Destiny Only Han

Huayin County.

The ice and snow melted, and the Wei River canal came back to life. Behind the roaring steam barges were countless small boats loaded with rice, wheat, chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep.

In the north of the county, where the winding paths lead to secluded areas, there is a garden covering an extremely large area.

In the garden, there is a clear stream lingering and the sound of water is gurgling. According to the mountain shape and water potential, gardens and pavilions are built, lakes are dug and ponds are dug. Within dozens of miles around, there are pavilions and pavilions at different heights, which is extremely magnificent.

In the spring of March, the peach blossoms here are scorching, willow silks are fluttering, the pavilions and trees are shaded by the glow, butterflies are flying among the flowers, and birds are chirping on the branches. It is like a fairyland on earth.

At the main entrance, there are three large characters written on it.

Huaqing Palace.

This is where Liu Ying used to rest during her spring outing to Mount Huashan.

Well, although the name of this palace collides with the Huaqing Palace of the Tang Dynasty, the Han Dynasty preceded the Tang Dynasty, so Liu Ying had priority in naming it...

At [-]:[-] in the afternoon, Liu Ying's carriage drove into the palace that had been cleaned in advance.

Liu Le got off the carriage and looked around, as if Grandma Liu was entering the Grand View Garden.

After a long time, she exclaimed in amazement: "When did you build your palace here, my stinky brother? How come I didn't know about it?"

She is actually a person who has never changed her original intention.

Since she was a child, she had imagined that she would eat, drink and have fun everywhere when she was rich. Now that she is rich, she does the same thing, and this quiet palace in front of her is obviously a good place to play!

After all, to the south is the majestic Huashan Mountain!

Liu Ying smiled and said: "It's not too late now that I know!"

Liu Le nodded and asked confidently: "Have you left a room for me?"

Liu Ying pointed to the east and west respectively: "Bamboo Garden, Peach Garden, you choose one."

Liu Le hesitated for a moment, pointed to the other side and asked, "Where's that?"

Liu Ying glanced sideways: "That's Songyuan. I've promised it to our father...well, voluntarily!"

Liu Le smiled tacitly and pointed to the east side where the peach blossoms bloomed: "I want the Peach Garden. It's a pity that it's not the right time to come here. There are only peach blossoms here. If I had come a few months later, I would have been able to eat fresh peaches." Got it!"

Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat... Liu Ying put away her disdainful eyes, shook her head and said: "The peach trees planted there only have beautiful flowers, but the fruits are small, sour and astringent..."

"After all, I can't come here only a few times a year, and the number of people guarding the garden is limited. If the peach trees planted grow sweet and juicy peaches, it will inevitably attract the covetousness of wild beasts in the mountains..."

"It doesn't matter if monkeys steal peaches, what I'm afraid of is that they will use this place as a nest and damage the vegetation in the garden..."

Liu Le nodded in agreement.

She had several villas in Zhongnan Mountain and raised several sika deer for viewing. Then in winter, a leopard stole her home...

Not only did the leopard eat the deer, it also bitten a gardener who was staying at the villa!
Of course, the skin and meat of the leopard became a consolation item for the injured...

Liu Le glanced outside the Huaqing Palace, shook his head and smiled helplessly: "No wonder my brother often said that being an emperor is the hardest thing in the world. It seems to be true..."

Zhang Buyi’s face was full of doubts.

Liu Le pointed to the distance: "See for yourself."

Only then did Zhang Buyi suddenly realize.

At the gate of the palace, several ministers wearing the clothes of high-ranking officials with two thousand stones were approaching in a hurry.

One of them Zhang Buji knew, that was Xu Cai, the newly appointed Yan Hou of Zuo Fengyi.

Xu Cai was a general surrendered by the Chu State. In the second year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang invaded Pengcheng with an army of 56. Xu Cai was ordered by Xiang Yu to guard Linji. Seeing that the Han army was strong, he surrendered in the hope of the wind. From then on, he became Liu Bang's side man. Lang Zhong, who commanded the infantry in the Battle of Gaixia, faced the Chu army led by Xiang Yu, was granted the title of Marquis for his meritorious service, and was granted a settlement of [-] households.

Liu Le sighed: "I used to imagine that if I were a man, I would snatch the throne from my stinky brother... Now that I think about it, it would be more comfortable to be a princess!"

"After all, I can go around and play without having to be chased by ministers..."

"So, I'm sorry for you!"

After she finished speaking, she stood on tiptoes and patted Liu Ying on the shoulder.

Liu Ying looked at Liu Le with the eyes of a cute little girl, shook her head and said: "It's not that they are chasing me, but that I summoned them."

Liu Le was dumbfounded.

She stammered: "Didn't we just come out to play as promised?"

Liu Ying laughed silently and turned to look at Liu Qi: "Take your sister and younger brothers and sisters to do their homework. When we set off from Chang'an, I specially asked someone to bring them a set of papers..."

Liu Xuan: "..."

Liu De: "..."

Liu Hong: "..."

Zhang Dan and Zhang Wuji also looked like they were about to cry.

In this world, is there any reason to go on a spring outing with a homework book?

Liu Le asked: "When will we go mountain climbing?"

Liu Ying thought for a while and replied:
"There is no time today. Tomorrow Qimenlang will go into the mountains with the Huben guards to drive away the wild beasts and open up roads..."

"So the day of climbing will be the morning after tomorrow. Then we will stay one night on the mountain and watch the sunset and sunrise..."

Liu Le nodded to express understanding.

After all, although Huashan Mountain is located in Guanzhong, it has always been very desolate, with countless tigers, leopards, and wolves.

Although their group does not lack the power of guards, they still try to drive away the danger as much as possible.

So, she greeted Liu Qi and others and walked towards Taoyuan. She did not forget to look back at Liu Ying and asked: "What do you want to eat tonight? I'll have someone cook it for you..."

Liu Ying smiled and said, "Sister, haven't you noticed that there is no kitchen maid here?" Liu Le looked confused.

She pointed at herself: "You mean, I have to cook for so many people?"

Liu Ying nodded: "What else? How about I come?"

Liu Le flatly refused.

My brother-in-law, Sister Moruo.

When Liu Ying was a child, she still had a few brushes in cooking, and she made many dishes that no one had ever seen or heard of. However, as her status improved, Liu Ying only used her mouth but not her hands, and her cooking skills were naturally rusty.

But this is not terrible. What is terrible is that Liu Ying has a wonderful heart!
Well, it’s just that the dark cuisine attribute is full...

Therefore, for the health of himself and his children, Liu Le will not let Liu Ying get close to the kitchen no matter what!
Zhang Busuo looked at Liu Le's back as he seemed to be leaving, shook his head, and moved a few steps away, waiting for Xu Cai and others to come to see Liu Ying.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Get up."

Liu Ying waved her hand and was too lazy to exchange greetings. She just asked herself, "Is the river embankment okay?"

Xu Cai, Wang Sui and others were stunned for a moment and exchanged a few looks with each other.

Wang Hui stood up, raised his hands and said: "Before I came here under the imperial edict, I lived on the dike. The dike is as stable as Mount Tai because of the presence of people on the dike!"

He currently serves as the magistrate of Sanchuan County.

This man was from Fengyi. They were pavilion pawns when Liu Bang was the chief of the pavilion. Later, when Liu Bang went to Mangdang Mountain and Luo Cao became a bandit, the two of them abandoned their homes and careers and followed Liu Bang.

Therefore, although he did not have any outstanding business ability, Wang Hui was among the first batch of people to be granted the title of Marquis. He was awarded the title of Qingyang Marquis, ranking No. 14 among the eighteen meritorious marquises.

Xu guessed the same thing.

Zhang Buyu frowned and asked: "Isn't it still early for the spring flood? Why are we discussing this now?"

Wang Sui explained: "It's not a spring flood, but a freezing flood. Now that spring is warm and flowers are blooming, the rivers in the north are also thawing, so there will be ice blockage, causing water to rise, which will lead to floods."

Zhang Buji looked around and saw that all the officials coming from the counties and counties along the river were there. He nodded secretly and decided to only listen and not speak to gain experience.

Although Wang Hui, Xu Cai and others vowed to do so, Liu Ying was still a little worried.

Historically, there are sayings that "it is easy to rob during the late flood season, but difficult to prevent during the cold flood season" and "the river officials are not guilty if the river breaks through during the cold flood season".

And even in later generations when a series of Yellow River dams and reservoirs were built, it cannot be said that the harm of cold floods was 100% eliminated, let alone the current Han Dynasty.

For example, in [-], a large-scale flood occurred in the Dali River section of the Yellow River, and tens of thousands of hectares of land were inundated.

Liu Ying thought for a while, looked at Wang Sui and others and said, "You guys go to the Taiwei Mansion to see Han Xin later and ask him to write you an order to mobilize several groups of artillery to go up the embankment to coordinate flood control."

Wang Sui frowned and asked, "What's the use of artillery?"

After all, in today's Han army, technical arms such as artillery are all old men, and even the grassroots commanders are mostly young men, who are much weaker than the infantry.

Therefore, if it is urgent to repair the river embankment, infantry should naturally be mobilized.

Xu guessed with a smile and explained: "If what I expected is correct, His Majesty should have said that if ice accumulates, artillery can be used to blast the ice into pieces!"

Liu Ying nodded: "It's not just artillery."

Xu Cai handed over his hand and said, "I would like to hear the details."

"Have you ever seen a hot air balloon?" Liu Ying gestured and saw Xu Cai and others nodding, and then said: "The artillery equipment has this thing to order the scouts to fly into the sky during combat to detect the enemy's situation and correct the impact of the artillery shells. …”

"If a hot air balloon is raised above a frozen river bed, lit explosive charges can be dropped with precision into the blockage..."

"Using explosive charges to blast open the ice is much more effective than having artillery fire to bombard the ice!"

Wang Sui was stunned for a moment, then bowed his hands and said, "Your Majesty is indeed a genius!"

Flatterer...Xu Cai curled his lips invisibly, and bowed his head to the ground: "Your Majesty is a great talent, I bow to you!"

Several other county guards and county lieutenants also bowed and saluted.

Liu Ying was satisfied.

After a while, when those around him had stopped talking about the party, he said: "The flood situation is like the military situation, so I won't let you eat. You can go find the captain yourself!"

Xu Guai had a look on his face that I had expected.

He bowed his hands and said, "In that case, I will leave."

But when he was about to leave, he heard Liu Ying's voice.

"You must stay."

Xu Cai turned his head, his face full of confusion.

But he was called by Liu Ying, so he could only stand by and wait quietly.

"Don't be so nervous." Liu Ying shook her head with a smile and asked, "Does Yan Hou know why I asked you to do this Zuo Fengyi?"

Xu Cai shook his head.

Liu Ying led him to the far side hall and explained: "Of course I took a fancy to your experience in leading the county soldiers to build canals and dams when you were in Nanhai County."

Xu Cai suddenly realized.

Zhang Buyi was confused.

However, when he saw the sand table placed in the side hall, he had some thoughts in his mind.

After all, the place where the sand table is highlighted is the intersection of the Weishui River and the Great River, the land west of Hexi. (End of chapter)