On the eighth day of the first month of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong took a carriage to the main campus of Laizhou Technical College. After swallowing up the surrounding houses, the college has taken up two full neighborhoods, almost a quarter of the city. Not only that, but the workshops affiliated to the Technical College are also gradually connected and gathered in the south city.

This kind of expansion is also in line with Zhu Cihong's explanation: expand the scale.

Productivity is not something that can be achieved in a day or two. However, there is no difficulty in expanding the scale of production, it is nothing more than sufficient money and manpower. In today's troubled times, grain is a more important hard currency than gold and silver, but fortunately, Zhu Cihong is not short of food.

Moreover, the "Exemption from Craftsman Service Law" issued by Zhu Cihong through the Holy Decree has also spread to all prefectures and counties, legally ending the Ming Dynasty's inheritance of the Mengyuan craftsman registration system.

This decree skyrocketed the craftsmen's recognition of the imperial court. Although he still had to accept government assignments, he was able to earn wages instead of his previous service, and his life was fundamentally improved. When they found that the treatment of being employed in a technical college was far better than that of picking up a job, they naturally wanted to cling to it from afar—they had no land to be attached to.

With an abundance of workshops and jishu workers, many of the technical institute's innovative designs can be turned into practical tools as quickly as possible.

Zhu Cihong's carriage, supported by the Laizhou Mansion and Ye County Order, entered the city from the south of the city and saw the neatly planned new city with his own eyes. It can also be seen from the banners and signboards that the division of labor in the planning area is also quite particular. These details were all figured out by the local officials themselves, and they were not in vain.

At the door of a large archway, Zhu Cihong got out of the car and saw the words "Huangming Technical College" as soon as he looked up. The wine king Zheng lined up the door with a group of professors, secretaries, and deacons to welcome Zhu Cihong's arrival.

Zhu Cihong hurriedly stepped forward to support Wang Zheng, and said with a smile: "I have been waiting for a long time. ”

Wang Zheng spent the winter. is much older, listening to Zhu Cihong's words, the old tears are rampant, and he said: "Your Highness has tormented the old minister." ”

Zhu Cihong gestured to Song Yingxing, Tang Ruowang, and Fang Yizhi, and finally set his eyes on the sixty-year-old man wearing a second-grade court uniform.

"Minister Xiong Mingyu, meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Xiong Ming greeted the front salute. Introduce oneself.

Zhu Cihong took a step forward and supported Xiong Mingyu: "Tan Shigong, in the academy, only the principle of heaven and earth, all the complicated gifts can be reduced." ”

The preferential treatment of the Ming Dynasty emperor to high-ranking officials and ministers was a family tradition, and civil officials had long been accustomed to it. Xiong Mingyu realized that he had made few achievements after arriving at the technical college, and retreated to the side after saluting.

Who knew that Zhu Cihong was eyeing him.

"Tan Shi Gong," Zhu Cihong asked, "I saw that Mr. listed many formulas in mathematics, physics and chemistry books. I was about to ask for advice. ”

Xiong Mingyu stepped forward and explained, "Your Highness Rong Bing." In His Royal Highness's writings, it is true that it is simple to understand, but the text description is complicated after all, and it is easier to remember and promote it if it is listed as a formula based on the method of Westerners. ”

"That's what I'd love to see." Zhu Cihong's book only talks about the principle, and does not list the formula. One of the biggest reasons was that he didn't know what words to use and how to determine the unit symbols.

"Why not use the Latin script? And used...... That. What about that kind of strange word? Zhu Cihong asked.

As recorded by the Tessie missionaries, the Ming scholars were fully tolerant and curious to accept the Tessie civilization. And he can very calmly admit the technical shortcomings of his own civilization. However, the pride of China and the intelligence that is not inferior to others made these scholars not simply learn when they accepted the Taixi civilization, but absorbed the Taixi civilization into the Chinese civilization with the attitude of teaching and learning.

Now that Taixi has just been recognized as a civilized Shijie by the Ming Dynasty, it will naturally not be like three hundred years later. Whatever foreign-sama says is supreme.

"Your Highness, that kind of word is not a strange word." Xiong Mingyu smiled bitterly: "It's a minus word." ”

The words are concise and meaningful, and the text is concise and sound. This kind of "text" that intercepts Chinese character radicals, radicals, or even just a few strokes is a guqin script created by Cao Rou, a qinist in the late Tang Dynasty, extracted from the seal script and used to record guqin fingering.

As a master of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. As a result, a set of phonetic symbols was created to replace the "reverse cut method" phonetic phonetic that has been used to this day.

Hanyu phonetics was originally a direct reading method, and "read a certain character" was written next to a rare character. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Fu Qian annotated the "Book of Han", he used anti-language, that is, the anti-cutting method that was used later. The reverse cutting method uses two common words to mark a word sound, such as: "惴", and the annotation according to the reverse cutting method is "Zhang Rui anti".

If it is explained by phonetic method, it is to take the initials of the word, cut off the finals of the word, and spell out the pronunciation of the word.

In the Tang Dynasty, the monks kept Wen and took the Chinese characters as thirty initials, and the Song people used the finals of the rhyme book to make thirty-six finals. Therefore, the reverse cutting method is precise, and it has become the most common phonetic method.

"Originally, the minister wanted to use the Taixi alphabet directly for phonetics," Fang Yizhi stepped forward, "It is better to replace the current Chinese characters with the Taixi script." ”

As soon as Fang Yizhi said this, the other professors showed unhappy expressions on their faces, and even Xiong Mingyu was a little embarrassed.

Zhu Cihong knew that some people in later generations would advocate total westernization under the banner of Fang Yizhi and demand the elimination of Chinese characters, so it was not strange to hear him at this moment.

"Since all the gentlemen are against it, so-and-so has no choice but to give up." Fang Yizhi said: "However, it is inconvenient to note the pronunciation of the word after all, so the minister imitated the word notation, took the strokes from the golden seal grass, divided them into sound and rhyme, and used them to annotate the words. Today, the new "Book of Characters" with this rune table is nearing completion. ”

"The minister is based on this set of phonetic symbols, and lists the formulas with Taisifa, which is easy to remember." Xiong Ming said.

Zhu Cihong felt a little in a trance, and it was difficult to evaluate it after listening to the end. The last time he came to the College of Science and Technology, he wanted a hot air balloon necessary for crossing, but Song Yingxing drew a magical flying fortress on the spot...... I was almost scared half to death by him. However, as a Ming Dynasty man who could come up with gunpowder rockets to go to the sky, the flying fortress was indeed nothing.

- The point is that you don't know how to use pinyin! Even if you use pinyin, weishenme doesn't use the English alphabet? Even if the status of English is too low, German, Italian, and Latin are fine! Now I'm an illiterate person who doesn't even know pinyin......

Zhu Cihong hung his head and walked forward slowly, and unconsciously walked under a big locust tree. He asked people to bring chairs, sat down in a circle under the shade of the tree, and asked, "I'm ashamed to say that I didn't know that this phonetic symbol was so important that it had to be created first." ”

"Your Highness, this thing is indeed a great weapon." Wang Zheng arched his hand and said: "Not only can all kinds of formulas be written simply, which is convenient for memorization, but more importantly, it is convenient to determine the units of weights and measures. For example, with '°' as the degree, '′' as the minute, and '"'' as the second, it is convenient to write and read, and there is no error in the hyphenation of the text. ”

- Hmm, you guys even got the pinyin out, so you didn't get the punctuation right? Forget it, let's come, lest I don't know each other when I get it......

Zhu Cihong said secretly in his heart.

"Your Highness," Fang Yizhi said again, "After having phonetic symbols, the craftsmen are indeed much faster in literacy. After the character book is compiled, you can find the characters with phonetic pronunciation, and you can learn by yourself even if no one instructs you. Thinking that the Taixi countries only use more than 20 characters, and their so-called alphabets can be spelled together, as long as people who can speak can learn to spell, so all their countries can be literate......" Perhaps seeing the disbelief on Zhu Cihong's face, Fang Yizhi said urgently: "Your Highness can ask Tang Siye." ”

Taixi's knowledge monopoly was even worse than that of the Ming Dynasty, and Tang Ruowang was a little embarrassed, and said: "My Taixi script is indeed simple and easy to learn, but the Chinese script is also broad and profound. ”

"The speed of literacy is not a problem, and you can't rush for quick success." Zhu Cihong said: "Many of my Chinese characters have different pronunciations, which may not be solved in Taixi Chinese. ”

Wang Zheng and Xiong Mingyu nodded in agreement. No matter how good and convenient the pinyin text is, you can't even want the classic documents left by your ancestors in the future.

Fang Yizhi was obviously criticized by everyone, and seeing that the crown prince did not support it, he had to shut up.

"However, the phonetic symbols can be directly in Taixi script." Zhu Cihong couldn't help but say: "This is also convenient for Taixi people to learn Chinese characters." ”

"Your Highness, the minister thinks it is impossible." Wang Zheng objected: "The courtier's examination of the Taixi script, each letter has a origin. Therefore, if the phonetic symbols in China are copied, their meanings are different in the first place. Secondly, because my official dialect is very different from the Tessie language, many of the pronunciations are not enough to choose from the Tessi alphabet. Nowadays, this set of symbols is intercepted from ancient characters, and the sound and meaning of the symbols are justified. Therefore, the minister thought that it was better to find a unique way than to learn from Handan. ”

Zhu Cihong bowed his head slightly, and secretly said in his heart: In later generations, Hong Kong and Taiwan also used phonetic symbols, not Latinized pinyin, and their students also learned Chinese characters with dictionaries. Since these professors are so insistent, let's use it first.

When you think about it, it's no surprise that this happens.

A blank piece of paper is easy to draw, if it is the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, then total westernization can be regarded as an option. Because the literary system has been divided for 300 years, and the Chinese civilization has been strangled, a group of ignorant literati firmly believe that everything that is Chinese must be decadent and backward......

However, the current Ming Dynasty is a magnificent masterpiece of civilization that lasts for 5,000 years, even after experiencing the turbulent times of the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties, but the Mongolians did not shave their hair and change clothes, burn books and eunuchs. Emperor Taizu Gao reopened the foundation, although he also absorbed some relics of Mengyuan culture, but the mainstream is still "the sun and the moon reopened the Great Song Dynasty".

Zhu Cihong is like cultivating a new piece of land and planting seeds, but the fruits are completely different from what he imagined. If this set of "Ming-style pinyin" brought a great shock to Zhu Cihong, then when he saw the latest achievements of the technical college, Zhu Cihong could only be dumbfounded. (To be continued......)

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