The Donglin Party Is to Blame for the Death of the Ming Dynasty!
Zhu Biao didn't mind.
It was nothing to think that there were drawbacks to the eight-part essay selection.
Everything had its pros and cons.
This was natural.
His expression was indifferent, and he even comforted Tidas.
"Sir, everything has its pros and cons. It's like a double-edged sword. In order to maintain the stability of the Ming Dynasty, my father chose the eight-legged essay to select scholars. This is also the emperor's helplessness and compromise.”
"How can there be a Dual System in this world?"
"Sir, don't you think so?"
Tidas frowned slightly when he saw his nonchalant expression.
He couldn't help but remind her.
"Your Highness, do you really think that the eight-legged selection of scholars can maintain the stability of the Ming Dynasty?”
Zhu Biao was stunned.
"Sir, what do you mean?"
"The scholars selected by the eight-part essay are all scholars who are loyal to our Ming Dynasty. Could it be that this can't make our Ming Dynasty last for thousands of years?”
In a corner of the inner hall.
Zhu Yuanzhang's expression also turned grim.
He chose the eight-part essay to select scholars and imprisoned the thoughts of scholars.
It was for the sake of this group of scholars being obedient.
To be loyal to him and Da Ming.
However, if he couldn't do it, then what was the point of him having it?
Tidas looked at Zhu Biao's naive state and could not help but shake his head.
"Your Highness, how can the human heart be controlled by an inanimate object?”
"People are fickle."
"Although the eight-part essay selection test is based on the Four Books and Five Classics, which imprisons the thoughts of scholars, what do you think they will do after they enter the court and come into contact with the various powers of the court?”
"Even if they read the Four Books and Five Classics, do you really think they can be as free as the Confucian saints?”
"Humans have desires."
"Ambition will also grow."
"Letting the eight-legged essay selection method of selecting talents only let Da Ming die in the hands of those scholars.”
Zhu Biao's expression changed slightly.
The Ming Dynasty perished at the hands of scholars.
How was this possible?
He did not believe it.
Although there were drawbacks to the eight-part essay selection, it was not so harmful!
"Sir, are you trying to scare me?”
Zhu Biao frowned.
Tidas said that the Great Ming Dynasty would die in the hands of those scholars. This was undoubtedly saying that his father used the eight-legged essay to select scholars. Not only could he not rope in talents, but he would also bring about his own destruction.
This made him unhappy.
Tidas looked at Zhu Biao's unwilling to admit it and thought to himself,
He was really stubborn.
In history, the fall of the Ming Dynasty was largely related to scholars.
Although the eight-part essay selection could confine the thoughts of scholars, it was not a bad idea.
However, it could not restrain the ambitions and desires of the literati.
Even if you instilled good Confucian moral values such as social order and etiquette into the literati every day, their ambitions and desires would still grow.
This did not delay anything.
They had read the books of sages, but this did not mean that they had really become saints without desires.
Why did the Ming Dynasty perish?
There was one faction that came into play-the Donglin Party.
The Donglin Party was originally the lecturers of Donglin Academy.
They raised different opinions on social issues.
After that, this group of people became known as the Donglin Party.
Most of the Donglin Party members were Jiangnan scholars. They were the civil officials of the imperial court and the role models of scholars in the world.
Originally, this group of people should benefit the people and society and stabilize the Ming Dynasty. However, it was this group of scholars selected by the eight-legged scholar selection that became one of the reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, the fall of the Ming Dynasty couldn't be forgotten that the social contradictions at that time had reached an irreconcilable point.
The scholars of the Donglin Party also played a big role in the downfall of the Ming Dynasty.
This group of people represented the interests of the big landowners.
In layman's terms, it was the interests of the landowners and merchants.
After Emperor Chongzhen came to power, the eunuch party fell.
The Dong Lin Party rose.
Without any competitors, what would these scholars do?
This group of scholars represented the big landlord class. They lived in luxury and could not see the sufferings of the people. It was fine for them to talk in the court, but if they encountered trouble, none of them would be useful.
Naturally, they would not reform their own social class.
Therefore, they shifted their attention to the bottom of society.
The Donglin Party began to reform the bottom of society.
It caused the people to be in dire straits.
The so-called official coercion and rebellion.
If the people at the bottom of society were forced into a corner, what would they do?
The result was self-evident.
Rebellion.
Zhu Yuanzhang was a clear example of a rebellion at the bottom of society.
Li Zicheng was also such an unfortunate person.
He was born poor.
It was not easy for him to become a small courier.
However, he was fired during the big layoff at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
There was no way out.
He needed to apply for a new job.
He had no choice.
Li Zicheng could only rebel.
After that, Li Zicheng joined the uprising army and rose up in the ranks. He led the army into Beijing and destroyed Great Ming.
If Li Zicheng could always be a courier.
There was a stable meal to eat.
Naturally, he would not rebel.
The Donglin Party's reform targeted the bottom of society, forcing the people at the bottom of society to rebel.
Although the eunuch party and the Donglin party were all money-making parties.
However, most of the wealth accumulated by the eunuchs came from the rich families.
He was still restrained when it came to ordinary people.
But the Donglin Party was different.
They came from wealthy families.
How could he attack a rich man?
They could only attack the commoners at the grassroots level.
There was an example that showed that the scholars of the Donglin Party were even more greedy than the eunuchs.
Emperor Chongzhen begged the ministers to donate one million taels of silver to the military.
This group of ministers all cried out in poverty.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Zicheng extorted money from the ministers.
More than 70 million taels!
One could imagine how terrifying the wealth of this group of Donglin Party scholars was.
How could such scholars selected by the eight-legged school not be subjugated?
At that time, the leaders of the Donglin Party, Qian Qianyi, Hou Fangyu, and the others were still thinking of selling their country for glory. They did not have the thought of serving the country.
It could also be seen that the eight-legged selection of scholars could not make them loyal to the Ming Dynasty.
"What's the use of the talents selected through the Imperial Examination?”
"Other than knowing the Four Books and Five Classics, he's basically trash.”
Tidas mocked.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the scholars of the Donglin Party were still the common people of the lower class.
The eunuchs knew that there was no profit at the bottom, so they took advantage of the rich.
The scholars from the Dong Lin Party were all sanctimonious.
Zhu Biao was flabbergasted.
Tidas's words made him feel extreme.
The talents of the imperial examination were not all trash, right?
Zhu Biao did not know what Tidas was thinking. If he knew what Tidas was thinking, he would have stood on Tidas's side and criticized the 'talents' selected by the eight-legged scholar selection.
When Zhu Yuanzhang, who was standing in the corner, heard Tidas say that Ming would die in the hands of scholars, he revealed a displeased expression.
The people he picked out were all loyal to the country.
Why did Tidas say that he was a fool of the country?
He didn't think that the people selected by the eight-part essay were so unworthy.
"This kid is simply spouting nonsense!”
"Even if the people we have selected have their minds sealed, they will definitely not be as unbearable as this kid said!”
"Mao Xiang, don't you agree?"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Mao Xiang beside him.
Mao Xiang instantly felt his heart race.
He nodded repeatedly.
"Your Majesty, you are right."
"This kid is simply spouting nonsense."
Zhu Biao wanted to refute Tidas.
"Why did you make the officials selected by the imperial examination system sound so terrible?”
"I'm not saying that they're unbearable, but they're already unbearable.”
"Think about it. After these scholars who passed the imperial examination obtained power, they did not understand production and labor, nor did they understand the sufferings of the people. What would they do after entering the official career?”
"They definitely won't exploit the benefits of their class.”
"Therefore, they can only exploit the people at the bottom and corrupt them!”
Tidas said.
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