The so-called second prince is Sun Lu.

That was the adult second brother that Prince Sun Deng mentioned to Lu Xun before he left.

Hearing Gu Yong's words, Lu Xun couldn't help but be overjoyed:

"Prime Minister's plan is to come out?"

Gu Yong glanced at Lu Xun, but did not answer his question:

"Bo Yan, I have my own thoughts on this matter. I'll leave it to me later. You'd better not get involved anymore."

Lu Xun was very anxious when he heard this:

"Prime Minister, why is this? I have the responsibility of assisting the prince..."

Before he finished speaking, Gu Yong interrupted him:

"It also depends on which assistant you are in! If you are in the imperial court, then this is your duty, and you can say whatever you want."

"But you are in Wuchang now, and everything east of Yuzhang is in your hands. If you interfere in such affairs of the court again, what do you want His Majesty to think?"

"What's more, I am the prime minister and am in charge of all affairs in the country. If you join forces with me to intercede for the prince, are you trying to help the prince, or are you trying to force the prince to death?"

After all, Lu Xun was still a smart man. Hearing Gu Yong's undisclosed words, he broke into a cold sweat on the spot:

"Fortunately, Xun came to see the Prime Minister first, otherwise, he would have made a big mistake!"

Gu Yong also sighed a little:

"Nowadays, the court is not as good as before, so you have to be careful about everything."

Lu Xun knew clearly that Gu Yong was reminding him, but he still asked in a low voice:

"The Prime Minister may tell Xun how to use these two princes to test His Majesty?"

Seeing Gu Yong frowning, Lu Xun smiled bitterly and explained:

"Prime Minister, it's not that I have to get involved, but that this matter was caused by me. If the second prince is involved in the dispute..."

Lu Xun paused, and then sighed again, "That was not my original intention."

Gu Yong said "tsk" and secretly thought that it was a blessing for him that Lu Boyan was not in the court.

Otherwise, with his temperament, he would never know when someone would plot against him.

How can there be anything unintentional about the battles in the royal family?

Who has nothing to do but is willing to commit fratricide?

It's just that it's hard for Gu Yong to say this clearly.

"Don't worry, Boyan. My plan is just to ask Your Majesty to ennoble the second prince and join the country on the grounds that the second prince has reached adulthood."

"Become a knight and a country?"

Lu Xun was a little confused.

Gu Yong nodded: "That's right. Your Majesty's sons, when they reach adulthood, they will naturally be granted the title of king and then the country. The second prince has grown up. How can it be unworthy to not be granted the title of king and stay in Wuchang with the prince at the same time?

"

If His Majesty regards Wuchang as the prince's fiefdom, then what does it mean for an ordinary prince to stay in the prince's fiefdom for a long time?

Can a prince be the same as an ordinary prince?

He looked at Lawrence Lu and explained slowly:

"If the prince stays in Wuchang and the third prince is in Jianye, but your majesty has not thought it through for the time being, then he will naturally agree to the second prince's appointment as king."

"Since His Majesty has no intention of touching the throne, then as long as the third prince grows up, we can take the second prince as an example and let the third prince return to the country. In this way, even if the prince does not return to Jianye, he will be fine."

When Lu Xun heard this, he finally understood: "That's it."

Sure enough, it is up to the people in the court to think of a way to resolve this matter.

But just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly thought of a possibility, looked around subconsciously, and then asked in a whisper that only the two of them could hear:

"Prime Minister, if so, I mean if so, what if Your Majesty does not agree to the second prince's ennoblement and joining the country?"

When Gu Yong heard this, his face darkened.

He lowered his eyes, like an old monk in meditation, and remained silent for a long time.

It wasn't until Lu Xun thought he was asleep that he said in a heavy tone:

"Without if, the State of Wu is not the State of Wu of His Majesty alone, but the State of Wu of the people of Jiangdong."

Lu Xun's body shook slightly.

Of course he understood what Gu Yong meant.

After all, Lu Xun himself was one of the first people to propose that Sun Quan be the emperor.

Because only when Sun Quan becomes emperor can the Jiangdong family be considered on an equal footing with the Central Plains. Otherwise, they will always be one step lower.

No matter whether this background can be compared with that of the Central Plains family, at least in name, it will not be lower.

Otherwise, even the barbarians in Sichuan are a head taller than them, how can they swallow this breath?

Reputation is very important.

Aristocratic families often rely on reputation for their livelihood.

If one day, the Emperor of Wu State can march north to the Central Plains and rule the world, then the Jiangdong family will be the top family in the world.

If you don't have dreams, what's the point of living?

It can be said that from the moment Sun Quan became emperor, the Jiangdong family was completely bound to the Sun family.

No matter how we fight in the den, it's all a family matter. We must be highly unified externally, at least more unified than before.

In the future, whether the Zhongyuan family will continue to be the best in the world, the Jiangdong family will catch up from behind, or the Shuzhong family will become the king, it all depends on which family from Wu, Wei, and Shu can survive to the end.

If you just want to survive to the end, you must minimize internal friction.

The battle for storage space has always been one of the most common internal conflicts.

After all, Lu Xun was from a noble family, so he could naturally understand what Gu Yong meant by his words.

But that's all.

What Gu Yong was thinking was far deeper than Lu Xun's.

Lu Xun was the son-in-law of the Sun family and was trained by Sun Quan himself.

There are some things that he may not be aware of, or may be deliberately not thinking about.

But as the prime minister, Gu Yong understood one thing very well: the current king of Wu State was not so easy to talk to the Jiangdong family who pushed him to the throne.

After all, Sun Ce killed a large family in Jiangdong until they shed rivers of blood.

If the Jiangdong family really dared to say they had forgotten this grudge, would Sun Quan dare to believe it?

However, the battle in Chibi destroyed the Jiangdong family's last hope of cooperating with the Sun family.

Therefore, the Jiangdong family had to pinch their noses to recognize the person named Sun.

This feeling, this taste, is really like eating shit with fine wine, extremely sour and refreshing.

I've finished eating, you've finished feeling good, and now you want to imitate your short-lived brother and cause trouble?

Yes, in Gu Yong's view, Sun Quan's motives for wanting to take action on the reserve must not be so simple.

How many years has it been since Zhang Wen was raped?

How could Gu Yong not remember?

Your Majesty, you hold a grudge!

The crime that was charged against Zhang Wen at that time was: He was evil and ugly, and he only used evil intentions.

It is almost said that Zhang Wen intended to rebel.

The final result was that the Zhang family was dismissed from office and exiled.

His Majesty simply used Ji Yan's incident to cleanse the Zhang family, one of the four Jiangdong families.

As prime minister, Gu Yong's political sensitivity far exceeded that of Lu Xun.

With the battle over the reserve position, who can guarantee whether His Majesty will take the opportunity to clean up the throne again?

After all, there is a past example, so Gu Yong naturally does not want this to happen again.

Even if there is only a slight possibility.

I can’t afford to be hurt!

Gu Yong did not dare to tell Lu Xun easily what he was thinking.

Among the four major families, the Zhang family has been purged, the Lu family is an in-law of the Sun family, and the only ones left are the Gu family and the Zhu family.

If it really develops as he imagined, there is a half chance that the Gu family will be targeted by the emperor.

How could Gu Yong dare to take this risk?
To be continued...