People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 270 Strange Painting, Fragmented Spread

Zhu Biao's carriage stopped at the gate of Qingxin Temple.

He walked in slowly, and someone came up to him immediately:
"Guest guest, do you want to offer incense or explain the hexagrams? If you want to offer incense, the master of the hexagrams is not here..."

"Old Meng, if you haven't come for some days, you won't recognize anyone?"

"So it's Young Master Huang, it's my blindness, please forgive me..."

Lao Meng recognized Zhu Biao and greeted him warmly.

Zhu Biao nodded reservedly, since Deng Zhongxiu left the Qingxin Temple to preside over the Chaotian Palace, the gods of the Qingxin Temple couldn't even eat a full meal.

That guy Zhang Yi has a slack nature, so it's no wonder that he can offer incense to the gods on time.

Lao Meng and Li Qingmo naturally took over Deng Zhongxiu's job.

But the two are not Taoist priests after all, so it is not so convenient to deal with things.

Deng Zhongxiu would leave from time to time, and most of the time this Taoist temple was managed by Lao Meng.

Compared with Deng Zhongxiu, he is less spiritual, but more stable.

But in Zhu Biao's eyes, both of them are good people.

Since the Spring Festival, the incense of Qingxin Temple has been very strong, but when Deng Zhongxiu went to Chaotian Palace, the incense became much colder because Zhang Yi often disappeared from playing.

Some nobles had tried to ask Zhang Yi to see him, but they were all rejected by Zhang Yi on the grounds of retreat.

Gradually, the incense of the Taoist temple has been dried back to its original level.

"Old Meng, why don't you just ask for a degree, just be a Taoist priest in this Taoist temple, anyway, you can't help getting married, and you don't have to work hard in the fields..."

"My young master doesn't know, the imperial court is in charge of the issuance of the degree certificate now, and there is an exam... Lao Meng, I don't know a single word, so I won't get in the exam!
I'm working hard, and it's okay to run around on both sides. If the little master can take in my mother-in-law and give her a job, we will be satisfied!
Didn't the young master say that with his method, next year's harvest can be raised?
Waiting for next year, life will be better, and we will be satisfied! "

Zhu Biao smiled:

"Although the Zhang family can no longer issue degree certificates, it is not difficult to influence the court to get one or two degree certificates!
It is estimated that Xiao Deng will still be in charge of the Xuanjiao Academy in the future, and it is a matter of one word if you want it! "

"No, no, the little landlord is good enough to my family, how can I trouble the master!"

Seeing that Lao Meng declined, Zhu Biao stopped talking.

Lao Meng does have a bit of scheming, but he is generally like most ordinary people, with an honest personality and contentment.

He patted Lao Meng on the shoulder and asked:
"Is your little landlord here?"

"Here, I'm painting in the backyard..."

"Didn't you just say he wasn't here?"

"If you are an ordinary pilgrim, my little landlord is naturally not here!"

Lao Meng winked and made Zhu Biao laugh loudly:

"As far as his temperament is concerned, it's a good thing that the old master didn't hand over the burden to him, otherwise he would be hungry all the way up and down Longhu Mountain!
That's fine, you don't need to report anymore, I'll go find him! "

Zhu Biao bid farewell to Lao Meng and walked to the backyard by himself.

Before he stepped into the yard, he heard the voice of the girl from the Xu family:

"This painting can be given to me..."

"no……"

"Zhang Yi, you deliberately anger me!"

"What's wrong with you, you didn't come together on purpose!"

Only when he was with the girl from the Xu family, Zhang Yi seemed to show his childish side. Zhu Biao shook his head, curiously poking his head from the courtyard door.

The weather has gradually warmed up, and the spring sunshine has begun to shine on the yard.

Zhang Yi and the two little girls returned to sit at the stone table in the yard he was familiar with.

The Xu family's girl was teary-eyed by Zhang Yi's words, but he didn't mean to sympathize at all.

Everyone is a thousand-year-old fox, who are you pretending to be?

Xu Miaoyun glanced at Zhang Yi resentfully, but Meng Yao was very caring, she pulled Zhang Yi's cuff:
"Brother, little landlord, why don't I give it up to sister Xu first?"

Xu Miaoyun was about to resign when Zhang Yi said:
"That won't work. Our old Zhang family's main goal is to help relatives and protect the calf, not to mention someone who uses me as a gun, we have to keep a distance from him!"

Zhang Yi deliberately talked to Meng Yao, but pointed at Xu's girl.

Xu Miaoyun chuckled and stopped being angry.

"I'm here to see my sister Meng Yao, who wants to join you? Shameless..."

"You kind of walk in the medicine garden. You pretend to be a lover with a book of Taoism every day. Who are you fooling? You are not using poor Taoism as a tool..."

The two were at war with each other, and the sword was like a shadow of a sword.

Zhu Biao looked at it, but it was funny.

The two spoke harshly, but they didn't see anyone becoming angry. Instead, it made people think that whether it was Xu's girl or Zhang Yi...

Both trust each other and relax.

"It seems that the younger sister of the Xu family knows her future fate, and she is not reconciled..."

Zhu Biao is not stupid, he probably understands something from the bickering between Zhang Yi and Xu's girl...

Xu Miaoyun's thoughts, and her recent behavior of indulging in Taoism.

However, he didn't take this matter to heart. The thoughts of a seven-year-old child are not worth paying attention to.Second, Zhu Biao also understood that after the father knew that the Xu family's girl had a short life, there was a high probability that she would not let her into the palace.

No matter how much Lao Zhu loves these heroic children, he must also care more about his own son.

Whether it is the short life of the Xu family girl or the fact that Zhu Di will rebel, Zhu Yuanzhang has enough motivation to change his original destiny.

Cough!

As he was about to go in, Zhu Biao deliberately coughed twice to disturb the people inside.

"Who is it!"

Zhang Yi yelled, and Zhu Biao came in from the front yard.

"It's Brother Huang, why are you free today?"

Zhang Yijian was Zhu Biao, and he greeted him warmly.

"His Royal Highness!"

When the Xu family girl saw Zhu Biao, her face turned red instantly.

Some small thoughts in her heart will not be discovered by the prince's brother, right?

Thinking of this incident, the Xu family girl glared at Zhang Yi, because this guy was talking about her little thoughts.

"It's Miss Xu!"

Zhu Biao saw the expressions of several people in his eyes and just laughed.

"what is this?"

Zhu Biao didn't want to embarrass Xu's sister, so he deliberately changed the subject.

He took a piece of drawing paper from Meng Yao's hand, and began to observe the painting on it.

"Not a sketch?"

When Zhu Biao was outside the wall, he thought that Zhang Yishi would make the two little girls scramble with his sketching skills, but when he picked it up, he found that it was not the case at all?

Zhang Yi's words are not realistic at all, nor are they as freehand as traditional Chinese painting.

When Zhu Biao saw these paintings, he just thought they were cute, an unreal cuteness.

"What kind of painting is this, I've never seen it before..."

"Brother Huang, the little landlord brother said this is a cartoon..."

Meng Yao raised her hand to answer, Zhu Biao laughed.

He has long been used to all kinds of weird things that Zhang Yi brought out.

"Cartoon, this thing is really attractive!"

Cartoon-style paintings, if you put them in the eyes of Daru, can only be evaluated in four words, then they are flashy.

But this kind of thing has an advantage that traditional paintings do not have, that is, grounding.

The three characters of down-to-earth are almost the core standard that Zhang Yi simply made. Zhu Biao thought about it.

"I'm compiling a textbook for character recognition, the kind of drawing and writing...

At first, I also wanted to use traditional painting style, but later I still felt that it was not grounded enough!

So Pindao temporarily changed some, inserted some short stories in the painting, and then guided others to recognize characters!
So Pindao asked Sister Meng Yao and Miss Xu to help me palm my eyes..."

Zhang Yi expressed his idea, and Zhu Biao looked at the cartoon-style painting, and it seemed that it was really feasible.

After all, reading and literacy, especially things like looking at pictures and literacy, are mainly aimed at children aged six or seven...

These things seem to be easier for children to accept.

"The reason for promoting simplified Chinese characters is to reduce the illiteracy rate. The most difficult thing is how to make people accept information quickly...

All beings are suffering, and the people are suffering!
Reading is never a joy!
People who are expected to achieve fame and fame will naturally work hard when they study.

The people who may be covered by the promotion of simplified characters are likely to be those who cannot afford or whose IQ cannot keep up with seeking fame...

So if you want them to be willing to do a difficult task, there are nothing more than two ways.

One is to convince them that knowledge is still useful even if they don't seek fame.

The second is to try to make the learning process as happy and efficient as possible, without having to follow the steps step by step. Starting from the system, the fragmented learning method is suitable for promotion..."

Zhang Yi trusted Zhu Biao very much, so he didn't hide his secrets.

Zhu Biao sat down naturally, Xiao Mengyao poured him a glass of water, and Zhang Yi chatted with him naturally.

We are working together to promote simplified Chinese characters. This is really a business.

If you want the common people to know that knowledge is still useful apart from fame and fame, then try to use the knowledge zone to change their destiny.

That's what Zhang Yi is doing now.

Using the belief factors of Taoism, what is spread is down-to-earth knowledge.

Once these things are proved to be useful, to some extent, it can be regarded as finding an outlet for knowledge.

At least so far, this road is working, but the process is slow and takes time to settle.

How can I make the learning process more enjoyable?
This is the same as simplified Chinese characters, in essence, it is about how to reduce the cost of knowledge dissemination.

Zhu Biao, or the ancients had their own misunderstanding when passing on knowledge, that is, they hoped to preach and teach in a systematic and systematic way.

This situation is actually correct when it comes to seeking fame or learning.

But Zhang Yi's purpose is to promote and reduce the illiteracy rate, and you can't ask those people who are still struggling to survive to have time to accept this way of passing on knowledge.

Zhang Yi thought about the era he lived in, and the knowledge that changed the communication structure due to the changes of the times.

Hearing his thoughts, Zhu Biao always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell.

It wasn't until Zhang Yi revealed this relationship that he suddenly realized.

"You compile the things and hand them over to our bookstore for publication, and I will also print [-] copies, which is considered to be a small effort...

Moreover, I don't make money from you for these books, I will give them to you at cost. "

After Zhu Biao finished speaking, Zhang Yi laughed:

"My family is easy to talk about, but we are not at a loss. Brother Huang, what do you think of comics?"

"very good!"

"Xiaodao, I just remembered today. In fact, our bookstore can promote this business. How about publishing some comic books?"

"comics?"

Zhu Biao looked at Zhang Yi's sporadic drawings and felt that they were not bad.

After adding beautiful paintings, the slightly boring knowledge becomes interesting.

Zhang Yi knew that the volume of the story book hadn't started yet, and there would be some illustrations when it was rolled up later.

And it is not that there were no such picture books in ancient times, but these are not mainstream at present.

Many picture books exist in content that cannot be put on the table, such as grass and monks.

It seems that it is really possible to try the way of recording information with pictures as the carrier and words as the auxiliary method.

Zhang Yi's unrestrained imagination, if this becomes popular, in his time and space, when archaeologists are doing research a hundred years later, the Ming and Qing Dynasties probably won't be just novels...

"This is possible..."

Anyway, the main purpose of opening his own bookstore is not to make money.

Let Zhang Yi experiment with some new things, maybe he can make some noise.

Zhu Biao's connivance to Zhang Yi shocked the silent Xu family girl.

She has been observing the interaction between the prince's brother and the little Taoist priest, which is different from the last time in Xu's mansion.

The relationship between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Zhang Yi is really too harmonious, just like a brother and a younger brother.

Even the children of heroes like them have never seen this state.

Even though Lao Zhu and Xu Da were childhood friends, they grew up with Zhu Biao and the others, there are differences between rulers and ministers, and there are some subtle gaps in the relationship between children.

Maybe it was because Zhang Yi didn't know his identity.

Zhu Biao didn't put on airs, and Zhang Yi didn't take him seriously.

This way of getting along is really enviable.

However, once they discover each other's identities, can they still be like this?

The girl from the Xu family was cautious, as if she was afraid that she would break the harmony.

"If this thing is released, there are probably a bunch of people imitating it..."

Thinking of this incident, Zhu Biao felt quite bad.

Zhang Yi chuckled, but didn't care.

Probably Four Books has produced too many things that no one else has, which caused the eldest brother to awaken the problem of intellectual property rights hundreds of years in advance.

But this question is basically unsolvable, and he doesn't care.

"Brother, do you feel that the sales of pencils have increased recently?"

"Ok!"

"Actually, we don't need to mind if people imitate or not. Even if someone wants to imitate our painting method, let's not say whether he will or not, right?

You can’t use a brush to draw this thing, we’re not at a loss…”

Zhu Biao laughed when he heard this. Pencil craftsmanship is actually not difficult, but so far, there are not many imitations on the market.

With the emperor's intentional or unintentional guidance, this pencil workshop can finally be regarded as a profitable business.

But recently, the sales of pencils have indeed increased a lot more than Zhu Biao imagined. At this time, he realized that many things Zhang Yi did were actually cultivating the market for hard pens...

Unknowingly, at least in several cities around Yingtianfu and Nanzhili, pencils have gradually become a popular trend.

"If the drawing method of comics spreads, we will also make a lot of money!"

"Okay, you go do it!"

After Zhu Biao made the decision, Zhang Yi was very fast.

As for the new version of literacy with pictures, it took him three days to come up with it.

Together with the picture-literacy, there are also several picture books. The pictures in these picture books are different from those of that day, but they are also in the style of comics.

"A brief history of China?"

Zhu Biao took out a book to bring the harem, and handed over the others to data trading.

A few days later, he was surprised when he received Gao Jianxian's report.

Zhang Yi's comic books turned out to be a hit?

(End of this chapter)