After a long time, the people of Guozijian came to their senses, and it turned out that what Mo Jiazi asked them to read was not poetry, but this unique chalk character.

"What is this?" Kong Yingda's old face turned red, and he probably didn't have anything to say and asked.

"This board is called the blackboard, this white thing is chalk, and you can write on the blackboard, I see that the lectures of Dr. Guozijian are very laborious, and often a sentence has to be repeated many times, after having this blackboard and chalk, it will greatly reduce the burden of the masters." As he spoke, Morton took a piece of chalk and demonstrated it on the blackboard, writing a few words, and erasing it with a simple blackboard eraser.

There were even many doctors from Guozijian who personally stepped forward to practice and praised that the blackboard and chalk could indeed greatly reduce the workload of the master.

Kong Yingda's eyes lit up and nodded secretly, this is indeed a good thing, but as the pride of Confucianism, how can he be willing to give in.

"That's okay, but it's far worse than the Quyuan plow!" Kong Yingda said stiffly.

Morton looked at Kong Yingda, who refused to bow his head, and said with a slight smile: "Then please take a closer look at this poem." ”

Kong Yingda smiled slightly, secretly proud in his heart, Mo Jiazi was still too young, and finally couldn't help showing off his poems.

"It is indeed a rare good poem, which vividly expresses the hard work of farming, and the food is not easy, persuading people to cherish food, not to waste, very educational, I believe that Dasi Nong will like this poem very much!" Kong Yingda dissected the poem in a long speech.

Li Shimin nodded secretly, feeling relieved in his heart, the Tang Dynasty has always attached importance to agriculture and mulberry, and now the Mo family has invented the Quyuan plough car, and the grain will definitely increase greatly in the coming year.

Kong Yingda was secretly proud, and the afterglow swept over Mo Jiazi's expression, but found that Mo Dun actually had a hint of sarcasm, and couldn't help but be puzzled, and hurriedly looked at the poem carefully.

"There's nothing wrong with it! That's exactly what it means! Kong Yingda had doubts in his heart, but a wonderful feeling came to his heart, and his intuition told him that this poem must be something else.

Suddenly, his gaze froze, staring at the last point of the poem, as if he had been struck by lightning.

Others also discovered Kong Yingda's abnormality and were about to ask, but they saw Kong Yingda suddenly stepped forward and almost fell on the blackboard, staring at the two small tadpole-like symbols and two small circles left by Mo Jiazi behind each verse.

"What is this?" Kong Yingda asked in a trembling voice.

"Punctuation!" Merton replied.

"What's the use?" Kong Yingda's intuition must be of great use.

Merton smiled slightly, did not answer, and stepped forward to write a line on the blackboard.

"Stay on a rainy day, stay at me on a rainy day." Li Shimin read it softly.

"Mo boy, what do you mean, you want to drive us away!" Cheng bit the corner of Jin's mouth and grinned threateningly.

"Uncle Cheng said with a smile, the kid can't wait for you to come, how could he drive you away?" Merton quickly explained, "Let me tell you a little story here. ”

"Stories, what do I like?" Cheng Yanjin said with a smile.

Li Shimin smiled slightly, he remembered the story of the catfish effect told by Merton outside the South City Gate, which was a sensation in Chang'an.

According to Mozi's secret writings, once, Mozi went to a miser's house as a guest, but it suddenly rained heavily, and the miserly host's family didn't want Mozi to stay overnight, so he wrote a note saying: "When it rains, the sky will keep the guests, and the sky will leave me behind." "When Mozi saw the note, he laughed, drew a few strokes on the paper, and happily found a room to live in. Merton moved out the almighty Mozi again.

"Why is that?" Qin Qiong asked curiously, according to the stingy character of the master's family, it is impossible to just pinch his nose and admit it.

Merton reflexively added a few punctuation marks to the blackboard, but the meaning of the whole sentence changed drastically.

"On a rainy day, stay a guest day, leave me behind? Stay! Qin Qiong couldn't help laughing when she looked at these words.

A sentence is separated by punctuation marks, and it produces two completely different meanings, no wonder the stingy master pinched his nose and recognized it.

Li Shimin also laughed, the meaning of these two sentences is completely opposite, the note left by the owner was used by Mozi to resolve the embarrassment of having nowhere to live on a rainy day.

In my opinion, this sentence can still be read like this, stay on a rainy day, leave me in the sky? Don't stay! Li Shimin's childlike solitaire road.

Cheng Yanjin couldn't wait to continue: "Stay on a rainy day, don't you stay on a rainy day?" Stay! ”

The two of you said a word, and directly played this sentence from the inside out.

Kong Yingda snorted coldly and said, "It's just a joke, what's the point." ”

"Oh! Look at this, Master! Merton reflexively wrote another sentence on the blackboard.

"The people can make it impossible to know it."

This quote comes from the Taber chapter of the eighth chapter of the Analects, which means that the people should follow the path we have guided, without letting them know why. Liu Yinian said triumphantly, selling his knowledge and wanting to attract Li Shimin's attention.

Merton shook his head and said: "Confucius advocated education without class, there are three thousand disciples, seventy-two sages, Mozi also respected him back then, and Merton did not believe that Confucius would advocate a policy of fooling the people!" ”

"Foolish policy!"

As soon as Merton's words came out, Li Shimin and Kong Yingda couldn't help but twitch their cheeks, and the emperors of all dynasties have managed the world according to the theory that the people can make it and the people can not know it.

Merton added two punctuation marks on the blackboard, and the whole sentence immediately changed to another meaning.

"The people may, let it be, and not, let it know. To the people, they will be free to those who cannot, and they will be made aware of those who are not. Teaching students according to their aptitude precisely reflects the Confucian idea of moralizing politics, obeying the people and opening up the wisdom of the people. Merton said.

Merton's words made Kong Yingda Khan rain, and he found that they may have misunderstood what Kong Sheng meant, and what is even more terrifying is that they actually use such a wrong policy to govern the country.

To say that before this, he must have been convinced that the people could make it, but he could not make it known, if anyone doubted Confucius, he would definitely fight with him for his life.

But now that he looked at this sentence again, he found that he had three other ways to interpret it.

"The people may make it, and let it be; You can't make it, you know it. ”

"The people can make it, but they can't make it known."

"Can the people do it? No, you can know it. ”

Li Shimin's face was gloomy, he had always attached importance to Kong Sheng, and even reused Kong Yingda as the national eunuch to cultivate talents for the Tang Dynasty, but he found that he was very likely to use wrong theories to govern the country for nearly ten years.

"Kong Aiqing, I ordered you to use punctuation marks to break sentences for Confucian classics, and strive to be accurate." Li Shimin ordered with a dark face.

"Wechen obeys!"

Kong Yingda bowed down to receive the order and turned to leave.

When he was about to walk to the door, he suddenly stopped and bowed to the statue of Mozi enshrined in the Zhuangyuan Building on the side.

"Mozi is really a man of great wisdom!" Kong Yingda sighed and left.