Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, Li Shen has been at home for more than ten days, and is responsible for taking the children to fish every day.

Although the days are uneventful, as the days pass, it is a beautiful and warm time for Li Shen to accumulate.

During this period, Wang Xuance also came to report the news that His Majesty had returned to the palace.

"Lord Wang, the prince of the country is the priest of the wine Kong Yingda to visit." The stone came in and reported.

"Kong Yingda?" Li Shen was stunned, he had nothing to do with Kong Yingda.

"Please go to the front hall and serve tea." Li Shen said.

Then he waved to the nurses in the distance and asked them to watch the children, and he went back to change his clothes and went to the antechamber.

As soon as I arrived in the front hall, I saw Kong Yingda sitting there drinking tea.

Seeing Li Shen coming, he hurriedly saluted:

"See King Ji."

"No need to be polite, the student has seen Master Confucius."

After the two sides saluted, Li Shen sat down on the throne and asked:

"I don't know why Master Confucius came here?"

Kong Yingda's face was straight, but when he saw Li Shen's serious appearance, he smiled and said:

"His Royal Highness King Ji has forgotten a lot of things, has King Ji forgotten to let the old man write a dictionary?"

"Oh, Master Confucius, it's the king's fault, the king actually forgot about it." Li Shen slapped his forehead.

It's been several years since this happened, and Li Shen really forgot about it.

"It seems that King Ji is really busy." Kong Yingda said.

"Where did Confucius speak, it is indeed the king's fault, the king really forgot, could it be that Confucius came this time, is the dictionary has been completed?" Li Shen was a little embarrassed.

"That's right, please see, lord." As he spoke, Kong Yingda took out a thick book and handed it to Li Shen.

Li Shen took it and flipped it over, and there were many words densely written in it, with pinyin and annotations.

After turning a few pages, Li Shen closed the book and praised:

"Well, yes, Confucius is really a contemporary Confucian, this dictionary will be remembered for centuries, and the name of Confucius will be remembered by future generations."

Hearing Li Shen's words, Kong Yingda also had a smile on his face, if it weren't for this, why would he have worked so hard for so many years.

"His Royal Highness King Ji, this is all to fulfill the wishes of the ancestors and educate the people.

There are 12,824 characters in total, and the pronunciation and meaning of each word are indicated.

In this way, the people will be able to understand the meaning of the saints when they study the sacred learning. ”

Li Shen nodded in agreement;

"What Master Confucius said is reasonable, but how to let the people learn it still has to be bothered by Master Confucius.

Master Confucius also knows that I have built more than 600 colleges in the five provinces over the years, and the source of students is not a problem.

I only hope that Confucius can cultivate more teachings who know pinyin, and go to these colleges to be responsible for teaching.

It is also possible for these students to learn the way of the saints as soon as possible. ”

"His Royal Highness King Ji can rest assured that Lao Yu has long started teaching pinyin in Guozijian and University, and now there are more than 200 people.

As long as they continue to be responsible for teaching other readers, a large number of people will soon learn pinyin.

It's not that hard. Kong Yingda said confidently.

"That's good, then it's all up to Confucius, if there is any need, although Confucius speaks, although this king has no literary talent, but he can solve many problems."

Li Shen means to solve all problems except literary collection.

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness King Ji, the second purpose of Lao Yu's visit this time is to print dictionaries." Kong Yingda was also not polite, and immediately made a request.

Printing books is expensive.

"Haha, just give this to this king, how about printing a million copies of Confucius first?" Li Shen said with a smile.

Li Shen's current printing content is very low, a dictionary is only a few hundred texts, and a million copies are only hundreds of thousands.

Li Shen casually tricked others and came back, besides, except for the academy, which was given away for free, others had to spend money to buy it.

Li Shen also has a Datang bookstore.

Kong Yingda was also very happy to hear Li Shen say this, and it was completely conceivable that after this dictionary was sent, everyone would remember his name.

This is why Li Shen is looking for him, Kong Yingda belongs to the kind of person who doesn't love money, doesn't love power, and is bent on being an old pedant who will go down in history.

After sending Kong Yingda away, Li Shen immediately summoned Wang Xuance and showed Wang Xuance the dictionary.

"Lord Wang, I didn't expect that the Kong sacrifice wine was really completed, and not only the commonly used words, but also some infrequently used words were also recorded in it."

Wang Xuance looked at the dictionary and sighed.

"The person chosen by this king can still be wrong, you should immediately arrange for the printing house to print the plate, and set aside a group of people to print the dictionary.

Strive to print 1 million copies as soon as possible. Li Shen commanded.

"Lord, if this dictionary is released, it can be said that it is a salary for the family, and if the method of pinyin can be widely spread,

At that time, everyone in the world could read and write, and when the time came, the family with five surnames would close the Eight Pillars Kingdom, and the advantages of the Shandong scholars would be gone.

When the time comes, I am afraid that the ministers will hold a grudge against you and fight against you together. ”

Of course, Wang Xuance understands the seriousness of this matter, and you may not be able to read if you are literate.

But there are annotations in the dictionary, and Kong Yingda called the annotations a detailed one, for fear that others would not be able to understand his ancestor's book.

Kong Yingda also includes some uncommon words, which allows readers to translate and understand them bit by bit according to the dictionary.

"What are you afraid of, this is not written by this king.

You should write on the first page of the dictionary that this book was written by Kong Yingda, the priest of the country, who led several of his students to study day and night, painstakingly, after ten years, no, twenty years.

Isn't the name of the writer written after this? Xuance, we can't add the fruits of other people's labor to our own,

It's a shameful act, and we can't deprive others of the fruits of their labor, you know.

Remember, Kong Yingda's name must be written, the main writer, and the words should be bigger, and it doesn't matter if the names of other small fish and shrimp are smaller. ”

Li Shen began to educate Wang Xuance with a serious face, correct his thinking, and let him be a person who is free from low-level interests.

Wang Xuance's face was as ugly as constipation now, and he wanted to say, 'Lord, I want to die. ’

But seeing Li Shen's serious face, he finally held back a sentence.

"Lord Wang, you're right."

"Hey~~~ That's right, the son can be taught, don't always care about a little gain or loss, we have to be a virtuous person.

Let the world know that our Jiwang Mansion is a place full of justice.

We should uphold the ......"

"Lord Wang, you have made the matter of the expenses of the Jin Palace."

Just when Li Shen still wanted to chatter, Wang Xuance reluctantly interrupted Li Shen.

He really didn't understand how a person could be normal sometimes and abnormal sometimes, like two people.

Wang Xuance didn't know that there was a word called schizophrenia in later generations. And Li Shen belongs to the crazy type, with a dual personality.

(Explanation, dual personality is not psychotic, and according to the survey, most people have dual personality.) ）