Chapter 466
Chapter 466: No Ambiguity Between Ruler And Official
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Ye Ling'er made a surprised sound and directly covered her mouth, surprised beyond words . Although she had spent days hanging around the Fan manor and playing mahjong in Cang Mountain in the days after he came to the capital and had some understanding of her young teacher's aspirations, she had never thought Fan Xian would dare to choose to return to the ancestors .
The Second Prince glanced at her and smiled bitterly . "I'm wondering whether or not Fan Xian has gone crazy . "
"Why do you say so?" A glimmer of confusion flashed through Ye Ling'er's jade-like eyes . Since Fan Xian dared to go to worship the ancestors, the empress dowager and the Emperor must have given implicit consent . Why did her husband still think Fan Xian was crazy?
The Second Prince shook his head and said, "For Fan Xian right now, he originally had four paths he could choose from . Now that he has chosen to return to the ancestors, he had blocked off two of the paths . "
Ye Ling'er didn't open her mouth to ask again . She listened quietly .
The Second Prince thought for a while and then quietly said, "Right now, he has too much power in his hands and has offended too many people . His position as an isolated official has already been set . For him, in the future Qing Kingdom, he can either fight for the throne with us or help the Third Prince take it while he stays behind the scenes and acts as a regent prince . Only these two paths can ensure the safety of his family and make sure they are not wiped out . However, now that he has entered the Fan family, it is impossible for him to inherit the throne . It is also impossible for him to act as a regent using his identity as a child of the royal family .
Ye Ling'er furrowed her brows and said, "Even if he didn't enter the Fan family, given his past and putting aside whether or not the Emperor would allow him to inherit, at least the entire royal family and court officials would not agree to it . This first option has never been possible . "
"What is 'possible?'" The Second Prince asked . "As long as he doesn't enter the Fan family, there is a possibility he could be re-admitted by the Palace . In addition, with the power he has in his hands, who can say there is no possibility he wouldn't compete for this kingdom?"
"And the second option?"
"Perhaps a regent prince could make the nobility in the Palace and the royal army outside the Palace maintain their silence . As long as his family name is Li…but if a powerful official named Fan wanted to hold power over the Emperor and command the officials, this…is impossible . "
The Second Prince calmly said, "Thus, by returning to the ancestors today, Fan Xian directly cut off the two paths above . I don't understand what he is thinking . "
"What are the other two paths?" Ye Ling'er asked with concern as she looked at the strange expression on the prince's face . She suddenly felt a chill surge in her heart .
The Second Prince paused for a moment and said, "In the future, after father's death, no matter who takes the throne, they will probably carry out a huge purge against Fan Xian and the Fan clan . If this isn't done, no one has the confidence they can control the big picture . "
This was what the Second Prince had said to Fan Xian in the Baoyue Brothel, but he had always thought that Fan Xian would gradually meld into the royal family and fight to have a public position . Regardless of whether Fan Xian fought for the throne himself or helped the Third Prince, they were both viable choices .
Given Fan Xian's current power and the influence of the elders around him, no newly enthroned Emperor would be at ease watching him live on .
"Thus, many years in the future, Fan Xian only has two paths to choose from . " The Second Prince tightly furrowed his brows and was very confused . "Either he will have his hands tied and his entire family wiped out, like the Ye family in the past . "
He paused and said, with some exhaustion, "Or…rebel with the power he holds and defects out of the country . "
He laughed self-mockingly . "Of course, the power in his hands is like paper, unable to raise any big waves . Father is a cautious person . Fan Xian has no armies in his hands, so he will never truly succeed . "
Ye Ling'er was startled and thought carefully about what he said . She found that if the situation did indeed develop in this way, then there would certainly not be a good end for that teacher of hers .
Her little face flushed red slightly and said, "You forgot a possibility . If it is really the Third Prince who inherits the throne, given his student-teacher relationship with Fan Xian, he may not allow matters to develop past the point of no return . "
The Second Prince smiled . "I have also said this to Fan Xian . My third brother is still young, but I have watched him grow up . That kid is also not someone easy to deal with . Furthermore, one thinks about different things in different positions . Sometimes, we can't avoid doing something just because we don't want to do it . "
He calmly said, "Furthermore, don't forget, the Crown Prince is the true heir . Many people seem to have unconsciously forgotten this matter because of his silence, but I believe that Fan Xian would not forget . "
"Most importantly," the Second Prince slowly lowered his head, "no matter who inherits the throne, before our father leaves this world, do you think he could watch Fan Xian continue to gather the power of a large group of strange creatures and bring his heir endless trouble? This country is father's country . He will not allow this country to fall into too much turmoil, even when he is dead . "
Whether as a son or an official, the Second Prince had already broken a huge taboo by talking about the life and death of the Emperor . Ye Ling'er bit her lip and did not continue this topic . Instead, she asked, "But this isn't the life Fan Xian wants to live, this is the plan of those elders in court . If you were Fan Xian, what would you have done?"
The Second Prince paused and said, self-mockingly a moment later, "I don't know what I would have done . I would probably be in a similar situation as him right now . However, in the battle for the world, to not move forward means death . Since he has personally given up the former two paths, then he should pull out more completely . If I was put in his position, at this time, I would go into the Palace and ask to quit . Regardless of whether it is the Overwatch Council or the palace treasury, he has to let go of one…and then…speaking purely based on logic, he should appear to relax a bit and then secretly lean by the side . "
Ye Ling'er looked at him .
The Second Prince said, seriously, "This is the wisest choice . Presumably, he also knows this . I dare to accept him and aunt . After all, she is his mother-in-law . With Chen'er's layer of connection, it is not impossible that they can forget their former enmity . "
Ye Ling'er shook her head and sighed . She knew that her family, those military troops far away in Dingzhou, had long become a piece in the fight for succession because of this marriage . If Fan Xian was added to this…but she didn't want to acknowledge these things . Suddenly, her head began to hurt . She furrowed her brows in discomfort .
The Second Prince stood up . Looking at the dim light outside the window, he said, in a daze, "If Fan Xian doesn't change, he can only walk into a hopeless situation in the future . If he has the courage to change, perhaps he will suffer a loss right now . In the future, he can strive for even more benefits and a more stable peace for himself and the Fan family . This all depends on what he is thinking . "
In the end, he lowered his head helplessly . "However…as these two years have long proven, Fan Xian is a lunatic who never does things by the usual logic, so I don't have such outlandish hopes . "
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In the opinions of most of Qing Kingdom, a glimmer of lunacy and murder was gradually showing through Fan Xian's warm and amiable outer appearance . This was not referring to the night battle in Jingdou when people were killed and captured . Rather, it was the matter of returning to the ancestors that shocked Jingdou .
On the cold fifth stroke of the morning, the Fan family's ancestral worship began .
By noon, this news had already traveled to the various large manors . For a moment, countless people guessed at the developments and changes after the event . They guessed at the rise and fall of Fan Xian's opinion and desire of the power in court .
Just like the Second Prince, no one could understand why Fan Xian did this . Although he only had the identity of the Emperor's illegitimate child and there wasn't even a glimmer of a hope of entering the Palace, the identity of an illegitimate child was still an identity . As long as he wasn't dead, everything was a possibility . Furthermore, this identity would certainly be of great use in the future .
A long time ago, Chen Pingping had once thought that once the empress dowager was gone, it wasn't impossible for Fan Xian to re-enter the ranks of the princes .
However, Fan Xian's action today put the seal of the Fan family on his name and cut off all possibility of him having the family name Li . In the eyes of most people . This appeared to be very foolish or impetuous .
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