I am Li Shen and Li Shimin, the free kings of the Tang Dynasty

February 15th is a memorable day. Kong Yingda officially presented the dictionary to His Majesty.

This dictionary is the master version of the dictionary made by Li Shen alone. The entire book is one foot wide and one foot five high.

The outside is decorated with gold and silver and engraved with the four characters of Datang Dictionary.

This dictionary is so ingenious that Li Shen made it a long time ago, and it happened to be used by Kong Yingda today.

At first, Li Shen originally wanted to be more luxurious and make a book with gold leaves, but later he realized what a brilliant idea it was.

The gold book, which is one foot five high, one foot wide and half a foot thick, weighs at least more than eight hundred kilograms.

When the craftsman told him this number, Li Shen was stunned. No words were spoken for a long time.

No one can pick up the eight hundred kilograms and look at it. Transportation is a problem. If it is stored in the royal treasury, it can only be placed on the ground, and the shelves will collapse.

Li Shen couldn't help but secretly cursed himself for being so uneducated.

That’s why we have this book presented by Kong Yingda today.

The donation of the dictionary was made very grand by Kong Yingda. Originally, Kong Yingda had approached Li Shen yesterday and asked him to attend today.

However, Li Shenyi refused categorically. This book was written by you and has nothing to do with me, so he was not prepared to go.

He also told Kong Yingda not to mention his name as he did not dare to take credit.

"..... Our Tang Dynasty has magnificent rivers and vast territory. Your Majesty has developed military virtues and the people live and work in peace and contentment. This is indeed a sign of great prosperity for the world.

..... I would like to present a dictionary so that the common people of the Tang Dynasty can learn the books of the sages. "

After Kong Yingda said a lot, he raised the dictionary above his head as a very solemn marching gift.

The court ministers present did not understand why Kong Yingda was so solemn. They also heard that Kong Yingda had been writing a book similar to Shuowen Jiezi in recent years.

It's just that predecessors already had such books, so it's not a big deal even if some text is added.

"Kong Aiqing, I wonder what the talismans in this book mean?" Li Shimin took the dictionary from Wang De and opened it for a few glances.

He asked with a confused look on his face.

"Your Majesty, this is the subtlety of this dictionary. Please allow me to interpret it for you." Kong Yingda said.

His Majesty got to the point right away.

"Okay, Kong Aiqing, come up." Li Shimin nodded.

Kong Yingda carefully walked up the steps to Li Shimin, pointed with his finger and began to explain to Li Shimin;

"Your Majesty, we call this Pinyin, this we call the initials, and this we call the finals.

As long as you master the spelling method of these two pronunciations, you can know the pronunciation of the words in this dictionary, and there are detailed annotations.

There’s also…”

Kong Yingda began to explain Li Shimin in detail,

Li Shen's dictionary is actually different from later generations. Many words are different from modern ones, but Kong Yingda naturally has his own method for these.

It took a while for Kong Yingda to finish explaining to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin nodded with great satisfaction.

"Well, I understand somewhat. This dictionary of yours can be used for literacy. You can also look up the word based on the shape of the word, and then know what the word reads and what its meaning is.

Sure enough, Kong Aiqing is really mature and prudent. You can think of all these clever tricks.

Not only can you check this book, but you can also learn the text yourself.

But this method still needs to be taught by someone. "

Hearing Li Shimin's approval, Kong Yingda smiled and said.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, everything has been arranged. At present, we are only taking the lead in implementing it in the new college built by Prince Ji's Mansion.

If it works well, the Imperial College will go to other states and counties.

We have now trained hundreds of teachers and are preparing to go to the new college. "

"Okay, this is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. After Kong Aiqing is worthy of being a saint, of course I will not be stingy.

I spent 100,000 yuan to help Kong Aiqing promote dictionaries.

In order to prepare the edict, the Imperial Academy offered wine to Kong Yingda, who had contributed to the writing of the dictionary, and was rewarded with a thousand pieces of silk, ten pieces of white porcelain, and ten pearls.

He was given a gold plaque containing his virtuous deeds and sent to his residence to report to various states and counties. "

Li Shimin was also very happy and rewarded Kong Yingda lavishly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward."

Kong Yingda was also very excited. Money didn't matter. His Majesty personally gave him a gold plaque expressing his kindness and virtue, and he also sent a report from his residence to all states and counties.

He wants to leave his name in history.

The historian will definitely record this incident, and just thinking about it makes his blood boil.

Half of the officials present didn't look very good. These people were from aristocratic families and even included Shandong nobles.

Kong Yingda is trying to dig into their roots. They rely on becoming a scholar to maintain their family, but if they all study in the future, the chance of becoming a scholar will decrease.

But on the other hand, the Confucius family will not be affected. After they are saints, the more people read the saint's books, the higher the status of the Confucius family will be.

However, they had no reason to refute, and they did not dare to refute. They were from an aristocratic family, but the Kong family had also experienced thousands of years.

It can be said that the Kong family is more powerful than other aristocratic families in some aspects, and they cannot touch others.

Li Shimin was even more happy. He had known about the dictionary for a long time. When Li Shen and Kong Yingda were conspiring,

Li Shimin knew about this, and Li Shen also told him,

Everything he did today was to show that he had no knowledge and put all the credit on Kong Yingda.

In order to protect his son behind the scenes, even if the family knew that Li Shen must be involved,

But we must also let them think that the biggest credit goes to Kong Yingda and his team.

The fact that Kong Yingda presented a dictionary to the Imperial Academy during a wine ceremony quickly spread to the outside world. Just when everyone didn’t understand what a dictionary was,

Li Shen's Datang Daily published an article praising Kong Yingda nationwide.

He wrote down everything that happened in the court at that time, including the fact that His Majesty Long Yan was very happy and decreed a generous reward to Kong Yingda.

There are also plaques with virtuous words and so on.

It also describes the detailed function of the dictionary, which can help people who are illiterate to recognize the words, and those who are literate to understand the meaning. In the future, they can understand the ancient books without instructions.

This made students all over the world cheer for joy, and Kong Yingda's reputation was as high as ever.

"Your Majesty, your move is really wonderful. Now the outside world is praising Kong Yingda, but no one mentions you, Your Majesty.

It seems that even the aristocratic family thinks that Kong Yingda did this. "

Wang Hongfu in Prince Ji's Mansion said flatteringly.

"I think it is impossible for the family to miss the prince, but this matter mainly depends on Kong Yingda, so they have no way to take action.

Otherwise, they would be enemies of the scholars in the world. Even if they were from a thousand-year-old family, they would not be able to fight against the scholars in the world.

They are also afraid of lasting infamy. A scholar's pen is sometimes much more terrifying than a knife.

I'm afraid that they can't afford to offend the Kong family and come to trouble us. "Wang Xuance is not so optimistic.

"That doesn't matter. I'm going to the northwest in a few days, and they can't find me. If they mess with me in the northwest, I won't dare to kill them? What a joke.

Let's just wait slowly, don't be in a hurry, I am only eighteen years old and have plenty of time, so I will kill them slowly.

We'll see. "