Fang Cai's face-to-face episode made Chen Ziyou a little unhappy, he is a person of the old civilization, but he is also a person of the new era, he never believes in the so-called physiognomy, and thinks that these are just feudal superstitions. Meng Fuzi once said that Zi was silent and confused, but in the hometown of Confucianism, there would be people who would say about ghosts and gods, which made Chen Ziyou a little disappointed.

However, after wandering along the way, Chen Ziyou found an extremely interesting thing.

As we all know, there are a total of 72 academies in Qufu, the capital of the Lu Kingdom, and among them, Qufu Academy is the best in China. The opportunity to enter Qufu Academy is even more rare, and there is a selection mechanism among them. Every four years, the 72 academies in Qufu jointly hold a Confucian exchange meeting, aiming to allow the younger generation of Confucian students to communicate with each other and promote the development of their own Confucianism. In the process of mutual exchange, there will be 72 deans of academies from the assessment, and the final assessment of the best can enter Qufu Academy to study for a year, and the most outstanding one will get the opportunity to answer questions from the dean of Qufu Academy and the head of contemporary Confucianism.

It is now the first day of the eighth month of the year 388 in the new calendar, and it is only about a month before that event is held. It is no wonder that in recent days, many students dressed as Confucian scholars have entered the city, thinking that they are all here for this grand event.

Can you get a chance to meet Yan Ziyuan? Chen Ziyou thought in his heart.

Yan Ziyuan is the leader of Confucianism, even if he is the monarch of Lu State, he must make an appointment in advance before meeting him, although Chen Ziyou said that he has the seal of the two countries, it is not difficult to meet Yan Ziyuan. But Chen Ziyou had another idea in his heart, that is, in what capacity to meet Yan Ziyuan.

Is it the Zongheng family who has the seal of the two countries? Yan Ziyuan is undoubtedly a faithful believer in Confucianism, how could he agree to the request of a Zongheng family? But what if it was replaced by a Confucian student who had cultivated a lot of Confucianism?

In the end, Chen Ziyou made up his mind that he would participate in this quadrennial Confucian event as a Confucian disciple and win the first place in it.

In fact, it is strange to say that the basic theory of Confucianism in the founding of the sect of Meng Fuzi is actually about the same as that of the two sages of Confucius and Mencius in the old civilization, so Chen Ziyou is very suspicious that this founder of Confucianism is actually an executive officer in the restart plan of the old civilization and copied the Confucian theory of the old civilization.

If this is the case, this somewhat plagiaristic practice has made Chen Ziyou a little disdainful, and the image of Meng Fuzi's supposed majesty is also much lower in Chen Ziyou's mind.

It is said that Yan Ziyuan is a master of Confucianism, and his achievements in his life are very likely to surpass Meng Fuzi, so Chen Ziyou is not bad! He is a person who has read the 2,000-year evolution of Confucianism from history books, and his understanding of Confucian theory may be slightly insufficient, but he is particularly good at the development of Confucianism. No matter how good Yan Ziyuan is, he only knows about Confucianism for a hundred years, and Chen Ziyou is even better, he knows the development of the next two thousand years.

Therefore, it is often said that reading history and reading history is actually a reminder to the king and the people at all times that they can not forget the lessons of the past and the teachers of the future. No matter how Chen Ziyou said, he was also a person who had read the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation, and standing on the shoulders of Confucius and Mencius, he didn't think that he would be much worse than Yan Ziyuan.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyou gained a little confidence, and even felt that he would not fall behind even if he confronted Yan Ziyuan in debating Confucianism.

The top priority is to find a way to participate in this grand event and get a place for a student.

Chen Ziyou looked around, and set his eyes on a student who was dressed a little shabby, Confucianism was prevalent in China, and there were more than 10 million believers, and they came here to participate in the grand event, just to have the honor to enter the academy to study.

This student's name is Xu Xiaoli, a patriot, his family is not wealthy, and his parents worked hard to earn money for him to study in the school. Xiaoli, the family born in the farmer naturally couldn't think of this name, and they also asked Mr. Jiaoshu to name him.

Xu Xiaoli carried a cage behind him, curiously looking at the streets and alleys of the capital of Lu State, he was born in the countryside for the first time to see such a prosperous scene, and he was a little confused for a while. However, after ten years of studying, his mind was finally polished a lot, and he soon calmed down his thoughts. The cage he was carrying behind him was not only the seal presented by his hometown academy, but also the hope of the entire academy. The quadrennial Confucian exchange meeting, although as long as students can participate, but it must not be able to carry such a large number, and most of these places have been divided by half of the seventy-two academies in Qufu, like Xu Xiaoli's small academy, can only get one place, and just such a place, in the academy will be scrambled for blood.

If Xu Xiaoli can shine in the Confucian exchange meeting this time and be looked down upon by the seventy-two academies, it will be a happy event that has stood up to the sky, and the hard work of ten years of hard study in the cold window can be regarded as the end of hope.

Xu Xiaoli thought of the master's eyes that had high hopes for him before leaving, and his eyes couldn't help but be a little red. The coil on his body was almost used on the way here, but fortunately the dry food was still sufficient, but the shelter for this month became a problem.

However, I heard that students from all over the world who came here, as long as they held the seal of the academy, there would naturally be people from seventy-two academies to arrange a residence, and Xu Xiaoli felt a little relieved when he thought of this.

Thinking of this, Xu Xiaoli's mind calmed down and began to silently recite Confucian classics in his heart.

At this time, a sneaky figure was quietly following him.

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In order to hold this quadrennial event, Lu Guogong personally allocated funds and 72 academies jointly organized it, and in order to entertain foreign students, 72 academies contracted the largest inns in Qufu City.

Chen Ziyou walked to the front of the inn, and a Confucian student in a school uniform stopped him: "Hello, may I ask which academy is it from?" ”

Chen Ziyou took out the seal from his arms and handed it over.

The Confucian student took it, looked at the certificate on the seal, and showed a trace of obvious arrogance in his eyes: "Liucheng Academy? Okay, you go in, the room is on the third floor, you pick one yourself. ”

After seeing the seal handed over by Chen Ziyou, he couldn't remember where the so-called Liucheng Academy was, and which remote city he came from, but he didn't embarrass Chen Ziyou, after all, the seventy-two academies were the hosts, so as not to fall into the charge of inconsiderate hospitality.

Chen Ziyou didn't care about the Confucian student's expression at all, nodded, thanked him, and walked into the inn.

At this moment, the hall on the first floor of the inn is very lively, and many students gather here to discuss Confucianism with each other.

But after all, they are just young children of academies around the world, and in fact, they are nothing more than some Confucian theories that have long been rotten, and in Chen Ziyou's view, they are just some milky children who are selling their knowledge.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyou couldn't help but smile, he was only in his twenties, how could he laugh at others for not drying up.

At the table where the students were surrounded by the most, two students were sitting in the middle, and a rather interesting argument was going on.

This thesis mainly focuses on the root cause of the problem of the Great Zhou Dynasty's etiquette collapse, one side holds the view that the etiquette is worse than the Son of Heaven, and the other side holds the view that the etiquette is worse than the princes.

The argument between the two sides was in full swing, and the students on the right side patted the table and stood up: "The Lile conquest came from the Son of Heaven, and if it is not the Son of Heaven, how can it be ruined?" ”

The student's argument sounded unquestionable, or even irrefutable, so that the student on the opposing side was stunned for a moment and did not know how to answer.

On the contrary, Chen Ziyou, who heard this, suddenly laughed, and this smile was really unbelievable, and the positive student glared angrily, as if he was very dissatisfied with Chen Ziyou.

Everyone present also looked over, and there was a look of dissatisfaction between them, academic arguments were originally friendly discussions, even if they felt that what the other party said was not reasonable, they should humbly put forward other opinions, snickering like Chen Ziyou, which was very rude.

Chen Ziyou looked at everyone's dissatisfied looks, and didn't care, and said: "Then if there are no three families divided, wouldn't there be no future Son of Heaven who will lose his trust?" ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then immediately felt polite, if it weren't for the chaos of the three doctors in the Jin Kingdom, wouldn't the Son of Heaven have divided Han Zhao Wei? In this way, the problem still lies with the princes.

The Confucian student was very unconvinced, and immediately retorted: "The Qin and Jin wars, if Zhou Tianzi didn't stop it, how could there be three families divided into Jin in the future?" ”

After hearing this, everyone on the field nodded again, thinking deeply, thinking about it like this, the problem is still Zhou Tianzi.

Chen Ziyou smiled and continued: "According to what my classmates said, even if I have 10,000 reasons, the fault is Zhou Tianzi after all. ”

Chen Ziyou didn't want to argue with this student anymore, because he knew that the problem was not with the princes or the Son of Heaven, but with the system.

But the system is complicated, Chen Ziyou didn't bother to explain, even if he explained that there may not be a few people present who can understand, the new civilization has only been recorded in writing for 400 years, and the evolution of the state system is just from the original Zen concession system to the sub-feudal system.

Seeing that Chen Ziyou was admitting defeat, the students on the positive side were probably still unconvinced, and said more and more dissatisfied: "I don't know which academy this classmate is, so I will announce the names of each other, so that we can discuss academics in the future." ”

When he said this, he inevitably had the intention of exploring Chen Ziyou's bottom line, and when he saw Chen Ziyou's poor and sour face, he didn't look like a person from the big academy: "Below is Fang Wenlong from Xianyang Academy." ”

Fang Wenlong reported his name, and immediately attracted the exclamations of many scholars present, Xianyang Academy, as the name suggests, naturally settled in Xianyang, the capital of the Qin State, which can be juxtaposed with the other seventy-one academies in Qufu City, except for Qufu Academy.

Chen Zi marched and said, "Below is Xu Xiaoli of the Patriotic Liucheng Academy." ”

After listening to Chen Ziyou's teacher, Fang Wenlong's face became more and more arrogant: "It turned out to be a classmate Xu from Liucheng Academy, and he has admired him for a long time!" ”

Everyone present couldn't help but sneer in their hearts, they had never heard of the name of this Liucheng Academy at all, how could it be compared with Xianyang Academy.

Chen Ziyou didn't care about everyone's eyes, turned his head, and went upstairs to find a room.

On the contrary, Fang Wenlong and the others downstairs saw Chen Ziyou turn their heads and leave, and they didn't salute, and they looked down on them more and more, they all felt that Chen Ziyou didn't understand etiquette, and they didn't pay more and more attention to Liucheng Academy.