Chapter 463 Promote vernacular and pinyin to benefit the unification!

Zhang Gui smiled faintly, looked at Fan Wencheng who was kneeling in front of him, and replied to Zhu Youxiao, "Your Majesty doesn't know, this person's real name is Fan Wencheng, because the Xichang Anti-Crafts Department has been eyeing him for a long time, and he also painted him. There are few portraits, but this person is cunning, and has been repeatedly failed to get rid of by the people of the anti-traitor department, and now he has even hidden in the capital! Although the anti-rape department has not been able to get rid of him, almost everyone in Chen and Xichang I have already remembered his appearance and characteristics. Therefore, as soon as he was escorted, the minister recognized him!"

   "Xichang anti-rape department?"

  Zhu Youxiao muttered a sentence, and asked Zhang Gui: "So, he was a slave and a traitor before?"

Zhang Gui nodded: "That's right! This person has served Jiannu for a long time, and when Shenyang fell, he took the initiative to join Jiannu. One of the Han people in Jiangshan!"

   Zhu Youxiao looked at Fan Wencheng with more stern eyes after hearing this!

   "Good job, Fan Wencheng! You are so bold!"

  Zhu Youxiao started talking.

  Fan Wencheng turned pale with shock at this time, and only kowtowed like garlic: "The emperor spares his life, the emperor spares his life! The students are also forced. If the students don't do this, Jiannu will kill the officials!"

Zhu Youxiao snorted: "This is not a reason! As a scholar, even if you can't die for your country, you shouldn't sacrifice your entire country and nation to fulfill your path to wealth and fame! It can be seen that what kind of person you are! Shameless person! Even if you escaped by chance, you still want to harm me, Daming! If I don’t cut you into pieces, how can I correct the hearts of the world?!”

  Fan Wencheng fainted from fear when Zhu Youxiao said that he was going to be hacked into pieces.

  He didn't expect that he would end up in this situation.

  Boom!

  A large basin of ice water suddenly poured on Fan Wencheng's head.

  Fan Wencheng suddenly felt a chill all over his body, woke up with a start, and looked at Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Gui tremblingly.

  Zhu Youxiao continued to ask Fan Wencheng at this time: "Tell me, which powerful bureaucrats have taken you in and know your true identity?"

  Zhang Guidao: "Hurry up and tell me, this may reduce your punishment."

  Fan Wencheng hastily confessed, a total of more than a dozen dignitaries were confessed, and he also confessed that they planned to instigate together to discredit Zhang Gui, force Zhang Gui to leave, and embezzle the profits of Daming's steam industry.

  Zhu Youxiao therefore ordered Wei Zhongxian to follow the map to find out who he was, and directly arrested more than a dozen dignitaries, and then all of them were punished.

At the same time, Princess Le'an also called her housekeeper Hu Jiuniang and a group of nuns to her, and asked in a deep voice: "Concubine Zhou used to speak wild words, slandering me and my uncle for adultery. At that time, only you could do that." You can hear it from the sidelines, but now that the outside world knows it, only you will know it. You should speak out honestly as soon as possible, so that we, master and servant, can have a good reunion and separation."

It was reminded that Princess Le'an had begun to suspect that the nuns in front of her were spreading these things because of the rumors of her adultery with Uncle Zhang, so she summoned her housekeeper and nuns Jiaoyin to inquire carefully. .

  But housekeeper Hu Jiuniang and mother Jiaoyin naturally dare not admit to such rumors about the princess.

  So, the whole scene became deadlocked like this.

  Princess Le'an saw this and could only say: "In this case, I can only ask the clan mansion to drive you all out of the mansion! Hire people to come to my princess mansion again!"

  Hu Jiuniang and the nuns were shocked when they heard this.

  Hu Jiuniang complained in pain first: "Your Highness, even if some of us are at fault, we shouldn't be kicked out!"

Princess Le'an sneered and asked: "Why, do you still want to wait for the people called by me to the clan's mansion to force you to return my jewels that I stole to pay off the debts of my relatives? ?”

  At this moment, Hu Jiuniang and the others didn't dare to say anything, but just left here obediently.

  With Zhou Taifei, Hu Jiuniang and others being dealt with, and Fan Wencheng and others being dealt with, the unfavorable rumors about Zhang Gui gradually dissipated.

  Zhang Gui still only focused on currency reform.

  Therefore, Zhang Gui then asked Xichang to use the newly issued Daming silver coins for all trade with foreign barbarians, and foreign barbarian currencies should no longer be used.

   As a result, foreign merchants were forced to come to Daming to exchange silver coins.

   The silver coins of Daming have been further developed.

   For this reason, Bi Ziyan also specifically mentioned this matter to Zhang Gui, saying that the demand for Daming silver coins increased, which added more income to the Daming treasury, and he hoped to increase the output of silver coins.

Zhang Gui took the opportunity to remind Bi Ziyan: "The output can be increased, but it is necessary to prevent landlords and rich merchants from storing silver coins for use, which will cause a shortage of silver coins in the market. As a result, the imperial court has already consumed a lot of silver coins to produce a lot Silver. Therefore, it is better to replace silver coins with banknotes as soon as possible, and first use enough reserves to print a batch of large-value banknotes in lieu of silver coins. This is not only for the convenience of transactions, but also for the future. Avoid exacerbating the phenomenon of large households hoarding silver coins. After all, it would be better if only large households were allowed to hoard banknotes, as long as they can use more.”

  Bi Ziyan nodded: "What Your Highness said is that the Ministry of Finance will make a decision."

Then, Zhang Gui said to Wen Tiren and Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Policy and Policy: "The reform of the Ming Dynasty has involved all aspects, but there is one aspect that has not been reformed, which will benefit the future society. There is a great hidden danger to the long-term stability of the country.”

"which aspect?"

  Lu Xiangsheng asked at this time.

  Zhang Guiyan said: "Pinyinization of Chinese characters and vernacular culture of articles!"

   "Vernacular?"

  The ministers glanced at each other, quite curious.

Zhang Gui continued: "The vernacular, that is, the articles in the future should be as straightforward as possible, mainly in the vernacular, to make it easier for ordinary people to understand, especially the articles in the residence newspaper and various newspapers must be easy to understand, so as to facilitate missionary work. It is easy to enlighten the wisdom of the people."

  Minister of Rites Qian Xiangkun frowned after hearing this and asked, "Does this affect the beauty of the article too much?"

  Zhang Gui asked: "Is it true that vernacular writing is aesthetically pleasing? What's more, is writing for good looks or for people to understand their own thoughts?"

Wen Tiren nodded at this time: "In the end, His Highness is more thoughtful. Whether Daming will continue to enjoy long-term peace and stability in the future depends on whether the people's wisdom is open, whether people in the world understand the imperial style, know the country, and at least understand what kind of situation they are in now." .”

   "That's right! If we don't guide the people well, and don't let the people have wisdom and think, then we will be used by the cult monsters to bewitch us! Then we will fight against the imperial court."

  Zhang Gui said: "Our concept of governing the country should come from the people, and go to the people! As for the pinyin, it is also to make it easier for people from all over the world to communicate with each other, and to benefit Datong!"

  (end of this chapter)