It is not an easy task to achieve comprehensive literacy and make everyone literate.
If nothing else, let’s talk about farmers. Farmers generally have heavy agricultural production tasks that require a lot of time, especially during busy farming seasons. They basically spend the whole day in the fields tending to crops.
Even in the off-season, in addition to a period of military training, most family laborers would choose to work in the city or work on major projects carried out by the court to earn some money to support their families.
Serving the crops during the busy farming season, and going to work in the city to earn wages during the slack farming season. In this era when the court has cut exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes to lay a good foundation for farmers to accumulate wealth, farmers are basically busy making money, watching more and more copper coins and coins at home. The food was so happy that I couldn't even close my mouth.
In addition, they also have certain life and entertainment needs.
Therefore, they cannot concentrate on studying for a long time, and they will not have such a high level of consciousness to spend all their leisure time studying.
Except for young children who can take part-time or part-time work to focus on learning to read and write, it is already very difficult for most illiterate adults to spare half an hour every day to learn to read and write.
If there is not enough time to study and the interval is relatively long, you will naturally forget more and faster. The efficiency of learning will be very low and it will be difficult to complete de-illiteracy quickly.
This still has an impact on the great goal of comprehensive eradication of illiteracy throughout the Ming Dynasty.
The longer the delay, the less conducive it is to the overall literacy of the Ming Dynasty and the improvement of the overall cultural level. Su Yonglin thought for a long time and thought of the existence of Xinhua Dictionary.
It is a reference book that has made a historic contribution to the cause of literacy throughout China and the cause of improving the average cultural level of the people.
With literacy reference books, people can consult books and words they don’t know when needed, reducing the trouble of asking teachers and literate people directly for advice, greatly improving literacy efficiency, and playing a huge role in improving people’s cultural level. Promoting effect.
However, before the birth of Xinhua Dictionary, such a useful reference book did not exist.
In ancient times, there were public reference books such as Shuo Wen Jie Zi and Kangxi Dictionary, as well as some private reference books compiled by private individuals, which could indeed be useful in this regard.
But without exception, they are all positioned as tool books for internal use by the ruling class, rather than for the purpose of literacy and improving the cultural level of the entire people.
These reference books were only created to allow intellectuals within the ruling class to better learn and master knowledge, and they were all in classical Chinese without exception.
Even their explanations of Chinese characters are very obscure and difficult to understand. In some places, the more they explain, the more confusing they become. Most people would find it difficult for Monk Zhanger to understand.
Obviously, the compilers did not think anything about the ordinary people, they only did it for themselves and for the learning of insiders.
Think about it, anyway, feudal rulers never need to let the people know too much. Only fools are easy to rule, and smart people have too many ideas and it is difficult to rule.
It is to keep people in a state of ignorance, illiterate, hungry and hungry forever. This is the most ideal authoritarian rule environment.
The so-called simplicity of the three ancient dynasties that Confucianism yearns for is probably the result of too many illiterates and stupid people, and there is nothing worthy of praise or pride.
Su Yonglin suddenly realized that although he really wanted to do something for the people, he had forgotten a very important thing.
He had to find ways to leave for the people a simple and easy-to-understand reference book with the main content in vernacular that directly faced them and could improve their knowledge level.
Rather than laboriously compiling those teaching materials, it is more important to compile a people's reference book with universal significance.
So in Su Yonglin's mind, compiling a "Da Ming Dictionary" or "Hongwu Dictionary" has been put on the agenda.
After returning to Kaifeng City, Su Yonglin told Tian Guizi what he saw, heard, and thought, and told Tian Guizi his idea of compiling a large dictionary that ordinary people could understand.
Tian Guizi strongly agrees with this.
"Well, a big dictionary is equivalent to a knowledgeable teacher. Having a big dictionary is like having a portable teacher. With a big dictionary, many things can be spread directly in the form of words, and There’s no need to send too many people.”
"Yes, I think so too. A large and easy-to-use dictionary can save us a lot of literacy costs!"
Su Yonglin was very happy and wrote a letter directly, preparing for the court to handle the matter and asking the Ministry of Rites to allocate manpower to take charge of the matter, striving to be quick, accurate and ruthless.
But as he continued writing, he suddenly stopped writing.
"What's wrong, Alang? Don't write anymore?"
Tian Qizi looked at him strangely.
Su Yonglin raised his head.
"Guizi, the current Minister of Rites is Kong Zheng."
Tian Guizi suddenly realized.
"Oh, those people."
Both fell into silence.
Obviously, they all believed that such a task could not be completed by the representatives of the group of feudal literati.
What is the difference between asking a group of representative people to complete a reference book for the people, and asking a hungry big bad wolf to act as a sheepdog to guard and protect the little sheep?
This debuff added made Su Yonglin himself feel funny.
"Obviously, this matter can't be done now. Unless Kong Zheng and his group are all liquidated, there is no need to think about this big dictionary. Even if they compile it, they will only explain the words again."
So Su Yonglin put down his pen and put away the half-written edict he had just written.
"Alang, what should we do next? This dictionary cannot be left alone."
"That's natural."
Su Yonglin looked at Tian Guizi and said, "Let's settle the matter in Shandong first. If the matter in Shandong is not settled, the Ministry of Rites will not be able to get it back. If the Ministry of Rites does not get it back, our big dictionary will not be compiled."
Su Yonglin stood up, walked outside the house, looked at the sunny weather outside, and took a deep breath.
"If the new era is to come, we must wipe out all the supporters of the old era. Geizi, we are going to fight a tough battle."
"A tough battle that cannot be lost."
Tian Guizi made some additions.
"A tough battle that cannot be lost and cannot be lost."
Su Yonglin made more precise additions.
Time soon came to April. Su Yonglin basically completed the account verification of the Kaifeng headquarters, Xuzhou branch and Pizhou branch. There were no major problems, and the small problems had been solved by Su Yonglin physically.
The administrative and economic operations of these places are relatively stable, which makes Su Yonglin quite satisfied.
So next, Su Yonglin shifted his attention to Shandong.
In early April, Su Yonglin received a secret report from the 11th Operation Team of the Skynet Army. The report contained the shocking corruption case in Dongping Mansion that they had uncovered.
This nest case started with Chen Luo, the governor of Dongping Prefecture, and spread throughout Dongping Prefecture. Important clues implicated in it were also found in the Yellow River Engineering Branch of the Dongping Prefecture Renaissance Association, and the merchants and landowners who assisted it were spread across several places in Shandong The state capital is very involved.
This group of people must have contributed to the abnormal rise in prices in Shandong.
Not only that, the case of Dongping Prefecture also implicated the case of Jinan Prefecture. The case of Jinan Prefecture was also a nest case and was inseparable from the upper levels of the Jinan Prefecture. However, the current evidence was not enough to determine who was behind it.
To know this issue, I am afraid that we need to launch an explosion on the Dongping Prefecture's nest case and arrest all relevant persons. Only after rigorous interrogation can we draw the final conclusion and uncover important evidence of the Jinan Prefecture's nest case.
