Chapter 271 It’s a pity that the water is too cold [Please vote for me!]

Author: West Lake in the Rain

Chapter 271 It’s a pity that the water is too cold [Please vote for me!]

"What on earth is the Donglin Party? Can it actually destroy the Ming Dynasty?"

The cold wind blew by, and the golden five-clawed golden dragon embroidered on Zhu Di's dragon robe floated, as if looking coldly at the enemy hidden in the future.

As an emperor, Zhu Di could tolerate the demise of the Ming Dynasty at the hands of the so-called Li Zicheng rogue rebel army. After all, this was a fate that almost all dynasties could not escape. They would either die in an uprising, usurp the throne, or be invaded by foreign enemies. Most of them died.

These are all three results.

Even judging from Zhu Di's character, dying in the uprising is better than being orphaned and widowed by someone usurping the throne.

Being usurped by others and living with a humiliating title is not as good as standing upright and dying.

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

But in a sense, Zhu Di didn't understand it wrong, and Jiang Xinghuo immediately confirmed his point of view.

"The Donglin Party was a bureaucratic political group mainly formed by Jiangnan gentry more than two hundred years later. Its name comes from the Donglin Academy where Yang Shi lectured in the Song Dynasty. The Jiangnan gentry initiated the Donglin Conference and formulated the "Donglin Convention"

, it is stipulated that general meetings should be held once or twice a year and small meetings once a month, closely linking reading, lectures and discussing the situation in the temple." Jiang Xinghuo said slowly.

When Zhu Di heard that it was not an organization usurping the Ming Dynasty, instead of breathing a sigh of relief, Zhu Di frowned even more.

Because this so-called "Donglin Party" did not usurp the Ming Dynasty on the surface, but Zhu Di was fully aware of the dangers of this kind of gentry group joining together to form a group.

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

"How dare you blatantly form a group for personal gain in the name of reading and teaching?"

Zhu Di asked dissatisfiedly: "Does the local government not care?"

Jiang Xinghuo smiled and said: "I don't care, and I will support it vigorously, because the local government is also from the Donglin faction, and their interests are the same."

"A bird of a feather!"

Zhu Di's eyes were gloomy.

In the Ming Dynasty, scholars were selected through the imperial examination.

It is destined that the matter of private lectures is extremely sensitive.

It can be said, but it must not be expanded to the point of forming a large-scale academies like the Southern Song Dynasty.

Otherwise, the dean who gives lectures will train batches of court officials and become prime ministers behind the scenes.

And even if we don’t talk about the academy’s senior management, just talking about the academy itself, there will still be problems.

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

What is Jianghu?

The rivers and lakes here, of course, do not refer to the warriors who fight and kill, but what Fan Zhongyan said: "If you live high in the temple, you will worry about its people; if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about your king."

If you let a group of scholars from all over the world get together, it would be strange if they didn't discuss something about the Ming Dynasty temple.

And if this kind of academy becomes large-scale, it can guide the public opinion of scholars and then influence the temples of Ming Dynasty. For the Ming Dynasty, it will only increase more conflicts and internal friction, and repeat the mistakes of the Tang Dynasty's Niu and Li party struggles.

Good thing.

Zhu Di realized this very clearly, and combined with the consistent virtues of the Jiangnan gentry, he only had to slightly imagine what the Donglin Party would do, and he couldn't help but frown.

"Then what do the Donglin Party stand for?"

Jiang Xinghuo was silent.

Zhu Xiyin feels bad.

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

"The first, the Donglin Party advocates liberalizing the way."

"That is, the political affairs are attributed to the six parts, and the officials of the public theory make the world happy."

Zhu Xi's face was dark.

"Second, oppose the emperor's mining tax."

"It is considered the emperor to send mining taxes to the mines and levy mining taxes in various places."

Zhu Xi's face was two points black.

"Article 3, oppose eunuchs to dry politics."

"It is believed that the harm of eunuchs is unusual, and the ancestral system must be restored, and eunuchs must not do politics."

Zhu Xi's face was three points black, and he couldn't hold it completely.

"absurd!"

"——Di Tai Huang Zicheng dare not do this!"

This so -called "Donglin Party", each claim sounds so much for the country and the people, and the light is big.

But Zhu Xi is very clear that if Daming has to do this in the end of the dynasty, then the ending of the destination is actually inevitable.

Take the last one.

In the end of the dynasty, the emperor was growing in the deep palace and raised in the hands of women. Xun Guichen has long been finished. Who can he rely on the eunuch who does not rely on his heart?

Zhu Yuanzhang banned eunuchs from working, because the old Zhu Tai was might, and there was no eunuch at all.

And Zhu Xi, it is precisely the Ming Dynasty emperor who used eunuchs.

Although Zhu Xi trained a large number of eunuchs in the government during the Yan King's period, Zhu Xi not only let these eunuchs lead soldiers to fight, such as Zheng He and others, but also let them make foreign countries on behalf of them.

But more importantly, Zhu Xi, as the emperor, clearly realized that eunuchs are an important assistance for the imperial power, and it is much smaller than the cost of using foreign relatives.

So the last one is like the cabinet, and it is playing Zhu Xi's face.

It's just that Jiang Xinghuo hit his face, and now it is the "Donglin Party" that does not exist.

The other two, letting go, will inevitably lead to the inconsistent thought of the Da Ming Dynasty; and against the emperor's mining tax, Zhu Xi doesn't want to know, the cat is very big!

Why does the gentry group oppose the emperor's mining tax? Is it really impossible for the people!

The fundamental reason must be the interests of the gentry group.

There is no mine tax, salt tax, tea tax, etc., which will make the fiscal revenue sources in the late Ming Dynasty more single. The tax sources of the court basically depend on the land tax of ordinary self -cultivation farmers, which will directly lead to Daming's financial constraints!

Zhu Xi took a little back to the drought of the first year of Chongzhen mentioned by Jiang Xinghuo just now, and it was understood that once various natural disasters continued, a large number of self -cultivated farmers bankruptcy, Daming's tax based on land tax will collapse a corner.

In order to live, the bandits will flow into the regions of other administrative envoys in order to survive, and then more self -cultivated farmers will join the flowers due to the initiative or passively.

Daming's tax base collapsed completely.

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo said that Daming died in the Donglin Party, and it was really not uncomfortable at all.

The Donglin Party is like a group of administrators in a group of warehouses. In the name of a good name for the owner of the warehouse, things in the warehouse have been moved to their own home.

Not only did the owner of the warehouse not send someone to investigate, but tolerated, it was said that it was good for you.

If the character is an ordinary neighbor next to the warehouse with a dirty mind, he would be happy to see the big boss like the warehouse owner being poached, and would even ask the administrators for a share of the pie.

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

Zhu Di was equivalent to seeing the family property he had saved for his descendants being moved away in a fair and just manner by a group of administrators. Is there any reason to be unhappy in his heart?

"I will ban all academies, lectures, and opinions!"

Instead, Jiang Xinghuo said with a smile, "What a coincidence."

"What a coincidence?" Zhu Di asked with a frown.

"Zhang Juzheng thinks so too." Jiang Xinghuo stopped smiling.

"Zhang Juzheng banned speech, destroyed academies all over the world, gathered people to give lectures, and sent people to prison for crimes."

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

"Of course, if Zhang Juzheng, who was 'working for the country but poor for his own life,' had not turned the tide and accumulated national strength through ten years of reform, I am afraid that in the future I predict, the Ming Dynasty would not have survived that time."

Zhu Di's eyelids twitched for no reason.

He did not expect that the future chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, a civil servant who dared to claim that "I am not the Prime Minister, but the Prime Minister", would be so ruthless.

This is completely disregarding one's own wealth and life and using one's own efforts to promote the reform of Ming Dynasty.

He gave Daming another breath of life!

Thinking of this, Zhu Di actually admired this future man who was similar to Wang Anshi, or even worse.

"So, it is better to block things like scholarly opinion than to loosen it. It is easier to hold it in one's own hands than to sew the mouths of Jiangnan gentry."

Jiang Xinghuo said something intentionally or unintentionally.

Zhu Di asked thoughtfully: "So since academies and lectures are prohibited, words and deeds cannot be implemented, what does Mr. Jiang mean?"

Seeing that Zhu Di understood his intention, Jiang Xinghuo said seriously.

"Establish a science academy with six natural sciences as the main subject and more than ten social sciences as the supplement. It will replace Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism with the combination of science and improved Xunxue."
To be continued...