God seemed to be deliberately trying to get along with the Song Dynasty court. On May 20, the Ministry of Works' disaster prevention and dikes and other people eliminated the controversy and withstood the pressure, dug the lake embankment to the west of Jinming Lake, flooding Qionglin Garden and dozens of manors in a radius of more than ten miles. On the morning of the 21st, the weather suddenly turned sharply, the clouds stopped, and the sun shone brightly! The heavy rain that had been raging for half a month suddenly stopped!

Although many people were relieved, it also put great pressure on the Ministry of Works. After all, as long as they persisted for a night, the disaster would completely improve, and the large area of ​​manor fertile fields, especially the Qionglin Garden, which is a royal garden, will not be destroyed.

Of course, as a ruler today, Sun Tu could not blame the officials of the Ministry of Works for this, especially Xu Yan, who was bedridden because of his fatigue and guilt. Even when the latter forced himself to apologize with a sick body, he also comforted him with kind words: "Shangshu Xu doesn't have to feel guilty. You have also said that from the water conditions at that time, maybe he would break the door if he couldn't hold on to the sky and the Jinmingchi Lake. By then, Tokyo Bianliang would be in danger. In comparison, drowning Qionglin Garden and those manors was the best result, at least there was no casualties, and the people did not suffer any suffering."

After hearing Sun Tu's comfort, Xu Yan was moved, but the guilt in his heart did not dissipate: "But the Xiaguan finally submerged hundreds of acres of fertile land and countless manors, and the culprit of Qionglin Villa. He was really shameless to face his colleagues in the court. Many of them had their family businesses in it. If I could hold on for a while, maybe..."

Before he could finish his words, Sun Tu said with a straight face: "Shangshu Xu, I don't like to listen to what you say. What does it mean to persevere for a while? If you always have such a lucky mentality, you are afraid that it will cause a disaster. Since you are in charge of water conservancy, you should know the truth that a thousand miles is wrong. You should understand how terrible it is to collapse into an ant hole. Your decision is completely correct, and there is no mistake at all." After a pause, he looked at the other party again: "What's more, if you really talk about it, it's my official who decided to dig the Jinmingchi Lake Dike. Are you questioning my judgment?"

Xu Feng then remembered that he had indeed asked Sun Tu first. Only after he had his approval could he be confident and acted with the troops. This made it difficult for him to take the mistakes on his head: "No, I dare not. The subordinates are definitely not the only one who blames the Taiwei. The Taiwei is the overall situation, and it is up to me to make mistakes."

"Since I'm not wrong, then you are not wrong." Sun Tu immediately waved his hand domineeringly and said, "As for the criticisms in the court, you don't have to pay attention to them. I will help you suppress them. You don't have to worry about being punished by the court for this. This time the flood is relieved, you are the minister of the most meritorious person, and you can only be rewarded."

After all the words were said to this, Xu Feng was not good at being stubborn again. He immediately thanked him again with gratitude, and then left a little staggeringly. After watching him leave, Sun Tu shook his head unconsciously and smiled at Tong Mu next to him: "Shangshu Xu is all good, but sometimes he is too stupid and stupid. And I have heard that this time the matter was caused by those guys' greed and he dragged his head and refused to nod, otherwise it would not have made Jin Mingchi's water relationship so dangerous. When this section is over, this matter will be investigated!"

"What the Taiwei said is that those people are really hateful, and they completely ignore the overall situation and only stare at their own interests." Tong Mu nodded first, but soon he thought a little again: "Do you think of this matter? "Did you think of it too?" Sun Tu's smile had already calmed down, but a cold light appeared in his eyes: "I have checked that the masters of those Zhuangzi are all officials of the fourth rank and a few nobles in the court. They were quite upright in their past, and they had never acted unreasonably like this time. Moreover, dozens of Zhuangzi had surprisingly consistent attitudes, and this matter itself was strange."

"Yes, their resistance to relocating at the beginning was enough to be interesting. Then they secretly moved all the people and goods, leaving only two or three people to drag them, and the intention was even more obvious. It was clearly that they were deliberately dragging them, hoping to make a mistake in Jin Mingchi and flood the capital." Tong Mu was also skilled in conspiracy and was not afraid to guess others with the worst malicious intentions, and immediately grasped the key point of the problem.

Sun Tu's face became even more ugly: "Since you have seen this, there are indeed too many inside stories about this matter. Those people are clearly coming for us, just to disrupt the court." At this point, he suddenly raised his voice and shouted outside: "Come on, come and invite Tang Sizheng." If you want to dig out all the details of these guys, there is no more reliable person than the Imperial City Secret.

Now the Imperial City Department is located near the Privy Council, so Tang Feng rushed over after just a meal: "I wonder what the Grand Marshal has to give?"

"What are your men checking recently?"

"If it's just in the capital, it will fall on that person, and it will also be the mastermind behind the hidden ones along the clues two years ago." Tang Feng replied quickly.

"It seems that it is not that easy to find out these two things, so let's put them aside first. Now, I have a more important thing that you need to check..." As he said that, Sun Tu revealed the previous doubts of the two of them and asked Tang Feng to secretly find out all the movements of the masters of the village during the past few days, especially their contact with officials and nobles in the court, etc.

When Tang Feng heard this, his expression tightened and his spirit was even more refreshed: "Are these guys still not honest today? The Taiwei sent a letter and his subordinates would understand their every move so that they could not hide."

"Well, go. Remember, this matter should not be too much. You should also investigate it secretly, especially if you don't let them find clues."

"I understand." Tang Feng clasped his fists and then retreated. The matter was serious and he was reluctant to delay any time.

"Is the Grand Marshal worried that more problems will be involved in them?" Tong Mu asked with some concern.

Sun Tu nodded after sighing and said, "Yes, in the past two years, there have been many officials in the court who refuse to accept reality and always think about separation from me. Even though they don't have the courage to be enemies with me, they have made trouble behind their backs. Moreover, they all believe that I don't want to mess up the situation in the court, and now they are acting more and more presumptuously.

"I have been circulating some strange things before, or argued with me on some small things, but since this year, they have become more and more courageous. Today, they have even used these major issues that concern Tokyo's safety and the lives and deaths of countless people to deal with me."

After pausing, he suddenly looked at Tong Mu: "You said, am I too kind to them? Apart from killing Cai Jing and others at the beginning, he has almost never had any surgery on others in two years. Even if someone always makes small moves in secret, I can only beat them a little, and there is no further punishment."

Tong Mu was stunned and thought carefully that his situation was actually similar to Sun Tu. Although he was in charge of the overall situation on the surface and was indeed in charge of the power, in some details, those subordinates did have acts of lip service, which has been even more obvious this year.

After a while, he smiled bitterly: "This matter does exist. After all, you and I cannot compare with them in age and qualifications, so many old ministers naturally cannot convince themselves. Also, the policy of de-authorizing the ancient Chinese language that we have been working hard has obviously violated their interests, and these people will be even more unlikely to be in the same mind as us. If the military power is not in our hands now, I am afraid the situation will be worse.

"The other thing is the most important thing, that is, they believe that we will not really make a big move and attack them. Because now we are in power, what we need is a stable court..."

Sun Tu's eyes flashed and murmured: "Yes, if you don't sit in this position, you can't understand how important stability is to a country. Only stability is the basis of everything. Whether it is people's livelihood or military affairs, there must be a stable environment!" But then, his tone became louder: "It seems that they have indeed seen my mentality, so they have become more reckless and become more aggressive. They regard my tolerance as a good bully, thinking that they are absolutely safe! Since they are so ungrateful and insist on being enemies with me, it is time for them to recall what happened two years ago."

Two years ago, these so-called court officials were all like quails. No matter what Sun Tu requested, they were all called solemnly. Why is this? Isn’t it because the corpses and heads of Cai Jing and others were all mixed there at that time, and their blood was still flowing in the city, giving everyone enough intimidation? But now, they have healed their scars and forgot the pain, and are about to move again!

Let’s start with this incident and give them some good looks. No matter how you say it, you have to see blood and kill their majesty. This is not only for your own prestige, but also for the political policy of abolishing ancient Chinese, which has many obstacles, but the resistance will only increase.

"Taiwei, aren't you afraid that this will cause the court to turmoil again, and even those civil officials gathered together to force the palace to cause trouble?" Tong Mu said with some concern.

"What's there to be afraid of? I had too many concerns before and gave them the opportunity. Now it's really funny. Two years ago, we came here to the world, and what did they say? Are today different? At worst, we can change a group of people to serve in the court. It's hard to find a six-legged toad in this world, but there are many people who are not talented and waiting for the opportunity!" At this moment, Sun Tu's temperament was very different from before, and there was no more gloomy, like a sharp sword that finally pulled out of the scabbard, which made Tong Mu dare not look at him.

At the same time, this also made Tong Mu feel proud: "Okay, let's fight with these guys again. Two years ago we could not even dare to fart them, and today we can do it!"

As soon as he said this, someone rushed over outside and shouted anxiously: "Taiwei, it's not good. Xu Shangshu, Xu Shangshu was suddenly surrounded and beaten and fainted after leaving the imperial city..."
Chapter completed!