Reborn as a concubine's sister, the eldest lady went crazy

It seems that Xu Yixing is still anxious.

How can I not be anxious? Only after I have dealt with the Gu family can I concentrate on finding the mistakes of the Sun family. I don’t know how long that counterfeit can last. If he is discovered by accident, won’t my plan have to be advanced?

"Can you guys spare some more people to help me keep an eye on the Sun Mansion?"

"Please, what do you need to keep an eye on?"

"Just help me keep an eye on Sun Ziyou's daily schedule and the people he contacts, as well as what Xu Yixing does every day. But don't get caught. This mission is probably a long one, and there's no need to give up the overall situation just because of one or two times of not keeping an eye on him."

"Yes."

After Ying Jiu retreated, Xu Yixing lay on the bed thinking about the next plan. Now the revenge plan against Gu Pozi has been fully launched. With the help of the Seventh Prince, it is inevitable that Gu's private property will shrink this year.

She was short of money, but she had plenty of money to spend next year. Who would she vent her anger on? Without a doubt, the first person to be blamed would be Mrs. Gu, who was in charge of everything for her.

It is already October now. He just needs to wait patiently for more than a month. When Xu Housheng comes back, he will learn the sad news of his brother's death and the fact that his sister-in-law was forced to marry. How can he swallow this?

If ordinary commoners were to encounter aristocrats' robbery, they would probably just swallow their anger. But Xu Housheng was different. He was a scholar, and he was going to take the imperial examination next year after returning from his travels. He was only a step away from becoming a juren.

Such a person has nothing else to do but is stubborn and stubborn. If Xiaosui "accidentally" tells Xu Housheng the truth, it would be strange if he doesn't go to Jingzhao Prefecture to complain.

As for the Sun Mansion, they have many direct descendants. There are five or six brothers and sisters of the same generation as Lord Sun, and more than a dozen of the same generation as Sun Ziyou. If it weren't for the old lady in the family, Sun Ziyou's grandmother, who was still alive, the family should have been divided long ago.

Such a big family has been influential in the court for many years, and they must have a lot of evidence to prove their wrongdoings. The only key point is whether the emperor wants to protect the Duke's Mansion.

On this point, Xu Yixing, who was ill a few days ago, recalled the little things that Nanny Bai had said, as well as some of her own understandings, and suddenly she understood a truth.

Why did the emperor apparently agree to his marriage with his grandson You, but did not issue an edict to grant the marriage?

The emperor's favor towards the Xu and Sun families was extremely deep. It should have been easy for him to issue an imperial decree, but the emperor did not do so.

Last time in the carriage, Xu Yixing talked with Siqin about the court situation and the relationship between marriages, but he didn't connect it to himself at the first time. It really shows that he is the one involved in the matter.

The emperor actually did not want the Sun and Xu families to marry at first.

Just like Xu Yixing often said, Old Man Xu has military power, and the Duke's Mansion has prestige, reputation, connections, and money. These things are intertwined together and are really good bargaining chips for fighting for power and profit.

Over the years, the emperor has been trying to balance the strengths and weaknesses of the seven princes.

The eldest prince was more gentle than strong, so the teacher chosen for him was Daxia's top martial artist, who was responsible for teaching him martial arts and weapons.

The second prince's mother, Concubine Ying, was the most favored, so his status naturally rose, but the emperor was reluctant to let him leave the palace and set up his own residence. On the surface, he favored him and kept him in the palace, but in reality, he restricted him from making friends with ministers outside the palace.

The third prince's mother is of high status. Her father is a veteran of three dynasties and was personally selected by the late emperor as the emperor's concubine. However, the emperor does not love or care about the third prince, and it is clear that he wants to embarrass you, a family of meritorious officials.

The fourth prince's mother died early, and she was just a palace maid, so the emperor specially chose the most favored concubine Ying as his adoptive mother, completely ignoring the fact that Ying already had a son. He also decided early on to have the daughter of the Minister of Revenue as the prince's consort for the fourth prince. Isn't this a balance?

The fifth prince was intelligent and was best at business and mathematics, but the emperor wanted him to learn how to lead troops and fight wars.

The Sixth Prince was very talented, and could write beautiful poems, but the Emperor did not allow him to enter the Imperial College or the Cabinet. He only placed him in the Ministry of Works, where he stared at drawings every day.

The Seventh Prince, whom Xu Yixing thought was unknown, was actually the first prince to be released from the palace and set up his own residence, where he had been honing his social skills for several years. He only had the respected Madam Jing behind him, but he did not have any real power in his mother's family.

From this perspective, it seemed that the emperor was misjudging people and making random moves, but precisely because of these arrangements, the division of power in the court was quite balanced, and there was never a situation where one party dominated the other.

Isn't it because of this situation that we haven't appointed a crown prince for so many years?

Therefore, the emperor would never allow anyone to disrupt this balance. The marriage between Sun and Xu just hit the emperor's nerves. Once the two palaces showed a tendency to favor one prince, that person would definitely become the one with the greatest hope of ascending the throne. How could the emperor allow it?

Moreover, the emperor even gave the Sun and Xu families two full years, waiting to see if one of them would take the initiative to cancel the engagement. In these two years, none of the descendants of the Sun and Xu families were granted a powerful official position. This was a signal.

Unfortunately, Old Man Xu didn’t understand it, and neither did Xu Yixing.

Maybe someone in the Sun Mansion understood, but they didn't say it out loud for various reasons. After all, the eldest branch would suffer, and the benefits would likely flow to the marginal branches.

Therefore, Xu Yixing was now very sure that the emperor was not going to protect the Duke's Mansion anymore. If there was any mistake, he would definitely take the opportunity to attack, and then his family would probably be implicated.

How can the emperor punish only the Sun family and not vent his anger on his own family? This is really a very complicated question. . .

If the mistakes of the Sun family were reported by my father, then that’s enough, right?

Eh? That's it!

Xu Yixing sat up with a somersault. Yes, why not use this ready-made opportunity!

In the past, I blamed myself for being short-sighted and unable to see the emperor's will. I also thought that the Sun family was too powerful to be easily overthrown, so I dared not expose the counterfeit.

It's different now. Since the emperor is already angry with the Sun family, it would be a natural thing for me to just find a way to let my father know that it was fake, then break away from the Sun family, and then expose the Sun family's secret dealings.

After all, my father has been a minister for so many years, he must have some leverage over the Sun family.

If the Sun family is in trouble by then, the emperor will not punish him severely because of the fact that Old Man Xu was a tainted witness and had lost his beloved daughter.

The only pain point is that I can't let my father know that my body is dead immediately. It's better to let him think that I am still alive, but I am trapped in the Sun Mansion and use his daughter as a threat. Otherwise, if my father knows that I am dead, he will definitely lose control, and it will not end well.

Then, I can wait until later to tell him that I am actually dead, but not completely dead, and have turned into Xu Yiyan. I think my father will not be so sad.