"Now, there's a folk water conservancy expert named Bai Ying, familiar with the Grand Canal and the surrounding terrain, with extensive experience in water management and navigation. He has offered a water management strategy: diverting the Huai River to the sea, straightening the bends, managing both the source and the stream, and removing silt to strengthen the embankments. These methods conform to the laws of nature. After discussion with the Ministry of Works, it is estimated that this will save the Song Dynasty 500,000 taels of silver and ensure the canal's unobstructed operation for another 30 years."
"Such merits deserve to be rewarded. Your Majesty, please issue an order commending Bai Ying."
"The cabinet recommends a reward of 100 taels of silver and a stone archway of merit, detailing his achievements."
It was rare, it was actually good news. Zhao Huan put down the memorial and picked up the pen to write his comments.
"allow!"
Zhao Huan dealt with memorials one by one. Although most of them had comments from the cabinet, Zhao Huan still had to consider them carefully before making a choice.
"I'm so tired, Huang Banban, send these memorials back to the Ministry of Public Security and have them implement them quickly."
After Zhao Huan finished annotating the last memorial, he stood up from his seat and stretched out his body in the warm room.
I asked the eunuch who was attending me for the time and found that I had been working for three and a half hours without realizing it.
"I feel a bit like the office worker I used to." Zhao Huan smiled and walked out of the warm room. Since there was still some time before lunch, he went for a walk outside.
Zhao Huan had never been to ninety-nine percent of the vast imperial palace. It was a little strange to be so unfamiliar with his own home.
Zhao Huan decided to take a walk in the garden. May and June are the time when flowers are in full bloom. If there is any place with beautiful scenery, it must be the garden.
Zhao Huan was full of anticipation and went to experience the feeling of having a home in the garden.
The Imperial Garden is located on the central axis of the Forbidden City, behind the Kunning Palace, so it is also called the Palace Back Garden.
The entire garden is 140 meters long from east to west and 80 meters wide from north to south, covering an area of 12,000 square meters. With the Qin'an Hall as the center, 20 pavilions and towers are evenly arranged on both sides. The garden is full of rare grasses and flowers that never fade, and the green pines and cypresses are evergreen, forming an evergreen garden landscape all year round.
Starting from the warm pavilion, walk north along the main road on the right for about 500 meters, then turn left and walk more than 50 meters to reach the Imperial Garden.
"Sister, come and chase me."
Before entering the imperial garden, Zhao Huan heard a girl's voice as clear as an oriole coming from inside.
Emperor Hongzhi had only one son and one daughter, and Emperor Zhengde had no heirs, so it shouldn't be a princess or something like that. Who could be so active in the palace?
Zhao Huan pushed open the gate of the imperial garden, and saw a scene of beautiful sunshine and colorful flowers. The peach trees, apricot trees, and pear trees were all in full bloom, red like fire, pink like clouds, and white like snow.
More beautiful than the flowers are the people in the imperial garden.
The girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with an oval face, baby fat, big eyes, red lips and white teeth.
She has long hair like clouds, wears a light green long coat, a dark green horse-faced skirt, and is running in the garden with a swallow kite in her left hand.
In a pavilion a little further away, a woman in a white gauze dress, holding a book in one hand and a teacup in the other, was as quiet as someone in a painting.
In this way, Zhao Huan broke into the lives of the two and they formed an indissoluble bond from then on.
"Who are you?"
The girl flying the kite saw someone pushing the door open, and like a frightened rabbit, she hid behind her sister in the pavilion, tilted her head to look at Zhao Huan, and asked crisply.
"I am the Black Mountain Demon. I travel all over the Song Dynasty and if I find any little girl who doesn't obey me, I will capture her and eat her."
Zhao Huan said this viciously as he walked towards the pavilion.
"Don't come over here!"
The girl screamed at the top of her lungs, dropped the kite and ran back.
Seeing the girl was frightened, Zhao Huan felt a little excited. How decadent! A man in his thirties could actually scare a little girl he didn't know.
"Sister, run quickly! He's coming to the pavilion."
The girl ran to the Qin'an Hall at the back and was about to close the door when she realized that she was so busy running that she didn't even pull her sister with her. She suddenly felt that she was a little disloyal and wanted to go back but didn't dare to. She could only remind her sister loudly.
Zhao Huan walked into the pavilion. The woman in a white gauze dress had already put down the scroll in her hand. As he got closer, he saw that she had a smile on her face, skin as white as cream, eyes as clear as autumn water, a straight and pointed nose, pearly teeth like jade, hair like clouds, a white dress that flowed like a stream, and a graceful figure.
An intellectual elder sister, gentle and charming, with long straight black hair, she is ten times or even a hundred times more beautiful than the various Song Dynasty stars that Zhao Huan had seen on TV in his previous life. Except for Liu Yifei, the two are equally beautiful.
The woman in white bowed to Zhao Huan and said softly, "I am Zhang Yunshu, honored to meet your majesty. May your majesty be blessed with good health."
"Hello, hello, no need to be so polite."
In an excited state, Zhao Huan even blurted out words from his previous life.
Zhang Yunshu turned around and waved to his sister who had run to the gate of Qin'an Palace. The little girl reluctantly walked back and hid behind Zhang Yunshu.
"My sister is young and timid, so please forgive me, Your Majesty."
"My name is Zhang Yunjuan. I am honored to meet Your Majesty. May Your Majesty be blessed with good health." The little Lolita bowed politely at her sister's signal.
Zhao Huan waved his hand, indicating that it was nothing to worry about. "I was just taking a walk in the Imperial Garden. Seeing your sister's innocence and liveliness, I couldn't help but tease her a little. To be honest, I was a bit rude."
Zhao Huan picked up the fallen swallow kite and handed it to the little girl Zhang Yunjuan, then said, "Your kite is too small and can't fly high. I'll buy a big one in a few days, the kind that a person can hold on to and fly into the sky. Then ask your sister to take you to see it."
The little girl looked incredulous, with doubts written all over her face. How could there be a kite that could carry people flying into the sky?
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