Comrade Zhu Youxiao has a title of "Carpenter Emperor" in history, and the irony is that this emperor likes to do carpentry work when he is not doing anything, and as a result, Wei Zhongxian controls the government and drags the Ming Dynasty into the abyss. However, history sometimes really needs to be carefully read and carefully understood by Zhu Youxiao's era, and perhaps we can understand that Zhu Youxiao deliberately used Wei Zhongxian to suppress the Donglin Party.
The Donglin Party refers to the bureaucratic clique dominated by Jiangnan scholars, who represent the interests of Jiangnan merchants and landlords, who frequently oppose the Ming Dynasty's imposition of various industrial and commercial taxes on Jiangnan, and these Donglin Party members call themselves "Qingliu", believing that the other Zhejiang, Qi, and Chu parties are all traitors and evil, and the Donglin Party even shouted out the slogan of "If you are not the same way, you are a vendetta".
Because the Donglin Party played a very huge role in the "dispute over the foundation of the country" and the three major cases at the end of the Ming Dynasty, after the Emperor of the Apocalypse came to power, the Donglin Party's forces were all over the government and the opposition, and other parties and ministers were about to be squeezed out of the political circle, at this time Wei Zhongxian appeared.
Wei Zhongxian was a eunuch of Bingbi, and was greatly trusted by Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Heavenly Revelation, so various non-Donglin parties, in order to protect themselves, have thrown themselves under Wei Zhongxian's disciples, although later generations have called Wei Zhongxian's forces "castration party", but people really use Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang as the main forces, after all, Wei Zhongxian is not stupid, and knows that relying on his own eunuchs cannot accomplish things.
It can be said that after Wei Zhongxian came to power, he immediately swept through the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Party was destroyed over and over again, which revealed the support of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao.
Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse, the "Carpenter Emperor", although he loved to do carpentry work, he was not stupid. He was well aware that the power of the Donglin Party was already very large, and even the Wanli Emperor could not suppress the Donglin Party in the "dispute over the foundation of the country", and could only choose to compromise, especially the subsequent palace transfer case, which directly showed that the Donglin Party could affect the change of supreme power of the Ming Dynasty.
However, the Donglin Party has a very high right to speak, but it is this group of Donglin people who praise themselves as "Qingliu", but they are not doing a clean stream in many things, and even appear to be greedy.
The most typical is the case of counterfeit money by the Nanjing Mint Bureau, the Ming Dynasty stipulates that copper coins should be minted in the proportion of copper six lead four, but the copper coins minted by the Mint controlled by the Donglin Party are only copper three lead seven, and finally the people resist the use of copper coins, the reason is also very simple, the copper coins minted are not as good as the fake money of the people. Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Heavenly Revelation had no choice but to let Wei Zhongxian out of the horse to save the situation.
In particular, the supporters behind these Donglin Party courtiers were merchants and rich and scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so they resolutely opposed taxation in Jiangnan under the banner of avoiding "competing with the people for profits", but at that time, there were frequent disasters in the north and wars in Liaodong were endangered, so it can be said that the Ming Dynasty needed money everywhere. However, Jiangnan, the richest of the entire Ming Dynasty, could not collect industrial and commercial taxes, and could only transfer the taxes to the already extremely poor peasants. It can be said that when the north is deep and hot, the south is still singing and dancing, and it is a world of flowers and flowers.
In the face of the stubbornness of the Donglin Party, Zhu Youxiao could only choose to reuse Wei Zhongxian, because at this time it was fundamental to be able to collect taxes, and only with money could he help the victims of disasters, only with money could he pay the army, and only with money could he equip and train the army, and could he reverse the situation in Liaodong. It should be known that in the Apocalypse Dynasty, by collecting the industrial and commercial tax in Jiangnan, the Ming Dynasty not only guaranteed the military supplies of Liaodong, but even exempted the disaster-stricken areas from taxes and took out money to provide disaster relief.
It can be said that Zhu Youxian's heavy use of Wei Zhongxian to attack the Donglin Party was a formal necessity, but also to maintain political balance, although Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch, did some things that hurt nature and reason in the process of attacking the Donglin Party, but what we need to admit is that during the period of Zhu Youxiao in the Apocalypse Dynasty, the military salaries in Liaodong were generally guaranteed, and even domestic disasters could be effectively alleviated.
During the reign of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Heavenly Revelation, although it was said that Wei Zhongxian had abused power, there was indeed no large-scale civil unrest in the country, and the situation in Liaodong was still maintainable, all of which also proved that this "carpenter emperor" was not a fainting person.