My brother is wicked in the five elements

Chapter 141 The Proverbs of Confucian Immortals
Hearing these compliments, Xu Tianming finally realized that the real purpose of today's banquet might just be to add a meritocracy to the eldest prince Li You, and to make him a wave of fans, so as to prepare for the party struggle in the near future .

As for the other people invited to the banquet, they are all green leaves to set off the First Prince.
Thinking of this operation like a rice circle, Xu Tianming couldn't help sighing, poured himself a glass of wine, and said something.

"It's boring."

But it was this insipid rant, but it was clearly heard by Wang Lang who was far away on the opposite table.

Wang Lang squinted his eyes, and glanced at Xu Tianming scrutinizingly, with an obvious sarcasm on his face.

"Some people, they are not capable, but they still want to sour others, and make a whole lemon essence—" he said in a vague tone.

The surrounding ministers also knew who Wang Lang was talking about, so they covered their faces with wide sleeves, pointed at Xu Tianming, and snickered a few times from time to time.

Li You didn't say anything here, he knew that Wang Lang was still young, and it was normal for him to be arrogant.As long as Wang Lang has the ability, he also has the capital of pride
As for Wang Lang's ridicule, Xu Tianming didn't pay attention to it, and just sat there chatting with Li Shishi.

Xu Tianming knew that those who came out of the academy all had the arrogance of a scholar.However, the form of arrogance displayed by each person is different, and it often reflects the personality characteristics of this person.

For example, the arrogance of senior brother Wei Guan is the self-confidence exuded from the inside out. This kind of self-confidence will not make people dislike, but will make people respect, because he just wants to tell you that he is very strong; Another example is Yu Lian, the second senior sister. Although she never shows any joy in her appearance, Xu Tianming can feel the pride hidden in her body so much that she doesn't bother to show it.

There are also some people, just like Wang Lang, who need to belittle others to satisfy themselves. This kind of arrogance is often unpleasant
But because Wang Lang was younger than himself, Xu Tianming didn't intend to argue with him.

Unexpectedly.

Xu Tianming didn't care, but Wang Lang walked over.

"I have seen the eldest princess."

Standing in front of the short table, Wang Lang saluted Li Shishi who was sitting on the table.

Li Shishi raised his hand to signal his body.

After Wang Lang got up, he cupped his fists at Xu Tianming, smiled warmly, and said loudly.

"Your Excellency seems to have some opinions on Wang's opinion. Wang is not talented, so I came here to ask Your Excellency. Can I hear your opinion?"

Following Wang Lang's words, everyone in the hall turned their attention to this side.

Many political enemies of the Eldest Princess showed gloating smiles, they were happy to see Xu Tianming make a fool of himself.

Because Xu Tianming made a fool of himself, it was the eldest princess who made a fool of herself.

Li Shishi glanced at Xu Tianming without changing his expression, but in fact, she was a little flustered in her heart.

Because of Confucianism's maxims, it's not something that can be learned casually, even if Xu Tian is talented, Li Shishi feels that he can't gain any new experience in such a short period of time.
Xu Tianming didn't answer right away, because three options appeared in front of him.

[Option [-]: Make an apology to Wang Lang: "Where is it, Mr. Wang, how dare I have an opinion on you? It was all my fault just now, and I shouldn't disturb Mr. Wang's elegance." Reward: Lingxi Wave Fist (Ground Level Next product)]

[Option [-]: Pretend not to hear.Obtained reward: Splitting the Sky (Mid-Rank Profound Grade)]

[Option 1: "Proverbs? Dogs don't even read it!" Reward: random attribute +[-]]

Xu Tianming pondered for a while, then stood up, looked at Wang Lang and sneered, with a disdainful tone.

"Proverbs? Even dogs don't read!"

[Option has been completed, reward: Wisdom +1]

boom--

There was an uproar in the hall.

Civil and military officials and the heirs of the royal family never imagined that Xu Tianming would dare to say such rebellious words.

Immediately, officials from Feipao, Qingpao, and Zipao came out and scolded Xu Tianming loudly.

"Bold! How dare you speak rudely to Confucian Immortals!"

"This person humiliated my national treasure of the Tang Dynasty and has ulterior motives. Maybe he is a member of the Demon Cult!"

"It should be pushed out of the Meridian Gate and beheaded as an example to others!"

"He is a member of my palace. I want to see who dares to touch him." Just when Xu Tianming was criticized by all the officials, Li Shishi stood up, swept everyone away with a haughty attitude, and said coldly.

"This..." as soon as they saw the Eldest Princess protecting Xu Tianming, some people started to get scared.

But Wang Lang would not be cowardly, he pointed at Xu Tianming angrily and said: "Your Highness, the eldest princess, this person insults my respected Confucianism and Taoism teacher, it is disrespectful! If he can't tell the reason, please don't show favoritism Unlawful!"

In the court hall, if the words "bending the law for personal gain" are used, one or a bunch of heads will fall to the ground.

At this moment, Wang Lang made the problem so serious because he wanted to teach this foul-mouthed Xu Tianming a profound lesson.

Seeing Wang Lang's speech, Li Shishi's face turned cold.

In fact, she did not expect Xu Tianming to utter wild words at all, and when he said such words, not only Xu Tianming was embarrassed, but she was also unlucky.

Insulting the Confucian martyrs was a serious crime of deceiving the emperor in the Tang Dynasty. Although Li Shishi said that he was the eldest princess and was above the laws of the Tang Dynasty, he would not be punished, but in the end it was not worth the praise of the crowd.The spittle stars of those scholars can drown people.
'How could Mr. Xu be so irrational? Master Li sighed deeply in his heart.

And just when Li Shishi was thinking this way, Xu Tianming chuckled and said to Wang Lang.

"Okay, then I'll tell you how hypocritical this so-called proverb is."

As soon as this remark came out, the audience was in an uproar again.

"Rebel, rebel!" Zhou Daru closed his eyes in pain, as if he saw Xu Tianming, just like seeing something with sharp eyes.

"Interesting, I didn't expect the imperial sister to find such an arrogant person. Here, it's a good show." Li You said with a smile to Jiang Houlu who was sitting beside him.

Other civil and military officials searched out extremely sarcastic and sarcasm sentences to attack Xu Tianming.

Li Shishi turned her head and looked at Xu Tianming calmly. She felt that Xu Tianming was overwhelmed by anger before, but Xu Tianming said this sentence again, in her opinion, she has something to rely on.

After all, the omnipotent Mr. Xu in her mind would not do anything he was not sure about.

On Wang Lang's side, he was furious, Xu Tianming dared to insult the Confucian and Taoist martyrs, and even spoke rudely to him, he simply didn't take Wang Lang seriously.

He wants to see what shocking words this outspoken person can say.

"Okay, I'm all ears." Wang Lang took a few deep breaths, calmed down, and said to Xu Tianming.

"Preserve the principles of nature and eliminate human desires." Xu Tianming slowly walked into the center of the hall, pointed to the writing on the stone slab, and said to everyone.

"If you follow what this brother Wang said just now, then the relationship between the monarch and his ministers, between father and son, and other three principles and five constant principles, should follow the laws of heaven, that is, the virtues of loyalty, righteousness, reason, filial piety, and trust should not be violated. Brother Wang , is that right or not?" Xu Tianming said calmly, then suddenly turned his head to look at Wang Lang and asked.

Wang Lang replied without hesitation: "Naturally, the righteousness of the monarch and his ministers, the relationship between father and son, and the obedience of husband and wife are all the results of following the laws of heaven."

"Okay." Xu Tianming nodded with a sneer, licked the inside of his mouth, and asked Wang Lang loudly.

"Then if I were your father! I want you to die now, are you willing?"

"You, you shameless bastard!" Wang Lang blushed angrily, pointing at Xu Tianming so that his feet jumped in anger.

"Don't get excited, I'm just making an analogy." Xu Tianming said with a chuckle, "According to what you said, filial piety should come first between father and son. If I were your father and I wanted you to die, you should Going to die is the only way to go along with filial piety, isn't it?"

"This..." Wang Lang calmed down and thought about it carefully, and he really realized that this was a problem.

According to the laws of heaven, one should listen to their fathers and elders, and do one's best of filial piety.
"No, it's impossible. How can a father want his child to die?" Wang Lang retorted.

Xu Tianming looked at him coldly: "Yes, in places where there is famine, there are people who trade off their sons for food."

Changing children to eat means that people exchange children for cooking to fill their hunger, because their own children have feelings and can't eat it, but it's no problem to eat other people's.This shows the extremely miserable life of the victims.

"." Wang Lang's expression froze, and he was speechless for a moment.

Because in his view, this world should be a rich and fertile land, and things like changing children and eating them should not happen.

Hearing Xu Tianming's words, many people present were also silent.

Because most of the officials present knew that in certain places in the Tang Dynasty, disasters were raging and the people were struggling to survive.
"There is more." Xu Tianming looked solemn, took out his left hand behind his back, pointed at the empty throne on the main hall, and asked Wang Lang.

"If I am the emperor, I want you to die, will you die!?"

A dead silence!
No one expected that Xu Tianming would dare to say such rebellious words.

"Bold!" Immediately, a white-faced and beardless eunuch shouted sharply, pointing at Xu Tianming and shouting in a sharp voice, "You fellow, dare to disrespect His Majesty, come and take him down!"

Suddenly, a group of Habayashi soldiers came in and surrounded Xu Tianming.

"Wait a minute." At this moment, a man with a lazy voice, holding two dancers on the left and right, stood up staggeringly, holding a wine cup, and said drunkenly.

"This Confucianist asked, there are no big or small on the stage, and there are rules in the audience. Xi Gonggong, don't be too nervous ~ hiccup~"

Eunuch Xi narrowed his eyes, and a ray of light burst out, looked at the man and said: "Okay, the miscellaneous family will give the sixth prince a face, and you can step back."

After all, those Habayashi soldiers filed out from the hall again.

The sixth prince grinned, looked at Xu Tianming and raised his chin, indicating that I will help you here, then sat down, and continued to drink and have fun with Meiji beside him.

As for the sixth prince, everyone knew that he came here to watch a play. He didn't bring anyone with him, but he brought two beauties with him, and hugged him in public.

But no one expected that the sixth prince would help Xu Tianming, Li Shishi was also a little surprised, wondering when did Master Xu meet his absurd younger brother?
actually not.

Xu Tianming was also a little strange.

'I don't know him before, why should he help me? '

Although he had doubts in his heart, Xu Tianming still hugged the sixth prince and expressed his gratitude.

Time to get back to the question.

Wang Lang's current impression of Xu Tianming is that of a lunatic. How dare he compare himself to the emperor?
"Even if you are the emperor, don't you need a reason to kill someone?" Wang Lang argued.

Xu Tianming chuckled, and asked back, "Ninth Five-Year Honor, why do you need a reason to kill someone?"

"This..." Wang Lang was at a loss for words for a while.

Indeed, the king, as the top ruler of a country, is in charge of the power of life and death. He can kill whoever he wants. This is how patriotic soldiers died unjustly.

"So let me ask you, if the ruler wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die, does the talisman conform to the laws of heaven?" Xu Tianming questioned.

"." Wang Lang was silent.

"Since it doesn't conform to the laws of heaven, what's the point of obeying it?" Xu Tianming pointed at the stone slab and asked loudly, "Is this so-called motto wrong?"

Everyone was silent.

Xu Tianming's loud and clear voice flooded into their minds like a stormy sea, completely shattering their existing cognition!

Preserve the principles of nature and destroy human desires.
Is Confucianism's maxim really wrong?

Is it really as big a mistake as this young man said?
Just when everyone was hesitating, an old voice sounded.

"Little friend, your sophistry is indeed good, but after all, you are still too young."

This old voice pulled back everyone's thoughts.

They looked in that direction.

I saw that Zhou Yafu, Zhou Daru, stood in the middle of the hall at some point.

Zhou Daru showed a controlled smile, looked at Xu Tianming and said.

"Little friend, you may not know that after Confucian immortals wrote this motto, that Confucian sage with great powers and ignorance also tried to refute this motto, but he failed. The Confucian saint sat withered for seven days and seven nights. Finally, he sighed at the stone slab and left Chang'an without saying a word. Since then, he has never been to Chang'an again."

Following Zhou Daru's narration, everyone knew that there was such a story back then.

Zhou Daru looked at Xu Tianming with a deep smile on his old face: "Even the famous Confucian saints can't refute this proverb. Does Xu Xiaoyou claim to be more powerful than the Confucian saints? If that's the case, then the old man is willing to worship." under your door."

As Zhou Daru's words fell, hearty laughter resounded in the hall.

Everyone's doubts about the proverbs disappeared, after all, this is the truth that even Confucian saints can't refute!So you can't go wrong!

'Hey, this old man is very bad'

Xu Tianming thought to himself that this old man still wanted to use the name of a Confucian sage to suppress him, what a good way.

'But I, Xu Tianming, really don't want to eat this set! '

(End of this chapter)