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Chapter 67 Evil Theory, Evil People (Please recommend a ticket)

Seeing Weng Chun's face changing color, Zhou Nan was not satisfied.It is naturally a cool thing to make others fear oneself.

Without waiting for Weng Xiucai to continue, he cupped his hands to Butler Jin: "Butler Jin, why don't I try it too?"

Zhou Nan usually walks around when he sees people from the Mei family, and he only visited the Mei family once in the past few months in Andong County.Butler Jin is the housekeeper of Mei Mansion, and he doesn't go out very often, so naturally he can't be recognized.

Seeing Zhou Nan in a Confucian robe, he thought that he was also a scholar who had come to apply for the job.It was not good for Weng Chun to make the competition cold just now, so he smiled and said, "Please tell me, sir."

Zhou Nan waved his sleeves, and said calmly and calmly: "There are three unfilial acts, and it is better to have no descendants. I will not repeat the first two unfilial acts. Today Weng Xiucai has different opinions on the greater importance of having no descendants. Let's talk about the third point."

"There are three kinds of unfilial piety, and the greatest unfilial piety is not to have children. It has nothing to do with being a junior who does not follow the rules of future generations, does not cultivate morality, and does not observe etiquette. The previous two points have already been said. The code of conduct of people, why should the third point be singled out, isn’t that nonsense? It is necessary to know that Confucius’s words are so precise, is it possible to repeat a question repeatedly?”

Weng Chun is a scholar after all, since Zhou Nan wants to argue with himself.He didn't bother to reveal the identity of the subordinate, so he asked: "What new explanation do you have? My Confucianism emphasizes the preservation of the principles of nature and the elimination of human desires. The Four Books and Five Classics all talk about the principles of life and doing things. How can I be entangled in the boudoir?" What about husband and wife?"

Yes, Dacheng Zhisheng and Yasheng are so tall, how could the theory of his article be entangled in such a low-level thing as having a child, that is a great disrespect to the saint.

Zhou Nan laughed, and said nonsense: "Friend Weng, you are wrong. The desire in the sentence "preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires" does not refer to food and drink only, but to prevent the excessive expansion of personal desires. The so-called limit in doing things is too much. Zhu Zi This sentence is to remind us that normal human desires are necessary, but not excessive. In everything, we must abide by the rules, and restrict personal desires to the rules that maintain society, morality and folk customs. It is about self-cultivation, and It’s not asking everyone to abstain from sexual desires. Otherwise, we would just shave our hair and become monks. Wouldn’t the human desires be wiped out completely?”

Hearing what he said, the other scholars couldn't help but nodded.There was a scholar who was upset that Weng Chun was competing for the first place and said with a smile: "Yes, according to what this friend Weng Chun said, what kind of books should we study? In my opinion, it is so troublesome to be a monk if you really want to be wiped out. Just cleanse yourself and become a eunuch."

Another shouted exaggeratedly: "Unexpectedly, friend Weng turned out to be the father-in-law of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, so sorry and disrespectful!"

Hearing what the two said was interesting, everyone laughed softly.

Zhou Nan: "According to the records in the book "The Century of Emperors" by Huang Fumi of the Han Dynasty, during the Spring and Autumn Period of the Zhou Dynasty, there were a total of more than [-] million people in the world. Even in a big country like Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Han, Wei and Qin, there were only more than a million people. It can be seen that There was a shortage of manpower at that time. The state naturally wanted to vigorously encourage the people to have children, so the words of Confucius meant to tell everyone to have more children, and had no other meaning.”

At the end of the Warring States Period, Qin destroyed Chu and mobilized 60 troops, which was already all the human resources of Qiang Qin; in the Battle of Changping, Bai Qikeng killed 40 soldiers of Zhao State, and killed a generation of Zhao State.Since then, the most powerful state of Zhao among the six heroes of the Warring States period was no longer able to resist Qin's aggression, and was on the absolute defensive strategically until it perished.

It can be seen that the population was so small at that time.Dingkou of any country among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period is only equivalent to a large county in later generations.

As a liberal arts student, there is no distinction between literature and history, and these are common sense.But it fell into the ears of Ming Dynasty people, but it was so fresh, and all living beings felt suddenly enlightened.

After finishing speaking, he looked at the crowd and said with a smile: "There must be some of you friends who have not yet married. If you are old, if you are in the Spring and Autumn Period, it is already a crime. But don't worry, everyone, the country will give you wives If a man is unmarried at fourteen, the state will forcibly send an unmarried woman into your room."

All the scholars laughed, everyone was poor, and indeed there were many bachelors who couldn't survive.Otherwise, it would be impossible to apply for this private school teacher. What he wants is to guarantee food and housing, and he will have 50 taels of silver every year.

Hearing Zhou Nan's words, I can't help yearning leisurely: the country still sends women, the rule of the three kings in ancient times, the small country with few people in the Spring and Autumn Period, it is really a paradise for my generation, I wish I could be born at the right time.

Weng Chun was dumbfounded, there was still such an explanation, and he murmured: "Evil theory, evil theory, the surname Zhou..."

How could Zhou Nan let him continue, suddenly shouted, and pointed at Weng Chun: "It is clear that you, a scholar, want to be the Mr. It's grandstanding, distorting the meaning of the sages, and spreading such heresy, my generation of scholars will definitely not tolerate it?"

Both he and Weng Chun accused each other of spreading heresy, which is already a very serious accusation among scholars.

Weng Chun: "I, I, I..."

Zhou Nan continued to shout: "Take it as if I don't know you, comrades, this person is a student of the county school in our county, and his family has quite a fortune. We are here today to apply for Mr. Meifu private school, although it is for Daoliang Conspiracy, but it is also like following the example of Confucius in teaching and educating people, spreading the moral words of saints. But this fellow covets Miss Mei Er's beauty, and wants to use this to enter Mei's mansion, and wants to do something wrong. Scum, gentle scum!"

Among the six No. 70 scholars present, there are only scholars from the county. After all, everyone is from the local area, so we don't want to offend Weng Chun, the leader of the younger generation of intellectual circles.But the people from other counties couldn't control so much. When they heard this, they suddenly came to their senses and cursed at the same time.

Weng Chun was a scholar after all, so he felt a little ashamed, and when someone told him that he had a small plan in his heart, it immediately became full of red dates, and he wished there was a gap in the ground to get in.

For a while, the boat was in chaos.Butler Jin was also dumbfounded, not knowing how to control the scene in front of him.

This recruitment competition was quite normal at the beginning, Weng Xiucai also explained the scriptures very well, it was unique and quite interesting.But when Zhou Nan jumped out, the taste changed. He directly talked about husband and wife having children, and revealed Weng Chun's privacy again, which turned into a farce.

If today's incident gets out, I'm afraid it will damage the reputation of Second Miss.

What should we do? Could this job fair just be over and everyone should go back... No, this boat is full of well-known scholars.

For a moment, Butler Jin was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Evil thief, you are so brave to come to my boat!" Suddenly, a woman's voice came out.A figure flashed out from the back cabin, she was slim and slim, with a veil covering her head, she was so clear and moving.

Although I can't see her appearance clearly, but judging from the film and sound, she must be a big beauty.

Butler Jin was in a hurry: "Second Miss, why did you come out, go back, go back!"

All the scholars were shocked, it turned out to be the daughter of the Mei family.

When Miss Mei Er saw Zhou Nan, a new hatred came to her heart.Especially when he publicly said that Weng Chun wanted to pursue him, it was a great humiliation.

Immediately couldn't hold back and rushed out.

She pointed at Zhou Nan and cursed angrily: "You villain said that Weng Yingyuan misinterpreted the classics of the saints. I think you are the one who distorts and slanders the saints. Just now you talked about Confucius. Arrogance and rebellion are tolerable, which is unbearable."

It was only then that Weng Chun realized that, yes, just now Zhou Nan talked about Confucius, which is already a big taboo for scholars.The disciples of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty, when addressing Confucius, replaced them with Dacheng, the most sage, and Mencius, and Mencius was called the sub-sage: "As expected, everyone, let's beat this thief and get off the boat!"

"Ah, it's so hateful, it's unforgivable!" When all the scholars heard this, they were furious and cursed one after another.They were still on the same front as Zhou Nan before, but now they have changed their flags.It's really changing positions too quickly, like a tornado.

Weng Chun continued to shout: "So that all friends know that this thief is a subordinate official of our county yamen."

"Ah, it turned out to be a thief, damn it, kill this lowly villain." The scholars rolled up their sleeves and rushed forward.

Seeing the turbulent discussion, Ah Er wanted to come forward to save him.But there are too many people in the cabin and it is very crowded, no matter how strong you are, how can you rush over.

Zhou Nan groaned in his heart, wishing he could slap himself in the face: I told you not to speak but your brains, and you made such a big slip of the tongue, you are going to die, you are going to die!
Scholars in the Ming Dynasty, especially those in the Jiajing period, were not the modest and gentle gentlemen imagined by later generations.On the contrary, these people are very hot-tempered in some things.In the political struggle of great etiquette, civil officials will fight with you if they disagree with each other, and even killed several political opponents.

Zhang Cong, the chief assistant at the time, was almost beaten to death once, if he hadn't run fast.

It can be seen that the body is the capital of revolution at any time.

Zhou Nan knew that if he was careless today, he would be tortured to death if he said something wrong.Even if he didn't die, he would probably have to spend the rest of his life in a hospital bed after being hammered by six or seventy people.

However, the situation in front of him was exactly as he expected, and the purpose of his coming here today was to make matters worse.

In order to achieve the goal, it does not matter how the process is.

At that moment, instead of retreating, Zhou Nan advanced, and rushed towards Miss Mei Er, grabbed her arm with her left hand, turned over with her right hand, and put a small eel tail plug, that is, a dagger, on Mei Chi's neck.

He yelled loudly: "Everyone back off, that's right, I'm Zhou Nan, the pawn of Andong County. What do you guys want to do here to form associations, gather, and build a party? Are you rebelling? Of course, this pawn can't just stand by and watch, and you wait and see!" Step back quickly, don't make mistakes!"

"Ah!" All the scholars were stunned. Zhou Nan had made an evil comment before, and he couldn't think of others being more evil.Putting a knife on someone's neck and holding Miss Mei's family hostage at the slightest disagreement is truly daring.

Although Second Miss Mei has a strong nature and is a 16-year-old woman from a wealthy family, whenever she encounters such a dangerous situation, she suddenly trembles all over.

Looking through the veil, a delicate and beautiful face lost its color.She just clenched her teeth and tried her best not to scream.

But his gaze was looking at Zhou Nan fiercely like a burning flame. If gaze could kill, Zhou Nan would have been chopped into meat paste.

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