Chapter 342: The correct way to win over people

Therefore, in a certain way, there is a natural contradiction between the top-level group of people in the Tang Dynasty and the middle- and lower-level officials, and Li Chengqian did not see the relationship between the two clearly.

And Li Zhen is different, he came from later generations, combined with what he saw and heard in the Tang Dynasty, and finally understood why he had to compromise with the family despite Li Shimin's wisdom and decisiveness, but he still had to compromise with the family - it was really that the family had penetrated too deeply in the Tang Dynasty, don't look at the early Tang Dynasty, the people of the family rarely appeared in the high-level of the Tang Dynasty, but most of those middle and low-level officials have something to do with the family, even if it is not a family behind it, it is not a good stubble...... All in all, most of these people don't have any good intentions, they are all tumors parasitic on Datang, once Li Shimin is ruthless, then before these tumors parasitic in Datang are removed, these erupted tumors will kill Datang first.

So Li Zhen didn't work hard in the hands of middle and low-level officials at all, except for a few innocent people, the rest of the people with backgrounds will be idle by Li Zhen even if they take refuge in Li Zhen - in the previous Yue Wang's Mansion there was a unit called the Guest House, which was full of middle and lower-level officials who took refuge in Li Zhen and the spies placed by the major forces around Li Zhen, for these people with ulterior motives, although Li Zhen did not turn them away, but he only fed a group of people who ate white food for nothing, just served with delicious food and drink, Raise them as pigs as decorations, at most let them do some grassroots work, such as running errands or something, as for more important things, they will never be allowed to interfere, let alone reuse them.

From beginning to end, Li Zhen only focused on how to win over high-level officials. Not to mention that they directly hold the decision-making power of the Tang Dynasty's policies, to put it mildly, Li Shimin will definitely refer to their opinions in selecting the heir in the future, and it is much more useful to win them over than to win over those middle-level officials - and the fact is that this is indeed the case, when Li Shimin deposed Li Chengqian and selected Li Zhen as the crown prince, Li Zhen, who had won the friendship of the upper-level officials, easily got their support, otherwise if they had the heart to oppose it, even Li Shimin would be forced by them to change his mind.

This is also another thing that Li Chengqian did wrong, that is, he did not hit the key points of these high-level officials.

How did Li Chengqian win over these high-level leaders? Maybe it's because he is already the crown prince and thinks that his position is irreplaceable, so the method he uses is very simple and rude, that is, he blatantly woos, and even threatens when he can't win over, but it's a pity that this method may be useful for middle and low-level officials, but this trick is still a little tender in front of these old foxes who are used to seeing the world and have already exercised inhuman wisdom, not only can they not get their loyalty, but they will offend them - from beginning to end, Li Chengqian only co-opted one Hou Junji, and after he was deposed, he turned around and released his goodwill to Li Zhen.

Li Zhen is different, his methods are much more clever, he knows very well the situation of these nobles, and it is impossible to have a simple role if he can come alive from that era and become the top decision-maker of the new dynasty. With such an existence, it is impossible to easily make them change their minds by brute force alone, so Li Zhen used the curve salvation method - isn't it easy for these people to get it? Then ignore them, bypass them directly, and start from their families, especially their children, and don't believe that they can still turn themselves away when they get rid of their children.

Li Zhen thinks so, he does the same, and the effect is very obvious - the earliest Fang Yi's love is still Du He, these two people don't talk about it, the later Wei Chi Baoqing and Yu Chi Baolin, or Qin Huaiyu and Cheng Chuliang, etc., etc., are used in this way, Li Zhen took the initiative to befriend them, these people were all teenagers back then, and they were not wary of Li Zhen's deliberate friendship at all, but they were very happy to join Li Zhen's camp, and after their parents found out, They have all been marked with Li Zhen's mark, and it is impossible to break away from Li Zhen again.

Then through these people, Li Zhen easily caught up with their parents, no matter how selfless their fathers were, in the face of their children's future, they had only one choice, that is, to favor Li Zhen - although this bias is very slight, but Li Zhen wants this slightness, because it is this slight bias that will not be suspicious of Li Shimin, and can give Li Zhen major support at the most critical moment.

Throughout Li Zhen's identity changes and changes over the years, it is only at the most critical moment that he can succeed with the support of this group of top-level nobles, otherwise whether he can lead the troops to Lingnan as a prince, or Li Chengqian is deposed and Li Zhen becomes the new prince, and even if the sub-feudal system is recognized today, it will definitely not be so easy or even may not succeed at all.

All in all, with the support of the high-level, the following officials led by Cui Dao didn't even have time to say a word, and Li Shimin and Li Zhen's proposal was passed like this, which once again proved that Li Zhen's judgment was right - don't look at these middle and low-level officials who are all on weekdays, and they are teddy every day, thinking that they are the second and third in the world, and once they are united, even the emperor will bow to them......

However, all this is just an illusion that the imperial court let them see, in fact, no one will stop turning on this earth, not to mention that they are just some ants that can be replaced at any time? Even if they can bite the elephant to death if they are united, it is still necessary for the elephant to give them a chance to unite. The reason why they were not all removed was because a rash change of blood would lead to instability in the government and the opposition, but if they really provoked the imperial court to disregard their reputation and interests, and had to attack them, where would they have any room for resistance?

On the contrary, the magnates wooed by Li Zhen are different, each of them is the real decision-maker of the Tang Dynasty, even if they cannot completely fall to themselves, but as long as there is a little tilt towards themselves, Li Zhen's position as the crown prince will be as stable as Mount Tai. Unless someone uses the army to launch a palace coup, as long as Li Zhen does not die, he can easily sit on the throne by just waiting for Li Shimin to die......

Thanks to those middle-level officials who think they feel good, where is their actual importance? They don't even have the right to make decisions, they don't have the qualifications to meddle in all the decisions of major national affairs, and only the group of nobles at the top are the real decision-makers of Datang.

(End of chapter)