What influence did the thoughts of the three great thinkers have at that time?

They inherited the progressive ideological tradition in the late Ming Dynasty, promoted the revival of traditional culture in the critical inheritance of traditional Confucianism, and constructed a new ideological system with the characteristics of the times, which not only reflected the requirements of the embryonic era of capitalism in a certain sense, but also had the historical progress of emancipating the mind and had the significance of transformation to modern times.

We can't exclude them from the ranks of Confucianism just because we saw their new ideas and criticized the neo-Confucianism that maintained feudal rule. In their thoughts, we can see the thoughts of Confucius, Mencius and Xunzi ~