It's night

Gu Shengge lazily leaned on the silk brocade quilt, opened his eyes and looked at the room.

Spacious and spacious, the floor is covered with thick carpets, beautiful antique decorations, fresh bouquets on the tables, delicate incense burners with faint incense, wisps of smoke entwined upwards.

Suddenly, a reflection appeared at the door, and then, the door was gently opened, Gu Shengge looked like he had a premonition, but he just glanced lazily and didn't move.

Thin lips lightly opened: "How?" ”

The person who came was Rukage, and I saw her wearing a black night dress, with her black hair tied high, revealing only a pair of cold eyes. Hearing Gu Shengge's voice, Liuying took off her mask and walked in front of Gu Shengge in a few steps, "Princess, check it out." ”

Gu Shengge nodded, got up slowly, sat down on the chair, poured two cups of tea, handed one to Lu Ying, and motioned for her to continue.

"Now in the palace, the queen has a wind seal in her hand to take charge of the harem, and there are two concubines below, Concubine Yu and Concubine Ru." Lu Ying paused, and then said: "Concubine Ru is the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion today, and she is the biological mother of the second prince. ”

"The Prime Minister's daughter?" Gu Shengge frowned, "There is also a prince under his knees, his relatives are tough, and his mother is expensive on the inside, so he really has a deep background." Lu Ying nodded, "Concubine Ru has been in this palace all these years, and it can indeed be said that she has walked sideways. ”

"No matter how horizontal you are, you can't beat my aunt." Gu Shengge said with a smile, this sentence is true, Gu Shuyao married Qiyuan from Loulan, not only is she beautiful, but she also heard her mother say that when her aunt was not married, she was a famous talented woman and very smart. Loulan has coped with many difficult ministers and aunts. It's not a problem to be a mere concubine.

"What about Concubine Ru, Concubine Ru, I learned today that she has a daughter, does she have a son?" Gu Shengge said curiously, Lu Ying shook his head, and said, "In the palace now, except for the crown prince who is under the queen's knees, there are only two princes. ”

"Prince?" Gu Shengge thought for a while, "I didn't hear that my aunt also gave birth to a son. ”

Ryuying explained: "The crown prince is indeed not born to the queen, the prince's biological mother had a difficult birth during childbirth, and the emperor passed the prince to the queen as soon as he was born, raised by the queen's side, and was taught by the queen himself since he was a child." ”

Hearing this, Gu Shengge's mind suddenly appeared Ying Yao's lively little face, the corners of his lips couldn't help but rise, and he quipped: "With such a lively sister and such a powerful mother, the prince should be taught well." ”

Ryukin listened and said in agreement: "The prince has heard that he has learned to be rich in five cars, and he has been talented since he was a child, and he has taken over power at a young age. ”

"Why have I never seen the crown prince in my aunt's palace?"

"The prince was sent to the army to supervise some time ago, calculate the days, and he won't come back in a few days"

"Then who is the remaining prince?"

"The third prince should be Hengyue, but he was born to a palace maid, and his mother was given death as soon as he was born, and he was not favored, and he was raised in a side hall, and no one cared about it."

"What a child." Gu Shengge drank the tea in his hand, thought for a while and said, "What is the situation in the Qiyuan Dynasty now?" ”

Speaking of the court, Lu Ying also showed a serious look, "Prime Minister Ye's family is deep-rooted, presumably the princess has also heard of it, the Xu family, the protector of the country, the ancestor is the founding father of Qiyuan, and the general Xun family, who has been fighting on the battlefield for many years and holds half of the military power. After speaking, Lu Ying looked at Gu Shengge, and said slowly: "The other half is in the hands of King Yuan." ”

"King Yuan?" Gu Shengge raised his eyebrows, Liuying nodded, and then said a powerful news: "The Protector Mansion has a close relationship with King Yuan. ”

"Oh? What is the close method? ”

"Xu Guogong is the uncle of King Yuan."

Gu Shengge's eyes widened when he heard this, "Uncle? Then, the eldest lady of the Xu family is his cousin?? This amount of information is a bit large, Gu Shengge stammered and asked, "You mean, Xu Jingya likes her cousin?" Cousin? ”

Liuying was also stunned after hearing this, Gu Shengge hurriedly poured another cup of tea to suppress the shock, and after taking a sip of tea, the whole person was also calmed down a lot, and after thinking for a long time, Gu Shengge came to a conclusion: "It should be the way of cousins in the Central Plains." Thinking of this, Gu Shengge couldn't help but smack his lips, wonderful.

After sighing for a while, he returned to the topic, Gu Shengge turned the cup in his hand and slowly spoke: "I guess, the Xun family and the Ye family in this court should be wrong, and the Guogong Mansion should maintain a neutral attitude." ”

After hearing this, Ryukage's face remained unchanged, but her eyes were full of approval: "The princess guessed well." Then he asked, "How does the princess know about this?" ”

Gu Shengge looked at the green glazed teacup in his hand, and said unhurriedly: "The Protector's Mansion is a veteran of the Kai Dynasty, and he is naturally a high-ranking power, but since ancient times, what the king hates the most is the master's high merit, and the Protector's Mansion has the strong backing of King Yuan, so it is natural to restrain it everywhere." ”

Lu Ying grasped the key point in Gu Shengge's words, and asked puzzledly: "Why does the princess say that King Yuan is the backing of the Protector Mansion, not that the Protector Mansion is the backing of King Yuan?" ”

Gu Shengge added new tea to Liuying, and said quietly: "Although the Protectorate Mansion is an important minister, the military power has long been taken away, although he can speak in the court, he has no real power in his hands, and the Protectorate Mansion did not add his daughter to the harem, and he also lost the right to the harem." You say, who is stronger and who is weaker than the king of Yuan, who holds military power? ”

Liuying suddenly realized, drank the tea poured by Gu Shengge himself, and as soon as he finished drinking, he heard Gu Shengge say: "The king not only hates the lord of high merit, but also hates the dominance of the family, the Ye family's power in the court is not very heavy, but it is not light at all." I have long heard that the Xun family has been loyal to martyrs for generations, and they must not be used to the Ye family's style, and it is normal for the two families to be wrong. ”

Lu Ying held the teacup and agreed: "It's not much different from the news I got, and now the emperor attaches more importance to the Xun family." ”

Gu Shengge smiled and said, "This is inevitable."

Ryukage looked puzzled, "Why?" Gu Shengge replied to her with two words: "Checks and balances." ”

"The best way to solve the problem of one dominance is to support and strengthen the other, oppose it and restrain each other."

After listening to Gu Shengge's words, Liuying admired this little princess even more, in terms of beauty, the third princess's posture is definitely the first, in terms of temperament, there are few extravagance and aura in this world that can match it, and in terms of intelligence, the princess is even more than a few streets away from those noble girls.

"That's right" Gu Shengge proposed a food basket from one place, and when he opened it was a small cup of steaming lotus seed lily white fungus soup and a bowl of lotus pod pork rib soup, Gu Shengge put it in front of Liuying: "This is Yaoyao picked today, everyone has a share, you are not here, I entrusted the kitchen to leave it for you, drink it while it is hot." ”

Ryukage looked at the food in front of her, her heart was full of emotion, her cold face softened, and she said with a smile, "Thank you, princess." ”

After speaking, he enjoyed it quietly, and halfway through the meal, Ryuying suddenly spoke: "Princess, I remember something." ”

Seeing Liuying's serious expression, Gu Shengge knew that it was not a trivial matter, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"When I was in the Western Regions Chamber of Commerce, on the night after the auction, I was locked up in a dungeon, where there was a lot of fish, and the man drank too much and said a few words, and when I got close, I heard a rough idea. I heard the man mention King Yu. ”

"King Yu?" Gu Shengge frowned, the son of the first emperor had little left for the throne. After Emperor Yueyang succeeded to the throne, only King Yuan and King Yu remained. King Yuan and Emperor Yueyang were both born to the former queen, while King Yu was the only son of the imperial concubine. King Yuan stayed in the capital to build the palace of King Yuan, and King Yu also rewarded the fief Beiyuan.

"The Western Regions Chamber of Commerce is in the realm of Loulan, the northern plains are 108,000 miles away from Loulan, and King Yu, as a royal family, must lack nothing, so he came all the way to the Western Regions Chamber of Commerce, so he naturally fancy something important."

It's not just Gu Shengge who is also thinking about King Yu.

Inside the study room of the Cloud Breaker Building

Ying Wei was sitting on the sandalwood round table, closing his eyes and recuperating, the new tea was put aside and he didn't drink it, his fingers were tapping on the table one by one, dull and intimidating, making Shi Yuan, who was standing on the side, feel pressure.

Ever since the prince received the information that the spies had just sent King Yu to prepare to enter Beijing, the prince has been maintaining that action.

After knocking for I don't know how long, Ying Wei opened his cold eyes, his thin lips opened lightly, and he still had a low and emotionless voice: "Has the princess returned home?" ”

Shi Yuan once suspected that he was deaf, and when he was sure that he was not an auditory hallucination, Shi Yuan replied respectfully: "The princess lived in the queen's palace today. ”

Ying Wei thoughtfully picked up the tea on the table and took a sip gently. In the Queen's Palace?