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The emperor and the crown prince are truly estranged
Regarding the contradiction between Emperor Xiao Ruijian and Crown Prince Xiao Dingquan, many well-meaning friends believe that this is a piece of painstaking heart as the emperor's father.
Emperor Xiao Ruijian deliberately snubbed the prince and favored Xiao Dingtang, the king of Qi, just to test and temper the prince as a future king, hoping that the prince would be able to better govern the country and manage the courtiers in the future.
If you think the same way, then congratulations, you've got it wrong.
Because Xiao Ruijian was not a loving father to Crown Prince Xiao Dingquan.
The contradiction and estrangement between him and the prince is already very deep, deep enough to start before the prince was born...
Xiao Ruijian and Xiao Dingquan's mother
In the era of the former emperor, the Gu family was the first in the world besides the royal family.
Xiao Dingquan's mother was the first empress of Emperor Xiao Ruijian, the eldest lady of the Gu family, a great beauty with talent and virtue, and a magnificent style.
At that time, when Xiao Ruijian was only seventeen years old, when he first saw the first empress, he fell in love at first sight, full of surprise and admiration.
However, Empress Xian did not like Xiao Ruijian and fell in love with her brother King Su.
In order to get the first empress, and even more in order to get the support of the Gu family, Xiao Ruijian began to act.
Xiao Ruijian and Gu Silin's past
Xiao Ruijian has a great help, that is, Gu Silin, the only son of the Gu family, is his close friend.
At that time, in order to help Xiao Ruijian, a good friend, Gu Silin separated Empress Xian from King Su and married Empress Xian to Xiao Ruijian, who was still the King of Ning at the time.
After Xiao Ruijian became the half son of the Gu family, the Gu family spared no effort to support him and suppress King Su.
It can be said that Xiao Ruijian was able to become this emperor thanks to the support of the Gu family.
To put it another way: if the Gu family supports King Su, then King Su should be the emperor of today.
Xiao Ruijian's feud with Empress Xian
Xiao Ruijian was full of joy when she married empress xian, and soon after the empress, she became pregnant.
As the first child of King Ning, Xiao Ruijian, the King of Ning at that time, could be described as very happy, plus a month ago, Emperor Xian imprisoned King Su at Zongzheng Temple, so this is also a double happiness, because if there is no accident, then the position of crown prince is king Ning.
When Empress Xian learned that King Su was imprisoned, she was heartbroken, so she took the opportunity to visit King Su at Zongzheng Temple.
During this period, I did not know what King Su and Empress Xian had said, but only that after Empress Xian came out, she fell to the ground, resulting in the absence of the child.
Xiao Ruijian, the King of Ning, who learned the truth of the matter, hated Empress Xian from then on.
Why didn't Xiao Ruijian like Xiao Dingquan
It can be said that Xiao Dingquan's birth was not Xiao Ruijian's original intention.
That's because both the Gu family and the former emperor hoped that the crown princess could give birth to a prince to inherit the throne, so under the pressure of the Gu family and the former emperor, Xiao Ruijian was forced to give birth to Xiao Dingquan with the former empress.
After Empress Xian gave birth to Xiao Dingquan, Xiao Ruijian's relationship with Empress Xian survived in name only.
Xiao Ruijian always believed that Empress Xian was not loyal to him, so he held a grudge against Empress Xian, like a fish in his throat.
This directly led to Xiao Dingquan's birth actually with hatred.
A misunderstanding between Xiao Dingquan and his father Xiao Ruijian
After Xiao Dingquan was born, he did not often see his father Xiao Ruijian, but often spent time with his mother and the people of the Gu family.
Therefore, he was not familiar with his father Xiao Ruijian since he was a child, and Xiao Ruijian never fulfilled his responsibility as a father.
One day, Xiao Ruijian saw Xiao Dingquan in Gu Mansion, Xiao Dingquan turned around and ran, Xiao Ruijian called him by name and asked him to stand still.
Xiao Dingquan said that he was not called "Xiao Dingquan", which annoyed Xiao Ruijian and beat Xiao Dingquan hard, because this sentence once again deeply pierced Xiao Ruijian's heart.
In fact, this is just a misunderstanding, because Xiao Dingquan just wants his father to call his milk name "Ah Bao".
Xiao Dingquan was born because of the exchange of interests
All in all, the reason why Xiao Ruijian did not like Xiao Dingquan was because his birth was not simple, that is, it was against Xiao Ruijian's inner wishes.
Xiao Ruijian's original intention of marrying Empress Xian was actually the biggest purpose of taking advantage of the situation; and the Gu family's marriage of Empress Xian to Xiao Ruijian was to allow the Gu family to continue its glory and make the Gu family's power last for generations.
Such an exchange of interests, after Xiao Ruijian became emperor, became more and more dissatisfied with the Gu family.
He wanted to monopolize power and break the evil of this foreign relative interfering in politics, so he had to take action against the Gu family.
Therefore, he did not want to pass the throne to Xiao Dingquan.
The gap between Xiao Ruijian and Xiao Dingquan is unsolvable
To lift the gap between Xiao Ruijian and Xiao Dingquan, it must be to sacrifice the entire Gu family.
For Xiao Dingquan, that was impossible. Because in this world, what he cares about most is the Gu family.
Xiao Ruijian was a very thoughtful and accomplished emperor, but because his way to the throne relied on nepotism and was full of conspiracies and means, this would always be a thorn in his heart.
Xiao Ruijian wanted to pull out the thorn in his heart, and Xiao Dingquan wanted to keep this thorn.
Then as long as they don't divide the winners and losers, then their fight will not stop.
Because there is no "trust" and "affection" between them.
Yu Ge takes you to read the original work and analyze the fourth time of Xueman Liangyuan's work "Crane And Hua Ting".
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