Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 766
Liu Ruyan's matter was finally settled, and Princess Kunxing Zhu Weiji even built a nunnery for her in Meishan.

Zhu Youjian was very satisfied with the princess' decision. Although Liu Ruyan became a monk, he just moved out of the palace to rest.

This time they made the decision privately and did not report it to Zhu Youjian in advance.

Although he was satisfied with Zhu Weixi's actions, Zhu Youjian did not praise her and warned her not to set an example.

On the way back, Princess Kunxing Zhu Weixi kept Zhu Youjian's arm and acted like a baby again:

"Father, don't be angry. At that time, you were far away in Japan, and my son didn't report to you at all. Don't worry, father, there will be no next time, or you will abolish my princess..."

Facing this poor motherless child, how could Zhu Youjian have the heart to blame her immediately.

Reach out and pat Zhu Weixie's pretty face:

"Okay, don't feel guilty anymore, as long as you don't make up your own mind in the future, Father will forgive you this time."

Princess Kunxing leaned her head on Zhu Youjian's shoulder and said with a soft smile:

"Well, thank you, father, I know that my father loves Weixi the most, and I will tell you a secret..."

Zhu Youjian smiled slightly:
"Secret? Tell father what secret!"

Zhu Weixi hesitated for a moment, but finally made up her mind and said:
"Brother is not young this year, has Emperor Father considered his marriage?"

Princess Kunxing reminded Zhu Youjian with one sentence, and he slapped his head:
"Oh, this is true. Father only cared about expanding the territory and forgot about it. Tomorrow..."

Zhu Youjian wanted to explain to the army, so he asked him, but immediately realized that there was no one in the palace who could do this.

"How about this! You recruit the nuns who used to manage this matter into the palace for the emperor, and let them choose the concubine for the prince!"

Zhu Weixi smiled sweetly:
"Father, there are already candidates for the crown princess, but the harem does need to add some personnel. Now the gap is too big, and there are no others, not to mention the queen."

Zhu Youjian was taken aback at the time, of course he knew that he still needed a lot of people in the harem, but where did the princess come from?
"Is there a candidate for the crown princess? Let me hear who said it!"

Zhu Weixi said with some embarrassment:

"Father, Zhang Min, the editor of the Ming Daily, is not only beautiful but also very sensible, and seems to have an inexplicable relationship with the emperor's brother. I think she is quite suitable, but this does not conform to the system for the prince to choose a concubine, unless you Make your own decisions..."

After Qin Shihuang established the Qin Dynasty, ancient times entered the feudal dynasty.

Since then, the feudal dynasty has had a potential "threat", which is the harem interference in politics and the dictatorship of foreign relatives.

There have been many dynasties in history, and more or less of these dynasties had foreign relatives or harem meddling in politics.

The most familiar one is the Qing Dynasty. In the early Qing Dynasty, there was no harem to interfere in politics and foreign relatives to monopolize power.

But after Cixi entered the palace, the harem system of the Qing Dynasty changed.

Cixi became the actual person in power in the late Qing Dynasty. Since then, the Qing Dynasty has been plagued by harem meddling.

Even the demise of the Qing Dynasty had a lot to do with the interference of the harem. Without the Empress Dowager Cixi, the situation of the Qing Dynasty would definitely change.

In comparison, the Ming Dynasty never had a harem interfering with politics.

In addition, in the Ming Dynasty, there were no relatives outside the Han Dynasty, vassal towns in the Tang Dynasty, and old coins in the Song Dynasty.

Even the ancestral precepts of the Ming Dynasty are more domineering than any other dynasty, that is, "the emperor guards the gate of the country, and the king dies in the country"

Even Emperor Chongzhen, the king of subjugation, was the same.

Compared with other dynasties, from the establishment to the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was no harem interference in politics or the dictatorship of foreign relatives. Why is this?

All this has something to do with Zhu Yuanzhang. Although Zhu Yuanzhang didn't study much, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang studied hard and absorbed the lessons of previous dynasties.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang improved the shortcomings of all dynasties.

Zhu Yuanzhang decreed that all eunuchs were not allowed to read and write, and they were not allowed to hold civil and military titles as foreign ministers.

From this point of view, eunuchs intervening in politics hardly appeared in the early Ming Dynasty.

Even an eunuch like Wei Zhongxian is not enough to threaten the rule of imperial power.

In order to prevent the dictatorship of foreign relatives and the intervention of the harem, Zhu Yuanzhang first made a three-foot-high iron plaque and stood it at the gate of the palace. Eight characters were engraved on it:
"Ministers are not allowed to interfere in political affairs."

Later, the civil official group continued to grow and develop, which threatened the imperial power to a certain extent.

After that, there was the Inner Court Supervisor and the Outer Court Cabinet to check each other.

In ancient history, there have been many harem interventions and dictatorships by relatives, and the harem and relatives coexisted with each other.

As the power of the concubine in the harem increases, so will her relatives.

For example, Empress Lu in the Western Han Dynasty was monopolized, she destroyed Liu Bang's "the king is not the Liu family, and the world will fight against him", which led to problems.

Zhu Yuanzhang's management of the harem is very strict, and he thought of two ways.

The first is to be different in the selection of concubines, the second is to strengthen the management of the harem, and the most important is the system of concubine selection.

During the Ming Dynasty, starting from Zhu Yuanzhang, the phenomenon of "more concubines came from the people" appeared.

Except for marriages with nobles who were popular at the beginning of the founding of the country, the remaining emperors of the Ming Dynasty almost all came from the people in choosing their concubines.

In the Ming Dynasty, concubines were selected in the capital and its surrounding areas, similar to today's sea elections.

Afterwards, the Ministry of Rites screened the remaining dozens of people and brought them into the palace.

Among these dozens of people, one or two were selected as queens and concubines, and the rest were sent home with gifts.

In this way, all the queens and concubines in the harem were born in the folk, and there would be no powerful influence of the descendants.

Under such circumstances, they will not pose a threat to the imperial power.

Empress Zhang of Emperor Renzong of the Ming Dynasty was called "Yao and Shun among women". She came from an ordinary peasant family, and was later elected as the crown princess, and lived in the palace ever since.

After becoming a queen, her father was named the deputy commander of the seventh rank of soldiers and horses.This position will not pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty.

More importantly, the hereditary system of relatives in the Ming Dynasty was abolished during Emperor Jiajing.

In this way, it is even more difficult for foreign relatives to gain power.

With such a strategy, the harem will not be able to interfere in politics at all, and even the relatives will not be able to cause any disturbances.

History books commented on the Ming Dynasty as "so there was the Ming Dynasty, and the relatives were the weakest".

It is undeniable that it was Zhu Yuanzhang's method that prevented the Ming Dynasty from its establishment to its demise without the interference of the harem and the dictatorship of foreign relatives.

However, there are also disadvantages in doing so, that is, the emperor lacks a powerful foreign aid.

Foreign relatives must be the emperor's powerful assistants if they are used well, but the Ming Dynasty fundamentally did not have such foreign aid.

When Princess Kunxing mentioned Zhang Min, she knew that another ancestral precept was before her father.

Since the defense of the capital, the emperor's father changed and abolished the ancestral precepts just like athletes challenging the world record.

If the father is willing to make decisions for Zhang Min and Zhu Cihong, he will break another record.

Zhu Weixi didn't know if those ministers would criticize her father again. She was often criticized by ministers before, and later he abolished the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

(End of this chapter)