But even so, it was still beyond their imagination, and they still had doubts about it, but they didn't question whether it could be done.
Emperor Chongzhen asked Zhang Mingwei with curiosity, expectation and other complex emotions: "Sir, can't this electricity only attract iron pieces? How can it transmit sound? It sounds incredible!"
When the others heard this, they nodded repeatedly, but no one could understand the key.
Zhang Mingwei smiled after hearing this and immediately replied to Emperor Chongzhen: "Although electricity can not only attract iron pieces, but just the property of attracting iron pieces, it can already transmit our words to places thousands of miles away."
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen and others looked incredulous, as if to say: Sir, are we not stupid? Or are we too stupid to understand you?
Zhang Mingwei saw their expressions and didn't say much. He immediately signaled to Liu Jin and asked him to continue shaking the handle.
Then Zhang Mingwei held the electromagnet in one hand and hung it above the iron piece. With the other hand, he pressed a switch on the line, and then it started to move.
Under the watchful eyes of Emperor Chongzhen and others, a magical scene happened again. I saw that the iron pieces were sucked for a while, and then stopped for a while.
Emperor Chongzhen and others knew that the call Zhang Mingwei mentioned thousands of miles away was probably related to the phenomenon in front of them, so they all watched with wide eyes, thinking that other strange phenomena would occur.
However, after waiting for a long time, they only saw the iron piece being sucked up for a while, and then not being sucked up for a while. Apart from this, there is no other phenomenon.
As a result, everyone in Huangji Hall was dumbfounded again.
Zhang Mingwei didn't let them wait any longer, and directly explained their doubts: "Your Majesty, did you see it just now? By pressing this switch, that is, cutting off or connecting the electricity, I can make the iron piece adsorb for different times. . It is precisely because this time is different that it can represent multiple meanings. As long as we use a method to encode different combinations of adsorption time of the iron piece, we can convey what we want to say."
Emperor Chongzhen finally understood the crux of the problem and immediately asked curiously: "Sir, what does coding mean? Different combinations of adsorption time for iron sheets?"
"That's right!" Zhang Mingwei laughed immediately after hearing this, "The key is this code! To give a simple example, the long and short time of adsorbing the iron piece represents my Zhang Mingwei character, the two short ones represent my clear character, and the two long ones represent my My great character, thousands of miles away, can see the adsorption pattern of iron sheets, and the people on the other side will know that the message I am conveying is the three characters Zhang Mingwei."
Hearing this, the sound of "Oh" suddenly dawned in Huangji Hall.
I have to say that through Zhang Mingwei's demonstration and this simple example just now, at least these ancients have understood the basic principles.
But then, they have new doubts. Du Yinxi, the chief minister of the cabinet, asked curiously: "But we have so many Chinese characters, how can we know what we want to say? After all, there are too many Chinese characters. I’m afraid the combination of adsorption time is not enough?”
Hearing this, everyone else, including Emperor Chongzhen, all nodded. This is definitely a problem!
Zhang Mingwei didn't mean to be stumped at all, and immediately replied with a smile: "I just gave a simple example. There are two ways to solve the situation you mentioned."
Upon hearing this, the people in the Huangji Palace were a little dumbfounded. They all thought it was an unsolvable problem. Why did it come to Duke Xingguo that there were two solutions?
The brains of this man and other people are really incomparable. How come Duke Xingguo has so many things in his brain?
Emperor Chongzhen quickly asked Zhang Mingwei: "Sir, what are the two methods?"
Zhang Mingwei did not whet their appetite, and directly answered Emperor Chongzhen: "The first way is to write all our Chinese characters into a book, and then mark each Chinese character, for example, the first line of the first page The first column, the fifth page, the eighth row, the seventh column, etc., three numbers can locate a Chinese character, so we only need to use the length of the adsorbed iron piece to represent these three numbers, and we can locate any Chinese character. It’s a Chinese character.”
Hearing this, everyone in Huangji Palace nodded. Indeed, if you do this, you can simply convert countless Chinese characters into three-digit descriptions. Not bad!
Emperor Chongzhen also nodded, and then curiously asked Zhang Mingwei: "What about another way?"
"Another way is..." Zhang Mingwei raised his voice a little as he spoke, and continued, "That is, we give all Chinese characters phonetic notation, and then encode these phonetic notations. In this way, all Chinese characters can be expressed Come out. But relatively speaking, because the pronunciations of many Chinese characters are the same, sometimes you need to combine the context to determine what character it is!"
Emperor Chongzhen smiled immediately after hearing this and said: "That is definitely not as good as the first method!"
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Zhang Mingwei shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, although the first method is indeed simple in terms of communication, the second method is also good."
"Why?" Emperor Chongzhen asked strangely after hearing this.
Everyone else also looked at Zhang Mingwei, wanting to hear his answer.
Just listen to Zhang Mingwei's answer to Emperor Chongzhen: "For now, there are too few people in the Ming Dynasty who can read and write. The reason is that reading is not easy. Sir, you have to teach Chinese characters step by step. If you have this This phonetic notation method, as long as you learn the rules of phonetic notation, you can pronounce according to the phonetic notation rules, thereby speeding up the progress of reading and literacy, popularizing reading and literacy on a larger scale, and reducing the illiteracy rate in the Ming Dynasty. I hope One day we will be able to do this, and everyone in our Ming Dynasty will be able to read and write."
Hearing this, everyone in Huangji Hall became silent again, and everyone looked at Zhang Mingwei a little dumbfounded.
Zhang Mingwei's words, especially his wish that everyone in the Ming Dynasty would be able to read and write. This kind of ambition is like creating peace for all generations. It only exists in wishes. How can it be possible in reality?
However, Zhang Mingwei's broadmindedness really impressed them. Even though the world was filled with peaches and plums, they never thought of making everyone in the Ming Dynasty able to read and write.
It's just that they were stunned because they were shocked by Zhang Mingwei's ambition!
After a while, Emperor Chongzhen came to his senses and murmured: "Is it impossible to make everyone in the Ming Dynasty read and write?"
"Your Majesty, nothing is impossible as long as we work hard!" After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei said to Emperor Chongzhen seriously and seriously, "Your Majesty, think about how many things you thought were impossible before, but Didn’t we all make it in the end?”
Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately remembered.
When my husband first traveled through time, during the Battle of Songjin, the entire main force of the Ming Dynasty was wiped out, bandits within the Pass ravaged the Central Plains, and natural and man-made disasters never ceased. At that time, I felt like I was going to despair.
Facts have also proved that from the documentary, we can know that the Ming Dynasty will perish in two years, and I will hang myself on the crooked neck tree.
But now, the crooked neck tree has been chopped down by himself, and most of the bandits have been recruited and are still serving the country, fighting on the battlefield and killing Jianlu. Everything is getting better.
Not to mention, three years ago, I would not be short of money, which is really something that is impossible to imagine.
All these things, even now I feel like I am still in a dream when I think about it.
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen was very emotional, and immediately nodded to Zhang Mingwei and said: "Sir, what you said makes sense. As long as we work hard, there is nothing we can't do!"
When other people in the Huangji Palace heard this, they didn't say much. Although they thought it was impossible, the emperor had already made a final decision. Let's just assume that this kind of thing can be realized. It's a beautiful wish!
Unexpectedly, when they were thinking like this, they heard Zhang Mingwei say to Emperor Chongzhen: "I have actually used this phonetic notation method among the Jinyi Guards, and asked them to teach the soldiers in the army. For now, It works well.”
Upon hearing this, everyone was stunned.
Anyone who doesn’t know this doesn’t know anything at all, and it means nothing.
But some people knew about it, such as Emperor Chongzhen. He knew that the Jinyi Guards and Supervisors would teach the soldiers to read and write in their spare time in the army.
At that time, he just heard about it and didn't take it seriously. He thought it was just Zhang Mingwei's scholarly idea and it had something to do with the war.
While he was thinking, Zhang Mingwei took out a roll of information from his sleeve, handed it to Emperor Chongzhen with both hands and said to him: "Here is the phonetic notation method, as well as the statistics of the effect of this phonetic notation method in the military. .”
Emperor Chongzhen heard this and quickly took it over to take a look and found that it was very detailed. After reading this information, he suddenly understood that this was probably what later generations would do.
When he thought of this, he said nothing and quickly affirmed: "Okay, sir, this method is very good. I think it is acceptable. From now on, the entire Ming Dynasty will use this phonetic notation method to read and read."
Others couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded after hearing this. Will Duke Xingguo’s method of phonetic notation be implemented throughout the country?
But looking back and thinking about it, not to mention that this phonetic notation method is helpful for reading and literacy, but it can also transform the adsorption ability of electricity into speech thousands of miles away. This alone should be worth it!
Therefore, no one in Huangji Palace objected.
Zhang Mingwei was not surprised by this. Regardless of his status, his previous experiments with electricity showed these ancient people a very unimaginable prospect.
Not to mention how many difficulties there are in the process, just the imagination of the future should be able to attract many people to do it. Putting Pinyin and the popularization of education on this matter can drive these ancient people to take the initiative to learn.
