Whether it is a person or a social group, you must have a person to rely on, not to rely on the people in power above, but to rely on the people below, and those who do not rely on the upper and lower are lonely. The establishment of the Donglin Party was because Gu Xiancheng was changed from a public servant to a master by Wanli, so he absolutely drew a line with the imperial power and turned to please the common people. Drawing a clear line with the imperial power is not to say that the Donglin Party will not continue to be officials under the emperor, but that their ultimate goal is to gradually weaken the imperial power, and now doing things for the emperor is equivalent to the relationship between the parasite and the host, although they are not explicitly stated, they are either unintentionally or intentionally working in that direction.

In theory, they emphasized that everything should be beneficial to the people, even if it is harmful to the country, and they will not hesitate to do so, so they almost shouted the slogan of "** is greater than sovereignty". In terms of action, he often held some charity meetings and other activities under the banner of "helping the world and saving the people" to buy people's hearts, and he also spared no effort to improve the social status of businessmen, so he had a broad mass base among the middle and lower classes. At this point, it shows that they have the idea of linking theory with practice, and tracing back to the source should have absorbed nourishment from Wang Yangming's doctrine of the unity of knowledge and action.

If, over time, when the Donglin Party held the vast majority of power in the imperial court, united and mastered the vast majority of economic power in society, and then influenced or controlled a certain amount of military power, then it would not be surprising to engage in such a thing as a constitutional monarchy. But now they are still very weak compared to the imperial power, and a Wei Zhongxian under the protection of the imperial power can toss them to the ground. Now the apocalypse is even more far-reaching, guarding the army like thieves, preventing and restricting merchants like fires, and doing more to encircle the people than the Donglin Party, which makes **Xing feel desperate when he thinks about it.

Xing is already in his seventies, and for an old man in his seventies, his beliefs and ideals are no longer as exciting as when he was young, he just wants to make himself feel at ease, so he found Gao Panlong, the head of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, overnight.

Although Gao Panlong is not old and less than seventy, he is one of the founders of the Donglin Party, **Xing thinks that it is better for the Donglin Party to persist or change its course and let Gao Panlong decide, even if he goes underground after death, Gu Xiancheng can't find him if he wants to find someone to settle accounts, and now he just wants to fish out his disciples and spend his old age carefree.

Gao Panlong did not express his dissatisfaction after listening to **Xing's words, if **Xing's eyes were better, he could still see Gao Panlong's relieved expression.

Gao Panlong thought for a while and said to ** Xing: "In fact, we have partially fulfilled our wishes at that time, we asked to weaken the monarchy, and the emperor has divided the power into several parts, such as government affairs, military affairs, and official governance, unless something big happens, he generally won't care." ”

Xing coughed and said, "Why do I think it's because the emperor is too lazy?" It doesn't seem like we got it, right? ”

Gao Panlong said: "How can you say this, as long as the goal is achieved, there is no need to entangle the means, right?" We value the rights and interests of the people, and the emperor seems to care more about the lives of the people than we do, isn't this a good thing? The only difference is the emperor's attitude towards businessmen, the emperor has discussed the affairs of merchants** with his subordinates several times, saying that businessmen will infringe on the interests of the people if they are not restricted, and it is not a good thing to continue like this in the long run. If businessmen are allowed to gain power in state institutions, it will be even more harmful for officials and businessmen to collude, and the emperor agrees with this point of view. ”

What Gao Panlong didn't say was that Tianqi did discuss the business with him alone a few times, he wondered at first how he was in charge of the rulers, how the emperor always talked to him about the economy, and then finally understood that Tianqi's several conversations were not with the Gao people of the Imperial Procuratorate, but with Gao Panlong of the Donglin Party, it seems that he was able to stand out among the many second-grade officials and become one of the few civil officials from the first grade, which is not unrelated to his identity as the founder of the Donglin Party‖ when he also realized that as long as he cooperated with the emperor, there was no harm. If he doesn't cooperate, then it's not very difficult for him to change from one product to nine products.

In the difficult environment and in the form of hostilities, many people were able to hold on to their beliefs and never waver, but in peacetime, under the erosion of "sugar-coated shells", many people with strong wills have fallen one after another. The ideal is far away and the reality is very close, giving up the happiness in front of him and seeking up and down on the slim road, this is not a normal person's doing, so Gao Panlong of the Donglin Party slowly became more like the tall man of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. What's more, the apocalypse did not ask him to break with the past, but only hinted that he could all coexist peacefully.

Seeing that Gao Panlong no longer insisted, Xing secretly sighed and said, "I don't know what Brother Gao thinks of these people who post tabloids?" Is there a way to thin them? The commander of Hongshanwei was my disciple in my early years, and he was a very thoughtful person, so it's a pity to die like this! ”

Gao Panlong said: "It's not that the people who are concerned about my Donglin Academy are not without concern, your disciple's mistake is that he has a thought and wrote it, and looking for death is not this way to find death, if he no longer has a mind from now on, or is no longer a soldier, then it is not impossible." As for the others, as long as they are soft and say a few nice words, they promise not to make mistakes again in the future, and they will be fine at all. ”

**Xing asked in surprise: "Seeing that Brother Gao is confident, is there any good way?" ”

Gao Panlong said: "Yes, didn't the emperor say it? Soldiers are only allowed to do two things, one is loyalty and the other is obedience, these two points are incompatible with thought≡ Kuangyin is because of thought, so there is one more Song Taizu in the world; An Lushan is also because he is too thoughtful, so there is an additional record of the Anshi Rebellion in the history books. Your disciple has already expressed his thoughts, and now it's too late to shut up, and the most important thing he should do now is to open his mouth to save the influence. ”

Star asked, "What's the solution?" ”

Gao Panlong asked: "I don't know if Lord Zhao still remembers the emperor who asked big families to sell grain last year?" At that time, there were three court officials who did not obey the emperor's will, and finally they formed a propaganda group to promote the emperor's new policy everywhere. ”

**Xing said: "Remember, it seems to be Fan Youdao, the left attendant of the household department, Han Budo, the political envoy of Shandong, and Lin Hao, the director of the Arsenal of the Ministry of War. I heard that they have preached everywhere in the past six months, and they have led many people to enjoy the mountains and rivers. ”

Gao Panlong said: "It's also very hard to sleep in the open air, but the emperor's move also has a miraculous effect, since then, Lord Zhao has heard of anyone who dares not listen to the emperor's will?" Even the arrogant chrome sold the fields, and thus alleviated the disaster, otherwise it is estimated that people would have started to eat people now. The following means to let your disciples take off their battle robes and go to various places to defend the law, so that the soldiers of the whole country can understand that there is no room for anything other than loyalty and obedience in the heads of soldiers. The emperor is actually a very utilitarian person, if the emperor understands that two living people are more useful than the dead, the emperor may not be able to open the net. ”

**Xing Daxi said: "Brother Gao is Brother Gao, this critical moment that is usually not obvious is reliable, you will work hard to give the emperor a word?" ”

Gao Panlong said: "There is no problem with this, I will read the book overnight, although I dare not say that it will be successful, but it will not be far from ten." However, I think that as long as I write another note, you and I, Sun Chengzong, Lord Sun, Han Yihan, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others will sign together, which will definitely make the emperor happy and readily agree. ”

**Star asked, "What is the soothing?" ”

Gao Panlong said: "The new program of the Donglin Party is that in the future, our Donglin Party should closely unite around the emperor and assist the emperor to rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty. When I was fine, I also analyzed the emperor's management structure, and found that in addition to the various ministries doing things according to orders, there was also a holy academy that was studying the methods and systems ♀ of employing people, and the research of the holy academy was right and wrong, so we chose the most suitable one for the emperor according to practice. For this purpose, the people of Donglin can be united together, and they can be both auxiliary and supervisory to the emperor. ”

**Xing said: "The first words can be written in, and the next sentence is just put in your heart." ”