"Sir, why are you so mean? Hong'er just wants to express his opinion. You! You know how to be mean to others."
Hong'er scratched her head and made a pose, then fell into Gong Shujing's arms and said coquettishly.
Gong Shujing pinched Hong'er's waist hard, causing Hong'er's face to turn red with embarrassment, and she pressed closer to him.
"What do you, a woman, know?
If the salt business is lost, I will lose my advantage in terms of money in heaven and earth, and without money, those people will not be so loyal!"
"Moreover, heaven and earth also need to constantly add new manpower. Without money, how can we recruit experts?
What's more, that prince has now become the leader of the martial arts alliance!"
Gongshu Jing said in a cold voice.
Martial arts leader!
This is what Gongshu Jing is most worried about. Moreover, Lin Fan also found out how Song Zang was framed back then. That good-for-nothing Zhang Xiongfeng was deceived a few times and was deceived ten thousand times!
"Sir, things have already happened anyway, we can only use them to deal with them!"
Hong'er said in a deep voice.
Gongshu Jing nodded and began to think about countermeasures.
A few days later, those young people who had learned Pinyin began to go to other places, holding tokens issued by the government in their hands to teach the people of the Ming Dynasty to learn Pinyin.
"This! Your Highness, this is unnecessary! There are only twenty-six letters in Pinyin. What's the use of learning it?"
"Yes! My child is eight years old this year. He learned these pinyin letters in only two or three days, but what's the use?
Why not let my children learn to write?”
"That's right! If His Royal Highness really wants to do good for us, it would be great if he directly sends some people to teach us how to write. Alas! What's the use of asking us to learn Pinyin!"
"The pronunciation of the pinyin is also very strange. My son is studying it every day. He could have gone to the fields to help me with some farm work, but now he has no time."
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The common people complained about this matter, but they just wanted their children to learn writing, so they could accept it.
Half a month later, almost all the children in the Ming Dynasty learned the pronunciation of Pinyin, and the teenagers who went to various places to teach Pinyin also came back.
Xue Bingtian, the Minister of Rites, reported the matter to Lin Fan.
"Your Highness, according to your instructions, children from all over the country have learned the Pinyin alphabet, and many of the parents of these children have also learned the pronunciation of the Pinyin alphabet."
Xue Bingtian said in a deep voice.
Lin Fan put his hands behind his back, and when he heard Xue Bingtian's report, his eyes became a little more excited. He didn't expect that things would progress so quickly!
"Very good! Now that those children have learned the pinyin alphabet, we can let them try to read."
Lin Fan said with a smile.
Xue Bingtian said: "Your Royal Highness, our Ministry of Rites has gathered printing workshops from all over the country in the past half month and printed 100,000 books. Are all of them distributed to the people?"
Lin Fan looked at Xue Bingtian and said, "Okay! When distributing these books to the people, their identities and information must be recorded, and tell them that if the books are lost or seriously damaged, they will have to pay the original price! No compensation will be given.
Yes, all of them will be sent to the army!"
Lin Fan knew that unruly people came out of poor places, and the people in some places did not know what was good or bad. If you gave them books, they might just tear them up or sell them.
"Yes! Your Highness the Crown Prince!"
Xue Bingtian said in a deep voice.
"Also, you are now ordering officials from all over the country to build several large houses for me in every state capital, from the main city to the county seat. I want to open a library!"
Lin Fan said.
"library?"
Xue Bingtian looked at Lin Fan doubtfully.
"A library is a place where books are stored and people can enter and read them. However, the books inside are only allowed to be read and not taken away."
"Moreover, it is forbidden to make noise in the library. Government officers need to be sent to keep an eye on it every day. Anyone who finds any noise or fights will be taken directly to the Yamen to be beaten!"
"The library is free in the early stage, but in the later period, as the number of books in the library increases, there will be charges. For example, if you read a book for an hour, you will be charged ten cents."
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
hiss!
When Xue Bingtian first heard what Lin Fan said about the usefulness of the library, he just felt that the library was a wonderful place where people could read books and learn to write.
But when he heard what happened later, Xue Bingtian was a little shocked. His Royal Highness was so thoughtful that he actually included everything that might happen in the library, and also made rigid rules.
With these rules, the library will be peaceful and everyone will only read there.
In the later period, the library would also charge fees. In other words, most people in the Ming Dynasty had learned to read and write, so there was no need to give them free books.
And the library's fees are not expensive, only ten cents an hour. It doesn't seem difficult for those who can't afford books to go there once or twice a month.
If you calculate it this way, His Royal Highness’s library will also be the largest source of revenue for the Ming Dynasty in the future!
"Your Highness the Crown Prince is wise, I understand your true intentions!"
Xue Bingtian said.
"Oh! You actually understand. You might as well talk about it and see if it is the same as what I think."
Lin Fan looked at Xue Bingtian and said.
Could it be that Xue Bingtian is gifted? He has only been with him for a few days and he has already reached his own state of mind?
"His Royal Highness is guiding the common people to study. When they all learn to read and write, they will surely be thirsty for knowledge and will work tirelessly. At this time, by charging fees, our court can make a lot of money!"
Xue Bingtian said.
Forehead……
This Xue Bingtian really understood his true intention, but he only understood part of it.
"Alas! Xue Bingtian, you are really stupid. Do you know that knowledge is priceless! At first, people didn't know how to read and write. I also want to promote simplified Chinese characters, so it needs to be free!"
"However, if it is always free, people will inevitably think that the simplified Chinese characters are inferior characters. At the same time, most people will just stay in the library if they have nothing to do, not studying or working!"
"That's why I charge a fee, so that people who spend ten cents to enter are the ones who really want to read the book!"
"Moreover, these people will never delay their work just because they want to read. After all, reading costs money. They even work harder so that they can often enter the library to read!"
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
"This! Weichen is so narrow-minded! His Highness the Crown Prince's broad-mindedness is rare in the world, and Weichen admires him!"