Chapter 43

Yes! Why do we write that! They never thought of this problem. Everyone couldn't help thinking.

"Who knows why? Anyway, I've written like this since I was a child!" Wei Chi Baolin said a very frank word.

"It's because the top is the king, the parents; the bottom is the minister, and the children. The right is the big and the left is the small. We can also express unparalleled meaning when we write from right to left. At this time, the embodiment of our Confucian etiquette is not like other miscellaneous scholars who have no respect for their elders and don't know their size." Kong huisuo said proudly and looked at Merton contemptuously.

"Well said!" the other Guozijian students couldn't help shouting.

Liu Yinian looked at Kong huisuo with satisfaction and consciously raised his face. Kong Yingda also nodded slightly. This younger generation is really worth cultivating, talented and knowledgeable.

"That's good!" Merton applauded with a sneer. "But I heard that the brush was invented by Meng Tian, and the Meng family is a strategist! Are you sure Meng Tian thought of Confucian etiquette when he invented the brush!"

Merton mercilessly peeled off the hypocritical face of Confucianism, which made the faces of all the country's son prison students look embarrassed.

Kong huisuo immediately blushed. Although he only wanted to put gold on the Confucian face, he ignored that Meng Tian, the inventor of the brush, was a strategist.

Kong Yingda and Liu Yinian also looked embarrassed. This joke is not funny!

"We don't know, then you know!" Kong huisuo blushed and choked Merton.

"Of course I know." Merton smiled and took out a book from his desk. Merton had long known that writing with a hard pen would cause some criticism. He had long thought of countermeasures and prepared his letters in advance.

"Letters!"

Everyone was confused. Only Kong Yingda and Liu Yinian were thoughtful.

"Look, it's easy to open the volume with your right hand. Therefore, ancient writing is from top to bottom, from right to left." Merton took the slip in his right hand, the first bamboo piece, slowly opened the bamboo slip in his left hand, and a blank bamboo slip appeared in front of everyone. Pick up the expensive Langhao pen in front of Liu Yinian and write down a few big and ugly words.

Merton opened and closed the letter and demonstrated it to the public.

"I see!" people suddenly realized that many people were lost. He thought that some tall brush writing rules were formed to adapt to the bamboo tube.

"The writing of brush characters from top to bottom and from right to left is for the convenience of writing bamboo slips. Later, bamboo slips were gradually replaced by paper. Although bamboo slips disappeared, this writing method has been handed down.

The quill pen can write small and fast in order to support the hand on the desktop. However, in order to avoid ink on the clothes and flower the font, we can only choose the writing method from right to left and from top to bottom! This has nothing to do with etiquette and belief, just for more convenient writing! "

Merton said as he picked up his brush and put it on the table. He quickly wrote a line of words and directly demonstrated it to the public.

"I see! Just for convenience!"

Everyone understood it, just like in a dream. They didn't want to believe that calligraphy, which is regarded as sacred, came from such a source, but the facts were put in front of them, but they had to be convincing.

Kong huisuo's face was defeated. Merton beat his face red with facts. How ridiculous it is to think of his previous arrogant words.

"Even so, it should be banned, otherwise the mixed use of the two writing methods on the market will cause great confusion." Liu Yinian is still stubborn. What's more terrible is that most Guozi supervisor students nod in agreement with this view.

"Joke!" Merton said angrily: "The goose feather pen is cheap, convenient and fast to write, and saves paper. It can save at least 90% of the cost for poor students every year. You can complete your schoolwork in less than half the time and have more time to study. How many students in the whole Tang Dynasty can't afford to buy Pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and how many people study hard with lights and candles. For fear of not enough time, you even want to prohibit it for your own sake , do you know how many poor children you have blocked from going to school? "

Merton was as sharp as a sword word by word. Every word was cut in the hearts of everyone, which made many people ashamed. Many poor children couldn't help crying. But they knew how much their family had paid for expensive pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

"That can't break the inheritance!" Liu Yinian said stubbornly.

"Not to mention the quill pen, it saves money, ink and time. Let's talk about labor saving."

The goose feather pen from left to right is because people's palms can be supported on the desktop and can support long-term writing, and the brush writing must be suspended in the arm. Long-term writing will be doubly tired. If you use it for a long time, I'm afraid it tastes bad! "

Merton slapped Xiong maocai on the right shoulder and directly took Xiong maocai's breath.

"Old bear! Scapulohumeral periarthritis is very serious!" Merton grinned and said heartlessly.

"How do you know?" Xiong maocai opened his eyes differently, but the disease has plagued him for a long time and can't be solved.

This is the best calligraphy. I must practice the most at ordinary times. Of course, your calligraphy is the most serious! Merton's stomach and stomach.

Those who can enter the Imperial College are not fools. Xiong maocai thought about it, woke up immediately, covered his shoulder and said, "you mean my shoulder periarthritis has been practicing calligraphy for a long time?"

"Of course!" Merton also pulled an ancient article.

As soon as this remark came out, many people involuntarily covered their right shoulder. There was only Xiong maocai. It was estimated that Qin Huaiyu and Qin Huaiyu had no shoulder periarthritis.

"Fortunately, Lao ~ Zi didn't write long, otherwise...!" Qin Huaiyu thought with lingering fear.

Merton looked around and said slowly: "The quill pen saves time, effort, money and ink compared with the brush pen. It's not forbidden. Just like paper replacing bamboo slips, it's historical inevitability. It's not etiquette, just because it's convenient to save money! Do you want to prohibit the quill pen to protect the brush pen? Have you ever thought that after Cai Hou improved his papermaking skills, a great Confucian abolished paper in order to protect bamboo slips?"

"Of course, we are not qualified to decide what pen others use. It all depends on our own choice. As for which one has the upper hand, it will be a hundred years later. It's too early to argue now!"

An argument ended here, and no one talked about the brush and goose feather pen anymore. The Imperial College tacitly accepted that Merton used the goose feather pen, and Merton was also interested in not publicizing the goose feather pen, as if this argument had never happened.

Xiong maocai hides every time he sees Merton. Merton proves that he has six subjects to crush the Imperial College in an all-round way with the pioneering song style.

Only after Merton's quill pen was taken away by Kong Yingda for research, Merton had three less time to turn around.

Needless to say, it must have been taken away by Qin Huaiyu's three lazy guys. Merton smiled. At least it was a good start.