After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

The situation developed indeed as Yu Zizhen and her subordinates hoped. After watching several military exercises held by China, which were called exercises but were actually shocking, the envoys of the three small foreign countries immediately became calm and composed. Came down.

Not only did they tacitly shelve their previously discussed grand plan to jointly attack China, but they also became increasingly enthusiastic about the marriage.

Of course, the brain-dead princess who fell in love with Xiao Yuanjin has been excluded from the selection of relatives, but the other princes and princesses, without exception, were all picked out by their own emissaries and regarded as the means of marriage to ensure their marriage. An important chess piece for the country’s stability.

Although Yu Zizhen flatly refused to allow those princes to enter her harem, she did not object to the marriage of princes and princesses from these three countries to nobles and courtiers of her own country.

She said to the envoys from three small foreign countries: "It's okay to get married, but I have to make the rules."

The messengers were all ears.

Yu Zizhen said eloquently:
"First, we, the people of China, will not marry outside the country. Whether your country uses a princess or a prince for marriage, they must live with their husbands or wives in the capital of China after marriage."

"Of course, to show my respect for the princess and prince of your country, I will give them respective mansions after they choose the right person to marry."

"Second, whether they are officials' children, civilians, or servants, as long as they are within the borders of China, they have absolute autonomy over their own marriages."

"In other words, if the princess or prince of your country likes someone, they have to use other methods besides coercion to persuade the other party to come to me in person."

"If the other party has no intention of becoming one of the candidates for peace with your country, then I will never interfere in the other party's marriage and embarrass my own people with the so-called righteousness."

When the envoys from the Three Kingdoms and their respective princes and princesses heard this, their faces turned dark.

When Yu Zizhen saw this, he changed his mind and said, "Of course, based on the character and virtue of the princess and prince of your country, I also believe that there must be people in my country who have a discerning eye for pearls."

As long as he can get benefits, Yu Zizhen doesn't mind saying more nice things.

She looked at the Minister of Honglu Temple in China with a smile, "It would be cumbersome and inefficient for the princes and princesses from all over the world to search for themselves. In order to promote the marriage as soon as possible, Ai Qing might as well announce it to the public. According to the screening conditions, interested parties are allowed to sign up by themselves, and then Aiqing will lead someone to conduct a preliminary screening, and finally the princes and princesses will choose one of the candidates screened at Honglu Temple."

The deputy envoy of Beiyan frowned into a small knot, "Isn't His Majesty the State of China planning to allow all the princes and princesses to marry into the royal family?"

Yu Zizhen was not afraid of exposing his family scandal at all, "To be honest with all the envoys, I have a normal relationship with my mother's clan, and so far I have not awarded any reward to any member of the Yu clan."

"And I just said that my people have absolute autonomy over their own marriages. The Yu clan people are also my people. Although I will not give them any additional benefits, I will not rely on them. As the emperor, I will deprive them of the basic rights they should enjoy."

The envoys from the three countries looked at each other. To be honest, they all felt that the founding emperor of China might not have a serious mental illness.

When other people become emperors, they pursue the peak of life where they are able to gain power over the world and lie drunk on the knees of beauties. This emperor, however, keeps saying that he wants to protect the basic rights of the people under his rule. Isn't this a serious illness?
They have never seen an emperor like her who is afraid of her own power. Yu Zizhen didn't care what they thought. Even if she forced the marriage, the families and young men and women who were granted the marriage would not be able to make trouble under the all-round surveillance of the Xiaonaiyin system. But after all, she was unwilling to rely on her hands. Use the authority to make things difficult for others, to force others to understand what it means to "sit at home, and disaster will come from heaven."

As for the envoys from the Three Kingdoms and their princes and princesses who had been scared out of their wits by her joining forces with the courtiers, Yu Zizhen's real idea was that it would be best if they were not willing to accept her harsh conditions, so that she would not have to worry about monitoring them in the future. They are.

Anyway, these guys have been scared out of their wits by the military exercises they held, and they don't dare to show even the slightest tough attitude in front of her.

Yu Zizhen's confidence was felt by the envoys of the Three Kingdoms and their princes and princesses.

Of course they were very aggrieved and dissatisfied, but thinking of China's military strength, the envoys of the Three Kingdoms and their princes and princesses could only swallow their sighs of aggrievedness.

In order to decide whether to get married or not, the envoys of the Three Kingdoms and their princes and princesses constantly weighed the matter and held several private discussions.

In the end, the princes and princesses of Beiyan, who were favored and valued by their fathers in the country, all chose to return to their home countries. As for the remaining three in southern and western Xinjiang, two chose to return to their home countries, and one chose Stay in China.

The one who chose to stay was the prince from Southern Xinjiang. Although his official rhetoric was that he stayed to help Southern Xinjiang further explore China's national conditions, in fact, he just wanted to get rid of his situation in Southern Xinjiang. Awkward situation.

The status of men in southern Xinjiang is generally lower than that of women. In addition, this prince of southern Xinjiang, his mother-in-law, and his maternal family were also convicted in the turmoil in southern Xinjiang not long ago.

Although he was spared from dying with his mother, concubine, and maternal family because he was half of the Southern Xinjiang King, but when more than 90% of his closest and most useful maternal family died and more than half escaped, How much better can the life of this Southern Xinjiang prince be in Southern Xinjiang?

From his point of view, instead of going back to Southern Xinjiang and continuing to live the days of confinement like before, he might as well stay in China and be a "marriage distant man" for Southern Xinjiang. Between his father and other people in Southern Xinjiang From the leader's point of view, it's a small chess piece that's barely worth anything.

Apart from anything else, at least he can go out freely in China, talk to people casually, marry a wife and have children, and continue to live a comfortable life.

These few things alone were enough for him to strengthen his determination to stay in China.

As for the princess of Xijiang who fell in love with Xiao Yuanjin, she really wanted to stay in China and find opportunities for her "love" to come true. However, whether it was the envoys from Xijiang or her prince brother, everyone They didn't even give her a chance to make a choice.

Amid her noisy and annoying resistance and pleading, the envoys from Western Xinjiang and her prince brother put her into a carriage and took her away without any delay.

There were originally many but now there is only one. Yu Zizhen is still very satisfied with this situation.

She immediately asked someone to choose a mansion in a good location for the prince of southern Xinjiang who stayed behind. Then she ordered Honglu Temple to carefully select marriage partners for the prince based on his requirements for his future partner. (End of chapter)