Hundreds of schools follow

Chapter 37

Under the attention of everyone, Tan Ying nodded slightly, and the argument officially started:

"Students think that the earth is not flat but spherical.

"When a lone sail goes out to sea, the hull always disappears first, and then the sail, this is the proof.

"The height of the pole star is different between the north of Yan and the south of Chu, this is the proof.

"During lunar eclipses, the shadow of the earth casts an arc on the moon, which is also evidence..."

At this moment, although Tan Ying is full of momentum and talks eloquently, in fact, she just perfected the theory of last night.

However, in terms of structure, he still made some efforts.

For him, the so-called argumentation is basically writing a thesis!

This is too familiar.

Not to mention how many I have written, but I have seen eight hundred if not a thousand.

He used the circle of the earth as a guide to demonstrate and deduce.

Then, based on the yellow equator and evidenced by what Fan Ya said about the South Vietnamese, he explained the Tropic of Cancer.

Finally, I discuss solar eclipses, waning moons, astrology and calendars, gather these phenomena into my own theory, and conclude my speech.

In less than a moment, Tanying completed a delicate and neat exposition from the shallower to the deeper.

As for the listener.

Those who were not able to attend Wen Dao Hall yesterday were inevitably speechless for a long time when they first heard this statement.

Under the bombardment of this wild and unconstrained imagination, even Tanying's beauty was forgotten first, and she immersed herself in the ocean of imagination.

Among them, Yingli has the most knowledge. She searched for cases in the known theories immediately, but in the end she only found ideas like "the earth is a disk". It cannot be compared with Tanying.

On the side of the young queen, although she could half understand, she had seen enough people.

There are also literati who talk boastfully before they have attained the Dao, even famous scholars who are well-educated but cherish their words like gold.

Whether there is any goods in the stomach, and how many goods are there, she can judge nine out of ten without understanding.

Right now, she sees scholars nodding their heads frequently, the depth of this statement is self-evident.

At that moment, the young queen also unconsciously straightened her body, showing a little more respect to Yu Tanying, and she no longer dared to look at him with the eyes of a male favorite.

For scholars, after a night of tossing and turning, they are not only familiar with Tan Ying's theory, but at least have basically figured it out.

In their eyes, Tanying's argument today is more about the beauty of form.

The structure is clear, the transition is round, and many causes and effects have been perfected.

This makes many scholars who have carefully prepared questions quietly put them away.

There's no way... Tanying has already predicted this, and she has already answered it before making an argument.

Seeing that Tanying's first argument was so successful, Si Qinghuang was even more angry and itchy.

How can this man say that? !

Is there no short board!

On the other side, the host Ying Li saw that Tan Ying had finished her argument, so she commented:

"Earlier I heard that there was a new bachelor who wanted to make an argument here, and I was still a little bit dissatisfied.

"So it sounds like this argument really deserves to be debated by the teachers.

"Students can't wait for the next rebuttal.

"Every scholar, please."

As soon as she finished speaking, Pang Mu rose up in response.

"I don't think so, I'll come first."

When refuting, it is assumed that those with low status will speak first, and those with high status will be the finale. It stands to reason that Pang Mu, as the fourth seat in the scholar's doctorate, should be reserved.

But since when did this eggplant-faced Confucian scholar become a reserved person?

He opened his sleeves and looked directly at Tanying.

After Tanying said "please", the refutation officially began——

Pang Mu: "The earth goes around the sun, can its orbit be round?"

Tanying: "nearly round."

Pang Mu: "Why not do it?"

Tan Ying: "Teacher, have you ever seen a square vortex?"

Pang Mu: "What is the relationship between the vortex and the orbit?"

Tanying: "The movement of all things is shaped by the way of heaven. The reason why the vortex is round is the way of heaven, and the reason why the orbit of the earth is round is also the way of heaven."

Pang Mu: "Okay Tanying, do you want to use the word 'Tiandao' to explain everything that you can't explain?"

Tan Ying: "Teacher thought that the way of heaven suddenly fell into our minds?"

Pang Mu: "Naturally not, the way of heaven is obtained through searching."

Tan Ying: "How to search?"

Pang Mu: "Observe first, then contemplate."

Tan Ying: "The four seasons change smoothly, the length of day and night changes smoothly, the vortex circles around, and everything thrown will draw an arc. These are the students' observations.

"Afterwards, the students began to think that if the orbit was not nearly round, there would be chaos in the four seasons, and there would be abnormalities in day and night.

"So the students realized that the earth's orbit around the sun can only be a nearly circular orbit, and there is no other possibility."

Pang Mu: "How can you say with certainty that there is no second possibility? Have you observed it from the stars?"

Tan Ying: "My body does not have this ability, but I have observed it many times in my heart."

Pang Mu: "Why do you have an opinion? It's just a fantasy!"

Tan Ying: "That's the way it is."

Pang Mu: "Huh?"

Tan Ying: "The near-circular orbit is a fantasy. If the teacher wants to break it, he only needs to mention another orbit, but the orbit must conform to the alternation of day and night, the change of astrology and the change of seasons. .”

Pang Mu: "Isn't this something you should think about?!"

Tan Ying: "I've thought about it a lot, but I can only solve it if it's close."

Pang Mu: "The way of heaven is endless, do you dare to say that you have thought about it all?"

Tan Ying: "Of course not. But right now, I'm making an argument, and the teacher is refuting it. To refute me, one counterexample is enough.

"The talents of the teachers are much higher than those of the students, can't you think of such an example?
"If even a teacher with such talent can't think of a counterexample, wouldn't that prove that this theory is closer to the way of heaven?"

Pang Mu: "...This is sophistry! There must be counterexamples, but time is limited, and I don't have time to list them..."

Tan Ying: "The teacher just lists it slowly when he goes back. The door of the students is always open like the teacher, like the sunset and sunrise, and the seasons change."

Pang Mu: "Don't come to this set... Isn't it just to get away with this kind of rhetoric..."

thump—

There was a crisp sound of a debate hammer.

This is the host's signal to ask everyone to stop speaking.

Most of the time, it is also a signal of the end of a round of rebuttals.

Tan Ying and Pang Mu stopped their flags and drums and listened respectfully.

(End of this chapter)