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Chapter 162 Promotion to Nobility
  Great Qin.

The first ray of sunshine in the morning shines on the earth, and the sound of gongs and drums comes from Xujia Village.

Xujia Village is particularly lively at this moment. All the villagers gathered at Xu Erniu's house to congratulate him, creating a joyful atmosphere.

In addition to the villagers of Xujia Village, nearby villages of all sizes also came to watch the fun.

Even the local county magistrate came to congratulate Xu Erniu with great fanfare, and the accompanying team could not be seen ending.

The reason Xujia Village is so lively today is because the reward given to Xu Erniu by His Majesty the First Emperor has come down.

Xu Erniu clenched the imperial edict with trembling hands, his expression was extremely excited, and he was still in a state of excitement.

Although the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict had been gone for a while, he was still immersed in ecstasy and unable to extricate himself.

Just now, the eunuchs from the palace came to Xujia Village with a large group of guards holding the imperial edict, and announced the edict in front of the entire village.

The reward given to him by His Majesty the First Emperor was extremely generous. In addition to the fifteenth-level title, he also had one thousand taels of gold.

In addition, there are 84 acres of farmland and 84 acres of homestead, as well as an annual salary of 750 shi of grain.

Now that there are so many gifts right in front of him, how can he not be excited?
  Thanks to his mental preparation, he knew that His Majesty the Emperor would give him so many rewards.

Otherwise, when he suddenly learned of such a big reward, he would probably go crazy with excitement.

The smile on Xu Erniu's face was particularly bright, his eyes narrowed to a slit, and he calmly accepted the guests' congratulations.

Today, he is already a famous noble in Da Qin.

Until now, he still couldn't believe it.

After grabbing the potato blind box two days ago and dedicating it to His Majesty, he has now become a nobleman that everyone looks up to.

In just two days, his identity and status changed so much that he couldn't help but sigh.

There are no better opportunities in life than this. Even an ordinary person, seizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, can soar into the sky and become a master.

He looked at the respectful guests around him, then at the guests arriving in an endless stream from afar, and at the mountains of congratulatory gifts already piled up in the open space at the door. At this moment, he deeply felt what being a noble meant.

And now, he, Xu Erniu, has become a noble and can also enjoy the power that belongs to the nobles.

Xu Erniu's family was promoted to the nobility. For such a big happy event, a banquet was naturally inevitable.

Xu Erniu asked his family to prepare for the banquet. Everything was ready-made.

Xu Erniu didn't need to prepare chicken, duck, fish, fruits and vegetables himself, as a steady stream of customers brought them.

As the news of Xu Erniu's knighthood spread, squires and landlords from all over the country came to congratulate him carrying large and small bags.

Suddenly, Xujia Village, which was originally remote, was filled with guests and friends. Guests they knew and did not know arrived one after another. This was the first time that Xujia Village was so lively.

Xu Erniu was busy entertaining guests from far away and had no time to take care of his son Doudou.

But before Xu Erniu received the guests, he moved a table and chair far away and let Doudou sit on it.

Tianmu classes will start soon, and my son also needs to learn simplified Chinese characters.

Although his family has become a noble now, reading and literacy are also very important, and his son cannot waste his hard-won learning opportunities.

He also hopes to continue the family and make it more prosperous, and this burden will fall on his son.

He himself is not good at studying, but his son is talented in learning. As long as he is properly cultivated, he will definitely become a knowledgeable scholar.

Only if the family can cultivate scholars can the Xu family continue to prosper.

Xu Erniu: Doudou, study hard with Tianmu later. When you finish studying, dad will give you delicious food.

Xu Erniu touched his son's little head and warned solemnly.

Then he placed pens, inks, paper and inkstones neatly on the table so that his son could write Chinese characters later.

This ink, paper and inkstone was a gift from a nearby big landowner, and it was just in time for my son to use it now.

This set of pens, inks, paper and inkstones is very valuable. It is said that the big landowner specially ordered it to be made.

Previously, the marquee had a method for making paper, so the big landowner produced the paper according to the steps.

Although the paper produced is obviously not as good as the paper of other dynasties, it is completely enough for Da Qin.

Ancient people from various dynasties have watched Tianmu’s videos for a long time. It’s not in vain. You can learn a lot from the videos.

For example, the brushes, black ink, and inkstones sent by the big landowner often appeared in previous videos, so the big landowner asked people to try making them.

Maybe the new things just produced are not as good as those from other dynasties, but they are enough for simple writing.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Tianmu's Chinese character teaching began.

The ancients in each dynasty who had been well prepared also began to learn Chinese characters. Even the masters of each dynasty suspended classes and asked the children in the school to read and read with the sky.

The beginning of the video is still the beautiful teacher who taught Pinyin yesterday.

Before starting to learn Chinese characters, the teacher took the students in class to review the pronunciation of the 23 initial consonants and 24 finals. When the teacher was reading aloud, ancient people from all dynasties also read aloud to consolidate their previous memories.

After reading it aloud a few times, the teacher saw that it was almost done and began to teach the four tones.

[One sound is flat ā (ah), the second sound is rising á (ah), the third sound is turning ǎ (ah), the fourth sound is falling à (ah)]

After the teacher read it aloud, the students from each dynasty also read it aloud together.

Compared with the previous initials and finals, the four tones are much simpler.

In a short time, ancient people from all dynasties had learned all four tones by heart.

Even those ancients who couldn't learn at all could read the four tones aloud, just like Xu Erniu had given up learning Pinyin, but he had memorized the four tones after reading it once.

Ying Zheng: I was surprised before. I always felt that there was something missing in Pinyin. It turned out that there was a missing tone.

People in the past said that the pinyin of a Chinese character consists of initial consonants and finals. Although he felt that the pronunciation of a Chinese character could be understood through the initial consonants and finals, it was still obviously flawed.

That is, the initial consonants and finals of two different Chinese characters are the same, but their pronunciation is still slightly different.

For example, the two Chinese characters "朕" and "真" have different initial consonants (zh) and final consonants (en). However, the pronunciations of these two characters are different.

It wasn't until the four tones came out that he finally realized that the missing part was the tones.

Initial consonants, finals, and tones together form the pinyin of a Chinese character.

He had to admire the later generations who invented Pinyin, which suddenly significantly lowered the threshold for reading and literacy, making it easier for more people to understand Chinese characters.

Ying Zheng: Li Si, I order you to record Pinyin and Simplified Chinese characters well, and spread them throughout the Qin Dynasty, so that all the people of Da Qin can learn Pinyin and Simplified Chinese characters in the future.

Seeing the power of Pinyin, he couldn't wait to put Li Si in charge of the task of popularizing Pinyin.

Once pinyin and simplified Chinese characters are promoted throughout Daqin, the number of scholars in Daqin will explode. This is the result he hopes to see.

Li Si: Your Majesty, from now on the people of Qin will only learn simplified Chinese characters and not Xiaozhuan?

Ying Zheng: In order for Da Qin to cultivate more scholars, it is necessary to learn simplified Chinese characters. No, it should not be called Chinese characters. From now on, it will be called Qin characters. From now on, the people of Da Qin will only learn Qin characters.

Compared with simplified Chinese characters, Xiaozhuan is more complex, which is not conducive to ordinary people's learning and seriously hinders the cultivation of scholars.

It's not that he doesn't want to keep Xiaozhuan, but that learning simplified characters is the general trend. Even as the emperor of Qin, he can't stop the tide of the times.

Now all the people in Daqin are learning simplified Chinese characters from Tianmu. From now on, simplified characters will be the characters used by ordinary people in their daily lives.

When everyone is using simplified Chinese characters, even if he forcefully promotes it, it will not help, and he will simply follow the general trend.

The beautiful teacher in the video started teaching Chinese characters formally after teaching the initials, finals, and tones.

The first word is rén.

The teacher didn't just give boring teachings. When teaching the word "人", he also included an animated video of less than one minute.

In the video, a cartoon character is competing in a running race. During the running process, the shape of his legs spread out is the shape of the character "人".

This simple and vivid teaching method made masters from all dynasties envious.

Originally, Chinese characters have been simplified, and Pinyin was invented, which greatly reduces the difficulty for students to learn Chinese characters.

But it turned out that when teaching Chinese characters, there were also special animation videos, which greatly reduced the difficulty of learning Chinese characters again.

Masters from all dynasties all lamented that it was so easy for later generations of students to learn Chinese characters, and it was so easy that they were jealous.

Think about it when they learned Chinese characters, it was the boss’s fault.

Ancient people from various dynasties found it very interesting when they learned the character "人" from their teachers. The character "人" in the animation was so vivid that they remembered it immediately.

I quickly finished learning the character ‘人’, and the teacher taught me some simple Chinese characters.

【大(dà), 小(xiǎo), 上(shàng), 下(xià), mountain(shān), rain(yǔ),...water(shuǐ), fire(huǒ)】

The teacher not only teaches you how to recognize Chinese characters, but also teaches you how to write Chinese characters.

Liu Che: If we Han people also adopt this teaching method, I think we can train many scholars.

He learned a lot from today's teaching of simplified Chinese characters.

The key to the rapid development and all kinds of good things in later generations lies in the cultivation of talents.

Pinyin and simplified Chinese characters make it more convenient to popularize Chinese characters. The threshold for reading and literacy is lowered, and more talents will naturally be born.

He has made up his mind to promote simplified Chinese characters across the country. Only in this way can they cultivate a steady stream of talents.

After possessing high-yield crop seeds and walkie-talkies, the Han Dynasty will inevitably usher in a prosperous age that far exceeds the rule of Wenjing.

In order to welcome the arrival of the prosperous age, it is necessary to cultivate more scholars to help him govern the prosperous man.

(End of this chapter)