This dialogue between Eastern and Western scholars was quickly sorted out by Zhao Ji and made the headlines of the "Daqin Times". This conversation, which began at Fengming Academy, was like a powerful bomb, and the aftermath was still lingering until the beginning of the Hangu Meeting.

Aristotle's words were like opening a window in front of an Oriental scholar, and when the Oriental scholar poked his head out of this window, he realized that the outside world was so beautiful.

A country in which the citizens elect the head of state and can remove the head of state at any time is ridiculous in the eyes of Oriental scholars, and many people will mark a big '? 'Well, is this true when Aristotle says this?' The Greeks treated their head or king like this, and how could they not be beheaded?

What kind of country is Greece? Are the Greeks a bunch of madmen? Bai Zi actually said in the newspaper that this madman country has a brilliant civilization that is not inferior to that of China? Their laws are so detailed that they can regulate every merchant ship in the Aegean Sea?

The Chinese people, who admired etiquette and revered kings, obviously could not accept Aristotle's 'citizenship', because it seemed like a fool's dream anyway, and no one understood why the Daqin Times wanted to promote this scholar from Greece at this time. Perhaps the civic system in Aristotle's mouth is very good, and it has been verified by the Greeks for thousands of years, but after all, it is in Greece, and it will definitely be unsuitable when it comes to China. It is not wrong that Bai Zi is the person who is valued by Zhou Tianzi and Qin Jun, but even if he is, it seems that he should not hype up this kind of Legalist thought that is incompatible with China in the newspapers, right?

Is this going crazy? It's 10,000 times crazier than Legalist figures like Wei Ying, Shen Dao and Shen Buxian! At least madmen like Wei Ying and Shen Buxiao also know that to respect the monarch, everything must be premised on the interests of the monarch. Aristotle's remarks were simply perverse, and if he had not been a Greek, if he had not been a guest of the White Son, he would have been beheaded.

But soon people found out that Bai Dong was the only one who was crazy. The first to jump out in support of Aristotle was Yang Zhu, the famous Yang Dazui in the pre-Qin academic circles praised Aristotle's civic system and 'democratic' ideas as 'the first to open up the sages and the first to correct the will of the people'.

Bird Huaxi also immediately wrote an article in the "Daqin Times" to support Aristotle, and the Mohists advocated that they should love the world at the same time, and what is called love is universal love that is different from the love of relatives and the love of the upper and lower monarchs. In order to achieve this goal, the Mo family can not hesitate to participate in the war and engage in assassination! In the eyes of the birds, Aristotle's admiration of 'Greek democracy' is precisely out of the deepest love for the common people! Who will support the Mohist if it does not support? As for the mistakes of the Greeks in despising women and exploiting slaves, he saw them as mere minutions. The righteousness is done!

When Shen Dao also began to publish a column in the "Daqin Times", and began to re-examine the citizenship system proposed by Aristotle from the perspective of criticism and excavation, the pre-Qin hundred schools of thought were finally in an uproar. Because no one would have thought that Shen Dao, the representative of Legalism, would support some of Aristotle's views. Is it really as Aristotle said that 'an advanced legal system will sooner or later replace old ideas'? And in the face of this change and replacement, no powerful force will be able to stop it?

Shen Dao's article was published not long ago. Shen Buxian and Wei Ying, who are also the three scholars of the Legalists, seemed to have discussed. He also began to publish articles in the "Daqin Times", although the criticism was stronger, but he began to admit that the Greek citizenship system had its merits. This change shocked the Chinese academic community even more, you must know that a few days ago, these two were still scolding Aristotle for his deviance?

Bai Dong can actually understand the changes of the three Legalists, the Legalists have always been the biggest 'careerists' among the hundreds, and the Legalists of this era are even more imaginative and full of imagination. In some respects, they were bolder than the jurists of 2,000 years later. It's just that I was limited by my knowledge before, and I couldn't think of or dare to think of the real rule of law. Now that Aristotle, a 'foreign monk', has pierced the last layer of window paper, if they still don't understand it, they will be in vain in this great name.

Of course, the ancient Greek system of democracy ~ sovereignty is not perfect, but it has nothing to do with it, at least in some respects it has surpassed the insight of the Chinese Legalists, but it is enough to act as a catalyst.

And what Bai Dong wants is this result, and now he is delusional to change the legal system in China is equivalent to a fool's dream, even if he Bai Zi will die worse than Wei Ying in history; However, there is no danger in planting a seed in the hearts of the Chinese people through the mouth of Aristotle, and with the increasing exchanges with the West in the future, this seed will take root and sprout and improve itself sooner or later

This may be a hundred years from now, or it may be five hundred years from now, when there will be no more white children in the world, but what does it matter?

Soon after Shen Dao and the three of them published the article, Yingqu Liang, who was already in Hangu Pass, summoned Bai Dong overnight, and the first sentence was a scolding: "You kid guessed right, now even Shen Dao has spoken out, do you want to change the attitude of the Legalists and secretly promote the Greek citizenship system?" Ping An Lang, whether the widow can continue to be Qin Jun in the future, whether the Son of Heaven is still in the Zhou Room after the inheritance, is it up to these civilians to decide? Is this your reward for your father-in-law and widow? This is what you call to make the Qin State dominate the world within fifty years? ”

From the first time he met Bai Dong in the Hexi camp, the monarch and the ministers have been friends for more than ten years, and this is the first time that Yingquliang has spoken so harshly to Bai Dong. There is no other reason, Bai Dong promoted this great discussion in China behind the scenes, which was basically to cultivate Aristotle, a foreign scholar, as an academic star, as the discussion became more and more intense, Aristotle's influence became more and more great, and Zhou Tianzi and the princes of various countries felt like they were on pins and needles. In Yingquliang's view, this bullshit citizenship system is simply about digging the winner's ancestral grave!

If Bai Dong really has such ambitions, even if he can't bear to be ruthless, he will decisively weaken Bai Dong's influence and power, and let this Xijun go home honestly to farm and do business, which can be regarded as taking care of the righteousness of worship.

"Don't worry, Aristotle's statement that the Greek citizenship system is so perfect is actually bragging. You can't imagine that this so-called civil system is fundamentally based on bloody slavery, how about slavery? That's something that we have long discarded in Huaxia! Also, this so-called citizenship system is based on the city-state system, which can be implemented in a city, but can it still be implemented in a different country? It's too hard, and the Greeks haven't done it either. It's just that Meng Fuzi doesn't know this, otherwise he will definitely be able to refute Aristotle fiercely! ”

"Heian Lang, the widow is getting more and more confused about what you're thinking. Since you don't look down on Aristotle's 'people~master' and 'citizenship system' at all, why do you still add fuel to the fire and vigorously promote him in the "Daqin Times"? Now even Wei Ying actually said that the Greek decree had its merits? ”

"Your Majesty, since Lao Qin controlled Persia, Huaxia has not been a closed China, what is the purpose of gathering the princes of the world in the name of the Son of Heaven this time? For the West, for the more distant New World! Since there must be an intersection in the future, why don't we let the Chinese hundred schools of thought know about Greece, the Aegean Sea, and even the Romans in advance? I have to admit that the Greek system of democracy ~ sovereignty does have its merits, and it has been gradually perfected for thousands of years, and the Chinese Legalists are a little backward compared with it. After all, Aristotle is now in our Qin state, everything is under our control, and the Legalists in China are now just listening to his empty talk, no more shocked than seeing the example of Greece with their own eyes in the future! Your Majesty's hard work must be known" (To be continued.) )