According to the common opinion reached by Mai Ke and Zeng Guofan after a friendly and-for-tat bargaining exchange, Mai Ke led his team of hundreds of schools into the main lecture hall of Yuelu Academy, which is the place where the whole academy gathers to debate books. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It turns out that Yuelu Academy has a tradition, although it cannot be deviated from in the most basic principles, but it can be argued in some more specific principles.

Even for the most basic principles, how to understand and how to follow them, you can express your own opinions.

All in all, there is a strong ethos of academic freedom.

Therefore, the hall is large enough to accommodate hundreds of people to talk together.

If you need a panel discussion, you can also enter the small rooms around the hall, which together make a total of thirty-six.

According to the agreement of both sides, the representatives of both sides entered the place, and all the students also came.

Except for the Confucian general's cradle class, those people are discussing with the sheep breed, of course, the kind that uses their hands and feet.

In the first round, it was Mai Ke and Zeng Guofan.

The two Lords will meet shirtless, not only because their views are the most important, but also because they can set an example for others.

It's just that you don't look at the two of us going toe-for-tat, we want to eat each other's flesh and skin, but we can control ourselves and don't eat the meat in our mouths.

If you want to eat, the distance between the two people is so short, they have already eaten each other.

Since the two of them want to debate, of course, Mai Ke is not polite, and it is a thesis - the way of Confucius and Mencius is not consistent with words and deeds, that is to say, it is inherently inconsistent with advocacy and observance, because it is difficult to gain a foothold.

Seeing that Lao Zeng immediately showed an unconvinced look, straightened up to refute him, Mai Ke waved his hand lightly and said: "Don't worry, listen to me explain to you, I said the reason why you are inconsistent and one-sided, after listening, if you think it is right, you can correct me." ”

For the sake of the spicy noodles, Zeng Guofan endured it.

He didn't speak, and Ye Mingchen and Ding Shanqing were naturally happy.

"First of all, let me tell you that the core of your Confucian and Mencian way is to love the people, which is inconsistent with the entire system of Confucius and Mencius, and even less consistent with the status quo of the observance of Confucius and Mencius. Let's just talk about the three platforms and five constants, what is the biggest, and everything else has to make way for it?"

"Of course it's Jun Weichen!" Zeng Shilang blurted out.

Mai Ke looked at him with a smile, "You also know this, if the ministers do not maintain benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith in the king, they will definitely be killed by those kings who kill the king, punished and punished, and even exterminate the nine clans! These people are all human beings, and they are all objects of benevolence and love, right? But they are all "kings and ministers of the whole world", and they must abide by the fundamental principle of the monarch as a minister! Is this right, Brother Disheng?"

"Of course, these are good, but the biggest courtier is also like a tiger! ”

Lao Zeng answered honestly.

"And for the benevolent and loving people, if the benevolent person sets a standard for the king, then this standard is not any constraint, you can't say that a king is not enough for this standard, immediately change one! This standard of benevolence and love for others, at most, is a good wish for the king, and it is not binding at all, not only is it not the only king who can do this, but it is not the standard that the king does not take seriously, can you still say that this is the root of the way of Confucius and Mencius?"

McKee gets to the heart of the matter, and he can't avoid it.

Lao Zeng was silent, not only could he not be sure, but he also refused to object, regardless of whether he was Zeng Disheng or Zeng Shilang. This is a great sin to talk about kings and lose their heads. Mai Ke can, he doesn't dare.

Even if he dared, there was nothing to say about it.

The reason is that the behavior of those kings is really speechless.

The benevolent love others, the kings and emperors of the Chinese kingdom over the years, one is counted as one, and if you can harm people less, you will be considered a Ming monarch.

And in fact, they are harming people one by one!

"Forget it, let's talk about your Christian faith, what is the comprehensive fundamental proposition?"

After being bored for a long time, Lao Zeng still had nothing to say, and took the initiative to change the topic.

"Yes. But let's remember one thing, and that is that the way of Confucius and Mencius is to serve the king, and that's pretty clear, right?

Of course, Mai Ke has to take advantage of the victory to pursue it, and you have made a big hole in the most fundamental principle, and of course I want to expand this hole for you, that is, to establish the foundation of correct faith by comparing it with the content of my positive faith.

"Let's do it first. Lao Zeng replied helplessly.

The people in the officialdom, all the intellectuals, who don't know this, the core of all Confucius and Mencius is to serve the king.

I don't know, I've also moved, and the family where I ate has moved early.

"Christianity has two fundamental commandments: one is to love God and the other is to love others. So what you said earlier about the Christian faith is love for God, which is only one aspect, and it has no concrete connection with everyday life, you know that you know too little about Christianity, right?"

Mai Ke said that he was a great intellectual at the level of a professor in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he was a high-ranking official at the expert level, and his face turned red for a while.

But he was also really curious, grasping the key question and asking, "What is the matter with the lack of connection between Eros and life?"

Mai Ke explained to him in detail the relationship between loving God and loving others in the Christian faith.

The Bible clearly teaches and requires that God is invisible, and to love God is to love those who see, to love brothers and sisters in the church, to love the world as Jesus did, and even to the point of sacrificing one's life.

At the same time, this love is the same as the love that Jesus demonstrated, to love when sinners are not worthy of love, to love to the extreme, not to get something and stop at it.

In the end, Mai Ke emphasized that the principle of love, the object of love, the degree of love, and the standard of love are not just to think about it.

Rather, it fills everyday life as a natural outpouring of life.

Instead of being like the way of Confucius and Mencius, many times it only stays at the level of thought, and as long as you are familiar with the principles, you are very happy.

Lao Zeng, who had been listening attentively, couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

"Mai Ke, it seems that you have also misunderstood the phrase "learn and learn, and enjoy it"!"

"Isn't it true that constantly reviewing what you have learned makes people happy?" replied Mai Ke suspiciously.

He distinctly remembers that this is what the teacher who taught him said that.

Of course what you have learned can only make people happy and happy; otherwise, if you always repeat what you have learned, it would be good if your head didn't hurt to death, where would the joy come from!"

Lao Zeng adjusted his emotions at this time, "I think that in terms of connecting with the reality of life, the way of Confucius and Mencius is not worse than Christianity, oh hehehe!"

Okay, you're right.

Mai Ke is also a little sorry for his lack of Chinese cultural cultivation.

However, it is still useless to have a practical connection without correct understanding and action on key issues!

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