As soon as he opened his mouth, Yuan Mu looked like he had admired Su Lin for a long time, which made Su Lin stunned. He searched for the memories in his mind and did not seem to recognize Yuan Mu in front of him, and it was even more impossible to know Yuan Mu's uncle.

However, out of politeness and caution, Su Lin still smiled and asked, "Brother Yuan has been awarded! I wonder if Uncle Ling is?"

"Yuan Tianzhang, the governor of Jian'an Prefecture, this time my uncle knew that I was walking with Brother Su Shi, so he repeatedly told me to make friends with Brother Su Shi, seize the opportunity to exchange ideas and experience with Brother Su Shi, and study the Bible together!"

Yuan Mu didn't beat around the bush and said directly.

As soon as Su Lin heard the name of Yuan Tianzhang, the prefect of Jian'an Prefecture, he understood. He used his holy words to enlighten the temple, and he was alarmed from the county, prefecture, state and state to the temple. Although Liu Yanfang, the first saint, issued a ban order to cover up the matter, several people still knew that he used his holy words to enlighten the mind, and Yuan Tianzhang, the prefect of Jian'an Prefecture, was one of them.

"I guess this Yuan Tianzhang saw that I was enlightened by the holy words and had a bright future, so he deliberately asked his nephew Yuan Mu to make friends with me first. However, with the order of the semi-saint forbidden, Yuan Tianzhang could not reveal the fact that I enlightened by the holy words to Yuan Mu."

After understanding what happened, Su Lin smiled at Yuan Mu who deliberately came to make friends with him and said, "Brother Yuan is the head of the case in Jiyang County. After obtaining the position of Tongsheng, we can enter the gentry college in Jian'an Prefecture to study, and we will be classmates from now on. When we meet today, we meet in advance."

"As such, Brother Su is indeed a talented person. Why wouldn't Brother Su come to rest with us today and wait for night to fall, and we talk about the meaning of the various schools of thoughts and experiences, wouldn't it be great?"

Yuan Mu originally tried to make friends with Su Lin according to his uncle Yuan Tianzhang's wishes, but after chatting with Su Lin for a few words, although he had not yet discovered anything extraordinary about Su Lin, he had a great impression of Su Lin's humble attitude and expression. He couldn't help but invite Su Lin to come to the tent of a wealthy family that he had already set up for several people to rest.

However, before Yuan Mu could agree or not, the criminal leaders of the neighboring counties beside Yuan Mu frowned. They had never heard of Su Lin before. When they looked at him, they must have a bad background, so they showed that they did not want to meet and make friends with Confucian scholars with a low identity like Su Lin.

Especially Huang Tong, the case leader of Huang Gui County, was worried that he would not have the opportunity to hit Su Lin's mood and thinking. When he saw that Yuan Mutang, a son of a great scholar, took the initiative to make friends with Su Lin, the son of a scholar, immediately came to his mind and said secretly: "If Su Lin can defeat Zhao Shuang in the county trial in Fengle County, I must have some talent in posting scriptures and poetry. Then I will not attack you from these two aspects, but instead start with your identity. I am just a mere scholar. I don't know what remarks have made to enlighten me, and I dare to dive into the circle of our wealthy families? Let's see how I humiliate you!"

Huang Tong is also a talented and intelligent person. He used the words of Hanlin to gain wisdom. He has read a lot of books since childhood and cited classics. At this time, he just searched a little in his mind and locked in a sentence from Confucius Sheng's "The Analects of Confucius", and immediately jumped out, pointing to Su Lin and said to Yuan Mu: "Yuan Mu, you are also the son of a great scholar, and you have been a marquis in your family for generations. How can you be friends with such a lowly person? His words are so close that he even invited him to talk at night. I don't know that there is a saying in the "The Analects of Confucius" that there is something about it. The Master said: "No friend is worse than yourself"? How can you get along with someone who is far inferior to yours? This shows your unimprovement and depravity. You even want to bring him into the camp where we want to live. Isn't this contrary to the wishes of Confucius's holy words?"

No one expected that Yuan Mu invited Su Lin into the camp to rest and talk with him, which would cause Huang Tong to be so fiercely accused. This is really not a trivial matter, especially Huang Tong directly brought out Confucius' holy words and rebuked Yuan Mu's behavior with the meaning of the holy words. This is already "punishing the heart".

If Yuan Mu was careless, because this saint's words left a shadow in his heart, the thoughts in his wisdom would be dim and he felt that he was a rebellious Confucian scholar who betrayed the words of the saint. In that way, his literary level and cultivation would probably not be able to improve in his entire life.

Similarly, Huang Tong said this, killing two birds with one stone. On the surface, he scolded Yuan Mu for "not making friends and not seeking progress", but in fact he publicly pointed out that Su Lin's humble identity and was not worthy of communicating with wealthy families like them. This was already a naked humiliation to Su Linchi.

Faced with this situation, if Su Lin and Yuan Mu dare not refute it, it would mean that the two of them agreed to this fact. Yuan Mu's "no choice between making friends and not seeking progress" and Su Lin's identity is low and humble. However, once they want to refute it, they have to face the accusation of the Holy Word. What they need to refute is not what Huang Tong said, but the holy words of Confucius quoted by Huang Tong, "No friends are worse than oneself."

In the Tianren Continent, it is not easy to refute a holy word? Even a great scholar wants to subvert and refute the holy words written in the Bible, he must carefully consider and obtain evidence, deduce it with huge holy power, and make ideological and theoretical refutation from all aspects. In the end, he must support it with sufficient ideological arguments to overturn or refute a holy word.

Otherwise, if you have no basis and make unreasonable refutations to the holy words, this is disrespectful to the saints, and may even be sentenced to serious crimes by the Temple Heavenly Punishment Department.

In addition to relying on Zhihai, Confucian scholars with literary status can use holy power to turn illusory thoughts into holy power magic and holy power magic to fight against the enemy, they can also directly use the thoughts and words in the holy words to attack the opponent, which is called "punishing the heart".

Everyone didn't know whether Huang Tong had a grudge with Yuan Mu, or had a gap with Su Lin, or had objections to both of them, so they openly used holy words to punish the two of them the day before they were about to obtain Tong Sheng's position as a literary figure.

Confucian scholars openly use holy power magic to fight each other infighting each other is a double forbidden act by the temple and the state. Attacking holy power magic and spells are generally only used to deal with demons or to arrest criminals. Once there is a dispute and hatred between Confucian scholars, they have to fight to the death, killing their hearts is a way to be defaulted.

The saint's words are based on the basis of the basis, and the argument is refuted. Especially when watching the great scholars' heart-killing struggle, it can make people feel thrilling and the sea of ​​wisdom is churning. Now Huang Tong suddenly jumped up to kill Yuan Mu with the saint's words "No friend is worse than himself" and the hearts of Su Lin and the other two naturally attracted the attention of all the other leaders of the case. Even Lin Wanjing, who is recognized by everyone, stopped to watch with interesting attention.

"Brother Lin, why did you stop?" Fang Ziling, the head of the Dongyuan County case next to Lin Wanjing, asked.

"Brother Fang, you can see this story is interesting. Some people are trying to punish them? Or the saint saying "No friend is worse than yourself." Do you know that in recent years, the idea of ​​"Theory of Wealth, Nothing, Poverty, and Humbleness" by the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Ran Zicheng has been very popular in my country. Governing the country by class division is a good way to save energy, but I think this is not a long-term way. I believe that there are many ministers in the court who have this objection. But do you know why when Ran Zicheng proposed this policy idea, few people in the court refuted him?"

It turned out that Lin Wanjing was associated with the great affairs of the court by Huang Tong's heart-killing words, so he found it quite interesting.

"I have heard of it. It seems that after Ran Zicheng obtained the position of Grand Secretary, he lived in seclusion and devoted himself to studying Confucius's holy words for ten years. He worked hard to establish a book to build this article "Theory of Wealth, Poverty and Humbleness". When the book was completed, it had already burst into Mingzhou and spread to the ears of today's saints. The saints respected the wise and the inferior, and personally invited him to serve as officials. He was entrusted with important tasks and became the Minister of Revenue from the first rank. Since then, the concept of class has begun to penetrate from top to bottom in our country, taking root and sprouting, and emitting vitality. So many great scholars and children of Hanlin families are very loyal to using the speeches in "Theory of Wealth, Poverty and Humbleness" to gain wisdom, because they are above the higher classes and can better understand the true meaning of this class theory. And the implementation of the principles and policies of class governance is more beneficial to the upper class aristocrats like us, so they can get a lot of support in the court."

Fang Ziling said slowly that because this allusion was recorded by the historian of the Wu Kingdom as one of the representative events of the current saint Sun Jianshi's courtesy of the wise and the inferior, it is still widely known.

"Brother Fang, do you know that "Theory of Wealth, Noble, Poverty and Humbleness" was derived from which sentence in Confucius Sheng's "The Analects of Confucius"?" Lin Wanjing nodded in agreement with the allusion Fang Ziling said about Ran Zicheng's official career, but asked again with a smile.

"I also disagree with the idea of ​​"Theory of Wealth, Poverty, and Humbleness", so I did not delve into its theoretical roots, but I didn't know which holy word Ran Zicheng used as a foothold. However, now Brother Lin asked this, was it the one Huang Tong said, "No friend is worse than yourself?"

There is no one who can be a high school county leader who is talented and intelligent. Fang Ziling can tell what Lin Wanjing means after a little thought.

"That's right. The most basic argument of Ran Zicheng's "Theory of Wealth, Nothing, Poverty, and Humble" is to trace back to the sentence "No friend is worse than oneself" in Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius". Ran Zicheng said in "Theory of Wealth, Nothing, Poverty, and Humble" that even Confucius's teachings and no distinction should divide people into three or six categories, and advocate that people should not be friends and interact with people who are not as good as themselves. Therefore, from this point of view, his thoughts spread out and derived the "class" policy of governing the country. It means that if all the gentry and people in the entire country are divided according to strict ranks, the gentry has the rank of the gentry, and the people also have the rank of the people, and each level of the people can only communicate with people of the same level. Different levels should be set up to establish barriers and prohibitions to communicate with each other. In this way, the top and the bottom should be effective, and the rank should be used as the constraints of the people, and the laws can be unobstructed, and the world can be governed."

Lin Wanjing is worthy of being recognized as the first person in Wu. He has been well-informed since childhood, has a quick mind, and has gained wisdom with great scholars' remarks. Almost everyone listened to this conversation with Fang Ziling. After the words, they nodded and thoughtful, as if they were thinking about Ran Zicheng's concept of "class" governance.

After hearing this, Huang Tong laughed proudly and said to Su Lin and Yuan Mu: "Did you hear it? Brother Lin, the first case leader of the Wu Kingdom, said it just now. Even the "On the Richness, Nobleness, Poverty and Humbleness" by Ran Zicheng, the Minister of Revenue, was written with this holy word. Do you two just Tongsheng, who have not yet obtained a literary position, dare to refute the holy word? Hum!"

"I...I...I...I just made friends with Su Lin, why did it go against the saint's remarks?" Yuan Mu's qualifications were only considered average here. When he heard that even the Minister of Revenue Ran Zi, Chengdu, recognized it and wrote this book, how could he dare to refute it? In his wisdom, a few traces of holy power were trembling in fear, and his thoughts became even more chaotic, and he could not see any light. This is a sign that he was about to be punished!

However, in sharp contrast to Yuan Mu's panic, Su Lin was not surprised by the changes, but instead had a hint of laughter on his lips.

"How come the saying "No friend is worse than yourself" is misunderstood when it comes to Tianren Continent? Confucius can treat everyone equally. How could he say the words "Don't make friends with people who are not as good as yourself"?"

When he heard Huang Tong scolding and saying this holy word, Su Lin recalled in his mind that before traveling through time, he emphasized this sentence in the classroom when the Chinese teacher taught "The Analects of Confucius". Never misinterpret it as "Don't make friends with people who are not as good as you."

However, what Su Lin never expected was that in this Tianren Continent, where benevolence is respected and Confucius is saint, everyone follows and study the Analects of Confucius, this sentence was still misread. There was even a self-righteous Hanlin Ran Zicheng who used this misinterpretation to misinterpret the meaning of the later meaning, using the saint's speech to establish a book, and even became a first-rank official of the Minister of Revenue.
Chapter completed!