Sun Youwei looked into the distance, and everything in the past was still like yesterday in retrospect.

"Was it a surprise?" The old man tilted his head slightly, resting his cheek against the knuckles he was curling up, "Of course, it is important to try your best to curb the flooding of the Spirit River, but it can't be ...... I have every hope that it will succeed. ”

“…… It's the incompetence of the ministers. ”

Sun You smiled, she slowly stood up from the throne, and walked behind Du Weifeng step by step.

Looking at the wind and snow outside the palace gate, the empress said softly, "...... It's that I rarely do anything desperate. ”

She turned her head, "Tell me, what are you trying to say to me today?" ”

There was no wave on Du Weifeng's face, and he was still silent for a moment, "The minister has a conjecture. ”

"Guess?" The old man's eyes narrowed slightly, with a bit of playfulness, "It's just a 'conjecture', without any verification?" ”

"Yes, it's just conjecture...... The minister could not verify it. ”

The empress did not speak for a moment - for the sake of a conjecture that had not yet been verified, Du Weifeng so excitedly asked everyone to retreat......

The weight of this "conjecture" does not seem light.

“…… Let's talk about it. ”

Du Weifeng looked straight ahead, "Let's talk about another thing first-when Yi Kang and Yi Ping came to tell me what they had done in Chang'an all these years last night, I was surprised, no, I should say amazed."

"The way we thought of resisting the Spirit River before was nothing more than to build an embankment in advance, survive three years and five years, and wait for the Spirit River to sink, and the goal was achieved, but the Spirit River is not a water flow, and it is difficult for an ordinary embankment to block it for so long - this is also the place that has always been the most difficult for us."

Sun You replied in a low voice, signaling that he was listening, "And then?" ”

"But if you follow the method that Your Majesty has been trying in Chang'an all these years - before the Spirit River rises to the surface, use spells to preemptively guide it to another place underground, and continue to drain it, so that it will rush and escape below the surface, then the people on the ground will be safe for the time being.

"That's really ...... It's a genius approach. Du mocked the wind and said in a low voice, "How did Your Majesty come up with it?" ”

"I've been thinking about it for a long time." Sun Youwei said softly, "Since I ascended the throne, I have been unable to sleep and eat when I think of a spiritual river that may emerge at any time under the hinterland of my Great Zhou...... In the seventeenth year of Jingming, I told your master Bai Wujian about this idea, and at that time, I tried it with Ye Ling, but failed......"

Sun Youwei paused slightly, and then suddenly laughed a little self-deprecatingly.

"Speaking of which, I would like to thank the martyrs...... In the eighteenth year of Tianfu, when Shen Qian of Wuwei Hall was building a pagoda for me, he accidentally found that there were many ravines in the ground of Chang'an City. ”

"That's when Your Majesty re-ordered someone to verify whether the underground drainage method is feasible?"

"Right...... In the past three years, I have indeed found some solutions. ”

"Why haven't I heard you mention it?"

Sun Youwei's gaze suddenly turned to Du Weifeng, "What's the benefit of letting you know?" Do you feel like you have an extra way out? Channeling the Spirit River is a way to make a fool of yourself and immediately recover, and I won't use it unless it is a last resort.

"The preparations for the embankment construction that Tianji Palace and the Ministry of Industry have been doing recently are the top priority at the moment, don't think that you can breathe a sigh of relief when you hear the turn from Feng Erlang and Feng Sanlang."

Du Weifeng's throat moved.

When he heard Erlang Saburo mention this matter last night, he was thinking, why did Sun Youwei instruct the two brothers to tell him everything under Chang'an all these years at this time.

He could only think of one possibility—the various visions since the beginning of winter, especially the change of the broken flag at the winter festival, really frightened Sun Youwei, so that she could no longer be a silent chess player like before.

If so, then ......

Du Weifeng took a deep breath.

"The minister came today to say that maybe Your Majesty's method of resisting the Spirit River will be completely ineffective."

Sun Youwei frowned slightly, "What do you mean?" ”

“…… During this time, Chen has been looking through the confession left by Kuang Lu before his death. Du Weifeng replied slowly, "I still thought it was unbelievable when I heard him say that the martyrs were trying their best to stop the rise of the Spirit River - but after listening to the secrets revealed by Erlang and Saburo last night, it seems that there are some possibilities in retrospect. ”

Sun You snorted slightly, "So what? Do you want to come and tell me that I may have misunderstood the martyrs over the years—this cult that bewitched the people and triggered blood sacrifices in various parts of the Great Zhou may indeed be the 'Heavenly Dao Messenger' who came to save my people from fire and water? ’”

“…… No, what the minister wanted to say was another sentence from Kuang Lu, because that sentence was too vague, so it didn't cause any splash before. ”

"Which one?"

"'Heaven will take back His preference for mortals,'" replied Du Shifeng.

Sun Youwei frowned again, ""

Du mocked his eyes drooped slightly, "The scene at that time was like this, after he said that Defective Ying was a messenger of the Heavenly Dao and adhered to the will of the Heavenly Dao, the minister once asked him what kind of will the Heavenly Dao wanted to let the Divine Blessing exercise in the world. Kuang Lu said that he didn't know very well, but he had seen a sentence in the flawed divination codex—the one just now. ”

The empress laughed, but the expression on her face suddenly became gloomy, "Master Du, what do you want to say...... What do you think is the relationship between the rise of the Spirit River and the so-called Heavenly Dao will? ”

"Your Majesty will listen to the ministers first."

"I'm listening!"

Du Weifeng sat there quietly, his eyes still unwavering.

He knew that if the words he said just now were not explained clearly, it would probably be enough for Sun Youwei to kill him - if Linghe's rise was because Heavenly Dao wanted to "retract his favoritism", then this was almost accusing Sun Youwei of perverse behavior as the Son of Heaven and angering the heavens, so as to attract such punishment.

He thought for a moment, then spoke slowly.

"The world is so big, it's not just my Central Plains court, since they say 'mortals', it's not just for my Great Zhou. You asked me what the relationship between the rise of the Spirit River and the will of the Heavenly Dao was not very related—even if there were, it was only a part of the one hundred and six yangs, and it was a necessary calamity, far from being affected by the cause and effect in the human world. ”

Sun Youwei's face softened a little, and her gaze swept over Du Weifeng indifferently, "Then Du Tianshi thinks, what does this sentence mean?" ”

“…… Does Your Majesty still remember the puppet Luan who was haunted on Daizong Mountain in the sixteenth year of Tianfu? ”

"Yes."

"Pseudo-Luan is a big demon from outside the territory, and so is Jia Gu Heng, who fought with Wei Xingzhen not long ago." Du mocked the wind and said softly, "Before this, the demons from outside the territory rarely came to my Middle Earth Kyushu, and the records in the past history books often took hundreds of years to see one or two brushstrokes and inks - is this considered the preference of the Heavenly Dao for mortals?" ”