"Honor is higher than life."

Zhu Di's gaze stayed on the paper on the two tables, and after looking at it for a long time, he said slowly: "This sentence is so good, I remember it very clearly...... When I was a child, Emperor Taizu Gao ordered General Xu Da to lead an army of 250,000 troops to the Central Plains. ”

Dao Yan, who has always maintained a deep voice, showed a strong interest in this seemingly inconsequential matter at this time.

"Which one is that?"

Zhu Di replied: "The few people are weak, blocking the army and taking risks, bribing and luring the famous people, aiming to raise strength, in order to provoke the gap, and the people of Shaanxi are also." ”

What I want to say here is that Zhu Yuanzhang did not mean to open the map cannon, and the so-called "people of Guanshan" were not aimed at the common people, but Wang Baobao, Li Siqi, and Zhang Liangbi who were separating Guanshan or were about to flee into Shaanxi.

The reason why Zhu Di said this sentence was because he felt it.

"Why did the separatist forces in Shaanxi appear during the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, 'bribing celebrities and jugnates, aiming to support their strength'? In fact, in the final analysis, isn't it the reverse of Mr. Jiang's words, the Yuan Dynasty didn't take reputation seriously at all, from the generals to the soldiers. ”

Zhu Di continued to play on the topic.

"The founding of the country and the martyrdom, the status of Wuxun is high, but the big soldiers underground, are they still the 'stinky hill eight' in your mouth? In the hearts of the people, Grandpa Guo can put it together with Shangshu, when can Wu Changshi put it together with Tong Shengxiu? ”

Of course, I know that this will never be possible, but the soldiers who serve the country should be treated with some due respect."

"So, I think Jiang Xinghuo's proposal is very good."

"Just after the Jing Martyrdom ended, I always felt that in addition to rewarding the meritorious heroes, I gave the meritorious heroes the title of Fengtian Jing Nan and a certain military minister, and there was less reward for the generals and soldiers below, so I used this medal system."

Dao Yan proposed next to him: "Eight hundred warriors who won Beiping should use a separate medal, which is a great achievement, and according to the merit, the silver medal can be awarded to start; When Geng Bingwen was defeated in the Battle of Zhending, he also used a separate one, and at that time, meritorious soldiers could be awarded bronze medals to start; The battle of defending the city of Beiping and the battle of Zhengcunba were both hard, and they could also be awarded bronze medals to start; When Cao Li Jinglong was defeated in the Battle of Baigou River, he started with Tiezhang. ”

The five-star emperor McJinglong, who was far away in Japan, sneezed at this time.

Subsequently, according to the hardship of the battle, it was decided that the three bloody battles of Dongchang, Jiahe, and Hongcheng all started with silver medals, and the decisive battle of Lingbi started with bronze medals.

Medals of different battles can be obtained at the same time, and what kind of preferential treatment can be obtained for medals, Zhu Di said that he has to think about it again.

As civil officials, Jian Yi and Ru Yu certainly did not want to see the emperor elevate the status of martial artists, especially ordinary martial artists.

But while the emperor was talking about the tragedy of the Jingyan war, and at the same time talking about the hardships of the soldiers, what else could they say?

"Jiahe, Hongcheng, flesh and blood mills, how many good sons died on the battlefield at that time, the battle situation was extremely tragic, and thousands of soldiers were killed and injured every day. Of course, I know the cruelty of war, so I never thought of backing down, I only hope that I can calm the country as soon as possible. But now that I think about it, I'm sorry for those soldiers who died! ”

"Your Majesty!"

Jian Yi and Ru Yu, who were sitting on the side, immediately knelt down.

Of course, the two elves knew, and if they continued to talk about it, they would really poke at the hidden sore spot in the king's heart.

"The ministers already know His Majesty's intentions."

The issuance of the medal must be under the control of Shangshu Ru Yu of the Ministry of War, seeing that the emperor's will cannot be disobeyed, so the loyal uncle reflects his title.

"Your Majesty." Ru Yu said: "I believe that even without these things, the soldiers will understand Your Majesty." But after all, the war is cruel, the soldiers fought bloodily on the battlefield, but also for the Jingping national disaster, if there is not enough reward, I am afraid that the soldiers will be lost! ”

Jian Yi looked at Ru Yu in disbelief.

Although this is not a matter of fundamental interests, you can't be so quick from the heart, right?

Ru Yu stiffened his neck and did not squint.

Highlight a "loyalty"!

"It's nature."

Zhu Di sighed lightly and said: "Of course I know that doing this is actually a good and costless move, but doing so is much better than not doing it." What's more, how can I be willing to give up, these soldiers who are loyal to our Ming Dynasty are cold-hearted."

Dao Yan also nodded when he heard this, Dao Yan was more than a round older than Zhu Di, whether it was in terms of physical strength or as a strategist, he did not have the conditions to personally go into battle to kill the enemy. But the hardships and tragies of the Battle of Jingyan, as the mastermind of King Yan at that time, may feel it more deeply than those soldiers who came to the battle in person.

"Your Majesty has made up your mind, and the minister resolutely supports it." Jian Yi also lowered his head and said.

Zhu Di bowed his head and said: "With the support of the two Aiqing, I have nothing to worry about." ”

Look, when you don't express your position, it's called Shangshu, and when you express your position, you will become Aiqing in seconds.

"But Ru Aiqing, there is something Jiang Xinghuo said just now, although the Jingping national disaster is worth celebrating, there is also a problem that needs to be dealt with."

Zhu Di looked at Ru Yu and said: "At the beginning of my accession to the throne, although it was diligent and economical internally, the household department still repeatedly reacted, the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty are really beyond the needs and affordability of ordinary years, and it is time to let some of the soldiers and horses who were rapidly expanded during the Jingjing disaster be discharged, but the changes in the army establishment involve too many interests, and the implication is too wide, and this process is not easy to implement." ”

"The minister is willing to assist His Majesty to slowly complete the disarmament, in addition, the army is also the sword and gun in the hands of His Majesty, Your Majesty must have a plan, and the minister obeys his orders."

The loyal Ru Yu bowed respectfully and said.

Zhu Di nodded with satisfaction.

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Now it is written on the ground:

(1) Organizational preparation, whether to establish an independent township-level tax agency?

(2) Personnel preparation, need to meet the needs of literacy, mathematics, integrity, and strangers

(3) Policy decomposition

(4) Policy experiments

(5) Policy advocacy

(6) Policy promotion

Jiang Xinghuo continued.

"According to our backwards, the establishment of a township-level tax collection agency, the literacy, literacy, literacy, integrity, and strangers required by the personnel, the last two have been met, so let's see if the first two can be met. If so, then both (1) and (2) are feasible. Let's move on (3). ”

Xia Yuanji looked at the orderly procedures on the ground, and became more and more emotional.

This seems to have greatly improved work efficiency?

Jiang Xinghuo continued: "Let's talk about understanding the number of techniques first, how far do you think you need to understand the number of techniques to complete the tax collection? How long does it take to train a person to figure it out? ”

"I don't understand, though." Zhu Gaoxu pointed to the ground and said, "But I think it will take at least ten or eight years, right?" After all, those bookkeepers start from apprentices, and they are generally ten years younger, so that they can become 'big abacus'. ”

As one of the people who know the most in the world, Xia Yuanji gave a different understanding.

"It's almost a year in the account room, because I am afraid that the disciples of the church will starve to death to the master, and I refuse to teach the truth."

In fact, this is also the conclusion that Xia Yuanji came to based on his mathematical knowledge.

In fact, the level of mathematics of Chinese civilization has long been ahead of the world, and this leadership is calculated in the past thousand years.

As for Jiang Xinghuo's brainless history in his previous life, Xiao Bai Shuang's text shocked Qin Shi Huang with the ninety-nine multiplication table at every turn, which is even more nonsense!

It must be known that the "Guanzi" in the Spring and Autumn Period has already mentioned that "the number of Anju is ninety-nine to respond to the way of heaven"; In the Warring States Period, the ninety-nine formulas were already quite popular, and Zhuzi's writings such as "Xunzi" had already cited the multiplication formulas as arguments.

By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Zu Chongzhi was based on the precise method of exploring pi pioneered by Liu Hui, that is, on the basis of the circumcision technique mentioned in the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", he actuarially calculated pi to the seventh decimal place for the first time, and maintained the world's leading position for thousands of years.

So, since the Chinese civilization has such a long history of mathematical research, why did it lag behind later?

Is it because of our lack of summarizing books that future generations will have to rediscover the path taken by their predecessors?

No.

"Zhou Ji Sutra", "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", "Island Sutra", "Five Cao Sutras", "Sun Tzu Sutra".

Not to mention the basic and advanced math problems, it can also be said that there is no one left behind.

The fundamental reason lies in the fact that mathematics of Chinese civilization, as a separate discipline, was congenitally lacking attention and popularization under the suppression of the social atmosphere caused by the ancient feudal dynasty and agricultural traditions, and was limited to the state of "enough to do".

So how do you break out of this state?

Jiang Xinghuo believes that the most important thing is two points.

First, lower the barriers to learning mathematics and promote (non-invented) Arabic numerals that are easier to use.

Second, improve the formal logic of mathematics, and write mathematics textbooks that can be mastered through learning from easy to difficult.

The result of the lack of development of formal logic in China is that our Chinese civilization is good at induction, but it lacks formal logic, a deductive and strict framework, and a rigorous definition.

For example, there is a binomial theorem in mathematics, and there is a Yang Hui triangle in Chinese history, which is actually a binomial theorem after it is expanded, but its expression and thinking methods are different. The Yang Hui triangle was a tool found by mathematicians in ancient China to solve the problem of higher order squares, but the specific derivation process was not given in the works at that time, so later generations can only think that the Yang Hui triangle was discovered by mathematicians at that time through inductive summary.

The binomial theorem, on the other hand, is deduced by logical reasoning, and Newton gave the general formula and derivation process of the binomial theorem.

And [definition] and [logic] are all the basis of modern science.

In Jiang Xinghuo's heart, the promotion and popularization of [Definition], [Logic], and [Teaching Materials] is far much stronger than clicking on the technology tree by himself!

Trying to bloom without paying attention to the foundation.

It's like a moment of fireworks, a passing cloud.

The creation of a scientific foundation and system and the cultivation of generations of talents are the things that can truly benefit future generations.

Otherwise, when he dies, won't Daming's technology return to the old way?

This is another interpretation of the mass view of history.

Whether it is to promote mathematics or point to the science and technology tree, it also requires tens of millions of people with basic education to be screened and filtered to engage in relevant research.

Some of these people may go on to other jobs and careers that have nothing to do with science and mathematics, but when they see the familiar headache-inducing mathematical knowledge, they will still recall the years when they were young, and the problems of that time are not some kind of solution to their future destiny?

Jiang Xinghuo's thoughts were flickering, but it was only a momentary matter, and it finally came to an end.

He only said three words.

"Three months."

"What?"

Zhu Gaoxu and Xia Yuanji were stunned.

This figure is a bit too far from what they proposed for ten years, eight years, or one year.

So big that they thought Jiang Xinghuo was joking.

"I said three months, that's a long time."

Seeing that the two were puzzled, Jiang Xinghuo explained: "How high do you think you need to collect taxes? Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, isn't it enough? Just let them collect taxes, don't be easily coaxed, and finally have to report to the next level, naturally there are more professional Mr. Shushu to do the accounts, check the accounts. ”

"Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division." Zhu Gaoxu scratched his beard, "It's quite difficult." ”

Xia Yuanji couldn't help but remind.

"More than 90 out of a hundred people are illiterate."

"You don't need to know many words, you just use Arabic numerals, and the same is true for accounting."

"What about the extra numbers?"

Xia Yuanji also wrote on the ground with his hand, "three and one minute, four points, one millimeter and six silks", which is a text representation of pi used in daily life.

Jiang Xinghuo wrote 3.1416 directly.

"Add a point."

Xia Yuanji was stunned, and then suddenly he was stunned.

Simply much indeed.

Then there's not much to say.

As for Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, many students think that "fraction", "square", and "open square" are also foreign words, but in fact, they are not, in the annotation book made by "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", we can see that the fraction is still called "fraction", and "square" and "open square" (the full name is "open square") are also the same titles.

In fact, most of the Chinese terms in modern mathematics are exactly the same as the literal meaning of ancient times.

As for why Natsuhara Ji was not shocked?

The family is a household secretary, Jiang Xinghuo talked about economics that he had never heard of, and talked about the monetary system, Xia Yuanji was of course shocked.

What is there to be shocked by the mathematics that an ordinary bookkeeper knows?

Arabic numerals and decimal points are just another form of expression that is simple and easy to generalize.

"In this way, knowing the number of math can be solved."

Xia Yuanji shook his head, and immediately questioned: "There are only these few numbers in the number of techniques, the brain is active, addition and subtraction are not taught, multiplication and division learn the ninety-nine multiplication table, and it can be roughly applied. It's a big deal to memorize by rote, I really can't memorize it, and it doesn't cost a penny to print it and stick it on the wall. ”

"The question is, how do you solve the problem of literacy?"

Zhu Gaoxu, who asked this question, also thought deeply.

Zhu Gaoxu has a personal experience of the cultural level in the army.

It's basically all parenting.

Literacy was basically unfortunate for ordinary people in ancient China.

It is normal to be able to speak Chinese characters and not be able to write Chinese characters.

It is conservatively estimated that the illiteracy rate of the Ming Dynasty at this time was at least higher than 95%.

The reason is also very simple.

The vast majority of ordinary people in ancient China were not literate.

Why?

In ancient China, ordinary people were basically farmers, and farmers did not need to learn to use chemical fertilizers and pesticides and operate new agricultural machines as they did in modern times.

As long as they can use a hoe and a sickle, there is basically no problem.

Isn't it just a matter of having hands?

As far as the peasants are concerned, they will never leave the countryside in their lives, and some have never been to the county seat in their lives, but have only been to the nearby towns and villages for one or two decades.

So, what's the use of knowing words?

Moreover, it was not very easy to learn to read and write in ancient times.

Normally, writing is difficult to learn, and it takes at least three to four years for children to learn to read books and write letters.

At that time, there were no public schools, they were all private schools, and although the cost of attending school was not high, it was not very cheap, which was a burden that peasant families with many children could not afford.

The vast majority of the troops that were expanded during the Battle of Jingyan were from peasant families who were born in common places, which means that most of them could not read a single word.

And the age is also older, the youngest has to be fifteen or sixteen years old, the older is twenty or thirty years old, and the personality is generally irritable, how to teach?

Facing the doubts of the two, Jiang Xinghuo asked.

"I ask you, can an illiterate person speak?"

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help laughing: "Naturally, you can speak, but you can't speak, haven't you become a dumb person?" ”

"Anyone who can speak, I can teach him to write 500 common words in three months."

"Mr. Jiang, don't be joking!"

Xia Yuanji knew that the emperor was listening beside him, and hurriedly began to remind.

If the emperor is serious, it will not be easy to do.

Jiang Xinghuo said instead: "Who said it was funny? ”

"Don't you think that a person who can't write 500 words, can't write everyday letters, and can't even write his own name shouldn't be allowed to live his whole life like this? What's more, this is not one person, but tens of millions. ”

"For the rest of his life, he can't even write his own name, how can he be allowed to straighten up and work?"

"Then how can Mr. Jiang guarantee that he can teach him?"

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned and said, "None of this can be done overnight, right?" ”

"I'm talking about more than just math and words, and there are many other things that can be taught." Jiang Xinghuo said calmly: "As for not being able to write. Heh, we might as well make a bet? ”

"Bet on what?" Zhu Gaoxu said.

"Go to the civil prison and find me a few prisoners who can't read and write, don't be the kind of people who make small mistakes."

Jiang Xinghuo said this because the Yan army invaded Nanjing and was sentenced to a heavy sentence for minor crimes in order to rectify the atmosphere, and due to the laxity of the Jianwen period in Nanjing, most of the prisons were overwhelmed, and many other types of prisoners were also temporarily imprisoned in the Imperial Prison.

"Tell them to come to me to study for an hour every day, meet the learning requirements, and eat one more bun, and there will be no punishment if they don't reach it."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at Zhu Gaoxu and said, "I believe you can do it." ”

"I have less than three months left in my sentence and more than two months later, that is, before I am released from prison, you can come and see if these people can do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and whether they can know 500 commonly used words."

(End of chapter)