"Listen to me. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The old man looked at him without shying away.

"Sophistry, sophistication, deceit; Sophists are all about reversing right and wrong, changing concepts, and shifting issues. Zhuangzi and Huizi saw a swimming fish by the river, so Zhuangzi said, 'Minnows swim calmly, and they are happy to fish.' Keiko replied: 'Zi Fei fish, the joy of Anchi fish?' Zhuangzi asked rhetorically: 'The son is not me, and I know that I don't know the joy of fish?' Huizi asked how Zhuangzi knew the happiness of fish, and the normal answer would be to explain why Zhuangzi understood the happiness of fish, for example, he could claim to know the language of fish, and it was the fish that told him. However, in fact, he does not understand the happiness of fish, how can man understand the happiness of fish? So he avoided answering this question, and instead asked a new question, complicating it: 'The son is not me, and I know that I don't know the joy of fish?' This sentence is the essence of sophistry. He abandons the problem itself and attacks the questioner, but the actual problem is not solved. Keiko replied: 'I am not a son, and I don't know a son; Zigu is not a fish, and Zizhi does not know the joy of fish, all of it. Keiko pointed out that he did not know the joy of fish. But Zhuangzi replied, "Please follow the rules." Zi said, "If you know the fish and enjoy the fish", you know me and ask me. I know it. The back is completely strong words, playing with those literal articles, just don't say it. ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, and the old man thought for a while and said: "Your Excellency is reasonable, Lao Zhuang's learning, there is nothing to say, and there are many misguided people's children." However, as you have just said, we are all sophistry, why not? ”

"First of all, I don't agree with what you said about Lao Zhuang's learning, which is nothing. As for your remarks, I have been listening to them for many days, why are they all sophistry? You have been discussing politics for many days and self-denial, but you don't know what virtue is. Hence the laughter. ”

"Megalomaniacal ......"

"Sensationalism......"

As soon as Wang Mai's words came out, everyone was greatly dissatisfied.

"Sure enough, young and frivolous, the old man wants to hear how you, a young man, know what morality is." The old man's face was also extremely ugly.

"Didn't ask the gentleman for his name?" Wang Mai asked.

"Old man Kong Yingda."

Kong Yingda, although I have never heard of this name, but the surname Kong seems to be very good in ancient times, I don't know if this guy is a descendant of Confucius. "I don't know if Mr. Kong is a descendant of the Kong family?"

"Exactly."

"Disrespectful, disrespectful." Wang Mai arched his hand. Sure enough, it is the same as the Kong family, no wonder this guy is in his fifties when he looks old, but he can take the lead in speaking among a group of old Confucians.

"If you are short of words, we will all think that it was nonsense just now, and there is no need to act here." Kong Yingda said impatiently.

If you don't come up with something powerful, you really don't have any dry goods for me, a young man from the 21st century!

"I have a question here, which is where people's doubts about morality have always been, and I would like to ask you to answer it." Wang Mai arched his hand and said.

"Say it quickly."

"There was a man driving a horse-drawn carriage, such as Mr. Kong, driving a carriage and horses, carrying all the gentlemen present, galloping on the winding mountain road, which was so narrow that only one carriage could be allowed to pass, but when he turned the corner, he found a child coming on the opposite side, and if the carriage turned, the child would be crushed under the wheels and died instantly, and if the child's life was saved, the whole car would rush out of the mountain road and fall into the ravine. After Mr. Kong is a highly respected saint, I don't know what choice you will make? This is a classic paradox of later generations, the "tram theory", which fundamentally explains the nature of morality. From a traditional moral point of view, both options are immoral. If you choose to save the whole car, then the child will inevitably die; And if he chooses not to turn in order to be the child, the whole car will be killed by him.

"This ......" Kong Yingda stood on the spot. The other old masters thought about it for a while, but they were all pale and their eyes were blank.

"If you can answer this question, you will know what morality is." After Wang Mai finished speaking, he whistled to Song Laosan, who was stunned next to him, and motioned for him to go back to the house with him.

"Old Song...... What are you thinking? The two of them entered the house and ate hot pot around the stove. Since Song Laosan learned how to eat hot pot, he has been here every day, and he has eaten for more than 20 days in a row, and this guy is not tired. Anyway, Wang Mai is already about to vomit, and he is now picking the vegetables in the pot to eat. After coming to Luoyang, I finally found the cabbage, and later inquired to know that this thing was originally produced in the south, and now it is not commonly planted in the north.

"I'm thinking about the question you just asked, can you tell me what the answer is?" Song Laosan took a sip of wine and asked with a frown. This old Song is also interesting, a big old man, and he even thinks about learning.

"The old man also has this question." Xu Wenyuan is still the same old problem, he didn't say hello, pushed the door and entered, "I also brought you an acquaintance." ”

Wang Mai glanced behind Xu Wenyuan, it was indeed an acquaintance, and hurriedly bowed his hand: "Zheng Changshi, haven't you been following Duke Wei?" Why did you appear in Luoyang now? "The person who came was Wang Mai's former boss, Zheng Changshi of the former Wei Mansion.

"Mr. Wang doesn't need to be polite. The general of the defeated army, don't mention the title of this long history. Zheng Changshi smiled bitterly and held him up.

Zheng Changshi recounted to him the experience of the first battle of Luoyang at that time, when he and Li Mi were separated from the chaotic army, and they were finally captured by Wang Shichong in many places, and "invited" into Luoyang. Zheng Changshi sighed when he said this: "It's a pity that Duke Wei was defeated in the first battle, and Wagang disappeared, regretting not listening to Wei Xuancheng's words that day." By the way, I heard that Wang Bodang learned that the war was unfavorable that day and had taken the people of Kim Yong City to retreat, how did you come to Luoyang? ”

"I have a brother from the same village, who was a personal soldier under Cheng Yanjin, and when I heard that Cheng Yanjin was captured, I stayed and came to Luoyang to find out about him." Wang Mai said frankly. Anyway, everyone is a prisoner of the order, and the name of surrendering to the master is fallen, and Wang Mai has no psychological burden when he talks about it.

The three of them sighed again, but they overwhelmed Wang Shichong, a hardcore man of Song Laosan next to him. Song Laosan stood up and hugged his fists to the three of them: "You guys are slowly catching up, and I'll go buy some meat." ”

Wang Mai glanced at Song Laosan apologetically: "The three of us have patronized and spoke, and we haven't had time to introduce the two gentlemen to you." ”

"It's okay, I'm a rough person, how can I be qualified to sit with you scholars." As he spoke, he had retreated to the door. His words were from the bottom of his heart, and there was no sarcasm. As the saying goes, a good man is not a soldier, but he is not a nail, and those who are soldiers were originally looked down upon by ordinary people in the society at that time, not to mention that they were faced with these learned people who were courteous to Wang Shichong. Of course, Wang Mai came in purely through the back door.

"Then Brother Lao Song will buy more wine and meat, and get a few coal stoves, just now I said a lot of disrespect to those gentlemen next door. Let them eat and make amends, and the money will be counted in my account. When Wang Mai heard this, he no longer shirked, he knew that Song Laosan didn't look at the usual talk and laughter when talking to him. But if you meet other people in this courtyard, they are all retreating and courteous.

"Why should you be so polite to such Qiu Ba, you can't punish the doctor, you can't be courteous, it's been like this since ancient times." This Lao Zheng is a natural class antagonist, but he can't be blamed, after all, he lives in an era where Confucian doctrines have not yet been unified, and various explanations emerge one after another.

"No, Mr. Zheng's words are wrong. The original meaning of the doctor is that if a gentleman commits a crime, he will punish himself without waiting for the punishment to punish him; It does not mean that scholars do not need to maintain etiquette to the people, but to understand that the other party does not know etiquette, but they still have to treat each other with courtesy. Later Confucian scholars have made perfect explanations for these ambiguous sages' words.

"Okay," Wang Mai had just finished speaking, and Kong Yingda walked in from outside the house and applauded loudly.

There is something wrong with these people, they don't knock on the door when they enter their own house, Wang Maixin said.

"Mr. Kong." Zheng Changshi hurriedly greeted Kong Yingda. In fact, the two of them are the same age, both in their early fifties, but Zheng Changshi has great respect for Kong Yingda, and the two of them should be old acquaintances.

Kong Yingda returned the salute and turned his head to look at Wang Mai: "After many years, the remarks of the ancestors and the pre-Qin masters have indeed been deliberately distorted and interpreted by people with intentions, so that Confucianism is now sluggish and is in the dilemma of being attacked by other schools. The ancestor in his words should be talking about Confucius.

"The boy's disrespectful remarks just now were out of anger for a while, and I hope that Mr. Kong will forgive his sins." Wang Mai hurriedly wanted to help Lao Kong sit on the low stool.

"If you don't know, the Kong family usually takes weekly etiquette as a norm." Xu Wenyuan was busy reminding him on the side.

Now Wang Mai was embarrassed, he couldn't sit by himself, so he let an old man who was over half a hundred years old kneel on the ground, because he hated kneeling very much, he even gave Xu Wenyuan the mat in the room, and he sat on a low stool on weekdays.

"It's okay, it's up to the host." Kong Yingda was not pedantic at all, and sat on the stool with a big sword.

Xu Wenyuan and Zheng Changshi glanced at each other, this was the first time they had seen Kong Yingda not acting in accordance with Zhou Li. Such a move is nothing in Wang Mai's eyes, but in the eyes of those who have a heart, it is not tantamount to an earth-shattering event.

"Brother Wen Yuan's letter said that there are many ambiguities in the meaning of my Confucian scriptures, and there are many incomprehensible points, so I am invited to come and demonstrate. I didn't expect that it is really difficult to unify various statements, for example, the sentence that Brother Zheng just said, 'If you can't punish a doctor, you can't pay a courtesy', there are more than a dozen explanations, which is really overwhelming. I thought that what this little friend said just now was the correct explanation. Haven't asked for your name? ”

"In the lower king wheat, the word is followed."

"The words that followed the confrontation between you and me through the window are really thought-provoking. Just now, I discussed it with more than a dozen great Confucians, and everyone felt that this problem seemed to be unsolvable. I wonder if you can teach you a lesson or two? Kong Yingda looked at him eagerly.

"What's the problem? Can't Mr. Kong and other gentlemen answer? Zheng Changshi asked in surprise.