Chapter 938: Confluence of Surnames
In the next few days, almost every day, four hundred miles of rapid reports were sent to Xianyang, and the places seemed to be in chaos, but in fact, in the eyes of the emperor and the civil and military officials of the court, they all seemed to be jumping clowns and clowns were not worth mentioning. Chen Xu got up early and went to the court for two discussions and started to be lazy again. He spent all day at home teasing his daughter to play with his wife, and even turned into a carpenter again, designing a lot of small carts, rocking chairs, small wooden horses, tricycles, scooters, etc., and then brought sticks and a few fifth-grade carpenters who came from Qinghe Town to the mansion. They saw, hammers, nails, and made these common children's toys in later generations every day.
During the production process, the four wives and the servants in the family gathered together to watch every day. These toys that seemed very casual to Chen Xu fell into the eyes of his family, which were all kinds of novel things. Chen Xu had made a small horse and a small cart, so he quickly made several of different sizes, because according to Chen Xu's opinion, it was normal for four wives to have seventy or eighty or ninety children, and it was also in line with his identity as a marquis. As for the emperor's reward, the four wives had to have seventy or eighty or ninety children.
Although Chen Xu was not interested in the dozens of concubines, these people had already decided their status and were all women who could not get married. They could not treat them badly for the rest of their lives. In the end, they were favored several times to give birth to a man and a half woman, so they would not be desolate and helpless for the rest of their lives. These things were both headaches and helpless. The prosperity of the family had to be supported by blood relatives, because this was an era where family was the first priority. The concept of the country was not as cohesive as later generations, because the country belonged to the emperor.
After a few days, the first skateboard was ready. The three pulleys were first one in front and two behind, which was no different from what Chen Xu had played when he was a child. Therefore, after that, Chen Xu had only had time to stand up and skate once, and was excitedly carried to the Women's College to show off to the students. Therefore, Chen Xu had to do two more.
The same is true for children's pedal tricycles. They do not use chains and gears to drive them, but install two crankshafts on the front wheels. Because the car is too small, Chen Xu cannot test it. However, after it was made, he was also occupied by Xing'er and Yu Ji and rode on the street to show off. The children on the street screamed excitedly and ran behind to watch. The inner historian next door couldn't help but run over to watch with relish for most of the day, and wasted Chen Xu's banquet and a meal.
After making these toys, Chen Xu specially created a small room for his daughter. All the furniture was children's version, which looked very novel, which made Xing'er and Yu Ji envious. After finishing these, looking at the open space in the yard, Chen Xu simply designed a trampoline made of palm and a slide according to the amusement park in later generations. After half a month, the entire Qinghe Hou Mansion was very lively every day. Xing'er and Yu Ji were spreading and showing off at the school. A group of little princesses ran to the Hou Mansion to play, jumping up and down the trampoline and slide all day long, and laughing filled the entire Hou Mansion. Even Princess Meng Wanwu couldn't help but slip on the slide a few times, and was full of interest in Chen Xu, a whimsical and peculiar toy.
Especially when I saw Meng Wan, Xing'er and a group of children jumping on the trampoline, Chen Xu's head was covered with black lines, and I felt that this trampoline would break if my daughter couldn't hold on.
"Husband, there are seven or eight days left to be the 100th day of the birthday celebration of my daughter. You should give my daughter a nickname as soon as possible, otherwise the guests will be a bad name!" Seeing Meng Wan taking Xing'er and a group of girls playing excitedly on the trampoline and slide, Ying Shiman stood beside her holding her daughter and begging.
Chen Xu's face suddenly wrinkled bitterly.
Ying Shiman has mentioned this matter many times, but naming a name feels too difficult for Chen Xu.
"Or it's called Tiaotiao?" Chen Xu turned to look at Ying Shiman.
"Puchi~" Shui Qingrou, who was still standing alone in a black dress, couldn't help but cover her mouth and laughed, gently holding Chen Xu's arm and said: "Husband, this is your first daughter. Can you be more concerned? If this nickname is spread, it may cause a joke!"
Ying Shiman looked at her daughter in her arms and felt a little depressed.
My husband is a disciple of the immortal family and knows everything. She doesn't believe in a nickname and makes her stumped. Chen Xu thought about many names that didn't suit her. He thought Chen Xu didn't like her having a daughter, so he was perfunctory. But in fact, Chen Xu really couldn't name it, and it felt more difficult than developing a cannon.
"Gentle, you read a lot, why don't you remind me!" Chen Xu looked at Ying Shiman's lonely mood and could roughly guess her mood, so he took her daughter and hugged her and said while teasing her.
The three-month-old baby has slowly grown up his cheeks and has been able to open his eyes. His eyes are as clear as two gems, and he doesn't like crying on weekdays. Chen Xu likes it very much. Whenever he has time, he will carry the yard for a walk, and even specially carry it to the palace to show off to the emperor, but he will receive several large carts of reward.
"The aunt was born in the early morning of June 18th. It was midsummer when she was born. The five elements were lacking in water, but the nickname was not a name. Why should you hesitate? Just just talk!" Shui Qingru comforted Chen Xu softly.
"The five elements lack water, and you have to talk casually..." Chen Xu racked his brains and thought for a long time, and looked at the baby in his arms and said, "Or what if you call Xier? When my daughter was born, I was in Langya. There were constant tides in the East China Sea, which was not only timely but also the situation!"
"The word Xi is very good. In fact, it is not only a nickname, but also a name when you grow up. Princess, and the aunt will call Xier in the future..." Shui Qingrou agreed very much.
Ying Shiman also became happy in an instant, and saluted Chen Xufu with red eyes, "Thank you, husband, for giving her daughter a name, this name sounds very good!"
Well, Chen Xu finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and when he thought that there might be ten or eight more families at home, he might have a large group of sons and daughters in the family. Just naming a name can make him bald.
Alas, it seems that it is not a bad thing to let the concubine stay widowed. Maybe he can live a few more years. I really don’t know how the more than 20 children of the First Emperor named him. Didn’t he think about it? It seems that he has to compile a Chinese dictionary in advance. At that time, I really can’t think of the inspiration for me to read the dictionary.
Moreover, the surnames of the Great Qin are not unified now. Not only are the surnames chaotic, but there are also names and characters. The names are not as customs and traditions as in later generations. In fact, there is a seniority, so it is easy to distinguish between seniority and seniority. Moreover, the issue of unifying surnames of the Great Qin should be put on the agenda.
Therefore, after describing his daughter's name, Chen Xu stood in the yard and posted it for a while, and then went to the study. He decided to submit a memorial to the emperor and unify the surnames of the Qin Dynasty in advance, so as not to cause chaos at the same time. Officials from all over the country would not be messy when counting the number of people and formulating identity cards.
Two days later, just when the three provinces and six ministries and the emperor were still focusing on the suppression of bandits in the south, the Qinghe Hou came to court to propose two incredible proposals. The first was the convergence of surnames. Later, when registering the names of the people, only the surnames and names were registered, and no longer called the clan. However, this was only an official expression and did not emphasize folk names. Moreover, the names were promoted to the bottom-level slave class, requiring all adult men and women to have surnames and names, so that they could be easy to distinguish. The second memorial surprised the officials and the emperor, because Chen Xu presented a copy of the regular characters that Ying Shiman adapted from, hoping to start promoting the regular characters nationwide. Moreover, many of the regular characters combined the simplified Chinese characters from later generations, and the strokes of many extremely complex fonts were relatively simple.
Although these two memorials were irrelevant, they still sparked a heated discussion in the court. The confluence of surnames was actually constantly carried out from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin Dynasty. Especially during the Spring and Autumn Period, there were more and more vassal states that were divided into feudal states, and it has become a habit to use fiefs as a clan. As for surnames, it is only a factor that distinguishes ancestors and bloodlines, it is no longer common among the people. In addition, after the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms, the status of the nobles was completely lost. Even the nobles of the Qin Dynasty today were basically
It was a guest official who came from the six countries, so it was a habit to call him a clan instead of a surname. Therefore, this proposal was quickly passed by the emperor, requiring officials from the three provinces and six ministries to spread the plan to merge surnames across the country by decree. As for the fact that no longer distinguish between noble and low, all adult men and women must have surnames and names, the emperor and the civil and military officials of the court did not care, because this matter has almost come naturally now, and the promotion will indeed make the identity clearer.
However, in promoting regular script, the court has been quarreling again. It has only been more than ten years since Li Si and others have improved the text of Xiaozhang and promoted the text of Xiaozhang and promoted the text of Xiaozhang and now it has been added for more than ten years. The promotion has not been very smooth. When scholars from all over the world write, the text of the first six countries still exists when writing. Most of the unified Xiaozhang and the official documents are official documents. However, with the large-scale publication of the Daqin Metropolis Daily, Xiaozhang has been promoted relatively quickly. However, Xiaozhang has just been accepted by the world, and Chen Xu wants to promote another kind of square and square text with completely different strokes from Xiaozhang, which makes many officials not understand, especially those who support Li Si. This is obviously Chen Xu is taking the opportunity to constantly erase Li Si's contributions, thereby constantly weakening Li Si's presence in the court.
Anything is good or bad, once it rises to the level of political struggle, it will inevitably change.
Even though the important officials and emperors of the three provinces and six ministries all read the regular script comparison table, Chen Xu tried his best to explain, this matter was still greatly resisted. Even Meng Yi and Feng Quji did not come out to speak for Chen Xu this time. Few other officials supported the posts. On weekdays, a group of doctors and doctors who had to support Chen Xu's proposals were silent. After all, they suddenly changed from the familiar small seal script to write these square square characters. It was not that they could not do it, but that they looked very strange, thought it was not beautiful, and it was not easy to write.
Seeing that the process of promoting Kaishi characters was not going smoothly, Chen Xu had to settle for the second best and submitted a memorial again to request that the radical comparison table of Kaishi characters be published in the newspaper and some articles of Kaishi characters be published to see how the folk responded to Kaishi characters. If the people cannot accept and promote it, the proposal will be given up.
After a little hesitation, Qin Shihuang nodded and agreed.
Qin Shihuang knew very early that many of Chen Xu's memorials were written in fonts that were neither seal and regular script. The regular script had a style of clerical script, but was simpler. Although the horizontal and vertical structure was completely different from seal script, it was similar to clerical script. In fact, clerical script was almost in common with the official and small seal script. Most of the records outside the official documents were half seal script and half clerical script, so it was not difficult to identify.
A few days later, in the new issue of Daqin Metropolis Daily, half of the page published the regular characters, radical comparison tables of seal and clerical scripts in the form of a table, and a poem was also published in the regular characters.
This seemingly inconspicuous content immediately had a huge response among the hundreds of alchemists in Xianyang. Many people could easily identify regular characters through the radical comparison table. It felt that this square new font looked much simpler and clearer than the curved small seal script, and it was much easier to write. Therefore, interested people began to learn to write. In newspapers and literary colleges, Chen Xu also asked all officials and clerks to start learning to write in regular characters.
Chapter completed!