Today, nine out of ten officials in the Donglin Party are profit-seeking people and have become the biggest black sheep of the Ming Dynasty.
On one side, they held high the banner of righteousness and wore white lotuses.
While engaging in corruption and bribery, eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, and sucking the blood of the Ming Dynasty.
Take the Jiaofang Division as an example, the ones who go most often are these officials.
After saying that he was taking care of his old friend, he ended up taking care of everything in bed.
They are truly your wives and daughters, and I will support them!
What's even more abominable is that these unscrupulous people have long colluded with the big businessmen to resolutely resist the collection of business taxes, and instead continue to increase agricultural taxes.
Because of this, many people in Ming Dynasty were in dire straits. Those farmers who were forced to live by taxes had no choice but to take risks and revolt!
If it weren't for this group of arrogant officials, the Ming Dynasty could have lasted at least another hundred years, or even longer.
It is precisely because he is aware of the dangers of the Donglin Party that Zhu Youxiao will use Wei Zhongxian's hands to continuously suppress the power of the Donglin Party.
As for carpentry, it is indeed Zhu Youxiao’s personal hobby.
If possible, Zhu Youxiao really didn't want to quarrel with these ministers and wanted to be a carpenter.
But being born into the royal family, he had no choice.
When doing carpentry, Zhu Youxiao would feel much more relaxed, but the main reason was to confuse the Donglin Party.
Perhaps Zhu Youxiao was not a strong Ming Dynasty, but everything he did and thought was to make Ming Dynasty strong.
As for the eunuchs who framed the ministers of the DPRK and created many unjust, false and wrong cases, Zhu Youxiao knew it.
The reason why the eunuchs were allowed to act was due to the emperor's intentions.
Most of the officials who were imprisoned were attached to the Donglin Party. Although they were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, they were too pedantic and always liked to follow the Donglin Party and confront him as the emperor.
If we don't suppress it and eradicate the Donglin Party's branches, how can we move to the Donglin Party, which has a big tree and deep roots?
For Zhu Youxiao, what he wants is obedient ministers, not a group of arrogant people who only know how to argue.
Being an emperor is not that easy, especially when Zhu Youxiao took over, the Ming Dynasty was in a mess caused by external and internal troubles.
The power of the Lin Party in North Korea and the Middle East is intertwined, and the post-Jin Dynasty is eyeing it from outside. Coupled with the Little Ice Age, natural and man-made disasters continue.
Faced with such a situation, let alone Zhu Youxiao, even if Zhu Yuanzhang were alive, he would probably be one of the top two.
When something happened to the treasure ship yesterday, Zhu Youxiao's first suspicion was the Donglin Party.
This is not without reason.
Some time ago, Zhu Youxiao ordered Wei Zhongxian to reduce agricultural taxes and collect commercial taxes in Jiangnan. This policy has touched the interests and bottom line of the Donglin Party.
The Donglin Party's counterattack was expected.
Although there is no evidence, Zhu Youxiao has already determined in his mind that the treasure ship incident is most likely to be related to the Donglin Party.
If he hadn't been wary of the power controlled by the Donglin Party and worried about the unrest in the court, Zhu Youxiao would have really wanted to cut the knot with a quick knife and kill all these rebellious officials and traitors!
Of course, Zhu Youxiao just thought about it. He understood that the meal must be eaten one bite at a time and the road must be walked step by step.
Over the years, Zhu Youxiao has been patiently trying to suppress the Donglin Party step by step and completely eliminate the cancer of the Donglin Party.
The Donglin Party was obviously aware of the danger, so it wanted to pull out all the stops, kill Zhu Youxiao, eliminate Wei Zhongxian's backers, and move to the Eunuch Party to monopolize power.
The intensity and danger of the disputes in the imperial court were even greater than those of fighting on the battlefield, and ordinary people simply couldn't handle it.
Jiang Fan was a little green when he first entered officialdom.
If we just talk about scheming, tactics and means, he is really no match for Zhu Youxiao.
He was only able to temporarily gain dominance by relying on his foresight and the powerful strength of his substitute.
If we compare the two brothers Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian.
In terms of being an emperor, Zhu Youxiao, who was called the Carpenter Emperor by the outside world, was actually far better than Zhu Youxiao.
You must know that Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao was personally guided by the great strategist Sun Chengzong and others.
During the reign of Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao, the overall national strength of the Ming Dynasty increased.
Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s just talk about Liaodong.
The frontier army can receive millions of taels of military expenditure every year, and its military strength has been greatly improved. It has begun to gain a firm foothold and can even counterattack Houjin.
If it were not for domestic civil unrest and the Donglin Party holding back, the expulsion of the Jin Tatars would not be a big problem.
Outsiders only saw that Zhu Youxiao loved to do carpentry and ignored government affairs. Who knew the pain in his heart?
The powerful ministers controlled the government, so he could only choose to be patient.
However, these people still pressed forward step by step, and even tried to assassinate Emperor Tianqi many times, causing many "accidents".
Up to now, Zhu Youxiao has no heirs. Is it because Zhu Youxiao is infertile?
Of course not. Zhu Youxiao is twenty-three this year and has three sons and three daughters, not counting those who were pregnant but had "accidental miscarriages."
But these children all died due to various reasons, and none of them lived past the age of two. Even a fool would not believe it if it was a coincidence.
Part of it is due to Hakka.
Also, the Donglin Party did not want Zhu Youxiao to leave any heirs.
From a long time ago, the Donglin Party began to cultivate King Xin and instilled in him the ideas of the Donglin Party. The meaning is self-evident.
If Zhu Youxiao hadn't pretended to be obsessed with carpentry, the Donglin Party's counterattack would have been even more violent!
An emperor was forced to do this, but he could swallow his anger, which shows how deep Zhu Youxiao's scheming was.
It is a pity that in the original historical trajectory, Zhu Youxiao was designed to fall into the water and contract wind and cold. Later, he took Xianfang Linglu drink, which made his condition worse and his body swollen. It was not long before his brother Zhu Youjian passed away and went west.
After many years of planning, before it could be carried out, his soul passed away.
Only the title of the incompetent and the carpenter emperor remains.
If not, and given Zhu Youxiao a few more years to eliminate internal troubles in the dynasty and expel Hou Jin, the historical direction of the Ming Dynasty will be very different!
Because of his preconceived notions, Jiang Fan did not know that this carpenter emperor, whom he despised, had a deep and deep scheming mind.
At this time, Jiang Fan was making arrangements against King Xin and the Donglin Party, as well as expanding his own power.
Although he is now the governor of Jinyiwei, there are thousands of powerful families in Jinyiwei, most of whom are members of the eunuch party, and the rest secretly defected to King Xin.
That is to say, some of the marginal figures among the hundreds of households, general banners, and small banners have not yet clearly taken a stand.
Currently, Jiang Fan only has a few hundred Jin Yiwei available to him, and even fewer of them can be fully trusted.
Zhou Miaotong, who was in the side room, tossed and turned, feeling uneasy and looking at the door, fearing that Jiang Fan would break in.
But when she was about to fall asleep, Jiang Fan didn't arrive and she fell asleep in a daze.
the next day.
With the crow of angry roosters, Jiang Fan got up early for morning exercises.
Today he did not practice Tai Chi or Bajiquan, but practiced swordsmanship.
A thousand-edged magic sword in one hand, and an ancient black gold sword in the other.
One is light and agile, the other is powerful and heavy.
The two swords rotate in turns, as fast as the wind and as fierce as fire, chopping, slashing, picking, and poking, the force is unstoppable.
The more than two hundred kilograms of ancient black gold swords were as heavy as light in Jiang Fan's hands.
The Thousand Blades of the Demonic Sword is even more versatile, and Jiang Fan has only developed several uses for it so far.
After putting the sword away, the ancient black gold sword was put into the scabbard on the back, and the thousand blades of the magic sword were hung on the waist.
Taking out the Muchen Bead, Jiang Fan sat cross-legged, absorbed its energy, and enhanced his own cultivation. He felt that he was just one step away from the fourth level of "The Indestructible Boy Skill".
Half an hour later, Jiang Fan got up, washed up, had breakfast, and headed to Beizhen Fusi.
I visited my superiors as usual, and then I reorganized my troops.
After all the busy work, it was almost noon.
Looking at the pile of documents on hand, Jiang Fan sighed: "I wish I had a secretary!"
After taking over as the governor, Jiang Fan had much less free time. In order to steal, no, to train his subordinates' work ability, Jiang Fan immediately handed over some unimportant matters to Shen Lian, Qinglong and others to handle.
The euphemistic name is cultivating their abilities.
Jiang Fan used the free time to practice "Rama's Internal Skill" and "Vajra Indestructible Boy Skill". He occasionally practiced using Qi to control objects, and lived a fulfilling life.