Concubine Tao Xian was heard sighing faintly and said, "Ninth Princess, do you think the emperor will give the Tao family a choice?"
Without waiting for Zheng Ji's answer, she continued: "The Tao family wants to control Northern Xinjiang forever, which is impossible in itself. What the emperor wants to do is to make the Tao family no longer the Tao family in Northern Xinjiang."
Zheng Ji's pupils shrank, and then he asked: "Xian Fei, what do you mean?"
She couldn't believe that a straightforward and simple person like Tao Xianfei would say such words.
If... Tao Xianfei can really discern something, then Tao Jingyuan doesn't need to worry so much!
But this sentence, as well as the sudden look of loneliness on the other person's face, clearly reminded her: the other person is indeed like this.
Is there anything in this harem that Concubine Tao Xian can discern that both she and Tao Jingyuan have ignored?
"Ninth Princess, the Tao family of Northern Xinjiang. This is an honor and a responsibility for the Tao family, but for the emperor, it is not like this. You know that the Tao family of Northern Xinjiang has been re-elected as the capital of Zhenbei several times. Are you the general protecting the mansion?"
Zheng Ji was silent. She only knew that the generals of the Zhenbei Protectorate were all from the Tao family, but she couldn't tell them how many times they had.
"It has been five terms. If nothing unexpected happens, it is my father who was promoted to the general of Zhenbei Protectorate after my grandfather got old." Concubine Tao Xian said.
Hearing this, Zheng Ji vaguely understood what Concubine Tao Xian wanted to say.
But...how is that possible? Can Concubine Tao Xian think of this?
Concubine Tao Xian took Zheng Ji's astonishment into consideration, and for some reason she felt strangely proud: It seems that I can shock the calm Princess Changding!
It's a pity that Jiang Zhao couldn't see the situation at this time.
"Ninth Princess, the generals of the Sixteenth Guards are replaced every five years, and they can only be re-elected twice at most, and that is when there is a war between the country and the dynasty. Do you know this, right?"
Zheng Ji nodded, this is indeed the case.
"The country has been at peace for a long time, so why can the Tao family be re-elected so many times? In the end, they were given the prefix "Northern Xinjiang". Why? "
Yes, why?
It was because the Tao family produced brave military generals and were most familiar with the situation in northern Xinjiang. The 100,000 soldiers in Zhenbei Protectorate only believed in the Tao family.
Only when someone from the Tao family serves as the general of the Zhenbei Protectorate can they truly lead these 100,000 cavalry to resist foreign enemies, and the safety of the people in northern Xinjiang can truly be guaranteed.
Therefore, the reason why the Tao family has repeatedly served as the general of the Zhenbei Protectorate is not because the Tao family loves military power, but because there is no one more suitable than the Tao family.
As if she could guess what she was thinking, Concubine Tao Xian nodded and said, "You know this, the Tao family also knows it, and the Emperor... of course also knows it."
She raised the corners of her lips, and her eyes showed a slight chill: "However, it is one thing to know a certain truth, but it is another thing to accept and believe it."
To put it bluntly, the Tao family is the one who guards the northern border for the emperor.
Northern Xinjiang is an important place for military strategists. Only by guarding Northern Xinjiang can the Dade Dynasty stand firm and the emperor's position become more secure.
Therefore, in order to make his throne more secure, the emperor of the Dade Dynasty would try every means to win over and appease the Tao family.
She knew this truth when she was in Northern Xinjiang, and she kept thinking in her heart that unless the person who sat on the throne was stupid, everyone would value the Tao family.
But after coming to Jingzhao, she realized that she was really stupid for thinking like this.
"Ninth Princess, if you were the emperor, would you allow a family to be re-elected as the general of the Zhenbei Protectorate so many times? Do you think that the people in northern Xinjiang only know the Tao family and don't know there is an emperor?" Tao Tao Concubine Xian continued to ask. .
Zheng Ji had nothing to say about this.
The Tao family in Northern Xinjiang has indeed made great achievements, but the reason why it is so great that it shocks the master is also simple.
In the previous life, she had always thought that the Tao family supported the tenth prince because they wanted to compete for the heir apparent, and that she would eventually be accused by her father. But now that she thinks about it, what if this is not the case?
"The principle of great achievements that shocks the Lord,
My grandfather knew it very well back then, but he really couldn't let go of the people of Northern Xinjiang. Because he knew very well that after years of accumulating power and meritorious service, the people in northern Xinjiang only believed in the Tao family. If the general of the Zhenbei Protectorate was not from the Tao family, there would be a great chaos in Northern Xinjiang. "
The chaos in Northern Xinjiang will only affect the people of Northern Xinjiang.
Zheng Ji understood: "So, that's why you entered the palace and became a virtuous concubine?"
Concubine Tao Xian smiled bitterly and said, "My grandfather still underestimated the emperor's intentions at the beginning, thinking that this would show the Tao family's submission and sincerity. Little did he know that this would make the emperor even more afraid."
Before the emperor became the emperor, she had already entered the palace of the fifteenth prince.
The daughter of the Tao family in Northern Xinjiang only became a prince's concubine. No one could understand it at the time. Only she knew that this was her grandfather's love for her.
Among the late emperor's many children, Jinshang, the fifteenth, had no hope of ascending to the throne. His grandfather originally thought that she would join the royal family, which would not only show the attitude of the Tao family, but also avoid her from all kinds of disputes in the harem.
But she didn't expect that fate would play a trick on her, and in the end the emperor ascended the throne and she became a virtuous concubine, one of the four concubines.
Grandfather's caring act suddenly became a rare commodity.
Concubine Tao Xian was the daughter of a general and did not have so many crooked thoughts, but she only remembered one thing. She came to Jingzhao from northern Xinjiang to reassure the emperor.
However, like her grandfather, she underestimated Emperor Xin.
"Ninth Princess, I and your concubine entered the Fifteenth Prince's Palace at about the same time. You have already reached haircut at the beginning of the year, but the Tenth Prince is only this young. Aren't you curious?"
Zheng Ji is really not curious, because she never thinks there is anything to be curious about.
But Concubine Tao Xian specifically mentioned, then...
She looked at Concubine Tao Xian's figure, but what she was thinking about was that she had never heard that Concubine Tao Xian had had an abortion in the past, so she didn't want to give birth.
Concubine Tao Xian nodded and said, "I have never thought about giving birth to an heir, but before the emperor ascended the throne, I knew that I must have a prince, because the Tao family has no choice."
In other words, from the time the emperor ascended the throne, the Tao family had no chance.
"To escape, the Tao family has no choice but to resign as General Zhenbei Protector, but so what? The soldiers and people in Northern Xinjiang do not recognize the official position of General Zhenbei. They recognize it as just the general. Tao family!"
In other words, as long as the Tao family is still there, their influence on Northern Xinjiang will always be there.
Only when the Tao family is gone can the emperor be completely relieved.
As the daughter of the Tao family, how could she let the Tao family be away? She couldn't just watch the Tao family disappear.
"Ninth Princess, if the tenth prince can ascend the throne and become the emperor, then the Tao family in Northern Xinjiang, as the mother clan of the emperor, can at least find a safe ending. Once the current prince ascends the throne, the Tao family... will undoubtedly be destroyed!"
She smiled, her laughter hollow and helpless: "So, Ninth Princess, no matter how strong your alliance with the Tao family is, if the crown prince is still the one who ascends the throne, what do you think will happen to the Tao family?"
