Meanwhile.

A few miles away from Yuhuatai, in a building in the south of the city.

Several figures dressed as ordinary people were sitting around the table, carefully discussing something.

One of the tall men, frowning, said:

"I've just informed the tyrant and asked them to find another way, the Eagle Guard is all taking off to block our hot air balloons, I hope they can do it."

The other man sighed and said in a solemn tone: "I'm afraid it will be difficult for those hot air balloons to break through the barrier of the Flying Eagle Guard, once the Flying Eagle Guard has blocked all the hot air balloons, what reliable means of ignition can be used on the tyrant's side?" I'm afraid our mission won't be so easy this time. ”

"Forget that."

The leader hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "We have to evacuate according to the original plan, and now we can't take care of any of us, we can only take care of ourselves, after all, the follow-up [Taizu Death Day] plans still need us to manipulate." ”

"Well, that's true."

The companion nodded: "Although there has been no progress recently, but in general, the effect is okay, at least in the short term, those guys in Jinyiwei should not have much energy to entangle with us, and as long as we can ensure that the people on our line do not fall into their hands, it is enough." ”

Another thin man said in a deep voice: "But if they really destroy all the hot air balloons and cause the mission to fail, then our losses will be great, after all, without the help of the tyrant, we are afraid that many things will be very difficult for us to operate." ”

"And Mao Dafang."

Hearing this, several people nodded.

"Don't forget what our main task is, we can't help here the tyrant, evacuate, the eyes of the black-clothed prime minister are always staring at us."

——————

Rewind the clock a little bit back to when the tiebreaker began.

A quarter of an hour ago.

Cao Duan was stared at very uncomfortably by Yao Guangxiao in person.

After coming to power, Yao Guangxiao did not rush to use the power of the defender to launch an interrogation, but looked at him calmly.

This legendary "black-clothed prime minister" has no kindness in his triangular eyes, but looks at his prey like a sick tiger who wants to choose someone to devour.

Obviously, Cao Duan had greatly piqued Yao Guangxiao's interest.

If the Dragon Tiger Mountain Great Heavenly Master just now, Cao Duan's first round was just defense and temptation, and his current mentality was completely planning to go all out from the beginning in order to defeat the other party.

Cao Duan took a deep breath to calm himself down.

After all, this is a public place, and you can't be too out of shape, and the pressure released by the other party, consciously or unconsciously, is also part of the debate between the two sides.

But soon, Cao Duan realized that things didn't seem to be as simple as he imagined.

Although Yao Guangxiao kept staring at himself, his eyes were not focused.

It was as if he had seen himself as a background, as if he were an unimportant prop, just to observe him and study him......

This made Cao Duan even more nervous.

Finally, Yao Guangxiao spoke.

The theme of today's fifth debate is "The Debate of Ancient and Modern," and Yao Guangxiao will certainly not digress.

"Flexible, interesting to the times. From time to time, there is an endless period, its potential has been poor and will change, change and pass, pass and reach, the situation overturned, how easy is it? ”

It means that flexibility is to follow the current situation, when time is exhausted, and the situation is also poor, and the situation is not good, then it will be accessible, and sometimes as long as it is accessible, it is very simple to turn the poor and decadent situation over.

His voice was still so low and hoarse, giving people an inexplicable sense of intimidation.

Cao Duan's knuckle-thick hand unconsciously tapped on his knee.

The first half of Yao Guangxiao's sentence comes from "Zhou Yi and the Resignation", and the second half of the sentence seems to be said by himself, which seems to have nothing to do with the issue of "the debate between ancient and modern" on the surface.

The reason is, what is ancient? What is today?

To put it bluntly, the ancient and the modern are a concept of time, and the core of the "debate between the ancient and the modern" is not whether the ancient times were better or the present, but whether to change them.

Change is the core issue of the "debate between ancient and modern".

Yao Guangxiao's initiative in the first round was used in this, he thinks it is good to change, so how should Cao Duan argue?

Cao Duan thought for a long time, obviously Yao Guangxiao gave him a lot of pressure, although it was not an unusual question, but Cao Duan still asked himself to be as thoughtful as possible before answering, until the hourglass was about to run out, before he spoke.

"I don't dream of Zhou Gong anymore."

Everyone in the audience immediately realized that this fifth tiebreaker was completely different from the previous four.

Without the tricks of large quotations, shifting flowers, personal sarcasm, and using the Ming Emperor as a shield, the confrontation between the two sides is extremely restrained and restrained, and they are trying to use the least number of words to express the most profound content.

It's like an iceberg hidden under the calm sea, and if you don't pay attention, you will be crushed.

So, what does Cao Duan's answer to express his stance mean?

This sentence comes from the "Analects", of course, it does not mean the "Zhou Gong" who fell asleep, but the real Zhou Gong in history.

Confucius had great respect for the political system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, so Confucius used "Dream of Zhou Gong" to express his yearning for the Western Zhou Dynasty society and his admiration for Zhou Gong.

In other words, Cao Duan did not directly say that he thought ancient times were good, but borrowing this allusion from Confucius, he expressed his attitude unmistakably.

And Zhou Gong represents Zhou Li.

Confucius believed that the Zhou rites were necessary to govern the country with rites, and Yan Hui asked how to govern the country, Confucius said: "When traveling in the summer, take the chariot of Yin, serve the crown of Zhou, and the music is "Shao" and "Dance"; In the era of Mencius, Mencius had an accurate definition of etiquette, that is, "the reality of etiquette, the festival and the text are also", the "festival" here is to achieve social harmony by controlling people's desires and emotions, and "literature" is to decorate and beautify the form of interpersonal communication, and obtain the form of civilization, that is, etiquette is to promote the civilization of social relations and interpersonal communication.

"Gloomy and literary, great Zhou Li."

Cao Duan cautiously launched his offensive, the first half of the sentence was the original words of Confucius, and the second half of the sentence was to bite the Zhou Li, which represented the "ancient".

Of course, Cao Duan, like Xie Jin, bit Zhou Li, not because they really believed in that thing, but because this is an absolutely unmistakable academic correctness in Confucianism, and Confucius turned this matter over and over again, and it must be wrong to use this.

Yao Guangxiao shook his head, and did not show his edge, but said calmly:

"Zhou Gong's salute, although it is the culmination of a hundred saints, seems to be able to pass through the changes of the world and endless. However, the princes have been in a forest, and the king of Zhou has embraced his son of heaven and observes the Zhou rites, but although he was cut off from the sky at that time, there are those who can adapt the system of the Duke of Zhou and do it, the world does not need Zhou, and the technique of the Duke of Zhou is not poor. ”

Here Yao Guangxiao's answer first affirmed the Duke of Zhou, and then said that when the princes of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty rose together, the Zhou rites did not play their due role, and although the Zhou Dynasty was not as good as before at this time, if there was a king who knew how to be flexible and could change the Zhou rites, then even if the world still did not belong to the Zhou Dynasty in the end, the system of the Duke of Zhou could be passed on (through change) endlessly.

Obviously, the two sides want to focus on the proposition of Zhou Li to debate whether the system should change with the progress of the times.

This is also the most profound proposition facing the temples of the Ming Dynasty today, that is, whether to push the change to a deeper level, or stop it immediately?

Now that he has finished answering, Yao Guangxiao began his counteroffensive:

"In the book "Zhou Li", the will of the first king is there, Confucius sighed his gloomy text, and the merit of knowing heaven and earth is not prepared here, and there are saints later, and it cannot be added to this...... However, humanity is enough to understand the principles of the world and the changes of the world. The reason for adaptation is there, and the way of Zhou Gong is covered by this and flows with heaven and earth, and is especially poor? ”

"The general trend of the world, heaven and earth, ghosts and gods cannot be easy, and those who are easy are also people. There is heaven and earth, and man stands in it. Humanity is established and the world is not impossible, the sage on the law of the "Yi" and return to the adaptation, on the adaptation of the return, on the adaptation of the return, there is no deviation and ignorance. ”

The former paragraph is to refute Cao Duan's "depressed and depressed", and the latter paragraph is the opinion of Chen Liang and Zhu Xi during the debate, which was quoted by Yao Guangxiao.

The core theme of Yao Guangxiao's counteroffensive is to inherit his beginning of "to be flexible according to the situation", and further extend to "the key to flexibility lies in people".

In other words, it means that it should be different from each other, rather than rigidly learning from the previous king.

Although there was no verbal sword in the tiebreaker, this kind of heavy saber without edge and skillful hand-to-hand play seemed duller than all the previous games. Wonderful.

It was so wonderful that even Gao Xunzhi and Wang Youli, who were lying on the side of the street drinking soup, unconsciously held their breath, thinking intently about the profound meaning contained in the two people's debate.

The two of them have their own opinions, argue with each other, and the wisdom embodied in the debate also makes the two show the most surprising scene since the beginning of the game - they are not only expounding their own views, but also closely linked to the current situation in the temple, needle and disadvantages, which is not the "debate of the king" and "the distinction of righteousness and benefit", and this state of keeping up with current affairs, obviously also makes the debate a little more weighty out of thin air, and the win or loss here is really related to the interests of everyone at the moment!

And the audience in the audience couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Many people have read the writings of Confucius and Mencius and other sages countless times, but they have never listened to the debate between the two great Confucians so attentively as they do today.

It's like when you're eating, you occasionally see a guest at the next table, and suddenly eat a dish that is different from yours, forcing others to want to take a look out of curiosity, and even want to lean over and insert a chopstick.

——————

"What does that mean? What kind of Zhou Gong, what kind of people? ”

Zhu Di, who was hiding in the corner, listened boringly, he thought there would be some confrontation between scolding each other, who knew that was it?

Zhu Gaochi just wanted to explain to his father, but he suddenly looked out the window blankly and was dumbfounded.

Since they were on the second floor to the northwest of the hot-air balloon battlefield between the two sides, on the left side of the vertical road of the "T" street in front of the Imperial Prison, they could clearly see what was happening in the airspace to the southeast.

More than a dozen giant hot air balloons of Flying Eagle Guard have all lifted into the air and are intercepting three hot air balloons of unknown origin.

In the distance, one after another "fireworks" were exploding, which was the scene of a hot air balloon full of fire oil under Storm Zhao's men exploding in the air.

At this moment, the air was filled with gunsmoke and fire.

Although the distance is still relatively far, you can still feel the shocking effect, which makes people's hearts shake and it is difficult to help themselves!

At this time, Zhu Gaosui, who was sitting in front of the window on the second floor as the "emperor", couldn't help but murmur: "This ...... This...... It's beautiful......"

Due to the obstruction of the view of the window lattice, Zhu Di, who was on the second floor, did not see the scene that the two of them could see, and hurriedly walked a few steps to the window not far away, only to see the scene of the air battle in the distance, and couldn't help but be stunned for a while.

Humans, fighting in the air.

Once upon a time, this was simply impossible, but now it has become a reality in just a few months.

This is the change that science has brought to military technology.

Zhu Di recalled, the past came to mind, as if he saw the scene when he discussed the future war mode with Jiang Xinghuo in the last lesson of the edict, and couldn't help but sigh.

At that time, Jiang Xinghuo said something that he couldn't believe.

"Wait."

Zhu Di suddenly realized a problem.

Who transferred the Flying Eagle Guard?

It stands to reason that the Flying Eagle Guard cannot be transferred without its own orders, after all, this is something that can condescendingly monitor the palace.

But at present, the unknown hot air balloon that was shot down in the airspace in the southeast is obviously ill-intentioned, so the only one who has the possibility or ability to mobilize is Jiang Xinghuo.

But didn't Jiang Xinghuo go to Xiaguan Wharf to pick up Li Jinglong?

At this moment, the person sent to report the news finally arrived, it was not someone else, it was Cao Afu, or Li Jinglong knew the severity of the situation, and he did not forget to send someone to explain the transfer of troops to Emperor Yongle in his busy schedule.

After all, this is the mobilization of soldiers and horses in the capital, although it is not a soldier and horse in the conventional sense, but it is always the army of the Ming Dynasty, or the army directly under the emperor.

After listening to Cao Afu's explanation, Zhu Di's expression looked much better.

Zhu Gaosui didn't have time to play the emperor at this time, after all, intelligence reconnaissance also involved his part of his own work, so he retreated to a blind corner that could not be seen from the outside window, waiting for his father's order.

Zhu Di came back to his senses, kicked Zhu Gaosui's buttocks, pointed at his son and scolded: "Bastard boy! What do you eat? How can Tyrant Zhao be so easy to deal with? Deliberately letting our guard down can't be seen? ”

Zhu Gaosui was stunned for a moment, then covered his body and said with a smile:

"Father's anger! Son-in-law damn it, don't be angry, what should I do next? Please also ask my father to give instructions. ”

"Close all the city gates first, and then let Jin Wuwei and Jinyi Wei go out, change the password, search for the hiding place of Tyrant Zhao, and see people alive and corpses when dead!"

Zhu Di said in a deep voice, his tone was cold, and he was extremely decisive.

Zhu Gaosui hurriedly responded: "The son obeys the order." ”

He paused and said tentatively: "It's just that Erchen wants to know that since there has been such a huge mistake, can Erchen personally lead the team to search?" The retainers are willing to make meritorious contributions. ”

Zhu Di originally planned to let him go, anyway, now that he is wearing this dragon robe, he can't play a role in confusing him, but when he thought that Tyrant Zhao's subordinates were all the elites of the Zhending Battalion, all of them were extremely fierce, and he couldn't say that there would be any accidents under his desperate efforts, he took the words back to his lips, glared at him and said, "Can you use a fart?" Don't talk nonsense, come back honestly and stay after you finish explaining! ”

"Yes!"

Zhu Gaosui saluted and said goodbye, hurriedly left the teahouse, and turned around before taking a long breath.

Fortunately, there was no big mess this time, otherwise, my father would definitely have to cut him!

After all, Ji Gang was suspended before, and Yao Guangxiao's main direction of tracking down Jianwen's remnants was those literati, and he was mainly responsible for searching for the traces of Tyranny.

"Wait!"

"I think of something." Zhu Di said, "Go and find someone to find in the direction of Yuhuatai, go out of the city with a special purpose, and find the national teacher, just say that I have summoned him to meet him, go quickly!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhu Gaosui gave up his hand again, and after several horsemen rode through the streets and alleys from behind, they hurriedly ran in the direction of Yuhuatai.

With the large-scale dispatch of Jin Wuwei and Jin Yiwei, there has been a storm in Nanjing.

With the dispatch of the army, people also knew the reason through the rumors in the market, because two major events had just happened - the first was news from the direction, saying that the convoy in a certain area west of the palace had been raided, suspected to be committed by rebels; The second thing is that the hot air balloon that attempted to attack His Majesty the Emperor was intercepted and destroyed by the Eagle Guard under the wise decision of His Majesty the Emperor.

In fact, there is no need to confirm the authenticity, because soon Jinyiwei and Jin Wuwei have mobilized and dispatched, focusing on the east and south, and there is no intention of concealing it at all.

As for who is the rebel? Who dared to murder Emperor Yongle? Although the target of these people is obviously Emperor Yongle, few people know who would be so crazy.

——————

The debate on the stage was briefly and forcibly interrupted by the air battle in the southeast, and everyone's eyes were attracted by the new things that had taken place there and had never been seen before.

That. No one listened to the debate.

Well, this may be the fundamental reason why online classes can never beat online games.

After a while, when the hot air balloons of the Flying Eagle Guard were lined up in a long snake formation and turned around the direction of Yuhuatai, the audience's attention returned to the ring.

Yao Guangxiao on the stage didn't feel heartbroken, but watched it with relish for a long time.

The previous debate topic came to "the key to flexibility lies in people", and Cao Duan took this opportunity to re-examine his countermeasures and said confidently.

"Where did the ceremony come from?"

"People are born with desires, and if they can't get what they want, they can't ask for nothing, and if they don't want to measure the boundary, they can't fight."

"Controversy is chaos, chaos is poor, the first king hated its chaos, so the system of etiquette and righteousness is divided, in order to support people's desires, and give people what they want."

"So that desire will not be exhausted by things, and things will not yield to desires, and the two will grow together, which is the origin of etiquette."

Cao Duan still did not shake his basic argument, or starting from Zhou Li, since Yao Guangxiao believes that the key to flexibility lies in people, then he also refutes from the perspective of people.

Cao Duan is mainly quoted from "Xunzi", here is Xunzi's definition of etiquette, that is, people are born with desires, and if the desires are not satisfied, they can't ask for nothing, once people have something to ask for, they will lose their proportions and boundaries, and disputes will arise, and disputes will be chaotic, the first king doesn't like chaos, so he uses etiquette and righteousness to divide people's classes, meet people's desires, so that desires do not feel depressed because of the small number of things, and also make things not exhausted by endless desires, so that desires are not only limited and succumbed to matter, Rather, it has the spiritual pursuit of etiquette.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Duan came up with his thinking opinion.

"A man is not as strong as an ox, or as good as a horse, but a cow and a horse are used by people, why not? Said: People can be in groups, but people in cattle and horses can't be in groups. ”

"How can people be collective? Said: Points, how can points be done? Said: Righteousness. ”

Therefore, the righteousness is divided into harmony, and harmony is one, and one is strong and strong, and strong is better than cattle and horses.

"Therefore, people can get a house and live in it, and the four times of the order, cut all things, and the world, and there is no other reason, and they will be divided."

Here Cao Duan said some red fruits, directly tore off the gorgeous coat of Liyi, and directly told its most essential origin in human society.

Human strength is not as good as oxen, speed is not as good as horses, but cattle and horses are harnessed by people because humans can act in concert (in an orderly manner), so how do people act together? It's a division, how to divide it? With "righteousness", it is precisely because of the division of "righteousness" that human beings can build houses and cultivate according to the four seasons and then rule the whole world.

And then, the straightforwardness of Cao Duan's words made many defenders instinctively uncomfortable.

"Therefore, the case of the first king made a distinction between etiquette and righteousness, so that there is a difference between the high and the low, the difference between the young and the old, and the difference between the foolish and the foolish, all of which make people carry their own things and get their own suitability, and then make Gu Lu how thick and thin it is, and it is the way of the husband to live in a group."

That is to say, etiquette is the criterion for distinguishing different classes of people, used to establish the class and hierarchy of different members of the entire human society, only by dividing these, can we continue to clarify the role and positioning of each member of society, as well as his duties and obligations, the most fundamental basis of "clear distinction" is etiquette and righteousness, only the etiquette formulated by the previous king can allow people to perform their duties, do their best, get their place, and benefit from them, so that the entire human society can be maintained and operated stably.

Cao Duan said it too bluntly, but this kind of almost frank straightforwardness is particularly imposing in this decisive game with almost no language traps.

Be upright, see how you argue?

Yao Guangxiao's white eyebrows trembled slightly, obviously interested, looking at the passing hourglass, his mind quickly thought of countermeasures.

At this time, it is useless to be cautious and petty, of course, it is only happy to refute the other party with the same upright reason.

After pondering for a moment, Yao Guangxiao said:

"Since the third dynasty of the Xia and Shang dynasties, up and down for thousands of years, how can it be triumphant, scattered between heaven and earth, scholars have been self-sufficient. The ancient emperors were only aware of things, spoke and established the government, obeyed the hearts of the people, and were not lazy when the time was appropriate, and the world was at peace through its changes. As for Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, the law was forbidden, and the reform of the Qin law was also a place to know that the world was tired of Qin, and he thought that he had a place to rest, so his monarchs and ministers were simple because of ugliness, and there was a sense of leniency, and it was the system of the Han family, and the people were also safe. ”

"However, in all dynasties, those who were destroyed were mostly in accordance with the old system of their ancestors, although there was a slight increase and loss due to the revolution, it was not enough to be important or not, so they did not think about change, so they maintained the status quo poorly. However, the old system of the ancestors, there is a strategy that can be extended for decades, there is a plan that can be for 150 or 60 years, and there is a strategy that can be used to reopen the foundation for hundreds of years? Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, could it be that he followed the ancestral system of Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty and prospered the Han Dynasty? ”

Yao Guangxiao's tirade, the basic point of view is that history is constantly developing, the so-called "ancestral system" is based on the historical background of different eras of the first king to judge the situation and conform to the people's will to formulate, not immutable, for example, after Liu Bang took the world, he changed the Qin Dynasty's strict punishment and law and the rest of the people, and most of the downfall of the previous dynasties was because they did not know how to be flexible or flexible, and rarely talked about it better than nothing, and kept the old system of the ancestors so that the times became more and more impoverished.

But the question is, there are those who can manage the old system of the ancestors for decades, at most one hundred and fifty or sixty years, and can they help you re-establish the foundation of the dynasty in a few hundred years? You ask the Great Demon Master Liu Xiu if he was able to revive the Han Dynasty because he used Liu Bang's system?

Just kidding, don't talk about Liu Bang's old system, even if Wang Mang has restored the well field system of the three generations of ancestors, can he block a few big meteorites?

Cao Duan said frankly, and Yao Guangxiao's rebuttal was also very sincere, just to give an example to be reasonable.

And this kind of debate without intrigue, on the contrary, made Cao Duan under a lot of pressure.

The facts are here, from what angle should we start in order to refute the other party without deviating from the fundamental thesis of Zhou Li?

Drops of sweat trickled down his young face.

There was a "snap" and hit the table.

This also means that his mental calculations have burned to the extreme, and he is about to be unable to hold on.

But Cao Duan still gritted his teeth, thinking about the best solution.

Finally, Cao Duan seemed to think of something, took a breath, looked at the hourglass that was about to pass to the end, and said loudly.

"Those who are righteous are born from the hypocrisy of saints and people."

"Rites have three origins, heaven and earth, and the origin of life; The ancestors are the origin of mankind; The master is the source of peace. ”

"Where is the place of etiquette, there is no heaven and earth and evil life? No ancestors are evil? No monarch and evil governance? The three are dead, and there is no peace. ”

"Therefore, the rites, the heavens, the earth, the ancestors, and the great masters, are the three origins of the rites."

That is to say, the basis for the sages and the ancestors to formulate the rites is the hypocrisy of human nature, and the rites have three origins, namely heaven and earth, ancestors, and masters, heaven and earth are the origin of the survival or existence of all things, the ancestors are the origin of the human race, and the master is the source of the world's ability to be governed peaceful.

"Heaven and earth are combined, the sun and the moon are bright, the four hours are ordered, the stars are lined, the rivers are flowing, all things are prosperous, likes and dislikes are festivals, joy and anger are when, thinking that the lower is smooth, thinking that the upper is bright, all changes are not chaotic, and the second is mourning, and the ceremony is not enough!"

- Gorgeous analogy nonsense.

In the end, Cao Duan rolled out a long map of Yan Kingdom, and finally revealed the dagger.

"There are Zhou rites first, and then the scholars of later generations are poor and have three outlines and five constants, so that monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, brothers, and husbands and wives, the beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning, the same as heaven and earth, and the same as all eternity."

"The three outlines and five constants, the principles of heaven are also heavenly gifts."

As soon as these words came out, the audience cheered!

Cao Duan's super-level performance in the face of huge pressure simply impressed everyone.

You must know that Cao Duan's words are not just like others, bringing out the Three Principles and Five Constants as the ultimate answer to suppress people, but from the "origin of rites", all the way to the "meaning of rites", and finally the "development of rites".

In other words, here the Three Principles and the Five Constants are not the beginning, but the result.

And Cao Duan's sentence, in fact, also has the meaning of "patching" quietly, explaining that from Zhou Li to the Three Platforms and Five Constants, it is actually a manifestation of flexibility, but this kind of adaptation is not to overturn and restart from the root, but to improve the environment.

Cao Duan's logic is extremely clear, and after the patch, it is almost impeccable!

The three outlines and five constants are pressed on the head, this thing is in Cao Duan's mouth, it is not only "Tianli", but also "Tianli", how can you break the black-clothed prime minister?

"Wonderful! Isn't that a win! ”

Listening to the discussion of the scholar next to him, Gao Xunzhi couldn't help but feel refreshed.

"Add some sugar."

Wang Youli, who was drinking mung bean soup next to him, still told him by Gao Xunzhi in his ear, and only then did he understand in the boiling voice.

The head of the Jinhua School chewed Cao Duan's words carefully for a long time, but he even forgot to drink the mung bean soup.

"Now, Kong Xilu is afraid that he can be rescued, alas, he must have suffered a lot inside, I'm afraid that on such a hot day, he won't even have to drink a bowl of mung bean soup, right?"

(End of chapter)