Although this winter is very cold, the number of people who freeze to death this winter is far lower than in previous years!
All of this depends on Hu Changan’s free briquettes!
For this, Zhu Yuanzhang was very grateful. He praised Hu Changan in the court and even rewarded Hu Changan with a large sum of money.
Even the people greatly admired Hu Changan's righteous deeds.
Hu's quickly became the most famous trading firm in Yingtian City.
This winter, Hu's family is shining brightly.
...
Finally, in everyone's expectation, spring has arrived.
And some of the previous things have to be put on the agenda.
In the morning of the morning, Hu Changan was still yawning secretly, when Zhu Yuanzhang called him out: "Hu Aiqing, the Ministry of Rites has already taken care of the construction of the Ministry of Industry School."
"At that time, you, Mr. Hu, will be temporarily in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Works School."
When Hu Changan heard this, he quickly swallowed his yawn and walked out of the queue.
When Hu Changan was at the Ministry of Industry, he once showed Zhu Yuanzhang the wonderful use of scientific knowledge.
Zhu Yuanzhang also waved his hand and planned to establish a special school for the craftsmen of Quanying Tiancheng so that more people could learn the physical and chemical knowledge that Hu Changan mentioned.
Now the school of the Ministry of Rites has finally been built.
The hardware facilities are already there, and the next step is the software facilities.
As for the construction of software facilities, Hu Changan naturally did his part.
After all, these subjects were first proposed by Hu Changan.
It is only appropriate for him to supervise the construction of this school.
So recently, Hu Changan has a new task - to build a school of the Ministry of Industry!
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Early that morning, Hu Changan came to the newly built Ministry of Industry School.
The newly built School of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry is located in the southern suburbs of Yingtian City.
Although it is newly built, none of the facilities have been spared.
From the main hall to tables, chairs and benches, it can be said that everything is complete and everything is available.
Just looking at the infrastructure, this School of the Ministry of Industry can even rival the Imperial College.
When Hu Changan saw this, he nodded with satisfaction.
No matter what, at least the etiquette department is doing a good job.
Not long after Hu Changan waited, his partner Zhang Ping, the Minister of Rites, also arrived.
Although the knowledge taught here is engineering knowledge, in the final analysis, this is still a school.
Therefore, after Hu Changan completes the preliminary construction, the subsequent specific management of the Ministry of Works School will still be handed over to the Ministry of Rites.
Therefore, this time, Zhang Ping, the Minister of Rites, will also participate in the construction of the School of the Ministry of Works.
As soon as Zhang Ping got off his horse, he couldn't wait to complain to Hu Chang'an: "Servant Hu, I wonder what exactly is being taught in this school of the Ministry of Industry?"
"To tell you the truth, I really have no clue."
Zhang Ping is a pure scholar. He passed the exam all the way from his hometown. He has read the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child.
He really didn't understand the situation at this Ministry of Works School.
If the Four Books and Five Classics are not taught in this school, what else can be taught?
When Hu Changan heard this, he also smiled slightly: "Shilang Zhang, I have already compiled the teaching materials needed for the School of the Ministry of Industry."
With that said, Hu Changan took out two manuscripts from his pocket and said to Zhang Ping: "This is what I plan to let the craftsmen learn here."
"I'm going to let the craftsmen who come here to study learn two courses."
"One course is called physics and the other is called chemistry."
With that said, Hu Changan handed the two manuscripts to Zhang Ping.
On the covers of these two manuscripts, the two characters "physics" and "chemistry" are written respectively.
These are also the physics textbooks and chemistry textbooks that Hu Changan specially redeemed from the system.
Taking into account the poor cultural level of ancient civilians, Hu Changan also specially added many down-to-earth examples to help these ancient people better understand knowledge.
However, in Zhang Ping's eyes, these two books still looked like heavenly books.
From birth to now, Zhang Ping has never seen such a strange book.
Looking through these two manuscripts, Zhang Ping couldn't help but ask: "Shilang Hu, why are the contents in these two books typed horizontally?"
No wonder Zhang Ping looked confused.
In ancient times, books were typed from top to bottom and from right to left.
Hu Changan's book, which is typed horizontally from left to right, is absolutely unprecedented.
When Hu Changan heard this, he also smiled slightly and said: "What I teach here is all new knowledge."
"This kind of knowledge cannot be arranged vertically, so I can only write it horizontally."
"Anyway, the things written here are pretty much the same. As long as you get used to it a little bit, you should be able to get started."
In fact, when Hu Changan was compiling textbooks, he also considered following the ancient habits and arranging the text in order from top to bottom.
But after trying it for a little while, he gave up.
It would be fine if it were just words, but in physics and chemistry, there are various formulas that you absolutely cannot jump through.
Just imagine, how can this physical formula be written horizontally?
So Hu Changan thought about it and decided to follow the modern writing rules.
Anyway, whether it is written horizontally or vertically, these are the words.
Things like reading habits can be changed if you change them slowly.
Zhang Ping also nodded after hearing this.
Just line up sideways. He's not the one here to study anyway. He doesn't have to compete with Hu Chang'an over such a trivial matter.
But Zhang Ping looked at it and discovered a new question: "Shilang Hu, what are these strange symbols interspersed in the text?"
"How come I've never seen this kind of thing before?"
In ancient times, books had no punctuation marks.
So Zhang Ping has never seen punctuation marks such as periods and commas at all.
Looking at Zhang Ping's confused eyes, Hu Changan also smiled slightly and said: "This thing is called a punctuation mark, and it is specially used to break sentences."
"This circle is called a period, and whenever you see it, it represents a long pause."
"And this one is a comma, which represents a short pause."
However, Zhang Ping was confused when he heard this: "Shilang Hu, why do you have to mark out this broken sentence?"
"Isn't this just unnecessary?"
"They will naturally know it when they read the book."
As an ancient person, Zhang Ping couldn't understand it.
The first lesson for a scholar is to learn how to segment sentences.
The basic knowledge of sentence segmentation can be mastered by just reading some books.
Why did Hu Changan specifically mark these sentence fragments?
When Hu Changan heard this, he smiled and said: "Shilang Zhang, I marked these sentences for the convenience of all students."
"If there is no sentence segmentation, it would be bad if it creates ambiguity."
"Learn from my book, and you can't be careless at all."