After receiving all the news from Tangzi, Dai Yanzou frowned and said: "We are waiting for the paper, and all the scholars have no opinions, as far as Confucianism has opinions, what do they mean?" Finding faults? ”

"I'm afraid it's not just that. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info today's Confucian leader Meng Ke is in this palace, and he is very arrogant! Back then, his junior brother Yizhi wanted to visit Meng Ke for a debate, but he refused many times because he pretended to be sick. And Meng Ke privately had a very low evaluation of our Mojia and Yang Xue, and even called our knowledge 'the study of beasts'! ”

And Chen Xiang, a peasant disciple who followed Dai Yan, also said: "I came into contact with Xu Zi's doctrine and was attracted by Xu Zi's doctrine, so I abandoned Confucian learning and followed Xu Zi. Later, I met Meng Ke's disciple Teng Geng, who was the younger brother of Teng Wengong and had a noble position in Teng. We needed to gain a foothold in Teng at that time, and it was not good to offend him. Later, Teng introduced me to Meng Ke, and when he asked me why I had betrayed Confucianism, I talked about the doctrine of the peasant family. Meng Ke is the leader of Confucianism, and his learning is amazing, but I am not good at learning art, and I am refuted by it! This is really a shame for us and other farmers! Fortunately, our brothers and sisters still support us, but we will never be at odds with Confucianism from now on! ”

Meng Ke, of course, Dai Yan is very familiar with it, that is, the "Yasheng" Mencius who will appear in primary school textbooks in later generations. In the face of such a character, Dai Yan always has a kind of respect.

However, respect is tribute, and benefit is benefit. Now that the Mo family and the peasant family have been loyal to him, and the new school of science he founded is just beginning, and it is also necessary to establish a foothold in this palace. Dai Yan can't say it, he is going to have a good fight with this "Yasheng"!

So he said to Tangzi and Chen Xiang: "You come with me, let's go and visit Mr. Meng Ke." I would like to see what the world-famous Confucian leader really looks like! ”

And at the residence of Meng Ke in the Jixia Academy, Mencius unceremoniously reprimanded Teng Geng: "Teng Geng, why do you treat the envoy of Song Gongzi Yan like this? The most important thing in my Confucianism is etiquette. There are clouds of etiquette: too noble and virtuous, and then repay the service, the courtesy is still exchanged, and it is not polite to come and go; It is also rude to come and not to communicate. Now that Song Gongzi Yan has good intentions towards us, but you reprimand him in front of his disciples, this is rude! ”

Teng Geng defended: "Teacher, it's not that I'm going to reprimand them, it's really that there is something wrong with their approach!" Dare to change the way the text is written!

Cangjie followed the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor to the south of Luonan, climbed the mountain of Yangxu, faced the water of Xuanhu Luoxi, met the spirit turtle negative book, Danjia Qingwen, then the change of the poor world, looked up at the trend of the universe of Kuixing, looked down on the traces of turtle pattern birds and insects, and created twenty-eight characters with his palm, which was engraved in Xuanhu Shanyin. Since then, the stone has broken the earth, the words lead mankind, the knotted rope is terminated, the sky rains in the valley, and the ghost cries and hides!

The way the writing is written is a rule set by the ancient holy kings and sages. Teacher, do you know who the people who donated books to us were? That's a peasant disciple under Xu Xing's sect! Even their untouchables, who are like ants, dare to come to this sacred school! Anyway, when I saw them, I got angry and couldn't help but reprimand them. The disciple also asks the master for forgiveness! ”

Meng Ke looked at Teng Geng and said to him expressionlessly: "You reprimanded Song Gongziyan's disciples, I'm afraid the latter reason is the main reason, right?" The peasant family used to farm and eat in Teng, but later left Teng and went to Song to join Song Gongziyan. Your brother Teng Jun should also be extremely dissatisfied with this matter, right? As the son of Teng Guo, I can understand that you have a grudge against the disciple of the peasant family. But you really shouldn't be so rash and reprimand them to their faces! Go back to Tengguo, I can't teach you now! ”

When Teng Geng heard this, his heart was shocked. He defended to Meng Ke: "Teacher, the disciple knows that he is wrong, please let me stay by my side!" He knew that if he was driven back to Teng by Mencius like this now, then the reputation of the "virtuous son" he had accumulated by following Mencius all these years would be completely ruined!

Teng Gengren was actually a person who was good at drilling, and he studied with Mencius, but he didn't really value Mencius's learning. It was because his brother Teng Wengong was friendly with Mencius, and he was also extremely polite to Mencius himself, and he wanted to leave a good impression on his brother before he followed Mencius on his study tour. In this way, he will have the opportunity to become the prime minister of Teng State in the future and be in charge of Teng Guo's national affairs!

Meng Ke sighed and said to Teng Geng: "I don't want to expel you from the division and let you go back to Teng Kingdom, but to let you reflect on your behavior." Reflecting on your actions will also be beneficial to your future. Go ahead! ”

Hearing the resolute meaning in Mencius's words, Teng Geng did not dare to disobey, so he had to resign to Mencius and return to Teng.

Soon after Teng Geng left, Meng Ke's disciple Wan Zhang reported to him: "Teacher, Song Gongziyan came to visit in person. ”

After getting such news, Meng Ke smiled wryly. What his disciples did, in the end, he had to solve it, and the Confucian leaders were not so easy to do!

But he was never afraid of such a thing! Kong said to be benevolent, Meng said to take righteousness! In Mencius's teachings, the most important idea is "righteousness". Mencius once said: Where righteousness is, although there are tens of millions of people, I will go!

In his doctrine, unlike the primitive Confucianism, it is only full of old-fashioned and retro decadence, but there is an indomitable sense of innovation! His doctrine is full of courage to defy difficulties!

Meng Ke ordered his disciple Wan Zhang to open the main door, and he personally went out to greet the world's well-known virtuous son-Song Gongziyan!

Dai Yan then met this famous Yasheng in later generations, he was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a square and serious face, and an awe-inspiring and inviolable righteousness all over his body! He just stood there so simply, and he could give Dai Yan an illusion: What I say is the truth!

Seeing Dai Yan coming, Meng Ke gave him a standard etiquette and said, "Zou Meng Ke has seen Song Gongziyan. ”

Dai Yan also gave him a standard courtesy. Over the past few years, he has become more and more proficient in the aristocratic etiquette of this era, so he has not shown any timidity in front of this world-famous person.

Although the behavior of both parties is very polite, as soon as both sides come into contact with each other's eyes, they are keenly aware of the hostility in each other's eyes!

Meng Ke introduced Dai Yan into the lobby and waited for the two sides to sit down. Meng Ke said to Dai Yan: "Gongzi invented such an object as paper, which is conducive to our scholars to better record their doctrines and spread their knowledge. Ke is grateful for the gift of paper from the child! ”

Dai Yan replied: "I don't have the great talent of Mencius who can think about the whereabouts of people in the world, and I can only use my own weak wisdom on these small things." Then he asked Meng Ke: "The boy dares to ask Mencius, can you have a high opinion about writing materials like paper?" ”

"Paper is a lightweight, easy-to-carry writing material, and it's really a great writing material." Mencius replied.

Dai Yan said: "Mencius's words are also deeply true! However, there are different opinions on paper!

Paper is a completely different writing material from bamboo slips, which are pieces and are unusually narrow. Writing on it is all short short sentences. The bamboo book relies on the rope to connect the bamboo slips one by one, and the bamboo slips are rolled into a barrel shape, and finally the bamboo book is formed! When reading books, you need to gradually spread out the bamboo slips and read them word by word.

Paper is piece by piece, an article can be written on a piece of paper, and a paper book is a whole book formed by sewing the written articles with needles and threads. When you read a book, you need to open the book page by page. ”

Mencius asked Dai Yan, "What does Gongzi mean by this?" ”

"No, it's just that the kid thinks that since there is a new writing material, a new way of writing should be adopted! From top to bottom, right-to-left writing is extremely inconvenient, and it is easier to write later. Dai Yan replied.

Sure enough, Meng Ke said in his heart. He immediately objected: "Childe's words are false! The former Cangjie wrote a book and the sky rained, and the ghost cried at night! From ancient times to the present, the writing materials of the text have undergone several evolutions, from oracle bones to bronze, and then from bronze to bamboo slips, wood chips, and then silk silk. After so many changes, no one ever thought to change the way the text was written. And Childe has now invented paper, which has made a great contribution to the prosperity of the Lower Heavens and the spread of civilization. However, the way of writing is rash and easier, and I think that Childe's trip is very inappropriate. ”

Although Meng Ke had a light tone, the unquestionable tone in his words matched his righteousness, and the words he said had a sense of truth. When his disciples heard what the teacher said, they all applauded loudly.

However, Dai Yan was not moved by it at all, and he said to Meng Ke: "Mencius, please listen to the boy carefully explain the reason.

The human eye is left and right, rather than up and down, in the trial room, looking horizontally left and right, quite labor-saving, if looking up and down, then a pitch and an up, quite laborious. Taking this as an example, it is easy to go straight when you see the rampant.

In the past, due to the limitations of writing materials, if the bamboo book was written horizontally, it would inevitably lead to the need to spread out the whole book when reading the book, and then find the appropriate content from it. This is not the case with paper books, which are a single sheet and can be written horizontally or vertically. And a book written horizontally will inevitably be more labor-saving than a book written vertically in the future!

What's more: when writing, if you write on a whole page, if you write with a pencil, there is no problem. However, if you want to write with a brush, you must wait for the ink from the previous writing to dry before you can continue writing. This can affect the efficiency of writing!

Therefore, I thought that with the new writing material paper, we should use a new way of writing: the horizontal row from the left! ”