Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Old and the New

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang himself didn't feel that he might not be so firm in his heart about changing the law in the future.

Zhu Yuanzhang has already made a decision, and you can see it. The reform of the original feudal dynasty and the innovation of the land system in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Zhu Yuanzhang is easy to accept. His reform of the agrarian system. In the end, only one tax was levied on the land. Exemption from forced labor.

But no one in the whole world can escape. Liberate the people. and not to bind the people to the land.

It's just that this is already the limit of what Zhu Yuanzhang can do.

Other things, even if he heard He Xi talk about it. There are some things that he understands. But understanding is just understanding, and he still doesn't really feel what the impact of some things is.

At this moment, see these machines that have been built. gave Zhu Yuanzhang a deep shock.

Not the same as the reform of the steel industry.

Although there are many blacksmiths in the world, it is still a small industry on the whole. Even if all the blacksmiths in the world are unemployed, in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang can handle it. There were even more blacksmiths converted into farmers. More land can be cultivated.

However, the textile industry is different. It's going to reach out to every household. The impact is enormous. It's a stormy sea.

Making money is really making money.

But as a politician, you can't just think about the trivial matter of making money and not making money. To think more.

Actually, Zhu Yuanzhang himself may not feel it, in fact, he has a Zhu Biao in his heart.

The ideas represented by Zhu Biao are the ideas of many national policies in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart before the fourteenth year of Hongwu. The only difference is that Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the beginning of the founding of the country was a turbulent time, and there was no instability inside and outside the court. So there must be extraordinary means. This is not the case for future generations.

Before Zhu Biao, he had always been the most satisfied prince of Zhu Yuanzhang. It is because the two only have hierarchical differences in some things in their thinking, and there is no essential difference.

Now Zhu Yuanzhang has changed. And Zhu Biao has not changed.

In fact, the change of people's thinking is also a process. It's not that change is something that can be changed immediately. At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang faced the unknown of the future, and he also had a trace of timidity.

Suddenly, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to speak.

King Yan was more entangled in his heart, but when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang's gloomy face, he didn't dare to speak.

After Zhu Yuanzhang visited all the workshops, he left the workshop and suddenly ordered that there would be a female worker representative in each workshop. He's going to talk to these people.

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A moment of work. Dozens of female workers have already arrived.

After they saw Zhu Yuanzhang, they didn't dare to raise their heads, kneeling on the ground, like a shrunken quail.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a pleasant face, with a bit of the kindness of an elder: "Let's all get up and talk." ”

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang's words, no one below reacted. He Xi immediately motioned to a female worker beside him, and the female worker muttered something. These people got up.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly.

He hated it more than anything else. And these incomprehensible words. made him subconsciously feel that someone was playing tricks in front of him.

He Xi hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, these people are all Koreans, and they don't understand Chinese. During this period of time, the minister is also trying to use a convenient way to let them learn Chinese, in the minister's opinion, pinyin is the best. It's just that the minister's knowledge in this area is shallow, and there are differences between ancient and modern sounds, so he is -------"

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "He Xi, you have less homework for a while. ”

He Xi was stunned, not knowing why Zhu Yuanzhang said this.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "I Hongwu Zhengyun, haven't you read it? ”

He Xi was slightly stunned, Zhu Yuanzhang was right. I just came to Daming for a period of time, in order to integrate into this era. He Xi worked hard and read a lot of books. But after that period of time. He Xi didn't work hard anymore.

The reading time has also been compressed a lot.

The book "Hongwu Zhengyun", He Xi knows it, but he really hasn't turned it over.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw through He Xi at a glance and said: "Since ancient times, the method of cutting sound and pinyin in China has its own superiority and inferiority, which is enough. However, what you said is also right, "Hongwu Zhengyun" is high above the temple, cannot go deep into the people, and loses its original intention. In this way, convene the great Confucian to discuss in the Guozijian, and use "Hongwu Zhengyun" as the base. Create a set of simple syncopations. Let the child read it. ”

Then I ordered the left and right to record it, and I will do it after I go back.

Since ancient times, speech has been constantly changing. It's just that a lot of people don't notice. It's like the pronunciation of many words now is no longer ancient. The simplest way to pronounce the word "one ride" is how to pronounce it.

This problem has never arisen today.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang found that there were many poems in the Tang and Song dynasties that did not rhyme. Naturally, there is an evolution of ancient sounds. And the Mongols went south, bringing with them a lot of Hu language. Reach out to all parts of China. And since ancient times, the words have been the same. However, the local dialect is different.

Whether it's to unify the dialect and facilitate communication. It is still to clean up Hu Feng, rebuild the Han and Tang Dynasties, or it is a cultural project of meritorious service in the new dynasty. One of these reasons is that "Hongwu Zhengyun" came into being. Among them, there is naturally a set of methods for cutting tones since ancient times.

Cumbersome has limitations. It is different from the pinyin method of later generations.

However, this is not to say that the later pinyin scheme is better than the cut rhyme in all aspects. In fact, the modern pinyin scheme cannot fully express the phonetics of Chinese. Many ancient phonetics have been discarded in the modern pinyin scheme.

Actually, if you pay attention to it. In some dialects, the words cannot be spelled out in pinyin.

But is this good or bad? It can only be left to posterity to comment.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to use the pinyin scheme. It's not that he has an idea about that. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang is a very realistic person. He didn't really care about the loss. He was just very proud in his bones, so he didn't want to use Xiyi's things.

After all, the pinyin scheme draws heavily on the knowledge of Western phonology. It is based on romanization. Zhu Yuanzhang did not feel that the traditional Chinese phonological system could not accomplish this task. I just didn't think about it before.

After all, since the Song Dynasty, there has been a trend of emphasizing classics and righteousness over primary schools in traditional Chinese learning. The meaning of the scriptures is naturally the great meaning of small words, and the primary school is the way of exegesis. How to read a word, how to interpret a word? Although it is boring and boring, it is also the foundation of reading and learning.

However, the dialogue between Zhu Yuanzhang and He Xi. The one who can't understand the most is King Yan.

Because there are outsiders here. Zhu Yuanzhang and He Xi spoke with reservations, but they both understood each other's meaning. But King Yan is an outsider. He knows the rhyme. But what is pinyin? I don't know. I just feel confused. Nothing is understood.

This is just a small episode.

Zhu Yuanzhang, with the help of the translator, had a careful conversation with the Korean female workers below.

The questions are all very plain. What they were like in Goryeo. What it's like here. Have you ever suffered hardship? Do you want to go back to Goryeo? Would you like to leave here and farm? Wait a minute.

The Goryeo women replied tremblingly.

When they were in Goryeo, they were just slaves and maids in the palace. There are no personal rights anymore. After a day's work, there will be nothing. If you can't do it on time and quantitatively every day. Someone will whip them. Among them is bitter. Needless to say.

Even now many women still have scars on their bodies.

What's more, the top and bottom are buckled.

Not even enough meals. Dine with Duke Humphrey. Once you get sick, it is very likely that you will be thrown into a mass grave before you are dead. Because it is very unfortunate for a person to die in the palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened indifferently.

This kind of life is very familiar to Zhu Yuanzhang. He grew up like this. When the little novice. Life as a beggar. Not much better than these palace maids. It's not even as good as the palace maid's. The palace maid is here to deduct again. I always have to give a bowl of rice to eat. They were all starving. They will also be in trouble.

And Zhu Yuanzhang lived a life in which he had to find every meal by himself. It's normal to beat you to the death for a meal.

And the Goryeo Dynasty has reached the end of the world. These women's jobs were the most lucrative part of the Goryeo royal family. Produces a large amount of cloth. But it has been ignored to this extent, which can also be seen.

But that's the way it goes. The eyes of these women workers sparkled with hope.

A female worker even said in stiff Chinese: "Report to the emperor, we have come here very well." Monthly meals, unlimited amounts. In addition, the wage is seven buckets of rice per shot. Each class is rewarded for doing well. Every month, someone gets a stone of rice. This is something we would never have dared to think about in Goryeo. The adults say that it is all the grace of the emperor. The slave and maid thanked the emperor. The emperor is the lord and the prince of Wandai. ”

That's true. made King Yan laugh.

What an emperor, or a great emperor. What's even more strange is what the prince Wandai said. It's a curse on the Zhu family. However, it can also be seen that this woman has just learned to speak Chinese. In the speech, it is reversed and the pronunciation is not accurate. A big mess. But the intentions are real.

He talked about whether they were willing to return to Goryeo, or leave the factory and regain their freedom.

Almost everyone is shaking their heads. It's too simple to be willing. A woman in this day and age is more of an object, and she has no separate personality rights. That is why the unmarried obeys the father, the married obeys the husband, and the husband dies from the son. All the power of women is achieved by relying on men. It doesn't matter if this man is a father, a husband, or a son.

This is true in Goryeo, and it is also true in Damyeong.

Even the oppression of women in Goryeo is worse than that of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, here, they can still support each other. Once they leave, they don't know what to expect. At that time, it is truly helpless. I don't know what happened to me.

How could they want to leave?

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at these female workers seriously, and liked to see the deception in their expressions. For a while, he didn't see it. With Zhu Yuanzhang's skill of knowing people. I dare not say that none of the people in front of me are lying. At least they didn't all talk.

Mostly the truth.

Immediately, Zhu Yuanzhang waved them down. All around him retreated. Only He Xi, King Yan, was left.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Seven buckets of rice a month." Eight stones and four buckets of rice in a year. In the paddy field south of the Ming River, the yield of one mu is only three or four stones. One man is on top of three acres of land. Won't you lose money? ”