Chapter 22 Officials, the life of the people hangs in the balance!
After receiving the deed, Lang Chang breathed a sigh of relief.
He returned to his seat, picked up his calligraphy slips, walked to Qin Luoheng's position, and said sheepishly: "Qin Shizi, I took advantage of you in this transaction. The calligraphy slips used to be sold on the market for three yuan.
Recently, the market price in the city has generally increased, and the price of Xizi slips has reached five yuan."
"I actually didn't mean to take advantage of you."
"only......"
"The cost of studying and literacy is too high, and my family can't afford it."
"My father was promoted to a doctor this year. In the past, the rank was based on the 'unchangeable' title. Originally, the family did not have much savings. In addition, the family moved to Xianyang, and there were a lot of expenses on the road. I really
I came up with this method because I had no other choice."
"Please Qin Shizi not to blame."
Qin Luoheng said lightly:
"I actually see what you're thinking."
"I once studied writing privately, and I am very aware of the expenses during the study period, so I can understand what you are doing. But as Ling Shi said, we will be officials and officials in the future. You can show your shrewdness now, but officials are
There cannot be any bias. When you are an official, I doubt whether you can stick to the way of being an official."
"I thought about rejecting you directly!"
Lang frowned and asked in confusion: "Then why did you agree in the end?"
Qin Luoheng smiled and said:
"Because you are not doing this for personal gain, but to better master knowledge. We are in the school, and what we need to master is the way to serve as an official."
"But what is an official?"
"The people's lives are at stake!"
"We are both historians and colleagues. If we can't even solve our own problems, how can we solve the difficulties of Guizhou in the world?"
Lang blushed, his face turned red and white, and finally he nodded to Qin Luoheng and said:
"Brother, I'm convinced."
"You are by no means the only one who can speak well in the school, but you are the only one who can make me feel ashamed of what I said. I won't take advantage of you too much. If someone comes to trouble you in the future, I will stand up for you and I won't do anything else.
I don’t have any skills, but I’m definitely a good fighter.”
Hear the words.
Qin Luoheng's face jumped.
have to!
So lyrical.
Although Lang studied in the school for a period of time, the social habits of the village were still there, and he still had a strong sense of worldliness.
but.
This is the truest face of Qin people.
Because of the deed.
Qin Luoheng and Lang also became friends through this.
Not long after.
There was a gong sound outside the house.
Class begins.
Ling Shi Ku returned to class.
There was still the big wooden board in front of him, but the words '狋', 'punishment' and 'law' originally written on it had been scratched off by a fake historian at the end of class.
There is no word on it.
Ling Shi Ku said with a cold face:
"In this class we will learn the characters in "Yu Shu"."
"I know that many of you are not interested in being civil servants. You only want to go to the battlefield, kill the enemy and perform meritorious service, and then be promoted and receive titles. Many of you even think that 'books' are enough to record names...
..not enough to learn!'"
"Is that true?"
"No!"
"If you are a military official, you must also be able to read and write."
"You think it's enough to be able to remember names and surnames, but how many words do you know and how many can you say?"
"Just counting three to five hundred."
"But who of you knows how many words there are in the world?"
"And today, if you lead an army under the unification, your soldiers will come from all over the world."
"There are people from Guanzhong, as well as people from Zhao, Wei, Yan, Chu, Qi, and Han. You have entered the school and are literate, but those soldiers have not. If they say their names, you can really remember them correctly."
, right?"
"Before the unification of the world, the Six Kingdoms and our Qin Dynasty had different characters and different pronunciations."
"According to a detailed investigation by the Character Survey Office, the number of Qin characters has been gradually increasing since Shang Jun's reform. The number of common characters has increased to 1,350. Before unification, there were probably more than 11,600 Qin characters.
indivual."
"After the unification of the world, the Character Collection Office spent several years collating the characters of the six countries, and then added the characters of the Qin Dynasty, which combined the new characters of the six countries, totaling more than 13,800."
"The total number of Chinese characters is nearly 25,000."
"However, the complex shape of Qin characters, the simplicity of the characters of the Six Kingdoms, and the merging of characters will inevitably lead to an imbalance between traditional and simplified characters. Therefore, after the unification of the world, the First Emperor ordered the Character Research Office to simplify the Qin characters."
"This is how Xiaozhuan comes into being!"
"Even though the Character Collection Office spent all its efforts to simplify the characters, there are still as many as 20,000 Qin characters."
"Don't know how to write? How will you face soldiers with all kinds of strange names, and how will you deal with all kinds of documents and files? If you don't know how to write, even if I give you a copy of "The Art of War", which one of you can read it completely? And some
Who can understand its meaning?"
"Qin officials are illiterate?"
"Wouldn't that make everyone in the world laugh at you?"
Ling Shi Ku glanced at everyone with cold eyes, so that no one dared to look at him.
Qin Luoheng sat upright.
I also felt some pressure.
Ling Shiku was right. There were really too many characters in the Qin Dynasty, and whether they were civil servants or military officials, their daily work almost always revolved around household registration.
Civil servants have to register, collect taxes, etc.
Military officials recruited soldiers, interrogated criminals, etc.
To say it without exaggeration.
Nearly 90% of the officials in the Qin Dynasty worked around household registration.
As a Qin official, knowing all kinds of strange names is almost a basic skill for a Qin official. This is also the most important lesson taught in the school.
This is also the beginning of politics!!!
Look back.
Ling Shiku had written a lot of words on the wooden board.
All come from "Yu Shu".
"Yushu" touches on many daily things.
After a while, the wide wooden board was filled with words. These four-character words either related to civil servants or military officials, covering almost all aspects.
Qin Luoheng raised his head and looked at the wooden board.
I saw it said 'Chengguo Guanfu', 'Gateguan (yue)', 'Qianbaijin Bridge', '囷(qun) house building wall', 'Leather beetle (du) protrusion', 'Warehouse grain'
,'lou 椑 (bei) yayue', 'money feather (mao)', etc.
After finishing writing, Shi Ku opened his mouth and said:
"When I am talking, you just read along. When you can read it smoothly, you can copy these words on the calligraphy slips. When you have memorized them all, I will explain the meaning of these words."
Finished.
Ling Shi Ku started teaching loudly.
Qin Luoheng also read along.
However, he did not just follow the reading, but opened the calligraphy slips while reading, wrote these words on them, and marked the phonetic pronunciation.
There is no pinyin for later generations of the Qin Dynasty.
Therefore, if you want to learn Chinese characters, you can only use the straight phonetic method.
It means to recognize some of the most common words based on daily life, and when you encounter an unknown word, when teaching in Lingshi, use common words with the same pronunciation to mark the unknown word.
It is this method of learning.
This formed the later generation’s ‘recognizing half of Chinese characters’!