The prince is five and a half years old, and he is reclaiming land and becoming a group favorite.

Chapter 22 The Proper Volume King

Now that the specific address of the fiefdom has been determined, Xie Changshi and others began to contact Mobei officials, large and small, and began to implement the classification of Xinliang under the banner of His Highness King Wen. At the same time, they wrote to the capital to report.

At this time, Gu Yuzhi fell into silence as he looked at the 26 pinyin written by Shu Xiaohan on the so-called blackboard. What are these twists and turns and strange-shaped things?
"Little Prince, these are the Pinyin letters I'm telling you." Shu Xiaohan put down the chalk and clapped her hands, "It's very helpful for us to learn Chinese characters for enlightenment. For example, Little Prince, you are now enlightened. Starting from the "Three Character Classic", you will learn this special method for learning Chinese characters. Special textbooks written to focus on literacy.”

The "Three Character Classic" is rich in content, exquisite and relatively easy to understand, but there are many repeated words in it, so there are other centralized literacy textbooks, but Shu Xiaohan doesn't know much about this aspect. Her eldest son once mentioned two sentences about ancient people. Very pitiful and so on.

The young prince is now no more than a kindergarten child in modern times, so Shu Xiaohan pulled out a pinyin alphabet from the main system, just to help the young prince learn more quickly and efficiently.

Gu Yuzhi nodded: "Xie Changshi said that "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames" and "Thousand Character Classic" are the three most important books for our enlightenment. After we have read and learned these three books, we can I can recognize a lot of words now.”

At least after he learns these words, he won't need Xie Changshi to write to his mother and concubine in his place.

"Teacher Shu, isn't this how you modern people are enlightened?" He pointed to the so-called pinyin letters on the blackboard and said, "I know all of these things. Are they foreign fonts?"

Shu Xiaohan thought for a while and said: "Okay, these letters are evolved from the Latin alphabet, and the purpose is to assist our enlightenment. All the words we want to learn can be marked with these letters, which will make it easier for you, little prince, to remember Their pronunciation.”

She wrote the four words "人, cognizance, blade, and toughness" on the blackboard, and then asked: "Little prince, how many words can you recognize now?"

Gu Yuzhi thought for a long time, then lowered his head in shame and said, "I only know a person with a Chinese character."

Shu Xiaohan stepped forward and rubbed his head: "The young prince has only been enlightened for half a month, and he is already very good at memorizing the Three Character Classic." She winked at Gu Yuzhi, "Now let me show you. The benefits of Pinyin.”

As she spoke, she marked the pinyin on these four words: "My little prince, if you don't want to read it, just look at the pinyin marks to see if they are the same?"

Gu Yuzhi nodded, and with a flash of inspiration, he said in surprise: "Teacher Shu, can you read these words?"

Xie Changshi said that the characters he can recognize through enlightenment are limited now. When he encounters a character he doesn’t recognize in the future, he may be able to guess the word based on the meaning of the preceding and following words, or he can use simpler homophones to annotate them, which is similar to what Teacher Shu taught. The pinyin annotation has the same effect.

Shu Xiaohan gave a thumbs up to Gu Yuzhi: "The little prince is awesome! But we need to mark the phonetic symbols. For example, the first person has the second tone, and if it is the fourth tone, we need the phonetic symbols to assist the pronunciation."

She marked the phonetic symbols of a few words, and then said: "There are only four phonetic symbols for this, and it is very easy to remember." Seeing that he was not very good-natured, Shu Xiaohan asked: "Does the young prince think this way about pinyin now?" Doesn’t it seem to have a great effect?”

"Little Prince, please think about it. If we don't know any words at this moment, the first thing we learn is Pinyin. Then when we open a book with Pinyin annotations, Little Prince, will we be able to experience the joy of reading freely? ?”

"Not only that, the young prince can promote this method in the future. When the emperor likes you, you can also ask for a reward from the emperor."

Wen Xiuzhu, who had been watching silently, couldn't help it at this moment, burst out laughing, his eyes full of sarcasm: "No one in the Sang Kingdom has ever seen these crooked words, you just said that you can tell the emperor If you want a reward, aren't you afraid of causing trouble to His Highness?" Shu Xiaohan was slightly stunned. If he promoted a better method of reading, could he still cause trouble?
She glanced at the young prince, sighed slightly, and began to reflect on whether she was too radical.

But seeing the young prince working so hard to endorse the book every day, she couldn't bear it.

There is a faster way, why not use it?

It was rare to see Shu Xiaohan deflated, and Wen Xiuzhu couldn't suppress the proud look on his face. He kept beating his fan in the palm of his hand: "But I think Teacher Shu's pinyin is still very useful if he can learn it well. First of all Don’t think about asking for a reward from the emperor, your highness can learn it by yourself first, and when your highness grows up, you can find a way to publicize this matter."

Wen Xiuzhu is a businessman through and through, and he has seen huge business opportunities from this pinyin.

However, in just a short period of time, Wen Xiuzhu had already thought of a way to spread pinyin. That is, when His Highness grows up, he can go out to sea and establish an academy of his own, and the academy will publicize this matter. Yes, once the academy's reputation increases, the money will continue to come.

The more Wen Xiuzhu thought about it, the more pleased he became. He quickly opened the folding fan to cover the upturned corners of his mouth.

Gu Yu knew how he could know what Wen Xiuzhu was thinking at this moment, so he glanced at him with bright eyes: "Shopkeeper Wen is right, no matter what happens in the future, I will learn on my own first."

However, Gu Yuzhi's little face soon fell down again, and he asked with some worry: "Is this easy to learn?"

Teacher Shu smiled slightly: "It's very simple. In our place, pinyin is the key to our enlightenment." Her hand drew a circle on the blackboard, "These 26 letters can be memorized by singing. a, b, c, e, f, g..."

She sang the complete pinyin list once, and then said with a smile: "Little prince, after you sing like this with me, will you not find it difficult to remember these letters?"

Gu Yuzhi scratched his head and sang along in a low voice with the encouragement of Teacher Shu. Then he heard Teacher Shu say: "Hey, it's really good. The little prince did a very good job. We don't have to do anything else today, just finish these 26 songs first." Just memorize the letters.”

The young prince's schoolwork is relatively heavy, so her extra enlightenment should not increase the difficulty...

Shu Xiaohan smiled as she watched Gu Yuzhi contact him again and again. From the beginning with a low and unskilled voice, to the later one with a loud and confident voice, the whole process only took about ten minutes...

The next second, Shu Xiaohan saw that Gu Yuzhi had picked up the brush and wrote one letter on a piece of paper, reading while writing.

Shu Xiaohan was so moved that she almost shed tears. With the young prince's self-conscious energy, he would be a proper roll king in modern times!

(End of this chapter)