Zhao Jiu nodded when he heard this, but he was curious and asked again: "Yang Shi is so old, and he is a direct descendant of Cheng Men, and even his disciples are great scholars. Then he should be one of the best among the Taoists and Neo-Confucianists, right?"
Lu Benzhong immediately laughed: "Your Majesty's words are right on target. After Guan and Luo, Taoism has become more diverse, but there is no dispute about the top two figures at the moment, they are Mr. Guishan (Yang Shi) and Mr. Qingshan (Hu Anguo). The rest are three points shorter."
"Then your father and your Lu family are three points inferior?" Zhao Jiu kept asking. "Isn't it said that your father and Yang Shi are known as the Southern Yang and the Northern Lu?"
Lü Benzhong smiled helplessly, "To be honest with you, that is a school of thought... My father inherited the Lü family's teachings, while Mr. Guishan inherited the orthodox Luo School. However, if we measure the orthodoxy of Taoism, my father can still be compared with Mr. Qingshan."
"That's what I said!"
Zhao Jiu, who had gained a lot of knowledge in recent days, was completely enlightened.
It turned out that the current situation in this wild school was somewhat similar to those high-end immortal cultivation novels and martial arts novels he had read before traveling through time. It not only talked about the difference between a famous and upright sect and a gang, but also compared the strength of the sects and the cultivation of the leader.
To be specific, Taoism is considered the mainstream and upright school (there are many other doctrines), and Hu Anguo, Yang Shi, and Lu Haowen are undoubtedly the leading figures among them. In the world of martial arts, they are like Murong in the south, Qiao Feng in the north, and Jiumozhi. In the world of immortals, they are the only three great masters in the Yuanshen period.
However, Hu Anguo was inferior to Yang Shi in two aspects. One was that he had once asked Yang Shi for advice and they had a half-teacher-student relationship; the other was that after his level had improved and he had the potential to establish his own school, he ultimately did not have the time to do so.
As for Lu Haowen, he conducted Taoist research through the inheritance method of family learning, which naturally gave him a certain bonus of sectarian identity, but he was inevitably not as powerful as Yang Shi's Chengmen Luoxue.
Therefore, although they are called together in various ways, in fact, among the three, Yang Shi is the true leader of the righteous path. In terms of cultivation, sect power, and even age, he is the number one in the existing Taoist system.
But such a person, who was nearly eighty years old, still traveled all the way to Tokyo City with his fellow apprentices and disciples. It can be seen how many people were offended by Lu Haowen's sudden establishment of a new school of thought and his desire to become a saint.
While talking and thinking, Mr. Yuzhang stood up and talked about some new academic achievements that Mr. Guishan Yang Shi had obtained in Southeast China in recent years, then he took the initiative to step down. Then, it was still not Mr. Guishan Yang Shi who took the stage himself, but a young man who took over to continue controlling the situation.
"This is Li Dong, also known as Mr. Yanping. He is considered a disciple of Mr. Guishan and also a disciple of Mr. Yuzhang... He is the orthodox tradition of Luo School." Lu Benzhong took the initiative to introduce.
Zhao Jiu nodded repeatedly... After changing his train of thought, the official suddenly understood everything. How could he not know that Yang Shi and these three generations of Luo Congyan and Li Dong, the old, middle-aged and young, were the direct descendants of the two Chengs of Luo School, that is, the current leader and the two future leaders designated as such?
At this moment, the slightly younger Li Dong came on stage and blurted out: "Everyone, I wonder if you can make a couplet?"
The crowd below was naturally in an uproar. Couplets were something that started to become popular in the early Song Dynasty and then became very popular. It was a common form of entertainment among scholars and students at that time, and was also one of the means of training poetry.
Obviously, although Li Dong had been given the title of Mr. Yanping early on, he was still young and not as rigid as Luo Congyan before him, so he took the initiative to stir up the emotions of the students and scholars who were watching:
"Then I'll make a pair... What is the pair?"
"Earth!" The response from below was almost instant.
"What's the matter with the rain?"
"Wind!" The voices below became more and more uniform, but there was also a hint of ridicule, because the other party was like coaxing a child, saying these basic things that were so difficult to be basic.
"What's the mountain?" Mr. Yanping ignored the laughter and continued to ask.
"ocean!"
"What is the mainland doing?"
"Changkong!"
"What are the four mountains against?"
"Three Dukes!"
"What's the evening drum?"
"Morning bell..."
The laughter became louder and louder, but at this moment, Li Dong suddenly raised his voice:
"Morality for what?"
There was a sudden pause below... All of them were scholars, so who wouldn't know that Mr. Yanping was waiting here? But since so many people came, there were naturally some mischievous people among them, and for some unknown reason, they laughed and said on the spot:
"Morality versus interests!"
"Wrong!" Li Dong immediately responded with a stern voice. "Morality versus rationality!"
"Get out!" Zhao Jiu heard this and suddenly whispered to Lv Benzhong. "Get out to Gongli!"
Lu Benzhong swallowed his saliva, but he was helpless and could only shout loudly in the wing room: "Why can't morality be used against utilitarianism?"
Then, the eldest son of the prime minister and the successor of Lu's Taoism, ran out from behind the wing door to everyone's surprise, but just stood in front of the window and continued to raise his voice and bow: "May I ask Mr. Yanping, why can't morality be used for utilitarianism?!"
Li Dong was stunned when he heard this, and then he bowed solemnly: "So it's Master Donglai, Master, please come in. May I ask why you are so aggressive? I said this because Master is going to talk about morality and ethics, not because I really want to make couplets!"
Only then did Zhao Jiu realize that Lu Benzhong was also a famous figure.
"Don't pay attention to it. Just ask him directly, is it possible to combine morality and utilitarianism?" Zhao Jiu whispered directly behind the window while thinking about it.
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