Chapter 50 Taiji Palace Discussing Letters
"This article should be the new work of a certain hermit master!"
On the side, Pei Ji murmured to himself in a low voice.
"New work of the Hermit Master?"
Hearing this, Changsun Wuji's face changed and he quickly looked up at Li Shimin.
"It's the masterpiece of a hermit strange man!"
Above, Li Shimin nodded slowly.
"What, the new work of the Hermit Master?"
Hearing this, Kong Yingda and Li Gang were curious and hurriedly squeezed to Changsun Wuji's side.
Seeing this, a trace of helplessness flashed in Changsun Wuji's eyes, and he handed the books in his hand to the two of them.
As for Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui who were beside him, they were automatically left behind.
Even though their official positions and titles are higher than those of these two old men, they still don’t want to provoke these two old men.
One, as the great-grandson of Confucius' thirty-first generation, has gone through four dynasties. Even Li Shimin generally does not deny this person's face.
The other one, although he is only the Prince's Grand Tutor, has gone through three dynasties and is now in his eighties. He has become a lucky person. When they meet on weekdays, they both have to come forward to say hello.
"It's amazing!"
After seeing it, Li Gang and Kong Yingda both looked excited.
The book mainly consists of four-character sentences, with a total of more than 2,600 words. They are also permeated with the ideas of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, self-cultivation, and diligence in learning. Among them, the most important thing is to respect teachers and pay attention to the teachings of teachers.
It's exactly what these two old men like.
"Your Majesty, although this book is popular and somewhat superficial and vulgar, its content is simple and clear, catchy, and it also teaches people to understand things. It is the most suitable enlightenment book for children!"
Kong Yingda bowed to Li Shimin and said excitedly.
"And, there are some small-word sequels that cannot be understood between the sentences of this book. For this article, it is simply a stroke of magic!"
"It's a pity that such books that are comparable to the words of saints are written with such simple hemp paper, and the words are so vulgar and extremely ugly!"
"I dare to ask your Majesty, who wrote this book?"
After saying that, although Kong Yingda and Li Gang looked at Li Shimin with regret, they were still looking forward to it.
At this moment, Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling quickly took the book and started watching it.
Above, Li Shimin was delighted after hearing the question from Kong Yingda and Li Gang.
As long as you get the support of these two people, this matter will be appropriate.
"Don't worry, two people, the one who wrote this book is a hermit master. However, this master is unwilling to reveal his identity to the world and does not want to be disturbed by the world's lives."
"What a pity!"
After hearing this, Kong Yingda and Li Gang looked sad.
"However, there is still a lot of mystery in this book. I wonder if you have noticed it?"
Li Shimin continued.
"Um?"
Hearing this, everyone in the hall was stunned.
As for Kong Yingda and Li Gang, they quickly took the book from Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui and read it directly.
"Your Majesty, what you are talking about is a bunch of small words on top of every word?"
“That’s right!”
Li Shimin nodded slightly and glanced at Li Chengqian beside him.
"Say, the first person to discover this book is the prince!"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince?"
Now, a trace of doubt flashed in everyone's eyes.
"That's right! Gao Ming, you ministers will explain the biggest mystery in this book!"
"Yes, Father!"
After hearing this, a hint of excitement flashed in Li Chengqian's eyes, and he hurriedly bowed slightly to Kong Yingda, Li Gang and others.
"Dear masters, the biggest mystery in this book is the pinyin above every word!"
"letter?"
Now everyone was full of doubts.
"Dare you ask the prince, what are the letters? The old minister has never heard of it?"
Li Gang asked.
"When I go to the teacher, the letters were created by that master, and they were the small words on every word in this book."
As he said that, Li Chengqian walked closer, pointed to the text on the book, and explained: "Teacher, please read, every word on this book has a line of pinyin, these pinyin are combined by single letters... Please look at the first page, which is the annotation of these twenty-six letters..."
"...and these, the punctuation marks between each sentence are used to make sentences..."
When Li Chengqian finished explaining, Kong Yingda, Li Gang, Changsun Wuji and others were shocked.
Then, his face was even more excited.
Especially Kong Yingda, staring at Li Shimin closely, his eyes glowing.
"Your Majesty, this letter..."
"Kong County Male, that expert has agreed to promote this letter to the world!"
At this moment, Kong Yingda was just conferred a man from Qufu County and transferred to the position of the chief clerk.
"Your Majesty is a blessing to the world, and it is a great blessing for millions of scholars in the world!"
Kong Yingda was overjoyed.
At the same time, Li Gang, Fang Xuanling and others on the side were all overjoyed.
"Congratulations to Your Majesty, this is a blessing for the country. God blesses me, the Tang Dynasty. With this letter, within a few years, there will inevitably be thousands of scholars in my Tang Dynasty!"
"In this way, the men in Kong County also agreed to promote this kind of enlightenment letter to the world?"
"Your Majesty, this letter of enlightenment must be implemented in the world before the world!"
Kong Yingda said with a positive face, "Whoever dares to say no, will be desperate."
"Hahaha……"
Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help laughing.
From the time of ascending the throne to now, this was his most comfortable day. Before that, although Kong Yingda and Li Gang respected him very much, Li Shimin could see that these two people only respected his throne.
And now, these two people have truly respected him.
Moreover, with this letter promotion, I believe that scholars all over the world will never say that they have an incorrect position.
"You may not know that the master who created this letter and punctuation mark is the same person as the master who created the number!"
Li Shimin continued.
"number?"
Upon hearing this, Changsun Wuji, Kong Yingda and others were all shocked again.
A few days ago, Pei Ji had already discussed the number matter with these people.
They were also very interested, but the numbers are of great importance and there is no complete system. They have studied it many times but have made no progress.
Unexpectedly, Li Shimin now told them that letters and numbers were created by the same person.
"You may ask your Majesty, does that master have a book of numbers?"
Kong Yingda asked.
"It's true!"
Li Shimin nodded slightly and looked at Li Chengqian beside him.
Seeing this, Li Chengqian sighed helplessly, and picked up his math textbook and handed it to Li Gang.
"Teacher, this book is a book about numbers!"
"oh?"
Seeing this, everyone quickly looked at the book.
Although they are all the same shoddy, everyone's eyes are bright this time and there is no trace of contempt anymore.
Under everyone's attention, Li Gang carefully opened the math book.
Seeing the contents of the book, everyone couldn't help but hold their breath and looked surprised!
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Chapter completed!