On the eighth day of the first lunar month of the 18th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cixuan took a carriage to the main campus of Laizhou Prefecture Technical College. After continuously annexing the surrounding houses, the college occupied two entire neighborhoods, almost a quarter of the city. Not only that, the workshops affiliated to the Technical College gradually became connected and gathered in the south city.

This expansion is also in line with Zhu Cilang's explanation: expanding the scale.

To promote productivity, it is not something that can be achieved in a day or two. However, it is not difficult to expand the scale of production, it is nothing more than sufficient money and manpower. In today's troubled times, food is a hard currency that is more important than gold and silver. Fortunately, Zhu Cilang is not short of food.

Furthermore, the "Disable of Craftsmanship Law" issued by Zhu Cilang through the imperial edict has also been passed to various prefectures and counties, and the Ming Dynasty inherited the craftsmanship system of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was legally ended.

This decree has greatly increased the recognition of the craftsmen for the court. Although they still have to accept the government's assignment, their lives have been fundamentally improved by being able to obtain wages instead of their previous service. When they find that the treatment of employed by the technical college is much better than taking on a single job, they are naturally willing to rely on it - they have no land to be attached to it.

With plenty of workshops and technical workers, many innovative designs from the Technical College can be converted into practical tools at the fastest speed.

With the support of the Laizhou Prefecture and the magistrate of Ye County, Zhu Cilang's carriage entered the city from the Nanchengxiang and saw with his own eyes the neatly planned new city. From the banner and sign, it can be seen that the division of labor in the planning area is also quite particular. These details were found by local officials themselves, and they were not paid in vain.

At the entrance of a large archway, Zhu Cilang got out of the car and looked up and saw the words "Huangming Technical College". The priest Wang Zheng led a group of professors, officials and deacons to arrange the door. Welcome Zhu Cilang's arrival.

Zhu Cilang quickly stepped forward to support Wang Zheng and smiled and said, "I'm sorry, Kui Xin Gong has been waiting for a long time."

After a winter, Wang Zheng grew older. After hearing Zhu Cilang's words, he cried and said, "Your Highness has ruined the old minister."

Zhu Cilang looked at Song Yingxing, Tang Ruowang, and Fang Yizhi and the other three, and finally set his eyes on the sixty-year-old man wearing a second-grade court robe.

"My dear Xiong Ming meets you, pay homage to the Crown Prince." Xiong Ming meets you and salutes yourself.

Zhu Cilang took a step forward and supported Xiong Mingyu: "Duke Shi, in the academy, only discusses the principles of heaven and earth, and all the rituals can be reduced."

The Ming Dynasty emperors preferential treatment for senior officials and old ministers was a family tradition, and civil officials had long been accustomed to it. Xiong Mingyu realized that he had made few achievements after he arrived at the Technical College, so he stepped aside after giving the ceremony.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Cilang has set his sights on him.

"Official Shi Gong." Zhu Cixuan asked, "I saw that the sir listed many formulas in mathematics, physics and chemistry books, and was about to ask for advice."

Xiong Ming met up and explained: "Your Highness Rong Bing. His Highness's works are easy to understand, but the text description is complicated after all. It is better to use the Western methods as formulas and it is easier to remember and promote."

"This is also something I like." Zhu Cixuan's book only talks about principles and does not list formulas. The biggest reason is that he does not know what kind of text to express and how to determine the unit symbols.

"Why don't you use Latin words? But...that kind, that kind of weird words?" Zhu Cixuan asked.

As recorded by the Thai missionaries, the literati and doctors of the Ming Dynasty were fully tolerant and curious to accept the Thai civilization, and were able to calmly acknowledge the lack of skills of their own civilization. However, the pride of China and the talent that is not inferior to others allowed these literati and doctors to learn not simply when accepting the Thai civilization, but to absorb and integrate the Thai civilization into the Chinese civilization with the attitude of teaching and learning.

Now that Taixi was just recognized by the Ming Dynasty as a civilized world, it is naturally not like what foreign masters say is supreme, just like three hundred years later.

"Your Highness, that's not a strange word." Xiong Mingyu smiled bitterly and said, "It's a lesser word."

The characters are simple and meaningful, and the text is consistent and pronunciated. This kind of "text" that intercepts Chinese characters radicals, radicals, or even just a few strokes is the guqin text score extracted and created by Cao Rou, a guqin master in the late Tang Dynasty, and is used to record the fingering method of the guqin.

As a scholar and official from the Ming Dynasty who are both professional in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, he created a set of phonetic notes to replace the "anti-cut method" phonetic notes that have been used to this day.

The pronunciation of Chinese is originally a direct pronunciation method, and it is written next to the rare characters, "read a certain character". Fu Qian, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, used an antonym when annotating "Book of Han", which is the anti-cut method that was later used. The anti-cut method uses two common characters to mark a pronunciation of a character, such as: "Wu", and the annotation of the anti-cut method is "Zhang Rui Bing".

If you use the pronunciation method to explain it, you should take the initial consonant of the upper character, cut off the final vowel of the character, and spell out the pronunciation of the character.

In the Tang Dynasty, monks Shouwen took Chinese characters as thirty initials, and in the Song Dynasty, the finals of rhymes were used as thirty-six finals. As a result, the anti-cutting method became more precise and became the most popular pronunciation method.

"I originally wanted to use the Taixi letters directly for pronunciation," Fang Yizhi stepped forward and said, "It is best to replace the current Chinese characters with the Taixi characters."

As soon as Fang Yizhi said this, the other professors showed unhappy expressions on their faces, and even Xiong Mingyu was a little embarrassed.

Zhu Cixuan knew that some people in later generations promoted the complete Westernization under the banner of Fang Yizhi and demanded the elimination of Chinese characters. At this moment, he didn't think it was strange.

"Since all the gentlemen are opposed, they have to give up." Fang Yizhi said embarrassedly: "However, it is inconvenient to pronounce the pronunciation of characters. I copied the subtitles of characters and took strokes from the golden seal script and divided them into sounds and rhymes to pronunciation of characters. Now the new "Shu" that uses this rune to represent characters is almost completed."

"I took this set of phonetic notes as the basis and listed the formulas with Taisiefaro, which is easy to remember." Xiong Mingyu said.

Zhu Cixuan felt a little dazed, and it was difficult to evaluate after hearing the cart. The last time he came to the Academy of Sciences, he wanted a hot air balloon that was necessary to travel through time, but Song Yingxing drew a magical flying fortress on the spot... He was almost scared by him. However, as a Ming Dynasty man who could come up with gunpowder rockets to the sky, the flying fortress was indeed nothing.

——The key is that you have no idea how to use pinyin for no reason! Even if you use pinyin, why not use English letters? Even if the English status is too low, German, Italian, and Latin are all fine! Now I have become an illiterate who doesn’t even know pinyin…

Zhu Cilang slowly walked forward with his head down, and before he knew it, he walked to a big locust tree. He asked someone to move a chair, sat around the shade of the tree, and asked, "I'm ashamed, I don't know why this phonetic notation is so important, and we must create it first."

"Your Highness, this thing is indeed a powerful tool." Wang Zheng bowed: "Not only can various formulas be written simply and facilitate memory, but more importantly, it is convenient to determine the units of weights and measures. For example, using '°' as the degree, '' as the part, and ''' as the seconds, which is convenient for writing and reading, and there is no error in writing and typing words."

——Well, you even made the pinyin, so you didn’t get the punctuation marks? Forget it, I’d better do it, so as not to get to know each other…

Zhu Cilang said in his heart.

"Your Highness," Fang Yizhi said again, "With the phonetic notes, craftsmen really read much faster. After the calligraphy is compiled, they can search for words with phonetic notes, and even if no one advises them, they can learn to learn to do so. I think that the countries of Taixi use only more than twenty words, and the so-called letters can be spelled into all the words. As long as people who can speak can learn to spell, they can all the countries can read..." Perhaps seeing Zhu Cilang's disbelief on his face, Fang Yizhi said anxiously: "Your Highness can ask Tang Siye."

The monopoly of knowledge in Taixi was even more than that of the Ming Dynasty. Johnson Chan was quite embarrassed and said, "My Thai text is indeed simple and easy to learn, but the Chinese text is also profound."

"The speed of literacy is not a problem, and you can't be eager for quick success or instant benefits." Zhu Cixuan said: "Many characters in China are synonymous with different pronunciations, and this may not be solved in Thai language."

Wang Zheng and Xiong Mingyu nodded in agreement. No matter how good or convenient the pinyin is, they can't even ask for the classics and documents left by their ancestors in the future.

Fang Yizhi was obviously criticized by everyone. Seeing that the crown prince did not support him, he had to shut up and ignore him.

"But the phonetic notation can be used directly in Thai characters." Zhu Cilang couldn't help but say: "This will also facilitate Thai people to learn Chinese characters."

"Your Highness, I think it's not possible." Wang Zheng opposed: "I have studied Taixi's characters, and each letter has its origin. Therefore, if the Chinese phonetic notes are copied, the meaning is first different. Secondly, because our dynasty is far from the Taixi language, many of the melody is not enough to be selected from the Taixi letters. Now this set of symbols is taken from ancient characters, and the pronunciation and meaning symbols are justified. Therefore, I think that it is better to take a unique approach than to learn how to walk in Handan."

Zhu Cilang said in his heart: Later Hong Kong and Taiwan also used phonetic notes, not Latinized pinyin, and their students also learned Chinese characters and used dictionaries. Since these professors insisted so much, let's use them first.

If you think about it carefully, it is natural that this happens.

A piece of white paper is good for painting. If it was the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, then total westernization could be considered an option. Because the literary system has been separated for three hundred years, the Chinese civilization has been strangled to death. A group of ignorant literati firmly believe that everything in China must be corrupt and backward...

However, the Ming Dynasty is now a magnificent masterpiece that lasts for five thousand years. Even after experiencing the troubled times of the Mongols and Yuan dynasties, the Mongols did not shave their hair and change their clothes, burn books and castrate scholars. Emperor Taizu Gao reopened his foundation, and although he also absorbed some relics of the Mongols and Yuan culture, the mainstream was still "the sun and the moon reopened the Song Dynasty".

Zhu Cilang was like reclaiming a new piece of land, planting seeds, but the fruits produced were completely different from what he thought. If this set of "Ming style pinyin" brought great shock to Zhu Cilang, then Zhu Cilang could only be stunned when he saw the latest achievements of the Technical College next time.
Chapter completed!