Jimen is the west gate of Linzi, the houses outside the city gate are densely packed, the corridors and pavilions gather, this is the Jixia School Palace built by Tian Qihuan when he was the public. Outside the www.biquge.info Xue Palace is a lake called "Shen Chi", from which a small stream of water is drawn out, which flows north of the city as a moat for Linzi.

This water is called the water, there is a wooden bridge on the water, and it is the only way to enter the grass from the outside. There is a small pavilion with a tiled roof next to the water bridge, called the Rest Toe Pavilion, hidden in the dense forest and bamboo cultivation at the water's edge, it looks clean and pleasant, it can be used for pedestrians to rest, and it can also let the corporal gather here to chat.

One evening in mid-April, a middle-aged man wearing a silk and jade crown sat in the toe pavilion early, holding a bamboo slip in one hand, but he was a little absent-minded, but his eyes glanced at the bridge from time to time, as if he was waiting for someone.

After a while, a carriage from afar crossed the Tieshui Bridge and stopped at the edge of the pavilion, and a young man in cloth clothes of eighteen or nineteen rushed down, bowed down, and respectfully helped the man on the carriage to land.

But the people in the car waved their hands, indicating that they didn't need to be taken care of so much, jumped out of the car, and walked skillfully towards the kiosk.

"Sacrificial wine! Long time no see! ”

The middle-aged man in the pavilion also put down the bamboo slips, stood up, and greeted him with a smile. But I saw that the man was a fifty-year-old man with a kind face, he walked with the chic style of Huang Laodao, and when he returned the courtesy to the middle-aged man, he had a bit of the so-called Confucian gentleman's righteousness, but when he spoke, he was a little bit of the rigor of a famous person.

"Zou Zi is waiting here early in the morning for Xun Zheng, it's really tiring."

The middle-aged man known as "Zou Zi" was a little funny, and said with a smile: "Don't call me Zou Zi anymore, people who don't know always confuse me with my uncle, I, Zou Zheng (shì), am just a pick-up uncle's tooth wisdom, and add his five elements of Kyushu to his own article, how dare you take the name of Zou Zi?" Or call me a word. ”

The two of them spoke, and the eyes of the young man who followed Xun Jing lit up, it turned out that this person was Zou Zheng, who had been famous in the Jixia School Palace for a long time, and mixed the Yin and Yang scholars Zou Yan and Huang Lao's doctrines, and became a faction of his own!

At the same time, Zou Zheng is also the deputy sacrificial wine of the Jixia School Palace, and as for the first sacrifice wine of the doctors and doctors of the School Palace, it is the Xun situation that brought him to the Qi Kingdom......

In terms of fame and knowledge, Xun is far superior to Zou Zheng, but the young people carefully found that this Zou Zheng let people know that he was rich and extraordinary just by looking at the silk clothes and high crown. On the other hand, Xun Zheng, facing Dunhou, dressed in simple cloth clothes, with a white hair bun wrapped around his head, I don't know, I still think he is an ordinary country man.

At his invitation, Xun sat opposite him on the stone table in the pavilion, while the young man knelt on the side of the seat in detention, pricked up his ears, and listened to the conversation between the two scholars without missing a word.

Xun turned his head, listened to the bursts of insects at the water's edge of the Shenchi system nearby, looked at the grassy roof of the school palace building in the distance, and said with a smile: "When I left in early March, the spring breeze was in full bloom, and there were bamboo kites everywhere near the school palace, but now it is summer, and it is getting hotter and hotter. ”

Zou Zheng said: "No matter how hot the Qi land is, can it still be hotter than Chu Di?" The sacrificial wine entered Chu this time, and it was more than a month away, and I don't know what happened? ”

Xun said: "It's a long story, twenty years ago, King Min of Qi worked endlessly, the people were unbearable, and the sons of Ji went to advise and King Min did not obey, and all died, Zisheng followed Zou Zi (Zou Yan) in Yan State, cautiously arrived, picked up the son into Zhao, Tian Piao went to Xue Gong, and I went to Chu State, and I stayed at a friend's place, and stayed for four years. It wasn't until Chu was captured by the Qin State that most of it was overturned, and chaos arose, that he returned to the Qi State, and at that time, Jixia was not as good as before......"

Zou Zheng naturally knew that it was after Xun returned that he and Lu Zhonglian went to Qi Wang Tian Fazhang to persuade Anping Jun Tiandan to reopen the ruined Jixia School Palace, and now it has barely recovered some of its past vitality. Because Xunzi is the oldest and the most knowledgeable, he was elected as the sacrificial wine of Jixia School Palace three times in a row, and he has been doing it for more than ten years.

"At the beginning of the year, I heard that my friend died in Shangcai, Chu State, I went to the funeral, presided over the funeral for him, after the funeral, he happened to have a nephew who was a local official and was smart, and he was dedicated to studying, only hated the lack of poetry and books in the local area, so I took him as an apprentice and brought him down."

Hearing the teacher talk about himself, the young man sitting stiffly beside Xun Qian hurriedly bowed to Zou Zheng and said, "The boy is on Cai Ren Li Si, I have seen Mr." ”

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Zou Zheng took a closer look at Li Si, but saw that although he was dressed roughly, there was a wit in his eyes, and he was a little enthusiastic, but although the elegant words in his mouth were still mixed with some Chu Shangcai dialects......

He thought secretly: "Xun Guan has always refused to accept formal disciples, and even King Qi wanted the prince to worship him as a teacher, but he was politely refused, but now he has a good eye for this Li Siqing, what is so extraordinary about this son?" ”

Zou Zheng bowed his head and said: "Li Si, it is your luck to be able to worship wine as a teacher." If the knowledge of Mr. Jixia is this small water, then Xunzi's knowledge is the great river of the waves! ”

At this time, there were Zou Zheng's attendants carrying food boxes and copper wine jugs to cloth food, Zou Zheng said to Xun Zheng: "Sacrificial wine, back to the school palace, you and I will be disturbed by all kinds of mundane things, why don't you use the feast here to chat for a while, what?" ”

Xun Kuang was not surprised by Zou Zheng's style, and said with a smile: "I am not in Linzi these days, the affairs of the school palace are taken care of by Lao Zisheng, I don't know what is new?" ”

As a school founded by Tian Qi Huan and reached its peak during the reign of King Wei and King Xuan, Jixia School Palace absorbed scholars from various schools in the world, as an advisor to the Qi royal family, and "discussed without cure" here. There are thousands of people from hundreds of schools of thought such as Taoism, Confucianism, Law, Fa, Ming, Bing, Agriculture, Yin and Yang, and Light and Heavy, and they can freely express their academic opinions regardless of academic affiliation, ideological views, political tendencies, as well as country, age, and seniority.

Therefore, the most common scene in the school palace is that scholars of different schools are arguing in the hall or on the road.

"Without him, it's nothing more than someone who came to challenge Lu Zhonglian and was refuted by him in a few words, or the novelist outside Jimen clamoring to enter the palace and establish a sect...... If the most unusual thing is that Gongsun Long has returned. ”

"Gongsun Long?"

Xun Guo frowned, although he and Gongsun Long are both from Zhao and have known each other for twenty or thirty years, but the two are really not friendly, one is that their personalities are incompatible, Gongsun Long's sophistry is contrary to Xunzi's consistent rigorous academic attitude.

In response to the most popular debate on the form and name, Xunzi also wrote a "Correct Name Chapter" and put forward his own views. He believes that the name of the criminal is from business, the name of the knight is from Zhou, and the name of the text is from "Li", and the correct name is for the purpose of arguing the truth, and the reason for arguing the truth is to do the road and lead to great ambitions, and it has a clear political purpose, and the relationship between form and name should be formulated by the official in a unified manner, rather than relying on some famous debaters to talk nonsense and confuse the logic.

So he mercilessly criticized Gongsun Long's approach back then, which was "confused by the use of names to confuse names"! It is believed that for the sake of their own selfish interests, famous people are not only unable to explain the problem of name and reality, but also make ordinary people more and more confused and confused.

At that time, Gongsun Long and Xunzi were difficult to reach a consensus after a rebuttal, so they broke up unhappily, Xunzi stayed under Qi Guoji, and Gongsun Long was active in Yan and Zhao, which was quite distinct.

Now that Gongsun Long has returned to Jixia, in Xunzi's view, he is afraid that he will have to manipulate his sophistry propositions of "white horses and non-horses", "chicken three-legged" and "human three-eared", and it is difficult to fight for fame and strengthen the famous family by looking for people everywhere to argue.

"No, this time it's a little different."

Zou Zheng said: "Gongsun Long has been in Zizi for a month, and he lives in a small courtyard next to Shenchi with three or two disciples, and he has not been questioned all day long, and he has not yet been questioned by others, even if someone comes to the door, he refuses to argue, saying that he is studying and seeking, and has no leisure to argue with others......

Xun was stunned: "This is strange, Gongsun Long actually refused to argue?" ”

Zou Zheng said with a smile: "We are also very surprised, in the past, most of the famous people came to make trouble, and finally caused public anger and expelled them under the attack of the masses. Now that Gongsun Long is so peaceful, it is not difficult for us to let him stay. However, according to people, he often enters Linzi to visit a son, and Gongsun Long's big abnormality may have something to do with him. ”

Xun said: "Could it be Wei Gongzi Mou? ”

Wei Mu is the concubine of King Wei Xiang, and unlike Wei Qi, who is keen on court politics, Wei Mu focuses on learning and is considered to be the most learned among the sons and grandsons of the world, and he is also the only person who can talk well with Gongsun Long.

Zou Zheng shook his head: "It's not Wei Gongzimu, he is still in Daliang now, and there is someone else I am talking about." Have you heard that last month Qin attacked Zhao, Zhao asked for help from Qi, and the king of Qi asked Zhao to take Chang'an Jun into Qi as a hostage, and Fang was willing to send troops to help? ”

Xun Zi bowed his head: "Although I am on the road, I have also heard that Chang'anjun has entered Qi as a hostage, the Qi army is helping Zhao, and the Qin State wants to retreat if he wants to come......" His heart moved: "Could it be that Gongsun Long's son who often goes to visit is Chang'anjun?" ”

"Yes!"

Xunzi glanced at Li Si, who was listening to them carefully, and said strangely: "But Chang'an Jun is only fifteen or sixteen years old, just a child, much younger than my apprentice......"

Zou Zheng laughed: "Confucius is still stumped by the two children's debate, let alone Gongsun Long? ”

"I heard a letter from a friend in Zhao State saying that this Chang'an Jun is not an ordinary anointed son, he claims that the life and death of the country are profitable, and he avoids it because of misfortune and fortune, and resolutely enters Qi as a hostage. And just before going to Qi, Chang'anjun was still arguing with Gongsun Long in the mansion of Junjun in Handan Plains, and the two fought to a draw."

He added: "Prior to this, Confucius's sixth grandson, Kong Chuan, had just been deposed by Gongsun Long in a few words, and Gongsun Long came to his throne, which is likely to be related to Chang'an Jun!" ”

"I can actually say a draw with Gongsun Long!" Xun Guo asked himself back then, and he couldn't take advantage of Gongsun Long in terms of tongue, and his curiosity was suddenly aroused, and he said regretfully: "It's a pity that I can't know the details of the two people's arguments." ”

Zou Zheng said: "There are some things that the world knows very little, but some things are known to everyone!" When the sacrificial wine is not in Linzi, Chang'anjun is already famous! ”

He raised the wine jug in front of him, and Xiao was interested: "I'll talk about the wine fight between him and General Kuang Liang a few days ago, this matter has made Chang Anjun and his soju a household name in Linzi!" ”