Lindong Party is a bureaucratic political group dominated by Jiangnan literati in the late Ming Dynasty. They satirize state affairs and comment on officials. They demand incorruptibility, revitalize official management, open their minds, eliminate the accumulated disadvantages of the ruling and opposition parties, and oppose the greed of powerful people and pervert the law. Although the slogan is loud, it is actually useless. They even abandoned the national interests and opposed it for their own political interests. Li Sancai, the representative of Lindong Party, is just a big and easy-to-use machine force. Good at courting courtiers, caressing for thirteen years, and making friends all over the world.
To put it bluntly, Lindong Party refers to a group of literati who have nothing to do. They talk about political affairs there every day to see if it is good or bad for them. As long as it is bad for them, we will attack the court together. Lindong Party is actually a group of wealthy businessmen who unite and spend money to train a group of people and infiltrate the imperial bureaucracy. These people are the so-called Lindong party member, so these Lindong party member are actually the spokesmen of the southern wealthy businessmen in North Korea. These bureaucratic groups unite to safeguard the interests of the wealthy businessmen and oppose the emperor.
Lindong Party experienced four emperors. Lindong Party appeared in the Wanli period, and the most important thing for Lindong Party in the Wanli period was to fight against the emperor. When Emperor Apocalypse first ascended the throne, he was faced with a diplomatic dilemma. The war between Liaodong and Manchu was tight, and the national treasury was quite empty. The party struggle in the court is fierce. A group of literati of Lindong Party will impeach this one today or that one tomorrow. At sixes and sevens, they just talk, fight for their own group interests, and don't do much serious work.
In order to avoid these Lindong party member, Emperor Wanli often found various reasons not to go to court. Of course, Lin Dong's party is just one reason why Emperor Wanli didn't go to court. Wanli still has its own problems.
Contrary to Lindong Party, it is a eunuch party, mainly a bureaucratic group attached to eunuch power. Their composition is mostly based on the bottom, and most of these eunuchs entered the palace when they were young. There are no relatives in the palace, and there are no clan forces like Lindong Party. They are more dependent on themselves. Their power comes from the emperor, so most of them will focus on eunuchs close to the current emperor. There is a very important person in the faction of Yan Party, Wei Zhongxian. When Wei Zhongxian was in power, Lindong Party didn't take any advantage.
After Emperor Chongzhen came to power, the Lindong Party in Wei Zhongxian was destroyed and began to recover, and the Lindong Party Group intervened in the military. The imperial examination system in the Ming Dynasty, especially the eight-part essay, raised the status of scholar-officials in society too high, forming the concept that "everything is inferior, only reading is high". In this way, the so-called literati especially look down on craftsmen and businessmen. While enjoying these inferior fruits of labor, they also despised these people, which greatly hindered the development of society and gradually distanced the Ming Dynasty from foreign science, technology and culture. It is no exaggeration to say that China has fallen behind since the Ming Dynasty.
Lindong Party is in power again. Of course, abolishing the industrial and commercial tax is the first step. As for Liaodong, how to spend less? The phenomenon of lack of salary in Liaodong is getting worse. Coupled with the separation of officers at all levels, soldiers rarely get it, and their morale and behavior are low. The generals of the Ming army wrote a letter for money every day, and Emperor Chongzhen was at a loss. Lindong Party accused Liaodong officers of improper command, ineffective combat and corrupt pay. Throttling is often moral preaching; How to do it without open source! Of course, Lin Dong will not increase industrial and commercial tax's income, and the burden will naturally fall on farmers. So the peasant uprising began and the Qing army entered the customs.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the status of civil servants and military commanders was very similar to that of the Song Dynasty, and the status of military commanders was extremely low. At the same level, the position of civil servants is definitely higher than that of military attache, which greatly limits the role that military attache can play. Being ignorant of soldiers and restricting the power of military attache led to the decline of the overall military strength of the Ming Dynasty.
Lindong party member will only be full of articles, divorced from reality, which is "the literati mistakenly country". Long-term upper-class life made Lindong party member out of touch with supporting the whole peasant class and unaware of the sufferings of the people. There are ways to make sense, but there is no actual action. There is no national rescue policy. Ironically, they hold the power of the whole country, so the demise of the Ming Dynasty is also in line with the historical trend.
Because the literati of Lindong Party were out of touch with the whole peasant class and didn't know the sufferings of the people at all, the peasant uprising broke out, which greatly dispersed the fighting capacity of the Ming army, created conditions for the Qing army to enter the customs, and the Ming Dynasty, which was still strong in national strength, also perished.