Yes! Why do we write that? This question never occurred to them. Everyone couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"Who knows why, I've been writing like this since I was a kid anyway!" Yu Chi Baolin said a very straightforward remark.

"It's because the lord is the king, the parent; The lower is the minister, and the child is the child. The right is big, the left is small, we write from right to left, but also can express the meaning of the right, at this time the embodiment of our Confucian etiquette, is not like other miscellaneous items have no respect, do not know the size. Kong Huiso said proudly, looking at Merton with disdain.

"Well said!" The other Guozijian students couldn't help but applaud.

Liu Yinian looked at Kong Huisuo with satisfaction, and consciously raised his face, Kong Yingda also nodded slightly, this junior is indeed worth cultivating, talented and insightful.

"That's a good point!" Merton applauded with a sneer, "But I heard that the brush was invented by Meng Tian, and the Meng family is a soldier!" Are you sure Meng Tian thought of Confucian etiquette when he invented the brush! ”

Merton mercilessly peeled off the hypocritical face of Confucianism, making the prisoners of all countries unable to help but show embarrassment.

Kong Huisuo's face immediately turned red, although he only wanted to put gold on the face of Confucianism, but he ignored that Meng Tian, the inventor of the brush, was a soldier.

Kong Yingda and Liu Yinian were also embarrassed. That's not funny!

"We don't know, you know!" Kong Huisuo's face turned red and choked on Merton.

"Of course I do." Merton smiled and pulled out a book from his desk. Merton had long known that writing with a hard pen would cause some criticism, so he had already thought of a countermeasure and prepared a book in advance.

"Book Jane!"

Everyone was confused, only Kong Yingda and Liu Yinian were thoughtful.

"Ladies and gentlemen, when you open the volume, you will naturally hold the end with your right hand, and it is easy to open it with your left hand. Therefore, ancient writing is from top to bottom, from right to left. Morton held the book slip in his right hand, the first piece of bamboo, and slowly opened the bamboo slip with his left hand, and a blank bamboo slip appeared in front of everyone. picked up Liu Yinian's expensive wolf pen in front of him and wrote down a few big and ugly words.

Merton opened and closed the book and showed it to the crowd.

"I see!" Everyone suddenly realized, and at the same time, many people were disappointed, he originally thought that some tall brush writing rules were actually formed to adapt to the bamboo tube.

"The writing of the brush character from top to bottom, from right to left, is for the convenience of writing bamboo slips, and then the bamboo slips were gradually replaced by paper, although the bamboo slips disappeared, but this way of writing has been handed down.

In order to support your hand on the desktop, you can write small and fast, but in order to avoid ink sticking to your clothes and making fonts, you can only choose to write from right to left, from top to bottom! It's not about ceremonial beliefs, it's just about making it easier to write! ”

As he spoke, Morton picked up the brush and lay down on the desk, quickly wrote a line of words, and demonstrated it directly to everyone.

"I see! Just for convenience! ”

Everyone understood it, as if in a dream, they didn't want to believe that calligraphy, which was considered sacred, came from this way, but the facts were in front of them, and they had to be convinced.

Kong Huisuo's face was defeated, and Merton beat his face red with facts, how ridiculous his previous arrogant words were now when he thought about it.

"Even so, it must be forbidden, otherwise there will be a lot of confusion when the two writing methods are mixed in the market." Liu Yinian is still stubborn, and what is even more terrifying is that most of the Guozi prisoners nodded in agreement.

"Joke!" Morton suddenly said angrily: "The quill pen is cheap, the writing is convenient and fast, and the paper is saved, which can save at least ninety percent of the cost for poor students every year, and can complete the coursework in less than half the time, and have more time to study. ”

Merton's words were as sharp as a sword, and every word was cut in everyone's hearts, making many people ashamed, and many poor children couldn't help but burst into tears, but they knew how much their families had paid for the expensive pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

"That can't break the inheritance!" Liu Yinian said stubbornly.

"Let's not talk about quills, save money, ink, and time, let's talk about saving effort."

The quill pen from left to right is because the palm of the human hand can be supported on the desktop, can support long-term writing, and the brush writing must be arm hanging, long-term writing will be doubly tired, long-term use, I am afraid the taste is not comfortable! ”

Merton slapped Xiong Maocai's right shoulder hard, and directly slapped Xiong Maocai into a cold breath.

"Old bear! Frozen shoulder is very serious! Merton said with bared teeth and heartlessness.

"How do you know?" Xiong Maocai's eyes widened, this disease has been bothering him for a long time, and it has not been solved.

This is the best calligraphy, and it must be practiced the most, of course, your most serious! Merton sneered.

Those who can enter the Guozijian are not fools, Xiong Maocai thought about it, immediately woke up, covered his shoulders and said: "You mean that my frozen shoulder is a long-term practice of calligraphy?" ”

"Yes!" Merton also dragged an ancient sentence.

As soon as these words came out, many people involuntarily covered their right shoulders, where Xiong Maocai alone, and it was estimated that Qin Huaiyu and the three of them did not have frozen shoulder.

"Fortunately, the old ~ son compensates for the shoes that are not long to write!" Qin Huaiyu thought with palpitations.

Morton looked around and said slowly: "Quill pen than brush, save time, effort, money and ink, this is not a ban can be done, just like paper replaces bamboo slips, this is the inevitability of history, not for etiquette, just because it is convenient to save money!" You want to ban the quill pen to protect the brush, have you ever thought that after Cai Hou improved the papermaking technique, did there ever a great Confucian abolish paper in order to protect the bamboo slips? ”

"Of course, we are not qualified to decide what pen others use, it all depends on our own choice, as for the one that has the upper hand, it will be a hundred years later, it is too early to argue!"

The controversy ended, and no one was talking about the brush and the quill again, and the Guozijian acquiesced to Merton's use of the quill, and Merton did not make much of the use of the quill as if the controversy had never happened.

Xiong Maocai hid with interest every time he saw Merton, and Merton proved that he had six branches to comprehensively crush Guozijian with the pioneering Song style.

It's just that after Merton's quill pen was taken away by Kong Yingda for study, Merton had three less time to turn around.

Needless to say, it must have been taken by Qin Huaiyu's three guys who wanted to be lazy, Merton smiled slightly, at least this was a good start.