In his just discussion, Chi Yao mentioned the five most important things for a country in his eyes. Although he is not specifically referring to those five schools, relatively speaking, they belong to the agriculture, military, law, light and heavy schools. People who are not mentioned will naturally be happy, while other schools of thought that have not been mentioned will be somewhat dissatisfied.
how? Our doctrine is not beneficial to the country, right?
Others are still analyzing and trying to find loopholes, but the famous disciples who are best at debating are different. Even if there are no loopholes, they can create loopholes themselves!
After all, language is their most powerful weapon.
So Gongsun Sheng was the first to stand up.
The Gongsun family is now considered the most influential lineage among the famous schools, because the last representative figure among the famous schools who can be called "son" was Gongsun Longzi.
Now that it has been less than ten years since Gongsun Long's death, his influence is particularly strong, and the famous people are not as depressed as they were twenty years later in the original plot.
However, the path of the famous school itself is more dangerous. They are a school that arose due to the debate among a hundred schools of thought. They should have followed the route of masters of logic. Debate is just a means for them to discuss logic. Winning or losing is not the goal. The goal of mutual debate is to find loopholes in their own logic and make up for it. , rather than being competitive.
From this perspective, losing the argument is not a bad thing, because the other party helps you find points that can be improved and optimized, allowing you to make progress.
But I don’t know whether it’s because the feeling of winning a debate is too attractive or something else. Except for a few real masters, most of the famous disciples regard themselves as debate masters. The purpose of initiating debates gradually changed from improving one's own logic to purely competing for victory, which led to a serious problem——
That is the prevalence of sophistry.
Sophistry cannot be said to be meaningless. Being able to discover these logical traps shows that its own thinking is commendable. But if you rely too much on them, you are actually destroying your foundation.
The reason why many people are willing to debate with famous people is to use their rigorous logical thinking to help them find possible loopholes in the theory in order to improve it. But when famous disciples become more and more sophistical, if you argue with them, not only will you not get any gains or improvements, but you will probably feel disgusted by being bullied.
Nowadays, this phenomenon is not too obvious, because Gongsun Longzi is a true master, and with his pressure, the atmosphere of famous disciples is acceptable. But as the saying goes, a gentleman will be killed after three generations. After all, he has been dead for almost ten years, and this influence has almost reached its limit. In a few years, that kind of disgust will probably become everyone's mainstream impression of celebrities.
Once they change their position from logic masters to masters of leverage, it will be a key point for famous people to turn from prosperity to decline.
After roughly going through the information about famous scholars in his mind, Chi Yao replied unhurriedly: "Famous debaters are naturally beneficial to the country, just like a person cannot live by just relying on the five internal organs. In my opinion, debate The greatest role of investigators is to question the laws and find loopholes, not to violate the law and discipline, but to help repair and improve the unreasonable aspects of the laws.
"In fact, it is not limited to laws and regulations. All rules and regulations cannot be perfect as soon as they are formulated, so someone needs to find loopholes to make up for them. And discovering loopholes is exactly what famous disciples are best at..."
"Are you checking for leaks and filling them in...?"
Gongsun Sheng was thoughtful.
In fact, litigation is what many famous disciples are doing. However, in the past, their focus was indeed on exploiting legal loopholes to help people escape guilt, or in other words, slapping the government in the face, but they rarely stood in the way of assisting in improving the law. Look at your work from a legal perspective.
In other words, they have always been on the opposite side of the government. This is actually a common problem among the opposition schools.
If you don’t need me, then try my power! From a certain perspective, this is also a kind of self-promotion?
It just doesn’t work very well.
But if it goes according to what Chi Yao said...
Thinking of this, he subconsciously looked in one direction and happened to meet a gentle gaze.
Chi Yao's words also inspired Han Fei. As the most representative figure of Legalism in the world, he naturally heard the promotion effect of famous schools on Legalism.
Therefore, he also deliberately looked for Gongsun Sheng. As soon as their eyes touched, they understood each other's thoughts instantly.
Compared to opposition schools such as famous scholars, Legalism is an out-and-out behemoth, and compared to so-called prominent schools such as Confucianism and Mohism, although Legalism has a small number of people, its position in the courts of various countries is obviously more important. .
Although various schools of thought have tried to find ways to govern the country and quell chaos from their own perspectives, the ones who have achieved the highest level of success in this regard are undoubtedly the Legalists and the military strategists.
The disciples from these two families can really directly affect the rise and fall of a country to a great extent. Compared with Confucianism's empty claim to "restore the Zhou rites" and Mohism's overly idealistic "love for all, not to attack", their two doctrines are much more practical and easier to be adopted by those in power.
Coupled with Han Fei's identity, Gongsun Sheng had no grudge against taking refuge in him.
It is a wonder to see the disciples of famous masters being persuaded so easily. These people are called debaters at best, or bully at worst. They are always able to raise questions from all kinds of weird angles, but they seem to be pretty good. Makes sense, and is often maddening.
With this lesson learned, other people have become more careful when asking questions. After all, this also represents their own level. If the questions raised are easily solved by others, doesn't it mean that they have lost to Chi Yao!
So, after answering a few more innocuous questions, the first day of defense was over.
This is actually normal. After all, everyone is new to a theory. If you can easily find many loopholes and attack it at first, it only means that the theory is too immature and untenable.
That’s why the agreed defense time will be extended to months. You have to give others some time to research, right?
After the first day of Q&A, Chi Yao received an invitation from Han Fei to listen to music.
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Linzi, Miaolefang.
The sound of silk and bamboo orchestral music reached my ears. The two of them cuddled up against the greenery, drinking and chatting happily.
"What Brother Chi said today is of great benefit to me. The statement of the five internal organs of the country is quite novel, but if you think about it carefully, it contains the truth."
Han Fei raised his glass and toasted again, "I wonder, in Brother Chi's opinion, where is the focus of Korea's disease?"
"Korea..."
Chi Yao sighed slightly.
The biggest tragedy in Han Fei's life is that he can't let go of South Korea, not the King of Korea, but the whole of South Korea. Although he was born in the royal family, if he just wanted to save his family, it would not be difficult to do so with Ying Zheng's appreciation for him.
But if he wants to protect the entire South Korea, he is going against nature.
Even the Yan State, which was ranked as the second weakest in the Warring States Period along with South Korea, was at least far away from the Qin State and had a lot of strategic space behind it.
On the other hand, Korea...
Not only was it the bridgehead facing Qin, but it was blocked in all directions by the three great powers of Zhao, Wei, and Chu, leaving no room for movement at all.
This geopolitical situation highlights despair.
Not to mention now, even when Korea was first established, it was not easy to let it rise.
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