"Donglin Party, what the hell is it? Can you destroy the Ming Dynasty? ”

The cold wind blew, and the five-clawed golden dragon embroidered with gold on Zhu Dilong's robe floated with it, as if coldly staring at the enemy hidden in the future.

As an emperor, Zhu Di can tolerate the destruction of the Ming Dynasty at the hands of the so-called Li Zicheng rebel army, after all, this is almost a fate that all dynasties cannot escape, either die in the uprising, or die in the usurpation, or die in the invasion of foreign enemies, the vast majority of which are these three results.

Even judging from Zhu Di's character, dying in an uprising is better than orphans and widows being usurped.

was usurped by others, and then survived according to a humiliating title, but it was better to stand and die upright.

And the Donglin Party, according to Zhu Di's understanding, seems to be very much like an organization that usurped the Ming Dynasty internally.

But in a sense, Zhu Di did not understand wrong, and Jiang Xinghuo immediately confirmed his point of view.

"The Donglin Party is more than 200 years later, the Jiangnan gentry are the main formation of the bureaucratic political group, the name comes from the Song Dynasty Yang Shi lectured at the Donglin Academy, the Jiangnan gentry initiated the Donglin Conference, formulated the "Donglin Covenant", stipulates that the conference is held once or twice a year, once a month, the reading, lectures and discussion of the temple situation are closely linked." Jiang Xinghuo said slowly.

Hearing that it was not the organization that usurped the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di not only breathed a sigh of relief, but frowned even more.

Because of this so-called "Donglin Party", although there is no usurpation of the Ming Dynasty on the surface, Zhu Di is clear about the harm of this kind of gentry group forming a group.

This is equivalent to having a small court in Jiangnan that is not a small court!

"How dare you openly use the name of reading and lecturing to make a group for personal gain?"

Zhu Di asked dissatisfiedly: "Does the local government care?" ”

Jiang Xinghuo smiled and said, "No matter, and it is vigorously funded, because the local government is also a Donglin faction, and their interests and positions are the same." ”

"A raccoon dog!"

Zhu Di's gaze was gloomy.

Da Ming, to the imperial examination.

This is destined to be extremely sensitive in the matter of non-governmental lectures.

It can be said, but it must not be expanded, or even formed into a large-scale academy like the Southern Song Dynasty.

Otherwise, the dean who lectures will train batch after batch of court officials to become the prime minister behind the scenes.

And even if you don't talk about the top level of the academy, just talk about the academy itself, there will be problems.

After all, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

What is Jianghu?

The rivers and lakes here certainly do not refer to the warriors who fight and kill, but Fan Zhongyan's so-called "the high temple is worried about the people, and the far away from the rivers and lakes is worried about the king".

If a group of scholars in the rivers and lakes are allowed to get together, it will be strange for them not to discuss the affairs of the Daming Temple.

And this kind of academy, if it becomes a scale, it can guide the public opinion of Shilin, and then affect the Ming temple, for the Ming court, it will only increase more contradictions and internal friction, repeating the mistakes of the Tang Dynasty Niu Li Party Struggle, which is definitely not a good thing.

Zhu Di clearly understood this, combined with the consistent virtue of the Jiangnan gentry, he only needed to imagine that the Donglin Party would do something, and he couldn't help frowning.

"What are the ideas of the Donglin Party?"

Jiang Xinghuo was silent for a few breaths.

Zhu Di faintly felt something bad.

Sure enough, Jiang Xinghuo's answer did not disappoint him.

"First, the Donglin Party advocates letting go of the way of speech."

"That is to say, political affairs are attributed to the six ministries, and the public opinion is paid to the officials, so that the world is happy to rule."

Zhu Di's face darkened.

"The second is to oppose the emperor's imposition of a mining tax."

"I think that the emperor sent mine supervisors and tax envoys to various places to collect mining taxes, which is a bad policy to compete with the people for profit."

Zhu Di's face darkened by two points.

"Article 3, oppose eunuch interference."

"I think that the harm of eunuchs is extraordinary, and the ancestral system must be restored, and eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics."

Zhu Di's face darkened by three points, and he couldn't hold back at all.

"Ridiculous!"

"-Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng don't dare to do this!"

This so-called "Donglin Party", every proposition, sounds so for the country and the people, above board.

But Zhu Di knows very well that if the Ming Dynasty still does this in the last years of the dynasty, then the end of destruction is actually inevitable.

Take the last one, for example.

In the last years of the dynasty, the emperor grew up in the deep palace and raised in the hands of women, and the noble and military ministers had long been rotten.

Zhu Yuanzhang forbade eunuchs from interfering in politics, because Lao Zhu was too fierce and didn't need eunuchs at all.

And Zhu Di is precisely the emperor of the Ming Dynasty who opened the precedent of using a large number of eunuchs.

Of course, Zhu Di cultivated a large number of eunuchs who were able to write and martial arts in the palace during the Yan King period, and Zhu Di not only let these eunuchs lead troops to fight, such as Zheng He and others, but also let them represent themselves in foreign countries.

But more importantly, Zhu Di, as the emperor, clearly realized that eunuchs were an important auxiliary to imperial power, and the cost of using them was much smaller than that of using relatives.

So this last one, just like the cabinet, is slapping Zhu Di in the face.

It's just that Jiang Xinghuo slapped him in the face just now, and now it is the non-existent "Donglin Party" that slapped him in the face.

The other two, opening up the way of speech, will inevitably lead to the disunity of the Ming Dynasty and the opposition ideology; And against the emperor's collection of mining taxes, Zhu Di didn't even think about it, he knew that the cat in it was very big!

Why did the gentry clique oppose the emperor's collection of mining taxes? Is it really a plea for the people's lives? Impossible!

The fundamental reason must be that the mining tax moves the interests of the gentry group.

The absence of mining tax, salt tax, tea tax and other taxes will make the source of fiscal revenue in the late Ming Dynasty more single, and the tax source of the imperial court basically depends on the land tax of ordinary homesteaders, which will directly lead to the financial constraints of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Di thought back a little more about the drought in the first year of Chongzhen mentioned by Jiang Xinghuo just now, and understood that once various natural disasters continued, causing a large number of yeoman farmers to go bankrupt, the tax base based on land tax in the Ming Dynasty would collapse by a corner.

In order to survive, the bandits will move to the territory of other political envoys, which in turn will lead to more yeoman farmers actively or passively joining the gangsters due to the war.

The tax base of the Ming Dynasty has completely collapsed so far.

So Jiang Xinghuo said that Daming died in the Donglin Party, and he was really not wronged at all.

The Donglin Party is like a group of warehouse administrators, in the name of being good for the owner of the warehouse, they move all the things in the warehouse to their own homes.

not only persuaded the owner of the warehouse not to send someone to investigate, but also said that it was for your good.

If the character is an ordinary neighbor on the edge of the warehouse, and his mind is dirty, he is also happy to see the owner of the warehouse, a big dog family, being dug up, and even ask the administrators for a piece of the pie.

But the problem now is that Zhu Di is the owner of the warehouse!

Zhu Di is equivalent to seeing that the family property he has accumulated for future generations has been moved away openly by a group of administrators, how can he not be angry in his heart?

"Academies, lectures, and speeches, I want to ban them all!"

Jiang Xinghuo said with a smile instead: "It's a coincidence." ”

"What's the coincidence?" Zhu Di frowned and asked.

"Zhang Juzheng thinks the same way." Jiang Xinghuo restrained his smile.

"Zhang Juzheng, forbid speech, destroy the world's academy, gather people to give lectures, and be sentenced to prison."

"In just ten years, the government died and people died, and decades later, Donglin rose."

"Of course, if there is no Zhang Juzheng, who is 'working for the country and clumsy for living', to turn the tide and accumulate national strength after ten years of reform, I am afraid that in the future I predicted, Daming would not have survived that time."

Zhu Di's eyelids jumped for no reason.

He didn't expect that this future Ming Shoufu, a civil official who dared to claim that "I am not a minister, but a photographer", would be so ruthless.

This is completely disregarding his own net worth and life, and promoting the reform of Daming with his own strength.

gave Da Ming a sigh of relief!

Thinking of this, Zhu Di admired this person who was similar to Wang Anshi, and even had a future like him.

"So, this kind of thing like Shilin's remarks is better than sparse, and it is easier to sew the mouth of the Jiangnan gentry in your own hands than to sew it into the mouth of the Jiangnan gentry."

Jiang Xinghuo said intentionally or unintentionally.

Zhu Di asked thoughtfully: "Then since the prohibition of academies, lectures, and words does not work, what does Mr. Jiang mean?" ”

Jiang Xinghuo saw that Zhu Di understood his intentions, and Zhengse said.

"The establishment of a science academy with six natural sciences as the main subject and more than ten social sciences as a supplement, is used to replace Cheng Zhu Lixue with the combination of science and improved Xunxue."

"What is science, you ask?"

"What Cheng Zhuli can explain, my science can explain."

"What Cheng Zhu can't explain in science, my science can explain it in the same way."

"Astronomy and Geography, Physical Chemistry, Economic Management. All aspects that Daming needs can be found in it. ”

"From the content of my previous lectures, I believe Your Majesty understands that what Jiang said is true."

If it were someone else, Zhu Di would not believe it.

But when Jiang Xinghuo said this, he still said it with "Your Majesty", and Zhu Di began to think about believing it.

However, to use science to confront Cheng Zhu Lixue, Zhu Di has to continue to think about it before making a decision.

After all, there is no such part in the content of "Eight Strategies for Changing the Law", and Zhu Di also subconsciously thought that if a new doctrine is supported, won't it become another Cheng Zhu Lixue?

If it is combined with the new handicraft class, it is probably not impossible to form the effect of combining Cheng Zhu Lixue with the Jiangnan gentry class, which will also threaten the imperial rule.

Zhu Di's thoughts, Jiang Xinghuo can naturally guess one or two.

But Jiang Xinghuo was not in a hurry to persuade Zhu Di.

The reason is also very simple, the promotion of science to fight against the old Cheng Zhu science is actually the inevitable after the reform of the law enters a certain stage.

There is no need to elaborate on the truth here, you can figure it out after a little thought.

Therefore, at present, whether Zhu Di is unwilling to agree to the large-scale promotion of science out of consideration for consolidating imperial power, Jiang Xinghuo does not care.

When Zhu Di shows the power of science and technology and helps Zhu Di solve some problems that Cheng Zhu Lixue cannot solve, Zhu Di will be "really fragrant".

Jiang Xinghuo just did some foreshadowing, and in Zhu Di's mind, he deepened the concept of "science" implanted before.

Immediately, Zhu Di also deliberately skipped this topic and asked.

"Then in the future predicted by Mr. Jiang, what happened to the Donglin Party in the end?"

Hearing this question, Jiang Xinghuo's fingers slowly tapped the armrest of the chair and chanted a poem.

"Qianyi has a good mind, and Shandou is famous all over the world. The country is broken from the new dynasty to the north, and the official high is still the old Donglin. ”

After chanting the poem, Jiang Xinghuo shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity, the water is too cold and the scalp is too itchy." ”

The water is too cold?

Too itchy scalp?

Zhu Di was a little puzzled.

Thanks to the alliance of the lord of "how to understand the word", the leader of the alliance who has not added the new alliance leader group can add it

(End of chapter)