It is worth mentioning that during the Wanli period, the Baguwen simplified the original title and the two parts.

Not only that, the problem solving is also limited to two sentences from three or four sentences, the question is limited to three sentences from four or five sentences, and the entry and exit questions are maintained at one to four sentences, which undoubtedly further imprisons the candidates' minds.

Zhao Guangfeng just caught up with the "innovation" of Baguwen, and had the last laugh in the township test, and became a lifter as he wished.

"Haha......"

After listening to Li Hongyu's explanation, Zhao Guangfeng laughed again, he didn't expect Li Hongyu to have such feelings at a young age.

Li Hongyu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw this, it seems that his remarks in Xi'an were right for Zhao Guangfeng, and this time the Poke bet was right.

Zhao Guangfeng's refusal to be an official after becoming a person is well known, but few people know that he did not participate in the examination, and gave up this opportunity to make scholars envious and jealous.

The outside world does not know why Zhao Guangfeng did this, and he has always thought that he is arrogant and arrogant, and devotes his energy to learning and preaching.

But Li Hongyu doesn't think so, if Zhao Guangfeng doesn't want to be an official, then why do you need to participate in the township test? After the township examination, he was able to be an official in Huguang, and it was enough to show his talent and fame!

Therefore, from Zhao Guangfeng's unreasonable move, Li Hongyu guessed that he must be dissatisfied with Baguwen.

After the "innovation" of the Chenghua and Wanli dynasties, the form of the Baguwen became more rigid, which seriously imprisoned the minds of the scholars, making the scholars try their best to cater to the writing style of the Baguwen and indifferent to the pursuit of knowledge.

In other words, the Jinshi selected for the imperial examination can only be said to have done well in the Bagu Essay, and it cannot be said that their talents and learning must be better than those who failed to take the township examination or the general examination.

Take Zhao Guangfeng as an example, he is a brilliant Confucian in Xiangyang, and his literary literacy is also among the best in Huguang, but when he was ranked very low in the township examination that year, he almost fell short.

Therefore, in Li Hongyu's opinion, the arrogant Zhao Guangfeng must have been disappointed with the results of the township examination, and talented people like him are usually very characterful, coupled with his youthful vigor, so he will definitely show a strong reaction, and it is not surprising that he will give up the examination.

So this time Li Hongyu deliberately attacked Baguwen as he liked, and now it seems that his guess is right, Zhao Guangfeng is really dissatisfied with Baguwen, and then invisibly shortened the distance between the two.

To tell the truth, among the millions of readers in the Ming Dynasty, there are very few people who dare to deny Baguwen, and they are all counting on stepping into the officialdom with Baguwen, soaring, sharpening their heads and wanting to gain fame, where can they care about the constraints of Baguwen on culture!

"In that case, why do you want to participate in the imperial examination?" After laughing for a while, Zhao Guangfeng looked at Li Hongyu with interest, he felt that his grandson was really too interesting and had a great appetite for him.

"People are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help it!" Li Hongyu couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, and replied helplessly.

"People are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves?" Zhao Guangfeng was slightly stunned, and then nodded approvingly, "To the point, it is meaningful!" ”

Although Zhao Guangfeng was reluctant to see the Zhao family, he didn't think that he didn't care about the Zhao family, he knew quite well about the situation of the Li family's three rooms, and knew that Li Hongyu and the Zhao family were threatened by Li Renhe, and in order to keep the Li family's three rooms, the only way to get fame was to make Li Renhe jealous, otherwise the orphans and widows were easily threatened.

"Grandpa, Yu'er's knowledge is not as good as the two uncles, but Yu'er has experience in Bagu Wenbo, if Yu'er can be lifted in the township test, doesn't it mean that it really can't really win for the country!" Li Hongyu groaned for a moment and looked at Zhao Guangfeng seriously.

"If this is the case, it is undoubtedly a kind of sorrow for the reader." Zhao Guangfeng's face suddenly flashed with a look of surprise when he heard this, he never expected that Li Hongyu would start pondering Baguwen at a young age and look like he was full of ambition, and then the look on his face became a little gloomy.

If things are really as Li Hongyu said, Li Hongyu, who is not as knowledgeable as Zhao Wenhan and Zhao Wenxin, won the township examination for the first time, then in Zhao Guangfeng's view, Daming's eight-share scholar is completely a joke, and it is impossible to select real pillars of talent for Daming.

"Grandpa, Yu'er has long heard that grandpa is very knowledgeable, I wonder if grandpa knows the culture of the Xiyi people?"

Li Hongyu knew that a scholar like Zhao Guangfeng had a heart of worrying about the country and the people, and he had successfully aroused the resonance of Zhao Guangfeng and himself, so Yu Feng asked again, ready to divert from this topic that made the atmosphere a little solemn.

"Xiyi culture?"

Zhao Guangfeng was stunned when he heard this, and felt surprised in his heart, but he didn't expect Li Hongyu to have come into contact with things from overseas countries.

You must know that Daming is a **** country, and in front of those overseas countries, both the government and the opposition have a sense of superiority, and they don't look down on those overseas countries at all, so they will never learn the things of overseas countries.

"Grandpa, Yu'er once read a book related to Xiyi, and they were different from our Ming Dynasty when they were studying, and the Ming Dynasty paid attention to self-cultivation, self-cultivation, and morality, while the Xiyi people paid more attention to practicality when they studied because of their poor life, and there was no scripture similar to Confucius and Mencius, but through experiments to explore unknown knowledge."

Li Hongyu looked at Zhao Guangfeng and said in an orderly manner, he knew that Zhao Guangfeng had definitely not been in contact with European culture, in addition to the fact that Daming was **** abroad, it was also related to inconvenient transportation, which made the cultural exchanges between Daming and overseas countries very restricted.

"Experiments?" Zhao Guangfeng's eyes showed a puzzled look, it was the first time he had heard this word, after all, Confucius and Mencius had nothing to do with "experiment".

"Just like those alchemists who have refined the formula again and again, the scholars of Xiyi have verified and explored the essence of the operation of all things in the world through continuous improvements."

Li Hongyu pondered for a moment when he heard this, and explained in the most popular language, "Grandpa, taking medical skills as an example, our Ming Dynasty's medical skills use the principle of mutual restraint of all things for diagnosis and treatment, while the Xiyi people are concerned about why all things are mutually reinforcing, as long as you understand the mystery of this, then you can prepare better medicines." ”

"I see!" Zhao Guangfeng understood what Li Hongyu meant, and it seemed that the thinking of this Xiyi person was really different from that of Daming.

"Grandpa, have you seen Zheng He's treasure ship?" Seeing that Zhao Guangfeng's thinking was successfully pulled by himself, Li Hongyu struck while the iron was hot and asked quietly.

"I've only heard rumors, but I've never seen the real thing." Zhao Guangfeng shook his head when he heard this, "I'm afraid they have already turned into a pile of rotten wood." ”

Zheng He went to the West seven times, the last time was in the Xuande period, almost two hundred years ago, and the Ming Dynasty never sent a fleet to the west to promote the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

As a large sea vessel, Zheng He's treasure ship is naturally not suitable for coastal defense, and the Ming Dynasty and overseas countries practice tributary trade, that is, when overseas vassal states come to the Ming Dynasty to worship the Ming Emperor, they will sell the goods they brought to the Ming Dynasty at a good price, and obtain huge profits from it.

This made Zheng He's treasure ship only quietly parked in the port or shipyard, slowly rotting under the wind and rain, coupled with the corruption of the Great Ming Guard, there must be no money to invest in the maintenance of the ship, which made the bad situation of Zheng He's treasure ship worse.

"When the Yongle Emperor, the Ming Dynasty formed the world's most powerful sailors, Zheng He's treasure ship was huge and magnificent to the world, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty spread far overseas, and the navigation and shipbuilding skills of the Xiyi people were still in the stage of drinking blood compared with the Ming Dynasty."

Li Hongyu naturally knew that Zhao Guangfeng had never seen Zheng He's treasure ship, and said helplessly, "But now, the Xiyi people have been able to make a three-masted sailing ship that swims on the ocean, galloping back and forth between overseas countries, and even arrived in the southern coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Grandpa, Yu'er knows that the scholars of the Ming Dynasty look down on the craftsmen and think that the industry they are engaged in is low, but Yu'er feels that the scholars do not just think about being officials, but should care about the world, use the knowledge they have learned to promote the development of all walks of life, and help the craftsmen improve their skills, which is the real responsibility of a scholar."

As he spoke, the expression on Li Hongyu's face became solemn, and he looked at Zhao Guangfeng worriedly, "Yu'er heard a news, the three-masted sailing ship of the Xiyi people is loaded with dozens of guns with superior performance, and the power of naval battles is amazing, and I am afraid that it will be a serious threat to the Ming Dynasty in time!" ”

"Artillery?" Zhao Guangfeng's face was even more stunned, "The Xiyi people can also make artillery?" ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the manufacturing technology of artillery was strictly kept secret, and only those artillery craftsmen could access this knowledge, and the use of firearms was mainly directly under the emperor's Shenji battalion, and only the troops with the emperor's permission could be equipped with artillery, such as the Ming army in Liaodong, equipped with artillery for the invasion of ethnic minorities such as the Jurchens in Liaodong, which was a great weapon in the war.

"The reason why the Xiyi people were able to make artillery was because their scholars had put a lot of effort into this matter, not only gunpowder but also casting technology had been greatly developed, while the scholars of the Ming Dynasty were keen to step into the official career as officials, and gunpowder and casting could only rely on the craftsmen to which they belonged, and the progress was naturally slow."

Li Hongyu nodded affirmatively, the look on his face became even heavier, "For two hundred years, the Xiyi people have been not inferior to the Ming Dynasty in navigation, and have extended their tentacles to the southern coast of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhao Guangfeng fell silent when he heard this, he is not the kind of pedantic person, although he is arrogant but not arrogant, and has his own ability to judge things, so he knows that Li Hongyu is not worrying about the sky, if things are really as Li Hongyu said, Daming will encounter a serious potential threat.

Looking at Zhao Guangfeng, who fell into silence, a subtle smile flashed at the corner of Li Hongyu's mouth, dealing with a knowledgeable, high-minded and arrogant person like Zhao Guangfeng, what can move them more than worrying about the country and the people?