"There's still not much change in Jixia."

After more than half a year, Mingyue walked in the Jixia School Palace again, from the Tianwen Wall to the peach forest, and then to the debate forum, there are still countless scholars mixed in it, they either gather together in threes and threes to argue and discuss, or at the same time flip the same roll of bamboo slips, that serious attitude, and Mingyue left almost exactly the same.

This is the school, separated from the chaotic world outside, where time seems to stand still. The change of princes and generals, the change of the banner of the city, almost did not affect the enthusiasm of the scholars here, almost everyone who came here, is with the purpose of learning, whether it is just for knowledge, or want to learn and excel, everyone is struggling to learn.

However, this is not an ivory tower completely cut off from the outside, and what the princes are concerned about is not an ethereal ancient book study, but everything that is closely related to the times.

Seeing that the world is in chaos, dogs eat people without knowing how to check them, there are starvation on the road and do not know what to do, the dead fill in the ravines, the living are scattered, and bad things emerge in endlessly, is human nature good or evil? This question was raised by Confucianism and divided into two schools, good and evil.

In the face of the future trend of the world, the Confucianists who support the royal faction and the Legalists who support the domineering faction are in contention, but there is one thing they have reached a consensus: the world is set in one! Disagreement is just the process of reaching an outcome.

In the final analysis, what the hundred schools of thought sought was how to end the troubled times and how to solve various social problems.

Not to mention the rumbling "Debate between Heaven and Man" caused by Mingyue's last proposal of the "Rainfall Naturalism" in the Jixia School Palace, its influence on the School Palace continues to this day.

"There is change."

Li Si, who was also an old acquaintance with Mingyue, and came out to greet him politely: "Those thought-provoking things when Chang'anjun was under the Jixia were not mentioned in vain. ”

The last time ended with Teng Geng being scolded to death by Chang Anjun in the court, the debate was suspended for a while. But it continued to be ignited later, and it became more and more intense, at that time, Mingyue had already returned to China, and was busy envoying to Yan and running fiefdoms, so he didn't pay attention to things in the academic circle anymore. Mingyue is also very curious, to what extent is this debate between heaven and man going on now?

After he asked, Li Si shook his head: "Don't hide it from the son, now the Jixia School Palace has been completely divided by this debate between heaven and man. “

It turned out that the faction led by Meng Ru still insisted that Heaven was the supreme master of human affairs, and that the Mandate of Heaven had supreme authority. In their opinion, the birth of the people. The success or failure of the cause, the power of the emperor, and the chaos in the world are all orders of heaven. They followed Mencius's mode of thinking of "dedication, intellect, and knowledge of heaven", and tried to build a system of "the unity of heaven and man" together with the Yin-Yang family.

The faction led by Xunzi and some Mohists absorbed Mingyue's views, and their understanding of the relationship between heaven and man was very different from that of Meng Ru.

Xunzi believes that the sky is the natural world, and its operation and change have regularity, and the law of this operation and change is not transferred by human will, that is: "Heaven is constant, not for Yao, not for death." "The sky is not the evil cold of man, and the winter is dropped; The land is not the evil of man, and it is far away, and it is wide. Xunzi also believes, "Water and fire have gas but no life, plants and trees are born but ignorant, and birds and beasts are knowledgeable but unrighteous." People are angry, knowledgeable, and righteous, so they are the most expensive in the world. Human beings are the most precious part of the world, so we should "make the destiny of heaven and use it" and actively transform nature!

The peasants in the eastern part of the Chu State also got involved in this debate, although they represented the small peasants, but they were not ignorant, because they had worked hard in a difficult environment for a long time, and they had developed a subconscious that "man will conquer the sky", and their views were more radical than Xunzi's, saying that the eradication of five disasters such as water, drought, and insects was the basis for man to dominate the natural world.

For most of the year, the pros and cons tried their best to subdue each other. It's just that the method used by Qilu Confucianism is to quote scriptures, and it is impossible to find a basis in reality, so he forcibly carries the remarks of the sages, and even makes a lot of shoddy fake book jokes.

And the part of the Mo family, which was deeply influenced by Chang'anjun's "Gewu Experiment", began to take the experimental route, and it is said that Li Si said that these people have reached a crazy level in order to prove every sentence in the "Book of Ink".

Aperture imaging, lever balancing, sound propagation and resonance, and even concave and convex mirror imaging...... In Mingyue's opinion, if the things recorded in the "Book of Ink" can be scrutinized and proven, the physical level of these Mo families is probably comparable to that of first-year students in the 21st century......

Of course, the behavior of this group of crazy experimenters doing experiments in the streets and alleys of Linzi was also smeared by Qilu Confucian as "immoral" and "pretending to be a ghost".

Although the Yin and Yang family sat on the side of Qilu Confucianism, Zou Yan was old, and this school was gradually headed by Zou Zheng. Zou Zheng had some different ideas from his uncle, he began to secretly absorb the "natural theory of rainfall" into the theory of yin and yang and the five elements, and began to transform the contradictions, admitting that the generation of wind and rain does have natural factors, but when the rain does not fall, it is still "providence".

In short, in the past six months, the main schools of the Jixia School Palace have been actively arguing, and at the same time pushing through the old and bringing forth the new, except for Qilu Confucianism, which is still revolving in its own circle of benevolence and morality, almost all have undergone some changes.

But the most infuriating thing is this, although the Confucianism is not reasonable in the empirical evidence, but these people are disciples and grandchildren all over Qilu, and they rely on the advantage of numbers to attack dissent, and they have tried and tested.

Several experiments of the Mo family were sabotaged and obstructed by them, and even Xunzi's several lectures were harassed by this group of people, and they criticized Xunzi in public for forgetting his roots, being an illegal king, and not a Confucian!

Of course, the Qi royal family also noticed this chaos in the Jixia School Palace, but the queen was more conservative in her thinking, politically she was biased towards Huang Lao, and academically she was biased towards the Qilu Confucian ethics, and regarded the actions of Xunxue and the Mo family as a flood beast, so she adopted a tacit attitude towards the exclusion of dissidents from the Confucianism......

After talking about the changes and unchanged in the past six months, Li Si said: "The master once sighed, saying that it is a pity that Chang'anjun can't focus on academics like that Wei Gongzi Mou, otherwise, he will definitely be able to become a generation of people and start a sect." ”

"Founding a sect?" Mingyue shook her head: "I was young and thin, and I didn't dare to think that in this life, in terms of learning, I would only stop at a superficial level." “

Li Si thought so: "However, I also think that if you learn and excel, you will be a scholar, and if you learn from a scholar, how can you quarrel with others here all your life?" Whether a thing is right or not, you still have to do it in fact to distinguish right from wrong! ”

From the words, Mingyue could feel Li Si's irritability about this place, this is a doer, the fantasy of the school palace life has made him tired of it, what he is eager for now is to be an official and show his strength, right?

"It seems that someone has chosen ...... my Qi Ling"

Mingyue had an idea in her heart, but she didn't immediately recruit Li Si, but said with a smile: "Having said that, I went to the fiefdom for a few months, and I felt that there were many difficulties in how to govern the city, and there were countless doubts. ”

"Chang'anjun doesn't know ...... yet"

Li Si wanted to speak and stopped, looked left and right, and said to Mingyue: "Since the beginning of this year, Master has been repeatedly criticized by the Confucians, and he is quite disheartened, and he is very disappointed with the atmosphere of suppressing dissent in the palace, and he has decided to resign from the position of sacrificial wine!" “

"Today is the Master's last lecture in the Academy!"