Chapter 35: Tampering with the Divine Will
"Hmph! Surin, you're so bold. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info Do you think you are a saint? You dare to say that the Confucian scholars in the entire Tianren Continent are wrong.
Don't choose what you say, be arrogant, don't think that you are a talented son, and you can soar to the sky after passing the county examination, and you don't look at the world in your eyes.
You must know that this county examination is just the first threshold for the imperial examination. Sure enough, it is a cheap and rotten seed who has never seen the world, and he even dares to say such wild words!
Believe it or not, if I report to the Punishment Department of the Temple, you will be stripped of your child's position immediately!"
Hearing that Su Lin dared to say that the Confucian scholars in the entire Tianren Continent were wrong, Na Huang Tong said with great disdain.
At the same time, he was also wondering in his heart, his cousin Zhao Shuang was the grandson of Confucianism, and he had read a lot of scriptures since he was a child, how could he be compared to a lowly country breed like Su Lin?
"Tsk...... It's the first time I, Liu Chang, have heard someone dare to say that all the Confucian scholars in the world are wrong! Could it be that he really thinks that he is the only one in the world is right? This kid is too arrogant!"
"It's just a talented son, and I guess I haven't seen much of the world since I was a child. Does he know how big the world is?
In Wu alone, there are more than 10,000 Confucian scholars, and there are more than 100,000 Confucian scholars in the whole world.
It's even more arrogant than the arrogant Jing Wudao of the Chu State! But Jing Wudao is already a great Confucian cultivator, and he has arrogant capital!
This fifteen-year-old boy in Surin District dared to deny the Confucian students in the world like this. β
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The onlookers, even if they still had a trace of sympathy for Su Lin, now looked at Su Lin with a strange disdain.
Because Su Lin said that all the Confucian students in the world were wrong, naturally including them. Moreover, such arrogant and unfounded words, listening to anyone's ears, will not like it.
"It's really interesting that this talented son of Su Lin dares to say such a thing in this situation.
However, when I looked at him, he seemed to be calm, and he said that all the Confucian scholars in the world were wrong, but I really want to know what he said about the Confucian scholars in the whole world.
Lin Wanjing, the first case leader in the capital, smiled, looked at Su Lin with interest, and said to Fang Ziling beside him.
"Brother Lin, do you think highly of this kid? It's just the head of the case from a small place in Fengle County. What real talent can there be, Brother Lin is a well-deserved head of the first case of Wu State, those Confucian students in the capital are really not lucky, and when they meet Brother Lin, they are estimated to have lost hope of being the head of high school before the entrance exam. β
Fang Ziling didn't even look at Su Lin, in his opinion, Su Lin was a dirt bun who had never seen the world.
And among this group of case leaders, there was one person who sighed, and he didn't sneer at Su Lin without thinking about it like the other case leaders, but said in surprise in his heart:
"This Terran Confucian named Su Lin is very bold, my father said that the Confucian of the Terran race is the most obedient, following the holy path set by the Confucian sage, and the elders and young are all in order.
And this Su Lin dared to speak wildly and accuse the Confucian scholars of the whole world of being wrong, which is very interesting!"
That's right, this person is the holy daughter of the Jade Rabbit Demon Clan, wearing a demon treasure and demon spirit jade, hiding the identity of her demon clan and woman, dressed in a child's costume, with a handsome face and a generous demeanor.
Even among the sons and daughters of these wealthy families, in terms of appearance and temperament, they are rare beautiful men.
"This Su Lin, why does he not know how to observe words and emotions so much? Obviously, I have just helped them find the steps to go down, but I want to take advantage of my tongue, and I dare to say that all the Confucian scholars in the world are wrong!
Then Yuan Duan is the son of a scholar, how can he be so visionless and make friends with such a person? Now that he is harming others and himself, even if I want to help him, I am powerless. β
Today's Hong Jingzhang was already a little impetuous, and when he heard Su Lin say such arrogant words, he frowned even more unhappily, sighed, and shook his head.
"You heard that, Sir. Hong. As the son of Xiucai, this Su Lin can barely be regarded as a member of the Shi clan, but he said such arrogant words.
It really fulfills the sentence that Hanlin Ran Zicheng pointed out in "The Theory of Wealth and Poverty": "Heaven is fair, rich and rich." How can a poor and a lowly person be equal to a rich and a noble life?'.
I really hope that Ran Hanlin will be promoted to the position of Great Confucian as soon as possible, so that my Wu State will pursue class division rule from top to bottom. Then I won't be able to meet such an arrogant poor again!"
Seeing that almost everyone was watching Su Lin's jokes, Huang Tong's thoughts and thoughts were exceptionally clear, and his goal was achieved.
ridiculed Su Lin fiercely in front of so many people, making everyone, including Scholar Hong Jingzhang, have a sense of disgust and arrogance towards Su Lin.
Huang Tong believed that after such a blow, Surin's mind and spirit would be completely wasted.
However, when Huang Tong sneered and waited to see Su Lin's embarrassment, he found that in the face of everyone's disdain and ridicule, Su Lin was already calm.
There was no look of shame and anger on his face, but he stepped forward and said to him:
The holy words of Confucius are the exposition of Confucius's benevolence. I don't believe that Confucius would say such things as 'don't make friends with people who are not as good as yourself'. So, I said you were wrong. β
"Oh, that's even more ridiculous! Su Lin, although you were born poor, you are also the head of a county.
No matter what version of the Analects it is, there is this sentence about Confucius: 'Those who have no friends are better than themselves'.
You quibble, don't you? Do you think that if you don't believe it, the existing facts don't exist? It's ridiculous!"
I thought that Su Lin would say such a powerful argument, but it turned out to be such a ridiculous reason, Huang Tong didn't even use the sophistry of a famous person, just a casual sentence, he felt that Su Lin had nothing to say.
The surrounding heads of the case laughed out loud, because Su Lin's "I believe" was full of innocence like a child.
The real scriptures, righteous thoughts and truths must withstand serious and careful scrutiny, and just relying on a naΓ―ve "I believe" to deny a sentence that Kong Sheng said, it is even more ridiculous than Fang Cai Su Lin's arrogant words.
"I didn't say that there is no sentence in the Analects, 'those who are friendless are inferior to themselves', what I want to say is just an understanding of this sentence, and the Confucian scholars of the entire Tianren Continent are wrong. This word has been misunderstood. β
In the face of further ridicule and ridicule from everyone, Su Lin was calm and said unhurriedly, "When Kong Sheng said, 'Those who have no friends are not as good as themselves', is not saying that they should not be friends with people who are not as good as themselves.
Rather, it is a warning to us to respect everyone and think that all friends cannot be inferior to ourselves.
People have fellowship with each other, each with its own strengths. Therefore, I said that you are all wrong, and the Confucian scholars who understand it this way are also wrong. β
In other words, Su Lin's every word is full of an extremely firm and persistent self-confidence, and he correctly explains this "friendless person is not as good as himself".
Just when he said this, everyone on the scene was shocked, they didn't expect that Su Lin, who was laughed at by them as arrogant, would actually say such an understanding of "those who have no friends are not as good as themselves".
However, after being stunned for a moment, Huang Tong came back to his senses and immediately refuted Su Lindao with the sophistry of a famous master:
"Surin, I underestimated you. I didn't expect you to have a knack for distorting the facts. However, do you think that just by virtue of your words, you can subvert our Tianren Continent's understanding of Confucius's words for thousands of years?
Although what you said has a little truth, but after all, it is just your personal speculation, are you a great Confucian? Or are you a half-saint? Do you think that with your wisdom that you have not even opened up the sea of wisdom, you have enough wisdom to interpret the words of the sage?
Since ancient times, all those who have been able to annotate and interpret Confucius's Analects have been half-saints who have reached the pinnacle of cultivation.
If even you, a yellow-mouthed child, can correctly interpret the sacred words of the Analects, then will you not be able to enlighten your mind with the true sacred words of Confucius?"
Everyone who was slightly shocked by what Su Lin said, but when they heard Huang Tong's rebuttal at this time, they all came back to their senses and shook their heads, feeling that what Huang Tong said was reasonable.
Su Lin was just a child who didn't even have Zhihai, how could his understanding of Confucius's holy words be comparable to that of Yang Bojun, a half-sage who had commented on the Analects for thousands of years?
"Presumptuous! Su Lin, the words of the sage, how can you, a mere child, explain it on your behalf?
When the half-saint Yang Bojun commented on the Analects, this sentence "those who have no friends are not as good as themselves" means this.
How can you tamper with your own whims, and try to fool us, this is a great sin to tamper with the holy will, you know?
I will arrest you and send you to the temple, and the Punishment Department will punish you severely!"
University scholar Hong Jingzhang sharply reprimanded Su Lindao.
Although he also hoped in his heart that the half-saint Yang Bojun's explanation was wrong, Su Lin's explanation was correct, then Ran Zicheng's "Theory of Wealth and Poverty" would be self-defeating.
However, one is the careful explanation of the demi-saint, and the other is the false mouth of the yellow-mouthed child, and no one knows which one to believe.
However, Surin's remarks were a vain attempt to convey the meaning of the falsified Divine Word to them, which was the first felony "tampering with the Holy Will" established by the Holy Punishment Department of the Temple.
Confucian scholars of the nine countries of the Tianren Continent, but anyone who sees someone who "tampered with the holy will" will be punished!