That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 338 The more you want to win, the less likely you are to win.

The afternoon of the third day was the final day of the debate.

When Li Ye and others arrived at the debate finals, Qin Yongsheng suddenly asked Li Ye in a low voice: "Li Ye, have you not slept in the past two days? Why don't you take a nap while you still have time?"

Li Ye said in surprise: "No! How did you tell that I didn't sleep well?"

Qin Yongsheng looked at Li Ye and said, "I can't tell, but I always feel that you are a little tired."

"Qing Jing is telling the truth," Li Ye said angrily and with a smile: "I want you to receive several groups of enthusiastic compatriots every day. You sleep up there while I chat about feelings down below. Can you not be tired?"

Overseas compatriots have been coming to the hotel in the past few days, and most of them can call out Li Ye's name, making Li Ye like a mascot, being pulled out by Team Leader Zhou.

"I also want to be tired, but they don't look for me!" Qiao Dapeng held his mouth and pretended to be pitiful and said: "I also want to accept the enthusiasm of those compatriots, especially those with beautiful granddaughters and lots of gifts. Here comes the kind old man."

"Go away~, we are all rabbits, right? Is there something good that I haven't shared with you? I'm going to turn against you!"

"Hahahaha~"

Everyone burst out laughing, which relieved the tension before the game.

Li Ye and others did receive a lot of gifts in the past few days, but most of them were ordinary fruits and snacks, which were all digested by everyone's stomach.

As for this single example of someone as generous as Fu Guiru, everyone is speculating on what kind of person the other person is.

Li Ye also wanted to know her situation, but Pei Wencong never responded to Li Ye. It is estimated that the private detective is not the FBI and can find out the details of others in minutes.

When the finals started, Li Ye saw Wu Jinyuan in the audience, and half of what she said floated in his ears.

"Debate competition, no problem."

It seems like there's really no problem.

The two sides of the debate competition were Peking University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The final debate topic was - Confucianism can coexist with other cultures.

At first glance, there is nothing wrong with this debate topic, because Confucianism is relatively popular in Li Jiapo, and Li Ye remembers that according to the original time and space, debate topics about Confucianism and Western customs did appear in the following debates.

But when Li Ye and others learned about this debate topic, they took it very seriously and were very cautious.

Especially for the opposing side, a variety of response plans have been made.

Because if Confucianism cannot coexist with other cultures, will it be misinterpreted or even exploited by people with ulterior motives?

At this moment, the negotiations between the Mainland and Britain are not over yet! You say we can't coexist, does that mean it's black and white, and the east wind must prevail over the west wind?

Therefore, Li Ye and others are prepared to argue in the direction of "Confucianism and other cultures do not coexist, but have something in common and can be integrated and complementary" once they get the negative side.

But when drawing heads and tails, something interesting happened.

Peking University got the positive result, while the Chinese University of Hong Kong got the negative result.

How can you argue with this?

Hong Kong Island has always prided itself on being a model of "merging East and West". Do you yourself say that two cultural ideologies cannot coexist?

That’s really cool! Do you want to remove all Western consciousness and restore the orthodox ancestral culture?

Just kidding, how can that show the generosity and tolerance of our big flower empire?

However, after the debate began, the Chinese University of Hong Kong did not surrender in despair. Instead, it showed a "Tai Chi Yin and Yang Diagram" and proposed a debate idea of ​​"one loses and the other rises" to actively confront Beijing University.

But in any case, the fact that Confucianism coexists with other cultural thoughts has not been questioned at all.

But when He Qiusheng, the third debater of the University of Hong Kong, began to question the summary, the direction of the wind suddenly changed.

"Throughout history, any successful cultural thought has a strong aggressiveness. The Crusades in the West were as many as eight times. The cause was the collision of beliefs and ideas.

In the East, we have had a glorious period of contention among a hundred schools of thought. Taoism, Mohism, Legalism, Agriculture, etc. all had their own strengths, but in the end they only respected Confucianism.

Even during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Confucianism spread southward and northward, suppressing, swallowing up and finally digesting all other regional cultures."

"So if two thoughts coexist at the same time, it is not the peace and friendship of the thoughts themselves, but the stalemate formed by the equal strength of both parties, just like the yin and yang in the Tai Chi diagram."

He Qiusheng suddenly looked at Li Ye and said: "For example, Zhengfang Sanbian, a rising star of the younger generation, described in detail the expansion and setbacks of Confucianism in his novel "Shuofeng Feiyang"."

"In the novel "Shuo Feng Fei Yang", it is described in detail that Japan's defeat in the Shirakawa River led to the intrusion of Confucianism into Japan, and eventually Japan was completely included in the Confucian cultural circle."

But the Battle of Talas described in "The Flying Wind" had another result. Because of the failure of the Battle of Talas in the Tang Dynasty, the expansion of Confucianism to the west was forced to stop." Li Ye: "."

[It’s so special that if you know yourself and your enemy, you will be victorious in any battle. Is my seven-inch blade actually used as a breakthrough point? 】

Li Ye listened to He Qiusheng's eloquent talk and really admired his eloquence.

If you want to say that Confucianism almost crushed and unified all other cultures in East Asia, you are definitely right.

You said that there is a direct correspondence between thought and power, which makes a lot of sense.

But you have to emphasize the aggressiveness of Confucianism. How can you say such a thing?

[Are you talking about the Confucian threat? Or the China threat theory? 】

Our Confucianism emphasizes benevolence the most. You can't just pay attention to those little flaws. Can you learn benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trust first?

In the early 1980s, if someone advocated the theory of flower planting as a threat, almost no one would believe it. However, Hong Kong Islanders might believe it. After all, it is too close to the mainland and too far from Britain.

"Now the affirmative side will make a summary of the three arguments."

Li Ye stood up, bowed slightly, and gestured to the surroundings.

"First of all, I must emphasize the contribution of Confucianism to world civilization and science and technology."

"According to the "Chronology of Major World Natural Science Events", before the 16th century, there were about 300 major scientific and technological inventions that affected human life, 175 of which were invented by flower growers."

"It is these major inventions and discoveries that have kept the flower growers' farming, textile, metallurgy, and hand-made manufacturing technologies at the world's advanced level for a long time."

"And Confucianism also left behind a large number of world-famous scientific works such as "Kaogong Ji", "Tiangong Kaiwu" and so on."

Li Ye didn't speak fast, but every word was clear and powerful.

After he finished talking about the contribution of Confucianism, he added: "In addition, the argument just promoted by the anti-Fang Sanbian through my novel is completely wrong.

The reason why Confucianism is able to take root everywhere is not because of aggression, but precisely because of its advancement."

"Whether it is Japan or the peninsula in the north, they have continuously sent Tang envoys to the flower-growing hinterland for a long time, bringing the advanced ideas and technologies of flower-growing families back to their hometowns.

Confucianism has significantly improved productivity on a large scale. This is a historical fact recorded in various texts."

"And this kind of cultural export and technological export is basically free of charge. Flower growers have never charged any fees or demanded any price because of the outflow of these technologies."

"So Confucianism is not about aggression, but about attraction."

Li Ye paused for a few seconds and said extremely calmly: "We can't be sure about other civilizations' thoughts, but Confucianism is peaceful, full of goodwill, and can and is willing to accept other excellent cultural thoughts."

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After Li Ye finished his speech and sat down for two seconds, the applause from around him started. It became louder and louder and lasted for a long time.

Li Ye's speech was calm and indifferent, as if there was no strong emotional tension, but he always emphasized one point. You guys voluntarily believe in Confucianism, and you have all benefited.

In the free debate that followed, the Chinese University of Hong Kong's performance was obviously more radical. It cited several regional civilizations that had disappeared in history due to the flower-growing empire, hoping to prove that Confucianism has a strong exclusive nature.

But the Peking University debate team changed their style and simply said indifferently, "This is the progress of the times, and their demise is due to their own shortcomings.

If they are good enough and advanced enough, they will definitely coexist with Confucianism to this day."

The more peaceful Peking University behaves, the more fierce HKU's offense becomes, and the back and forth is exciting.

But what the two debate teams, who were in the middle of the game, didn't know was that everyone around them felt that Beijing University's dominance was getting stronger and stronger and was no longer unshakable.

The more enterprising the HKU debaters are and the more they want to win, the less they can shake the Confucian style of Peking University that is indifferent and vast.

There have been too many such things in the history of flower growers. The more impatient you are, the more humble I am. I am already so humble, why do you still say that I am a bad person? Why do you still say that I won't give you a way to survive?

On the contrary, you were not impatient anymore, so the elegant and elegant Confucian scholar had to put down his books and pull out a several-meter-long sword from under the clean and tidy scholar's robe.

"Be patient! My knife is very fast and it doesn't hurt at all. After I cut it, you will be your own person."

Confucianism can spread over such a large area of ​​​​20,000 miles from north to south, how can it be possible for him to be just a gentle gentleman?

(End of this chapter)