The Donglin Party is not a good thing. How did they get up? "
Zhuo Qun shook his head. As soon as the Donglin Party showed up, something big was going to happen.
"Zhu Gui is a member of the Donglin Party. The prince's teacher is a disciple of Shi Kefa. Shi Kefa is a disciple of Zuo Guangdou and a member of the Donglin Party. Chongzhen retained him and made him a high official. Donglin’s seeds were left behind.”
Liao Yong nonchalantly told the story of the Donglin Party after Chongzhen.
Zhuo Qun was unable to complain when he heard this name. Shi Kefa was a tough man and a hero who resisted the Qing Dynasty, but he was the real backbone of Donglin. Shi Kefa was also an advocate of "uniting the captives to quell the invaders" and advocated using the Qing troops to quell the enemy. Li Zicheng's rebellion saved the Ming Dynasty. When the Qing troops were fighting Li Zicheng's Dashun army in the north, Shi Kefa and other Southern Ming troops regarded the Qing troops as friendly forces and sent money and food, which led to the wolf entering the house.
He is a model with only reputation but no ability. The time traveler Chongzhen actually reused him. This is not digging a hole for himself. The history is not up to standard. It seems that he is a guy who reads history books and employs people.
Qianlong’s prince teacher was Zhu Gui, so that meant Jiaqing? I don’t know if this is the name anymore, but let’s call it that.
The White Lotus Rebellion in Jiaqing turned into a new Fengtian Jingnan Campaign. If so, what role did Zhu Gui and the Donglin Party play in it? Zhuo Qun is thinking about what will happen if the Donglin Party comes to power. If so, how to seize power?
"He was Jiaqing's teacher. As soon as Jiaqing came to the throne, he entered the cabinet and became the chief minister. He wrote a letter asking for tax exemptions, mainly commercial taxes. The reason he used was that the Qianlong Zen throne was an unprecedented event and should be compared with The people are happy together, taxes are reduced and reduced, and the world is amnesty. These are the actions of the Holy Emperor."
Hearing Liao Yong's words, Zhuo Qun nodded, saying that he would put himself here by speaking uprightly for the people against the Donglin Party or Qingliu's usual methods. In the right position, those who oppose him are all treacherous ministers. This is the old trick, but this time he is using concessions to talk things over.
The word "filial piety" can kill people. As long as the news is released to the outside world, the world will agree. After all, it is all good for oneself. Who would disagree?
"Then, the next year was Qianlong's 90th birthday. He wrote again that it was rare in ancient times for Emperor Qianlong to live to the age of seventy years. Moreover, looking at Qianlong's physique and appearance, it was also expected that Emperor Qianlong would live to the age of seventy years. What can be expected is that since it is an eternal event, it should be done with great care, and it should be enjoyed with the people, tax reduction and exemption, and amnesty for the world. This is what a filial son should do. Otherwise, he is still a human being. Oh, the Qianlong of this world is alive. Ninety-one years old.”
Zhuo Qun understood this as soon as he heard this. After two consecutive years of tax reduction and exemption, the national treasury must be exhausted. There is also a big birthday banquet. Once the money is spent, it is like running water, and the Qianlong of this world is actually the third He died in two years, let alone the Lord who passed away at the age of ninety-one. Even if he died, it would be a joyous occasion, and bad things turned into good things. I just wonder if Qianlong left a Heshen for Jiaqing?
Sure enough, after Qianlong's ninetieth birthday, he died just after the first month of the next year. Zhu Gui led a large group of people to write a letter saying that the death of the Daxing Emperor at the age of ninety-one was a happy mourning, and he should reduce taxes and grant amnesty. The world, in short, Zhu Gui wrote a letter to reduce taxes and provide amnesty to the world.
"Didn't Qianlong leave Heshen to Jiaqing?"
Zhuo Qun asked.
"There is no such thing. If there were, Jiaqing would not approve Zhu Gui's petition."
Liao Yong shook his head, there is no He Shen in this world.
"What book did you read?"
"Please sell official property to raise funds for disaster relief, collect funds from overseas vassals, and establish affairs departments for overseas vassals."
This is because the treasury has been drained. The Donglin Party is going to cut off the emperor's financial power. The emperor has no power when he has no money. He uses money to seize titles. This is a method used by the Han Dynasty to push favors. The Overseas Affairs Department of the vassals wants to directly intervene overseas. The vassals of the king of Sai.
"Then not many years later, another request was made to withdraw the vassals of the King of Sai, and then the Hundred Years of Jingnan Campaign began."
Directly withdrawing the vassal, it seems that the country has been divided up, but how can the Donglin Party have the courage to attack all the kings of Sai at the same time? They are really better than Emperor Jianwen, and they are invincible after a hundred years of peace.
"Where's the excuse? Where's Jingnan's excuse?"
"Their excuse for killing the Donglin Party was that Emperor Chongzhen killed the Donglin Party because he was not an emperor and violated Taizu's Iron Law. They demolished the Donglin Academy, which was rebuilt by Zhu Gui, and the Donglin Point was rearranged. Will be recorded."
Zhuo Qun complained directly and helplessly about Donglin Dianjianglu, which compared the Donglin Party to bandits and robbers. The previous one was compiled by Wei Zhongxian's men, but now this one was actually compiled by his own people. He really knows how to speak big words. Tell the truth.
“Not only that, the Donglin Party also vigorously publicized the status ranking of scholars, merchants, peasants and workers, reclassified workers into humble status and prohibited them from serving as officials. It also opened up land sales, encouraged land annexation, reopened the imperial examination to select scholars, and included the imperial examinations in the DPRK. All the people were replaced by their own people, and then they went to ask the king to withdraw from the feudal vassals. At that time, Emperor Jiaqing had been dead for several years, and his son was also short-lived. He died just a few months after he ascended the throne, so he stayed. The next kid who was less than ten years old became the emperor. At that time, all power belonged to the cabinet. The Donglin Party called him out. The precedent they found was that Emperor Wanli did not go to court for thirty years. All major and minor issues in the world were handled by the cabinet, but the world was peaceful. , so the emperor is young and all rights belong to the cabinet."
Zhuo Qun smiled. This was playing on the constitutional monarchy. It was hard to say whether it was progress or regression.
"However, after the Hundred Years of Rebellion, the reason why everyone stopped fighting was not because of who won, but because Omi caught up. They also completed the first industrial revolution and developed to the level of the late 19th century. They were the same as the Ming Dynasty and King Sai. The vassals took action and gained some upper hand, and then after the then chief minister of the cabinet killed the Donglin Party, those Sai kings stopped shouting about Fengtian Jingnan."
"Why did the chief minister of the cabinet kill the Donglin Party?"
Zhuo Qun remembered that he had said before that the entire court belonged to the Donglin Party. Why would the chief minister of the cabinet kill the Donglin Party? Did his own boss take the lead in committing suicide?
"The chief minister of the cabinet has been replaced. The reason seems to be that the supporters behind the Donglin Party are no longer good. Those who support the Donglin Party are large landowners and large businessmen, and those factory owners who started their careers during the Chongzhen period promoted their own people. These The people were at odds with the Donglin Party and fought fiercely. In the later stages of the Jingnan Campaign, the power and strength of the factory owners were greater than those of the big landowners, and those large-scale merchants were immediately involved in the Jingnan Campaign. Most went bankrupt.”
"Then what?"
Zhuo Qun drank another cup of tea. He was no longer able to complain. He was playing to death by himself. This was the style of the Donglin Party.
"Then the kings of Sai also stopped. They couldn't afford to fight anymore. They joined together to form a royal council to suppress the emperor. However, after the 20th century, they became a true constitutional monarchy. Now they are the most powerful country. Won two civilizational wars."
