Strike while the iron is hot. During the banquet, Lin Feng did not care about the stereotyped dogma of "eating without speaking", and continued to list the precautions for the Qiangguo Sanshu Debate Tournament one by one, and suggested that Li Jing be invited to attend the debate competition, but did not speak on the spot; As the host of the debate competition, Li Jingsui is mainly responsible for maintaining order and leading the direction of the debate, but does not participate in specific debates; Lin Feng himself appeared as the interpreter of the terms of the debate competition.

No wonder it is said that Chinese talk about big things at the wine table. Li Jing drank two glasses of wine, and in a happy mood, not only agreed to Lin Feng's suggestion, but also waved his hand, allowing Jiang Wenwei, Xu Xuan, You Jianyan, Xiao Yan, Han Xizai, Liao Jusu and others to participate in the debate as proposed by Lin Feng, and specially allowed Lin Feng to participate in it as an official member of the debate competition.

Seeing that this far-reaching dinner was about to end, Lin Feng decided to take advantage of the victory to pursue, stood up and solemnly admonished: "Your Majesty, in Weichen's vision, the main purpose of the debate competition is to unify the idea of change and work together to promote change. Wechen believes that after some debate, the important ministers of the court will fully realize the importance and urgency of the change, and the change will be launched as desired.

However, in order to avoid the change from being a mere formality, with a beginning and an end, Weichen suggested that while I am fully promoting from top to bottom, can we consider letting Lin Feng go through the order of the army first and the government later, and choose a grassroots army and a state and county respectively, and try to open up a test field for change, as a pilot for my Datang reform, summarize experience, find problems, and echo the change from the bottom up? ”

Li Jing thought for a moment: "Good! Please Aiqing plan a plan and submit it to me. Li Jingsui began to instruct the palace maids and eunuchs to clean up the dishes at the scene.

After several princes sat down in front of the imperial case, Lin Feng continued to admonish: "Your Majesty, the key to change or not lies in action and doing practical things. And doing anything is inseparable from people, and the success or failure of things is completely dependent on people.

The world is big, and the talents can be described as vast as many stars, Lin Feng is just very lucky to become one of His Majesty's favorites. The change involves politics, economy, science and technology, military and other aspects, and more talents are needed to support and promote. After Lin Feng finished speaking, he presented a few pieces of paper in his arms.

Li Jingsui was a little moved, and sighed: "I think that back then, the emperor changed the Jiying Hall into Zhaoxian Academy, recruited talents from all over the world, and gathered all the sages, which created the prosperity of my Tang Dynasty today." Today, His Majesty has made Lin Feng's proposal, if the door to recruit talents is opened again, I believe that the spirit of my father in the sky will be very gratified. ”

Li Jing flipped through a few pieces of paper one after another, looked at them very carefully, and then handed the paper to Li Jingsui, turned his head to Lin Feng and asked: "I look at Aiqing's ten questions, and I don't seem to care about the content such as sticking scriptures, ink meanings, and poems, and only focus on daily use." ”

In the depths of his heart, Lin Feng was very disdainful of nonsense such as the so-called half-part of the treatise on ruling the world, a more than 1,000-year-old man who had no place to live, who was not loyal to the country and did not love his family, just said a few words and became a wise saying? Can his quotations be used well to determine the rise and fall of a country? Can the Analects teach how to measure land? Can you teach people how much food is needed to fight a war? Can the Analects make the vicious enemy in front of you immediately drop the butcher's knife? If it is so simple to govern the world, then the future generations will find a random person, Baidu it, and get a book of quotations, won't they all have the ability to govern the world?

In the West, Kant regarded the Analects as "nothing more than a moral and ethical dogma for the emperor"; Hegel also had a low opinion of Confucius, believing him to be "a practical wise man of the world" and that his doctrine was a "moral philosophy" that "had nothing speculative about it, but only some good, sophisticated, and moral lessons." "With Lin Feng's understanding, isn't "The Analects" the Weibo of Confucius, a so-called famous blogger? If you regard it as the guideline for governing the country, it is a big fallacy.

In Weichen's view, the rise and fall of the country is only a direct manifestation of the strength of the country, and the strength of the country is reflected in a country's politics, economy, culture, science and technology, diplomacy and other aspects. The pasting scriptures, Moyi, and poetry are at most only related to politics, culture and other fields, while the economy and science and technology need more daily practice and rely more on accumulation. Throughout history, there are countless examples of dominating the world by relying on economic development and advanced science and technology. Lin Feng sorted out his thoughts and spoke slowly.

"Not necessarily, right? Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism alone, chased away the Xiongnu, and created a prosperous era, isn't it the best evidence of Confucianism governing the world and governing the world through scriptures? Li Hongji was not convinced, Lin Feng was out of the limelight today, and couldn't help but fight back. Of course, in the eyes of Li Hongji, who has never been interested in poetry, poetry is just the boring moaning of literati.

"His Royal Highness King Yan, how do you explain the establishment of the Great Wall?" Lin Feng was a little funny, if he just wanted to prove that sticking scriptures could govern the world, it would be too pediatric, right?

"This ......" Li Hongji didn't understand Lin Feng's jumping train of thought for a while, and couldn't continue. Li Jing and several other people also watched these two people argue with great interest, since the Sui Dynasty opened the imperial examination, the imperial examination has been set up like this, what new argument does Lin Feng have to offer?

"If we get rid of the internal disputes in the Central Plains and look at history from a broader perspective, since ancient times, in fact, the confrontation between the north and the south has been the main theme of this world. Nanna, mainly referring to the Han nationality, is a typical representative of agricultural civilization; From the historical Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the strong ethnic groups such as Donghu, Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, Khitan, Turkic, Uighur, and Qiang have successively claimed dominance and looked down on the Central Plains. Speaking of this, Lin Feng looked around and found that several people were thoughtful, and they had never been exposed to this kind of fresh historical theory.

"We often claim that the Han nation is strong and invincible, but looking at history, we have been pressed and beaten by ethnic minorities far more than we have been in all directions. As we all know, nomads never talk about Moyi, Sticking Scriptures, and Poetry, and the strength of their military strength has little to do with sticking to Scripture. This shows that governing the country and dominating the world simply rely on Moyi, posting scriptures and the like, but I am afraid that it is not very reliable. Lin Feng's tone slowed down and said a little heavily.

"In the past, Lin Feng had talked to His Royal Highness King Zheng about the argument that the north should unify the south and the north should be first, in fact, the reason is very simple, the northern regime has always grown up and sharpened in the competition with the northern ethnic minorities, so the northern military strength can always be stronger than the south; The Great Wall is actually the most direct proof that our Han people can't defeat the nomads and can only defend passively. The Great Wall can be said to be the greatest shame of our Han nation! ”

Lin Feng took a long breath, raised his head and glanced at the top of the hall, tried to calm his mind, and continued: "Now, the emperor of Jin Shi Jingjiao gave Yanyun the sixteen states to the Khitan, and he doesn't even want the geographical barrier of the Great Wall, and the Central Plains is only afraid that there will be no peace from now on. ”

"Yes, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once went on an expedition against the Xiongnu and once Leshi Yanran, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was able to win because of the accumulation of nearly a hundred years of building the Han Dynasty, and after this battle, the national strength of the Han Dynasty was greatly damaged. Lin Feng said so much today, and went around so far, it was definitely not aimed at His Royal Highness King Yan, but he just wanted to explain from the perspective of military strength that governing the world is a very heavy and complex huge project, if you just rely on reading one or two scriptures and memorizing three or five famous sayings, it is just a myth, or even a joke. ”

After Lin Feng finished speaking, several people in the hall did not answer, they all grew up under the long-term education of traditional Confucianism, and they felt the impact of this subversive argument most obviously, and they were in the process of shaking their minds.

"It is never deniable that Moyi and Tijing are beneficial to our country's rule and the selection of outstanding talents, but Wechen believes that these should not be the whole and should not be the only one. The former Tang army was able to conquer the Quartet, and I am afraid that no one can deny the role played by the widespread use of horse shoes and the incomparable sharpness of Tang knives, which is the power of science and technology. Lin Feng slowly ended his long speech.

Lin Feng swore in his heart that as long as he was here, he would do everything he could, trying to avoid the humiliating situation of the Song Dynasty of hiding in Confucianism, self-castration, self-disarming, and even losing power and losing the country.

For a long time, no one spoke.

"Lin Aiqing, just now I thought that your dream was scary enough, who would have thought that your thinking and cognition would be even more scary, I am afraid that I and everyone will have to think about it. Now, I have some understanding of your recruitment questions, so let's explain the reasons in detail. Li Jing said with some difficulty.

It seems that my brainwashing has had some effect. Lin Feng thought to himself, this is also no way, in the case that the change cannot be sparked at the grassroots level, he can only start to change his thinking from the top of the pyramid like Li Jing. If you don't even understand your own ideas, the people below won't understand them, and they won't implement them.