be able to buy books and read books.

It's normal for a well-fed lord to want to play with antiques, but what about the poor who are bitter? Fill your stomach first! What's more, if there are no antiques to play, then there will be no dead people, and there will be no enough food.

However, Han Gang didn't plan to do this for the time being, but just let Hengqu Academy make preliminary preparations. Although Su Yu had some opinions, at Han Gang's insistence, he still nodded and agreed.

Han Gang is now waiting for the opportunity to throw out his plan little by little.