In the winter of Dengzhou Mansion, it is relatively deserted everywhere.

It's really a temperature of minus ten degrees, which is not suitable for going out to work.

Even the fishing boats of the East China Sea fishery stopped working for a month, waiting until the spring was in full bloom to go to sea again.

"Lord Wang, the school hall has been completely renovated and can be used at any time."

Chu Suiliang came from outside the door, blowing on his hands while reporting on the construction of the school.

"Have you prepared all the teaching materials prepared by the printing workshop?"

Since the beginning of winter, seeing that the people of Dengzhou have begun to be idle at home, Li Kuan feels that it is not a problem.

In these years, there are no mobile phones and computers, and being idle is really idle.

Therefore, Li Kuan is ready to let those employees of the East China Sea fishery and their children concentrate on reading and writing.

However, as soon as this idea was mentioned to Chu Suiliang and a few of them, a bunch of problems popped up.

Books and papers are not to be mentioned, and there is a shortage of teachers in the classroom and teaching, so I have to push it back and forth.

"A few years ago, the paper was transported from Chang'an, and the printing is being stepped up in the past few days, and the "Thousand Character Text" used by Mengxue has been printed first, and it is estimated that those sailors are few literate, and the "Thousand Character Text" will be enough in the early stage." Chu Suiliang said as he handed Li Kuanyi the printed book.

"Heaven and earth are yellow, the universe is desolate......" Li Kuan flipped through it casually, and when he saw the lump of words inside, his brows furrowed.

"Dengshan, can't you punctuate it?"

"Punctuation? What punctuation? ”

"Have you watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? This king uses punctuation in this book, don't you think that without punctuation, it's easy to confuse the meaning? ”

Li Kuan felt speechless for a while.

When I was writing "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there was punctuation, but so many people read it, except that they felt that the story was very cool to read and the book was good-looking, but no one seriously thought about the punctuation marks used in it.

It seems that everyone really reads it as a miscellaneous book.

"Lord, do you mean those circles, tadpoles and the like?"

As soon as Li Kuan said this, Chu Suiliang finally understood what the so-called punctuation was.

"The Four Books and the Five Classics have not been punctuated since ancient times. The subordinate "Thousand Character Text" is also printed with reference to the version formulated by the Ministry of Rites, so there should be no problem, right?

"I ask you, stay on a rainy day and leave me on a rainy day. What does this mean? ”

"It's just that if you stay on a rainy day, you won't stay on a rainy day?"

"This king doesn't understand it like you do. Rainy days, stay guest days, stay I don't, stay! Do you think this king is wrong to understand this? ”

Chu Suiliang: ......

Also, how do you think women panic if they don't have a man? Is it the meaning of 'if a woman does not have a man, she panics', or does it mean that if a woman does not have a man, a man panics'? The same sentence, different people understand it differently, if this is placed on the official documents of the government, wouldn't it be a mess? ”

What Li Kuan said, Chu Suiliang had never considered, and he was a little confused when he suddenly heard that different sentences would lead to completely opposite meanings.

"Lord Wang, that ...... So are we adding a break to it? ”

"The structure of "Thousand Character Text" is simple, all of them are regular four words and one sentence, and there is no need to add symbols to those that have been printed, but all the books printed in our workshop need to be added."

"The subordinates understand, go and rearrange it now."

"Wait a minute, how did those schoolchildren memorize the pronunciation of this "Thousand Character Text"?"

Li Kuan suddenly thought of a question, now there is no punctuation conformity, and the Chinese pinyin is even higher, needless to say, so does knowledge rely on rote memorization?

"Huh? It's all taught by the master one by one. What is the new method of the prince? ”

Chu Suiliang can be regarded as a smart learner, and when he heard Li Kuan ask, he guessed that he probably had other ideas.

Li Kuan held his forehead, feeling that it was really hard for people in this era to be literate, no wonder a book of 1,000 words had to be learned for a year, which could not meet his requirements at all.

"Have you ever thought about summarizing the pronunciation rules of all the men and using a simple set of rhythms to unify the pronunciation of all characters, so that readers can read all Chinese characters as long as they remember this set of rhythms, even if they are a Mengtong."

"Lord Wang, this idea is also being tried, that is, cutting words. Zhou Yan is good for body language, so the cut words are all buttons, and the buttons have the difference of going up and entering the ......"

Chu Suiliang explained for a while, which roughly means that this idea has been put forward a long time ago, but it is difficult to complete, and it is difficult to find a way to cut some complex words.

"In this way, this king heard that the overseas countries of the extreme west use a kind of alphabet as a script, and the use of these letters should be able to phonetize Chinese characters, this king will sort it out and hand it over to you in the past few days, you can improve it, and then organize the common Chinese characters into a dictionary to help everyone become literate."

In later generations, Li Kuan naturally knew how to speak of Hanyu Pinyin.

However, the official dialect of the Tang Dynasty is completely different from the Mandarin spoken more than a thousand years later, so naturally there is no way to copy it.

And if you want to make a set of pinyin, Li Kuan doesn't think that his level can be higher than Chu Suiliang, the top talents of the Tang Dynasty; Their advantage is nothing more than being better than them.

"Lord Wang, is this true?"

Chu Suiliang suddenly became very excited, as a reader, Chu Suiliang is very interested in repairing books, according to Li Kuan's meaning, this is to let himself preside over the revision of a basic dictionary, which is equivalent to the future readers will use it, isn't he ......

"Of course, is it possible that you want this king to do it himself? However, this speed should be fast, and you must complete the first edition of the dictionary in the first half of the year today, and then slowly revise it later, so you can also find a few acquaintances to help you. ”

Compiling a book is a very time-consuming task, so you will often see how many years it took the ancients to write a certain book.

Li Kuan naturally couldn't stand the fact that a simplified version of the dictionary would take several years, so he could only increase the number of people.

"Lord Wang, you say so, there are really a few candidates for subordinates, but some of them are officials in the court......"

"You just have to tell this king his name, and you don't have to worry about the rest."

Chu Suiliang's own grade is not high, and people who are familiar with him naturally cannot be high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China; If he was just an ordinary official, Li Kuan felt that with his current status on Li Shimin's side, it would not be difficult to come over.

"Thank you, my subordinates will give out the list tomorrow, and they will definitely not delay the schedule."

After Chu Suiliang finished speaking, he rushed out of the door.

It seems that everyone's pursuit is different, and to stimulate their passion, it is necessary to prescribe the right medicine.

Li Kuan looked at Chu Suiliang's distant figure, and sighed in his heart.