After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 561 Sophisticated Manipulation

"Now we don't have a chance, we can wait slowly. Hasn't the emperor been fighting abroad all the time?" Zhang Xiao said, "So Xu Da will definitely go out again one day, as long as he is not in Yingtian Mansion, it will be fine."

"It's just that King Yan is too powerful." Another family member said, "It's not wise to support a powerful prince as a prince, because it will be difficult for us to control him after he comes to power."

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

"good."

"Not bad." The rest of the people agreed after hearing the words.

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

The throne is passed on to the second generation, no matter how capable the emperor is, they still have the means to influence the government.

Was Zhu Di great in history?
However, he was still manipulated by the feudal nobles.

Li Shimin is also very powerful, he still can't make the son he likes to be the prince.

How did Zhu Di be manipulated by the feudal nobles?

Zhu Di actually wanted to make Zhu Gaoxu the prince back then. After all, Zhu Gaoxu had been following him all the time, and he was most like him in terms of military affairs.However, in the end Zhu Di gave up his own ideas and chose Zhu Gaochi.

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

It was the big fat man who established a good relationship with those nobles, and then got the money, so that Zhu Di had enough food and salary to go out to fight.Just because the big fat man has a good relationship with those feudal nobles,

The civil servants around Jianwen were pardoned,

This made the court support the fat man from top to bottom, and finally gave him the posthumous title of Renzong.

The way those feudal nobles manipulated Zhu Di was money, which was to empty the treasury.The trick of using money not only prevented Zhu Di from acting arbitrarily, but also changed the candidate for the prince.

To put it simply, if the emperors in ancient times could not see clearly that the feudal aristocrats controlled the lifeline of the country's economy.No matter how powerful he is, he can't escape the cage made for them by the feudal nobles.

Thinking that the emperor is powerful is not easy to control, and a cowardly emperor must be cultivated, which is the lowest level of power.

Firmly grasping the economic lifeline of the country, the officials of all sizes in the imperial court are connected together to form an inseparable network of relationships.Controlling a powerful emperor in his hands is a profound power technique.

No matter how powerful your emperor is, you can't do anything without money in the treasury.

Whatever the emperor wanted to do, the civil and military forces of the whole dynasty stood up to oppose...

If it weren't for Zhu Gaochi's good relationship with those feudal nobles and compromise with them, Zhu Di would have the funds for five northern expeditions?Have the funds to compile the Yongle Grand Ceremony and move the capital?

Simply put, the big fat man is the bridge of friendship between Zhu Di and the feudal nobles.

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

As a result of the compromise, Zhu Gaochi died young, and Zhu Zhanji died young.In the end, the Empress Dowager was regent, Sanyang took control of the government, and Zhang Juzheng took control of the government.

Zhang Juzheng and Sanyang are both outsiders.

Seeing that this group of people only understand low-level tactics, but not high-level tactics, Zhang Xian sneered.If they control the lifeline of the economy, that is, the money in the national treasury, what emperor can they not control?If they want the treasury to be empty, they want it to be empty. If they want the treasury to have money, they will have money. Whether they have money or not is the key to whether things are done successfully.

However, since Emperor Zhu implemented the public land system and developed overseas trade,
The ability of these feudal nobles to control the economic lifeline of the court has weakened.In the past, the taxation of the Ming Dynasty was mainly based on agricultural taxation, but now it is mainly based on commerce.

The public land system and Daxing commerce can be said to have touched the foundation of the feudal aristocracy.

In the past, it was the feudal nobles who nodded to the court to have money, but now there is no need for them to nod, and the treasury has money.That's why this group of people hated Qin Yu so much.

……

"The Patriarch means..." The crowd was puzzled.

"What I mean is, we should choose to support King Yan as the crown prince instead of some cowardly prince." Zhang Xiandao, "King Yan is very capable, so we can't handle him?"

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

"Besides, we choose to support His Royal Highness King Yan now, which makes it even more obvious that our Zhang family is selfless and considerate of the country of the Ming Dynasty. After all, a capable heir apparent will be the blessing of the Ming Dynasty in the future."

"The master is mighty!"

The crowd heard the words and said one after another.

"The day of the talent show is coming soon, 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 the show girl."

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

The selection of beautiful women in ancient times was not only for the emperor, but also for the princes.

And the selection of concubines by the princes basically depends on their family background.Whichever girl has a good family background, she can choose whoever is suitable for wooing, and her appearance is basically secondary.

Especially those princes with great ambitions should pay more attention to the family background of Xiunu.

The commoner's daughter wants to be chosen?

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

Appearing in front of them, whether the show girl can be selected depends on her family background and who is richer.

If the Zhang family showed kindness to King Yan a little bit, when King Yan was drafting a girl, even if the daughter of the Zhang family didn't meet his aesthetics, he would choose the Zhang family in the end.

Now the difficulty lies in how the Zhang family should show their favor to King Yan quietly.

Let Yan Wang know in his heart that the Zhang family supports him as the prince.

How to do it so as not to show any traces or appear obtrusive, there is also profound knowledge in it.

"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 an old man who only knows how to lead troops to fight. What kind of tactics does he know?
And these feudal nobles have played this for generations.

There are many famous generals in history who were played to death by them.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also similar to Xu Da. If Qin Yu hadn't instructed him, he would have never known that Chang Yuchun was killed, and Chang Concubine and his grandson Zhu Xiongying were also killed by feudal nobles.

……

It's like a gamble, the Lu family who was originally the dealer has already gone to the dealership.

Everyone started a new round of betting.

The Zhang family chose to put the treasure on Yan Wang Zhu Di.

And the rest of the aristocratic families also began to bet one after another, choosing to support different princes.Some chose the second child Zhu Xi, some chose Zhu Di, some chose Zhu Chun,
(End of this chapter)