Nanjing, Xiaguan Wharf.

Li Jinglong looked at the masts of the square-bottomed sailing ships crisscrossing the inland rivers in front of him, and the busy porters on the dock, although he had only been away for a few months, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

I haven't seen you for a long time, and I don't know what happened to Jiang Xinghuo.

Although the Japanese mission on board Imagawa Ryitshi, Yuki Mai Sakura and others only arrived in Nanjing for a short time, they had already seen the prosperous side of the city through the corner of the pier, and they were able to experience the unique atmosphere firsthand.

Standing on the boat, Xue Wuying looked at the tall chimneys, dense houses and the rolling Zhongshan Mountain in the east on the shore, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I can't imagine that there is really such a prosperous place in the world!" ”

Li Jinglong had a reserved smile on the corner of his mouth, but he secretly despised it in his heart, the princess of the Japanese barbarians, this is what he saw.

But I don't blame them, after all, compared with the Ming Dynasty, Japan is indeed a heaven and an underground.

But as time passed, Li Jinglong waited left and right, and the ship was about to enter the dock through the narrow channel, but he never saw the team that greeted him, and he couldn't help but secretly doubt in his heart.

Li Jinglong remembered very well that Zhu Gaosui clearly told him that at the end of the lesson that Zhu Di had come to listen to by Gu Cheng, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, he personally said that "I will personally go to the Nanjing dock to greet Cao Guogong, who has returned with honors", and that as long as he successfully completes the mission to Japan, all kinds of problems with Zhu Di in the past will be written off.

"Didn't you go to the wrong dock?"

Li Jinglong saw that there was no one on the dock to greet him, and a ridiculous idea flashed in his mind.

There are indeed several wharves in Nanjing, such as the Yanziji Wharf he just passed through in the north, but it has become a military wharf, in addition, there is also a small wharf in the southwest of Yuhuatai in the south, called Sanshanji Wharf.

But in any case, Cao Guogong, the head of the dignified hundred officials, returned to China with honor, and it was impossible for him to land at Sanshanji Wharf, right?

But no one greeted him at the Xiaguan Wharf in front of him, but it was a little weird.

"Ah Da, you go and take someone to see what's going on."

Li Jinglong didn't want to lose face in front of Imagawa Lijun, so he calmed down and indifferently ordered Cao Ah Da as if nothing had happened.

Cao Ada took several generals from the family and put down the boat and went ashore.

Li Jinglong grabbed the fence and waited for a while, only to see Cao Ah panting and rushing back with something like a newspaper.

Climbing onto the boat, Cao Ah Da couldn't wipe the sweat off his forehead, and said in a loud voice.

"The head of the family, there are, there are people to greet you, Song Li, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, took some nobles to greet me at the dock today, today is a big day, Your Majesty does have something, and many important and important ministers have attended."

"Song Li?"

Li Jinglong frowned, his impression of this person was still that of a former member of the Criminal Department, a middle-level bureaucrat, why did he jump to the right waiter of the Ministry of Rites after not seeing him for more than half a year?

It seems that the situation between the DPRK and China has undergone considerable changes.

Imagawa and the others did not speak, but their curious eyes were undoubtedly revealed.

Obviously, they knew Li Jinglong's unique position in the DPRK, and they also understood that it was very abnormal that there were no important people to greet them today.

"What's the matter?"

Cao Ada, who was already fat, experienced a trip to Japan, and he was even more fat like a hot air balloon, and he just finished speaking in one breath, but he was already tired at this time and couldn't say half a word, so he could only hand the "Ming Pao" in his hand to Li Jinglong.

Li Jinglong snatched the poorly printed newspapers, automatically skipped the sections of treasury bond sales, advertisements, and so on, and began to read them at a glance.

"The head of Nankong's family was imprisoned in the edict prison by Jinyiwei, and set up three rings of 'Wang Bayi, Yili, Ancient and Modern', and asked the great Confucians in the field of science to come to challenge. The incumbent civil officials are not allowed to take a break, so to speak, His Majesty has brought his close ministers and noble military ministers to watch? ”

However, there was no Jiang Xinghuo among the people who debated, but Jiang Xinghuo said that he would definitely come to pick him up.

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At the same time, the abandoned mansion that Tyrant Zhao has just left.

Two teams of brocade guards appeared silently from the left and right street corners, the brocade guards in the front row held rattan cards and knives, and slowly approached the gate, while the brocade guards in the back row raised military steel crossbows.

The sharp arrows glittered in the morning sun, and the crossbowmen of the brocade guard stared at the gate in front of them, they were acting on orders, and anyone who was inside could shoot them on the spot.

"Commander, according to the tip, the target is inside."

Cao Song came to Ji Gang's side and said in a very low voice.

Behind Cao Song, a man was held hostage with a gagged mouth, and it was the one who was shouting beside Tyrant Zhao just now, "I am willing to go to the soup with the tyrant".

Ji Gang nodded: "Have the teams at the back and side of the house arrived?" ”

"It's all here."

Ji Gang waved his hand heavily, and Cao Song blew the whistle.

The brocade guards in the front row slammed open the door before the smoke and dust cleared.

"First row, put!"

With the order of the hundred households, the crossbowmen of the brocade guards in the first row pulled the bracket.

"Whoosh, whoosh"

Dozens of arrows rained down on the open space behind the gate, but no screams were heard.

Almost at about the same time, several teams of brocade guards from other directions either climbed over the wall or broke the door, and poured into the abandoned mansion.

Ji Gang pounced.

"What's going on?"

Ji Gang, who was counting on his achievements to show a big face in front of Emperor Yongle in one battle, angrily grabbed the collar of the rebellious Jianwen Yu in one hand, and the embroidered spring knife in the other hand was already on the right side of his neck.

The middle-aged literati's hair stood on end, and he didn't dare to struggle for fear of cutting his own blood vessels, and he didn't dare not speak, so he could only cry out and look at Ji Gang with hopeful eyes.

Cao Song took off the ball of Songjiang cotton stuffed in his mouth, and the man gasped for breath, and hurriedly said, "Commander Ji!" Listen to me! The rebellion was here just now! I'm leaving, I'm coming to you right away! It's just such a turnaround! He didn't run far, you keep searching! Sure you can find it! ”

Ji Gang waved his hand.

Before the man was dragged down, he kept shouting: "Commander Ji, believe me!" Believe me! ”

Probably because he was noisy, Cao Song took two quick steps and stuffed the ball of Songjiang cotton back into his mouth.

"Commander."

At that moment, a small flag came out of the room with a solemn face, holding an envelope in his hand.

It reads impressively-Commander Ji personally enlightened.

Ji Gang just took the envelope, but he felt that it was inappropriate, so he avoided a few steps and asked another subordinate to open it, and Jin Yiwei carefully opened the envelope, and the letter inside was not smeared with poison, only a few short sentences.

"Not good! Hit the trick of turning the tiger away from the mountain! ”

Looking at the last "Seal of Tyranny", Ji Gang's face changed greatly.

"Gotta go back."

Cao Song took the letter and hurriedly browsed, as a spy family, he made a judgment between lightning and flint, he stopped Ji Gang: "Commander, it's too late to go to the prison to report the news." ”

"What then? Communication fireworks don't understand what it means. ”

"With Hai Dongqing! Didn't Jinyiwei have a new match for Hai Dongqing, which was domesticated by Daning? ”

Ji Gang slapped his head suddenly.

"Yes, yes, if you don't mention it, I'll forget about it."

Ji Gang hurriedly wrote down a note while calling people.

Not long after, a Jinyi guard who was in charge of the communication of the Daning border army behind the team came here with a handsome Hai Dongqing, and he stuffed Ji Gang's note to the falcon's leg, and informed Hai Dongqing of the direction of the destination of this trip in a special way of communication.

At present, this method of communication can only land in a few key places in the city, and in other places, it is not possible to land anywhere.

However, due to the fact that the Imperial Prison is an important location, there are also trained landing places inside, so as long as Hai Dongqing arrives at the Imperial Prison, the falcon tamers inside can quickly tell Emperor Yongle and others outside the Imperial Prison.

On the second floor of the teahouse not far away, Tyrant Zhao in disguise was drinking tea by the railing.

He looked at Hai Dongqing, who flew up to the sky, with an inexplicable expression.

There have been a group of people around Tyrant Zhao, all of whom are strong-looking warriors.

"Sure enough, there are traitors!"

The person next to him said with a Hebei accent and gritted his teeth.

Tyrant Zhao played with the teacup in his hand and smiled:

"A group of people who take it for granted, I have long expected that they are unreliable, and they just do what they do."

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Above the ring.

Zhuo Jing, who was on the west side of the ring, looked at the rising sun hidden in the clouds and fell into a short thought.

Wang Youli's first choice of "the righteous victor is the ruler of the world, and the righteous are the troubled times" This sentence is very ingenious.

Obviously, after the other party came out of the mountain, he had a minimum understanding of the various trends of thought and controversy in the current academic circles.

Because this sentence is not from Confucius and Mencius, but from Xunzi, it is quite a bit of "attacking the shield with the spear of the other". Didn't the great Confucians of your Fa-changing faction advocate carrying Xunzi back to the Five Sages of Confucianism? Well, I'll use Xunzi's views on righteousness and profit to refute you at the beginning.

If you can dismiss it, you have to panic in your heart, because you deny your artificially elevated Xunzi's views; If I can't refute it, then fine, I'll just win.

In fact, this sentence is the core of Xunzi's concept of righteousness and benefit, from "Xunzi Da Luo".

The original text is:

"Those who are righteous and profitable have both. Although Yao Shun can't go to the people's desires, he can make his desires not restrain his good righteousness.

Although it cannot go to the good righteousness of the people, it can make its good righteousness outweigh its desires.

Therefore, the victor of righteousness is the ruler of the world, and the righteous are troubled times. If you value righteousness, you will be righteous, and if you are heavy, you will be righteous. Therefore, the Son of Heaven does not say much, the princes do not say anything about the interests and harms, the doctors do not say anything about the loss, and the scholars do not say about the goods. ”

It means that righteousness and profit are the two sides that people must have, and Yao Shun can't let the people not chase interests, but they can let the interests they chase not defeat morality, and the opposite is true, so "righteousness" can defeat "profit" is to rule the world, and vice versa. Therefore, the Son of Heaven should not care about the amount of wealth, and the princes should not talk about the benefits and disadvantages.

Most of Xunzi's thoughts are in line with the law-changing, but this one was picked up, and that was Wang Youli's face in taking Xunzi to the red fruit to beat the law-changing faction.

However, who is Zhuo Jing, as the first generation of talents in the Ming Dynasty, he can be said to have read all the scriptures and quickly found out how to deal with it.

Didn't you talk about Xunzi? Okay, then I'll talk about the "Five Sons of the Northern Song Dynasty" directly.

Who wouldn't take the words of the sages that the other side is inclined to and refute them alone?

Zhuo Jing said indifferently:

"Therefore, the righteous victor is the ruler of the world, and the righteous are the troubled times, this statement has its own solution, and I don't need to explain, the sages have already made a conclusion."

"Mr. Hengqu said that if it is beneficial to the people, it can be described as beneficial. It is beneficial to the body and the country, but it is not profitable. The words of profit are good, and the words of beauty are beautiful. It is difficult to say that the sincerity cannot be generalized, so the politicians care about the people, so that there is nothing lacking, there is nothing to desire, and the theft will stop. ”

This sentence comes from Zhang Zai, one of the "Five Sons of the Northern Song Dynasty", which means that profit is good for the people, but for scholars and the country, it is not called profit, and it cannot be mixed up, so the people in power, as long as they properly meet the people's desires and interests, then there will be no social chaos.

It is used to answer Wang Youli's question, that is, the statement that "the righteous victor is the ruler of the world, and the righteous are the troubled times" is not right, at least it is too absolute, if the two are basically equal, and there is no need for anyone to defeat whom, then there will be no troubled times. Moreover, for the three groups of the people, scholars, and the state, it is also "benefit", but the meaning is different.

After all, philosophical concepts are progressing with the development of the times, if you don't mention the specific background of the times, compare what the people of the Northern Song Dynasty said with what the people said in the Spring and Autumn Period and what the people said in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period if you don't mention the specific background of the times, it is equivalent to carving a boat for a sword, which is meaningless.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, while the commodity economy was developing rapidly, the problem of redundancies became more and more serious, and social problems and external pressures caused our iron-blooded Great Song Dynasty to urgently need large sums of money to support millions of basically useless soldiers and officials, and to pay every neighboring country an ever-increasing annual coin.

To put it simply, the pressure to make money is too great, so we have to revise the traditional Taoist theory first, after all, if everyone is ashamed of making money and immoral every day, then how can we live? Righteousness cannot be spent as money.

Therefore, the "distinction between righteousness and benefit" in the Northern Song Dynasty began, and Zhang Zai, as the head of Guanxue, stood on the side of supporting money, and he had what he just said.

Back to the topic, Zhuo Jing used the words of "Five Sons of the Northern Song Dynasty" to pay tribute to Wang Heli, from the topic to the idea, it can be described as impeccable.

And although science usually advocates that "the ancients are better than the present", Xunzi, the ancients who taught Han Fei and Li Si two apprentices, is obviously a bit special in the Confucian system, so Wang Youli can't say that Xunzi is more right than Zhang Zai, one of the founders of science and the successor of Confucius and Mencius, otherwise "Ming Pao" will take it out of context, and the headline on the front page will be tomorrow

- "Mr. Shi Dao, the head of the Jinhua School, believes that Xunzi is far better than Confucius and Mencius."

Listening to the cheers from the audience, Wang Heli's face remained unchanged, and a smile appeared on his old face.

He didn't expect to rely on the move just now to directly kill a Confucian of Zhuo Jing's level in seconds, if Zhuo Jing couldn't answer, or there was no relatively perfect solution, it would actually be a strange thing.

After all, the concept of righteousness and benefit is the core proposition of Confucianism, which has been quarreled by various schools for thousands of years.

He waited quietly for Zhuo Jing's round to start.

Zhuo Jing looked at Wang Youli, who was kneeling in front of him, and said softly.

"What's the point? Said: People are not profitable, why is it unspeakable?

Want to speak? Said: The love of the desirer is unspeakable?

Words without courtesy are greed and adultery, and sin; is not greedy or lewd, and it is unspeakable, and it is against people's feelings.

Mencius said, 'Why bother to say profit', excited, how can there be benevolence and righteousness and disadvantage?

I am fortunate to be promoted by Emperor Taizu Gao, and it has been 15 years since I was in the temple.

Emperor Taizu Gao once said to me: Lack of food, heart is not constant, although there is courtesy, the people can not get and teach.

The voice of sorrow in the countryside is still unfinished, and the people are often at risk of freezing and starving. ”

Zhuo Jing's counterattack is saying that profit and desire are normal and should be talked about, and just talking about profit and desire, without regulating it with etiquette, is actually against human nature, so Mencius said that "why bother to say profit" is excessive.

In the second half, taking personal experience as an example, Lao Zhu said to Zhuo Jing, "If the people don't eat, even if they are polite and righteous, they can't be educated."

Well, it can be seen that this sentence is indeed what Lao Zhu can say, after all, he has personal experience, the family was basically starved to death, and he almost starved to death, when he starved to death, Liyi really couldn't be eaten, so Lao Zhu's simple concept of governing the country saw this point very clearly, and repeatedly mentioned it to the close ministers around him, which was really kind.

Then Zhuo Jing asked again, now that the people are often cold and hungry, and the sighs have never stopped, is it because Lao Zhu has not shown benevolence and righteousness to the world?

Using Lao Zhu as a shield outside the words can be said to be similar to Tie Xuan taking Lao Zhu's tablet in Jinan to prevent Zhu Di from attacking the city, and this is indeed Lao Zhu's consistent concept of governing the country.

As soon as these words came out, Wang Youli's face suddenly darkened, and he secretly said in his heart that he was a shameless villain, I am in vain to treat you as a gentleman.

How can this be refuted? Do you want to say that Lao Zhu is wrong? Don't want to die?

It doesn't matter if Zhu Di himself said that Lao Zhu was wrong, but if you, an outsider, dare to say this in front of Zhu Di, I think you think your family's genealogy is too thick.

Wang Youli fell into a long exam.

Upstairs, Zhu Di listened to the words relayed layer by layer, and smiled kindly.

I saw Zhu Di ask Zhu Gaochi behind him, "Do you think Zhuo Shangshu can win?" ”

"It's hard to say."

Zhu Gaochi said honestly:

From the Western Han Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, the mainstream definition is to say'Emphasis on righteousness and light on profit', rather than absolutely ignoring 'profit', or 'righteousness' and 'profit' If Wang and Li take the previous statement, avoid entanglement, trace the source, there is a chance to get it back, so that the two rounds of temptation are over, Wang Youli is very likely to make a killing move, and then if Zhuo Shangshu can't catch it, he may lose."

In the traditional Confucian concept of righteousness and benefit, that is, the main viewpoint of Han Confucianism, from the "Treatise on Salt and Iron" (in the sixth year of Emperor Zhao of the Western Han Dynasty, the "Salt and Iron Conference" was held, with virtuous literature as one side, and the imperial historian Sang Hongyang as the other side, and the great debate on issues such as salt and iron monopoly, liquor monopoly and peace and quasi-equal loss) was "both righteousness and benefit", but "emphasizing righteousness and ignoring profit".

In other words, Han Confucianism not only recognized the rationality of people's pursuit of interests, but at the same time advocated that people's pursuit of interests should be evaluated through the criterion of morality, and at the same time demanded that Confucian scholars be "ashamed of their words and profits." Han Confucianism was still relatively pragmatic and did not prevent people from making money, but did not give high praise to making money.

Zhu Di frowned slightly, and asked rhetorically: "Then you mean that after the Northern Song Dynasty, 'righteousness' and 'profit' were opposed?" ”

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Ahh

What else could it be?

Of course, it was because after Yan Jianyan crossed to the south, he abandoned his father and brother, unjustly killed Yue Fei on "trumped-up" charges, and signed the "Shaoxing Peace Agreement", and the Song and Jin countries were bounded by the middle stream of the Huai River in the east and Dasanguan in the west, and from then on, "the south is from the south, and the north is from the north".

In this way, the problem of the three redundancies of the iron-blooded Great Song Dynasty was magically solved, and the financial situation of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was in a corner of peace, was extremely wealthy, and the physicists of the Southern Song Dynasty did not need to face the pressure of making money, so they could naturally stand on the moral high ground again and point fingers at "profit", and even completely oppose "righteousness" and "profit", "heavenly principle" and "human desire".

As for the Han people in Yanyun, Lianghe, Guanshan, Central Plains, Shandong, Huaibei and other places, they all said "the south is from the south, and the north is from the north", what does it have to do with us?

If you Chen Liang want to advocate the study of merit and recover the Central Plains, then I must refute you and refute the stink.

Oh, I forgot to mention that the "Chen Tongfu" in Xin Qiji's famous poem "Breaking the Array, Giving Strong Words to Chen Tongfu to Send It" is the representative of the study of merit, that is, the study of practice, Chen Liang.

The horse-made Lu is fast, the bow is like a thunderbolt, and he wants to go in his dreams.

Therefore, the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, the change in the ideological context of the "concept of righteousness and benefit" is already clear at a glance.

The mainstream of the Han and Tang dynasties was "both righteousness and benefit, emphasizing righteousness and ignoring profit"; In the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Zai advocated that "the words of profit are good, and the beauty is beautiful, and cannot be generalized", and there are also two Cheng who advocated that "harmony and righteousness are beneficial things"; In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi advocated extremely radically that "a gentleman only sees righteousness, and a villain only sees profit."

And all these changes in philosophical thinking are due to the different backgrounds of the times, and are inseparable from the economic conditions of the times.

In fact, when the transformation of the "concept of righteousness and benefit" is closely integrated with the economic conditions of the times. Isn't that already an answer?

When Zhu Gaochi explained clearly to Zhu Di, Wang Youli finally ended thinking.

A drop of sweat slipped from his forehead and fell on the mud and smeared, Wang Youli's face was already slightly red, and the age spots were extremely dazzling, obviously the thinking just now consumed a lot of his brainpower.

In fact, the debate is very similar to Go, the national hand is playing against each other, and it is not a lie to lose the whole game if you are not careful, and the elderly people like Wang Youli and Zhuo Jing are relatively kneeling and debating the scriptures, or in the environment of thousands of people, it is a double test of physiology and psychology.

However, Zhuo Jing's advantage is that he is younger and has better physical fitness than Wang Youli.

Wang Youli is more than eighty, and he is "only" in his sixties.

Wang Youli slowly spoke, his voice was already a little hoarse: "Ercheng has a saying, where righteousness is profitable, and if there is profit, righteousness is righteousness, the world's affairs, but righteousness and profit, Emperor Taizu Gao is certainly virtuous by the four seas, and the world's children do not feel their kindness, but Yu Yi is able to benefit things, how can it be inappropriate, and those who can benefit things?" Everyone knows that seeking benefits and avoiding harms, and saints do not care about interests and harms, and what is right and what is wrong is life in it. ”

The meaning of the front is very simple, there is no need to translate, only the last sentence of Wang Youli, quoted from Article 26 of "Zhu Zi's Recent Reflections, Volume 7", the original text is: "Mencius argues that the distinction between Shun and Plantar is only between righteousness and benefit." The words are not far apart, and the dispute is not very different. Righteousness and profit are just public and private. Only then did the righteousness come out, and then the words were good. If there is no benefit, what is the use? The interests are also the common feelings of the world. Everyone knows to seek advantage and avoid harm (ibid.)."

It should be noted here that the words of the sages quoted in the Great Confucian Debate are by no means quoted casually, not that they think which one should be used to drag one at will, but while answering appropriately, they have a deeper meaning as a trap for digging a pit for the opponent, if the opponent's level is not enough to avoid it in time when answering, then the next round, this trap will immediately become a killer move.

The reason why Wang Youli quoted Zhu Xi's words is because Zhu Xi quoted Mencius's words on "the distinction between Shun and Plantar", and why Mencius's words are very important, I will explain it later, first of all, the main meaning of Zhu Xi's words, that is, Zhu Xi focused on the "between", and Zhu Xi thought that this "between" showed that Shun and Plantar were not far apart.

In other words, Mencius's distinction between righteousness and benefit is not very far, and under normal circumstances, the judgment of righteousness and benefit can only show that the two exist in people's hearts at the same time, so it is said that the common feelings of the world are the general standards of the laity, while the sages never care about interests, that is, they do not care about righteousness and profit.

In other words, it is to skillfully use Zhu Xi's explanation to bypass Zhuo Jing's shield against Lao Zhu.

So at the end of the translation, Wang Youli wanted to say that a saint like Emperor Taizu Gao of the Ming Dynasty only decided on "what should be or should not be" in everything, and never wanted to "benefit", so although Emperor Taizu Gao said "benefit", this "benefit" can not be narrowly understood as benefit, but he should act as an emperor, so he said.

The auditorium on the other side.

"That's what it means."

After Cao Duan's explanation, the Jiangnan scholar who had been defeated in his hands before suddenly realized, and then became more and more ashamed.

"If it weren't for your explanation, I'm afraid I wouldn't have understood the profound meaning of Mr. Shidao's words."

Another scholar sighed: "That's natural, that is, Mr. Shidao is not confused, Zhuo Shangshu's question is too dangerous, some villain's heart, after all, Your Majesty is watching from the side, if you are a little careless, you can't perfectly bypass Emperor Taizu Gao and give a reasonable explanation, I'm afraid that if Your Majesty is angry, the Jinhua School will turn into powder." ”

"Mr. Shidao's wit doesn't stop there."

Gao Xunzhi, who was also resting in the audience below, said coldly.

"What else does it mean?" This time, even Xu Lao was a little surprised, because he only thought of Cao Duan's dimension just now, and didn't realize that there was a deeper meaning in it, and Xu Lao looked at Cao Duan's unsurprised appearance, and a little strange emotion rose in his heart.

Does Cao Duan not know how to pretend to understand, or has he already seen through it and is only willing to explain a layer of meaning just right so as not to appear too good and attract more jealousy?

"Of course."

Gao Xunzhi is senior enough and has a high status, he doesn't care about these pretenses.

He explained lightly: "There is an allusion that Mencius said about the distinction between Shun and Plantar, and I think you have all heard it, that is, Mencius said that those who get up when they smell the chicken and do good deeds tirelessly are people like Shun; Those who get up when they smell the chickens and keep seeking profits all the time are people like thieves. Therefore, Mencius said that the two are only between righteousness and benefit. ”

This is not some obscure allusion, of course, those who are present to study science have heard it, so they seem a little puzzling.

"What do you mean?"

"That's what Mencius said." Gao Xunzhi seemed to have said a word of nonsense.

"So what?"

Seeing that everyone was really stupid, Cao Duan explained in a muffled voice: "Taoism." ”

When Cao Duan spoke, only then did smart people understand one after another.

Conventional!

That is to say, the improvement of Mencius's status was not carried out by Song Confucianism, but by Han Yu in the Middle and Tang Dynasty who carried out the "Ancient Literature Movement" in order to restore Taoism, attached importance to the book "Mencius", and advocated improving Mencius's status.

Han Yu first put forward the Confucian idea of Taoism, the original text is too long, and the simple order is "Yao-Shun-Yu-Tang-Wen-Wu-Zhou Gong-Confucius-Mencius", and after Mencius's death, Taoism was lost.

By the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Qingli New Deal was different from the Xining Reform, although the Qingli New Deal was shorter, Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu were level, and they began to sharply elevate the status of Mencius to unify the chaotic trend of thought before the birth of science at that time.

The science inherited Han Yu's "Mencius Taoist Unification Theory", and Wang Anshi raised Mencius's political status and personally raised Mencius into the ranks of the Confucian Temple.

Therefore, the pit that Wang Youli dug for Zhuo Jing was waiting for Zhuo Jing to refute Mencius's statement according to his words, so as to throw out the Taoist theory and suppress people, and then use Wang Anshi's change to metaphorize the Yongle New Deal presided over by Jiang Xinghuo today, and the follow-up killing moves must be hidden in it.

Of course, what Wang Youli's killing move was, it was difficult for Gao Xunzhi and Cao Duan to guess.

But there is no doubt that in the first debate ring, after a long period of mutual testing and competition, it will soon be time to kill the winner and lose.

At this moment, as Hai Dongqing landed on the horizon, several brocade guards galloped out of the edict, and then abandoned their horses in a panic, and after the report, they went directly upstairs to meet Zhu Di.

"Your Majesty is not good!"

The brocade guard who came to report held up the note in his hand, the sweat was about to soak himself into a blur, and when he went upstairs to see Zhu Di, his lips were trembling violently.

"What's wrong? What kind of system is panicking?! ”

Zhu Gaosui reprimanded.

The smile on Jinyi Wei Baihu's face was more ugly than crying, and he was just about to speak, but he was silenced by Zhu Gaosui's signal, and he didn't have time to explain what the note in his hand was directly snatched away by Zhu Gaosui.

Zhu Gaosui glanced at it hurriedly, and his face changed greatly.

"Father."

Zhu Gaosui said a few words in Zhu Di's ear, and Zhu Gaochu vaguely heard "gunpowder", but Zhu Di's face was extremely calm.

To Zhu Gaosui's surprise, Zhu Di just crossed his waist and smiled contemptuously.

"With this trick of Tyranny, you were easily bluffed? He used the same tricks less than four years in the camp of Zhending, and four years against us? ”

"Send someone to search, this building and the surrounding buildings, how many days in advance has Jinyiwei checked and sealed it? There are also several large urns in the ground to eavesdrop day and night, even if there is gunpowder, how can it be under our feet? ”

Zhu Di finally came to a conclusion: "This must be a transfer of the tiger."

Before the words fell, suddenly a bungalow house in the distance came from "Bang! There was a loud bang.

Immediately afterward, countless bricks and stones burst out, and a puff of black smoke rose, causing no damage, but causing chaos on a huge scale.

Zhuo Jing's contemplation was interrupted, he knew that Wang Youli must have a plan to give him the initiative, he had to defend instead of attacking, and he had absolute confidence to defend the round he gave to him, and win with one blow. Therefore, Zhuo Jing was extremely cautious, kept thinking, and had vaguely guessed several possible options for Wang Youli.

But at the moment, the surrounding audience was shocked by the sound of explosions in the distance, and there was serious chaos at the scene, Zhuo Jing had to interrupt his thinking, he didn't run, in this case, Zhuo Jing still remained awake, or rather, such a crowded crowd, there is no need to run, it is useless to run, his old arms and legs, he is easy to be trampled to death if he runs, and it is safe on the high platform.

And Wang Youli on the other side had a bit of the meaning that Mount Tai collapsed in front of him and his face did not change, so he didn't panic at all, but nodded to him with a smile.

"Father, are you alright?"

Upstairs, Zhu Gaoxu held the beams and pillars with one hand and firmly protected Zhu Di with the other hand in a posture that seemed extremely exaggerated to others, and the beams and pillars of the house were like the beams of the bus in his hands.

"It's fine."

Zhu Di patted the ash on his face, and he was also very calm.

has been rolling in the rain of guns and arrows for a lifetime, and this little movement is nothing.

Zhu Gaosui pulled up the eldest brother who was frightened by the explosion, and anxiously asked: "Father, it's not safe here, do you want to go back to the palace first?" ”

The close ministers and nobles behind him also cast glances with similar meanings.

"Idiot!"

Zhu Di kicked over, Zhu Gaosui dodged like a monkey dexterously, and Zhu Di's foot stopped in front of the belly of the big child.

Zhu Di said angrily: "This is the chaos deliberately created by Tyrant Zhao!" ”

"This building and the surrounding buildings are all the property of Jinyiwei, does he have the ability to sneak in and bury thousands or tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder? Are you blind when you are a brocade guard? ”

"That"

Zhu Gaosui quickly reacted and asked uncertainly: "Is Tyrant Zhao's real killing move buried on our way back to the palace?" Is he trying to force us back to the palace? ”

"Of course."

Zhu Di snorted coldly and quickly gave his will.

"First, send the original convoy to return to the palace immediately."

"Second, let the debate continue and appease the people's emotions."

"Three, the third child, you wear my clothes, sit in my place, and let the people outside the window see it."

"Fourth, the second child led the team to pull a net around the convoy, ready to arrest the rebels."

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Inside the teahouse.

His subordinates reported: "Tyrant, the puppet emperor's luan has moved, and although the person in the window is wearing a dragon robe, he must not be the puppet emperor, and the brother who has seen the puppet emperor with sharp eyes has confirmed it." ”

Tyrant Zhao smiled, just shook his head.

"You don't know Zhu Di, he must still be in the teahouse."

"Isn't that the brother who set up the ambush?!"

The men looked at each other.

Tyrant Zhao put down the teacup and his face turned cold.

"Those who achieve great things must have trade-offs."

With that, he kicked open the box at his feet.

There are dozens of sets of flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives of Jinyi guards, as well as rattan cards and steel crossbows.

This is the killer move of Tyranny.

(End of chapter)