Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

However, because Chen Zilong and Xia Wanchun are the "young talents" they are promoting, their status must be highlighted.

Therefore, the children of the Qian family who should have appeared in the most important position were just attending the meeting.

The Qian family is the real top-level family.

Qian Zhan's biological uncle Qian Shisheng, the great-grandfather of Xia Wanchun's wife, was a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion during the Chongzhen period and studied under Qian Longxi, the second assistant of the Ming Dynasty, a wealthy Songjiang family;

Qian Zhan's father Qian Shijin, Xia Wanchun's wife's grandfather, was the governor of Yunnan during the Chongzhen period.

One is the court talker, the other is a feudal official, and they are both officials of this dynasty!

You can imagine the bull of the Qian family.

This is not to mention other tribesmen with slightly lower official positions.

The two of them are the two mainstays of Donglin!

As the boss of Donglin, what Qian Shisheng protects is naturally the interests of wealthy families.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Qian Shisheng went to Beijing to serve as the Minister of Rites and the Bachelor of Dongge University.

In February of the following year, he was promoted to the Taibao of the Crown Prince and the Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion.

Qian Shisheng's political views were as consistent as Donglin's standards - being mean to the emperor, damaging the court, and enriching the wealthy family.

The first thing he did was:

"Stop the cases, stop drum casting, severely punish corrupt officials, stop sending officials to supervise the payment of new and old wages, etc."

The second thing is to imitate the "Four Proverbs of Cheng" and launch Qian Shisheng's version of "Four Proverbs of Cheng" -

"Be generous to control the crowd, be simple to be humble, be humble to keep your mind at home, and be calm to be in charge of politics."

These policies, to put it bluntly, are—

"Emperor, you must live a simple life and reduce your expenses. The court must have a streamlined army and simple administration. The eunuchs cannot come out to collect taxes for you;

The most important thing - we gentry must be treated well.

At the same time, if we say that whoever is a "corrupt official" (referring to an eunuch), you, the emperor, must punish him severely. "

Around the end of the [-]th to [-]th year of Chongzhen, Li Jing, a martial arts student, went to Emperor Chongzhen and said: "Please invite the rich families in the south of the Yangtze River to sign up and lose the official position. There is no way to do this without having a real registration."

To put it bluntly, the wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River were pulled out to serve as the "grain head" and "tax head" of the imperial court. If the agricultural tax and commercial tax set by the court could not be paid on time and in amount, the rich people in the south of the Yangtze River were required to make up for the shortfall.

Since the early Ming Dynasty, the tax burden paid by Jiangnan has only been one-third of the official figure.

According to Li Jing's proposal, the remaining [-]% must be filled by the wealthy families themselves!

How could the Donglin Party members, as representatives of wealthy families, agree?

Because this proposal is essentially - there is no way to search for the status of wealthy people in Jiangnan.

Qian Shisheng, who is a rich man himself, naturally would not agree.

Qian Shisheng personally drafted an imperial edict on the grounds that "this outrageous discussion shakes people's hearts" and asked the Ministry of Punishment to question Li Jing.

(This is the Ming Dynasty emperor!

That group of maggots tied up the Ming and Qing dynasties, saying that the emperor had the greatest power.

It’s not like that when you talk about chickens! )

Chongzhen had already seen Donglin's true face by this time, so he naturally protected Li Jing with his life.

Chongzhen refused to issue this edict.

Qian Shisheng threatened Emperor Chongzhen with resignation.

did not expect……

Emperor Chongzhen, who had already seen Donglin's true face, agreed to Qian Shisheng's "please return home" on the spot without even trying to persuade him to stay.

If the emperor doesn't persuade him to stay, Qian Shisheng will have no choice but to "go home to recuperate"!

In this way, Qian Shisheng "returned home to retire."

After the establishment of the Hongguang Dynasty, with the rise of new and more narrow-minded parties, old Donglin like Qian Shisheng also became marginal figures.

(One important thing to say:

After the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty, Qian Shisheng, Zhong Dingchen, the prefect of Jiaxing, Ma Jiazhi in Gishizhong, Tu Xiangmei in Hanlin and others raised troops to rebel against the Qing Dynasty.

After the failure, Qian Shisheng became a monk and never came back.

Qian Shisheng's body, although as always, bears the brand of a Donglin Party member who "only pursues personal gain and does not care about the country."

However, being able to raise troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty when the country was in ruins was already one of the few loyal members of Donglin and the Restoration Socialist Party. )

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Also present were Zhong Dingchen, the prefect of Jiaxing sent by Qian Shisheng, Ma Jiazhi, Hanlin Tu Xiangmei and others.

These people were all sitting on Taishi chairs with backrests.

Impressively, it is the position of chairman.

Most of the people sitting on the Taishi's chair were among the leading figures of the Yunjian Poetry School.

The characteristics of Yunjian Poetry School are very obvious:

Before the Jiashen Incident, the "Party Club" formed by this group of rich children was full of the style of "composing new words to express sorrow" and "extreme music".

The writing mostly describes the events of wind, snow, blood and moon, using the love between men and women as a narrative technique.

After the Jiashen Incident, it was characterized by expressing patriotic ambitions, generous and tragic.

In the early stage, they were mostly beautiful and soft, while in the later stage, they were more generous and sad, empathetic and affectionate, and ridiculed reality.

(The Yunjian Poetry School and the Yunjian Ci School are integrated: since the Tang and Song Dynasties, this is the school with the highest level of lyric writing.

Because there were more lyrics written in the Qing Dynasty, some people always think that the revival of lyrics began in the Qing Dynasty.

Actually it is not.

The Yunjian Ci School, headed by Chen Zilong, Song Zhengyu, Song Cunbiao, Li Wen, Song Zhengbi, Xia Wanchun, Qian Fangbiao, Dong Yu, Jiang Pingjie and others, is the first Ci school in the millennium history of Ci.

It has continued to influence the present day.

At that time, there were three major poetry schools in the late Ming Dynasty, namely: the Yushan School of Poetry represented by Qian Qianyi, the Yunjian School of Poetry represented by Chen Zilong, and the Loudong School of Poetry represented by Wu Weiye.

At that time, the most influential one was the Yunjian Ci School.

Wu Weiye's Loudong School of Poetry was deeply influenced by the Yunjian School of Poetry.

As for the Yangxian Ci School during the Kangxi period, the Western Zhejiang Ci School, and the Changzhou Ci School after Jiaqing, they are even younger among the younger brothers.

There is a saying in the literary circle - "Since the Ming Dynasty, Xiang Zhen (Chen Zilong) has been ranked first among poets."

Has anyone heard of the "Xiling Ci School"?

This is a branch of the Yunjian Ci School.

[Special note: It is not Xiling Seal Society. 】)

Behind everyone, Sun Zhang, Ni Fu, Zhang Shousun and other wealthy scholars and officials sat on benches without backrests.

There were hundreds of literati on the high platform.

However, they are all children of wealthy families.

Every one of them is a wealthy family who owns mines, shops, and factories.

Ordinary wealthy families have become marginalized.

As mentioned above, during the Donglin period, members also included ordinary people, who became members of Donglin by following their "masters" and "in-laws".

By the time the Fushe was established, all its members were descendants of wealthy families, and their origins began to center around Jiangnan.

As for the third-generation parties such as Jishe, almost all members are children of wealthy families in the Jiangnan region. (Mainly the Yangtze River Delta region.)

——The literati parties in the Ming Dynasty showed a trend of becoming more and more "regionalized" and "rich".

This point has been explained before - it is caused by the profit-seeking and exclusivity of capital.

The swearing-in meeting is being held.

Wu Zhikui, the deputy commander-in-chief of Wusong, and Lu Zhiyu, the commander-in-chief, led [-] naval troops from Wusong to Mao Lake. The commander-in-chief, Huang Fei, led [-] ships and [-] naval troops from Wuxi to meet here.