The Donglin Party was active for 50 years in the last years of the Ming Dynasty and had a great influence among the government and the opposition.

In the early days, the Donglin Party was not useless, and on the contrary, the political ideas they put forward were often to the point of the times, and there were many honest and promising officials among its members, and they also made considerable achievements in the academic field, so they were recognized and supported by all parties, and gradually grew from an "opposition party" to a "ruling party".

This is actually very understandable, if the Donglin Party is just a bunch of garbage, why should it dominate for 50 years?

But unlike modern political parties, the Donglin Party is only a loose party, neither a strict organizational form, nor a unified political demands, as its influence continues to expand, the Donglin Party soon underwent a qualitative change, becoming a group representing the gentry and landlords of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there were many speculators mixed in, to the Chongzhen Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party people in addition to the party and the same war, there was only dictatorship and misguided country.

In the early period of the Hongguang Dynasty and the Longwu Dynasty, the imperial court was located in the Jiangnan region, which happened to be the base camp of the Donglin Party, so their power was still very large, but with the fall of Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Fujian one after another, the Donglin Party lost its foundation, and thus rapidly declined.

If you don't explode in silence, you perish in silence. No one was willing to withdraw from the stage of history, and the Donglin Party, which was forced into a corner, chose the most fierce form of resistance - a coup d'état.

Lü Daqi summed up the lessons and lessons of the previous court struggles, made preparations intensively, and formed an alliance with the Donglin Party and united with the Southern Party, the pro-Gui faction, the Wang Gong Xungui, and the local warlords in Guangxi. Take the widely criticized Longwu New Deal as a breakthrough point, and first pull the emperor off the horse.

When the New Year of the fifth year of Longwu came, Lu Daqi overcame all difficulties. Finally completing this huge layout, the Donglin Party and their allies basically controlled the city of Guilin, only waiting for a showdown with Emperor Longwu.

There is a five-day rest period for the Chinese New Year, but the Donglin Party members are very busy, and Zhou Dinghan, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy, united more than a dozen speech officials, carefully concocted a book of 10,000 words, and fired at the Longwu New Deal. Moreover, the spearhead of the attack was directly directed at Emperor Longwu himself, ready to act as the vanguard of this coup.

At the same time, Chen Bangfu's army hurried towards Guilin. The Donglin Party also secretly strengthened the preparation of public opinion guidance, and only waited for the court meeting to be held on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and forced Emperor Longwu to promulgate the edict of the Zen throne and replace Zhu Yulu, the king of the Tang Dynasty, from power.

It stands to reason that this is the time. No matter how careful the Donglin Party is. Some clues will be revealed, but Emperor Longwu's reaction was as usual, and he seemed to be completely unaware.

This was undoubtedly an unexpected surprise for the Donglin Party, which not only reduced a lot of trouble, but also eliminated some uncertainties, and by the morning of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Emperor Longwu and the Chuxun group still did not take any action. It has become meat on the cutting board, and it will be slaughtered early tomorrow morning.

Excited! Disturbed! Gain and loss! Infinite longing!

The Donglin Party is not monolithic. Some people were not in favor of launching this coup d'état, or supporting the Tang king, but as the shape gradually became clear, all kinds of discordant voices disappeared, and Lü Daqi's prestige reached an unprecedented height.

After breakfast, Lu Daqi convened several giants of the Donglin Party to do the final pre-war mobilization, unify thoughts and coordinate actions, and Chen Zizhuang, Yang Tinglin and other Donglin Party bigwigs participated in this meeting.

"The big picture is decided!"

Lu Daqi's voice was sonorous and powerful, full of self-confidence that he was under control: "The Longwu New Deal has lost the support of the people, we only need to raise our arms and shout, and there will inevitably be a crowd of responders, no matter how we defend ourselves today, we can only smear and blacken it more and more, and we can no longer overturn the case!" ”

Yang Tinglin nodded, sighed and said: "Hey, I could have become a generation of heroes today, but unfortunately I was bewitched by treachery and misguided, which is really regrettable!" ”

Among several prominent members of the Donglin Party, Yang Tinglin was initially opposed to the coup.

He is Chongzhen's four years of Jinshi, worked in the Hanlin Academy for several years, the article was learned and Huang Dao Zhou named, and later followed Lu Xiangsheng to fight, but Lu Xiangsheng was defeated and died, he was also convicted and demoted to Jiangxi, and after Emperor Longwu came to power, under the recommendation of Shoufu Huang Daozhou, promoted and reused Yang Tinglin, first the official department of the Lang, and then the military department of Shangshu, Dongge University Scholar, in just one year to achieve a triple jump, a pole minister.

In other words, Emperor Longwu had the grace of knowing him, so Yang Tinglin opposed the coup d'état at first, but Lu Daqi was very good at doing ideological work, moving out of the country's future, the interests of the gentry and landlords, and the fate of the Donglin Party.

Despite this, Yang Tinglin still has a complicated feeling for Emperor Longwu, and does not want to see his fate too miserable, sighing: "I am waiting for this incident, to ask for the life of the gentry of the world, but in the future, it will inevitably leave an infamy in the history books. ”

First, don't use a knife, and second, give Emperor Longwu a title of Tang King, and let him and Zhu Yuhui change seats.

Lu Daqi was very unimpressed with his words, but the smile on his face was extremely sincere: "Mr. Jianshan (Yang Tinglin) said well, at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he worked hard, was diligent and simple, and was a gentleman and a villain, quite a Zhongxing Mingjun, but unfortunately since Tingzhou was in danger, he was deceived by Fu Guan, Wang Kefan and other traitors, and insisted on going his own way, and he was reckless in his army, and he was also to blame for falling into such a field......

"Don't worry about it first!"

Chen Zizhuang suddenly interrupted him: "Today's position is not right, it violates the country's foundation, it should not inherit the unification in the first place, and since he ascended the throne, he has lost his teachers and land one after another, and he has also broken into the camp in the west camp with the thief Kou Xuan and the snake, so perverse, how can he be called Zhongxing Mingjun?" According to the old decay, we should still welcome His Royal Highness King Gui, in response to the will of heaven and the will of the people! ”

Chen Zizhuang is also one of the giants of the Donglin Party, he is broad-minded and abides by the feudal etiquette system, so he has always supported Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, and after Emperor Longwu came to power, he immediately resigned and returned to his hometown.

Yang Tinglin immediately retorted: "We all know the character of King Tang, and we will definitely be able to make a difference in the future!" Although King Gui is the grandson of Shenzong, he has lived in a remote place for a long time, and I heard that he doesn't even understand the etiquette of the imperial court, so I am afraid that it is not appropriate to suddenly ascend to the great treasure......"

Yang Tinglin supported Tang Fan, Chen Zizhuang supported Gui Fan, they had already met and quarreled during this time, and Lu Daqi once again acted as a peacemaker, and it took him a long time to persuade them, but he was obviously pulling a bias in and out of his words, supporting Tang Fan and opposing Gui Fan, which made Chen Zizhuang so angry that his face turned pale.

"Whatever you want! Alas, I don't mean to add chaos at this time, but the Tang Domain's accession to the throne is not right, and it will always be a hidden danger in the future! ”

According to the feudal etiquette system, there is a grandson, no grandson is long, it is undoubtedly a rule that cannot be changed even if you are killed, the Donglin Party fought with the Wanli Emperor in the early years because of this, and finally forced the emperor to bow his head, or the eldest son Zhu Changluo.

In the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty, this is the same as supporting the elderly, and for those who are more broad-minded, the head can be broken and the blood can be shed for this kind of thing, even if the sacrifice is not hesitated, so the storage of Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, has always been a strict threat to the throne of Emperor Longwu.

As for the other vassal kings, most of them were inferior to the Tang clan in blood, so they did not pose a threat, but Emperor Longwu ignored his own brother, the current Tang King Zhu Yuhui.

"Qiu Tao (Chen Zizhuang) is not angry, and he is in a hurry to follow the power, and I am forced to make this decision......" Although Lu Daqi was persuading Chen Zizhuang, his tone was not relaxed at all.

Are you kidding? At this time, if you take King Gui out again, isn't it to add to the chaos? Moreover, assisting King Gui to ascend the throne, Zhai Shiyun's pro-Gui faction will definitely gain power, and this kind of thing of making wedding dresses for others must not be done, but assisting King Tang to come to power can get the support of Su Guansheng in Guangdong, which is more beneficial to the Donglin Party.

He continued: "The matter of the Zen position should be delayed sooner rather than later, if it is delayed until Wang Kefan leads the army back to Guilin, it will inevitably cause accidents, and we will only ...... it."

At this time, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and a person rushed in in a hurry, it was Zhou Dinghan, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy.

"Gentlemen, something is wrong!" Zhou Dinghan is the backbone of the Donglin Party, and no one stopped him all the way in.

Yang Tinglin was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "What?" Tell me, what the hell is going on? ”

Now at this critical moment, if something goes wrong, it will fall short, could it be that Wang Kefan's Chu army suddenly returned? But there is no reason for this, Nanchang to Guilin is thousands of miles away, and it is impossible for the Chu army to fall from the sky.

Zhou Dinghan's face was very strange, he picked a few times in his cuffs, and carefully took out a plain note full of handwriting and presented it to Lu Daqi and the others: "Guilty of your own edict!" The emperor issued an edict today, abolishing the new policy, and reducing the vegetarian diet to show repentance! ”

"What? Guilty of your own edict?! ”

Lu Daqi, Chen Zizhuang, and Yang Tinglin all called out in unison, looked at each other a few times, and their expressions changed.

The edict of guilt is an edict for the emperor to review his own mistakes, and Emperor Longwu issued an edict of guilt and announced the abolition of the new policy of Longwu, and the civil officials who had been prepared for a long time suddenly had no target for attack.

It's like a porcelain bumper who met a peer, and was about to lie on the ground, but the opposite side was faster, not only lying on the spot but also foaming at the mouth, see what else you can do with me.

"This is a strategy to retreat, and the news must be revealed!" Lu Daqi's face turned pale.

"Since this is the case, we should think about it in the long run, and it makes no sense to force the emperor to abdicate......" Yang Tinglin was the first to retreat. (To be continued......)