Why are more and more people whitewashing Wei Zhongxian now?

Wei Zhongxian, a famous eunuch, is a figure that cannot be ignored in the history of China. Strictly speaking, he is a eunuch who has no education but has been to the top of the empire. The emperor claimed long live, and he claimed to be nine years old. It can be seen that his power at that time was monstrous, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is an absolute monarch. This traitor and moth of the Ming Dynasty, with the changes of the times, gradually made people have different views on him.

More and more historians believe that Wei Zhongxian was a man who tried his best to maintain the Ming Empire, and Emperor Chongzhen and the Lindong Party members behind him were the last pillar that corroded the Ming Empire. Although Wei Zhongxian was not labeled as a traitor, historians gave a positive conclusion on his contribution during his mastery of the Korean Bureau. Isn't this equivalent to another kind of white washing?

Indeed, Wei Zhongxian is a treacherous court official, which is a verdict from ancient times to the present, and there is no way to overturn it. In ancient times, no matter how capable you were, the most important thing was to do your duty and not have the heart of rebellion. Otherwise, a charge of rebellion can offset all the achievements. So people at that time hated Wei Zhongxian, because in their minds, people who didn't respect unity were traitors and did nothing.

Over time, later generations have no so-called hatred for Wei Zhongxian, because they don't care about their own affairs. So everyone looks at this person from an objective perspective. Besides being a traitor, he is also a master of the national tax plan. The salt tax and mineral tax he set up once enriched the treasury of the Ming Dynasty and showed signs of revival.

Unfortunately, he eradicated dissidents, created unjust cases and plotted evil deeds, and was finally ousted by Emperor Chongzhen. Lindong Party and Emperor Chongzhen abolished the so-called taxes, which made people who do business in the world earn extra money, but the state treasury became more and more empty. When they really wanted to send troops, they found that the state treasury was out of money, and finally they could not suppress the wave after wave of peasant uprisings, and the Ming Dynasty died of internal and external troubles.

If Chongzhen can keep Wei Zhongxian's system, Daming may be able to support it for a while, but in the end, Daming's national subjugation has an important relationship with his abolition of Wei Zhongxian's national tax policy. Therefore, many people wash the white for Wei Zhongxian, because he is much better than Emperor Chongzhen in the national economy.