"Being a father is a scholar of the Han Dynasty, and the way to be a father is different from that of a son." Cai Yong's hearty laughter came from the small courtyard. In the courtyard, Mr. Liu Cang and his wife were squatting on a stone bench when they saw Cai Yong stroking his beard and saying

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"Not to mention Ziqian, Zheng Kangcheng of Gaomi, and Guan You'an of Beihai are all contemporary celebrities, including the Confucian Confucian family."

"We are both Confucian scholars, but our Taoism is different. What we learn, know, and are taught are also different."

"Although we came from the same school and studied the same book, but you tell me, is this not a kind of contention among a hundred schools of thought?" Cai Yong said to Liu Cang.

"Confucianism? That's not the same thing." Liu Cang curled his lips, always feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong for the moment.

"Haha, Zhuzi, don't go against your will, just listen to your father's advice." Cai Yong said with a smile. Seeing Liu Cang's strange behavior, he reached out his hand to strike, Liu Cang lowered his head and let him pat him on the head gently or not hard.

one time.

"You said the same thing, but the hundreds of schools of thought are gone, and Confucianism is on the rise. This is the general trend today."

"But your so-called sentence punctuation, now you dare to talk about the pros and cons?" Cai Yong asked Liu Cang word by word as if to guide him.

"Huh?" Only then did Liu Cang remember that what he said at first was punctuation and sentence fragmentation. Following Cai Yong's guidance, Liu Cang felt an inexplicable suddenness in his heart.

"You mean..." With a strange look in his eyes, Liu Cang looked at Cai Yong.

"This is a unique weapon that you said 'respects Confucianism alone', but we, the Confucian sect, disdain it." Pointing to the punctuation marks drawn by Liu Cang on the ground, Cai Yong raised his head and shouted calmly.

"Boom!" As if there was thunder in his head, Liu Cang was suddenly shouted by Cai Yong, as if some of the original structures in his brain were shattered and collapsed.

No! This isn't right! It shouldn't be like this, wait, wait, it seems...

Sentence reading in the Han Dynasty, circles appeared in the Song Dynasty, and lines separating names appeared in the Ming Dynasty. Punctuation?

‘Wait, wait a moment.’ Liu Cang’s mind was a little confused.

Putting aside the disparagement and malice, are people in the Han Dynasty stupid? Are people in the Song Dynasty stupid? Are people in the Ming Dynasty stupid?

As long as you don't regard them as enemies who killed their fathers and mothers, you shouldn't think of them as idiots who can't even use punctuation marks, right?

Foolish people? Monopolize knowledge?

Still not quite right?

Is the punctuation bad? Good! Absolutely good! It makes it easier for people to read, write and understand.

When faced with tediousness and convenience, 80, 90, or even more people will choose convenience.

This is the general trend, and it can’t be bad! It can’t be bad either!

Punctuation is good and progress!

Putting everything aside, what does punctuation actually bring? And what does it make an essential change?

truth!?

Punctuation brings truth!

It eliminates for people the disputes caused by the understanding of words and sentences, at least 99% of the disputes. It also eliminates wrong interpretations.

It allows people to interpret, read and write, acquire knowledge, and recognize the truth without thinking.

What is truth?

The backside of possibility, the existence of possibility and fallacy.

Just do it, do it, don't accept any objection, don't think about it, don't need to think about it. It's simple and easy to understand!

Yes, it’s simple and easy to understand! If you think about it again, it’s redundant!

Or, is it rebellion?

"Hiss~!" Liu Cang gasped. This horse riding was wrong.

"Haha, it seems that Haoxuan has a clear understanding?" Cai Yongyan smiled, with relief on his face.

"Although there are deviations, Haoxuan is good at thinking and can think on such a level, haha, my son can go to school!" Cai Yong laughed.

‘No, no, don’t laugh, I feel guilty.’ Liu Cang looked at Cai Yong timidly, as if he was comforted by his old age.

You are really wise, but at some level, I just want to show off your wits with a wisdom that surpasses yours for more than two thousand years.

Or is it a mistake? The starting point is difficult to evaluate?

But it seems that Han aristocratic families have a monopoly on knowledge, but those celebrities also have their own bottom line, and they also prevent irreversible crises - the crisis of civilization being shackles and civilization being cut off.

What was Cai Yong talking about just now?

What does it mean that my son can go to school?

think!?

If you are good at thinking, can think about problems at a certain level, and can think about things that are contrary to ordinary people's common sense, then you can just get started and start learning?

What is your positioning on learning?

What about literacy endorsement?

It was as if a hundred thousand reasons were exploding in his heart. Liu Cang's face was uncertain, and he was speechless for a moment. However, Cai Yong, who was sitting across from him, had a face full of understanding and did not disturb Liu Cang's random thoughts.

Punctuation marks can make classics uncontroversial. Who dares to annotate and punctuate a classic that is uncontroversial?

Great Confucian? If you are not a great Confucian, you are not qualified enough. If you dare to mess around, your head will be taken off.

Except for the royal family, who dares to set an undisputed classic? Who dares to speak the truth lightly?

At least I didn't dare, so there are hundreds of people behind me.

Confucius did not dare, so disciples appeared behind him.

Today's royal family doesn't dare, because there is a group of celebrities squatting nearby, ready to argue at any time, and those who speak the truth cannot take care of themselves.

What did they bring? Debates, countless thoughts and arguments, countless collisions of ideas, countless changes, and countless creations.

But only, there is no truth.

One generation, two generations? How many generations can recognize undisputed classics as truth?

It only takes a few decades! It only takes a few decades to erase all the noise in the history of a civilization and allow the truth to be born, which will be the same through the ages.

Saints preached and their techniques emerged from hundreds of schools of thought, which led to the origin of flower-growing civilization.

Then, hundreds of schools of thought were reunited, and the flower-growing civilization prospered?

Damn it, it’s still not quite right.

Liu Cang felt all kinds of brain-burning, completely gave up on far-reaching thinking, and simply returned to this land of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Liu Cang pondered that if Cai Yong's final affirmation of him was to be seen, then the endorsement of eulogies by these so-called celebrities might never have been the most important thing.

They seem to have vaguely drawn a boundary between writing and learning.

Independent thinking, independent opinions, analysis, creation...

This has never been a world where disciples cannot defeat their masters, and it has never been a world where they cannot disobey their masters with academic remarks.

Because teachers are respected here, but also, the teachers here have transcendence and difference in their definition of being a teacher.

Even judging from their definition of admission, the original intention of apprenticeship is to cultivate students who are different from them or surpass them.

And the so-called master and disciple are like a son, riding a horse, if there is someone who can teach you like this, it is not too much to call him a master and a father, right?

Liu Cang suddenly understood that the people here were no smarter than modern people.

But they have been exploring and moving forward.

They have not degraded the human exploration instinct, or in other words, regardless of their starting point, they have always maintained the human exploration instinct.

The scariest thing is that they are used to exploring and creative ways of thinking.

It is full of struggle, but also full of countless possibilities.

If it's one or two, that's fine, but if it's a whole...?

Cai Yong also said: "We Confucian people disdain to do this."

Well, this is the Confucianism of the Han Dynasty. You, a great Confucian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, have said this.

The world's literati, aristocratic families, including those common people students looking for teachers and friends, how many such Confucian people are there in this big Han Dynasty?

How many people delve into tedious work but don't seek simplicity?

Liu Cang's eyes gradually regained clarity.

Big man, so scary!

This fear does not come from people's livelihood and military strength, nor from material wealth, but from the way of thinking of people in this era.

They should not be weak and cannot be weak.

Their brains may have been thinking all their lives, debating with their peers and elders, trying to figure out the most suitable explanation for the current situation in the vague words of the sages, and creating their own Tao.

And when this way of thinking becomes a habit, the political, military, and manual industries it radiates...

This is a scary land because there is a group of humans here who are looking for trouble, a terrifying group of humans.

"Haoxuan, don't be discouraged. You were born in a rural area, and it's understandable that your knowledge is shallow. No one has taught you, and everything you think has shown your talent. Don't try to get into trouble in everything." Seeing that Liu Cang was troubled, Cai Yong comforted him.
To be continued...