Inside the small courtyard.

"Brother...... I'm afraid! ”

Zhu Yunwen grabbed Zhu Xiongying's arm, very nervous.

Zhu Yunxi hugged Zhu Xiongying's left leg, and he was also very afraid.

"Brother, I, I'm also afraid of ......"

Acting Wang Zhu Gui hugged Zhu Xiongying's right leg, swallowed saliva, and shouted.

"Uncle Thirteen, you are my uncle, it's not appropriate to call me brother!"

Zhu Xiongying pouted, uncle, if you call me like this, I'm worried that I will die.

Acting King Zhu Gui waved his small hands, grinned and showed his white teeth and smiled: "It's okay, I call you brother, you call me uncle, let's talk about it." ”

Zhu Xiongying shook his body and pulled them all down, and said angrily: "You are as cowardly as a mouse, how can you become a feudal lord in the future!" ”

"I'm Daming, just rely on you worms to consolidate the border domain!?"

"Isn't it just for you to help me open a furnace, what kind of system do you want to shirk and obstruct?"

During this time, Zhu Xiongying has been tinkering with various inventions and creations in the small courtyard.

One of them is this fired glass.

In my previous life, I read all kinds of books, and I said that the fired glass was very simple, just if I had hands, but after Zhu Xiongying got started by himself, for some reason, the fired glass was always blown up, and there were always bubbles, and the color was ......

Color?

No way, this is by no means the color of Xiang.

Zheng He, who was on the side, his face was darkened, and he said in a weak voice: "Little master, otherwise, Zheng He will open it......

Zhu Xiongying said angrily: "What do you mean, look down on my Zhu Ming royal family, all the good men of the Zhu family are brave men!" ”

"Yun Wei!"

Zhu Yunwen shook his head.

"Yun Hee!"

Zhu Yunxi grabbed Zhu Xiongying's legs.

"Uncle Thirteen!"

Zhu Gui simply wrapped his hands around Zhu Xiongying's thighs, his head swayed, his big black eyes revealed a frightened look, and he said with a crying voice: "Brother, I call you brother, you spare the life of the thirteenth uncle!" ”

Zhu Xiongying was immediately furious, pushed the three of them away one by one, and then walked to the forging furnace by himself, and scolded bitterly: "It's timidity to open a forging furnace, timid as a mouse, not a man!" ”

As he spoke, he reached out to the forge.

Who knows, at this time, the coal in the forge made a creaking sound.

The borax lime sand in firing makes a popping sound.

Zhu Xiongying paused.

"Hey, what did I just say?"

Zhu Xiongying looked at Zhu Yunwen and the others seriously.

"It's timidity to open a forging furnace!"

"Next?"

"Cowardly as a mouse!"

"One more sentence?"

"Not a man!"

Zhu Xiongying stood up, with a serious expression, and said: "I take back this sentence, we are still children, and we are indeed not men!" ”

"Run, I'm going to blow up!"

Saying that, Zhu Xiongying's face was frightened, he grabbed Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yunxi, ran two steps and dragged Zhu Gui, and ran out.

As for Zheng He, he had already prepared, and a few seconds after everyone ran out of the small courtyard, the forges that burned glass in the small courtyard made a muffled sound, and several ugly things that were half red and half black were exploded.

After condensation, it becomes Xiangshi.

Outside the courtyard wall, several children's heads are like gourd scoops, emerging in sequence.

Zhu Xiongying's head was only exposed, and his dark eyes swept it, and after making sure that the forging furnace was no longer bursting, he was still a little uneasy, and looked at Zheng He: "Zheng He, you go and see the furnace, don't rush to pour water, it's easy to fry cold, use an iron rod to take out the coal in the furnace, first lower the temperature of the fire, and then scatter the limestone in the furnace." ”

Zheng He stood up and nodded, he took a deep breath, took a step, turned his head and pursed his lips, and said to Zhu Xiongying as if he was explaining the aftermath: "Little master, if Zheng He goes, I will still bother the little master to take care of my sister and brother's relatives......"

As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and walked towards the forge with a tragic expression.

Zhu Xiongying was furious: "You ......"

"Hey, you can't plug it in like that!"

"It's going to!"

Before the words fell, the forge slammed again, which frightened everyone and shuddered, but fortunately, there was no more explosion after that.

After Zheng He cleaned up, Zhu Xiongying frowned, pinched his chin and paced back and forth: "It's strange, I basically followed the steps in the book for the firing of this glass, and there is no deviation in the materials, how can it be blown up?" ”

Acting Wang Zhu Gui is also a good reader, and he is a little interested in strange and tricky skills, and said: "Brother, is it because you missed any method?" In the Song Dynasty, the "Construction of the French Kiln System" recorded the method of firing glaze, and I saw this book in the Wenyuan Pavilion, so I went to get it......"

"Uncle Thirteen, that's not right."

"In the Song Dynasty, when forging and firing glass, charcoal was used, and now we are using coal, the temperature is different, the heat is different, and the forging technique naturally does not have much reference meaning, there must be something wrong......

Acting King Zhu Gui's eyes lit up, and said: "I remember, there were many Taoists in the house before King Zhu Tan of Lu, who were good at refining gold and stone pills, and he also said that this method of burning glaze, maybe he knows." ”

"Cut."

Zhu Xiongying shook his head with his hands behind his back, and said very speechlessly: "It's not that I look down on Uncle Ten, he doesn't know a liter of words, and he doesn't know if he is a word, if he says that he can refine glass, I really don't believe it." ”

"Hey, but it's not without gain!"

Zhu Xiongying picked up the torch that was originally used to blow the fire, slapped it, and called Zheng He and said: "Zheng He, you clean up, take this thing to the front court, and give it to my father, just say that this thing is called a shouting microphone, which is used to shout and roll call in the court, which can spread the sound, so that the sound can spread farther and louder. ”

This can be regarded as planting melons and getting beans.

Although I couldn't invent transparent glass, I didn't invent the shouting microphone, didn't I?

"Why don't you think about batteries and telegraphs?"

Zhu Xiongying touched his chin, in fact, the original battery is not difficult to make, but the wire is rare.

In this era, Daming is also very scarce of precious metals.

"There are some good craftsmen in the imperial prison, and there are many craftsmen in Yingtian who can help with it, but they make batteries in large quantities, and they have to train a batch of engineering seeds as helpers, and I have some talents who can barely use this kind of talent, but I can't believe ...... these people."

It's a little speechless, if there are many science and engineering talents in the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of the people of Israel account for the majority.

Either they are Taoist priests who are good at alchemy, but the Taoist priests are not focused on creating inventions with science and technology, and in refining the elixir of immortality, in the Western Han Dynasty, Liu An made a bunch of Taoist priests to drum out "Huainanzi", and invented tofu when refining the elixir.

Let the Taoist priests engage in scientific research, and they will inevitably focus on immortality......

As for gunpowder and tofu, they are all add-on products carried by the study of immortal medicine.

This is actually related to traditional Chinese culture.

In traditional Chinese culture, the Tao is natural, the Dharma is self-transcendent, and more attention is paid to self-perception and self-enlightenment.

To put it simply, the master leads you into the door and teaches you, and many times you don't like to speak so clearly and meticulously.

For example, if you find a Taoist priest to teach, in order to keep yourself from losing your job, the Taoist priest will speak unfathomably, keep one hand, let the apprentice "perceive" by himself, and let the apprentice use his own understanding to rub himself.

On the contrary, Westerners, the master teaches the craft to the apprentice, which is more pure and direct, the step explanation is clearer, and the "logic" is more smooth.

"In Taixue, you have to open a special subject to teach a few people who know a little about physics, reliable engineering seeds to make batteries, and you also need professional military households, similar to the communication battalion in the previous life, to help lay telephone lines...... Making a microphone also requires a little knowledge of physics, as well as a certain amount of hands-on ability, and if you make it by hand, you need to be very careful......

"Now my Daming Royal Bank is open in military posts all over the country, and wait for another three or five years, after the banking business penetrates into the people, the telephone is very tight, both military and civilian, and can also make money, too ......learned."

Zhu Xiongying muttered quietly, rubbed his braincase, reached out and took a sip of wolfberry water, these things are not in a hurry, it will take several years to train talents to make plans.

And the talent is in place, and it will take more than ten or twenty years to lay telephone lines in various places.

In the previous life, after liberation, so strong people's mobilization ability, but it took thirty or forty years to lay the telephone line, this thing costs money and food, and is not of much benefit to today's Daming, and is destined to be applied only in a small area.

Smash it, smash it, smash it, Zhu Xiongying only felt that the taste of this wolfberry water was a lot weaker.

"I drank too much wolfberry water, it was really a little greasy, and it didn't seem to have the effect of health preservation......"

"Why don't you try something fresh?"

Zhu Xiongying swallowed his saliva, and couldn't help but think of the figure of a fat house happy water in his mind.

"No, I want to take care of myself!"

"However, the method of making it is very simple, carbonated water, lime, caramel made of honey, plus lime peel, chopped coriander, ice cubes in the royal cellar, you can ...... think about it."

"Damn, you can't drink happy water, what's the use of health?"

"I don't want to drink it, but it's called Happy Water!"

……

Guozijian.

As the reserve talent reserve base of the Ming Dynasty, in the early years of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty once opened a science and learned from the university.

For this reason, many Confucian scholars once gathered here.

However, with the Ming Dynasty no longer holding the imperial examination, and instead implementing the recommendation system, gradually it became the world of the Southern Literary Party, and many Southern Confucianists recommended their protégés to the country, calling each other brothers, and talking about each other as friends, in order to rank up for official vacancies in the future and be able to take care of them.

Officialdom is like this, since ancient times.

Among the country's eunuchs, the southern literary party has the most literati in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are countless talented people in all parts of eastern Zhejiang because of the flourishing literary style, while there are relatively few literati in the north, most of whom are Confucian students in Shandong, Henan and other places.

Many of them were recommended to come to the Guozijian to observe and study because they did a good job in collecting grain and helping the Yingtian Division to prepare for the task of collecting grain.

A group of scholars are watching the latest notices on the notice board at the gate of the Guozi Prison.

"All students in the country should use simplified words, which are convenient and conducive to education and ......"

Several Jiangnan Confucian students, dressed in Confucian costumes and holding feather fans, shook their heads again and again as they looked at the words on the notice.

"I wait for Confucianism, since we respect the ancient Confucianism, Han Changli advocates retro literature, the ancient sound of the Six Dynasties, the Tang and Song dynasties have a splendid culture, and now I repeat Yanyun, and Nayun Gui, is about to restore the old land of the Han and Tang Dynasties, when advocating ancient literature and ancient words, how can we abolish the etiquette and forget the words, and instead practice simplifying the words such crooked and evil words!?"

A Jiangnan Confucian student wore a Confucian crown, looked at the notice and hated it, and shouted loudly.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because Zhu Yuanzhang respected scholars more, most of the Confucian students and students in Guozijian had the opportunity to participate in politics, and because of the Yuan Dynasty, most scholars had no opportunity to be officials and could only write lyrics and songs, so they were aggrieved for hundreds of years and were very enthusiastic.

Now, fifteen years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the style of Confucian scholars participating in politics and discussion has not diminished, but because the imperial examination has not been opened, it has become more enthusiastic.

They often gather in the academy or restaurant to discuss state affairs.

After this Jiangnan Confucian opened his mouth, many Jiangnan Confucian families nodded one after another.

The Confucian scholars who echoed it were not all simply opposed to simplifying the characters, because many of these Confucian families were from the Song Dynasty when Huizong of the Song Dynasty hunted the Five Emperors in the Northern Hunt City, and the whole family migrated from the north, and even some of them were after the ancient tribes who crossed to the south in clothes during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

They have great respect for Taoism and Confucianism, and respect for ancient rites and Confucian traditions, which is the foundation of their family tradition and Taoism, and is also one of the reasons why their family has been strong for thousands of years.

For example, the Southern Confucius branch of Quzhou moved south, the Southern Confucius was originally Confucius, Yansheng was just unified, when the Yuan army captured Shandong, they left the side support to worship Confucianism and Taoism, and moved south, after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was repeatedly slaughtered, and the naval battle of Yashan, the orthodox descendants of Southern Confucius actually jumped into the sea together......

Later, Kublai Khan found the remaining descendants of Nankong who were hiding in the deep mountains and old forests, and wanted to canonize them, but they decisively refused, saying that the descendants of the derivative princes were really extinct.

Confucianism!

Kublai Khan couldn't, so he gave the Yansheng Gong to the side branch who stayed in Shandong.

The Confucianism in the south of the Yangtze River is self-sustaining with the atmosphere of the ancient benevolent people and ancient saints, and the retro etiquette that their spiritual Taoism pursues is not completely against anything new, but more of a spiritual respect.

This is also an important core spirit of Jiangnan Confucianism in the Yuan Dynasty after the invasion of the Yuan Dynasty for a hundred years, and still maintains the style of Chinese Confucianism. It is also the reason why Zhu Xi is respectfully called Zhu Zi, and the ideas they advocate allow all walks of life to constantly trace the glory of their ancestors, so that they do not forget why they have inherited Confucianism from generation to generation, and turn Confucianism and etiquette into a 'Gangchang ethics'......

Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations!

The sacred learning must not be destroyed in our hands!

Limited by the limitations of today's times, not all those who oppose simplification are malicious, on the contrary, they are actually standing on the correct values of Confucianism in the current era, upholding Confucianism, upholding the orthodoxy of the Chinese family and the country, and most suitable for the feudal dynasty to safeguard the interests of the scholar class and the rule of the country......

And there are those who oppose simplification, and naturally there are those who support it.

A Confucian scholar dressed shabby and with a calm face stood next to this group of southern Confucian students, his Confucian clothes were even slightly damaged, but his eyes were resolute, he was not very old, but he was not afraid of the disgusting eyes around him.

"No, students, this simplified word is concise and concise, easy to write, fast to write, if it is used to collect grain and taxes, it can be written in a few strokes."

"This notice only says that we are usually advocating the use of simplified words, so that we and others will be sent to various places in the future, collect grain for the grain chief, and judge cases for county officials.

"This argument is a white horse non-horse theory, and I hope that the students will not say too much, there is no need to regard the simplified words as evil words, we will do learning, we will use the traditional Chinese, the grain tax documents, just use the simplified Chinese, there is no conflict between the two, it is like using chopsticks for eating, and spoons for soup."

Seeing this, the Jiangnan Confucian student swept the poor Confucian student, took back the fan and said with a smile: "You have some crooked opinions, I heard that Taixue is about to start school, and the children and students are widely accepted, all of whom are taught with simplified characters. ”

The poor Confucian arched his hand and said calmly: "It is good to teach the classmates to know that the Confucian has this intention." ”

"Taixue more open the department, designed to cultivate practical talents, my emperor is now lacking is to do practical things, and there is no shortage of Boru who does flowery articles, if you want to do practical things for the people, you might as well sign up with me!"

There were a few Confucian scholars around who were obviously moved.

"Who are you?"

A Jiangnan Confucian asked.

"Deng Zhou Tie Xuan!"

"Oh, it's him? I heard that this person was in Henan to make grain collection documents for Yingtian Division, and he was upright and was recommended to come to Guozijian ......"

"Brother Tie Xuan is reasonable, and we are willing to go to Taixue to study."

"Go with ......"

Interestingly, most of the people who are willing to go to Taixue to learn simplified characters are from poor families, from poor families, or Confucian students from non-worldly backgrounds.

"Hmph, willing to fall, insulting Sven, we are ashamed to be with it!"

"Jane Party!"

The readers of the Ming Dynasty have been imperceptibly changed by a trend that moisturizes things silently.

And when this wind will blow and turn into a tornado, or a spring breeze, is unknown......

……

Inside the small courtyard.

Zhu Xiongying took the latest public opinion handed over by Zhou Kuan, swept it, and said to Zhou Kuan: "Big companion, Fang Xiaoru is now in the field to recommend good talents for Taixue, let him not only stare at Jingchu Jiangnan, Jingchu has many talents since ancient times, Jiangnan also has Confucianism, but the northland has been war-torn for many years, and it is not easy to read, and now the students who can still insist on studying in the north, the learning environment is ten times more difficult than that of the southern scholars, once they come to school, they will be more diligent and cherished, you tell him to find more good talents in the north, and return to the north after completing his studies, build his hometown, and serve the emperor!" ”

"In addition, in the land of the nine sides, there are many disasters of poverty and war, and the children of the military families have difficulty in reading, you go to my father, let my second uncle, third uncle and fourth uncle, and find more children of heroes and martyrs on the nine sides, and send them to Yingtian to study if there are conditions, and if there are no conditions, build Yixue in the domain, and teach simplified characters, arithmetic, and geography together, and the teaching materials will be the same as Taixue at that time, this matter is particularly important!"

"Yes, little lord!"

Zhou Kuan bowed down and nodded with satisfaction, and couldn't help but think of his own kid, does he have a son now?

My grandchildren can also go to school......

"By the way, my companion, most of the meritorious veterans of Xiaoling Weizhong are my emperor's heroes, they are close to Xiaoling, don't forget them, you help me pass a word to my father, just say that the old camp and the old pawn fought the world with the emperor's grandfather, and now I Zhu Xiongying accompanies the grandchildren of the old pawn to study and protect the Ming Dynasty!" All the descendants of the old soldiers of Xiaolingwei can be exempted from the test to enter my Taixue! ”

Zhou Kuan's body trembled, and his eyes flashed with tears: "My emperor has a little master, and he will be Mai Hantang!" ”

After whispering in his heart, he bowed and walked forward, but his eyes shrank suddenly.

A person who had never set foot in the small courtyard led a large group of entourage, standing outside the small courtyard, looking at Zhu Xiongying's small courtyard with an expressionless face.