The Donglin Party was a political party with Jiangnan Shidafu as the core in the late Ming Dynasty, which originated in Gu Xiancheng and lectured at Donglin Academy, so it was named.

In the beginning, the Donglin Party was only a small group of people who had failed in political battles and gathered together to give lectures and discuss politics, but because these people had a relatively high reputation in Shilin and liked to "often satirize the government and judge people in addition to lectures", it caused a great impact.

When the Donglin Party was founded, it was the craziest time for Wanli to send mine supervisors to the world, and one of the slogans of the Donglin Party was "remove the mine supervisors and return to the six departments." ”

The commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty was a joke, not only the tax rate was extremely low, but also the tax evasion was serious, and even the officials did not levy the commercial tax with the slogan of not competing with the people, or even let it go.

Zhu Youxiao saw this example in later generations, saying that he was a magistrate of a certain place in the south of the Yangtze River, and he directly threw a money box on the street, and then beat the gong and drum and said that everyone was willing to collect business taxes, and they threw money into it, and the result can be imagined, and in the end only thirteen taels of silver were received.

In the Ming Dynasty, the small people could only go to farming, or do coolies and some small businesses selling vegetables and buying food, and the big businesses were all monopolized by the gentry and bureaucracy, they had official privileges, and they were hidden behind the civil class, belonging to the same class, in this case, it was strange that those civil officials would manage business taxes.

In this case, not to mention the mining tax, basically no one pays it. All of them were blatantly mined, and with the exception of dotting and profit-sharing, all went into the pockets of the local gentry themselves.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, a year later, the national commercial tax collection is only 500,000 taels, and this is still the era of Zhang Juzheng, who is in power, and when Zhang Juzheng dies, the commercial tax immediately shrinks, and it is basically gone recently.

After the three major levies, the treasury had no money, and in desperation, Wanli sent mine supervisors to collect taxes, not only mining taxes, but also a series of commercial taxes such as salt tax and tea tax. But who are the people who can mine and do business in the area? The big landlords and the gentry and bureaucracy, they were as happy as they could, so the gentry and bureaucracy adopted a series of measures to resist and confront. Such measures were not uncommon in the notes of scholars of the Ming Dynasty, who called this confrontation righteous, and called the emperor's sending eunuchs to collect taxes evil and faint.

Isn't it a matter of course for the state to send people to collect commercial taxes and mining taxes? Those who resist taxes are breaking the law and should be arrested and sentenced. However, Shilin at that time thought that this was not the case, collecting business tax was to compete with the people for profit, and the emperor could not collect business tax, and if he collected it, he was a bastard and a faint king.

This idea, which seemed extremely ridiculous to later generations, was taken orthodox and taken for granted at the time, and based on this argument, they frantically resisted the emperor's mine supervisors, created all kinds of incidents, and killed many people.

Of course, this is not for the eunuchs to wash the floor. Many of the mine supervisors sent by Wanli were indeed extremely heinous, and in order to enrich their own pockets, they used their power and looted wealth. However, this is not a reason to boycott commercial taxes. It is the implementers, not the system, who are at fault.

However, under the advocacy of the readers, public opinion is exactly the opposite. Are these scholars and Confucians really not understanding? No, the most fundamental reason is because of the benefits.

The money earned from doing business without business taxes is all your own, so why should you give a share to the emperor?

This principle is very simple, and the people who read it understand it, but they just pretend to be confused, link the collection of commercial taxes with the competition with the people, and once the emperor has this intention, he immediately raises this banner to stop it.

Under such circumstances, as soon as the slogan of the Donglin Party was put forward, it immediately attracted many people. Moreover, Gu Xiancheng, who founded the Donglin Party, is still an extremely smart person, controlling the world with his cloth body. As a smart man, he naturally understands the power of public opinion.

There is a successful example of the emperor collecting business taxes to compete with the people for profit, and he also used his ingenuity to play public opinion out of the flowers.

Anyone who joins the Donglin Party is a righteous person, and all those who join are virtuous ministers, and those who do not join are traitorous ministers. If it is a virtuous minister, it will naturally join the Donglin Party, and if it is a traitor, it will not join.

Under such a double control, under such ideas and propaganda, a large number of opposition officials, forces in southeast cities, and local clans have gathered under the banner of Donglin to strengthen the Donglin Party.

Wanli saw the Donglin Party very thoroughly, so when he was there, he kept pressing the Donglin Party, acquiescing in the alliance of the three parties against Donglin, and finally purging it from the government.

It's a pity that with Wanli's death and Zhu Changluo's coming to power, the Donglin Party reaped the greatest political results, and instantly revived and entered the government. Then through the death of Guangzong, the little emperor of the Apocalypse did not know what was going on after he ascended the throne, drove away Fang Congzhe, and became the ruling party.

Although the original Emperor of the Apocalypse was not smart, he still had self-knowledge, knew that he was not an opponent of civil officials, and knew that he would release eunuchs to fight. But later Chongzhen was simply hot-blooded and stunned, and he couldn't find the north after being fooled by the Donglin Party, and after getting rid of Wei Zhongxian, he didn't arrange a good person to take over.

I don't know anything about government politics, I know the Jiatian tax when I don't have money, the Jiatian tax, and even the post station was abolished in order to save money, which is just brainless. This product was fooled, and I didn't know that there was such a thing as a commercial tax.

That's why when Chongzhen died, he said that I am not the king of the dead country, and the ministers are the testament of the ministers of the dead country. Although Chongzhen didn't say this sentence explicitly, his will "I Liang De bowed %2C to the blame of the heavens%2C but all the ministers were mistaken." I die without a face, see the ancestors%2C, go to the crown%2C to cover the face. Let the thieves split %2C without harming a single person. But it means so.

The party and government of the Ming Dynasty began with the Donglin Party, and the fall of the Ming Dynasty also began with the Donglin Party.

Of course, this is the history before the protagonist came, and after he became Zhu Youxiao, the history was completely different. The Donglin Party's plan did not succeed, but was put on the hat of anti-party, the high-level core was wiped out, and some local forces behind it were uprooted.

However, although the name of Donglin is removed, its roots are still there, and it still has a wide influence in the Jiangnan region, and its power is intertwined.

Although the Red Pill case allowed Zhu Youxiao to kill a group of Donglin Party, it was only the core of the high-level, and the middle and bottom levels were hardly affected, after all, there must be evidence to arrest people. Originally, he wanted to be implicated, but in the end, he just made a start, arrested a few nobles, and the civil officials stepped forward to stop it.

At that time, Zhu Youxiao had just ascended the throne, and the Yulin soldiers were not full, and the civilian officials made a force, so he naturally couldn't stand up to the brute force, so he died down.

Although the emperor calmed down, the undercurrent did not, but intensified, frantically agitating at the bottom of the sea, the waves were turbulent, and once the opportunity came, it was an overwhelming tsunami.

Jiangnan has always been the richest place in the feudal dynasty, and it is also the place where the tax burden is heavy, and one-third of the country's tax burden is collected from here. Generally speaking, the Jiangnan region is the collective name of southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui, Shanghai, Zhejiang, and northeast Jiangxi in later generations. Water conservancy is abundant, irrigation is developed, and the common people below are also rich.

When the people are rich, they have the money to study, and when there are many scholars, the competition in the imperial examination will be fierce. Jiangnan has always been the death group of the imperial examination, and it is appropriate for any scholar here to put on a show in other provinces.

The more literate people are, the more public opinion will develop, and they will be more fond of spreading gossip and discussing government affairs.

Before Li Sancai died, he brought out a testament and the emperor's handwritten will from the palace, and then he committed suicide in the mansion, but those two things were brought to Jiangnan by some people who ran away.

The Donglin Party is a political party dominated by Jiangnan Shidafu, and this is their home field, although these two things are hidden, but the content on them has spread. Fueled by some people, it spread rapidly, and even spread to the whole world.

Nanjing, ten miles of Qinhuai, a brilliant light, gorgeous and splendid flower boat. A few Jiangnan scholars were carrying out the wine order, and from time to time they were laughing with the girls next to them, so they were not merry and happy.

After all, it was a scholar, and after the wine order was over, their topic unconsciously turned to the imperial examination.

"Do you know the changes in this year's imperial examination?" Dressed in a green shirt, Zhang Pu, who looked bright and sunny, said with a smile. The corners of his mouth playfully looked at the crowd, waiting for them to speak. The fast horse that set off from the Beijing Rite Department has set off, as a weightlifting place for the imperial examination, Jiangnan has long been aware of its changes, and what it is doing is the seed of reading, so it is natural to care about this aspect.

However, knowing this, Zhang Pu still asked out loud, obviously his words were not so simple, and there must be a deep meaning in his heart. Several people frowned and thought about it.

"I know, I know." However, the youngest Chen Zhenhui didn't have such good patience, and as soon as he heard the question, he immediately said, "The Ministry of Rites issued a document that there will be a lot more places for people in each prefecture this year, and there will be more enlightened scriptures, Ming Fa, Ming arithmetic and other subjects in the exam, and the content of the examination of the Ming Jing subject has also been changed, and the Son of Heaven has redefined the content." ”

"Dingsheng knows so much." Xia Yunyi, who had already been lifted, touched Chen Zhenhui's head and said with a smile. He is old, and he is the only one among the crowd, so he acts naturally and casually.

"Don't touch my head, I'm already grown up, have words, and can participate in the imperial examination." Chen Zhenhui slapped the other party's hand away and said a little angrily.

He is only seventeen years old this year, and he has not yet been a talent, but he has been extraordinary since he was a child, and he has already emerged in Shilin and has a little reputation. But because he is young and a little short, there are always some older scholars who like to touch his son's head with an attitude of touching his head, which makes him very annoyed.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Xia Yunyi didn't care when he was knocked off, but said with a grin, obviously not taking his words to heart.

"Okay, okay, don't make trouble, Yi Zhong, don't tease Dingsheng, they are all like-minded people, save some face." Yang Tingshu mediated, and after saying a word, he turned to Zhang Pu and asked, "Qiandu asked like this, did you hear any rumors?" ”

"yes, don't sell it, just say what you have." Zhang Pu's fellow villager, Zhang Cai, who is known as "Lou Dong Erzhang" with him, also asked with interest.

He's a fellow countryman who travels extensively, so he might have heard some secrets somewhere.