Facing Li Tingxiu's unexpected eyes, Chen Yichen knew what this master was thinking.

Indeed, according to ancient logic and his own academic level, the "Great University" with only more than 2,000 words in the whole article can be said to be the only choice.

However, "The Great Learning" is short, which does not mean that it is easy to understand. Those who have learned ancient Chinese know that they are not afraid of the ancients saying a long conversation, but are afraid of shrinking to a few short sentences and asking you to read and analyze, so that you really don't know what these ancestors want to express.

This is the comparison between "Mencius" and "The Great Learning". The contents in "Mencius" are all story articles. Even if there is one or two sentences in it, you can guess the general meaning and understand the philosophical thoughts that the ancestors want to express.

And Chen Yichen once used "Mencius" as his life reading material and inspired himself with the thinking and views in the book, just like many people choose to read "The Art of War". So his familiarity with "Mencius" is far more familiar than the other three books, and this is the source of confidence and courage!

"Okay, since you chose Mencius, then I will take a paragraph from the chapters of King Hui of Liang, do you have any questions?"

"No, sir."

Chen Yichen still calmly nodded and said yes.

Seeing Chen Yichen so firm, Li Tingxiu stopped talking and said bluntly: "When King Xuan of Qi met Mencius in Xuegong, he asked the wise man if he had such joy? How did Mencius answer?"

"Those who enjoy the joy of the people will also enjoy the joy; those who worry about the people will also worry about the worries of the people. Be happy with the world and worry about the world, but it is not a king."

Chen Yichen's answer was very correct, but Li Tingxiu did not stop there, but asked: "How to comment on this passage?"

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Faced with Li Tingxiu's continuous difficulty, Chen Yichen vaguely realized that it might be because he was acting too abnormal today, which made Master Meng begin to curiously explore where the limit of his own knowledge was.

However, since things have come to this point, Chen Yichen did not intend to hide it. After all, he has educational resources like the Duke of Chengguo Mansion. As a result, he couldn't even pass the exam for a child at the age of sixteen. Then the so-called low-key thing is not to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, but to be the pig himself!

"Mencius said that if a monarch takes the happiness of the people in the world as happiness and the sorrow of the people in the world as sorrow, then the people will also be like this. It is never before that such a monarch cannot make the world subjugate."

"What do you think about it yourself?"

Li Tingxiu stared at Chen Yichen with a torch. This kind of literal translation cannot really examine the depth of his knowledge. He wants to see Chen Yichen's true level.

"Mr., in fact, Mr. Fan Wenzheng of the Song Dynasty has given the best answer, that is, if you live in a high temple, you will worry about the people, if you live in a far away world, you will worry about the king, if you worry about the world first, you will be happy after the world is happy!"

Chen Yichen did not express his own opinions, but quoted two sentences from Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower Inscription" in the Song Dynasty. In fact, this is also the pinnacle of poetry, and it is almost impossible for later generations to surpass their opinions.

Sure enough, when Chen Yichen said this, the whole lecture hall was silent. The students were surprised that Chen Yichen was so different that he was not punished by the old master. Li Tingxiu was even more shocked, because he not only felt Chen Yichen's progress in academics, but also had a change in temperament!

Just when the atmosphere was frozen, a magnificent voice came from the corridor outside the lecture hall.

“It’s very good!”

This voice broke the silence of the lecture hall, and everyone subconsciously looked at the door, and Chen Yichen was no exception.

I saw a middle-aged man with a red face and a beard appeared at the gate of the lecture hall. Standing at the door gave people a strong sense of oppression. He was as gentle as Li Tingxiu's gentle and gentle scholarly temperament as two extremes.

"Master."

Before Chen Yichen could react, Li Tingxiu, who was standing on the podium, bowed to salute the middle-aged man.

At the same time, the students in the lecture hall also stood up and bowed, leaving only Chen Yichen standing there without any movement.

There is no doubt that there is only one who can be called "Duke" in the Duke of Chengguo's Mansion and receive salutation from everyone, that is the second generation Duke of Chengguo Zhu Yong, who is also the father of Chen Yichen's blood relationship!

You should know that although the Duke Chengguo Mansion was built in Nanjing, Zhu Yong was in charge of the Beijing camp in the capital, which can be regarded as a distinctive job in the Ming Dynasty's two-min system. Therefore, Zhu Yong lived in the capital all year round and rarely had the opportunity to return to his residence in Nanjing, let alone the school in the domestic schools of the Chinese and foreign courts.

Chen Yichen has been impressed by the impression that he has only met Duke Cheng in a private school in the outer courtyard. It was when Li Tingxiu came to serve as a tutor. Zhu Yong was a guest and "seat" as a guest and host. He appeared in the lecture hall to encourage the students to say a few words.

In addition, only two years ago, Zhu Ji, the second son of the mansion, participated in the Renxu examination and Zhu Yong returned to the mansion. At that time, Chen Yichen looked at him from a distance and never had any intersection again.

He didn't expect that Duke Cheng Guogong Zhu Yong would suddenly appear here, and even praised himself.

Chen Yichen was very surprised, and Zhu Yong was also very surprised.

This time, Zhu Yong returned to his residence at the order of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen, and Li Long, the current garrison of Nanjing Xiangcheng, dealt with some military affairs issues regarding the Nanjing Central Army Governor's Office, and prepared for the northern expedition of the Urianha tribe in Mongolia next year.

Zhu Yong himself did not think of a private school in the school outside the school. Moreover, as the Duke of the State, it was already a great gift for him to let non-kinship disciples enter the private school to "accompany the school". How could he have free time to pay attention to the learning of these students?

So he passed by the lecture hall by accident and happened to hear the recitation of Chen Yi's contents of "Primary School" and "Mencius".

In fact, Zhu Yong was not interested in the content of memorizing elementary school. The reason why he praised him was because he heard Chen Yichen's final view on "Mencius" that had a grand pattern that was transcendent to school children, and did not have that kind of literary Confucian spirit, which was very in line with the appetite of the generals and nobles of Cheng Guogong's lineage.

But Zhu Yong never expected that this schoolboy who recited the textbook would be his own son!

After a brief moment of being stunned, Chen Yichen instantly felt that his mood was extremely complicated, with resentment, fear, unwillingness, and desire...

All kinds of emotions surge and merge into my heart, and it is so mixed.

It is obvious that this cannot be the feeling of "Chen Yichen" now, but only the emotions of this body. It seems that the father of Duke Cheng Guo, the father, has a very complicated emotion in Chen Yichen's heart.

"Master."

Chen Yichen suppressed the surging emotions in his heart, and his tone was as plain as everyone else, and he saluted Duke Chengguo.
Chapter completed!