Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

Zhao Ke closed his eyes on the chair for a while and let himself be immersed in the aftertaste of the story. Not long after, she suddenly opened her eyes and realized something was wrong, so she reached out and picked up the piece of paper to take a look again.

There are probably more than 2,000 characters distributed on this one-foot-square piece of paper. Zhao Ke couldn't believe that he could read so many words in one go. You know, when she was reading in the past, unless it was an old book that she had read a long time ago, she had to stop and think about trivial issues like what a certain sentence meant and how to break it.

She carefully recalled the experience of reading the story in her hand just now, and found that there was indeed no pause. Why is this?

Zhao Ke thought hard, and in the end he could only blame Li Xin's weird horizontal writing style and those weird symbols distributed in the middle of the sentence. Although I don't understand what those symbols mean, but after adding them, at least the difficulty of sentence segmentation is greatly reduced, and it is naturally easier to understand the meaning of the text.

After reading the story in his hand twice again, Zhao Ke finally understood what Li Xin was doing in such a big circle.

Meanwhile, something similar is happening to many people. After they got the things brought back by the servants, they immediately read eagerly, and then praised the servants for their excellent work. Some of them were generous, and even rewarded them with a lot of copper coins, and the servants were so happy that they smiled, secretly thinking that what Zhao Ke said was true. Among them, some people didn't pay attention, but some people did notice - it is obviously not in line with the horizontal layout that people are used to. It is said that such typesetting even made reading feel silky smooth for the first time.

They racked their brains and couldn't think of the reason. Of course, Li Xin doesn't know the reason, maybe it's because human eyeballs are naturally better at moving horizontally rather than vertically? Forget it, guessing is useless, no matter what the principle is.

Li Xin only needs to know one thing: horizontal typesetting from left to right is the most common way of writing in later generations, and the punctuation system greatly improves the accuracy of information transmission. Just imagine, if the disciples of Confucius had such a thing as punctuation marks when they compiled "The Analects of Confucius", then people in later generations would not have to worry about how to understand the ten words "the people can make them know what they want" Brain out. According to Shannon's "Information Theory", doesn't this just reduce the "distortion" in the process of information transmission?

Therefore, Li Xin firmly believes that this is a more advanced way of writing and typesetting, and must be vigorously promoted. Only by reducing the difficulty of reading and improving the efficiency of information transmission can the dissemination of truth and knowledge be accelerated. Although it may not have any positive impact in a short period of time, from a long-term perspective, this is definitely a heavy blow to promote the development of Datang.

To be honest, Li Xin planned this day long ago. The birth of this idea even predates the performance of "Legend of the White Snake". In later generations, he was often bullied by major platforms because he couldn't afford to be a member, and couldn't watch the latest episode of his favorite new drama. He didn't expect that after being reborn in Datang, he would also have the opportunity to get stuck in other people's "necks". However, he thinks that he is more conscientious than those video software of later generations.

After all, he didn't stick the necks of the audience for vulgar things like money, but just to fully mobilize their enthusiasm in a reasonable way and make them adapt to this horizontal layout on their own initiative. Just imagine, if you don't use this way of going around in circles, the promotion of horizontal typography and punctuation marks will definitely encounter great resistance. Because the vast majority of people are always accustomed to following the old ways, only when they are extremely eager and curious about the content, this mood can push them to endure the discomfort caused by horizontal layout at the beginning and work hard to read on.

Just read on. As long as you read on, you will definitely feel the beauty of it.

Li Xin firmly believed.

Of course, he also thought about what to do if the result of the matter was not like this. For example, the effect of horizontal typography was mediocre, and even attracted a lot of ridicule and abuse.

Li Xin's final answer is that it doesn't matter. He should keep trying until he succeeds. Because he is convinced that advanced and good things will win the understanding and acceptance of others after going through enough tests.

No, within two days after this horizontally typed paper went out, someone visited Chu Wangfu.

"Who is it?" Li Xin asked Wang Guidao casually.

Wang Gui replied, "It's Duke Xing."

Li Xin was stunned for a moment: Duke Xing? Isn't that Fang Xuanling? Fang Mou in the "Fang Mou" that people talk about in later generations? What is he here for?