For the demand for talents, Emperor Chongzhen actually expected it a long time ago. After the news of the factory guard was confirmed, he immediately summoned the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and temporarily replaced Sun Yuanhua, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Xu Guangqi's apprentice and asked with a smile, "Does Sun Qing know what the Jingshi Teahouse is talking about?" ”

"I don't know." Sun Yuanhua is also a fifty-year-old man, but because of his teacher, he suddenly got a high position, and he was a little panicked in his heart, and he couldn't answer the emperor's question for a while, and his expression was a little flustered.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw it above, he said straight to the point: "There should be a shortage of business shopkeepers, guys and other talents. You can go to the streets and walk around to find out. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Sun Yuanhua didn't know what the emperor meant when he said this, but he thought that the emperor would definitely not be wrong when he said this, so he patted him a little on the back.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about this, he looked at Sun Yuanhua and said, "Xu Qing should have mentioned to Qing before leaving, one of his ambitions is to teach new knowledge to the people of the Ming Dynasty. Now, here's your chance! ”

"......" Sun Yuanhua was a little puzzled, he knew about this, but he couldn't understand what it had to do with the shortage of those shopkeepers. Besides, if the court had money, it could also impart new knowledge to the people of the Ming Dynasty. What does it mean that the so-called opportunity has come?

He was a little embarrassed when he didn't understand, so he had to bow down, look at the ground, and pretend to listen, waiting for the emperor to finish speaking.

Emperor Chongzhen knew that his thinking was not something that ordinary courtiers could keep up with, so he continued to say slowly: "Daming Royal Cement Company and Daming Construction Bank need a large number of people, and the recruitment of these manpower must be qualified and merit-based, which should be beyond doubt!" ”

This is easy to understand, Sun Yuanhua nodded. But he still doesn't understand, what does this have to do with that?

"But there are too many recruits, and there are relatively few people who want to qualify. Even if they can be recruited, but the original owners of these people are not short of people, what should I do? When Emperor Chongzhen said this, he finally said his purpose, "The best way is to train some qualified talents in a short period of time." ”

Speaking of this, he picked up a notebook from the imperial case, handed it to the chamberlain beside him, and handed it to Sun Yuanhua, and said: "Here is a set of rules for pinyin annotation, you can take a look at it first, if you can simplify it a little more, or if you can optimize it again, you can optimize it again, and then mark all the Chinese characters according to this, and then distribute it to the world." Well, it is possible to set up a company that prints dictionaries under the name of Tobe and specializes in selling this. If you want to imitate the printing, you will be arrested by the government! ”

In the original history, the end of the Ming Dynasty also appeared pinyin annotation literacy, that is, "cut rhyme sound original", but until the end of Chongzhen. At this time, Fang Yizhi, the author of "Cutting the Rhyme and the Sound of the Original", who was later known as one of the four sons of the Restoration Society, was only eighteen years old, still a hairy young man, and was doing some angry things.

Emperor Chongzhen was afraid that Sun Yuanhua would not understand, so he explained again: "Buddy, shopkeeper and the like must be the priority of literacy, with this set of pinyin annotations, as long as you learn the rules, plus a dictionary in hand, people with ambition should be able to learn by themselves." I believe that some people will learn in order to change their lives. ”

At this time, Sun Yuanhua had already looked at the things in his hand, but he couldn't see it very clearly, but fortunately, if he looked at it again, there were Chinese characters in turn annotated pinyin, and he could know how to pronounce it. But even so, he was still confused.

Emperor Chongzhen saw it clearly, and said with a smile in his heart: "I have already explained it in the inner study hall, and I will call an inner attendant to explain it to you." At least in the inner study hall, this set of pinyin annotations is useful, and you should be careful about it. ”

"Wechen obeys!" When Sun Yuanhua heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He remembered that just now the emperor allowed him to set up a company under the Ministry of Rites for this purpose, and he suddenly felt very motivated. This kind of thing, as long as you go back and talk about it, someone must rush to do it.

Emperor Chongzhen picked up a notebook from the imperial case again, and asked the chamberlain to show it to Sun Yuanhua, and said at the same time: "This is a copy of arithmetic and financial common sense that I sorted out after reading the Western studies presented by Xu Qing and you. If you take it, you can spread it out, and among the recruited guys and shopkeepers, whoever understands these things first will be given priority. ”

Speaking of this, he paused, thought for a while, and said, "You can let someone teach to the guys and shopkeepers of the Jingshi, explain this knowledge, and then organize the exam." However, it should be remembered that this kind of teaching is to have more people who can use it in a short period of time. It can be carried out in different levels, such as being illiterate, but being able to understand these common senses; If you are literate, you can understand these common senses best. You can charge a certain fee to make the event happen. ”

This is a training course similar to that of later generations. It is purely voluntary, and I hope that under the stimulation of economic momentum, I can use these basic knowledge to open an opening for the old reading system, and slowly begin to spread.

Emperor Chongzhen's purpose is naturally to wait until this continues, and after the economic conditions permit, after the ideological concepts of the people of the Ming Dynasty change, they will begin to promote the so-called miscellaneous learning, promote compulsory education, and systematically learn from an early age. Otherwise, if there is no foreshadowing, even if the imperial court has money, there will inevitably be great resistance to direct promotion. After all, at this time, the ideological concepts, the readers are still mainly based on the subset of classics and history, and they have to take the eight-strand essay.

Hehe, money can make ghosts grind! Let's use the economic stick to grind slowly with you. Emperor Chongzhen thought in his heart. Seeing that Sun Yuanhua, a supporter of Western learning, did not object to the things in his hand, but still did not understand it, he knew that this thing would not be so easy, but as long as he did it, he would be able to promote the pace of Daming Technology and move forward slowly.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen didn't hope that the Ministry of Rites would be able to do these things well. Therefore, he is already doing it in the inner study hall, which is equivalent to walking two roads together.

After all, on the side of the inner study hall, the emperor has absolute authority, let those eunuchs do whatever they want, and no one will nag about it. The inner study hall is an excellent test field!

Watching Sun Yuanhua go out of the hall, Emperor Chongzhen stretched his waist and habitually entered the chat group to take a look between meeting his courtiers.

He saw that there was a private chat in the group, so he clicked on the chat mode filter and chose to show only private chats. Suddenly, the chat area only shows the content of the private chat. After spending a little more achievement points to check, I found that it was Wei Mulan who told Liu Xingzuo about Lu Xiangsheng's battle report.

Under this look, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be very happy. Yes, Lu Xiangsheng fought a very good first battle, annihilating 1,000 prisoners, while only 21 of his own side were killed and wounded, and more than 500 Korean volunteers were killed and wounded. More importantly, a lot of grain has been seized, which can at least alleviate the food problem in the lower Dongjiang River.

Hehe, on the Korean side, it is now a bit like the War of Resistance against Japan in later generations. Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly sighed and remembered something.