A winter passed quietly.

Although this winter is very cold, the number of people who freeze to death this winter is far lower than the level of previous years!

All of this depends on Hu Changan's free honeycomb coal!

For this, Zhu Yuanzhang was grateful, praised Hu Changan in the court, and even rewarded Hu Changan with a large sum of silver.

Even the people were amazed by Hu Changan's righteous deeds.

Hu became the most famous trading house in Yingtian City.

This winter, Hu Shi shined.

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Finally, in the expectation of everyone, spring has arrived.

And some of the previous things are also on the agenda.

In the early morning of this day, Hu Changan was still secretly yawning, and was named by Zhu Yuanzhang: "Hu Aiqing, the Ministry of Rites has already completed the matter of the school of the Ministry of Construction and Engineering. ”

"At that time, the affairs of this Ministry of Engineering Academy will be temporarily taken care of by you, Hu Shilang."

When Hu Changan heard this, he also hurriedly swallowed the yawn back, and it should be out of the ranks.

When Hu Changan was in the Ministry of Industry before, he once showed Zhu Yuanzhang the wonderful use of scientific knowledge.

And Zhu Yuanzhang also waved his hand, planning to establish a special school for the craftsmen of Quanying Heavenly City, so that more people could learn the physical and chemical knowledge that Hu Changan said.

At present, the school of the Ministry of Rites has finally been built.

The hardware facilities are already there, and the next step is the software facilities.

And for the construction of this software facility, Hu Changan is naturally the first to do it.

After all, these disciplines were all proposed by Hu Changan.

It is also appropriate for him to supervise the construction of this school.

So recently, Hu Changan has a new task - the construction of the Ministry of Engineering!

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Early in the morning, Hu Changan came to the newly built Ministry of Engineering School.

The newly built Ministry of Engineering School of the Ministry of Rites is located in the southern suburbs of Yingtian City.

Although it is newly built, none of the facilities have been pulled down.

From the main hall to the tables, chairs and benches, it can be said that everything is complete and has everything.

Just looking at the infrastructure, this Ministry of Engineering School can even be compared to the Guozijian.

Seeing this, Hu Changan also nodded with satisfaction.

In any case, at least the work of the Ministry of Rites is still quite in place.

Hu Changan didn't wait long, and Zhang Ping, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites who was his partner, also came.

Although engineering is taught here, at the end of the day, this is still a school.

Therefore, after Hu Changan completes the preliminary construction, the specific management of the follow-up Ministry of Engineering School will still be handed over to the Ministry of Rites.

Therefore, this time, Zhang Ping, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, will also participate in the construction of this Ministry of Engineering School.

As soon as Zhang Ping got off the horse, he couldn't wait to complain to Hu Changan: "Hu Shilang, I don't know what is going to be taught in this Ministry of Engineering School?" ”

"I'll tell you the truth, I really don't have a clue."

Zhang Ping is a pure reader, all the way from the township to the entrance examination, since he was a child, he has read the Four Books and the Five Classics.

For this Ministry of Engineering School, he really didn't know the situation at all.

If you don't teach the Four Books and the Five Classics in this school, what else can you teach?

When Hu Changan heard this, he also smiled slightly: "Zhang Shilang, I have already compiled the teaching materials needed for this Ministry of Engineering School. ”

As he spoke, Hu Changan took out two manuscripts from his pocket and said to Zhang Ping: "This is what I am going to let the craftsmen learn here." ”

"I'm going to let the craftsmen who come here to study take two courses."

"One course is called Physics and the other is called Chemistry."

As he spoke, Hu Changan handed the two manuscripts to Zhang Ping.

On the covers of these two manuscripts, the words "physics" and "chemistry" are written respectively.

This is also a physics textbook and chemistry textbook that Hu Changan specially redeemed from the system.

Considering the poor cultural level of the common people in ancient times, Hu Changan also specially added many down-to-earth examples to help these ancients better understand knowledge.

However, in Zhang Ping's eyes, these two books still look like books from heaven.

Since he was born, Zhang Ping has never seen such a strange book.

Flipping through these two manuscripts, Zhang Ping couldn't help but ask: "Hu Shilang, why is the content in these two books typeset horizontally?" ”

It's no wonder that Zhang Ping looks blindfolded.

In ancient times, books were typeset from top to bottom, right to left.

Hu Chang'an's book typeset from left to right is absolutely unprecedented.

When Hu Changan heard this, he also smiled slightly, and said, "What I teach here is all new knowledge. ”

"This kind of knowledge can't be arranged vertically at all, so I can only write in horizontal layout."

"Anyway, everything written here is pretty much the same, as long as you get used to it a little, you should be able to get started."

In fact, when Hu Changan was compiling the textbooks, he also considered following the habits of the ancients and arranging the characters in order from top to bottom.

But after a little try, he gave up.

If it's just words, it's fine, but in physics and chemistry, all kinds of formulas can't be jumped.

Just imagine, how can this physical formula be written horizontally?

So Hu Changan thought about it and decided to follow the modern rules of writing.

Anyway, whether it's written horizontally or vertically, it's all these words.

Reading habits are such things, and you can change them slowly.

When Zhang Ping heard this, he also nodded.

Row horizontally, let's row horizontally, anyway, the person who came to study was not him, he couldn't compete with Hu Changan for this trivial matter.

However, Zhang Ping looked at it and found a new question: "Hu Shilang, what are these strange symbols interspersed in the text?" ”

"How come I've never seen anything like this?"

In ancient times, books had no punctuation.

So Zhang Ping has never seen punctuation marks such as periods and commas at all.

Looking at Zhang Ping's puzzled eyes, Hu Changan also smiled slightly, and said: "The name of this thing is punctuation, which is specially used to break sentences." ”

"This circle is called a full stop, and whenever you see it, it represents a long pause."

"And this apostrophe is a comma, which represents a short pause."

However, when Zhang Ping heard this, he was stunned: "Hu Shilang, why do you have to mark this sentence out of line?" ”

"Isn't that redundant?"

"When they're reading, they'll know."

As an ancient, Zhang Ping couldn't understand it.

The first lesson of enlightenment is to learn to break sentences.

The basic knowledge of sentence breaking, as long as you have read a little bit of books, you will be able to do it.

Why does Hu Changan still have to mark these broken sentences?

When Hu Changan heard this, he smiled and said: "Zhang Shilang, I marked these broken sentences for the convenience of all students." ”

"If there is no break in the sentence, it will not be good if it creates ambiguity."

"It's not sloppy at all to learn from my books."