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1803: Chinese Pinyin

Everyone in the house looked at each other. It is true that the officials of the court came from all over the world and had a strange accent. Although they worked hard to learn the accent of Yuejing, as soon as they were anxious, they blurted out all kinds of things that made people unable to understand what the other party was saying. They actually encountered more of what Qin Feng said. The ministers here dealt with county magistrates and envoys from various counties every year. It has always been a big problem. Sometimes, someone had to translate on the side. Generally, each department would search for people from other county officials in their respective departments to avoid some communication problems caused by language barriers and thus missed major events.

Although I have suffered a lot, if Qin Feng wants to unify the accent of the whole country, it will still make everyone here a little incredible. Could it be that the court has to even care about speaking? The key is that these accents have been passed down for thousands of years, so how can they be changed by saying that they can be changed?

"This is probably not a one-day effort." Jin Jingnan pondered: "Your Majesty's original intention is of course excellent, but it is really difficult to do this."

"It's not difficult," Qin Feng said with a smile: "I didn't say that it will start today, and that tomorrow we will see the effect. This is something that takes one or two generations of people to slowly complete. Moreover, I'm not saying that we have to unify the accents of each place. I just want everyone to have another unified pronunciation in addition to different accents in various places, so that it will be easier to communicate in various places. Everyone, as the steam train is about to be promoted nationwide, the distance between regions will become shorter as the train speed becomes faster, and people's communication between different regions will become more frequent, but language barriers will greatly hinder this kind of fusion. In the past, many of us, the activity areas were probably limited to a very small range. Some people may not have even been to the county town in their lifetime, but now? Think about it, how long does it take to go from our Ming Dynasty to the Xidihulao Pass?"

Everyone showed thoughtful expressions.

"A person goes to another place, and others don't understand what he says, and others don't understand what he says, and the conversation between the two is completely a conversation between a chicken and a duck. This will cause obstacles and fear to people's psychology, and will make him unwilling to leave his hometown and explore the world. Our Ming Dynasty must vigorously encourage the movement of people. Therefore, we cannot let language become an obstacle to population mobility."

Geng Jingming nodded vigorously: "Your Majesty is right. Our Ming Dynasty, most prefectures and counties are now quite rich, and to be honest, the path to getting rich has become narrower and narrower, because others have already stood on their way forward and become their obstacles. If they can leave the Ming Dynasty, go to the West, and go to Chu, there will be great potential. They have lived in the Ming Dynasty for many years, and are influenced by the culture formed over the years, and are active in thinking and doing. If they live in these relatively closed places, they can not only create more upward channels, but also drive the development of local people. Sometimes, only one person is needed to fully drive the local economy. I support Your Majesty's approach."

The kitten nodded and said, "I agree. The soldiers in the army come from all over the world. Our Ming army is stationed in another place, and grassroots troops are frequently mobilized. Every time we go to a place, there will be many problems in the communication between soldiers and local areas, and there will be many conflicts with the local area. Many times, it is caused by language barriers. If there is a unified pronunciation, then this situation will not happen. Moreover, the officers use this unified pronunciation to issue orders, which will avoid the trouble of being trapped on the battlefield because their subordinates cannot understand his accent."

Zeng Lin thought about it and nodded in agreement: "The officials of the Supervision Department supervised the local area. I can only send people who know the local language to each place. To put it bluntly, they just send local people to it, but this has also caused some problems, which is to be favoritism and abuse of power. This year, the Supervision Department has handled several such cases. Who has not yet had any other thoughts? Locals will always encounter many difficulties when they go back to supervise. Once this Supervision Officer cannot keep his morals and obeys his duties and conducts his ethics, he will also fall into it."

Qin Feng laughed: "So, everyone agrees?"

"I don't think there is any problem." Xiao Hua said: "Unified pronunciation is also of great help to promote culture. But Your Majesty, how should this be done? Where is the standard for language? How to promote it?"

"Yuejing was my capital of Daming. It should have been based on the pronunciation of Yuejing as the standard pronunciation. However, I was worried that using the language of Yuejing as the standard language would cause disgust among people in other places, so I opened a new accent." Qin Feng pushed the booklet in his hand, "As for how to promote it, I have already figured out a solution. First, we must make full use of the schools all over the Ming Dynasty, from the Beijing University, from the county, prefecture, county and even village schools, and the gentlemen of the school must first learn this pronunciation."

"A brand new accent?" Everyone was stunned again. Didn't this increase the difficulty of a problem that was already difficult to solve again?

"If you want to become a teacher in the school, you must know this pronunciation." Qin Feng said unquestionably: "These people are all knowledgeable people, so they should learn quickly, right? The Ministry of Rites must set up an exam, first test the teacher of the county, and then take the teacher of the county after returning from the county, and so on. Those who cannot understand are not qualified to become a teacher."

"Your Majesty, this is probably a bit difficult. If you want to continue to promote a language, you will not be able to force it. There are so many schools in the world now and there are so many teachers in the school. Could it be that we can still send a large number of people from Yuejing to teach them what to say?" Xiao Hua said with a little dumbfounded: "In this way, the situation where there are schools in every village that the old minister finally established will be stopped."

"Of course, I won't let the old man's painstaking efforts go to waste." Qin Feng picked up the booklet on the table and threw it to Xiao Hua. "I have been thinking about this question these days. How to promote this matter quickly. After thinking for a long time, I have made some new things. As long as I learn these, even if there are thousands of words, I can read them easily. Even if I am illiterate, as long as I understand this thing, I can read the words in the book."

"Your Majesty, don't bully me, how could this happen?" Xiao Hua couldn't coax it in just a few words. He picked up the booklet that Qin Feng threw over, but he was shocked.

On the first page, Qin Feng's font that Xiao Hua thought was very bad was written with three words, which he knew. He was the first consonant. But he couldn't recognize the talismans drawn below.

I turned another page and still recognized the three characters, and the finals are naturally not understood. I still don’t understand the meaning, and I still draw some symbols.

I turned the third page for no reason, and the tone was tone. Well, he also recognized these two words, but I still don’t understand the meaning below. What is the yin and yang and yang and ping upward sound, it’s inexplicable.

After turning back, the words were written in a dense manner. The first line was a symbol. He turned back to the first page and it was indeed corresponding to the first symbol under the initial table. However, a line of words was written later. a: When pronunciation, the lips naturally opened, the tongue was flat, the middle of the tongue was slightly aroused, and the vocal cords trembled. o: When pronunciation, the lips were round, slightly raised, the tongue shrank back, the back of the tongue was raised, the tongue was centered, and the vocal cords trembled.

Looking row by row, the two pages in front are marked with pronunciation methods.

"Your Majesty, how long did it take for you to make this thing?" Xiao Hua looked at it for a while. At the end of the booklet, there were several pages specifically given. Compared with the new pronunciation and the old pronunciation, Xiao Hua was a person who was knowledgeable after all. After reading the pronunciation of those things, he looked at these examples several times and couldn't help but look at Qin Feng with a dumbfounded look. In his opinion, this was a great science, but the emperor actually made it out quietly in addition to handling daily government affairs, which was shocking.

Qin Feng was extremely proud, and at the same time he felt a sense of pleasure brought by a small evil taste. I came from a place you didn’t know. Now I have brought gunpowder, steam engines, trains, and now I have also brought Chinese pinyin and ordinary language together. After a decade or twenty years, this world is almost no different from the world I once lived in.

"It took not much time, I did it when I was fine," he said lightly.

Of course, it didn't take much time. These things were learned in their childhood in their previous lives. They were so familiar that they could not be more familiar with them. It was just a copy of the article, so how difficult it was to be said.

"Eunuch Le!" He clapped his hands, and Eunuch Le, who had been waiting outside, immediately walked in after hearing this, holding a stack of such booklets in his arms, and gave each of them with a smile.

"Mr. Le has fully understood this pronunciation, so in the next time today, you will teach the pronunciation by Master. If you can't learn it, don't leave here. The kitchen has prepared food for you, hahaha!" Qin Feng laughed and sat down, waved his sleeves, and walked backwards. "Mr. Xiao, when you learn it, you have to think about it together, how to promote it quickly! Kitten, follow me, I have to ask you some things."

The kitten was looking at the booklet of ghost painting talismans with worries and scratching his head. He was overjoyed when he heard this and jumped up, "Yes, Your Majesty."
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