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Geng Jingzhong has been thinking about this for a long time! Ever since he decided to start a school, this matter has been swirling in his mind. It's just that I've been entangled in a lot of things for most of the past six months, and I haven't taken time out, and now I can really be free for a while. The Tiger Army has been formed, the bandits have been completely wiped out, various minerals in Longyan have been developed one after another, the shipyard is in charge, and the navy has also been formed. The external enemy retreats, and the internal affairs are clear. The ocean trading company still needs more than ten days of preparation, and with the cooperation of Wang and Gu, it has time to come out to see the school and implement the plan.

Since coming into this world, the people around him have been speaking two languages, the Liaodong dialect and the Hokkien dialect. The Liaodong dialect is now the Northeast dialect, and the Fujian dialect is basically Min dialect. There are many dialects in other parts of Fujian, and many things are very troublesome to do. The only solution to this problem is to popularize Mandarin, which in today's parlance is Mandarin.

Mandarin, also known as the "Mandarin dialect", is the name given to the official standard language. It is also known as the "Northern Dialect" or "Beijing Mandarin". Although most of the Chinese dialects in various places are very different from the official dialect, they are all more or less influenced by the official dialect. From the gentry to the common people, they are all proud to know the official language of the capital, after all, the Ming Dynasty for nearly three hundred years except for the years of Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, the rest of the time the capital was in Beijing. As the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, Beijing is a holy place in the hearts of the people of the whole country. The more frequently used the official dialect is, the more dramatic the effect.

Fujian is remote and less influenced by Beijing's official dialect, so the language is mixed and communication remains the same. Often, every time I go to Fujian, I have to ask someone to translate, which is very troublesome. Now, it has been a while since all the schools have been built, and the operation of the schools is also on the right track, and it is urgent to implement Mandarin, that is, the official dialect of Beijing. Although the local people of Fujian are accustomed to their own dialect, no one should reject Mandarin, after all, the atmosphere of the entire upper class society is like this, and the small families below will be even more happy to see it.

It is not easy to implement Mandarin throughout Fujian. There are quite a few people in the upper class who can speak Beijing Mandarin, but they will never come to teach these poor students. There are too few ordinary people who can speak Mandarin, and even the language spoken by the gentlemen in the school is not standard. Therefore, Geng Jingzhong is ready to popularize Hanyu Pinyin.

I have to say that Hanyu Pinyin is indeed a great invention, which can be listed as the first of many Chinese inventions in the past 5,000 years! The shape of Chinese characters is complex and difficult to read, and it is a huge project to recognize so many Chinese characters. It often takes a student a year or two to understand most of the text, which is really inefficient. The production of Hanyu Pinyin solves this problem very well.

Not only that, the emergence of Hanyu Pinyin will also make the problem of the unification of the Han national language be excellently solved. In this way, Hanyu Pinyin will play a great role in popularizing literacy and primary education. At this time, what Geng Jingzhong needed was universal literacy and primary education, and if it continued, it would also play a huge role in promoting the development of his career.

In the afternoon of the next day, the clean canteen table was full of gentlemen from all the future schools in Fuzhou City. The gentlemen who knew each other sat together and chatted, and they had not yet met their great proprietor, His Royal Highness the Prince of Jingnan Wangfu. For these scholars, Jingnan Wangfu is already a behemoth, and they need to look up. I promised to come to the school to teach before, in addition to being rich in Shu Xiu, I also did not rule out the idea of settling with the prince of Jingnan, after all, this road is much easier than the direct exam!

"His Royal Highness the Prince has arrived!" The guards at the gate shouted loudly to Geng Jingzhong the moment he entered the door.

The gentlemen present stood up one after another: "I have seen His Royal Highness!" ”

"You're welcome, sit down, sit down. Everyone around me knows that I don't care about these false courtesies. You are all scholars, saint disciples, you can come to the school to help teach, Jingzhong is here to thank you! Geng Jingzhong bowed to the gentlemen below.

"Hey, His Royal Highness the Prince of the World is strict, and the Prince of the World has built a school on a large scale, opened up the wisdom of the people, and promoted education, which is a benevolent and righteous act. Zi said: There is no class of teaching! But no one can do it like the Son. His Royal Highness is a blessing for all of us in Fujian! How many poor children can't afford to read or go to private school, so they can only live a life of mediocrity and ignorance. His Royal Highness is the one who truly puts the words of the saint into practice. Please bow down to the students! With that, the gentleman bowed and bowed. More than 100 other gentlemen also stood up at once, and saluted while echoing!

The gentleman was serious. My father was ordered to guard Fujian, so Fujian is my home! It is also appropriate to do something for the people of my hometown. At present, the school is still grassroots, and many places are not perfect, and you still need to give more opinions to make improvements. I came to you today, in fact, I have an important matter to discuss with you. Speaking of this, Geng Jingzhong deliberately paused, looked at the gentlemen below, and found that everyone was listening intently, so he continued: "Let me ask you a question first. How much time do you think it takes to teach an illiterate 10-year-old child to know common Chinese characters and write a complete letter to a distant relative? ”

The gentlemen below were quietly thinking, some of them had taught, some of them had only now begun to teach. But with my own experience or feelings, I am calculating carefully. After about a minute, one of them stood up and replied, "It will take two years to return to the world, if you are here." ”

"It's down there, too!"

"About a year and a half!"

"About two years!"

After nearly twenty people got up to answer, Geng Jingzhong waved his hand. "Okay, everybody, stop. I have heard the answers of the dozen gentlemen just now, and it will take at least a year and a half. The longest is in the early two years! This is still teaching ten-year-old children, if you start from seven or eight years old, I am afraid that it will take more time! You are all readers, and it was very hard to read when you were a child. Anyway, when I was young, I learned to read and write at the age of seven, and it took me two years to read through the text and write it out silently until I was just over nine years old. That's too slow! Geng Jingzhong stood in front, shook his hand in front of him, raised his head and continued to ask, "Is there any way to shorten this time, gentlemen?" ”

"Lift it up!"

Several guards carried in through the door a large blackboard, twice the size of the classroom. There were a lot of strange symbols written on this blackboard, only a few Chinese characters were sporadically marked, and they didn't know the rest at all.

"I guess you gentlemen don't know what I'm writing on this blackboard!" Geng Jingzhong said as he picked up a long teaching stick and pointed to the pinyin on the blackboard: "These things." I invented it by learning the European language through guò, and it can greatly shorten the time it takes for students to read and write! Speaking of this, Geng Jingzhong couldn't help blushing a little, and he was really embarrassed to plagiarize the achievements of later generations of language masters. However, for the sake of the Chinese nation and development, I can't take care of these conclusions.

Next, I will explain to you slowly. This is not something that can be learned in a day, so I plan to spend the next few days working hard and spending the next few afternoons here to learn this thing. I call it 'Hanyu Pinyin'! ”

"Using this Hanyu Pinyin can not only enable children to quickly understand basic Chinese characters, but also enable them to learn to speak the official dialect of Beijing fluently, which is better than that of people in Beijing!"

The more than 100 gentlemen below were very skeptical after listening to Geng Jingzhong's words, Geng Jingzhong himself was not a scholar, can he have such skills? Everyone is muttering, isn't His Highness the Prince of the World just making something to play with!

"Everyone listen to me now, is it pure Beijing official dialect! I have been with my father since I was a child, and I didn't grow up in the capital, but now I can speak fluent and pure Beijing official dialect, which is what I rely on. Let me first give you a general introduction to this pinyin. This Chinese pinyin is divided into two parts, one part is the finals, and the other part is the initials, which are on the left and right sides. Geng Jingzhong pointed to the two parts of the letters with a teaching stick, explained them separately, and then read the finals and initials aloud.

The gentlemen sitting below were all very curious and listened attentively. Even if this is useless, it is explained by the prince of Jingnan himself, and it is better to listen carefully. So every gentleman sat upright and listened intently.

Next, Geng Jingzhong gave a general explanation of the rules of Chinese character spelling, and marked pinyin with the thousand-character text that the gentlemen were teaching in the school as a demonstration. The thousand-character text marked with Chinese pinyin, read out according to the rules of pinyin, is really a pure Beijing official dialect, much stronger than what they say! After listening to Geng Jingzhong's explanation, although they don't understand too much, they have all realized the value and influence of Chinese pinyin. This is a major breakthrough in enlightenment education, which is of great help to the enlightenment of children, and as the son of Jingnan who invented Hanyu Pinyin, he will also be famous through the ages!

Geng Jingzhong, as the prince of Jingnan, could not personally teach children to spread Hanyu Pinyin, so as the first batch of people who were fortunate enough to learn Hanyu Pinyin, they could also be regarded as Geng Jingzhong's disciples, and the heavy responsibility of spreading Hanyu Pinyin was on their shoulders. Perhaps, Tong Guò will widely spread Hanyu Pinyin, make contributions, and be famous through the ages with Geng Jingzhong! This is a dream for all readers!

As a result, the entire cafeteria hall fell silent. Geng Jingzhong explained carefully in front, and the "students" below were also listening carefully. Thinking about it, with their adult thinking, they will be able to completely grasp this Chinese pinyin in a few days.