Chapter 18 The Other Side of the Donglin Party (Asking for Recommendation Votes and Collections)

The political activities of the Donglin Party in the last years of the Ming Dynasty experienced the three dynasties of Shenzong Wanli, Xizong Tianqi and Sizong Chongzhen, which lasted for half a century.

Since the Donglin Party does not have a fixed constitution and a strict organization, its political attitudes and propositions are often expressed through individual activities.

To sum up, it is roughly as follows:

strongly demanded to change the situation of eunuch dictatorship and disorderly government, and advocated that "political affairs should be attributed to the six ministries, and public opinions should be paid to the officials", so that the world would "be happy and hopeful";

He vigorously opposed the emperor's dispatch of mine supervisors and tax collectors to various places to carry out frenzied plundering and expropriation, and advocated attaching importance to agriculture.

It also attaches importance to industry and commerce, and requires merchants to benefit the people, reduce taxes, reclaim wasteland, and build water conservancy;

oppose the frequent fraud in the imperial examination, and advocate that scholars should be hired according to their talents and intelligence, regardless of rank, high and low;

Strengthen the military forces in Liaodong and actively defend against the attacks of the Manchurian nobility.

At this time, there were indeed a lot of iron bones in the Donglin Party. For example, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Yuan Huazhong, Wei Dazhong, Zhou Chaorui, Gu Dazhang and other "six gentlemen of the Donglin Party".

Among them, the most famous is Yang Lian, who is not enough to describe a righteous man and a gentleman, and is really proud of Lamei.

Yang Lian (1571~1625), the character Wenru, the name Dahong, was a native of Guangying Mountain, Huguang (now Guangshui, Hubei) in the Ming Dynasty.

In the late Ming Dynasty, he was a famous minister, counselor, Donglin partyman, and politician, and a jinshi in the thirty-fifth year of Wanli (1607 AD).

At the beginning of the appointment, he was often familiar with the county, and he was the first honest official in the country, and he was appointed to the court.

Mingshenzong was critically ill and urged the prince to enter the palace to serve the emperor. Ming Guangzong ascended the throne and strongly opposed Zheng Guifei's request to be crowned the queen mother.

Guangzong was seriously ill and summoned the minister, he was not a minister, and he was also among the summons, and he was in danger of taking care of his life;

Guangzong died, and Li Xuan lived in the Qianqing Palace to coerce the prince to control the government, and he persuaded the courtiers to come forward.

Yang Lian broke into the Qianqing Palace, supported the crown prince's accession to the throne, and forced Li Xuanzhi to move out of the Qianqing Palace, stabilized the court situation, and promoted the military department to the middle of the matter.

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625 AD), he served as the left deputy capital of Yushi, and was framed for the 24 major crimes of playing Wei Zhongxian and died tragically in prison;

Later, he was rehabilitated and called "Loyal Martyr";

After Yang Lian was killed, Wei Zhongxian and his henchmen ordered prison personnel to carefully search Yang Lian's belongings in order to destroy the evidence of the crime;

When the head of the cell searched Yang Lian's pillow, he found this blood book written by Yang Lian before his execution, and he wanted to take it to ask for a reward.

But after carefully reading this blood book, I was moved by Yang Lian's heroic righteousness.

So he risked his life to keep it until Wei Zhongxian and other eunuchs were exterminated.

For these sages, Zhu Youzhen still admires them a lot. But now the Donglin Party is not these sages.

According to the history that Zhu Youzhen came to know by later generations, a large part of the current Donglin Party is the spokesperson of the salt merchants in the coastal area of Zhejiang in the court.

Of course, there must be good ones in the Donglin Party now, and there are many people with noble character. However, the Confucian idea of prudence and independence allows them to control themselves, but they can't control the disciples below, let alone others!

Coupled with the Kedao Yanguan, the supervision of the imperial history is in their hands, which makes the Donglin Party fall into the quagmire of party strife.

Their views on good and evil are also very extreme, and party strife is particularly fierce among them. Here are some historical facts:

Gu Xiancheng, he resigned angrily because he hated the party and founded Donglin Academy, the funny thing is that the Donglin Party became the biggest friend of the Apocalypse!

After Gu Xiancheng, that is, in the third year of the Apocalypse, Zhao (Nan) Xing, as the imperial history of the left capital of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, held the power of Jingcha.

With the word 'impetuous', he swept out more than 400 people from the Chu Party, the Zhejiang Party, and the Kun Party in one go, which was unprecedented since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

For a time, everyone is in the sky, and the world is inspired, in fact?

Donglin Party is tilted against each other, Zhao (Nan) Xing, Gao Panlong is one party.

Ye Xianggao, Han Huang is a party.

Zuo Guangdou, Gu Dazhang and others are another party, and there are more than a dozen mountains in 7788......

Wei Dazhong and Ruan Dacheng competed for the official department, Wei Dazhong was Zhao (Nan) Xing's party, and Zhao (Nan) Xing gave Wei Dazhong ......

This Ruan Dacheng is Yang Lian's fellow villager, and Zuo Guangdou and others tried their best to take the engineering department from Zhao (Nan) Xing and compensate Ruan Dacheng in the matter.

But how can engineering be compared to the official department, Ruan Dacheng was not angry, and defected to Wei Zhongxian in a fit of anger......

Wei Zhongxian is a 'giant thief' in the eyes of the Donglin Party, and he has been repeatedly suppressed, but this time he found an opportunity to take down the official branch and give it to Ruan Dacheng.

Zhao (Nan) Xing naturally refused to give up, and with his prestige and means, Ruan Dacheng resigned before he could do it for two months......

At the same time, Zhao (Nan) Xing also hated Wei Zhongxian, and wrote to the imperial brother, asking the imperial brother to bow down to everything and abolish the red ......

This angered Wei Zhongxian, and the Chu Party, Zhejiang Party, and Kun Party that Zhao (Nan) Xing had driven out of the imperial court gathered under Wei Zhongxian's door...... Thus began the battle between the eunuchs and the Donglin party......

The Donglin Party acted in a lot of dirty ways, Wei Zhongxian controlled Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and soon got the evidence and impeached him on a large scale.

The six Shangshu, which were originally controlled by the Donglin Party, were afraid to resign...... In the end, the first assistant Ye Xianggao was forced, and the second assistant Han Huang all begged one after another......

These are only part of it, and the Donglin Party at the end of the Ming Dynasty was even more unbearable.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the surrender of the Donglin Party and the defection of the defection did not have the due national righteousness at all.

All this should be attributed to Qian Qianyi, especially his sentence that the water is too cold, which crushed the last trace of the Donglin Party's desire to serve the country, and also crushed the last trace of luck of the Ming Dynasty.

From these points of view, the Donglin Party on the surface in the eyes of the world is a gentleman with a great mind, a bright and upright, and a man who takes the world as his own responsibility.

However, if we look at the overall situation, think about it carefully, and seriously investigate it, we can see that the Donglin Party is indeed acting ...... It's a little unbearable!

The biggest reason for the defeat of the Ming Dynasty was that Chongzhen believed in the foolishness of the Donglin Party and abandoned the mine supervision tax, industrial and commercial tax, and maritime trade tax.

As a result, in the end, the treasury was empty and had no money to fight, and the country was ruined.

PS: Yang Lian's blood book, let's take a look, the full text is as follows:

Ripple the rod of death!

infatuated with retribution, foolish to the enemy;

Fight for seven feet for a long time, and no longer worry about it.

is not for Zhang Jian to flee, nor for Yang Zhen to take medicine, he wants to return to the court with his life, and he does not want his wife to cry.

When questioning, the stolen goods are dealt with in vain, murder and flattery, five days are compared, and the limit is strict.

The family is far away, the road is poor, the body is not iron, and there is only a life.

Thunder and rain and dew, it is not the grace of heaven, a life of benevolence and righteousness, died in the edict, and it is unspeakable to die.

Why regret the heavens, why complain about others?

But I, as a vice-minister, have been taken care of.

Confucius Ziyun: "Entrust the lonely life, and you can't take it away when the big festival comes!"

With this thought, you can finally see the first emperor Yu Zaitian, the two ancestors and the ten sects and the emperor and the queen of heaven and the world.

Laughing, laughing, laughing!