Conferred Gods: Reborn Yang Jian, racing all the way

Chapter 52 Sophistry
After all, asking Lin Bufan to compete with them is equivalent to just copying the paper in Lin Bufan's left hand and the standard answer book in his right hand. How can he lose?
So Lin Bufan nodded quite calmly and agreed with a smile.

"Lead the way ahead."

"Yes."

The disciple didn't say any nonsense and walked directly in front to lead the way. The two generals Lin Bufan also followed closely behind. After everyone left for a while, they arrived at the venue of the cultural meeting.

I don’t know if King Lone Bamboo did it on purpose, but he set the venue of the cultural gathering in the banquet hall yesterday.

So Lin Bufan was revisiting his old place, but because it was not a banquet, the tables and chairs present had some changes.

It became like a school. The highest seat, which was supposed to belong to the teacher, was empty and no one dared to sit on it.

Even Lone Bamboo King is sitting in front of the side, with a row of tables and chairs listed below, where all the literati are seated.

"National Master, you are finally here. Come and sit down quickly. These literati admire you very much."

"Before educating all the people, wouldn't it be beautiful to educate the scholars of our race first?"

As soon as King Lone Bamboo saw Lin Bufan coming in, he immediately let out a very proud laugh, and then led Lin Bufan to the main seat.

"Hahaha, King Lone Bamboo is so polite, then my national master will do my part."

Lin Bufan said politely, but his actions were not polite at all. He sat on the main seat very generously.

It was as if he was supposed to be sitting in this position, regarding Lin Bufan's unconventional style of playing cards.

King Lone Bamboo was already somewhat used to it, so he just cursed disdainfully in his heart, but remained very polite on the surface.

"Hahaha, you are truly worthy of being a national master. This magnanimity cannot be compared to that of others."

King Guzhu's superficial compliment was actually stimulating conflict and stirring up the emotions of the scholars present.

Sure enough, the literati were a little dissatisfied when they saw that Lin Bufan took it so naturally and sat in such a high position.

Although Lin Bufan is a national teacher and is qualified to hold this top position, he still needs to be modest on the surface, right?
Such an arrogant style made these scholars feel that the Imperial Master did not take them seriously at all.

Not even showing the most basic respect is disrespectful!
Therefore, the faces of the literati who were invited by King Guzhu were not very good-looking, and many of them had already begun to think about how to attack later.

"Since you are here because of my name, I won't be too polite to you. If you have any questions, you can communicate with me."

Lin Bufan sat at the top of the table and asked the literati below in a tone like a teacher asking a student.

Lin Bufan's attitude completely angered these literati. Some people immediately raised their hands and spoke to ask questions.

"Your Majesty the Imperial Preceptor, there is something that I don't understand about my students, and that is why the four previous vassal states ended up with such a tragic end of annihilation?"

"Is it just because they conspired to assassinate the Imperial Master? The students feel that in this case, just punish the culprit."

"Why hurt so many innocent people? The total number of people in the four capitals has exceeded [-] million."

"This cannot be described as a loss of life. It is simply a hell on earth! So the students want to hear the opinions of the National Preceptor."

The first scholar asked a very pointed question as soon as he came up.

After hearing his question, Lin Bufan had no reaction, but the two generals beside him almost drew their swords and rushed out.Because this is an order from Emperor Xin, it is Emperor Xin's decision, and it is the authority of the Human Emperor.

These guys who are stupid in reading actually dare to question the Human Emperor. How can these two close ministers of the Human Emperor endure this?
Fortunately, Lin Bufan stopped the two of them in time, otherwise the hall would have been immediately spattered with blood.

But if something like this really happens, Lin Bufan's reputation will be ruined, and someone will definitely spread the word later.

The national preceptor is a petty and incompetent person. You can't talk to him much. If you say a few wrong words, he will draw his sword and kill someone.

This would directly destroy Lin Bufan's later plans to travel to various countries, because what he needs is people's shock, not hatred.

So the current situation is that Lin Bufan cannot use any force and must convince the people in front of him.

Using force now is the most stupid behavior. It has no benefit except ruining one's own reputation and bringing bad luck to big businessmen.

Lin Bufan's brain was spinning rapidly at this time, and he began to think about how to respond to the other party's questions.

After thinking for a while, Lin Bufan came up with a way to say it, and he immediately responded.

"My friend, this is wrong. Before I answer your question, I want to ask you something first."

"Do you think it's better to have a war that destroys lives, or is it more serious to massacre four cities?"

That's right, Lin Bufan used a typical topic-changing technique. Instead of answering you directly, he first answered the question with a question.

Deliberately raise a question that is beneficial to one's side and has obvious loopholes, and let the other party answer it.

If the other party answers, he will keep attacking the problem by focusing on the pain points. This is the talk of veteran cadres!
This is a technique that only veteran cadres are proficient in. It should be enough to deal with the literati of this era. After all, they don't know these tricks.

The only way to deal with this move was to stick to your guns and let Lin Bufan answer the questions he raised first.

But these upright scholars seemed not to think so much, because they thought that the questions Lin Bufan asked seemed to be slightly related to the questions they asked.

Although there are currently no rules for who asks questions and who gives evidence, this is a prerequisite for asking questions.

So this scholar also started to think about it. Apparently he had discovered this problem and it was a big problem.

No matter which option he answered, Lin Bufan would seize the painful point and fight back, and in the end he would be rendered speechless by Lin Bufan's argument.

The current situation is: upright ancient people VS despicable modern people.

The latter has countless tricks waiting for the former. No matter how you answer it, it will be wrong!
"I don't think it should be calculated this way. Although from a book perspective, the losses caused by massacre of the four cities are far less than those caused by starting a large-scale war."

"But life is priceless and unique. It is wrong to simply use numbers to measure it. This goes against human principles. This is a disregard for life and a simple addition and subtraction of life."

The scholar was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. He finally got wise and came up with a way to break the situation.

That means don’t choose either side, choose the middle!
That's right, if Lin Bufan wanted to do math with him, then he would talk philosophy with Lin Bufan.

Then he stood on the moral high ground and severely criticized Lin Bufan. There was no other way.

(End of this chapter)