At the beginning of June, the lotus leaves in the pan pond are green, the branches of the peach forest bear small green peach fruits, the larvae of fireflies crawl everywhere in the rotting grass pile, the crickets hide in the wall and chirp, and above the blue sky of Linzi, there are young eagles who begin to learn to fly......

On the debate altar of the Jixia School Palace, feeling the gazes of hundreds of people below, Mingyue was full of emotion. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Finally, he was here.

When she first came to Qi and entered the Jixia School Palace, Mingyue's purpose was very pure, that is, in the name of Gongsun Long, she put forward some ideas, invented some things, and exerted her influence on the School Palace, and her purpose was just to make a name for itself.

But as he went deeper into Jixia and understood this era, he found that he had involuntarily been involved in a big debate of "the debate between heaven and man", becoming the center of the whirlpool, and it was difficult to get out.

Mingyue also had a heart to retreat, because it was really no good to have a bad relationship with the famous Zou Yan, not to mention that it was a terrible experience to be caught by Ru Mo.

But at this moment, feeling the mysterious feeling of stepping on the debate stage, Mingyue understood why scholars such as Tian Piao, Zou Yan, Gongsun Long, etc., like to debate and debate so much, and many people like to use shocking words to attract attention......

Because of the feeling of being in the spotlight, it is really good, every sentence spoken here can be spread all over the world through the mouths of thousands of people, and a school that is not valued may become a prominent school in the world overnight.

"Actually, it's not a bad thing to be in the center of the storm......" he thought to himself.

As a later generation, Mingyue knows very well that at this moment, what he is stepping on is not only the center of the school palace, but also the axis of Chinese civilization!

In his book "The Origin and Goal of History", the German Karl Jaspers called the breakthrough phenomenon of human culture that appeared in China, Greece and India at the same time around 500 BC as the "Axial Age".

"In China, Confucius and Laozi were very active, and all the philosophical schools in China, including Mozi, Zhuangzi, Liezi, and Zhuzi, appeared, and hundreds of schools of thought contended and debated boldly. Like China, the Upanishads and the Buddha appeared in India, exploring the possibilities of a philosophy that reached the full range of skepticism, materialism, sophism, and nihilism. Among them were Homer, the philosophers Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Plato, many tragic writers, as well as Thucydides and Archimedes. During these centuries, everything these names encompassed developed almost simultaneously in the three unknown regions of China, India, and Greece. ”

Greece, India, and China, although they were all later civilizations than earlier Egypt and the Two Rivers, experienced a self-awakening in different ways, and a rational understanding of the nature of the universe that constitutes the human condition.

This is a great period of human enlightenment, like an ignorant baby who grows into an ignorant child who first knows the world. At this time, because of the discovery of their own rational ability, people can't wait to start looking at everything around them with new eyes, just like newborn children, and they show great curiosity and great creativity in all fields.

Three civilizations and the regions affected by them began to take steps to surpass their predecessors. Ideas began to blow out, science and technology changed with each passing day, everything happened in just a few hundred years, but it laid the pattern of the world for the next 2,000 years.

Jixia School Palace, just like in this process, the ideological engine of Chinese civilization, every rotation can drive the pace of civilization forward. And at this moment, Mingyue is standing on this axis, and the sons and hundreds of schools are listening to what he is going to say next.

There's no more convenient way to exert influence on history.

So Mingyue bowed his hand, solemnly saluted the thousands of people in the audience, and then took over a loudspeaker made of iron hoops, and began his opening remarks today: "I am very fortunate to be born in the Central Plains ......"

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"I am very fortunate to be born in the Central Plains, in the school palace, I will not be ordered to be gaged, or even burned to death by opponents because what I said does not conform to the legends of the ancients."

On the debate stage, Chang Anjun began his story with such an inexplicable opening sentence.

The iron horn made his voice quiet, and it spread all over half of the grass, and everyone looked at each other, but people who were familiar with Chang'an Jun, such as Gongsun Long, Tian Jia and others, were already not surprised that he took out some gadgets from time to time. It's just that they can't help but worry about Chang'anjun, after all, he is only sixteen years old, and he looks so young, and what he says is naturally difficult to convince the public.

"What does Chang'anjun mean by this?" Those who are not familiar with Chang'anjun are talking to each other, some people think that this is something sarcastic, and some people look at Teng Geng, who is listening, Teng Geng's face is expressionless, but he secretly hates Er Zou Da if he is wise, and he actually allows this son to come to the school palace to make nonsense.

Zou Zheng smiled and said nothing, feeling that Chang Anjun must have heard something, in fact, with his identity, with Xunzi's protection, it was extremely difficult for Teng to shut him up through despicable means. His shocking words, whether it is a smile or a smile or a smile to suppress it, will not play a role, rather than this, it is better to publicly refute it according to the tradition of the school palace.

Li Si was touched, he felt that it was a good choice to shut up dissidents like Qin Shangjun burned poetry books, but in front of Xunzi, he didn't dare to say it, he knew that his thoughts would make his master angry, so he could only hide this idea in his heart.

Xunzi's "Theory of Heaven", presumably the second and third sons have already read it, mortals can't see the working process of yin and yang incarnating all things, but only see the result of its incarnation of all things, which is called wonderful. People know that yin and yang have generated all things, but no one knows its invisible generation process, which is called providence. ”

"At the beginning of the ancient times, people sucked dew essence, ate herbs and trees, ate birds and beasts in mountain dwellings, clothed their feathers, and ate fish, turtles, mussels and clams near the water, and were not cremated, and there were many fishy faces, which harmed the stomach."

"At that time, the ancients regarded fire as a miracle, but they only picked up the birds and beasts that were burned to death in the forest because of the thunder caused by the thunder, thinking that it was the will of God."

However, the Suiren clan has penetrated the mysteries, made a drill and flint out of the fire, taught people to cook, cast gold as a blade, and the people were very happy, and they were regarded as kings, and they were called the Suiren. Dare to ask nowadays, does anyone still regard the people who can drill into the fire as wonderful and providential? And not something that happens naturally? ”

Some of the people laughed, some were silent, taking this opportunity, Mingyue asked Lu Sheng on the side to take out a piece of ice that had just been made, hold it high, and put it in the lacquer box to show everyone in the front row, so that everyone was amazed, and also believed that Chang'anjun could really make ice in June.

"The sky is cold, the water is frozen into ice, and the ancients also regarded it as a wonderful providence, but now, I have understood the truth, it is really incomparably simple."

Mingyue began to explain the principle of making ice, but concealed the effect of saltpeter, just saying that if she found a way to absorb the heat, the water would naturally turn into ice.

After writing down the three states of matter on the blackboard again, he recounted the speculation about the rainfall process that he had said in the Anping Jun's mansion that day, but this time it was more elaborate and detailed.

From drilling the flint to make the fire to the rainfall process, step by step, at this moment, it sounded that it was not difficult for Corporal Ji, who was more receptive to new things, to understand that they had even felt that they had been deceived, because those Confucian scholars did not say so when they added fuel and vinegar to Chang'anjun's remarks.

However, some people bowed their heads, and some people questioned, and after Mingyue finished telling the deduction of the natural process of rainfall, someone suddenly stood up the steps and asked loudly:

Chang'an Jun kept saying that the Suiren clan knew the natural principle of drilling the flint to produce fire, so they could make fire out of thin air. And now that Chang'an Jun knows the reason for the mutual change of gas, liquid, and solid, he can master this process and turn water into ice. Then I take the liberty of asking, Chang'anjun, can you conjure up a rain? ”

As soon as these words came out, thousands of people in the school palace were in an uproar.

Sacrificial wine Xunzi shook his head and sighed.

Zou Zheng straightened his clothes, feeling that this debate was over.

Gongsun Long knew that this question was tricky, and that time in the Pingyuan Monarch's Mansion, Chang'an Jun asked rhetorically, "Gongsun Long is not human?" "It's the same.

Tian Jia couldn't help clenching her fists, her hands were full of sweat, and she began to worry about Chang Anjun.

In the crowd, Teng stroked his beard and smiled smugly.

The man was his disciple, and the questions he asked were also prepared by him in advance.

He has already seen Chang Anjun's weakness, that is, no matter how much he says the truth, there is one thing that he will never be able to do, that is, he can't really rain on the scene!

If that were the case, he would not be a man, but a god......

As long as it can't be done, it's empty talk, seeing is believing and hearing is false, as long as Teng Geng and others insist on not admitting it, Chang Anjun will not be able to convince everyone, and the impact of his story today will be minimized.

However, Chang Anjun did not open his mouth and was at a loss as Teng more expected, but smiled after being silent for a while, and smiled so calmly, as if he had expected this problem.

Even many years later, thousands of sons will never forget what happened today.

In the face of the challenge, the sixteen-year-old weak-crowned boy bowed his head and said, "I can!" ”