I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

At the same time, the most important thing is, as long as there is a steam engine, will the train be far away?

With the increase in steel production, rails, trains, and these things together, the entire Tang Dynasty will become a whole that is woven together by the railway network.

It is no longer the case that the north and the south are not connected and the east and the west are not in harmony. There is almost no communication between different places, not only the exchange of goods, but also the exchange of information.

But it’s different with railways. Whether it’s transporting strategic materials or deploying troops, if all the big cities in the world are really connected by railways, let alone rebellion, all the neighboring countries will cry, because you After making a fuss, it didn't take long for hundreds of thousands of troops to come with supplies on the train Wuyang Wuyang.

Therefore, when designing Lantian New City, Zhang Nuo specially reserved the location of the railway station. In the future, this railway station will be used as the transportation core of the entire Datang, so how much traffic will be brought to Lantian New City.

Just thinking about Zhang Nuo made me feel excited!

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Nuo devoted himself more and more to the design, so that when he was called out from the study by Lao Fang, saying that the children of the Lu family and the Zheng family had arrived, he realized that he had been working hard in the study. It's been several days.

This time the Lu family and the Zheng family came together for a big battle. The family patriarch led the team, and the neat team of more than 100 people looked impressive.

After hearing Lao Fang's report, Zhang Nuo went to freshen up first. After all, he had been busy in the study before, which made him look a bit out of shape.

Someone asked Lao Fang to go to the city hall. This is a temporary building made by Zhang Nuo some time ago. He directly used the first batch of products from the cement workshop, and combined with the solid wood construction technology of this era, it was born in the city. In a short period of time, a large three-story house was built.

And this is only temporary, the square in front is still under construction, and construction space is reserved in the back, and even auxiliary buildings can be built on the left and right sides.

Zhang Nuo asked Lao Fang to take the people there first, and he rushed there immediately.

Old Fang walked forward, and Zhang Nuo got into the bathroom behind him. Damn, I haven't washed and washed well in the past few days, and I haven't left the study room for food and lodging. I lie on the small bed for a while when I'm tired. , has not gone out, the whole person is wrong.

After finishing the simple cleaning, Zhang Nuo also went straight to the city hall.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a large number of young scholars focusing their eyes on him, but Zhang Nuo didn't feel uncomfortable at all. He nodded calmly, and then walked forward in silence.

The first floor of the city hall is a hall. At the front is a row of counters. The half-person-high counter divides the entire hall into two parts. The back part is scattered with solid wood desks.

Now the Patriarchs of the Lu and Zheng families are leaning on the counter, chatting and laughing, and when they saw Zhang Nuo coming, they quickly stood up straight and nodded. Zhang Nuo did not greet them first, but walked to the counter and looked at the large group in front of him Young scholar.

These are all elites from aristocratic families, at least in terms of body shape, skin, clothing, etc., the difference from ordinary people can be clearly seen.

The height is generally not low, and the figure is generally not too thin.After all, even if the children of the family are not direct descendants, they will generally be favored by the family. At least it is absolutely fine to eat enough and wear warm clothes.

This alone is already stronger than most of the humble children!

Secondly, the clothes on the body are not particularly luxurious, but all of them are clean and tidy!

And the biggest feature is the self-confidence that comes from their bones. On the one hand, this self-confidence comes from their background and family. After all, they are children of a big family, so there is still some pride.

At the same time, on the other hand, it comes from their confidence in their own strength.

These people are all carefully selected by the family and carefully cultivated to revitalize the family's backbone. Which one was not born at home by studying hard and taught by famous teachers?

Zhang Nuo was quite satisfied with the mental outlook of this group of people.After all, it's not easy for a yesman to be an official, let alone an official in his new city.

"Welcome everyone to Lantian New City. I know that you already knew the purpose of coming here before you came. Either you will be an official to benefit the people, or you will be a teacher to educate the people!"

"But even if you are all elite children who have been trained and taught by the family, you can't go to work directly, but you have to go through tests and training!"

"So, now everyone go to the desk behind the counter and write a personal profile. Write down your name, age, place of origin, hobbies, and development direction!"

"After that, I will group them according to the hobbies and development directions you wrote!"

"For the time being, you don't need to think about the arrangements for you at home. After all, I always believe that people can only do their best when they are interested in something!"

"The Lu family doesn't necessarily have to teach, and the Zheng family can choose the department they like to develop even if they enter the administrative department!"

"There are introductions and information about each department on the desk. This is what you will learn later, but you can take a look at this time. After getting to know each other, it will be convenient for you to choose. Go now!"

Zhang Nuo spoke very directly, without beating around the bush or dragging words, just a simple welcome and work arrangement.

Everyone was taken aback, didn't expect Mr. Zhang to be so direct?

However, many young talents are still paying more attention to the desks behind the counter, where there are pens, ink, paper and inkstones and booklets waiting for them to read and write.

So everyone saluted Zhang Nuo honestly, walked quickly around the counter to the desks, picked up the brochures and looked through them.

Zhang Nuo turned to look at the two rich old men and said with a smile,

"The two Patriarchs, it will take a while, and they won't be able to finish it, why don't we go aside and have a chat?"

Chapter 414 Zhang Nuo's New Textbook

The two patriarchs nodded quickly when they heard Zhang Nuo's words, and walked to the side room with a smile on their faces.

Just kidding, what are they here for today?

Could it be to be a babysitter for those bastards?Isn't it just to meet Zhang Nuo and talk about things that are beneficial to everyone?

So, even if Zhang Nuo didn't speak, the two of them would take the initiative to ask Mr. Xiao Zhang to have a chat.

Although this city hall is newly built, Zhang Nuo now has rich people and rich people, so there is really nothing missing in this room, tables, chairs and benches have already been arranged.

After the three sat down as the guest of honor, Zhang Nuo said directly,

"The two patriarchs, although they said before that the Lu family entered the school and the Zheng family entered the yamen, but you also know that the nine sons of the Dragon have their own preferences. Although the Lu family is a master of Confucianism, not all the children want Take the road of teaching and educating people.”

"And for the same reason, although the Zheng family is a political and business family, they are also scholars at root, so maybe there are some people in the middle who want to devote themselves to teaching and educating people in schools?"

"So, I hope that the two patriarchs will not block the choice of their own children later!"

Zhang Nuo had to explain this to the two bosses. After all, they were the parents of these scholars. What Zhang Nuo just did was equivalent to a professional adjustment after the college entrance examination. This is related to the future development of these scholars. If Zhang Nuo didn't explain it well, he might offend someone.

After all, it's not just one or two who cheat or offend people under the sign that I'm doing it for your own good.

The Patriarchs of Lu and Zheng are very open-minded, and replied with a smile,

"Master Xiao Zhang, you don't need to explain. You are also very kind. Our family's requirements for our children are actually very simple. Whether it is education or politics, as long as they walk the right path and make progress, then the family's nurturing grace is not in vain. !"

"As for how far they can go after choosing a path, it depends on their own good fortune. After all, the rules here are not a joke!"

Zhang Nuo nodded with a smile. He said a long time ago that this is the stage where the capable rise above the mediocre.

After all, as a test site for the New Deal, the entire court will focus on it.

At that time, everything will be exposed to the sun, and everyone will have eyes to see who is good and who is not. If he is promoted by force, his credibility will probably disappear.

Besides, it doesn't matter whether it's a child from an aristocratic family or a student from a poor family.From his point of view, they are all the same, they are just the little brother he just met, if he uses them easily, he will be promoted if he gets good grades!

Then Zhang Nuo explained the school and department settings here, as well as the operation plan of the department, to the two patriarchs based on the materials placed on the side.

Although they knew these things before, after Li Shimin and Li Chengqian's support staff arrived, the department made some adjustments according to the actual situation during the operation process.

Therefore, the various departments at this time are actually different from what was discussed before. At the same time, Zhang Nuo has also adjusted the courses in the school. The most important point is that Zhang Nuo got a nature textbook.

Of course, it must not be the primary school nature textbooks of later generations, but compiled according to the current situation of Datang.

It not only records the territory, prefectures, counties, and population of the Tang Dynasty in detail, but also includes various common senses such as agriculture and botany. It can be said that these things called miscellaneous studies in this era are all included in the nature textbooks.

In Zhang Nuo's words, these things are used to help students eliminate illiteracy in this era of inconvenient transportation and poor information flow.

Zhang Nuo even planned to print the map if it wasn't for Li Shimin's life and death in the middle.

In the end, after arguing for a long time, the two of them put the sketch map of Datang's territory in the textbook at the cost of Zhang Nuo submitting several detailed maps.

You must know that this is already a very big concession for Li Shimin. If Zhang Nuo hadn't opened his mouth, others alone would have been charged with treason if they wanted to get the map.

After all, maps are important strategic information in this era, and most people can't inquire about them.

The map that was finally printed on the book couldn’t be simpler. A frame represents a city, a circle represents a mountain, and a thin line represents a large river. There is no scale, no contour lines, no latitude and longitude. In Zhang Nuo's eyes, this thing can't be called a map at all, it can only be called a schematic diagram.

However, Li Shimin refused to give up, saying that this is the maximum limit of his concession, and he will not let it go in more detail.

After Zhang Nuo thought about it, he finally let go. After all, he wanted to get these things, and it didn't mean that the students could march and fight with maps.

Instead, from these "schematic diagrams", we can know how the territory of the Tang Dynasty is distributed, and where the states and counties are roughly located.

To be able to clarify this knowledge, in this era of Datang, he is already considered a well-informed person.

At the same time, the biggest change is the change of the mathematics textbooks. Zhang Nuo has also been ruthless recently, and directly changed the elementary school mathematics textbooks to Datang.

Don't think elementary school mathematics is simple. From the current point of view, being able to understand Arabic numerals, and then figure out the four arithmetic operations and linear equations in one yuan is enough to meet the needs of daily work and life.

So when the two old men flipped through the math textbooks at this time, they were mesmerized. They didn't expect that mathematics could be done like this. There are so many simple calculation methods.

The ninety-nine multiplication table is simply a killer weapon. Coupled with the simple numbers, the two Patriarchs tried it, and it seems that they can easily calculate many numbers that were troublesome before.

And Zhang Nuo is even more cunning because he also put the abacus in the textbook, of course not the first grade textbook, but the follow-up textbook!

In the absence of a calculator, the abacus is like a help to calculations. It can be regarded as the best calculation aid that can be used until the calculator comes out.

The two patriarchs reluctantly put down the mathematics textbook, and then picked up a booklet compiled by Zhang Nuo.

Zhang Nuo didn't think about getting serious Chinese textbooks. After all, the Chinese textbooks of later generations would definitely not be useful here, and the Lu family itself had a complete set of textbooks from beginners to teachers.

The language series can just follow that, and this booklet is another thing Zhang Nuo prepared, and it is also a good thing that has shocked the two big brothers now.

He is also going to publish it directly in the newspaper in a few days!

Chapter 415 Surprise brought by punctuation marks

In fact, what Zhang Nuo prepared is very simple, which is a detailed explanation of punctuation marks.

From the most basic use of periods and commas to double quotation marks, dashes, exclamation marks, and question marks, all symbols have special explanations and examples.

If the previous mathematics textbooks amazed the two masters, then this detailed explanation of punctuation marks made the two masters astonished.

Because they are scholars themselves, especially Zheng Shanguo, the Patriarch of the Zheng family. As a member of the court, he clearly knows how far-reaching the influence of this thing will be.

Not to mention anything else, but the imperial court will definitely adopt this set of punctuation marks immediately!

It is really because of sentence breaks that there have been too many false positives and omissions!

The Patriarch of the Lu family was also too excited to control himself at this time, and excitedly said to Zhang Nuo,

"My lord Zhang, this is a magic pen of yours. It is very useful. In the future, children will know how to punctuate sentences without being taught by the teacher!"

Zhang Nuo nodded with a smile. Of course he knows that the books these days are not something ordinary people can understand, even if they can’t read characters, especially some obscure manuscripts. If you think about it carefully, after breaking the wrong sentence, it has a completely different meaning.

Zheng Shanguo, the Patriarch of the Zheng family, echoed with a smile,

"Indeed, if this thing is available all over the world, the mistakes and omissions in the letters and official documents alone will be lost. Mr. Zhang, this is a merit that will benefit the future!"

Zhang Nuo was a little embarrassed to be praised so much by these two big bosses. After all, he was just a porter of knowledge, and he didn't rely on his own real talents at all, but the accumulation of later generations.

Compared with these two real scholars in front of him, he is simply a scumbag.

However, these compliments can only be accepted by him.Otherwise, there is no way to explain it!

So Zhang Nuo said humbly that he didn't dare to take it seriously, and at the same time introduced his original intention of making this thing.

"The two patriarchs are both scholars. They should know that the meanings are completely different if the sentences are different. This is still only in the books, but if it is put into speech, the different tones and the different sentence sentences are very different!"

"Then if someone is talking, someone else is responsible for recording it on the paper. If there are no punctuation marks, it may mean the same thing when it was recorded at that time, but when people look it up later, they get a completely different meaning!"

The two elders nodded in agreement. They naturally knew about it, after all, they had experienced it many times.

Speaking of this, Zhang Nuo remembered a little story told by his Chinese teacher when he was studying. It seemed to be very suitable as an example, and it was quite fun!

So Zhang Nuo directly picked up the brush on the side and wrote a few words on the paper, then handed it to the two bosses,

"Take a look, how much meaning can be explained by just this line of words?"

The two Patriarchs took the paper with a smile, and were delighted to see it.

"Keep guests on rainy days and I won't stay every day..."

Zheng Shanguo, the head of the Zheng family, pointed at Zhang Nuo with a smile, shook his head and said,

"The old man can see four different meanings at a glance, all of which are caused by different sentence sentences. It seems that without your punctuation marks, it really can't work!"

The Patriarch of the Lu family also laughed. It was just a small joke, but it truly reflected the changes that different sentences, tone, and intonation could bring about without punctuation.

Zhang Nuo knew that these two big bosses would definitely be able to see it, but anyway, they are idle at the moment, so it's better to let them have some fun with this.

So I handed over the pen.

"Come on, Mr. Zheng, try to use that punctuation mark to break up the sentence!"

Zheng Shanguo was also interested, took the brush from Zhang Nuo's hand unceremoniously, and wrote a new line directly below,

"When it rains, guests stay every day, stay every day, and I don't stay!"

Zhang Nuo and the Patriarch of the Lu family nodded, this is the first meaning, fun, continue!

Zheng Shanguo was using this punctuation mark for the first time at this time. Although he had just started writing it, he felt that it was really convenient after writing it. Then he wrote the second line immediately.

"It's raining, stay with guests, stay with me? Don't stay!"

Seeing that the three of them all laughed, it is true that the punctuation marks are different, and the meanings expressed are completely different, but when these words are put into their mouths, they are all the same!