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"Gift to the Kings"

The immortal and Buddha failed to achieve the two, only knowing that the night is not peaceful.

The wind canopy is full of elegiac air, and the mud is stained with poor luck.

Nine out of ten people are eye-catching, and they are useless scholars.

Moyin's poems are sorrowful, and spring birds and autumn insects make their own noises.

The meaning of the original poem is: I failed the exam, and I am in a bad mood.Drifting in the rivers and lakes, bumping into walls everywhere, it's really fucking miserable.come on! Come on!Don't be discouraged, you will definitely meet someone who understands me.

Coupled with Zhao Han's identity, and Liu Rushi donated it to those scholars, the meaning of poetry suddenly became: You study poetry and books but it is useless, and you are full of talents and can't use them.As long as you do things well, I will definitely make you shine here.

Liu Rushi pondered carefully and understood Zhao Han's meaning.

She took it back to the rented room, and handed the poem to Lin Xue: "Sister Tiansu, this poem was written by Zongzhen, and it was specially written for scholars. Next time you attend a literary meeting, you can help pass it on."

After Lin Xue finished reading it, she couldn't help sighing: "If this poem spreads to the north, I am afraid that countless scholars will leave their homes and careers and go south."

"Indeed." Liu Rushi nodded.

Nine out of ten people are eye-catching, and they are useless scholars.

This sentence expresses the bitterness of a scholar, but any scholar who has repeatedly failed in the imperial examinations, or who is depressed, can be moved to tears by this poem.

They will regard Zhao Han as a confidant, and they will think that Zhao Han is a wise master who can rely on them!

There is still one month to celebrate the New Year, and many scholars have returned to their hometowns.Either be an official official honestly, or study mathematics and wait for the imperial examination in the future.

However, Qian Qianyi and Xie Sanbin stayed behind, holding the rest of the scholars, holding meetings every now and then.

"Isn't Mr. Liu here yet?" Xie Sanbin couldn't help asking.

Lin Xue said with a smile: "She is a member of the government, and she works hard all day long with paperwork, so she really has no time to attend the literary conference."

Yixing Juren Zhou Shichen sighed: "Zhao Zongzhen is a hero, but there are three things that are not good. First, divide the land of the big households, and his government is like a bandit; To use a woman as an official is to corrupt the etiquette!"

"Brother Yinghou, be careful!" the scholar next to him reminded.

Zhou Shichen said with a smile: "I only say that the three things in Zongzhen are not good, and everything else is good. It is excellent not to be punished for his words. He is open-minded, and I only complain."

Zhou Shichen is both good at poetry and painting, and he also came from a wealthy family. How could he want to start from a small official?

There are many such people, and all of them are full of complaints.

In the face of absolute power, the gentry are very weak.

It's like when Putin became president and took back Russia's state-owned assets, which seemed difficult to do, but only one rich man was arrested, and other rich men were frightened to be obedient.The billionaires still obediently hand over tens of billions of dollars worth of assets.

The same is true for the landlords, if they can't resist, they just lie down.

Zhou Shichen's family lay flat, and he rushed to Jiangxi eagerly, asking for a course to enroll as an official.If all of these can't be done, there is only complaints left, and he is reluctant to leave Jiangxi, and continue to stay and wait for the opportunity to become an official.

Wu Wenli, a Juren of Xiuning, said: "The general town has its own policy, how can we change it? Well, I will return to my hometown in a few days to become an official. You and I are both Juren, so you can go directly to the government to observe the government. Next year, I will definitely be an official. Three to five years later, magistrates can also do it. If it is placed in Daming, you will have to take the Jinshi examination, and I don’t know how long it will take you to be named on the gold list. I have been thinking about it for a few days. In fact, it is better to start as an official. Maybe we I will never pass the Jinshi exam in my life.”

"Little official, lowly servant! How can a scholar do this?" Zhou Shichen was heartbroken.

Qian Qianyi suddenly smiled and said: "Don't talk too much, today's literary meeting will not talk about political affairs."

Lin Xue said: "Although Sister Liu didn't come today, she asked me to bring a poem. I heard that the general town asked her to pass it on to the gentlemen."

Qian Qianyi was stunned, and suddenly felt something was wrong: "Mr. Liu knows Zongzhen very well?"

Lin Xue smiled and said nothing, deliberately making Qian Qianyi think too much.

Wu Wenli said: "Zongzhen is a real poet. The two poems before were not bad. What poems did you write this time?"

Lin Xue took out what she had copied: "Please watch it, gentlemen."

Xie Sanbin took it over, and recited: "Gift to the Monarchs": Immortals and Buddhas have not yet been completed, and only know that the lonely night is not peaceful. One is a scholar. Don't worry about poems and scrolls, and spring birds and autumn insects make their own voices."

After all the scholars listened, the audience fell silent for an instant.

All of them, including Qian Qianyi, were deeply touched by this poem and thought of their own circumstances in these years.

"One hundred and one use is a scholar, and one hundred and one use is a scholar..."

Wu Wenli pondered over and over again, thinking of his mother, Cheng Shi, who was widowed at a young age and raised him carefully.When I was young, I was a scholar, and all the villagers praised the child prodigy.Later, he failed in many trials, failed in the imperial examination, and bumped into walls everywhere and was looked down upon by others.After winning the imperial examination, he was respected somehow, but he couldn't pass the Jinshi examination, and he couldn't fulfill his ambitions as an official.

The world is in chaos, the country is overthrown, and I can only watch. Isn't it a scholar who is useless?

The wind is full of elegiac air, and the mud is stained with Bo Xingming. These two sentences are more like a portrayal of his half life, as if this poem was written by himself!

Wu Wenli stood up tragically: "The general town knows me, and I should know the general town too. Please take your leave, I have returned to my hometown as an official, so I don't deserve you to waste time here."

"Farewell!"

A few more scholars got up, and they didn't participate in the literary meeting. They all chose to return to their hometowns to do business.

It is useless to explain the truth to these people, a poem is enough to make them empathize.

After reading this poem, those who still refuse to leave are purely stubborn people!

Qian Qianyi's focus was on the relationship between Zhao Han and Liu Rushi.He was not afraid of not having an official job, but he was afraid that he would offend Zhao Han, and it would not be worth it for a woman.

Chapter 330 [Datong Zhengyin]

Qian Qianyi was afraid that Zhao Han would misunderstand something, so he went to the General Military Mansion the next day to ask for an interview.

He was taken into a courtyard in a daze, but saw that the courtyard was full of people.In addition to Zhao Han, Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua and others, there are also Chen Maosheng, Liu Rushi and many celebrities, and even famous actors and actresses from all over the world.

"Mr. Yu Shan came just in time, let's sit down and discuss matters together." Zhao Han smiled.

The personal guard brought a stool, and Qian Qianyi sat down in front of him, not knowing what meeting he was having today.

Zhao Han explained: "I want to standardize the languages ​​of various places, what method can Mr. Yu Shan implement?"

Qian Qianyi replied: "Call together scholars and revise the rhyme."

Zhao Han shook his head and said, "It's not about correct pronunciation and elegant words, but for scholars to communicate with Qianshou and other provinces."

"That's impossible!"

Qian Qianyi was so frightened that he stood up immediately, cupped his hands and said, "General Town, doing this is tantamount to eradicating common sayings in various places. Forcible promotion may cause big trouble."

"Ugh!"

Zhao Han sighed.

Zhao Han has been working on the matter of standardizing the languages ​​of various places, but the more he understands it, the less he dares to issue orders.

Forcibly promoting the language of a certain place as "Mandarin" is not only eliminating the dialects of the place, but also overturning the thousands of years of Chinese phonological rules.

This is doing right to the scholars all over the world!

In ancient China, there has always been "Mandarin", namely: Yayan, Zhengyin, and Guanhua.

The orthodox sounds of the past dynasties are all inherited in one continuous line, and they are all the reading sounds of Luoyang Taixue.

Luoyang Taixue reading tone, also known as Zhongyuan Yayan.

It is not a Henan dialect, but a set of pronunciation rules, which regulates pronunciation through Fanqie.

As long as you have learned this set of rules, no matter you are from Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, or Kunming, no matter your dialect has four tones, five tones, six tones, or seven tones, everyone can communicate very smoothly!

This set of rules only restricts the sound category, not the sound value.

Therefore, the pronunciation of reading in each place will be very different, but they are common to each other.

This set of pronunciation rules has been an important factor in maintaining the unification of China for 2000 years, and its great role is not inferior to the unification of characters.It can integrate various dialects into the same system. In the ancient society without radio and television, this is the most convenient and effective means of phonetic notation.

What Zhao Han has to do now is to break it!

Having said so much, you may not understand it, and you must speak more intuitively.

Modern Chinese is a secondary institution: Putonghua-Dialect.

In ancient times, it belonged to a three-level structure: the rules of elegant dialects—the pronunciation of reading in various places—the local dialects.

Chen Maosheng suddenly said: "It's not impossible to force the promotion, don't we singers just remember it?"

"Not bad." The famous opera actors present all echoed.

Regardless of whether it is from the north to the south, all operas in the country are spoken in authentic official Chinese.

Zhao Han asked with a smile: "If it is forced to promote, should the correct pronunciation be based on the elegant dialect of the Central Plains, or the old dialect of Jiangzuo?"

"It doesn't matter." Everyone laughed.

There are two authoritative works in the Ming Dynasty, one is "Hongwu Zhengyun" and the other is "Jiaotai Yun".

Due to the different authors, "Hongwu Zhengyun" is biased towards the Jianghuai dialect, and "Jiaotai Yun" is biased towards the Central Plains.

Li Banghua suddenly said: "Let's take "Hongwu Zhengyun" as the standard. In the early Ming Dynasty, Jianghuai dialect was used in a wider range of fields in various places."

"Really want to do this?" Qian Qianyi was horrified.

Zhao Han said: "I am not trying to abolish Yayan, but to use Jianghuai dialect as the criterion so that people everywhere can communicate in language."

Qian Qianyi said: "The general town will carry out three-year education. From now on, there will be scholars everywhere. Everyone can understand the pronunciation of reading, and naturally everyone can communicate without hindrance. Why force the promotion of Jianghuai dialect?"

Zhao Han explained: "I plan to compile a dictionary and remake the method of Qieyin (Pinyin). In this way, children in elementary school can cut the pronunciation by themselves in two or three months, and learn new words by themselves by flipping through the dictionary."

"How can there be such an easy method in the world?" Qian Qianyi couldn't imagine it at all.

Zhao Han smiled and said, "How will you know if you don't try it? First determine the model tone, how many tones should it be? Do you want to keep the incoming tone?"

This question stunned everyone.

Qian Qianyi bit the bullet and said: "Seven tones, as for the entrance tones, you should keep it."

Zhao Han teased, "Did Emperor Chongzhen speak with a voice?"

"No." Li Banghua and Qian Qianyi shook their heads at the same time.

"Then keep it in your voice." Zhao Han said with a smile.

The preservation of entering tone has nothing to do with the emperor, but except for some areas in the north, there are entering sounds in dialects all over the country at this time.

Putonghua of later generations is silent.

Putonghua has four tones, and the "Zhengyin" promulgated by Zhao Han in the future may have seven tones.

Zhao Han can't promote it according to the Mandarin of later generations, because no one can speak that stuff except him.

Zhao Han asked: "Who wants to be the editor-in-chief of 'Datong Zhengyin'?"

No one answered.

This thing is too nonsense, everyone has no idea, and dare not take on the porcelain work easily.

Liu Rushi raised her hand suddenly and said, "How about... I will be the president?"

Zhao Han smiled and looked at Qian Qianyi: "What do you think, Mr. Yu Shan?"

Qian Qianyi knew that he couldn't run away, so he wanted to cry but said without tears: "Then I will recommend myself."

Zhao Han explained to Liu Rushi: "I don't despise women, nor do I despise Liu Jun's talent and learning. But to forcefully promote Datong Zhengyin, there will be great resistance. If a woman is the president, those who resist will have excuses Mr. Yu Shan is different, he is a master of literature and a leader of scholars, presumably the scholars of the world are convinced."

Qian Qianyi really wanted to scold her.

Scholars all over the world are convinced, how many people will scold this set of Zhengyin forcibly promoted.

Everyone will not hate Zhao Han, the anger will be directed at him Qian Qianyi!

Different dialects are like different systems.

Traditional Yayan is to formulate a set of rules to make these dialect systems compatible, but they must be converted into corresponding reading sounds.

The Datong Zhengyin that Zhao Han is going to implement is based on one dialect system and covers all other dialect systems.

The third-level language structure, simplified to the second-level language structure.

Not only can people from all over the world use a unified language, but it can also double the learning speed of children.

In addition to being depressed, Qian Qianyi was a little excited.

As the editor-in-chief of Datong Zhengyin, he will definitely be scolded bloody in this life.But if it can be successfully promoted, after a hundred years, he will leave his name in history and be hailed as the master of Zhengyin by later generations!

Notoriety in front of him, good reputation behind him.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Mr. Yushan, I will give you a 50 yuan brand, and you can recruit fifty great Confucian scholars, preferably those who are proficient in phonology. Together, you can compile the correct pronunciation of Datong. Remember, each province must choose a few. It cannot be limited to Jiangnan, otherwise it will be Jiangnan Zhengyin.”

Qian Qianyi wanted to die when he heard this. He said with a bitter face: "The tone of each province is different, so we must fight!"

Zhao Han said with a smile: "If you can't fight, just use "Hongwu Zhengyun" as the criterion, take the Jianghuai dialect as the model, and follow the Zhongyuan dialect."