The fact that the People's Army once again defeated the Ming army quickly became the favorite topic for most people in Guangzhou City, but soon, a new topic appeared - Wenhua Bookstore.

Wenhua Bookstore was established by the People's Army. Currently, there is only one person under the rule of Guangzhou City or the entire People's Army. However, in the future, Wenhua Bookstore will open all cities under the rule of the People's Army.

In the only Wenhua Bookstore, there are currently only four books for sale, one is "Traditional and Commonly Used Characters for Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese", one is "Elementary Mathematics", and "Common Sense" (Traditional Chinese Version) and (Simplified Chinese Version).

The reason why the People's Army opened a Wenhua Bookstore is very simple. There were originally intellectuals from the "old era" who wanted to join the People's Army, but the People's Army did not accept it easily unless these intellectuals were willing to start with minor officials or soldiers.

In fact, there are very few intellectuals who start with minor officials. Such people will be carefully observed. If their character and loyalty are recognized by the People's Army, they will focus on training.

As the People's Army defeated the Ming army again, Fang Nan felt that it was time to accept the surrender of those intellectuals of the old era, but the People's Army would not accept it. Only by passing the People's Army exam can one be an official. The four books currently sold by Wenhua Bookstore are prepared for those intellectuals exams.

In the old era, intellectuals used traditional characters, while the People's Army system used simplified characters. In order to integrate into the People's Army system, intellectuals from the old era must be able to use simplified characters, rather than the People's Army system in turn incorporated traditional characters.

The appearance of simplified Chinese characters and pinyin is to make it easier for people to learn words. The People's Army will also vigorously promote simplified Chinese characters. Now it cannot hold on, so it will be very laborious to promote simplified Chinese characters in the future.

Even if intellectuals in the old era were unwilling to use simplified Chinese characters and did not join the People's Army, the People's Army did not have to do with them. In Yong'an County, Haifeng County, and surrounding areas, the school opened by the People's Army was teaching simplified Chinese characters for many years. Within three years, they could quickly expand the official system of the People's Military Government.

Three years of education graduates are more worthy of the trust of the People's Army. On the contrary, these intellectuals of the old era always have the problem of trust.

If these old intellectuals were willing to learn simplified Chinese characters, this would be a good start.

Of course, it is impossible to become an official of the People's Military Government just by knowing simplified Chinese. Their talents in literature are high enough, but they are not good at arithmetic and need to be improved.

In addition to mathematics, common sense is also a very important item. "Common Knowledge" includes many aspects such as geography, biology, physics, and life.

An intellectual in the old era may have many confusions after learning "Common Knowledge", such as why the earth is round, and this content cannot be explained clearly. It is just to tell you a conclusion through books. You must believe it. If you don't believe it, you can not learn it and don't have to enter the People's Army system to become an official.

In order to facilitate these intellectuals of the old era, "Common Sense" is divided into simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese versions, but simplified Chinese characters must be used during the exam.

As long as intellectuals in the old era learned simplified Chinese characters and passed the examinations of mathematics and common sense, the People's Army could accept them. When they learned knowledge, they were gradually integrating into the People's Army system. Their thoughts were changing, and the People's Army did not need people who retained the ideas of the old era to join in.

The People's Army opened a bookstore but it was not actually attracting attention. Instead, the People's Army issued an announcement in Guangzhou City, announcing to everyone that the People's Army would conduct an exam in half a year, and those who passed the exam could be appointed as the highest county magistrate.

The county magistrate under the People's Army was the magistrate under the Ming Dynasty. It seemed that the county magistrate was just a small official, but the county magistrate who could manage a county with a population of at least tens of thousands could not be regarded as "small". I wonder how many literati and scholars at the bottom dreamed of becoming the chief of a county.

Therefore, after the People's Army issued this announcement, it immediately attracted the attention of some intellectuals of the old era, mainly those gentry and merchant families, but intellectuals who were still loyal to the Ming court were unable to take the exam. No matter they would pay attention to this matter, the People's Army's examination was equivalent to the imperial examination in the Ming court.

After carefully reading the announcement, intellectuals in the old era found some key points in the announcement. The examination was divided into two subjects of mathematics (arithm) and common sense. There was no examination content such as writing articles, and it was noted that the examination required to be answered in simplified Chinese characters, and traditional Chinese characters were not allowed. The contents that were tested during the examination can be purchased and read at Wenhua Bookstore.

Because of this announcement from the People's Army, Wenhua Bookstore attracted more attention, but the intellectuals in the old era talked about more things in simplified Chinese.

In fact, the old intellectuals in Guangzhou City discovered that the People's Army used the so-called "simplified Chinese characters" shortly after the People's Army entered Guangzhou City. Some of them could not understand simplified Chinese characters, while those who used simplified Chinese characters could barely understand traditional Chinese characters.

Regarding the People's Army that used simplified Chinese characters, intellectuals in the old era directly gave a "big rebellious" evaluation and criticized the People's Army's simplified Chinese characters at the party. Fortunately, the People's Army would not arrest all these people because of this incident.

None of them thought that if they wanted to become an official in the People's Military Government, they would also have to learn this simplified Chinese character.

Obviously, the vast majority of intellectuals in the old era were unwilling to learn simplified Chinese characters, which was an insult to them.

The People's Army did not let this matter go without regard, Fang Nan personally came to the scene and issued an announcement in the name of the Grand Governor of the People's Army, explaining why it used simplified Chinese characters.

"Simplified Chinese characters are derived from traditional Chinese characters, one simple and one traditional, so that it is easier for everyone to learn words and write words more easily.

In fact, simplified Chinese characters were not the first to be founded by the People's Army. Among the simplified Chinese characters used by the People's Army, many of them are derived from predecessors.

For example, in the "Jijuzhang" of the Han Dynasty, there is: At that time, Chen Sun, who checked the tent and came to the roof of the east to put the cheeks and box, learned that it was a false Chang Zhang, and asked the question about the calves and the calf.

King Xianzhi of Jin Dynasty used it: I once asked everyone to ask me about it and heard that I would eventually entangle the door and follow the door in the future. I was so tired of the Shenshen. When the scriptures were written by Sun Juechen, he saw that the steak was in danger of the east and asked for it;

Su Shi of the Song Dynasty used: Gu Gai fell from hunger and mistakenly constrained the generals. Waner Jia heard that he had to pray for the time and time. He was sincere and praised the complaint and the interview. Who would have long poems? The rest of the relationship between the rest of the story is still unknown. Finally, he said that the debt was reported to the leap and the debt was reported to the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap and the leap

In order to facilitate the writing of these simplified characters, our descendants just took out the words used by our predecessors. What's wrong with that?"

As for Fang Nan's words, a large number of intellectuals from the old era immediately defended their opinions, but some people who had originally wanted to join the People's Army chose to believe and prepare to start learning to face the first "imperial examination" under the rule of the People's Army half a year later.
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