The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

"Tong Li!" Zhao Zhuzhen looked at Tong Li angrily.

Jinghai Tower immediately rang with the sound of swords being drawn, and all the guards drew their sabers, ready to kill at any time.

Now even those who didn't know Zhao Zhuzhen could guess her identity.

Shi Dehong said: "The only woman who led the imperial guards and was so young was probably the aunt of the current king of Jingguo, the eldest princess Zhao Hongzhuang. However, I heard that you like to be called the eldest princess, so I'll call you that."

"Your Highness the eldest princess!"

Since Shi Dehong revealed the identity, everyone had to greet him.

"Everyone, just treat me as Zhao Zhuzhen." Zhao Hongzhuang said.

"Tong Li, don't you retreat!" Dong Zhifu shouted.

Tong Li stared at Fang Yun and said: "You ruined my holy way, but you dare to bet with me! If you are really a scholar and really confident, why don't you give me a chance to win you! What are you afraid of!"

"Tong Li, are you sure you want to die?" Fang Yun asked.

"Shi Dehong is right. If I can't beat you, the higher your achievement, the more unstable my Wen Palace will be. It will be shattered one day! However, I want to make a bet with Shi Dehong. You must beat both of us at the same time to be considered a winner. If you beat one person, you can only tie. How about it!" Tong Li was like a madman, because he knew this was the only chance.

Shi Dehong didn't care that Tong Li called him by his name at this time, and said: "Okay! Tong Li, I underestimated you before, it turns out that you are also a good man! Fang Yun, do you dare to bet with the two of us?"

Fang Yun looked at the two of them, suddenly smiled slightly, and said: "Mr. Shi, since your mentor is Lord Shijun, he must have some evaluation of you, right?"

"Of course." Shi Dehong said.

"So, what position do you think you can achieve in the end, Master Shijun?"

Shi Dehong bowed to the direction of Qingguo and said, "My mentor once said that I have the position of a university scholar!"

Fang Yun nodded and said, "Good! But not good."

"Why do you say that?" Shi Dehong felt uneasy. He didn't expect Fang Yun to be so calm, so calm that it was scary.

"It's good to destroy the palace of a future university scholar and eliminate a small hidden danger in my Jingguo. After all, you are a human race, and it's not good to destroy your palace. However, since you want to suppress the literati of a country, try to cut off my holy way, and instigate others to fight with me, I will destroy your palace! I agree to this bet!"

Fang Yun's voice was loud and clear.

"It depends on whether you have the ability to destroy my palace!" Shi Dehong sneered.

Mr. Qian immediately said: "Fang Yun, all of us Yuhai City writers support you! Not only can you become a talented person in Yuhai Mansion, you will definitely reach the second pavilion of the third mountain and surpass Shi Dehong!"

"Tong Li, if you dare to come to our "Tanhai Society" literary gathering in the future, I will break your dog legs!"

"Brother Liu, you don't have to do it. When June's Book Mountain is over, Tong Li will definitely be shattered."

"That's right."

Governor Dong said gloomily: "Shi Dehong, since you made a bet with Fang Yun, you must stay in Yuhai City until Fang Yun leaves Book Mountain."

"Of course, I like the scenery of Yuhai City very much. It's okay to stay for a month. Maybe I can stay for a few more months to participate in the annual Pingyao Poetry Meeting of Yuhai Mansion and compete for Lord Li's Dragon Blood Ink Ingot."

Governor Dong said: "You misunderstood. What I want to say is that if Fang Yun wins, you have the skills to avoid gambling and oaths, so be prepared to have your Wen Palace shattered by me personally!"

Shi Dehong's eyes flashed with panic, and then he said calmly: "This is a bet between Fang Yun and me. I hope Master Dong will not interfere and break the rules."

"I only kill people who break the rules."

Shi Dehong said angrily: "If you dare to kill me, Master will never let you go!"

"Then let him come! We in Yuhai City are not afraid of even the dragon clan, so why are we afraid of a mere poet? Who said that there are no dead bones in the holy way? First, there were hundreds of schools of thought, and Confucius stood out. If Confucius did not fight, how could there be Our human race is flourishing! Where are the withered bones under the feet of Confucius? Later, the Legalists assisted Qin and unified the continent. If the Emperor Qin did not fight, how could there be the same writing, the same wheel gauge, and the same weights and measures! Where are the withered bones under the feet of the Emperor Qin? If the poet wins, we will be his whetstone; if the poet loses, he will be our stepping stone, that's all! Since I have understood the art of war on paper, I have only believed in the pen in my hand and the Tao under my feet! "

"Humph!" Shi Dehong snorted coldly and stopped talking. In front of Governor Dong, he was still a little naive.

Fang Yun has lived in a world dominated by evolution, so he naturally believes in the survival of the fittest, which is the road that cannot be escaped in any world.

An old scholar sighed and said, "Xiao Li, Tong Shilang and I were classmates and I once hugged you. If you admit your mistake to Fang Shuangjia, he will definitely forgive you. Don't gamble anymore, you can't win. When Fang Yun was on the dragon boat, I seemed to see Li Wenying when he was young. When he was a scholar, he never lost in the dragon boat literary competition. Even those Qingguo scholars who were more talented than him could not beat him."

When Li Wenying was mentioned, even those Qingguo people were convinced. Li Wenying's talent was not only inferior to the four great talents, but also inferior to the next-level people. However, his current achievements were only second to the four great talents. If the scholars of the previous generation were to re-rank the five great talents, then in addition to the four great talents, the fifth person must be Li Wenying.

Tong Li has regained some sanity and said, "Mr. Cheng, Prefect Dong has said that the holy path is difficult and there is only one way to fight. If Fang Yun is not defeated, I will never be able to make my talent flow smoothly and stabilize my palace of literature! This year's Book Mountain is my only chance! I must defeat Fang Yun! Now that things have come to this, if I repeat myself, my palace of literature will be shattered before I even climb the Book Mountain! I don't know right or wrong, I only know that I have no way to retreat!"

"You..." Mr. Cheng was speechless.

Shi Dehong said, "Tong Li, I am the champion of a state. If you are interested, I can go to your house tomorrow to discuss poetry and prose with you, how about it?"

Tong Li said happily, "Senior Shi, are you really willing to help me?"

"You and I are both human beings, and we should help each other."

"Thank you, Shi Jieyuan! If I can defeat Fang Yun, I will repay you." Tong Li showed a happy expression.

Cheng Juren said angrily: "Tong Li, you can't make the same mistake over and over again!"

Shi Dehong immediately said: "This old gentleman, this is wrong. Tong Li is pursuing his own holy way, and I want to surpass Fang Yun through the mountain of books. What's wrong with that?"

Fang Yun said slowly: "Zeng Zi said: I examine myself three times a day. Even Zeng Zi, the second sage, had to reflect on whether he was loyal, trustworthy and diligent every day. How dare you, a mere Juren, claim that you have made no mistakes? If you have made mistakes, correct them; if you have not made mistakes, encourage yourself. This is the way of the saints. How can you go against the saints!"

Fang Yun's words were the same as usual, but there was a slight difference in the eight words "correct them; if you have made mistakes, encourage yourself." They spread very far, but no one noticed it immediately, and no one thought about it in that direction.

Shi Dehong was slightly surprised. He had just stimulated Tong Li with the words of the saints, and succeeded in one fell swoop. He didn't expect Fang Yun to accuse him with the words of the saints in the same way.

Many Jingguo scholars smiled and nodded, but a strange scene appeared. These people obviously supported Fang Yun, but some of them had frozen smiles on their faces, some smiled more happily, and some restrained their smiles and thought hard.

Almost all the scholars present suddenly completely forgot about the disputes among several people, and many people repeatedly whispered the eight words "correct it if there is any, and encourage it if there is none".

The arrogant Yan Yukong immediately turned his head to look at Fang Yun, and an unprecedented brilliance flashed in his eyes.

Fang Yun secretly said that it was bad, "correct it if there is any, and encourage it if there is none" was Zhu Xi's annotation of "I examine myself three times a day" in "The Analects of Confucius". In his opinion, these eight words are very common. But these eight words have never appeared in Shengyuan Continent, so the meaning is different.

In the eyes of everyone, Fang Yun was extending and interpreting Zengzi's words in "The Analects of Confucius". The scholar actually annotated the words of the second sage!

In Shengyuan Continent, the classics of the saints cannot be annotated casually. Most university scholars dare not write books to explain the classics of the saints. The classics of the saints are basically annotated by great scholars.

It is not a crime for a great scholar to annotate the classics of the saints, but if any annotation is wrong, he will be attacked immediately. This is a dispute over the way of the saints, and there is no room for error.

Therefore, even if a university scholar explains the classics of the saints, he will quote the annotations of great scholars, which is somewhat similar to "asking for the words of the saints". At most, he adds a layer of his own interpretation to the annotations of great scholars, which is called "shu".

But Fang Yun's words are directly annotating "The Analects"!

Tong Li suddenly lowered his head, his eyes showed a fierce look, and tried his best to think about Fang Yun's words, trying to find the loopholes in this sentence, but this thought only lasted for three breaths, and he felt that Wen Palace began to shake.

"Not good! This annotation has great principles and knowledge! I can't refute it." Tong Li was shocked and stopped thinking in a hurry. He was sweating on his back and felt extremely regretful, but he knew that there was no way out.

Tong Li was full of despair.

Shi Dehong also immediately lowered his head to think, with a sneer on his lips, secretly saying that Fang Yun overestimated his own abilities. Every sentence in the classics of the saints has the truth of heaven and earth and has infinite power. In the early years, I don't know how many people made random annotations and were broken and destroyed. Now that they are not great scholars, no one dares to speak carelessly.

Shi Dehong quickly thought about the eight words "correct it if there is any, and encourage it if there is none", trying to find a flaw, cut off the relationship between these eight words and Zengzi's famous saying, and completely deny Fang Yun, and then let Fang Yun's palace of literature crack.

He kept thinking, but soon found that these eight words were impeccable, and it would never be possible to find a loophole in them with the literary status of a juren.

Not only that, the more Shi Dehong savored it, the more he felt that this sentence contained truth. If someone said that this was written by a semi-saint, he would definitely believe it.

"How is it possible! How could I think his words made sense!" The disciple of the Poet King roared in his heart.

Prefect Dong praised excitedly: "Fang Yun is really talented. This sentence contains the sound of the Holy Way! Perhaps many years later, this sentence can become a question for the imperial examination!"

"Yes! That was indeed the sound of the Holy Way just now. Although there is still a huge gap from the Holy Word, it is still close to the Holy Way."

Fang Yun hurriedly said: "Everyone, don't say it. I just said this sentence by accident. How could it be the sound of the Holy Way."

Prefect Dong's expression moved, and he walked to the window, looking at the Yudai River outside the window, and smiled: "Whether it is the sound of the Holy Way, you can tell at a glance."

Everyone immediately rushed to the window, even those old people in their seventies and eighties were extremely excited.

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