Crossover in the Anime World

Through the internship, I learned about the various factions within the food chaebol, which are very complicated.

"After the internship is over, it should be the campus festival, and the top ten will also appear. The autumn selection is equivalent to the Chunin exam, everyone shows their strengths, and the protagonist also sees a higher realm. At this time, stronger enemies appear. The top ten have top resources, not only cooking skills, but also the development of cooking skills to an incredible degree. Unfortunately, the top ten are people who have passed the aristocratic discipline and have both virtue and talent. Their virtue has surpassed talent." Duran said: "Is it only virtue that is selected, or only talent that is selected, or both virtue and talent? Interesting."

Virtue is a very interesting concept in the Central Plains thought, and it is also a very important concept. Because Xiqi destroyed Shang, it was a case of the inferior overthrowing the superior. Although King Wen of Zhou was imprisoned in Shang for seven years, King Zhou of Shang finally gave King Wen of Zhou an axe and a bow and arrow, and asked him to return to the west to represent Shang to make judgments. So in theory, Xiqi is Shang's subordinate.

Xiqi's own strength is not a match for Shang, so Xiqi's destruction of Shang has no legal support. If Xiqi could win, could other princes also attack Xiqi?

Xiqi needed a theory to support its behavior. At that time, everyone looked at destiny. And the greatest destiny was in the Shang Dynasty. If Xiqi also said that it was destiny to attack Shang, people might not believe it.

So we can't talk about destiny, we have to talk about virtue. And it is said that destiny will change with the change of virtue. In the past, the Shang Dynasty had virtue, so destiny was in the Shang Dynasty. Now the Shang Dynasty has lost virtue, so destiny has changed. It no longer protects the Shang Dynasty, but turns to Xiqi. People with virtue can replace the Shang Dynasty. Later, the King of Chu asked for the Central Plains, and the Zhou Emperor also said that the world is in virtue, not in the tripod.

But the question is, what is virtue?

The virtue in the "Book of Changes" is actually the clan law and clan rules, which is how to make oneself abide by the Zhou rituals. But after the collapse of rituals and music, virtue was given a new meaning, and benevolence and righteousness also belong to virtue.

Then the world was unified, and virtue became the main criterion for recommending talents, but the right of interpretation was still in the hands of the nobles. So many critics appeared, and they only did one thing, which was to evaluate talents. Cao Mengde and Zhuge Liang were both highly praised by famous critics at that time.

With these evaluations, talents were widely known. At that time, there were even various books dedicated to evaluating talents, such as physiognomy, behavior... and "Yuedanping" activities dedicated to commenting on talents.

So what is virtue? For the nobles at that time, virtue is their mouth, and what they say is what they say.

Later, Cao Cao proposed that only talent should be promoted, which was a challenge at that time. In the end, it failed, and in the end, only virtue was promoted. However, when virtue came to the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, it was no longer just the nobles who had the final say, and the court would also send people to evaluate together, and one mouth became two mouths.

After the imperial examination, the importance of talent became greater and greater, and it was on par with virtue.

"The chef of Totsuki Academy needs virtue, and virtue is the mouth of the nobles. Yukihira Soma is very similar to Cao Cao. Although he has talent, he needs to be recognized by the nobles." Duran knew that talent alone is not enough in the island country. There are many stories of geniuses being bullied in the island country.

Why? Because geniuses only have talent, not virtue. No matter how talented a genius is, as long as he has not been educated by the nobles, he is just a barbarian, or even not a human being, and it is natural for him to be bullied. To be precise, this is not bullying, this is education.

Only after education can one be considered a human being.

Only with talent, without education, can one not be used by the nobles. So talent alone is not enough, and education is required before one can be used by the nobles.

"Although my previous competitions have made them realize that the so-called food evaluation is completely unreliable. Sometimes they compare the taste of food, and sometimes they compare the comprehensive evaluation. It is completely a mouth, and what they say is what they say. But it is difficult to get them to fight against this evaluation system. There is no soil for rebellion." "The Sui and Tang dynasties used the imperial examination to give the poor a chance, because during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, many poor people had risen and defeated the nobles by force. So Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty knew very well that if he did not give them a way out, the poor would not sit and wait for death. But in the island country, the grass has never risen, there is no soil."

The grass cannot rise, either being betrayed or disciplined, and it is impossible to shake the rules of the game in the island country.

Although Duran has repeatedly proved that the judges are unreliable and how inflexible the evaluation of virtue is, this is the only way for the grassroots. Just like in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao and Zhuge Liang, who were from humble backgrounds, had to find ways to get evaluated, otherwise no one would recognize their talents.

What to do? There is no other way to prove yourself.

"In fact, it stands to reason that Yukihira Joichiro has lived in seclusion for more than ten years. With his cooking skills, it is impossible for him to only entertain the neighbors around. His cooking skills are so good, and the neighbors spread the word of mouth, so there should be diners from all over the world coming to feast on his food. After all, his cooking skills can make monks who are on a diet give up their practice. With this ability, he could have expanded the store or opened a branch long ago. But in the end, it has been a small restaurant for more than ten years. Why? Because he escaped from enlightenment, the food tycoon only gave him enough ingredients to keep the store going, but he could not expand further, which blocked him. Even if you are a good cook, you can't cook air for everyone to eat. So no matter how good your cooking skills are, if you are stuck with ingredients, you will die." Duran knew that if it weren't for the dean's love for talent, Yukihira Joichiro might not even be able to run a small store.

Moreover, Yukihira Joichiro was married into the family, and gave up his original surname, which was also a way of bowing to the nobility to some extent.

Back then, he was a talented student who won many competitions, but before the most important competition, he ran away. In the eyes of the nobles, this was escaping from education. The education was about to succeed, but he ran away, and all his efforts were wasted. In the end, he chose to be a barbarian.

A barbarian is not qualified to mix in the food industry. If the barbarians are allowed to become bigger and stronger, how can the education of the nobles maintain its authority?

"So even if Yukihira Joichiro's cooking skills can be expanded and strengthened, he is stuck at the level of a small restaurant. Ingredients, kitchen utensils, shops and other resources are all restricted. Even if he has talent, there is no stage to display. Unless he goes abroad." Duran knew that as long as he went abroad, the stage would change from a small restaurant to a big hotel.

It's not the genius who is bullied, but the genius who does not accept education who is bullied. The nobles have no hatred or grudges with geniuses, so why bully geniuses? But if the genius is a barbarian, it's different. Educating a barbarian is not just giving a genius a chance, but also protecting others and preventing others from being hurt by the genius.

"Yukihira Joichiro sent his son back to the academy to let him receive education. He must have learned from his mistakes and knew that his son also had talent. If he didn't receive education, this talent would be gone." Duran reasoned, "In fact, he could go abroad, but Joichiro probably suffered grievances abroad, after all, his skin color is different. Knowing that his son would have to go through some hardships if he went abroad, it would be better to send him to Totsuki Academy for education."

Talent also needs a stage to show. If he stays in a small restaurant that is stuck, he will only be a third-rate chef for his whole life.

Yukihira Soma is also very glad that he came to Totsuki School, where he saw more cooking skills and showed his talent in front of more people.

"It's really troublesome. Chefs from poor families like Yukihira Joichiro, Yukihira Soma, Hayama Akira, Kurokiba Ryo, Takumi, and Tanomo Megumi all actively embraced the noble selection system. Even if I showed them their shortcomings, it would be useless. Just like religion, no matter how many scandals there are, as long as there is nothing to replace religion, religion will always exist." Duran knew that if there was no imperial examination to replace the selection of only virtue, the poor would either rebel or accept education.

And the island country has no soil for rebellion, so it can only accept education. Unless Duran can open up a third way, a way to heaven that allows chefs to rise to prominence just by cooking.

For example, a gourmet exam, testing four dishes and five flavors, or hunting high-level monsters, so that chefs can accept a hard indicator assessment, obtain ingredients by themselves, and no longer rely on the evaluation of nobles.