Daqing Palace, the largest palace of the Imperial Palace, is generally only used on major festivals or when foreign guests visit.

However, today is not a holiday, and there are no foreign guests visiting, but many ministers have been called here for a meeting. However, this meeting was rather strange, there was not a single cabinet minister, although there were many scholars involved, but the largest official position was Cai Qi, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

Cai Qi's ancestral home in Luoyang, migrated to Laizhou Jiaolu, was born in the first year of Duangong of Taizong of the Song Dynasty (988), became an orphan when he was a teenager, and relied on his maternal grandfather Liu's family to live.

In the eighth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1015), he went to Bianjing as a Laizhou tribute to take the Central Ministry of Rites Examination. He was named the first by Song Zhenzong, and was called "winning people", and ordered seven Jinwu guards to "pamper them in the Qing Dao". The honor of "cross-horse parade street" in later generations began with Cai Qi.

This bull is Zhao Zhen's candidate to preside over major meetings today, as for those cabinet ministers, Zhao Zhen still needs them to keep an eye on the government, and they don't have time to delay here.

There are more than 100 ministers, the lowest of whom are holding the title of bachelor, and their positions also include various departments. After they all entered the Daqing Palace, the palace guards outside the door closed the door heavily, these ministers, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know the situation at all.

At this time, Xiao Shunzi's sharp voice remembered in the main hall: "The emperor has arrived!" ”

The ministers hurriedly gathered their thoughts and respectfully greeted Zhao Zhen's arrival.

"See the Emperor! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

Zhao Zhen: "The Qing family is exempt!" ”

"Emperor Xie!" Wu pressed and stood up again.

Zhao Zhen: "Xiao Shunzi, give you a seat!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Xiao Shunzi saluted respectfully to Zhao Zhen, and then whispered an order to the attendant next to him for a while.

Soon, the court guards brought a pair of chairs and a make-for bed for each of the ministers.

Zhao Zhen: "Everyone, please take a seat!" ”

After everyone thanked them again, they sat down in a daze, unconsciously staring at the bed next to them in a daze, muttering in their hearts, what kind of moth is this going to be?

Zhao Zhen quickly revealed the doubts in their hearts for everyone: "Everyone, Aiqing, come back to your senses!" I have summoned you today to discuss a very important matter with you, which can be said to be related to the prosperity of my Great Song Dynasty, my descendants of Yan and Huang, and the Chinese nation. What do you think? Do you feel a little bit of courage on your shoulders?

Then I will go straight to the topic, there is a good saying, a century-old plan, education-oriented! The thing we are going to discuss today is the issue of education in our dynasty. I'm still very puzzled by your expressions! Do you all think that there is no problem with my education in the Great Song Dynasty?

It is true that the education of our Great Song Dynasty is second to none in the surrounding area, but we should not be complacent, we should be prepared for danger in times of peace and think further. You must know that education is a far-reaching national policy, and your decisions today will affect our future generations, and we must not let future generations thousands of years later complain about our wrong decisions today.

Do you understand? ”

The ministers first nodded, and then shook their heads again.

Zhao Zhen: "You guys are nodding and shaking their heads, what do you mean?" ”

Cai Qi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, stood up and replied: "Back to the emperor, the ministers understand that education is very important, but they don't know what you want the ministers to do?" ”

Zhao Zhen nodded: "Don't be impatient, you will understand after listening to me." ”

"Please show the emperor!"

Zhao Zhen: "Since ancient times, although the dynasties have rotated endlessly, the fertile land of the Central Plains has always been occupied by our Han people. However, the surrounding barbarians have never given up their covetousness, even now. Those barbarians can be said to be still in an advantageous position in terms of force, and our Han people are not as strong as them, and the folk customs are not as strong as them, and everyone is deeply touched by this problem.

And where are our advantages? It is the skill that our ancestors have bequeathed us, and we use it to create powerful weapons that will help us resist the attacks of our enemies again and again.

However, I have to tell you a very serious problem with regret!

Because everyone has always advocated sacred learning, and everything is based on the ultimate goal of learning saints, there is a serious lack of exculpatory and innovative spirit, coupled with the profound views of each family, many precious memories have also been lost. This is a great loss for our country and nation.

Of course, I'm not saying that sacred studies are bad, but I just want to show that there is something wrong with the way we teach now. I have summoned you here in the hope that you can come up with a feasible education plan, and try to cultivate them into real talents, talents who can contribute to the development of our Great Song Dynasty on the premise of being able to teach them how to behave! ”

"Wait a little and do your best, and share your worries for the saint!" Cai Qi took the lead in making a statement.

Zhao Zhen: "I can also hear it, you are still very resistant in your hearts, no wonder, after all, you are all cultivated in such an educational background, and it is not difficult for you to change this status quo by yourself." I believe that there are still many of you who agree with the policy of fooling the people, thinking that lowering the wisdom of the people is conducive to their own management. This may be true, but the price is paid for by the luck of the whole nation.

I hereby tell you very clearly, I will never do this, I will open up the wisdom of the people, and I will build a truly strong country!

Of course, I have to rely on you courtiers to realize this idea.

Therefore, I have prepared tables, chairs, and beds for you, and if you need anything, let the guards next to you do it. In short, none of you should think of stepping out of that door until you have come up with a practical solution.

Cai Qi, I'll leave this to you, do it well! I'm optimistic about you! ”

Cai Qi: "The ministers must do their best to die, please rest assured!" ”

This time, the slogan was shouted much more tragically than last time.

"Hmm!" Zhao Zhen nodded with satisfaction, this kind of feeling of pushing the trouble problem to others is very cool, and it will be used often in the future!

"I've left beforehand, and I'll leave the rest to you! Enjoy! ”

A group of people forced their faces hard, and they had to respectfully send Zhao Zhen away.

Zhao Zhen walked to the back of the door, heard the flowers blooming inside, and snickered and said, "Little Shunzi, let's go!" Let them have a good time inside. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Xiao Shunzi smiled and asked, "Where are you going now?" ”

Zhao Zhen pondered for a while: "Send someone to summon the Hanlin Scholar to the Zichen Palace, and I will go over in a while." ”

"Yes!"

And the Daqing Hall is lively, these scholars, bachelors or something, have lived for most of their lives, the first time they encountered such a strange thing, they actually locked up the minister to play, and if this is to be spread, people have to laugh off their big teeth.

But no matter what happens, the boss's task can't but be completed, besides, so many guards outside the door are not easy to mess with, and those goods are not easy for anyone to do except the emperor's words.

"Lord Cai, you can get an idea! The big guys are pointing at you! ”

"Yes! Master Cai, you have a word! What the hell are we going to do? ”

……

A nest of people surrounded him and quarreled non-stop, Cai Qi himself was also very depressed, it was simply a disaster, he lived a good life, and he was so cold that he was on such a bad thing.

Cai Qi said with some annoyance: "What else can I do?" Do you dare to resist the decree and disrespect? Think about the words of the Holy One and come up with some practical and effective ways to come out, otherwise everyone will suffer here. ”

"Yes...... But even if you have to work, Lord Cai, you have to come out with that charter! Otherwise, what do you think! ”

This is a point, if more than 100 people let everyone think about it, I don't know what mess they will come up with!

Cai Qi nodded: "Since this is the case, then the official will be ugly!" Since the Holy One has asked us to think of a solution to the problem of education, then we must first find out what is wrong with the current education, or what the Holy One thinks is wrong. Then, according to the problems found, we will each put forward our own opinions, and we will discuss them one by one. What do you think of this idea? If you have other better ideas, just bring them up and we all brainstorm together! ”

It is said that the news in this palace is still spreading quite quickly, which shows that the confidentiality measures are quite inadequate. In the morning, I just heard that a large group of ministers were summoned to the Daqing Hall and locked up, and I don't know what strange thoughts are in the little head of the saint, in short, these people must have gone to thunder.

But in the afternoon, I heard that a group of Hanlin scholars were called by the emperor, which was a bit of a big game!

Zhao Zhen looked at the embarrassed scholars, and comforted him very intimately: "Don't worry, Aiqing, I won't lock you up, but I just see that your code is almost compiled, and there is still something for you to do!" ”

"Please command, Holy Lord!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, as long as they were not locked up, everything else was easy to say!

Zhao Zhen: "That's it! I plan to expand the dimension of education and improve the level of national education, but you also know the difficulty of our current classical Chinese, those ordinary people are used to speaking the vernacular, and it is really not easy for them to learn. However, national education has to be carried out, and only by improving the quality of the people can we truly make our Song Dynasty worry-free for generations to come.

To this end, I came up with a solution, which is to create a set of methods that are easy to disseminate and learn on the basis of the current Chinese characters. You don't have to worry, I've already thought of this method, you just need to follow my rules and perfect it.

Xiao Shunzi, let's show you the Chinese pinyin I wrote! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Xiao Shunzi pouted and took a booklet from Zhao Zhen and passed it to all the scholars present.

After everyone circulated it, Zhao Zhen continued: "How is it? It's easy, right? With these pinyin, you can also spell out the words you don't know in time, so as not to spend a lot of time reciting new words.

And what you have to do is to collect and organize the words you can see into a dictionary according to the pinyin rules and stroke rules I gave you, and I named this dictionary "Da Song Dictionary", I hope you can complete it well! ”

"Your Ministers obey!"

Zhao Zhen: "Well, hurry up and do it!" You still have a lot of tasks, after finishing this dictionary, I still have the "Great Song Dictionary" waiting for you! Go for it! ”

"Obey the holy decree!"

This kind of task is tedious and boring, but it is a common thing for the Hanlin Scholars, and compiling books is their favorite, both for fame and profit, which is also a happy thing for everyone.

What happened today, however, has a new version outside the palace. (To be continued.) )