"You, you are just making up stories. How can this be the same?"
Ning Zhuo's series of questions made Nangong Shang and others pause and want to refute.
Ning Zhuo sneered and asked, "How is it different?"
Everyone's faces suddenly turned red, but they didn't know whether it was out of shame or anger.
After hesitating for a while, someone finally asked, "If that's what you said, then does that mean I'm a saint just because I've eaten steamed buns?"
"Haha, that's right. If you put it that way, then since we all know things that saints don't know, doesn't that mean everyone is a saint?"
These people hesitated for a while, and suddenly found this excuse, and everyone laughed out loud. It felt as if they had suddenly found the truth that overturned Ning Zhuo's theory.
But when Beichen and others heard this, they couldn't help but frown.
As neutral parties, they can clearly tell which side has the upper hand and which side is making unreasonable demands.
But they didn't know what to say, and they also wanted to hear what Ning Zhuo had to say.
So they all looked at Ning Zhuo.
Ning Zhuo was no longer pretending to be calm as before. He was no longer afraid of these people.
Hearing this, he shook his head slightly and said, "No, no.
Did you not understand what I meant, or are you pretending not to understand? "
“To know, there is the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of knowledge. To seek knowledge is to understand, observe, comprehend, and know both the truth and the reason behind it through oneself.
It is said that to acquire knowledge one must investigate things; only after investigating things can one acquire knowledge.
What you call knowledge today is nothing more than the ground wet by rain, or the spring water wrinkled by wind. Its use lies in the rain and the wind, but what use does it have to the ground or the spring water?
“Just as I have told you today, just as it is written in the books of the sages, you have only heard and seen it, but you do not know it.
This is merely superficial knowledge, not the pursuit of knowledge. To be frank, you are no better than those illiterate people out there. You are not even educated, you can only be considered readers. Yet you still want to be sages. Are you crazy?
"you……"
Nangong Shang and others did not expect Ning Zhuo's words to be so vicious. With just a few words, he said that they were worse than the untouchables outside. They were just readers, not even scholars.
Why the hell don't you just say we're not even human?
As children of aristocratic families and "scholars", they had never been belittled like this before.
However, everything Ning Zhuo said has clear logic and is derived from the teachings of sages.
They wanted to refute, but didn't know how.
Nangong Shang was about to speak again to incite those people, but Han Zhuowu behind him quietly pulled him back and shook his head slightly at him.
The meaning is: "Enough is enough, if you continue, not only will you not get any benefits, you will probably lose face even more."
Nangong Shang frowned slightly, then took a deep breath and finally did not speak again, but her expression was extremely gloomy.
When Beichen and others heard this, they couldn't help but feel moved.
Beichen was too lazy to worry about Nangong Shang and the others anymore. He bowed and asked, "May I ask, brother, what is the meaning of the so-called investigation of things?"
This question was completely different from the one asked by Nangong Shang and others. From the attitude to the tone, it was already a request for advice.
Ning Zhuo did not neglect it when he saw this.
Since the other party asked him politely, he also responded politely: "I dare not."
After saying that, he raised his hand and motioned the other person to sit down.
Then he said in a gentle voice: "I believe that there are four methods for studying things: observing their form, examining their nature, verifying their truth, and clarifying their principles.
Observer means observation, examiner means investigation, verifier means verification, and enlightener means enlightenment.
When examining an object, one must first observe its form and examine its properties, then verify what one has observed. Only then can one obtain the true and discard the false. Once the false is discarded and the true remains, one will naturally understand the principles it contains."
Hearing what he said, everyone was stunned.
Even many of those who had originally opposed stopped, and although they still frowned, they couldn't help but listen.
Because since ancient times, people have always said that one can gain knowledge by investigating things, but no one has ever said how to investigate things.
Although everyone instinctively realized that what Ning Zhuo said about the study of things was somewhat different from what was said in the books of sages.
The Great Learning says: "Investigate things, seek knowledge, be sincere, rectify the mind, cultivate the person, regulate the family, govern the state, and bring peace to the world."
However, Ning Zhuo was the first person to explain how to study things, and even gave methods and steps.
Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, as a scholar, we cannot help but care about it.
Because this problem has really troubled too many people.
Don't talk about now.
Even in another time and space, until the Ming and Qing dynasties, no one could figure out how to study things.
In the end, we can only resort to complete idealism.
What Ning Zhuo said was naturally adapted by Zhao Xin based on some methods of scientific experiments in later generations.
Although he is not even a second-rate knife, he is more of a third-rate knife.
But to the readers at that time, it still sounded quite novel.
Even if it is wrong, some people who truly want to seek knowledge and truth will not be able to help but give it a try.
Zhao Xin was betting that some of these people would become addicted to the thrill of decryption after trying it. As long as there were one or two such people out of ten thousand, then one thousand out of a million, or even one or two hundred would become believers in this method.
In the end, these people will inevitably bring different changes to these people.
Of course, those are just by-products for Zhao Xin. His main goal is not to reform society or achieve modernization.
Instead, it is to shake the solidification of the aristocratic families in the ideological field.
As long as this goal is achieved, everything else is a success and a failure.
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