Empress Dowager Zhu is naturally extremely concerned about this matter.

However, at that time, Zhao Xu was busy abolishing the Empress Dowager Xiang, and she had to cooperate with pretending to be sick, so she kept this matter in her heart.

When the 'abolition of the mother case' finally came to an end, Empress Dowager Zhu finally sat on the throne of the queen mother. She is not a person who listens to and believes in people, Cai Dao said, but he is a foreign minister after all, so she decided to personally investigate this woman who is very favored by her son.

It's not that the Empress Dowager Zhu hasn't seen Liu Jieyu, on the contrary, after the Empress Dowager died of illness, this woman often came to visit her, of course, she also heard the cronies around her say that the palace maids around her said this. However, at that time, the Empress Dowager Zhu did not covet the position of the Empress Dowager, so the approach to the woman can also be understood.

Women? If you want to capture your man's heart, you will naturally do everything, so what's the problem with pleasing your mother-in-law, but who let Zhao Xu have two mothers?

On the contrary, that Empress Meng is too rigid in etiquette, worthy of being the queen selected by the Empress Dowager, no matter who she meets, she is polite, even the palace maids and eunuchs under her hand. Even for this wasted person, she still looks like she is not far away. It's no wonder that he is not so favored by the wasters.

But after seeing Liu Jieyu again, Empress Dowager Zhu was unhappy in her heart, and when this woman saw her again, she must have been extremely enthusiastic, and she could see that she was even more respectful than before. But Empress Dowager Zhu took a closer look at Liu Jieyu's figure, and it didn't look like a good child.

There is actually no problem for an emperor to favor a concubine, but there is a premise, that is, this concubine must be like himself and be able to continue the bloodline for the royal family.

Because Empress Meng was chosen by the Empress Dowager for Zhao Xu, she, the queen, was naturally not favored by Zhao Xu, but she had not slept for a few days, and now she is not pregnant. Regardless of whether the first child is male or female, at least it shows that Queen Meng is a good child.

And what about this beautiful woman in front of you? The pet has been petted until now, but there has been no movement in the belly. That's a big problem.

All in all, after seeing Liu Jieyu again, Empress Dowager Zhu couldn't even look down on this woman, she was full of problems, and even the only one was a little beautiful, which made Empress Dowager Zhu feel that this woman looked too charming.

Empress Dowager Zhu deeply remembers that story, at the beginning, Song Renzong liked young and beautiful women with thin waists, so he gave up the country to Zhao Yunrang.

But let's do it! Zhao Xu is only eighteen years old now, he is still young, and he has just become pro-government, so he may not be able to listen to persuasion.

So, Empress Dowager Zhu recruited Zhao Xu to her side, and persuaded her precious son in a tone of discussion to be more restrained in terms of women's sex, and try to make the rain and dew even. Because, now for him, the imperial heir is the most important thing.

Empress Dowager Zhao took Song Renzong and Song Shenzong as examples, Zhao Xu naturally knew about Emperor Renzong, but Song Shenzong lost five princes one after another, and it was only when Zhao Xu really grew up.

And what about after Zhao Xu?

Except for the ninth son of the emperor, Zhao Ji, who was blind, it was not until the eleventh son of the emperor that Zhao Ji was considered a complete surviving prince.

Song Shenzong gave birth to fourteen sons, but a total of eight died, and one of them was blind.

Of course, this topic is very heavy, but Zhao Xu understands the intention of his mother's words.

The emperors of the Song Dynasty generally did not live long, and it was not Song Renzong who obtained the longest, but Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty. Renzong reigned for more than 40 years, but he actually lived only 53 years old. In the first few years, like Zhao Xu, the queen mother or the empress dowager listened to the government.

So, after that, Empress Dowager Zhu took the initiative to select a few gentle and well-born women from outside the palace who were not bad looking to enter the palace.

During the period when Cai Dao participated in the Southern Expedition, several more women began to be favored. Among them, there was a woman who was selected by the Empress Dowager during the Yuanyou period and became a concubine. Speaking of which, she is also Cai Dao's acquaintance, a former student in Cai's Academy, Zheng Xia's granddaughter, and Cai Boyu's granddaughter - Cai Lier.

It was because of her grandfather's Zheng Xia that she followed the fate of the Queen Mother. What's more, even Gao Taotao has to admit that the woman who has stayed in Cai's Academy is indeed good. However, most of those girls are children of poor families, so naturally they can't enter the palace. The noble women in it, in addition to Cao Hu's sister, are Zheng Xia's two granddaughters who have long been abandoned - Cai Lier and Cai Taoer.

The reason why the surname Cai was chosen was because, on the one hand, the Zheng family had swept their sisters out of the house, and on the other hand, in the last years of Yuanfeng, Zheng Xia's reputation had completely stinked. It's better to follow his mother's surname, although Cai Boli has no achievements in political affairs, he still wears a super prodigy hat after all.

It was because he knew her background that Gao Taotao was willing to take both sisters into the palace. However, after seeing the vastness of the sea, Cai Taoer has fallen in love with the sea and the feeling of freedom in the sea, so naturally she will not enter the palace to be a caged bird. So, after discussing with his grandfather, Cai Boyu took the initiative to send Cai Lier to the palace.

And soon after that, the old fellow returned home satisfied. Eighty-three-year-old Si Nongqing, this is a rare occurrence in the history of the Song Dynasty. Even Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo don't live as long as this old guy.

After getting the secret method and secret recipe taught to him by Cai Dao, Cai Boyu, an old guy, even had it for longer than in history, and actually lived past a hundred years old.

If it weren't for the old age, and the long way to Fujian, the emperors of the Song Dynasty wanted to edict him back to Bianliang City.

But even so, no one can really shake the pattern of Liu Jieyu's favored harem, and this woman really can't be underestimated. With her superb skills, so far, the two important places of Yanfu Palace and Qinzheng Palace are still dominated by Liu Jieyu.

However, recently, Empress Dowager Zhu and Liu Jieyu have found that this situation has been slowly changing. This is because Cai Dao collected tens of thousands of young and beautiful women from Dayue Country and sent them to Bianliang City.

A womanizer is a womanizer, Zhao Xu not only laughed at one of Li Qiande's concubines and daughters, but also selected many women from other groups of women to enter the palace.

The concubine and daughter of Li Qiande were gorgeous, but they were not too favored, on the contrary, there were two women from official eunuch families who greatly shook Liu Jieyu's status.