There are many jokes about the Donglin Party on the Internet, such as "The Ming Dynasty fell in Donglin", "I usually talk about my heart and mind, and I will repay the king when I die", "The water is too cold, and my scalp is itchy", etc.

However, these jokes are not all right. The Ming Dynasty's fall of the country is too much, and the Donglin Party alone cannot bear it. You have to count it in detail. The eunuch party, Zhejiang party, Chongzhen, Shanxi merchants, royal family, nobles, Little Ice Age and other reasons combined, which led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty, not just because of the Donglin Party.

To count it in detail in the 17th year of the Chongzhen Dynasty, there were 50 cabinet ministers, and only 11 people belonged to the Donglin Party; there were 17 prime ministers in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and only 3 Donglin Party, Zhou Daodeng, Han Du, Cheng Jiming, among which Zhou Dengdao served as the prime minister for 6 months, Han Du served as one year, Cheng Jiming was only 6 months. The Donglin Party was not the most powerful party in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

"The water is too cold and the scalp is itchy." There is only one Qian Qianyi. The Donglin Party members who died in battle or died in the country include Jie Xuelong, Gu Xichou, Jiang Yueguang, Liu Zongzhou, Sun Chengzong, Li Banghua, Li Ruoxing, Song Shixiang, Huang Daozhou, Qu Shisi, Cao Xueqi, Han Yu, Shi Kefa and many other representatives; and even Qian Qianyi secretly organized anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty many times during the Shunzhi period. This person is really complicated.

Moreover, many Donglin Party members have made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, such as Xu Guangqi, Sun Chengzong, Li Zhizao, etc., who had just been entrusted with important tasks by Shen Long, who were also Donglin Party.

Even compared with the eunuch party, the Donglin Party may have stronger moral integrity. The Donglin Party has Qian Qianyi, and the eunuch party has Sun Zhixie who advocates shaving his hair and changing clothes. This guy is definitely more shameless than Qian Qianyi.

But these do not mean that the Donglin Party is a good person. There are a few slaughter that the Donglin Party cannot get rid of. The most important point is that the trend of party struggles in the late Ming Dynasty started from the Donglin Party.

In the 33rd year of Wanli, Gu Xiancheng and his fellow friends Gao Panlong, Qian Yiben, Xue Fujiao, Shi Menglin and others gave lectures at Donglin Academy outside the East Gate of Wuxi, satirizing the government affairs, evaluating figures, criticizing the ruling factions, and in-service officials Zhao Nanxing and others, forming a powerful political force.

The first was a dispute between the Donglin Party and the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, and later it evolved into a dispute between the Donglin Party and the eunuch Party. During the Tianqi period, the party struggles became more and more intense. The Zhejiang, Qi, Chu, Xuan and Kun parties were beaten to pieces and had to form an alliance with the eunuch Party headed by Wei Zhongxian to jointly deal with the Donglin Party.

The court reached a big deal, who would have the heart to do things? In the end, these ministers did nothing for a day and were busy quarreling, which was even better than the Niu Li party struggles in the late Tang Dynasty and the old party struggles in the late Northern Song Dynasty. For a time, regardless of right or wrong, they only talked about the party. If this continues, the government will be better? If the biggest reason for the demise is the party struggle, then the Donglin party will have to be well.

Looking at the Donglin Party members’ propositions, it is nothing more than opening up the road of speech, opposing eunuchs’ interference in politics, and abolishing industrial and commercial taxes. The first and second are the old tunes that have been repeated. This has been said for thousands of years and is not new at all.

As for the third article, some people call it an urgent need for the germination of capitalism. This proposition of the Donglin Party caters to the trend of development of the times, but unfortunately it was interrupted, otherwise China might enter a capitalist society in advance.

However, this is nonsense. To talk about the budding, I, the Song Dynasty, also sprouted in the past? Why didn’t it develop? In the final analysis, although the Donglin Party and the people began to make money by using industry and commerce because of the developed economic conditions in Jiangnan, they were still the same as the landlords in their bones, which was completely different from the sprouting of Western capitalism.

It is better to expect them to develop capitalism than to rely on Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong to develop modern industry! Have the money they earned used to expand factory production? Have they used to develop new technologies? Have they used to open up the market? I am afraid that most of them are used to enjoy luxury life, to acquire land, and to bribe them. How can capitalism be developed if they do this?

Moreover, the Donglin Party advocated weakening the monarchy, but capitalism in the Western world developed precisely with the concentration of monarchy. In France, it was the establishment of the Napoleonic Empire and in Germany, Bismarck unified Germany; without a strong central government, how can a standardized market be formed?

When Mr. Wu talked about the Donglin Party with Shen Long, he quoted the evaluation of the famous historian Mr. Wu Han: From a principle point of view, the Donglin Party members are right in most cases, but they only quarrel and do not do anything.

Historical experts are much more reliable than online jokes, but they still look down on the Donglin Party. Shen Long has seen many people who only know how to criticize but do not know how to do things. Isn’t the public knowledge on the Internet the same?

Earlier, Shen Long agreed with their remarks, but after entering society and being beaten by society, he realized that what they said was fart. Later, seeing the tragic situation of Ermaozi, Shen Long knew what the end of the public intellectual governance of the country was. From then on, he no longer bothered to pay attention to these people. Now he looked at the Donglin Party, and he was the same as these people.

The court does not need criticism, but it also needs people who do things. Those who only know how to criticize and don’t do things are enough. If you really stuff such people into the court, the country will be really a pill.

The Jinyiwei, which was reorganized by Lu Wenzhao, acted quickly. The Dongchang, which Cao Huachun had just taken over, urgently needed to get rid of Wei Zhongxian's shadow and prove his ability to His Majesty the Emperor again. In addition, Li Sancai was already dead, so evidence of Li Sancai's corruption and abuse of power was quickly found.

Shen Long was immediately furious and ordered Lu Wenzhao to confiscate Li Sancai's house and harvest millions of taels of silver again. Shen Long sent the money to the Ministry of Revenue, which slightly alleviated the financial pressure of the Ming Dynasty.

After this incident, the Donglin Party's momentum was extinguished, and the pursuit of eunuch party members slowed down, which made eunuch party, Zhejiang party and others recovered, and formed a stalemate in the court.

In this way, the parties in the party struggle became increasingly dependent on Shen Long's ruling. Shen Long continued to use the conflicts between many parties without hesitation to achieve his goals. Although he has not yet mastered the government affairs, he can still do what he wants to do.

For example, when transporting supplies to Mao Wenlong from Dongjiang, he personally sent Wang Chengen to transport this batch of food and grass. Now Wang Chengen's sword technique has achieved some success, at least it has exceeded the upper limit of "Embroidered Chunjian" and it is not easy for ordinary people to threaten his safety.

Moreover, Wang Chengen learned many advanced methods from Shen Long and was loyal to Shen Long. It was not easy for those corrupt officials to embezzle and drift in front of him.

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