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Yun Xi didn't know whether Jian Yi guessed his mind, or if he really thought so, Yun Xi really wanted to increase the assessment of the Five Classics and reduce the weight of the Four Books.

The four books are the collective name of the two books "Analects" and "Mencius" and the two articles "University" and "The Mean", which were compiled and engraved by Zhu Xi, a great Confucian in the Southern Song Dynasty, and have been widely circulated and famous since then.

The Five Classics are the collective name of the five classics of Chinese culture handed down from the pre-Qin period and even the Western Zhou Dynasty, namely "Zhou Yi", "Shangshu", "Book of Songs", "Book of Rites" and "Spring and Autumn".

Most people have studied the Analects, and the length is not long; "The University" and "The Mean" themselves are excerpts from the "Book of Rites"; Mencius has a little more words, more than 30,000 words, but it is still much less than the Five Classics.

Most of the content of the four books is about the truth of being a human being, basically teaching people how to be a human being. Theoretically, a person can be called a saint if he can meet the standards in the Four Books. If all those who passed the imperial examination and became officials were saints, Yun Xi could lead the people of the Ming Dynasty to move towards communism.

The problem is that only a small number of people can become gentlemen, and it is even more once in a hundred years to meet the standard of saints, and at the same time, the four books do not teach the solution of practical problems except for the principles of life, so they have little effect on enhancing the ability of officials to do things. There are only a handful of people who can really rule the world with half of the Analects, and most of them are just bragging.

The Five Classics are different, the Five Classics cover a wide range, the Book of Songs is a poem, the Book of Shang records the proclamations of ancient emperors and the conversations of monarchs and ministers, the Book of Rites is a collection of articles by Confucian scholars from the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han dynasties to explain the scriptures "Rites", "Zhou Yi" is a philosophical book that can be used to set up a stall to tell fortunes, and "Spring and Autumn" is the history of the Spring and Autumn Period compiled by historians of various countries in the Warring States Period based on historical records.

It can be said that in the feudal era, everything that a ruler should know can be obtained from the Five Classics, even if it is a war, you can find examples from the Spring and Autumn Period.

So Yun Xi has decided to raise the importance of the Pentateuch.

In addition, the increased importance of the Five Classics also contributed to the popularization of the new Confucian ideas that Yun Xi had decided to officially begin advocating.

Although later generations of Confucianism counted the Five Classics as Confucian classics, in fact, except for the Book of Rites, which is a real Confucian classic, the others have little to do with Confucianism, but are only "counted" as Confucian classics.

In addition to the "Book of Rites", the other four classics are the national culture inherited by the Chinese nation from the Western Zhou Dynasty and even the Shang Dynasty.

By the time of the Song Dynasty, Confucian culture had reached a dead end, and although Cheng Zhu Lixue had developed in some aspects, it played an active role in maintaining social stability and promoting historical progress in the late Song Dynasty. However, one of its core ideas, 'preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires', soon became a thing that constrained social development and seriously hindered the process of historical development.

Therefore, Yun Xi decided to advocate the new Confucian thought, although he himself did not understand what the new Confucian thought should be like and what it included, but first beat the banner, naturally there will be real Confucian scholars to take refuge in him, according to his meaning to establish what this new Confucian thought includes.

When Fuso arrived at the Meiji Restoration, the slogan was still 'the retro of the royal government, respecting the emperor', which shows that the reform of the Togu system is a tradition in the East.

Since it is a Confucian Tuogu, it is natural to put out the books of the Five Classics, which are 'counted' as Confucian classics, and seek evidence from them, even those die-hard rationalists have nothing to say: Confucius sages think that these five books are very important, what do they dare to say?

Yun Xi has decided that the questions in this year's examination will be mostly from the Five Classics, and less from the Four Books. Anyway, the Pentateuch also requires that they will.

Of course, it is not good to completely cancel the Four Books, and the reason why the emperor and Zhu Yuanzhang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty chose the Four Books as the standard examination books also makes sense.

The four books have a small number of words, easy to understand, and more importantly, because of the small number of words, children from poor families can afford them, which makes the imperial examination more popular, and more people from ordinary families have hope.

Therefore, Yunxi finally decided: Jingyi one, from the next time, the township examination, the meeting examination, and the palace examination will cancel the assessment of the four books, and only the five classics will be examined; The county, government, and hospital examinations for Xiucai remain unchanged.

As for the criticized eight-strand essay, it is just a format for writing essays, just like the syllogism of the argumentative essay in the college entrance examination now, which is actually not very important. What is more important is the content of the exam.

Another point of criticism of the imperial examination that has been criticized by later generations is that it does not attach importance to policy theory. But there is a reason for that.

The evaluation of the quality of the article is a subjective question, there is no certain standard, and it all depends on the consideration of the examiner. And in so many provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties across the country, no matter how awesome the emperor is, the chief examiner of every exam may not have a similar idea to the emperor.

Of course, officials who think differently from the emperor will not admit people who think differently from themselves, in other words, people who think differently from the emperor will not be admitted.

However, the emperors of previous generations had no way to solve this problem, and the final decision was: only pay attention to the scriptures and meanings, and not pay attention to the policy theory, so as to prevent examiners at all levels from specially recruiting a group of ministers who contradict themselves.

Yun Xi has no way to solve this problem now, and he can't do anything about the township test. But once every three years, in the capital, Yun Xi still has a way to solve it.

Therefore, this year's meeting decided to increase the weight of the policy.

Yun Xi, who had already thought about it, immediately said to the fourth auxiliary officer: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have already decided to change the decision for this year's examination. ”

"In this year's exam, the three exams remain the same, but the content has changed."

"Reduce the four book questions in the first scripture exam, there is only one question in the four books, three questions in each of the five classics, a total of sixteen questions in the four books, and candidates choose four questions to write an essay."

"The graders of the four articles need to be treated equally, and they cannot be partial to one or the other."

"The text of the second scene remains the same."

"In the third policy discussion, this year will give the same status as the policy theory and the scripture theory, and the Jingyi article will be equally important to admit the tribute scholars."

"Also, I remember that the year before last, I issued a holy decree to add math problems to the township exam, and add them to the current exam. This year's examination also adds a math problem, and if you can't do this math problem, you are not allowed to be recorded as a tribute. ”