Concubine Raiders

Through Xu Si's recollection, we know that the present emperor used to be a seven Prince son who had no power but died of his mother. At first, he was not involved in the struggle for the throne of the emperor. After the struggle became intense, he saw that the old emperor was becoming more and more crazy and the fire was about to burn on his head. Then he discussed with his father-in-law (the old Marquis of the Xu family) to join the war to fight for the crown prince.

Therefore, the emperor was not a child as a key training object (such as the crown prince) and immersed in the education of imperial skills since childhood; nor was it because of the huge family power of his mother and concubine that he had long cherished the ambition of seizing the throne and was ready for the emperor since childhood.

Therefore, although the emperor's art of emperor has the natural advantage of being born in the emperor's house, it lacks the skill of immersion from childhood. This can be seen from the balance of his handling of several forces:

first of all, his defense against the ambitious empress dowager, who helped him to the top of the throne, was quite equal.

It not only prevented the Empress Dowager from sending her niece to his mother's concubine, but also prevented the Empress Dowager's great niece from marrying the Empress Dowager's Xu family. Even if the marriage was given to the Tang family, it was not the eldest daughter-in-law, but only the third young master of the Tang family. There is also another niece of the Empress Dowager's mother's family, who married the Liang family. It is also "coincidental" that the third young master. Basically, it completely blocked the Yang family's way of expanding their power through marriage.

Then the Queen's family, the Xu family. This is the biggest help to his succession. In the early stage, he must give enough power to help his stable position.

Thus, there was the war of conquering Miao. I remember that Mrs. Luo had a conversation with her son about the battle, which basically represented the evaluation of Xu Si and Xu family from outsiders. They believed that the Xu family had achieved military achievements to show off their family status only by relying on the support of the royal family.

In the emperor's mind, the Xu family to this extent is what he hopes and needs - a certain force and some military achievements under his care. This is exactly the "degree" in the emperor's mind.

Therefore, at the beginning of the war in Northwest China, from the fact that the emperor did not send Xu Si to go to war at all, he did not want to add this to the Xu family's merit book.

But the world is hard to predict, others are really unable to contain, just had to send Xu Si to fight. But I didn't expect it was a great victory, or even a complete victory. This made the emperor happy and worried.

Fortunately, there was no war in Northwest China for at least ten years. For the emperor's reform plan, the border peace was too suitable.

The worry is that the credit of the Xu family is so much more than the benchmark in the emperor's mind. How can we contain it.

At this time, it's very delicate. The emperor rewards the Xu family for being proud of his achievements, and his influence can't be controlled. If he doesn't reward, he can't tell the world.

The Xu family, however, knew how to leave the title. Originally here, everyone should be happy, but interestingly, the emperor felt that the Xu family was very interesting, and his heart was still not steady. Things get more subtle.

It happened that not long after this, something happened to poison the fifth prince.

The emperor's greatest failure in balancing the three forces was his support to the local families. (this is also the place where I think his imperial skills are not skilled enough)

emperor Xu regarded the district family as a force against the Xu family from the north to the South and restrained each other, which was originally true.

However, in a short period of two years, the emperor's favorite of the district women from Jieyu to the imperial concubine, through the observation and analysis of the 11th National Day, we know that this is mixed with the emperor's personal love for the imperial concubine Qu, who is "natural beauty and proficient in melody". This is the most lethal place.

Emperors can love or detest women because of the balance of power. However, if they are liked by mixed individuals, they should be safer when there is no power behind them. However, it is difficult for the emperor not to let the district family misunderstand the emperor's favor to the imperial concubine, who has a powerful family.

Therefore, there is a district family want to go further up, break the existing balance of action - poison the fifth prince. And the emperor also paid a lot of price - the fifth son died miserably.

The balance was broken, not what the emperor wanted. However, the current situation, borrowed from Xu Si's words, "in recent years, the Japanese invaders in Fujian and Guangdong are serious. Whether it is for the sake of the country or the overall situation, the emperor can not move the people who are in charge of the family." Therefore, the emperor's choice is to cover up the truth and make up for the grief and honor of a prince to his young son who died in vain.

However, since the emperor wanted balance, it was necessary for the emperor to eliminate the factor of breaking the balance and creating greater imbalance at any time. This is the greatest reliance of the Xu family for "revenge".

Therefore, the emperor did not want to revenge, not to move the family, but for the overall situation can not move the family. Then, the Xu family's strategy is to create opportunities for the emperor to "avenge" under the premise of overall stability, which should also be the emperor's pleasure.