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Chapter 485: Not only should we promote the reading of pinyin sentences, but also the vernacular style

The next day, Zhu Youjian submitted a letter to the court to promote the method of pinyin literacy and pronunciation used by the inner court to the whole country.

After Yang Tingyun began to write the Chinese characters and pinyin according to Zhu Youxiao's order, the pinyin began to implement this method in grassroots organizations where the emperor could directly control it.

Now students of Huangzhuang Society, Weixue, Zongxue, Gongxue, and Royal Academy are able to use pinyin to recognize literacy and can also speak the same pronunciation.

However, in Imperial College, private academies and private schools, students who aim to develop their careers still have not promoted the pinyin yet.

They read and read words through word-of-mouth.

These people still account for the majority.

After all, although the emperor had many imperial patrols, many personal guards, and the largest royal family, compared with the entire Ming Dynasty, it was naturally only a small part.

Therefore, in order to better facilitate the promotion of civilian education, to open up people's wisdom and completely change the Chinese civilization that entered a period of decline, instead of waiting until it is completely behind the West and then waiting to be hurt by Western invading forces before awakening, Zhu Youzhao has now started to promote pinyin across the country after training a group of scholars who received new education, so that education reform will take a step further.

The former emperor Zhu Youxiao only carried out small-scale promotions within his directly controlled area.

Now he wants to promote it nationwide.

Although promoting pinyin is just a change in the imperial enlightenment education, no matter what, it is also the beginning.

This was not enough. Then, Zhu Youxiao implied that Zhu Youjian submitted a letter to the court to promote the new sentence reading methods that had been carried out in the inner court while promoting the pinyin.

Zhu Youxiao approved it, and the imperial decree department and the Hanlin Academy formed a compilation group that translates words into pinyin and sentences, and also introduced the president and vice president to compile corresponding textbooks that promote pinyin and sentences.

However, even if Zhu Youjiao began to reform enlightenment education, there was still resistance.

Because there are many smart people in this world.

"After reading this pinyin sentence in detail, I finally understood why the literacy rate of the hired children in Tianjin is so high, and why some young workers have read some articles. Now, they must have received the benefit of the pinyin sentence reading method. In this way, these foolish people will become more likely to master knowledge and become smarter. If this continues, this knowledge will no longer be exclusive to our scholars and officials. Even my entire scholars and officials will be mixed with good and bad, and even more people who are just a substitute. If this continues, the dignity of our scholars and officials will be damaged!"

Li Kangxian, the Grand Secretary of the Dongge and Minister of the School, expressed his own views on Wen Tiren, who was promoted to Grand Secretary.

Wen Tirenze said: "However, this is conducive to enlightening people's wisdom, facilitating communication, and even constraining, and making the country last forever. For example, in the past, when prefectures and county officials conveyed political orders, they had to let clerks who were familiar with local accents and customs and knew the words of the text and words communicated to the people. This method of pinyin and sentence reading can make it easier for the people to directly master the method of recognize words. In this way, prefectures and county officials can directly post a notice, so that the people can know the government of the court. Wouldn't it avoid officials from being able to communicate political orders to the people by relying on clerks?"

Then, Wen Tiren said: "In my opinion, the proposal of Your Highness, King Xin is not enough. Official articles often like to pile up words and emphasize parallelism, so the meaning of the text is obscure. The people are afraid that the words they know will be difficult to understand. However, this is not the original intention of the court, nor is it the original intention of the writer. Therefore, not only should we promote pinyin and sentence reading, but we should also change the style of the world and promote vernacular Chinese throughout the world, so that the text is easy to understand and facilitate communication."

"Absurd! Mr. Wen's words are forbidden to agree with Li! The pinyin and sentence pronunciation are already breaking the rules that reading is a top-notch thing. Why do you still need to implement vernacular Chinese? Isn't this a shame and damage to the official style? Besides, the people can use it, but not to know it. This is the words of a saint! How can you change the style of writing to make it know it? This is undoubtedly a reversal of the principles and constellations and the rituals and music are destroyed!"

Li Kangxian stood up excitedly and replied angrily.

Although Wen Tiren liked to cultivate his party members in history and was called a treacherous minister, he was actually relatively honest in his official position and was not the Donglin Party. Therefore, he still stood in the court and took advantage of the opportunity of a large number of ministers being exiled to enter the center of the empire's power.

The reason why Wen Tiren is an honest official is naturally because he has greater power ambitions and wants to do things.

However, in history, he followed Chongzhen, so he had no chance to do things.

But in this life, after watching the experiences of the first two chief assistants Fang Congzhe and Yuan Keli, Wen Tiren has already determined that the emperor is a wise ruler who is employed without doubt, doubtful, and dares to take on things. Therefore, he has shown a different attitude towards the current education reform.

Once he cares more about power and achievements that benefit the country, he will take the initiative to give up the interests of his literati and official class.

Just like Zhang Conghui took the initiative to surrender to Emperor Jiajing in order to gain power and betrayed the entire civil service group.

Wen Tiren smiled and replied, "The people can use it, but not to use it. This is the meaning of the saint! The Ge Lao was obviously misunderstood the saint's intention because he did not promote the sentence reading method before. This shows the importance of promoting the sentence reading method. Otherwise, more and more people will misunderstand the saint's intention, and it is easy for evil villains to use this to misinterpret the saint's intention."

"All nonsense! I'm ashamed to be with you!"

Li Kang first left afterwards.

Wen Tiren still shouted unanimously: "Even if the Master of Ge is ashamed to be with his servant, he is also the Minister of the School. Please do your best to carry out the sacred orders and promote the pinyin and sentence pronunciation to the world as soon as possible!"

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"Your Highness King Xin, many court officials are quite dissatisfied with your request to promote the method of pinyin and sentence reading. They say that you are forgetting your ancestors in a few dictionaries, and you actually use Western letters to share my Chinese characters. The purpose is to be self-deprecating. I want to ask, is what they said correct?"

Zhu Yihai, a royal family member who was later named King of Lu in history, and a group of children of the royal family asked about Zhu Youjian for this reason.

Zhu Youjian replied with a smile: "The emperor said that they are trying to make things worse. Our Taizu was born into a commoner and was not a writer. How can we forget our ancestors in pinyin and sentences? As for the reason why we are willing to be humble, our Zhu family was originally from the family of the people, so why are we humble? Besides, our late emperor and your father and grandfather married all the daughters of ordinary people. According to them, then our late emperor and father and grandfather are also humbled?"

"So that's it, then they're so hateful!"

Zhu Yihai couldn't help but get angry.

"that is!"

Other family members also replied.

Zhu Youjian continued: "Anyway, our royal family has to support this, but there is no other reason. Doing this will make more and more scholars in the world, and scholars will become superior by respecting our Zhu family. Therefore, as there are more scholars, more scholars will rely on our Zhu family. In this way, some of them will make more concessions in order to further gain more favor from our Zhu family royal family and will be more despised. If this continues, more scholars will respect our Zhu family in the future, and the stronger our Zhu family will be."

"Your Highness King Xin's words are reasonable. Once there are many scholars, scholars are not worth it. The method of reading pinyin and sentences must be quickly promoted!"

Zhu Yousong also followed suit.
Chapter completed!
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