In the next few days, the spring rain was also good, and she took Xiaoyuan and Xiaogong to visit the West Lake with Guo Lin and Xu Chenggui for a few days. Although it is late autumn at this time, the temperature in the south is always higher, and she has to wear cotton clothes after the frost falls in the north, but now it is still enough to wear a single jacket.

At this time, visiting West Lake is a different kind of good enjoyment, but what makes Chunyu even more comfortable is that Guo Lin has not mentioned the previous things since they met for a few days, so that she has less worries. Although Xu Chenggui also knew something, and he heard some things about the spring rain that his sister said, which was very different from what he knew, he suddenly felt that there was a story in it, and the water was quite deep, and he was also silent.

However, although Xu Chenggui came home, Guo Lin did not come to Hangzhou with him on purpose, it turned out that he came here this time to build the embankment of the Qiantang River.

It turns out that the tide of the Qiantang River has always been particularly destructive, far from being comparable to the power of the ebb and flow of the tide in the general estuary, especially when it is agitated by the wind, the salty water at the mouth of the sea is backflowing, often leading to the collapse of the pond, and even "a large area of tidal flats and land sinking". Therefore, as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, the earliest tidal sea pond appeared in Hangzhou.

Since then, all dynasties have worked hard to repair the pond to resist the tide, but the thousand-year-old struggle between people and the tide has always fallen behind, until the Wuyue King Qian Biao invented the bamboo basket to fill the stone pond and fix the construction method with wooden stakes, the tide resistance has been qualitatively improved - the legend of the King of Qian's "three thousand strong crossbows shoot the tide low" is the true desire of the ancestors of Hangzhou to defeat the tide.

But that still doesn't solve the problem. Before the Ming Dynasty, if there was a big tide, there would still be a river bank collapse, the sea pond collapsed, and people were "powerless", although in the previous Song and Yuan dynasties, the sea pond technology has been improved: a layer of firewood and grass and a layer of soil in the firewood pond, as well as a stone pond with outer stone and inner soil.

However, every once in a while, especially in the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River, it is easy for something to happen, so it is better to take precautions in advance, so every two years the imperial court will send an inspector from the Ministry of Industry to be responsible for repairs.

Chunyu heard that Guo Lin was the official sent over this time, and thought to himself that he had actually entered the Ministry of Industry, and it seemed that if things were done well this time, he would have to go back and have a good way out. Although she doesn't know much about this officialdom, she generally understands that if you don't have a backer, even Zhuangyuanlang may not be arranged to sit with the local magistrate at will, and if there is nothing good to do within three years, you can't say that you can't be transferred back to the capital. Chunyu doesn't know what these officials think, it is comfortable for the emperor to stay far away, or maybe there will be a way out, but it is comfortable to stay in the dire capital......

But she knows that Guo Lin's job is not easy. Let's not talk about anything else, let's just say that work such as repairing river dams for the public will cost people and money. Although it is also a major construction, it is also good for the people, but from the perspective of the people, even if the imperial court has public funds, the cost of repairs will definitely be reduced, and the reason for this is needless to mention...... It is said that during the Song and Yuan dynasties, the local government of Hangzhou received the will of the central government to repair the embankment, and the common practice was to apportion labor, or use the army to help temporarily, and collect firewood, grass, earth, stone and silver taels from the beneficiary residents. In the Ming Dynasty, the pond-building laborers also "had many levies and soldiers, regardless of labor expenses", and had no fixed source of funds, often relying on temporary taxes, rich atonement silver, and official donations.

In this way, people who are already running for their own lives have to spare labor from each family to repair the river dam, and also get some materials and silver, which does not make life more difficult. So even if it was for their good, they couldn't understand it, in their eyes, if it was just labor, then the materials and silver should not be out of them......

Chunyu is just a woman who can still understand these curves, not to mention Guo Lin, who was well versed in official ways long before he won the list, in addition to these are within the scope of his careful understanding, he has already thought of a lot of countermeasures, but this still needs to be negotiated with local officials.

That's why he came over in advance, and his original intention was to learn about the situation with his fellow classmates of Qiantang people first, but unexpectedly, he saw the spring rain here. After all, the matter of Chunyu and Zhou Xu'an, now almost everyone in the capital knows and knows about it, and when he went to see her in the middle, he always felt distressed but powerless. Now that I met her here, does it mean that this is a deep fate between the two......

That's why he restrained the throbbing in his heart, and continued to think like before, so that getting along with her would not make her feel uneasy and inappropriate. Since this is the fate given to him by God, it is equivalent to an opportunity, so why not do it. once thought that he was going to get farther and farther away from her, and even had no chance to express himself, but now it seems that it is a turn of the peaks and turns......

Three days later, it was the day when Guo Lin took office, and seeing that it was about to arrive, Guo Lin realized that he had accompanied Chunyu to the ten scenic spots of West Lake in the past few days, but he had always been accompanied by the two young brothers of the Liu family and Brother Xu, and he had no way to show his heart to Chunyu. Although he knew that this was a bit fast, he thought to himself that he had to at least let Chunyu know that there was someone silently guarding her from time to time.

So early that morning, he didn't call Xu Chenggui, but went out of the inn where the two lived alone and arrived in front of Liu's house in Houtang Village.

It happened that the eldest lady of the Liu family was rushing to work, and happened to see Guo Lin coming. Since she knew that this Guo Lin was actually a Ministry of Industry inspector from the sixth grade, it was even more enthusiastic, although she didn't know how big the Ministry of Industry inspector from the sixth grade was, but she once thought that it was the master of the Qincha, and as long as it was sent down by the imperial court, it was the Qincha.

Aunt Liu heard that Guo Lin was looking for Chunyu, so she hurriedly wanted to welcome him in, but Guo Lin refused, and just said that she should call Chunyu out. Aunt Liu is also a cool and troublesome person, and without asking too much, she returned to the courtyard with a smile and went to the door of Chunyu's house. I was about to knock on the door, but I saw that the spring rain had already gotten up and cleaned up.

So Aunt Liu said with a smile: "Nizi, are you still okay with Guo Xiang?" ”

"Guo Xianggong?" Chunyu was stunned for a moment and then smiled: "Is the eldest lady talking about Brother Lin Zi?" What is the appointment, why can't I understand? ”

"It's Guo Xianggong who is here, just waiting for you outside the door, let me call it." Aunt Liu said, urging the spring rain to go out quickly.

Chunyu went out of the gate behind Aunt Liu, and saw that Guo Lin was really there, and Aunt Liu was in a hurry to get to work, so she said a few words to the two and left in a hurry.

"Brother Lin, you came over so early, do you have something to do with me?" Chunyu asked.

"You don't need to eat yet, right, there's a good breakfast in the painting boat in front of you, let's go try it?" Guo Lin answered the question.

"Huh? Oh......" Chunyu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "I'll go in and talk to Sister-in-law Alain." ”

Guo Lin listened and nodded, and Chunyu entered the gate again to find Sister-in-law Alain. (To be continued.) )