ebookslot Chapter 660: Endless Regional Party Disputes, The North-South Ranking System That Was Killed In Adva
Chapter 660: Endless Regional Party Disputes, The North-South Ranking System That Was Killed In Adva
However, things like the imbalance between civil and military parties in the original history should never happen in this Ming world.
After all, the premise for the first civil-military party imbalance in history was that Zhu Biao died early and Zhu Yuanzhang established Zhu Yunwen as his successor.
Then he was worried that Zhu Yunwen was young and could not suppress the noble marquises of Huaixi, so he massacred all the noble marquises of Huaixi, thus causing an imbalance in civil and military forces.
But now, let alone whether Zhu Biao will die young again in the future.
Even if Zhu Biao really dies young again, there will still be a bunch of second-generation vassal kings waiting in line to ascend to the throne, such as Qin Wang Zhu Fang, Jin Wang Zhu Fan, Yan Wang Zhu Di, etc.
Even if a bunch of second-generation vassal kings such as Qin Wang Zhu Fang, Jin Wang Zhu Fan, Yan Wang Zhu Di, etc. all unfortunately died, there are still ten grandsons of the third generation of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Xiong, waiting.
Even if Zhu Xiongying is gone, there are still Zhu Jixi and Zhu Gaochi, who are both the third generation emperor's grandsons and have also received Yan Changqing's teachings, waiting in line.
Under such circumstances, if Zhu Yunwen wants to ascend the throne and succeed to the throne.
Unless a meteorite fell from the sky, and the second-generation princes such as Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di were accurately identified, as well as Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Jixi, and Zhu Gaochi, all the third-generation emperors and grandsons who had received Yan Changqing's teachings. It would be possible if they were all smashed to death.
However, even the outstanding Liu Xiu, the son of the plane, would not dare to act like this, let alone Zhu Yunwen, who was better at handling women in the palace.
Similarly, if Zhu Biao does not die young, then there is no telling whether Zhu Di will be the king of Yan in the future.
And if King Yan Zhu Di does not succeed to the throne and becomes the emperor, then even if Zhu Mingmen is still born among Zhu Di's descendants in the future, he will not have the qualifications, let alone the ability to engage in the Northern Expedition.
Then things like many military generals, noble marquises, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers dying in the Tumu Fort will naturally not happen.
If the Battle of Tumubao had not happened, then the second complete imbalance between the civil and military parties would not have happened either.
So from the current point of view, although the party struggle between civil and military forces exists, there is no need to worry that it will completely get out of control for the time being.
Nowadays, what deserves more attention and vigilance to prevent is the second type of party struggle, that is, regional party struggle!!!
In the original history, if we want to trace the origin of the regional party disputes in the Ming Dynasty, it can be traced back to the "North and South List Case" in the Hongwu Period!!!
It was precisely because of the "North and South Ranking Case" that occurred during the Hongwu period and the implementation of the imperial examination system of the North and South Ranking Papers and the North and South Middle Ranking Papers.
Artificially and clearly divided the scholars, officials, and officials of the Ming Dynasty into two, and even multiple regional group factions, thus laying hidden dangers for the subsequent regional party struggles.
After that, scholars, officials, and officials from different regions either actively or passively began to stick together to keep each other warm, formed gangs with each other, advanced and retreated together in the court, and criticized and suppressed other regional factions. of officials.
And this kind of regional party struggle became more and more intense after the civil and military party struggle was completely out of balance and civil servants completely gained the upper hand in the court.
By the Wanli period, the Zhejiang Party, dominated by officials from Zhejiang, the Donglin Party, dominated by officials from Jiangnan, the Qi Party, dominated by officials from Shandong, and the Chu Party, dominated by officials from Huguang, had been formed in the court. There are also regional parties such as the Kundang Party, which is mainly composed of officials from Kunshan, and the Xuan Party, which is mainly composed of officials from Xuancheng.
In order to fight for and safeguard their own interests, these regional parties often create things out of thin air, resort to selfish revenge, and compete with each other.
For example, one of the landmark events of regional party strife during the Wanli period was the establishment of a governor!!!
In the twenty-sixth year of Wanli (1598), the imperial court discussed the "establishment of a crown prince." Emperor Wanli had always wanted to establish Prince Fu Zhu Changxun, the son of Concubine Zheng, as the crown prince.
Shen Yiguan, the leader of the Zhejiang Party and the chief minister of the cabinet at that time, understood Emperor Wanli's ideas very well, so he mobilized his disciples and old officials in the court meeting [that is, Guan Geng, the treasurer of the Zhejiang Party, went out to support the establishment of King Fu as the crown prince.
However, although Emperor Wanli wanted to establish Prince Fu, and the chief ministers of the cabinet were helping him, the position of prince ultimately went to the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo.
Even Emperor Wanli and Shen Yiguan, the leader of the Zhejiang Party and the chief minister of the cabinet, could not shake Zhu Changluo's position as crown prince, so there must be one or even multiple forces behind this supporting Zhu Changluo.
These forces supporting Zhu Changluo were officials from other regional parties besides the Zhejiang Party, and the majority of them were Donglin Party officials from Jiangnan Province.
Note that the Donglin Party at this time has not yet been officially born.
However, these officials from Jiangnan Province were either directly members of the later Donglin Party, or were closely related to the later members of the Donglin Party, so it is fair to say that they were directly members of the Donglin Party.
Although the Zhejiang Party's proposal to establish Prince Fu as the crown prince failed in this party dispute over the establishment of the crown prince, other parties did not have an easy time either.
During this party struggle, a total of four cabinet ministers (Shen Shixing, Wang Jiaping, Zhao Zhigao, and Wang Xijue) were forced out, as well as more than ten ministerial-level officials, and more than 300 central and local officials were involved. More than 100 of them were dismissed from office, dismissed, and sent to the army!!!
It can be said that no one has gained much benefit from this party struggle. Instead, it has made the conflicts between parties in different regions more serious.
Since then, various regional parties have unprincipledly suppressed dissidents and criticized others as long as they found an opportunity.
For example, the "Chu Zong Case" broke out in the 31st year of Wanli (1603 AD) and the "Demon Book Case" broke out at the end of the same year.
The person who served as the chief minister of the cabinet at that time was Shen Yiguan. When he became the chief minister of the cabinet, there were two other ministers in the cabinet, one was Zhu Geng from Zhejiang and the other was Shen Li from Henan.
Needless to say, Zhu Geng's wife was a sincere person and did not want to form gangs, but the fact that he was born in Zhejiang is enough to explain everything.
Another deputy minister of the cabinet, Shen Li, was a later Donglin Party official.
Earlier, the Zhejiang Party and a group of parties headed by the Donglin Party had just fought to the death over the matter of establishing a prince.
As the chief minister of the cabinet and the leader of the Zhejiang Party, how could Shen Yiguan tolerate a cabinet minister from a different party than his own who was confronting him in the cabinet?
So Shen Yiguan used these two cases to continuously unite with his Zhejiang Party officials to launch attacks on Shen Li and Guo Zhengyu, who was also a member of the Donglin Party, almost killing them several times.
Even Zhu Changluo, who was the crown prince at that time, once expressed why he wanted to kill my outstanding minister. From this, we can know how fierce and cruel the regional party struggle was at that time.
However, the Zhejiang Party has not always been strong, and there are times when it overturns.
The incident that overturned the Zhejiang Party was the opening battle that represented the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the rise of the Qing Dynasty - the Battle of Saarhu.
Although there are many civil servants in Zhejiang, the Zhejiang Party only has many civil servants and no sensible talents.
Since the Zhejiang Party had no one to lead troops, it had to appoint Yang Hao, a comrade with barely any experience in leading troops, to lead the battle.
As a result, Yang Hao made it clear in his surrender letter to Nurhachi where his troops were dispatched.
Really, no traitor can do such a mind-blowing operation, at least all traitors know how to cover it up.
Nurhachi was overjoyed after receiving the surrender letter. He immediately commanded the Jin army to march more than 200 kilometers in four days. In three consecutive battles, he defeated the elites mobilized by the Ming Dynasty from all over the country with a textbook maneuver. .
In the end, Saerhu was defeated miserably, and Emperor Wanli was furious. As a result, the Zhejiang Party was severely damaged by the Great Purge.
While the Zhejiang Party's vitality was greatly weakened, the Donglin Party also took the opportunity to rise.
In the third year of Tianqi (AD 1623), the Donglin Party controlled the performance evaluation, and at once the Zhejiang Party and the Chu Party
Needless to say, the Zhejiang Party was the largest party in the past and overwhelmed the Donglin Party and other parties. Although it is now severely weakened, it is still a well-known big party.
The Qi Party is composed of officials from Shandong Province and is the largest party in the northern provinces.
At that time, the Chu Party included officials from Hunan and Hubei provinces and was the fifth largest force in the court, with fewer members than the Qi Party.
How could the three parties of Zhejiang, Chu, and Qi tolerate the Donglin Party's operation of treating all parties as if they were nothing, and they would even unite to fight against the Donglin Party.
However, at that time, the three parties of Zhejiang, Qi, and Chu had been severely weakened. Even if the three parties united, it would be difficult to overthrow the Donglin Party.
So the three parties of Zhejiang, Qi and Chu lowered their arrogant heads, bowed their heads to a group of eunuchs headed by Wei Zhongxian, and joined forces with Wei Zhongxian to deal with the Donglin Party.
In this way, the court forces headed by the three parties of Zhejiang, Qi and Chu, and the eunuch forces headed by Wei Zhongxian colluded with each other, thus forming the eunuch party.
The entire late Ming Dynasty was a partisan struggle between the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party.
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From this perspective, the Donglin Party can be considered very powerful. With the power of one party, it can fight against the Zhejiang, Qi, Chu and other parties including the eunuch forces.
This kind of combat effectiveness is three points stronger than the Zhejiang Party at its peak in the past.
But unfortunately, both the Donglin Party and the eunuch party composed of Zhejiang, Qi, Chu and other parties and eunuch forces were too strong.
It is so strong that both the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party can only temporarily suppress the other party, but cannot truly completely eradicate the other party.
Of course, there is also an important reason why the emperor does not want one of them to be completely eradicated.
Because only the two parties are together, then the emperor can take advantage of the partisanship between the two parties to barely control the direction of the government, while allowing himself to continue to maintain a superior position.
If one of the two parties is completely gone, then it won't be long before the emperor will be completely ignored and become a puppet emperor like Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, based on the strong fighting power of the two parties, coupled with the emperor's occasional disagreements, the party struggle in Ming Dynasty continued endlessly until the newly built Nanming after the end of Ming Dynasty.
Otherwise, if the Donglin Party or the Eunuch Party can completely eradicate the other party and truly achieve one party dominance.
So if the "party struggle" is eliminated in disguise, maybe the court in the late Ming Dynasty will operate better, and the Ming Dynasty can continue for a few more years.
Of course, it is also possible that even after the Donglin Party or the Eunuch Party completely eradicates the other party and truly achieves one party's dominance, it will split into several smaller parties again, and then continue to start a new round of party struggle. .
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After all, this kind of thing did not happen before during the "struggle between the old and new parties" in the Northern Song Dynasty.
[The Ming Dynasty actually perished due to party strife!!!]
Recalling the regional party struggles in the original Ming Dynasty, Yan Changqing couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
There are many reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and party struggle can definitely be said to be an important reason that cannot be avoided. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most important reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes below, did not know how fierce and cruel the regional party struggles in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were in the original history.
But just from the "Controversy between Qi and Huan" in the Eastern Han Dynasty that Yan Changqing talked about before, the Party
The "disaster of imprisonment", the "niu-li party struggle" in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the "old and new party struggle" in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the struggle between the peace faction and the war faction in the Southern Song Dynasty.
They can also more or less guess that if there were fierce party disputes in the Ming Dynasty like those in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty.
Then Daming’s fate will definitely not be much better!!!
[No, the North-South ranking system cannot be implemented!!!]
[Not only cannot the north-south list system be implemented, but all other measures similar to the north-south list may divide the Ming Dynasty, causing the common people, scholars, and officials of the Ming Dynasty to be divided into their respective regions.
Even the system cannot be implemented!!!]
[In addition, we must find ways to blur the regional identity of those scholars and officials and dispel the regional concept in their minds, so that regional parties will not easily arise!!!]
[Let’s go back and let officials from the south go to the north to serve, and let officials from the north go to the south!!!]
[This will not only prevent them from forming local gangs, but also eliminate their regional identities and regional concepts in their hearts!!!]
[In addition, those scholars and scholars who will go to the countryside and villages to teach the people to read the three hundred core Chinese characters and the two thousand important Chinese characters must also be dealt with in the same way!!!]
[Let the scholars and Juzi from the South teach the people in the North to read the three hundred core Chinese characters and the two thousand important Chinese characters. Let the scholars and Juzi from the North teach the people in the South.
Recognize 300 core Chinese characters and 2,000 important Chinese characters!!!]
After listening to what Yan Changqing said, whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang or the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, they all had a deep understanding of the northern and southern ranking system and the
Systems similar to the North and South rankings are marked with a big cross.
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