Qiming 1158

Chapter 823 The current Minister of Rites, but Kong Zheng

It is not an easy task to achieve all-round literacy and make everyone literate.

If nothing else, just say farmers, farmers generally have heavy agricultural production tasks that take a lot of time, especially during busy farming seasons, they basically spend the whole day in the fields serving crops.

Even in the slack season, in addition to a period of military training, most of the family labor will choose to go to the city to work, or work for major projects carried out by the imperial court, and earn some money to subsidize the family.

Serving crops in busy seasons and working in cities during slack seasons to earn wages. In this era when the imperial court cut harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes to lay a good foundation for farmers to accumulate wealth, farmers are basically busy making money, watching more and more copper coins and money at home. The food is so happy that the mouth can't close.

In addition, they also have certain living and entertainment needs.

Therefore, it is impossible for them to concentrate on studying for a long time, and they will not have such a high level of consciousness to spend their leisure time on study.

Except for young children who can concentrate on reading and writing full-time or part-time, it is not easy for most illiterate adults to spend half an hour a day learning to read and write.

If the study time is not enough, and the interval is relatively long, it will naturally forget more and faster, and the learning efficiency will be very low, and it will be difficult to quickly complete the literacy.

This has an impact on the great goal of complete literacy in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The longer the delay, the more detrimental it is to the overall literacy of the Ming Kingdom and the improvement of the overall cultural level. Su Yonglin thought about it for a long time and thought of the existence of the Xinhua Dictionary.

It is a reference book that has made historic contributions to the cause of literacy in China and the cause of raising the average cultural level of the people.

With the literacy reference book, people can read books independently when they need it, look up words they do not know, reduce the trouble of directly consulting teachers and literate people, greatly improve the efficiency of literacy, and have a huge impact on the improvement of people's cultural level. push.

It's just that such a useful reference book did not exist before the birth of the Xinhua Dictionary.

In ancient times, there were public reference books like Shuowen Jiezi and Kangxi Dictionary, as well as some privately compiled private reference books, which could indeed play a role in this regard.

But without exception, their nature is to be positioned as a reference book for use within the ruling class, rather than for literacy and the improvement of the cultural level of the entire people.

The birth of these reference books is only to allow the intellectuals within the ruling class to better learn and master knowledge, and they are all classical Chinese without exception.

Even their interpretation of Chinese characters is very obscure and difficult to understand, and in some places, the more the explanation is, the more confusing it becomes.

Obviously, the editors did nothing for the common people, they just did it for themselves, for the learning of insiders.

Think about it, anyway, feudal rulers never need to let the people know too much, stupid people are good to rule, smart people have too many eyes, it is difficult to rule.

It is to keep people forever in a state of ignorance, ignorance, hunger, and hunger. This is the ideal environment for authoritarian rule.

The so-called simplicity of the three ancient generations that Confucianism aspires to is probably the result of too many illiterates and too many stupid people, and there is nothing to be praised or proud of.

Su Yonglin suddenly realized that although he really wanted to do something for the people, he forgot one very important thing.

He has to find a way to leave a simple and easy-to-understand reference book with vernacular as the main content that can directly face them and improve their knowledge level for the people.

It is more important to compile a universal reference book for the people than to work hard to compile those textbooks.

So in Su Yonglin's mind, compiling a "Da Ming Dictionary" or "Hongwu Dictionary" has been put on the agenda by Su Yonglin.

After returning to Kaifeng City, Su Yonglin told Tian Guizi what he had seen, heard, thought, and thought, and told Tian Guizi that he wanted to compile a big dictionary that the common people could understand.

Tian Guizi agreed very much.

"This is good, a big dictionary is equivalent to a learned teacher. Having a big dictionary is equivalent to having a personal teacher. With a big dictionary, many things can be spread directly in the form of words, and You don't need to send too many people."

"Yes, I think so too. A useful dictionary can save us a lot of literacy costs!"

Su Yonglin was very happy, and wrote a letter directly, intending to let the imperial court handle this matter, and let the Ministry of Rites assign people to lead the matter, and strive to be quick, accurate and ruthless.

But as he was writing, he suddenly stopped writing.

"What's wrong, Alang? Don't write?"

Tian Guizi looked at him strangely.

Su Yonglin raised his head.

"Guzi, the current Minister of Rites is Kong Zheng."

Tian Guizi suddenly realized.

"Oh, those people."

Both fell into silence.

Obviously, they all believed that such a task could not be accomplished by the representatives of the group of feudal scholar-bureaucrats.

What is the difference between letting a group of representative figures from the top of the people complete a reference book for the people, and letting a hungry big wolf act as a shepherd dog to watch over and protect the little sheep?
The addition of this debuff made Su Yonglin feel amused.

"Obviously, this matter can't be done now. If Kong Zheng's group is not liquidated, don't even think about this big dictionary. Even if they compile it, they will only explain the text again."

So Su Yonglin put down his pen and put away the half-written edict.

"Alang, what to do next? This dictionary can't just be left alone."

"That's natural."

Su Yonglin looked at Tian Guizi, and said, "First resolve the Shandong issue. If the Shandong issue is not resolved, the Ministry of Rites will not be able to get it back. If the Ministry of Rites does not get it back, we will not be able to compile our big dictionary."

Su Yonglin stood up, walked outside the house, looked at the sunny weather outside, and took a deep breath.

"If the new era is to come, we must sweep away all the fans of the old era, Guizi, we are going to fight a tough battle."

"A tough battle that won't be lost."

Tian Guizi made some additions.

"A tough battle that cannot be lost and cannot be lost."

Su Yonglin made more precise additions.

The time soon came to April. Su Yonglin basically completed the account verification of the Kaifeng headquarters, Xuzhou branch and Pizhou branch. There were no major problems, and the minor problems had been solved by Su Yonglin using physical methods.

The administrative and economic operation of these places is relatively stable, which makes Su Yonglin more satisfied.

So next, Su Yonglin turned his attention to Shandong.

At the beginning of April, Su Yonglin received a secret report from the Skynet Army's [-]th Action Team. The report was about the shocking case of corruption in Dongping Mansion that they discovered.

This nest case started with Chen Luo, the governor of Dongping Prefecture, and spread all over Dongping Prefecture. Important clues were also found in the Yellow River Engineering Branch of the Dongping Prefecture Renaissance Association, and the merchants and landlords who were assisting it were spread all over Shandong. The state capital is very involved.

The abnormal rise in prices in Shandong must have contributed to this group of people.

Not only that, the case of Dongping House has also been implicated in the case of Jinan House. The case of Jinan House is also a nest case, and it is inseparable from the upper levels of Jinan House, but the current evidence is not enough to determine who is behind the scenes.

If we want to know this question, I am afraid we need to blast the Dongping House case, arrest all the relevant people and bring them to justice. Only after a rigorous interrogation can we reach the final conclusion and uncover the important evidence of the Jinan House case.

(End of this chapter)