In the next few days, Chunyu had a good time.
She took Xiaoyuan and Xiaoluo to visit the West Lake for a few days with Guo Lin and Xu Chenggui.
Although it was late autumn at this time, the temperature in the south was always higher.
In the past, when the frost fell in the north, she was afraid of the cold and had to wear cotton-padded clothes, but now a single-layered shirt was enough.
At this time, traveling to the West Lake was a different kind of enjoyment, but what made Chun Yu even more comfortable was that Guo Lin had not mentioned the previous things since they met for a few days, which made her less worried.
Although Xu Chenggui knew a little bit about it, and he heard some things his sister said about Chunyu, which were very different from what he knew, he immediately felt that there was a story in it, and the water was quite deep, so he wisely kept his mouth shut.
However, although Xu Chenggui came home, Guo Lin did not come to Hangzhou with him specifically.
It turned out that he came here this time to build a dam on the Qiantang River.
It turns out that the tidal surge in the Qiantang River has always been very destructive, far beyond the power of the rising and falling tides in ordinary estuaries.
Especially when it is driven by the wind, the salt water at the entrance to the sea surges back, often causing the pond to collapse and even "large tidal flats to sink."
Therefore, as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, the earliest tide-proof seawall appeared in Hangzhou.
Since then, successive dynasties have worked hard to build ponds to resist the tide.
However, people have always been at a disadvantage after thousands of years of struggle against the tide.
It was not until Qian Liu, king of Wuyue, invented the construction method of stacking ponds with stones in bamboo baskets and fixing them with wooden piles that the pond was able to withstand tides.
The legend of King Qian that "three thousand strong crossbows shot at a low tide" was the true desire of the ancestors of Hangzhou to defeat the tide.
But this still does not fundamentally solve the problem.
Before the Ming Dynasty, if there was a big flood, the river banks would still collapse and the seawall would collapse, leaving people "powerless to do anything."
Although during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the seawall technology had been improved: a layer of firewood and a layer of soil for the firewood pond, and A stone pond with stone outside and earth inside.
However, every once in a while, especially during the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River, accidents are more likely to happen, so we need to take precautions in advance.
Therefore, every two years, the court will send an inspector from the Ministry of Works to be responsible for repairs.
Chun Yu heard that Guo Lin was the official sent here this time, and thought that he had actually joined the Ministry of Industry.
It seemed that if things were handled well this time, he would have a good future when he returned.
Although she doesn't know much about the officialdom, she generally understands that if you don't have a backer, even the top scholar may not be assigned to the local magistrate at will.
If you don't do anything good within three years, you can't say you are still here.
He cannot be transferred back to the capital.
Chunyu didn't know whether these officials thought that it would be comfortable to stay far away from the emperor, or that there might be a way out, but it would be comfortable to stay in the capital where the water was dire.
But she knew that Guo Lin's job was not easy.
Let’s not talk about anything else.
Work such as repairing river dams for the public sector will waste people and money.
Although it is a major construction project and is good for the people, if you think about it from the perspective of the people, even if the court has public funds, the actual cost of repairs will definitely be reduced.
There is no need to mention the reason for this.
It is said that during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Hangzhou local government accepted the decree of the Central Government and wanted to repair the dam.
The common method was to assign labor, or use the army to temporarily help, and collect firewood, earth, stone and silver from the benefited residents.
In the Ming Dynasty, the labor force for pond building "mostly involved levying civilian labor and deploying soldiers, without counting labor expenses."
There was no fixed source of funding, and it often relied on temporary tax collection, atonement silver from wealthy households, and official donations.
As a result, people who were already running around for their own lives had to devote labor to repair the river dams and get some materials and silver from each household.
This made life more difficult.
So even if this is for their own good, they can't understand it.
In their eyes, if it's just labor, then the materials and silver shouldn't be paid by them.
Chun Yu is just a woman who can still understand these twists and turns, let alone Guo Lin, who was well versed in officialdom before winning the ranking.
Apart from these being within the scope of his careful understanding, he has already thought of many countermeasures. , but this still requires going to negotiate with local officials.
That's why he came here in advance.
His original intention was to understand the situation with his classmate who is a Qiantang person.
Unexpectedly, he unexpectedly met Chun Yu here.
After all, the matter between Chun Yu and Zhou Xu'an was now almost unknown to everyone in the capital.
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When he visited her, he always felt distressed but powerless.
Now that I have met her here, does it mean that there is a deep fate between the two?
That's why he suppressed the throbbing in his heart and continued to think about it as before, so that she wouldn't feel uneasy or inappropriate when getting along with her.
Since this is the fate given to him by God, it is equal to an opportunity, so why not do it.
At one time, she thought that he would be getting further and further away from her, and that he would even have no chance to express himself.
But now it seems that everything has turned around, and everything has changed.
Three days later, it was the day that Guo Lin took office.
Seeing that it was coming soon, Guo Lin realized that in the past few days, he had accompanied Chun Yu to tour the ten sights of the West Lake, but there were always two young ladies from the Liu family.
With Brother Xu accompanying him, he actually had no way to express his feelings to Chun Yu.
Although he knew that this would be a bit quick, he thought that at least Chun Yu should know that there was someone silently guarding her.
So he didn't call Xu Chenggui early that morning.
Instead, he left the inn where they lived alone and arrived in front of Liu's house in Houtang Village.
It happened that the old lady of the Liu family was rushing to work and saw Guo Lin coming over.
She became even more enthusiastic after she found out that Guo Lin was actually a sixth-rank inspector of the Ministry of Works.
Although she didn't know how big the inspector of the sixth-rank inspector of the Ministry of Works was, she once thought he was an imperial envoy. , in her understanding, anyone sent by the imperial court is an imperial envoy.
When Aunt Liu heard that Guo Lin came to see Chunyu, she hurriedly wanted to welcome him in, but Guo Lin refused and just asked her to call Chunyu out.
Aunt Liu was also cheerful and not too nosy.
She smiled and returned to the yard and went to the door of Chunyu's house without asking any questions.
Just as he was about to knock on the door, he saw that Chunyu had already gotten up and cleaned up neatly.
So Aunt Liu said with a smile: "Nizi, you have returned the promise to Mr.
Guo."
"Ms.
Guo."
Chun Yu was startled for a moment and then smiled: "Auntie, are you talking about Brother Lin Zi?
What about the appointment?
Why can't I understand?"
"It's Mr.
Guo who's here.
He's waiting for you outside the door.
Let me call you."
Aunt Liu said, urging Chunyu to go out quickly.
Chunyu walked out of the door behind Aunt Liu.
When she saw that Guo Lin was indeed there, Aunt Liu was in a hurry to get to work, so she said a few words to the two of them and left in a hurry.
"Brother Lin Zi, you came here so early and you have something to do with me?"
Chun Yu asked.
"You haven't eaten yet, right?
There is a restaurant in Huafang in front that has a good breakfast.
Let's go and try it."
Guo Lin answered the question.
"Uh," Chunyu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "I'll go in and talk to Mrs.
Alan."
Guo Lin nodded after hearing this, and then Chunyu entered the gate again and went to find Mrs.
Alan.
To be continued.
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