Ye Shi is noted for amending the mainstream Confucian ideology by focusing more on business, rejecting the ideas such as the giving of high priority to justice and low priority to profit. The school finally evolved into a unique school of thought in Chinese history, advocating for the importance of commerce, privatization, market economy, free trade, currency market while China by tradition values agriculture, concepts, and thoughts that were distinctly different.
Ye Shi is recognized for revising mainstream Confucian beliefs by giving more emphasis to commerce, disregarding ideas like prioritizing justice over profit. The school eventually transformed into a distinctive Chinese philosophical perspective that emphasized trade, privatization, market economy, free trade, and currency markets, while traditional Chinese values centered on agriculture, concepts, and thoughts were markedly different.