The big man has a living father

Chapter 24 Are you trying to argue with me?
Kong Anguo jumped out to issue a declaration of war, but Huo Hai did not rush to speak.

The ministers were all thinking.

Liu Che was also thinking about which of these two theories was correct.

At this time, someone shouted: "Master Kong is right!"

Huo Hai turned his head and saw a scholar-looking man who was about thirty or forty years old.

Not knowing where the other party came from, Huo Hai asked: “May I ask?”

The other party: "Lü Bushu."

When Huo Hai heard the name, he straightened his back and said, "Bullshit!"

Lü Bushu was a disciple of Dong Zhongshu, and even Dong Zhongshu hated him. He had no background.

Before this, Dong Zhongshu was writing "Records of Disasters and Anomalies" at home. At that time, a fire broke out in Gao Temple in Liaodong, and Lord Father Yan submitted the book to Emperor Liu Che.

Liu Che asked many Confucian scholars to gather together to discuss, just like today, whether the book was a satire on the government.

Lü Bushu was unaware that this was the work of Dong Zhongshu and criticized the book as "great stupidity!"

As a result, Dong Zhongshu was sentenced to death. After Emperor Liu Che heard that the article was written by Dong Zhongshu, he pardoned Dong Zhongshu.

Dong Zhongshu was arrested and imprisoned for a few days, during which he was beaten. After he was released, he heard that it was his eldest disciple, Lu Bushu, who had sent him there. He then wrote an article angrily calling Lu Bushu an idiot and never had any contact with him again.

However, Lu Bushu jumped out at this time, probably to express the opinions on behalf of all the doctors in the Imperial College.

It is obvious that Lu Bushu is not very smart and misjudged the situation. He may have thought that if anything changed, he, a scholar with a doctorate in Confucian classics, would lose his job.

Huo Hai said something ridiculous and was about to start yelling. As soon as Liu Che saw Huo Hai's attitude, he knew what he was going to do: "This is the imperial court!"

Huo Hai braked immediately.

Liu Che: Why don't you criticize Confucius' eleventh-generation grandson? You started to criticize him when you heard Lü Bushu's name, right?
Huo Hai and Liu Che exchanged glances: Your Majesty, those who understand will understand, I am not stupid.

After being criticized, Lu Bushu was also very angry. As a student of Gongyang School, Lu Bushu looked around for trouble on the spot.

But after all, it was the imperial court, so he didn't succeed.

Lu Bushu was furious: "What's wrong? If you can't explain it clearly, I will not let you go today!"

Huo Hai looked at Lu Bushu, then at Kong Anguo who was thinking. He knew that Kong Anguo was a difficult person and was thinking of something to say.

But Lu Bushu was easier to deal with.

Huo Hai said loudly: "Okay, I'll tell you one, two, three, four. This Lord Kong said that if there is a mistake, it is because some people are ignorant and incompetent?"

"First of all, this is wrong! Do others not want to learn well? Do others not want to learn even though the things are right in front of them? Others have nothing to learn and cannot learn!"

"Everyone knows exactly how many words there are in this classic, especially the annotated version. It is normal for two ox carts to pull a book."

“Those people want to learn well, but can they learn it?”

"Imagine this: Your Majesty has already established the Imperial Academy to teach the Five Classics, but because these books are heavy and bulky, the entire Imperial Academy can only accept fifty students. If the books were only two palms in size and one palm thick, they could hold ten thousand characters, then the Imperial Academy could accept five thousand students!"

"If a book is only two palms in size and one palm thick, and can hold 100,000 words, then the Imperial Academy can enroll 50,000 students!"

"If a book is only half the size of a palm and half the thickness of a palm, but can hold tens of millions of words, then even if all the students in the world, both ancient and modern, study together in the Imperial College, what difficulty would that have?!"

Even Lu Bushu was stunned for a moment.

That seems to be the case.

If the Imperial Academy had 5,000 students, wouldn't I have 5,000 students? Wouldn't that be even more impressive than Confucius?
Lu Bushu suddenly fell into fantasy.

However, Huo Hai did not give him too much time to daydream, and continued: "Master Kong also said that those people cannot understand the true meaning of the classics, which is even more wrong!"

"Who is Confucius? He is a saint! Who are Xunzi and Mencius? They are sub-sages!"

"Is their words difficult to understand? What they said is the literal meaning, and the literal meaning is what they meant to say. What can you get out of chewing a few words over and over again in your mouth day after day?"

"The wise sayings written by the sages are understandable to anyone who can read. Tell me, who can't understand them?" Liu Che was already amused by what he heard, and now that he saw Huo Hai actually fired at the great Confucian scholars, he immediately became interested.

You know, in the past twenty years, Confucianism has gradually become more complex, and more and more people have begun to advocate preaching. It is precisely because of this that the Imperial Academy was established.

Dong Zhongshu once said that if anyone could come up with a theory to replace his own, he would come to debate with him.

Now, Player No. 1 is ready.

Liu Che waved to Eunuch Wang.

"Give me a whole plate of melon seeds."

After these words were spoken, the ministers fell into deep thought again.

Logically speaking, what Huo Hai said is right. It's the Analects, so what's so difficult to understand?

There is not a single sentence that you cannot understand after reading it once.

But the problem is that many people like to interpret Confucius's works in their own way to express their own views.

This is tantamount to using the tiger's skin to raise a big banner.

If you can't use the big banner, then don't you have to openly say that it's your own opinion? Wouldn't that make you vulnerable to criticism?

Nowadays, everyone is trying to use the tiger's skin to avoid being scolded. This trick is indeed useful.

But the problem is that this is what Huo Hai hates the most, because people nowadays are just pretending to be tigers, and these things in later generations will become real tigers. Confucian scholars in later generations would like to treat these things pretending to be tigers as their fathers.

Huo Hai looked at Kong Anguo and said, "In the end, you said that changing the classical language into the vernacular language is a compromise with the uneducated people. That is a big mistake. You are simply forgetting your roots!"

"Your ancestor, Confucius, is the person I, Huo Hai, respect and admire the most in my life!"

"He once said that there is no discrimination in education!"

"Why are you discriminating against uneducated people? Are you making a decision that goes against your ancestors?"

"Besides, these people are uneducated because it is difficult for them to learn to read. If we can make them learn easily, wouldn't it be possible to spread Confucius' teachings further?!"

"At the beginning, Confucius had 3,000 disciples, but only 72 of them were wise men. Was it because Confucius didn't know how to teach? Of course not. Confucius was omnipotent and the most powerful person in the history. If Confucius hadn't been born, the world would have been dark forever!"

"Confucius must have no problem teaching and educating people, so why are there only 72 sages instead of 3,000? Why is the success rate only 2 or 3 percent? It's obviously because the threshold for writing and recognizing characters is too high, and the elegant language is too difficult to learn, which prolongs the learning time. Confucius passed away before he had time to teach the remaining disciples to become sages."

"dont you agree?"

You want to compete with me in sophistry... in stubbornness... in debate, right? Are you sure?

Huo Hai's rapid-fire words made Kong Anguo speechless.

Don't you like to use Confucius as a banner? I do the same.

Huo Hai praised Confucius to the sky. How would you respond now?

You say: You are talking nonsense, how can Confucius be so great?
That's definitely not the right answer.

However, the trap set by Huo Hai is here. If you admit that Confucius is great, you have to admit that the elegant language is too difficult to learn, which resulted in the success rate of his 3,000 disciples being less than 2.5%.

Kong Anguo frowned, knowing that he had met his match.

He just said one sentence, he said it was just one fucking chapter!
I said a sentence, and every word was wrong.

Liu Che cracked melon seeds and looked at Kong Anguo.

The affirmative debater No. 1 has finished speaking. It’s your turn, the negative debater No. 1.

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