Xia Chujian continued to analyze: "Shaofu Star is your Zong clan's sphere of influence."
"Zangge Star should be the Quan family's sphere of influence."
"Kanli Star must be the Su family's sphere of influence."
"Only Guiyuan Star is left. Could it be the Li family's sphere of influence?"
"That's not right. The royal family doesn't allow any nobles to be stationed on Guiyuan Star. Therefore, the Li family's ancestral home is not on Guiyuan Star, but on Beichen Star."
"So how do they govern Guiyuan Star?"
Zong Ruoning wasn't sure, but he didn't deny it either. He smiled and said, "So why do you think, among the four great families, only the Li family is the most enthusiastic about marrying into the royal family?"
Xia Chujian remembered and said hurriedly, "The history books of the Beichen Empire say that 80% of the empresses of the empire are from the Li family!"
"But the history books also state that none of the successive Beichen emperors had legitimate sons born to the empress."
Zong Ruoning nodded: "Yes, the former Beichen royal family had three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines."
"Most of the Empresses in the Central Palace are unable to bear children, but they hold the greatest power in the Inner Palace."
"However, although the Li family produced many empresses, all the princes and princesses they gave birth to either died of illness or died in an accident. In short, not one of them ascended the throne."
Xia Chujian said, "Actually, it makes sense if you think about it. It's because there was no child born to Empress Li that the royal family was able to always marry daughters of the Li family as empresses, and there wouldn't be the issue of close blood relations."
"Otherwise, after ten thousand years, the entire royal family would be made up of close relatives marrying each other. The heirs born would be… Tsk tsk, I can't even imagine it…"
However, it is quite amusing to think about the fact that there are so many mentally retarded and deformed people in the royal family.
They don't treat civilians as human beings, and God doesn't treat them as human beings either...
Xia Chujian felt very sorry that the Tantai royal family did not allow Queen Li to have children.
Pretty smart...
Xia Chujian complained silently.
Zong Ruoning seemed to guess what Xia Chujian was thinking. He smiled slightly and said, "After the establishment of constitutional monarchy, the royal family abolished the harem system, and the emperor also had to practice monogamy."
"So, in the past five hundred years, the Li family has basically not produced a queen."
"Until the most recent emperor, he chose the eldest daughter of the Grand Duke Li as his empress, the current Empress Li Feng'en."
Xia Chujian understood: "This Queen Li gave birth to a son and a daughter."
"The eldest prince is dead, and now Princess Jing is the first in line to the throne."
"So after ten thousand years, the Tantai Dynasty is finally going to welcome an heir to the throne with the bloodline of the Li family?"
Zong Ruoning said: "Based on the current situation, it is certain."
"I just heard that Queen Li was heartbroken by the death of the eldest prince and has been unkind to Princess Jing."
"But Princess Jing never blames her mother and is very filial to the Queen."
Xia Chujian didn't want to hear the drama in the royal family about "the mother is not kind but the daughter is filial."
To be honest, after experiencing that perverted and paranoid emperor, she wished everyone in the royal family would fight to the death for the throne...
Just like what she experienced in the game, the Tantai Dynasty thousands of years ago.
The princess and the prince fought against each other, just like raising a poisonous insect, and only the one who won in the end would become the emperor...
Xia Chujian said regretfully, "What a pity! In fact, the royal family should have more concubines and more children. With only one queen, the number of children she can give birth to is really not enough."
"What if something happens to Princess Jing... I really have the throne to inherit! Only by having more children can we ensure that the throne doesn't fall into the hands of another family!"
Zong Ruoning suddenly stopped her in a harsh voice: "Be careful with your words!"
"When we first met, I knew you were bold, but that's no excuse for you to be rude."
Xia Chujian came back to her senses and apologized quickly: "Thank you, Teacher Zong, for reminding me. I made a mistake and I won't do it again."
She remembered that this was what Quan Yuxun had said: some things can be done but cannot be said.
Zong Ruoning nodded: "This won't happen again."
"I'm just reminding you that the importance of Mi Jin Huang Quan to the royal family is greater than to anyone else."
"Although our four major families also want to retrieve our family seals, even if we don't have them, it won't affect the planets under our respective jurisdiction."
"Only the royal family, once they recover their imperial seal, will be able to truly suppress our four major families. It will even be of great benefit to the royal family members."
Xia Chujian seemed to be lost in thought. "Could it be that Tan Tailin is the thief crying 'stop thief' and has stolen the family seals from your four great families?"
"So the planet you govern doesn't truly belong to you?"
Zong Ruoning said, "I believe everyone has guessed this before."
"But in these ten thousand years, no emperor of the Beichen Empire, not even the once most arrogant founding emperor, Tan Tai Lin, has ever taken away the jurisdiction of our planet from the four major families."
"So we think it's unlikely that those family seals were stolen by Tan Tai Lin. There's no need."
"Because in the beginning, he could have completely refused to distribute the Maze Huangquan to our four major families."
"And we are also convinced that the imperial seal of the Tantai royal family is indeed lost."
"For ten thousand years, the emperors of the Beichen Empire have never used the Imperial Seal in any imperial edict or legal document."
"The imperial seal that's used in the palace during festivals and ceremonies to offer sacrifices to heaven is a fake. It's carved from Huanglong jade."
"But according to my grandfather, that Huanglong jade is also made of top-grade material. It looks exactly like the real thing."
"It's just that it doesn't have the powerful function of the imperial seal carved by the real Mi Jin Huang Quan."
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