Great Tang princess

Chapter 702 Typewriter Conception
Although the provincial system has just been proposed, the ministers in the cabinet are not ordinary people, and they are more or less apprentices.

So even many ministers outside the cabinet received news one after another in the following time.

After they received the news, the big families behind them naturally also knew about it.

As a result, many people began to move their minds.

The emergence of the provincial system means that the bureaucracy will inevitably continue to expand.

In other words, you can arrange more people on your side to join the local bureaucracy.

So in the following time, the cabinet ministers kept discussing with their students, discussing various proposals, and wanted to speed up the implementation of the provincial system.

During this period of time, Li Yuechen also brought this topic to the classroom for students to discuss.

Of course, these are not taught in the military academy, but they should be fully understood in the internal courses of the royal family.

Nowadays, the imperial examinations are also divided into civil and military subjects, not to mention the liberal arts, and the martial arts is naturally the entrance to the military academy.

The main test content is as different as physical fitness and military art.

The education of the royal family does not distinguish between civil and military, but it is a bit like the way the children of the aristocratic family were trained before.

They are required to be capable of both civil and military skills. Simply put, they can cut people when they are on horseback, and can hold pens when they are off their horses.

This kind of training method is also doomed that the academic pressure of the royal family is much greater than that of ordinary people.

But even so, because of Li Yuechen's special education method, the students would not feel bored.

In class, the children also gave their suggestions on the upcoming provincial system.

Li Chongrun was the first to express his opinion: "According to what my aunt said, how to ensure the stability of local institutions?"

Being able to ask such a question is enough to explain his current knowledge and thoughts.

This made Li Yuechen feel relieved, but she didn't answer right away, but raised her chin lightly: "Tell me what you think."

"In my nephew's opinion, it's better to set up a separate supervisory agency in each province and city, and be managed by Yushitai. It is mainly responsible for supervising corruption and discipline of local officials..."

Speaking of this, he had a sudden thought: "Well, why don't we just call it Supervisor Temple."

Li Yuechen couldn't help laughing: "Well, let's not mention the name, the idea is good!"

The first person who proposed an idea was praised, so naturally he was not afraid that there would be no follow-up.

Sure enough, other children also put forward their own suggestions and ideas.

Although some ideas sound naive, for example, Li Longye actually said that he wanted to spread telegrams all over the country to improve the efficiency of message transmission.

It's a pity that even if this kind of thing can be done, I'm afraid it will be 100 years later, and it is impossible now.

But anyway, everyone's willingness to contribute ideas and questions is a joy in itself.

……

After finishing the day's class, Li Yuechen returned to the Princess Mansion.

As soon as he entered the main hall, he saw several eunuchs wandering around a large wooden box.

"What is this?" Li Yuechen frowned, "Is someone here to give a gift?"

"Return to Your Highness, it was sent by the Academy of Engineering."

Li Yuechen nodded: "Oh, open it and have a look."

The eunuchs agreed and planned to open the box.

However, the edge of the box was nailed to death. An eunuch looked at it, turned around and planned to go out to find tools.

Feeling a little troubled, Li Yuechen waved his hand and grabbed the edge of the board.

I didn't see much force, just lifted my arm up, and the nailed wooden board was opened directly.

Inside the box was a brand-new phonograph. When I took it out, I saw that the workmanship was extremely gorgeous.

Although it is not carved with dragons and phoenixes like the one for the emperor, it still has extremely beautiful hollow carvings.

In addition, there are several brand new records, which should have been recorded during this period.

Li Yuechen asked the eunuchs to arrange it, and Shangguan Wan'er and the others will listen to it together after they come back from get off work.

Then I took a few records and watched them.

These records were carefully wrapped in paper with words written on them.

This font looks like it was written by Pei Bishu. The calligraphy level is there, but not much.

It is recorded which record was recorded by who, what instrument was mainly used, etc...

Overall, the records are relatively detailed.

……

At dusk, Shangguan Wan'er and the others came back from get off work, and Li Yuechen immediately called them over to listen to music.

After winding up the mainspring, Li Yuechen took out a record from Taichang Temple and played it gently.

As the stylus danced on the disc, clear music sounded from the speakers.

The only pity is that if the phonograph of this era records the human voice, the sound is too small to achieve the fusion effect with the musical instrument.

But this is something that future generations need to consider, and she doesn't need to worry about it anymore.

Princess Xuancheng smiled and said: "Every time I listen to it, I feel that this thing is really magical. I really don't know how Chen'er thought of it."

"She has had many whimsical ideas since she was a child, and I'm used to them." Princess Yiyang picked up her teacup with a smile and took a sip.

"I've said it all, I'm the reincarnation of Empress Nuwa sitting down as a boy..." Li Yuechen started talking nonsense again.

Many people really believed her rhetoric.

Of course, most people still believe in the rumor that she is the God of War.

Listening to music and drinking tea while chatting, in this era, it is considered a very high-end enjoyment.

After a while, it was time for dinner, and the delicious food was also delivered.

Now in the princess mansion, they all eat at the same table, and they already have a lot of feeling of the future.

Talking about some things while eating, every day is very happy.

Pei Qingwan was reporting on business issues: "Recently, the fountain pen is still not accepted by the outside world. Instead, many officials from the Six Departments came to buy it..."

The appearance of the fountain pen was originally thought to set off a revolution in writing.

However, the fact is just the opposite. Many people think that this thing is crooked, and they still insist on writing with a brush.

But it is convenient and true, especially for the petty officials who work in the Sixth Ministry. In this era without typewriters, these workers have to write a lot of documents by hand every day.

Compared with brushes, this kind of fountain pen is more convenient to write.

They all have a calligraphy background. After a little practice, I can't say how good they can write, but at least they are not bad.

And the writing method of the hard pen is also doomed to not need to hang the wrist, which can make the arm not so tired.

So naturally it began to spread in this circle.

As for the Ministry of War, it is now fully pen-based, and even people like Yao Yuanchong who are not from the army now use pens.

On the contrary, writing brushes have become a hobby in leisure time. Of course, writing brushes are still used when writing letters with friends.

"No problem, anyway, convenient things will spread sooner or later."

In Li Yuechen's view, there is no need to enforce the pen.

There is nothing wrong with using a brush, just use it if you like.

Brushes are a part of traditional culture, and it is not a bad thing to like tradition.

On the contrary, it should be preserved. If there is an opportunity in the future, activities such as calligraphy competitions should be held frequently to allow the traditional skills to continue.

But speaking of this, Li Yuechen thought of a question.

If a typewriter can be invented, will it be possible to further improve the administrative efficiency of the country?
Because of some previous experiences, Li Yuechen became very interested in Chinese characters, so he also learned hard-tipped pen calligraphy.

In fact, many people may not know that in the original history, the industrial revolution triggered the arrival of the mechanical age.

In the mechanical age, Chinese characters were almost abolished several times.

One of them was the advent of the typewriter.

At that time, in order to increase the efficiency of information input, the West invented the world's first typewriter.

As a result, it quickly spread to the whole world, especially in countries that use phonetic characters, it is crazy.

French, Italian, Russian and even Hebrew can be typed perfectly.

Someone even invented the Korean keyboard by cutting the Hangeul of Korean.

Many people may not know that Hangeul, although it looks like a pictographic script, is actually a phonetic script.Similar to kana in Japanese.

Therefore, as long as the 24 letters are arranged and supplemented by switching keys, smooth input can be achieved.

However, when typewriters became popular all over the world, they encountered difficulties in the land of using ideographic characters.

The reason is also very simple, the number of Chinese characters is too fucking much!
The key is that it is not compatible with English letters. The reason why the QWER keyboard is popular all over the world is because it can perfectly replace handwriting input.

It can be like handwriting, what you see is what you get, what you press is what you type.

And the 26 letters that make up all words can be placed within easy reach.

These two points, which seem to be common sense, are almost impossible challenges for Chinese typewriters in the mechanical age.

With the huge number of Chinese characters, it is obviously impossible to tile them all on the keyboard.

So to do this, we must invent a text retrieval method while inventing the typewriter.

But to achieve text retrieval, it is impossible to get what you see because it will cause conflicts, and you cannot have both.

And this contradiction has not been completely resolved until the information age.

For people in the mechanical age, the difficulties brought about by this language difference almost made Chinese character printers an impossible task.

The incompatibility between Chinese characters and printers seems to imply a mismatch between tradition and technology.

So there were a lot of discriminatory remarks at that time, not to mention foreigners, even many people in China felt that Chinese characters were a "cumbersome" at that time, and hoped to abolish Chinese characters and switch to the Latin alphabet.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of people with lofty ideals in any era. Although several typewriter companies all over the world have given up, there are still many Chinese people who insist on developing their own typewriters.

The first batch of designers of Chinese character typewriters followed the idea of ​​English typewriters, and focused their design on the aspect of WYSIWYG that is most in line with human intuition.

Their approach is also very simple. Although there are tens of thousands of Chinese characters, there are only a few thousand commonly used characters.

As long as the blocks are made smaller and the typewriter is made larger, it can still be tiled.

Following this line of thought, the first Chinese character typewriter, the Shu typewriter, appeared.

However, rather than saying that it is a typewriter, it is better to say that it is an advanced body of movable type printing.

Typing has turned into looking for words, thousands of commonly used characters plus some uncommon characters are laid out on a huge board.

Holding a handle with a magnifying glass function for coordinate movement, it is the first Chinese character typewriter in the true sense.

Commonly used characters are arranged in the middle, and then matched with a word list, you can use them smoothly.

Even this machine made an appearance at the World Expo.

but……

It can be used, and it has indeed achieved the function of typing.

But there is one biggest shortcoming, that is slow!
Typing is so slow that its very existence would become a huge problem.

The emergence of typewriters is to replace handwriting and improve input efficiency.

But if the typing speed is not as fast as handwriting, then what is the point of the typewriter?

Fortunately, a writer appeared at that time, and that was Mr. Lin Yutang.

He has always wanted to have a typewriter that is small in size and fast in typing.

But due to lack of money, he could only write books crazily, and invested all the manuscript fees he earned in the research and development of typewriters.

So after 31 years, Mr. Lin successfully developed a Chinese character typewriter named "Brilliant" by him.

Although due to various reasons, this machine failed to be mass-produced in the end, but he once applied for a patent for this machine in the beautiful country.

When Li Yuechen participated in the mountain bike cliff downhill challenge in the beautiful country, he was lucky enough to see this information.

The structure of this machine is deceptively simple, with a large roller.

Around the big drum are six middle drums, and around each middle drum there are six smaller drums.

Each small cylinder has eight sides, and each side has 28 fonts.

In this way, there are 8064 characters in total.It can complete the input of commonly used Chinese, English, numbers and even punctuation marks.

The most powerful thing about this machine is that Mr. Lin created his own up and down type checking method.

In other words, as long as you know the structure of the upper left and lower right of a word, you can type it out.

For example, to type a "vulgar" word.

First press the button next to the single person on the keyboard, and the rollers on the back of the machine will rotate and locate on the rollers next to all the single persons.

Then press the "口" button again, and the small scroll wheel will continue to rotate.

Finally locate the candidate characters with these two radicals, such as: Xin, Bei, You, Gu, Sell...etc.

Then press the number corresponding to the candidate word you want on the keyboard, and the word will be typed out.

This is exactly the same as the original input method logic of electronic computers.

It is even said that this is already an input method.

It's a bit like the smart ABC input method that Li Yuechen saw when he was in primary school.

The most important thing is that the size of this typewriter is similar to that of an English typewriter.

And after getting used to it, it is not a problem to type sixty characters in one minute.

And this is still a purely mechanical mechanism, even in this era, with the help of the handicraft masters from the Academy of Engineering, it should be able to be made!
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