Third, the Donglin Party abolished the supervisory body, and the corruption of officials intensified.

After the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, the eunuchs led by Wei Zhongxian quickly fell. In December of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), the eunuch party was basically liquidated, so Emperor Chongzhen formed a new cabinet headed by the Donglin Party.

The Donglin Party members believed that the supervision of officials by Dongchang and other secret agencies was a serious suspicion of their moral integrity and an insult to the scholars who were good at "self-cultivation", so at the suggestion of this new cabinet, Chongzhen abolished Dongchang, the largest supervision agency, and also abolished other supervision agencies and supervision eunuchs assigned to various places, such as river eunuchs and tea tax eunuchs in various provinces.

Stupid Chongzhen, later everyone compared the Southeast Mansion, and found that this guy collected taxes ruthlessly, and established the largest intelligence system in China in history to ensure the safety of his and the Southeast Mansion.

Previously, the Jiajing Emperor suspected that the river officials were greedy for money for the river work, so he sent eunuchs to supervise the river work, which made the local officials "deeply hated", so it was abolished during the Longqing period. After the Wanli Emperor took office, he demanded that all the money for river workers in various places should be handed over to the eunuchs, and even stipulated that once the flood crossed the embankment, the eunuchs would be immediately executed.

The emperor wants to kill his subjects, not that he can kill them if he wants to, but TJ is a domestic slave with no human rights, and the emperor can dispose of it casually.

This practice greatly "stimulated" the enthusiasm of the supervising eunuchs, and they tried their best to knock the Ministry of Labor and local officials, which was once again hated by the Donglin officials, so the eunuchs of the river channel were abolished again after the Apocalypse. It was not until Wei Zhongxian came to power that the system of river supervision eunuchs was restored again, but with the loss of Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs, this system was abolished again.

The abolition of the river supervision eunuch directly led to the fact that from the first year of the Apocalypse to the sixth year of the Apocalypse, before Wei Zhongxian took power, the repair of the upper and lower rivers in the country was basically deserted. And from the time Chongzhen withdrew the river supervision eunuch to Li Zicheng's breakthrough of the capital, the repair of the river was abandoned again in 17 years.

If the river is not repaired, the river bursts, causing floods, and the victims are displaced and unable to survive, then it is the opposite!

Prevention is always much cheaper and more effective than after-the-fact remedy, but none of the Donglin Party's Gungon Princes can see this.

Fourth, the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty was also inseparable from the Donglin Party

The most important reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the unfavorable war situation between Liaodong and Houjin, was the peasant uprisings in various parts of the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the full-scale outbreak of the peasant uprising was also closely related to the Donglin Party.

The reduction of industrial and commercial taxes has led to an increase in agricultural taxes in the northwest, and the people have suffered unspeakably. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a huge difference in the development of the north and the south, with the north still mainly based on traditional agriculture, while the industry and commerce in the south were extremely developed. For example, in the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), the tea tax in Zhejiang Province alone dropped from 200,000 taels of silver in the Wanli and Tianqi years to 12 taels of silver per year.

Just 12 taels of silver, a provincial tea tax, this is a big province that produces tea!

A Fuchunjiang tea in Zhejiang alone is a first-class product, you have to understand, Yan Changwu vigorously opened up the tea road, and got a positive response from the red hair fan (especially the red hair fan aristocrats, they eat more meat, eat less vegetables and out, and drink tea to laxative), first-class tea is sold to Europe, and even a pound of tea is a pound of silver, and the best is a pound of tea sold for a pound of gold!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the influence of the Xiaoice River period, natural disasters continued, coupled with the tense war in Liaodong, the imperial court had to use money everywhere, resulting in an extremely tight treasury. So the burden of the imperial court expenditure was on the peasants, and the agricultural tax rose from 2 million taels in the Zhang Juzheng period to 23 million taels in the 12th year of Chongzhen, which was still in the case of major disasters and small disasters in various places, which caused the people in the north, especially the people in the northwest, to be miserable, and it was almost to the point that they could not pay taxes by selling their sons and daughters, and the people could not survive, so how could they not rebel.

What's more, the imperial court kept afloat by saving money, but even if it was "throttling", the Donglin Party members were reluctant to touch their own interests. Under the auspices of the Donglin Party, "throttling" was added to the grassroots officials, such as the reform of the post station system and the streamlining of post station expenditures. So Comrade Li Zicheng, who was originally a post guard at Yinchuan Post Station and thought that he was holding an iron rice bowl, was gloriously laid off like this, and he lost his job, so he went back more and more, embarked on the road of rebellion, and finally sent his former big boss to Huangquan Road.

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The imperial court made the canon of punishment, declared the Donglin Party to be an anti-party, and put all the people of the Donglin Party, whether they were alive or dead, into the party register, deprived the deceased of all the honor before his death, deprived the living of all honors, confiscated his family property, and exiled the nine clans to Southeast Asia!

In terms of conscience, some places of the Donglin Party are still aggrieved, for example, Emperor Chongzhen alienated them after discovering the true face of the Donglin Party, and sent Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, back to his hometown to let him go to the Qinhuai River to blow the wind, and the emperor didn't listen to the words of the Donglin Party (but he still cared about them, their spraying skills were too powerful).

However, the bad luck of the Donglin Party is a matter of joy and popularity, and someone has to take the blame for the emperor's hanging, so it's them!

The Donglin Party is known as the clear stream, influencing public opinion in the world, a style of Lao Tzu being the first in the world, making irresponsible remarks about everyone, and spraying wildly when he sees something that does not agree with him, which has long caused serious dissatisfaction among Xungui, TJ Group and other civilian groups and generals, saying that they are enemies everywhere!

Not much to say, just the abolition of post stations, how many officials are running around on the road, without the support of the government, working hard, not even having a place to sleep and eat in peace, completely losing their dignity, and how many officials have lost a place where they can enter and arrange their own family members.

Officials in the world will always have strong support for the addition of a new institution (more positions out!). For the abolition of an institution and vigorously opposed, this alone offends the officials of the world!

Therefore, for the will of Emperor Yongming, the whole court welcomes and warmly supports it!

The world-famous "Donglin Academy" ushered in its end on a very auspicious day on May 18th!

Donglin Academy, located in Wuxi, Jiangsu, also known as Guishan Academy, was built in 1111 A.D. in the first year of Zhenghe of the Northern Song Dynasty, and was the place where the well-known scholar Yang Shi gave lectures for a long time.

Linbodu Port, in front of the clear stream, the surrounding ancient wood forest sky and the lush Lushan Donglin Temple is quite similar, is an ideal place for research and imparting knowledge.

In the 32nd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1604 AD, it was restored by Donglin scholar Gu Xiancheng and others and gathered here to give lectures, they advocated the spirit of "reading, lecturing, and patriotism", which caused a general response from scholars across the country and became famous for a while.

Gu Xiancheng's famous couplet "The sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound of reading, the family affairs, the state affairs, the world's affairs, everything in the heart" is indeed written at a high level, but unfortunately it backfired, and the Donglin Party became a bureaucratic and political group dominated by Jiangnan scholars, and it was more interested in its own official character, official position, and interests.

Ironically, when they defeated their eunuch enemies, defeated many political enemies, and ousted the Xuan Party, the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, and the Qi Party in the DPRK, they had no enemies, and it was their turn to be eliminated.

It was the celebrity of the late Ming Dynasty, the former Donglin Party person, Ruan Dacheng, who dug the nest of the Donglin Party!

With his high-spirited order: "Demolition!" ”

Migrant workers flocked to the world, and the world-famous Donglin Academy was demolished into a white field.