The Outliers of the Donglin Party -- Wang Wenyan

There are hundreds of Donglin Party members, and there are dozens of famous people, why is he second only to Gu Xiancheng and Yang Lian among the people who have the most profound influence on me?

In fact, there are not many accounts of Brother Wang in "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", and even less in the official history, take the words of Mr. Mingyue back then: The descriptions of this benevolent brother in the history books are just a few words, in order to check the life of this benevolent brother, it really made me suffer.

However, it is these few words that reveal that Wang Wenyan is a cadre in the Donglin Party, a key figure in defeating other parties in the brutal party struggle.

But for such an important figure, why do the history books despise his existence so much? This is mainly because his background is a bit different.

For hundreds of years, the Donglin Party members have given people the impression that they are a group of scholars or scholars who care about national affairs, worry about the country and the people, have a stubborn personality, never compromise in the struggle against evil forces, and do not hesitate to throw their heads and shed their blood for the sake of their beliefs.

In a word, the reader is the iconic image of the Donglin Party.

However, Brother Wang has not studied for a few years, he is neither a jinshi, nor a lifter, not even a showman, because he has never entered the examination room, let alone been an official.

In the Ming Dynasty, he could only be a common man.

But this Brother Wang is obviously not a good citizen among the people, he is a gangster, and he is quite a gangster.

His profession is: Official.

To be precise, the guards in prisons.

The establishment of officials in the Ming Dynasty was very small, according to the regulations, there were only a few officials in a county who ate imperial grain, and they could not manage a county by relying on these people, and they could not manage it even if they were tired, so there was a special group of people - officials.

These people do not belong to the state civil servants, they do not have official positions, their salaries are settled by the local government, and their duties are to help officials run errands.

No official position, no fixed salary, only doing things, is anyone willing to do it?

If you think so, it means that you have not mixed in society.

From ancient times to the present, that is to say, only now, there are still some people who do not have any official positions but have great energy, such as Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng. They can do things that many officials can't do -- things they can't get on the table.

Yes, the officials in many places in the Ming Dynasty were very powerful, so powerful that the county magistrates and the officials sent by the imperial court didn't take them.

I'm not wrong, because the county magistrate and other officials are all sent by their superiors, and they have no foundation and no team. And these officials are all local snakes, familiar with business, good at corruption and bribery, forming parties for personal gain, black eating black, and disobeying yang and yin.

If you don't know the energy of the profession of official, I say that you must know a person, he is Song Jiang in time. A small official, but famous all over the world, the heroes of the world are proud to know Song Jiang, and finally sat on the top spot in Liangshan.

What kind of ability does Song Jiang have? He is not as good as Wu Yong, not as good as Wu Song, and not as good as Chai Jin, so why should he sit on the top spot?

Just one word: mix.

relied on righteousness and squandering money to gain a good reputation and make countless friends.

In fact, Song Jiang's reputation was praised by Mr. Shi Nai'an.

In terms of the ability to mix and influence in history, Song Jiang is far worse than Wang Wenyan.

Brother Wang is not known to the world, but he has just sent a literati who promotes him fairly.

Yes, Brother Wang is a super gangster, the most cunning, the most capable and capable little official.

He was by no means an upright man, and the disgraceful deeds of the little officials were not less. But what makes him different from ordinary gangsters is that he often uses righteousness to squander money and help friends. Regardless of whether he knows or doesn't know, as long as he is desperate, he can help others. So friends from the rivers and lakes came to eat, and for a while the guests were full, and the ability to do things became stronger and stronger, so strong that some things that the county couldn't do had to rely on him.

But no matter how famous he is, he is always a small person in the county government, and it is a person named Yu Yuli who really changes his fate.

Yu Yuli, then a member of the Criminal Department, was an official with a low position but a lot of ideas. After all, the imperial court is different from the rivers and lakes, and it still has to preach Taoism, and those who sell their reputation do not have such a big market.

When Yu Yuli heard that Wang Wenyan was known for being good at pulling relationships, he recruited him to his subordinates to find out the news for him and dredge up the relationship.

Mr. Wang agreed without hesitation and was ready to show his strength in the capital.

After a few months, Brother Wang found that with his own set in the county, he couldn't mix in the capital at all.

Although the party struggle between the DPRK and China was in full swing, no one from the parties, including the Donglin Party, answered Brother Wang. The reason is very simple, no matter how hard we fight, but we are all scholars, what are you Brother Wang doing?

Who would surrender themselves to befriending people at the bottom of society like you?

Of course, only people from lower backgrounds than him will look up to him.

Who is lower than Brother Wang's background?

There is definitely no more in the court, but there is one in the palace.

As soon as the clever reader sees this, he will know what kind of person will marry a little official like Brother Wang.

That's right, you guessed it right, it's a eunuch.

But what appreciated him was not an ordinary eunuch, but a very powerful eunuch - Wang An.

For Wang An, everyone must be familiar with the supporters of the Donglin Party, who made great contributions in the succession struggle of the two emperors Guangzong and Xizong, and was also the leader of Wei Zhongxian.

It should be said that being able to get acquainted with a powerful figure like Wang An is completely the result of Brother Wang's perseverance.

Brother Wang, who suffered a lot of white eyes in the court, was not discouraged, which shows that he still has the tenacity of the Donglin Party to hit the south wall and not look back. He first spent money to donate a prisoner, and then bribed everywhere, mixed up and down into Taixue, and became familiar with the officials of the six departments.

When Brother Wang met Wang An, Comrade Wanli was still in good health, and our princess was still a small role that no one cared about, but Mr. Wang didn't see it that way, and he did things for him before and after the saddle, and often bribed him.

Facts have proved that Brother Wang has vision.

When Yang Lianmi looked for Wang An to inform him of the news that Wanli was about to die, there was a third person present, and this person was Wang Wenyan.

Wang Wenyan used his decades of experience in mixing rivers and lakes to persuade Wang An: Listen to Yang Lian's words and enter the palace immediately.

Wang An made up his mind and took Zhu Changluo into the palace and performed the most thrilling scene of the emperor's succession in Ming history.

After this incident, it not only deepened Wang An's trust in Brother Wang, but also made the Donglin Party realize the strength of this bastard. So Yang Lian, Zhou Jiamo, Zuo Guangdou and others all got in touch with Wang Wenyan.

Fools can see that the Donglin Party is about to develop, not to mention the old Jianghu Wang Wenyan?

So the two sides hit it off, and Wang Wenyan officially joined the Donglin Party camp.

It is precisely because of Wang Wenyan's participation that the strength of the Donglin Party has greatly increased, and the situation of fierce but stalemate between the parties has been changed.

In fact, as soon as Wang Wenyan stepped into the political center, he found that the situation was far from being as optimistic as he thought, and the Donglin Party members did not have an absolute advantage in party struggle.

Although Guangzong was advanced by the Donglin Party, the first assistant at that time was the Zhejiang Party Fang Congzhe, and the Zhejiang Party members were all over the government and the opposition. Moreover, the Qi Party and the Chu Party are not simple, watching the strength of the Donglin Party gradually strengthen, the three parties unconsciously form an alliance, division of labor and cooperation, and it is extremely difficult to provoke.

The Donglin Party fought openly and secretly several times, but failed to get the three parties done.

The infighting between a group of intellectuals can only fight with words, and they are professional quarrel fighters. Although they fought fiercely, they were all scholars, with upright personalities and light literati, but they were all lip service, at most they would make someone go home and admit a dead reason: if they are not of my race, their hearts will be different. Where there is a politician's wrist.

Wang Wenyan is a skillful character, and his appearance has changed this relative equilibrium.

Before Wang Wenyan came to the court, the party struggle was a struggle between intellectuals. Although their fight is fierce, they are all scholars, with upright personalities, and literati are contemptuous.

In fact, except for the different factions, they are all the same kind of people, so they are on par with each other.

Obviously, Wang Wenyan is not the same person as them, and as soon as he appeared on the stage, the strategy of the Donglin Party changed.

In Brother Wang's eyes, there are no eternal friends or enemies in this world, only eternal interests, and friends and enemies can be transformed into each other in the face of interests.

It is very interesting that Brother Wang's worldview can be used in the international political arena today.

Many of today's leading figures in world politics are also pursuing such policies.

It's a pity that this Brother Wang is not the leader of the Donglin Party, and he can't influence the direction of the Donglin Party, otherwise it will be Wei Zhongxian's turn to fly.

Wang Wenyan is at best just a backbone of the Donglin Party, a backbone who can only plan behind the scenes and cannot go to the forefront, because of his background.

His strategy is to encounter the enemy and let them stumble on their own first. He quickly found this stumbling block, which was Mei Zhihuan, a member of the Donglin Party.

Mei Zhihuan is a member of the Donglin Party because his virtue is on the right path with the Donglin Party, and he is an upright and tough intellectual. Dongchang pit people, he scolded Dongchang, Shoufu Shen has always formed a party, he has scolded Shen consistently. Say whatever you want, don't leave any affection, standard Donglin Party people.

One of Mei Zhihuan's identities is a member of the Donglin Party, but he also has another identity. He is a native of Macheng, Hubei, and has a deep relationship with the Chu Party, which is exactly what Wang Wenyan needs.

Chance comes from a very boring event.

The great reformer Zhang Juzheng has been dead for many years, but there are still people in the DPRK who propose to pull out the bones of this great man and repair them, which shows how narrow and boring some officials in the DPRK are. But this is a common problem of some intellectuals.

Unfortunately, the person who proposed it was the Zhejiang Party.

No matter what suggestions the Zhejiang Party makes, the Donglin Party will definitely oppose it. For a long time, it did not matter what the proposal of the three parties was, but as long as it was proposed by the three parties, the Donglin Party members resolutely opposed it.

With Mei Zhihuan's character, of course, he is not far behind, and he is provocative when he speaks: If Master Zhang is still alive, do you shameless people dare to do this?

As soon as the words fell, someone wrote a letter to support it, but unexpectedly, it was not the Donglin Party who supported Mei Zhihuan, but the leader of the Chu Party, Guan Yingzhen.

The reason why they support Mei Zhihuan is that in addition to the fact that they are fellow countrymen and have a good relationship, there is another reason: Zhang Juzheng is also from Huguang.

There is another reason that cannot be verified in the history books: Guan Yingzhen was also co-opted by Wang Wenyan.

At this point, the monolithic three parties were brought down, and infighting began, all of which was planned by Wang Wenyan's brother.

Therefore, behind the brilliant figures in the front desk of the Donglin Party, such as Yang Lian, Zhao Nanxing, Zuo Guangdou and others, is a silent man, a silent but powerful man.

Although Wang Wenyan's approach is not on the table, and some Taoists may reprimand him for his shameless behavior, his approach is the most effective.

Most of the time, politics and morality are incompatible, and many shameless acts are cloaked in morality, but the real motives are extremely dirty and bloody.

For example, in the Opium War, which plunged China into a bottomless abyss, Britain used the slogan of guaranteeing free trade; for example, in the Iraq War, in which Saddam Hussein was hanged, the United States slogan was to eliminate weapons of mass destruction; in Japan's war of aggression against China, it wanted to establish a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; and in the Libyan War, for example, the Libyan War......

Whether in history or in reality, political struggles have always been dirty and cruel, and only those characters who pay lip service and are vicious can have a climate. A straight-hearted person like Yang Lian, who doesn't know how to be flexible, doesn't know how to win people's hearts, and doesn't know how to use his wrists, mostly ends in tragedy.

The Donglin Party members will not mention it, is Yue Fei having a good ending? Is Xu Da having a good ending? Is Peng Dehuai having a good ending? There are too many such examples, because politics is about the vibrating rhetoric on the table and the interests under the table first.

This interest is not necessarily a personal interest, it may be a partisan interest, it may be a national interest.

The United States often wields the big stick of democracy to fight everywhere for the sake of national interests.

Morality must be sacrificed for the sake of profit, and it must be carried out under the hat of morality for the sake of profit. It's a strange thing, so politics and morality are inextricably linked.

The three parties were scattered, and the Donglin Party reached its peak and began to decline.

The reason for the decline of the Donglin Party was that it pursued and attacked dissidents, even those who served them. For example, Lord Guan Yingzhen, who is the leader of the Chu Party, was still blown away. Such an unkind approach is to force many of them to a fat old man with a kind face and gentle words.

This fat old man is Wei Zhongxian.

Yes, I didn't write it wrong. The face is kind, the speech is gentle, and the historical truth is like this. At least that's what Wei Yin people look like on the surface.

Only then is it deceptive.

The more insidious the person's heart, the more kind his face is.

When Wei Zhongxian wanted to attack the Donglin Party, he found that Yang Lian and the others were so perfect that they couldn't grasp the handle at all. So he began to investigate carefully, and finally found Wang Wenyan.

Wang Wenyan has no fame and no official position, but he is the pillar of the Donglin Party, the most important thing is that he has a lot of handles, and he is really not clean, so he was easily arrested and put in prison.

However, he underestimated Wang Wenyan's energy.

Soon, Wang Wenyan was released from prison, and after he was released from prison, his reputation was shocked, and Zhao Nanxing, Yang Lian and others visited him in person.

What's even more unexpected is that Shoufu Ye Xianggao found him and appointed him as the secretary of the cabinet, which is equivalent to the position of director of the General Office of the State Council, which is really surprising.

In this regard, Father-in-law Wei was silent, he realized that his strength was not enough.

It is a pity that the Donglin Party members were not alert and did not take effective measures against Wei Zhongxian. When the kind Gonggong Wei felt that he was strong enough, he easily arrested Wang Wenyan again and put him in prison.

But the facts once again proved that Gonggong Wei once again underestimated Wang Wenyan.

After Wang Wenyan was imprisoned, there was no progress in the trial, and his life was quite nourishing, eating and drinking, and no one embarrassed him. The reason why this is so is because Wang Wenyan is not a nerd, he was originally born as a small official. Whether it is the officials in the capital or the officials in the small county, they all have money to use, and they all have their own unspoken rules.

Of course, there was another person who helped him a lot.

At this time, there were two big think tanks in the Donglin Party, one was Mr. Wang himself, and the other was Huang Zunsu, who was the inspector of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate at that time.

Wang Wenyan was arrested twice, and Huang Zunsu keenly felt that Wei Zhongxian was going to make a move, so he found Liu Qiao, the head of the Jinyi Guard, and moved around, so that Mr. Wang could stay in prison with taste.

Wei Zhongxian took the initiative to retreat, and he still had to accumulate strength.

The failure of the two attempts proved that Wei Zhongxian's methods were not very clever, and it was the Donglin Party who did not fight back in time.

After another few months, when the "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty" became the "All Beasts Ying Dynasty", when Yang Lian's counterattack failed, Wang Wenyan's good days came to an end, and the gates of hell were opened.

Brother Wang first interrogated more and more times, his attitude became worse and worse, and all the good food and drink were gone. However, this is just the beginning.

In order to open a gap from Wang Wenyan, Wei Zhongxian asked Xu Xianchun, one of the "Five Biao", to interrogate him personally. This man is very perverted, often piercing the prisoner's lute bone with an iron hook, hanging people, and coming up with unbelievable torture.

Yang Lian was tortured to death by him.

Yang Lian is made of steel and iron bones, but he didn't expect that Brother Wang's skin and flesh are also very strong. After more than ten trials in a row, our brother Wang is just three words: "I don't know." ”

Xu Xianchun was anxious, and intensified the torture, and finally one day, Wang Wenyan, who was dying, said, "What do you want me to admit?" ”

Xu Xiancun was overjoyed: "As long as you prove that Yang Lian took bribes, I will let you go." ”

Wang Wenyan was silent for a moment, and said firmly: "In this world, there is no corrupt Yang Lian. ”

Xu Xianchun was surprised, a slick county official, a mercenary official, and a small official who was famous for his compromise and sleek life inside and outside the court had become so tough and stubborn at this time.

In desperation, the perverted Xu Xianchun tortured Wang Wenyan and falsified testimony in a vain attempt to destroy Brother Wang psychologically. Without your testimony, I can still convict Yang Lian.

Wang Wenyan shouted with all his strength: "Don't scribble, even if I die, I will confront you!"

These are Mr. Wang's last words to the world.

Mr. Wang Wenyan has been chasing fame and fortune all his life, insisting on the supremacy of interests, and deceiving himself in officialdom, but at the last moment of his life, he chose truth, faith, loyalty, and heroism......

Mr. Wang used his last choice to prove that he is a well-deserved member of the Donglin Party!