Chapter 25: Recognizing the word to make money

Zhang Ziqiang is very good at summarizing and summarizing. When he was studying foreign languages ​​that day, he had good grades. The words he encountered now are similar to his native language, so it is easier to learn.

In this world, all the children who started to learn to recognize words. Who is like him who started to learn to recognize words? When he grows up, his learning direction has also changed. It is not realistic to rely solely on the teachers to study how to make children quickly recognize words. How many books on elementary schools in ancient China have been passed down for so many years? There has been a change? There is a need to know how to write, but here it is only required to be able to recognize words, and it is enough to understand the meaning. When the foundation-building period is truly reached, you can use jade slips, and it doesn’t matter if you can write them by hand at any time.

But Zhang Ziqiang knew that the best way to deepen his memory was to read and write. So he asked Amilia to pick out some common words and asked the maid Xiao Cui to help him find some small cloth and pens. The so-called pens are actually oil-seeking charcoal rods wrapped with cloth. These black charcoals are written on the cloth. Because of oil, it is not easy to take off. Generally, shopkeepers in some shops use this kind of pen to keep their accounts on the cloth and give them to the owner every day. Dovers used this way before, but now Xiao Cui goes to the city to check out every day. If the conditions are worse, he is reluctant to use the cloth, so the accounts will be recorded directly on special wooden boards or stone slabs, and rub them every day.

However, these have nothing to do with Zhang Ziqiang now. He wants to learn characters from pens and rags. Amilia now just wants him to practice as soon as possible. Xiao Cui immediately needs to complete this small requirement. After getting the rags and rags, Zhang Ziqiang asked Amilia to pick out common words from "General History" and write them on the rags. He asked Amilia to read them a few more times. He looked for the same or similar Chinese pinyin symbols. Now he can spell them by himself, which greatly saved Amilia's time to teach reading, and he also learned faster.

That's not all. Zhang Ziqiang wanted to read and write while reading. It was too troublesome to practice calligraphy with oil-filled charcoal pen and cloth. Xiao Cui was helping him wash the cloth every day and then dry it coldly. He could only use it after it was completely dry. The charcoal pen tip was thick, and there were not many words to write ten or eight pieces of cloth a day. How troublesome it would be.

He didn't feel the touch when writing with rags and sticking to water, so he used his brain again and asked Xiao Cui to help him dig a shallow soil pit one meter square in the yard, and piled it up with fine sand that had been passed through several times with a sieve. He used a straight wooden strip to sweep it on the sand, and the sand was flattened and the wooden strips were firmed up. While picking up a common word written by Amilia, reading it in the pinyin, writing it on the sand surface to deepen memory. It was quite easy to remember fifty new words every day on average.

He can now talk in language, but the words and language cannot correspond. As long as he recognizes most words, he can understand some meaning from spoken language. After writing down all the new words at night, he will ask Amilia to explain the meaning of these words to him, learn to form words while recognizing the words, remember the meaning of the words again before going to bed, and then slowly you can string them into sentences.

Zhang Ziqiang's actions only made Amilia and Xiao Cui stunned, shocked all day long, and called each other genius. The mainland is now using more than 5,000 words. According to estimates, the part of the text that originally needed to be studied for three years can be completed in four months. If an ordinary child enters the school at the age of seven and does not complete the "General History" until he is ten years old, that is, the time for real practice is only five to six years. If the kingdom can promote this method, it can save at least two and a half years compared to the current teaching method! As soon as Amilia said this to Zhang Ziqiang, he smiled and said, "It turns out that learning to recognize words here is still at the level where the meaning of reading a hundred times is revealed."

At this time, Amilia was very sorry for herself and Kalyn, especially Kalyn. She tried her best to finish learning the General History two years ago. I don’t know how much hardship it has suffered. How could Zhang Ziqiang easily recognize words and learn to write. At the same time, she knew that the strange symbols called Pinyin made it easy for the teacher to teach, and she didn’t need to keep students reading the General History over and over again, so that a teacher could teach more students at the same time.

If we say that it can save all students two and a half years, Amilia is wrong. After all, adults’ learning and understanding ability is incomparable to children. Even if we use this method, it can only save about one year in terms of time. In ancient China, it was generally three years for elementary school. Although there were sixth grades in modern primary schools, there were more than one course to learn! And the teaching staff could also save a lot.

Thinking of this, Amilia's eyes flashed and turned into golden gold coins. She hurriedly ordered people to find Doverth to come back. The two hid in the house and sang for a long time. Doverth left with a smile and called Kailin back. She asked Kailin to watch Zhang Ziqiang gesture at the sand pit for a long time. Afterwards, she repeatedly told Kailin what to do. Kailin ran to Zhang Ziqiang, held Zhang Ziqiang's face and kissed her fiercely, and left with a giggle.

Zhang Ziqiang couldn't figure out what Amilia wanted to do. He just read the words wholeheartedly, shaking his head every day, and muttering words every day.

After another ten days, Dovers brought a man back. The two of them were guarding the back room and knocking. Amilia arranged two other servants to guard the shop in the city. In the following days, Zhang Ziqiang studied in the inner courtyard, while Dovers and the other two were beating in the outer courtyard. Amilia turned around in front and behind the house. The yard was very lively.

After another four or five days, Zhang Ziqiang could remember seven or eight hundred words. On that day, Dovers, with his red eyes, took out a wooden box to ask him for advice. The box was rectangular. When he opened the lid, he saw that the workmanship was very exquisite. A slender groove was opened on the middle end of both sides. A square wooden stick was stuck in the center of the groove. A layer of fine sand was filled with. Just turn the box slightly to the right. The wooden stick and sand in the center naturally came to the right side of the box. Then hold a protruding part above the wooden stick with the left and then smear the fine sand horizontally. At Zhang Ziqiang's level, he could hold the wooden stick with chopsticks on the side. He could write seven or eight words on it.

"It's not bad. If you make a moving handle on both sides, add another layer to the lid of the box, place animal skin books in the space inside the lid, and seal it with a push-pull top cover, so that the animal skin books can be free from sand, or simply print the commonly used characters on the lid of the box. The entire box can be easily carried by students, which is much more convenient."

Dovers and Amilia looked at each other and said, "You are so rich!"

Zhang Ziqiang was stunned: "Talented? Is this thing difficult to make?"

Old Dovers smiled and said, "It's not difficult to make it after seeing you use it, but you can make a fortune with this thing!"

When Zhang Ziqiang heard that he could make a fortune, he was a little interested. Wealth on the earth largely represents a person's ability. In order to buy a house with Wang Lian, he said that he had made a few square meters of houses again! Now he is in this world, eating and drinking with Amilia. Although Amilia is very happy, he always feels a little bit of a soft meal and feels uncomfortable. He has refused to agree to Amilia. This may not be the reason. Now that he hears that a small sandbox can make money, of course he wants to care.

"How much can this thing be sold for? Who are you planning to sell it?" Zhang Ziqiang asked.

Dover chuckled and said nothing. Amilia replied, "I called Kalyn back a few days ago and told her this thing. She saw you use it on the sand. She thought it was very good. She thought that students who were learning to recognize words in their school would buy them. There were hundreds of them in Wangdu Junior School. I sent someone to inquire. There were more than 30,000 children who were recognizing words. Even if one of the three people bought them, they could still sell them for ten thousand. The materials and labor of the box were about fifteen copper coins. We sold two silver coins at all. We were not expensive at all. Ten thousand could earn five hundred gold coins." Amilia said while calculating, her standard money-loving look.

After listening to it, Zhang Ziqiang said, "Don't rush to draw a conclusion first, I'll ask you a few questions." He turned his head and looked at Dovers, and then said, "First, this thing is so simple, no one has thought of it before? Second, since it is not difficult to make and the cost is not high, can't others sell it as it is made? Third, isn't it said that the wood is not enough? This thing needs to be made of wood, is there so much?"

Dovers hurriedly explained: "The animal skin books are also a set of gentlemen in junior colleges. When teaching, they write them on wooden boards one by one. A few sentences a day for students to read them. Usually, they just need to know the words and understand the meaning. It is very different to see the words and actually remember them. Those children have to carry a few wooden boards every day, and they have to bring cloth to copy them down and remember them home. The children are very hard! When the jade slip can be used in the foundation-building period, they can remember what they can think of in the mind, and there is no need to write. For example, those who cannot reach the foundation-building period are busy with life, so they don't need to write. Over time, this thing seems simple, but no one has ever thought of it. Alas..."

Although Dover's explanation was messy, Zhang Ziqiang understood it. Dover's not grasping the key point. It was not that the word recognition box was valuable. The real value was the method of word recognition. He asked Amilia to pick out the commonly used words and learn literally, but in the school, it was taught one by one. There was a big difference between them. It was hard to say which method was suitable for children, but with this sandbox, children would definitely recognize words faster.

Two silver coins are indeed not expensive. Every time he goes out to the teleportation square, Amilia carries a luxury carriage, and one round trip requires more than one silver coins. Through preliminary observations, he found that the purchasing power of a copper coin is only slightly higher than the one-yuan he used to buy, and asking parents to spend more than twenty yuan for their children to buy a book is not a big deal.
Chapter completed!