Chapter 205 Liu Sanwu!
At dusk.
Xia Zhibai went to the Hanlin Academy.
By the way, I will submit the memorial I wrote.
When Xia Zhibai's figure appeared in the Hanlin Academy, the originally busy Hanlin Academy suddenly became quiet.
Everyone in the audience looked at Xia Zhibai.
Xia Zhibai smiled slightly and nodded to everyone.
He actually doesn’t recognize too many people.
However, he glanced briefly and barely realized that most of these people were Jinshi last year.
The Hanlin Academy is a place to 'prepare talents for the country'. It is a place where the imperial court consciously cultivates officials and allows these officials to have access to top-level information, talents, and affairs. However, they want to rush up through the fast lane of the Hanlin Academy. , it is not that easy, and you still need to make real achievements.
Without the emperor's approval, he could only continue to stay inside.
It is actually very difficult for a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy to be able to calm down, think, study, and communicate independently in the midst of complicated affairs, avoid losing his overall ability due to getting lost in trivial matters, and always maintain a strategic vision.
The Hanlin Academy received too much and too complicated information.
It is not easy to always uphold a public spirit in a world of materialistic desires.
But this is a test for Jinshi.
Xia Zhibai gestured to everyone, and then strode in.
Looking at Xia Zhibai's figure coming and going like the wind, Yang Jing, Zhao Mian and others had slightly strange eyes. Although they were only second-ranking officials, they had been favored by the emperor for more than half a year in the Hanlin Academy, and they were in short supply in the imperial court. They were all entrusted with important tasks by the imperial court, and their official positions were not inferior to Xia Zhibai's.
But for Xia Zhibai, their expressions were very complicated.
First of all, I didn’t pass the imperial examination.
Secondly, Xia Zhibai’s reputation is too great.
Even though he had disappeared for a while, Xia Zhibai was the only one in the entire Hanlin Academy who could cause such a big reaction when he came back.
Yang Jing turned around and frowned: "Why did he come back?"
Zhao Mian shook his head and said: "Who knows? But if he comes back now, he may have missed it."< br>
"Under Guo Huan's case, there were a lot of vacancies in the imperial court. If he had come back at that time, I am afraid that his official position would be far higher than mine. But for some reason, he was delayed in the north for more than half a year, and now most of the official positions are available. To make up for it, he now only has the name of a bachelor."
"But with his temperament, I'm afraid he doesn't care."
Zhao Mian chuckled lightly, looking very relaxed.
They are now far away from Xia Zhibai.
He is now serving as Zuo Xianyi of the Criminal Trial Department of the Ministry of Works. Shen Shu is in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of War. As for Yang Jing, it is even more extraordinary. He has been appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Of course, they are not the only ones. Many officials are Jinshi and Imperial College students.
And this is all thanks to Xia Zhibai.
If Xia Zhibai hadn't provided Hua Lun with a way to settle accounts.
I'm afraid that Guo Huan can't be traced, so there won't be so many important officials involved. In a sense, they can be regarded as taking advantage of Xia Zhibai.
Zhang Heng looked at Xia Zhibai's leaving figure, with a hint of doubt in his eyes, and said: "I heard that during Xia Zhibai's absence, the Kyoto salt shop he ran encountered a lot of things. , which also involves several chief secretaries in the south, I am afraid that Xia Zhibai will feel that he is unable to support himself."
"One person is too weak after all"
"I want to rely on myself. How can it be so easy to compete with the world if you don’t have enough power?”
“He can’t stand it if the court officials exert even a little strength.”
"There is still a gap between ideals and reality."
Zhang Heng shook his head in disappointment.
In his opinion, Xia Zhibai's return to the Hanlin Academy was a compromise.
It is very difficult to stand on the current of the secular world. How easy is it to be alone or even go against the current?
A few people chatted and laughed for a while, then turned and left.
They came back to pack their things. Now that they have been given important tasks by the imperial court, they will not come back very often in the future. But when they saw Xia Zhibai, they couldn't help but feel a sigh of relief. The strange emotions they felt during the scientific examination last year, with their current promotion, have long since It slowly faded away.
Just like Xia Zhibai said.
The scientific examination is the end of being a scholar and the beginning of being an official.
It is true that they were not as good as Xia Zhibai at the beginning, but these days, they have not stopped either. Now their pace has already caught up with Xia Zhibai, and even caught up with any of the first-level players. one person.
Xia Zhibai was naturally unaware of the strange moods of Yang Jing and others.
He went to the Hanlin Academy not to find someone to reminisce about the past.
As the saying goes, when employing people, you must first nourish them. If you cannot nourish them first, then you will only use them poorly.
If he wants to employ people, he must first cultivate them. The Four Books and Five Classics alone cannot cultivate the people he wants to employ. A very important task of the Hanlin Academy in the Ming Dynasty is to compile books and teach literacy courses. It's all what Xia Zhibai wants to see.
Xia Zhibai's appearance indeed caused a discussion in the Hanlin Academy.
It’s just that the discussion died down quickly.
Because Xia Zhibai's era has passed.
A whole year.
Xia Zhibai hardly moved an inch.
The rest of the Jinshi have already completed the work of 'compiling books, storing talents, and raising hopes'. After the Guo Huan case, they were all given official positions by the court. Today, except for some Guozixue students in the Hanlin Academy , some students who have been recommended recently, there are basically not many Jinshi.
The turnover of personnel in the early Ming Dynasty was too fast.
certainly.
This is mainly because Zhu Yuanzhang killed quickly.
The Ming Dynasty could not fill up the personnel in a short time, so for the new scholars, it was natural to just plug and play. Just as Xia Zhibai was sorting out the 'literacy courses' compiled by the Hanlin Academy, a figure quietly appeared behind Xia Zhibai.
Xia Zhibai was completely unaware.
He was still immersed in tidying up.
From time to time, I would write down and take some notes, which seemed very satisfying.
It was already dark, and Xia Zhibai raised his head without finishing his thoughts. But as soon as he raised his head, he saw an old man in red robe beside him.
Very old.
Seeing such an old man, Xia Zhibai was stunned for a moment.
Then he stood up and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I was too focused on reading earlier and didn't notice Sir. Did it delay Sir from using these courses?"
The old man shook his head.
His eyes were not on Xia Zhibai, but on the paper under Xia Zhibai. He frowned and said, "Why do you want to record these simplified characters? This is just a trick in the literacy course. Method."
Xia Zhibai said with a smile: "A trick?"
"I don't think so"
"I think this is the main direction in the future."
"Simplify!"
Liu Sanwu became interested for a moment, picked up the densely written paper, and asked: " How can you see it?”
Xia Zhibai said with a smile: “Since the beginning of writing in the world, it has been evolving, from the initial oracle bone inscriptions, to the later big seal script, small seal script, to Han Li, and then regular script. In the Song Dynasty, due to the emergence of movable type printing, Song style was born."
"It is also interspersed with cursive script."
"But from far to near, we can clearly see that the evolution trend of characters is becoming simpler, more eye-catching and easier to read. Nowadays, many characters in the world have complicated gestures. However, if we really look at ancient books, many of them are The ancients made good use of simplified characters. "
"Firstly, it is convenient, and secondly, it is faster to write."
"Of course, it is also easy to be misunderstood."
“Simplifying the text is inevitable.”
“I have heard that Ru Taisu, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, wrote a long memorial to His Majesty, which was more than 10,000 words long. Wouldn’t it be tiring if we wrote everything according to the rules? ”
"However, if you use simplified characters, the speed can be greatly improved."
"And"
"I just sorted it out and saw that there are general descriptions in many literacy courses. It means recognizing characters and recognizing half. Since some characters can be simplified, it is not a bad idea to use simplified characters to determine half. If the writing of Chinese characters can be greatly simplified, it will be of great benefit to popularize education. ”
"Why can't this be done?"
Liu Sanwu thought thoughtfully.
Xia Zhibai didn't end there.
He continued: "In addition, there is also the initial literacy, which basically relies on rote memorization. This also leads to great differences in the pronunciation of people in different regions. If things go on like this, won't there still be obvious differences? Regional distinction? And this regional distinction is very obvious."
"So unified pronunciation is also necessary."
"But I looked through the literacy courses of Hanlin Academy and there is no such thing. Regarding the relevant parts, I have mentioned to Hua Lun before that I use the characters of the Hu people to simplify rote memorization. The symbols of the Hu people are very simple and not as complicated as Chinese characters, so they are easier to remember."
“If it can be sorted out and promoted throughout the world, wouldn’t it benefit the country and the people?”
Listening to Xia Zhibai's talk, Liu Sanwu froze on the spot.
This was the first time he heard this novel idea.
It’s also a bright spot.
He said happily: "According to what you said, can you unify the accents of the world?"
Xia Zhibai said: "Of course it can. When I just came to the Hanlin Academy, I heard all kinds of talk. Some of the sounds of the tongue cannot be understood at all if one does not listen carefully, and they themselves may not think there is anything wrong with their pronunciation. ”
"But it is precisely because of this."
"It is difficult for Jinshis from the north and the south to get close."
"Even if it is the same sentence, only the south can understand what the people in the south say, and the people in the north can understand it." Only people in the north can understand what people say. This problem of pronunciation is naturally prohibitive. In this case, how can we understand each other? "
"This external restriction must be broken. ."
Liu Sanwu nodded repeatedly.
He is now seventy and four years old and his ears are somewhat hard of hearing.
I feel deeply about this.
He said in a deep voice: "According to what you said, how should we do it?"
Xia Zhibai said: "Of course it is to unify with mutually recognized pronunciation, from the symbols of the barbarians Select the symbols that are easier to remember and memorize, and then use the Chinese characters for pronunciation, and then arrange and combine the other Chinese characters from these barbarian symbols."
"Just read them in succession."
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"The most important thing is to subtract words."
"Find a few 'roots'."
"There are tens of thousands of words in the world today, but most words are just like leaves on a tree. , it’s just derived. Only by finding the most original text can we continue the subtraction.”
“I already have some directions.”
“Seriously?” Liu Sanwu’s eyes widened. Liang, his body was shaking with excitement.
Xia Zhibai smiled and said: "I, Xia Zhibai, never tell lies."
"I came to Hanlin Academy just to accomplish this. I want to make the world affordable to read, at least have A certain amount of literacy”
(End of this chapter)