The Jade Emperor Told Me to Live-stream! Chapter 571: The war of doctrines

The current Xuanhuang world is still dominated by metaphysics and Taoism, and Buddhism is still in the development stage, and its spread is much smaller.

Because, in the most central boundary of Nanfangbuzhou, countries dominated by various doctrines have battles between countries and controversies between doctrines.

For a while, Nanfangbuzhou appeared chaotic. Either this country attacked that country today, or tomorrow this doctrine master will have a controversy with that doctrine, which will cause even more chaotic battles.

There is no other way. Compared with the gains and losses of the territory, the struggle for doctrine and belief will be more intense.

Among these, the Confucian School, because of its awe-inspiring righteousness and ancient Cangjie characters, has an advantage in both verbal controversy and real combat, and has become an extremely strong side.

For Confucianism, the doctrines nearby at this time are the Mohist doctrine of the Song State, and the Yinyangist doctrine of the Qi State.

For Confucianism to develop and expand, Qi Guo became the first choice.

For this choice, not all disciples understood, and the honest Yan Hui asked: "Sir, Qi is far stronger than Song, why choose Qi, which is more difficult, instead of Song?"

Zigong has always been more lively thinking, he said: "Sir, is it because the theory of Yin and Yang school is easier than the theory of Mo school?"

Confucius nodded approvingly and said: "This is a very important reason. Qi State is strong, but Yin-Yang doctrine is weak; Song State is weak, but Mohist doctrine is strong. We build a country based on doctrines, of course, we must start from the doctrine of the first change. It’s hard to advance."

Confucius said again: "Although we are fighting for doctrines, the country is always one of the roots of support. At this time, Lu is surrounded by the surrounding kingdoms, although Ju, Tan, and Xu have already opposed There is a belief in Confucianism, but after all, it is not the real vassal state of Lu, and there will be repetitions. Only when Qi is taken and Qilu connects together, Lu can develop without worries, and Confucianism has more development background."

Confucius looked at his disciples and said, "Of course, there is another reason. I wonder if you have carefully studied the theory of yin and yang? Although there are some differences with our Confucianism, some parts are still connected, and some of the content is even our Confucianism. To deal with the theory of yin and yang, if there is no opposition, there is no opposition. If they can merge, everyone will be happy."

Confucius finally said: "The so-called victory is the so-called Zhenghe. This debate is mainly about Yanhui, and Zi Gong is the deputy to strive for a good result."

Although Confucius is the founder of Confucianism, he still has another identity, the monarch of Lu Kingdom, and he is not suitable for appearing in controversies.

However, he was not unprepared. Before Yan Hui and the Zigong delegation set off, he called Zigong over and handed over the three tips to Zigong, so that he could open it in a stalemate.

Controversies over doctrines are not uncommon at this time, just like the Yin-Yang school itself has more than a hundred debates every year, but such large-scale debates as Qi and Lu, Confucianism and Yin-Yang school can still attract A large number of scholars participated.

Both parties in the controversy dare not underestimate such controversy, unlike internal disputes between schools, which are disputes to make up for the lack of doctrine and establish dominance. Like Confucianism, there are disputes between Neo-Confucianism, Mind and Qi, and disputes between schools. It is often related to the rise and fall of schools.

The Confucian school sent the best learned Yan Hui, and the Yin-Yang school sent its founder Zou Yan, for this reason.

In the debate, Yan Hui emphasized that “the five elements represent benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and faith”, while Zou Yan of Yin-Yang theory emphasized: “the five elements are gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. ."

Yan Hui and Zou Yan argued endlessly. In the end, Zi Gong took out the kit. He was delighted and said to the two of them: "Confucianism and Yin-Yang studies have many similarities, wood is human, and gold is righteous. Fire-like rituals, water-based wisdom, and earth-like beliefs, the truth of the creation of the world, the theorem that all things are consistent. Wood travels east, gold travels west, fire travels south, water travels north, soil is in the center, and it is the position of the five elements."

Yan Hui and Zou Yan had heard Zi Gong's words and they were silent.

Although Zou Yan is the originator of the theory of yin and yang, he does not reject Confucianism. He even studied Confucianism under Confucius and later founded the theory of yin and yang because of another opportunity.

For the philosophers at this time, the theory of Taoism has two meanings. One is to promote one's own doctrine, and the other is to absorb the strengths of the hundreds of schools, integrate them, and make their own doctrine more perfect.

Hearing that Zi Gong made sense, Zou Yan and Yan Hui also had their own understanding.

After a while, the debate came to yin and yang.

Confucianism rarely talks about yin and yang, but Zou Yan said: "The heavens and the earth have yin and yang, everything has yin and yang, men are yang, women are yin, mountains are yang, water is yin, and humans cannot reproduce if there are men or no women. , If there are mountains without water, everything cannot exist."

Yan Huibian said: "Since everything has yin and yang to thrive, how do you say that paramecium, jellyfish, snails, hydroids, earthworms, lees, amoeba corals, etc. can reproduce without male and female?"

The two are fighting again.

In the end, Zigong took out a kit and said: "Wuji produces Taiji, Taiji produces two yis, two yis produce three talents, three talents produce four images, four images produce five elements, five elements produce Liuhe, Liuhe produces seven stars, and seven stars produce gossip. Eight trigrams produce nine palaces, and everything goes to the ten directions. The two instruments are yin and yang, and yin and yang are the two instruments."

When Zigong said so, Zou Yan was also impressed.

He founded the theory of yin and yang, there are still many imperfections, and he has been fighting with Confucianism for a long time, but it is very rewarding.

Zou Yan already admired Confucianism in his mind, but the debate continued.

After that, another round of controversy began, this time involving the legitimacy of the ruler.

Zou Yan put forward the theory of "five virtues" ~ IndoMTL.com~ and used this to explain the evolution of the universe and the rise and fall of history, and use the five elements to coexist and constrain to demonstrate the rationality of the new regime to replace the old regime or to change dynasties.

He said: "Water wins fire, fire wins gold, gold wins wood, wood wins soil, and soil wins water. Zou Yan assigns a virtue to each dynasty, and all systems correspond to a virtue. The five virtues cycle. , And flourish from generation to generation, and history will continue like this."

Zou Yan gave an example: "The Yellow Emperor is a soil, he has seen big earthworms, so his virtue is earth. Wood constrains the soil, so the replacement Dayu is Mu De, and Dayu once saw green plants in winter. Jin Kemu, So it was Shang Tang who replaced Xia, and the sign was that "the golden blade came out of water." Fire overwhelmed gold, so Zhou was the replacement for Shang, and the sign was that a red bird was flying over Zhoushe."

It's hard to refute Zou Yan's statement. The Five Virtues are inherently illusory. There are things you want to prove, just like no one sees an earthworm, and it's not difficult to see green plants in winter.

But if you want to refute it, you can refute it. Take the Five Virtues saying that the first generation of people is the Yellow Emperor. According to the Five Elements Theory, the position of the Yellow Emperor is in the center and belongs to the soil. Out of the earthquake", and the earthquake is located in the east and belongs to the wood. Isn't this contradictory?

Yan Hui is a person who has read poems and books, so he didn't know the allusion that the emperor came from the earthquake, so he opened his mouth and said: "The emperor came from the earthquake..."

Yan Huizheng retorted this, and refuted Zou Yan's incompleteness, but saw Zigong winking at him constantly, so he said nothing.

Although Yan Hui has good knowledge, he knew that he could not compare with Zi Gong in handling affairs, so he let Zi Gong clean up.

Speaking of Zou Yan again, when Yan Hui said that the emperor was out of shock, he found his own loopholes. Fortunately, Yan Hui didn't say any more. He said in his heart: "Otherwise, I will confess here today."

At this moment, Zi Gong's voice rang in his ears, and he had to think carefully.