"That little bastard actually survived. Ha, the old emperor is quite cunning! Does he really think I can't do anything about it?"

At this moment, a beautiful young woman came out of the house. "Your Highness, you must investigate who cured the prince's poison. This poison was personally made by our Western Region Poison Master and there is no cure in the world."

It seems your dynasty has produced a remarkable and extraordinary person.

The carefree king simply nodded.

Suddenly, a servant announced that Eunuch De, who served the emperor, had come to deliver an imperial edict.

"Oh, what wind is blowing you here, Grandpa De?"

The carefree prince came out of the room with a smile.

The father-in-law bowed and said, "Long live the carefree king!"

"Please rise quickly. May I ask what brings you here today, Eunuch De?"

"By imperial decree, the barbarians of Hanzhou in the north have repeatedly invaded our borders. This is a special imperial edict from the Emperor."

The carefree king is brave and fearless, and is hereby appointed as a valiant general to go to Beihan Prefecture to defeat the enemy.

"Yes, Your Majesty's decree will be obeyed," Prince Xiaoyao said, kneeling to express his gratitude before seeing off Eunuch De.

But the moment he turned his head, his whole face turned gloomy.

"You think you can get rid of me like this? Ha, do you really think you can live in peace just because I'm not in the capital?"

The Imperial Study in the Imperial Palace.

The emperor learned of his troublesome son, Longyuan, as soon as he entered the palace, and he actually ran back.

Inside the Imperial Study

"Yuan'er, didn't we agree that you would come back after you came of age? Why are you back now?"

"What we have to face will eventually come; we'll deal with whatever comes our way."

The emperor, sitting on the dragon throne, knew all too well that his son was also a man of high aspirations.

Judging from this, he probably won't leave again after he comes back. Well then, we'll just send more people to protect him.

“These refugees are just ordinary people. Why not find them some work? Then we won’t have to worry about them rioting.”

The emperor's eyes lit up upon hearing this, but then dimmed again. "But with over 1,000 people, where are we going to find so much work for them?"

"Leave this matter to your son; your son will certainly handle it well."

Without listening to what the emperor had to say, she turned and went back to the empress's palace.

He came to the old man only to inform him, not to ask for his approval.

Since learning that her son had returned to the capital, the Empress had been pacing back and forth in her room for almost half a day.

"Your Majesty, please sit down! When the Crown Prince returns, he will surely report to the Emperor first before coming to Fengxi Palace to pay his respects to Your Majesty."

"Zhuju, what do you think of my outfit today?"

"It's good, of course."

At this moment, a maidservant at the door came to report, "Your Majesty, the Crown Prince requests an audience."

The empress lifted her foot and walked out. As soon as she stepped across the threshold, she saw the little girl she had been longing for.

"Yuan'er, come here and let your mother hold you."

Long Yuan skillfully dodged the Empress's outstretched hand and said, "Greetings to Mother Empress."

"Quickly...get up, let me take a good look at you..."

…

Old Man Su took 30 coins before entering the city.

Now everyone has to pay five coins to enter the city, and these refugees are reluctant to pay those five coins.

Even when they go to town, it's usually just one person from the family going out to buy something and then coming back.

Even if they entered the city, if they dared to sleep on the street, they would definitely be thrown out by the yamen runners.

This is the main reason why they started making a fuss at the city gate so early in the morning.

"Grandpa, let's find a small shop to stay in first, and then go see if there's a suitable house to buy."

Old Su shook his head. "My dear, are we going to buy a house right here at the foot of the capital? The house prices here must be very high. Why don't we buy a house in one of these smaller towns outside the city?"

"Grandpa, just listen to me. We not only need to buy a house in this bustling capital, but also rent a shop. Ideally, we should buy the shop and use it to store those things."

Su Laosan asked, "My dear, there's a severe famine here, and we can't even buy grain. I'm afraid it won't be easy to sell the things we agreed on beforehand."

“Father, the food shortage is only among the common people. The wealthy merchants and landlords must have plenty of food.”

After saying this, Su Muyao sighed.

In fact, throughout history, regardless of the dynasty, it was always the most impoverished people who suffered from famine during years of hardship.

The upper classes will never lack food.

Many of them even hoarded surplus grain to make huge profits.

Wealthy families even had new grain stored over old grain, and the old grain would get moldy but they still couldn't finish it.

Su Muyao had calculated the expenses for these thousands of people, and based on the current grain prices, it would cost nearly ten taels of silver per day.

This is only under the condition of drinking porridge. If these people were hired as laborers to build houses...

Building a workshop would definitely require even more grain, since without enough to eat, where would the strength come from?

This adds up to a considerable expense each month.

Now all Longyuan needs to do is persuade the emperor to allocate a large area within the city for them to build houses and workshops.

She could settle all these people down, which would not only solve the emperor's worries, but also give her so much manpower. Why not?

These people had no choice but to provide them with food and shelter.

As long as they can persevere through the second month, everyone will receive their wages. Moreover, I am not the kind of evil capitalist, and I will pay them reasonable wages.

Some people set up workshops, and then some of them were selected to make soap.

The remaining people formed a transport team to handle sales and transportation, and the money they earned could be used to buy grain for them.

Although we don't need to buy food, and we have as much as we need in our own space, we still have to say it this way.

After seeing the Empress, Long Yuan hurriedly left the palace to find Su Muyao.

After arriving at the inn, Su Muyao briefly explained her idea to him, and Long Yuan thought it was feasible.

"This stuff is made with soapberry and lard, and the cost of one piece is only a few coins."

You mentioned before that it had already sold for over ten taels of silver here?

Long Yuan's eyes widened when he heard this. Although he and Su Muyao had previously run a workshop together.

He had never inquired about the costs and labor in the workshop; he was only responsible for transporting the goods to the capital for sale, and all the money earned was given to Su Muyao.

After all, he hadn't paid a single penny for those 100,000 tents, so he didn't pay much attention to how much money the soap had actually earned.

Now, after hearing what Su Muyao said, I can only marvel at the enormous profits involved.

After the two agreed, Long Yuan took Su Muyao to the government office and granted her 100 mu of wasteland and 30 mu of fertile land.

“You can also use these wastelands as residential land. These are the documents that have been approved. Just sign them.”

Su Muyao glanced at it a few times and, finding no particular tricks involved, signed her name.

Looking at these three big characters, Long Yuan felt that there were still so many secrets about this little bundle of milk that he could never dig them all out.