In "Dream of the Red Chamber", the work cooperation/competition relationship between Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian is very interesting.
Theoretically, the two are in charge of different business modules, and there is no possibility of competition;
From the perspective of weighing interests, husband and wife are one, Wang Xifeng's name in Jia Fu is not Wang Xifeng but "Second Grandmother", and in the context of that time, "Fu Rong can only marry Gui".
However, in fact, what is Wang Xifeng's attitude towards Jia Lian's work?
Frequent dismantling.
Jia Yun asked Jia Lian to help with things and begged him to arrange work.
Jia Lian promised to arrange a family temple post for him, but was successfully cut off by Wang Xifeng's "Enwei and Shi".
(Of course, this position was originally added by Wang Xifeng)
After that, Jia Yun, who was quite superior, bypassed Jia Lian and directly befriended Wang Xifeng.
Jia Yun successfully caught this line through precious spices such as musk and through Wang Xifeng's favorite praise and flattery.
Wang Xifeng arranged work for Jia Yun, and specially conveyed to Jia Yun clearly and clearly: It is useless to find Jia Yun, and it is only useful to find me.
In her original words, such as "you have to take a long detour", the directionality is very obvious.
Helping Jia Yun arrange work, enriching herself to gain benefits and accumulating human feelings, Wang Xifeng's starting point is very understandable, but why did she dismantle Jia Lian and repeatedly emphasize that Jia Lian is useless?
Jia Yun's case is not an isolated case.
Jia Lian's nursing mother, Grandma Zhao, disliked Jia Lian for scrapping firewood, and after several times and three times without results, she directly came to Wang Xifeng to arrange work.
Wang Xifeng successfully helped her solve the problem in less than a meal.
At that time, just when Jia Lian had an opinion and was deliberately embarrassed about Jia Qiang's aunt Su doing a lot of oil and water work, Wang Xifeng helped speak and help solve the problem under Jia Rong's begging to pull clothes, and shoved it into Grandma Zhao's two sons.
The means are very good, and there is no doubt that I am also strengthening this cognition with Grandma Zhao: Jia Lian is useless, and I can only find Wang Xifeng in everything.
To some extent, Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian live together, and the two are a tightly bound community of small interests, the so-called husband and wife are one, solidarity and commonality, one prosperity and one loss.
The problem, however, is that the unity of husband and wife is very contradictory.
Wang Xifeng lives in Jia Province, and the biggest source of danger may not be others, but the closest pillow person, Jia Lian.
Except for the mother of Jia Lian's future children, no one could threaten her position as Wang Xifeng.
Wang Xifeng's status composition has three pieces.
One piece is capable, which she has sought by virtue of her wit and ability to deal with the world, pleasing Lady Jia Muwang.
One is the mother's power type, which is the natural advantage that she has by virtue of her origin and matriarch.
There is also a piece of "fertility type", in the context of Jia Fu at that time, the most important function of jia fu's daughter-in-law, granddaughter-in-law, daughter-in-law and other female dependents is to produce heirs.
In the feudal era when the function of the "reproductive machine" was most important, the last of these three was the most critical and core one.
Wang Xifeng has only one daughter and no son, and will always feel the great threat of "childlessness".
From the perspective of ability and family lineage, no one can easily replace her;
But from the perspective of "heirs", the situation is very different.
Between concubines, Li Gong cut mediocre, incompetent, enthusiastic and thin, with neither talent nor ambition, unable to replace her Wang Xifeng, nor had the heart to challenge her.
Between the eldest sister-in-law and the younger sister-in-law, Yingchun and Xichun are indispensable personalities in the background plate style, and will not clash with Wang Xifeng; and Wang Xifeng is the most high-looking Tanchun, who has no negative emotions towards her and will not interfere with her.
What's more, the girls will eventually get married and will not stay in Jia Fu for a long time.
The position of housekeeper's daughter-in-law is only her Wang Xifeng.
Even if Xue Baochao becomes Bao's second grandmother in the future, her academic ability will suppress her, and it will not drive her to the point where there is no way out in defeat.
However, if Jia Lian married Second Sister You, Second Sister Zhang, Second Sister Li, or perhaps Second Sister Chen,giving birth to a boy for Jia Lian when Jia Lian was out of the room, the situation would change completely.
No matter how talented and cunning Wang Xifeng was, he could not defeat the fundamental law of putting male heirs first at that time.
Once Jia Lian and other women give birth to boys, Wang Xifeng's future interests will be fundamentally threatened.
Therefore, Wang Xifeng always conveyed to everyone the meaning that "only I have the final say between me and Jia Lian, and you can only stand on my side when you stand in line between the two of us", which is not untargeted.
Jia Lian secretly married You Erjie, and there were Jia Zhen, Jia Rong, and You clan people to help back up, there were Xing'er and other small squatters in the next place, and there were a cadre of people outside who kept their mouths shut.
These people are willing to offend Wang Xifeng, a well-known and powerful character, what is the picture?
Jia Zhen Tu You's third sister's person, You Shi is forced to be left and right;
The servants were either forced by Jia Lian's power, or tu Jia Lian gave him benefits such as silver money treatment.
The more important reason behind this may be that everyone has a layer of fluke psychology about the future: once Sister You gives birth to a son and a half, Wang Xifeng will be difficult to use even if she has a heavenly wrist.
At that time, they can all get another benefit in the status of "meritorious service".
And Wang Xifeng and Jia Rong and You Shi made a big fight, and the public made the two lose their faces and be ugly.
This is both to make a big deal out of it and spread true and false news that is unfavorable to Sister You as much as possible;
It is also necessary to fully release the signal: to help Jia Lian do things that are unfavorable to Wang Xifeng, no matter who is originally decent, it will be difficult to end and will encounter big trouble.
Jia Lian's little boy joked, saying that grandpa's people did not dare to bully Grandma's people, but Grandma's people dared to bully Grandpa's people.
This joke is a true portrayal of the state of the people in Jia Lian Wang Xifeng's room, and the fundamental reason is that Wang Xifeng's perennial image of "I am strong and Jia Lian is incompetent" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Internally, Wang Xifeng needs to suppress Jia Lian to achieve his "ear and vision".
After Ping'er heard the rumors of Second Sister You, she informed Wang Xifeng, and Wang Xifeng quickly "interrogated" Xing'er.
With a few simple words of intimidation, Xing'er confessed truthfully to the details of the causes and consequences.
Wang Xifeng frightened Xing'er, "(You dare) to tell you that stupid master", and Xing'er naturally did not dare to send a message to Jia Lian.
His confidants did not dare to reveal the slightest hint of wind, and Jia Lian was naturally hidden in the drum.
Only in this way could Wang Xifeng's poisonous plan of designing You Erjie, connecting her to the Grand View Garden, and turning it into the house to force her to die in the last step, could it be implemented.
Whether it is Wang Xifeng forcing You Erjie to die, or the two people in Jia Lian's room and Wang Xifeng marrying four people (except for Ping'er) "dead and dead", what is the inside story?
Is it all accidental? Where are there so many unprovoked accidents?
If Wang Xifeng wants to cover the sky with one hand in a small group, and if she wants to have the ability to eliminate women who are a threat to her position at any time, she must be able to completely suppress Jia Lian at the level of power.
In other words: Wang Xifeng wanted to deeply implant the idea that "it would be better to offend Jia Lian than dare to disobey Wang Xifeng" into the minds of the people around him, such as the small squatters, the servants, and the mother-in-law.
In addition, if Wang Xifeng does not emphasize that "Jia Lian is incompetent" and does not dismantle Jia Lian in front of everyone, it is easy for outsiders to hold the same idea of husband and wife and find everyone.
Therefore, Wang Xifeng must clearly and clearly separate the interest of "husband and wife" from the relationship between the two.
In this way, we can occupy an absolutely advantageous position in the struggle between husband and wife.
In the final analysis, Wang Xifeng dismantled Jia Lian because of the "closest relatives and estranged" couples, love may not be how true, but killing each other is a knife and a knife.