Chapter Ninety-Nine: Bean Sprouts

Before going to Gaizhou for the banquet, He Tengxiao needed to set up the team of the martial arts hall first. If the development of the situation is really as He Fangxiong said, the time left by the Liao State for the He family is by no means sufficient, and He Tengxiao only has one year to prepare at most, or less.

Lu Bingwen and four other scholars were taking care of trivial affairs for He Tengxiao in the side hall of the camp general's mansion. To be honest, at first, Lu Bingwen and the four scholars were reluctant to stay in Pingshan Fort to do things for He Tengxiao. For literati, especially a well-known literati like Lu Bingwen, it is a shame to be a martial arts staff, and only the literati who are desperate and forced to make a living have no choice but to serve as a martial artist's staff and earn some money to support their families.

The literati looked down on the samurai, and the samurai did not necessarily look down on the literati, many of the literati in the samurai shogunate did not live satisfactorily, and many literati would choose to leave the samurai's shogunate without hesitation after the conditions improved, and find another job.

He Tengxiao is not thin on these four literati, and the four literati are his staff, and they have an income of five taels of silver and two stone lumi every month. After more than half a year, they saved a small fortune, which was enough to support the four of them to find another job. However, these four scholars had no intention of leaving.

In the autumn of chaos, it is difficult to find a suitable thing to do, and their origins are also in Liaodong, and the literati of Liaodong are not welcomed in Dazhao. Among the 14 provinces of Dazhao, Liangjing, Liaodong's fame is the least valuable. In the southeast of the empire, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian were flourishing in the literary style, and the scholars in these places were able to take the single-plank bridge by thousands of troops. In the final analysis, it is the high gold content of the lifts that come out of these places.

There is a saying in Da Zhao: Half Jinshi in the southeast, half general in Liaodong. This sentence basically means that half of the Jinshi of the empire are from the three southeastern provinces, and half of the generals of the empire are from Liaodong, which is not an exaggeration. In the middle of the empire, the Hanlin Academy once became the Hanlin Academy of civil officials from Nanzhi and Zhejiang, and the Jinshi at the end of the list could only look at the Hanlin Academy and sigh. Later, in order to prevent the officials of the Nanzhili and Zhejiang families from becoming bigger in the court, the empire imposed restrictions on the number of officials from Nanzhili and Zhejiang from entering the Hanlin Academy, ensuring that Jinshi from other provinces could enter the Hanlin Academy. Rao is like this, and the Jinshi from the south of the Hanlin Academy and Zhejiang still account for most of them.

If the Xiucai examination in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian is a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of troops, the Xiucai examination in Liaodong can be regarded as a smooth road, as long as you are not too stupid and lazy, it is not a problem to insist on taking a lifting person for a few years. As for the entrance examination, Liaodong's lifter still gave up this idea early, in the past ten years, only three people in Liaodong have been Jinshi, and they are still at the bottom of the list.

Lu Bingwen, a person who took three years to show off his fame in the examination, belongs to a stupid type of person, and he did not have the lofty ideal of participating in the palace examination to obtain a jinshi. For him, taking a few more township exams and making a name for himself is already smoke on the ancestral grave. Where can you expect too much?

It is precisely because of the low gold content of Liaodong's fame that scholars like Lu Bingwen gave up being He Tengxiao's staff and entered the customs to make a living, and it is difficult to find a job with such a good salary now. Of course, the most important reason is He Tengxiao's own charm, these four scholars are willing to continue to stay as He Tengxiao's staff.

He Tengxiao subverted Lu Bingwen's view of martial artists. The rude and rude image of the martial artist has been fixed in the hearts of the Great Zhao literati, and Lu Bingwen is not surprised. When He Tengxiao had just recruited them into Pingshan Fort, they also thought that He Tengxiao was no different from ordinary martial artists.

Later, they slowly discovered that He Tengxiao was different from ordinary martial artists, and his words and deeds revealed a bit of elegance from time to time. They believe that even if He Tengxiao does not have them to assist in affairs, He Tengxiao alone can handle the affairs of Pingshan Fort properly and recruit them, He Tengxiao is just to save more time to train troops. What they admire the most is He Tengxiao's reading speed, and it is not an exaggeration to describe He Tengxiao's reading speed with one glance and ten lines, which makes them sigh to themselves as scholars who have been soaking in the stacks of books all year round.

"General."

Seeing He Tengxiao walking into the side hall of their office, the four scholars who were buried in the case hurriedly got up and saluted He Tengxiao with their fists.

He Tengxiao waved his hand to signal that they didn't have to be polite.

"How did I do last time I told you something?" He Tengxiao got straight to the point and asked directly, but his usual style of acting is to pay attention to efficiency in everything. Besides, there is no need to beat around the bush with these scholars.

"The general is a great talent, with this booklet of the general, it will be much easier to read and write." Lu Bingwen, as the head of the four scholars, was the first to speak on behalf of the four scholars.

"General, if you have a small one, can you print this booklet all over the world? This is a good thing for the benefit of scholars all over the world! A scholar named Gu Yingjiao arched his hand at He Tengxiao, and his voice was excited. If He Tengxiao is not mistaken, Gu Yingjiao is the oldest of these scholars.

They really couldn't figure out how He Tengxiao came up with this ingenious way to phonetize Chinese characters with these strange symbols like bean sprouts. When He Tengxiao first showed them his pamphlet, the four of them were all repulsive, believing that using these bean sprout-like symbols to phonetize Chinese characters was a kind of desecration of Chinese culture.

Under the pressure of He Tengxiao, they learned to use bean sprouts symbols to phonetize the man, and they had to admit that these bean sprouts-like letters were indeed easier to remember than the stroke-style phonetics commonly used in the empire.

After in-depth learning of the phonetic pronunciation of Chinese characters with bean sprouts symbols, they were surprised to find that these bean sprouts could actually meet the phonetic pronunciation of almost all Chinese characters, and they all sighed that He Tengxiao was a strange person.

If this booklet were published, literacy would be much easier. If this pamphlet had been written by a great Confucian, such an achievement would have made him shine in the annals of history. But it was He Tengxiao, who was born in a martial artist. This is a pity for them.

"In the future, when I have the opportunity, I will publish this book all over the world, which is a good thing for the literacy of people in the world, so why don't I do it." He Tengxiao picked up a pamphlet on the side of the case, "It's just that the time is not yet ripe, a few of you were angry when you just got this pamphlet, if I rashly publish this pamphlet in the world, I will not be denounced as a heretic by the world's readers, and at that time, I am afraid that the saliva of the world's readers will drown me." ”

It was plagiarized by He Tengxiao, and He Tengxiao didn't mind publishing this booklet. It's just that these things are not what he should be doing now. What he needs now is to eradicate the illiteracy of the grassroots officers under him, and what he needs is a group of high-quality grassroots military attachés.

Latin phonetics, which has been the brainchild of the Republic's elite for several years, are now being shamelessly plagiarized by He Tengxiao, who also secretly laughed at his brazenness. However, this is something that has been tested in practice, and it has made a great contribution to the work of eradicating illiteracy at the beginning of the construction of the republic, and it is still used in the republic today, which shows its practicability. If you can use it, you can use it, and He Tengxiao naturally doesn't mind taking it and using it.

"Bingwen, are you saying this method is feasible?" He Tengxiao asked Lu Bingwen.

"Feasible! Feasible! Absolutely! Lu Bingwen said continuously.

The other three scholars also chimed in.

"It's not feasible, you have to try to find out." He Tengxiao casually flipped through the pamphlet he had compiled in less than a day, and put it back on the case, "Don't forget the military order you set up for me, if you fail to meet my targets, I will ask you to roll up and leave." ”

A scholar named He Liangjun said with a smile: "At the beginning of the general, we gave each person a daily cross index, and we only taught it according to the old method, which is of course impossible. ”

He Tengxiao said with a smile: "Bean sprouts, when I say cut, they look like bean sprouts." ”

"General." Lu Bingwen had a worried face, as if he was worried about something.

He Tengxiao looked at Lu Bingwen, frowned and asked, "Bingwen, what are your concerns?" ”

"Teaching words, we will do our best, but I'm afraid of ......," Lu Bingwen said and stopped, as if he was hesitating whether to continue to say the second half of the sentence.

"I'm just afraid that those big-headed soldiers are not inferior and refuse to read?" He Tengxiao guessed what Lu Bingwen was worried about, those big-headed soldiers, let them go into battle to kill the enemy, they didn't say a word at that time, they could rush forward in the rain of arrows without blinking. But letting them sit and read is worse for them than killing them.

Lu Bingwen's concerns are not unreasonable, these four scholars are willing to teach them, and those active martial artists may not be willing to learn. Although there is a martial arts set up for the town army in this dynasty to teach martial arts literacy, before the emperor of the dynasty, the martial arts set up for the town army has already existed in name only and has become a decoration. He Tengxiao didn't want the martial arts hall he prepared to become an ornament like the martial arts of the town army.

"The general is really discerning." Lu Bingwen nodded, he was the most frequent of the four scholars who came into contact with the big-headed soldiers under He Tengxiao. I know more about these big soldiers than the other three scholars.

Lu Bingwen knew very well that he couldn't suppress these big-headed soldiers, and the only one who could suppress these big-headed soldiers was He Tengxiao himself. He was worried that these big-headed soldiers would not be willing to learn to read and write, and at that time, he would not be able to complete He Tengxiao's indicators, and he would really have to roll up and leave.

"You can rest assured, leave this matter to me, you teach them to read wholeheartedly, you don't have to worry about other things." He Tengxiao said happily.

"There is a general's words, and the general's indicators will not be completed at that time, so there is no need for the general to speak, and we will roll up and leave by ourselves." With He Tengxiao's promise, Lu Bingwen is much more confident.