Farmers of Shu Han

Chapter 11 Literacy and Reading

Feng Yong had no experience in raising maggots, and he didn't even understand the complete process. He could only make constant experiments based on what he knew in his previous life and his own inferences.

And raising earthworms is much simpler for Feng Yong.Earthworms like fertile soil, or they can turn less fertile soil into fertile soil, which is a good thing.

The people of the Three Kingdoms already have a vague concept of land fertility, the practice of rotating tillage to allow the land to rest and restore soil fertility, and even the practice of turning the weeds in the ground into the ground to make fertilizer.However, the most direct way to restore the fertility of the land is to spread farmyard manure on the ground, which no one has thought of yet.

For example, Zhuangzi of the Feng family, people urinated everywhere, and there was cow dung everywhere on the road. There was never the concept of centralized treatment. This made Feng Yong feel disgusting at first, but now it is a waste.

Cow dung, leaves or straws are hoeed, mixed with soil in a certain proportion and fermented, which is the best thing for raising earthworms, and it is also a good thing for fertile land.From now on, the housekeeper will be instructed to pay attention to the farmyard manure.Feng Yong thought down the idea of ​​raising maggots and earthworms on the bamboo slip.

Looking up at Yaomei, who was standing aside waiting to be served, she saw that her big black eyes were full of admiration, and her breathing was much lighter than usual, for fear of disturbing Feng Yong who was writing.

"Are you literate?"

Shaking his head.

"Want to read?"

He hesitated for a moment and shook his head.

"Do you know what this is called?" Feng Yong shook the pen in his hand.

"Pen."

The sound is very light.

"What about this?"

Shaking the bamboo slips again.

"Bamboo chips?"

Obviously questionable.

"This is called a bamboo slip. What is this called?"

"Paper. There is one at home, which Aon brought back."

I go!It seems that Ding Er's statement that he should take the paper back for offering is not nonsense.

Feng Yong thought to himself, and at the same time shook the pen in his hand again, and asked again, "What is this called?"

"Pen."

"what about this?"

"Bamboo slips."

"what about this?"

"Paper."

"Would you like to read?"

She nodded, then suddenly thought of something, shook her head in a panic, and saw Feng Yong's meaningful smile, Yaomei hurriedly lowered her head, her voice like a mosquito, "The maid dare not..."

"Go to Uncle Zhao and ask for a sand table and branches, and say I ordered it."

Reading and literacy has been the privilege of the nobility since ancient times, and it was only later that it gradually spread to some ordinary landlords.As for ordinary people, it has never been included in the scope of reading and literacy.

The so-called underprivileged disciples mentioned in later generations have at least one sect.As for ordinary people, they are called Qianshou, and they are never regarded as complete people, at least not until the Three Kingdoms.

Not having the qualifications to study, not having the capital to study is one aspect.On the other hand, teaching Mongolian children to read was a big problem in ancient times.Mengtong can only recite it repeatedly. Only when the child has mastered enough words can he cut the rhythm, and finally "open lecture", "open lecture" is to explain the meaning of the article.

This method is extremely inefficient, not only requires a lot of resources, but also requires a lot of time and energy, and ordinary people cannot afford it.

Even for many people who are able to read, the most important thing for children to grow into their teens is not literacy, but learning a life skill.

Whether it is the most humble business, a craft, or managing a farm, there is only one life skill that can be learned, so that when you can get married at the age of fourteen or five, you can have the skill to support yourself and your wife and children.

So in this era, literacy and reading are separate.Children from wealthy families may be able to write a certain number of words, may recognize most of them, and may even be able to write a family letter that can be understood by others, but if they want to write an article, most People may not be able to do it. This is literacy, but it is already considered a scholar.

And those who really have the conditions and the ability to go further are not omnipotent to the point of continuing to study.Because some are not smart enough, or some have no talent for reading, they will be eliminated again.

The rest are the most elite class of people.So, this is why the ancients regarded reading as a sacred thing.If you can read your own opinions, you can be regarded as the most intelligent person. As for the writing of the biography, it has been called a lifetime.

Before and after the founding of New China, the illiteracy rate was over 80%, and by 2000, it was only below 7%.Among them, night school literacy is indispensable. When Feng Yong was in elementary school, there was a sign for night school literacy in the classroom closest to the school gate.

And this success in literacy, there is a factor that cannot be ignored, that is, Hanyu Pinyin, which was originally used to eliminate Chinese characters, but finally became a major contributor to the popularization of Chinese. It must be said that it is a great irony.

But I have to admit that Hanyu Pinyin is a great improvement over the previous Chinese characters that could only be phoneticized by straight characters or reverse cuts.And Feng Yong, now holding this big killer, although the pronunciation is not the same in ancient and modern, but the usage of pinyin is the same.

Teaching Yaomei to read is just a sudden idea, and it is also a temporary interest. Feng Yong wants to know if using the method of Chinese Pinyin to teach people to read and write will be faster than the method of this era. As for Yaomei, who can learn by herself How much, it depends on her own talent.

Knowing that Feng Yong wanted the sand table to teach Yaomei to read, the housekeeper's eyes changed when he looked at Yaomei. He didn't know what this made him think, but he nodded and praised: "This Yaomei looks really good. We are lucky enough to be treated differently by the lord. If there are many people in the mansion who can read and write, others will look at us highly. After this, Feng Mansion has become a family heirloom, and it is not in vain for the old lord to use his life to go to Bolai. everything."

Feng Yong couldn't answer this, but he couldn't directly deny the housekeeper's words, so he could only nod his head, "Uncle Zhao is here just in time. There is one more thing about raising chickens that Uncle Zhao needs to worry about."

At the moment, I talked about the accumulation of cow dung, and I also specifically said that in the future, regardless of people and animals, we will focus on this method.

After listening to it, Butler Zhao looked at Feng Yong with a very strange look. If it wasn't for the disguise of the technique of Zhu Ji Weng, I'm afraid that Feng Yong would feel that Feng Yong had committed a mental illness again on the spot.

If Jincheng exists as the only center of Shuhan, then there are two centers in Jincheng City, one is the nominal center, the imperial palace.One is the actual center, the Prime Minister's Mansion.

In the prime minister's mansion, Zhuge Liang knelt down in front of the table, meticulously reviewing the document in his hand. The 42-year-old has a thin and handsome face, and his demeanor is not angry but arrogant. After scanning the bamboo slips on the case with sharp eyes, he wrote down his opinions directly with his right hand, then rolled them up and put them aside , and then picked up the bamboo slips on the other side... Ten lines at a glance, the hands didn't stop, there was almost no hesitation.

Ma Su hurriedly walked in with a scroll of books in his hand, with a worried expression on his face, and hurriedly said to Zhuge Liang who was sitting in the seat: "Prime Minister, Nanzhong urgently report!"

Zhuge Liang gave a "hmm", pointed to the side, and while lowering his head to review the bamboo slips, he said, "Let's put it here, and I will read it after I have finished reviewing this document."

"The prime minister should read the urgent report from Nanzhong first, right?" Although Ma Su put the bamboo slips away according to his words, he persuaded, "Nanzhong is against it!"

"Nanzhong has been dissatisfied for a long time, and Soochow has newly acquired the land of Jingzhou, so it will give birth to the heart of peeping at Shu. Now the first emperor has passed away, and the lord is young. If Soochow colluded with Nanzhong, Nanzhong would turn against it. ?" Zhuge Liang said, holding on to his hands, putting the approved bamboo slips aside, then raised his head and said lightly.

Ma Su was stunned for a moment. These words seemed familiar. Did someone seem to have said something similar a few days ago?
"However, Prime Minister, if the reverse of Nanzhong is related to Dongwu, then Dongwu will definitely take action. In the north, Cao Wei is powerful, and Jie Shi takes the opportunity to enter, and there are enemies on three sides in the middle of Shu. What will happen then?"

Hearing this, the movements in Zhuge Liang's hands stopped, and he sighed softly, "Yeah, since the death of the late emperor, I've been thinking, what should I do if I was attacked on three sides?"

(End of this chapter)