"Now that there is no chance, we can wait slowly, hasn't the emperor been fighting abroad?" Zhang Xiao said, "So Xu Da will definitely go out again one day, as long as he is not in Yingtianfu, it will be easy to do." ”

"It's just that King Yan is too powerful." Another family member said, "It is not a wise move to support a powerful prince to be the crown prince, because it will be difficult for us to control him after he ascends the throne." ”

"So the best option for us is to support a cowardly prince."

"Not bad."

"Not bad." The rest of the people agreed.

However, Zhang Xian, as the head of the family, sneered contemptuously when he heard this: "If there is a capable emperor, we can't control him?" Your understanding of power is still at the lowest level! ”

The throne passed to the second generation, and even if the emperor was capable, they had a way to influence the government.

Zhu Di in history is amazing, right?

However, he was still manipulated by the feudal aristocracy.

Li Shimin is also very powerful, he still can't let his favorite son be the prince.

How was Zhu Di manipulated by the feudal aristocracy?

Zhu Di actually wanted to make Zhu Gaochu the crown prince back then, after all, Zhu Gaochu has always followed him in the southern and northern wars, and he is most like him in military affairs. However, in the end, Zhu Di gave up his idea and chose Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Di led the Northern Expedition all the year round, and he was addicted to fighting, but he was short of money every time he went on an expedition.

It was the big fat man who had a good relationship with those nobles, so that he got the money and let Zhu Di have enough food to go out to fight. It is precisely because the big fat man has a good relationship with those feudal nobles,

pardoned the civil officials around Jianwen,

This made the whole court support the big fat man, and finally gave him the nickname of Renzong.

The method of those feudal aristocrats to manipulate Zhu Di is money, which is to make the treasury empty. The use of money not only prevented Zhu Di from acting arbitrarily, but also changed the choice of the prince.

To put it simply, the emperors of ancient times could not see clearly the fact that the feudal aristocracy controlled the lifeblood of the country's economy. No matter how powerful he is, he can't escape the cage prepared for them by the feudal aristocracy.

thinks that the emperor is powerful and it is difficult to control, and it is necessary to cultivate a cowardly emperor, which is the lowest level of power.

Firmly grasp the economic lifeline of the country, so that the officials of the court up and down are connected, forming an inseparable network. Holding the powerful emperor in his hands is a profound power technique.

No matter how powerful your emperor is, he can't do anything if the treasury has no money.

What the emperor wanted to do, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty stood up against it......

If it weren't for Zhu Gaochi's good relationship with those feudal nobles and compromising with them, Zhu Di would have the funds to go north five times? Have the funds to compile the Yongle Canon and move the capital?

To put it simply, the big fat man is a bridge of friendship between Zhu Di and the feudal aristocracy.

Zhu Di didn't seem to rely on those feudal nobles, but in fact, he did.

The result of the compromise was that Zhu Gaochi died young, and Zhu Zhanji died young. In the end, the Queen Mother was regent, Sanyang controlled the government, and Zhang Juzheng controlled the government.

Zhang Juzheng and Sanyang are both outsiders.

Seeing that this group of people only understands low-level power techniques, not high-level power skills, Zhang Xian sneered. If they control the economic lifeline, that is, the money of the treasury, what emperor they cannot control? They want the treasury to be empty, they want to make the treasury rich, they want to have money, and whether they have money or not is the key to determining whether things are done successfully.

However, since Emperor Zhu implemented the public land system and developed overseas trade,

These feudal aristocrats' ability to control the economic lifeline of the imperial court has weakened. In the past, the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty was mainly agricultural taxation, but now it is mainly based on commerce and trade.

The public land system and the great prosperity of commerce and trade can be said to have moved the foundation of the feudal aristocracy.

In the past, it was the feudal aristocracy who nodded that the court had money, but now there is no need for them to nod, and the treasury is rich. That's why this group of people hate Qin Yu to the core.

……

"What does the head of the house mean ......" the crowd was puzzled.

"I mean, we have to choose to support King Yan as the crown prince, not to choose any cowardly prince." Zhang Xian said, "King Yan is capable, we can't pinch him?" ”

"There is Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, behind King Yan, so we can't control the Xu family?"

"Besides, we now choose to support His Royal Highness King Yan, which shows that our Zhang family is selfless and selfless, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. After all, a capable prince will be the blessing of the Ming Dynasty in the future. ”

"The head of the house is mighty!"

When the crowd heard this, they all said.

"The day of the draft girl is coming, right?" Zhang Xian said, "Who in your family has a girl of the right age, let her dress up well, teach her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and then participate in the selection of show girls." ”

With the energy of the Zhang family, it is completely possible to buy off the draft officer, so that the daughter of the family can appear in front of the emperor and the princes in a glamorous manner.

In ancient times, the selection of show girls was not only for the emperor, but also for the princes.

And those princes choose concubines, basically depending on their family background. Which girl has a good family background and is suitable for wooing, she chooses whom, and her appearance is basically secondary.

Especially those princes with great ambitions, they should pay more attention to the family background of the show girl.

The daughter of a commoner wants to be chosen?

The daughters of ordinary people can't pass the audition at all, and they can't appear in front of the princes, okay?

Whether the show girl can be selected in front of them is compared to the family background and whose family is richer.

If the Zhang family shows favor to King Yan a little, when King Yan is drafting, even if the daughter of the Zhang family no longer meets his aesthetics, he will choose the Zhang family in the end.

The difficulty now is that the Zhang family should quietly show favor to King Yan.

Let King Yan understand in his heart that the Zhang family supports him as the crown prince.

How to do it without revealing traces and not appearing abrupt, there is also profound knowledge in this.

"Once the daughter of our Zhang family is selected by His Royal Highness King Yan, then the former Princess Yan can follow in the footsteps of Concubine Chang." Zhang Xian thought coldly in his heart.

Zhang Xian estimated that even if Princess Yan Xu Miaoyun died later, Xu Da might not know that his daughter was killed.

Xu Da is a big old man who only knows how to lead troops to fight, what tricks does he know?

And these feudal aristocrats, their ancestors have been playing this for generations.

There are many famous generals in history, and they have been played to death.

Zhu Yuanzhang is also similar to Xu Da, if it weren't for Qin Yu's guidance to him, he probably wouldn't know that Chang Yuchun was killed until he died, and Concubine Chang and his grandson Zhu Xiongying were also killed by feudal nobles.

……

This is like a gamble, it turns out that the Lu family who sat in the village has already left the village.

Everyone started a new round of betting.

The Zhang family chose to put the treasure on Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

And the rest of the families also began to bet on the treasure and chose to support different princes. Some chose the second Zhu Zhang, some chose Zhu Di, and some chose Zhu Chun,

(End of chapter)