The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 50 Literacy
Although something like a sense of ritual sounds vain, it can inject a spiritual force into people!
For human beings, the sense of ritual is indispensable!

Especially for a collective like the army, the importance of the sense of ritual is even more prominent.

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On the second day, the Restoration Army finished repairing and embarked on the return journey with a large number of captured and prisoners of war.

On the other side, Zhu Hongyu also sent people to Manila.

They are going to discuss the redemption of prisoners of war with the Manila authorities and the Scorch family.

With the arrival of family members, the population under Zhu Hongyu's rule has exceeded 3000.

These more than 3000 people consume an astronomical amount of food every day.

However, the Liberation Army is still in a state of sitting and eating, and there is no stable source of various materials.

In order to solve the current shortage of materials, exchanging prisoners of war for materials is currently the simplest and easiest way to achieve.

Four days later, the Liberation Army returned to the valley.

In this bloody battle, the Liberation Army suffered many casualties, and many family members of the Liberation Army who heard the bad news in the valley cried loudly.

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Since this period of time, the construction of the defense system in the valley has achieved certain results.

At the entrances on both sides of the valley, a simple fortress was built with cement and stones.

The fortress wall is more than ten feet high, with trenches and traps dug in front, and the walls are densely packed with shooting holes.

In addition, there are also simple forts, turrets, and other buildings.

From a distance, the blue-gray cement walls of the fortress looked very solid.

Zhu Hongyu deployed four of the five light cannons he captured to the two forts on both sides of the valley.

The entrance and exit of the valley are extremely narrow, as long as two cannons are deployed on the forts on both sides of the fort, they can form crossfire and block the entrance of the valley.

The remaining light cannon was sent to the weapon workshop by Zhu Hongyu, and asked the workshop to study how to make a cannon.

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In the river valley, the soldiers and family members of the Liberation Army have their own affairs.

Zhu Hongyu was not idle either. As soon as he returned to the river valley, he was busy with literacy education for the Liberation Army and running night schools.

Among the family members brought back by the Restoration Army from Manila, many of them could read and write.

These people were in Manila before, some worked as accountants, some ran private schools, opened bookstores, and there was even an old Juren who was once a Chongzhen year.

His name is Chen Wenbin. He is from Chaozhou, Guangdong. He has thick eyebrows and yellow beard, and a square face. He is already at the age of ears, but he still looks very energetic.

After the Qing army entered the customs, Chen Wenbin did not want to shave his hair and change his clothes. After his death, he had no face to meet his ancestors, so he went to Nanyang with his family!
From the current point of view, this old Juren in Chongzhen is probably the academic ceiling in the Guangfu Army!
In his previous life, after graduating from high school, Zhu Hongyu went to serve in the army.

Life experience is rich enough, but academic diploma is really not enough.

Zhu Hongyu thought, instead of letting these literate and able to read and write work with other people, it would be a bit wasteful.

In a flash of inspiration, he thought of literacy.

Because he knows that only when everyone is literate and sensible can ideological education continue, instead of staying on paper.

Zhu Hongyu took out the Chinese textbook for the first grade of elementary school that he remembered, and asked Chen Wenbin, the old Juren, to take the lead in carrying out the literacy education for the Liberation Army with the textbook.

The Chinese textbooks for the first grade are basically not in-depth, but they are still very useful for literacy.

When Zhu Hongyu copied the textbooks from memory, in order to adapt to this era, he just changed the simplified characters into traditional characters, that's all.

Although Zhu Hongyu wants to promote simplified characters to replace traditional characters.

Zhu Hongyu doesn't care whether the simplified characters destroy the cultural heritage of China.

Just the fact that simplified characters are easier to master than traditional characters is enough to overwhelm everything else.

But he knew in his heart that he didn't have the prestige to make changes in the text, so he didn't bother.

But he took out the punctuation!

No one has an opinion on this, because the punctuation marks are very convenient for reading.

It can also avoid the misreading of the sentence, which leads to the understanding of the content of the article, and there is a difference of a thousand miles.

Regarding Zhu Hongyu's innovation, even Chen Wenbin, an old Juren, repeatedly praised Zhu Hongyu's innovation.

Because during the day, the army has to train, and the family has to build the valley home.

Therefore, literacy can only be carried out at night.

So, it was a matter of course that there was such a thing as night school!
Zhu Hongyu's requirements are not high, and he is not ready to train scientists by relying on night school to eliminate illiteracy.

What he thinks is that even if each person can only know three or five characters a day, if he sticks to it for a year, he can master one or two thousand commonly used characters.

Able to do simple read and write, that's it.

If you want to train scientists, you still have to carry out systematic education and training.

Of course, there was only Chen Wenbin in the recovery army, so Zhu Hongyu certainly wouldn't waste his talents.

In addition to making him responsible for literacy, he was also entrusted with the administrative affairs of the Liberation Army.

Including material allocation, personnel transfer and many other powers.

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It was night and it was pitch black.

But the valley was brightly illuminated by the bonfire. Soldiers and their families of the Liberation Army sat around in twos and threes, attending evening classes for literacy.

A slate, blackened with ink, was placed in the most conspicuous and brightest light.

Holding a piece of chalk made of lime and water in his hand, Zhu Hongyu wrote two large characters on the blackboard.

One is the word "Han"!

One is the word "Ming"!

He stood with his hands behind his back, facing everyone, and his face was clearly visible by the firelight.

Although his skin was tanned by the sun, it highlighted his charm even more, and his face was heroic and resolute.

The sword eyebrows are straight, which is to illustrate his character that he would rather bend than bend.

The bridge of the nose is high, the corners of the eyes are thin and narrow, and the lips are thin, but the shape of the lips is beautiful.

Between the eyebrows is a flying look, confident and public.

Zhu Hongyu cleared his throat and said loudly.

"Back then when the Mongol Yuan invaded the south, Zhao Guan's family lost the country of the Great Song Dynasty, and the iron hoofs of the Mongol Tatars trampled thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. Hundreds of millions of Han people suffered hardships and became the lowest fourth-class people."

"The nobles of China are reduced to the dust, the country is reduced to shame, the color of Kyushu is changed, and the mountains and rivers are weeping with blood!"

"Fortunately, my Ming Taizu, Emperor Gao, rose up, the sun and the moon reappeared, the rivers and mountains were rebuilt, and millions of elite soldiers were raised to drive out the Tartars and restore China!"

"Follow Beiyuan and other regions, and restore my Yanyun homeland!"

"However, the three hundred years have passed, and the power of the Ming Dynasty is exhausted. There are bandits inside, and the calamity of Jianyi outside.

"Emperor Liezong lived frugally, diligently and sensitively, and endured 17 years of hard work while the world was in turmoil, so that there was a danger of trespassing!"

"During the Qing Dynasty, they stole the Central Plains, shaved their hair and changed clothes to destroy my clothes, and the literary prison destroyed my culture. The Eight Banners are high above, sucking the blood and blood of hundreds of millions of Han people to nourish millions of moths!"

"I am a billionaire Chinese nobleman, and I am once again reduced to Zuo Feng."

"Listen and hear, there is no one who does not feel sad and mournful!"

"Today, I am raising troops according to the order of heaven. What I do is to recreate the great cause of Emperor Taizu, drive out the Tartars, and restore China!"

"Save the hundreds of millions of people in the Central Plains, and revive the civilization of China!"

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