"The ceremony is cancelled?" Everyone in the Governor's Mansion was surprised.
Zhao Han said: "It's enough to issue documents internally and post notices externally. It's just to establish yourself as a king. It's not like ascending the throne and proclaiming emperor. It's better to keep everything simple. Save money and food and send it to Shandong.
"
No one can persuade me anymore, I can only obey.
Although Zhao Han brainstorms and is willing to accept various opinions when doing things, once he makes a decision, even the Nine Bulls can't pull him back.
Various decisions are not entirely correct and often seem inappropriate.
Zhao Han is willing to correct some mistakes.
There are some mistakes that he will never correct. Zhao Han always thinks that he is right.
The officials of the Dudu Mansion have long been accustomed to this. As long as it is not something particularly outrageous, they will not bother to give advice after Zhao Han makes his decision.
It is obviously not a big deal to establish oneself as king without any ceremony.
"Don't attack that side of Henan. It's a white land with millions of hungry people. It will be a quagmire after we conquer it," Zhao Han sighed. "Don't attack Jiaodong anymore. We will only attack two places next year. One is the Grand Canal in Shandong.
Along the line, one point goes along the Yangtze River to attack Sichuan."
Li Banghua said: "The southern Sichuan salt field must be captured."
"Capture the salt fields in southern Sichuan and then attack Chengdu in the north, which is another important grain-producing area." Xu Nianzu said.
Zhao Han asked: "Who is willing to be the envoy to conquer Chieftain Shi Ding (Qin Liangyu)?"
Xu Nianzu cupped his hands and said, "I would like to go."
"Do you know General Qin?" Zhao Han asked.
"I don't know." Xu Nianzu said.
Zhao Han suddenly laughed: "Then go ahead."
Xu Nianzu asked: "What conditions can be offered to Chieftain Shi Ding?"
Zhao Han replied: "First, the chieftain of Shiliu changed his position to Shizhu County, and in the future it was changed to Shizhu County; secondly, the old lady was old and was not expected to live for a few years, so she was made the magistrate of Shizhu County; thirdly, the land
The policy remains unchanged. Each of the Ma and Qin families will retain twenty acres of land. Fourthly, if members of the Ma and Qin families still want to join the army, they can be temporarily organized into the Shizhu Independent Regiment. The number of troops must not exceed 3,000, and
Missionaries must be placed, and we will provide the troops, food, and salaries."
Xu Nianzu said happily: "In that case, I will definitely be able to persuade Chieftain Shi Ding to surrender!"
Zhao Han is now crazy about poverty. He has more than enough money, but he is always short of food.
There are too many places that need grain. Floods hit the southern provinces this year, and drought hit Guangdong in the first half of the year. Even the grain dealers in each province don't have much grain in hand, but ordinary people still have some stored in their homes.
Facing the famine, Fei Ruhe and Zhang Tieniu both confiscated grain from Shandong grain merchants.
But how much can the grain merchants have?
Under normal circumstances, the sum of the grain stocks of all grain dealers in a certain place, through high price selection of customers, can sustain some people in the city until the grain harvest season next year. As for those who have no money to buy high-priced grain, then just wait to starve to death!
In other words, even if all the grain from the grain merchants was confiscated, it would not be enough to rescue all the people in the city, let alone those outside the city.
Zhao Han is trying his best to mobilize food, clothing, and officials to move to Shandong.
When we send out troops next year, we must attack Zuo Liangyu first!
Although Zuo Liangyu's land was also heavily damaged, the area along the Grand Canal was still barely able to hold on.
As for attacking Sichuan, there are only two goals: grain from the Chengdu Plain and silver from the salt fields in southern Sichuan.
After discussing the details for a while, everyone went to do their own things.
Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi then met and brought the first version of the Qieyin (Pinyin) plan.
Qian Qianyi reported: "After repeated discussions and revisions, the original seven tones were finally changed to five tones, namely: Yin Ping, Yang Ping, Shang Tone, Qu Tone, and Enter Tone."
Zhao Han nodded and said: "That's good. Five tones are more concise and easier to promote than seven tones."
If we compare the tones of modern Chinese, the Yangping tone is equivalent to the first tone, the Yinping tone is equivalent to the second tone, the upward tone is equivalent to the third tone, and the falling tone is equivalent to the fourth tone - they are just equivalent, not absolutely so, and there are some differences.
The symbols have also been formulated: Yinping (ˉ), Yangping (ˊ), Shangsheng (ˇ), Qusheng (ˋ), and Rusheng ().
Liu Rushi said: "The pronunciation has been finalized, but the correct pronunciation of the text is still being made up, mainly because the tones of some characters are controversial."
"Okay, take your time in determining the pronunciation of the text. You are from different places, and it is normal to have disputes about the pronunciation," Zhao Han said, "Let's make up a dictionary while determining the pronunciation."
Qian Qianyi was very obedient now and took the initiative to ask: "What instructions does the governor have for the compilation of the Dictionary?"
Zhao Han said: "First, it is easy to understand. Try to compile it in popular prose and avoid using classical Chinese; second, it is easy to search. It will not take you a long time to search for a word."
Qian Qianyi said: "It is easy to compile popular articles, but it is difficult to make them easy to search."
Zhao Han took out a pen and paper and demonstrated in person: "First, use phonetic notation to search, sorting according to initials and vowels; secondly, use radical search, and sort by horizontal and vertical strokes. If there is no specific radical, just sort by the number of strokes."
When Zhao Han finished explaining in detail, Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi couldn't help but marvel.
This set of search methods is more than twice as efficient as the existing search rules. For some complex and rare words, the search efficiency may be hundreds or thousands of times higher!
Really, if you were looking up rare words in ancient times, you could look up one word for a whole day.
Zhao Han added: "When compiling the dictionary, the simplest common character is selected as the orthographic character. If there are other ways to write this character, they are listed below. The content of each character is divided into: orthographic character, phonetic notation, and explanation.
Give examples. Definitions can be divided into: original meaning, quoted meaning, metaphorical meaning, paraphrase, etc. For each meaning, examples must be given so that people know how to understand and use it.”
Zhao Han is like setting down the rules for compiling the dictionary, and the rest is just action.
He simply took it all out, and Zhao Han wrote out a set of punctuation marks and said: "Today's sentence breakers are just commas and sentence circles, which are extremely unfriendly to beginners. You can add book titles, question marks, quotation marks, colons, etc.
"I plan to print the new edition of "Datong Collection" next year in horizontal format. Vertical printing is not conducive to digital writing and wastes paper during printing."
Qian Qianyi carefully understood the punctuation marks, nodded and said, "These sentence breakers are excellent."
Liu Rushi asked: "Do all books from now on have to be printed horizontally?"
Zhao Han smiled and said: "There is no requirement for folk books, but official documents, official printed books, and school textbooks must be arranged horizontally."
Except for very bad customs that must be forcibly corrected, Zhao Han generally does not force anything when promoting new things. He just lets the government do it first and uses the power of the government to guide the people to carry out reforms.
Take horizontal printing as an example. Private booksellers will definitely follow suit.
Because of horizontal printing, you can save paper and reduce book costs!
Zhao Han glanced at the clock. That thing finally had a minute hand. This was a great progress, at least fifteen years ahead of Europe.
"It's almost evening, let's stay and eat." Zhao Han said.
Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi naturally would not refuse and happily followed him to the back house.
Zhao Han said as he walked: "Have those petitioners harassed the Hanlin Academy?"
Qian Qianyi said with a smile: "I've been there a few times, but no one paid attention to me, so I stopped going."
"A bunch of rotten scholars are so full that they are full of food." Zhao Han said scornfully.
Qian Qianyi flattered him and said: "They are just corrupt scholars. How do they know the profound meaning of the governor?"
Walking to the back house, Fei Rulan was reading a book, sitting leisurely under the shade of a tree.
Pan Qimei finally stopped raising chickens and became interested in cooking. Recently, she was keen on making pastries. Because she made so many cakes, she often asked servants and guards to take them home, and officials in the Dudu Mansion occasionally shared some.
"Greetings, madam!" Qian Qianyi bowed his hands.
As a woman, Liu Rushi also learned how men hold hands. As early as a few years ago, when she corresponded with literati and celebrities, she also addressed each other as "brother" and called herself "brother" in her letters.
Fei Rulan quickly stood up and returned the greeting, inviting the two of them to sit down.
Seeing that there were two guests today, Pan Qimei was very happy. She brought out the snack she made and introduced: "This is called sweet potato candy. I bought some from the recent sweet potato harvest. Mix the steamed French fries with glutinous rice flour.
After compacting, cut into strips and steam them thoroughly. Press again and steam again. Take the embryo and cut it into pieces, fry it, boil it in sugar and shred it."
"Thank you, Mrs. Pan."
After Qian Qianyi thanked him and saw Zhao Han starting to eat, he dared to stretch out his hand to take food.
Liu Rushi put it in his mouth and chewed it. His eyes suddenly lit up and he exclaimed, "It's just a sweet potato that can make it so delicious."
Qian Qianyi also sincerely praised: "Mrs. Pan's ingenuity can turn decay into magic!"
This stuff is a true delicacy and will definitely become a hit.
Pan Qimei smiled and said: "My husband provided me with the method, I just did it."
Qian Qianyi quickly flattered him again: "Governing a big country is like cooking small dishes. The governor manages the country well and his cooking is also excellent."
Liu Rushi smiled and said: "I heard that when the Governor was in Qianshan, he personally taught him cooking skills. The red oil and white chopped chicken, the general chicken diced, etc. were all taught by the Governor himself."
"I'm greedy, it's delicious." Zhao Han said with a smile.
Not long after, the princes and princesses came back from school and came over with their schoolbags to greet them: "How are you, uncle? How are you, aunt?"
"Sit down." Zhao Han smiled and nodded.
Fei Rulan handed over the sweet potato candies: "You guys can eat them too, Aunt Pan made them."
Zhu Yasuo took a bite and immediately smiled: "This is delicious. I have never eaten it in the palace."
In the palace?
Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi immediately looked at these children.
Zhao Han asked: "What did you learn today?"
Zhu Cihong replied: "I know the four books, and I can also do arithmetic. I reviewed the four books today and learned to do multiplication using foreign numbers."
Zhu Cixi, brother and sister, are very satisfied with their current life. They can make many friends in the school, and no one cares about them. It is much more free and interesting than in the palace.
It's just that they miss their parents a little.
As for the teachers and students in the school, no one knows their identities for the time being. They cannot hide their identities for a long time. The second and third princes are only eight years old. Sooner or later, they will spill the beans.
After waiting for a while, the little girl hasn't come home yet. She probably went to have dinner with the math club.
Zhao Han said: "Let's have dinner."
Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi observed secretly and became more and more convinced that the princes and princesses were very well behaved when eating.
