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Compiling a dictionary was something Bai Ningwei had thought about doing in her previous life, but at that time she thought she had more important things to do, so she put the matter aside and never mentioned it again in the end.

In her previous life, Bai Ningwei had wanted to implement compulsory education after she took power. After all, if you don't promote a peaceful and prosperous industrial revolution, a world of peace and prosperity, and a hundred schools of thought flourishing, you'd be unworthy of your identity as a time traveler and your twelve years of hard study.

As the saying goes, a strong youth means a strong country, so it is appropriate for her to implement five years of compulsory education, right?

The ministers objected? That was because they were stubborn and stubborn and refused to listen.

Bai Ningwei relied on her status as the empress dowager and ignored everyone's objections. She made the decision to promote five-year compulsory education in Kyoto as a pilot.

In fact, she did not have any unrealistic ideas about developing the country through science and technology. She just hoped to achieve universal literacy first.

Only when you can recognize all the words can you speak other things.

However, even this basic idea could not be realized, and the company was forced to close down due to the criticism from the people.

The reason is very simple. In ancient times, children of ordinary people were also an important labor force. Not only could they help with housework, but they could even earn some money outside to supplement their family.

If you make all the children go to school, it will be very difficult for ordinary families. However, for the sake of their children, the families of boys can bite their teeth and endure it, while the families of girls often ask for leave all the time.

However, this was not the reason why Bai Ningwei's education plan was aborted. The most important reason was that going to school was expensive.

Bai Ningwei waived the tuition for the students, but they still had to buy textbooks, brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone. These things weren't cheap. After school, they had to do their homework by lamplight, and lamp oil was expensive.

Ordinary people's families could not afford to send them to school, and they would not be able to gain any honors after studying for five years, so they were doomed to lose their money. So people protested and stopped doing it.

They ran to the school and tore it down into ruins, exchanging it for a penny. But overnight, only broken bricks and tiles were left on the ground.

By the time she figured out the reason for her failure, it was too late.

In this life, Bai Ningwei's life started out pretty well, and she started thinking about the issue of eradicating illiteracy among the entire population again.

She watched Xiao Duo's series of actions and guessed that in this life, if Chen Zhaoyi gave birth to another prince and Xiao Duo died at the same age as in the previous life, he would probably want her to become the Holy Mother Empress Dowager again.

Moreover, she had already ascended to the throne of a concubine at an early age, and with Anjiu as her assistant, some things could be arranged early.

She had seriously thought about it. The reason why the nationwide literacy campaign she envisioned in her previous life failed was not only because of the high cost and heavy burden, but also because Chinese characters had too many strokes and were too complicated.

Even she had to practice traditional Chinese characters in her previous life because she had to rule the country from behind the scenes and review memorials.

Don't underestimate the power of simplified Chinese characters. Not only are they easier to learn, but they also save on pen, ink, and paper. Best of all, learning simplified characters doesn't affect your ability to recognize traditional Chinese characters.

That is, they can recognize but cannot write.

If traditional Chinese characters are set as the official language and simplified Chinese characters as the popular language, the impact on the interests of the nobles will be much smaller, and the opposition voices of that group will also be smaller.

So when Chen Xinxin said that she was willing to help her outside the palace as a man, she felt that her plan could be implemented.

As long as there is a simplified Chinese dictionary, there will be a very solid foundation for the whole nation to eliminate illiteracy. No matter whether you are male or female, young or old, as long as you want to learn and master the basic characters of a hundred or so, you can learn them on your own, without having to find a teacher or go to school.

In this way, my journey through time can be considered as something truly meaningful.

The bookstore opened smoothly. Chen Xinxin recruited people to edit books under the name of Chen Xu. This is a time-consuming task, so we will not go into details for now. In short, it is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Bai Ningwei was in the deep palace, and she could only learn about the progress of the bookstore from An Jiu every once in a while, and he would give her some advice on simplified Chinese characters, after all, she was familiar with this.

Let’s talk about her days in the palace.

Feng Chongyuan and Chen Zhaoyi both failed to get any favor from her and instead lost face, which made the entire harem more peaceful.

The selection process went on as planned. Besides the pre-selected and exceptionally talented women, Xiao Duo added six new candidates to his selection. He also assigned several other relatives of the royal family with comparable family backgrounds. The remaining women, whose backgrounds were ordinary and less outstanding, participated in a talent show.

The matrons and wives of the most powerful families in Kyoto were invited to watch the competition. After the competition, almost every concubine received a certificate of talent certified by the royal family. This certificate was the highest-ranking dowry for these concubines.

Although they were not selected into the royal family, they were still outstanding women that wealthy families competed to marry.

Bai Ningwei's innovation in the talent show not only solved the dilemma of these women who could not get married, but also reconciled many of the dirty affairs within the wealthy families.

The richer the family, the more illegitimate children they have, and their marriages have to be approved by the mistress. How many mistresses are willing to put in the effort to arrange a illegitimate child's marriage?

Bai Ningwei's talent show was of great help to these mistresses.

Marrying a concubine's son to a talented and beautiful girl not only saves the family's reputation but also builds his own reputation.

In ancient times, the concept of marriage was to respect each other like guests. People would marry a virtuous wife, but this virtuous wife didn't necessarily mean beauty. But nowadays, if a wife is both beautiful and talented, even a concubine's son would wake up with a smile.

There were also several couples who were extremely loving after marriage. For a time, the mothers were loving and the children were filial, which made the fathers very happy. They even wrote memorials to praise Bai Ningwei, saying that she was a kind and elegant woman, and was the reincarnation of the boy under the seat of Yue Lao.

Perhaps it was because there were too many memorials praising her in the previous dynasty. On Bai Ningwei's birthday in June, Xiao Duo not only rewarded her with twelve plates of treasures as usual, but also gave Bai's father the title of earl.

The title also comes with a house.

However, Mr. Bai's position did not change and he still had to stay in office, so he asked his son Bai Liangchuan to go to the capital to express his gratitude.

Bai Ningwei had mixed feelings about her father, but she still had a good impression of her brother. However, this man was a serious naive person who could happily help someone count the silver after being sold.

I don’t know if he will be cheated out of all his money if he comes to the capital alone. It makes me worried just thinking about it.

I was worried for two months.

During this period, the eldest princess approached Bai Ningwei several times, each time asking her to help come up with ideas and organize some fun programs for her own garden party.

After a few interactions, the eldest princess began to regard Bai Ningwei as a friend regardless of age difference, and their interactions became more frequent.

In July, it was the first birthday of the legitimate prince Xiao Qi. Xiao Duo did not hold a big celebration this time, but only invited the Anguo Duke and his family to watch the ceremony.

One-year-old Xiao Qi can't walk yet, and calls Dudu and Liangliang his dad and mom.

Xiao Duo was also very attentive to Xiao Qi, and he hadn't missed out on almost every step of the child's growth. Now, seeing Xiao Qi growing slower than a normal child, he felt very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, during the one-year-old celebration, Xiao Qi was very competitive and grabbed a piece of paper and refused to let go.

Only then did Xiao Duo relax his brow and said that Xiao Qi had made a good choice and that he would be crowned king in the future.

When Duke Anguo heard this, his expression froze for a moment.