Cai Yong praised when he heard this: "Meng Qi's move is very good, there are indeed many irregularities in contemporary writing, and there are many controversies in the pronunciation and writing of many words. Ma Yueyan and Chen Lin also nodded in agreement.

Ma Chao said: "After months of hard thinking, Chao has created a set of pinyin method and Chinese character simplification method, please take a look!" After that, he took out a silk silk, which was the Chinese pinyin scheme he had been preparing for a long time.

At that time, the popularity of writing in society was extremely low, and almost all of Jiucheng Renkou were illiterate, and most of those who could read and write were children of families, at least rich peasants. Ordinary people are busy making a living, so how can they have the time and conditions to hire someone to teach? Even some local academies are not accessible to civilians.

Ma Chao's move is to cultivate talents by himself, he is only fifteen years old this year, and he will only be thirty-five years old in 20 years. But if the matter of indoctrination can be developed, it will benefit immensely in 10 to 20 years, and then a group of new talents will spring up like mushrooms after a rain, and it will be difficult for him to prosper under his rule.

The three of them were immediately shocked when they figured it out, because Ma Chao directly copied the mature Chinese pinyin and simplified Chinese characters in later generations.

Pinyin first appeared in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and then developed and matured after many revisions. Chinese writing began with the oracle bone inscription, and after continuous development and improvement, it was not until the appearance of official scripts in the Han Dynasty that it began to be finalized, so it is also called Chinese characters. However, the Eastern Han Dynasty characters are very different from modern ones, not only are they all traditional characters, but also many characters have the shadow of oracle bone inscriptions, which are rigid and extremely difficult to read and write, and the standardization is insufficient.

Historically, after the appearance of regular script in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Chinese characters began to be simplified, and after two thousand years of evolution and precipitation, there was the script we use today. Ma Chao directly promoted the things of the two thousand years, and the practical significance was immeasurable, first of all, it was easy to identify and write. Secondly, with the standardized script, a unified language can be implemented, and it only takes a few hundred years to basically eliminate all dialects in the land of China and form a standardized Mandarin.

The three of them listened to Ma Chao for a long time before they understood the general meaning, and although they were shocked, they had no intention of objecting. Because according to the blueprint depicted by Ma Chao, the simplified Chinese characters are simply perfect, and the pronunciation can also be unified, which can be said to be a qualitative leap.

After talking for a long time, the few people finally agreed on a specific plan of action. Cai Yong, Ma Yuepan and Chen Lin enumerated the characters, trying to find out all the existing characters and simplify them by Ma Chao himself, and then the four of them agreed to correct the pronunciation and meaning of the characters to form the final version.

This work is also time-consuming and laborious, and the ink in Ma Chao's stomach cannot be perfect, but as long as a relatively complete set of standardized texts is formulated, it will be improved step by step by future generations.

After solving the problem of writing, Ma Chao ordered someone to find a few skilled carpenters, and after designing it himself, he made chairs, stools, high tables, writing desks and other furniture that were not available at that time in less than two days. These things Ma Chao did not forcibly promote, but only promoted and used within the General's Mansion, the so-called upward and downward effect, and soon, chairs, stools and some new lifestyles will soon become popular.

In his spare time, Ma Chao carefully polished a retractable monocular with crystal, and the magnification effect can reach up to six times. Although it is not as good as the military high-powered telescopes of later generations, it is much stronger than children's toy telescopes, and can see at least things that cannot be distinguished by the naked eye two thousand meters away.

As soon as this thing came out, it immediately caused a great sensation in the general's mansion, not only Yang Wan, Dong Xuan, Diao Chan and several big loli couldn't put it down, but even Ma Teng, Fu Zhu, Ding Yuan and others were surprised, calling it a "strange thing!" ”

And Ma Teng and his wife saw that the beauties around Ma Chao were like clouds, and there were four people who set their names: Yang Wan, Dong Xuan, Du Xiuniang and Princess Wannian, although the talented girl Cai Yan and Fanghua's peerless Diao Chan have no name, how can they not know Ma Chao's thoughts? Then he started the idea of marrying Ma Chao.

Ma Teng belongs to the representative of late marriage and late childbearing in ancient times. Ma Chao was only fifteen years old, but Ma Teng was already forty-two years old, and Zou was only thirty-six years old, that is, Ma Teng had his eldest son Ma Chao at the age of twenty-seven.

In these years, the age of marriage for men is also very particular, and the children of poor families are generally too old to get married, and scholars and doctors have to look at their status. Generally, they get married at the age of fourteen, sixteen, and eighteen, and the more noble the family background, the younger the age of the children to get married, and the men of the family of the Son of Heaven can get married after the age of twelve, such as Liu Wei and Tang Ji.

Ma Chao was very moved after hearing this, but considering some other factors, he decided to postpone it for another year and wait until he reached the age of sixteen before getting married. Now Cai Yan, Du Xiuniang and Princess Wannian are the oldest beside him, seventeen years old, followed by Diao Chan, sixteen years old, Yang Wan and Dong Xuan have just performed the ritual of harmony, and their bodies are not fully mature, Ma Chao really can't bear to destroy them.

The cotton and poppy industries have not been left behind, Ma Chao accidentally got six cotton plants in the West Garden last time, a total of 228 cotton bolls, selected the cotton bolls with finer fibers and longer seeds, and obtained a total of 3123 cotton seeds, but only 235 sprouted after planting in the spring.

At this moment, more than 200 cotton plants have set bolls, and each plant has only produced about 40 cotton bolls, which is far less than the yield of hybrid cotton in later generations. However, the cottonseeds of more than 200 cotton plants can be planted on one acre of land next year, 50 acres the year after, and thousands of acres the year after. If this development continues, you will be able to wear soft, comfortable, sweat-absorbing, breathable and warm cotton clothes within five years.

There are a lot of poppy seeds, and they are vigorous, and Ma Chao planted all the seeds he used to have an acre of land, and now this area has become a sea of flowers. Ma Chao ordered people to put up fences around them, arranged a team of Shenwei battalions to guard them at night, and personally did a collection demonstration. First, the half-ripe poppy fruit is harvested, and when it is cut with a knife, a milky white slurry flows out of it, and the slurry is collected and boiled in a pot to remove the water, forming a black paste. This thing is called big tobacco ointment, also called tobacco soil, which has a miraculous effect on analgesia and pain relief, and then after deep processing, it is the famous opium, as for the extraction of purer white powder, Ma Chao does not have this ability.

In the blink of an eye, in October 190, Jizhou and Bingzhou were fruitful, but they encountered a lot of resistance in the process of collection. Due to the implementation of the "three-point grain" system and the high-pressure system of tuntian, many large and small families opposed it one after another, and they did not want to cooperate with the government to settle the fields and did not want to pay high taxes, so they united to delay and refuse to pay grain.

This situation is only more serious in Jizhou, and more or less people from these families have people in the government, almost all of them have a certain background, and even threaten the relatively stable political situation.

Ma Chao, who was working hard to compile teaching materials in the house, was immediately angry when he learned about it, and wanted to use Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army to clean up these families, but at the beginning, Zhang Yan's hidden force had been exposed in advance in order to destroy the false way, and now he can only do it himself. Otherwise, how can we concentrate on external affairs if we are internally unstable? Even if this move may offend the world's families, he can't care about it.

After careful consideration, Ma Chao carefully discussed with the approval and frustration, and finally decided to carry out a major purge of the large and small families in Jizhou. In the name of deliberate rebellion, Zhang He sent troops to the three counties of Hejian, Bohai and Anping; ordered Zhao Yun to send troops to the three counties of Changshan, Zhongshan and Zhao; Ma Xiu, who was stationed in Yecheng, was ordered to lead 10,000 troops to the three counties of Wei, Qinghe and Julu. All large and small families who did not pay grain according to the regulations were exterminated and reduced to commoners, domestic slaves who aided and abused and helped them resist the officials and soldiers were reduced to slaves, and those who voluntarily left the family were promoted to commoners, and land could be distributed next year.

This decree and military action immediately set off a great wave in the territory of Dahan. The brutality of Ma Chao's move is no less than that of Qin Shi Huang's book burning and Confucianism, and it is undoubtedly "those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die!" "With the destruction of several family Wu forts, the families in the entire Jizhou region were completely panicked, and everyone was in danger, and they expressed their willingness to pay food according to the regulations.

But now it's too late to beg for mercy, Ma Chao is looking for trouble with them and can't find it, how can he let go of such a good opportunity? In order to ensure that the situation in Jizhou was firmly controlled, Ma Chao transferred the surname Cao stationed in Huguan to Wei County and Zhao State, and asked Chen Zhi to lead 10,000 troops to Qinghe County and Julu County, almost at the same time to attack the medium and large families with Wu Fort.

The families were completely frightened, and it was undoubtedly self-defeating to confront them, and every time the Ma Chao army captured a Wu fort, they had to plunder it on a large scale, not to mention that the family was deprived of land, and all the family wealth was confiscated and confiscated, and the direct family members had to be investigated, and once they found that there was a violation of the law, they would be dealt with according to the law, and the side branches would also be demoted to commoners.

In less than two months, except for a few large and small families such as the Fu family, the Zhen family, and the trial family, there were nearly 100 large and small families in Jizhou that were wiped out, and only a small part fled to Youzhou, Yanzhou, and Xuzhou with their family wealth and a few loyal house slaves, while Qingzhou was the territory of the Yellow Turban thieves, and no one dared to go.

Ma Chao has gained great material wealth in this move, Jizhou is full of families, there are many huge rich families, 60,000 elite soldiers went out for two months and seized 12 million grains, enough for 250,000 troops to eat for two years. Valuables such as gold, silver, and jade cannot be counted, but preliminary estimates can last for three to five years. The most important thing is to recover a large area of arable land and distribute these lands, which will create profits far higher than in the hands of the family, and it is easier to invigorate people's livelihood problems, which can be described as a lot of benefits!

On the other hand, there are endless troubles, the Three Kingdoms and even the Two Jin Dynasty are the era of rampant family politics, because culture can not be popularized on a large scale, almost eighty percent of the talents are from various families. These families are intertwined, and they affect the whole body, and Ma Chao's attack on the family will definitely cause joint opposition and even condemnation from the world's families, and it will not only be difficult to recruit talents from the family in the future, but also push himself to the opposite side of the "mainstream" power in the world.

But Ma Chao must do it, for the family he took the attitude of winning over a part of the family and suppressing a part, now those who can be won over have taken refuge in him, and those who can't be won over must be eradicated as soon as possible, otherwise as his territory grows bigger and bigger, there will be more and more families under his rule, and it will be too late to make a move at that time. (To be continued.) )