"I have an important article to write, you can play with Nunu." Fang Yun said through the door.
"Abandoning me? So unkind and unjust! Just writing it for your descendants? Anyway, I will see it sooner or later! By the way, also write "Journey to the West". I want to see if the ape man named Wukong can become a half-saint in the end!" Ao Huang said a few words with a grunt, but did not disturb Fang Yun.
Fang Yun returned to the house and took out three thick stacks of paper from the Yinjiangbei, each stack containing a thousand pages.
Fang Yun walked to the bookcase and looked through some articles he had written before, mainly "Fox Rhymes", the others were not important.
"In Shengyuan Continent, you can't just write an article. If you don't have enough talent and literary status, it's hard to write a great article. If I write a famous article with special power now, I'm afraid it will cause the stars in the palace of literature to fall, the literary courage to waver, and the palace of literature to shatter, which is not worth the loss. But tools and enlightenment books like "Fox Rhymes" are not a problem."
"I already have a certain understanding of Shengyuan Continent. The foundation of writing is characters. The meaning and shape of characters of the human race basically do not need to be supplemented, but there are huge flaws in the pronunciation of characters. The dictionaries of Shengyuan Continent still follow the ancient method and have been using direct pronunciation. There is not even a fanqie method."
"Direct pronunciation is to use a homophone to indicate the pronunciation of another word, such as '烎' is pronounced as '银', but if both are rare characters, then the direct pronunciation method has a problem."
"The ancient Chinese had the method of fanqie. For example, the character '裂' can be written as '龙谢切', which takes the initial consonant of 龙 and the final vowel of 谢. But fanqie also has its shortcomings. Some simple characters even require complex fanqie."
"It was not until the later Beiyang government promulgated the Zhuyin Fuhao, which was a phonetic notation scheme formed by taking part of or simplifying Chinese characters. It is easier to learn than direct phonetics and fanqie, and is a major advancement in phonology. It can be said that more advanced phonetic notations such as Zhuyin Fuhao and Pinyin have made a huge contribution to improving literacy. Once Zhuyin Fuhao is used in Shengyuan Continent, it will reduce the burden of literacy for children and help them learn to recognize characters better."
Fang Yun wrote "Fanqie" and "Bopposite Characters" on a piece of paper, planning to create a pronunciation dictionary, the first of its kind in Shengyuan Continent, following the dictionary of character meanings and the dictionary of character shapes, following the example of books like "Sound Classification".
Afterwards, Fang Yun wrote "Zeng Guang Xian Wen", "You Xue Qiong Lin" and "Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars Illustrated". These three are the famous primers in later generations and their status in ancient times is no less than that of "Three Character Classic".
Afterwards, Fang Yun wrote the words "medical book" but crossed them out. He did not have any systematic study and practice, so it was not appropriate for him to write a medical book.
Fang Yun then wrote the four words "Confucian classics" and crossed them out. The works of great Confucian scholars in later generations were full of the sound of sage teachings, and his talent would probably be exhausted after writing dozens of pages.
"You can write about military tactics. Incorporate famous battle examples from later generations into the novel, and then use the characters in the book to explain the military tactics, creating a 'historical novel'. It would be better to use the history of the Tang Dynasty as the context and only write about the main historical events and main characters. It can be completed in a short time by writing quickly. You can also write some excellent but not too good poems into it. So..."
"Why not... just try to incorporate all the craftsmanship, medicine, calligraphy, painting, military tactics, poetry, famous sayings, etc. of later generations into one book, and even indirectly propose some Confucian concepts of later generations. However, it is difficult to finish writing "The Great Tang", and we will need "The Great Song" and "The Great Ming" later. Write about Li Shimin, Wu Zetian, Li Longji, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang and many other emperors in the three dynasties. And those famous officials and celebrities in history, if they can be published into a book, I wonder what kind of vision will be."
Fang Yun became more and more excited the more he thought about it. But in the end, he found that the whole process was too complicated. It was impossible to complete it by himself before the Moon Tree God Punishment. If he wanted to write better, it would be difficult to finish even the Tang Dynasty.
"Forget it. The span of dynasties is too long. It would be better to use one emperor as a book to record the events and people of an era. Then, this book will be called..."
Fang Yun thought about it, picked up a pen and wrote three words on a piece of white paper.
Emperor's Book.
The three words suddenly emitted a faint golden light, and then the words burned, and the whole piece of paper was burned to ashes, but the flames did not affect the paper underneath, and the burned ashes disappeared without a trace, without leaving any paper ash.
Fang Yun reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead, vaguely understanding the reason.
"Although I am nominally writing a novel called The Book of the Emperor, in reality I have written everything from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties into the book. It is almost a miniature version of the Yongle Encyclopedia and the Siku Quanshu. For Shengyuan Continent, it is equivalent to building a brand new world from scratch. In terms of value alone, it is no less than some of the saints' classics, and even better. I am not qualified for this, and a piece of white paper cannot carry it."
If the paper cannot bear the title, then the whole book cannot be written.
Just as Fang Yun was thinking, the turtle beside him stuck his head out, opened his mouth wide, and stared at Fang Yun in horror with his two green bean-sized eyes.
It is an inkstone turtle, and is better at feeling the power from ink than humans.
Just now, Yan Gui felt the power of the sainthood from the words!
The power was very light and fleeting, but it was the power of the Holy Land after all!
Yangui's eyes rolled around quickly, and then he fell into deep thought.
Fang Yun thought for a moment, then solemnly took out a pale golden holy page, then carefully ground the ink on the back of the inkstone, and took out the best Hanlin pen to write.
The inkstone turtle's eyes began to roll around again, and suddenly a dark golden liquid oozed out of its shell and merged silently into the ink. Fang Yun was thinking with his head down and did not notice it.
Yan Gui laughed secretly.
After grinding the ink, Fang Yong dipped the pen in the ink and wrote three words again on the holy page.
Emperor's Book.
This time, the three words burned again, forming a golden flame, but the holy page was so powerful that it did not move at all, only the precious light flowed on the surface.
After a while, the golden flame disappeared, and traces of flames appeared around the "Emperor's Book".
Black words on gold pages.
Fang Yun breathed a sigh of relief.
A sly grin appeared on Yan Gui's face again, and he pounced on the holy page with "Emperor's Book" written on it at lightning speed, ready to swallow the entire page.
However, at the moment when the inkstone turtle opened its mouth, the character "书" in the three words suddenly twisted, then became blurred, and finally turned into a new character.
Dictionary.
Emperor Code.
The Inkstone Turtle laughed wildly and continued to bite towards the "Emperor's Canon", but when its mouth was still half an inch away from the Emperor's Canon, the holy page did not change at all, and the Inkstone Turtle was like being hit by a giant dragon, and its whole body flew backwards.
The inkstone turtle crashed through a wall with a bang and landed in the next room.
Fang Yun turned his head and saw a big hole in the south wall with countless cracks spreading in all directions.
Afterwards, Fang Yun looked at the three big words "Emperor's Canon" and two contradictory expressions of surprise and helplessness appeared on his face.
The surprise is because the transformation of the "Emperor's Book" into the "Emperor's Canon" means that if the whole book is completed, it can at least become a semi-saintly canon.
Unfortunately, Fang Yun is facing the punishment of the Moon Tree God, making it almost impossible for him to complete the entire book. (To be continued...)