Li Jiantai was Liu Jun's newly elected president of the Jingshi University Hall, and before that, he was the Guozi Priest Wine. Hometown Shanxi, Apocalypse Jinshi.

However, although he is only a principal, Li Jiantai's family is a well-known local high-ranking family in Shanxi. The Li family has a million-dollar property, and just by looking at the fifty wives and concubines that Li Jiantai has before and after, you can know how rich he is. Without the accumulation of family generations, just relying on his salary as a principal, even if he has the ability to pick money from Shanxi, it is impossible to marry fifty wives and concubines.

Regarding Li Jiantai's family background, Liu Jun is naturally clear. This year, when the imperial court pursued the tax arrears and collected the deed tax, the Li Jiantai family had a lot of blood. The tax arrears and the deed tax alone add up to more than 200,000 silver dollars, and the more land and real estate in the family, the more taxes will naturally be paid.

After Liu Jun became emperor, he also listened to Li Jiantai on the top of the main hall, explaining the scriptures for him and hundreds of officials, answering questions and solving doubts, and expounding the truth of governing the country and securing the country. Just the ability to lecture, he, the principal who was born as a serious second-rank jinshi, still has a bit of dry goods.

Otherwise, Liu Jun would not have finally chosen him to be the first president of the Beijing Normal University Hall under construction.

Jingshi University is different from Guozijian, in the future, the jinshi who were born in the imperial examination, and even those who lifted people and people who were raised together, had to enter Jingshi University for further study, and then after an internship, they could enter the officialdom.

Therefore, he, the principal, will really be all over the world in the future, and the young and new officials are all his students.

"How?"

Liu Jun looked at Li Jiantai while drinking tea.

Li Jiantai has a good face, five locks of long beard, and is very elegant. What he was reading in his hand was the Chinese character pinyin list that Liu Jun had spent a long time writing out. It contains an alphabet, a list of initials, a list of finals, and tone marks, as well as some explanations.

There are seven or eight pages in total, but Li Jiantai read it for a long time.

"It's better than the reverse cut."

Li Jiantai expressed his judgment from a professional perspective.

"I wonder who did this?" Li Jiantai asked, as the former Guozi priest wine, he admired this method of using Yiren characters to pinyin, and on the other hand, he was ready to lash out at the author. Actually use Yiren's characters to pinyin, it's too embarrassing for me to be a big man, can't I use Chinese characters, or simply create a set of similar symbols to pinyin, why bother with this Latin alphabet.

However, he couldn't figure out who presented this set of things for a while, in case the other party was a person he couldn't afford to provoke, it would be a disaster.

Liu Jun looked at him like this and smiled lightly.

But he didn't hide it either, and he had nothing to hide.

"This is what I wrote."

Li Jiantai was almost surprised, he looked at the emperor with some incredulity. Then he immediately lowered his head again. His first reaction was that the emperor was bragging, and the second reaction was that the emperor must have robbed others of their credit.

Although there are some deficiencies in this pinyin method, such as using Yiren characters to pinyin, etc., he can still see the value at a glance. This is simply a pioneering achievement that can leave a name in history, how could the emperor create it.

It must have been researched by a master of Confucian pronunciation, and then robbed by the emperor of his own credit.

But he definitely didn't dare to say this, and he didn't even dare to reveal the tone of suspicion.

"Your Majesty's heavenly resources, these Chinese characters are really high."

Then Li Jiantai asked a second question, "Your Majesty created this method of Chinese character pinyin." Are you going to use Dadu dialect as the common official language? ”

Liu Jun nodded, since most of the words have such a wide range of ordinary languages, from the perspective of the imperial court, it is natural that this kind of ordinary and highest language should be chosen to promote. It's more efficient that way.

In the future, most of the dialects will be called Beijing dialect, which will be popularized all over the world, and can also be called Mandarin. In the future, whether it is the south or the north, whether it is the grassland or the islands. It should be popularized. ”

However, this is a long-term task, and even if the imperial court vigorously promotes popularization, it will not be possible to achieve it for a while. But there's always something wrong with that. Liu Jun's plan is to come up with this pinyin table by himself, and then let Li Jiantai, the principal, take the lead and improve it first.

"I'll give you a task to perfect this Chinese pinyin, and then write a dictionary based on it, which is called the Great Chinese Dictionary."

Dictionaries are a great tool for literacy.

In ancient China, it was also known as Zishu, which doubled as a dictionary and dictionary. The earliest character book should be regarded as Erya before the Warring States Period, and later in the Han Dynasty, Erya Note, and the imperial court even set up a special Dr. Erya.

Liu Jun is now preparing to compile a large Chinese character dictionary with Hanyu Pinyin and simplified characters.

Provide pronunciation, meaning explanations, example sentences, usage, etc. for Chinese characters.

He hopes that by then, all students in schools will have a large Chinese dictionary in their hands. Liu Jun remembers clearly that when he started reading by himself in later generations, the dictionary was of great help.

With Hanyu Pinyin, Simplified Chinese characters, and a large Chinese dictionary, Liu Jun believes that the literacy rate of the people will be rapidly improved by then. As long as you complete the three years of junior high school education and have a dictionary in the future, you don't have to be afraid of not knowing all the words.

Liu Jun is even already planning to compile another dictionary in the future, not a simple dictionary, but an encyclopedic dictionary with encyclopedic elements.

The Yongle Grand Canon of the Ming Dynasty and the Siku Quanshu of the Qing Dynasty actually have a strong guiding function of cultural awareness. When the two dynasties were repairing books, they banned and destroyed many books.

Although Liu Jun does not plan to repair a set of Siku Quanshu, he can also repair an encyclopedic dictionary, which can also play a role in the needs of the imperial court. Cultivating an encyclopedic dictionary according to the intention of the imperial court is actually an official explanation of many things.

The Han court has the final say on the matter, which is quite important.

But for now, it's better to take your time and revise an encyclopedic dictionary, which has never been done before, and it may take five years or ten years. But if it's just a big Chinese dictionary, it's much simpler.

Liu Jun also gave a lot of suggestions and directions for this dictionary.

For example, you can search words by radicals, and you can also search words by pinyin.

The most famous character book in history should be the Han Dynasty's Shuowen Jiezi. It pioneered the radical arrangement method, which comprehensively interprets the meaning, shape and pronunciation of words.

But Liu Jun didn't want the big Chinese dictionary to be just a copy of the Chinese dictionary, he asked to add pinyin search, add pinyin phonetics to each word, and add example sentences. Under each word, add some commonly used phrases and explanations.

The Great Chinese Dictionary will be a detailed dictionary that provides a comprehensive explanation of the shape, sound, and meaning of characters.

"Great Chinese Dictionary? Simplified characters? ”

Li Jiantai felt that he couldn't keep up with the rhythm, so Liu Jun handed him two more excerpts, namely a dictionary and a simplified Chinese plan.

He hurriedly looked at it, whether the emperor made it himself or not, but since the emperor took it out, it means that the emperor attaches importance to it. Li Jiantai looked at it very seriously, and quickly figured out the emperor's request.

Hanyu Pinyin and simplified Chinese characters are implemented together, when there is a multiplier effect with half the effort, if you compile a large Chinese dictionary to cooperate, it is more efficient.

The emperor's intentions are obvious, and these are to be in line with the three-year compulsory education of elementary school in the interior and the five-year compulsory education of children in the frontier areas, which will begin next year.

Even this Hanyu Pinyin and Beijing dialect will definitely be the focus of teaching in the Beijing Normal University Hall next year. Since we want to promote Mandarin, we must start with official students.

"Since you think it's good, it's good. Hanyu Pinyin, Simplified Chinese characters, large Chinese dictionaries, and the promotion of Mandarin are all left to you to co-ordinate. Whether it is someone or money, you can mention it, and I will do my best to meet it. I have only one request, to be fast. As soon as the year passes, we will take the lead in promoting Mandarin and simplified Chinese characters in the halls of Beijing Normal University next spring, and the dictionary will also produce results within a year. ”

"One year is too short, and it takes at least ten years for such a dictionary."

"Ten years? The daylily has been cold for ten years, and I can't wait that long. ”

Li Jiantai felt a toothache, this big Chinese dictionary, at a glance, he knew that the project was huge, how could it be completed in a year.

"Five years, please give your majesty five years."

Liu Jun snorted coldly, "This is not a vegetable market, and I am not bargaining with you." It's only a year at most. I think one year is enough, you want someone to give it to you, you want money to give money, as long as the manpower and material resources are sufficient, can't you make a book in a year? ”

"I will first pull out a million silver dollars from the internal treasury and set up a special yamen to be responsible for Hanyu Pinyin and the intermediation of Chinese characters, and to compile a large Chinese dictionary."

When he heard a million silver dollars, Li Jiantai couldn't help but swallow his saliva. Make up a book, and pull out a million? He originally thought that the emperor said that the manpower and material resources should be satisfied as much as possible, and it was estimated that he would give 10,000 silver dollars, but he didn't expect it to be 1 million.

"Don't be in a hurry to be happy, this million is not only for this, but also for the cost of promoting Mandarin and simplified Chinese characters in the future. After the compilation of the Great Chinese Dictionary, you still have to think about compiling a Great Chinese Encyclopedia Dictionary. ”

"As for people, they will try to satisfy you. In fact, you are the least lacking of people, and when Beijing Normal University opens next year, there will be tens of thousands of students in the school, and these people are at least a showman, so let them be your assistants, which is more than enough. When you mobilize the students and send the tasks down, with so many assistants, a dictionary is enough for a year. ”

Li Jiantai hurriedly said, "But these are all students." ”

"Students are naturally focused on learning, but they can also find some time to help compile dictionaries, but they can't spare any time?"

Liu Jun knows best, students have always been the cheapest labor. In later generations, those professors did projects, applied for a lot of project funds, and then didn't just use their students as free labor, and finally gave three melons and two dates at most a stipend, and the rest went into their pockets.

As soon as Beijing Normal University opens next year, it will usher in tens of thousands of students, and all of them are scholars who are famous and famous. (To be continued.) )