“No matter how clear your mind is, you still know nothing about this world.”
The young man's words suddenly made the originally warm and harmonious atmosphere become quite stagnant.
The audience looked at each other for a long time, and then someone asked with a smile: "Young Master, are you saying that we are not well-educated enough..."
"No, even if you learn to the level of Yangming Gong, you still don't know why the flowers are so red?" Zhao Hao laughed loudly and said:
"You don't know why the sun shines and emits heat? Why do the sun, moon and stars keep moving? Why does the moon wax and wane? Why do stars blink? Why does thunder always come after lightning? Why do we see rainbows after rain? Why is there the Milky Way... Why do all of you know nothing?"
Zhao Hao asked a long series of questions in one breath, but the answer was a complete silence, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop...
Young Master Zhao sighed inwardly; the short honeymoon period was over.
So he tore off his warm and affectionate face and said without hiding anything:
"You don't have to be sad, because Lord Yangming doesn't know these questions either. If you don't believe me, please ask the two old gentlemen, am I right?"
His clear and bright eyes fell on Mr. Qian Dehong of Xushan and Mr. Wang Ji of Longxi.
The two respected elders stammered for a long time before the former scolded:
"Youngster, please do not criticize our master. Our master is a man of heavenly learning, so he naturally knows everything!"
"That's right, the teacher didn't say it, but he just disdains to talk about these trivial things." The latter also added.
"Hahaha, I'm talking about problems in heaven! If heaven is trivial, then aren't the problems in the human world even more insignificant?"
Zhao Hao raised his head and laughed for a while, then he slowly stood up with the help of Xiao Ji, glanced at the two old men and the people in the audience with a smile, and then said word by word:
"Also, I'm not a disciple of Wangxue. My sect is called Science!"
"Science! Science!!"
Two sudden shouts came from the audience.
Yu Shensi's blood was boiling with passion because of what his master had instigated. He could no longer hold back and raised his arms to cheer.
Zhao Hao rolled his eyes helplessly at his fifth disciple, and was extremely grateful that this fellow did not get excited and shout out "Long Live Science"...
These two shouts naturally attracted everyone's attention. Yu Shensi raised his head excitedly and announced loudly: "Science was founded by my master!"
"Your master?"
"That's our master!" Yu Shensi pointed at Zhao Hao on the stage, his face full of pride.
Zhao Hao was once again extremely grateful that he only brought this guy and not all the Calabash Brothers.
Otherwise, a large-scale monkey show must be staged.
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West side hall.
"Science..." The young county lady held her cheeks with both hands, dazed and said, "I will be a scientist in the future."
Zhang Xiaojing didn't bother to make fun of her best friend. She just stared at the young man on the stage, wondering where he got the courage to speak so openly.
She comes from a family of scholars and has read a lot of books, so she naturally knows that there has never been a subject called "science" from ancient times to the present.
"Hahahaha, after all this fuss, it turns out he's just an overconfident, sensationalist guy..."
Originally, Mr. Xu was about to feel inferior because of Teacher Zhao's charm on the podium.
Only at this moment did he feel relieved and laughed exaggeratedly: "Science, science, he dared to say that, he is so ignorant and fearless..."
Before he could finish his words, he was kicked hard in the calf.
The pain made Master Xu hug his legs and jump, but he didn't dare to rage at all because it was Li Mingyue who kicked him.
"How dare you laugh at my elder brother?" The young county lady said with eyes wide open:
"So what if it didn't exist before? Today, there is one more science in the world!"
After saying that, she walked out of the door angrily, not wanting to stay under the same roof with this annoying guy.
Zhang Xiaojing hurriedly chased after him, and her two brothers naturally followed closely.
Before leaving, Li Chengen pointed at Master Xu speechlessly and said, "You deserve it!"
Master Xu helplessly held onto the door frame, looking at his beloved who was resolutely leaving, the sad sound of the horse-head fiddle rang out from the bottom of his heart.
Green grassland, green pasture, the beloved girl rides away on a big blue horse and disappears under the dark green mountains.
The exiled immortal will never return, and I look at the empty green hills with dismay...
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But it’s useless if Li Mingyue just supports Zhao Hao.
There are so many listeners below the podium who hold the same view as Mr. Xu.
"What is science? Never heard of it?"
"So you're not from our Xinxue school, so why are you still acting so high and mighty on stage?"
"Come down now, you little brat!"
The audience members in the audience changed sides one after another, and factionalism was indeed worse than internal conflicts.
Zhao Hao sneered and pointed at the four sentences on the wall and said, "Is there anyone who can help me recite those sixteen words?"
The disciples of Xinxue naturally wouldn't say anything. But didn't Mr. Zhao bring Yu Shensi here to avoid the embarrassment of having no one to support him?
Then the fifth disciple shouted in a Shandong accent: "The sea embraces all rivers, and tolerance is the essence of greatness. A hundred schools of thought contend, and everything is included!"
The noise in the field suddenly decreased by half.
Lingji Palace has never stipulated that only those who study Xinxue can give lectures on stage; however, Lingji Palace has a rule that those who go on stage can only lecture for one stick of incense.
No one may interrupt until the incense goes out.
Rules are rules. Without rules, how can there be order?
Didn’t you see how unscrupulous He Xinyin was just now, and the followers of the School of Mind neither drove him off the stage nor made noise to disturb his lecture?
This precious tolerance is the loveliness of the School of Mind. If it were the School of Confucianism on the outside and Legalism on the inside, Zhao Hao would have been denounced as a heretic and hit with bricks.
Of course, having said that, if Zhao Hao didn't know that psychology is very inclusive, he wouldn't dare to go to other people's land and act wildly.
Now the incense stick was only half burned, and no matter whether everyone was willing or not, they could only listen to Zhao Hao continue.
"I just said that Mr. Yangming didn't understand those things outside of his body. It was not disrespectful to him. On the contrary, the ancient sage I admire most is Mr. Yangming! The theory I admire most is the School of Mind!"
After Mr. Zhao slapped him, he naturally gave him two sweet dates to eat. Just mocking and ridiculing like He Xinyin is called fighting, not teaching.
Sure enough, everyone's faces lightened up after hearing this, and they all said, "Boy, we are very grateful that you spoke for Lord Yangming. But you can't step on our Xinxue to promote your own ideas!"
Zhao Hao thought to himself, they had indeed seen through it. But he would never admit it on his face, instead he said sternly:
"I fully agree with Yangming Gong's saying 'the original heart is the most important'. So I will say what I think, and I believe that you will tolerate it regardless of whether you agree or not."
As he spoke, he spread his hands forward and said in a tone of great respect: "Because you are a school of mind!"
"Well, you say..." As the saying goes, if someone respects me one foot, I will respect him ten feet. Thinking that this kid helped them scold He Xinyin, everyone thought it would be okay to let him talk nonsense and we just listen to him.
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