"It's a pity that such a stupid woman is better than the royal family, and has a better look and talent than me. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" When Ophelina said this, the jealous anger in her tone finally came out irrepressibly, Cecil felt a little funny when she heard it, Ophelina, who has always been calm and calm, also has something that cannot be tolerated, and there are people to be jealous of, it seems that no one has the slightest death hole and no weakness.

"I don't think you're telling me this history just to educate me about history." Cecil asked Ophelina, although this history is a very interesting anecdote, but it is also a royal secret, and as a royal family, you would never want anyone to tell it. Even if it is casually mentioned to others, if King Hareton knows about it behind his back, and leaves a bad impression in his old man's heart, it is never a good thing, the king is still like this to his father and brothers, let alone others, Ophelina is tantamount to taking the risk of telling this story to herself, she must have her own purpose in doing so, Cecil does not go around in circles with her, and asks her this question straightforwardly.

"The main reason I am telling you this is to give you an idea of the current situation in the kingdom, because of the complex background above, the current situation in the kingdom is very mysterious. In order to prevent a dominant prince from challenging his imperial power while he was alive, King Hareton began to deliberately play a dangerous balancing act between the eldest prince Rex and the second prince Lucas. Ophelina said.

"A dangerous balancing game?" Cecil asked, puzzled.

"It is to cultivate the strength of Prince Rex and Prince Lucas at the same time, and then let their power always be equal, and their strength will always be the same, then they will always need King Hareton to conduct the final arbitration, and the king will always have this supreme right." Ophelina said as she pulled her hair.

"Of course, this is good for the old king to maintain his rights, but he is not afraid that these two princes who maintain the balance of power will kill each other in the future after his death?" Cecil knows very well how harmful this method is, if the power of the two princes is comparable, then almost the probability of them killing each other after the death of the king is too great, people will not take into account any family affection in the face of such great interests, even if Prince Rex and Lucas themselves have the so-called brotherhood, the nobles who follow them will not let them have brotherhood, they put their lives on these two princes, and the failure of the princes they support is something they absolutely cannot accept. If the princes fail, they will lose their lives and their lives, and how can they stop, if the kingdom is caught in a large-scale fire, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Things in this world are always like this, there will never be a solution to the best of both worlds, the king always has a very delicate mentality towards the prince, giving the prince too many rights, the prince always wants to seize power in advance, and does not give the prince too much power, the prince may not even have a chance to ascend the throne, even if he barely ascends the throne, he will become a weak king, or even a puppet king, this is the so-called prisoner's dilemma, once you fall into this dilemma, it is almost impossible to solve." Ophelina said calmly.

Cecil also fell into silence, never expected that these people who stood at the highest place of power would still have this or that dilemma, they were high, but they had long lost the most basic family affection that should be in the world, but it was normal to think about it, what they represented were the interests of the countless interest groups behind them who supported them, and it was impossible for them to do things only with their own feelings.

"Then you mean that the current situation in the kingdom is that Prince Rex and Prince Lucas are two strong side by side, and then King Hareton will arbitrate from it. However, King Hareton is over seventy years old this year, and after so many years of fighting in the north and south, his body may no longer be able to support it. No matter how strong a person is, it is difficult to resist the call of death, and as his body gets worse and worse, his prestige will inevitably get lower and lower, and when he is dying, no one will listen to him anymore. He was afraid that he would no longer be able to suppress the fire between the two princes. Cecil said worriedly.

"That's right," Ophelina gave Cecil a thumbs up, "I don't see that you have a lot of brains, no wonder you rose so quickly at a young age, but the king himself has realized this, and he may have realized that he will not be living in this world for too long, so he has changed his mind about holding on to power, and more so giving it to the man he chose among his two sons." ”

"For us, the most important thing is who the king chooses, whether he chooses Prince Rex or Prince Lucas, it's completely different for us." Cecil said that for these nobles, the most important thing is, of course, the arrangement of personnel, the big man is worried about how the power is distributed, and the little man is worried about how the power is distributed to himself, which is what happens every day in this world.

"The king didn't say specifically, but unfortunately, judging from all indications now, I'm afraid that he chose not Prince Rex, who was supported by my father, but his younger brother, Prince Lucas." Ophelina said to Cecil regretfully.

"Why did the king make this choice?" Although Prince Lucas's reputation is better than that of Prince Rex, it seems to me that it is just a different style, Prince Rex is more aggressive, Prince Lucas is more moderate, and Prince Lucas may be better in terms of style, but it does not mean that Prince Rex is not suitable to be king. Cecil blurted out.

Ophelina said with a slight mockery: "Then it's a pity that it's not you who is the king, I don't know what the king thinks, but from the current signs, the king is obviously more inclined to Prince Lucas, in the last few personnel appointments, Prince Lucas's side is obviously more favored by the king, and more importantly, the king also let the leader of his Praetorian Guard and Prince Lucas be very close, which can be said to be the most obvious weather vane." Princess Freya has always been the jewel of the king's palm, and she is more favored by the king than the two princes, and she has always been a bowl of water between the two princes, but she has obviously preferred the second prince recently, which is obviously what the king meant. ”