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Qian Chengzhi's small life was very comfortable.

It can be said that he lived the kind of life he longed for the most.

Because he has a group of friends around him, a group of like-minded friends who can align their thinking positions with him, and have a lot of common topics.

There are even dozens of talented young people who identify with many of Xu Jiazhuang's ideas and become his loyal followers, regarding him as an enlightened brother and teacher.

Such as Gu Yanwu in Kunshan, Wang Fuzhi in Hengyang, Chen Chen in Huzhou, etc., these outstanding young people follow Qian Chengzhi almost every day, walking on the street, looking quite powerful, so that Qian Chengzhi no longer feels lonely and lonely.

Even if he met a group of Confucian scholars face-to-face, a battle of words broke out, and Qian Chengzhi was not afraid that his side would be at a disadvantage, because his side was also a large number of people in Wuyang, who was afraid of whom?

Even if you take out a stick and do it like a crazy boy, you don't have to be afraid.

This is the confidence brought by the large number of people.

If there are few like-minded people around you, or even only a few lonely people, even if you grasp the most correct truth, you will have a feeling of weakness and confidence, or the number of people represents the number of truths, and it is useless to say that 'the truth is in the hands of a few people', this society is composed of people after all, and it is people who decide whether it is the truth or not.

Now Qian Chengzhi is much more confident, and he is more confident, and his adherence to Xujiazhuang's concept has become firmer.

The only drawback is that the wallet is a little unbearable, his annual salary of more than 2,000 silver dollars is not enough, fortunately, after the owner Xu Yuan learned about his situation, he approved a special fund of 5,000 silver dollars a year, and if he does a good job, it will increase, after all, in the field of public opinion warfare, he is willing to spend money, as long as there are more people who agree with Xu Jiazhuang's concept, the benefits will definitely be much more than this propaganda fund in the future.

Therefore, this made Qian Chengzhi more motivated and wanted to make greater achievements.

So on the Purple Mountain in Nanjing, the proposal to hold a face-to-face debate conference was put forward by him.

To lay out a huge venue.

Use the audio equipment provided by Xujiazhuang.

It should accommodate at least 100,000 live audiences.

The tournament was held from April 20 to April 29 and lasted for 10 days.

Debate a topic every day.

Not only will the performance of both sides be recorded throughout the process, but after the debate on stage, the audience will be asked to vote to determine who wins and who loses.

In short, it is also necessary to use this face-to-face and rigid way to argue with Confucianism, just and rigid, fair PK, and see who represents the truth more?

Qian Chengzhi's proposal and plan were approved by the top management of Xujiazhuang, and a professional team was allocated 300,000 silver dollars to Nanjing to prepare for the debate.

Naturally, after the publication of the "Challenge Book", the literati who swore to defend Confucianism and Taoism responded one after another and gathered towards Nanjing.

However, the two sides clashed in the newspapers about the rules of the debate competition, the selection of the audience, and the choice of the topic of the debate, and finally on April 15, a set of concrete plans that were acceptable to both sides were discussed.

There are three main core contents:

First, five of the ten debate topics are provided by Confucianism and Xujiazhuang in the world, no matter what the topic.

Second, there are 100,000 spectators, and 50,000 people on each side, regardless of their status.

Third, in the process of voting to determine the winner or loser, anonymous voting shall be adopted, and no audience shall be allowed to interfere with the voting choice.

After the announcement of this set of competition plans.

Steady.

All the Confucian scholars and Confucian scholars felt that they were stable, and they had won this time.

"Xujiazhuang despises me too much, and dares to let us choose the theme at will, hehe, as long as we chase and beat Xujiazhuang in several aspects such as respect and humility, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, they will definitely lose, after all, Xujiazhuang's side, there is no respect for humanity at all, no filial piety, and no righteousness, only naked interests, these are Xujiazhuang's dead ends!"

"Even if the debaters invited by Xujiazhuang are sharp-tongued and can reverse right and wrong, we still have an insurance, that is, the 50,000 audiences organized by us can all be scholars, all of them are Confucian disciples, and they are extremely firm in the sage road, and there is no possibility of wavering, even if the debate on the stage, we are obviously at a disadvantage, but none of the 50,000 votes will be lost, and the 50,000 ignorant fools invited by Xujiazhuang, even if they support Xujiazhuang, as long as there are one or two points that make them dissatisfied (such as filial piety), they may vote for us, there is no possibility of losing at all. ”

"Arrogance, Xu Jiazhuang is too arrogant, too arrogant!"

"That's right, this time we must teach Xujiazhuang a lesson from failure, so that it will not dare to despise us again."

"Unity, as long as we unite this time, we will be invincible!"

……

Soon.

April 19th.

Nanjing, Jiangnan Hall, backyard residential area.

One room inside.

Under the service of the concubine, Qian Chengzhi put on a gray stand-up collar tunic suit, and the long hair on the back of his head was cut in half, and the remaining half was tied into a ponytail, looking both elegant and elegant, but also extremely energetic.

The Purple Mountain Debate will officially begin tomorrow.

Qian Chengzhi is wearing this formal suit now because he will go to the Purple Mountain venue to hold a mock debate competition as the host, so that his debaters can familiarize themselves with the environment in advance and play better tomorrow.

After getting dressed and tidying up.

"Husband, can our side really win this debate?"

The little concubine Su Ziyu, a young woman of eighteen years, asked softly with her head on the man's broad chest, feeling quite worried between her words.

She has a plump body, a waist like a willow, a pure and cold jade face, reminiscent of a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world, if put in modern society, this appearance and temperament, body appearance, is definitely a top goddess who can score more than 90 points.

But such a top beauty, not to mention serving Qian Chengzhi thoughtfully and carefully, also has a heart tied to him, and behaves extremely docile.

In other words, she has such an outstanding appearance and temperament, a good lover does not marry, but she is willing to be Qian Chengzhi's concubine?

Because not long ago, Su Ziyu was one of the six famous prostitutes in Qinhuaihe, ranked third, and has outstanding talents, good at poetry, known as the 'Ziyu Fairy', and there are countless high-ranking officials and young talents who favor her, and the tea and soup fees for seeing her are at least fifty taels, but she is very high-minded and only accepts guests who are willing to meet.

But Qian Chengzhi is one of the guests she is very willing to receive.

Not only did he waive the cost of tea.

Qian Chengzhi only wrote a dozen poems of average level, so he moved the famous prostitute, took the initiative to recommend himself as a pillow, and gave him the first night red pill.

Afterwards, Qian Chengzhi had to raise money everywhere to borrow money, and sent someone to hide from his original wife, brought three thousand taels from his hometown Tongcheng, and finally redeemed the famous prostitute 'Ziyu Fairy' at a high price of 15,000 silver dollars and became his own concubine, for which he was burdened with a lot of debts.

For this reason, Qian Chengzhi didn't notice that something was wrong, just with the ordinary broken poems he wrote, he could also win the heart of this Su Fairy? It also led to the original partner who stayed in his hometown, and cried sadly after learning about the situation, which made many elders angry, and it was a bit worth the loss if you think about it carefully.

But forget it.

I can't dwell on it.

Man, who let him have this mouthful of old money? What man doesn't have a little hobby or two? And the talented and beautiful woman, the red sleeves are fragrant, and Qian Chengzhi, who used to often dream and fantasize about these, can only say that one is willing to fight, and the other is willing to suffer.

"Of course we can win, we will win! This is what the owner of the village said himself, since the owner of the village has such great confidence, then I am sure enough to win. "Qian Chengzhi, like many people in Xujiazhuang, now has a blind worship and trust for the owner.

"Well, husband, I also believe that we can win."

Su Ziyu nodded again and again.

In fact, if she Su Ziyu hadn't been ransomed and stayed in the Qinglou Painting Boat, with her status as a famous prostitute, she would definitely support Confucianism 100% in this debate meeting between Xujiazhuang and Confucianism all over the world, and would cheer for the Confucian scholars together with the sisters of the Qinglou.

But now, sisters, I'm sorry, and I'm rooting for my husband.

Oh no, you can't be called sisters anymore, you are not my sisters anymore, because I am a good person now.

Su Ziyu said secretly in her heart, and a flash of essence flashed in her deep eyes, which were like autumn water.

……

April 20.

Ten o'clock in the morning.

Outside Nanjing, at the summit of the Purple Mountain, the debate venue has been arranged.

The audio equipment is debugged.

A full 100,000 spectators, including men, women, and children, also entered.

All relevant preparations have been completed.

The Xujiazhuang VS Confucian orthodox debate conference has officially begun!

And then the specific debate process, the wonderful performance of the debaters on the stage, the feedback from the audience, and the results of the debate competition that day, through the text record, were published word for word in the "Oriental Times", and the next day for the readers and people of the whole Ming Dynasty, in all parts of the world, among hundreds of people from all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty, the discussion and repercussions caused by it must not be only three or five thousand words.

Even tens of thousands of words, hundreds of thousands of words are not enough to write all the details.

The process and results can only be briefly described:

This debate conference, which lasted for ten days and profoundly affected the entire Ming Dynasty, debated a total of ten themes.

The five debates offered by Xu Jiazhuang are: people's livelihood, productivity, fairness, sustainability, and civil rights (i.e., what rights should people enjoy, such as the right to live and the right to be free from fear).

The five debate topics offered by the Confucian scholars were: human dignity and humility, loyalty and filial piety, benevolence, rituals, and righteousness.

Each of the 10 debates around the above 10 debates was very fierce, and it can be said that they were all racking their brains and trying every means to refute the other party, like a life-and-death struggle, and no one could afford to lose.

The end result was a surprise to many.

Xujiazhuang won all ten games.

Confucian orthodoxy lost all ten games, and lost a lot!

By the way, how is this possible?

Even on the five topics set by Xujiazhuang, Confucianism does not have an advantage, and if it loses, it loses, and it is barely acceptable, how can on the five debate topics set by Confucian scholars, Confucian orthodoxy also fails, and it cannot be broken back.

What the hell is going on, is there something greasy in it?

In fact, there must be some cats, the main reason is that the Confucian system is outdated, it is not developed by the times, and it is even unreasonable at all.

As far as the debate of 'loyalty and filial piety' is concerned, filial piety is indeed necessary, which is a good quality worth advocating, but it is not good if it is too much, especially if the father dies and keeps filial piety for three years (generally 27 months), if the father dies and keeps the filial piety for three years, the mother dies and then keeps the three years, adding up to 54 months of filial piety, and the average life expectancy of the people of the Ming Dynasty is more than 38 years old, at least one-tenth of the life is so wasted.

Then calculate the loss of national productivity.

Calculate the financial loss.

and the impact on future generations.

The act of keeping filial piety can only be described as unbeneficial, it is a kind of formalism, and even if the dead parents are knowledgeable, they will not support this kind of behavior.

Of course, for the ruling class, the performance of loyalty must be promoted, and how can a person who is not filial to his parents be loyal to the emperor? Therefore, keep filial piety and let those officials and courtiers have fun, and you can't ask the ordinary people who stop their hands to keep filial piety, and the people who pay money and food taxes can be regarded as the food and clothing parents of the officials. Have you fulfilled the so-called filial piety?

Under such sharp irony, the debate topic of loyalty and filial piety is naturally a big victory for Xujiazhuang.

Finally, there is the question of the voting audience, there are 50,000 people on both sides, and most of the people on Xujiazhuang's side are ordinary people, most of whom are illiterate and semi-literate, and their positions are easy to waver, but the Confucian side provides 50,000 readers! Everyone is sensible and conscious, how can they vote wrong?

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

That being said.

But the 50,000 viewers found by Xujiazhuang are all family members who work in Xujiazhuang, or their livelihoods are related to Xujiazhuang, and they can disagree with some of Xujiazhuang's views, but they voted wrong, which affected the livelihood of the family, which is absolutely unbearable, so no matter how the debate is on the stage, there are few defectors in the 50,000 iron ticket warehouse, and they just vote for Xujiazhuang with their eyes closed.

As for the 50,000 Confucian scholars, it is precisely because they have read books and understood reason that for the truth in front of them, it is a very undesirable and painful thing to make them abandon their personal will and demand that they must reject those views that sound very reasonable.

Therefore, in ten consecutive debates, Xu Jiazhuang won ten of them with a slight advantage of leading by a few hundred, dozens to a dozen votes.