I'm so hard

Chapter 256
In the afternoon, the third day of the Caizhou River Estuary burst.

Wen Xiang Xiao Jingye and Shence Army coach Yang Hong appeared on a high slope in a certain village in Caizhou.

In front of them, the entire village and fields were flooded. Although the water was not strong and the depth was less than a foot, it destroyed all the crops.

In addition, like some impoverished families, the houses were built of adobe. After being hit by the flood, they collapsed instantly that night. Many people lost their lives in a dream.

Beside Xiao Jingye and Yang Hong, there was a middle-aged man with a medium build and dark skin. This person was Xu Wenlin, the magistrate of Caizhou.

Xu Wenlin let out a long sigh and said, "My lords, there are 110 families living in this village, with a total of 250 six people. When the water flow rose, none of them survived, including 42 children under the age of eight. Just now All buried!"

There was a little red light in Xiao Jingye's eyes, he nodded slightly, and said: "Gather all the surviving disaster victims quickly, and their food, drink and clothing will be provided by the imperial court. Before I leave, Your Majesty has explained , we will never allow the people who survived the embankment to suffer a second injury!"

"I obey my orders. If any people die by accident, I am willing to pay for my own head!" Xu Wenlin said very firmly.

Xiao Jingye went on to say: "In addition, after finishing the aftermath of the victims, quickly investigate the culprit that caused the embankment to burst. In any case, we must give an explanation to those people who died. My Great Zhou court will never allow any People hurt our people like this!"

"I will live up to the minister's trust!" Xu Wenlin said with red eyes. After learning that the embankment of the river mouth was broken by someone deliberately, he wished to bring the real culprit to justice immediately.

Now that Wen Xiang said these words, Xu Wenlin already understood the attitude of the court, even if the murderer was ordered by Bei Meng, Da Zhou would still take them to the ground!

After finishing speaking, Xu Wenlin withdrew.

Xiao Jingye looked at Yang Hong, and said: "General Yang, we can bury the dead people properly, but the living people will suffer even more. Many people have lost their parents, children and brothers. This kind of harm It may be impossible to recover for a lifetime!"

Yang Hong nodded in approval.

He had seen any bloody things on the battlefield before, and felt that he would no longer be emotional about the death of strangers, but today, he saw the old man in his seventies crying because his grandchildren were dead, and a seven-year-old boy The boy was sitting on the tree stump in a daze, and some were crying while hugging their frozen and drowned relatives.

Not only Yang Hong, but many soldiers of the Forbidden Army who had experienced battles all shed tears and secretly vowed to find the murderer and avenge these people.

"The only thing we can do is to appease them, and then we will avenge them. If we want to catch the murderer, I will definitely smash those people into pieces!" Yang Hong said through gritted teeth.

The next day, a painting by Ergu was sent to Changdan City, followed by a very brief letter.

"Caizhou was hit by a disaster, Beimeng was kind enough to donate [-] sheep and [-] cattle as a show of care, and you can pick it up at the border!"

This letter is just such a simple sentence.

After Zhao Yan read the letter, he opened Ergu's painting.

Above the painting, there is a gap in a long embankment, and at the gap is a masked man wearing black and holding a hoe. On the other side of the embankment, there is a meadow with There was a hunter on horseback with two words written on the hunter's back: Beimeng. The hunter took a bow and arrow and aimed at the target in front of him. There were two words written on the target: Da Zhou.

And in the lower right corner of the painting, there is a sentence, Ergu, the strongest monarch in history.

The content of this painting is very easy to understand. Simply put, Ergu wants to tell Zhao Yan that the murderer who dug the dam at the mouth of the river was not Beimeng, and Beimeng is now thinking about how to defeat Da Zhou on the battlefield.

Proving his innocence with the pictures did not lose his backbone and ambition at all, and he showed his pride and generosity with cattle and sheep.

Only Ergu can do this kind of thing.

In fact, he just gave up, worried that Da Zhou would really hit him, but on the surface he still showed that he was not afraid of Da Zhou.

After Zhao Yan saw the painting, he was almost completely sure that the murderer was not Beimeng. According to Ergu's temperament, if he lost the battle, he would think about how to defeat his opponent on the next battlefield, rather than killing the people of the enemy country.

Using despicable means to harm the people of an enemy country is an act that is enough for everyone to be ashamed of.

Zhao Yan thought for a while, and summoned Shen Tuyi to the Chui Gong Hall.

"Shentu Aiqing, do you think we should accept the [-] sheep and [-] cows in Northern Mongolia?"

Shen Tuyi scratched his head and said: "Your Majesty, you are really embarrassing me. According to my usual etiquette in the big week, if other countries send gifts to show their favor, we will definitely return more than double the gift, but now Caizhou meets The catastrophe happened when I was short of money and goods in the Great Zhou Dynasty, how could I give twice as much gifts to Beimeng, but if I didn't accept it, I would lose the style of a big country..."

Zhao Yan smiled lightly, and said: "Take it, after we finish it, we can return a gift, this gift will not cost money, and it will satisfy Beimeng."

"He Li?" Shen Tuyi asked.

"A few days ago, didn't you find out that Northern Mongolia sent a large number of spies to find out how I made firearms and thunderbolts in Dazhou? I followed their wishes and you are going to receive the [-] sheep and [-] cows At that time, I gave Ergu a long spear and a box of sky-rocketing thunder as a gift in return."

"Ah? Your Majesty, this... can't be done!" Shen Tuyi said with a look of surprise. Firearms and sky thunders are the only way to restrain Beimeng. Zhou's advantage over Northern Mongolia was completely gone.

Zhao Yan smiled lightly, and said: "What I want to do is to make Beimeng desperate. As long as they don't get the secret recipe for making firearms and skyrocketing thunder, they can only use firearms as fire sticks, and skyrocketing thunder. You can only get a big ball that can explode, and you can't make it yourself."

Making firearms seems not difficult, but in fact the steps inside are extremely complicated. Let the other party study further, but they don't understand physics and chemistry, and they don't understand the production steps. As for the sky thunder, they can't see anything from the outside. If they disassembled it, they would have no such courage.

That's why Zhao Yan was so self-willed and bold, and used this to warn Beimeng that even if you see the true appearance of firearms and thunderbolts, you can't make them at all.

To Zhao Yan's words, Shen Tuyi naturally obeyed, and immediately went to do it.

And Zhao Yan, looking at Ergu's paintings, murmured in his heart: "It is estimated that my eldest nephew will be addicted to making firearms and skyrockets and cannot extricate himself, but in the end he will not be able to do anything."

(End of this chapter)