Tongling is a little more prosperous, and it has never been like other cities along the river that the tide of refugees filled the streets, the Gao family is like a vacuum cleaner, sucking up the dust brought by the war, the tall chimneys that have never been seen before, spewing gray smoke into the sky, most of the young people are shaved flat, wearing popular trousers, Qian Mu seems to have come to another world. The next day, according to the arrangement, Qian Mu was accompanied by the second uncle and Gao Pet to visit the Gao family and Huanyu Company.

They first came to the Gao family's public school, which was a full-time school run by Gao Pet soon after he came to this world, and the teaching materials compiled by Gao Pet were the primary school of Chinese, mathematics, general knowledge, and simple algebra in Gao Xiao until middle school, and the full set was adapted according to Gao Pet's memory for the reality of the Song Dynasty at that time. The mathematics is full of Arabic numerals, which makes the Gao family know how to calculate very convenient, using all popular vernacular, complete sentence breaks, and a full set of punctuation. The teachers in the school, that is, the students, are all learning and teaching at the same time, and every ten years, they ask for advice from the high pet to solve their doubts. This is the implementation of people-oriented, education-oriented.

Qian Mu picked up a Chinese book and flipped through it, the teaching content was concise and easy to understand, and after turning a few pages, he saw many characters that he did not understand.

"What is this?" Ask the high pet.

"This is a phonetic character, although our Chinese characters have official dialect, that is, there is no strict phonetic, our Chinese characters attach importance to the meaning of the words, the expression of the meaning of each text is very accurate, it is the best text, but we do not pay attention to the sound, therefore, each Mr. is each teaching, mainly in dialects, so the communication of people in different regions is more difficult, and sometimes it is necessary to ask the local people who understand the official dialect to translate, which is very inconvenient, so this Zhuyin has a very important significance, so as to unify the language. In order to be able to promote it, I will first try it out in our Gao family. ”

Qian Mu has traveled a lot of places, of course, he deeply understands the inconvenience, even if he talks to officials, communication is a little difficult, especially some people with strong rural accents, or southerners, the Qian family is in business, so the children of the Qian family must understand most dialects, Wuyue dialect, vernacular, Min Nan, Hakka.

"Besides, the unification of the country, the expansion of the territory, not only the administrative unity and submission, the most important thing is the cultural conquest, since the Qin, the people or tribes who have submitted to the world of our Han and Tang dynasties are so many, but once our country is a little weaker, it will rebel and be capricious, and some slightly larger tribes are ambitious such as the Khitan in the past, the current Jurchens and the party, once the cultural conquest, then these nations or tribes have a sense of belonging to the orthodoxy of our Han and Tang dynasties, and this capricious betrayal will be much less. And the core of this cultural conquest is the unification of language and writing. Of course, this culture is not limited to language and writing, but also includes social morality and people's values. ”

Qian Mu noticed that Gao Zhong had always spoken the vernacular, and he did not have the consciousness of such a big family at all. Qian Mu had a lot of feelings about Gao Chong's explanation, remembering what the ancestors of the Qian family did in Wuyue, integrating Wuyue, a backward and barbaric border people, into the advanced cultural and economic region of the Southern Song Dynasty.

"Can you get someone to read it?"

"No problem", Gao Chong asked the gentleman on the side to ask a student to read the "Three Character Classic" aloud.

"At the beginning of people, their nature is good, their sex is similar, and their habits are far away. If you don't teach, sex is migration, and the way of teaching is specialized. Xi Meng's mother, choose a neighbor, the son does not learn, and the machine is broken. Dou Yanshan, who has a righteous side, teaches five sons, and is famous. If you don't teach, your father's fault, your teaching is not strict, and your teacher is lazy. If the child does not learn, it is not appropriate, and if the young do not learn, what is the old? The jade is not cut, it is not a tool, people do not learn, and they do not know the righteousness. As a son of man, when Fang was young, he was a teacher and friend, and he practiced etiquette. ”

Lang Lang's children's voice, the words are round, the syllable structure is simple, the sound is loud, the boundaries are clear, the sense of rhythm is strong, the tone is suppressed and frustrated, and the musicality is very beautiful, which is the pronunciation based on the Yanjing dialect. It is the same as the official dialect, but the official dialect is relatively stiff and does not have the mellowness of this sound. I have always felt that Gao Chong's official words are a little strange, and the blame is here, but obviously, Gao Chong's speech is very good.

Gao Pet knows that Chinese characters are not as convenient as Western characters based on letters in terms of computer applications, but because of the richness of Chinese syllables, Chinese are often smarter than Westerners, and the development of Chinese culture shows a point. This Hanyu Pinyin scheme is an important contribution of the People's Republic of China, including the Hanyu Pinyin scheme now used in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. Gao Pet uses this scheme in the textbook.

"Very good, it seems that the favored nephew is very hard work. I also hope that this phonetic method can be popularized and the standard language can be used. I see that nearly half of the girls here are here, and the girls of your Gao family also study? ”

"Our Gao family believes that women should also have such an opportunity, and they can also be used to teach their husbands and children, so that women should be educated."

This concept is of course for Gao Chong, but in the face of the family discussing this issue, there is still a lot of resistance, Gao Chong tried his best at that time, and finally thought of a husband and children, which was limited to five-year education. Although Qian Mu is open-minded, he also retains his opinion, this is the Gao family's business, and the Qian family has to be discussed before it is decided. But the granddaughter Qian Ziyan who came with her heard this, and there are many variables about whether the Qian family can do this. Qian Ziyan glanced at Gao Pet even more, and at first her grandfather looked at Gao Pet differently, but a little kid who was about the same as herself, no matter how big her ability was, she could go there, but when she arrived at the Gao family, she had not seen too many things, I heard that this was an invention made by Gao Pet, and saw that the Gao family was full of inner respect for Gao Pet regardless of size, that is, she was not convinced.

"I'm going to go back and run such a public school in the Qian family. I hope to get help from your Gao family, I don't know if it's possible. ”

"No problem at all, including the provision of a full set of teaching materials, which we were very welcome. We also plan to promote this education to the outside world, but it is limited to our current capabilities, especially the problem of teachers, and we have not yet been able to implement it. However, the Gao family believes that in just three to five years, the Gao family will fully promote the school to the society. The Gao family hopes that no matter whether they are rich or poor, everyone should have a book to read. This will also be the consistent policy of the Gao family. ”

"Our Gao family is now free of charge for all the children of the Gao family, and the children of the Gao family must complete five years of compulsory education, which will be expanded to nine years of business education in the future. Parents who do not attend school without reason are punished, and only the cost of work and a symbolic tuition fee are charged to the children of employees in Gao's family, which is only 100 copper plates a year, and the children of employees are generally mobilized to participate in this education. "Gao Pet asked people to bring a set of five-year textbooks, and Gao Pet in middle school did not have enough time to finish compiling it.

"This is a set of primary school textbooks for grades one to five, I haven't finished compiling it in middle school, and I'll send it to you when the time comes, if you want to use this set of textbooks, you don't have to engrave it again, you notify my Gao family, just report a number, and my Gao family will print it together." A book in the Song Dynasty was very expensive, and the poor could not afford to read it, a big reason was that the book could not afford it. Now the cost of paper is very low, compared with the past, it is hundreds of times lower. Coupled with lead printing, it is not only of good quality and lower cost. Of course, Feiyang's current paper and books are not cheap.

Let the boss of the Qian family visit this public school, which is a high-quality arrangement, and this school can best show the culture and values of the Gao family.

After visiting the public school and the winery, I went to the steel factory and the lead-zinc-sulfuric acid factory, and then to Huanyu Company and Gaojia Research Institute. The indescribable shock in the hearts of the Qian Mu family was unimaginable for them All this was like a dream, unimaginable.

Let's just say that the steel mill, the tall blast furnace and the open hearth can produce three or four thousand catties of steel a day, and the blast furnace is a continuous production. If you add one or two more blast furnaces, Qian Mu doesn't dare to think about it anymore, and that steel, but it is all top-level good steel, Gao Pet let him see the use of the steel produced by the Gao family and the most famous Xia Guojian in Western Xia, not distressed at all, the Xixia Sword cut a gap, and finally Gao Chong actually cut it with force, at that time the eldest son Jichen and granddaughter Ziyan opened their mouths. There is also the blower with a steam engine, although the Qian family does not produce iron, but the key to steelmaking is to know, one is refractory bricks, and the other is blower technology. If these two problems are solved, the problem of steelmaking will be solved by more than half. Qian Mu is deeply impressed by the technology of copying steel, which is one of the major inventions of the Han nation, but in the Gao family, this technology has been eliminated, and only occasionally used for some special materials.

In addition, I don't understand the lead smelting, zinc, brass, sulfuric acid, cement, glass blowing, etc. introduced by Gao Chong, and I am speechless for the genius of the Gao family. For such a family, but the Gao family is simple, in the eyes of Qian Mu at that time, it makes people feel that they have lost their identity. Even if it makes people feel that no matter how big the family is, it is extremely difficult to draw such a blueprint in a short period of time, which shows the difficulty of the Gao family's funds.

Although the salt and iron monopoly, for this iron, no matter how powerful the Qian family is, they dare not touch it, but the Gao family has done it, no wonder the Gao family cares about this horse, and has no strength Once others know or have good deeds, this Great Xia will collapse in an instant, Qian Muke knows the stakes very well, and thinks that back then, didn't the Qian family make a wedding dress for others overnight? Qian Mu saw the huge potential risks of the Gao family, why did the Gao family let me see this? can allow himself to participate in horse trading, the Gao family has already opened their minds to themselves and believes in their own personality, of course, it is impossible to do anything in terms of the character of the Qian family, otherwise how can they stand up for hundreds of years? What does the Gao family think, judging from the attitude of the Gao family, now that the young family is in charge, what are you looking forward to in your heart? Qian Mu is looking forward to having a deep conversation with Gao Pet.

But Ziyan was very happy with the hollow snow lotus that Gao Pet personally blew for her, and it was worth it to come to the Gao family to have such a gift, regardless of anything else.

Indeed, it is not easy for Gao Zhong to understand the bits and pieces of the Qian family from the third uncle and the second uncle, as a family that can pass in many hostile countries is definitely an extraordinary family, the Qian family has such advantages: first, the abundant funds can be said to be rich and rival the country, and the second is that there is a huge network of relationships connecting many countries, there is a set of strict intelligence organizations and the Qian family's security protection mechanism, as well as a terminal sales network, all of which is what Gao Harm currently lacks, to be precise, from the previous life to understand the King of Qian and his values, Gao Pet has a deep identity. Therefore, when the third uncle introduced the Qian family to Gao Chong, Gao Chong had the intention of pulling the Qian family into his own system, and he asked the third uncle to discuss the matter of selling horses with the Qian family was a temptation. Today, let the Qian family visit the Gao family's schools, enterprises, and research institutes, which is the second step of Gao Pet, so that the Qian family can understand the strength of the Gao family, especially the future development prospects and strength behind the Gao family. Of course, Gao's favored base and military technology have not yet been opened to the Qian family, and he needs to understand the attitude of the Qian family, but obviously, the fact that the boss of the Qian family can come to the Gao family in person can explain a little bit of the problem. At least the idea of high favor has the possibility of being realized.

"Old man, if it is convenient, in my courtyard in the evening, please eat alone, a dinner party with a unique flavor."

"Oh, that must be something I haven't seen before, okay."

Qian Mu has been waiting for this moment to come.