Since the difficult education of her son began.
The content of Ding Yun's exchanges with everyone in the red envelope group mostly turned to education and parent-child issues. Furthermore, everyone was reluctant to send each other red envelopes.
What was supposed to be a good red envelope group.
Ding Yun had turned it into a parent-child education group.
A group of people were discussing the education of their sons, daughters, and even grandsons, granddaughters, and grandchildren.
[Regent Empress Dowager]: My heavens, I really can't stand my unlucky child anymore. He forgets what he learns, learns what he forgets, and has been unable to memorize a thousand-character primer for half a year.
The few peers who served as his companion readers.
They have almost finished studying the Four Books and Five Classics.
Why is there such a big difference between people?
[Chang'e in the Moon]: You have to understand that in our cultivation world, there are also those who have no spiritual roots but have children with heavenly spiritual roots, and likewise, there are cultivators with spiritual roots who have children without spiritual roots. Such things are really hard to say; it depends on fate and luck.
[Empress Ci An]: I don't understand. I say your son is asking for a beating. It's not a matter of IQ deficiency, so how could he possibly keep failing to memorize. My little nephew also couldn't learn it at first, no matter how he tried.
His paternal grandmother doted on him and wouldn't let him be disciplined.
Later, I personally issued a decree and had him hung up and spanked a few times. While he hasn't become a genius, he can at least recite the Four Books and Five Classics, understand the scriptures in all aspects, and can even write a few poems.
People are different. Some people become self-taught geniuses without needing to be hit. Some people only become talented through beatings and scoldings. Those who truly cannot be talented even with beatings and scoldings are only a minority. How can you know he can't become talented if you don't hit him?
[Stepping Lotus]: Get lost. Regent Empress Dowager only has one son. Who would take responsibility if something went wrong with him? Besides, although the Regent Empress Dowager is already regent and manages the court, her son is now the emperor. Which imperial tutor would dare to lay a hand on him?
You can't have her hit him herself.
Hitting him herself would damage the mother-son relationship.
Moreover, even if children only become talented through beatings and scoldings, there must be one playing the good cop and one playing the bad cop, one responsible for beating and scolding out of frustration, and one responsible for comforting. Just beating and scolding and demeaning is not a good thing.
[Bewitching and Charming Lady]: Actually, don't really think that children don't understand anything. In fact, children understand much more than you imagine. For example, if they find that they are not punished for lying and even get benefits, they will naturally learn to lie.
They don't need anyone to teach them.
The most terrifying thing is when children who haven't yet established a sense of right and wrong lie, and you can't tell they are lying.
Also, if a child finds that someone wants to hit him, but another person can protect him, then he will naturally become closer to and even try to please the one who protects him.
In a way, children's tendency to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages is more obvious and simpler than adults.
Although your son, Regent Empress Dowager, has not yet personally ruled, he is still the emperor. Everyone around him will surely try to please him, and no one dares to offend him. Even the imperial tutors who teach him will not dare to show him disrespect due to the status of ruler and subject, let alone punish him.
These factors combined.
It's no wonder he's willing to study diligently.
[Human World Songstress]: Indeed, your son is not a prince, nor is he the crown prince, but the emperor.
Besides you, no one can restrain him.
Don't say he's the emperor; even if he were just a prince, if he were an only child, he would be arrogant and unwilling to study because he knows no one is competing with him. If there are many princes, and they even want to compete for the throne,
Then they will desperately compete and study.
[Regent Empress Dowager]: I can restrain him, but I also have important state affairs to handle. How can I sit by his side and supervise his studies? Chang'e in the Moon, do you have any spiritual elixirs to improve wisdom?
Or to improve memory.
[Chang'e in the Moon]: If you're talking about pills to improve wisdom, I do have some. For example, there's the Enlightenment Pill, but this pill is mainly used to awaken the wisdom of demonic beasts.
No one has ever taken it.
If you dare to give it to your son.
I don't mind giving you some.
[Regent Empress Dowager]: Then forget it.
[Chang'e in the Moon]: Children are indeed difficult to deal with, and I don't like taking care of young ones. That's why our immortal sect never accepts children under twelve years old. The official reason is that their meridians are not fully developed before twelve, making it difficult to cultivate, but the main reason is that we don't want to interact with and teach children under twelve.
Only one's own children, when there's no other choice.
One has to endure it.
[Human World Summer Visitor]: Regent Empress Dowager, I think you don't need to worry too much or be anxious. Being an emperor doesn't require great literary talent.
The most basic requirement is to be sensible, distinguish between good and evil, and be willing to listen to the advice of ministers.
If that's really not possible.
Then you can try to live longer and teach your grandson.
As long as you have achieved martial arts mastery and maintained your health well, you can live to 120 years old normally. With the Jiazi Pill, you can live to around 180 years old. To put it bluntly, your great-grandson might not outlive you.
Why worry about your son being trampled upon?
[Regent Empress Dowager]: Good heavens, if I can live to 180, does that mean I have to work until I'm 180? Others become grandmothers and enjoy their grandchildren at forty or fifty, and I have to work at eighty or ninety.
Is that right? Is that human?
[Empress Ci An]: There's nothing we can do. If our sons and grandsons are incompetent, we elders have to work harder.
My son is already in his fifties this year, but I haven't let him abdicate. When he was in his forties, I did let him be emperor for a while, but he was a complete mess. Seeing that, I had no choice but to depose him and become empress myself. There was no other way.
No matter how much he resents me, I can't indulge him.
After all, an incompetent general can affect the entire army. It doesn't matter if he courts death himself, but he cannot let the common people suffer because of him. For that, I am willing to bear the infamy.
[Bewitching and Charming Lady]: ...
[Nine-Year-Old Empress Dowager Xiao]: For a moment, I couldn't tell if you were telling the truth or lying. I don't know if your son is truly incompetent or if you are unwilling to relinquish power.
[Regent Empress Dowager]: Alas, talking to you is completely useless. I suddenly envy the legendary White Lady. She was imprisoned in Leifeng Pagoda for more than ten or twenty years, but when she came out, her child had become a top scholar.
She didn't have to worry about anything, how comfortable...
[Chang'e in the Moon]: Why don't you let your son cultivate early? After taking one Innate Pill and one Vajra Pill, he can be beaten however he likes. As long as it's not martial arts masters who do the beating, if mortals do it, he can be hung up and beaten seventeen or eighteen times a day. At most, he'll only have superficial injuries, which will usually heal after a night's sleep.
[Bewitching and Charming Lady]: You are truly ruthless!
[Regent Empress Dowager]: I have plenty of Innate Pills and Vajra Pills, but I'm afraid that after feeding him the pills, he won't be the one being beaten; he'll be the one doing the beating. He's already mischievous enough now. If he becomes a martial arts master after taking the pills, won't he go to heaven?
Alas, raising a child is really troublesome...