This has to be briefly mentioned as the long struggle between the grammar officials and the Confucian scholars.

Later generations thought that the imperial examination began in the Sui and Tang dynasties, but the method of selecting bureaucrats through practical cultural examinations had begun as early as the Warring States Period. The talents who are selected are the grammar officials.

These people were generally born from small landlords or declining scholars, who were well-versed in literature and ink but did not read the scriptures and history, but specialized in the study of laws and regulations. After passing the exam, they were able to perform specific administrative tasks immediately, so they were loved by monarchs of various countries during the stressful Warring States period.

A number of famous ministers of the Warring States such as Li Si, Li Kui, and Shen Buxian are among the outstanding representatives.

The most important use of grammar officials is the Qin State that accepted the Legalist thought, and the King of Qin is also assisted by this group of efficient and harsh, advocating strict punishment and strict laws, and clear rewards and punishments.

Of course, the fall of the Qin Dynasty was also related to the harshness of the grammar officials. Not to mention anything else, Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and Liu Bang all rebelled because they delayed the deadline of the imperial court and deserved to die according to the law.

Therefore, in the Western Han Dynasty, the emperor continued to reuse grammar officials to govern the country, and on the other hand, he also began to introduce Confucianism into the bureaucratic system to educate the people and soften the rule, so as to avoid repeating the mistakes of the tyrannical Qin.

Therefore, the bureaucracy of the Han Dynasty was divided into two distinct groups, the scribes and the Confucian scholars. The scribes still controlled the state apparatus, but after Dong Zhongshu 'deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone', he monopolized the right to speak and interpret the scriptures, and gradually gained the upper hand.

In the later period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the rise of the Baume & Mercier Group, Shilin public opinion was gradually able to manipulate the election of officials, and the system of selecting officials for hundreds of years of 'selecting people by ability' became 'selecting people by filial piety and morality'.

At this time, Confucianism completely overwhelmed the grammar officials, monopolized the high-ranking officials of the Qingliu stream, and only left those turbid officials with huge affairs and thankless affairs to the grammar officials.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the emperor set up six schools and one museum, and took scholars by department, in fact, they all wanted to reverse this situation and give grammar officials an exit. Helplessly, the family that had been transformed into a cultural aristocracy was able to twist the policy into only re-entering the Shike, so that the Confucian scholars still maintained their dominance over the court and the government.

With the rise of Confucianism, Confucianism continued to rise in status, and finally became the state religion in the Song Dynasty - Confucianism, reaching its peak.

The Confucian scholars of the Song Dynasty not only completely monopolized the official position, but also completely expelled the grammar officials from the ranks of officials, and became officials who sank into subordinates and never came out. They also strive to erase the mark of the grammar clerks in history.

So that future generations can mention scholars, and they will be equated with Confucianism, thinking that all dynasties and dynasties have been governed by them, and history is created by them......

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Zhu Yuanzhang also thought so at first, but fortunately, there was a sober Liu Bowen beside him.

Coupled with the fact that the influence of Confucianism in the Yuan Dynasty fell to a low point, he did not fall into the lies created by Confucianism.

Moreover, after he himself studied the Four Books and Five Classics with Song Lian and others, he really did not find any way to govern the country, knowing that Confucianism alone could not govern the country.

Besides, he is the emperor, why do you still let Kong Laoer, who has been dead for almost 2,000 years, ride on his head? When the time comes, those Confucian disciples will definitely put him in the box of rules and regulations compiled by the words of the sages, as they did in the Song Dynasty.

This is a self-made emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang, which is difficult to accept no matter what. So he began to think of 'degrading Confucianism'.

In March of the first year of Hongwu, Xu Da conquered Jining, the general trend of the world was decided, and the fall of the Yuan Dynasty was only a matter of time. The Kong family, who had long cultivated a keen sense of smell and a soft posture, immediately appealed to Boss Zhu.

But at that time, Kong Kejian, the Shenggong of Yan, was canonized by the Yuan Dynasty, and also served as a high-ranking official of the Yuan Dynasty such as the Shandong Lian Visiting Envoy, the Ministry of Rites, and the Guozi Sacrificial Wine, so he was worried that he would be liquidated by Boss Zhu, so he only sent his son Kong Xixue to visit Xu Da.

After that, Xu Da sent Kong Xixue to Nanjing to meet Zhu Yuanzhang. Kong Xixue also specially explained to Boss Zhu that his father was bedridden due to illness, so he could not come to congratulate the Son of Heaven in person.

But Boss Zhu didn't eat this, he gave Kong Kejian a handwritten edict, clearly stating that 'if you are sick, you can't call it sick', and you can't pretend to be sick and not come...... Frightened, Kong Kejian 'panicked and went to Beijing'.

After that, although Zhu Yuanzhang was in the United Front purpose, he forgave him. But he didn't give Kong Kejian a half-official position, and also gave the first Yan Shenggong of the Ming Dynasty directly to his son Kong Xixue.

And in the second year of Hongwu, he issued an edict: 'The Confucian Temple is released in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it stops in Qufu, and the world does not need to be worshipped. ’

That is to say, it is enough to leave a Confucian temple in Qufu to worship Confucius in the future, and there will be no more sacrifices elsewhere, of course, there is no need to build any Confucian temple.

So why did the sixth dare not set up a Confucian temple at Guozi University, because his father wanted to do it back then.

But Boss Zhu's suppression of Confucianism was very unsuccessful. The opposition aroused is no less than today, when the province of Zhongshu took the lead, and all the departments of Shangshu collectively spoke, saying that 'Confucius has been taught for eternity, and the world respects his teachings, so the world must worship Confucius, and the gift of the newspaper cannot be abolished'.

In short, if you don't let the world worship Confucius, we won't do it.

At that time, Boss Zhu had not yet gained a firm foothold, nor did he have the current self-confidence, and he had to rely on the united front role of Confucianism, so he had to withdraw his fate.

But people like Boss Zhu will not give up, and it was not until the fourth year of Hongwu that the imperial examination was reopened in Shilin's thousands of calls, and then in less than three years, the imperial examination was stopped again on the grounds that Confucian scholars did not practice the political system and were embarrassed to be useful......

The imperial examination is the lifeblood of Confucianism, if you can't become an official through the imperial examination, who will worship under Confucianism? Don't look at the huge momentum of Confucianism now, but without fresh blood to join, it is simply water without a source and a tree without roots, and it will not be able to support it for a few years, and it will be in decline.

This is the reason why Shilin reacted so strongly this time, and even raised the two holy tablets and sacrificed everything to fight to the end.

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It is said that Confucianism and Confucianism are one, of course, they must advance and retreat together and support Shilin to the end.

But that Deyan Holy Father is tough enough, and he is not afraid of crooked shadows.

Coincidentally, none of these two Confucius studies are possessed.

The former, the Kong family has surrendered to the Jin and Yuan dynasties in a row, and the ancestral hypochondriasis, how can there be any hard bones?

The latter, like Zhang Tianshi's family in Jiangxi, the Kong family is the largest landlord in Shandong, and the Zhang family has many crimes.

What's more coincidental is that during the Chinese New Year, Zhang Zhang and Beikong also gathered in the capital, and under the arrangement of Boss Zhu, Zhang Dazhen and Yan Shenggong had friendship several times.

The purpose is to let Zhang Maocheng show up and say, use his own experience and painful lessons to educate Kong Xixue, go back to manage his children, clear the land population in advance, and don't wait for Shandong Qingzhang to make a yellow book, and then repeat the mistakes of the Zhang family.

It was the face of his ancestors who lost that......

Kong Xixue has been beaten by Boss Zhu to clean up and obey. Rather than worrying about the rise and fall of Confucianism in the future, he was more worried about the Confucian family's butt of shit being turned out. He knew very well that if he didn't cooperate with Boss Zhu this time, the Kong family would suffer like the Zhang family when he turned around......

"For the ministers, go and stop them, and don't let them steal the name of my ancestors and do things that deceive the king!" Yan Shenggong hurriedly volunteered.

(End of chapter)