During the Wanli period, the wind of reprimand further developed, negative factors increased, and changed from quantitative to qualitative, and under the appearance of justice there were all kinds of calculations for power and profit.

The people of the time had a clear understanding of this. Yu Shenxing, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, said: "In modern times, scholars and doctors are high in temperament and do not care about life and death, and often regard the court staff as the road to immortality. Once reprimanded, he is high-spirited, his eyes are high, and he is proud of the world, which is the so-called high-spiritedness." This reflects the nominal motive of the rebuke. People value honor more than anything else, and regard receiving the court rod and exile as the road to immortality. Even if he was deposed, he was full of spirit. Xu Guo, a university scholar, also said indignantly: "Suggestions have become a trend, but they can be famous, ranked, and covered, so people are competing for shortcuts, and this wind is successful, and it cannot be saved." This reflects the utilitarian motive of admonishment. You can get a clear name, you can be promoted, and you can also pass by, killing multiple birds with one stone.

Wanli also knew this, and he reprimanded the ministers for only using gossip to find fault with him, "Every time it is too high, the city will be honored." Repeatedly borrowed rumors, to be straight", but turned a blind eye to the real problem, "the goods bully the king, the greed for profit, why are you speechless, good life is hateful", and one sentence exposed their real purpose is "every time to search for the king, sell the name and move quickly?" volume and seal", this is the origin of Wanli's "no approval".

Wanli's so-called "rumors" refers to the issue of establishing a prince. This is another famous controversy in the history of the Ming Dynasty after the controversy of the "Great Rites Discussion", that is, the "Controversy of the National Capital".

The succession system to the throne in the Ming Dynasty was sound, and there was no succession problem in a situation like Zhengde, which had no heirs and no brothers. It is said that Wanli did not like his eldest son Zhu Changluo and wanted to appoint Zhu Changxun, the son of Zheng Guifei, whom he loved, as the crown prince.

Wanli didn't like Zhu Changluo's mother and son because they were associated with an ugly incident. One day in the ninth year of Wanli (1581), the Wanli Emperor came to Cining Palace, the residence of the Empress Dowager Cisheng, as before, to ask his mother for peace. A 17-year-old palace queen of Cining Palace offered tea to 19-year-old Wanli, who saw that the palace maid was dignified and beautiful, and her posture was pleasant, and she was impulsively pampered. The Ming Dynasty advocated Confucian morality and paid attention to courtesy, righteousness and shame. The time, place, person, and event of this matter are completely inconsistent with Confucian ethics and morality, and it is undoubtedly a rude and shameful thing for Wanli, who has read the book of sages and sages, and he certainly does not want people to know about it. Unexpectedly, the Wang family was very faceless, and he actually had a secret knot and was pregnant with a dragon seed, exposing the emperor's privacy to the public, which made him very embarrassed.

Wanli's biological mother, the Empress Dowager Cisheng, has been looking forward to the birth of the emperor's eldest grandson, not only is not strange about the incident of the rabbit eating the grass by the nest, but also very happy, in June 1582, she asked Wanli to admit the matter, and named the queen of the palace as Concubine Gong, Wanli wanted to deny, so the queen mother took out the eunuch's notes on the living notes, he had to admit. In August of the same year, Concubine Wang Gong, who was canonized and upgraded, lived up to expectations and gave birth to a baby boy, but Wanli was not happy at all.

In contrast, the birth of Zhu Changxun is the crystallization of true love. In March 1582, at the age of 14, Zheng was elected to the palace and canonized as a concubine, and in the next two years, Zheng relied on her beauty, intelligence and rich literature and poetry in all aspects of good cultivation to conquer the emperor, and was soon named Concubine De, Wanli and Zheng's relationship is true love. In the fourteenth year of Wanli (1586), the Zheng family gave birth to their beloved son Zhu Changxun for the Wanli Emperor, and Wanli was overjoyed and planned to promote Concubine Zheng De as the imperial concubine whose status was second only to the queen, but for the Gongfei Wang, who had previously given birth to the eldest son of Wanli, he did not get such treatment.

It is said that the emperor's promotion of concubines has nothing to do with the establishment of the crown prince, and which wife the emperor likes is purely a private matter. But at this time, it was rumored in the palace that Wanli wanted to establish Zhu Changxun, the son of Zheng Guifei, as the crown prince, and wrote a token to Zheng Guifei for preservation.

According to the succession system of the Ming Dynasty, "establishing a successor, establishing a long brother without a grandson, and ending with a younger brother". Zhu Changxun has no chance to surpass his brother Zhu Changluo, however, once the queen dies, Concubine Zheng can be promoted to the queen, so that according to the law of having a successor, Zhu Changxun can be justifiably established as the crown prince.

The Guozui believe that Wanli Jinfeng Zheng Defei is to build a bridge for Zhu Changxun to succeed the auxiliary road. So they accused the emperor of favoring Zheng Guifei, and demanded that according to theory and custom, the biological mother of the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo, Concubine Gong, should be the imperial concubine, and some people directly asked for "canonization of the East Palace". Wanli was very angry about the accusations of the official, he said that the canonization of the concubine had nothing to do with the prince, and the minister should not link these two things to accuse him (canonization of the concubine, for the sake of the East Palace, Kechen had no choice but to slander).

At that time, Zhu Changxun was only four years old, the queen was still young, and there was still the possibility of giving birth to a child. "Not without reason.

After the decline of the Donglin Party at the end of Wanli, he secretly befriended the prince Zhu Changluo, pinning his hopes on the prince, and on July 21, the 48th year of Wanli, Wanli died, and the change of dynasty brought new hope to the Donglin Party.

During Wanli's serious illness, the Donglin Party gave Yang Lian and Yushi Zuo Guangdou worried about the succession to the throne, and was more anxious than the prince, and urged the first assistant Fang Congzhe to enter the palace many times to inquire about the news, and even asked Fang Congzhe to stay in the cabinet overnight to prevent accidents.

Two days later, Fang Congzhe brought the courtiers to the palace to greet him, at this time Wanli was in critical condition, and the prince was hailing outside the palace gate and was not summoned. Seeing this scene, Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou were worried that something would change, so they sent a message to the prince's confidant eunuch Wang An, striving to let the prince enter the palace to wait for the emperor in case of accidents. The prince was very moved when he saw Yang Lian and others defending themselves like this. Soon, Wanli died, and the edict announced the succession of the crown prince Zhu Changluo.

On August 1, the crown prince Zhu Changluo officially ascended the throne. After Zhu Changluo succeeded to the throne, he reused the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Party seemed to be about to make a comeback. However, the good times did not last long, and Zhu Changluo fell ill as soon as he ascended the throne and died a month later.

Zhu Changluo, a child with an inverted frieze, has not been treated by his father since he was a child, and was put in the position of the prince by the minister with saliva, and his father is the longest-reigning emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and he has lived in the shadow of his father for a long time. finally survived, and the emperor's throne died before it was hot.

The cause of his death is mainly because he became corrupt and degraded too quickly after becoming the emperor, although he is a prince and has no worries about food and clothing, but under the nose of Wanli, he must be subject to a lot of constraints, and it is rare to be free. After becoming the emperor, he had no scruples, his desires that had been suppressed for many years were released, he coveted women, indulged in excessive desires, and his body quickly collapsed.

For Zhu Changluo's death, the most regrettable is the blessed king Zhu Changxun. He must have thought in his heart, if he doesn't die sooner or later, he died after a month, and if he died a month earlier, the throne would be mine.

Li Cairen is more regrettable than King Fu, if Chang Luo does not die, he will definitely be able to become the imperial concubine, and even the position of the queen is just around the corner.

More regrettable than Li Cairen, the Donglin Party members, who have worked hard for so many years, finally turned over, and wanted to embrace the sun, but ushered in a meteor.

In addition to sighing, the Donglin Party people had high hopes for the new emperor and actively operated the new emperor to succeed to the throne. Little did they know at this time, however, that the new emperor would drown them in a pool of blood.

The new emperor's name was Zhu Youxiao, and he was the eldest son of Guangzong Zhu Changluo.

Before his death, Guangzong held two special meetings to explain the aftermath. He designated Zhu Youxiao to succeed him and named his favored Li Xuanzhi as the imperial concubine.

Due to the death of Guo and Zhu Youxiao's biological mother Wang after Guangzong, Guangzong's favorite Li Xuanzhi is the de facto first lady, she is the most trusted woman in the world by Guangzong, so Zhu Youxiao has been raised by her, and this time she was named the imperial concubine, in fact, let her help the young Zhu Youxiao, in order to achieve the purpose of balancing the courtiers.

Li Xuanzhi originally wanted to be the queen, and he was very dissatisfied with the imperial concubine, but Guangzong died too quickly, and even the canonization of the imperial concubine did not have time to proceed.

And the Donglin Party is also planning to "bring the Son of Heaven to order the princes". Guangzong's bones were not cold, and the battle between the Donglin Party and Li Xuanzhi for Zhu Youxiao began.

The Donglin Party fought slowly with the fast. On September 1, on the day of Guangzong's death, Yang Lian and others forcibly broke into the Qianqing Palace, and after saluting in front of Guangzong's body, they asked to see Zhu Youxiao. At this time, Li Xuanzhi hid Zhu Youxiao in the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, and Wang An, a eunuch who was close to Guangzong and a good friend of the Donglin Party, came forward to deceive Zhu Youxiao out of the warm pavilion, Yang Lian and others saw Zhu Youxiao, and immediately ran out, Li Xuanzhi sent the eunuch to snatch it back, and was repelled by Yang Lian and others.

Yang Lian and others brought Zhu Youxiao to the Wenhua Hall and held a ceremony to canonize the crown prince (Zhu Youxiao had not had time to be canonized as the crown prince before). After the ceremony, Li Xuanzhi sent someone to invite the prince back to the Qianqing Palace, and the cabinet minister Liu Yixiao persuaded Zhu Youxiao to live in Ciqing Palace and not to return to the Qianqing Palace. Zhu Youxiao listened to Liu Yixiao's advice and went to Ciqing Palace, where everyone agreed to officially take the throne on September 6.

Zhou Jiamo said to Zhu Youxiao that His Royal Highness is the body of the gods of Sheji, don't move casually, let alone go to the Qianqing Palace alone to cry and mourn, if you want to go, you have to wait for the ministers to arrive and then go together. Yang Lian repeatedly instructed the eunuch Wang An to protect the future emperor. Wang An and others said that they would do so.

Although Zhu Youxiao broke away from Li Xuanshi, the Qianqing Palace was where the emperor lived, and if he wanted to become the emperor, he had to return to the Qianqing Palace. The Donglin Party must go to the next city and drive Li Xuanzhi out of the Qianqing Palace.

The next day, Donglin Party members Zuo Guangdou and Zhou Jiamo Shangshu asked Li Xuanzhi to move out of the Qianqing Palace. Zuo Guangdou's recital is written very hard, and he said that the Qianqing Palace was where the emperor and empress lived. The servant is not a mother-in-law or a biological mother, and is not qualified to live in the Qianqing Palace, so do not interfere in the government in the name of raising him, so that the disaster of the Empress Wu will reappear in the present, if that happens, the consequences will be very tragic in the future.

Zuo Guangdou compared Li Xuanzhi to Wu Zetian, which has two meanings. The first is Wu Zetian's usurpation; Wu Zetian was originally a palace man of Tang Taizong, but after Taizong's death, he became the queen of his son Gaozong.

Li Xuanzhi was very angry after seeing it, and sent people to send an edict to Zuo Guangdou several times, but Zuo Guangdou did not obey the order, he said, I am an official of the court, and the Son of Heaven has the right to summon me, what right do you have to summon me.

Li Xuanzhi was even more angry and sent someone to invite Zhu Youxiao to come to the Qianqing Palace to discuss countermeasures. At that time, Zhu Youxiao was already sixteen years old and basically an adult, he needed to be independent, and he didn't want Li Xuanzhi to take care of himself. More importantly, Li Xuanzhi once bullied Zhu Youxiao's biological mother Wang, so that Wang died in anger in the 47th year of Wanli. Therefore, he sided with the minister and refused to go to the Qianqing Palace, but asked Li Xuanzhi to move on a certain day.

Before Zhu Changluo died, he was worried that Zhu Youxiao would not be able to control the situation, so he had instructions to elevate Li Xuanzhi and let her raise and assist Zhu Youxiao in handling government affairs. But at the same time, he was worried that Li Xuanzhi would be in power and did not give her the title of queen. This leaves a large area of ambiguity. Li Xuan's name is not right, his strength is weak, once his subordinates disobey, it will be difficult to deal with it, and the only "trump card" in her hand, Zhu Youxiao, thinks she is redundant and will not live with her. She had no choice but to accept reality. On September 5, Li Xuanzhi was forced to move out of the Qianqing Palace and live in the Luan Palace, where the palace maids lived. On September 6, Zhu Youxiao officially ascended the throne.

The outstanding performance of the Donglin Party in the process of the enthronement of the two generations of emperors was appreciated by the apocalypse, Zuo Guangdou, Liu Yixie, Zhou Jiamo and others were reused, and Yang Lian was impeached and removed from power because his performance in the palace transfer case was too eye-catching, and his motives and purposes were questioned, but it did not take long to reactivate.

A group of Donglin Party members who had been dealt with by Wanli, such as Zou Yuanbiao, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong, Wang Zhihuan, Qiao Yunsheng, Ye Xianggao, etc., also returned to the dynasty and held important positions. Gu Xiancheng died in the forty-third year of Wanli, otherwise he should also be relisted in the court. In the early years of the Apocalypse, the Donglin Party was full of people, divided into the cabinet, the Ministry of Officials, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, six sections, and thirteen departments, and their power was blazing for a while.

After the Donglin Party came to power, it retaliated against the non-Donglin Party members, and expelled the non-Donglin Party members with the three cases of the Strike, the Red Pill, and the Removal of the Palace (see below for details).

The non-Donglin Party members were not fuel-efficient lamps, and they took refuge in Wei Zhongxian, a close confidant of the Apocalypse, and formed the so-called eunuch party to confront the Donglin Party, and soon reversed the situation of passive beating. The Donglin Party pointed the finger at Wei Zhongxian, who was supported by the Apocalypse, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the Donglin Party was finally thrown into the abyss.

Wei Zhongxian, a native of Suning County, Hebei Province, formerly known as Li Jinzhong, married a wife and had children, in the seventeenth year of Wanli (1589), he was collected for owing gambling money, and he had to remarry his wife to others, and he was castrated as a eunuch. Wei Zhongxian is illiterate, but he is clever and strategic. He judged that the emperor's eldest grandson, Zhu Youxiao, would ascend to the throne sooner or later, so he did his best to get close to the future heir to the throne.

Zhu Youxiao's wet nurse Ke Shi, entered the palace at the age of 18, her husband died the next year and became a widow, and later she couldn't bear the loneliness and the eunuch Wei Dynasty became hot. Wei Zhongxian got acquainted with the Hakka family through the Wei Dynasty, and was recommended by her to become Zhu Youxiao's mother Wang Cairen's pawn and enter Zhu Youxiao's life circle.

Unexpectedly, Wei Zhongxian, this kid was not kind, and soon crossed the river and demolished the bridge, became a third party, and fought with the Wei Dynasty for the Hakka clan. Because Wei Zhongxian was castrated after he became an adult, he married a wife and had children, and he was more like a man than the ordinary eunuchs who were castrated since childhood, and with this physiological advantage, Wei Zhongxian won the favor of the Hakka clan and defeated the Wei Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao was brought up by the Hakka family since he was a child, so he has a deep affection for her, and he can't do without her when he grows up. Therefore, less than a month after becoming the emperor, he named the Ke clan as the "Fengsheng Lady", which actually replaced Li Xuanshi's position in the harem. With the help of the Hakka family, Wei Zhongxian was also promoted from the post of eunuch of the Salary Saving Division to the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi.

The Wei Dynasty saw that after Zhu Youxiao succeeded to the throne, the Hakka clan was a strange commodity to live in, so they wanted to recapture the Hakka clan. One night, the two were drunk and fought for the Hakka, and the scolding was heard by the apocalypse. Tianqi knew that the Hakka clan was interested in Wei Zhongxian, so he blamed the Wei Dynasty. Soon the Wei Dynasty was sent to Fengyang, and Wei Zhongxian sent people to hang him.

Wang An is a close confidant eunuch of Guangzong, and he also contributed to the succession of Tianqi and won the trust of Tianqi. With the rise of the status of Ke and Wei, they formed a competition with Wang An, and the contradictions between the two sides were acute.

From a certain point of view, eunuchs are also ministers, ministers. The competition for power among the eunuchs in the palace was even more fierce than that of the courtiers. Due to the fact that the foreign court officials of the Ming Dynasty often colluded with the eunuchs in the palace and influenced each other, various contradictions in the court and the central palace were intertwined and very complicated.

In April of the first year of the Apocalypse, the Emperor of the Apocalypse got married. Liu Yixiu, a member of the Donglin Party and a cabinet minister, said that he would "invite" the Hakka family out of the palace, but to no avail. It is difficult to say that there is no shadow of Wang An in this matter, and since then, the Donglin Party and Wei Zhongxian have formed a relationship.

In July, Huo Weihua heard that Wang An and Wei Zhongxian were like fire and water, and in order to tie up Wei Zhongxian, he impeached Wang An. Wei Zhongxian promised to "demote Wang An to a pure army, send him to Nanhaizi, and guard the wall". Wei Zhongxian borrowed a knife to kill people again, and sent Wang An's nemesis, the eunuch Liu Chao, to serve as the governor of the South China Sea. After Liu Chao arrived, he immediately attacked Wang An, he first stopped Wang An's food, and wanted to starve him to death, but Wang An had a strong ability to survive, digging wild vegetables everywhere to satisfy his hunger, and he did not starve to death for three days. Liu Chao got impatient and ordered him to be hanged.

At the end of the year, Liu Yixiu, a cabinet minister, and Zheng Jiamo, the secretary of the ministry, used their power to retaliate against Huo Weihua and demoted him to Shaanxi.

Huo Weihua was in the same party and impeached Sun Jie and Jia Mo in the matter. believes that Huo Weihua is not negligent, and Yixiao and Jiamo's move is to avenge Wang An, which is a bend of the law for personal gain. Under the operation of Wei Zhongxian, the two were dismissed.

The two sides come and go, and they don't give in to each other, and the party struggle at the end of Wanli has resurfaced and heated up again.

From the third year of the Apocalypse (1623), the contradictions between the Donglin Party and other factions intensified, and at the beginning of this year, Zhao Nanxing, the leader of Donglin, was the new Zuodu Yushi, and he used the six-year Jingcha to settle old accounts, and many people who had opposed the Donglin group in the past were deposed. Later that year, Zhao Nanxing was appointed secretary of the ministry, and immediately upon his arrival he began to eradicate his and his friends' rivals from the whole country, especially from the government in Beijing.

The escalation of the activities of the Donglin Party attracted the attention of the Apocalypse, and in this year, he appointed Wei Zhongxian to take charge of the Dongchang Factory, which had the intention of rectifying the party.

In the spring of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian imprisoned Wang Wenyan, the cabinet secretary of the Donglin Party, and began to attack the Donglin Party. Why did Wei Zhongxian take the nobody Wang Wenyan under the knife, because Wang Wenyan is really a very difficult character.

In the last year of Wanli, when the Donglin Party was twilight in the West Mountain, a new star was rising to save Donglin from peril, and this person was Wang Wenyan.

Wang Wenyan, a native of She County, Anhui Province, is another famous activist of the Donglin Party after Gu Xiancheng and Li Sancai. This person is neither an official nor a meritorious person, but he is righteous, resourceful, and good at change.

Wang Wenyan used to work as an errand in the county government, and he was engaged in prison litigation-related work, collecting some money, opening up joints, and making personal gains, so he cultivated a strong "activity" ability in his work. By chance, he got acquainted with Yu Yuli, a Donglin Party official who lived in the township. Yu Yuli admired him very much and sent him to the capital for activities, in order to facilitate his work, Yu Yuli also spent money to donate a prison student qualification for him, so that he could enter the Guozi prison.

The stage of Guozijian made Wang Wenyan like a fish in water, his ability to move was brought into play, and he soon established close relations with a large number of officials. Tiptoeing, seeing the clue from time to time", Wang Wenyan's tiptoeing appearance is somewhat similar to the time migration in the Water Margin, so he is called Wang Wenyan on the drum in "Donglin Point General Record".

One of the most important achievements of Wang Wenyan's activities was to form a deep friendship with Wang Anshen, a close attendant of Guangzong and a companion eunuch in the East Palace, and communicated the channels of contact between the Donglin Party and the prince, so as to gain the support of the prince. When Wanli was critically ill, the Donglin Party jumped very high and actively escorted the smooth succession of the prince, the reason why he was so fearless was rooted in this, and this achievement also laid the foundation for the later turnaround of the Donglin Party.

Another important contribution of Wang Wenyan to the Donglin Party was to divide the opponents of the Donglin Party. In the last years of Wanli, the Donglin Party was like a rat crossing the street, in a situation where everyone shouted and beaten, and life was very difficult. Wang Wenyan seriously analyzed the situation and held that after the Donglin Party was defeated and retreated, other parties would have contradictions due to the uneven distribution of spoils, and as long as they took advantage of the contradictions between them and designed a room for use, it would not be difficult to bring them down. As a result, he ran among the various parties, set up suspicions and spread rumors, and engaged in discordant activities, which intensified the splits and infighting among the Zhejiang, Qi, Chu, Kunming, and Xuan parties, thereby weakening the strength of the non-Donglin party members and reducing the pressure on the Donglin party.

Because of this, Zhejiang, Qi, Chu, and Xuan parties are ruthless to the bone and want to get rid of them as soon as possible. After Wang An was killed, Shao Fuzhong, the governor of Shuntian Mansion, immediately impeached Wang Wenyan and deprived him of his prison qualifications. Wang Wenyan had just left the capital, and was impeached by Yushi Liang Menghuan, arrested and imprisoned, suffered a lot of imprisonment, and was later rescued from prison by the Donglin Party organization. After his release, Wang Wenyan did not relent, and his activities became more frequent, often in the market.

During the Taichang and Apocalypse years, the Donglin Party was in full swing, relying on Liu Yixian in the outer court, relying on Wang An's support in the inner palace, Wang Wenyan was in contact with the media, and later the university scholar Ye Xiang Gao Poge appointed Wang Wenyan as the cabinet secretary, which is equivalent to the cabinet office director.

Although Wang Wenyan was a small official, his outstanding ability to carry out activities made him the de facto organizer and soul of the Donglin Party.

Wang Wenyan's activities had already attracted the attention of Wei Zhongxian, who sharpened his knife and turned to Wenyan, but he couldn't find an excuse and couldn't start.

In April of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Ruan Dacheng, a member of the Donglin Party, had a conflict with Zuo Guangdou and Wei Dazhong due to personnel problems, and switched to the Wei Zhongxian group.

Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately drafted an edict, which was quickly issued after the approval of the Apocalypse, arresting Wang Wenyan and putting him in prison. They hoped to open a breakthrough from Wang Wenyan in order to wipe out the Donglin party.

The Donglin Party hurriedly stopped the bleeding, Wei Dazhong and Zuo Guangdou were reluctant to refute, and Shoufu Ye Xianggao also stepped forward to block the gun's eye, and he said that Wang Wenyan was appointed by me to work in the cabinet, and the responsibility for his mistake lies with me, just ask the emperor to punish me alone, don't involve other people, "to eliminate the scourge of the gentry."

Ye Xianggao threatened to resign, put all the responsibility on himself, and did not hesitate to sacrifice himself to protect the organization, Wei Zhongxian had no choice but to give up. Under the activities of Huang Zunsu, a member of the Donglin Party, Wang Wenyan was given a light sentence and only "deprived of his post with a cane".

Wei Zhongxian attacked Wang Wenyan and shook the Donglin party greatly. Although the Donglin Party and the Wei Zhongxian clique have been in discord for a long time, these struggles are aimed at individual people, and the characters involved are irrelevant.

In the first half of the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624), shortly after the Wang Wenyan incident, the Donglin Party held a secret meeting in Beijing to discuss the issue of Wei Zhongxian.

There were different opinions within the Donglin Party on whether to have a showdown with Wei Zhongxian, and a considerable number of people were afraid of Wei Zhongxian's power, fearing that they would be bitten by dogs instead of beating dogs, and did not approve of launching an attack on Wei Zhongxian.

Yang Lian, the left deputy capital of Yushi, was a radical person, and he had the feat of forcing the palace when the Apocalypse ascended the throne, and he had no fear, and he advocated war against Wei Zhongxian.

On June 1, Yang Lian Shangshu attacked Wei Zhongxian and impeached Wei Zhongxian for 24 major crimes, including misappropriation of power, persecution of loyal ministers, interference in personnel appointments and dismissals, murder of dissidents in the palace, forced abortion of the empress, and the heir of the Emperor [Emperor of the Apocalypse].

Yang Lian directly rebuked the triangular relationship between Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family, pointing out that Wei Zhongxian's power was greatly shaken, and people did not dare to reflect their opinions for fear of disaster. criticized the emperor's government affairs for relying too much on Wei Zhongxian, causing a large number of shameless courtiers to Wei Zhongxian to "cling to the branches and leaves, relying on the door wall, and echoing each other", so that everyone "knows that there are loyal and virtuous, but does not know that there is His Majesty", Yang Lian also resorted to the method of agitation, questioning the emperor is in the "Spring and Autumn Period" year, "Life and death are taken, can you be autonomous?"

In the end, Yang Lian put forward his own request, asking the emperor to hand over Wei Zhongxian to the Criminal Department for punishment, "to correct the law of the country", and to expel the Fengsheng Lady Keshi from the palace.

As soon as the music came out, the Jingshi was shaken. Since then, the Donglin Party has been continuously fired, and the snow flakes that expose Wei Zhongxian's crimes have been sent to the palace.

Although Yang Lian and others are very fierce, he is doomed to fail, because the party itself is problematic, and no emperor will allow it, and the punishment of the Donglin Party is the intention of Tianqi himself, although Wei Zhongxian played the role of a staff assistant and was specifically responsible for implementation, but the final decision-making power is still firmly in the hands of Tianqi, Wei Zhongxian is just a dog of the emperor, and he will bite whoever the emperor asks him to bite.

There is no suspense that Yang Lian was "strictly reprimanded" by the Apocalypse, and the motive of the Apocalypse for criticizing him was to "chase me from the left and right and isolate me" in order to control the emperor. With the support of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian launched a large-scale counterattack against the Donglin Party in Shangshu.

Wan Xian, an official of the Ministry of Industry, who had worked in the imperial mausoleum project, accused Wei Zhongxian of refusing to take out the old bronze artifacts of the internal officials to build the mausoleum of Guangzong, but the tomb he built for himself in Biyun Temple in Xiangshan was very large, not much like the imperial mausoleum.

Wan Liao's argument is peculiar, and after the emperor repeatedly "strictly ordered and responsible", it belongs to committing a crime against the wind.

Wei Zhongxian, who was overwhelmed by the impeachment of the courtiers, had nowhere to vent his anger, and decided to kill the chicken and monkey and take Wan Xian Liwei, so Wan Xian was fined 100 canes in front of the noon gate and reprimanded for the people.

On June 17, a group of chamberlains broke into Wan Liao's house and arrested Wan Liao at the noon gate.

There are three or four miles from Wan Xian's house to the noon gate, Wei Zhongxian announced his personal vendetta, asked the attendants to serve some side dishes first, and punched, kicked and beat Wan Liao along the way, beating Wan Liao half to death. After the noon gate, the feast began, and the attendants struck while the iron was hot, and when they were walking with a cane, they worked very hard to beat Wan Liao to death, and Wan Liao was seriously injured and died soon after.

Since then, the blow to the Donglin Party has continued to expand, from point to line, from line to surface, and a number of Donglin Party members have been dealt with.

In July, Ye Xianggao was forced to resign.

In October, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong, and Wei Dazhong were deposed due to personnel problems.

In the same month, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, and Chen Yuting were cut down (never hired) due to the question of the successor of Zhao Xingnan, the secretary of the ministry.

Eleven reprimanded Han Yi, the first assistant who replaced Ye Xianggao

In December, Zhu Guozhen, the first assistant who succeeded Han Yi, was expelled, and the position of first assistant fell into the hands of Gu Bingqian of Wei Zhongxian's group.

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), the action against the Donglin Party was launched, and many people who opposed the Donglin Party combined with Wei Zhongxian to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Donglin Party. In order to make it clear what to target, opponents of the Donglin Party drew up a blacklist dedicated to Wei Zhongxian so that they could be targeted for purge.

Wei Guangwei and Gu Bingqian compiled a "Handbook of the Gentlemen," in which more than 100 people, including Ye Xianggao, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong, Yang Lian, and Zuo Guangdou, were listed as evil parties, and more than 60 people who had opposed the Donglin Party, including Jia Jichun, Huo Weihua, and Xu Dahua, were listed as righteous people.

Cui Chengxiu made two books: one is "Comrade Record", which includes the list of Donglin Party members. One is the "Tianjianlu", which contains a list of opponents of the Donglin Party.

The most exciting is Wang Shaohui's compilation of "Point General Record", Wang Shaohui is an old opponent of the Donglin Party, and has fought with the first generation of Donglin Party members since the 37th year of Wanli. The "Dian Jiang Lu" compiled by him corresponds to the one hundred and eight generals in the "Water Margin" according to their characteristics, which is very expressive.

A large number of Donglin Party members were exposed, became lice on the bald head, and there was nowhere to hide, and the Wei Zhongxian group searched for Ji according to the map and eliminated them at designated points, and the power of the Donglin Party fell to a low point.

At the same time of cracking down on the Donglin Party, Wei Zhongxian used non-Donglin Party members to fill the vacancies left by the Donglin Party members, and a number of officials who had been attacked by the Donglin Party people were reinstated.