81. Cipher and pinyin
Back at the inn, Zhang Chao immediately opened a copy of the letter. But when Zhang Chao saw this copy, he immediately showed a strange appearance. And Dou Zhi next to him saw Zhang Chao's appearance, and he was also very curious, what was written on this letter, which actually surprised Zhang Chao to be like this. In her eyes, Zhang Chaoke is a very knowledgeable person, and he is rarely able to make him afraid. But now Zhang Chao actually showed a look of not being afraid, but feeling very confused.
"What is this?" Zhang Chao scolded secretly.
Zhang Chao really wants to scold people, what is this, what is this letter. Because although the words on these letters are indeed Chinese characters, these Chinese characters are completely incompatible! These Chinese characters form words one by one, and then there is a certain space between the words. However, these so-called "words" are not really traditional Chinese words and sentences, but are composed of many unrelated characters. For example, the words "all" and "cage" were actually put together, and other "through" and "come" were put together, which made Zhang Chao feel inexplicable. What the hell is this, it's actually unrelated words put together, and it can't form a sentence at all. In this way, Zhang Chao really didn't know how to understand the content of this text.
"Dou Zhi, are you mistaken, you actually stole this thing?" Zhang Chao asked.
"Impossible, I just stole it according to the address Luo Xiang told us, there is absolutely no problem." Dou Zhi said.
"That's weird, why is this letter so weird?" Zhang Chao said.
And Qian Feng next to him immediately asked: "Is this a secret word?" Of course, they can't say this kind of collusion in direct words, and they are also afraid of leaking it! This kind of rebellion, they naturally can't do it openly, so it's actually normal for them to use secret language. So I wonder if they're going to use cipherwords. This also avoids leakage. Even if the letter is leaked and falls into the hands of someone else, no one else will be able to tell what is written in it. ”
"That makes sense, maybe it's really true!" Zhang Chao replied.
Whenever you do something secret, you will inevitably have to write some passwords so that they don't leak them. In fact, this is to keep their affairs from leaking out, after all, in ancient times, there were also kings who did not secret. The minister is not secret. The old saying of the body, so anyone who does these rebellious things and communicates with a password is not impossible to fly, but it is very possible. Nothing they have written directly on paper, so they don't find out what they do. Even if someone else gets the letter and doesn't know what the password is, it is impossible to know the contents. Once you don't know the content, it is equivalent to intercepting this superstition in vain, which will alarm the other party. Then the things that were ready to be carried out were shifted.
"Damn, you got such a shit!" Zhang Chao finally couldn't help but scold.
Zhang Chao gave the letter to Qian Feng next to him, and then asked: "Qian Feng prepares, since you are talking about secret words, then see if you understand what these secret words are." ”
Qian Feng replied helplessly: "Zhang Yushi, I am a rough man, if I am asked to go to the battlefield to fight, then I can do it." But this kind of thing to see secret words. Then I really don't understand. Therefore, Zhang Yushi, you are erudite and talented. Then you might as well go and see for yourself. ”
"I understand, and I'm going to ask you?" Zhang Chao scolded in his heart.
Zhang Chao is really a rare wax, he learned a lot of knowledge back then, but he just didn't learn cryptography! Zhang Chao really can't decipher the codes, and he doesn't know how to decipher these codes at all, so he can't understand this superstition at all. So Zhang Chao has spent so much effort now, but he just got such a useless rag. How does this not make Zhang Chao feel depressed! And he stole this letter, originally hoping to obtain a sufficient evidence, so that he could obtain Luo Yi's army in the future, so that Luo Yi would inevitably be unable to refute. But now Luo Yi is not stupid, but very smart. He actually used this kind of secret language to communicate, which really made Zhang Chao embarrassed. If such a secret word cannot be translated, I am afraid that it will really lose its effect, and then most of the hard work will be in vain. At this time, it is an inch of time, and if it is wasted like this, I am afraid that the loss will be very huge. The Xuanwumen Rebellion may break out at any time, and the Turks may invade at any time, and the Tianjie Army will definitely be a very important new force at that time. If it can't be proved that Luo Yi fornicated with the Turks, then I am afraid that he will not be able to win the command of the three armies in the future, and then go to support Chang'an. This Tianjie Army is the largest army near Chang'an, if it can't be controlled in the hands, but in the hands of Luo Yi, a traitor, I'm afraid it will be very dangerous. If Luo Yi's plan is really successful, then Chang'an will be breached, and the world will be in chaos again.
Although Zhang Chao comforted himself that the world would not be in chaos, Zhang Chao did not dare to bet on this kind of thing. Therefore, the military power of the 80,000 Tianjie Army is extremely important, as long as you can master the military power of the 80,000 Tianjie Army, then it can become an effective force to support Chang'an, and at that time, Zhang Chao is also the hero who saved the Tang Dynasty, an absolute hero. Zhang Chao is also quite shameless, knowing that this Turkic siege of Chang'an is an opportunity, if he can make meritorious service in this, it will definitely be a great achievement, at that time, whether Li Shimin wins or Li Jiancheng wins, then he is the biggest hero. So this is a good way to sit firmly in the Diaoyutai, and Zhang Chao certainly can't give up.
But now I have encountered this problem, that is, this letter is actually written in secret language, which is simply blood-vomiting. Seeing that evidence was about to be found, there was still such a play, which really made Zhang Chao have nothing to say. If you don't figure out the content of these letters, then all the rest of the work will be in vain, and this time I am afraid that coming to Jingzhou will be in vain, and I will have to take a very huge risk.
"I'll see!" Dou Zhi said.
Dou Zhi took the letter and said; "I think I've seen these similar words there."
"Oh? Have you seen it? Zhang Chao asked excitedly.
If Dou Zhi can translate these words, it will really be another village. brought Dou Zhi over this time, it seems that it is really Zhang Chao's luck, not only can many places where special means need to be used, and this document has been deciphered. That's the best way to do it.
But Dou Zhi shook his head and said, "I've only learned something similar, but I'm not very familiar with it." I think this should be from the book "Cut Rhyme", this book is dedicated to all kinds of rhyme, that is, the tone pronunciation of sounds, and various text pronunciations, which is used to calibrate the pronunciation of words. But too few people can use this book. Few people have even heard of this book. When I was a child, my father seemed to have learned some of them, but then I forgot about them. My memory of my father's impression is also very faint, after my father and I separated, it was the master who brought me up, and taught me martial arts, and since then I have taken the road of a ranger. And about this "Cut Rhyme", I have only heard of it, and I have heard of a few key points. But it's not easy to decipher it. ”
"Cut rhyme? What is it? Zhang Chao immediately asked.
And Dou Zhi also explained what "Cut Rhyme" is, and this "Cut Rhyme" is actually a method for calibrating the pronunciation of a character written by someone during the Sui Dynasty. However, this book is so "niche" that no one has studied it specifically. In ancient China, there were very few people who could write and write, and with culture, they were all engaged in their own careers, generally either as officials, or to study Confucianism, and the average poor scholars were also working for nobles and so on to earn money to support their families, so there are too few things to study this language.
However, this thing made Zhang Chao immediately excited.
"It's amazing. It turns out that such a lofty thing as Hanyu Pinyin was actually available in ancient times? Zhang Chao thought.
Zhang Chao really didn't expect that there were also Hanyu Pinyin in ancient times. But no one in the future generations knows, this is really a waste! If there was Hanyu Pinyin in ancient times, why didn't it be used in later generations?
"Qian Feng prepares, buy me a copy of the cut rhyme in Jingzhou right away, and then I want to take a look!" Zhang Chao said.
"Okay!" Qian Feng said.
A full three hours passed. Qian Feng came over, and then said, "Is this a rhyme?" It took me an hour and a half to get the book, but I was knocked off, and such a broken book actually cost me several times more than usual. ”
"Alright. Don't talk nonsense, let the emperor reimburse you when you go back! Zhang Chao said.
Zhang Chao began to study this ancient version of "Hanyu Pinyin", and he thought that as long as he could study this Hanyu Pinyin, he should be able to decipher the code. But when Zhang Chao saw this Chinese pinyin, he couldn't help but shake his head. This Chinese version of Hanyu Pinyin is too rough and not very practical. First of all, the initials and finals of this Chinese pinyin must be represented by Chinese characters, which means that if you want to learn pinyin, you must first learn some Chinese characters. And these Chinese characters can't be effectively pinyin after spelling each other in the end, and there are a lot of crudeness. Therefore, the practical significance of this ancient Chinese pinyin is actually not great, and in good conscience it is much worse than the Chinese pinyin invented by the Westerners in later generations.
There are indeed not many talents in China in the study of pinyin, everyone goes to study those Confucian classics, and as a result, a large number of rotten Confucianism has been studied, which can be imagined to be indeed a little sad. But now Zhang Chao doesn't want to care about this, he first has to start analyzing the content of this secret letter.
Zhang Chao also began to translate the initials and finals of those ancient versions, and then converted the initials and finals of those Chinese versions into the Latin alphabet of later generations, so that they were also easily divided. Zhang Chao is very glad that his first Chinese teacher in primary school is still quite dedicated, and he has not forgotten the Chinese pinyin he taught. So now, although I have to learn this ancient cut rhyme, I don't feel so difficult, after all, I have a very deep foundation.
"Can you read this cut rhyme? And so many annotations? Dou Zhi said in surprise.
Zhang Chao immediately asked, "Is it difficult?" ”
"It's difficult, it's too difficult, it's just obscure, I remember when I was a child, it was because this book was too obscure, so I read it and I wasn't interested. And not many people know about this book, and even fewer people study it, but it's amazing that you read it the first time you read it with such relish. What is there that you don't understand? Dou Zhi asked curiously.
Zhang Chao immediately replied: "What do I don't understand, I don't understand except for having children." Nothing else can bother me! ”
"Hmph, stream. People! Dou Zhi obviously knew that Zhang Chao was deliberately teasing her, so he scolded lightly.
However, Dou Zhi felt that Zhang Chao was really very capable, because since he met Zhang Chao in the past few days, it seemed that many things had been difficult for Zhang Chao, and Zhang Chao had solved the difficulties several times. Zhang Chao seems to be very confident in everything. There was no panic. And this situation made Dou Zhi feel very surprised, and Zhang Chao seems to have strong self-confidence in many things, obviously innate, this self-confidence is a man's best temperament. Confident men are always attractive, and Zhang Chao seems to be knowledgeable and talented, as if he can do anything, which makes Dou Zhi feel a little springy. And he kidnapped him a few years ago, but Zhang Chao didn't panic in the slightest, and he didn't desperately beg for mercy like those ordinary villains. It's a frank and unscrupulous face. is fearless in the face of death, which makes Dou Zhi admire it from the bottom of his heart. Dou Zhi thought that he had seen more people on the rivers and lakes, but countless people were very nervous in the face of death. And Zhang Chao didn't, Zhang Chao replied that his heart was right, and he wouldn't be afraid when he saw Hades. What a powerful self-confidence this is, and what a strong righteousness it makes him have such self-confidence.
So from that time on, Dou Zhi also knew in his heart that he couldn't hurt this person, because he was a good person. There are few good people in the world. And at that moment, Dou Zhi already remembered Zhang Chao, and she knew that there were not many good people in this world. So Dou Zhi remembered it in his heart. originally thought that it would be impossible for the two of them to see each other again, but now they are actually fated to see each other again, which makes Dou Zhi feel that it is really fate. She didn't think that she had saved Zhang Chao before, and Zhang Chao also took the initiative to invite her to join the team and then do things together. And Dou Zhi also hesitated for a moment and agreed, without resolutely refusing. Because Dou Zhi knew that Zhang Chao was a good person. Then what he does must be a good thing for the country and the people. So Dou Zhi chose to help, so he joined Zhang Chao's team.
And now in the past few days, Zhang Chao's charm has been highlighted again, which makes Dou Zhi feel very excited. A man who is confident, capable, and full of righteousness is very attractive to women. And although Zhang Chao is not a super handsome guy, he is also at the upper middle level, which is considered to be at the end of the handsome guy. Although men don't pay attention to appearance, at least Zhang Chao is still up to the passing line of a handsome guy, which adds some points to Zhang Chao. So a man who is capable, confident, and righteous is a hero in the minds of many girls.
Although Zhang Chao is not a ranger, but what Zhang Chao does is more "chivalrous" than any ranger, his goal is to make this world without rangers to uphold justice, what a great ambition this is, although I don't know if it will work, but this ideal alone is more noble than any ranger, and it is full of chivalry.
After a full twelve hours, Zhang Chao finally translated all the dozens of letters, and then Zhang Chao couldn't help laughing when he read these contents.
"Finally got the evidence, this time Luo Yike really has no way to run, he is in trouble." Zhang Chao said.
"Okay, Zhang Yushi, you should rest now. Don't you look at what time it is? Dou Zhi said.
Zhang Chao looked outside the inn at this time, and then said: "I didn't expect that it was dawn now, and I was busy all night?" ”
Dou Zhi immediately said: "Of course you have been busy all night, you are too devoted, so this is why it is like this." ”
Zhang Chao immediately said with a slight apology: "Miss Dou Zhi, please follow me for a whole night, I'm really sorry, you can also go and rest." ”
But Dou Zhi suddenly thought in his heart: "He can still take care of me at this time, it seems that he is still a very careful and good man!" It is really not easy for a man to think of a woman. ”
"That imperial history, you better rest too!" Dou Zhi said.
Zhang Chao shook his head and said: "No, I have to sort out these new Chinese pinyin schemes, if there is this new pinyin scheme, then the next people in the world to read and read must be very easy, and the speed of literacy must be many times faster." At that time, the cost of studying for poor students in the world was also reduced a lot, whether it was time cost or economic cost, it could be greatly reduced. At that time, I thought that I would be able to make more and more people in the world read, as long as there were more and more people in the world, then they would definitely have more opportunities to use knowledge to protect their rights and interests, so that those scholars would not be able to bully the poor at will, and at that time we would definitely be able to get very important help. ”
"In my opinion, reading and literacy is actually everyone's natural right, but for too many reasons, they are unable to read, so I hope that we must create more crackdowns, so that everyone in the world can read and write, so that knowledge is popularized, so that more and more people can understand the truth and protect their interests from being violated." Therefore, reading and literacy must be necessary. If you don't have knowledge, you must be exploited and bullied, and you can't change your fate. Knowledge changes fate, this is not just a casual talk. ”
After Dou Zhi heard this, he immediately asked: "You have come up with a new pinyin, which is better than this cut rhyme?" ”
"Yes, it's much better than this cut rhyme, and it can be used as an education to popularize words." Zhang Chao said.
Dou Zhi immediately began to learn this new Chinese pinyin with Zhang Chao, and Dou Zhi obviously felt that this new style of Chinese pinyin was much better than the previous cut rhyme, not only simple to write, but also to be able to learn Chinese characters before pinyin. And this first learn pinyin, and then learn Chinese characters can also be very smooth, it doesn't take a year or two to be able to complete the literacy process of all commonly used words, and then you can enter the formal learning. If you follow the traditional learning process, I am afraid that there is no one who cannot complete the learning process of common words in four or five years. Of course, Dou Zhi knew how difficult the literacy process was, and she remembered that when he was a child, he began to be enlightened when he was three years old, and his father asked his husband to give her literacy. She didn't finish her studies for three years, and then she got lost and was taken away by her master. As a result, his master continued to teach him literacy, and it took two years to really learn the common words.
However, if there was this Hanyu Pinyin back then, it would be possible to learn the common words within one or two years, and then you could learn other cultures well, and at that time you could save two to three years. Don't look at it as just two to three years, but how many two to three years can there be in life. In addition, the time saved is all at a young age, and it is easiest to learn knowledge at a young age, which can save two or three years at the golden age of learning knowledge, and even save ten or twenty years in the later time. Perhaps, countless people will change the fate of their lives because of these two or three years saved.
So what a great invention this is, Dou Zhi feels that this is too great.
"Zhang Yushi, is this your invention?" Dou Zhi asked.
Zhang Chao nodded and said, "Yes, I invented it this night." ”
Of course, Zhang Chao can't say that it was invented by foreigners in later generations, so he can only choose to say that he invented it himself.
"You're great!" Dou Zhi inevitably said with emotion.
In Dou Zhi's eyes, Zhang Chao is definitely a genius, even a ghost. Just by seeing the "Cut Rhyme" overnight, you can invent a more advanced pinyin, which is simply amazing. To be able to invent such a great thing in one night is definitely the only one of them. Therefore, Dou Zhi originally had a very huge affection for Zhang Chao in his heart, and when he heard that Zhang Chao actually had such a powerful ability, he admired him even more in his heart.
And Dou Zhi, a girl who has never been in love, doesn't know that once a girl has feelings of admiration for a man, I'm afraid it's very close to being tempted. (To be continued......)