C331 Eight-strand extraction

Hearing Xiao Wen's words, the young man sighed.

He said, "Your Excellency does not know. My Great Tang Dynasty's examination started only last year when His Majesty ascended the throne. Until then, the Imperial examinations had always belonged to Song Ming in the east. And our Great Tang Dynasty's system of selection is, on one hand, to inherit the old system of 90% righteousness and the system of military meritocracy. On the other hand, if we can meet a noble, we can also use your noble to recommend us. "

Hearing that, Xiao Wen nodded.

Even though the Sui Dynasty had already started the imperial examination system. However, because of the war at the end of Sui Dynasty, the world had been reshuffled. As one of the aristocratic families in the world, Li Tang had to make some concessions in order to stabilize his new power.

This kind of political compromise was a common occurrence in history. That's why many things have happened in Chinese history.

Wang Anshi's method of change is so, Zhang Ju Zheng's method of change is so, so many of the changes are so.

But after that, through the combined efforts of the three generations of Tang Tai Zong, Li Shimin, Li Zhi and Empress Wu, the Tang Dynasty continued to weaken the aristocratic family's power.

By the time he reached the Song Dynasty, the emperor had already changed from ruling the world with the aristocratic families to ruling the world with the scholars. In the Ming Dynasty, even a poor scholar could pin those nobles and aristocratic families to the ground and rub their heads against the ground.

Aristocratic inheritances, aristocratic bloodlines, the further back in history they were, the more ridiculous it became.

Of course, Tang Kingdom's world line was only at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. aristocratic family had not gone through Empress Wu's hammers yet, so they still had enough power.

Looking at Xiao Wen, the young shop owner continued to speak, "Although the Imperial examinations had not started, the news of the Imperial Court had already spread. After all, there are a lot of aristocratic family s present in the wild, but the concubine (Fang Xuanling), Du Xiang (Du Ruhui) and the others are all standing on the side of the Emperor, on the other side of the imperial power. "

Xiao Wen nodded, showing his agreement.

After all, if Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and the others stood on the side of the aristocratic family, it would be impossible for the Tang Dynasty to weaken the aristocratic family from the very beginning. The moment Li Shimin took action, the lower class people would ask the Emperor why he was rebelling.

After all, before the start of the imperial examinations, the Chinese aristocratic family had been very familiar with asking the emperor why he had rebelled. Without sufficient strength, even an emperor with a normal intelligence wouldn't die and reform the talent selection system.

But hearing to this point, Xiao Wen still did not understand the reason why this young man did not participate in the Imperial examinations.

After all, even though merchants were rich in ancient times, Chinese society had never been a moneymaking society since ancient times.

Capital is a joke in the face of power. Even someone as wealthy as Shen Wansan could be killed with a single slash from the emperor.

Compared to the class of people who held power, the class of merchants who held capital and wealth was much worse.

So he listened.

He continued, "When the news came out, many people thought that this country's Imperial Examinations would be different from Song Ming in the east. Although the examination system of Song and Ming dynasties has always been based on the Confucian Four Books and Five Classics. If we follow their example, then we will also use Song Ming's Confucianism's Four Books and Five Classics. and even the eight pieces of the Ming Kingdom's writing … "

Hearing the eight pieces of paper, it didn't matter if it was Xiao Wen or this fellow. Or perhaps it was Sun Shangxiang, Yang Xiu and Zhuge Liang, the three students who had heard of the eighth piece of writing, all furrowed their brows. It was obvious that none of them liked the thing called eight shares.

After all, the eight pieces of paper weren't anything good. Using eight pieces of writing to extract a scholar was like obtaining a bunch of idiots with their minds locked in place.

Xiao Wen had heard that in this world, when Zhu Yuanzhang had announced to use the eight elements of the Ming Kingdom's Imperial Examinations System, all the scholars at the east side had exploded into an uproar. Many of the scholars who were originally living in the Ming Kingdom all left their own countries and went to the Song Kingdom.

Many of the scholars from Song Kingdom also began to publish articles praising Zhu Yuanzhang's foolish actions of imprisoning human nature. Even Zhao Kuangyin himself had expressed his disagreement with Zhu Yuanzhang's actions in public.

However, Xiao Wen knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was still a powerful Emperor. He believed that the monarch and emperor only needed a group of obedient subjects to fulfill his will.

The thought of freedom was actually useless.

Although there was nothing wrong with this kind of talk in the early Ming dynasty.

However, in the future generations, they have already treated the anti-monarchy as the correct politics. Therefore, the history books have always talked about the eight groups of people who sought revenge for the persecution of the people's hearts.

But after all, China at that time was no longer the era of the Spring and Autumn Battle Empire, or even the early Han Dynasty. The original creativity of a scholar in a free environment was not brought to light in the early Ming Dynasty.

If a free environment could allow scholars to unleash the same kind of creativity that they used to when they were in the Spring and Autumn War Kingdom, Xiao Wen felt that letting them be free no matter what.

However, the environment of freedom was no longer of any use in the Ming Dynasty. Even if they were given freedom, they could only come up with pedantic opinions which were of no value to society. After all, the late Ming and Republic of China years of learning had proven that the attitude of the scholars of that era was far inferior to that of the Warring States Period.

Therefore, trading chaotic freedom for pedantic creation is not a good option at all.

Rather than this, it was better to just erase the creativity of the scholars, and not let them play any games of erroneous literature and laws, in order to restore order to the society.

Those people who said that the eight elements were restraining the will of the people were actually quite laughable. After all, starting from the time when the Song Dynasty was travelling in the Zhu family, or starting from the Confucian school, when people's thoughts were entangled with the annotations written by the sages but did not know how to innovate, they began to be restricted.

The fact that people threw all the pans that Chinese thought had been restricted onto Zhu Yuanzhang was the same as throwing the pans that the Ming dynasty had destroyed onto Chen Yuan Yuan. It was a very foolish action.

No matter how the historical Zhu Yuanzhang was reformed, he was still an emperor after all, and from his perspective, he definitely could not reverse the naughty habit that Chinese scholars liked to use as their training grounds.

Therefore, no matter what he did, he could not keep the thoughts of the scholars from gradually locking himself up.

If it was Xiao Wen, he would definitely choose to use the eight shares of the Ming Dynasty to gather scholars and use them to restrict his thoughts. He would then create an empire that was specialized in, but was extremely efficient – although the historical Zhu Yuanzhang did not succeed because of a series of wise actions.

It's just that Xiao Wen was a person with a brain, although he would sometimes use his experience to judge what was happening before him. However, he would often remind himself that the specific analysis of the problem.

As a result, he did not think that the Zhu Yuanzhang of this world would do the same just because he had his reasons for doing so.

It was true that although the Ming dynasty's scholars had restricted their own creativity, even if Zhu Yuanzhang gave them an environment of freedom and tolerance, they would still not be able to produce any reliable academic results.

However, in this world, not all scholars were like the scholars of the Ming Dynasty. They were full of wisdom, they did not disappoint their duties, and they did not have civil principles.

The scholars of Qin were all people who had received a good education from the legal community. Their understanding and application of law had reached a level where it was easy for them to master it. Accordingly, they know how to maintain the stability and development of a country by adjusting the law.

In fact, although the Qin Dynasty had its own detailed laws, the Qin Dynasty's laws were the most frequently changed laws in the history of China. Almost every year there are changes in the law.

And these changes were caused by the work of the Emperor and the scholars of the Law.

There was even less of a need to talk about the Han Empire. Historically, China at the beginning of the Han Dynasty carried on the idea of inaction, and the hundreds of people who had been struck by the Qin Dynasty and the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty gradually recovered.

If not for Dong Zhongshu's visit to the Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty later on saying that he would wipe out hundreds of clans and rule over Confucianism, the Han Dynasty would have continued the war between the kingdoms during the Spring and Autumn War.

With these two countries in the lead, the academic of other countries is more or less full of freedom and creativity. The eight shares were also an inappropriate policy.