As soon as Xia Hongsheng's words came out, it immediately caused an uproar around the pavilion, some of the students frowned and pondered, and some whispered, but they saw Li Ke stunned for a moment, thought about it, and said to Xia Hongsheng: "Oh? According to Jingshi, how should this sentence be interpreted? ”

Since Confucius taught without class, this sentence must not mean this. The reason why future generations will understand it wrongly is that because there is no punctuation mark for sentence breaking, there is no sentence break when recording, and the descendants are not at the scene, and it is difficult to know how Sage Kong broke the sentence at that time. So I guessed it myself, and as a result, it led to an error in the broken sentence, which led to an ambiguity in the interpretation, and the result was 108,000 miles away from the meaning that Confucius wanted to express. At this time, Xia Hongsheng regained the feeling of educating his students, so he simply walked out of the pavilion and picked up a stone, wrote this sentence on the ground, and then said to others: "You see, if you see the sentence from it, 'the people can make it / not make it known', in this way, it is the meaning of Mr. Xie's teaching, and it has always been said." However, we have just combined and analyzed the thoughts of Confucius and determined that Confucius would not express this meaning, so how can we break the sentence so that its meaning can be consistent with Confucius's consistent proposition? Look, I break it from here -- 'The people may/make it, but not/make it known.'" In this way, the meaning of the sentence becomes: If the people can, let him be, and if not, let him know where he cannot. That is to say, when the ruler thinks that the morality and behavior of the common people meet the requirements of "Tao" and "etiquette", he should go with him and not pay too much attention to him; If the morality and behavior of the common people do not meet the requirements of "Tao" and "propriety", then we should tell him, guide him, educate him, and make his morality and behavior conform to the requirements of "Dao" and "propriety". This interpretation is in line with the consistent proposition of Confucius Sage, and it is precisely the embodiment of Confucianism's ideology of moralizing politics, obeying the people and responding to heaven, and opening up the wisdom of the people. Therefore, this explanation is the real meaning that Confucius wants to express! ”

Hearing Xia Hongsheng's words, there was an uproar around him again, and those students stared at the broken sentence written by Xia Hongsheng on the ground with wide eyes, and muttered in their mouths: "Minke, let it be; No, let it be known! …… The people know and can follow the way and the courtesy, so let him do it, and don't care too much. The people do not know how to obey the Tao and the courtesy, so let him know what the Tao and the courtesy are, and let him obey the Tao and the courtesy...... The so-called edification of all peoples, and indeed so! And so it was! ”

Looking at their crazy looks, Xia Hongsheng felt very satisfied, he was really able to share his knowledge with others, and he knew that watching them learn the knowledge they taught, this sense of inner wealth was incomparable!

All the students threw shocked looks at Xia Hongsheng, and Li Ke squeezed his eyebrows for a long time, and then breathed a long sigh of relief, and then walked up to Xia Hongsheng, bowed to Xia Hongsheng, and then said: "What Brother Jingshi said, today's Jiao Ke Mao suddenly opened, and there is a feeling of seeing the sun. If it weren't for the still stone, Ke would have almost made a big mistake and enshrined the wrong words as the truth. Jingshi should be worshipped. ”

The other party was a prince, and Xia Hongsheng didn't dare to really bow to him, so he also bowed forward and saluted back, saying: "I praised Brother De, the so-called truth is more and more clear, you and I should discuss each other, distinguish the truth, and make progress together." ”

Li Ke pulled Xia Hongsheng and laughed, and the people around him finally figured it out and laughed together.

"Brother Xia, this ...... Although Brother Xia's explanation is quite profound, but our solutions are all taught by Mr., how dare we go against the way of the teacher and the teacher? At this time, a young man came over and said to Xia Hongsheng, as soon as he said this, the students around him were also stunned, and then nodded with feeling.

Xia Hongsheng didn't expect that the respect for the teacher in ancient times had reached such a point, it was obviously a wrong interpretation, and he didn't accept the correct interpretation because he couldn't disobey the teacher. This made Xia Hongsheng immediately think of a famous article in the later life, which is exactly this situation, Xia Hongsheng feels that it is necessary to let these people know. I love my teacher, but I love the truth even more Xia Hongsheng can't say it now, but in ancient China, there was a writer who also put forward the same view.

"Ancient scholars must have teachers. Teacher, so preaching and receiving karma to solve doubts is also ......" Xia Hongsheng stood with his hands in his hands, his eyes slowly swept over the students around him, and then recited aloud. This poem "The Teacher Said" has been circulated for thousands of years, and Han Yu was able to write this "The Teacher Said" at that time, which is a new summary of the relationship between teachers and students, and the relationship between teachers and students, canceling the artificial fixed boundary between teachers and students, and challenging the tradition of "dignity of the teacher" since ancient times. This kind of thinking is extremely progressive. Since ancient times, the blue is better than the blue, if we blindly stick to the teacher's statement, the thinking will only become more and more imprisoned, more and more conservative, lose innovative ideas, lose the ability to create, a nation and a country, will also be dying of old age.

“…… Sage Impermanence. Confucius taught Tanzi, Chang Hong, Shi Xiang, and Lao Dan. The disciple of Tanzi is not as virtuous as Confucius. Confucius said: If you are a threesome, you must have my teacher. Therefore, the disciple does not have to be inferior to the teacher, the teacher does not have to be better than the disciple, there is a precedence in hearing the Tao, and there is a specialization in the art industry, and that's it! Xia Hongsheng finished reciting slowly, raised his eyes and looked at the students around him, they were already stunned and motionless at this moment as if they had received a thunderbolt from the sky.

There was silence around the pavilion, and those students were first stunned by the "great rebellion" words that came out of Xia Hongsheng's mouth, and then their thoughts involuntarily pondered with Xia Hongsheng's words. Is what the master said necessarily right? No, the sentence just now, "the people can make it impossible to know it", is enough to prove that the master will also make mistakes. Do we have to obey the Teacher's words? But if the Master's words are wrong, then does it still make sense for us to obey?

Looking at the entangled looks of the students around him, Xia Hongsheng decided to add another fire to them, so he said loudly: "The teacher teaches us knowledge, improves our wisdom, and teaches us the principles of life, so we respect the teacher, so it is not contrary to the teacher's words, this is the principle of the ages, and we must and should not disobey it." But at the same time, we must also retain our own views and understanding of things, and we cannot blindly stick to the teacher. Ladies and gentlemen, Confucius was once from Lao Tzu, if he was also obsessed with Lao Tzu's teachings, how could there be later Confucianism? Han Feizi followed Xunzi to study, Xunzi is a Confucian child, if Han Feizi is obsessed with Xunzi's teachings, how can there be a later Legalist? Ladies and gentlemen, we respect our teachers, but if we know that the teachers have incorrect and wrong thoughts, we know but do not point them out, correct the mistakes for the teachers, and fall into the situation where the teachers are wrong and do not know about them, then we are truly unrighteous and unfilial. If there is no principle, and even those wrong ideas are just blindly followed, then what is the difference between that and pointing at a deer as a horse?! ”

Xia Hongsheng's words exploded in the ears of the students like a thunderbolt, and all the students present were shocked, and their faces kept changing.

Xia Hongsheng also stopped talking, and after the head was drunk, it was time for them to think and understand by themselves.

After a long time, he heard a faint sigh, and then saw Wei Shuyu walk out of the group of students, and when he came to Xia Hongsheng, he stared at Xia Hongsheng with a complicated expression, Xia Hongsheng's face did not change, he smiled lightly, and also looked back at him. After a long time, Wei Shuyu sighed again, then took a step back, bowed deeply to Xia Hongsheng, and said: "The ancients, the morning heard the Tao, and it is okay to die at night!" Hearing Brother Xia's words, it was like an initiation below, and he knew that there was a sky outside the sky, and there were people outside the people. With Brother Xia's words, he should be my teacher! ”

Xia Hongsheng saluted back: "Brother Shuyu praised it falsely, my brother studied the scriptures intensively, Zheng Guogong is the great Confucian of the world, teaching by word and deed, Brother Shuyu thinks too highly of the younger brother." The younger brother is talking nonsense, a little sophistry, if the elder brother has gained, he is even lucky! ”

"Hehe, if you are talking nonsense, then the world's Confucian scholars, isn't it...... Hehe......" Li Yexu also gasped and shook his head and sighed.

Everyone stopped talking for a while, maybe it was because of Xia Hongsheng's words that they heard, or maybe it was because of the gap between themselves and Xia Hongsheng.

But he didn't know that on the other side of the pavilion, two old men were standing side by side, looking at this side fixedly, and then looked at each other again, each shaking his head and laughing.

"You and I have been in Confucianism all my life, and we are teachers, but in the end, there is no young man who can see it clearly, haha, if it is known by others, it will really be a joke." The older of the two withdrew his gaze, shook his head and smiled.

Another old man also smiled and nodded his beard, and said, "I didn't believe it before, but I couldn't help but be surprised when I looked at it along the way, could it be that there is really an immortal dwelling place in this mountain?" Otherwise, how could this son have changed so much, judging if there are two people? Earlier, I also said that this son is young, and his heart is undecided, so he doesn't know what to do. Now, I feel that I have lost my eyes, Master Li, if this son can devote himself to literature, the achievements of Confucianism in the future will be above you and me! It's a pity that this son's mental technique, together with Gewu, wants to come, and he will be famous in the future, and he is also the grandmaster of a generation of Gewu, but he has no chance with my Confucianism. ”

"That's all for the future." The older old man stroked his beard and smiled: "In the future, the old man doesn't know if he can wait, and he doesn't want to think about it." Now the matter in front of him, the old man is very curious about the 'punctuation marks used to break sentences' that Zi Fang just said. Since he is your protégé and teacher, can you ask the old man for him? ”