Chapter 467 Inviting the Emperor to Lay the Foundation
You Chengzi sat down and saluted Du Wanwan: "Doctor Du! Then I will take people back immediately to start registering the number of households. If possible, do all the houses in the north of the city have to be demolished and rebuilt?"
"As long as the place is not suitable for living, we will help them rebuild it for free. If you don't understand this, go and ask He Xiangjin. He is very enthusiastic about this now."
"Okay!" You Chengzi clasped his fists again, "We'll take our leave first."
"Go back and mobilize the people. Don't force demolition." Du Wanwan warned You Chengzi, "Don't cause trouble, and don't kill anyone."
Before You Chengzi could answer, many people from the north of the city who were queuing up to drink Zhengqi water heard him and asked in surprise, "Doctor Du! Are you going to renovate the dilapidated houses in the north of the city?"
"Yes!" You Chengzi answered loudly, took out the banknote and shook it in his hand, "The money has been given, and the people in the north of our city will be able to live in new houses in the future."
"Ah! Is this true? I'm so happy. I'll go back and sign up soon and demolish my house first."
"Yes, yes, yes, my house will be demolished too. I'm really tired of living in that shabby thatched house."
"Although my house is made of mud bricks, it always leaks when it rains! It rains heavily outside and drizzles inside. I have always dreamed of living in a house that doesn't leak, and finally it has come true."
"Dr. Du! Thank you! Thank you so much!"
Du Wanwan: “…”
Don't thank me, it's all thanks to the King of Qi. All the money used to renovate the west and north sides of the city came from his warehouse.
If that is not enough, I can collect some from other families and try to build the west and north parts of the city into places where life is comfortable, shopping is convenient, and people are happy.
The wealthy families in the south of the city paid out of their own pockets to rent shops and factories in the west and north of the city.
Silver flowed into the pockets of the people like water.
From beginning to end, Liu Heyun was silently watching Du Wanwan's every move and felt that she was really amazing.
Not only does he have excellent medical skills, he also has a compassionate heart.
Women can use the money they earn to renovate the homes of the people in the west and north of the city. Women are not only limited to scheming in the backyard, but can also do what they want.
If she really marries Ye Er in the future, she will definitely learn how to do things from Dr. Du, hoping to become a person like her.
Du Xiuxiu secretly glanced at Du Wanwan and whispered to Du Wenguan, "Second brother! Do you think the eldest sister is a spendthrift? The People's Medical Clinic just made some money, but she spent it all."
"What do you know?" Du Wenguan pinched Du Xiuxiu's nose, "Big sister has many ways to make money, this is called spending all your money and making it back.
The money is gone, but if you go and listen to the people, you will see that they are all praising Doctor Du of the People's Hospital. But the eldest sister didn't take it seriously and gave all the benefits to the court."
Ye Tingyu interjected, "My sister-in-law said this is called keeping a low profile. As long as we give the court enough face, no one will come to trouble us."
Du Wanwan did say this, and in fact, the transformation of the west city was her own initiative in the beginning.
Later, when the prince came to ask questions, she intentionally or unintentionally involved the prince, and finally brought the emperor's wisdom to light.
He also asked He Xiangjin to tell his subordinates not to always say that the construction of the west city was her credit, but to mention the emperor and the prince more.
After all, the money used to build these two districts came from the King of Qi, so it can be considered as money from the national treasury!
If she had not taken away the Prince of Qi's treasury, the Emperor would have confiscated all the silver into the national treasury, and she would have had nothing to do with it.
She would give all the credit for the transformation of the north of the city to the emperor. This would be the last time he would do good things for the people during his reign, and he must be involved.
Thinking of this, Du Wanwan wrote a letter and asked Xiaoqi to deliver it to the Eastern Palace to the prince.
Xiaoqi and Aunt Hua are already on the list of candidates in the East Palace. As long as they come, no one will stop them.
The prince received the letter, opened it and read it, then gave Xiao Qi some delicious food and patted its head: "Eat slowly here, go back and tell your master that I received the letter and will go to discuss it with my father immediately."
In the imperial study, the emperor read the note and remained silent for a long time.
Then he stood up and began to pace in the study, walking back and forth.
After walking for about a cup of tea, Prince Ouyang Jing did not dare to interrupt him and just stood aside waiting silently.
"Jing'er! What kind of person is Doctor Du? What does she think? She paid for the renovation of the north of the city, why did she let me cut the grass and lay the foundation? What does she want to do?"
The emperor's tone was extremely calm, and it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry. The prince thought for a moment and then spoke out his true thoughts.
"Father! Doctor Du had no other intentions. Maybe she just had good intentions. When she was renovating the west side of the city, she didn't expect the people to have such a big reaction at first, so she used her son as a shield.
This time, he directly used the emperor as a shield, probably to make the people grateful for the emperor's love for the people."
"She is just a fool." The emperor cursed, then laughed, "She is also an extremely smart fool. Maybe she doesn't have enough money? She wants me to be the scapegoat."
"That's impossible." Ouyang Jing assured Du Wanwan, "Doctor Du definitely has plenty of money. If she didn't, she wouldn't have rashly renovated the north of the city."
"Oh? Then why did she make such a big fuss? The construction of the north city has already been completed, why does she need me to come in person?"
The emperor felt strange, and then thought, could it be that Doctor Du paid the money to save his face?
She doesn't care about fame or not, she only cares about what he thinks of her?
She was a refugee from famine, and even though she became the princess of Dongchen Kingdom, she didn't care much. She just ran her people's clinic all day long, wherever she went.
I heard that medicine for preventing heatstroke is being delivered these days, and the prescriptions have been given to the military doctors in the camp outside Beijing, asking them to give it to the soldiers.
The People's Clinic has been very busy these days. I heard that even the wife of Duke Anguo went to help, but she didn't bring any maids or servants from the mansion with her.
It's all their own family members who are busy. The women in Duke Anguo's family are really extraordinary.
The prince thought for a moment and replied, “I don’t know why she did this. It seems that she did it for no other reason than to do her best to help the poor people.
Zhong Yuan once mentioned that his wife was a fairy from the ninth heaven, with a kind and simple heart.
The emperor was stunned for a while, then laughed: "How dare he say that Doctor Du is a fairy from the Ninth Heaven? That's impossible. I guess he once lived in dire straits, and he wanted to help the people who were living in dire straits if he had the ability.
But if I agree to go for the ribbon-cutting ceremony and the groundbreaking ceremony, can I go empty-handed? I have to prepare something, right? "
"No need to prepare, it's all said on the note. The only requirement is that father plant a cypress tree in the north of the city." The prince was very happy to see that the emperor agreed to Du Wanwan's request, "That is a symbol of your love for the people."
(End of this chapter)
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