The reason why Zhao Kuo convened hundreds of scholars was not to compare with them, let alone to show off his talents. He has more far-reaching ideas, the hundred schools of thought, can not distinguish the advantages and disadvantages, even those most declining doctrines, have their own advantages, have merits, and have a certain influence on the later. Urging the development of these doctrines, so that they can adapt to the upcoming era of one king and the world, and can continue to shine, this is what Zhao Kuo wants to do.

Today's hundred schools of thought have long lost the style of the past, the doctrines are divided, attack each other, and have limited development, these doctrines are of great help to future generations, whether it is from philosophy, from science and other aspects, if they can continue to develop, no one can say what kind of flowers they can bloom. The scholars of the Yan Kingdom who first rushed to Mafu Township had a heated discussion with Zhao Kuo.

Some of them were annoyed and angry, some of them left the place, but there were also those who seriously reflected and were ready to stay and continue to discuss the doctrine. Zhao Kuo's knowledge of logic is limited, and he has no way to talk about logic with the Mohists, but Gongsun Long can, and the logic of the two sides has something in common, but there are also many differences. These scholars who came here were not only discussing with Zhao Kuo, but also communicating with each other.

When scholars from Wei, Han, and Qin rushed to Mafu, this controversy reached its peak, among which there were peasants, famous families, Qin Mo and other people who respected Mafu Jun, as well as Chu Mo, Qi Mo, Zi Zhang Ru, Zi Xia Ru and others who opposed Zhao Kuo. It was a great pleasure to listen to their arguments, and Zhao Kuo's disciples could be said to have benefited a lot, and Han Fei initially disdained to listen to the academic thoughts of these people.

Under Zhao Kuo's instructions, he finally picked up the pen and began to record, he recorded the doctrines and thoughts of each faction, and wrote his own opinions, and after summing it up, he asked them to discuss (abuse), Han Fei likes to write, he doesn't like to speak, but once he argues, his stuttering is almost cured, and the other party is speechless. The grand occasion of Mafu Township attracted many nobles from Zhao State, and even wanted to ask for a taxi.

Even Wei Wuji arrived, drunk and drunk, to enjoy the scholars' arguments.

When Wei Wuji arrived, Zhao Kuo was arguing with Gongsun Long.

The argument between Zhao Kuo and Gongsun Long attracted a lot of scholars, they stopped their discussions, sat around the two of them, listened carefully, there were many onlookers, Wei Wuji also found a place to sit down, to listen to the debate of these two sages, he looked around, and found Zhan, who he had only met not long ago, he smiled, and asked in a low voice: "What are the two of them arguing about?" ”

Zhan said in a low voice: "The state determines the proposition that the people's society or the people's society determines the state. ”

Wei Wuji was stunned, his eyes full of confusion.

"I heard that Shang Ying changed the law in the Qin State, implemented the system of governing the country by law, implemented the system of heavy agriculture, and governed the Qin State with a detailed household registration system, military merit system, and the system of continuous sitting, and the Qin State thus formed a society that valued agriculture, belligerent, cruel, and rigorous, and what I said: the political system will affect the society, will guide the society, and will change the lives of the people, so the king must implement the most superior system in order to form the best ideal society..."

Gongsun Long said seriously, he now also likes the dialectical logic of the Mohists, and when he expounds his views, he tries to find as many examples as possible to prove the correctness of his views. A few ink people who had just arrived in Mafu heard this, and the expressions on their faces were indescribable, and they plagiarized in front of themselves, isn't this a bit excessive?

Zhao Kuo shook his head and said seriously: "The society I am talking about refers to the sum of the production relations determined by the productive forces at a certain stage of social development, which is the basis for forming a certain society... It is obvious that the social base determines the policy of the state, let me explain to you: the basis of a given society is the system of economic relations of that society, that is, the sum of the relations of production....."

Gongsun Long shook his head and said seriously: "No, according to the social foundation you said, it is because of the system of abolishing private land and allowing the people to reclaim wasteland that the Qin State has the current productive forces... Let me explain to you that if the system is not abolished, productivity will not be improved...."

"No, since you have taken the land system as an example, let me explain to you: because of the development of ploughing oxen and ploughs, that is, farming technology, and the improvement of social productivity, the destruction of the quality well field system, in order to adapt to this change, various countries have successively formulated policies to abolish private land and abolish the original land system. You just used the Qin State as an example, but why did all the countries abolish the original system? Is this learning from the Qin State? Or is it because you have to adapt? ”

The onlookers naturally had their own opinions on this, and they discussed it one after another, Wei Wuji was embarrassed to mix it up, when Gongsun Long spoke, he felt that what Gongsun Long said was reasonable, and as soon as Zhao Kuo opened his mouth, he felt that what Zhao Kuo said was reasonable, and the Confucian on the side suddenly stretched out his head and asked seriously: "Which classification do you think Ma Fujun said about the division between the conceptual upper class and the political upper class?" ”

Wei Wuji's smile slowly stiffened, he looked at Gongsun Long, and then asked, "Famous?" ”

"I think so."

As if he had found a confidant, the Confucian man chatted happily with Wei Wuji, discussing whether the classification was correct or not.

Zhao Kuo and Gongsun Long began to discuss from various aspects, and what they were discussing was: the relationship between the economic base and the superstructure... If it was Zhao Kuo in the past, even if he knew about this relationship, he was afraid that he would not be able to summarize and elaborate it, but after Zhao Kuo arrived here, he studied the doctrines of various schools, and combined with the reality of today, he combined what he learned in his previous life with the present, and he could also debate with people like Gongsun Long.

Of course, this is also Gongsun Long's abandonment of the original debate routine, and his current debate is inclined to academics, rather than to win the opponent's argument, and walked out of the path of sophistry. Zou Yan listened carefully on the side, originally Zhao Kuo summarized the original of the dynasty change, and also mentioned similar things, but now what Zhao Kuo said gave Zou Yan a deeper understanding: Productivity may affect the rise and fall of the dynasty?

So, when Gongsun Long and Zhao Kuo had a draw, a new proposition appeared: the rise and fall of the dynasty and productivity.

Zou Yan personally went down and continued to debate and discuss with Zhao Kuo.

Baijia despised other schools of thought in their hearts, but when Zhao Kuo, Gongsun Long, and Zou Yan discussed these, they seemed to be very active, and there was an indescribable excitement in their hearts, they seemed to have returned to the past, the era when the doctrines of various schools discussed and developed each other.

King Zhao heard about these things, which made King Zhao very excited. With so many talented people coming to Zhao Kuo, of course King Zhao wanted to make them feel that Zhao valued the virtuous people, so he immediately asked Lian Po to expand the school room in Mafu, so that those virtuous people could have a place to live, and provide them with meals, and he personally sent a hundred sheep... King Zhao couldn't sleep happily every day, he only hoped to keep these people and turn them all into ministers of Zhao.

After Zhao Kuo and Zou Yan finished arguing, they moved their stiff bodies and walked towards their courtyard, just after walking out of the school, they saw Zhao Zheng running towards here and almost hit him, Zhao Kuo was about to reprimand, but Zhao Zheng said in a panic: "Father... Mother tells you to go back quickly! Zhao Kuo was stunned for a moment, hurriedly walked towards the house, and when he walked into the courtyard, he heard his mother's laughter.

"Bracket! Include! Zhao's mother smiled, and the Yi beside her lowered her head, blushing.

"Yi Youyou is pregnant!" , Zhao Mu said.

Zhao Kuo was stunned for a while, some failed to react, he looked at his mother, stunned for a moment, and then looked at Yi, Yi lowered his head, without words, Zhao Kuo laughed, rushed to her side in a few steps, wanted to pick her up, but was afraid of pressing her stomach, just smirked, speechless, "Okay, okay." Yi was taken aback by him, and hurriedly whispered: "Mother is still here, don't be rude..."

"Oh, by the way, I still have some business, let's go out first." , Mother Zhao said, left in a hurry, and closed the door. Only Zhao Kuo and Yi were left in the courtyard, Zhao Kuo looked at his wife in front of him gently, smirked, and flattered, "What do you want to eat?" Do you want me to buy some fruit? Yi shook his head, Zhao Kuo helped her into the inner room, and hurriedly asked her to sit down.

"I'm not going to go to the school these days... I'm here with you. ”

"No need, you have important things to do, don't delay these things because of me..", Yi said, and said with some worry: "I'm worried... If you have children of your own, you won't love politics like you used to... Please don't treat you differently, the government has always treated you as your biological father..."

"Hey... What are you talking about, how could I possibly do that? Zhao Kuo shook his head and said with a smile: "That kid doesn't know that he has younger brothers and sisters... By the way, you have to take care of him, he took a group of children the day before yesterday to dismantle the ox cart of a Yan Confucian scholar... He hid even the cattle that were driving..."

Yi smiled lightly and said, "That Confucian said bad things about you, and it happened to be heard by Zheng'er... I heard that the Confucian man was not only not angry, but also very happy, saying that Ma Fuzi was so young, he knew the truth of avenging his father, and he must be a sage in the future. ”

Zhao Kuo shook his head helplessly, this emperor through the ages is getting more and more skinny, and he is messing around with the children in the township all day long, it seems that it is time to formally teach him, Zhao Kuo thought seriously in his heart.

And Zhao Zheng, who didn't know that the catastrophe was coming, was still playing by the stream outside the countryside with his partners at the moment, and was making trouble, a delicate carriage slowly came from a distance, Zhao Zheng raised his head, looked at the carriage seriously, and was looking, a woman walked down from the carriage, the woman looked at these children, her eyes quickly locked on Zhao Zheng, and followed by some maids, she smiled and walked to Zhao Zheng's side.

"You guys go back first." , Zhao Zheng said to his friends around him, and only then did he look at the woman in front of him, Zhao Ji. Since he can remember, Zhao Zheng has known that he still has a mother, but this mother is not in Mafu, she is in Handan City, every year, she will come to visit her, and her father is also very polite to her, but Zhao Zheng has some obvious hostility towards this biological mother.

This is because this woman once told him that he was not the son of Ma Fujun, but the son of Qin Gongzi, which made Zhao Zheng very angry.

Zhao Ji looked at the son in front of her with a smile, these days, Zhao Ji has a good life, she is not stupid, as early as after knowing that Zhao's mother has no good impression of herself, she has not come to visit Zhao Kuo again, Ying Yiren left some wealth in Handan, left to a businessman, she can go to get it, Zhao Ji bought a house in Handan, and often visited those dignitaries, food, drink, use, are the most luxurious.

She even hung a few noble sons, and she accumulated a lot of wealth, and she was already one of the few wealthy families in Handan.

Zhao Zheng frowned and said coldly, "You are here to find my father?" My father was in the compound. ”

Zhao Ji was not angry because of Zhao Zheng's indifference, she bent down, looked at Zhao Zheng's face, and said gently: "I'm here to visit you, Zheng, are you doing well?" Is your new mother okay with you? Zhao Zheng replied: "Before your arrival, I had a good life. ”

"Hahaha...", Zhao Ji chuckled. She stretched out her hand and pinched her son's face, her eyes gradually revealed some sadness, and she said: "I am also for your good, I don't bother you, your father and that woman will treat you better, if I pester you every day... Alas, you are doing well, then it will be fine, come on.. Hold...", Zhao Ji waved her hand, and a maidservant girl walked out from the side and handed a few packages to Zhao Zheng.

Zhao Zheng just looked at her coldly, still without words.

"There's a lot of money here, there's food, you can buy what you want with this, the last time I came, didn't you complain that your father gave me very little money..."

"The father said, "A man can love money, but he must take it in the right way." I don't need that, please take it back, if I want to buy what I want, I'll go and earn money, I help my mother with the house, she'll give me money..."

"That woman used you as a retainer???" , Zhao Ji's tone suddenly rose a little, her good-looking eyebrows were twisted together, and several maids around her were also noisy, Zhao Ji had a cold face, got into the car directly, and rushed towards Mafu Township, on the road, the young disciples passing by, or those scholars, were all surprised to look at this gorgeous woman, the beauty of the woman attracted everyone's attention.

When Zhao Ji came to the door of Ma Fujun's courtyard, she finally suppressed the anger in her heart and smiled.

Zhao Kuo stood up, Yi kindly took Zhao Ji into the courtyard, and prepared food and drink for her, Zhao Ji was full of smiles, and also chatted with her cordially, but her heart was full of disdain, the two stood together, the gap was even more obvious, standing in front of the glamorous Zhao Ji with heavy makeup, her appearance was simple, wearing rough clothes, and her cheeks were red from the cold, which looked very ordinary, and there was no comparison at all.

"You don't have to be busy, let my maid do it...", Zhao Ji said, and then said to Zhao Kuo: "I came to see Zheng'er, I just saw him, I want to chat with him, he said that he wants to help his mother do things, there is no time... He helps you do things, and you give him money...", Zhao Ji looked at Yi again, and said with a smile: "How bad is this, the child should help his mother." ”

Yi smiled and said, "Zheng'er is very sensible. If he comes to help me, I'll give him some money, and he won't spend it recklessly."

Zhao Kuo looked at Yi helplessly, Yi is always like this, she will never hear good words, her mind is too simple, she will always worry about some things that ordinary people basically don't worry about, Zhao Kuo has seen Zhao Ji's intention, this is obviously to ask why Yi wants Zhao Zheng to work, Zhao Kuo coughed, and then said: "I don't want him to have the habit of getting something for nothing, people must work hard to get the harvest..."

"I won't hurt him, I won't be harsh on him, let alone Yi, she doesn't even know how to hurt someone."

Zhao Kuo frowned and said seriously: "If you miss him, you can come to visit him more." ”

Zhao Ji didn't speak again, she looked at the handsome and upright man in front of her, and then looked at the stupid country woman beside him, but her heart was extremely uncomfortable, some envy, and some jealousy, how could such a perfect man fall in love with such an ordinary woman?