Everyone has a bad opinion of Han Yu, the chief minister of the cabinet.

Some even considered Han Yu a traitor to the Donglin Party, a traitor who had no principles or bottom line in his quest for power. If this issue were left to Han Yu, there would be no hope.

Amidst everyone's complicated gazes, Han Yu took a steady step forward and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, I also agree to replace Mencius with Xunzi."

After saying this, Han Yu turned around and stood on the other side without any extra movements.

After listening to Han Yu's words, Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Okay, I understand. It seems that you all think the same. Very good, then let's do it."

He turned to look at Huang Kezun again, smiled slightly and said, "My dear Huang, I'll leave this matter to you. You will work with the Ministry of Rites to complete this matter and ensure that there are no mistakes."

"Yes, Your Majesty. I will not let Your Majesty down." Huang Kezun quickly took a step forward and said respectfully.

After hearing this assurance, Zhu Youxiao put away his smile, stood up and said, "Then let's stop here today."

After he said this, he ignored everyone and turned around and walked out.

The news from today's grand court meeting spread quickly, and no one expected that there would be such overwhelming approval.

Isn’t this really weird?

Is it possible that all the people in the court are mediocre, with no one daring to stand up and speak?

For a while, public opinion was in an uproar.

In fact, the reason for this situation is very simple, that is, there is no one at the top.

Ever since Zhu Youxiao traveled to the Ming Dynasty, he has been cleaning up the Donglin Party in the court, and each time, Donglin Party members were removed in batches.

Departments like the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of War were all purged by Zhu Youxiao.

The four Grand Secretaries of the Cabinet were also those who remained after the purge.

The Censorate, which has always been good at criticizing and attacking people, has long been purged beyond recognition. The person in charge now is Zhu Youxiao's trusted minister Yu Maoheng, and the most active critic in the Censorate is Cui Chengxiu.

Under such circumstances, how could there be any opposition from the top management?

As for those at the lower levels who want to object, what can they do?

You don’t even have the chance to stand in the court, how can you object?

Do you want to go to the morning court to talk?

What a pity, you are not qualified.

This time, only civil and military officials of the fourth rank and above were summoned to the grand court meeting. Officials below this rank were not eligible to attend. Therefore, it was not surprising that there was such a one-sided approval.

To put it bluntly, although this decision did not meet the wishes of the people, it was approved by the court.

It is because the court and the people think differently. Every big boss in the court has his own ideas and his own interests. After starting from their own interests, they decide that this policy should be supported because everyone can benefit from this policy.

Although these big guys didn't really agree in their hearts, they could still agree to it for the time being, so the current situation was formed.

The public opposition is still very intense, but it is useless and cannot be conveyed to the top leaders, so no matter how hard they try, there will be no result.

What's more, this kind of reform does not seem like the implementation of a system and requires cooperation from the next level.

The reform of the imperial examination system was completely top-down and required no cooperation from the lower levels.

Well, either you don’t take the exam, and this is the place where you can refuse the most.

It's fine if you don't want to take the imperial examination. But you can't ask everyone not to take the imperial examination. There will always be people who are willing to take it.

Once someone goes there, this countermeasure is of little use.

As for the lower-level officials, the court will ask you to take an exam on Xunzi, but if you don’t listen, they will directly test you on Mencius. What does that mean?

Disobeying the imperial court's orders, defying the emperor's decree. Do you know what that crime is?

Other charges could be evaded or prevaricated with excuses, but this one was unavoidable. This was a policy imposed from the top down.

For a moment, the capital was in turmoil, countless people were running around shouting, countless people were cursing madly, and there were even several incidents of sedan chairs being stopped.

Of course, they stopped the sedan chairs of the important officials of the court, vented their emotions angrily, and cursed these officials loudly, saying that they were not worthy of being officials or scholars; at the same time, they also shouted at these officials to stand up and speak.

In an instant, the entire capital city was bustling with activity.

Under such circumstances, Zhu Youxiao smiled.

To put it bluntly, it can be seen from this incident that many times, the interests of the court are not consistent with the interests of the local areas.

What Zhu Youxiao wanted was to select some truly useful talents for the country, talents who could be used by the country.

But the local authorities didn't think so. Their primary concern was that I become an official. How I passed the exam didn't matter. Even if it was a competition of strength, as long as I was good at it, it didn't matter.

This policy was opposed by so many people because most scholars read "Mencius" and they could not adapt to the sudden change to "Xunzi".

But more of it is the fear of the unknown and the fear of not wanting to make changes.

Looking up at Chen Hong, Zhu Youxiao asked expressionlessly, "No one is ready to kneel in front of the palace, right?"

If someone came to the front of the palace and scolded me, or went to the Meridian Gate to kneel down and make a protest, that would be a real trouble.

As for the others, they are not that important at all. If they like to stop the officials’ sedan chairs, let them stop it.

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