In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 405: Legend of Zhen Huan - Nian Shilan 9

The next year is a new year of beauty pageant. As the only legitimate daughter of the Nian family, Nian Shilan cannot escape no matter what. Fortunately, the emperor himself is actually aware that the princes all want to win over the Nian family. The emperor naturally knows the answer to what Prince Yong asked at that time.

The emperor was quite satisfied with this. To the emperor, Nian Gengyao's words sounded like loyalty to the emperor. The Nian family did not place any bets and everything was entirely up to the emperor's arrangements. So when the day of the selection really came, the emperor had already thought it through and made a decision.

During this period, Prince Yong's birth mother, Concubine De, Prince Lian's adoptive mother, Concubine Hui, and the Ninth Prince's birth mother, Concubine Yi, all came to the Emperor to test the waters, but the Emperor did not answer any of them.

Nian Shilan has successfully lit up many cards during this period, and also discovered a hidden rule. There is a hidden list in the family system. The people on it may not be members of the Nian family in name, but as long as they identify themselves as the head of the family (master) in their hearts, they can enter the list. At the same time, due to the special nature of the hidden list, anyone who enters this list will generate a character card and will never betray.

To this end, Nian Shilan first selected twenty suitable candidates from the loyal sons of the Nian family, and arranged for them to be separated from the status of sons of the Nian family, and sent them to various key areas to build orphanages to train the next loyal people for himself. No matter what, most of the people who were raised since childhood are more loyal than those who joined halfway.

The royal family in the world of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is much more difficult to deal with than the royal family in the world of "Knowing Your Destiny". If I want to follow the plan of "Knowing Your Destiny", it is basically impossible to achieve it without using force. But once I use force, if I can't control it, it will easily cause turmoil in the court, affect the stability of the country, and be detrimental to my own gaining merit.

Therefore, Nian Shilan planned to use force to intimidate, starting from the bottom and eroding the court bit by bit, and eventually undermining the power of the royal family and even the emperor, and finally seizing the throne without bloodshed.

In "The Legend of Zhen Huan", the famous Han minister Zhang Tingyu once took control of the government after the emperor's death and specifically requested the emperor to leave the mother and keep the son because he was worried that Zhen Huan would be "a hen crowing at dawn". Nian Shilan was not sure whether such a person would be willing to respect a woman like her as emperor, but she felt that she could give it a try.

After all, Zhang Tingyu is a Han Chinese after all. Although he is a Han army flag, he is also a Han Chinese at heart. It seems that Zhen Huan is feared because she is a woman who wants to interfere in politics, but in fact it is also because Zhang Tingyu is worried that the evil concubine will come to power and affect the government.

If the situation was irreversible and he could prove that he would be a wise ruler, Zhang Tingyu would not be so stubborn as to refuse to obey even if he died. If possible, Nian Shilan really didn't want to do anything to a "good official" like Zhang Tingyu. As for other "confidants" when Yinzhen was in power, Nian Gengyao was already his man, and Longkodo would be sent away sooner or later. The rest were not irreplaceable.

This calculation is not too difficult.

An Lingrong's father was an official who was bought. There were countless such official positions in the country. Since it could be bought, it meant that there would be no problem if the Nian family wanted to arrange it for him.

Once the lower-level officials have become supporters of Nian Shilan, even if the higher-level officials are disobedient, no one will listen to the orders they issue. This is called being sidelined.

The plan began to be implemented, but she still had too few people under her command, so Nian Shilan had to instruct Zhou Ninghai to disguise himself and go out to buy people. However, after Zhou Ninghai left, there were still many things that needed people to do, so Nian Shilan had no choice but to find her second brother Nian Gengyao.

Nian Gengyao is now an official in the capital. He will not enter the army and begin leading troops until at least the year after next when he marries into Prince Yong's mansion. Before that, I think the servants who have been working beside him will be able to spare some time to do their own things, right?

Hearing Nian Shilan's request, Nian Gengyao did not know whether to laugh or cry. He thought his sister was asking him for a gift again, but he did not expect that she was asking for a person.

Although the people currently serving the master do not have anything important to do, but listening to my sister's tone, I always feel that if they are really loaned out, they will never be returned.

Nian Gengyao did not ask Nian Shilan what she wanted to do with the person. Although he was loyal to Nian Shilan because of the family system, he actually still unconsciously regarded Nian Shilan as an ignorant little girl. He could not agree with her from the bottom of his heart and believed in Nian Shilan's ability, but he indulged her ambition in advance.

To put it another way, Nian Gengyao agreed with Nian Shilan's dream of becoming an empress, but he did not do so because he believed in Nian Shilan as a person. Instead, out of love for her as a brother, he wanted to "push" his sister to achieve her goal. In other words, he wanted Nian Shilan to be a puppet emperor. If it were not for the restrictions of the family system, he would actually want to be the emperor himself and then make Nian Shilan the eldest princess.

Nian Shilan understood Nian Gengyao's thoughts through the card introduction. She felt a little sad but mostly speechless. Nian Gengyao was indeed the most arrogant person in "The Legend of Zhen Huan". With this character, it's no wonder that Yinzhen, who was narrow-minded, couldn't tolerate him.

I don't really respect you, but because of our relationship I have to accept you as my master, you should thank me...

Nian Gengyao could easily give such a feeling to those in higher positions. Nian Shilan could only be thankful that she had used her spiritual sense to set restrictions on Nian Gengyao in advance, otherwise this man would have floated into the sky before things were ready.

Nian Shilan has been busy with her "career" and has no intention of thinking about the talent show. Songzhi has also changed her mind under the influence of Nian Shilan. However, another personal maid, Baicao, is a little worried.

"Miss, the imperial decree for the selection has come down. You will have to participate in the selection in half a month."

Baicao found out that other families with daughters to be selected had already made preparations, except her own daughter and Songzhi, who were not interested at all. You know, for a daughter, the selection is a lifelong event.

"Oh, Baicao, it's you."

The trader did not have a deep impression of Baicao. After all, with a proud character like the trader, how could he remember the little maid who served him? The same was true in his memory. Except for Songzhi, the dowry maid who grew up with him, the trader had changed many maids.

But Nian Shilan remembered Baicao. She was a maid appointed by Nian Shilan's mother, Li, and the daughter of Li's maid, Wang Mama, who came with her as a dowry. She had a certain status in the Nian mansion. Originally, Nian Shilan could not treat Baicao as she pleased because of her identity and did not trust her enough. Later, she gave up Baicao and chose Songzhi as the dowry maid.

Now, Nian Shilan was just thankful that she still had Baicao. She casually checked Baicao's card:

Character: Baicao

Status: Slave

Loyalty: 70%

Training direction: Personal maid (progress 50%, points: 50)

Character skills: Advanced pharmacology and health care, intermediate accounting, advanced information processing, elementary observation of words and expressions...

"Isn't this a good candidate for a personal housekeeper?" Baicao was supposed to be trained as a dowry for Nian Shilan, but was eliminated because she was not as good as Songzhi in observing people's words and expressions.

Why would such a good intelligence center cow and horse be a personal maid?