"Good question!" Facing Cai Yan's question, Li Su became excited, "This question is easy to answer - that's because when you look at the eight words 'the first initiative must be punished, and the palace is blessed', you want to be righteous."

The first initiative is not "the first person in every dynasty to rise up and rebel", but "the first person to plunge the people into war in a cycle of chaos", and the two concepts are different.

Zhang Jiao did rebel earlier than Zhang Ju, but Zhang Jiao has been completely eliminated and pacified-what did His Majesty mean when he changed Yuan Zhongping? That is, the world is peaceful again.

Therefore, when Zhang Ju made trouble again, Zhang Ju was not cleaning up a world that had been in chaos and returning it to order, but making a world that was still in order into a chaotic world. ”

Cai Yan was suddenly a little confused, and thought for a long time: "You...... You don't just interpret it according to your likes and dislikes, people only look at the words, how do you know how to define the 'first initiative' you say. ”

Li Su: "You just think so, before Zhang Ju's rebellion, was the world unified or divided? The world is still unified. The rebellion, which preceded Zhang Ju, did not divide the world into several regimes.

There was no scene of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period or the kings of the late Qin Dynasty on the weekend, and there was not even a scuffle between the warlords of Wang Mang, Lulin, and Chimei in the last years of Xinmang. Therefore, Zhang Jiao is the initiator of uniting the world for a long time, but he failed to succeed in splitting the world, so Zhang Ju is still the initiator of trying to unite the world for a long time, and he will still be punished by God.

Only one initiator has successfully overthrown the previous dynasty, or at least dragged the world into a state of warlord chaos, and then the one who followed up and raised troops to reunify the world was the blessed 'Dianxing'. ”

Li Su spoke very thoroughly, and also analyzed the misunderstanding point that sprayed the most in later generations.

Later, when he was studying orthodox philosophy at the Foreign Affairs Academy, he also searched the Internet for many ignorant netizens' comments on the "Theory of Prosperity and Blessing of the Temple".

The most common is to cite some counterexamples, such as some people say that "the earliest anti-Qing was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", and some people even go back and say that it is the White Lotus Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society. Therefore, if the "Theory of Prosperity and Blessing in the Temple" is established, the anti-Qing people behind the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not be eaten by heaven, so it will not be in line with historical facts?

But the question is, did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom overthrow the Qing Dynasty? How many small pieces did you succeed in breaking the country into? No, it is clearly written in the history books, and behind it is decades of great unification, called "Tongguang Zhongxing".

Later, when the war broke out again, it was still "from governance to chaos" rather than "from chaos to chaos", so everyone who was the first to raise troops in the major stage of "from governance to chaos" was still condemned by heaven and failed to unify the world.

From this point of view, Zhang Jiao, an anti-thief who has been destroyed, of course, can't help the later anti-thieves in the late Han Dynasty to suck away the curse of "the first initiative" - otherwise, wouldn't Wang Mang be able to help the later anti-Han people suck away the curse? Wang Mang was the first to defeat Han.

Every time after "Zhongxing" and "re-entering peaceful reunification", the historical record of the initiative has to be cleared and recalculated.

This is an important component of the deterrent power of the temple prosperity theory.

As long as the previous thief didn't succeed, Damnation will be reset! will refresh the cooldown!

……

"It turns out that you can't deliberately make a pioneer suck up the curse of heaven, so that the people behind can let go of the rebellion. It has to be this 'initiator' who really harms the world to enter the secession, so that he can make a number...... That's a lot harder, and it's not easy to be used by thieves. ”

Cai Yan re-deduced seven or eight times according to the theory that Li Su had perfectly explained, trying to find negative examples through historical deeds, but he didn't think of counterexamples when he found a meal.

She ate this meal so engrossed for most of the hour that even her hair was scratched after eating.

In the end, she had to admit that the theory of senior brother did have a few brushes in stabilizing the hearts of the people in the world, and it was many times better than Dong Zhongshu's.

"After all, I still lost to my senior brother, I thought I was quite smart and had a chance, alas."

Cai Yan put down the manuscript and slammed it on the desk, and even the stubborn and stupid hair that slipped out of the double-ring bun drooped down again, like a deflated duck.

However, she still didn't give up, and wanted to overpower her senior brother a little: "However, since this is the case, even I will misunderstand, and those who don't read much will even misunderstand."

Since you are writing books that people should understand, if only the great Confucians know the original meaning, wouldn't it cause the people to misunderstand and even induce ambitious people to take risks? ”

Li Su thought for a while and made a fair comment: "This is not bad, if the timing is right, I will find a way to add notes." But this time, the scriptures must be written first, and the scriptures should not be explained by asking questions - poetry and books are easy to spring and autumn, how can there be a debate with others? In the subset of scripture and history, only the 'son' is more debated and right. ”

In the Confucian classics, the Five Classics are considered "classics", and the scriptures are all ironclad and difficult to debate.

The "Four Books" such as the Analects and Mencius are similar to the Hundred Schools of Thought, which can tell fables and even debate with people of hostile schools, and then record the debate process. But this genre is not solemn enough, and it cannot become a "classic" in the strict sense.

Although Cai Yan is only thirteen years old, she followed her father at the age of five to start reading from the simple Zhuzi Baijia, and has been reading for seven or eight years, so she also knows the knowledge of these genres.

Hearing Li Su shirk like this, she pondered for a moment and continued to take the initiative to ask: "Senior brother, after you finish writing the scriptures, can you write another 'biography' or 'ask the right question', just like Zhuangzi debates with others." You just want to include more beginner puzzles who don't know much about the 'temple is blessed', and then analyze them one by one. ”

It's like reading the "Four Books", if there is no "Commentary on the Four Books", there will definitely be a lot of ambiguity and misunderstanding.

Li Suwaner smiled: "I will naturally write this, and after I finish writing this scripture, it will be my turn to clean up the source." ”

Cai Yan's eyes rolled, and he asked with a smile: "Then at that time, can I write my question today in the first article of "Cai Li Gong Asks Right"? Why don't you leave it to me? I have memorized what you and I just said. ”

Li Su couldn't help but be dumbfounded: "You are a girl's family, so you want to leave your name on the scriptures?" ”

Cai Yan pursed his lips and tried his best to make himself look serious and serious: "Ban Zhao continued to write "Book of Han" and wrote "Female Commandment", leaving a name in history. I've been reading for eight years, and I've been reading all over the world, and if I don't leave any articles, it would be too unwilling. I can't write seriously, so it's okay to write a biography and ask the right questions. Alas, it's a pity. ”

Li Su looked at Cai Yan's expression gloomy, and couldn't help but be curious: "I didn't let you write, I didn't promise you, what's the pity." ”

Cai Yan stood up and crossed his hands on his hips: "Senior brother, I remember that you are eighteen years old." ”

Li Su looked at the other party playfully: "So what?" ”

In fact, his physical body is only sixteen years old after two months, and eighteen is all in order to make official false reports as soon as possible.

Cai Yan pouted: "Hmph, if I had been born five years earlier, and if I had studied for five more years, I would have been eighteen years old now, maybe my knowledge would be enough to participate in writing the truth." It's a pity, since Gongsun Hong and Dong Zhongshu, more than 280 years, there has only been another chance to have such a grand event in the whole world, but I missed it because of my young learning, and I can only participate in the biography "Ask Right" in this life. ”

I didn't give birth to you, it's a pity.

When Li Su heard this, he wanted to casually deal with it and comforted him, saying that "there will be opportunities in the future."

But after thinking about it, "the palace is blessed" is already the highest level of monarchical orthodoxy, and there will be no monarchy in history, so he can't make it up.

He had to change his mind and shut up.

Cai Yan saw that his expression changed several times, and he was still a little expectant, and his eyes flickered and asked, "Do you want to comfort me?" ”

Li Sugang admitted straight men: "At first, I wanted to comfort you, but I thought about it carefully, this kind of opportunity will indeed never have a second time in my life, so, I'm sorry." ”

Cai Yan bit her lip, and seemed a little incredulous: "You won't pretend to coax me to let me?" I...... My father has taken in so many disciples, and today is the first time I have encountered you so outspoken. ”

"Really? I don't believe it. Li Su replied officially, "I don't know about others, Gu Yong will definitely not deceive people in order to coax you." ”

Cai Yan: "Senior Brother Gu can't deceive people, but he will be muffled and not speak!" It's not like you just puncture my expectations! ”

Alas, this is a straight man of steel. Pity the fragrance and cherish the jade without emotion, and cook the crane and burn the piano to cause trouble.

Li Su: "Just say if you still want to participate in the writing of "Cai Li Gong Asks Right". ”

Cai Yan finally relented and didn't dare to complain again: "I want to ......"

Li Su: "If you want to, don't talk nonsense, you just follow today's example, look for the questions you think have loopholes and want to ask me, I'll answer them one by one, you sort it out!" At that time, at least this "Ask the Right Question" can be signed with your name, and it can be regarded as a record of my answer to you, okay. ”

Many of the answers in the Analects were also said by Confucius, but the Analects itself was not written by Confucius, but by those disciples who asked Confucius questions.

Now that I can catch a junior sister as cheap labor, if I have to compile and compile debate rhetoric, then I don't have to do it in vain.

……

Since that day, Cai Yan has unknowingly become a cheap laborer.

After tossing, dissatisfied, and making things difficult again and again, she finally found that she still couldn't find any thorns, and she couldn't refute Li Su's "The Theory of Prosperity and Blessings".

is like a girl who has just entered junior high school, has a rebellious period, and always wants to find her Chinese teacher's stubble.

No matter what general knowledge points the teacher taught, she felt uncomfortable without finding a few negative exceptions. And once he thinks he has found a special case, he is ecstatic, goes to the teacher to answer questions, and secretly expects that the teacher will not make it up.

But the final result, at best, was only in the active attack again and again, helping Li Su define one concept after another more accurately, and sorting out all the misunderstandings that other talented people may encounter.

A month of writing books says that time flies quickly.

Li Su discussed with Cai Yong every morning how to write seriously,

In the afternoon, Cai Yan's questions were accepted, and Cai Yan recorded and analyzed the content of the annotations.

Cai Yan is also quite knowledgeable, knowing that following Li Su to do scholarship can also get his own writings, he is very polite to Li Su, and has completely formed the respect that he should have for his senior brother.

Every time Li Su was tired, Cai Yan would personally help Li Su drink warm wine to refresh his mind, play the piano and hypnotize him, so that after Li Su regained his energy, he would pull Li Su to do his studies again and squeeze his energy out again.

Although this kind of life is hard, in the process of asking the right questions, Li Su also figured out some unexpected gains: this kind of thing is too suitable for Cai Yan to do, and I am afraid that another person will not be able to play the role of the questioner.

Why? It's very simple, because once the "Treatise on the Blessings of the Palace" was published in the world and recognized by the imperial court, there were many questions that the great Confucians of the world did not dare to ask. Therefore, it is impossible for Li Su to expect other great Confucians to debate with him.

This has to do with the political nature of this theory: what do you want to do if you stare at the orthodoxy of the imperial court and look for counter-examples? Is it a rebellion?

Or do you at least want to provide a rationale for other people who are ready to rebel but don't dare to rebel, to embolden them, to tell them that "Damnation has been absorbed and fulfilled by the previous rebel, and you are safe"?

Outsiders question too carefully, and it is easy to be charged with great rebellion - do you disregard the sword of the ten permanent servants?

However, if these counter-examples are not analyzed at all, it is not possible to make everyone dare not speak, and if they hide the ambiguity of their understanding in their hearts, they will never be able to dispel doubts, and it will not be conducive to unifying people's hearts.

For example, the one mentioned earlier, "Did Zhang Jiao suck away Zhang Ju's curse", that is the easiest question to think of, and it is estimated that at least a few thousand people in the world will think of it.

So the best way is to find someone close to Cai Yong and pretend to be a white person to ask these questions.

Cai Yan is only thirteen years old, a little girl, she will definitely not be interpreted by the world as "having ulterior motives and wanting to help the thief embolden", she will only think that she is "curious by nature, pure and studious", after all, how can a daughter oppose her father's academic theory.

And her questions are all easily answered by Li Su, just like the Huizi who is responsible for praising in "Zhuangzi", the intensity of questioning is just right, and there will be no toxicity that is too strong for Li Su to resolve.

It is simply an inactivated safe vaccine, with just the right scale, which will not make the body pathological, but also make up for the immune loophole.

Xueba's junior sister tool person is really fragrant!

In this way, the three of them worked together sincerely and were busy until the end of October, and the first drafts of "The Blessing of the Palace" and "Cai Li Gong Asks the Right Questions" finally came out one after another.

Everyone finally considered it and handed over the two sets of contents to the craftsmen of the Zhen family to carve.

Around the beginning of November, the finished book was printed.

Looking at the writings that were not scattered, Li Su's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness.

Publicize the content of this set of books, and then cooperate with Liu Yu's military pressure and interest temptation, three-pronged, it's time to send the thief on the road!