After drinking a sip of tea, Lu Ning said, "I think Master, when you are writing Chinese dictionary, you simplify the Chinese characters of our Han ethnic group. This will help you learn Chinese characters. We have too many Chinese characters, probably more than 100,000. Even famous scholars like Boda and Zitai can only know 300,000 or 50,000 characters. If you want to fully understand, you can only know the great scholars like Master Cai. Can you do it? And I think it is enough to have ten thousand characters for ordinary people or ordinary scholars. As for me, it is enough to know thousands of commonly used characters."

After hearing this, Cai Yong immediately said, "Ziyi, this matter is definitely not good. Why are you kidding? Reforming Chinese characters is very complicated. Besides, it involves too wide and without the recognition of the court, it will be attacked by scholars all over the world. Besides, even if we can do it, we cannot do it. This is a big deal. The scholars of scholars will not recognize the simplified Chinese characters we made."

Why don’t you say it’s not possible? You are such a stubborn old man. Lu Ning said seriously: “I don’t want you to promote it immediately. I mean that in the Chinese dictionary, you can post a simplified Chinese character at the end of each character. In this way, after decades and hundreds of years, people will adapt. After all, everyone hopes that the fewer strokes of Chinese characters, the better. This is easy to remember and write, and it is also conducive to the popularization or learning of Chinese characters. Especially when you use Chinese characters frequently, you must have simpler strokes, preferably a few strokes or dozen strokes, and you must not have more. It is not a big problem to use characters very much. After all, are there few strokes? But commonly used characters are different. That is often used."

Guan Ning still shook his head and found that he was dizzy again. How could this kid have so many strange thoughts? But he still makes sense after he said it. You can't convince him. You, a little governor, want to take care of such literary reforms. You really believe that kid, what do you want to do?

Guan Ning looked at Lu Ning and said, "Ziyi, what you said makes sense, but it's not that simple to do. We should try our best to do it when writing it. Just as you said, you should just notify a simple Chinese character later. Although there are many processes, I think it should be done. But I don't understand you. Why do you, as a governor, think about doing these things? These things are something that even the court cannot do?"

Lu Ning laughed and said, "Master, Mr. Cai, since Fairy Chang'e is so good to me, how can I not complete the task she assigned me well? Besides, this is the key to the rejuvenation of the Han nationality and the inevitable path for my national rejuvenation. If the cultural quality of the people is not improved, then our nation will not be able to revive it. Only when the whole nation is literate can the nation have hope. By the way, Master, are you simplified Chinese characters? I asked Yanmei to make more than 10,000 or 20,000 characters for the common use of characters. You can find a way to solve the rest. I can never help you any more. As for your personnel, I probably won't need me to fuck you. You should all get a large number of talents, but if you have great internal affairs talents, I hope you can recommend them to me."

A little while later, Zhang Chuang came back, and the boy really invited Xu Shu's mother and younger brother Xu Kang. Lu Ning brought Hua Tuo to help Xu Kang treat him. Xu Kang died of illness at Gu Sanshi, so that only his mother was alone in the family. Later, Xu Shu was threatened by Cao Cao with his mother, so Xu Shu had to leave Liu Bei's big ears and recommended Zhu Geliang. Xu Shu's mother knew that Xu Shu surrendered to Cao Cao for his own safety, so the old lady committed suicide. What a strong person, and it made people in later generations respect the old lady very much, so that after Xu Shu arrived by Cao Cao, he never offered a plan to Cao Cao in his life. At the same time, he also made the talented Xu Shu obscured his life. The only highlight was the burning of Bowangpo. This was Xu Shu's tragedy and the tragedy of Old Lady Xu. Lu Ning hoped that such incidents would not happen to Lu Ning.

Lu Ning asked Old Lady Xu for An and arranged for her and Xu Kang to live in Lu Ning's mansion.

When Mrs. Xu met Lu Ning, she said, "My old lady has heard of you, Big Bear. I heard that you are good to the people and dare to lead troops to fight against the cavalry of the Xianbei Tartars. She is a great loyal minister."

Lu Ning smiled and said, "Old man, you have been too rewarded. It's all my subordinates doing it. I didn't do anything."

Old Mrs. Xu said, "Nephew, do you know where Yuan Zhi is now?"

Lu Ning said: "Old man, I don't know where Yuan Zhi is now. I just heard that he is studying and asked me to bring me a letter to him to take care of you and Xu Kang. Don't worry, I will arrange for someone to take care of you, mother and son. Xu Kang will cure the disease first. After the disease is cured, you should learn more so that you can do more things for the people in the future."

After hearing this, Xu Kang said, "How can that work? How can my mother and I let you raise you?"

When Lu Ning heard this, he said, "Be good, you are sick, what can you do now?" If Lu Ning doesn't help Xu Shu, the old boy, raise you first, who will raise you?"

Lu Ning smiled and said, "You don't have to call me an adult. I'm not used to it. If you want to, call me Brother. If you don't want to, you can call me a name. You must cure the disease first. I heard from Doctor Hua that your disease cannot be cured in two a day. I guess it will be some time. You can study while treating the disease, and then help me become a steward for a while. When you recover from the illness, you will be a county magistrate. As for your mother, I will arrange for people to take care of it."

After hearing this, Xu Kang said, "I can be the county magistrate all at once. How can I?"

Lu Ning smiled and said, "No one is born to be an official. As long as you have a heart of loving the people in your heart, it is more important than anything else. If you don't have a heart of loving the people, it is useless even if you are full of knowledge, and you will even become a corrupt official. With Mrs. Xu's tutor, I believe you should have a heart of loving the people. Then you just need to do it with confidence and boldness. I will help you with any problems. During the treatment of the disease, you can also ask Guan Ning's great scholars, Cai Yong's great scholars, Boda, and Yuantan and they ask more advice and learn more. They are all talented people."

After hearing this, Xu Kang immediately knelt down to Lu Ning and kowtowed three times and said, "Please die and serve the lord."

Lu Ning helped him up and said, "Okay, as long as you do more good things for the people in the future, doing practical things is more important than anything else. It is not for me, but for the people. The quality of your work will be judged by the people."

Under the operation of the Zhen family, Lu Ning and others sold 5,000 sets of armor and 5,000 shields to Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou. Each armor was calculated as 600 grams of gold, and each shield was calculated as 100 grams of gold. Han Fu did not have that much gold, so he had to exchange it with food, silk and other items, which also allowed Lu Ning and others to obtain a large amount of gold, silver and a large amount of grain and silk. Of course, the Zhen family also received generous returns. Lu Ning and others did not care about it, as long as Lu Ning and others could make a lot of money.
Chapter completed!