The best ring

Gu Lin hurriedly walked into the palace of the eldest prince Zhao Xuan. Seeing Gu Lin approaching, Zhao Xuanping stepped back and asked Gu Lin, "How are you? Have you investigated anything?"

In the past two days, Gu Lin has been investigating the old emperor's specific condition according to Zhao Xuan's request. The imperial dining room is the focus of their investigation, because no matter what the old emperor's condition is, he still needs to eat, and the medicine is also prepared there. The imperial dining room, so the imperial dining room is a good breakthrough point. Gu Lin has been secretly investigating the imperial dining room for the past two days.

Hearing Zhao Xuan's inquiry, Gu Lin looked excited and said, "Back to Your Highness, I did investigate something in the imperial kitchen."

"What?"

"In the past two days, everything in the Imperial Study Room was normal. There was almost no change in His Majesty's diet, and no one was seen cooking medicine." Gu Lin replied: "But in the past two days, the recipes in the Imperial Study Room suddenly changed. I added some food that nourishes qi and blood. At the same time, my subordinates also discovered that a palace maid was boiling medicine, and the quantity of the medicine was quite high."

"What does this mean?" Zhao Xuan frowned slightly, "Why has the imperial dining room changed in the past two days?"

"Your Highness, my subordinates speculate that perhaps His Majesty's illness was not as serious as the outside world thought. His Majesty made some arrangements and retreated behind the scenes. He should be secretly inspecting the princes to select a candidate for the crown prince." Gu Lin analyzed Said: "But judging from the changes in the imperial dining room in the past two days, His Majesty's condition may have really worsened due to some reasons. When I saw an imperial doctor coming in and out of the imperial dining room, my subordinates had a serious look on their face, which means that His Majesty's condition is not good at this time." optimism."

Before, Gu Lin, Zhao Xuan, and even other princes and others speculated that the old emperor's arrangement might be because he was seriously ill or he might be acting deliberately. But now, through investigation, Gu Lin has basically determined , The old emperor was indeed acting before, but as he continued to act, the play actually came true. Perhaps, when the old emperor deliberately pretended to be ill, he did not expect this situation to occur.

Hearing Gu Lin's words, Zhao Xuan's expression was a bit ugly: "Father, pretending to be ill? So, when he arranged for me to handle the government affairs before, he did not think highly of me and intended to make me the prince, but just made the arrangement casually to facilitate his secret Observe everyone’s reaction?”

Gu Lin nodded and said, "That should be the case."

Zhao Xuan's expression became even more gloomy.

"Damn it!" Zhao Xuan pushed the vase on his hand to the ground and said angrily, "I respected him so much in the past, and he actually played tricks on me?"

Zhao Xuan's current mood can be described as extremely bad.

When the old emperor was seriously ill, he was assigned to handle government affairs. He thought he had finally come through and gained the old emperor's approval.

However, it was only now that he discovered that this was just a play arranged by the old emperor. He had not been recognized by the old emperor at all. The position of prince seemed to be close at hand, but in fact, it was far away from him. Far, far away and hard to touch.

This kind of gap from heaven to hell was difficult for Zhao Xuan to accept. He was no longer grateful to his father. Instead, he felt endless resentment. He felt that he was like a fool in front of the old emperor. , being teased randomly.

Gu Lin lowered his head slightly and said nothing. He knew that Zhao Xuan must be in a bad mood at this moment and needed to vent.

After a long time, Zhao Xuan sat back on the chair, but his face was still gloomy and ugly.

"Tell me, what should we do now?" Zhao Xuan said.

As Zhao Xuan's staff, Gu Lin naturally wanted to help Zhao Xuan with suggestions. However, the things they encountered this time were too difficult. The one who gave them problems was not others but the old emperor. He wanted to come up with countermeasures. Too difficult.

However, since Zhao Xuan asked, Gu Lin couldn't say anything. He thought for a while and said to Zhao Xuan: "Your Highness, judging from the old emperor's arrangements, he is not optimistic about you..."

Speaking of this, Gu Lin quietly glanced at Zhao Xuan, and as expected, Zhao Xuan's face became even more ugly.

Gu Lin slowed down and continued: "However, the fact that His Majesty did not appoint other princes as princes means that Your Highness still has a chance."

"Fart!" Zhao Xuan said fiercely: "If he really wanted to make me the prince, would he miss such a good opportunity? If he really wanted to make me the prince, would he act like this?"

"Perhaps, His Highness's performance during this period has not necessarily been approved by His Majesty." Gu Lin continued.

"Do you think it's possible?" Zhao Xuan looked at Gu Lin and said.

Gu Lin stopped talking. He was really not sure about this matter. After all, during this period of time, Zhao Xuan was diligent in his work, but there was nothing special about him. To say that the old emperor looked at Zhao Xuan differently because of this, maybe Sex is actually not big.

Seeing Gu Lin's silence, Zhao Xuan became even more angry.

"If the circumstances you investigated are true, then my father must be seriously ill. In addition to the deadline he gave before, we don't have much time left." Zhao Xuan said with a gloomy face.

Gu Lin nodded, feeling equally heavy. As Zhao Xuan's chief aide, if Zhao Xuan loses power, his future will also be bleak.

"How is the situation with the ministers?" Zhao Xuan asked: "Especially the Minister of Civil Affairs, Yuan Ji, I asked you to contact him, what is his attitude?"

Zhao Xuan knew very well that although the ministers did not have the right to decide on the matter of establishing the position of the prince, their opinions and views were also important. If he could win the support of the vast majority of ministers, he did not believe that his father would remain indifferent. .

So, during this period, Zhao Xuan has been secretly trying to win over ministers, and this matter is also handled by Gu Lin.

Gu Lin's face darkened when he heard Zhao Xuan's question.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Xuan, who noticed the change in Gu Lin's expression, frowned.

"Your Highness, this matter is not going very smoothly." Gu Lin said with a stiff face: "Because Your Highness is in charge of handling political affairs, there are indeed ministers in the court who have taken the initiative to show goodwill during this period, but these people are not in important positions, and their identities and status are not very high. As for those important ministers in the court, they basically have no expression."

"Assholes!" Zhao Xuan said angrily: "These bastards! Don't you think highly of me?"

Zhao Xuan has always been very self-righteous and thinks that he is the most likely candidate for the position of the crown prince, but now, the actions of these ministers are undoubtedly slapping him in the face and making him face reality.

"What about Yuanji? What's his attitude?"

Yuanji is the Minister of Personnel. He has a high status in the court and a wide network of people. If he can get his support, then he can definitely lead other ministers. Therefore, Yuanji is the focus of Zhao Xuan's attention.

"I went to Minister Yuan's place several times," Gu Lin said, "but the results were not very good."