Chapter 293: Da Ming Dream, the Dream We Wait
It's a pity that this Yongli Zhongxing is just a beautiful "dream of the Ming Dynasty", its system remains unchanged, its system structure remains unchanged, its core interests remain unchanged, and it is still the same.
When the soldiers were fighting in front of Yuejiang Tower, and the anti-Qing forces were growing stronger, there was a sound of fighting in the Phiyun Tower, accompanied by constant insults.
The party struggle in the Ming Dynasty originated in the Wanli period, mainly the "Donglin Party" and its opposite, the eunuch party, which lasted for fifty or sixty years.
For a long time, the imperial court attacked each other, poured into each other, and the internal friction became increasingly strict, which was an important factor in the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Although there were party disputes between Niu and Li during the Tang Dynasty and reformers and conservatives in the Northern Song Dynasty, perhaps for some reason, the phenomenon of party disputes seems to be an eternal phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty 6...... It's going to last a long, long time...... What is the reason, don't think about it, headache.
In this short period of Yongli Zhongxing, in the current situation of the great enemy, the officials should be sincerely united and hated the same enemy, but when the political situation was a little more stable, the ministers ignored the plan to resist the Qing Dynasty, and the chronic disease of party strife revived.
Why don't they learn their lessons?
Some of the people in the Han and Tang groups believe that this is because of the lack of a concept called "compromise" in Confucian culture...... This seems to have something to do with moral dualism, but there are also some people who disagree with this conclusion, and the two sides are arguing fiercely online, but fortunately this is an academic battle.
The truth is not clear, and the more the party fights, the more it dies!
The party struggle in the Yongli court mainly refers to the two parties of Chu and Wu.
The Chu Party was made by Yuan Pengnian, the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Imperial Palace, and Ding Shikui, who was attacked by the Wu Party as the "Five Tigers", Meng Zheng in the Household Department, Jinbao in the Military Department, and Liu Xiangke in the Imperial History of the Golden Capital, all of whom were remnants of the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty, and behind them were the sons of the general Li Chengdong, and Li Yuanyin, the commander of the Jinyi Guard.
The Chu party had the upper hand in the Yongli court, and not only did they attack the Wu officials, but most lethally, they were unwilling to join forces with the peasant rebels against the Qing.
The main figures of the Wu Party are Wang Huacheng and Zhu Tianlin, and the eunuchs Pang Tianshou and Xia Guoxiang. This group of older ministers also received the support of Concubine Ma, the mother of Emperor Yongli, and was actually the remnants of Yan Song, Wei Zhongxian and other eunuchs in the late Ming Dynasty.
Although they were in a suppressed position, they advocated a joint struggle with the peasant rebel army against the Qing Dynasty, and this view was obviously correct. But the essence of party struggle has long been separated from the category of right and wrong...... In this dispute between the two parties, they were at loggerheads inside the court, and they met each other outside the court, assassinating, killing, and killing countless people. Because of the large number of participants, Emperor Yongli was helpless and helpless.
When the whole system is busy standing in line and fighting, it is useless for Yongli, as the boss, to shout that everyone should rally closely around him as the core of leadership.
At this time, there is no right or wrong, no beauty or ugliness, only a position......
Qing Dynasty scholar Quan Zuwang once wrote a poem:
Back then, the five tigers were still fighting. One night, the osmanthus (alluding to Guiwang Zhu Youlang) was scattered, and the sand worms, apes and cranes were all gone!
The poet blames the "Five Tigers" for the failure of the Southern Ming Dynasty, although it is suspected of being biased, but he is very incisive about the consequences of the party struggle.
In the late autumn of 1649, the party struggle intensified, many tasks could not be carried out, there was never constructive advice, and the other side would always be demolished.
The most embarrassing thing is that the peasant rebel army that can fight well is excluded by the Chu Party, they have no money to make up, they have no strategy, and they are not even willing to give a name.
The fighting power of the peasant rebel army gradually weakened, and some generals took the ranks and retreated to the mountains and forests or surrendered to the Qing army.
Economically, at this time, the Yongli Imperial Court, due to the rejection of dissidents by the Chu Party, many officials were lost, and the treasury was empty. Although a large number of copper coins of "Yongli Tongbao" were minted in the second year of Yongli, it was only a drop in the bucket, and even the emperor's monthly food expenses were only 24 taels of silver.
Of course, there are other items in the inner house for Yongli's personal expenses.
This is still on the premise that Guangzhou is constantly handing out some supplies to come to support - at this time, it can only increase the taxes of the people in the surrounding areas.
Of course, those Ming people also know that if there is really no Ming Dynasty, the world will be over, and there will be no rule and management of the Zhu family. How does this make the people of Daming live?
So I can only endure it - let's live a tight life together.
At this time, someone reported that Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, came to take refuge, and the ministers talked about it a lot, saying everything.
Yongli couldn't make up his mind, whether it was based on relatives or something else - in a situation that the Ming Dynasty had never had, they had encountered a new problem that the Ming Dynasty had never had.
At that time, Xia Guoxiang, the chamberlain, quietly offered a plan, saying that he would not use this opportunity to hold a large-scale group event, first, to express the celebration of welcoming King Lu, and secondly, to inspire people's hearts - here is mainly to show the power of the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, Emperor Yongli organized such a large group activity. As for where this cost comes from, Emperor Yongli doesn't care, there is always a way.
That night, a banquet was held in the Shuiyue Palace to entertain King Lu, who had come thousands of miles to defect.
Shuiyue Palace is located in the southwest of Tianzhu Rock in Xinghu Scenic Area, backed by Songtai, facing Honglian Lake, built in the third year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1575), rebuilt in the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636).
The Water Moon Palace is the place to worship the goddess of Mori Zhitian, the main hall is splendid, surrounded by corridors, the front of the hall is a courtyard-type garden, there is a two-storey high viewing tower built on the high platform behind the palace, there is a red wall surrounded by each other outside, it is self-contained, the environment is quiet, it is indeed the best entertainment place.
In the Water Moon Palace, it is often a scene of light singing and dancing, peaceful and prosperous.
According to the information of the Hantang Group, at that time, "civil and military ministers, no night, no night, no play, all night". Those who sing and act are all local or foreign opera troupes and singers.
On this night, in order to create an atmosphere, the waiter Xia Guoxiang also arranged for the popular singer A Hong to go on stage.
Ah Hong is a popular singer in the Water Moon Palace.
She is a native of Zhaoqing Sihui, born as a fisherwoman, and became a courtesan at the age of 12.
In the past, in Shuiyue Palace, the "fragrant" song she sang attracted the ministers to be drunk and happy; And the song "Man Jianghong" written by Yue Fei, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, made the audience cry like rain and grief.
Most of these officials know history, and the situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty at this time is similar to that of the Southern Song Dynasty more than 5oo years ago, both of which became a regime in exile due to the invasion of northern nationalities.
As a result, she is not only a popular singer, but also a singer who sings red songs, and her singing voice is full of positive energy.
During the dinner, the chamberlain Xia Guoxiang led the singer Ah Hong and the pipa girl out, and they both knelt on the ground to meet the emperor and King Lu.
Emperor Yongli asked them to sit "flat", and also kindly asked questions such as their names and backgrounds, as well as when they learned the arts, and the two women answered them one by one.
Emperor Yongli saw that Ah Hong was tall and tall, with a goose egg face, red phoenix eyes, beautiful but not charming, clear but not cold, and he felt a little joy in his heart, so he signaled to Xia Guoxiang to start singing.
I saw that the pipa girl first tuned three or two times, and after Ah Hong got up and signaled to her, she played through the door. I saw her from light and slow twisting to flat and heavy, from low and deep to agitated and high, gradually introducing the main rotation, and seeing Ah Hong Dantian accumulating, her eyes gradually brightened, and a "angry crown", like suddenly tearing a piece of cloth, letting go of a river of clear water, the song resounded throughout the hall, and turned into a steel wire and flew out of the Water Moon Palace, crossed the Cloud Pier, floated up Dinghu Mountain, turned a big circle, and returned to the Water Moon Palace.
The song was sung sentence by sentence, and Emperor Yongli's expression changed with the content of the song and the melody of the song, he was happy for a while, angry for a while, sad for a while, sad for a while, listening to it, his face couldn't help but shed two lines of tears.
At the same time, King Lu and the ministers wept at the same time.
After singing, Emperor Yongli avoided entering the back, paused for a while, and when he came back, he regained his usual majesty.
Emperor Yongli said: "If you sing well, you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver per person." Feng Ahong is a female historian and is in charge of the affairs of the singing and dancing field. β
Emperor Yongli thought for a while, then issued an edict, and said: "In the future, in the song field of this Shuiyue Palace, it is not allowed to sing such glamorous sounds as "Yushu Backyard Flowers", nor are they allowed to sing such sounds as "When is the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon", and they must sing more passionate tunes such as "Man Jianghong" to promote righteousness and boost moraleββ"
Everyone in the audience showed a happy expression, almost shouted the slogan of long live the wise, at this time everyone praised in their hearts, Emperor Yongli, worthy of being the emperor of Zhongxing, I and other creators of the Ming dream-
After the banquet, Emperor Yongli and King Lu walked hand in hand - the Zhu brothers were about to talk.
Their relationship is intimate, after all, both sides have the blood of the Zhu family in their bodies - who is this Daming? Of course, it was the predecessors of the Zhu family who threw their heads and spilled their blood and led the people to drive away the Mengyuan people and others, so the people of the Zhu family came to sit on this country.
But the work of King Lu is not easy to arrange, so let's raise it according to the old practice. As for the ministers under him, of course, they were also scattered one by one.
Yongli and King Lu staged a meeting where blood is thicker than water-
On the Internet of Taiwan's Relanza City, some people have posted about their affairs in Zhaoqing -- it is relatively easy to send some people from Guangzhou to Zhaoqing to inquire about the news, and the transportation between the two places is not a problem, and it is very convenient.
Speaking of the fact that the staff of Xi Xi, who was the governor of Liangguang and Guangzhou, had been verbally agreed upon, when the staff returned to Guangzhou, they were still credible, and they really approved a piece of land on the bank of the Pearl River -- the Hantang clique asked Yang Bin to withdraw from the Jinghai operation at that time -- the Jinghai operation was almost over, and if he arrested any more people, he would arrest all the scattered fishermen.
This kind of work is mainly done by the people of the Zheng family, and Yang Bin and Guo Huaiyi just cooperate according to the orders of the Hantang Group.
The Zheng family sent out all old sailors, so the eyes are poisonous, whether they are pirates or part-time pirates, then you can know at a glance - whether you can catch the wrong person, I don't know.
At that time, the people of the Zheng family said that you are, you are, and you are not.
When the manual collection was almost complete, it was wrong, when the large number of pirates on the island were caught, and the remaining small ones were not enough to catch them, and the Jinghai operation was decisively stopped.
In the waters around Taiwan and Fujian, there is a rare vacuum, and it is wrong to say that it is a security situation.
Yang Bin was sent to Guangzhou again, and asked him to take some people to build a logistics company, named Guangzhou Logistics -- when the order went out, the talents of the Hantang Group were wrong, and it was reserved for future banks -- they wanted to change it, but they didn't expect that Yang Bin's actions were efficient, and the signs were all hung out.
The people of Hantang Group can only simply pinch their noses and admit it, isn't their heart just a name, this logistics company can't be confused with the bank in the future, right?
When Yang Bin went to Guangzhou, he also brought a construction team and corresponding building materials.
Before leaving, looking at the high-spirited Yang Bin, Guo Huaiyi whispered: "What are you happy about?" Why should you let me go to Shandong, you go to Guangzhou - what are you happy about?! β
Yang Bin didn't care about Guo Huaiyi's attitude, his face turned straight all of a sudden, and said: "The Hantang Group asked you to go to Shandong to recruit people, that is extremely important, and it must be more important than my old Yang's task - not to be underestimated." β
"Hey, it's just to recruit some farmers, Chairman Wu Dapeng said, as long as you can act, you can bring it back-"
"You, Lao Guo, let me go to Guangzhou to build a logistics company, it is the order of Manager Mei Lezhi, and your task is the order of Chairman Wu Dapeng himself, whose task do you say is more important?!" Besides, what did we do about transporting coal, Jinghai Operation? It didn't take much effort - this action is a big deal, in one fell swoop, we will determine our status in the Hantang Group, and seek a good background for our children and grandchildren! β
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