Chapter 159: Literacy and hyphenation
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The grass market has been open for five days in a row. The transaction tax and the calculation of the entry tax in Huaihuang Town are all symbolic collections, and Li Chongjiu, who was a businessman in his previous life, of course, understands what the merchants need. Instead of forcing them to pay a tax, these people should spend here, and then win-win with each other to boost the income of the entire Huaihuang Town.
After that, the merchants returned to Yanmen with a full load of goods. Li Chongjiu felt that when he came and when he went, it was the same scene, the Turkic tribes north of Yanmen County, in the battle with Li Chongjiu, suffered a lot of losses, and after seeing the combat strength of the Cangtou army, they should be much more restrained, and they did not dare to go to the vicinity of the Great Wall as before, so he did not have to go in person.
Therefore, on this return trip to Yanmen, Li Chongjiu felt that under the escort of the cavalry of the Li Family Dart Bureau and Wang Mahan, there should be no problem. On the way, when Li Chongjiu asked them to pass through Lingqiu County, he handed over the beheaded Turkic people to Chen Xiaoyi, the county prince, and asked the other party to report to the imperial court on his behalf. Li Chongjiu's doing this also means that the credit is equally divided, after all, Juncheng Chen Xiaoyi has supported his thirty crossbows. A few days later, Wang Mahan led six regiments of cavalry back to Yanmen, in addition to reporting the news of a safe journey, there was also a handwritten letter from Chen Xiaoyi to himself, which said that he had received the news of Li Chongjiu's victory in Yanmen, and now the trend of the Turkic tribes going south to herd horses has slowed down, and the pressure on Lingqiu County, where he is located, has also been reduced a lot.
Li Chongjiu smiled after reading the letter, such a thing as asking for credit, for Chen Xiaoyi, this is the least worth mentioning. At this time, on the wooden board outside the door, there was a sound of footsteps, and Pingping ran into Li Chongjiu's house barefoot, and then threw himself into Li Chongjiu's arms.
"School?" Li Chongjiu asked.
Ping Ping nodded, then picked up a half-eaten mutton and scallion cake on the table, and began to nibble on it. At this time, Sima of Huaihuang Town, and Zhou Xu, the scholar of the Hope Meng Pavilion, also stepped inside, saluted Li Chongjiu, and said, "See the prince." ”
Li Chongjiu motioned for the other party to take a seat and asked, "How is the matter of studying in the Mongolian Pavilion?" ”
Zhou Xu arched his hand, and then took a stack of papers and handed it to Li Chongjiu. Li Chongjiu took the paper, only to see that the paper was written with the words of heaven and earth Xuanhuang, the universe and the wilderness, etc., at a glance, he knew that it was the beginning of a thousand-character text, and on the side of each word, there were two words of tangential sound, this scene reminded him of the first grade pinyin textbook of primary school students.
Zhou Xu said: "Back to the prince, Yunyin has already been taught three months ago, and now they are teaching them to learn a thousand characters, and the children are working very hard, except for a few with poor qualifications, many people have memorized the full text. It is estimated that in the next month, they will be able to teach them the practice of the Analects and the breaking of sentences. ”
Li Chongjiu thought about it, the Heart Dao Analects are also good, as a development and the advancement of knowledge are very ideal, so he does not have to rush to take out the books such as the Three Character Sutra and the surname of the hundred families, and plagiarize the achievements of future generations. However, as for sentence breaking, Li Chongjiu has another idea, sentence breaking is a difficult knowledge, and if you can achieve literacy and hyphenation, you can get out of the category of illiterate Bai Ding and become a student equivalent to the nine-year compulsory system in ancient times.
Now there are more than 8,000 people in Huaihuang Town, and there are no more than 30 people who can read and write, and most of the rest are capable of half a bucket of water. In the future, in order to break the family and monopolize knowledge, it is necessary to let the children from poor families have culture first. In order to let the children of the poor learn culture quickly, the threshold of knowledge cannot be set too high, otherwise it will be very difficult to promote. Now literacy can be gradual through guò rhyme, and Li Chongjiu also has a way to break sentences.
At that moment, Li Chongjiu asked Pingping to take the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and hastily waved the words "Zi said, learn and learn it, and it is not pleasant". Zhou Xu recognized this as the first sentence of the opening sentence of the Analects. Li Chongjiu marked the punctuation with a comma and a full stop in the middle. In fact, although punctuation only appeared in the late Qing Dynasty, ancient scholars, for the sake of the beginning and end of the article, marked a footnote on the article to indicate the pause when reading, and the ancient people called it sentence reading (Note 1).
Li Chongjiu marked the meaning of the comma as unfinished and the tone could be stopped, while the full stop indicated that the meaning was over. Zhou Xu couldn't help but feel his head as big as a fight when he heard it, and at this time, Ji Chuan, who had joined the army, also entered, and after reading Li Chongjiu's sentence reading, he sneered a few times at the moment, and said unceremoniously: "The law of the prince is wonderful, but it is far from the meaning of the sage." ”
"How?" Li Chongjiu asked rather unhappily.
At the moment, Ji Chuan took out the topic that he had debated with Li Chongjiu at the beginning, and in the end, the people could make it happen, but they couldn't make it known; Or the people can, let it be; No, let it be known, or the people may make it, and from it; Not to make; Know. Ji Chuan Zhenzhen said loudly: "The words of the sage lie in one heart, should the prince force to interpret it with his own will?" ”
Li Chongjiu said with a straight face: "The words of the sage are far away, but if this law is universally practiced, if the words of future generations, we can know it." ”
Zhou Xu reluctantly raised his head when he heard this, and said: "The law of the prince can save months of hard work, but there are disadvantages and advantages. ”
"Throughout the ages, no reform is easy, but what I want is that everyone in Huaihuang Town can be literate, everyone can read, and everyone can know the learning of saints, so a small disadvantage is not hesitated."
Zhou Xu listened to Li Chongjiu's inspiring words, and immediately untied the knot, but Ji Chuan shook his head and said coldly: "Everyone knows the sage's learning, and the pawn dealer can also read the Analects. What a big breath, what do you want us to do like this? ”
Zhou Xu immediately clenched his fists and said: "Prince, it is not too late to be so lowly and immediately go and rewrite the Analects." ”
Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "That's not necessary. ”
At that moment, Li Chongjiu asked people to go to the inner room to get a series of books such as the Analects and the Thousand Character Essay, and put them on the ground. Zhou Xu looked at the books copied by hand, and couldn't help but be surprised, he had always been poor since he was a child, and the last county school was funded by the clan, and there was no book collection at home on weekdays, and if he wanted to read books, he had to borrow them from the teacher in the county school. There are only a dozen books in the entire county school.
"Thank you, thank you." Zhou Xu was grateful at the moment, there were so many books, even he hadn't read them completely.
Li Chongjiu said: "These books were brought by the caravan from the south this time, in addition to pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc., in the future, there is no need for students to use willow branches to draw sand tables to practice calligraphy, just write them on paper." ”
Zhou Xu couldn't help but say after hearing this: "Don't worry, the prince will definitely teach this group of students well." ”