The new venue was quickly opened, but Xia Hongsheng was not in a hurry to start. Li Lao Er only promised to give Xia Hongsheng 300 people, in order to ensure the success rate, these 300 people can't just be pulled out to make up enough numbers.

"From today onwards, the training plan needs to be adjusted, the time will be compressed, and half of the afternoon will be freed up on the basis of completing the daily training sessions. Half of this freed up, together with the evening time, Ben and Duan Duwei will personally give you cultural lessons and teach you literacy. Xia Hongsheng stood on the school platform and said loudly to the eight hundred soldiers below.

After such a long time of training, the eight hundred sergeants in the audience were shocked to hear that Xia Hongsheng was going to teach them to read, but they would not be in an uproar as before.

It's impossible not to be shocked, those who come to join the army, not to mention the others, just talk about the large number of ordinary soldiers, which one of them can't live at home, so they go to the battlefield to beg for a living? If the official school doesn't want them, who can go to the private school? Will you join the army? In the army of the Tang Dynasty, if you know a little bit of words, the chance of becoming a captain can be much higher. When did these soldiers who licked blood from the knife edge think about those things that literati are qualified to know, and now Xia Hongsheng is going to teach them?!

It's incredible, but out of discipline in the army, there's still silence down there.

"After learning to read and write, what are the benefits in the army, the general does not need to say much, you know very well in your heart. But Ben will tell you, two months! Xia Hongsheng stretched out a finger and continued to say in a loud voice: "I will only give you two months. During these two months, the training tasks during the day must be completed, and only after the training is over, and the evening time can be used for literacy. Two months later, Ben will take an examination of the school, and select the best 300 people from among them, and then there will be something to do. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that this is an opportunity for you to change your fate. I hope that you will be able to study literacy diligently. Take advantage of this opportunity. If you can stand out from the 800 people and be selected among the 300 people, then you will be congratulated, congratulations on your successful change of destiny. He is about to become a glorious Datang officer. Even if they didn't make it to the 300 people, the remaining 500 people still learned to read and write, and you all know the benefits. ”

After Xia Hongsheng finished speaking, he glanced around at the excited expressions below. But the sergeants, who were still standing straight, shouted: "Now, tell me, are you willing to continue to carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of hardships and working hard in training, and also work this literacy?" ”

"Yes!" Eight hundred people shouted in unison, and their morale was high.

Seeing that the sergeants continued to devote themselves to training with expectations, Duan Zan asked Xia Hongsheng with some confidence: "Hongsheng, if you want to talk about it, it must be no problem, you are a well-known scribe." But me. This is just being able to read words, can I teach it?! ”

Xia Hongsheng immediately laughed when he heard Duan Zhan's words, and said, "I said Brother Duan, our soldiers, do you still expect them to have the opportunity to recite poems?" They're going to war! They don't need to dance and ink, they don't need to chew the words, they just need to know the words and know what those words mean together, and that's it. The three hundred people who were selected had something to learn was even more profound. Literacy is only the foundation, but it also needs to be able to write rhetoric, those sour sentences and rotten sentences, or leave it to those Confucian scholars! ”

"It's like you're not a reader." Duan Zan laughed. Said.

"It's true that I'm a scholar, but I understand that people in this world have their own duties, and no one can do without them, whether they are scholars or soldiers, and they are puzzled by farmers, merchants, and craftsmen. It's like the wheels of a horse-drawn carriage, without any of them, the carriage can't go any further. Xia Hongsheng shook his head with a smile and said, "So I won't look down on any kind of class." I don't hate those Confucians, most of them are able to abide by moral goodness and gentlemanly demeanor, and they are the moral benchmark of this society, and I respect them very much. What I look down on are those who are self-righteous, think that everything is inferior, only the rotten Confucians who are highly educated, who do not know the feelings of the people, do not produce, and only know how to recite poems all day long, but do not benefit the country and the people, but still shout that others are inferior to him. ”

"That's right!" Duan Zan nodded in agreement, and quipped: "Haha, if Hongsheng was born a few years earlier, let me meet you earlier, I can't help but worship you as a teacher, if I think about it, it will be a different situation." Haha, if all my gentlemen in Datang are the same as Hongsheng, then I don't know how many talents I have to add in this world! ”

Xia Hongsheng laughed: "There will always be a day." ”

Duan Zan seemed to feel a lot of emotion, and sighed: "Speaking of which, even now, although Hongsheng is not my teacher, he also has the truth of his teacher's kindness, the method of military training, the method of special training, and the method of spy training...... You've taught me all these things! Alas, although Zhan doesn't know what the education of that officer is, only 300 people will not exempt you from the responsibility of training special combat personnel and spies, and I don't know what Your Majesty thinks...... Let others know, and say that I robbed my brother of the credit! ”

Duan Zhan's voice was lowered when he got to the back, and the monarch couldn't be touched, and he didn't dare to say more.

"Brother Duan, don't think so." Xia Hongsheng saw that Duan Zhan looked sorry for himself, waved his hand and said, "It was the junior brother who went to ask His Majesty to resign." The purpose of training spies and special combat personnel at the beginning was just to deal with Liang Shidu, and it was derived. My main task is to deal with Liang Shidu, and now I have more education for these 300 officers. These are all very worrying things, and the younger brother is really too busy. Therefore, I asked His Majesty to resign, Brother Duan has been proficient in these trainings during this time, and he can already train himself, if he is not sure, even if he comes to ask the younger brother, the younger brother is still an advisor, and he has the responsibility to answer for Brother Duan. By the way, in another month, I think the weather will come back to spring, and when the time comes, the first batch of special combat personnel trained by the No. 30 team members, I have to ask Brother Duan to leave. Everything is ready, and it's time for them to get into Shuofang. Give Brother Duan a suggestion, those thirty people, if they don't have very difficult tasks in the future, try not to use them. They are the first batch of people I have personally trained, and I have taught them a lot of things other than special operations, because I want them to become instructors and take on the responsibility of training special operations team members in the future, and the scale of this special operations team will only grow larger and larger in the future. ”

Duan Zan was stunned for a moment and said, "Hongsheng, you thought that these thirty people would be as simple as being more than just a special combat member?" ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded: "It is the same as teaching and educating people, there are many people who want to learn, but there are too few people who can teach and can teach." Our Datang has never lacked jade, what is missing is the person who discovers jade, carves jade, and makes it a good jade! ”

"There is Bole, and then there is Maxima. Maxima often has, but Bole does not often have. Therefore, although there is a famous horse, it is only humiliated by the hands of slaves, and it is not called a thousand miles. Horses are thousands of miles, a food or a stone. Horse eaters don't know that they can eat thousands of miles. Is it a horse, although it has the ability of thousands of miles, it is not full of food, and its strength is insufficient, so it is beautiful and not outward, and it is impossible to get it with the usual horse, so it can be thousands of miles away? The strategy is not its way, the food can not be used to the best of its materials, the song can not be understood by its meaning, and the policy is coming, saying: There is no horse in the world! Alack! Is it really evil? I really don't know the horse! Brother Duan, the goal of the younger brother is not to discover how many thousands of horses for Datang, but to create countless Bole for Datang! ”

Teaching people to read and write is not difficult for Xia Hongsheng, but the Chinese teachers in later generations are still afraid that this thing will not work? However, the difficulty is that there is no Hanyu Pinyin nowadays, and Hanyu Pinyin is definitely an artifact of literacy. People in this era learn literacy through "Cut Rhyme", but as the earliest rhyme book in Chinese history, the phonetic system of cut rhyme is very complex and obscure.

Since ancient times, the most common literacy method is to memorize those enlightenment texts in private schools, learn "Thousand Character Text" and the like, and then give lectures by the teacher, students memorize the characters and pronunciations by rote, and then strengthen them through a large number of classic recitations and writing, basically around the "Commentary on the Text".

However, the phonetic definition in the text is not very clear, and the pronunciation method used in it often says "read if so" or "a certain sound" for the pronunciation of Chinese characters, that is, find a word with the same pronunciation to annotate the pronunciation of the character. The straight-phonetic method had great limitations in ancient times, and sometimes there would be a situation where a certain Chinese character did not have homophones, such as the word "lost", and we could not find homophones to note the straight-sound. Or, sometimes the character has a straight sound, but the characters that are phonetized are more difficult to understand and read than the characters that are phonetic.

In addition, there is an important method of fixing the sound, the reverse cutting method, which is to combine two words into one sound, which is more accurate than the straight sound method, but it is also more difficult to understand, after all, the way of combining two words with different pronunciations is not known to everyone. For example: Chang, ruler good cut. That is to say, "ruler" and "good" spell together, and the pronunciation of the word "chang" is obtained. Are people who meet for the first time confused?

This is also one of the reasons why the accent in ancient times was not easy to unify, and even if there was a unified official dialect, it was still difficult to spread widely, which was too difficult to learn and not conducive to dissemination.

Xia Hongsheng couldn't help but feel moved, why not take this opportunity to take the opportunity of Li Lao Er to let him be in charge of the education of these three hundred officers, and hand them over to Hanyu Pinyin?

Without this opportunity, there will definitely be a lot of resistance if you go rashly. But let these 300 people learn it, reflecting the benefits of Hanyu Pinyin in promoting unified pronunciation, and the resistance will definitely be much less! (To be continued.) )