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After listening to Emperor Jingfeng's plan, Li Rui fell silent, and said after a while: "I want to ask Brother Huang, why do you want to keep the Liu family?"

Emperor Jingfeng took it for granted: "Although Liu's father and son are absurd and useless, they are Che'er's mother's family and the imperial concubine's natal family. If they cheat in the imperial examination, they will be killed. If we don't keep them, Che'er will have no mother's family to rely on in the future." ?”

Li Rui asked again: "Why do you have to keep a mother family that the Second Highness can rely on?"

As if feeling that this question was redundant, Emperor Jingfeng smiled and looked at him incomprehensibly: "Isn't this nonsense? Che'er is the prince, and his mother clan is the closest and most trustworthy force for him. If there is not enough The forces support him..."

"The Second Highness is a prince, but he will only be a prince in the future." Li Rui interrupted suddenly, and pressed him with burning eyes, "My brother dares to ask the emperor, why is a prince who does not need to inherit the big position?" Do you need enough power to support it?"

Emperor Jingfeng was stunned for a moment.

Li Rui pointed at himself, and asked another way: "My brother is also a prince. From the standpoint of the emperor, do you want to support my brother's power to be strong or weak?"

There is no doubt that it is better to be weak, so as not to threaten Emperor Jingfeng's status.

In the era of centralized monarchy, if the court is to be stable and stable, the royal power must first be ensured to be strong, so as to suppress the ambitions of the younger generation and fully consolidate the imperial power.Secondly, under the royalist forces, it is necessary to ensure the stability of the heir faction, that is, the successor faction, so that the future transfer of imperial power will be smooth and the turbulence during the transition period will be minimized.

The most ideal situation is that the royalist forces and the eldest sons belong to the same faction, and the emperor and the prince are always united and never suspicious, but most monarchs can't do this.But no matter whether the emperor can be united with the prince, he should ensure that under him, the prince has the greatest power and is always in a stable heir position.

If the emperor does not establish a crown prince for a long time, the princes will be dissatisfied, and the courtiers will also start to stand in line for various reasons and choose to rely on power.Once the court begins to fight for the heir, internal friction will also begin.

The current situation is that although Emperor Jingfeng has established a crown prince, he still wants to keep the power of the second son, and subconsciously hopes that the second son will have a certain competitiveness in the future—in other words, he will make the second prince Li Jinche As a candidate for the crown prince.

Li Rui saw the deep intention of Emperor Jingfeng's doing so, and calmly persuaded him: "Now that the crown prince has been established, His Highness the Second Highness is a sure-fire prince. As soon as he grows up, he will leave the palace to build a mansion or go to a fiefdom to become a vassal. Is there any reason?" Mother's support will not affect his future, but will threaten the status of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Emperor Jingfeng took a deep breath, and said slowly: "I understand the truth of what you said. But after all, the prince is still young, and it is not known whether there will be changes in the future. I am doing this to make two-handed preparations. In case the prince has something Unexpectedly, at least there is Che'er. I left him the arm of the Liu family, and if that day really comes, his situation will be easier."

How can a father think every day that his eldest son has an accident so that he can leave the family property to his second son?This heart is really out of bounds.

People's hearts really can't be changed in a short while. Although Emperor Jingfeng appointed the first prince as the prince, he still favored the second prince deep in his heart, and even had a very high tolerance for the Liu family. This is the time And do everything possible to keep them.

Li Rui slandered silently, but still patiently persuaded him on the face: "The Second Highness is originally the most righteous prince besides the prince. If there is a day, he will become the favorite of the people without the need for the emperor to cultivate power for him in advance. Picked up smoothly."

"The prince is now in good health, gentle, filial, intelligent and studious. No matter how you look at it, he is a qualified heir apparent. At this time, the emperor is thinking about how to keep the Liu family. I am afraid that they will become the prince before they become the arms of the Second Highness." Your Highness's stumbling block."

Emperor Jing Feng was strong and easily suspicious. If someone else said this, he might suspect that the other party had already secretly joined the prince's faction.But today, it was King Zhao who said this, his most trusted and beloved younger brother. It was rare for him to listen to it, and he fell into deep thought for a while.

And Li Rui himself knew that if he didn't say this, no one would dare to say it to Emperor Jingfeng, so he simply said boldly: "My brother dares to say that His Royal Highness is the crown prince, as long as you will wholeheartedly treat him As the only heir to train, don't think twice, how could he have any accidents?"

Being a crown prince is a high-risk occupation, and more than half of the dangers come from the emperor himself.There is only one Liu family, and if you don't keep it, you won't keep it. But as long as Emperor Jingfeng still prefers the second prince and wants the second prince to be the "candidate for the crown prince", he can continuously cultivate new forces for the second prince. Position is never secure.

Emperor Jingfeng is the king of a country. If he does not want the prince to have "accidents", the prince will not have any accidents.If he thought about what to do in case the crown prince had an accident every day, and made a series of back-up preparations for it, then the crown prince would definitely have an accident.

To put it bluntly, although Emperor Jingfeng appointed the eldest prince Li Jinze as the crown prince, deep down in his heart he still did not regard him as the real heir, and always wanted to let his favorite second prince Li Jinche take over at any time.

Now that a decision has been made, it must be followed through, otherwise it will only lead to disaster - Zhao Wang has made it very clear.

Emperor Jingfeng sat without saying a word for a long while, and suddenly his brows loosened slightly. He glanced coolly at Zhao Wang Li Rui, and said lightly, "You are really more courageous now. You dare to say anything in front of me."

Li Rui knew that Emperor Jingfeng had listened to it, and he didn't really get angry. He said with a playful smile: "My brother has never been taboo since he was a child. If it wasn't for the emperor's brother who manipulated me, I'm afraid my ass would be opened when I was young." .”

"You, you, I really don't know how to say hello." Emperor Jing Feng scolded him with a smile, and brought him back to the previous topic, "But you are right, the Liu family has never changed after repeated admonitions, and I don't know how many big mistakes they have made. If I still protect them without any bottom line like this, it will actually hinder Che'er."

Li Rui joked with a smile: "If nothing else, let's just say that Gu Yunji and Fang Zigui won the first-class Jinshi at a young age, and they have their own forces behind them. This is the real minister of the humerus in the future, Brother Huang." Ah. How can you let go of capable and virtuous ministers and insist on asking for stupid and mediocre ones?"

Emperor Jingfeng was delighted when he heard the words: "That's right, I naturally want capable ministers and virtuous ministers. As for those stupid and mediocre ministers, they should be eliminated, so as not to be a vegetarian in the court."

"However, although Gu Yunji and Fang Zigui are indeed good seedlings, to grow into truly capable ministers, they still need to practice hard. They should be separated at this point, lest the two get together and think about how to plot against each other all day long. "

Li Rui raised his eyebrows: "What does the emperor plan to do?"

Emperor Jingfeng smiled meaningfully: "I have my own plans."