Gu Zhao suddenly realized.

No wonder Emperor Shouzheng summoned her and promoted her to a promotion today, and praised her for being good. It turned out that this most noble father and son chose her and wanted to use her to deal with Lin Weikang.

When he heard this news, the first picture that came to Gu Zhao's mind turned out to be Yuan Fu's face.

If Yuanfu knew that she was going to marry the prince, he would definitely be very sad.

After a moment of pondering, Gu Zhao made a suggestion, "Your Majesty and Your Highness discuss major national affairs, and I dare not discuss them irrelevantly. If Your Highness wants the opinions of me, I believe that Lin Yayi, the concubine daughter of Duke Li, has admired the prince for a long time, is a good candidate."

The prince narrowed his eyes, as if he was a little surprised, "Does Lord Gu think that he is alone worthy of marrying Duke Li's concubine as his concubine?"

Gu Zhao quickly stood up and admitted his mistake, "Your Highness forgives your crime, I have no intention of this."

She looked ashamed and had a very sincere attitude. "Your Highness is right. It is indeed not suitable for Duke Li to be a concubine. The gentleman is a humble background and has a dull qualification, which is really a joke."

The prince looked up and down at Gu Zhao, and a shrewd flashed through his deep thinking, "I discovered that you are not stupid, but you are too smart."

He played with the white jade ring on his thumb, with a non-hero curve on his lips. "You want to say that the concubine daughter of Duke Li is not worthy of being the crown princess. You are just a mere adopted daughter, so you should not be considered, right?"

"It's worthy of being Lord Gu. Before Gu could speak, he was blocked back by you."

Gu Zhao did not answer. The prince is not a fool, but she is not a puppet at the mercy of others.

She just stood quietly in the pavilion, with her head down and her posture was very humble, but the prince could feel her firmness.

It's not like playing hard to get.

This made the prince, who had not taken this kind of thing seriously, feel a little more curious.

Is there really a woman in this world who doesn’t want to be his crown princess?

The prince stood up and walked step by step to Gu Zhao.

"Gu originally thought that Lord Gu could stand in front of Gu in Huifa Temple and fight against the assassin for sacrifice of his life and death, so he should have a good impression of Gu."

Gu Zhao lowered his head and could only see the pair of short boots with black mud gold dragon pattern on the prince's feet.

She replied softly, "The Crown is the guard of the emperor, and protecting Your Highness is the duty of the minister."

"So, is it just a responsibility?" The prince seemed to ask Gu Zhao, or himself.

Looking at Gu Zhao who lowered his head and did not explain, the prince smiled and turned around and walked back to his seat. "Why is Lord Gu standing? Sit down and sit down. My father personally ordered you to be alone to treat you."

Gu Zhao took the seat again, but the atmosphere between the banquet could not return to the original harmony.

The prince's expression did not change much, but Gu Zhao did not feel that the noble prince's refusal was really unrestrained by her.

Her words were so light that she could not withstand the random revenge of the supreme father and son.

Gu Zhao owed his body on the seat. "Your Highness, in fact, the key to this matter is not who is the Crown Prince, but what Duke Li wants to do and what level can he do."

The prince poured a glass of wine himself, put it on his lips and took a sip. "What Mr. Gu said makes sense. This matter is the first to be Mr. Gu, so there is no need to hide it from Mr. Gu."

"Duke Liguo was originally awarded the title for his military merits and had a wide range of connections in the army. Among the four towns and eight armies of Bei'an, there were generals from Duke Liguo's school."

"The "Xingzhilu" discovered by Lord Gu from Hongxiuzhao proves that he has too many privacy handles for officials."

"Even in the palace..." the prince smiled twice in an unknown way, "I'm afraid there are many Duke Li's eyes. If there are any changes in the palace, Duke Li will know it immediately."

He looked at Gu Zhao, "If it weren't for Lord Gu's reminder, including the orphans, the Bei'an court would not know that Duke Li had such a method."

"Although those private soldiers in Yuchong Mountain are only a few hundred, if they are sent to the battlefield, they can immediately become the backbone of the military camp. Each commanding fifty-one hundred soldiers can bring up a team of thousands of people."

"If Duke Li's private soldiers were allowed to enter Shangjing, who would know what level he could do next?"

The prince smiled sarcastically, "But it's not surprising. In the current situation in Bei'an, I don't know how many heroes and heroes in the world are about to move and want to replace them."

Gu Zhao didn't expect that the prince would explain this matter so thoroughly and not hide it at all.

She nodded, "So, if you want to dispel Duke Li's ambition by marriage, you may not be able to fundamentally solve the problem."

The prince sighed, "Don't you know that this is a treatment of symptoms but not the root cause."

"But now Bei'an is in danger. Donghao's thieves are unsuccessful. They sneaked into Douchuan Pass and sent an envoy to Shangjing to try to get the court to agree to mark all the hundreds of miles around Douchuan Pass as free zones."

Gu Zhao was stunned, "Free Zone?"

She vaguely remembered that the Donghao mission had also arrived in Shangjing at this time in her previous life, but she didn't know what exactly she wanted to do and what agreement she had reached with the court.

At that time, she was still immersed in gratitude, thinking about how to repay Lin Weikang and his wife and Lin Xuerong, and how could she have the extra energy to pay attention to national affairs.

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