Xie Jin took a breath, sat down, drank a cup of tea, and calmed down.

Yang Shiqi and the others were a little surprised when they saw him with a flustered look.

Xie Jin is usually like a proud rooster, no one has to hold his head high, why is he so embarrassed now?

"What's wrong with Xie Shiyu?"

Zhu Gaochi hurriedly asked.

Xie Jin looked up at the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi, and there was a look of anxiety in his eyes.

Xie Jin took a deep breath and said slowly: "I will follow the horse today. Zheng He was imprisoned, and the two of us pretended to be jailers and stood guard at the door of the duty room. I thought that Jiang Xinghuo categorically didn't teach that group of illiterate people a way to read in the short term, who knows."

Xie Jin took a breath, went to serve the teapot again, and was directly suppressed by Yang Rong.

"At this time, you are still in the mood to drink tea, you should continue!"

Yang Rong urged eagerly.

Zhu Gaochi also stared at Xie Jin, his eyes were very concerned, obviously this matter was very important to him, and the position of prince that he had always wanted to get.

Xie Jin sighed, put the teapot on the table, and continued: "Who knew that Jiang Xinghuo actually wanted those prisoners to learn the "Chinese Character Pinyin Dictionary" and recite it in prison. You don't know, it's so easy to learn, as long as you can talk, you can learn it. ”

"After listening to a lesson, I knew that this matter was very important, and Zheng He and I had no choice but to leave the edict prison and dare not linger any longer. After the two of us come back, Zheng He will report to His Majesty on my behalf, and I will come to find His Royal Highness the Great Prince. ”

The honest and honest Hu Yan hurriedly said: "It's time to find Your Majesty to restore your life, how can there be a reason not to go to the prince to find the prince first?" ”

Xie Jin couldn't cry or laugh: "The imperial city is not locked, but the palace city is locked, how can I get in?" ”

At this time, Hu Yan reacted and quickly patted his head, but he forgot about the stubble.

The palace gate is locked, Zheng He is a eunuch can naturally go in, but a foreign minister, what do you want to do when you enter the palace in the middle of the night?

If there is no will from the emperor from the palace, the foreign ministers cannot enter the palace after the palace is locked, and at most they will stuff the emergency music into the crack of the palace gate.

Yang Shiqi also analyzed at this time: "And Your Majesty must have also thought of the belonging of the Tax Police Corps, where the battle between the two princes is, and sent the servants to read it, in fact, in a sense, it is also to let His Royal Highness the Great Prince know the process of this matter." ”

Everyone bowed their heads one after another, and that's the reason.

"Don't talk about the lock of the palace gate." Yang Rong simply raised his arm and asked Xie Jin: "Tell me what the "Chinese Character Pinyin Dictionary" is?" Why do you say that anyone who can talk can learn it? ”

"Could it be the [reverse cut method]?"

"That's not right!" Yang Shiqi also frowned: "Even if it is the [reverse cutting method], there is absolutely no way to learn the [reverse cutting method] if you don't know the words in the situation that the waiter said?" ”

It is to say here that China has a long history, and there have always been smart people for thousands of years, and it is not that no one has ever thought of phonetizing Chinese characters.

As of the beginning of the Ming Dynasty at this time, the phonetic pronunciation of Chinese characters has gone through two stages.

The first stage is the "straight method".

The so-called "straight sound method", the most representative is the Eastern Han Dynasty Xu Shen's "Shuowen Jie Zi", this book is the earliest and most influential dictionary in China, is the first in China to systematically analyze the shape of Chinese characters and study the origin of the word book, summarized the achievements of pre-Qin and Han literature, the interpretation of the meaning of the word generally preserves the most ancient meaning, but also the standard textbook of the "straight sound method".

The pronunciation of Chinese characters is often said in the "straight sound method", such as "material, caisheng" in "Shuowen Jiezi", which means that the pronunciation of the word "material" should be read as "cai". In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the scholars who were engaged in the transmission of scriptures called this method 'Yin', which also means the same thing." The "straight sound method" has been used until the Tang Dynasty, and the "Classic Commentary" compiled by Lu Deming in the Tang Dynasty still has 'picking, sound ten'.

Although the "straight sound method" is simple and easy to understand, it has one of the biggest limitations, that is, sometimes there will be a situation where a certain Chinese character does not have homophones, such as the word 'lost', and you can't find homophones to note the straight sound.

If you don't believe it, find one out?

What's even worse about the "straight phonetic method" is that sometimes although the character has a straight sound, the Chinese characters that are annotated with a straight sound are more difficult to understand and read than the characters that are phonetic. There will be a phenomenon that makes people very speechless, using rare words to annotate common words.

The second stage is the [reverse cut method].

There are different theories about the origin time of the [reverse cut method], but during the period from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, it must not have been able to escape.

The reverse cut method is actually very easy to understand, which is to spell out "one sound" with "two words". For example, the word 'Chang', the sound of 'ruler is good and negative', that is, 'ruler' and 'liang' are spelled together to get the pronunciation of the word 'Chang'. In the Tang Dynasty, the word 'anti' was removed, and it was called a certain cut, such as 'Chang, ruler good cut'.

[Reverse Cutting Method] and modern Chinese Pinyin, which are essentially pinyin, what is the difference?

Modern Hanyu Pinyin is a kind of phonemic pinyin, which can use three or four letters to mark the pronunciation of a Chinese character. And [reverse cut method] is based on the principle of sound rhyme to pinyin, it is actually a kind of double spelling, always use two words to pinyin.

In the reverse cut, the first character (upper character) represents the initials, and the second character (lower character) represents the finals and tones. In the pinyin rule system of [reverse cut method], even if there is zero initial, there must be a reverse cut word, such as "an" is "wuhan cut", the same, even if there is both a rhyme and a rhyme end of the finals, only one reverse cut word can be used, such as "xiang" is "xu liang cut".

In other words, being able to speak does not mean that you can spell out the sounds under the rules of the [reverse cut], and you must meet the following three conditions before you can use this method to look up the dictionary.

First of all, you have to know the words, at least you have to know the corresponding two words that spell a certain word, so what if you don't recognize one of them? Sorry, you can't spell it.

Secondly, do you think you can spell the sound once you recognize the words? No, you have to memorize very complicated rules.

In the end, if you recognize the words and memorize the rules, you still have a lot of words that you can't spell.

Therefore, although the [reverse cutting method] is already the most advanced method of Chinese character phonetics at this time, in fact, it is also quite tricky

"How did Jiang Xinghuo make a sound?"

"Alas......" Xie Jin sighed, "Jiang Xinghuo, he directly used symbols to annotate!" Skip the cycle of 'writing words by words'! ”

waited until Xie Jin explained what he saw in a little detail, and explained the principle of Jiang Xinghuo's set of Chinese character pinyin.

When Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and others heard this, their faces became solemn.

It's a big deal!

The reason why literacy could not be promoted in the past is because whether it is the "straight sound method" or the "reverse cut method", it is "to the word to note the word", which falls into the "chicken egg or egg chicken" circle, you don't know the word how to learn the phonetic method of "using words to note words"? But the question is, my special mother knows how to read, why do you want to learn to use words to phonetic?

Moreover, the literati of the past dynasties have made this set of [reverse cut method] phonetic system extremely complicated, and learning it does not mean that it is universal, and some words cannot be phonetically pronounced, or they are read out as the wrong sound.

But Jiang Xinghuo's Chinese character symbol pinyin perfectly solves this strange circle!

Even if you are illiterate, you don't need to learn other characters to phonetize other characters, but you only need to learn more than 20 symbols, and you can phonetize thousands of Chinese characters in the world!

And the accuracy of the phonetic is far superior to the [reverse cutting method] countless times!

This also means that Jiang Xinghuo's set of Chinese character pinyin methods is extremely difficult to promote, and the speed efficiency is extremely high!

This is really not good news for them, the supporters of the big prince and the party.

The emperor's attitude is obvious, whether it is the eldest prince or the second prince, there must be one who wants to be the prince.

Zhu Gaochi can write, Zhu Gaochu can fight, and the dispute between the prince is inevitable.

Moreover, the emperor's intention is to try to control the process of this struggle for the throne as well as possible, and absolutely not allow any major mistakes.

And the second prince Zhu Gaoxu has been in prison for so long, you don't care what kind of life he lives in, it's always right to squat in prison without a wide range of personal freedom, right? Then the emperor will definitely give Zhu Gaochu some compensation, and the tax police corps is the compensation promised to Zhu Gaoxu.

Whether Zhu Gaochu can get the emperor's compensation or not, the key point is not Zhu Gaochu or anyone, but Jiang Xinghuo.

It lies in whether Jiang Xinghuo is really as he said, that is, everyone thinks that boasting about Haikou can make illiterate people know 500 commonly used words in more than two months.

As soon as the news came out, no one believed that it could be done.

The reason is that for thousands of years, no one has been able to solve the problem of phonetics.

This is also the reason why Xie Jin is a little out of shape today.

This kind of historical-level problem that has been hanging for thousands of years, Jiang Xinghuo actually solved it!

This kind of shock is about the same as the argumentation process of a prisoner in a prison in modern society who published Goldbach's "1+1" conjecture.

The difficulty is certainly different, but the effect is basically the same.

There is no first, literati are basically arrogant, if this problem can't be solved by the ancestors, then it's not a shame that I can't solve it.

But if the ancestors can't solve the problem, and I can't solve it, let you solve it, where will I put my face?

Isn't this for people to sit on the ground and step on?

"I'm afraid it's hard to stop the tax police corps."

Yang Shiqi sighed.

Although he was a little at odds with Xie Jin, now, he hoped that Jiang Xinghuo would not be able to do the literacy class.

In the final analysis, it is still interests.

Whether it is Xie Jin or Yang Shiqi, or Yang Rong and Hu Yan, since they are more and more deeply involved with the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi, it means that their political careers have been bound to them.

The eldest prince Zhu Gaochi failed to compete for the crown prince, and their fate would definitely not be much better.

The heavy ones are naturally ethnic punishment and exile, and the light ones are degraded officials and marginalized, and their future is ruined.

After all, the call for Zhu Gaoxu to be the crown prince was already high, and the ministers who followed Zhu Di to Fengtian Jingjing, except for the old Gu Cheng and the young Zhang Fu, the other two princes were all in the same way, and they couldn't take a clear stand, so they almost wrote these words on their faces.

Zhu Di can't help it.

The reason is that when Jing was in trouble, his head was pinned to the waistband of his pants to rebel, and he didn't think that he had much chance of entering Nanjing City to become the emperor, who would have thought of the problem of establishing a prince in the future?

In the four years of Jingjing, there are many places where Zhu Gaoxu, the world's first fierce general, is needed to play with his life as the arrow of the whole army, how can Zhu Di restrict Zhu Gaoxu's interaction with the generals?

Therefore, it has caused today's embarrassing phenomenon.

The ministers of Jingnan swarmed to support the establishment of the second prince Zhu Gaochu as the crown prince, while the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi stayed in the old department of the administrative system, and most of them stayed in the north to clean up the mess in Hebei, Shandong and other places that were beaten into white land by Jingnan.

The eldest prince Zhu Gaochi brought only a few people to the center of Nanjing, and then there were these old ministers of Jianwen who were mainly cabinet-based.

Because the Jing tribulation is over, it has been less than five months!

Therefore, in Nanjing, the supporters of the second prince Zhu Gaochu are much stronger than the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi, and they are the princes, marquises, and earls at every turn, while the supporters of the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi are only some low-grade civil officials.

That's it, as the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi has been in charge of the country for a long time, he can always slowly cultivate his own power.

However, after Zhu Gaochu is released from prison in two months, he will be able to control the hard-line force of the "Tax Police Corps", and if the administrative system of the Ming Empire is infiltrated by it, and some candidates for key positions fall into the hands of Zhu Gaoxu, the great prince Zhu Gaochi will completely lose the power of checks and balances.

"Alas, this matter is difficult!"

Xie Jin surprisingly did not contradict Yang Shiqi, but agreed with Yang Shiqi's point of view.

Now that the government and the opposition have experienced the "Jiangnan Zhou Jin Conspiracy Rebellion Case", the government and the opposition are already turbulent, and if the dispute between the princes and the prince resumes, it will inevitably be another bloody storm in the future.

Moreover, if Zhu Gaochu really became the crown prince, after waiting for more than ten years or twenty years, once Zhu Gaochu ascended the throne, according to Zhu Gaoxu's violent nature, they would definitely be wiped out.

Even if Zhu Gaoxu can't be the crown prince, he just has the upper hand in the battle for the prince, and the power in the hands of Yang Shiqi and others will inevitably be damaged.

Yang Shiqi and others are all characters who have read history books since childhood, and naturally know that the fierce competition within the royal family and the cruelty of the competition for the crown prince are far beyond the imagination limit of ordinary people.

"Your Highness, the minister has a plan!"

When he was groaning, the honest and honest Hu Yan suddenly stood up and spoke.

Zhu Gaochi looked at him, a smile barely appeared on his chubby face, and asked, "What can Hu Shi do?" ”

"There's no such thing as a good way." Hu Yan smiled bitterly: "I just think that since this matter is unsolvable, it is better to push the boat with the water." ”

Zhu Gaochi was puzzled: "You mean to sit back and watch the establishment of the tax police corps?" ”

Hu Yan nodded slightly and said: "To put it mildly, although the second prince is the second son, but after Jing Nan was born and died in the fourth year, His Majesty has always felt indebted to him, so His Majesty has probably planned to hand over this matter to him a long time ago." If we have to stop it, Your Majesty will be furious. ”

"The minister's opinion is that since it can't be stopped, it is better to simply take the initiative to propose this matter, and at the same time propose that Zhang Fu be the deputy or the actual chief officer, so as to control the tax police corps within a controllable range."

Zhang Fu, the future generation of famous generals, the only one who fought from the Battle of Jingyan to the change of Tumubao, is also the only remaining supporter of the great prince Zhu Gaochi.

"Nonsense!"

Xie Jin slapped the case violently and reprimanded angrily: "This plan is not possible, Your Highness must not be confused!" ”

Xie Jin looked distressed: "Your Majesty is doing this in order to further consolidate the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule. If the second prince gains this power and does not know the severity of the attack, the local tax will backfire, and the second prince must not be allowed to lead the tax police corps. ”

A few people were speechless for a while, Xie Jin is good at everything, he is highly educated and has deep qualifications, the only problem is his temperament, it is too wild.

That's not the level of what you say.

Everyone knows that the tax police corps will affect the interests of the local gentry, but the question is that you won't change it to a euphemism?

Yang Shiqi frowned and said, "Then according to the meaning of Xie Shi's reading, what should it be?" ”

Xie Jin gritted his teeth and said: "At this moment, the second prince is already in prison, we just need to try to make the imperial history play again and make some charges for the second prince...... There is a lot of discussion, then this matter is stopped! ”

Zhu Gaochi was silent.

Yang Shiqi said: "This plan is not appropriate, it is too risky." ”

Yang Rong smiled and said, "Xie Shi read it easily. ”

"Huh?" Xie Jin looked at Yang Rong beside him.

Yang Rong looked at Xie Jin's aggressive gaze, paused, and said with the same serious sideways: "If you want to find fault with the second prince, it must be a lot, but do you think, does Your Majesty really care?" According to His Majesty's temperament, if the stubbornness comes up, we can't even stuff Zhang Fu into it, so it's better to do it according to the method that Hu Shi said. ”

Yang Rong's gaze, with a certain sharp temperament, seemed to be able to pierce people's souls.

Xie Jin was speechless.

Zhu Gaochi also knew that he had to make up his mind, everyone was his supporter, and they were all giving him advice, if he, the client, didn't take the idea, he would lose the hearts of the people if he left it to his own devices.

After all, the time these people spent with him was actually only a few months, which was not longer than the time Zhu Gaoxu and Jiang Xinghuo spent together.

Zhu Gaochi said again: "Since there is no guarantee, then you can't gamble, it's better to be a favor that suits my father's heart, so that my father will also have some feelings in his heart." ”

"As for Zhang Fu, he must be able to enter the Tax Police Corps."

Hu Yan said: "Why is Your Highness so sure that this matter can be done?" ”

Zhu Gaochi's fat body shrank into the chair, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, without saying anything.

And Yang Shiqi just glanced at Hu Yan, and Hu Yan was stunned in an instant.

Checks and balances are the emperor's instincts.

After several cabinet members left one after another, Zhu Gaochi sat tiredly on the rocking chair in the garden of the mansion, and the wooden rocking chair made an overwhelming "squeak" sound.

And a small figure appeared beside Zhu Gaochi.

"Father."

Picking up Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Gaochi looked at his son's big black eyes and asked, "What's wrong?" What do you want to tell Dad? ”

"You said Mr. Jiang, is there a shortage of students?"

This question, Zhu Gaochi was suddenly stunned, he thought that his son wanted to study, but he reacted again in an instant.

"What do you mean?"

Zhu Zhanji put his hands together and whispered into his father's ear: "Second Uncle is so majestic now, in fact, it's all because of Mr. Jiang!" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Gaochi suddenly struck in the autumn evening breeze.

(End of chapter)