Two points of additional comment by east19us
Thank you for your concern, I have been very busy with some things in the past two days, and now it is finally the weekend. Everyone has been commenting a lot in the past two days, so I took a look at it and added a few comments that were ignored in the previous comments.
1. The second lady's speech
The second lady treats herself as a courtier and makes strategic advice, rather than a sister-in-law giving tactical guidance to her sister-in-law, and this is precisely the biggest problem in the second lady's speech. Personally, I think that what the Empress needs now is tactical guidance from her loved ones, not strategic advice.
The second lady did not take into account the environment in which the queen grew up. If Xu Lingchen grew up in a comfortable and peaceful environment, then it makes sense for the second lady to use these histories to warn the queen. But in fact, the Yin Jian of Empress Wu of the previous dynasty is not far away, and Xu Lingchen has seen it with his own eyes. Therefore, the consequences that may result from the centrifugation of the emperor and queen do not need the second lady's historical and strategic speech, and Xu Lingchen also understands it very well. That's why "the Queen Mother is stronger than we think, and more perceptive than we think." "What does the queen lack, what can she do? It's tactical guidance, not strategic advice. This is the fatal wound in the second lady's speech.
When it comes to how to do tactical guidance, the key lies in two points: one is psychological counseling, and the other is gong dou education. But these two points are precisely what the second lady can't do. The second lady is a smart person, but she is not good at psychological counseling. And how Gong Dou did it, I'm afraid that the second lady didn't want to say it, of course, in terms of her identity, it was indeed not suitable for her to say.
In the Xu family, it is really suitable to do these two things Eleven and Mrs. Tai. Eleven is suitable for counselling because she has experience as a divorce lawyer. And Mrs. Tai is the only one who is suitable to educate the queen on the tactics of palace fighting, and no one else has this qualification (so you can't blame the second lady too much at this point). But obviously, the Xu family is still too unfamiliar with the palace struggle, so they sent the most inappropriate lobbyist like the second lady to lobby the queen (of course, it was also because the Xu family really couldn't send anyone else at that time, and Mrs. Tai was indeed the best candidate, but as for Eleven, it was too unknown, so it was reasonable to be ignored this time).
2. Mr. Deng, the emperor
There are very few students who comment on this, but in my opinion, this is actually a very important clue to analyze the current form that the Xu family is facing.
Mr. Deng is Jian Wang's teacher, and he seems to be half of Xu Si's teacher. After King Jian became emperor, Mr. Deng naturally became the emperor's teacher. Such a person's attitude towards the Xu family is very interesting. Let's look at the problem from two sides.
On the one hand, if Mr. Deng is really as the second lady said, "He has become an emperor, and his majesty is rising." "Then adhering to the principle that what kind of teacher there is, what kind of student there is, we can deduce that the emperor is also such a person. Then it is certain that the emperor has begun to lose his old affection for the empress. If this is the case, the Xu family must immediately advise the queen to dispel all illusions and be cautious about being the queen from now on, rather than being a wife.
On the other hand, if Mr. Deng is not what the second lady said, then the problem is actually more serious.
As the saying goes, there is no better son than father. In feudal times, a good teacher may know better than a father what kind of person his students are. Judging from the information we know now,
(1) The emperor is still called the queen in "Ling Chen, Ling Chen", which does not seem to be a weak old love on the surface. But it is precisely this superficial not weak, if there is a fake behind it, it is even more frightening.
(2) The emperor's master, very much like the appearance of retiring from fame. But the fact is that the current emperor still has a lot of things to do, and the power of the Empress Dowager Party in the palace is still not to be underestimated. Why did Mr. Deng want to retire?
(3) Teachers are not recommended for Xufu. It can't be that there is no suitable person, it can only be that they are unwilling to have any more involvement with the Xu Mansion. If such an emperor is unwilling to be involved with the Xu Mansion again, then what kind of existence does the Xu Mansion have in the emperor's heart?
Therefore, if Mr. Deng is not as the second lady said, then there can be great reason to say that Mr. Deng is actually warning the Xu Mansion to be careful, and the emperor is already very taboo against the Xu Mansion. This is much more serious than simply the emperor who likes the new and hates the old.
In this case, if Xu Si still insists on fighting with the district and the Yang family, then the Xu family will be unlucky. If this is really such a worst-case scenario, the only correct thing for the Xu family to do is to break their teeth and swallow blood. When the fifth prince died, he died, and he honestly surrendered to the emperor and did not do anything to pursue himself. Even, it is difficult to say whether the death of the five princes was acquiesced by the emperor. Because once it comes to the succession to the throne and the power of relatives, such a problem is never a friendship to talk about.
In short, the danger faced by the Xu family is probably much greater than it seems.