Upon seeing this, Ying Zheng put the talisman on his smooth forehead. In just two breaths, the talisman fell off and Ying Zheng's appearance changed slightly.
"It's enough to deal with unfamiliar people."
Cao Yi looked at it carefully and nodded with satisfaction.
I came across this face-changing talisman when I flipped through the first volume of the Talisman Collection during my spare time teaching scriptures to the Twelve Disciples these days. I copied it several times, but I didn't expect it to come in handy so quickly.
"His Majesty"
Li Si opened the car curtain and saw Cao Yi and Ying Zheng. He was stunned for a few breaths before he realized: "Taoist Master, why did your and His Majesty's faces change? Si almost mistook you for someone else."
Cao Yi raised his hand and put the remaining 'makeover' charm on Li Si's forehead. In the blink of an eye, Li Si also changed.
“See for yourself”
Cao Yi picked up a bronze mirror from the corner of the carriage and handed it to Li Si.
Li Si took it in confusion and looked at it with a look of surprise on his face: "This is really Si."
"It's true." Cao Yi smiled and said, "When you go in later, don't mention the word Your Majesty, and don't call yourself Si, so as not to reveal your identity."
Li Si thought for a while and said, "In this way, the name will not be changed. When we go in later, Si will call himself Cao Si."
Caos! This name is okay.
Cao Yi looked at Ying Zheng.
"My name is Cao Zheng"
Ying Zheng followed Li Si's approach.
They all have the surname Cao, so what does that mean? Cao Yi laughed dumbly.
"get off"
Ying Zheng got off the carriage first.
Cao Yi then got out of the car.
A group of three people entered Qufu Academy unimpeded. Along the gravel path, through a forest of wild woods, we came to a three-story patio-style building called the "School Palace". The first floor was already full of people, and many people could only stand. There is a large wooden platform in the middle, with about ten old men in simple clothes sitting on it.
“Not many people up there”
Li Si pointed to the second and third floors.
Cao Yi shook his head: "Just stand here."
Li Si turned around and saw that His Majesty the Emperor did not express any objection, so he said nothing.
A quarter of an hour passed.
Cao Yi suddenly felt unwell. He looked inside and found that the five elements of spiritual energy in his Dantian were constantly floating up and down.
"Pindao, go out for a while."
Cao Yi said a word, walked out of the academy, passed through a dense bush, and came to a small lake with quiet water and covered by huge rocks. He sat cross-legged on the stone and ran the "Gold Liquid Returning Pill Method" to suppress the five elements in the body. The aura, unexpectedly had the opposite effect, and the aura of the five elements became even more irritable. He stopped and recited the scriptures silently for a while before he calmed down.
When I ran the "Gold Liquid Returning Alchemy Method" again, something unexpected happened. On the water surface one or two meters away, crystal water droplets floated one after another. The water droplets accidentally collided with each other and immediately fell to the water, splashing a An imperceptible splash of water.
"There is such a thing"
Cao Yi relaxed and all the water droplets fell on the water surface, causing countless small splashes.
Cao Yi tried to continue to activate the Five Elements Spiritual Energy, but the scene just now did not happen again.
"strangeness"
Cao Yi tried twice more, still the same.
Shaking his head, he stood up and returned. After walking a few steps, the sound of footsteps came from the woods across the lake.
I turned around and looked, but there was no movement.
“I always feel like something big is going to happen today.”
Cao Yi muttered to himself and stepped back.
Return to the Academy.
Seeing the doubts on Ying Zheng and Li Si's faces, Cao Yi just smiled.
After three hundred breaths, an old man stood up among the dozen or so old people on the stage. This old man was in his fifties, with a rosy face: "From now on, the old man Fu Nian will take charge of Qufu Academy."
"Congratulations to the Master"
There were uniform voices on the scene, and everyone seemed to know about this.
Cao Yi looked around and found something very interesting. The first and third floors unanimously congratulated and handed over, but there was no movement at all on the second floor.
"On the second floor are Legalist disciples and Mohist disciples. There was a conflict just a few days ago..."
Li Si whispered.
The more Cao Yi heard, the more surprised he became. A few days ago, disciples of Legalism, Mohism, and Confucianism had a debate in Qufu City. Because it was too fierce, they ended up fighting. The Confucianists defeated 50 Legalists with 40 people, and the Mohists with 5 people wanted to fight. But later on, five more people from the Mo family came, and all the French and Mo families had to lie down. A gentle Confucian can actually be so fierce.
"look"
Li Si pointed.
Cao Yicai noticed that many students brought short weapons, which were hidden in their loose clothes and would only be exposed accidentally.
Fu Nian's voice came from the stage: "Today's debate is not only a debate between hundreds of schools of thought that occurs every three years, but also an unfinished debate between three schools of thought in Qufu City in the past few days. The old man is in charge of Qufu Academy, and today he is willing to accept the two sides of France and Mohism. family, and the challenges of each family.”
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a buzzing sound from the second floor, and soon, there was a sound coming downstairs.
Needless to say, people from the French and Mexican families came down.
The first floor becomes more crowded.
Cao Yi had to retreat with Li Si and Ying Zhengchao.
On the stage, Fu Nian knelt down again, cupped his hands and said, "Confucianism has been around for hundreds of years, and its general propositions are known to the world. It seems unnecessary to reiterate them one by one. Please ask all of you here to discuss the differences and answer them. , to get to the point.”
Someone in the crowd raised their hands and said, "I am from the Yang Zhu School."
There was a buzz at the scene.
Cao Yi listened for a while and then realized why.
Yang Zhu, the founder of the Yang Zhu sect, did not offend Confucianism, but because his core ideas conflicted with Confucianism, he was scolded by Mencius, the great Confucian scholar at the time, and the two families became enmity.
On the stage, Fu Nian looked unmoved: "Please tell me."
The man cleared his throat and said, "I dare to ask Master, of all things in the world, what is noble and what is light?"
The buzz was even louder.
Cao Yi didn't need to listen to others to know why this time. In today's world, Yingzheng is in charge of the country and uses Legalism as the governing ideology. What he hates most is Mencius's idea of valuing the people and the monarch.
As a contemporary Confucian, Fu Nian would naturally not say anything that was in conflict with the sage Mencius. He immediately said in a deep voice: "The people are the most valuable, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important."
The man cupped his hands and said nothing more.
The Confucian disciples present all said loudly: "The people are more valuable than the king."
Cao Yi glanced at Ying Zheng, the emperor who regarded the law as his destiny, without any change in his expression.
At this time, someone in the Legalist crowd asked: "I dare to ask Master, the Qin State that valued Legalism unified the world, the Qi State that valued Confucianism, and the Lu State were destroyed one after another. Why is this?"
The buzz at the scene was louder than before, and many Confucian disciples had their hands on short weapons, looking ready to fight.
On the stage, Fu Nian was silent for a moment, and said: "Legalism can conquer the world, but it cannot rule it. As we all know, the strongest is easy to break, and the strongest will break. The same is true for people. If Legalism is too strong, sooner or later the people of the world will be unable to do so." Bear."
The Legalist disciple who asked the question didn't know how to answer and lowered his head.
The Confucian scholars present said in unison: "Color"
For two consecutive games, Fu Nian had the upper hand, and no one went up for a while.
"Cao Si, you go up."
Cao Yi heard Ying Zheng's voice.
Then I saw Li Si squeeze out of the crowd and walk towards the stage. As he walked, he said: "Since it is a debate, you sit on top and I stand below."
