"Father, Fang Benren is not wrong."

Zhu Biao nodded seriously.

Confucius' father Liang Qi was a famous strongman in Lu State and could support the city gate without falling.

Confucius inherited his father's excellent genes to the greatest extent and grew to more than two meters in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

In that chaotic era, I never suffered a loss when traveling around the country.

The combat power is extraordinary.

It can be called a master of civil and military success.

It's not as trash as these scholars in later generations.

In fact, the reason why Fang Shiyu said that he wanted to restore the Six Arts was actually because he had hidden selfishness.

The imperial examinations in Yanhuang in ancient times were too biased.

There is no knowledge about science and engineering at all.

This led to Yanhuang missing out on the opportunities of the industrial revolution repeatedly.

Although the introduction of traditional Six Arts cannot completely correct Yan Huang's bad habit of valuing literature over reason, at least he will not be so skewed.

As for how to develop in the future, let’s leave it to fate.

After all, at that time, I had been in a century, so I didn’t care about the flood!

"The last one is the eight-legged essay, which means that all scholars must answer questions in a unified format."

"This will limit the space for those scholars to play to the greatest extent."

"All candidates use a unified format to write articles. Even if you speak a lotus, the examiners will not be able to tell which school of Neo-Confucianism you are from."

Finally, Fang Shiyu threw out the killer weapon of eight-legged essays.

Eight-legged essays are a very special article format.

Each article is written, it is composed of eight parts: solving the question, carrying on the question, starting the lecture, entering the question, starting the stock, starting the stock, a stock, a stock, and a stock, and a stock.

Not only do we need to write articles in the style of Confucius and Mencius, but we also need to pair up and constrain scholars' writings and are very rigorous.

This advantage is to minimize the space for scholars to perform, so that examiners cannot tell which school you are from.

Although later generations once said that the eight-legged essays have a great constraint on their thoughts.

However, Fang Shiyu thinks this is nonsense.

In fact, the eight-legged essay is just a model essay written by civil servants in later generations.

Where are there any constraints?

In later generations, there were those who were sarcastic and could not speak human language. There were also masters like Wang Yangming, who created new learning.

"Not bad, not bad, very good."

"With these three tricks, I see which examiner dares to commit favoritism and fraud in the future."

After hearing Fang Shiyu say his tricks, Zhu Yuanzhang was excited and applauded repeatedly.

After implementing these methods, they not only make up for the shortcomings of northern scholars, but also limit the strengths of southern scholars.

The biggest advantage of doing this is that it can offset the influence of the various schools of Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism in scientific research.

And it can be achieved to the greatest extent, the fairness and openness of the imperial examination.

The imperial examination, which had been sentenced to death in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, returned at this moment.

"With these tricks from my benefactor, today's farce will never appear in my Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Biao also felt that as long as Fang Shiyu's method was used, he would completely balance the forces of all parties.

"If you think so, you're wrong again."

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang and Xiao Zhu and others satisfied, Fang Shiyu didn't want to hit them and was unwilling to tell them the cruel truth.

"How do you say this?"

"I said Xiao Fangzi, you all came up with those ideas."

"Do you want to slap yourself in the face?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked speechlessly.

I am ready to fully adopt your plan.

As a result, you suddenly told me that the method you said was useless at all.

As you just told me for a long time, you are just teasing me, right?

Do you know that I am the Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty?

I'm very busy!

There is so much effort to deal with every day.

Do you think I have a lot of free time to make trouble with you?

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang's unhappy look, Fang Shiyu knew that he must have misunderstood him again.

"I said to Old Man Zhu, you said you are so old, why are you so angry?"

"Can't you listen to me finish?"

Fang Shiyu said speechlessly.

After all, I have to count on Old Man Zhu to go to Southeast Asia in the future, so I can't make him angry.

After hearing Fang Shiyu's good words, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he was no longer so angry.

So he sat there quietly, waiting for Fang Shiyu to finish his words.

"My old man, even if His Majesty now adopts all the plans that I just mentioned, it will only alleviate the problem of excessive level gap between the scholars of the north and the south in a short period of time."

"As time goes by, there will still be situations where the Southern scholars are the leader."

Fang Shiyu said while pouring a cup of hot tea for Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Why is this? Could it be that the cultural context of my Ming Dynasty has really moved south and the top scholar can't be produced in the north?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked speechlessly.

The prince next to him also looked at Fang Shiyu with some confusion.

"Well, you're not wrong this time. My Ming Dynasty's cultural context has indeed moved south.

Out of Zhu Yuanzhang's expectations, Fang Shiyu actually affirmed Zhu Yuanzhang's idea.

This made Zhu Yuanzhang completely stunned.

I just said casually.

I didn't expect it to be true.

Could it be that my golden words are effective in this regard?

"This is impossible. Who made the Southern scholars have the right time and place?"

Fang Shiyu was speechless, and then explained to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao.

The reason here is very simple, but it is because of the economy.

The Ming Dynasty was in a special period of transformation from an agricultural society to an industrial and commercial society.

In terms of agriculture, the land in Jiangnan can reach two or even three per year.

Even if the Ming Dynasty fully popularizes the three magical objects contributed by Fang Shiyu in the future, the land harvest in Jiangnan will be far higher than that in the north.

Although the land on the southeast coast is barren, the commerce is very developed.

Many people can support their families by working in the handicraft industry.

Whether it is agriculture in the south of the Yangtze River or handicrafts in the southeast coast, it means that middle peasants or citizens can provide a child with their studies.

But in the north, I'm afraid only a small landlord can do it.

In this way, the reading volume of the southern scholars and the reading volume of the northern scholars was very different.

If there are many scholars in the south, the corresponding level will be improved. Under the same conditions, the probability of being a gold medal will greatly increase.

This is a theory of cause and effect, which cannot be changed no matter what the people in power use.

Unless the economy of the north and the south is flattened, this is simply a fantasy idea.
Chapter completed!