Borrow the day to change the day

Because not only in the villages, but also in the towns, most of them are based on clans.In the minds of most people at that time, there was no concept of nation and nation, but clan.

This point, even in later generations, the clan concept is stronger than the national concept, and it still exists in some places.

For Ming Dynasty to become strong, this concept must be changed.Otherwise, a small group like the clan will corrupt the foundation of Daming and corrupt Daming from the root.

But this question was so difficult that Zhong Jinwei frowned all the way and didn't speak.

Near the evening, Zhong Jinwei went to the place where the primary school teacher was.It is also luck that the husband did not go out to visit relatives and friends, so Zhong Jinwei was able to learn a lot about the situation.

As soon as Zhong Jinwei came out of Mr. Xiaoxue's residence, the county magistrate who had already received the news hurried forward and said, "It's a great honor for your lord to come to this county. I specially prepared thin wine to cleanse your lord."

What Zhong Jinwei encountered this day made him feel that he had a lot to do.Therefore, he was not interested in eating, so he said directly to the county magistrate, "I want to write a memorial to the emperor, and I will live in your county tonight. Unless there is something special, please don't bother me."

The county magistrate was taken aback for a moment, but immediately bowed and said, "I obey your orders!"

His rank is much higher than Dian Shi, and when he was waiting for Zhong Jinwei, the Dongchang fan had already shown him his waist badge to let him know his identity instead of just guessing.

As for Zhong Jinwei's identity, the county magistrate didn't know and didn't dare to ask again.The officials guarded by so many guards must be of very high rank.

And since the other party didn't want to tell him, he was happy not to know.

After Zhong Jinwei had dinner early in the residence arranged by the county magistrate, he began to write a memorial to Emperor Chongzhen.Because he still had a long time to go back and could not discuss it face to face, Zhong Jinwei wrote the memorial in great detail.

In the memorial, he mainly said the following things.

First, punctuation marks, blackboards, and chalk are of great help in early childhood education and are worthy of vigorous promotion.But because most of the primary school students are from poor families, they cannot afford chalk.Therefore, Zhong Jinwei suggested to increase the research on chalk to see how to reduce the cost as much as possible so that more people can afford chalk.

Second, it is about pinyin. There is no easy-to-use literacy method, and the teaching progress of preschool will depend to a large extent on the teachers of preschool.For this reason, Zhong Jinwei recommended the Chinese Pinyin he had learned to Emperor Chongzhen.

Zhong Jinwei also listed several advantages in the rules for the use of Hanyu Pinyin in the memorial.With this Chinese pinyin, it can greatly reduce the difficulty of teaching and recognizing Chinese characters for preschool teachers.

Zhong Jinwei also suggested that this set of pinyin of Chinese characters should be sorted out by the Confucian scholars in the court, and then a dictionary should be compiled to collect the pinyin and look up the characters by shape.In this way, as long as students have a dictionary in hand, they can learn Chinese characters by themselves.

The third is about traditional Chinese characters.Since human beings have their own characters, pictographs have undergone many changes, and one of the biggest trends is that Chinese characters are becoming simpler and simpler.But Zhong Jinwei believes that the current traditional Chinese characters are not simple enough. Many characters have too many strokes, which makes writing very troublesome and time-consuming.

For this reason, Zhong Jinwei even explained in conjunction with the vernacular that was previously promoted.Writing, like speaking, is also a manifestation of communication between people, but this kind of communication is not face-to-face communication.

But no matter what, one of the most important uses of creating characters is to express what the writer wants to express.For this reason, if the text is simple and clear, and easy to remember, it is the best text.

Therefore, Zhong Jinwei suggested that the court organize literary scholars to simplify Chinese characters again.At least the words used in daily life should be simplified to improve the writing efficiency of the common people.

Fourth, is the clan issue.Zhong Jinwei first briefly talked about what happened today, and then analyzed to Emperor Chongzhen the many harms that the clan issue might bring to Daming.

Finally, he explained to Emperor Chongzhen that in order to increase the influence and control of the government in the countryside, it is necessary to minimize the influence of the clan.

For this reason, Zhong Jinwei made several suggestions: First, it is best to extend the government from the lowest county level to the village and town level.

If the above measures cannot be achieved in a short period of time, some gentry with good deeds can be selected to replace the government.But there must be a term of office, and a replacement must be made after many years.

It is best for the government to select a few squires who have definite good deeds, and let the people in the villages and towns vote by secret ballot to elect the squire they are most willing to help the government do things.

This can minimize those squires who are in charge of the government, doing evil in the villages and towns, and deceiving the upper and lower.

This approach can also ensure to a certain extent that the local government and some squires will unite to work together and harm one party.

Zhong Jinwei didn't want to write this article at first, but after thinking about it, it was just the selection of squires at the village and town level, not officials, voluntary managers who didn't even have any salary.In the final analysis, this is actually just the voters, and officials are not involved.It should not touch the nerves of Emperor Chongzhen and the court ministers, so Zhong Jinwei threw this out.

Regarding the clan issue, Zhong Jinwei finally suggested that the cohesion of the clan be fundamentally disintegrated.

In his memorial, he analyzed to Emperor Chongzhen that the reason why the clan was so powerful was because the clan had mastered too many means of production.The people must rely on the strength of the clan to survive better.

But if one day, the common people can live a good life without relying on the clan.Then no common people would like to flatter the patriarch, and everything will be controlled by the patriarch.

In response to this, Zhong Jinwei suggested that the imperial court should provide guarantees to banks to a certain extent, so that people at the village and town level can also obtain low-interest loans from banks, so that they can start small businesses and reduce their dependence on the clan. This can fundamentally disintegrate the clan.

Of course, people who dare to borrow money and are independent from the clan by running small businesses are all intelligent people, and the number of such people is bound to be small.

But it doesn't matter, how many people can be independently counted as many people.Nothing is perfect, as long as you do it.

Zhong Jinwei thought about writing, writing and thinking, he was busy until late at night, and wrote the longest memorial after traveling to Daming.

Early the next morning, Gu Baichuan arranged for someone to deliver this memorial to Beijing.

And Zhong Jinwei did not delay in Zhuji County, and continued to go south to Guangzhou.

Along the way, nothing special happened, and the group entered Guangdong smoothly.Not many days later, the city of Guangzhou appeared in front of their eyes.