Chapter 9: The New Donglin Party
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"You're welcome." Li Banghua said with a smile.
"It's not interesting to eat alone every day, Li Aiqing can come to accompany me, I'm still happy, why be polite." Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "Usually, I participate in the work...... Reading books, I heard that there are some owners who like to call people to go out to play together when they get off work, thinking that they can contact their feelings, but they don't know that people and workers also want to accompany their families, where do they want to accompany the owners to laugh? So, sometimes I have to delay your time until the evening, and I don't want to go. ā
"Holy benevolence is a blessing to the people." Li Banghua was very emotional when he heard this sentence.
After all, there's no boss who doesn't want his subordinates to work overtime every day. But Zhu Cihong can think about his subordinates so much, so he naturally deserves the word benevolence.
The two arrived at the side hall, and the imperial chef quickly prepared the dinner.
There are few rare dishes, four dishes and one soup, and Zhu Cihong adopted the state banquet standards of later generations. Of course, the level is also at the level of a state banquet.
There is no red tape, Zhu Cihong and Li Banghua have known each other for a long time, and over the years, the empire has gone from the end of the collapse to Zhongxing, and the two have accumulated quite a deep cooperation and friendship.
The ancients paid attention to sleeping without saying anything, and eating without speaking, saying that this was the style of the old gentleman.
But in the case of this kind of meal sharing system, obviously there is no need to worry about disturbing the appetite by talking and saliva, and continuing to be silent will only increase the embarrassment.
Moreover, Li Banghua obviously has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace.
After a period of silence, Li Banghua said: "Your Majesty's 'Ming Dingguo' and 'Financial Budget System' today are really brilliant and extraordinary. ā
"Li Aiqing thought about it too much." Zhu Cihong picked up a piece of tiger skin meat. This is created by Dong Xiaowan, Zhu Cihong went to Jiangnan, but the taste is also bad. The imperial chef in the palace naturally followed up quickly, and the taste was not lost to the original owner.
Zhu Cihong said while tasting the food: "These are also the things that I have had a flash of inspiration in the past few years, and if I want to think of another one now, I can't think of it." Let it be. However, this clearly determines that the country is related to the financial budget system, what does Li Aiqing think? ā
Li Banghua sat up straight, Zhu Cihong asked casually, Li Banghua didn't dare to answer casually, he thought about it for a while, and then said: "Weichen thinks, this is the best policy." By specifying the state affairs and designating the financial budget system through the semi-annual State Council meeting, this can greatly improve the current state affairs chaos. It's just that there is a time when manpower is poor. No matter how deep he thinks about it, the minister is also worried, if there is a sudden emergency, what should he do? For example, wars, natural disasters and even epidemics ......"
Zhu Cihong slowly bowed his head, wars, natural disasters and epidemics, these are all things that happened in the Ming Dynasty, not Li Banghua talking nonsense.
Moreover, there is a temporary urgency, which is indeed a problem.
"Aiqing's new Donglin Party, how has it been established?" Zhu Cihong said with a smile.
Li Banghua was stunned, and quickly reacted.
The last time Zhu Cihong mentioned this matter, it was almost two or three years ago. At that time, Zhu Cihong had not yet ascended the throne.
It is precisely Zhu Cihong's understanding of party affairs and his benign views on the party and government that have prevented the internal friction of party contention between the DPRK and China from forming a climate.
Zhu Cihong's mind is also the most touching place for Li Banghua. Let Li Banghua change from appreciating at the beginning to joining the camp.
"The matter of Xindonglin...... It's a shame to say that two years ago it went quite well. It's just that this year's ......" Li Banghua hesitated for a moment, and then said: "It's because Weichen is slacking off, so that Xin Donglin is also a little contaminated with the bad habits of the past." ā
After speaking, Li Banghua smiled wryly.
Zhu Cihong continued to listen carefully, and only then did he understand what Xindonglin looked like now.
This year is the year 279 of the Ming Dynasty, that is, 1646 AD. If Emperor Chongzhen hadn't hung up, it would be the eighteenth year of Chongzhen now.
Two years ago, when Chongzhen was sixteen years old, Zhu Cihong and Li Banghua met. At that time, Zhu Cihong put forward a plan for the revival of Donglin, and also recognized the necessity of the existence of partisan competition and the appearance of a modern political party in Zhu Cihong's mind.
This is tantamount to a direct endorsement of the tendency of political parties to become open.
The revival of the Donglin Party and Zhu's attitude towards the party led Li Banghua to follow Zhu and devote himself to the plan of reviving the Donglin Party.
At that time, it was the time when the contradiction between Zhu Cihong and the Fushe became public. It was also the chess piece that Zhu Cihong planted in Donglin, which greatly affected the cohesion within the Restoration Society, so that the confrontation of the Restoration Society had to be declared a failure, and in the end, three of the four famous sons of the Restoration Society were invested in Zhu Cihong's command.
In any case, the Donglin Party and the Fushe Opposition, which danced the most, no longer stirred up trouble.
Relying on Li Banghua's personal charm and His Majesty the Emperor's recognition of the openness of the party and the competition between the parties, the New Donglin Party developed rapidly, not only absorbing a considerable number of officials from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang factions, but also occupying an important position in the hearts of the new generation of scholars.
But with the accession of His Majesty the Emperor to the throne and Li Banghua's ascension to the position of prime minister, some discordant noises began to appear in the new Donglin Party.
The main thing is that it is mixed.
This is not that the difficulty of joining Xindonglin has decreased, but that there are too many people who tend to be inflammatory.
This made Li Banghua worried, and he kept trying to stop it, but found that it backfired. Moreover, the party is rejoicing at the rapid increase in new members, and does not see this as a bad thing.
However, it turned out that Li Banghua's feelings were right.
"Now, a new party has emerged in Beijing,......" Li Banghua said, "It is called the Republican Society, and it is quite popular among Shilin. It was only then that my colleagues in the party remembered what I had said......"
"Republican Republic...... Adjust the grains to unite the mouths of the people, and this name is good. What is their program? Zhu Cihong said.
"Program?" Li Banghua recalled for a moment before he said: "At the beginning, many people in the party did not like them. Because this group of young people shouts fighting and killing all day long, the slogan is: The sea of stars, the future of the Ming Dynasty. It's quite smooth, that is, not long after the war ended for favoritism, many young people in the DPRK and China shouted fighting and killing, because many people did not like it. But...... but he was flourishing among the scholars. ā
At this point, Xindonglin is lagging behind. A political party should not exist for the purpose of fighting for power and profit. They should be organized together, united, and fought together for their common interests and a common ideal, and realize their life values with their wisdom and sweat. It is not used to fight for power and profit, to deceive oneself, and to defend one's own personal interests. At this point, I am afraid that this is the reason why the Republican Society is better than your Donglin. It doesn't matter if it's old or old. Once you forget your original intention, the friends who came together because of this will go their separate ways. Zhu Cihong said, and Li Banghua gradually understood.