Due to the cold weather, this lecture was not outside, but in a large natural stone cave that can accommodate five or six hundred people, Yan Yan inquired all the way to the stone cave when the lecture had already begun, through the dense crowd, Yan Yan saw an elderly man wearing a gray robe and a white beard standing on a high place and talking.

After listening carefully for a few minutes, Yan Yan heard that the content of Mr. Ji's lecture today should be related to benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, and the old gentleman mentioned that "benevolence" is the core of Confucius's moral and ethical system, and the means and ways to realize this moral system are "li", so that words and deeds are in line with etiquette is benevolence, once words and deeds are in line with etiquette, it is a benevolent person admired by people all over the world.

It can be seen from this that "benevolence" is not innate, but the result of "self-denial and self-cultivation" the day after tomorrow, and this process of "self-denial and self-cultivation" is not simply to read a few books and listen to a few lectures can be completed, but to constantly restrain and restrain oneself, choose the good and follow, be erudite in the text, and make an appointment with courtesy.

From benevolence and courtesy, the old gentleman extended to righteousness and faith, the righteous should also be respected, and the virtuous are great; Believers are also spoken, and words are the voice of their hearts. Faith is an important embodiment of "benevolence" and a necessary virtue for a sage, for which faith is the premise of righteousness and benevolence.

From the benevolence of Confucius, the old gentleman talked about Mozi's self-cultivation, "Although the gentleman fights with Chen, and the courage is the foundation, although the mourning is polite, and the mourning is the foundation, although the scholar has learning, and the behavior is the essence... ”

Then, the old gentleman expounded on Mozi's moral cultivation and gentleman's personality, emphasizing that character is the foundation of governing the country, and proposed that "the way of a gentleman is to see honesty if you are poor, to see righteousness if you are rich, to see love when you are alive, and to see sorrow when you die." ”

From Mr. Mozi to Xunzi, he pointed out the attitude that people should adopt towards good and bad, and pointed out that the gentleman and his relatives and friends are good and never tired of being good, so they can achieve success, but this process is inseparable from the etiquette and the gentleman who taught them etiquette.

From Xunzi, the old gentleman transferred to "University", cultivating his own morality, managing his family, so as to govern national affairs, make the world too peaceful and stable, and so on.

Just when Yan Yan was not interested in listening, the old gentleman suddenly changed his words and turned to the current situation.

The old gentleman first mentioned the origin of the Khitan, Western Xia and the Han people, talked about the relationship between the sixteen states of Yanyun and the Great Zhou, and then also talked about the Mongols and Jurchens, and talked about the essential difference between these Hu people and the Han people.

At this point, Yan Yan knew that next spring is the year of Dabi, so the old gentleman chose this time to give such a lesson, the purpose is to inspire these students to write good strategies and scriptures, and to have refreshing and referential views, rather than generalized works.

To Yan Yan's surprise, the lecture ended with a live debate, which could be about the previous part of the foreshadowing of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, or the analysis of the current situation at the end.

I have to say that the freedom of speech in the Great Zhou is many times more relaxed than the Qing Dynasty that Yan Yan knows, at least there is no so-called literary prison in this era, and students can discuss these political affairs freely.

However, to Yan Yan's disappointment, most of the students' suggestion at the scene was to unite with the Jurchens to destroy Liao, on the condition that the sixteen states of Yanyun be recovered, of course, there were also a few people who were in favor of not helping each other, and there were even fewer people like Yan Yan who proposed to unite the Liao State to destroy the Jurchens.

It's strange, how can these people's heads be like Lu Ming one by one, the old gentleman has obviously done so much foreshadowing, the purpose is to show that Mongolia and Jurchen have not really accepted the baptism of Confucian culture, and naturally there is no restraint of benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, but these students have not comprehended the most critical essence.

Who knew that when Yan Yan was talking about Lu Ming, he saw Lu Ming suddenly stand up and speak, and there were a lot of people around him, all of whom seemed to be his followers, no wonder there were so many similar voices in the field.

What did these people listen to for a long time? Can't you just have a little bit of your own opinion?

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that he was a woman, Yan Yan would have wanted to stand up and argue with Lu Ming by himself.

When he was thinking about it, Yan Yan suddenly heard a familiar voice, followed the voice to find it, and sure enough, he saw Yan Zhang standing in the middle of a group of people, inconspicuous, but he put forward his own opinion, to be precise, he mentioned Yan Yan's point of view, that is, the point of view that the emperor took out to discuss in the court, and he was using this point of view to refute Lu Ming.

Seeing that Yan Zhang was just a teenager, Mr. Ji couldn't help but feel a little more praise in his eyes when he looked at Yan Zhang.

"Very good, but how do you conclude that the Jurchen is not credible, and if the Liao State ends up breaking its word and getting fat, how should we deal with ourselves?" Mr. Ji asked.

Yan Zhang touched his head, after all, he was just a ten-year-old child, even if he listened to some conversations between his father and Yan Yan, he might not remember much, and he also saw that what Lu Ming said was different from what his eldest sister said, so he stood up impulsively.

"Mr. Hui, these words are not said by the students themselves, they are said by the student's eldest sister, and these words have been appreciated by the emperor, my eldest sister said, the Liao State and we have coexisted for hundreds of years, and their way of governing the country, the way of learning and the way of governing the people are all inherited from our Great Zhou, that is to say, they have been sinicized by us a lot, and they are a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural nation, which is different from the newly rising tribe of Jurchen Mongolia." At a critical time, Yan Zhang moved out of Yan Yan.

"Your eldest sister? Who is your eldest sister and who are you? Mr. Ji heard that this argument came from a female streamer, and he was really a little curious.

"Mr. Hui, I am Yan Zhang of Dingnan Hou Mansion, my eldest sister is, my eldest sister is... At this time, Yan Zhang realized that he was wrong, why did he have to move the eldest sister out, there must be many people present who knew that the eldest sister and Lu Ming had withdrawn from their relationship, and this matter was easily settled, and now that it is mentioned, wouldn't it be another way to give people a handle?

It's stupid.

"Mr. Hui, what we are discussing now is how Da Zhou should deal with the battle situation in the north this time, so there is no need for women to get involved in this kind of topic, right?" Lu Ming spoke.

He didn't speak for Yan Yan, but it didn't do him any good to find out about this matter, and now he was discussing marriage with Yan Yu, in case something bad came out, he was afraid of hurting the reputation of him and Yan Yu.

Mr. Ji obviously didn't agree with Lu Ming's point of view, but he glanced at Lu Ming and didn't say anything, but turned to Yan Zhang.