Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 747
Mr. Wu Yi was hired by Dynasty to go out of the National History Museum, and his young friend Mao Qiling brought him a donkey. The old and the young each rode a small donkey, walking on the street very leisurely.

In the evening, as the sun went down, the streets became much cooler. The coastal city of Dengzhou was not as cool as the inland area, and the sea breeze was blowing very cool.

There are people who get off work, those who set up stalls in the night market, those who go home after work, and some who go out for a walk. The streets are very lively.

Next to the National History Museum is the Guozijian, and there are newly built political and legal schools, normal schools, medical schools and other specialized colleges. There are many students, so the streets here are also very lively.

The little donkey is not fast, but very comfortable.

After Zhu Yihai proclaimed himself emperor, officials were forbidden to ride in sedan chairs, and ordinary people were even less qualified. The emperor thought that this kind of sedan chair carried by manpower was inappropriate.

No matter why the emperor has this view, but since the emperor forbids it, officials, scholars and people naturally dare not violate it, and the emperor's majesty is still very strong.

On the streets of Tokyo, there are many horse-drawn carriages. There are also traditional two-wheeled carriages, but not many. Now the most popular on the street is four-wheeled carriages. There are open and sedan cars, private ones, public ones, and rental ones of.

Although there are many of these carriages, they are very orderly. Regardless of whether they are private, rented, public or even used for goods, they all have corresponding license plates, and each carriage is equipped with a bell. livery.

Even the horse that pulls the cart has a special brand mark on its buttocks, and a dung pocket on the back. It is forbidden to pull dung and urine anywhere in the city, and offenders will be fined.

Officials in scarlet robes and purple robes in Tokyo generally have their own private carriages, which are very convenient to come and go, while small officials in green robes and green robes do not have high salaries, and it is not easy to live in the capital, but their expenses are not low, so they are often Rent a car or charter a car, and some go directly to and from the office in a public carriage, and some simply go to and from work on their legs, or buy a donkey or a mule.

Generally, there are few horses to buy, which are not cheap, and the cost of raising horses is too high, and the tax is also high. Raising a small donkey or mule can save a lot of money, and it is also convenient for travel.

Mr. Yiling Wang Chaocheng's little donkey was bought for him by his son Wang Fuzhi, a lecturer in the East Palace. It is not big, but very docile.

In fact, it’s not that Mr. Yiling can’t afford a horse or a car, it’s just that he’s not a person who likes to enjoy himself. Last year, he took part in the subject of erudite CI, was admitted by the emperor, was awarded the editorship of the Imperial Academy, and was specially selected as the editor of the National History Museum. Writing, the old man is a successor of mind learning, very knowledgeable.

He even worked as a part-time professor in the Imperial College and the Jiangwu Hall.

The sum of the salaries of his several errands is actually very high, even if he lives in the capital, he is very well off.

"Outsider, outsider, Zhang Guowei, governor of Liaodong, led his army into Shenyang, defeated the Tartars, beheaded more than [-] people, and Shenyang recovered!"

"Extraordinary, Shen Yang is back!"

Several newsboys carried a cross-body schoolbag, which contained a large bag of Beijing News that had just been urgently published, and the good news that had just come from Liaodong. Zhang Guowei, Geng Zhongming, Korean soldiers, Chahar Mongolian soldiers, and Liaodong Liaoxi Yu Battalion, Ruan Jin's Bohai Sea Division, etc. successfully joined forces under Liaoyang City, quickly bombarded Liaoyang City, then surrounded Shenyang, and broke Shenyang City in just a few days.

Although everyone expected that Daming would definitely win the Liaoshen battle, it was a bit surprising, even overjoyed, to win so quickly.

"Two servings!"

Mao Qiling took out four copper coins.

The newsboy took the copper coin, quickly glanced at it, put it in his pocket, then handed over a Beijing News account that still smelled of fresh ink, took out another account, held it in his hand and continued shouting loudly.

Mao Qiling handed over a copy to Dynasty Employment.

"Zhang Ge's old treasured sword is not old yet. The supervisor fought and regained Liaoshen so quickly. The court didn't send any extra troops to leave the customs. Only the two towns of the Liao and Liao's imperial camps, plus the Mongolian Chahar, Sunit and The Korean soldiers, Geng Zhongming, and some savage Jurchens thought that commanding these people would have to be done steadily and gradually, and it would even take a few months to integrate these people who are not under each other."

Mao Qiling is in his 20s, he is the cousin of Empress Xiaozhang and the nephew of Marquis Mao Youlun of Shaoxing. Although he is young, he is extremely talented. The three brothers are collectively called Jiangdong Sanmao.

He is also an editor at the National History Museum.

The emperor newly established the National History Museum, and organized many scholars and officials to comprehensively compile the history of the sixteen emperors from the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the hanging of Chongzhen for more than 200 years.

While compiling the history of the country, the emperor also asked them to compile several books such as "Shaotian Dictionary", "Shaotian Zhengyin", "Shaotian Lunar Calendar".

It can also be regarded as piggybacking.

After the founding of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang had someone compose Hongwu Zhengyun, which was determined by the elegant pronunciation of the Central Plains. However, the compiled book made Zhu Yuanzhang very dissatisfied, and it was far from the correct pronunciation he expected. He was satisfied, and finally changed the name of Yunhui to Hongwu Tongyun, replacing Zhengyunwei.

Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention was to eradicate the old rhyme and barbarian pronunciation and restore the correct pronunciation of the Central Plains.

The so-called Zhengyin is actually Mandarin, the Mandarin promoted by the imperial court, and the Mandarin is different in different periods, and there is even a difference between the pronunciation of reading and Mandarin.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the Yayin of the Central Plains was regarded as the actual Chinese language of the Central Plains, but the Yayin of the Central Plains recognized by the imperial court was the Chinese that had not been influenced by the northern Rong and Di. The pronunciation of the Central Plains in the Jianghuai area at that time was relatively pure.So at that time, there were two parallel pronunciation systems in the north, one representing official Chinese and the other representing dialects. It can also be said that one is reading sounds and the other is speaking sounds.

This thing is actually easy to understand, Mandarin and dialects.In the early Ming Dynasty, the official dialect was in Nanjing, but Zhu Di moved his capital to Beijing. After more than 200 years, the changes are still great.

Zhu Yihai asked Shao Tianzhengyin to be compiled to promote Putonghua. He requested that Beijing dialect be used as the reading pronunciation, and at the same time be a unified standard for official dialect. .

Soldiers in the army have to learn Mandarin after enlisting, and even eliminate illiteracy.

The purpose of doing this is naturally to make the empire more cohesive, and the differences between the north and the south will be smaller. Otherwise, many southerners who go to the north to serve as officials cannot understand the local people, and the local people cannot understand what he said. This is of course No way.

Although there is still a unified text, there are still deficiencies after all.

Revising the standard of Mandarin and promoting it in an all-round way is a good thing that will benefit the future. As for the Shaotian dictionary, it is actually an accessory. It uses the new Shaotian Zhengyin as the standard, and mainly collects characters to provide phonology and meaning for words. Explanations, example sentences, usage, etc., as a reference book, can help promote Zhengyin.

Different from the Zhengyin of the rhyme books of previous dynasties, Zhu Yihai is a pragmatic person, so he directly uses the alphabetic phonetic method.

The ancients used straight phonetic, fanqie and other methods to annotate Chinese characters, which are very inconvenient to use. In fact, the Chinese pinyin method was first used by Ritzoma and other missionaries of the Jesuits to use Roman characters to note Chinese characters, which is convenient. Learning Chinese was later improved by missionaries.

At this time, there have been decades of research on the use of the Latin alphabet to pinyin Chinese characters, and a set of good experience has been obtained, and they originally designed it based on the pronunciation of official Chinese, which is more suitable for spelling Beijing pronunciation.

Zhu Yihai didn't care that it was invented by Jesuit missionaries, as long as it was easy to use, so Shaotian Hanyu Pinyin recruited many missionaries to assist in the compilation.

The Shaotian dictionary and Hanyu Pinyin are all for the promotion of Shaotian Zhengyin. In order to make Beijing Mandarin more standardized and popular, Zhu Yihai asked them to compile dictionaries and pinyin for officials, students, and soldiers to learn.

The Shaotian lunar calendar is actually the first Chongzhen almanac compiled by Tang Ruowang and the others. After reorganization and revision, it was used as the Ming calendar. All future almanacs are also based on this. The later lunar calendars themselves were born out of this.

Zhu Yihai also directly asked Tang Ruowang and Nan Huairen to participate in this project.

Now the whole court is rebuilding the official dialect, and Shaotian Zhengyin has even been officially included in the evaluation of officials. This Beijing dialect is not good, and the official career will be affected.

The emperor even decreed that in the future imperial examinations, interviews will be added, and the top [-] in the imperial examinations will be interviewed by the emperor himself, and the final ranking will be made.An important subject in the interview is Mandarin.

Therefore, in the imperial examination, not only must the handwriting be good, but the official language must also be spoken according to the standard.

Otherwise, if the official words are not good enough and miss the No. [-] pick, it will be too late to regret.

Mao Qiling is from Shaoxing. He used to study in Jiangnan. Although he has also learned Beijing Mandarin, he still speaks with a Shaoxing accent.Wang Chaopin is from Hunan, and speaks with a Hunan accent.

The mandarin spoken by the two people with strong accents can be understood, but sometimes it is easy to misunderstand.

One old and one young looked at the outside of the account while commenting on the Liaoshen battle.

It was too smooth, so smooth that people seemed to be unable to arouse too much interest.

How dare you imagine this a few years ago.

At that time, the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty fell, and who would have thought that a few years later, it would be the turn of the Tartars, Shenyang, the Shengjing, to be captured by the Ming Dynasty.

"The Tartars can't go back to their lair now."

Wang Chaopin stroked his beard, "Let's go, have a drink or two."

"It's true that you should drink three cups to celebrate."

So the father and father simply found a restaurant and went in. The restaurant was full of students and scholars, and they all toasted here to celebrate the recovery of Liaoshen.

The father and father went upstairs to find an elegant seat and ordered a pot of Shaoxing rice wine.

I ordered a few more appetizers and chatted while drinking.

"The Tartars are finished."

"Shenyang can't go back, where are they going to escape now?"

"The Liao Dynasty was restored, and Haixi Haidong and the barbarian Jurchen have also submitted their submissions and accepted the canonization of the imperial court. The imperial court set up Bohai Province there, and set up the governor's mansion. The possibility of returning to Jianzhou."

"Come on, have a drink!"

The Tartars have now retreated to the area of ​​the Xilamulun River, Horqin and other Mongolian tribes in the southern part of Monan are temporarily attached to them, but how long can this relationship last?

"Maybe the Tartars can only retreat to the northeast, enter the Horqin Grassland, or even retreat to the Daxianbei Mountains (Daxing'an Mountains), and then retreat to the upper reaches of the Nen River, or even the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River. If they keep running north, it will be difficult to pursue and wipe them out gone."

"Even if they go to the remotest corners of the earth, to the Yaksha country of the wandering ghosts, they won't be able to escape,"

Uncle Regent Jierhalang had no heart to fight, and took the puppet emperor Shunzhi with him, moved three times a year, and kept fleeing north, with no intention of turning back and fighting.

Even Shenyang didn't care about it. Instead, they crossed the Xiliao River and moved along the eastern foot of the Great Khingan Mountains. They have already moved to the former Chahar Khanting Chahanhot City near Aruhorqin and Zhalut Banner, and are ready to move further north at any time.

"Maybe the emperor will let Mobei Mongolia come to surround the interceptors, or even persuade Horqin or Zalut to fight back and capture them as prisoners."

"Congratulations to Daming!"

"Congratulations to the great emperor!"

The old and the young happily toasted again.

There were bursts of cheers downstairs, and everyone was toasting.

(End of this chapter)