It's huge!

The eyes of the steamer looked at the sea, and although three days had passed, these two words still lingered in their minds, these thin, yellow-skinned teenagers, or children, who looked malnourished at a glance, could not find any other word to describe the sea in the distance.

For these teenagers who had never even seen the sea, after a simple, but satisfying dinner, looking at the blue sky and the vast sea in front of them, this vast and boundless sea, made their eyes have some doubts.

Incheon is that?

What is North Korea?

For these teenagers from Shanghai and surrounding cities, perhaps just three days ago, at the last moment of boarding, they were just beggars and street children wandering on the streets, but now, they have stepped on this oceanic ship, crossed the sea, and went to an unknown place.

Although they have doubts, they are full of expectations for the future, because the rice! For the first time in their lives, whether on a ship or in a warehouse, many of them had eaten a full meal, and even meat on board, and although the fish seemed salty, it still gave the boys the illusion that they had been born in heaven.

At this time, the scarlet sun embedded in the western antenna was slowly sinking into the sea, and the blue sea surface had been dyed red at this time.

This beautiful and spectacular scenery only attracts the teenagers on the deck, who speak different accents and no longer need to worry about their stomachs, to enjoy the pride of the sunset over the sea and breathe in the slightly salty air. only

Suddenly, a childish voice came from the right side of the ship.

"Quick. Come and see. What a round moon! And the sun. The sun is still resting in the sky......"

The immature, full of surprise shouts, made people turn around and look at the sky, and sure enough, in the eastern sea and sky, a full moon hung over the sea and emitted a faint light, and this kind of scenery of the sun and the moon at the same time, and there were all the exclamations that these teenagers who had been running for food all day long.

Although this scene seems to be harmonious. But if anyone notices, these teenagers automatically divide into piles, and the deck is full of "small groups" of three or five, and mutual vigilance, and even hostility, also exist in this small group, and this is the characteristic of street beggars, they are always wary of "peers" outside of their partners, and in the process of wandering and begging, almost every one of them has suffered too much, and it is these tribulations that make it difficult for them to trust others.

“……”

Standing on the deck in front of the bridge. Looking at the children below, the eldest was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and the younger ones were only four or five years old. Gu Hongming's expression looked a little complicated, are these people the hope that Ziran pinned?

Wish!

The relationship in China makes Gu Hongming clearly know that all scholars will hardly enter the new-style school, and as for the new-style school that cannot train people for the imperial examination, it is also difficult to continue.

Although he knows very well that China's affairs must be reformed education, but with domestic conservatism, how can he open a new-style school, and even open a school must abolish the imperial examination, otherwise how can anyone read a new-style school, perhaps because of this, Tang Ziran will run an "orphanage", at least the orphans will learn Western studies, will not be opposed by their families, and even the court is speechless, after all, "Ji Gu" is for the official benevolence, no matter what the official is, this "benevolence" word can never be abandoned.

But although he knew that the street children were extremely pitiful, and they were accepted into the school by Tang Haoran, not only could they receive education, but also no longer suffered from hunger and cold, but deep down, he couldn't help but doubt whether these orphans, who were full of vigilance and suspicion, could become real talents, although they were young, but ......

"In order to survive, they develop bad habits such as lying and violence, and their personalities are distorted, and such children ......"

Again, Gu Hongming couldn't help but think about whether these teenagers, who knew that they had been polluted by this cruel society, could grow into "normal" people, so much so that he even doubted whether Tang Haoran's approach was right or wrong.

Before he arrived at Gu Hongming's side, Song Yuxin heard him muttering to himself.

"Mr. Gu, the one who is close to Zhu is red, and the one who is close to ink is black, and it is precisely because of this that the responsibility of Mr. Gu and others will become more and more serious!"

Although he said this, in his heart, he was not the same as Gu Hongming, and he also doubted the character of these children, whether it was on the ship or in the warehouse, these teenagers always showed the ugliness of human nature one by one, not to mention their lying habits, that is, they were afraid of the soft and afraid of the hard, and they were accustomed to violence, which made him feel a headache, so that he had to let the sailors and waiters on the ship clean up some people with sticks to maintain discipline on the ship.

"The weight of responsibility ......"

Gu Hongming nodded and muttered these four words, as Zhang Zhidong's chief foreign copywriter, this trip to North Korea was "borrowed" by Tang Ziran, "borrowed for two years", ostensibly because he needed a "proficient in Chinese studies and Western Chinese characters to convince the whole of North Korea, so as to consolidate our Chinese domain", but in private, in the telegram that Gu Hongming received, he directly mentioned his purpose -- it was to compile primary school teaching materials suitable for China, and Gu Hongming, who had studied in Britain and Germany, did not know the importance of primary education to the country, Knowing that this would be the most far-reaching item in Tang Ziran's new policy, he rushed to Shanghai as soon as possible after lobbying Zhang Zhidong to agree to his "loan", but when he arrived in Shanghai, he learned that Tang Ziran did not want to open primary school education in North Korea, not to educate North Korean teenagers, but to educate a group of street children from all over the world.

Textbook development, children's education...... Although he was a layman in this regard, Gu Hongming still devoted all his energy, even if he was on the ship, he also seized the time to read the materials every day in order to compile textbooks suitable for primary education, of course, he could only draw on the textbooks of a few church schools in the Shanghai concession. Compared with mathematics, geography, and nature, the real difficulty is the writing of the national language.

How to write Bahasa Malaysia?

How to write it more suitable for elementary school students? For Gu Hongming, this cannot but be said to be a challenge, such as "A Thousand Family Poems", "Three Character Classics", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Texts", "Small Topics and Positive Birds" and other old-time enlightenment books. It is too large and complicated to be suitable for the "lessons" of the Chinese language in modern primary schools. Because it does not have the concept of "lesson". Not conducive to teaching.

"Primary education is not only about teaching children to learn to read, but more importantly, about being human!"

Thinking of his slight feelings about education, Gu Hongming's brows tightened, and once again recalled the articles on Chinese culture he had read and the Mongolian books such as "Thousand Character Essays" and "Small Topics", but his brows were wrinkled even tighter, it seemed that compared with the primary school textbooks in England and Germany and other countries, there are not many textbooks suitable for primary school students, as for the textbooks of the church school. More often than not, they are biased towards "literacy" and completely cut off Chinese culture.

sighed in his heart about the compilation of the textbook, but another thought appeared in Gu Hongming's heart.

"If not, write your own article?"

The moment this thought came to his mind, Gu Hongming apologized to Song Jieqi, who was talking freely about North Korea with him, and hurriedly returned to the cabin. After taking a seat in the cabin, he closed his eyes and remembered as much as he could the moment he first stepped into the hall as a child.

At that moment, what kind of teaching materials are more suitable for those children who are just starting school? After closing his eyes and thinking for a long time, he opened his eyes again. Gu Hongming picked up a dipping pen and wrote on the paper.

"Good morning, sir!"

This line is the tone of the children; And the next line reads, "Kids! ”。 This time it was the teacher's tone. Both sentences are very short, but it took Gu Hongming nearly twenty minutes to write these seven words.

Beginners will listen to it once, and one of the seven words is repeated, there are only six words, there are not many strokes, the frame between the words is clear, easy to recognize, and it is also very convenient to write. Put these two sentences at the beginning of the first volume, and some of Gu Hongming's exquisiteness. On the first day of school, the first grade students entered the school for the first time, and they felt that everything in the school was both new and unfamiliar. Seeing the teacher, they naturally stepped forward and bowed. Say hello; Teachers welcome them to school with a smile. When I got to the first class, that is, the Chinese language class, the teacher handed out the textbook, and they opened it to take a look, and the warm moment turned out to be written in the textbook.

After compiling the first lesson, Gu Hongming continued to compile this native language textbook, more of which is the kind of vernacular, half-white and half-literate language, which is more suitable for children to learn, and in the process of compiling the text, intentionally or unintentionally through the creation of the text, or in the process of well-founded creation, he added the concept of "citizen" and "national" that is extremely unfamiliar to the Chinese people, which is his experience when he studied in England and Germany. This is an important consideration in evaluating the quality of a country. In China, which has experienced thousands of years of authoritarian rule, the country does not know that there is a people, and the people do not know that there is a country, and the concept of citizens and citizens can only be instilled through guò education.

The electric lights in the cabin were lit, but Gu Hongming couldn't stop writing when he was out of control in the creation of texts, occasionally he would close his eyes and meditate for a moment, looking for evidence in the classics of Chinese culture, and occasionally he would also seek inspiration in Western culture, and he didn't even notice that the night outside the cabin was dark. In his writing, Chinese civilization and Western civilization seem to merge in this book......

I don't know how long it took, when Gu Hongming finished writing the first volume of the text, he already felt a little exhausted, he stood up and stretched, looking out of the porthole, and the sun had come out at this time.

"The sky is clear?"

With a soft voice, Gu Hongming picked up the thick stack of manuscripts on the table, and when he looked at the manuscript again, although this manuscript was a condensation of his efforts, he still felt a little unsatisfactory, what was the unsatisfactory?

Staring at the manuscript and scrutinizing it, Gu Hongming finally found what made him dissatisfied.

"Punctuation!"

Right!

It's punctuation!

There is no standard in the manuscript, thinking of the many shortcomings caused by the lack of punctuation marks in the articles of Chinese culture, Gu Hongming once again examined his manuscript and thought to himself in his heart.

"Perhaps, we should take this opportunity to introduce punctuation into the textbook!"

Gu Hongming didn't think Tang Haoran would object, after all, he also studied in the West, and naturally knew the many drawbacks brought about by the lack of punctuation marks in Chinese culture articles, if punctuation can be introduced in primary schools, it will be able to promote the application of punctuation marks, and then make punctuation marks popular throughout the country, and change the disadvantages of no punctuation marks in Chinese culture articles.

In the process of compiling textbooks, Gu Hongming encountered too many problems, such as solving the problem of Western punctuation, and encountered the problem of new words, the tradition of Chinese reading is to teach new words, students face new words, before the teacher taught, they don't know anything, so he thought of foreigners used to spell Chinese names and place names, and then used to learn Chinese Pinyin, in Britain and Germany, He had seen Chinese learners from both countries learn in the phonetic pronunciation of Wechsler Pinyin.

So he immediately thought of phonetic for Chinese characters, if primary school students can learn pinyin first, new words directly spell their sound, naturally no more words of difficulty, if you can produce a dictionary with pinyin, even young children can borrow the dictionary to look up words and read through 10,000 volumes.

The compilation of textbooks is far from being so easy, especially for this country that has never had primary education, almost all of them start from scratch, although they have some references, but in the vast majority of the time, they are starting from scratch, and even together with Wechsler Pinyin, Gu Hongming, who has a good memory, and Gu Hongming, who is very talented in language, naturally quickly discovered the shortcomings of Wechsler Pinyin, and those small symbols above or in the upper right corner of the notes, such as the apostrophe, similar to the English apostrophe, There are two sets of phonetic symbols that are inconsistent with the vowels at the tip of the tongue, plus there is also the phenomenon of multiple characters. These identifiers are highly confusing and inconvenient, and are clearly not suitable for primary school students.

After realizing the shortcomings of the British Wei's Pinyin, Gu Hongming, who is proficient in the nine Chinese languages and speaks fluent Mandarin, naturally thought of re-spelling Pinyin, but this is not an easy task, according to the creator of Weituma, it took 7 years to write Wei's Pinyin, and Gu Hongming knew that he did not have seven years.

Just as he began to try to write pinyin suitable for elementary school students, the "Zhonghua", which had been at sea for six days, had slowly sailed into the port ......of Incheon.