Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

"Gongshuban."

"Chen is here!"

Lu Ban, whose name was called, immediately stood up.

Qing Ji said seriously: "The Ministry of Industry has added a new department named 'Trade Union', which is in charge of supervising the affairs of various workshops in Dawu, responsible for labor arbitration, and is committed to safeguarding the rights and interests of workers."

"If the workers file a complaint, the union cannot handle it. After reporting it to you, if it still cannot be processed, it will be transferred to the third division for trial. If it cannot be processed, I will personally try it and make sure it is properly resolved."

"promise!"

Lu Ban immediately agreed.

How dare you disturb Qingji, who is so busy with daily affairs, with such a big thing like sesame and mung bean?
If the workers were really asked to sue the imperial court and send the petition to Qingji, I am afraid that many officials would lose their jobs.

"Father, about the project of building a straight road to connect the mainland of Wu with the kingdoms of the vassals, this is the budget compiled by the ministers and the officials of the Ministry of Industry, please look over it."

Prince Heng took out a memorial and asked the servant on the side of the platform to pass it to Qingji for reading.

Qingji wanted to build a straight road centered on Xianyang, the western capital, and extend out to connect the mainland of Wu and the kingdoms of the vassal kingdoms. The degree of difficulty can be imagined.

Many roads have not yet been built, such as the Liao Kingdom, the Sai Kingdom, and the Nan Kingdom are still remote places, with poor villages and remote areas, and even the most basic official roads are scarce.

It's not the mountains, but the endless prairie.

Even the twenty vassal kingdoms in the west have the foundation laid by the original Persian Achaemenid dynasty, and the transportation network is already very developed, but they do not meet the specifications of the Dawu official road and need to be renovated.

Not to mention financial and material resources, after all, Da Wu can get materials nearby.

In terms of manpower, 500 million civilians will be invested?
Qingji couldn't help frowning.

"Prince, do you really need 500 million servants?"

Prince Heng smiled bitterly and said, "Father, this is already a conservative estimate."

"Except for the 100 million Kunlun slaves, the rest of the people must be recruited from the kingdoms."

"However, the food and grass consumed during this period, I think, the imperial court does not have to bear it, and let the vassal kingdoms bear it themselves."

Today's Great Wu has a strong national power and a mountain of money and food.

However, it is unrealistic to transport tens of millions of grain and grass from the mainland of Dawu.

For the current plan, we can only let the feudal kingdoms bear it themselves.

"it is good."

Qingji put the memorial on the imperial case, but did not change the budget plan compiled by Prince Heng and others.

In two or three years, Dawu was able to build official roads (hard surface roads) extending in all directions and stretching 10,000+ kilometers. This is already a very remarkable feat.

It is worth mentioning that, for the convenience of dispatching troops, Qingji ordered to plant big trees on both sides of the avenue, so as to shield the marching soldiers from the scorching sun...

Qingji looked around again, looked at the officials above the court, and said slowly: "Second and third sons, I have been thinking about one thing recently, but I have not been able to make a decision."

"So, I would like to ask all my loves to discuss."

"My China has thousands of years of history and culture, and it has a long history. However, the customs of different places are very different, and the sounds are different for ten miles, and the customs are different for hundreds of miles."

"In addition to Yayan, dialects are still popular in other places."

"My great Wu uses elegant dialect as the correct pronunciation, and elegant dialect is Wu dialect. However, as a Wu native, I can't even speak Wu dialect, even my own national language. How can this be justified?"

It's no wonder Qingji has such considerations.

Yayan is the earliest lingua franca in China, which is equivalent to modern Putonghua, which is the "Mandarin" and Mandarin of Dawu, the official language.

Hua is the beauty of clothing, and summer is the prosperity of etiquette.

Yayan is Xiayan (the official language of the Xia Dynasty).

Yayan is also called "Luoyang Yayan", and its phonology is the ancient Chinese traditional phonology.

Because the characters of the Zhou Dynasty were learned from the characters of the Shang Dynasty and Shang Dynasty, and the Yin people learned from the Xia people.

Since ancient times, Yayan has been popular in the Central Plains.

When Qingji ruled the world, he had already stipulated that Yayan should be the "national language" of Wu.

However, after so many years, Yayan still has not become popular and has become the "Mandarin" of Wu people...

"Your Majesty, I think such things are understandable."

Wen Zhong came out with a wat in his hand and said: "A long time ago, people lived in Chu and Chu, lived in Yue and Yue, and lived in Wu and Wu."

"Dialects are very different in different places. When a stranger comes to a strange place, he will find the local language difficult to understand."

"I, Da Wu, now all scholars who go to study, take exams, and become officials can understand elegant words. This is really not easy."

Hearing this, Qing Ji shook his head and said, "In a country, if its people can't even speak their own mother tongue well, or even can't speak it, how can we do it?"

"As for the dialect, I also recognize it. After all, the dialects of various places, like the elegant dialect, are an important part of our Great Wu culture and Chinese culture."

"However, what I want to achieve is that Chinese people speak Mandarin well on the basis of speaking dialect well."

"Even if it's Mandarin with an accent, as long as it can be spoken, and people can understand it, why not praise it?"

At this time, the Minister of the Household Department once participated in the list and said: "Your Majesty, I think that if you want to make everyone in the world speak clearly and with the same phonology, you need to educate!"

"It is possible to compile a rhyme book, making it a supreme model of pronunciation that must be followed in the minds of the people of the world."

"good."

Qingji nodded in agreement.

Zeng Shen's idea coincides with Qingji's.

However, it is not easy to understand rhyme books. People who do not know a single character may feel their scalp numb when they read the content above.

"Zeng Shen, Zuo Qiuming."

"Chen is here!"

"I want to compile a "Wu Yun", with elegant words as the standard, the two of you, the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and scholars from the Imperial Academy can complete the compilation of "Wu Yun" as soon as possible."

"promise!"

Zeng Shen and Zuo Qiuming agreed immediately.

Regarding "Wu Yun", Qingji also personally participated in the compilation.

"Wu Yun", which was completed at the beginning, is divided into five volumes, containing 26194 characters, 191692 characters in annotations, and divided into 206 rhymes.

In "Wu Yun", the words with the same pronunciation are listed as small rhymes. The meaning of each small rhyme below the first word is explained first, and then the phonetic notation indicates the number of homophones. The remaining words are interpreted separately without phonetic notation. .

This made Qingji quite dissatisfied.

Because the "Wu Yun" compiled by them has no pinyin letters, they use the straight phonetic or Fanqie method to annotate the Wu characters.

Straight pronunciation is to use homophones to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters. If the homophones are all rare characters, even if the pronunciation is annotated, they cannot be pronounced.

Fanqie is to use two Wu characters to phoneticize another Wu character. The upper character of Fanqie has the same initial consonant as the character to be marked, and the lower character of Fanqie has the same final consonant and tone as the character to be marked.

These two phonetic notation methods are inconvenient to use.

Therefore, Qingji asked Zuo Qiuming, Zeng Shen and the others to make some changes.

Added the element of "Pinyin".

According to the composition rules of the Yayan syllables, the initial consonants, intermediate consonants, and finals are combined in rapid succession and added with tones to form a syllable.

There are 63 pinyin characters.

Among them, there are 23 initials, 24 finals, and 16 overall.

It was formulated into a phonetic table and added to "Wu Yun", and this book was completed.

And Qing Ji also became the author of "Wu Yun".

As a new textbook, "Wu Yun" was printed in large quantities and spread to various counties and counties in the mainland of Great Wu, and it became very popular in overseas and foreign vassal kingdoms.