Chapter 0096: The Concubine's Curiosity
Zhou Qingfeng is at the lumber yard site trying to integrate the human resources at hand. Because he was not enough to support an army, he even went to the point of co-opting Jurchen slaves. In his opinion, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's seizure of the Huahua World in the Central Plains was actually to use the Han people to fight the Han people. Then it is only natural for him to use the Jurchens to beat the Jurchens now.
At the same time, Abahai was secretly looking through the notes that Zhou Qingfeng had made in the past few days in his room in the city. Concubine Jianzhou also felt that this kid would become a great scourge of the Jurchens sooner or later, and it was natural to know more about what he was doing now.
Zhou Qingfeng and Abahai live together, and some of the manuscripts they write daily are not deliberately hidden. These documents, which he thought were no big deal, were full of mystery in Abahai's eyes, which made him want to study them carefully.
"What the hell is this kid writing about?" What Abahai cares about most is a stack of Chinese textbooks written by Zhou Qingfeng. She can speak Chinese, but she is not very proficient in Chinese, and her reading and writing skills are average. But she still saw at a glance that there was definitely something wrong with Zhou Qingfeng's Chinese textbooks - concubine, Hanyu Pinyin, do you want to know about it?
The invention and use of pinyin is of great significance in Chinese language teaching.
In the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic years, the Chinese were abused by the European powers, but a strong movement to save the country also arose. The Chinese are down-and-out pragmatism, and after being beaten, they will not deliberately resist the enemy's advanced technology and strengths, unlike a certain god and religion that has obviously been beaten and is torn apart, and still clings to the scriptures that have long been out of date.
It is the consensus of modern Chinese revolutionaries to learn from the Western powers. This consensus even goes to the point of a kind of frightening – China's education used to be extremely backward, and the difficulty of learning Chinese was too high. Then simply abolish the Chinese language, and we need to develop a new romanized script. Lu Xun used to be an active participant in this matter.
Just because our ancestors went down the wrong path doesn't mean they weren't patriotic. They are precisely too patriotic, they just haven't found the right direction. Luckily, we later had Hanyu Pinyin. Hanyu Pinyin greatly strengthens the connection between glyphs and phonetics in Chinese learning, making it easy for people to judge and remember the pronunciation of a word.
Abahai was studying the initials and finals table written by Zhou Qingfeng, and his mind was confused. She watched Zhou Qingfeng use this watch many times to teach slaves to learn Chinese characters, and in order to show her disdain, she resolutely did not come close to see it - she secretly looked and listened secretly. The result of half-understanding is that the more you learn, the more confused you become.
In just half a month, scattered teaching was not enough for slaves to learn pinyin. But the speed at which they learn Chinese characters is quite fast, and the pronunciation is quite standard. Abahai saw that Zhou Qingfeng would gather the slaves to study every night, and her heart was like a cat scratching, and she always felt that the watch that Zhou Qingfeng took out from time to time hid some kind of great mystery.
This is like some kind of earth-shattering secret book, once it is circulated, it can cause a bloody storm, and if you learn it, you can be invincible in the world. Or maybe this thin piece of paper represents a huge treasure that can be cracked to rival the country and power to the opposition.
However, this piece of paper was not hidden, so it was placed on Zhou Qingfeng's desk and pressed with a few stones. Abahai looked over and couldn't figure out what the strange and crooked symbols on it meant-Concubine Jianzhou would never put down her body to ask those slaves who had taken classes, she was actually waiting for Zhou Qingfeng to take the initiative to tell her, but Uncle Zhou was not available at all.
I couldn't understand Hanyu Pinyin, and Abahai was very angry.
In addition to Hanyu Pinyin, there is something even more infuriating - Zhou Qingfeng's dictionary.
After being brought from the island of time and space to the end of the Ming Dynasty, this dictionary for primary school students has undergone great changes under the influence of the rules of time and space, and the original small book has become a thick and heavy tome. Moreover, the content in it has also been deleted and modified to adapt to the social environment at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
But the simplified characters in it have not changed, the pinyin word search list and the radical word search list have not changed, and the interpretation of each word is still there, but the sentences with the explanation are different - Abahai was shocked when he saw this book, and his forehead sweated. She hadn't seen it before, and she couldn't read the simplified characters for 'missing pen and drawing', but she knew it must be a huge book.
Abahai knew that the Han people were literate, and he also knew that the Han people had many books that had been circulated for thousands of years, and he also knew that the Han people had many scholars. Such a huge book full of words must be for a particularly powerful and great scholar, right? The average person absolutely can't read it - so it's understandable that I can't read it.
As a result, Uncle Zhou directly showed a mocking face and said that this was for the children who learned from Mengxue and the illiterate people.
You say that's infuriating?
How could such a thick book be intended for the most uneducated of people? This is definitely lying to me!
Abahai's lungs are about to explode - Zhou boy, you just say that I am illiterate. There's no need to laugh at me with a book like this.
But Zhou Qingfeng really used this book to write learning materials for slaves. The words practiced by the slaves were also taken from this dictionary. Abahai knew this very well, and he couldn't refute it if he wanted to.
"Hell, how can such a thick book be seen by an illiterate person?" Abahai frowned and flipped through the dictionary, feeling that his usual intelligence was really useless in front of Zhou Qingfeng, and he couldn't see through that kid at all.
Looking through the dictionary, Abahai still wanted to crack the mystery. It so happened that a slave came running to her and said that Hetuara had arrived. She was startled, and then she was overjoyed, dropped the dictionary, got up and walked out of the house.
There were many people kneeling in the courtyard outside the house, led by Dar Khan, the head of Abahai's guards, and the middle-aged man fell to his knees and cried loudly: "Master, the slave is useless, and you have suffered. ”
It's okay not to see Darkhan, but seeing this house slave makes Abahai full of grievances and anger. When Chu Ying plundered her, she was guarded by Darkhan. As a result, Darkhan was not Chu Ying's opponent at all, and his eyes watched as Abahai was taken away from Hetuala. If Abahai hadn't schemed enough to pull Zhou Qingfeng into this troubled water, she would definitely die on the way to escape.
It had been a long time since he had been a master, and when Abahai saw Darkhan, he stepped forward and kicked him over, and scolded angrily: "You dog, you still have the face to come to me." If you weren't so useless, why would I have been caught in this place? ”
Abahai clearly wanted to be angry, but Darhan could only bow his head and admit his mistake. He got up and cried again: "The Great Khan has sent me to Ekhkuren to take the master's daughter back. ”
Ah......, Abahai was immediately overjoyed, "Chu Ying promised to let me go?" ”
Darkhan said: "The Great Belle asked the Great Khan for 10,000 stone of grain before the concubine left, and I will rush back tonight to let the Great Khan make a decision." ”
"Ten thousand stones?" Abahai was not stupid, and when he heard this request, he knew that he could not leave so easily. She shouted with a calm face: "Damn Chu Ying, he is just deliberately playing tricks, so he won't let me go." How many people have you brought with you, and have the four Baylors come? Is Mang Gurtai coming? Can you forcibly take me away? ”
Darkhan continued to cry: "We only had a dozen of us, except for me, the maid of the concubine and a few servants. and Zhou Qingfeng's master Gu Yuanwei also followed. However, last night we found Chu Ying Da Baylor, but Gu Yuanwei had a conflict with Da Baylor, and the two fought on the spot. Gu Yuanwei was beaten by Big Baylor and fled by vomiting blood, and disappeared. ”
Idiot!
Who is Chu Ying? The guy who has been fighting with Nurhachi since birth was once the number one Jurchen master. Now the strength is not as good as before, but it is not easy to mess with.
Thinking that Zhou Qingfeng escaped again, Abahai didn't know whether to sigh or be happy. She asked, "If you are a loyal servant and dare to take the risk to come to Ekhkulun, I will not punish you." But Chu Ying won't let me go easily. You go back immediately and ask the Great Khan to send troops and let the four great beylors come together. Otherwise, you won't be able to save me. ”
"Yes, yes." Darkhan nodded again and again, and said: "Concubine, I ......, I told the Great Khan that Zhou Xiaozi was a Jinyi Guard, and he came to ruin my founding ceremony on the order of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom." I also told the Great Khan about Zhou Xiaozi forcing you to see Chu Ying with poisonous insects. ”
"You ......." Abahai wanted to scold, 'You are a slave who is so troublesome,' but she held back her anger and asked, "What did the Great Khan say?" ”
The Great Khan didn't say anything at first, but when Gu Yuanwei returned to Hetuala, he called him in and scolded him. Gu Yuanwei said that Zhou Xiaozi and him are not of the same mind, and he may really be an undercover agent of Ming Guo Jinyiwei, but he really came to take refuge. The Great Khan asked Gu Yuanwei to arrest Zhou Qingfeng back, and now it seems that it is ....... ”
"Scratch a fart!" Abahai wanted to scold Gu Yuanwei for being too stupid, "Zhou Xiaozi is doing well in Ehekulun." The lord of the Ucha tribe here also named him as a shell. Gu Yuanwei probably really thought that Zhou Xiaozi was on the run, but Zhou Xiaozi had only been here for ten days and had a good relationship with Baylor Beizi in the city. ”
Darkhan had also seen Zhou Qingfeng's power, and he took it for granted that he couldn't catch Zhou Qingfeng. He only asked, "Can the concubine tell Zhou where the boy is?" I'm going to bring him something for the Great Khan. ”
"What's that?" Abahai asked.
Darkhan took out a bag from his arms, and after Abahai took it, he only glanced at the contents of the bag and said coldly: "Believe it or not, Zhou Xiaozi will tear it off when he sees this thing, and even if he doesn't tear it, he will throw it away." ”
"Can't you?" Darkhan wanted to take back the bag, but at the same time said solemnly: "This is what the Great Khan ordered Erdeni to prepare, and he personally sketched the favor." Is Zhou Boy determined to be the enemy of my state department? ”
Abahai didn't hand the bag back to Darkhan, but tightened it and said, "Zhou Xiaozi is a Han Chinese, not us Jurchens. If this thing is given to him, it will only annoy him, and he may go crazy. It's more troublesome to annoy that kid than to annoy Chu Ying, and I still have to rely on him to live in Ekhkulun. This thing is kept with me, and I will give it to him again when I have the chance. ”
Darkhan was helpless, but made one last request, "Concubine, I still have to go to see Zhou Xiaozi once." ”
"Zhou Xiaozi has been very busy lately, so he may not want to see you."
"Please also ask the concubine to help."
"Why do you have to see him?"
"Before I came to Ekhkulen, the Great Khan asked me to bring a painter. said that if you can't catch Zhou Xiaozi back, you will draw his appearance. The Great Khan said that he regretted that he had not seen Zhou Xiaozi with his own eyes, but he wanted to know what the person who caused such a big incident looked like? ”
"Ah...... do you want to paint a portrait of him?" Abahai didn't expect that the Great Khan of Jianzhou would value Zhou Xiaozi so much.