Academic things, especially psychology and Neo-Confucianism, which are at the "ideological" level, have strict logic and whether they are right or not has nothing to do with whether they are popular or not. In other words, even if there are some problems in the early stages, they will not work for decades.

He has already been made up for by his disciples and disciples. The key is whether it meets the needs of interest groups...

What was the end of the Ming Dynasty? It was an era when the imperial examinations were monopolized by Donglin in the south and Shanxi merchants in the north, and scholars in other places were completely suppressed. Donglin in the south and Shanxi merchants in the north both made their fortunes in tax evasion and smuggling. This can be seen from the Neo-Confucianism that emphasized upper and lower classes.

It's as good as hell if it pleases the eyes. You can't eliminate tax evasion and smuggling by relying on natural principles and destroying human desires!

But the psychology is completely different. Can tax evasion be interpreted as a rebellion against the treasure banknotes of the early Ming Dynasty? Only the old Zhu family was allowed to make random invoices to trick merchants into doing the eleven, but merchants were not allowed to use treasure banknotes to pay taxes and deceive the emperor into doing the fifteen? Is it smuggling?

It would be easier to handle it. Just saying "Don't compete with the people for profit" can get you the title of righteousness!

This kind of "ideological" level thing was just a piece of paper in the war years. After the Manchus entered the customs, they not only wanted to compete with the people for profit, but also directly seized the Han people's land [enclosure] and captured the Han people as slaves [escapees].

】, the words "competing with the people for profit" are pale and weak, and have no effect at all! But in the peaceful era, even those who started out as bandits must pay attention to their righteousness. The distinction between Manchu and Han, the bannermen and Han people do not intermarry, and the order to shave their hair...

...After all, the cost of maintaining an extremely powerful military in peacetime is too high. Every dynasty and every generation needs to use something at the "ideological" level to educate [the ignorant people].

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, competing for profits from the people almost became politically incorrect. Emperor Wanli wanted to levy commercial taxes. He simply could not become a tax authority under the civil service system, so he had to send eunuchs and rely on rogues to collect taxes. The result was that

Commercial taxes are passed on to ordinary people, and then they are exploited by wealthy businessmen. In the end, commercial taxes are nothing. The tombstones of five people in middle school textbooks reflect this matter. If you remove the sensational sentences in it and analyze it rationally, everyone

You may see the opposite.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty emperor's financial power was his own small treasury. Through the small treasury, he could also seize the guns of the warlords. In the Wanli and Apocalypse dynasties, it was the eunuchs who looted and plundered, which supported military campaigns such as Wanli's Three Great Expeditions.

However, in the early years of Chongzhen, just a few years after the expropriation stopped, the wave of warlordization began in various places. It could not be reversed until Chongzhen hanged himself. What the eunuchs expropriated was actually the money to hang oneself in the Ming Dynasty.

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However, under the oppression of an "ideology" that competes with the people for profit, the civil servants are always the final winners. No matter how fast Wei Zhongxian's butcher knife is, it cannot change the balance of power between the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party among the scholars. In fact, from 1624

Counting from the year when Wei Zhongxian was impeached by Yang Lian and the large-scale persecution and suppression of Donglin Party members began until the year 16', after Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, he decided to reorganize the court and eliminate the eunuchs headed by Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family.

How many years has it actually been in power? And if Wei Zhongxian’s party used the Xiong Tingbi incident to frame the Donglin Party’s Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian, Zhou Qiyuan, Zhou Shunchang, and Miao Changqi, the famous Jiu Qiansui has been in control of the court for even longer.

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Of course, this is related to the fact that Wei Zhongxian himself was only a private member of Mingxi Sect, and the cabinet eunuchs were eunuchs of one emperor and one emperor. But on the other hand, this is because the emperor himself did not have the ideology to compete with the people for profit, and had to go through the process of one emperor.

Once the emperor compromises with the eunuchs and civil servants, otherwise he can completely abolish Wei Zhongxian and replace him with his own Zhang Zhongxian, isn't Li Zhongxian?

However, if Wei Zhongxian's power is combined with Liu Baiyu's [Five Classics of Justice], the form will be completely different! Originally, the Donglin Party held the right to great justice, and the struggle with Wei Zhongxian was a political struggle between Confucian scholars and the Eunuch Party. As long as Ming Xizong died,

, Wei Zhongxian can only fall.

But if we follow the "Five Classics of Justice", what is the so-called "Xin Xue"? If the Buddhism and the Elders pretend to be Confucianism, then it is a heresy ten thousand times more hateful than Wei Zhongxian's. It is simply a Confucian scholar who can kill it, and then pull out the Xin Xue.

Bippi, it turns out that the upright Donglin Party is actually the mouthpiece of a group of big businessmen! Even many of them are big businessmen, stinky things! In addition, Yang Lian, the representative of the Donglin Party, "is not my comrade, but he is

"Enemy" is such a murderous word, the Donglin Party is simply the most traitorous party in history.

There is another thing that many fans of Ming history may not know. In fact, the friendship between the inner and outer courts was not a big deal in the Ming Dynasty. Even Zhang Juzheng also relied on his friendship with the eunuch Feng Bao to achieve political reform. And the Donglin Party did not

Exceptionally, there is also collusion with the inner court. According to the logic laid out by the Donglin Party members, as long as they have a good relationship with the inner court, they are eunuchs. In fact, the Donglin Party itself is also considered an eunuch.

The eunuch who had a good relationship with the Donglin Party was actually Wang An, who was regarded as a virtuous internal minister by the Donglin Party! Wang An, an eunuch of the Ming Shenzong Palace, was born in Xiongxian County, Hebei Province. He served as the Ming Dynasty Prime Minister in the 20th year of Wanli (1592).

Xizong's companion was recommended by the eunuch Chen Ju during the Wanli period and was ordered to be the crown prince's companion. When Zheng Guifei planned to make her son the crown prince and the crown prince was in crisis, she was often protected by Wang An. Guangzong ascended the throne and promoted Si Li

Bingbi eunuch, and persuaded Guangzong to reuse Donglin Party members Yang Lian, Liu Yishui and others. After Guangzong died and Xizong came to the throne, Wang An assisted Tianqi in moving Li Xuanshi out of the Qianqing Palace and moved to the Erluan Palace. Wei Zhongxian, after the Hakka gained power, was

kill.

What kind of person is Wang An? Regardless of any faction, they all admit that he has made meritorious service in protecting the Mingguang Sect. This is also in line with the fact that in the Ming Dynasty, there was an emperor and a eunuch in one dynasty. There is no objection to this.

But when it comes to the two cases in which the Donglin Party favored Wang An, it makes people laugh. In Internet terms, you can deceive me personally, but you cannot deceive my IQ...

This is the assault case!

In May of the 43rd year of Wanli (1615), Zhang Cha, a man outside the palace, broke into the Donghua Gate of the palace with a wooden stick and beat him all the way to Ciqing Palace where the crown prince lived. He was later captured by the internal prison. Wang An escorted him

First achievement.

All in all, there was a man, holding a wooden stick, who directly broke into the palace where the prince was. Of course, we don’t know whether this guy is like in the martial arts novels or what kind of martial arts master he is. To be honest, what happened behind the scenes

The master's skills are quite clumsy. Anyway, the author would not dare to write such a retarded joke in the novel.

However, it doesn't matter how weird the matter itself is. Let's talk about the incident. If Emperor Wanli does not abolish the position of the prince, he can only sacrifice Concubine Zheng to comfort the prince. At the same time, the status of the prince will be stable. The outcome will be found out after the 13th Division of the Ministry of Punishment interrogates.

Zhang Cha is a member of the Red Lotus Sect in the Gyeonggi area. Its leaders are Ma Sandao and Li Shoucai. They colluded with Pang Bao and Liu Cheng, the eunuchs in Concubine Zheng's palace, and sent Zhang Cha into the palace to attack.

Taiwong.

However, the battle for the palace did not really end. In Taichang, it became more violent during the Tianqi period. The "Red Pill Case" and the "Gong Move Case" occurred one after another.

Ming Guangzong Zhu Changluo was not favored by his father since he was a child. He only left the court to study at the age of 13 and dropped out of school for a long time, experiencing ups and downs. After Zhu Changluo came to the throne, the scheming Concubine Zheng tried her best to win over Li Xuanshi, the favorite concubine of Emperor Taichang, and the two conspired to marry him.

I have requested to be granted the title of Empress Dowager and Empress. Because Emperor Taichang was worried about state affairs, his already weak body became "less beautiful" in a few days, and "his illness became a serious problem".

At this time, Cui Wensheng, the former internal medicine doctor of Concubine Zheng's palace who was in charge of the Royal Pharmacy, came to diagnose the emperor's illness. He used the medicine to remove heat and relieve diarrhea, hoping to detoxify Emperor Taichang, but he was attacked by Donglin.

People accused the emperor of overindulgence when he fell ill; Cui Wensheng was instructed by Concubine Zheng to kill the emperor when he prescribed the medicine. The imperial doctors then restrained their hands. After that, Li Kezhuo, the prime minister of Honglu Temple, claimed that he had an elixir that could cure the emperor's illness.

Many people did not recommend that the emperor take it. But the emperor had no choice but to take it. After taking one pill at first, his limbs felt warm and he was thinking about eating and drinking. Then he took another pill and it collapsed in the early morning of the next day. This medicine is red and is called "red pill".

Lead is the main component, with ginseng antler as the secondary component.

Donglin then launched an attack, claiming that the Zheng family intended to murder the emperor. Under the pressure of public opinion, the newly ascended Emperor of Tianqi, Zhu Youxiao, who succeeded Emperor Taichang, allowed the chief minister of the cabinet, Fang Congzhe, to retire, sent Cui Wensheng to Nanjing, and Li Kezhuo to the army. The case was hastily

Ending. The "Red Pill Case" became one of the suspicious cases in the Ming Palace. The next year, Donglin Sun Shenxing and others were reinstated, and the case was reported again to attack Fang Congzhe.

The "Red Pill Case" is one of the eternal mystery cases. Guangzong is suspected of being poisoned to death. However, the Donglin Party is also suspected of making random discussions to interfere with treatment and delay the illness. However, the result is that the head of the cabinet who is opposed to the Donglin Party

Fu Fang Congzhe retired, and the Donglin Party's strength greatly increased. Wang An actively communicated with both internal and external parties and made great contributions to the Donglin Party's charge into battle.

Emperor Apocalypse Zhu Youxiao once believed that the purpose of the Donglin Party was to dominate the imperial court. Out of credit to the Donglin Party for supporting his father and son to ascend the throne, Zhu Youxiao also tolerated it again and again. However, the Donglin Party not only wanted to control the imperial court.
Chapter completed!