Of course Zhu Youxiao is also paying attention to other members of the Donglin Party.
It is one of his principles not to employ people or do things according to the township party or cronies, so he will not directly purge the relevant cronies just because Liu Yijing and Wang Wenyan, the two generals of the Donglin Party, are the masterminds of the rebellion.
He had the same opinion as Han Xu and Sun Chengzong on one point, that is, there had been too much internal strife in the Ming Dynasty since the Wanli period, and it had intensified since the Taichang Dynasty.
People are fighting against each other, and everyone is fighting among themselves. The court is full of chaos, economic land annexation is developing rapidly, and southeastern commercial capital is rapidly concentrated. The court is unable to make effective adjustments and responses.
The late Ming Dynasty was the worst of times and the best of times.
Zhu Youxiao does not intend to engage in a major case of party strife, but to engage in a major rebellion case to attack all factions and seize power, and to ransack the homes of those who actually participated in the rebellion.
The most useful thing is to take back military power, power and economic foundation.
The Donglin Party has guys like Wang Wenyan, Zhang Wenda, Hui Shiyang, and Song Shixiang who are experts in internal fighting, rebelled against the enemy, and died unjustly.
There are also some peripheral members such as Sun Chengzong, either because they have helped their colleagues, or because they are attracted by Donglin's righteousness in criticizing the government.
These people are obviously not their opposites.
Liu Ruoyu had already sorted out the remaining resume information of the Donglin Party and sent it to him.
Looking through the files, the ink marks are all new.
Haha, the rebels were eliminated yesterday, and someone in the court immediately provided all the information.
Some members of the Chu Party and Qi Party felt that the opportunity to overthrow Donglin had come, so they specially provided information about the Donglin Party to the people in the East Palace...
With great power in hand, there will never be a shortage of active followers.
But how can I let these guys sway my opinions? It is even more impossible to follow their ideas and directly eliminate the Donglin Party and let these insects come to power.
I opened the file and looked at a batch of Donglin's resume.
"Eunuch Liu, you did a good job organizing the files. Only the objective content was retained in the files according to my suggestion. Those officials who advocated overthrowing Donglin were removed?"
"They have all been removed. If His Royal Highness Jian Guo wants to see it, the original files criticizing Dong Lin are also there."
"Hmm... keep it for a while, it will be useful later if you count it."
"Yes."
Zhu Youxiao collected all the clues provided by those who reported Donglin, but he did not read them.
Liu Ruoyu was specifically asked to combine multiple sources of information to sort out objective information and include it in the dossier.
Turned to Sun Chengzong.
It is clearly recorded that he was from Baoding in the north. He worked as a teacher in the house of the governor of Datong in his early days. Later, when he was forty, he became the second-ranked Jinshi in the 32nd year of Wanli.
He was not originally from the Donglin Party, but because he served in the Hanlin Academy and defended Zhu Changluo, who was still the crown prince at the time, he became closer and closer to the Donglin Party, and therefore had a good relationship with the Donggong.
Five years ago, Sun Chengzong presided over the Yingtianfu Township Examination, which involved party disputes and was almost impeached and removed. It was Ye Xianggao, then chief minister of the Donglin Party, who took action to defend Sun Chengzong.
From then on, he was considered a member of the Donglin Party.
"Look, because he once stood on the side of his father, he has a close relationship with the Donglin Party. In the Yingtianfu case, Sun Chengzong was involved in party disputes. His good work got into all kinds of troubles, and he has been counted as a Donglin Party since then." p>
Liu Ruoyu also sighed: "It is true. There are often either/or situations in the court. If I supported Donggong and had a good relationship with Donglin, then I would be considered a Donglin Party member. In addition to Sun Chengzong, there are many people who are similar."
Zhu Youxiao sighed, that sentence is so right. It would be strange if such a large court did not have these cronies~
After this blow, the Donglin Party will no longer be able to hold the most prominent position among officials.
He is no longer his main enemy.
Next comes reform.
Changes must be made in three aspects: economy, rights and ideology.
After the house confiscation this time, it is a great benefit to directly obtain silver. Obtaining a large amount of land and property is the key to the development of collective factories and other industries in the future.
The regained military power in the capital is the guarantee for collective factories.
Ideological and institutional changes are also indispensable.
In the early dynasty, the Mohist concept of "universal love" and other concepts were used to deal with this matter, and most officials still accepted and obeyed.
This hit their pain points, and they knew they couldn't confront me head-on.
But that may not be the case later.
There are many people who can accept Mohism. In their eyes, although Confucianism and Mohism cannot be dealt with, even for this period, it is still more than 2,000 years ago.
But there must be a lot of people who are stubborn and refuse to accept it.
Fortunately, after the Wanli period, the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty has been much more open, and a group of very open-minded schools have become popular. Innovations and transgressions have occurred in all aspects such as thought, academics, clothing, language, gender, customs, etc.
This kind of pre-Qin and Qin-Han revival was considered popular at the time, and liking Mohism was only rare and common.
Many people who hold this view, like the Donglin Party class, belong to the southeastern landlords, scholar-bureaucrats, cutting-edge urban businessmen and their vassals.
Enemy? Yes.
But he is also one of our own. If it can play a role in the revival of the pre-Qin and Qin-Han Dynasties, and support and contribute to the reform and transformation of economy and thought, then it will become one of our own.
The first way to deal with the enemy is to eliminate it.
The second method is to use a series of methods to eliminate enemies and make friends.
Colonel Zhu You said to Liu Ruoyu: "I will not oppose Donglin just to oppose Donglin, but some guys in Donglin feel that they helped Donggong back then, so they want more power now? If everyone wants to be in power, the emperor should step aside. This is too much to think about.
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Liu Ruoyu replied: "Such an officialdom hurts themselves in their hearts, and in the end they play tricks and get killed. His Highness the Jianguo loves and tolerates them, but now they are in debt and still carrying the crime."
This is what Zhu Youxian meant.
Let Donglin be "loved by all" and no longer be able to do anything in the name of a Confucian scholar-hero. Instead, he has to work for the Mohists and contribute to ideological reform. This is how people can do their best.
Just like Zhu Chunchen and Zhou Jiamo, if they didn't pull them out and cut them down, or completely ransack their homes to the end, it would be an advantage for them.
However, it is better for people to do their best than to cut them off.
Zhu Chunchen, who was guilty of meritorious service, rushed to hand over military power, abolished servants, ransacked the homes and associates... but did not dare to embezzle at all.
The same goes for Zhou Jiamo. He asked him to seize the censor's old profession and specialize in confiscating the homes of soldiers and horses involved in the rebellion. He would never show any mercy~
Just as he was talking, the eunuch Wei Chao entered the East Palace.
"Slave Wei Chao pays homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Chao and Liu Qiao to supervise the situation of Zhu Chunchen and Zhou Jiamo when they ransacked their homes. The three of them had committed meritorious deeds and were extremely motivated.
It had only been a few hours, and seeing the joy on Wei Chao's face, I knew that the progress was pretty good.
"How's it going? Have they started?"
"When His Highness the Crown Prince returned to the country, not only did they start ransacking the house, but they also started a competition."
"Home raiding competition?"
"Exactly, they chanted slogans of praise and punishment, and personally took the lead in raiding the homes of the rebels, for fear of performing worse than the other party."