Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

The rewards for participating and the instructions for withdrawing from the competition are all clearly listed here.

As long as I can win, I will participate in the competition every month.

Don’t be afraid of losing, there is always a rematch.

However, you cannot withdraw from the competition.

If you withdraw from the competition forcibly, your monthly exam score in the Imperial College will be reset to zero.

Moreover, because the literati and scholars change every month and are invited in advance, if they withdraw from the competition, not only will they offend their teammates, but they will also not be able to show their faces in front of everyone.

As long as you are not so sick that you cannot open your mouth, you can at least go on stage.

Wait until everyone has signed.

Zhu Gaochi's true colors were revealed when his plan was finally realized.

The debate topic was revealed.

One positive and one negative.

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When the two teams saw the topic, they immediately understood it.

No wonder you have to sign and seal!!!

But, they have already boarded the pirate ship...

Here, Zhu Gaochi adopted Zhang Xin's suggestion.

There is no drawing of lots at this time.

Instead, before the debate begins, they draw lots on the spot to determine which team is the affirmative side and which team is the negative side.

The excuse is to train students to perform on the spot.

So, there were a total of twenty people in the two participating teams.

The debate materials they need to prepare must include the views of both the pros and cons.

In a debate competition, before the debate begins, even if you do not agree with the topic you have been assigned, you have to brainwash yourself first.

You can have two debate topics at hand at the same time.

How to brainwash yourself?

Seven days before the start of the game.

According to the chief priest, the two teams had split up in the first three days.

It took me four days to adjust myself and start looking for breakthroughs from the people participating in the competition.

If the topic cannot be controlled in advance.

Students who often participate in this kind of debate know that attacking the weak points of the opposing team and making the opposing debaters collapse on the spot is also a good way.

It's time for the official competition.

Through Zhu Gaochi's behind-the-scenes manipulation.

The first team, which was full of troublemakers, drew the topic for the opposing side's debate.

Before the debate began, Zhu Gaochi considerately gave the two teams half an hour to prepare.

The second team originally thought that they had no hope of winning, but they were overjoyed by the result of the draw.

Women should not show their faces in public and should not go out of the house.

Women should be quiet and demure. It is immoral for women to be restless at home.

These are truths recognized by everyone.

What is there to argue about?

But the opposing team discussed for half an hour.

Go beyond the words of the ancients, go beyond the clichés.

The main debater's attack was like a thunderbolt.

Is your mother immoral and restless?

The main debater on the affirmative side is a student from the Imperial College.

For example, Jiansheng, also known as tribute students, were students who could study in the Imperial Academy as long as they paid money.

This tribute student lost his father when he was a child, and his widowed mother worked seven or eight jobs to support him in his studies.

"If his mother hadn't shown up in public, how could this student study comfortably in the Imperial Academy and participate in debates?"

This tribute student's family also has elderly and sick grandparents.

For many years, his mother has been the one supporting him.

"If his mother only stays at home and never goes out, how can she afford to support her parents-in-law?"

As soon as the opposing side came up, all their output and firepower were immediately maximized and all sprayed on the tribute student.

"Let me ask you, how can a person who has no ability to earn money and no father survive? How can he pay the high tuition fees and waste paper, ink and money every day to study the books of sages?"

"Isn't this the woman that everyone says is restless and immoral?"

The opposing team launched the attack first, and the first wave of offensive made the main debater of the affirmative team burst into tears and leave in shame.

Afterwards, the strategy was still man-to-man, defeating them one by one.

An important point here is that -

The tribute student who was attacked.

His mother came from a farming and reading family, and was literate, and was not afraid of painting or needlework.

After his father died.

Because his mother had received an education, she was able to get a job copying books in a bookshop.

From time to time, I would get jobs from some wealthy merchants to educate girls.

In addition to this, she can also sell embroidery items made from the patterns she draws herself.

All of these added together were enough to pay the expensive tuition fees, support the student's education, and maintain the family's not-too-tight living.

This point is 100% in line with the other two words besides working - going to school.

【It is not unethical for women to work and study.】

The main debater of the opposing side also burst into tears on the stage.

In the final summary, he choked up and said:

The Ming Dynasty advocated chastity, and remarriage for women was unacceptable to the world.

If you can't remarry, you can only make a living on your own.

Everyone in the family, old or young, needs care.

How to make a living?

If a woman is illiterate, there is basically no work she can do to support her family except selling hard labor or taking unfavorable jobs.

So, shouldn’t women be allowed to go to school?

My classmate's family was having a hard time, and his fellow students did not help him. Instead, they mocked and attacked his widowed mother who was supporting his studies.

Should I?

What if the widowed mother was replaced by the eldest sister and the younger sister?

The eldest sister and the younger sister work everywhere to earn money to support their brothers at home, but they are also scolded for being restless.

Should I?

Whether they are widowed mothers, eldest sisters or younger sisters, when men cannot support the family alone, women hold up half the sky.

They support themselves, raise their children, bring up their brothers and sisters, and support the elderly.

It is truly a most admirable character.

Now it has become the target of everyone's attack.

I would like to advise everyone that reading is not about reading blindly. It is also not about reading blindly.

The continuous output from the opposing team directly slapped everyone on the affirmative team in the face.

The people at the scene also covered their faces in shame. . . .

Who doesn’t have a poor relative who has lost her husband and can’t make a living anymore?

Among those with better financial conditions, every family has been asked to borrow food or money.

Or the kind that will never come back.

Those who are willing to take risks and do any job.

While they cursed the people for being immoral, they were also thankful that the people didn't come to take advantage of them.

The affirmative side's argument is not tenable from any perspective.

But we have been taught since childhood that women should not show their faces in public.

So--

What is right?

What is wrong?

In this debate, the main debater planted countless seeds in the hearts of everyone present.

Among them, there must be a seed of doubt that it is useless for women to study that will thrive.

Almost all the people present were men.

Those who are married or not all know the criteria used by their family to select a marriage partner.

Four words - virtuous and kind.

From a man's perspective, is an educated woman more suitable to be a mistress than someone who is just virtuous?

At least she is more likely to provide better living conditions for her offspring.

Unsurprisingly, the opposition finally won an overwhelming victory.