C331 Eight-strand extraction (2/2)

However, Xiao Wen knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was still a powerful Emperor. He believed that the monarch and emperor only needed a group of obedient subjects to fulfill his will.

The thought of freedom was actually useless.

Although there was nothing wrong with this kind of talk in the early Ming dynasty.

However, in the future generations, they have already treated the anti-monarchy as the correct politics. Therefore, the history books have always talked about the eight groups of people who sought revenge for the persecution of the people's hearts.

But after all, China at that time was no longer the era of the Spring and Autumn Battle Empire, or even the early Han Dynasty. The original creativity of a scholar in a free environment was not brought to light in the early Ming Dynasty.

If a free environment could allow scholars to unleash the same kind of creativity that they used to when they were in the Spring and Autumn War Kingdom, Xiao Wen felt that letting them be free no matter what.

However, the environment of freedom was no longer of any use in the Ming Dynasty. Even if they were given freedom, they could only come up with pedantic opinions which were of no value to society. After all, the late Ming and Republic of China years of learning had proven that the attitude of the scholars of that era was far inferior to that of the Warring States Period.

Therefore, trading chaotic freedom for pedantic creation is not a good option at all.

Rather than this, it was better to just erase the creativity of the scholars, and not let them play any games of erroneous literature and laws, in order to restore order to the society.

Those people who said that the eight elements were restraining the will of the people were actually quite laughable. After all, starting from the time when the Song Dynasty was travelling in the Zhu family, or starting from the Confucian school, when people's thoughts were entangled with the annotations written by the sages but did not know how to innovate, they began to be restricted.

The fact that people threw all the pans that Chinese thought had been restricted onto Zhu Yuanzhang was the same as throwing the pans that the Ming dynasty had destroyed onto Chen Yuan Yuan. It was a very foolish action.

No matter how the historical Zhu Yuanzhang was reformed, he was still an emperor after all, and from his perspective, he definitely could not reverse the naughty habit that Chinese scholars liked to use as their training grounds.

Therefore, no matter what he did, he could not keep the thoughts of the scholars from gradually locking himself up.

If it was Xiao Wen, he would definitely choose to use the eight shares of the Ming Dynasty to gather scholars and use them to restrict his thoughts. He would then create an empire that was specialized in, but was extremely efficient – although the historical Zhu Yuanzhang did not succeed because of a series of wise actions.

It's just that Xiao Wen was a person with a brain, although he would sometimes use his experience to judge what was happening before him. However, he would often remind himself that the specific analysis of the problem.

As a result, he did not think that the Zhu Yuanzhang of this world would do the same just because he had his reasons for doing so.

It was true that although the Ming dynasty's scholars had restricted their own creativity, even if Zhu Yuanzhang gave them an environment of freedom and tolerance, they would still not be able to produce any reliable academic results.

However, in this world, not all scholars were like the scholars of the Ming Dynasty. They were full of wisdom, they did not disappoint their duties, and they did not have civil principles.

The scholars of Qin were all people who had received a good education from the legal community. Their understanding and application of law had reached a level where it was easy for them to master it. Accordingly, they know how to maintain the stability and development of a country by adjusting the law.

In fact, although the Qin Dynasty had its own detailed laws, the Qin Dynasty's laws were the most frequently changed laws in the history of China. Almost every year there are changes in the law.

And these changes were caused by the work of the Emperor and the scholars of the Law.

There was even less of a need to talk about the Han Empire. Historically, China at the beginning of the Han Dynasty carried on the idea of inaction, and the hundreds of people who had been struck by the Qin Dynasty and the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty gradually recovered.

If not for Dong Zhongshu's visit to the Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty later on saying that he would wipe out hundreds of clans and rule over Confucianism, the Han Dynasty would have continued the war between the kingdoms during the Spring and Autumn War.

With these two countries in the lead, the academic of other countries is more or less full of freedom and creativity. The eight shares were also an inappropriate policy.