The Chinese Empire is now dominated by the emperor's family, so since Li Yongji has publicly said that he wants to do this, then this resolution of the veto power of the enlarged cabinet meeting will be implemented through Guò, and there is no need to discuss it at all.

Next, Li Yongji talked about more specific things, that is, the unification of weights and measures, as well as the implementation of simplified characters.

It is easy to say that Li Yongji made a number from modern society as a national standard of the Chinese Empire, and then got a number of standard weights and measures from modern society as a reference, and then implemented it in the future.

For convenience, Li Yongji fully used the metric system, which is also something he is used to, the advantage is that it can be in line with the world, and Li Yongji himself is also convenient to use.

In the past, he hated the inconsistency of weights and measures, especially one pound and sixteen taels, and he hated it even more, so this time he reunified weights and measures, and all copied the weights and measures system of the Red Dynasty in another time and space, and even the standards were the same.

This is actually nothing, the establishment of a new dynasty, it is nothing to make a new weights and measures, as long as you are willing to spend money to replace it, but the simplified word plan, some of it is not so easy, because except for Wang Tao, the other two are unanimously opposed to the use of simplified words.

Shen Shiming and Yang Fang both have the same opinion, that is, the text is handed down by the ancestors, and it is the marrow of the Han culture. This is a big thing that shakes the country, and it must not change!

In this regard, Li Yongji simply wrote one word: "country".

"Do you know what this word says?" Li Yongji pointed to the national character and asked.

"Nian Guo." Shen Shiming replied.

"Doesn't that mean the same thing?" Li Yongji wrote another word "country."

"Yes." Shen Shiming nodded.

"That's not it." Li Yongji spread his hands and threw down the brush in his hand, "As you can see, the country is the simplified Chinese character of the country, and your cognition will not be wrong." Why? Because the word country originally existed, to be exact, it was called a vulgar character. ”

Immediately afterwards, Li Yongji said: "When you scholars are studying. When you first started reading and writing, did you often make mistakes? ”

"In the beginning, there will be times when you make mistakes." Shen Shiming nodded.

"Then if I write a vernacular essay and write a wrong word in the middle, will I understand it incorrectly compared to the meaning of the context?"

"It depends." Shen Shiming said, "But if it is a vernacular text, writing a wrong word may not necessarily lead to a misunderstanding." ”

"That's right!" Li Yongji said, "I asked someone to inquire, and we have too many words. For example, there are four ways to write a Chinese character, but most of them are useless. In addition, if our traditional Chinese characters are written in cursive script, they will also change and be abbreviated. In short, simplified Chinese characters have actually existed for a long time, and Chinese characters are so cumbersome, which is not conducive to the promotion of literacy, so I plan to promote simplified Chinese characters. It is to speed up the promotion of literacy rates, but it is not to abandon traditional Chinese characters. In short, it is simple first and then complex, and simplified Chinese characters can be used in life. You can continue to learn traditional Chinese characters in the future. ”

Immediately afterwards, Li Yongji took out three more pamphlets and gave them to the three people opposite: "Come, this is the "General List of Simplified Chinese Characters" that I found someone to make." There is also a comparison table next to it, so you can take a look first to see if it is difficult to read and write. ”

With a hint of doubt. Shen Shiming, Wang Tao and Yang Fang took the booklet, and then began to look at it from the beginning.

After finding that they were first surprised, then surprised, and then admired when they got the booklet, Li Yongji finally laughed.

What Li Yongji showed them was a simplified Chinese character list drawn up by another time and space in May 1964.

This simplified Chinese character is divided into three tables: the first table is 352 simplified words that are not used as marginals, the second table is 132 simplified words that can be used as marginal characters and 14 simplified characters, and the third table is 1754 simplified words by analogy. In total, there are a total of 2238 characters, which is the standard of Chinese mainland in later generations, and it is also the simplified Chinese character that Li Yongji is really familiar with.

Speaking of which, simplified characters are not actually the patent of the Red Party, but have been ancient, early ancient characters, vulgar characters, line script, cursive script, etc. are actually the prototype of simplified characters, and many other typos and even self-made words because of miswriting are also added to it, and finally form a set of simplified characters.

The reason why the Red Party was able to popularize simplified Chinese characters was actually to absorb the essence of its predecessors and make use of the Red Party's unique executive ability to start a comprehensive promotion.

Generally, the criticism of simplified Chinese characters is actually the wrong object, which generally refers to the two simplified characters that have been abolished, the real simplified characters, which are not difficult to use, and will not cause much ambiguity, and compared with repeated traditional characters, the benefits of simplified characters are inexhaustible.

If there is no Hanyu Pinyin, there is no simplified Chinese characters, and you can learn traditional Chinese characters directly, then you can know about 1,000 words at most in three years.

The so-called inability to read a basket of big characters illustrates the difficulty of learning traditional Chinese characters from another perspective.

Simplified Chinese characters are different, after three years of learning, plus Chinese pinyin, then it is easy to master daily listening, speaking, reading and writing, at least to cope with the use of words in daily life is no problem.

In fact, the promotion of simplified Chinese characters is not the earliest of Li Yongji, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been doing this for a long time, and the purpose is also to improve the literacy rate of the people, such as the word "country", the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom generally uses "country" instead of "country".

According to the statistics of later generations, more than 100 simplified Chinese characters were used during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, of which more than eighty percent were absorbed and adopted by later generations, that is to say, almost all the characters used in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are in Li Yongji's set of simplified characters.

It's just that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was quickly destroyed when the regime was unstable after all, and it didn't have time to calm down and continue to promote.

Of course, those things are not a thing, the most important thing is that Li Yongji is familiar with simplified Chinese characters, and he is also familiar with using fountain pens and ballpoint pens, and he is okay with writing simplified characters, but if he writes traditional characters, he will really be blind.

In fact, if you learn simplified characters, you can also understand traditional characters very well, which means that Li Yongji has no problem recognizing traditional characters, but if you want him to write, it will be really terrible.

Why did you want Su Su to be a clerk and write things for yourself? The key is traditional characters!

In the past, there was no way, but now that he is the emperor, why don't you hurry up and be willful? Besides, simplified Chinese characters are indeed easier to use than traditional Chinese characters, and it's a big deal that they are the same as Hanfu, and they are also preserved.

In other words, Li Yongji feels that traditional Chinese characters should be kept, after all, this is a kind of cultural inheritance, but it should be studied as a professional field, and it is more convenient to use simplified Chinese characters in daily life.

In order to facilitate the promotion of simplified Chinese characters, Li Yongji also asked Zhang Xinda to prepare a large number of dictionaries and dictionaries, which were referred to as Xinhua dictionaries and modern Chinese dictionaries. Of course, the contents of these dictionaries and dictionaries have been cut a bit.

For example, in the appendix of the dictionary, all sensitive things are removed, and only the basic things such as Hanyu Pinyin scheme, punctuation usage, simple table of units of measurement, comparison table of Chinese dynasties and dynasties, solar terms table and other useful things are retained.

According to Zhang Xinda, the new edition of the Chinese Dictionary and the Chinese Dictionary was carried out in the name of filming a time-traveling drama, and more than 17 detailed proofreadings have been done, and all the history is up to August 1859, ensuring that nothing sensitive will appear. At most, there are some terms that are scientifically explained, such as Tesla, the unit of electricity, but those things are easy to explain, just tell the story of a hermit scientist.

Now, 300 million copies of the final proofread version of the dictionary and dictionary have each been printed, and they are now stacked in Li Yongji's warehouse, waiting to be fully distributed to the public.

In comparison, the things learned by the early Youth Guards Corps and the dictionaries and dictionaries used used had a lot of sensitive words, but fortunately, the number of those children was small, and Li Yongji didn't dare to say anything if he didn't explain, and over time, it was gone.

In addition, a full set of learning tools such as pencils, erasers, compasses, and iron rulers have also been prepared in more than 300 million copies, all of which are low-key and durable versions, which are enough for the early stage of the Chinese Empire to toss for a while.

"Of course, it is not enough to only have simplified Chinese characters, and it is necessary to fully implement the vernacular literary movement." Li Yongji continued, "Classical Chinese is good, but it's not practical. It takes a long time to think about this, and it's too much work. Let me see, in the future, all official documents between governments will be in the vernacular, pay attention, it's all! Of course, it doesn't matter if you like to recite poetry in private, but official correspondence must be in the vernacular, speaking in the vernacular, do you understand? ”

"This, Your Majesty." Yang Fang suddenly said, "Could it be that the holy decree is also in the vernacular?" ”

"Of course!" Li Yongji nodded and said, "In the future, when I make a holy decree, I will directly write in the vernacular, and those who are not high will also be edicted by the emperor." ”

"This, if that's the case, it seems to be detrimental to the majesty of His Majesty." Yang Fang said, "The holy decree is also in the vernacular, this, this is not the same...... It's too unstable, and it will damage His Majesty's prestige. ”

In fact, he originally wanted to say that this was not the same as singing, but he realized the identity of the other party temporarily and hurriedly changed his words, but in the end he still missed traces.

"Prestige is not on paper." Li Yongji smiled, "As long as the army of my Chinese Empire is invincible, as long as the national strength of my Chinese Empire is thriving, and as long as the hundreds of millions of people of my Chinese Empire are well fed and clothed, then even if I open my mouth and close my mouth in the vernacular, how many people will think that my prestige is insufficient?" ”

"Your Majesty!" Shen Shiming was the first to pat himself on the back and said, "Your Majesty's talent is vertical, it is a true temperament, a great hero, naturally you can't be like ordinary people, Weichen thinks that Your Majesty's idea is quite good, so you should implement simplified characters, you should implement vernacular Chinese, so that everyone can really have a prosperous world to read in advance." ”

Hearing Shen Shiming say this, Li Yongji smiled: "Okay, this matter is settled, no need to discuss it." As for the unification of weights and measures, and the promotion of simplified Chinese and vernacular Chinese, it is called the New Culture Movement, so you can go back and take a good look at the plan I gave you, and then draw up a charter based on the above things, and be sure to promote it in an all-round way as soon as possible. (To be continued......)