The students have arrived almost one after another, some are honestly reading, and some are talking to each other, playing and playing.

At this time, I heard a bell ring, and an old man with a ruddy complexion, a radiant look, a long gray-white beard under his chin, looking medium and slightly fat, and about sixty years old, came in, and this old man was Kong Yingda. He wears a hood on his head, his aura is extraordinary, and there is a horizontal shirt near the knee of a neat green shirt, which is probably the "shirt" worn by Confucian scholars at this time.

The students immediately stood up and greeted the visitors, Kong Yingda stroked his beard, glanced at the audience, and then nodded, motioning for the students to sit down, with extremely elegant manners.

Chu Ze, who was sitting in the corner and had nothing to do, looked around, wanting to see who his classmates were, there were about fifty students in the class, of different ages, the youngest was about thirteen years old, Chu Ze even saw two people on the other side of the classroom who were obviously over forty years old.

Kong Yingda shook his head when he spoke on the stage, and the students shook their heads in low tones, of course, Cheng Chuliang and others shook their heads probably because they were sleepy and dozing off.

There is always a group of young and arrogant guys in this world, although they are in the middle of things, they always like to make a look of jumping out of the world, and then talk about things as if there is nothing difficult in the world.

Most of the scholars trained by Guozijian are such guys.

China's thousand-year-old imperial examination culture, evolved to later generations, has become more and more perfect, primary school, junior high school, high school and university, cultivating free people with their own independent opinions, and in ancient times, Guozijian only cultivated Mr. Dadao who can memorize the four books and five classics, which makes Chu Ze can see very thoroughly how backward the current imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty is.

The students who were taught by Guozi did not have a good character, and they all learned from the ancient sages, and they attached great importance to their personal moral cultivation. After several years of studying in the country, they will eventually go to work, mostly as officials from the county government, and some of them may go on to work in higher state work organs.

However, the things they have learned in the past few years are all the works of the sages, and they have nothing to do with the positions they work for, so often these people will judge the decisions of the imperial court in the academy, but once they become officials, they will make a mess of the management under their rule, and in the end they can only go with the flow.

If there are thieves under their rule, they do not call the people to flee for their lives, but wear official uniforms and wait for the thieves to come in the county mansion. That's their outlook on life. It cannot be said that they are wrong. But Datang spent so much effort to cultivate a scholar. It's often too chilling to fall under the enemy's butcher's knife so easily.

If there is a flood or drought under their rule, they do not know how to organize the people to remedy it in time, but keep writing to the central government and applying for various tax reduction and exemption policies. This cannot be said that they are wrong, but if they do not follow the good path, they will go in the opposite direction, and the government agencies will be bogged down in all kinds of excess.

They can't lift it in their hands. can't carry it on his shoulders, but he has a strong and arrogant backbone, often compares himself to a plum blossom in the lonely cold, criticizes the policies of the DPRK and China, and thinks how to do it, these are Chu Ze's real feelings when he stayed in Guozijian and took classes.

Looking around for a while, listening to the lecture was really boring, Chu Ze planned to squint for a while, when he came in to find a place to sit just now, Chu Ze had already observed that this place was a good place to sleep, and after a while, Chu Ze also began to shake his head.

"Chu Ze.. Chu Ze.."

When Chu Ze was sleeping, Cheng Chuliang whispered to Chu Ze next to him.

"Don't make a fuss, go to sleep." Chu Ze smashed his mouth, twisted his body, said and shook his head.

"What the old man said just now, do you understand?"

Kong Yingda's voice was very loud, which directly shocked Chu Ze's sleepiness, and when he looked up, Kong Yingda was standing next to him with a ring ruler, looking at him with a calm face.

Poor Chu Ze didn't hear any homework just now, and at this time, he had an idea and said: "The student is a little confused, and I hope that the master will solve his doubts." Kong Yingda was stunned, this kid really kicked his nose in the face, and he was going to teach him a lesson and let him understand the rules. So he continued to say with a black face: "What's the confusion? Come on! ”

Chu Ze said: "What the master said just now seems to be inappropriate, but the kid has only listened to it once, and he hasn't heard some of the inappropriateness, so I hope the master will explain it again." Kong Yingda was not angry but happy when he heard this, this kid reacted very quickly, obviously he didn't listen to the class, but he found an excuse to let him talk again, and he didn't say anything, he cleared his throat and said: "Just now the old man was talking about 'knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, is knowing', what does this mean?" ”

Chu Ze was overjoyed in his heart, but he knew this, and said with a smile: "This is what Sage Confucius taught Ziyou, which means that knowing is knowing, and not knowing is not knowing, which is called real 'wisdom'." ”

The old master nodded, and then asked, "Then what does it mean that 'a gentleman but not a benevolent man has a husband, and a villain who is benevolent is also'?" ”

Chu Ze said without thinking: "What this means is that gentlemen are also divided into 'gentlemen of deeds' and 'gentlemen of thought', some people do the things of gentlemen, but they are not gentlemen, and some people are psychologically noble, but because of some objective reasons, they do things that are not done by gentlemen." The saying "there is no villain and the benevolent" is debatable, but in fact, villains sometimes have righteous deeds. ”

The old master was already full of surprise before he heard it, so he didn't have any words about 'gentlemen of deeds' and 'gentlemen of thoughts', he felt strange, but there was some truth in his thoughts, and he pondered for a moment and asked: "Then do you not understand the opinion that 'the people can make it and not make it known'?" The words were already much gentler, and Cheng Chuliang opened his mouth wide, obviously he had never seen the old master so gentle to his students. The rest of the students also looked at each other.

Chu Ze said loudly: "This is what the students think is that the descendants misunderstand the words of the sage!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall was in an uproar, Kong Yingda glared and shouted a few times before he quieted down. He was not angry, and turned his head to Chu Ze: "Let's talk about it." ”

Chu Ze said: "In fact, the original intention of the sage is 'the people can make it, so it can be done.'" You can't make it, you know it. It means that the people know the way of the sages, and they are the ones who serve the country and the family; If the people do not know something, then it is right to teach them the way of the saints. ”

Kong Yingda was dumbfounded, wanting to say something wrong, but after thinking about it, it made sense; If you want to say that it is right, then I have studied Confucianism all my life, have I been taking the wrong path?

In fact, Kong Yingda has drilled the tip of the horns, the ancients did not have punctuation, this kind of argument has always been the focus, but Chu Ze has seen more in later generations, and there is no such new remarks at this time, Kong Yingda can't turn the corner for a while.