Two months later, the Jungnan Mountain base. With-Dream- . lā

Among the many base areas, although the Zhongnanshan Base Area is not the first to be established, it is the largest and most complete one. With its natural geographical advantages, it has a great depth of 800 miles of Qinchuan, but the Zhongnanshan base is the largest one.

Whether it is the population, the size of the base area, or the various facilities, in many aspects, the Zhongnanshan base area can definitely come out on top, and its existence is second to none, so that other base areas can only look at it and cannot be compared.

In terms of military strength alone, it accounted for almost half of the Li family's army.

On this day, I don't know what the reason is, or which nerve of Li Zicheng is wrong, he has never liked to read, and suddenly came to the library of the Zhongnanshan base area, bringing together a large number of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign books.

Of course, most of them were secretly obtained by Li Zicheng from foreign churches in various places using shady means.

If the foreigner Jinnige was here, he would be very angry, mad and almost impulsive. Because, the more than seven or eight thousand hardcover books brought by Jinnige before and after, all of them are here.

These hardcover books cover almost all aspects of astronomy, geography, and natural sciences at the forefront of the West.

Not only that, but some instruments for studying astronomy, physics, chemistry, medicine, etc., are treasured in the next room.

At this time, Li Zicheng was boredly flipping through a manual with many annotations. On the lines of Chinese characters, there are crooked symbols, and Li Zicheng frowned, never knowing the meaning of these symbols.

This is a codex, a notebook of Jinnige when he first came to China, learning Chinese characters.

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, Li Zicheng's eyes lit up, and he finally figured out these crooked symbols. What kind of text is this, it is clearly the phonetic pronunciation of foreigners learning Chinese, that is, the most primitive pinyin.

In any case, Li Zicheng has experienced nine years of compulsory education, and he has also gone to high school. Although I missed out on the university, I still know Chinese pinyin. It's not proficient, but at least the application is fine.

At this moment, a flash of realization flashed in Li Zicheng's mind, and a brilliant idea came into being!

Suddenly, Li Zicheng closed the codex, threw it aside, and walked straight out of the library, with a look of excitement on his face, as if he had some idea, to be precise, a new teaching method, to eradicate illiteracy in the base area.

Soon after, in a room, Li Zicheng, Xu Xiake, Song Yingxing, Xu Zhengming, Li Changmao, and others gathered around a table with a white sheet of paper and lines of letters on it.

At this moment, Li Zicheng's face was full of excitement, his face was flushed with excitement, and he couldn't help but point to the letters on it, and said excitedly: "Everyone, look at what this is?" ”

"Uh" Everyone stretched out their voices, but no one answered, all of them stared at each other with big eyes, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know why.

In the end, Song Yingxing, who was still in frequent contact with foreigners, spoke, slid his fingers on those letters, and said with some uncertainty: "Well, look at these symbols, there are some characters like John Tang and their country." However, I used to study Western science with Jinnige, and these symbols are like foreigners learning the labeling of our Chinese characters, but they are very different. ”

After muttering to himself, Song Yingxing looked at Li Zicheng and asked puzzledly: "Boss, you called all of us over, look at these symbols, I don't know what you mean?" ”

"Hehe" Li Zicheng smiled proudly, did not answer, but took out a piece of paper and spread it on the table with the paper. The difference is that under the letters on the upper rows, there are corresponding men, dotted all over the place, vertical and horizontal.

Then, under the attention of everyone, in great confusion and incomprehension, Li Zicheng would read it in pinyin every time he pointed to a word, and in this way, it lasted for nearly half an hour.

The people present are all smart people, many of them can never forget, and their talents are extremely agile, compare the two pieces of paper, and then carefully look at the pinyin on those Chinese characters, combined with Li Zicheng's reading, and then there is a trace of enlightenment, probably guessed what Li Zicheng wanted to express, Song Yingxing was the first to react.

"Boss, you mean, use these twenty-six special symbols to mark Chinese characters, right?"

Li Zicheng smiled slightly, very proud, and nodded: "Yes, that's what it means." If everyone can use these 26 special symbols and can recognize how to read them together, as long as the words on the books are marked with these symbols, even if no one teaches them, they can read some books unhindered. ”

"Moreover, in terms of teaching and educating people, the master in the private school can also save a lot of things. As long as students are taught how to read these special symbols, even if they are not taught by the Master, those students will be able to read through the whole text without typos. ”

At this moment, everyone understood what Li Zicheng meant, but most of them were skeptical, and Li Changmao even said: "Boss, your idea is indeed good. If it can be promoted, it will not only benefit the time, but also benefit the inheritance of Chinese culture. It is not an exaggeration to say that the work covers a thousand years. ”

"Boss, it's easy to teach people to learn these special symbols. However, using these symbols to mark books is a huge project that cannot be completed by one person or one place. ”

As soon as Li Changmao finished speaking, Xu Xiake added: "Let's not talk about other books, just the Four Books and Five Classics, and the subset of the classics and history, are not what we can complete at present." Unless one day, the boss, you can sit on this great river and mountain, the co-lord of the world, and order the sages and people of insight from all over the world to compile books together and unify the correct reading of words, so as to ensure that there will be no problems with the marked books. ”

However, Li Zicheng did not have the consciousness of being hit, but smiled more and more brightly, and without waiting for others to speak, he said again: "Hehe, marking all the books is not my plan now. The reason why everyone was brought together to study these special symbols was to eradicate illiteracy in the various base areas. ”

"Eradication of illiteracy? What does that mean? Xu Zhengming spoke at the right time, his brows furrowed, and asked the common doubts of everyone.

"Quite simply, it is to popularize the ability to read and write in each base area. In addition to the elderly, whether it is women and children, or those rough men who cultivate the land and farm, or the militia and Li Jiajun, they all have the ability to read and write. ”

Li Zicheng's words once again calmed everyone, making them stunned and unable to react for a while. For a long time, reading and writing has been the business of readers, who have ever heard of popularizing the ability to read and write? This move is absolutely unparalleled and unique.

After all, since ancient times, no matter which imperial court has adopted a policy of fooling the people, I have never heard of it, so that everyone knows how to read and hyphenate words?

However, Li Zicheng didn't care about everyone's reaction, what kind of opinion it was, and still talked about it on his own.

"Only when the people are literate and hyphenated can they know the truth of all things, and can more rationally use the power in their hands to supervise the officials in various base areas. Imagine that at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang also had an initiative to give the people a right to supervise corrupt officials and send them to the capital. ”

However, although Zhu Yuanzhang had good intentions and wanted to protect the people, he ignored a fact. The common people without any education level understand very little truth, and most of them are short-sighted, eager for quick success, and too emotional in doing anything. ”

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Yuanzhang's decree was implemented, it caused chaos in the world, and everyone in the officials was in danger, and they were afraid that they would be rudely arrested and tied up by the people. Therefore, not long after the decree was implemented, it was a hasty end. ”

Everyone listened very attentively, nodding frequently, showing a thoughtful look, reminiscing about Li Zicheng's words.

At this time, Song Yingxing spoke again, and said in an extremely solemn voice: "Boss, if you just want to use these special symbols to popularize the ability to read and hyphenate in various base areas, such a small scale is indeed feasible." Just sort out a booklet, like the Three Character Sutra, mark all the words with symbols, and in less than a month, you can get it out. Before you do, though, you have to teach us how to read and use these special symbols. ”

"Of course, that's fine. In a few days, you will be able to church them all. Li Zicheng patted his chest and swore without a little hesitation.