When Kou Qing and Zhao Yao saw Empress He appear, they immediately stood up and saluted Concubine He.
Both of them smelled of alcohol, so they didn't dare to get in front of Empress He, so they could only bow and salute from a distance.
"The emperor's grandson Zhao Yao..."
"The emperor's grandson Kou Qing..."
"I've seen the Dowager Empress..."
Empress He was one of the four concubines of Zhao Zhen. After Zhao Run succeeded to the throne, she was canonized as a concubine.
So Kou Qing and Zhao Yao had to call Empress He the Empress Dowager.
After the two of them saluted.
Empress He came forward, took their hands, and said with a friendly smile: "We haven't seen each other for a few years, and you two are now adults."
Empress He took Kou Qing to take a closer look and praised him: "Much more handsome than your father. He makes people like him just by looking at him."
Kou Qing hurriedly said: "Thank you very much, Princess Dowager, for the compliment."
Empress He looked at Zhao Yao again and said with a smile: "Your boy is also handsome. The most important thing is that he looks more exciting than your father."
Just as Zhao Yao was about to bow and thank her, Empress He grabbed their hands and said with a smile: "If you don't enjoy the blessings of Shengjing and Qingdu, why are you two little guys coming to this remote place in Beihuang?
Could it be that you miss Miss He and come here to see Miss He?"
When Queen He finished speaking, Kou Qing and Zhao Yao laughed bitterly in their hearts and nodded in unison.
As soon as Queen He opened her mouth, she blocked all the excuses they had thought of, and they could only express their opinions according to Queen He's thoughts.
Seeing the two of them nodding, Empress He said with a bright smile: "Empress He likes filial children..."
After saying this, Empress He glanced at Taoist King Zhao Nong who was sitting not far away, intentionally or unintentionally.
When Taoist King Zhao Nong heard this, he gritted his teeth slightly, stood up slowly, and saluted: "My child, Zhao Nong, has seen my mother and concubine..."
Empress He nodded lightly and said nothing to Taoist King Zhao Nong.
Instead, he pulled Kou Qing and Zhao Yao into conversation.
Taoist king Zhao Nong sat down with a gloomy look.
Kou Qing and Zhao Yao bravely talked to Concubine He.
Kou Qing and Zhao Yao were not idiots. When they were outside the Dao King's fief, they sensed something was wrong in the Dao King's fief.
Now that they saw the attitude of Prince Dao and Empress He in getting along, they had roughly guessed what happened between Prince Dao and Empress He.
The two of them are no strangers to the troublesome struggle for power and gain.
So they only needed to make a simple screening and guess what happened between King Dao and Empress He.
Obviously, Taoist King Zhao Nong might have been sidelined by his mother-in-law, Empress He.
Nowadays, Empress He has the final say in the fiefdom of Taoist King Zhao Nong, and Taoist King Zhao Nong is just a puppet.
Otherwise, the relationship between mother and son would not be so blunt.
The Taoist king's fiefdom will not become a place where Taoists are in charge.
Kou Qing and Zhao Yao are not surprised that Dao King Zhao Nong is in his current situation.
When Taoist king Zhao Nong came to vassal, he was only seventeen years old.
Zhao Zhen did not give Zhao Nong many people, only 300 personal guards and two assistant officers.
If Tao King Zhao Nong wants to develop his fiefdom, he can only rely on the power of his mother clan.
And behind his mother's clan is the Taoist clan.
Therefore, the development of his fiefdom cannot be separated from the support of the Taoist sect.
In addition, he was still very young when he became a feudal lord and had difficulty convincing the public. Almost all matters of the fiefdom were handled by Empress He.
Over time, it has been ignored, which is very common.
If he were content with the status quo and remained a wealthy and idle man, mother and son might get along very harmoniously.
But he was clearly unsatisfied with the status quo.
But he seems to be no match for Empress He.
In the eyes of Kou Qing and Zhao Yao, Empress He was also a strange woman.
I heard that when Empress He was young, she was the most beautiful woman in Bianjing City.
Everyone thought that after she entered the palace, she would stir up trouble in the palace.
Who would have thought that after she entered the palace, she did not stir up any troubles. Instead, she became Zhao Zhen's concubine peacefully, and was promoted to one of the four concubines thanks to her contribution to giving birth to Taoist king Zhao Nong.
As Zhao Nong grew up, he was granted the title of king.
She actually took the initiative to find Zhao Zhen and asked her to follow Taoist king Zhao Nong to the fiefdom to take care of herself.
What is unbelievable is that Zhao Zhen actually agreed.
I don’t know how she negotiated with Zhao Zhen.
Anyway, among the concubines in Zhao Zhen's harem, she was the only one who left the harem with her son. The four of them, including Empress Dowager Cao, Concubine Zhang and Concubine Zhou, as well as Zhao Zhen's other concubines, are now staying in the palace of Liaoyang Mansion.
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After Zhao Zhen ascended the Zen throne, he had a palace built on the bank of the Yalu River in Liaoyang Prefecture, and lived there with his orioles, Yanyan, and 10,000 imperial guards.
However, there are currently only 10,000 royal guards guarding that palace.
Zhao Zhen ran away with Kou Ji.
Zhao Zhen's concubine ran to Qingdu, the capital of Qing State, and started business with Kou Ji's wife Xiang Yan.
The sons of Concubine Xiao Zhang and Concubine Zhou, as well as the youngest son of Empress Cao, were all sealed to the far north of the Song Dynasty.
Those places were vast, sparsely populated, and extremely cold.
The three of them had to find ways to help their sons expand their business in Song Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and other places so that they could live more comfortably in the fiefdom.
It can be regarded as doing your best for your son.
It's just that they were also nobles in the harem during Zhao Zhen's reign.
Empress He is obviously not willing to devote herself to her son. She seems to care more about the fiefdom that her son brings to her and the authority in the fiefdom.
Empress He chatted with Kou Qing and Zhao Yao for a long time, and promised them many benefits, including beautiful women, fragrant cars, gold and silver, everything they wanted.
It was said that it was given to them because of their filial piety.
But both Kou Qing and Zhao Yao could clearly feel that the reason why Empress He promised them benefits was to defeat them as soon as possible.
Because after Empress He made the promise, she immediately sent someone to prepare it.
It looks like they will be sent away tomorrow.
Kou Qing and Zhao Yao guessed the purpose of Empress He.
In terms of blood, Kou Qing, Zhao Yao, and Zhao Nong are one family, while Lady He is an outsider.
Now Zhao Nong has been ignored and is being stared at by Empress He.
Zhao Nong was unwilling to be sidelined. If he wanted to seize power from Empress He, he could only use Kou Qing and Zhao Yao to borrow some power from the outside to seize power from Empress He.
Empress He was afraid that the three of them would be connected together when she was not paying attention, so she wanted to send Kou Qing and Zhao Yao away as soon as possible to avoid accidents.
Kou Qing and Zhao Yao saw what Empress He was thinking, and they were unwilling to intervene in the fight between Zhao Nong and Empress He, so after Empress He promised them benefits, they followed Empress He's thoughts and left the village.
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From the beginning to the end, he never spoke to Zhao Nong again.
The fight between Zhao Nong and Empress He was actually meaningless in the eyes of Kou Qing and Zhao Yao.
Because when they were at sea, they had already guessed the ending between Taoist King Zhao Nong and Empress He.
When Dao King Zhao Nong fights with Empress He, it doesn't matter who wins or loses.
Because from beginning to end, neither of them escaped the hands of the two old men.