"It's over?" everyone was a little surprised, but Tian Haimo, the host of today's competition, was the first to react, and then subconsciously asked Yu Meiqin.

"I'm done talking. ”

Yu Meiqin quickly stood up half a body again, leaned forward slightly, replied respectfully and politely to these few short words, and then sat back in her seat. It seems that he refuses to stand more than he wastes for a second.

Tian Haimo subconsciously licked her lower lip slightly and looked at the timer: "You only used 2 minutes and 10 seconds, and there are still 40 seconds left." ”

Although when she said this, Tian Haimo didn't know why she said it in her mind.

Or I don't know how to comment after stating this fact. But she just couldn't help but subconsciously report the time.

She is also a veteran of the debate tournament since high school, and there have been many cases where she needs to report the time to remind one of the parties to overtime over the years. But the opening statement was not satisfied for even three minutes, but I had never seen it.

There is no other reason: the opening statement can be prepared in advance, which team's first argument is not repeated in front of the mirror recording and pinching the table practice, and then adding content and stuffing it for three minutes?

How can you not even be satisfied with this kind of time to send points.

Today, it's been a long time.

Fortunately, she doesn't need to think about the question of "how to comment after the facts have been stated", because Yu Meiqin is very empathetic.

"Thank you for the reminder - that's right, I just took a rough look at it, and in the opening remarks of the positive debater, I spent nearly one and a half minutes discussing the importance of food security, and then only spent the remaining half of my time discussing support for agricultural production subsidies.

As the opposing party, my opening argument naturally has to be refuted in a targeted manner according to the positive arguments. Since they have so little material for me to refute, that's enough for me to say. ”

She didn't finish her words completely, she shook the opening statement prepared in her hand, a stack of about four or five pages, two of which were pulled out and put aside separately - the meaning was obvious, the opening statement of the Academy of Earth Sciences was so disappointing, only said such a little dry goods, so that my sister couldn't say anything that she was ready to refute.

This kind of psychological warfare trick is often used by lawyers when they are working on cases - many court trials, when one party has lost the scene and has to struggle to say "I apply for an adjournment and request new evidence/witnesses";

If the other party's preparation is very perfect, and there is no need to save face, then the lawyer will most likely shake the additional materials he has prepared contemptuously, to show that "it should have been taken out a long time ago, and you have even thought about how to deal with the new evidence you are about to come up with, and you will quickly send someone to let you charge an extra lawyer's fee" (except for risk representation).

However, this kind of trick is used in debate tournaments, and the contempt is very serious.

"Co-author Yu Meiqin is here to make a debate today, that is, she is more improvisable than Nick Shi, so she knows how to delete the speech on the spot and say a few words...... This is too contemptuous of the strength of the Academy of Geological Sciences, right?" After Tian Haimo reacted, he was also a little dumbfounded in his heart.

However, the more than 1,000 spectators in the venue were quite looking forward to this dramatic confrontation, and the enthusiasm of the onlookers was suddenly pushed to a climax.

I'm not afraid of big things when I look at the excitement.

"me, am I watching a legal film of a Hong Kong drama? On an occasion like the finals, can you still use this method in public to stand up and say that the theme that the other party has discussed for a minute and a half belongs to 'although it is very right, but it belongs to the nonsense of the wrong topic'?"

As the other party who was reprimanded as "nonsense", Hao Fang's face suddenly turned blue, and the knuckles of her slender fingers were pinched and gurgling.

The other party is willing to despise you in this kind of competition situation, using the almost child's play of "Your Excellency is not enough to refute, and my sister would rather waste 40 seconds of speaking time", and no one can not be impetuous.

"Why is the issue of food security not right? You explain it to me clearly!" Hao Fang didn't hold it, and shouted in a sharp voice.

"Hao Fang, pay attention to the rules!" Ma Zhonglu knew that he was going to suffer when he saw it, and hurriedly suppressed his voice and grabbed his teammates.

Although Yu Meiqin's words just now were a little arrogant, there were no dirty words from beginning to end, and the tone was also very kind, and the edge of the form was well hidden. In contrast, Hao Fang's performance was a little out of shape.

"Please pay attention to the rules of the competition - if you have any doubts, you can ask them after entering the free debate session. ”

Hao Fang was ashamed and angry, and reluctantly apologized to Tian Haimo: "I'm sorry, host." ”

Tian Haimo also doesn't like Yu Meiqin's "arrogance" very much—at least until Yu Meiqin proves that she is qualified to be "arrogant".

Therefore, Tian Haimo took a non-critical attitude towards the foul of the Academy of Geological Sciences and did not continue to pursue it: "Okay, now I announce that I have entered the free debate session, and I ask the second debater to cross-question first." ”

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"In the opening statement, if you deliberately deviate from the topic of the other party's sub-argument and adopt the attitude of 'if you do not prove that there is a causal relationship between the sub-argument and the main argument', you can completely provoke the other party, and you can disrupt the rhythm of the cross-question session.

Because they will be angry and anxious to prove that there is a causal relationship between the sub-arguments and the main argument that they have piled up so much of their rhetoric, thus squandering the opportunity to build their own offensive system. ”

Yu Meiqin recalled what Feng Jianxiong said to her when she was preparing for the game, and she was quite admirable in her heart.

He guessed again, especially the debate strategy of the Academy of Geological Sciences to try to tie food security and agricultural subsidies together. I didn't expect that Yifang could also exert so much improvisation. Running in with Xiaoxiong is really a great increase in skill value. Yu Meiqin asked herself, if she hadn't been persuaded by these words, she really didn't want to exchange places with Syncole for the first time and let Syncole be the fourth debater.

The cross-question session in the venue is in full swing at the moment.

However, relying on her professional judgment ability, Yu Meiqin soon saw that the rhythm of the Academy of Geological Sciences was obviously out of touch, and she had to waste her precious opportunity to take the initiative to attack on self-justification.

And Ma Zhonglu, the number one main force of the Academy of Earth Sciences, was a fourth debater, and he couldn't speak at all before the free debate began, so he could only write a small note to his teammates.

The overall strength of the Academy of Geological Sciences was originally very strong, and the reason why Ma Zhonglu was relieved that he was the fourth debater was also based on the premise that the cross-questioning could have been designed in a meticulous way and there was almost no possibility of being diverted by the enemy.

Those six questions were originally designed by Ma Zhonglu to "attack the enemy's place and save it", but now he was forced to return to the sword first to save himself by the opponent's opening statement.

BUFF AND DEBUFF HAVE A POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE BONUS, AND THE CROSS-QUESTIONING SKILLS OF TEAMMATES ON THE SIDE OF THE ACADEMY OF EARTH SCIENCES ARE NO BETTER THAN CHEN SI'S SMARTNESS.

In the opening arguments, the law school scored the most, and the cross-questioning was chaotic and temporarily tied.

Ma Zhonglu held his breath for a long time, and when he reached the free debate session, he couldn't help but be the first to jump up and question:

"Feng Jianxiong, may I ask, 'If you think that agricultural production subsidies have nothing to do with food security,' then why have developed countries, including the EU countries and the RB, provided this subsidy to farmers all these years?

As the third argument of the opposing side, Feng Jianxiong basically did not encounter a challenge when he crossed the question just now, and was busy writing a small note for Chen Sicong. At this moment, being challenged head-on by Ma Zhonglu finally has a chance to warm up.

He replied with a smile: "First of all, the existence of subsidies only proves their existence, not more. For example, the subsidies for agricultural production in the RB and the European Union can be provided to farmers on food crops, cash crops and even farmers/ranchers in the livestock industry – does the subsidies that even dairy farmers can get have to do with food security?

Ma Zhonglu, as Feng Jianxiong's strongest opponent this year, naturally did not have the combat effectiveness of the previous scum, and his reaction was very fast: "Please don't play with words!" 'There are agricultural subsidies issued for purposes other than food security', which cannot be equated with 'all agricultural subsidies are not for food security'. What the opponent just said simply confused the difference between the necessary and sufficient conditions, and this is a low-level mistake!"

Feng Jianxiong: "Please also ask Mr. Ma not to take my point of view one step further! I haven't said the above deduction. The example I just gave me just wanted to show that the causes of subsidies are diverse. So far, both of you and I have only been talking about theories, and neither has given a specific motive for the subsidy, but only proved that the other's theory is 'not inevitable'.

In that case, I would like to cite one of the real reasons that I think led to the EU and RB agricultural subsidies – these can be entirely because the agricultural production interest groups in those countries are too concentrated and large, and have a certain amount of political influence, so they use votes and lobbying to fight for some country-level favors to prevent overproduction and vicious competition.

After all, European and American politicians know that before the Great Depression of '29, the agricultural, mining, and forestry products of Europe and the United States in '28 were first hit hard by the Soviet Union's first five-year plan to earn foreign exchange, causing a social crisis. For the sake of harmony and stability, these politicians will definitely make some price protections, and even use subsidies to buy some agricultural producers not to produce, so as to reduce the total output of society - just like OPEC to limit oil production and protect oil prices.

Can this kind of subsidy of 'spending money to buy you but not producing' be called a 'subsidy for agricultural production'? If you have to think so, then I can only forgive me for being ignorant, because I never thought that the action of 'production' could be achieved by the mode of inaction. ”

Ma Zhonglu was slightly stunned, and was a little dizzy, but fortunately he reacted immediately: "That's just your family's speculation." Besides, since you mentioned the waste and destruction caused by disorderly production before the Great Depression, you must also know the tragedy of the 'capitalists pouring milk into the river' in the middle school textbooks.

As a great social concern country, China has macroeconomic regulation and control, which is an important weapon of the country, and the Development and Reform Commission has always used the big hand of subsidies to guide the peasants to allocate production capacity in an orderly manner, and has not just guided more peasant households who were originally reluctant to grow grain because of short-sightedness to change to grain planting, thus protecting the country's food security?

A sneer appeared at the corner of Feng Jianxiong's mouth: "It's a pity, this is just your obscenity, subsidies can't guide the optimal allocation of production capacity at all, and can only attract a bunch of loopholes to cheat and make up, and there is no guideable excess capacity in our country." ”

Ma Zhonglu's eyes lit up for the first time since the opening.

He thought he had caught a blind spot in Feng Jianxiong's knowledge: "Hehe, classmate Feng, you haven't heard of it, earlier this year, in our Jiangnan Province, there were two incidents of dairy farmers dumping milk to control production and stabilize prices because dairy enterprises switched to a large number of imported reconstituted milk powder milk sources! If we don't have this sense of social responsibility to care about these issues, I'm afraid that we will follow in the footsteps of capital and pay attention to the country!"