Ouyang Bian held a lantern and illuminated the road under his feet. The so-called night tour with candles was just a stroll in the yard, but in Bianjing, every inch of land was valuable, he actually couldn't walk a few steps.

Ouyang Bian smiled, inserted the lantern into the tree, pointed to the stone bench and table under the tree and said, "It is better to sit and discuss the story than to travel with candles at night."

When Su Shi heard the word "On the Tao" lit up: "On the Tao... OK, I like to discuss the Tao the most."

When Ouyang Bian heard this, his hair exploded all over his body and talked to this monster, is he looking for abuse?

Ouyang Bian quickly pretended to be calm and whispered: "A simple talk will ruin the country, not a topic that has no practical significance."

Actually, what he said meant was that he didn't want to talk about, but Su Shi nodded repeatedly: "I have this point of view, and we must talk about meaningful topics. Why not talk about the distinction between justice and profit?"

What is the distinction between righteousness and profit?

Ouyang Bian thought about it and found that this was a topic that the Song Dynasty people talked about. Because the Song Dynasty people were not so resistant to business, this topic would be often discussed.

If it was an era when agriculture was emphasized and commerce was suppressed, the necessity of discussion was not high. After all, scholars looked down on people who did business, so what else could we discuss? Let's despise them together.

However, it cannot be absolutely stated, because the distinction between justice and profit involves a huge scope.

In the language of later generations, it is actually called the relationship between moral behavior and material interests.

Meaning means that thoughts and behaviors meet certain moral standards.

Profit refers to profit and utilitarianism.

It's interesting, but Ouyang Bian didn't want to discuss it. However, this is the intellectual game of scholars in this era. If you want to increase your feelings with them, you must participate in such a game. So Ouyang Bian nodded and said, "What do you think of Brother Zizhan?"

Speaking of Taoism, Su Shi was about to shine: "A gentleman is used to be righteous, and a villain is used to be profit. This is what the most sage and teacher said. The sages require a gentleman to be righteous, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, it also said, "Rectify his friendship (righteousness) and do not seek profit, and understand his way and do not consider his merits." Therefore, my point of view is that a gentleman takes righteousness first, and profit is irrelevant!"

Su Shi cut off the railway decisively.

Ouyang Bian agreed: "Brother Zizhan said something reasonable!"

Su Shi: "…and what?"

Ouyang Bian was stunned for a moment: "What then?"

Su Shi was a little confused: "When you discuss the Tao, just agree with my point of view, what is the discussion of the Tao?"

Ouyang Bian couldn't help but laugh.

Su Shi thought Ouyang Bian was still young and had not tried to discuss the truth with others before, so he didn't know the rules, but calmed down his competitive spirit and comforted him: "It's okay, it doesn't matter if you don't understand. In the future, Ziyou and I will show you the debate. You will know the rules of discussing the truth."

Ouyang Bian nodded and said, "I will ask Brother Zizhan and Brother Ziyou to teach you more in the future."

Su Shi smiled and said, "Just communicate with each other."

Su Shi stopped his debate, but Ouyang Bian had the idea of ​​confide.

"Brother Zizhan, I have a friend who is often depressed because his friend was innocently killed, but the murderer is still at large. What do you think he should do?"

Su Shi looked at Ouyang Bian with some surprise and said, "Of course he is reporting to the official."

Ouyang Bian sighed: "What if even the government doesn't care about this?"

Su Shi suddenly stood up and said, "Then let me complain!"

Ouyang Bian shook his head: "What if the official family intends to protect him?"

Su Shi said decisively: "That's impossible. The great Song Dynasty wouldn't have even no place to reason, right?"

Ouyang Bian suddenly said: "The dead man is a maid, and the one who committed the crime was the prime minister in the court."

Su Shi was silent, and he remembered that what Ouyang Bian said should be the Chen Zhizhong case last year.

Although Su Shi did not become an official, he probably understood it. Su Xun also told him that Chen Zhizhong was demoted because of the maid case, so the crime of unjustly killing the maid will no longer be pursued, and no one will pursue the real murderer. This is a customary thing.

Seeing Su Shi's expression, Ouyang Bian probably understood it. He had seen this expression on Ouyang Xiu's face, Bao Zheng's face, and Wang Anshi's face.

People from the Song Dynasty did not regard the life of their maids as their lives.

Ouyang Bian was suddenly a little discouraged. He thought that Su Shi's romance would have different views on this, but he didn't expect...

Ouyang Bian smiled self-deprecatingly. After all, he was too persistent. It was so rare that people should transcend their own era.

Ouyang Bian has always thought about helping Xiao Polizu with the correct procedure, but it is not until today that he truly realizes that in this era, there is no way to do it.

Then, you can only rely on yourself.

Ouyang Bian smiled and opened the topic and talked about poetry with Su Shi.

Ouyang Bian has extensive knowledge and has become more advanced in later generations. In addition, he can always occasionally write a few poems from the Ming and Qing dynasties, which made Su Shi admire him very much.

Because of the arrival of the Su family father and son, Ouyang Bian's life has another fun, which is to lie on a recliner and listen to the arguments between the Zeng Gong brothers and the Su Shi brothers.

The Zeng brothers and Su brothers debated equally, and Ouyang Bian also talked about it with relish, but generally did not participate in it. However, when the two sides were quarreling, he summarized the views of both sides with his broad-minded insight, which surprised both sides.

Because Ouyang Bian used the views of later generations to point out the views of later generations, the Zeng Gong brothers and the Su brothers had a lot of insights and wrote a lot of articles, mostly describing the views of both sides, and the ending was [Bian:] as a summary.

This [Discussion:] refers to Ouyang Bian.

After they finished writing the article, most of them would come over to correct Ouyang Bian. Every time Ouyang Bian saw the [Bian said:] behind him, he always smiled so hard that he couldn't stop smiling.

It's worth it!

It doesn’t matter whether you leave a name or not, it’s mainly about enjoying the joy of debate!

During this debate, the relationship between the Su brothers, the Zeng brothers and Ouyang Bian grew day by day.

However, Ouyang Bian was not satisfied with this. The Su brothers and Zeng brothers just caught the fish in the basin, and he had to touch the fish in the vast ocean outside.

If you become Wang Anshi's disciple, you have to bear the cause and effect brought by Wang Anshi in the future.

He had to do his best to expand his connections. Didn’t Taizu of later generations say that the so-called politics is to make more friends and few enemies.

If you want to reform, the more friends the better, the fewer enemies the better.

Wang Anshi is a very outstanding person, but he is good at making fewer and fewer friends and more enemies. This ability is really convinced.

So Ouyang Bian became the socialite of Bian Jing.

Chengyuan and West Lake City are both his territory. As long as there is a poetry and literary gathering, as long as there is time, he will join in the fun. When encountering some poor students, Ouyang Bian will lend a helping hand, regardless of whether there is this person in his memory, he will help him anyway.

Over time, Ouyang Bian's statement that timely rained Ouyang Bian was circulated among the students.
Chapter completed!