Listening to Li Zhi's words, the senior officials of the nine provinces in the hall looked up at each other for a while.

Hong Chengchou glanced at Li Zhi with a complicated expression, and asked, "King, this imperial examination must be abolished?" ”

Li Zhi looked at Hong Chengchou.

In Tianjin, everyone knows the difference between public morality and private morality, and everyone knows that Confucianism is misguided by loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, which is a self-evident thing. In fact, Li Zhi had already taken the lead in abolishing the imperial examination in one town and nine provinces, and replaced it with public morality, and the effect of this change was that one town and nine provinces were full of vigor and vitality.

Hong Chengchou has been in Tianjin for so many years, it is impossible not to know the harm of the imperial examination, and it is impossible not to know the great vitality of the public morality society.

Hong Chengchou knew this, but he still asked Li Zhi if he had to abolish the imperial examination, obviously Hong Chengchou meant something else.

After being silent for a while, Li Zhicai said, "Why did Minister Hong say this? If you don't abolish the imperial examination and Confucianism, and don't implement a public morality society in the Ming Dynasty, how can you make the people of the Ming Dynasty rich? How to make the country rich and strong? ”

Hong Chengchou pondered for a moment and said: "King, the imperial examination uses Confucianism to open the science and select scholars, and the selection is to learn loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness the best, and learn the Confucianism in the bones. Xia Guan studied for decades when he was a child, and he knew how powerful it was. This imperial examination is not so much about selecting talents, but rather about selecting slaves, and selecting the slaves who are most grateful to the Son of Heaven. ”

Of course, over the past few hundred years, civil officials have controlled the officialdom, and the scholars who have entered the body have increasingly regarded being an official as a kindness of the Son of Heaven, but as their own ability, and as a matter of course. The gratitude to the royal family of the Son of Heaven is getting less and less. ”

"But in any case, the imperial examination system still ensured the rule of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty, and ensured that loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness became a kind of etiquette, and became the 'mainstream culture' that you often call Wang Ye. The Confucian monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, and sons penetrated into the lives of the common people because of the imperial examination system. ”

"On weekdays, the most prominent people in the local area are all talents who study the books of sages and sages, open their mouths of benevolence and righteousness, and close their mouths of loyalty and filial piety. If you learn loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness well and become a lifter, then you will be even more famous in the local area, and you will be called the master, and you will not be able to produce anything. And the county lord who determines life and death in one sentence is even more Jinshi Confucian. “

"Because of this system, the people worship the teachings of Confucianism as if they were gods."

"Under such a system, even a shameless villain who is corrupt in public morality and does a lot of evil, as long as he is a filial son, it will make people look at him differently and even give him a thumbs up. Even if it is a servant who is tyrannical and bullies good people, as long as he helps people who are good to him to do things, and is worthy of a righteous word, then he is a bad man with 'rules' in the eyes of the people! ”

This loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness ensured its dominance in society through the imperial examination system. And since the people believe in loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, they are naturally loyal to the Son of Heaven and the royal family. Even if the Zhu Ming royal family is mediocre, the people only scold the corrupt officials and do not hate the Son of Heaven. ”

"Because hating the Son of Heaven is a manifestation of disloyalty, the people who believe in Confucianism subconsciously dare not do this!"

Hong Chengchou took a breath and arched his hand and said: "King, the king, you want to abolish the imperial examination and Confucianism, for the well-being of the people of the world, and for the sake of building the Ming Dynasty as vigorous as Tianjin." But I am afraid that in the eyes of the Son of Heaven, what the king wants to abolish is the authority of the Son of Heaven, and what he wants to abolish is the foolish loyalty of the people of the world to the Zhu Ming royal family. ”

Hearing Hong Chengchou's words, Li Zhi did not speak.

Hong Chengchou arched his hand and said: "I don't think the Son of Heaven will agree to this piece of music no matter what. If the king further persecutes the Son of Heaven, I am afraid that the Son of Heaven will be regarded as a challenge to the royal family, and the king will think twice. ”

After listening to Hong Chengchou's words, Li Zhi stood up.

Walking to the window and looking at the scenery outside the window, Li Zhi shook his head.

"The abolition of the imperial examination is indeed a matter of great importance."

As soon as he changed his words, Li Zhi said categorically: "However, the stronger the rule of Confucianism in this Ming Dynasty, the more I want to abolish him." Confucianism does not distinguish between 'good and evil', only stresses benevolence and righteousness, does not distinguish between 'right and wrong', and talks about loyalty and filial piety, which is extremely harmful to social justice and morality. The widow now has a town and nine provinces, and he should not give up and abolish the source of this disaster for the Chinese people. ”

Unlike Hong Chengchou and others, Li Zhi, as a time-traveler, has a deep understanding of what China has experienced under the confinement of Confucianism.

Because the civil officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty had no public morality, the entire Ming Dynasty had tens of thousands of people, but they were broken by hundreds of thousands of Manchu Qing people. Shameless civil officials open the door to thieves. Billions of Han people shaved their hair and became slaves. However, being ruled by the Manchus was only the beginning of the tragic fate of the Han Chinese, and the Manchus also respected Confucianism in order to maintain their rule, and the whole society was still groggy. One by one, the Western invaders slaughtered China and knocked on the gates with foreign guns and cannons.

China also launched the Westernization Movement, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it tried again and again to catch up with Western technology, but because society had no public morality and social efficiency, these catch-ups ended in national corruption and social erosion.

The country was impoverished and vulnerable, and the people were called the sick men of East Asia. The Eight-Nation Coalition swept through Gyeonggi, Tsarist Russia and Japan came one after another, and foreigners' concessions blossomed everywhere on the land of the Han Chinese, and the nation almost became a slave forever.

As a traverser, Li Zhi certainly understands that if the culture of society is not changed, the development of advanced science and technology can be said to be water without a source and a tree without roots, and what he will get in the end is just an ethereal mirage.

Zhong Feng stood aside and couldn't help shouting: "The king is right, I have long seen that this Confucius is not pleasing to the eye, and it should be abolished!" ”

Gao Ligong also sighed and said: "Although Confucianism has subtle words, it is indeed inappropriate for the country. ”

Li Zhi walked to the front of the world map in the hall and said loudly: "Today's world is not the Ming Dynasty after Meng Yuan fled north more than 200 years ago, China is no longer an isolated island closed to the world, and today's world is a highly competitive world. In Europe, there are more than a dozen great powers eager to try and build up. If I am one step behind, I will be beaten. ”

Li Zhi pointed to the American continent and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, if our people only know loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness, our army, our generals, and our officials will have no rules. Our military discipline and logistics will be in shambles, and our order will gradually collapse. Even with the most advanced weapons, sooner or later they will be defeated by Yidi. ”

"Look at how poor and weak the Lu State was in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which advocated Confucianism? Think about how miserable the Ming Dynasty was beaten by the Manchus under the rule of Confucian civil officials? ”

Li Zhi waved his hand and said loudly: "No matter who is affected by the abolition of the Confucian Church this time, no matter how the Son of Heaven thinks, no matter how much resistance this reform will encounter, I will complete this mission for this nation and this country." ”