In the temple of literature, it is an unwritten rule that the status of the master is higher than that of the emperor.

Tang Anxin sighed secretly, it seems that no matter which dynasty, those in power always have all kinds of privileges. Just looking at the three people in front of him who were gorgeously dressed, elegantly behaved, and had faces like crowned jade, they knew that they must all be children of official eunuchs. But then again, in addition to the shadow of their parents, such a person can have access to the best education since he was a child, because of the relationship between the family, the vision and knowledge are also superior, and he does have a greater advantage than the poor students.

Lu Weiran smiled and motioned for Li Yu to speak, Li Yu put on an amiable appearance, and said with one hand: "No courtesy." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Seeing the extraordinary and heroic posture of the three people, Li Yu felt happy from the bottom of his heart and exclaimed: "Okay, his eyes are like torches, calm and confident, and he is worthy of being a talent who can be shortlisted for the top three." ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" As soon as Li Yu's words fell, he immediately remembered a sycophant.

Li Yu's face was colorful, and he said with a smile: "Being able to stand here today is enough to prove that the three of you are highly educated." The widow only hopes to enter the government in the future, and you must make good use of the knowledge in your chest to serve the court and become a useful pillar of my great qi! ”

With Li Yu's words, the future of several people is almost predictable. The three of them looked overjoyed, bowed down and said, "The students will be smeared with their hearts and brains to repay the emperor's kindness!" ”

"Good!" Li Yu laughed, pointed to the snub feelings, and said, "According to the usual practice, the last link of this grand event will be a test of your eloquence. The widow didn't say much, and the rest of the time was left to Luoqing! ”

The snub nodded and greeted the three of them: "This year's Jixia event can be described as wonderful, after three days of written examinations, the master will unanimously believe that Li Xu, Zhao Zicheng, and Xue Cong are the three people who are talented and have clear intentions, and they are the top three in this event. The articles on paper test your 'talents', and today's debate test is the impromptu response of a few people. Talent and change are all official knowledge, and I hope that a few of them will play well, so don't let you down. ”

The three of them arched their hands and said, "Students should do their best." ”

"Hmm." Snub nodded and beckoned to the examiner behind him, who immediately sent a wooden barrel. Snub opened the package, took out the bamboo slip inside and slowly unfolded it, and said with a smile: "The topic of today's debate test was decided by the master and several teachers and students after repeated discussions, and the three of you listen well——"

"The law is the key, the husband orders are carried out and the world is united, how can we prosper the country and the people?"

The topic was not long, only one sentence, but it made everyone present fall into thought.

The law is the foundation of the state and regulates people's behavior, and this is true in every country in the world. So, how can we legislate so that the country can prosper and the people live and work in peace and contentment?

This question may seem simple, but it actually considers a wide range of things.

First, students must read through the past and the present, and know the rise and fall of dynasties, so that they can understand the meaning of "law" in different periods.

Second, it is to test the students' vision and overall situation, to see if they can stand in the perspective of the imperial court and think of a good way to revitalize the country and appease the people.

Third, the test is the students' ability to adapt their talents to reality. Only talk on paper and not down-to-earth? Or can you change your thinking into a way and really implement it?

Sadly, the students standing here are often young and arrogant, always trying to overwhelm their opponents with their talents, but they don't want their talents to have already been proven in the written exam.

What's even more sad is that the master who came up with the question is hardworking, and the students are difficult to distinguish, and the king of Qi and the ministers also like to listen to the slogan of singing the praises of virtue. As long as the rhetoric is gorgeous and passionate, they may seem to them to be capable people, but they ignore that the essence of governing the country lies in people's livelihood and pragmatism.

Over the years, among the students who have won the laurels, the only one who can combine talent and learning with practice is just one person who is in the cold.

Therefore, as soon as they heard this question, the three people who had already done their homework showed a knowing smile on their faces. There is no doubt that such a topic that rises to the level of national righteousness has been expected by them.

Hardly thinking, the student named Zhao Zicheng took a step forward, made a gesture to the people present, and said: "The students think that the law is the foundation, and to ensure the longevity of the foundation and the love of the country and the people, it is nothing more than three points - etiquette, rule by virtue, and rule by man. Zi said: 'The way is to govern, and the people are free and shameless; The way is virtuous, all are courteous, shameful and qualified. 'The court is still benevolent, supplemented by virtue, then the people are effective, and the humility and courtesy are in the heart, so there is a grand occasion of not leaving the road behind and not closing the door at night. At the same time, the monarch and the minister are still benevolent, and the people's hearts are kind, so that the Great Qi will be evergreen. ”

He is saying that the people are governed by decrees, and the common people only want to be free from punishment for their crimes, but they have no sense of shame. Using morality to guide the people and assimilating them with etiquette, the people will not only have a sense of shame, but also a heart of submission. It is pointed out that to influence the people with benevolent government and educate the people with virtue and law, starting from the imperial court, the people will follow suit. Monarchs and ministers advocate governing the country with benevolence, and the people do good deeds, so that the country will be too peaceful and stable, and the foundation will last forever.

Li Xu, who was dressed in white on the left hand side, smiled and stepped forward and said: "The students think that the prosperity of the country lies in cultivating the hearts of the people, and the world of those who win the hearts of the people." Therefore, there is Qin Tyrant. Zheng II died, and the Han Dynasty flourished. I am a great Qi Shangru, blessed the world, if the virtue is integrated into the law, it is more the righteousness of all sentient beings. ”

This student mainly stood at the level of cultivating the mind, and pointed out that the integration of virtue and politics into the law, and the use of morality to replace the constraints of the criminal law, so that the people can become virtuous people.

In the end, he was just reparaphrasing the first student's argument. must have thought of it with Zhao Zicheng, afraid that he would seize the opportunity to focus on the front, so he couldn't wait to express his arguments.

The last person shook his head slightly: "The benevolent government makes the gentle people return to their hearts, but there are foolish people who are unbearable to be educated, unable to spoil the peace, and morality is not to return to the heart, how to understand?" ”

Tang Anxin smiled secretly, it seems that this third guy deliberately jumped out and sang the opposite.

The student named Xue Cong stepped forward and stood side by side with the two and said, "What the two of you said is not unreasonable, but they regard the world as the same. As everyone knows, under the prosperous times, there are also bad people, benevolence and virtue are not excessive, as small as disasters and townships, and large ones are the disaster party. Therefore, the students think that benevolence and government should be consistent, but it must be supplemented by punishment. Benefiting the people and appeasing them, punishing the stubborn people, and combining rigidity and softness, can the people return to their hearts. ”

As soon as they heard this, the two students before were not happy. Zhao Zicheng frowned and said, "Brother Xue's words are wrong. The saint loves people, so he values the people. The Great Qi Shangren has been in power for a long time, and the virtue of the saint has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so the Qi people love people, and they must think about it, and they will repay it, and the punishment has long been in vain. If you pick up the old business again, it will inevitably make the people feel suspicious, which is not conducive to long-term peace and stability! ”

Xue Congfen didn't give in: "The 'punishment' that the student said is not torture. government, but to punish the recalcitrant people who are not able to be educated. If benevolence and virtue are not understood, how can we solve the calamity of the recalcitrant people? ”

Li Xu was afraid that the two of them would rob him of his light, so he said with a smile: "Establishing the Yuan to promote religion, Pude Shangli, so that the saint's education is fixed in the heart and sensitive to action, why not be afraid of evil deeds?" ”

"Brother Li's words are ...... bad"

The three of you look at each other, and I say a word, all of them are talking about some big truths from the perspective of benevolence, righteousness and morality. Tang Anxin was amused, these rich sons who were used to living a good life all day long went online as soon as they opened their mouths, and said some things that they took for granted, some thought that morality alone could restrain all the people, and even proposed to popularize the academy, so that all children could have books to read, so that morality could be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Such an incomparably naïve bickering like a child's house, but with the addition of a few "Zhihu also", it made a group of old guys listen to it with relish, and they couldn't wait to shoot the case and applaud, Tang An was really incomprehensible.

No wonder the Qi Kingdom is so weak and will decay to the current situation. Let such a group of people who don't understand the suffering of the people enter the court, and the people will have a good life.

If such a person is also worthy of being called a "genius", then Lao Tzu can be regarded as a saint!

Knowing what the three people in front of him were, Tang An no longer had the slightest awe of this so-called "Jixia Event" - a gilded workshop for a pampered noble son, but in fact cultivated a group of waste wood with no ink and no pragmatism, what qualifications do people have to maintain respect?

When a country becomes a practice of retreat and mistakenly regards the tongue and lotus flower as the way to select talents, it can only prove that the country has rotted to the bones.

Tang An didn't bother to continue listening, and only regarded this meaningless debate as a boring bubble drama. The argument of the three "geniuses" was like a hypnotic drug, which made his eyes sink more and more, and he fell asleep with his chin propped up unconsciously......

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Tang An...... Tang An! ”

I don't know how long it took, but I vaguely heard someone calling me, and even felt someone twist on my arm. Tang An opened his eyes in a daze, but saw Feng Zhiyao on the side staring at a pair of apricot eyes, looking left and right promptly.

Following her gaze, Tang An found a group of old men with white beards all glaring at him with angry eyes.

Fuck, Lao Tzu actually slept through, what a sin.

"Shhh

Tang An took a sip of saliva that was about to flow to his chin, shook his head, smiled apologetically at everyone, and said, "I'm sorry, I had insomnia last night......"

Feng Zhiyao on the side sighed slightly, he actually dared to doze off at such a grand event, what else did he dare not do in this world?

The anger in the old fellow's eyes was not diminished by his perfunctory excuses, but only became more intense. Sleeping at the most important event of the Qi State, such a bad act is tantamount to a naked slap in the face. How can they swallow this breath?

Xie Yuan, who was sitting opposite Tang An, smiled and said, "Tang Hou Ye is really a good attitude, he can sleep steadily under the appearance of a saint, and his commitment is admirable." ”

The words of praise and denigration are tantamount to the most mean provocation. Some of the old scholars who came out of the Jixia School Palace couldn't bear the anger in their hearts, and they even "hummed" softly. Even Li Yu's face was gloomy, obviously not in a beautiful mood.

Fuck, I've gone overboard! But--these little cubs are really boring, it's like singing a lullaby in your ear, who can blame that?

If it weren't for the wrong occasion, Tang An even wanted to ask in person: Aren't you all sleepy?

Of course, in other people's territory, Tang An will not speak so indiscriminately. He rolled his eyes, and happened to see that the positions of the three people opposite seemed to have changed slightly, and deliberately diverted the topic: "Wow! Is the result of the debate between the three students out? ”

The snub was funny in his heart, and he admired this daring Tang Daren. At least he didn't dare to doze off in front of a group of dignitaries. But thinking that the woman he loved was captured by him, he was relieved, and with a hint of sadness in his heart, he sighed: "The result has come out, Xue Cong's arguments are more realistic." After the discussion of all the people present, it is believed that he is the first place in this year's event. ”

Tang An patted the armrest of the chair: "Okay!" Xue has a clear argument for talent, I have long seen that you will definitely be able to win the championship! ”

Xue Cong smiled very reluctantly, secretly wondering if you have been sleeping all the time!

Zhao Zicheng and Li Xu's faces were not very good-looking, and they were obviously dissatisfied with Tang An for not taking the two of them in their eyes. The faces of the ministers around him are also stinky, and with such a big snake on the stick, can't they all take us all for fools? How could this Tang envoy be so shameless!

Only Xie Yuan had a smile on his face, it seemed that the more unharmonious Tang An's relationship with these people became, the more proud he would be.

Obviously, he didn't intend to let Tang An go easily. The corners of his mouth twitched faintly, and he continued to ask: "I heard that Marquis Tang has a prominent reputation in the Tang Dynasty, and he is a famous talent. I don't know what you think about the arguments of a few talents? ”