Chapter 168: The Barrel Effect
Seeing Li Yun come forward, he first saluted respectfully.
Wang Tong saw that it was Li Yun, so he couldn't help but say: "It turned out to be His Royal Highness King Yun, I don't know what you mean by what you said about the old minister?"
"It's not a good solution, it's only a half-understanding at best." Li Yun said modestly.
"Haha, King Yun is too humble, in the past, His Royal Highness fought against the Confucians, and won the champion of civil and military affairs, what a coquettish man, he was a model for all living beings in the younger generation, and he also fought wine poems in the Liangyi Palace, and wrote immortal legends. Wang Tong said.
Li Yun had already regained his memory, but he still had to pretend that he didn't know anything.
After Wang Tong finished speaking, he realized that Li Yun no longer remembered the past, so he changed his words and said: "Confused, King Yun has forgotten the past, don't mention the old things, please answer Your Highness, the question is the same as the prince."
Li Yun said: "The three outlines of the monarch and the minister, the father and the son, and the husband and wife are the way of the minister, the way of the son, and the way of the husband, but the king has to compare the importance of the other, and his ability is a fallacy."
Wang Tong frowned slightly, he thought that Li Yunhui would be another answer, but he didn't expect him to question his own question, he asked rhetorically: "Nonsense? How so? ”
The biggest mistake made by Li Chengqian was that he fell into the trap of Wang Tong, whether it was the Three Platforms or the Five Constants, there was no distinction between high and low, high and low, priority and urgency.
The three outlines, the king is the minister, the father and son are the outline, and the husband is the wife, these three are indispensable, since they are interdependent and mutually restrictive, how can we say which is more important?
Li Yun smiled and whispered, and asked rhetorically: "Then Lord Wang thinks that the three outlines, which is more important?"
"The minister thinks that the husband and wife are the most important, the monarch and the minister are light, and the father and son are secondary." Wang Tong said that his answer was the exact opposite of Li Chengqian's.
Li Yun was anti-guest, making a gesture of "please", and said: "What is the reason?"
"It is recorded: The husband is in the world, and he should sweep away the world and settle down in one room?" Wang Tong borrowed the past to discuss the present and said, "It can be seen that those who live in the world must start from the inside out, starting from little things. As Xun Zizhong said, if you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach thousands of miles, which is the truth. ”
"If you can't even get through the room, how can you do great things?"
After listening to his explanation, Li Yun smiled secretly in his heart, this is the essence of what he later said, 'how can you sweep the world if you don't sweep a house', that is, you can't even handle your own wife, how can you say that you serve the monarch and the minister and be filial to your eldest father?
"Lord Wang's arguments about the present are not convincing, but I can't agree." Li Yun said.
Xunzi's non-accumulation steps, or the big husband in the world, are all nine-story platforms that begin with the deformation of the soil.
Its original intention was to exhort future generations to do things step by step, but it was not used to confirm the essence of the Three Guidelines.
"Haha~!Since His Highness disagrees with the minister's statement, then please come up with your argument?" Wang Tong said.
Since it is a discussion, both sides need to come up with their own arguments.
"I think that among the three outlines, all three are indispensable, no matter how important they are, and there is no high or low, this is my answer." Li Yun said.
Wang Tong shouted: "A good one, regardless of the importance of the noble, you are young, and you don't know anything about the world."
In the feudal dynasty, talking about what people are born equal is like playing the piano to a cow, Li Yun is unwilling to explain anything, and he is too lazy to explain.
"Lord Wang, don't be in a hurry to sarcastically mock me first, and it's not too late to read my arguments." Li Yun said with a smile.
"Okay, then I'll listen to your arguments."
"Not to listen, but to see." Li Yun deliberately emphasized, "As the saying goes, hearing is false, seeing is believing. ”
These words have aroused the confusion of many people, how can words be described as words for listening.
But Li Yun ignored it, so he sent someone to find wooden blocks of different lengths, and many people couldn't figure out what he was going to do.
Not long after, these wooden blocks of different lengths were surrounded by Li Yun into a wooden barrel.
Many people didn't understand what Li Yun wanted to do, and Li Yun didn't explain, saying, "Fill the bucket with water."
If modern people see it, they will be able to see at a glance that they are tired of filling water into wooden barrels of different lengths, which is not our common "barrel effect".
As the water was loaded into the barrel, it had reached the height of the shortest block: "Your Highness, the water is full."
Li Yun glanced at it and said, "Continue pretending."
"Huh? If you reinstall it, the water will overflow. ”
"Keep loading." Li Yun said.
When they continued to add water, the water level reached the distance of the shortest barrel, and the water flowed out, and everyone was stunned when they saw it.
After the water overflowed, Li Yun stopped them from stopping.
Li Yun said in a deceitful manner: "Lord Wang, this is my argument."
"Huh?"
It's not just Wang Tong who can't understand it, but everyone else can't understand it either.
So, after Li Yun repeated what Wang Tong said, the monarch and the minister are noble and low, he said: "According to Lord Wang's words, husband and wife are the most important, that is the longest wooden block in the barrel, and the monarch and minister are the shortest wooden block, but you have seen just now, is the absolute amount of water determined by a long wooden block or a short decision?"
"Short, of course." After Li Yun finished the question, he answered it directly.
No matter how long it is, even if it can reach the sky, it is useless, and the so-called barrel effect is often not the best, but the shortest.
"According to what you mean, the monarch is the most important thing."
"Wrong! This shortest wooden strip is not only a monarch and a minister, but also a father and son, and a husband and wife. Li Yun said.
Wang Tong said that the monarch and the minister are the lightest, Li Chengqian said that the husband and wife are the lightest, but Li Yun said that the father and son are the strongest, and these three can be the shortest or the longest, and there is no difference in their essence, and there is nothing lightest in the world, which is just an artificially imposed definition on it.
When Li Yun finished explaining, he only used a small wooden barrel to fight back at the high and low of Sangang, and such a clever trick really made the people at the scene applaud.
And when Wang Tong saw the barrels of different lengths, he didn't know what to say.
Seeing that Wang Tong had nothing to say, Li Yun said, "Lord Wang, do you still have something to say?"
"I ...... I didn't. Wang Tong shook his head.
"Since Lord Wang has nothing to say, then I have a question for you."
After he finished asking, it was Li Yun's turn to start fighting back, if he couldn't catch it, he would be the one who lost the opening of the altar.