The Eighth Prince made a special trip to the Gu Mansion for this trip, so naturally he didn't really come to thank others for his fourth brother.

He wanted to find out the news. As the fourth brother, he has always been very cold to people, even if he has served him for many years in the palace, he has never been very enthusiastic about people.

Moreover, he doesn't care about women very much, at his age, there are many other princes and concubines who have sex or something, but only his fourth brother has never heard of such a thing.

Sometimes the eighth prince has to maliciously guess, he, the fourth brother, won't he still be a boy chicken, right?

Of course, he didn't know, he really guessed right.

He, the fourth brother, has always been very mysterious, and few people can know what he is thinking and doing. Li Kewen is the only person who can get close to him and understand him, but Li Kewen is the fourth child's best friend, and he won't say anything, and he won't say anything.

And this time, he finally found a place to start.

He pretended not to care at all, and asked Gu Wang: "It's also interesting to say, Fourth Brother and Fourteen Niang, what do they usually play......

But no matter how well he pretended, the nervous light flashing in his eyes couldn't fool anyone.

Lilac obeyed Gu Ming's instructions, stood outside the door, and waited silently for a long time.

Until, he finally asked this sentence.

So she pushed the door open and walked in.

Gu Wang was about to answer the question of the Eighth Prince, but when he saw that Ding Xiang had just arrived, he couldn't help but be stunned. At this time, he finally remembered that people had been here for so long, but he forgot to let the girl pour tea!

It's a shame!

"Master, Fourteen Niang instructed the slave maid to deliver tea." Lilac said softly to Gu Wang, and served the tea to the two of them.

Gu Wang's old face quietly turned red, and he quickly caught it.

was made such a fuss, where did he remember the question that the Eighth Prince asked lightly just now?

The eighth prince was a little angry in his heart, and he didn't know if this girl was such a coincidence, or if it was intentional.

But the good opportunity just now is gone, and there is no return. If he brought this question up again, even if Gu Wang was completely unaware, he would be suspicious.

As long as he doubts, then he can't ask about what he wants to ask.

Although the eighth prince was unwilling, he could only give up.

So, after saying some nonsense that was not nutritious, the eighth prince couldn't even pretend to be his usual smile, so he got up and said goodbye.

Gu Wang spent a long time arguing with him, and he didn't listen to him say anything of value. But the Eighth Prince is leaving? He was suspicious, but he could only stand up and send him out of the gate with enthusiasm.

"It's strange and strange, is it true that the Eighth Prince has come to give gifts to the Fourth Prince?" Gu Wang was really strange, and said to Gu Ming, who was called out by him to accompany him to see off the guests, "But didn't you hear that the emperor didn't have a crown prince, and the princes fought quite fiercely?" Could it be that the Eighth Prince and the Fourth Prince are actually the same faction? ”

The capital is still a bit far away for the Runan people. The dust has settled in the capital, but not many people know about it here.

Not to mention an otaku like Gu Wang, who stays at home all day.

So he opened his mind, and thought that the eighth prince and the fourth prince were actually the same faction.

"Yes, and so are the Ten Princes." Gu Ming also said casually. If he thinks so, he thinks so. Otherwise, if he knew that the Eighth Prince and the Fourth Prince were actually opposites, the only remaining two competitors would be afraid that he would not be able to face the Eighth Prince with a normal attitude.

If you show a little bit of horse's feet, you'll be in trouble.

Although the last person to ascend the throne in the previous life was not the fourth prince or the eighth prince...... However, the Eighth Prince still has a few years to be proud.

It's not worth it to offend him and cause trouble for the family.

"I see." However, Gu Wang was clearly taken seriously.

"Then between them, who is respectful?" Gu Wang became curious and asked Gu Ming, "The fourth prince was raised by the queen herself, and the eighth prince is known as a virtuous ...... I think it should be respected by the Four Princes, he is virtuous, so he should be a character like the Eight Sages King......"

The eyes of the masses were indeed bright. Gu Ming smiled faintly and did not correct his father's words.

Sure enough, if the Eighth Prince is really a virtuous person, then what he should do is not to fight with the rest of the princes, but to choose a successor who he thinks is the most suitable, and then assist him.

Instead of being the most suitable person as he is now, he is himself.

Such a person cannot be called virtuous.

His virtuousness, his approachability, his gentleness and affability, his ......

So all of this is just a pretense.

"I only have one opponent left now, even if my father's body can survive, as long as there is only one person left, then he will have no choice." In a very imposing house in the east of Runan, the eighth prince sat under a blooming osmanthus tree, stretched out his hand to catch a falling osmanthus flower, and said lightly to his staff, "Even at that time, he saw through my methods...... So what? ”

Politics is meant to be such a thing.

The Eighth Prince still remembers an old incident from the previous dynasty.

Emperor Hongsheng of the previous dynasty had a difficult heir, he was very old, and he only became a second son under his knees. The eldest son was born to a concubine, and if you say it sounds good, it is stable, but if you don't hear it, you are stupid. The second son was born to a maid in the first palace and was raised by the queen.

Although the second son is young, he has a lively personality and is intelligent, and he is very popular with Emperor Hongsheng. So when he was five years old, Emperor Hongsheng had already begun to discuss with the courtiers to make his second son the crown prince. Although the second son was not born by the queen, because his biological mother had passed away and had been raised by the queen, his status was actually higher than that of the eldest son.

But at this time, the eldest prince invited the second prince to fold flowers, but took the opportunity to push his younger brother, who was several years younger than him, off the rockery and fell to his death.

Everyone can figure out what is going on, but Emperor Hongsheng suppressed this matter and made his eldest son the crown prince.

Because, he has only such a son left. If he disposed of the eldest son in order to avenge the second son...... Well, he has no sons.

Could it be that after a hundred years, he will not be able to give up the throne to the clan?

Politics is originally about interests and exchanges, compromise and carving up.

This story is the first story that the eighth prince's mother told him, a dark, adult world, through this story, approached him.

Then, in this way, he understood the true face of politics.