"Your Majesty, Shi Xiao Shulang's words are really without respect for the ancestors. Shi Xiao Shulang also said that knowledge is passed down from ancestors. How much experience and effort did the ancestors spend to create this concise statement? If it is abolished directly, isn't that disrespectful to the ancestors, and where to put the ancestors? In my Central Plains, filial piety governs the country, and filial piety comes first. The culture passed down by our ancestors, then we actually want to abolish it, isn't this unfilial piety? Shi Xiao Shulang also said that cultural knowledge was handed down by my ancestors, and wouldn't it be disrespectful to my ancestors if I changed this without permission? It is really unreasonable to defile the efforts of the ancestors in this way! Chu Suiliang came out and said.

Chu Suiliang's words are actually one meaning, that is, they cannot use vernacular Chinese. Of course, he directly said that the use of vernacular is disrespectful to ancestors, a disrespect for ancestors, and unfilial piety. According to China's thinking of governing the country with filial piety, if it is detained with a reputation of unfilial piety, it is really the end. At that time, the Han Dynasty was not also "filial piety", which was an important reason for filial piety to parents.

Even many feudal dynasties do not pay much attention to filial piety, they believe that loyal ministers come from the family of filial piety, and only filial piety can be transferred to filial piety. Therefore, "filial piety" is irrefutable, once anyone dares to refute filial piety, it is suicide. This filial piety is also one of the basics of human nature, Shi Bufan was also "filial piety" at that time is one of the consciences in the human heart, if Shi Bufan dares to refute filial piety, isn't it directly pulling out the foundation of his own mind?

"Hmph, what are you comfortable with, I don't understand?" Shi Bufan thought.

What is this Chu Suiliang's thoughts, Shi Bufan understands very well. Chu Suiliang is actually a scholar, he naturally does not want culture to be widely disseminated, only monopolizing culture, that is the means to maintain the rule of the scholars. Once the culture became vernacular, the difficulty of learning to read was greatly reduced, and they were unwilling to allow more people to read and learn culture, so that their scholars could monopolize official positions and even gain more means to deceive the people.

But Chu Suiliang found an excuse for his behavior, an excuse for retorting under the banner of filial piety. If Shi Bufan dares to refute, it means that he is not filial, and then the extraordinary will be over. This kind of ability to pull the tiger's skin as a banner, Chu Suiliang has obviously learned it.

Li Shimin also frowned, of course he understood what kind of heart this Chu Sui Liang'an had, but he couldn't say it directly. Because if Li Shimin exports, I am afraid that he is also denying filial piety, which is not good for himself. Chu Suiliang's words were not only said to Shi Bufan, but also to Li Shimin. If Li Shimin dares to refute, it means that Li Shimin will inevitably suffer this consequence. Li Shimin did not dare to deny filial piety, even if he launched a coup d'état to force his father to abdicate, he did not dare to deny it so openly. Although he is not filial, he instead asks others to be filial, which is also the robber logic of an emperor in the ancient feudal era.

Since it is a bandit logic, he naturally can't take the initiative to oppose his own bandit logic, so Li Shimin also sits on wax, this he knows that Shi Bufan's method is good for him, but he has to be unable to speak. This is blocked at both ends, Chu Suiliang wants to force Shi Bufan and Li Shimin Bufan to refute, so that he can avoid a lot of problems.

However, Shi Bufan is not afraid, his knowledge is more extensive than Chu Suiliang, and this method is still difficult for him.

"May I ask Master Chu Suiliang, who invented my Chinese characters?" Shi Bufan asked.

Regarding this, Chu Suiliang replied on the spot: "It was invented by Cangjie, the historian of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, so Cangjie is called the first ancestor of humanity!" ”

"Very good, why did Cangjie make words?" Shi Bufan asked.

"Of course, it is convenient for us to communicate, before Cangjie made words, communication was expressed in objects, but it could not be expressed clearly. Therefore, Cangjie created words, so that all people can express their meanings through words, so that communication is convenient! Chu Suiliang said.

Shi Bufan then asked: "Okay, since Cangjie makes characters, and Chinese characters are from simple to complex. Until the pre-Qin period, the scripts of various countries were very complex. But later, Qin unified the world, the car was on the same track, and the book was the same text, so that there were the current Chinese characters. But what I remember is not bad, from the pre-Qin period to the present, all kinds of characters have been continuously simplified? Many of our official scribes, in order to deal with official affairs more quickly, deliberately abbreviated themselves and deliberately omitted some strokes in some fonts. In this way, the font has been simplified a lot since the dynasties, am I right? ”

"Yes!" Chu Suiliang had to agree.

Shi Bufan smiled, this simplification of the font, in fact, many dynasties are doing, some people in later generations think that simplified Chinese characters are actually inappropriate, and even advocate the restoration of traditional Chinese characters, for these guys' statement, Shi Bufan just wants to say an evaluation - play the piano!

The transformation of Chinese characters from simple to complex, and then from complex to simple, is a very huge trend. Since the Qin Dynasty, government officials and civil servants in successive dynasties have simplified some fonts in order to speed up office processes and improve efficiency. Of course, in addition to the office needs of civilian staff, there are some evasions in the process of simplifying fonts. There are some special reasons for the emperor's name, to carry out the so-called "evasion", this can be a vacancy, if it is really impossible to avoid, then it is also reduced by one stroke, or a part of it.

In fact, this is also the process of simplifying the font, and there are some special reasons in the daily office, and the convention has become a simplification of many words. Although the government did not take the initiative to promote it, all levels of society and even the civil servants within the government themselves were also improving these characters by deliberately writing fewer unimportant strokes, so that the convention became the later font, which is the origin of the so-called traditional Chinese characters.

Changing traditional Chinese characters to simplified Chinese characters is actually in line with this trend, and he is just an expert personally organized by the government, not the kind of individual self-improvement.

However, this font simplification has gone through many years of history, and this denial cannot be denied, of course Chu Suiliang has to admit it.

"Okay, Your Majesty, since Chu Suiliang has admitted it, please ask the emperor to punish all the officials in the world who participate in the simplification of fonts and those officials who write those simplified fonts, because they are not filial. Isn't it filial piety that they dare to change the words created by their ancestors without authorization, and so tarnish the essence of their ancestors? Therefore, please ask the emperor to punish the crime, otherwise let such disloyal and unfilial people in my Datang, wouldn't that be harming my Datang? Even, please ask the emperor to issue an edict of guilt, because the emperor has also written a lot of simplified Chinese characters, which is disrespectful to the ancestors. In addition, please ask the emperor to order that the simplification of fonts will be prohibited in the future, and all the characters of the pre-Qin period will be restored, so that it can be regarded as respect for ancestors and filial piety. Shi Bufan said.

Chu Suiliang pointed at Shi Bufan and scolded: "Shi Bufan, you are strong!" ”

"Isn't this what you mean, Master Chu Suiliang? Anyone who modifies the things of our ancestors is also unfilial, so isn't it filial piety for us to use the modified things, or even participate in the modifications? Therefore, please drive all the unfilial people out of my Datang officialdom, so that a group of filial piety can be officials. Even, let the emperor issue an edict to express his respect for his ancestors! Mr. Chu, isn't that what it means? Shi Bufan asked.

Li Shimin finally seized the opportunity, slapped the table fiercely, and said, "Chu Suiliang, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Your Majesty, I'm ......" Chu Suiliang felt like crying.

Chu Suiliang felt that he was slapped in the face again, if he said it according to himself, wouldn't it be unfilial to change the things of his ancestors. That person just changed his writing habits, but these people's faces and words have changed, wouldn't that be even more unfilial? I'll go, if it really follows this way, all the people involved in the simplification of the text, as well as the people who use the simplified text, are they cleared out of the Datang officialdom, then will there still be officials in the entire Datang?

In this Datang, who hasn't used the simplified words of their predecessors? There are even quite a few people who try to simplify themselves, so what if you label these people as unfilial? This is obviously impossible, if so many people are "not filial", is there still a filial person in this world?

"Chu Suiliang, Chu Suiliang, you are still a little tender! Play sophistry with me, you're still a little tender! If you label me as unfilial, then I will also label the whole world as unfilial, will you dare to pursue it when the time comes? You dare to hold me accountable, but do you dare to hold me accountable? If a person is 'unfilial', that is unfilial. But once everyone in the world is 'unfilial', then you must be the one who dies. Play with me buttoning your hat, you're still a little tender. There are so many debates, am I participating in them for nothing? Sophistry, changing concepts, buttoning hats, I'm perfect. Shi Bufan thought proudly, although Shi Bufan's calligraphy was not as good as Chu Suiliang, but in terms of debate, Chu Suiliang was his grandchild's.

Seeing that Chu Suiliang was about to lose his hold, Fang Xuanling, as the spokesperson of the Shandong Shi clan, also had to come out to help.

"Your Majesty, since this is the case, the people might as well allow this vernacular to be adopted. However, all imperial examinations and official documents in the imperial court must be written in ancient languages, what do you think? Fang Xuanling said.

"Yes, the emperor, you must use ancient Chinese in the imperial examination and official documents in the imperial court, what kind of system is it better to become?" "Yes! Both official documents and imperial examinations must be written in ancient Chinese, so that it is reasonable! ”……

Those scholars saw that since the loss of the vernacular script had become inevitable, they also planned to use other means, that is, the need to use ancient Chinese in the imperial examination, so that it was reasonable. In their eyes, as long as the imperial examination uses the ancient language, then the people will eventually use the ancient language. This is also a guiding direction, just like why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was able to respect Confucianism alone? It's not that Confucianism is so appealing, but because he combines Confucianism with being an official, and if he doesn't learn Confucianism, he can't become an official, so that everyone in the world also learns Confucianism and doesn't learn anything else.

It's like exam-oriented education in later generations, where you learn what you test in the exam. This is actually a guide, guided by the government, so that their culture will definitely grow crooked.

"Your Majesty, since this is the case, you can use ancient Chinese during the imperial examination." Shi Bufan said.

Shi Bufan knew that this kind of thing was not suitable for persecution too deeply, if he really forced those scholars to blow up, then they might immediately oppose it desperately, which would not be beneficial to themselves. Politics is the art of compromise, and there will be no competition without compromise. As for this, they want to use the imperial examination and the so-called official to adopt the ancient language, so that the people can learn the ancient language, which is really stupid and naïve.

"Hmph, you guys are really stupid and naïve! Do you think that the imperial court archaeological text, you prevent the rise of vernacular literature? Hmph, in this world, reading is not all about being an official. In the eyes of your scholars, studying is to be an official. But for real ordinary people, studying is not all about being an official. So if they can learn the culture as soon as possible, they are naturally willing and willing to accept the vernacular. Do you think that if you take the imperial examination, you will be able to force the people to study ancient texts and increase the difficulty? That's not it, the imperial examination is just an accessory attached to culture, if the cultural knowledge is gone, how can the imperial examination be realized? It's a pity that your level is too high, and it's not conducive to seeing the real core basics. Shi Bufan thought.

The imperial examination is nothing more than a by-product of culture, although it seems that the imperial examination is a method of selecting talents, and the official position is also a by-product of culture. Perhaps this can be done through archaeological texts and the use of ancient texts in the government, so as to force the people to learn ancient texts. But this kind of thing that is divorced from the masses has no vitality. Qu Gao and Widow are fatal, if something like ancient text is not a last resort, who would want to use it?

Once the whole population has learned the vernacular, they will not continue to support the ancient language, but will force the ancient language to change. Maybe the upper layer must cross and affect the lower layer, but once the foundation changes, once the foundation changes, the upper layer will inevitably change. These scholars have always been in the upper echelons of society, and they lack awareness of the bottom of society. In their eyes, the upper class has an absolute influence on the lower base, but they are unable to realize the influence of the economic base and various cultural bases on the upper class.

So, once they make an opening, it's unstoppable. They think that they can control the state apparatus by grasping the imperial examination and the government, but they are obviously too ignorant to think about it, and they have no idea that the economic base determines the importance of the superstructure. Shi Bufan changed from the basics, so that when they found out, it was irreparable.

(To be continued.) )