Ye Chunqiu had never mentioned the abolition of the eight-legged essay to Zhu Zaiyao before. He knew that now, there were so many troubles in the new policy in the pass, so he took it out, obviously using it as the last means to implement the new policy.???

Are scholars really a solid piece of the board?

If you regard them as a piece of iron, it is equivalent to shooting yourself in the foot.

What is a scholar? A scholar is a person who understands the truth. Only by reading can one master social resources and manage administratively. This is a basic attempt.

So in a sense, no matter in any society, the best people are scholars. This is because no ruler has a choice. Should Qiu Ba, who is ignorant of the big words, come to govern the world? I am afraid that it will not take long to make the world chaotic.

It is precisely because of this that the gentry class of the Ming Dynasty monopolized the resources of education and the saying that the emperor and scholars jointly ruled the world.

Then, His Majesty’s new policy is by no means a foe to all scholars and has gained huge benefits from the laws of his ancestors. For them, they do not like any new policy. Now that they can lie down and eat and drink, why change it?

But in addition to these people, there are those poor scholars in this group? What about those scholars who have not gained benefits?

In the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu often wanted to kill scholars, but scholars did not dare to rebel. This was not only because these people were afraid of being killed, but also because there were too few scholars at the beginning. No matter how disgusted Taizu hated these scholars, in the Ming Dynasty, scholars were needed in the system of the Ming Dynasty, so that the juren would be admitted to Hanlin, and the Imperial College students no longer needed to take exams, and they could be directly pulled out to become officials.

But now, scholars are ten times more than 100 times more than those in the early Ming Dynasty. There are more than 100,000 students, plus tens of millions of children, so many people are crowded on a small single-plank bridge. In three years, more than 100 Jinshi students, even if they are particularly kind, they are only 3 or 200. Most of them have been studying for half their lives, but in the end they are empty-handed. These people are the people who complain the most about the current system.

After listening to Chen Rong's analysis, Zhu Zaiyao seemed to have some realization. He couldn't help but say, "After listening to my good friend's words, I have some clues, but... I still have some things I don't understand. Since it may not be everyone's objection to the new policy, why do those who have a good impression of the new policy remain silent?"

All the civil and military officials shook their heads when they listened to the new policy. Local officials were silly disobeying the new policy. In the scholars and scholars, the so-called famous scholars and scholars all laughed and scolded the new policy. Zhu Zaiyao has heard a lot of these, and even the files accumulated in the Jinyiwei were thick, but he didn't understand why no one applauded it? With so many scholars, he didn't believe that everyone here did not agree with the new policy.

When Chen Rong heard Zhu Zaiyao ask this, he said patiently: "Your Majesty, there are still people who agree with the new policy, but... in the eyes of some people, the new policy is good, but those scholars who do not get benefits from the ancestors' laws have not gained benefits from the new policy. His Highness Lu also talked about this with students. He said at that time that any change, besides suppressing those who are fat and have great benefits from it, is simply like this, the change cannot be successful. If you want to succeed, you must make some people benefit from it. Only when someone gets benefits will someone sing praises for it and implement the new policy for it."

"Take Shang Yang's reforms as an example, what is hurt here is the interests of the old nobles, but it also allows a group of people who rely on military merits to obtain huge benefits. Therefore, even after Qin Xiaogong's death, the old nobles hated Shang Yang deeply and punished Shang Yang to death, but... Shang Yang's new law is still the law of Qin. This is because countless people became new nobles because of military merits. The old nobles could eradicate Shang Yang, but could not dethrone the new law."

"Now, Your Majesty is going to implement the new policy. It is obvious that many people have suffered bad things, but how many scholars can get the benefits?"

Zhu Zaiyao couldn't help but realize it suddenly, and his eyes, which had been secretly suspicious, suddenly lit up, and said with a little excitement: "This is indeed reasonable, why didn't you say it earlier? If I had known this, I would have changed to the eight-legged essay to obtain scholars."

Chen Rong smiled bitterly and said, "This is also what His Highness the King of Lu is worried about. It has been so many years since the eight-legged essays to obtain scholars. It is a sudden change, but I am afraid that the earth will shake. Therefore, Your Highness thinks that it is better not to try it easily before it is absolutely necessary. But now, I see that I have no choice but to change it."

After hearing this, Zhu Zaiyao's expression became awe-inspiring. After a moment of silence, he said, "So, since you can't rely on eight-legged essays to obtain scholars, what should you rely on to obtain scholars?"

"The problem is here." Chen Rong said: "It is said that the State of Lu is about to open an imperial examination to recruit scholars. Why not follow the State of Lu? If Your Majesty appointed several imperial envoys and chose a decision with His Highness the King of Lu, wouldn't it be nice?"

After hearing this, Zhu Zaiyao became interested and said, "After listening to your words, I felt like I was suddenly enlightened. But now it is a troublesome. It is better not to make a big fuss about this matter. I will order my two beloved ministers to be my imperial envoys and go to Lu State first to pay homage to my father, and discuss this matter."

Chen Rong and Zhang Jin knew in their hearts that once His Majesty really wanted to change to the eight-part essay to win the scholars, they would definitely rise to the top. Not only that, the Taibai Poetry Society behind them would also rise to the top.

There are many scholars in Taibai Poetry Society, but if these scholars are based on the eight-legged essay, they may be just losers among scholars. But precisely because of their failure, in a sense, these people have made many achievements in miscellaneous studies. Once they change to the eight-legged essay to obtain scholars, their previous advantages will become disadvantages, and their previous disadvantages will become advantages.

They can now imagine that after an exam, there will be a large number of students in Taibai Poetry Society who will become winners in life.

But at the same time, it can be expected that if a large number of people from Taibai Poetry Society enter the officialdom, even if many people are so-called ninth-rank officials, the energy of the officials in these thousands of local prefectures and counties is huge. In a sense, this officials in charge are the directors and directors in one prefecture and one county.
Chapter completed!