 After a meeting with Empress Dowager Hu, in which she tried to defend her actions but drew no sympathy from Erzhu, Erzhu had her and Yuan Zhao thrown into the Yellow River to drown.Empress Dowager Hu and Yuan Zhao would not be Erzhu's only victims, however.Fei suggested to Erzhu that since his army was actually small, as soon as the imperial officials realized the situation, they would resist him.