Daqin: Compared with his sons, Ying Zheng is jealous

【After inspecting the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Punishment, King Ying Zheng of Qin and Crown Prince Fusu also came to the last Ministry of Rites.】

【The Ministry of Rites is divided into three departments: Education Department, Etiquette Department, and Martial Arts Department.】

【The Minister of Rites was Zhang Cang, a junior of Li Si, the Minister of Justice.】

【Zhang Cang, the Minister of Rites, was standing at the entrance of the Education Department at this moment, introducing the students to King Ying Zheng of Qin and Crown Prince Fusu:"Your Majesty, Your Highness, there are a total of 56 students in the Education Department."】

【"Twenty-eight of them were children from farmers' families, and the other twenty-eight were the sons of officials from the six ministries of the crown prince."】

【"Nowadays, students can read and write hundreds of Qin characters at least, and thousands of Qin characters at most."】

【"It is expected that in the next one to two years, these students will gradually master the writing of Qin characters."】

【"After another five years, you should be able to basically read and write in seven languages."】

【When these words came out, Crown Prince Fusu was the first to express shock and said,"What?"】

【"After studying for half a year, you are still at the stage of learning to read?"】

【"He hasn't even mastered the reading and writing of the Qin language?"】

【"It will take another five years, oh no, seven years to master the reading and writing of the other seven languages?"】

【Prince Fusu was incredulous. He could not understand why someone could study for half a year but still could not even read and write the Qin language.】

【If he remembered correctly, he had mastered the reading and writing of all the characters of the Qin State in less than half a month.】

【Within a year, he mastered the reading and writing of all the seven languages.】

【During this period, he even mastered the reading and writing of the languages of other small countries.】

【After all, for him, reading and writing characters were just things that he could learn and remember by simply looking at them or listening to them once.】

【Therefore, he could not understand that it would take one or two years to master the reading and writing of the Qin language. This was so outrageous that it was beyond his"common sense" to him.】

【Not to mention that it would take another six or seven years to master the seven languages to read and write, which was even more outrageous and unbelievable to him.】

【Seeing the shocked look on Prince Fusu's face, Zhang Cang was also somewhat bewildered.】

【Is there anything wrong with what he just said?】

【Isn't it normal to spend one or two years mastering the reading and writing of a country's language?】

【Likewise, is there anything wrong with spending six or seven years learning to read and write seven languages?】

【Of course, some gifted people may need less time to complete their reading and writing.】

【For example, his senior brother Li Si was said to have completed the reading and writing of seven languages within four years.】

【For example, he completed the reading and writing of seven languages in three and a half years.】

【In this way, he and his senior brother Li Si were both called rare geniuses by Master Xun.】

【For normal people who are not so gifted, the time they need to complete the reading and writing of characters is, as I just said, within one to two years to complete the reading and writing of one language, and within six to seven years to complete the reading and writing of seven languages.】

【Does learning to read and write take a long time?】

【If ordinary princes and nobles start learning from the age of five or six, they will be able to read and write the seven languages by the age of twelve or thirteen.】

【Then you can go a step further and choose one of the hundreds of classics and start studying in depth.】

【Generally speaking, if you study for five to ten years, you can basically achieve some success.】

【At this time, the student was only about 20 years old.】

【As for other poor scholars who were not from the royal family or noble family, even if they were lucky enough to find and follow a great sage to study when they were twelve or thirteen years old,】

【Then when he has learned to read and write the seven languages, he will only be around 20 years old.】

【After that, he would further study the thoughts of various schools of thought, and when he had made some achievements and was ready to become a teacher, he would also be around 25 to 30 years old.】

【Although the average life expectancy of this era is about 30 years old, it does not mean that the life expectancy of scholars who have the capital to stop farming and concentrate on studying is only 30 years.】

【Relatively speaking, the average life expectancy of a small group of people, such as scholars, princes and nobles, who have better living conditions, must be higher.】

【Therefore, there is no need to worry about dying suddenly because of insufficient lifespan just when you have just completed learning to read and write the seven languages, or just when you have made some achievements and are ready to go out as a teacher.】

【In addition, the writings of this era were all recorded on bamboo slips.】

【The inconvenience of bamboo slips further restricted the spread of knowledge and culture.】

【Therefore, the number of books and classics that students can access is very small.】

【Some students may only be able to read a few to a dozen bamboo slips books in their entire life.】

【Therefore, for these students, spending three to five years, or seven to eight years, or even more than ten years to complete the reading and writing of various languages is not a waste of time.】

【Because for the rest of their lives, they can only study a few to a dozen volumes of classics.】

【If you are lucky, you may be able to read dozens of classics.】

【As for owning hundreds of volumes of classics, this is basically a rich collection of books that only the various schools of thought, or the nobles, or even the princes of a country can have.】

【But no matter whether it is a few volumes, a dozen volumes, or even dozens or hundreds of volumes of classics, for a student, it is enough for him to study these classics over and over again for the rest of his life.】

【Therefore, Zhang Cang did not think that it would take several years to complete the reading and writing of characters.】

【Naturally, Zhang Cang had no idea why Prince Fusu was so shocked.】

【Only Qin Wang Ying Zheng, who personally taught Prince Fusu to learn to read and write, knew why his eldest son and Prince Fusu was shocked.】

【So King Qin Ying Zheng first looked at the shocked Crown Prince Fusu and said,"He is right. It takes this long for an average person to master the seven languages.¨｀¨｀"】

【"You are born extraordinary, you are unique in the world, so you don't need to set too high standards for others based on your own standards."】

【Then King Qin Ying Zheng looked at Zhang Cang who looked confused and said,"When Fusu was three years old, he could recognize 10,000 characters in three months and could understand the languages of seven countries in one year. He was born with the ability to remember everything he saw and to recite everything he heard."】

【This time, it was Prince Fusu's turn to be confused, and Zhang Cang was shocked.】

【To be honest, Prince Fusu never thought of himself as a genius.】

【The reason is very simple, because since Prince Fusu had a clear self-awareness and began to learn and interact with others】

【The person that Prince Fusu had the most contact with was Qin Wang Ying Zheng, followed by Gang Cheng Jun Cai Ze, Zhang Han, Xu Zi, Xiang Li Ji, Meng Yi, Zhang Cang, and other six ministers, and occasionally Li Si, Wang Jian, Wei Zhuang, Wang Wan, Meng Yi, etc.】

【Among them, there is no need to say much about King Qin Ying Zheng. He is an emperor with great talent and ambition, who is determined to annex the six kingdoms, unify the world, and create an unprecedented unified hegemony!】

【Gangcheng Jun Cai Ze is talented enough to be the Prime Minister of Qin!】

【Xu Zi is a great sage who has established his own school among the hundreds of schools of thought!】

【Xiangli Ji is also one of the most skilled people of this generation in the Mohist school!】

【Meng Yi also received elite education from generations of princes and nobles, and his own talent was also outstanding!】

【Zhang Han is a man with the talent of a Nine Ministers, and even the potential to be a Prime Minister!】

【Zhang Cang also has the talent of a Nine Ministers, and even has the potential to be a Prime Minister!】

【As for Li Si, Wang Jian, Wei Zhuang, Wang Wan, Meng Yi, etc., they are either the Nine Ministers, the Prime Minister, or the General, etc.】

【Being able to hold the positions of Nine Ministers, Prime Minister, or General in a country like Qin that values personal ability shows that their abilities are definitely among the best among the millions of people in Qin.】

【They are the chosen ones among millions.���It is not an exaggeration to say that】

【If it is ten or twenty years later, the grown-up Prince Fusu may be able to crush the above mentioned people in terms of personal ability.】

【But now the Crown Prince Fusu is only six years old. No matter how smart he is, it is impossible for him to be better than the above-mentioned people.】

【On the contrary, Prince Fusu seemed a little pale in comparison with these people.】

【Therefore, with the above people as a foil, Prince Fusu naturally did not think that he was such a genius.】

【To put it bluntly, Prince Fusu has always compared himself with the top talents among millions of people around him, so he doesn't think he is that talented.】

【It is also because the people that Prince Fusu can contact are all top talents selected from millions of people.】

【Therefore, Prince Fusu had a wrong perception that it was a common phenomenon that top talents like Gangcheng Jun Cai Ze, Xu Zi, and Li Si were selected from millions of people.】

【But in fact, it is unfair to say that these top talents selected from millions of people like Gangcheng Jun Cai Ze, Xu Zi, and Li Si are geniuses.】

【Similarly, it is estimated that there are not even 100 outstanding people in the world like Gangcheng Jun Cai Ze, Xu Zi, and Li Si, who are selected from millions of people.】

【Prince Fusu, Gangcheng Jun Cai Ze, Xu Zi, and Li Si are the few and the only exceptions in the world.】

【What Zhang Cang just said is the normal situation for most people in this world!】

【As for Zhang Cang, he never thought that the so-called photographic memory and memorization by hearing were actually true!】

【And it also appeared on Crown Prince Fusu!】

【What does it mean to know 10,000 words in March?】

【Strictly speaking, there are only about 2,000 to 3,000 characters commonly used in a country.】

【Knowing 10,000 characters in three months means that Prince Fusu has learned the characters of at least two or three countries in three months.】

【And knowing the languages of seven countries in one year is even more outrageous.】

【At least he had never heard of anyone who could learn the seven languages in just one year.】

【After all, the seven countries have different languages, and the same word may have seven, eight, or even more than ten different ways of writing.】

【It is already difficult to learn all the languages of these countries, and it is even more difficult to use them without getting confused.】

【Not to mention, they were able to do these outrageous things when they were only three or four years old.】

【At least, if someone else told him something like this, he would never believe it and would just treat it as a joke.】

【However, the person who told him was King Ying Zheng of Qin!】

【But was it necessary and meaningful for King Ying Zheng of Qin to deceive him about these trivial matters?】

【Prince Fusu was already extremely intelligent, so there was no need to fabricate some false stories that could be easily exposed to bring glory to him.】

【So the only possibility is that what King Qin Ying Zheng said is true!】

【Prince Fusu really has the ability to remember everything he sees and to memorize everything he hears!】

【Thinking of this, Zhang Cang couldn't help but feel the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.】

【No wonder Prince Fusu felt that it would take one or two years to learn to read and write one language, and six or seven years to learn to read and write seven languages, which was too slow.】

【Compared with Prince Fusu's own learning experience, his progress is slow! 】.