Swallowing the Ming Dynasty Whole

Some "experts on the history of the Ming Dynasty" keep saying that "the Donglin Party sold out the Ming Dynasty", but someone has counted that there are only three traitors in the "Assassination List" named by the Eunuch Party himself in the "Dianjiang Lu" of Donglin (one of them defected to the Eunuch Party after the "Dianjiang Lu" was released. I won't say who it is). Even Qian Qianyi, everyone's favorite villain, was not among them - although he did not dare to die for his country, he still had secret connections with the remaining forces of the Southern Ming Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty. Maybe given the shallowness of these historical inventors, they don't even know who these three people are. Let me quote Xiang Tianying's statistics: Sun Chengzong resisted the Qing army during the Wuyin Incident, but the city was broken and he hanged himself. Huang Gongfu participated in the Sanzhong Uprising in Lingnan and later became a member of the Ming Army in Wencun. He persisted in the war of resistance behind enemy lines. When Wencun fell, he set himself on fire with Wang Xing. Jie Xuelong threw himself into the river when Nanjing was opening the city. Liu Zongzhou committed suicide on a hunger strike after the demise of the Hongguang court. There are two theories that Chen Biqian was killed by the Qing army or died of old age. Li Ruoxing died in the military rebellion for unknown reasons. Gu Xichou was killed by a warlord. Zheng Sanjun became a monk and lived in seclusion in the mountains. Xiong Mingyu returned home due to illness during the Hongguang period and later died. Hui Shiyang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty for a time, and later participated in Wang Yongqiang's anti-Qing movement, and his whereabouts are unknown. Qian Qianyi surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but secretly communicated with Zheng Chenggong. Hou Xun came to the Qing Dynasty and did not serve as an official, but he lived openly and happily in his own home. (The names of the three traitors have been abridged, because you can find out by yourself by using the elimination method) In addition to these 15 people, Song Shixiang was captured by the Dashun Army and was killed after refusing to surrender, and Li Banghua hanged himself when the Dashun Army captured Beijing. 16 Of the other people listed in Donglin's general list were killed by Wei Zhongxian, 3 by Chongzhen, and the rest died of natural causes before the fall of the Ming Dynasty. In my opinion, the biggest problems of the Donglin Party are these: 1. Empty talk and no real work. But because there is still a moral bottom line, they will still do some practical things outside of party struggle, and there are also many who died in the fight against the Qing Dynasty. But the eunuch party... 2. The suggestion to abolish the inn was made by the Donglin party. But I've never seen anyone take advantage of this. Maybe it's because they are all repeaters, and they don't know which Donglin Party member proposed it, hehe~ 3. Engage in party disputes. I also saw an outrageous accusation that made people hate me: After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Donglin Party secretly changed the history of the Ming Dynasty to beautify itself - laughing to death. Not to mention what has been made clear before, there were only three people from the Donglin Party who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became officials, including a traitor. Just two or three people have the power of a hammer to tamper with such a large history book. Also, what reason does Daiqing have to beautify the Donglin Party? Even if the scope is extended to the Jiangnan gentry, they are not the basic base of Daiqing's ruling group (otherwise why would they want to hold a crying temple case), and Daiqing doesn't care about them at all. Secretly carrying private goods for beautification? Okay, let's assume that those two traitors have the energy to do this kind of thing, then are you sure that the act of including private goods in the official history books is not stirring up trouble on Kangxi's head? Is the butcher knife in Kangxi's hand fake? Want to know more about the Ming Dynasty case? The problems in the late Ming Dynasty were systemic. Civil servants, military generals, clans, relatives, eunuchs, and nobles, every group was unclean. No matter which one you rely on. If you think you can do anything if you keep Wei Zhongxian, you can think of it as childish. Supplement: I have read all the comments. Let me summarize the gist of the replies from some people below: "I don't listen, I don't listen. Anyway, as long as I don't like it, it is the Donglin Party. Although there is absolutely no evidence proving their "party membership" of the Donglin Party in history. Why is there no evidence? The question is to prove that they are with the Donglin Party and help them cover it up!" In reverse, it turns out that Huang Taiji is the leader of the Donglin Party. Otherwise, why would he cover it up for them so eagerly?

Sun Chengzong seems to have made little contribution to the Manchu Qing except for building a Ming version of the Maginot Line and raising a Guanning Group. As for the author, does he brag like this?

If Chongzhen were at the same level as the author, he wouldn't even be able to survive for 17 months. From the historical materials compiled by the Ming Dynasty to New China, Wei Zhongxian is not a good thing in all serious official historical materials. You have to explain that the Qing scholars do not want to see eunuchs, so New China will not target Wei Zhongxian, right? Even if the Donglin Party is nothing, it is still a little better than Wei Zhongxian.

Personally, I think it is impossible for a time traveler to use power to revitalize the late Ming Dynasty. Only by using a vision beyond the times and as an emperor to forcefully promote technology such as sweet potatoes and muskets can the situation be broken.

Personal opinion, The eunuch party in the late Ming Dynasty had become a disguised imperial party because of the power of civil servants in foreign dynasties. With no military power and no underlying foundation, their only reliance was on imperial power. Wei Zhongxian is someone who does not hesitate to die, but his greatest value lies in creating an eunuch through which the imperial power can extend its tentacles. To defeat the eunuchs would mean that the imperial power would lose its hands and feet. No matter how the people below fought and how their interests were re-divided, the emperor could not get even a penny of benefit from it. This is also the reason why, in my personal feeling, during the Chongzhen Dynasty, even though it seemed that I could kill any minister I wanted, I could not change the decline. Because the killings come and go, the people who eat the flesh and blood of the Ming Dynasty are just a different group of people, which does not help. Therefore, my personal sense is that allowing the eunuchs to exist in the late Ming Dynasty is similar to drinking poison to quench thirst, but without the eunuchs, with the greed of the civil servant group, the court could hardly collect money and food at all, and he would die of thirst before he died of poison.

Don't torture the eunuch to death, and don't think of the civil servants as superior. Civil servants are inherently opposed to the emperor and the common people. Wei Zhongxian is a knife. There is a saying that if the horse is put into the Nanshan armor, no sand sculpture will break his knife. Such a vicious dog like Wei Zhongxian should be locked up in a dog cage. When you can't afford to play anymore, just pull out the cage and scare those who are against you. If there are vicious dogs in the house, enemies should not enter.

Where has all the money collected every year gone? ? ? The emperor didn't get it, the eunuchs didn't get it, and the border troops didn't get it either. Please all the disciples and grandsons of the Donglin Party, please stand up and tell me loudly that after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he carried out a torture operation. He tortured the gentlemen of the Donglin Civil Service Group and found out a total of 780 million taels of silver. Please explain to all the filial sons and grandsons of the Donglin Party.

The old habit of writing about power and strategy is wrong again, and the description is wrong, giving people the feeling that the structure is too small. For example, in this salt policy rectification, all the writing and ink are entangled with corrupt officials. The question is, in the late Ming Dynasty, were there people who were not corrupt? This means that your salt policy rectification has turned into an anti-corruption campaign. Anti-corruption can be written, but it has to be dispersed into various actions and cannot occupy the main space. For example, the rectification of the salt industry can be written about in the capital city. After all, this is the center, and the local government cannot get entangled. They directly lead the troops to rectify the situation with a general trend, directly overturning the entire salt farm, renting out the salt farm, opening up the salt market to let others come in to share a share, and write about the resistance of salt merchants and salt administration corrupt officials. Just keep those corrupt officials for the factory guards and the Inspectorate to dig out, and you can stuff them in for embellishment whenever you want. Just like the current anti-corruption campaign, supply-side reform is not about digging a line to fight corruption. Whoever jumps out to hinder reform and fights against corruption is the right path

The filial sons and grandsons of the Donglin Party are quite active. Why don't we see these filial sons of the Donglin Party come out when the issue of Liao's salary comes up?

This is the most comfortable historical novel I have read recently. The only thing that made me fully subscribe to it recently is that the updates are too short.