More importantly, when Duke Maoguo made this suggestion, the Left Chancellor even stood up to agree, thinking that what Duke Maoguo said made sense.

The eldest prince and the Prince of Jin were locked in a life-or-death struggle, and the Left Chancellor and the Duke of Mao were also at loggerheads in the court. It was truly rare for them to agree on such matters.

Clearly, neither the eldest prince nor the Prince of Jin wanted the iron cavalry to fall into the hands of the Marquis of Pingyang.

If the iron cavalry cannot be used by me, then there is no need for them to exist.

However, the Emperor immediately dismissed the matter with a single sentence: "The money to build the Iron Cavalry was obtained through a pardon. If I hadn't agreed in the first place, and there hadn't been this money, would the Xizhou Dam have remained unbuilt?!"

The reason the Emperor agreed to grant the Yun family a pardon was because Xie Jingyan knew how much the Emperor wanted to build an iron cavalry. However, even if the Emperor sat on that throne, he couldn't spend the money in the national treasury however he wanted.

The Emperor only agreed to Xie Jingyan's proposal in order to build an iron cavalry. Now that the money is in hand, Shen Jing has also selected soldiers from the army and formed an elite force. The Yun family is also helping the court to negotiate the warhorse issue. The preparatory work is almost complete. Now that they are saying they will stop building it in order to prioritize the construction of the Xizhou Dam, the Emperor would have lost his temper if he hadn't been holding back.

The Xizhou Dam was very important; the imperial court spent a huge sum of money to build it, but it was all wasted in just a short time before it couldn't even prevent a flood.

The Ministry of Revenue kept saying that the national treasury was broke, but most of the money in the national treasury had been embezzled by various corrupt officials and put into their own pockets.

Having served the Emperor for many years, Eunuch Yuan was deeply worried for the officials of Xizhou when he saw the Emperor's suppressed anger. His attempt to destroy the Xizhou Dam to save himself not only failed but also thoroughly enraged the Emperor. Once the corruption at the Xizhou Dam was confirmed, who knows how many heads would be lost.