I'm about to become an immortal, do you want me to be a prince?

Chapter 291 This old man has an idea!
"Mr. Cao, are you still used to living here?"

Li Mu specially came to visit Lao Cao today.

Lao Cao has been busy studying lithography and mimeograph recently.

Especially the mimeograph machine, which really opened his eyes.

Of course, this mimeograph machine is definitely not the mimeograph machine of later generations.

We haven't reached that condition yet, so we can't do it.

The mimeograph machine that Li Mu made was hand-cranked and wooden.

Although it is very primitive and the success rate is not high, Lao Cao will be as happy as a child every time the finished product is produced.

Really eye-opening.

Especially Li Mu, who used to have an unpredictable impression of Lao Cao, but now, he is just an old kid.

After hearing Li Mu's voice, Lao Cao looked back at him, then adjusted his glasses.

That's right, glasses.

What Li Mu created is currently an experimental product, and the success rate is still relatively low.

Not even optometry or anything.

Anyway, he used Lao Cao as a guinea pig.

But Lao Cao was a happy group after getting the glasses. He carried them with him every day and took them out to wipe them every now and then.

Anyone can see the old man's love for the glasses with his precious and precious expression.

By the way, his attitude towards Li Mu has also improved a lot.

After the old man adjusted his glasses, he said with a smile, "It's you, Xiao Li, why do you have the time to look for the old man today?"

Normally, Li Mu rarely came to look for Lao Cao.

After all, the two belonged to a business relationship, and there was no personal friendship at all. Li Mu was very clear about the old man's position.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, you will not waste your feelings.

Since you came looking for him, you must have something to make a deal with him.

In this regard, Lao Cao is also very clear.

When it was time for the lion to open his mouth, he was never hypocritical.

This is also the reason why Li Mu would not come to him under normal circumstances, without him, two words, it hurts!

"It's the cold winter in the twelfth lunar month, so I sent you warm clothes and quilts." Li Mu said with a smile.

Lao Cao took off his glasses, wiped them carefully with a handkerchief, and then said with a smile, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

"I want to ask sir to write a few words for me."

Lao Cao was taken aback, "Inscription? What do you want to do?"

"I want to start a new school."

"Oh? What school? Could it be your way of miscellaneous studies again?"

"Yes, but there is a difference."

"Forget it, the old man doesn't care what you want to do, what words you want to inscribe, just say it quickly."

"Lanxiang Advanced Technical College."

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Lao Cao looked confused, "Lan Lanxiang Advanced Technical College?"

Li Mu nodded calmly, it didn't look like he was joking at all.

"What's the point?" Lao Cao asked with some doubts.

Li Mu looked up at the sky at 45 degrees, with a touch of nostalgia in his eyes, and said: "Just remember the scenery of my hometown."

The corner of old man Cao's mouth twitched, isn't your hometown Jingyang County?Nostalgia for a fart?
Shaking his head, the old man Cao didn't bother to ask, he picked up the pen and wrote "Lanxiang Advanced Technical College" in big characters, then wrote his name, and then stamped it with his seal.

In one go, perfect!

Seeing that he finished writing, Li Mu quickly blew on the handwriting with a little ink, and carefully put away the calligraphy after the handwriting was dry.

"Then Mu thanked the old man first, I don't know if the old man has any requests, just ask."

"No need, you old man with glasses is very satisfied, so let's offset this incident."

Li Mu was a little surprised, he didn't expect the old man to be so talkative today.

At the very beginning, he paid for printing and mimeograph technology, which is distressing.

But then old man Cao suddenly said with a smile, "By the way, Xiao Li, I have something to ask for your help."

Li Mu was slightly taken aback, never expecting that the old man would ask him for help one day.

"What's the matter with the old man, but it's okay to say."

"The old man has always had a great wish."

After speaking, with a look of emotion on his face, he imitated Li Mu's pretentious expression of looking up at the sky at 45 degrees just now.

The corner of Li Mu's mouth twitched slightly, what does this old man want to do?Made made Lao Tzu very nervous.

"I haven't asked, what is the old man's ambition?"

"I have one wish in my heart, that is, to carry forward the knowledge I have written in my lifetime."

When Li Mu heard it, oh, it turned out that this is the case, it is not easy, I printed tens of thousands of copies, wouldn't it be carried forward.

"Mr. Cao, don't worry, there is quite a stock of rice paper production now, and it will be printed into a book, Yi Er."

"Hey, what you said, then I'll leave this to you."

"no problem."

After agreeing, Li Mu remembered that he seemed to have forgotten to ask what kind of work the old man had written.

So he asked, "I don't know what the content of the book written by the old gentleman is?"

"Oh, it's not a true statement, it's just a transliteration of an anthology."

Then Li Mu took the transliteration of an anthology handed over by Lao Cao, and opened it for a look.

What the hell!

Isn't this riding a horse something like pinyin?
And, more importantly, the old man also came up with simplified characters.

Lying in a big slot!
Is it so advanced?

"Mister, is this your book?"

"Or is it you?"

Li Mu: "."

"But to be honest, there are some credits for you."

"What's the meaning of this?"

"The old man was also inspired by your pinyin method, so I have this book."

Li Mu immediately covered his face, and the pinyin was also done casually, mainly for the convenience of the subsequent popularization of physical and chemical units.

But even so, he didn't dare to play tricks like simplified characters.

As for why?
Because the gentry will not admit it, and it will even lead to confrontation.

The reason lies in the monopoly of education.

The simplification of the font means that it is much easier for ordinary people to read and write.

In this way, the status of the gentry will be threatened.

If the difficulty of literacy is reduced, the literacy rate generally increases.

Then, the power of the mudlegs to hit the door will be greatly increased, which is what they don't want to see.

Therefore, popularizing simplified characters is very difficult.

Then, what surprised Li Mu even more was that the old man hadn't finished yet, and he said, "Xiao Li, this old man has another idea."

"What do you think?" Li Mu faintly felt a little uncomfortable.

"Uniform language."

What the hell!

Fuck it!

This old man really dares to think!

"What's wrong? You still want to promote Mandarin?"

"Mandarin? Well, that's a good title."

Nima!

The current official dialect of Datang is "Luoxia Dialect".

However, this so-called official language is actually only a small part in use.

More or use dialect.

Moreover, this Luoxia Mandarin is too difficult to learn.

It's purely for the scumbags of the gentry to seek a sense of superiority.

So, how difficult is it to promote a unified Mandarin in the Tang Dynasty where dialects and birdsong are everywhere?
Just can't imagine.

"Doctor Cao, do you think we can do this?"

"Others may not be able to, but you may be able to."

What? ? ?

"how do I say this?"

I saw the old man Cao said with a smile.

"One, you have rice paper, and two, you are not afraid of death."

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"Needless to say the function of rice paper, as for another reason, anyway, what you are doing now is no different from seeking death, so what's the point of bearing one more crime?"

I am special!
Just when Li Mu was hesitating whether to accept this hot potato.

The long-lost system notification sounded.

[Ding, system task: Accept Cao Xian's entrustment to complete the promotion of Mandarin and Simplified Chinese]

Well, now I can't even think about playing.

(End of this chapter)