Chapter 803 Plan for a Unified Language

When Luo Chong returned from the Tang Tribe, it was already October. After returning, he first tinkered with the steam engine, then worked on the research and development of firearms. In the middle, he spent almost half a month on the camera. By the time the firearms were officially finalized, it was already the end of December.

After handing over the finalization standards of the firearms to Hu Jin that day, Luo Chong ordered him to start stockpiling gun-making materials, but did not ask them to start production immediately, because the Han Tribe's current demand for firearms was not so urgent. The

most urgent direction of the Power Research Institute now is to mass-produce the Iron Horse Type 1 and Iron Bull Type 1 steam engines, and then install them on various machines, especially to replace all the existing mint equipment with steam engines to increase currency production to cope with the market gap formed by the upcoming surge in population.

Luo Chong's idea was just like the process of the People's Liberation Army liberating the country back then. After conquering a place, the RMB immediately followed. Of course, the currency of the Han Tribe should also keep up with the place he occupied.

Hu Jin also understood the importance of the matter, so he ran back without stopping and started working.

At present, the industrial county of Xingang County is still very small. Basically, it can be said that there is only one research institute and one factory that mainly produces steam engines. The research institute is still doing various research on steam engines. At the same time, it has to allocate some technical personnel to train workers to learn and use steam engines. The research institute originally has few people and it is impossible to participate in production by itself.

But even so, the research institute with only more than 30 people is still understaffed. They have too many places to hire people. The mint on Huxin Island needs to send people, and the training workers also need to send people. The people who stay have to participate in the research of new models. There is already a serious shortage of people.

As a last resort, the research institute had to write a letter to Luo Chong for help. Luo Chong had no choice but to go to the school to find a solution. A while ago, a group of liberal arts students were transferred to follow Sancho to Takuhai County to serve as officials. Now dozens of people have been transferred to the research institute.

The way of selecting people is still the same as before. The four schools in Hanyang City, Ruyang City, Xuefu County, and Liuyang City hold temporary examinations at the same time to select those with excellent grades to work in the research institute.

This time, the four schools selected a total of 100 people, and then Luo Chong had them visit the two research institutes. Finally, after their own choices, some went to the Power Research Institute, which specializes in machinery, and some went to the Comprehensive Research Institute on the lake island. The two places have their own development, and the treatment of either is not bad. As for what to choose, it depends on their own interests.

After allocating the manpower, Luo Chong mobilized some metallurgical craftsmen to supplement the Power Research Institute, which solved their problem of insufficient manpower.

However, just after this arrangement, Yun Zhi, who was temporarily appointed as the governor of Ruyang County, also found Luo Chong.

"Chief, aren't you selecting too few people from schools in various places this time? The two schools of Ruyang County and Xuefu County in our Ruyang County only recruited more than 40 people, and there are hundreds of students waiting for jobs in the school? What should these people do for the time being? They have completed their elementary courses. This school has been open for more than three years."

"Why do you ask this suddenly? Those students are making trouble?" Luo Chong asked while sitting in the office on the top floor of the Hanyang City Government Building.

"There was no disturbance, but there were complaints. I heard a clerk complaining to others while on duty. He said his brother's grades were not bad, he just missed one point, otherwise he could have gone to the graduate school. In the end, he said that the leader selected too few people this time. Such a big school only selected more than 20 people."

When he said this, Yun Zhi secretly glanced at Luo Chong's reaction. Seeing that he didn't even raise his head and was still looking at the documents on the table, he continued.

"I later asked around and found that there were quite a few people complaining like this. Their children were not young anymore, but they hadn't been assigned a job yet, and the school wouldn't let them graduate. Others who graduated had started families and so on. I thought such discussions might cause trouble, so I came to report to the leader."

"Hmm." Luo Chong still didn't look up, and continued to stare at the document in his hand and hummed.

Yun Zhi didn't know what it meant, so he asked again tentatively, "Then, Chief, you?"

"What about me?" Luo Chong suddenly closed the document and looked up, and asked back with a bad face, "Those students and parents don't understand, don't you understand too? They are actually jealous of those top students who were selected to the research institute. They all know that the research institute has high salaries, many opportunities to make meritorious deeds, and fast promotion of titles. Who doesn't want to go, but can everyone go? If you want to blame, blame them. Who made them not as good as others?"

Luo Chong paused and continued, "Also, I have been suppressing them and not arranging jobs for them. That makes sense. They can't see it, but you can't see it?"

Yun Zhi was also wronged and unhappy after being scolded by the leader, but he complained in his heart, how could I know what you think.

Of course, he didn't dare to say this. Since Luo Chong said so, he analyzed the recent events and suddenly had some ideas. Recently, the cooperation between the tribe and the Tang tribe has begun to grow. A few days ago, Sang Qiu from their Ruyang County was transferred away. Seeing that the war with Zhudao was about to begin, maybe the leader had other arrangements for these students.

Thinking of this, Yun Zhi immediately asked tentatively, "Chief, do you have other arrangements for these students?"

"You still ask when you know it?" Luo Chong glared at him. How can he be a county governor with such a brain? Then he said again.

"Zhudao has a population of 100,000, the three counties of Honghu have a population of nearly 70,000, and the population of Tang tribe is 80,000. These places are gradually accepting our rule. The language unification of so many people is a problem. Don't we need teachers to teach so many people to learn Chinese? Aren't those students in the school just right?"

Hearing Luo Chong say this, Yun Zhi suddenly realized that he had never thought of this problem. Originally, he thought Luo Chong wanted to train these students to become officials and craftsmen, but forgot that there were teachers and the popularization of Chinese.

Yun Zhi didn't expect it, but Luo Chong did. Of course, he only thought of it when he was recruiting people for the research institute these two days. The new area taken over by the Han tribe is very large and the population is very large. If they can't communicate effectively with each other, how can they develop?

However, with the current teaching system of the Han tribe, if you want a student to learn Chinese characters and Chinese, you have to teach them from recognizing characters, which is very troublesome.

Children who grew up listening to Chinese don't need to be taught, but those people in the Xin tribe and the herdsmen on the grassland can't do it.

The previous courses in the Han tribe schools were similar to the ancient Three Character Classics. In general, they gave you some characters that almost covered all the pronunciations of Chinese. When you learned all these characters, you can almost speak Chinese.

But it's not possible now. Teaching like this is too slow and can't be quickly popularized to more than 200,000 people. So Luo Chong thought about it for several days and finally decided to take out the Chinese Pinyin. With this set of Pinyin courses, even if they don't know Chinese characters, they can learn Chinese pronunciation in the fastest time. In the past two days, he was compiling this set of Chinese Pinyin courses and has already made a promotion plan.

(End of this chapter)