Liaozhai Great Sage

"That's right, we are all classmates, why are you arguing, why don't you apologize to brother Li, and let it go."

"Repaying grievances with virtue is the virtue of a gentleman. Brother Li should learn from the style of a sage."

When Li Xiuyuan heard the words of these students, he immediately smiled and said, "Is it my fault now? I shouldn't argue with Liu Junsheng, but I should repay my grievances with virtue and apologize to Liu Junsheng? It seems You students have read too much, and your brains are a little bit dull."

"Brother Li, this is a bit serious." A scholar immediately said displeased.

Not only him, some scholars who agreed with the previous views all looked at Li Xiuyuan with some annoyance. Unexpectedly, Li Xiuyuan, who is brilliant in writing, is also a layman who scolds without opening his mouth. It seems that the family of merchants is the family of merchants. No slenderness.

"Don't be angry, everyone. Let me ask you a question. Since you agree to repay grievances with virtue, then I would like to ask, why repay virtue with virtue?" Li Xiuyuan said calmly.

Why repay virtue?

Liu Junsheng smiled contemptuously: "It is natural to repay virtue with kindness."

"Repay grievances with virtue, and repay virtue with virtue. If this is the case, who is willing to spread kindness? If this is done, and there are people who seek virtue with resentment everywhere in this world, how can there be people who repay virtue with virtue? "Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "Don't look at my rebuttal to Liu Junsheng just now, Liu Junsheng immediately became angry and wanted to accuse me of slander? Is this revenge with virtue?"

The hearts of the scholars froze, and they were speechless.

That's right, even Liu Junsheng, who said the words of repaying grievances with virtue, can't do it, how can he ask others to do it?

Thinking of Li Xiuyuan scolding himself and the others for their poor brains before, he and the others were not angry, do you want to argue with them?

After being pointed out, these people all turned pale.

Wrong, all wrong.

Reading has gone astray.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly and said: "Repaying grievances with virtue is just a dream language of idiots. A saint would never say such words."

"Then what's your opinion, Brother Li?" Zhang Wen, a scholar next to him, cupped his hands.

Li Xiuyuan glanced at everyone, and then said calmly: "From my point of view, it should be like this: why bother to complain? Repay complaints directly, why repay virtue, and repay virtue with virtue."

What everyone heard was suddenly enlightened, like waking up from a dream.

"Absurd." However, at this moment, Liu Junsheng said with a blushing face; "Even if you are right, are the princes above the court unreasonable?"

"Hehe, who are the lords of Gungun? People who live in the temple, they naturally hope that the people below will repay their grievances with virtue, so that they can rest easy and stay safe forever." Li Xiuyuan said calmly: "This is the law of fooling the people. evil."

"The people are ignorant, even foolish people are for the stability of the world. If the idea of ​​direct retribution is spread, then there will be fights everywhere, and this is a great evil." Liu Junsheng was also a little quick-witted, and immediately retorted.

Li Xiuyuan laughed again: "The people are ignorant, how can officials fool them? The wisdom of the people should be exploited."

"How?" Kong Sheng, a teacher, couldn't help asking at this time.

Li Xiuyuan pointed to his feet and said: "Setting up a school, accepting children from all over the world to go to school, within [-] years there will be people who study everywhere, and within [-] years the wisdom of the people will be developed."

"Okay, that's a good speech." Kong Sheng was very excited when he heard it, and nodded repeatedly.

Teaching children to read is like planting young shoots, which will grow into towering trees in the future. After that, the world will be full of pillars and knowledge everywhere. Isn't the wisdom of the people wide open?

"Although this statement is good, it is just a castle in the air. You must know that there are so many people in this world. It is difficult to set up a school that can accommodate the world's young children. It is difficult to do it even if the imperial court does this. Countless money and food will eventually cause chaos in the world." Liu Junsheng said at this time.

Li Xiuyuan said again: "Beilin College has only been established for ten years, but it has educated more than a hundred people. Regardless of whether they are talented or not, they are all able to read and write. If these more than a hundred people are all teachers, teaching and educating people, after ten years So what?"

"There are at least ten thousand people who are educated." Zhang Wen next to him murmured.

Li Xiuyuan laughed again; "How long will it take ten years for ten thousand people to be teachers?"

"Hundreds, millions of scholars." Zhang Wen shivered.

"One school can produce a million scholars in 20 years, but there are more than a thousand schools and academies in the world. If there is a heart, how can the wisdom of the people not be developed?" Li Xiuyuan said.

Liu Junsheng was in a trance when he heard the words, and was speechless at the refutation. No matter how hard he racked his brains, he couldn't think of any rebuttal.

"As you said, it stands to reason that the wisdom of the people has already been developed, why is it still like this for hundreds of years?" Zhang Wen asked again.

Li Xiuyuan said: "This is back to what I said just now, the law of fooling the people. It's not that the princes of Gungun didn't think of this, but they didn't want to do it. They think that farmers will be farmers from generation to generation, and merchants will be generations from generation to generation." Merchants, artisans have been artisans for generations, officials... have been officials for generations, so the high-ranking officials and dignitaries above the court can be hereditary and forever rich."

Speaking of these words, all the scholars in the academy, including Kong Sheng, froze in place and remained silent for a long time.

These words were deafening and impacted their thoughts and insights all the time.

It was as if a shooting star pierced through the dead sky, allowing people to see the most real side of this world.

Chapter 13 The Green Fox Crossing the Tribulation

After some debate, it was natural that Li Xiuyuan won. That Liu Junsheng was speechless from the beginning to the end, unable to refute, and finally left in a hurry with embarrassment when get out of class was over.

Li Xiuyuan also finished his day's study and was ready to go home.

"Brother Li, if you don't mind, how about a group of us going back with you?" At this time Zhang Wen came over with several scholars.

"Since we are classmates, why should we be so polite?" Li Xiuyuan laughed.

Zhang Wen clasped his hands and said, "Brother Li's words in the school just now were so deafening, it really benefited me a lot."

"It's just a humble opinion, it's nothing." Li Xiuyuan, Zhang Wen and other scholars chatted as they walked.

These scholars were obviously very interested in what he said before, and wanted to come over and ask the bottom line.

Li Xiuyuan was not stingy, and he expressed his thoughts. He also hoped that this Beilin Academy would produce a few real talents. Just like Junsheng's father, when a new official takes office, he can't help but search for the people's fat and anointing, and become that corrupt official.

"Boom~!"

A sound of thunder suddenly came from the distant sky.

Li Xiuyuan stopped walking at this moment, and asked, "The weather is so good, there is thunder."

"I'm afraid there is a thunderstorm somewhere." Zhang Wen said.

Li Xiuyuan nodded, but he always felt that something was wrong.

At this moment.

About a hundred miles away from Guobei County, above a secluded small valley, a group of dark clouds shrouded it. No rain fell.

At this moment, there was a strong wind in the valley, and a lame cyan fox was trembling, looking up at the dark cloud, with human fear in its bright eyes.

If Li Xiuyuan was here, he would definitely recognize that this is Qinghu, the vixen named Qing'e who was let go by him before.

"Boom~!"

At this moment, a thunder and lightning suddenly appeared, and it went straight to the valley, hitting Qinghu accurately.

The green fox let out a mournful cry, couldn't hold it any longer, vomited blood and fell down in the valley, breathing weakly, the originally soft and smooth cyan fur was now scorched black, even showing red flesh, and there was still blood at the moment flowed out.