After hearing what Ma Liang and Li Zhong said, Li Yuanjia was not surprised at all.

The two of them were servants from the royal palace. They just studied with Chen Qian and the others for two years, then learned how to make paper with Wang Pu for half a year, and followed Han Shan to learn how to build sewers and other things, but that's all. It's only limited to this. It's hard to ask them to take care of the blacksmiths of the royal palace, or teach students to recognize words, and they can't count on more. Moreover, as for the request made by Li Yuanjia, let alone them, even the best scholars of this era may not have any good solutions.

So Li Yuanjia had guessed this result a long time ago.

However, after listening carefully to Li Zhong and his two "crying" about him, Li Yuanjia looked thoughtful and walked around the common desks of the two. Suddenly, he looked up in surprise and asked, "Since that's the case, why don't you arrange each word by the number of strokes? In that case, wouldn't you find them easily?"

"How many strokes are drawn? What does it mean?"

After listening to Li Yuanjia's words, Ma Liang and Li Zhong opened their eyes wide at the same time.

The study time was too short, and the two of them didn't even know what "Shuowen Jiezi" was, otherwise they wouldn't have taken Li Yuanjia's words for granted that day. Now when they heard the words of the strokes, they even looked at them with a look of darkness when Chen Qian and Huang Licheng taught them, they never said any stroke order or stroke.

"It's very simple, it's just how many strokes you need to write a word!"

With a raised eyebrows, Li Yuanjia gave the two students the simplest explanation: "Some words only need one stroke, such as one word; while some words require three strokes, such as the mountain word... If you classify the words that need to be written in one stroke into one category, and the words that need to be written in two strokes into one category... and so on, divide all characters into dozens of categories first, wouldn't it be much easier to find?"

"Hiss...yes!"

After hearing Li Yuanjia's words, Li Zhong took a breath and screamed excitedly.

As the manager of the movable type printing workshop, he is much more sensitive to such things than Ma Liang. So after hearing Li Yuanjia's words, he immediately thought of the subtlety of it not only can be used to count the characters in the books, but also can this method be used to manage the movable type made in his workshop, right?

Compared to Li Zhong who had already figured it out, Ma Liang's reaction was much slower. He opened his eyes and said blankly: "What's the matter? What's going on? Li Zhong, do you already understand?"

Ignoring Ma Liang, who was slow to react, Li Yuanjia looked at Li Zhong who was already excited at this time and chuckled: "Since you have figured it out, you should know what to do later, right?"

"Yes, king!"

Taking a deep breath, Li Zhong nodded heavily.

If he didn't know how to do it after he figured it out, it would be too stupid. But looking at the thick stack of books that had not been counted on the table, Li Zhong's face became bitter again, even if he had a new method, it would definitely not be possible to finish them in half a month!

He opened his mouth and Li Zhong wanted to say something, but he didn't dare to say it for a while.

Seeing his expression, Li Yuanjia actually knew what he was thinking. He smiled in his heart and said, "But no matter what, it is really difficult to complete in one month. Let's do this. I'll give you another three months to finish these books!"

"Thank you, we will complete it within three months!"

After hearing Li Yuanjia's words, he was very happy and Li Zhong hurriedly greeted him.

“…”

Li Zhong was busy thanking him, while Ma Liang was busy and confused.

Li Yuanjia was too lazy to pay attention to him. Anyway, someone figured it out and his purpose was achieved. The future dictionaries are basically like this. Either in the order of strokes or in the pinyin. It is too difficult to get a set of pinyin these days. The difficult Tang Dynasty accent can make Li Yuanjia die! However, strokes can be used in any era and will basically not be affected.

However, before leaving, Li Yuanjia suddenly said to Li Zhong: "By the way, before starting this time, let's take a good look at the book "Shuowen Jiezi" and learn how to arrange radicals in it. You can also classify it, otherwise there will be many characters under a stroke..."

After deliberately wasting more than half a month, Li Yuanjia finally let Li Zhong and the others understand how to count the number of words in those books.

Of course, counting word count is not the most important thing. What is important is how to arrange a dictionary.

A dictionary with only one thousand words or two thousand words will be the basis of the future Han King version of the big dictionary, and it is also the prototype of the movable type library that Li Yuanjia will do in the future.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be handled in one month.

The reason why Li Yuanjia made the two guys difficult was actually to introduce this method of writing dictionary. And he didn't expect to be able to handle it in three months. In fact, he felt that it would be awesome to handle this simplified dictionary in three years...

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Of course, Li Zhong and the others did the troublesome things, and Li Yuanjia only had to enjoy the final success. Moreover, in the last month of the eleventh year of Zhenguan, there were really not many things he was willing to do!

Anyway, as soon as December comes, Li Yuanjia almost never goes out.

However, the reason why he was an otaku this time was not to be filial or to make the emperor feel honest, but because the winter in Chang'an City was so cold this year!

Every morning, Li Yuanjia would feel that Chunyan and Liu Mei were particularly pitiful.

Because he did not allow his maid to live in his room, the two girls could only live in the next room. Every morning, they had to get up early and wait for Li Yuanjia to get up. This cold day was so cold that they could not hide in the bed. The feeling was really hard to describe...

Because the weather was too cold, Li Yuanjia had to stop exercising during early exercise.

It’s not that he is afraid of the cold, but that if he wants to go out in this kind of weather, he must wrap his fur layer after layer and wear heavy leather shoes. It’s hard to walk, so how can he run? And even if he can run, Li Yuanjia doesn’t dare because running so thickly, he will sweat if he is going to run. If he accidentally catches a cold!

Colds are a disease that modern people don’t need to care about at all, but were dangerous in ancient times.

So after holding it in the room for more than ten days, Li Yuanjia began to pay attention to indoor sports, such as table tennis, billiards, etc. But unfortunately, when he really wanted to make one and tried it, he had no choice but to find out that with the technical level of this era, he wanted the craftsmen to make table tennis or billiards, which was simply a difficult task for them, and there was no difficulty that could not be achieved...

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Chapter completed!