After Zhao Yao was silent for a long time, he gave a very general answer.
After hearing this, Kou Qing frowned.
Zhao Yao saw the doubts in Kou Qing's heart and sighed: "After you left that day, Chen Lin asked my uncle and Empress He to sit down and talk calmly, trying to resolve the palace incident in the palace without bloodshed.
But neither my uncle nor Empress He was willing.
They insist on teaching each other the superior and inferior."
Kou Qing sighed and said, "Your uncle won, but Chen Lin and his people intervened?"
Zhao Yao nodded slowly, "At first, Chen Lin didn't intend to get involved in this matter, so my uncle led his men and fought with Empress He until the end.
Empress He took advantage of the large number of people and gained the upper hand.
Just when He was about to win.
My uncle put the sword on his neck and threatened Chen Lin with death.
Chen Lin had no choice but to protect my uncle. At the same time, she ordered the soldiers and horses outside the palace to slaughter all the Taoists in the Taoist Palace.
at last……"
When Zhao Yao said this, he gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and couldn't say any more.
Kou Qing's heartbeat slowly accelerated, and he said in disbelief: "Is your uncle not going to kill his mother?"
Kou Qing felt that Taoist king Zhao Nong wanted to regain the power in his fiefdom and get rid of the mother and concubine who were weighing him down, so he had no choice but to kill his mother.
Otherwise, even if he uses Chen Lin to overwhelm Empress He, it will be difficult for him to regain the authority over the fiefdom.
After all, many important positions in the fiefdom of Tao King Zhao Nong, as well as large and small government affairs, are held by Taoists.
If Dao King Zhao Nong just overwhelms Empress He, it won't solve any problem at all.
Zhao Yao smiled bitterly and said: "He didn't kill his mother..."
Kou Qing let out a sigh of relief, "That's okay..."
If Tao King Zhao Nong really kills his mother, then Kou Qing will have to consider his attitude when facing Tao King Zhao Nong again in the future.
As a direct descendant of a saint, we must not have too deep interactions with such a person who is responsible for the crime of matricide.
Otherwise, it is easy to bring shame to the clear name of our ancestors.
"What's good..."
Zhao Yao sighed and said: "Although he did not kill his mother, he hinted that Lady He would hang herself. The condition is that people from the Taoist sect are allowed to continue to live in his fiefdom in the future."
Kou Qing took a breath of air when he heard this.
Kou Qing felt that Taoist king Zhao Nong's move was much more cruel than killing his mother.
Killing people can only be done with a nod of the head.
It is far better to kill your enemy with a knife than to force your enemy to commit suicide.
It was hard for Kou Qing to imagine how cruel a son could be to force his own mother to die.
That's his mother.
Kou Qing said with a trembling voice: "Ms. He... agreed?"
Zhao Yao had a gloomy face and was speechless.
But Kou Qing already knew the answer through Zhao Yao's silence.
Empress He obviously agreed.
Daomen is everything to her, more important than her life.
When she couldn't make a comeback, she could only choose to use her own life to buy a glimmer of hope for the Tao Sect.
Kou Qing looked at Zhao Yao and said in a trembling voice: "Did Queen He say anything before she died?"
Zhao Yao gritted his teeth and said, "Empress He said that she should have shamelessly married into the Kou family instead of marrying into the Zhao family in a glamorous manner..."
Kou Qing was stunned and didn't know what to say.
Zhao Yao whispered to himself: "Power? Power?! Is it really that important? For the sake of power, can you ignore family ties?"
Kou Qing hesitated and said: "Everyone says that there is no family affection in the Tian family..."
Zhao Yao said bluntly: "I don't like the lack of family ties in the Tian family. No matter how powerful you are, it is not as important as your own family. My imperial grandfather took the initiative to abdicate the throne to my father, just to prevent the Tian family from fighting.
He wanted to use this method to regain some family affection for the Tian family.
I also want to have some family ties in the Tian family.
I don’t want to see one day when we are at war with each other.”
After a pause, Zhao Yao continued: "Actually, what makes me heartbroken the most is not the death of Empress He. It's the people who died. The ground full of living people turned into corpses. That scene still haunts me.
Can't forget it either.
Obviously they are the ones who contributed the most to this palace change, but how many people remember them?
After everything that happened in Dao Wang's palace spread, people would only talk about Dao Wang and He Empress. Who would care who the dead people were?
They paid the highest price, but they didn't even leave their names.
What are they for?
If it was just for their own selfish desires, why would they risk their lives?
What does power mean?
If it only means the power of life and death, then what qualifications does it have to exist?"
Kou Qing looked at Zhao Yao and said in a deep voice: "So... you think power not only represents the power of life and death, but also represents responsibility?"
Zhao Yao nodded, "When I read the daily life notes of the emperor's grandfather, I always didn't understand. When the emperor's grandfather and his maternal grandfather sent soldiers and horses to fight outside, the number of people killed was usually in the tens of thousands. Why did the emperor's grandfather
When reviewing documents submitted by the Criminal Justice Department of the Song Dynasty, they would check them three or four times just for the sake of a human life.
After it is finally confirmed that the person deserves to die, he will be executed with a red pen.
Now I understand that power represents not only the power of life and death, but also a responsibility.
Having power means not only having the power of life and death, but also shouldering that responsibility.
Therefore, even if you have the power of life and death, you cannot do whatever you want. You should live up to the responsibilities you bear.
You are worthy of everyone who is willing to support you and let you take the power of life and death.
They are supporting you with their lives, so you have no right to take their lives lightly."
Kou Qing was silent for a long time after listening to Zhao Yao's words.
Finally, Kou Qing put his hand on Zhao Yao's shoulder and said with a smile: "Bad boy, you have grown up..."
Zhao Yao stared at Kou Qing and asked very seriously: "Brother, did you understand this a long time ago?"
Kou Qing said frankly: "The Kou family's tutoring is different from the Zhao family's. Some things that only emperors can learn, my grandfather and my father broke it down and told me a long time ago.
Both my grandfather and my father believed that the root of power is responsibility.
The more power you wield, the more responsibility you have to shoulder.
Responsibility is what those in power should care about most.
The power of life and death is secondary.
Because even the toughest people in power often cannot kill people as they please.
On the contrary, those bandits and gangsters can kill as they please, anytime and anywhere.
So my grandfather always said that it is much better to be a bandit that everyone is afraid of than to be a person in power.
Because bandits kill people, they don't need to take much responsibility.
And those in power have to bear too much responsibility if they kill people."
Hearing this, Zhao Yao nodded thoughtfully.
Kou Qing laughed softly and said: "I won't hide it from you. The old man and my father said that the responsibility was too heavy. I was afraid that I would not be able to carry it, and I was afraid that I would not be able to carry it, so I had the idea of running away from home.