The number of visitors to Siguo Valley suddenly skyrocketed, all in the name of worship, to see a sensational debate.

Among the disciples of Fanmen, Kou Daogu has the most famous reputation, on a par with the master, but the reason is not all in learning.

Kou's father and Fan closed are close friends, Kou Daogu's original name is Kou Zhen, he has often come to Fan's house as a guest since he was a child, often for more than ten days, smart and clever, listening to Uncle Fan's lectures while playing, he can never forget, Fan closed questions, students are still thinking, Xiao Kou Zhen has been talking eloquently, his voice is immature, and the words he says can be in line with the subtle purpose.

Fan Shu is a generation of celebrities and never accepts enlightened disciples, but makes an exception for this child of his old friend.

Kou Zhen apprenticed at the age of seven, and since then she has never played with children of the same age, she has devoted herself to reading and studying, and her favorite thing is to debate with her brothers.

After the age of ten, Kou Zhen suddenly became silent, and he turned a deaf ear when others provoked conversations.

At the age of thirteen, Kou Zhen regained his old self and became argumentative again, unlike before, he had to ask questions, the other party answered, and he found faults, and it only took a month, and no one in the Fan Sect disciples dared to answer his words.

Kou Zhen could only go to the master, one old and one young, and could only debate a topic for three days, or even longer, and the other disciples could only listen to it, and could not interject at all.

Kou Zhen's fame among his classmates became more and more famous, and no matter how old or young, they respected him very much, thinking that he would definitely become the successor of Fan Xue and be able to carry it forward.

Fan Guan didn't think so, and once sighed in front of all the disciples: "The dove occupies the magpie's nest, what does Kou Sheng say?" ”

No one understood the meaning of this sentence at the time.

At the age of sixteen, Kou Zhen stopped talking again, but he read more and more hard, picking up a book and reading it for a day, without eating or drinking in the middle, the family was frightened, and specially arranged a servant to stay by his side with food, and sent it to him when he was free, begging him to take a bite.

Kou's mother died early, his father also died when he was seventeen years old, Kou Zhen guarded the house for two years, and when he was nineteen years old, he suddenly announced that he was going to travel, everyone was surprised and regretted by this, only a few months away he could keep three years of filial piety, Bo a good reputation, and then gave up when he said to give up.

The disciples of Fan Sect are not surprised, they have calculated, one to three years, Kou Zhen will inevitably transform, the only thing that surprised them a little is that Kou Zhen, who has always been willing to only move his mouth and eyes, and even has to be fed by servants when he eats, actually wants to travel thousands of miles.

For another three years, Kou Zhen traveled all over the world, and with the name of the master, there were people everywhere he went, and there was no one he wanted to visit.

In the process of traveling, Kou Zhen gradually showed a tendency to deviate from his master, and the people he visited were not all Confucian scholars, but also Buddhas, Taoist masters, and even miscellaneous celebrities, he had to meet and talk about them.

At the age of twenty-two, Kou Zhen returned to Fan Guan, refused to marry a wife, changed his name to "Daogu", and brought back several boxes of books, some of which were heretical in the eyes of Fan's disciples, but Fan Guan did not stop them, but forbade other disciples to borrow them: "Gluttony can eat, and its stomach can accommodate it." In terms of knowledge, Kou Sheng is a glutton, regardless of the ups and downs, the four corners of the world, all kinds of food. You don't have the same appetite, you can only choose one of them, eat too much will hurt your body, and you must not learn from the greed of Kou Sheng. ”

By the age of twenty-five, Kou Daogu had the desire to tell again, this time he didn't want to argue, he just wanted to preach, and the way he preached was completely different from Fan Shu, closer to the mixture of Buddhism and Taoism, and often spoke amazingly, and even openly claimed that what Master Fan Shu taught was a small technique, not worthy of his reputation.

His fellow disciples were deeply alarmed by his changes, and many remembered what the master had said, and finally understood that the comment of the four words "dove occupies the magpie's nest" was not wrong at all, and Kou Daogu was an ungrateful white-eyed wolf.

Fan Guan did not stop or expel him, Ren Guan Daogu spread all kinds of dissent in the door, but refused to argue directly with this disciple, usually other disciples were suspicious by Kou Daogu's words, and came to ask the master for advice, and Fan Guan was willing to explain a thing or two.

There are more than 200 formal disciples of Fanmen, and the number of people who come to study is dozens of times this, and the residence is less than one day, more than one year, and there is never a shortage of studious young people.

Kou Daogu began to accept apprentices.

At the age of twenty-eight, the "three-year change" failed, and Kou Daogu did not return to silence, but intensified his efforts to persuade Master Fan Shu to change his doctrine.

Fan Guan, who had always refused to argue with his disciples, accepted the challenge this time and chose a day to openly talk about the Tao.

On that day, nearly 1,000 people came unexpectedly, and only about 30 people were able to enter the house to listen, and the others stayed outside, anxiously waiting for the results.

The sermon lasted for seven days, during the day the master and apprentice went back and forth, and at night, the audience was also arguing, some were for someone, some were against one side but supported a certain sentence.

By the end of the day, there were more than 3,000 observers, but it was rare to find two people who had the same opinion......

Fan Men's arguments were a sensation, and soon there were good people who gathered the remarks of both sides into a book, with more than 70 versions, and the words of Fan Guan and Guan Daogu were similar, and the differences were all in the comments and other people's comments.

With the spread of books, the division caused by it became more and more extensive, just in time for the death of Emperor Zhang Xi of Tiancheng and the accession of the Emperor of All Things.

The emperor decreed, and the local government acted vigorously, and in only one month, more than 70 kinds of books on the Tao were turned into ashes, and only a few were hidden.

There are always winners and losers, and the strange thing is that such a simple thing has different statements, and even the onlookers who were present at the scene at that time also held their own ends.

Overall, there were more people who thought that Master had won, because Guan Daogu got up and left at noon on the seventh day, giving up and continuing to argue, looking speechless.

A few people firmly believe that Kou Daogu is the victor, and they hold certain versions of the Book of Treatises, excerpt and read them, trying to prove that it is actually Fan Shu who is speechless, and Kou Daogu is victorious and goes away without further debate.

When books were banned and a few became rare, especially after the imperial court issued a decree reaffirming the way of respecting the teacher and giving Fan Mingshi a heavy reward, everyone understood that the master's victory was the right way, so they abandoned the darkness and turned to the light.

Thirty years later, Kou Daogu still refused to marry a wife, refused to find a living, and refused to change his opinion, on an early summer morning, taking advantage of the coolness, carrying a roll of luggage, and drifting away with his personal servant, without saying goodbye to anyone.

A year later, the news came that Kou Daogu found a small mountain in Jizhou to live in seclusion, regardless of the Tao, did not speak, ploughed every day, and became a farmer.

Fan Shu never held a grudge against this disciple, and after hearing about his whereabouts, he sold the Kou family's assets and sent someone to send the silver money over.

Kou Daogu accepted it, but the master did not write a letter, and he did not reply to the letter.

Five or six years ago, Fan Guan moved to Siguo Valley outside Yecheng, and people who were familiar with the entanglement between master and apprentice quietly discussed, thinking that this was the master's initiative to show goodwill, hoping that the disciple would come to visit.

Although it was only two hundred miles away, Kou Daogu never came to the door in person as if he had never heard of it, nor did he send greetings until the news of Master's death came.

An Chongqian and others were later apprentices, only heard of the arguments of the year, and did not even read the relevant books, only knew its general outline, and knew that Fanmen had such a senior brother who was eloquent and unhindered, and the person was in Jizhou, which was the opponent of King Wu, so he wrote a letter to invite, but did not come, and sent a representative to explain in person.

The person who went was Yan Wei, and after coming back, he shook his head again and again, "Fortunately, I didn't invite you, we were all wrong, Kou Daogu is not a disciple of our Fan Sect at all, his mouth is full of heresies, and he has heard too much, which makes people's minds shake." Fortunately, he refused to come. ”

A few days later, Kou Daogu came uninvited and appeared in Yecheng.

At this time, more than 80 disciples of the Fan Sect had gathered, arguing every day, discussing how to regain the orthodoxy of Si Guo Gu and Fan Sect, because they heard that another eloquent senior brother Yin Fu was on his way, so he waited patiently.

Yin Fu's experience is flawless, even to become an official, he has been approved by the master in advance, Fan Shu once said: "There are people who preach, naturally there must be people who do the way, Yin Sheng should not be biased or biased." ”

When the eastern capital fell, Yin Fu followed the emperor to Jiangdong Stone Town, and after confirming the emperor's safety, he abandoned the official and returned to his hometown in Huaizhou.

Kou Daogu did not meet with his fellow disciples, and directly released the news that three days later, he would go to Siguo Valley in person and compete with King Wu for the orthodox position of Fanmen.

Kou Dao did not go out of the mountain for a long time, but the supporters of the year did not disappear completely, and when they saw him coming, they were all overjoyed and volunteered to run for him, and soon spread the news all over Yecheng and beyond.

The disciples of Fanmen were shocked, and an old man said: "Master once said, 'The dove occupies the magpie's nest', and we are 'luring the wolf into the room', no matter who wins these two people, it is a great misfortune for our Fanmen, I hope Senior Brother Yin can arrive soon and rebuke dissent with righteousness." ”

At the beginning, it was suggested that the disciples who invited Kou Daogu to come, but none of them dared to squeak at this time, Yan Wei couldn't get rid of it because he had personally invited Kou Daogu, so he had to apologize over and over again.

The battle of orthodoxy is very important to the disciples of Fanmen, but in the eyes of outsiders, it is just a lively one, especially when it is rumored that the Jizhou army is going to war again, and the soldiers are being recruited extensively, and the controversy that will occur in the valley is becoming less and less important.

The day before Kou Dao's lonely family went to Siguo Valley, two events occurred that reinvigorated the interest of many people.

The first thing happened within the disciples of Fanmen, Yan Wei, who had been apologizing frequently, unexpectedly changed his attitude, and went to Kou Daogu, and said to his fellow disciples before leaving: "Mr. Fan's words are slightly flawed, and Mr. Kou's arguments are perfect. ”

This public "betrayal" angered the disciples of Fanmen, and also made the people who watched the excitement find it interesting.

The second thing caused a greater impact, Zhang Shiyu, the prince of Jibei, announced that he was going to think about the argument between the two sides.

There have long been rumors in Yecheng that the prince of Jibei is likely to be made emperor, and his attention immediately attracted the attention of the whole city, and people who did not know anything about this controversy before also planned to take a look.