Chapter 70: The shock that Pinyin brings to Li Si
Li Si felt that anyone who could study these simplified characters was simply a genius.

The originally complicated small seal script is simplified without losing its meaning and charm.

Some simplified characters have even restored their ancient forms.

For example, the word "from".

The most important thing is that the simplified characters are very similar to the small seal traditional characters that are currently in use.

With just a few simple identifications, people who have learned small seal script will be able to recognize simplified characters.

Similarly, people who learn simplified Chinese characters can also quickly recognize traditional Chinese characters.

And one of the biggest advantages of simplified Chinese characters is that they are easy to learn.

Li Si estimated that the time spent learning simplified Chinese characters is at least half that of learning traditional Chinese characters.

If we have this simplified character, then your Majesty's policy of universal education will be easier to implement.

No wonder His Majesty came to me and said he wanted to establish a universal education system policy.

It turned out that I saw this simplified Chinese character from Zhao Yi.

Li Si suspected that the new official selection system that His Majesty wanted to implement was most likely related to Zhao Yi.

Having said that, after we have this simplified Chinese character score.

It seemed like my previous act of copying the novel all night was in vain.

Ying Zheng asked, "What do you think of the simplified Chinese characters Zhao Yi gave me?"

"It's absolutely perfect. If this character spectrum had been available when the characters were unified, I would have chosen this instead of the small seal script that I developed myself," Li Si praised.

"With this simplified Chinese character, it will only take half the time for people to learn to read."

"Only reducing the time by half? You are underestimating this book of characters. Li Si, you must not have read the pinyin chapter at the back." Ying Zheng shook his head and said.

"I think that with the pinyin method of giving pronunciation to Chinese characters, the time to learn simplified Chinese characters is only a quarter of the time of traditional Chinese characters."

When Li Si heard what Your Majesty said, he didn't believe it.

Simplified Chinese is already perfect, and it is amazing that it can reduce the learning time by half.

Then, Your Majesty said that the following Pinyin method can reduce the time of learning literacy by half?
How can this be?

Then Li Si turned to the pinyin page that Your Majesty mentioned.

But he only saw some strange symbols.

These strange symbols must be the pinyin that Your Majesty mentioned.

Li Si thought about it over and over again but couldn't see how these symbols could reduce the time required to learn to read.

"Your Majesty, those strange symbols are what you call pinyin, right? But I can't figure out what they do."

"So, Your Majesty, could you please help me solve my doubts. How is this pinyin used?" Li Si asked.

Ying Zheng smiled.

“I never thought that Li Si, who was able to develop the small seal script, would be stumped one day.”

Li Si complained in his heart.

Your Majesty, you must know that I don’t know everything.

And this was given to me by that kid Zhao Yi.

How is it possible to understand things so easily?

You have to know that Zhao Yi always thinks of inciting the people when he makes up a story.

By the way, Your Majesty, when will you receive the sequel to "Journey to the West"?
I really want to know what happened to Sun Wukong later?

Although Li Si complained in his heart, he was still respectful in words.

"Your Majesty, you got these things from Zhao Yi. It's normal that I can't see them."

Ying Zheng nodded in agreement and said, "Indeed, if I hadn't been taught by Zhao Xiaozi himself, I wouldn't have understood what the pinyin symbols were for."

"Let me teach you how to read pinyin. Open the book to the pinyin table." "I obey your command."

Li Si followed the instructions and turned to the page of the simplified Chinese character score that Your Majesty mentioned.

Then Ying Zheng began to introduce: "Those symbols are the key to forming pinyin. And the so-called pinyin is the sound of spelling out the word."

"Spelling out the sound of a word? Do these symbols have their own syllables, and then form the sound of a word?" Li Si speculated.

"That's right. Zhao Yi created 26 letters, and then these letters formed initials and finals according to certain rules."

"For example, this."

As he spoke, Ying Zheng pointed to the final vowel of "an".

"This is pronounced as An, and there are four ways to pronounce it, depending on the tone of voice."

Ying Zheng began to teach Li Si how to pronounce each initial consonant and final one by one. After all, it would be Li Si who would teach the teachers how to learn pinyin and simplified Chinese characters in the future.

……

Half an hour later.

Li Si has fully mastered the use of pinyin.

After all, he was a linguist and had invented the small seal script.

That's why he was able to learn it so quickly.

For someone else it might take several hours or even a day.

And Ying Zheng spent three or four hours.

Li Si, who had learned Pinyin, exclaimed: "Your Majesty, this Pinyin is so convenient."

"You just need to learn the initial consonants and final vowels, and then you can pronounce the characters according to their pinyin."

“There is no need for teachers to teach and memorize things over and over again.”

"I didn't expect Zhao Yi to come up with such a method. Now I believe what Your Majesty just said."

"With this simplified Chinese character list, the time spent on learning to read will be greatly reduced."

Ying Zheng agreed, "Yes. If it weren't for Zhao kid, the Qin Dynasty would never have come up with such a thing as simplified Chinese characters even if it had developed for hundreds of years. I wonder how many good things he has hidden?"

Li Si clasped his fists and congratulated him: "No matter how many good things Zhao Yi has, they will all become your majesty's, and will eventually be used by the Qin Dynasty."

Ying Zheng smiled and said, "Okay, stop flattering me. I'll give you a task - teach those teachers to learn simplified Chinese characters and pinyin. Then let them teach the shadow guards to learn simplified Chinese characters."

"I obey your command." Li Si replied with a salute.

"As for the textbooks for popular education, you don't need to study them anymore. Zhao Yi will give you a complete set when the time comes." Ying Zheng said happily.

"Then we will use that set of teaching materials as the teaching materials for popular education."

what!
Zhao Yi wants to give Your Majesty a complete set of teaching materials?

What an advanced teaching material that is.

Just the simplified Chinese character notation can be like this.

Li Si couldn't imagine how good those teaching materials were.

Li Si couldn't wait to see what the teaching materials were like.

Ying Zheng continued, "I believe that with the textbooks Zhao Yi has given us, Daqin will enter the next era. Because the knowledge in those textbooks will allow the people of Daqin to truly understand this world."

"Li Si, do you know? In fact, the earth we live on is a sphere, and the Qin Dynasty only occupies a very small part of this sphere. I only learned this knowledge from Zhao Yi. And those textbooks are all such knowledge."

Li Si heard what His Majesty said.

I was shocked.

It turns out that the earth is a ball?
And this is just a little bit of the knowledge in the textbook?
Can this still be considered a teaching material?
Li Si didn't know what to say for a moment.

In this world, only Zhao Yi can come up with such a teaching material...

(End of this chapter)