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Chapter 160 Recognize text and hyphenation
The grass market opened for five consecutive days.Huaihuang Town's transaction tax and city entry tax calculations are all symbolic collections. Li Chongjiu, who was a businessman in his previous life, of course understands better what the businessmen need.Instead of forcing them to pay a tax, it is better for these people to spend here, and then boost the income of the entire Huaihuang Town in a win-win situation.

After that, the merchants returned to Yanmen with a full load of goods.Li Chongjiu felt that the situation was different when he came and when he went. The Turkic tribes north of Yanmen County suffered a lot of losses in the battle with Li Chongjiu. After seeing the combat power of the Cangtou Army, they should restrain themselves a lot. He didn't dare to go nomadic around the Great Wall as before, so he didn't have to go there himself.

So this trip back to Yanmen, Li Chongjiu felt that there should be no problem under the escort of the three cavalry regiments of Li's Escort and Wang Mahan.On the way, when Li Chongjiu asked them to pass through Lingqiu County, he handed over the beheaded Turkic head to Chen Xiaoyi, the county magistrate, and asked the other party to report victory to the court for him.Li Chongjiu's doing this also meant to share the credit equally. After all, Chen Xiaoyi, the prefect of the county, had supported him with thirty crossbows.A few days later, Wang Mahan led six regiments of cavalry back to Yanmen. In addition to reporting the news of the safe journey, there was also a handwritten letter from Chen Xiaoyi, which said that he had learned the news of Li Chongjiu's victory in Yanmen. The trend of herding horses has slowed down, and the pressure in Lingqiu County, where he lives, has also eased a lot. As for asking for credit from the imperial court and the Taiyuan Left-behind Mansion in Jinyang, he didn't mention it.

Li Chongjiu smiled after reading the letter, for Chen Xiaoyi, such a thing as asking for credit is the least worth mentioning.At this time, footsteps came from the wooden board outside the door, and Ping Ping ran into Li Chongjiu's room with bare feet, and then threw himself into Li Chongjiu's arms.

"After school?" Li Chongjiu asked.

Pingping nodded, then picked up a half-eaten mutton and green onion pancake that Li Chongjiu had eaten on the table, and began to nibble on it.At this time, Sima of Huaihuang Town and Zhou Xu, the schoolmaster of Hope Meng Hall, also stepped inside, bowed to Li Chongjiu, and said: "See you, Your Majesty."

Li Chongjiu signaled the other party to take a seat, and asked: "How is the study in the Mongolian library?"

Zhou Xu cupped his hands, and then handed a stack of papers to Li Chongjiu.Li Chongjiu brought the paper, and saw that there were a few words written on the paper, such as Tiandixuanhuang, Universe, Great Desolation, etc. At a glance, he could tell that it was the beginning of the thousand-character text, and beside each word, there were two words of Qieyin. , This scene reminded him of the Pinyin textbook for the first grade of elementary school students.

Zhou Xuyan said: "Reporting to the Lord, Yunyin has been taught three months ago, and now I am teaching them to learn the thousand-character prose. All the children are working very hard. Except for a few who are less qualified, many of them have already memorized it." The full text. It is estimated that in the next month, they will be able to teach them the Analects of Confucius and sentence punctuation."

Li Chongjiu thought about it, Xin Dao Analects is also good, it is very ideal as enlightenment and learning advancement, so he doesn't have to rush to take out enlightenment books such as the Three Character Classic and Hundred Family Names, and plagiarize the achievements of later generations.However, as for punctuation, Li Chongjiu has another idea. Sentence punctuation is a difficult subject. If you can achieve both literacy and punctuation, you can break away from the category of illiterate white men and become an equivalent of the ancient nine-year compulsory education system. Graduated students.

There are now more than 8000 people in Huaihuang Town, and no more than [-] of them can read and write, and the rest are mostly half a barrel of water.In order to break the aristocratic family's monopoly on knowledge in the future, it is necessary to let the children from poor families be educated first.In order to allow the children of poor families to learn culture quickly, the threshold of knowledge cannot be set too high, otherwise it will be very difficult to promote.Now literacy can be developed step by step through rhymes, and Li Chongjiu has his own way of punctuating sentences.
At that moment, Li Chongjiu asked Pingping to take the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and scribbled on the paper the words 'Zi said, learning and practicing it from time to time, isn't it pleasant'.Zhou Xu recognized that this was the first sentence of the Analects of Confucius.Li Chongjiu marked the punctuation with a comma and period in the middle.In fact, although punctuation did not appear until the end of the Qing Dynasty, ancient scholars, for the sake of the succession and transition of the article, marked the footnotes on the article to indicate the pause in reading. The ancients called it sentence reading (Note [-]).

Li Chongjiu marks the meaning of the comma as unfinished, and the tone can be stopped, while the period means the end of the meaning.Zhou Xu couldn't help but feel like a fight when he heard it, and at this time, Ji Chuan, who joined the army as a recorder, also entered. After seeing Li Chongjiu's sentence reading method, he sneered a few times, and said bluntly: "The method of the king and marquis is certainly wonderful, but It is far from the meaning of a saint."

"How to say?" Li Chongjiu asked rather unhappily.

At that moment, Ji Chuan brought up the topic that he had debated with Li Chongjiu at the beginning. After all, the people can make it known, but they cannot make it known; ; know it.Ji Chuan said in a strong voice: "The words of a sage lie in one heart. Do you want to force yourself to interpret it in your own way?"

Li Chongjiu said sternly: "The words of the sage are far away, but if this method is widely practiced, and if it follows the words of future generations, we will know it."

Zhou Xu raised his head reluctantly after hearing this, and said: "The law of the monarch can save months of hard work in humble positions, but there are disadvantages and advantages."

"Throughout the ages, no reform has been easy, but what I want is that everyone in Huaihuang Town can read, everyone can read, and everyone can learn the teachings of sages. Such a small disadvantage is not hesitating."

After hearing Li Chongjiu's inspiring words, Zhou Xu immediately untied his knots, but Ji Chuan still shook his head and said coldly: "Everyone knows the learning of sages, and pawns can read the Analects of Confucius. There are as many doctors as dogs. Such a big tone, what use is it for us."

Zhou Xu clasped his fists together and said, "Your Majesty, it's not too late to do such a humble job. Go and rewrite the Analects immediately."

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "That's not necessary."

At that moment, Li Chongjiu asked someone to go to the inner room to fetch a series of books such as Analects of Confucius and Thousand Characters, and put them on the ground.Looking at the books copied by hand, Zhou Xu couldn't help but be very pleasantly surprised. He has always been poor when he was a child, and the county school he went to was funded by his clan. There is no book collection at home on weekdays. To read books, he has to borrow from the teacher in the county school. Row.With so many books, there is only one set in the entire county school.

"Thank you, Junhou, thank you, Junhou." Zhou Xu was so grateful at the moment, there were so many books, even he hadn't read them all.

Li Chongjiu said: "These books were brought by the caravan from the south. In addition, there are pens, ink, paper and inkstones. In the future, students don't need to use willow branches to draw sand tables to practice calligraphy in the school, but just write on paper."

After hearing this, Zhou Xu couldn't help saying: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will definitely teach this group of students well."

Note [-]: In the sentence reading, the reading word is pronounced as the word "dumb".

(End of this chapter)