Once upon a time there was a young man who was born in a noble royal family and was the eldest son of His Majesty the King, but he had been depressed in life.

Because the young man had a very powerful younger brother, who was capable of both literary and military skills since he was a child, and was deeply appreciated by his father. His Majesty the King helped this younger brother to cultivate a group of civil servants and generals very early on, and trained him as a crown prince.

In front of his younger brother who shines like the sun, the young man has lived a low-key and humble life since he was a child. Even though he is a prince, he has to behave with his tail between his legs wherever he goes, not daring to step too far. Even in his twenties, he still achieves nothing.

In those dark and depressing days, the young man once touched a ray of light in his life. He met a girl from a commoner family. Unlike most silly girls from poor families, she was fortunate enough to have gone to school for several years and could read and write.

He is also naturally smart and has a photographic memory of almost everything he has seen. He has profound knowledge at a young age.

After the two met, they got along so well. From astronomy to geography, from prose to poetry, whether it was boring financial figures or the ever-changing world, they could have a great conversation on any topic, just like they did.

Two shooting stars met each other in the night sky, and it was too late to meet each other.

In this way, a boy and a girl who originally did not belong to the same class slowly integrated into each other's lives and came together under the guidance of love.

The girl never regards the boy as a prince, nor does she try to please him, nor does she feel self-conscious about her identity in front of him. She only regards the boy as her lover.

The girl would cook warm chicken soup for him when he had a stomachache, and would play the piano for him to soothe his troubles when it rained at home. When the boy was sick, the girl stayed by the bed all night long. The boy was lying on the bed, and she leaned against the edge of the bed.

Just hold his hand gently and accompany him to sleep.

Later, the political situation suddenly changed, and the boy was involved in the dispute between the crown prince and the prince. He lived in danger every day and every night, but the girl still persisted and followed the boy regardless of her own safety.

She didn't know how to use weapons, so she personally cooked for the soldiers following the boy, bandaged the wounds of the wounded, and used the knowledge she had learned from books to give advice to the boy.

Even though the boy was down and out several times and was covered in dust, the girl stayed with him to eat dry bread, drink water, and spend the long nights with him. She also gave birth to two children for the boy, both boys.

The young soldiers all thought this was an auspicious sign and their morale was greatly boosted.

Finally, the young man finally got over it. His younger brother, who had been aloof since childhood, was too arrogant and domineering all day long, which finally aroused the resentment of his father. He fell from the position of quasi-king and was replaced by a low-key and down-to-earth young man.

In many people's minds, such a story should have a fairy-tale ending. The girl who is loyal and reliable and will never give up from the beginning will definitely become the boy's eternal lover, become a queen with honor and dignity, and live with her two children.

Live a happy life.

However, reality is no fairy tale.

After the young man became the king, he did not marry a girl because the year he ascended the throne was precarious. A disease of lycanthropy broke out in the territory. The distant dynasty on the other side of the desert also sent troops to invade. The whole country was troubled internally and externally.

In order to appease the people and stabilize the political forces in the country, the young man had no way to marry an unknown girl from a poor family. What he needed was a noble queen with a strong background who could help him intimidate the ministers.

In this way, the young man married his good brother's biological sister, a noble family who grew up under the dragon's banner. On the day they got married in the palace, the dragon's roar resounded for nine days, and laurel flowers floated across the fields, as if to welcome the country. 's new life.

But the girl from a poor family who accompanied the young man to move forward, and the two young children, were all left in a remote corner without anyone paying attention, like flowers slowly rotting in the soil...

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Perseus sat in his office with a candle, having been awake for several days. The table was filled with files and documents taken from the library. Due to a long-term lack of sleep, his eye sockets were dark and sunken. No matter how much water he drank, his lips They were all dry and flaky, and those eyes were obviously extremely tired, but they were filled with a cold emotion.

Perseus has read through a large number of files of Andre's supporters in the past few days. He also visited many relevant people just like he visited Norden before, and finally found that Andre's supporters have more or less something in common. .

Most of these people come from poor backgrounds. Under normal circumstances, they will never have the opportunity to be promoted in their lives. However, they were promoted by Andre halfway. Some of them were promoted to military positions like Kevin, and with step by step help, they grew into Some of the generals also went to school with Andre's support to further their studies, entered the officialdom through selection, and then held high positions among civil servants through the hands of Lan Xian.

Judging from the number of people, this cooperation between Andre and Lan Xian has probably lasted for more than ten years. Those recipients only took root at the grassroots level at first, but now they have thrived over a long period of time, and their branches are spread all over Doguland. Every corner of the military and political circles.

Even among the various legions that have always been considered Bolton's "basic base", far more than half of the generals support Andre, and less than one-third of the people actually support Bolton.

This investigation really frightened Perseus. Although he thought that Andre would have more supporters than Bolton and Solandel, he didn't expect that there would be so many!

These people who support Andre have never shown a strong stance before, or their words and deeds have made people think that they belong to other factions. It was not until this time that the crown prince was recommended that their true stance was exposed.

In the past, Perseus would have felt gratified when Andre supported poor children in their studies, helped them rewrite their lives, and felt that although this boy was a prince, he could sympathize with the people of the lower classes and was a good young man who could be a wise man.

But thinking about it now, Perseus just felt like he was breaking out in a cold sweat.

It's true that Andre supported poor families and was pro-Japanese people, but I'm afraid all of this was not out of kindness or using talents for the country, but for political purposes.

From the beginning, his purpose was to show kindness to these lower-class people and make them feel grateful, and then select loyal and capable ones to promote and place them in the military and political fields.

In order to repay the "favor of knowing someone" for such people who were promoted by one hand, they will favor Andre politically and form an interest group that relies on him, which is the so-called "partisan".

Gangster itself is not a derogatory term, but a gang of this size is enough to chill Perseus.

Not to mention, after investigating the archives, Perseus discovered that there were many members of Andre's gang in the palace, and even the "eight princes" of the royal family clearly recommended Andre in their letters.

Although these people were not trained by Andre, they were probably just as supportive of Andre as Lan Xian, and were bent on promoting him as king in order to seek the greatest political interests.

Looking at the files in front of him, Perseus gritted his teeth and almost broke the pen in his hand: "What a kind prince."
Chapter completed!