Lindong Party, as its name implies, originated from Donglin Academy. It is a heterogeneous and freak formed after a long period of development and inheritance under the special political and cultural system of the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, a group of politicians, represented by Gu Xiancheng, took the opportunity of starting a new business after unemployment to give lectures at Lindong Public School, and gradually formed a political group with strong voice and influence among the people and gentry. ?
At first, unlike other feudal political forces, they took the high-level as the background and pillar, but took the academy as a single link to integrate the landlord forces and doctoral forces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Rich, strong output, of course, refers to brain power.
In order to reflect its literati atmosphere and lofty aspirations, Lindong Party attached great importance to its own style at the beginning, and did not even flatter the Ming Dynasty, but directly took "helping the world" as its responsibility. Gu Xiancheng, Zhao Nanxing, Zou Yuanbiao and many other founders, they are not celebrities, famous super idols or super literati with books.
They are basically staunch supporters and admirers of "Mind Learning" and flaunt the concept of "applying what they have learned". What a pity! These people propagate and expand their influence through Wang Yangming, but they can't really achieve the Rainbow Yangming of "knowing and doing as one". In the end, the "Lindong Party", which sounds extremely awesome, not only failed to "help the world", but pushed the Ming Dynasty to the abyss of death. Of course, this is another story.
In the middle of Wanli period, Lindong Party continued to rise, but it was not invincible in the world. At that time, although there was only a party in North Korea, there were also "Qi Party", "Chu Party" and "Zhejiang Party". Moreover, in order to survive in the cracks, the three small parties gradually formed an alliance and formed a situation of mutual restraint with Lindong Party in North Korea.
This balanced situation has been going on for some time, during which no one cares who belongs, and no one will destroy anyone, mainly not. In the end, the balance of power was broken. To be exact, it was broken by one person. This man is Wang Wenyan.
Wang Wenyan is really not a famous figure in history. In fact, his first half of life was really average. However, it is such an ordinary person who came to Beijing from the county government and joined the Lindong Party in order to make a name for himself, hoping to achieve a leap in the official career and realize all his dreams through his own political speculation, whether aboveboard or filthy.
After Wang Wenyan joined the Party, he thought about how to bring down the Qi, Chu and Zhejiang parties and push the Party to the peak of power. In the forty-eighth year of Wanli, people from three parties wrote to Shu, demanding that Zhang be cleaned up and flogged in order to thoroughly remove Zhang's residual poison.
Naturally, the Lindong Party will not miss this opportunity to attack the enemy. They have written to refute it, and they are eloquent and salivating. This is ridiculous! In the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty, no matter whether your proposal is correct or not, as long as it is the opponent's proposal, it will be opposed! The strength and momentum of this opposition make people mistakenly think that their party and Zhang are closely related.
However, Wang Wenyan's keen discovery is that in this paper against the tide, there is actually a person who should not appear. This person is Guan Yingzhen. Maybe you don't know him, but it doesn't matter. You only need to know that he is the leader of the Chu Party. Enough!
It turns out that although the three parties have United against the Lindong Party, they are not monolithic, and there are still struggles within the three parties. Wang Wenyan began to use unusual tactics to deliberately provoke the relationship between the three parties. In this way, the three parties began to become inseparable, and finally expelled the Chu party, from a three-party alliance to a two-party alliance. This change means that the relative strength of Lindong Party is stronger.
Since then, the situation of checks and balances between Lindong Party and the three parties has been reset, and Lindong Party began to monopolize state affairs. Under the strong oppression of Lindong Party, the first three parties had to depend on the Yen Group to survive. The whole Ming Dynasty began a new confrontation, that is, the confrontation between Lindong Party Group and Yen Party Group.
In forty-eight years of Wanli, the old emperor Ming Shenzong finally passed away. With the strong support of Lindong Party, the new emperor Ming Guangzong successfully ascended the throne. Unfortunately, this Zhu Xiao emperor is too short-lived. Less than a month after he ascended the throne, he went straight to worship and followed his father before he could reward the Lindong Party.
This incident was unexpected, and Lindong party member was a little panicked. However, they are all smooth hands. After a little calmness, they began to support Zhu Youxiao, the eldest son of Ming Guangzong, to ascend to the throne. During this period, there was even a case in which Li, a favorite of Emperor Guangzong of Ming Dynasty, tried to "make a vassal with the son of heaven" and moved to the palace, which caused a great uproar.
However, with the unremitting efforts of Lindong party member, headed by Yang Lian, the new emperor Zhu Youxiao successfully ascended the throne, the famous "carpenter emperor".
After Zhu Youxiao acceded to the throne, Zhu Xiao did not forget the contribution of Lindong Party to him, and vigorously promoted Lindong party member to an important position in the court, further strengthening and consolidating the power of Lindong Party. Lin Dong party member couldn't rest for a moment, and began to turn over old scores in history. This old account is the "red pill case" that led to the death of the late Emperor Guangzong. I hope to take this opportunity to get rid of Li, the person who paid tribute to the late emperor at the crack hon temple.
In fact, Li's so-called Dan medicine or "red pill" is only made of some common non-toxic chemicals, and it is impossible to eat people. In advance, he also actively carried out "living experiments", which basically had nothing to do with the death of the old emperor.
But Lindong people can ignore these. In order to bring down their political opponents, the black one can be said to be white, not to mention that you already have a relationship with this matter. The goal of one side is never to avenge the old emperor, nor to bring down Li. Their real targets are the followers, the big shots behind Li and the leaders of Zhejiang Party.
Finally, under the unremitting attack and murder of Lindong party member, the "good things are always grinding" brought down Fang Congzhe, the last straw of the Zhejiang Party. From then on, Ye became the cabinet records, and one party finally smiled. Because! Ye is a member of the municipal party Committee. As a result, Lindong Party completely defeated all competitors and possible competitors, and firmly held the court in the early days of the apocalypse in its own hands.
Later generations accused the Yen Group of how bad and unbearable it was. However, from Wanli to Chongzhen, the party member of Lindong, who was in the center of power, did not seem to make much constructive contribution to the political dilemma and crisis of the Ming Dynasty, but devoted all their energy and thoughts to the cause of "destroying Taiwan every day".
When Xu Guangqi put forward progressive ideas such as technological reform and innovative methods, Lindong party member immediately began to curse until Lao Xu dared not reply.
When Xiong Tingbi made great achievements in Liaodong, he was still Lindong party member, constantly attacking Xiong Tingbi with public opinion, and even slandering him as a eunuch.
To sum up, although it can't be said that the hypocrites of Lindong Party have never done a good thing, there are not many! After they came to power, they mainly put forward three propositions:
First, one-sided emphasis on freedom of speech, you can say almost anything and dare to say anything. However, it is only responsible for saying whether it can be implemented, how to make a decision, and how to implement it, no matter!
Second, oppose mining tax. Fundamentally speaking, they are the moths who really exploit farmers, oppose mining taxes and commercial taxes, and madly suppress all capitalist seeds. As a result, the Ming dynasty, which was so poor that only its shorts were left, had to continuously increase the exploitation of farmers, leading to peasant uprisings everywhere.
Third, oppose the eunuch clique. This is easy to understand. If Lindong Party wants to establish its positive role of "being above others", it must demonize the eunuch group and count it as a target. In the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs really had too much power. At that time, only the eunuch clique had the strength to wrestle with the Lindong Party Group.
After Chongzhen came to power, Lindong Party even bewitched the ambitious and headstrong Emperor Chongzhen, and carried out a series of chaotic and wrong internal and external policies, which made the threat of Manchu Dynasty to Daming imminent and made the domestic refugee uprising blossom everywhere.
Our Mr. Chongzhen reacted by indirectly hoping to move the capital to Nanjing and keep half of the country for the future. But! Under the leadership of Lindong party member, the minister of Manchu firmly opposed the move of the capital, saying that he would abandon his ancestral business and the country.
Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to bite the bullet and "fight for capital" with them. He was defeated by Li Zicheng and hanged in Jingshan Park. Emperor Chongzhen, who was completely disillusioned, left a sentence before his death: "I am not the king of national subjugation, and all ministers are ministers of national subjugation" and "all officials and officials can be killed".
To sum up, Lin Dong and party member talked a lot, but they had nothing to say. They are too arrogant to look down on anyone, but they can do nothing. You can't do it yourself, and no one else can. In order to show their superiority, as long as you dare to work hard and want to change, they will start to attack and fly around you like flies.
It was with the help of these self-righteous, ignorant Lindong party member that the Ming Dynasty completely ruined the last road of reform and self-help and slowly went bankrupt.