Dedicate One’s Mind

Chapter 1047 Disciples vying for position

With the election system coming soon, if you go to the market and ask a three-year-old child what is the most important thing for the Daji Dynasty today, he will answer that it is the election system.

So, what exactly is the election system? The form is the same as the ancient recommendation of talents, but no matter how similar it is, it cannot change the basic feature of the Daji Dynasty as a hereditary dynasty.

It is impossible to imitate the selection of ancient tribal societies. Apart from anything else, the candidate aspect has fully demonstrated the limitations of the selection system. All candidates must have royal blood, even if they are side branches, they need to be close to the orthodox blood line.

This was a condition set by the former Empress Ming Emperor in order to please the royal family, and it was also necessary to maintain the unity of the empire.

When there are many children and grandchildren of a certain reigning emperor, and there are many candidates, there must be more than ten people, no matter how few, there must be more than three. This is a rigid condition set by Emperor Xuan.

Otherwise, there would be no need to recommend, and without comparison, how would one know what is good or bad.

The election system implemented by the Daji Dynasty is no less than preparing for a war for both the government and the public, as well as senior civil and military officials. In order to ensure the fairness of the election system, we must first ensure that the selection places, that is, the people in the counties are correct. After all, the assessment is The core is to see the people's support for you.

There are problems with population calculations, and the authenticity is greatly compromised.

In addition, in order to select counties with development potential, behind it is the hard work of countless ministers and huge statistics. It is definitely not a lie to say that it is no less than war.

In addition, in order to prevent hostile forces from destroying the election system, the military also needs to be vigilant at all times. Destruction is far easier than creation. You worked hard, led the army and the people, reclaimed the land, and were completely burned by the enemy. May I ask your state of mind? How.

Finally, not to mention those external troubles, the internal troubles alone are already a lot of trouble. You need to know that there is competition among the princes.

The recommendation system does not necessarily require a certain support rate. It only needs to be higher than the opponent's support rate. To put it bluntly, it means comparing the worst. Although I am bad, as long as you are worse than me, I will win.

The purpose is clear. During the thousands of years that the election system has been in place, there have been several incidents of princes killing each other. There are just a few things that have been revealed publicly, but the number that has not been exposed secretly is, without exaggeration, hundreds of times this number.

Fortunately, their fight was only in a small county town. No matter how fierce the fight, it could not hurt the core hinterland of the dynasty. There was the emperor's highest judge, and this was also the concern of the former Ming Emperor.

The system was like this, but after Emperor Ming's death, various forces got involved in the electoral system, and the idea of ​​serving the people was forgotten. Even the emperor, the supreme judge, stepped aside and the chaos was extremely chaotic.

In order to prevent the emperor from being both a referee and an athlete, during the Xuan Emperor period, even the emperor's power was restricted to avoid excessive resource tilt.

It is not difficult to imagine that when the selection system begins, the princes participating in the selection can be said to have the status of crown prince.

In order to prepare for the election, King Yong did not leave his study for several days. He read over and over again the information on the counties that might be selected as the places for selection, not only looking at the counties related to him, but also looking at the Information about several brothers.

If you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger! There really isn't any prince who only cares about his own territory!

The election system strictly prohibits princes from competing against each other, but how can this kind of thing be prevented? There is no need to personally go out and look for some green forest bandits, and no clues can be found afterwards.

King Yong is the fourth son of the emperor. There are three older brothers in front of him, namely King Lu, King Jin and King Jing.

His eldest brother, the eldest prince, King Lu, is now in his thirties, and the third prince, King Jing, is also in his mid-twenties.

The basis for the election system is to have three candidates. It can be said that the election system could have been held seven years ago. However, because King Yong was the legitimate son, it was postponed for seven years. How many seven years!

For this reason, the relationship between King Yong and his three brothers has never been very good. One less competitor means more hope of winning.

No one wants to wait. The so-called gentleman's revenge is never too late after ten years. They are just words without strength. If you have no strength to the extreme, you will even say that God is watching what you do, and God will accept your first-class words. You are helpless to the extreme, pitiful and lamentable.

Only those who have no strength will seek help from heaven or gods. Therefore, in the long history of humanity, it is not difficult to find that the more powerful people are, the less they believe in these deeds of gods and ghosts.

What, you said that there are Buddhas, emperors, and kings who proclaim themselves Taoist kings? You don’t really think that they believe in these, do you? They just use religion as a tool, because the people believe in these and conform to the people’s will. Once the people’s beliefs change, Changes, please look at their changes.

Having said that, in fact, the delay in the implementation of the election system is not entirely due to King Yong. The Emperor's throne has not been secure for a few years, and the people below want to overthrow it? Among them, the emperor's selfishness was also at work.

It was precisely because of understanding this that the three princes, King Lu, King Jin, and King Jing, did not raise any objections. They could only vent their remaining grievances on their fourth brother. To a certain extent, King Yong became the scapegoat of the emperor.

The three princes had to wait seven more years, which was not entirely a bad thing. They had seven more years to prepare for the election system. During this period, the connections they secretly established could not only help themselves, but also harm others.

Therefore, although King Yong is the legitimate son, there are not a few people in the court who are optimistic about the first three princes. Many people have already taken sides a few years ago. Even if King Yong wants to poach someone, it is not so easy. .

What are your strengths and weaknesses? King Yong himself knew it and was sparing no effort to expand his team. Many times, Wu Yi acted as the person to carry out this task.

However, the people who can really be won over are either from the Northern Army or from the Queen Mother Yong's tribe. And these people are originally from the lineage of King Yong, so there is no need to win over them, they already have labels on them.

The top bosses are all watching from a distance to see who wins and helps whom. And they themselves don't have to get involved in the election battle. Anyway, no matter who wins, they can occupy a place in the new dynasty with their own talents.

The top bosses couldn't be invited. The key was that the middle and high-level officials didn't seem to be particularly interested in the olive branch offered by King Yong.