As the Lindong Party threatened the interests of other non-Lindong party member, many non-Lindong Party officials formed gangs based on regions and senior officials as leaders. North Korea once announced the establishment of the Party, the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party and the Qi Party, and they jointly attacked party member. The struggle has gradually evolved from the initial cabinet-ministry and portal struggle to the partisan struggle, with further escalation in scale, more serious nature and worse influence. The political struggle in the Ming Dynasty deteriorated sharply and entered an unprecedented new period.
Lindong represented the interests of merchants and landlords in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces at that time and opposed the imperial court's taxation of industrialists and businessmen. They took advantage of Emperor Chongzhen's elimination of Wei Zhongxian's influence to cancel or reduce the tax burden of overseas trade tax, mining tax tax, salt tax and tea tax, which made the source of fiscal revenue in the late Ming Dynasty more single and the tax source of the imperial court more dependent on ordinary farmers. Coupled with various natural disasters at that time, a large number of farmers went bankrupt, which directly led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Lindong Party is a bureaucratic political group dominated by Jiangnan literati in the late Ming Dynasty. The "Party" of "Lindong Party" is a small group, not a modern political party.
1604 (thirty-two years of Wanli), Gu Xiancheng and others resumed Donglin Academy, where Shi Yang gave lectures in the Song Dynasty, and gave lectures with Gao Panlong and Qian Yiben. Lin Dong's lectures coincided with the intensification of social contradictions in the late Ming Dynasty. In the name of satirizing and commenting on government affairs and officials, Lindong people shield landlords and seek benefits for wealthy businessmen and tycoons.
Although they put forward progressive slogans such as clean government, young officials, open speech and getting rid of the accumulated disadvantages in the ruling and opposition parties, they actually became spokesmen of big landlords and big businessmen's interest groups, turned a blind eye to the tragic reality of famine victims in the late Ming Dynasty and tried their best to obstruct the act of raising money for disaster relief.
At that time, the people of Lindong were fiercely opposed by eunuchs and their dependent forces. The development and evolution of the political differences between them formed a fierce party struggle situation in the late Ming Dynasty. The opposition generally calls Lindong College "Lindong Party" because it holds lectures, and people in the government and the public who have relations with it or support sympathetic lectures.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Lindong Party