On the third day of the Caizhou River Estuary bursting, in the afternoon.

Wen Xiang Xiao Jingye and Shen Ce Army commander Yang Hong appeared on the high slope of a village in Caizhou.

In front of them, the entire village and fields were flooded. Although the water is not very large and is only one foot deep, it has destroyed all the crops.

In addition, like some poor families, their houses are made of adobe bricks. After the impact of the flood, they collapsed in an instant that night, and many people lost their lives in their dreams.

Next to Xiao Jingye and Yang Hong, there was a middle-aged man with a medium body and a little dark skin. This man was Xu Wenlin, the governor of Caizhou.

Xu Wenlin sighed and said, "Two adults, there are 111 families living in this village, totaling 256 people. None of them survived when the water rises, including forty-two children under the age of eight. They have all been buried just now!"

Xiao Jingye's eyes were filled with red light, he nodded slightly and said, "Come all the survivors quickly. Their food, drink, clothing and use are provided by the court. Before I left, Your Majesty gave an explanation that the people who survived the estuary after the dam was broken will not be allowed to suffer another second injury!"

"I obey the order. If a commoner dies in an accident, I am willing to pay my head off!" Xu Wenlin said with great confidence.

Xiao Jingye continued: "In addition, after completing the aftermath of the disaster victims, quickly investigate the culprit that caused the estuary to burst the estuary. In any case, we must give the dead people an explanation. Our Great Zhou court will never allow anyone to harm our people like this!"

"I will never let down Wen Xiang's trust!" Xu Wenlin said with red eyes. After learning that the dam broke out of the river estuary because someone deliberately did it, he wished he could bring the real murderer to justice immediately.

Now that Wen Xiang said this, Xu Wenlin already understood the court's attitude. Even if the murderer was in charge of the Northern Meng, the Great Zhou would peel them apart!

After saying that, Xu Wenlin stepped down.

Xiao Jingye looked at Yang Hong and said, "General Yang, we will have a grand funeral for the dead people, but the living people have suffered even more harm. Many people have no parents, children, and brothers. This kind of harm may not be restored in their lifetime!"

Yang Hong nodded in approval.

He had seen any bloody things on the battlefield before, and felt that he would no longer feel emotional about the death of strangers. But today, he saw the 70-year-old man crying loudly because of his descendants' death. A seven-year-old boy sat on a tree stump in a daze, and someone hugged his relatives who had frozen to death and drowned and kept crying.

Not only Yang Hong, but many of the imperial guards who had been through the battlefield, burst into tears and secretly vowed to find the murderer and avenge these people.

"All we can do is to appease them and then avenge them. If we want to catch the murderer, I will tear those people to pieces!" Yang Hong said gritting his teeth.

The next day, an Ergu's painting was passed to Changdan City, and a very short letter followed.

"When Caizhou was in disaster, Bei Meng was kind-hearted and specially donated 10,000 sheep and 5,000 cows to show care and can be taken at the border!"

This letter is just a simple sentence.

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

Above the painting, a gap appeared in a long embankment, and there was a masked man in black clothes and a hoe. On the other side of the embankment, there was a grassland. There was a horse-riding hunter on the grassland. There were two words written on the hunter's back: Beimeng, the hunter held a bow and arrow in his hand and aimed at the target in front. There were two words written on the target: Dazhou.

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

The content of this painting is very easy to understand. Simply put, Ergu wanted to tell Zhao Yan that the murderer who dug the estuary of the river was not Bei Meng, and Bei Meng is now thinking about how to defeat the Great Zhou on the battlefield.

He proved his innocence with the picture and did not lose his backbone and ambition at all, and expressed his charity and generosity with cattle and sheep.

Only Ergu can do such a thing.

In fact, he just admitted his fault, worried that the Great Zhou would really hit him, but on the surface he still showed that he was not afraid of the Great Zhou.

After reading the painting, Zhao Yan was almost completely convinced that the murderer was not Bei Meng. According to Ergu's temperament, if he was defeated, he was thinking 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 the enemy country is an act that is enough to make everyone not ashamed of.

Zhao Yan thought about it and summoned Shen Tuyi to Chuigong Hall.

"Love Shentu, do you think we should accept the ten thousand sheep and five thousand cows in Beimeng?"

Shen Tuyi scratched his head and said, "Your Majesty, you really stump me. According to my usual etiquette of the Great Zhou Dynasty, if other countries give gifts and show goodwill, we will definitely return more than twice the gift. But now Caizhou is in trouble, and it is time for me to be short of money and goods in the Great Zhou Dynasty. How can I give the Northern Meng twice the gift? But if I don't accept it, I will lose the style of a great country..."

Zhao Yan smiled faintly and said, "Come. After receiving it, we can return a gift. This gift does not cost money, but also satisfies Beimeng."

"What kind of li?" Shen Tuyi asked.

"A few days ago, didn't you find out that Beimeng sent a large number of spies to inquire about the way our Great Zhou created firearms and sky thunder? I followed their wish. When you went to receive those ten thousand sheep and five thousand cows, you gave Ergu a spear and a box of sky thunder as a return gift."

"Ah? Your Majesty, this... this is not possible!" Shen Tuyi said with surprise. Firearms and sky-storm thunder are the only ways to restrict Beimeng. If the other party has these new weapons and their fast horses, the Zhou Dynasty's advantage over Beimeng will be completely lost.

Zhao Yan smiled faintly and said, "What I want to do is to make Bei Meng desperate. As long as they can't get the secret recipe for making firearms and sky thunder, they can only use it as a fire stick. After taking the sky thunder, they can only get a large ball that can explode and cannot make it by themselves."

It seems not difficult to make a firearm, but in fact the steps inside are extremely complicated. No matter how the other party studies it, they do not understand physics and chemistry, nor can they understand the production steps. As for the thunder, they can't see anything from the outside, and as for disassembly, they don't have the courage to disassemble it.

Therefore, Zhao Yan was so willful and bold, and used this to warn Beimeng that even if you saw the true appearance of firearms and sky-surge thunder, you would not be able to create it at all.

Shen Tuyi naturally obeyed Zhao Yan's words and went to do it immediately.
Chapter completed!