"Public transportation class."

"I'm here!"

Luban stood up immediately when his name was called.

Qingji said sternly: "The Ministry of Industry has added a new department called the 'Trade Union', which is responsible for supervising the affairs of various workshops in Dawu, responsible for labor arbitration, and is committed to safeguarding the rights and interests of workers."

"If a worker files a complaint and the union cannot handle it, and after reporting it to you, it still can't be handled, it will be transferred to the third division for review. If it still can't be handled, I will personally review it and make sure it is properly resolved."

"promise!"

Lu Ban agreed immediately.

How dare you disturb Qingji, who has so many things to do about this matter as big as sesame seeds and mung beans?

If workers were really allowed to file a complaint and send the complaint to Qing Ji, I'm afraid many officials would lose their jobs.

"Father, regarding the project of building a straight road to connect the mainland of Wu with the vassal kingdoms, this is the budget compiled by my ministers and the ministers of the Ministry of Industry. Please take a look at it."

Prince Heng took out a memorial and asked the chamberlain on the other side of the throne to hand it to Qing Ji for reading.

Qing Ji wanted to build a straight road centered on Xianyang, the western capital, and extending out to connect the mainland of Wu and various vassal kingdoms. The difficulty can be imagined.

Many roads have not yet been built, and vassal kingdoms such as Liao, Sai, and Nan are still remote and remote areas, with few even the most basic official roads.

It's either high mountains or vast grasslands.

Even the twenty vassal kingdoms in the west have the foundation laid by the original Persian Achaemenid dynasty, and the transportation network is already very developed, but they do not meet the standards of the Dawu official road and need to be renovated.

Not to mention financial and material resources, after all, Dawu can obtain materials nearby.

In terms of manpower, five million civilians need to be invested?

Qingji couldn't help but frown.

"Prince, do you really need five million servants?"

Prince Heng smiled bitterly and said, "Father, this is already a conservative estimate."

"Except for one million Kunlun slaves, the remaining civilians must be recruited from various vassal kingdoms."

"However, I believe that the imperial court does not need to bear the food and grass consumed during this period, and can just let the vassal kingdoms bear it themselves."

Nowadays, Dawu has a strong national power and a mountain of money and grain.

But it is unrealistic to transport tens of millions of grain and grass from the mainland of Dawu.

For the current plan, the vassal kingdoms can only bear the responsibility themselves.

"good."

Qingji placed the memorial on the imperial eucalyptus, but did not change the budget plan compiled by Prince Heng and others.

In two or three years, Dawu was able to build official roads (hard-surface roads) extending in all directions and stretching for hundreds of thousands of kilometers. This is already an incredible feat.

It is worth mentioning that in order to facilitate the deployment of troops and generals, Qingji had ordered large trees to be planted on both sides of the avenue to shield the marching soldiers from the hot sun...

Qingji looked around for another week, looking at the officials and officials above the court, and said slowly: "Second and Third Son, I have been thinking about something recently and have never been able to make a decision."

"So, I would like to ask you all to discuss this matter."

"China has thousands of years of history and culture. However, the customs in different places are very different. The pronunciation is different in ten miles, and the customs are different in hundreds of miles."

"In addition to Yayan, dialects are still very popular in other places."

"I, the great Wu, regard Yayan as the correct pronunciation, and Yayan is the Wu dialect. However, as a Wu native, I can't even speak Wu dialect or even my own Mandarin. How can this be justified?"

No wonder Qingji would have such considerations.

Yayan is the earliest lingua franca in China, equivalent to modern Mandarin, which is also the "mandarin", Mandarin, and official language of Dawu.

Hua means the beauty of clothes, and Xia means the prosperity of etiquette.

Yayan is Xiayan (the official language of Xia Dynasty).

Yayan is also called "Luoyang Yayan", and its phonology is the ancient Chinese traditional phonology.

Because the characters of the Zhou Dynasty learned from the Yin and Shang characters of the Shang Dynasty, and the Yin people learned from the Xia people.

Since ancient times, Yayan has been popular in the Central Plains.

When Qing Ji ruled the world, he had already stipulated that Yayan should be the "national language" of Wu.

However, after so many years, Yayan still has not become popular and has become the "Mandarin" of Wu people...

"Your Majesty, I think there is nothing wrong with such a thing."

Wen Zhong went out with a tooth wand in his hand and said: "A long time ago, people lived in Chu and Chu, in Yue and Yue, and in Wu and Wu."

"Dialects vary greatly from place to place. When strangers come to a strange place, they find the local language obscure and difficult to understand."

"I, Da Wu, now all scholars who take the road of studying, taking exams, and becoming officials know elegant language. This is really not easy."

Hearing this, Qing Ji shook his head and said, "How can we help a country where its people can't even speak their own mother tongue well, or even can't speak it?"

"I also recognize dialects. After all, dialects and elegant dialects from various places are an important part of our Wu culture and Chinese culture."

"Of course, what I want to achieve is for Chinese people to speak Chinese well on the basis of speaking dialects well."

"Even if it's Mandarin with an accent, as long as it can be spoken and people can understand it, why not praise it as a good thing?"

At this time, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue once said: "Your Majesty, I think that if you want to make everyone in the world speak clear and elegant words with the same pronunciation, you need to educate!"

"You can compile a rhyme book and make it a supreme pronunciation model that must be followed in the minds of people all over the world."

"good."

Qingji nodded in agreement.

Zeng Shen's ideas coincided with Qing Ji's.

However, it is not easy to read rhyme books. People who cannot read a single Chinese character will probably feel their scalp numb after reading the above content.

"Zeng Shen, Zuo Qiuming."

"I'm here!"

"I want to compile a "Wu Yun" based on Yayan. You two, as well as the officials from the Ministry of Rites, can recruit scholars from the Imperial College to complete the compilation of "Wu Yun" as soon as possible."

"promise!"

Zeng Shen and Zuo Qiuming immediately agreed.

Regarding "Wu Yun", Qingji also personally participated in the compilation.

The "Wu Yun" completed at the beginning is divided into five volumes, containing 26,194 words, 191,692 words of annotations, and 206 rhymes.

In "Wu Yun", characters with the same pronunciation are listed as small rhymes. The meaning of the first character and below of each small rhyme is explained first, and then the phonetic notation is given to indicate the number of homophones. The remaining characters are explained separately without phonetic notation.

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This made Qingji quite dissatisfied.

Because the "Wu Yun" they compiled did not have pinyin letters, they used the straight phonetic or fanqie method to phonetically notate the word Wu.

Zhiyin means using homophones to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters. If the homophones are all rare characters, you won't be able to pronounce them even if the pronunciation is noted.

Fanqie means using two Wu characters to phonetically notate another Wu character. The upper character of Fanqie has the same initial consonant as the noted character, and the lower character of Fanqie has the same finals and tones as the noted character.

Both of these phonetic notation methods are inconvenient to use.

So Qingji asked Zuo Qiuming, Zeng Shen and others to make some changes.

Added the element of "Pinyin".

According to the composition rules of Yayan syllables, the initial consonants, medial vowels, and finals are quickly and continuously combined and tones are added to form a syllable.

There are 63 pinyin characters in total.

Among them, there are 23 initial consonants, 24 finals, and 16 overall recognition.

A phonetic symbol table was formulated and added to "Wu Yun" to complete this work.

Qingji also became the author of "Wu Yun".
Chapter completed!