Chapter 1047: The Competition for the Throne

With the election system about to be held, if you go to the street and ask even a three-year-old child what the most important thing in the Daji Dynasty is now, he will answer that it is the election system.

So, what exactly is the election system? In form, it is the same as the ancient recommendation of the wise, but no matter how similar it is, it is impossible to change the basic feature of the Daji Dynasty as a hereditary dynasty.

It is impossible to copy the election of ancient tribal society completely. Apart from other things, the candidate clause has fully proved the limitations of the election system. All candidates must have royal blood, even if they are side branches, they need to be close to the orthodox bloodline.

This is the condition set by the former empress Mingdi to please the royal family, and it must be implemented to maintain the unity of the empire.

When a certain emperor in power has many children and grandchildren, and there are many candidates, there must be more than three people, no matter how few there are, this is a hard condition set by Emperor Xuan.

Otherwise, there is no need for election. Without comparison, how can we know good and bad.

The Daji Dynasty adopted the election system, which was no less than preparing for a war for the government and the people, and for high-ranking civil and military officials. In order to ensure the fairness of the election system, it was necessary to first ensure that the population of the election area, that is, the county town, was correct. After all, the core of the assessment was to see the support rate of the people for you.

If there were problems with the population calculation, the authenticity would be greatly reduced.

In addition, in order to select the county town with development potential, countless officials worked hard behind it. The huge statistical data was no less than a war, and it was definitely not a lie.

In addition, in order to guard against hostile forces destroying the election system, the military also needed to be vigilant at all times. Destruction is much easier than creation. You worked hard to lead the army and the people to reclaim wasteland, but the enemy burned it clean. How would you feel?

Finally, not to mention the external troubles, the internal troubles alone are already a big problem. It should be noted that the princes are in a competitive relationship.

The election system does not require a certain support rate, it only needs to be higher than the opponent's support rate. To put it bluntly, it is a competition of badness. Although I am bad, as long as you are worse than me, I win.

The purpose is clear. In the thousands of years since the election system was held, there have been several incidents of princes killing each other. There are a few such incidents that have been reported publicly, and it is no exaggeration to say that the number that has not been exposed in secret is hundreds of times this number.

Fortunately, they fought only in a small county town. No matter how fiercely they fought, they could not hurt the core hinterland of the dynasty. There was the highest referee, the emperor, and this was what Emperor Ming was thinking about in the past.

The system is like this, but after Emperor Ming died, various forces got involved in the election system, and the idea of ​​serving the people was put aside. Even the emperor, the highest referee, took sides, and the chaos was extremely chaotic.

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

It is not difficult to imagine that when the election system began, the princes who participated in the election, it can be said, all had the status of crown prince.

In order to prepare for the election, Prince Yong did not leave the study for several days, and read the information of the counties that might be selected as the election place over and over again, not only the counties related to himself, but also the information related to several brothers.

Know yourself and know the enemy, and you will never be in danger in a hundred battles! There is no prince who only cares about his own jurisdiction!

The election system strictly prohibits the princes from fighting each other, but how can such things be prevented? There is no need to go out in person to find some green forest bandits, and there will be no clues afterwards.

Prince Yong is the fourth son of the emperor, and he has three older brothers, namely Prince Lu, Prince Jin and Prince Jing.

His eldest brother, the eldest prince Prince Lu, is now thirty years old, and the third prince Prince Jing is already twenty-five.

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 are there in life!

Because of this, King Yong and his three brothers have never had a good relationship. One less competitor means one more hope of winning.

No one is willing to wait. The so-called gentleman's revenge is never too late, which is just a statement without strength. If you have no strength to the extreme, you will say that God will take away your first-class words, which is extremely helpless, pitiful and lamentable.

Only those who have no strength will seek help from heaven or gods. Therefore, in the long river of human nature, from ancient times to the present, it is not difficult to find that the more powerful a person is, the less he believes in these gods and ghosts.

What, you said there are Buddha emperors and self-proclaimed Taoist kings, you don't really think they believe in these, they just use religion as a tool, because the people believe in these, they just follow the will of the people, once the people's beliefs change, you will see their changes.

In fact, the delay in the implementation of the election system is not entirely due to King Yong. The emperor has not sat firmly on the throne for a few years, and the people below want to overthrow it? There is also the emperor's selfishness in this.

It is precisely because of this understanding that the three princes, King Lu, King Jin, and King Jing, did not make trouble. The remaining resentment can only be vented to the fourth brother. In a sense, King Yong became the scapegoat of the emperor.

It is not all bad that the three princes waited for seven more years. They had seven more years to prepare for the election system. The connections they secretly arranged during this period can not only help themselves, but also harm others.

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

What are your strengths and weaknesses? Prince Yong himself understands that he is also making every effort to expand his team. In many cases, Wu Yi plays the role of implementing this task.

However, the people who can really be won over are either from the Northern Army or the clansmen of Prince Yong's mother. And these people are originally from the lineage of Prince Yong. There is no need to win them over. They already have labels on them.

Those top bosses are watching from afar, helping whoever wins. And they themselves do not need to get involved in the election struggle. Anyway, no matter who wins, they can occupy a place in the new dynasty with their own talents.

The top bosses could not be invited, and the key was that those middle and senior officials did not seem to be particularly interested in the olive branch thrown by King Yong.