"Dad, lend me a team to maintain order."
Doctor Yuan treated several patients infected with the plague. Although the prescription has begun to be developed, it will take time. Jiang Ruohua did not want to wait blindly, but wanted to do something: "Dad has returned home exhausted these days. I guess it's because the refugees are making trouble and making it difficult for you."
"It's too dangerous." Prince Jiang disagreed, "Then you just leave the porridge and rice. These displaced people outside are difficult for even the soldiers to deal with. How can you go out alone?"
"Dad can be here, why can't I be here?" Jiang Ruohua would not leave. "Even though I am not a man, I still have things I want to do. Before the incident, the refugees were not refugees but ordinary people. Now, calming people's hearts is far more important than distributing porridge. What's wrong with me trying to persuade them?"
Prince Jiang felt that he had not given birth to this daughter in vain. She was as courageous as a man, but as a father, no one wanted his child to get into trouble.
In the end, he compromised and let Jiang Ruohua go up to the city wall to try and see if she could calm the refugees down after her speech.
Standing on the wall, Jiang Ruohua's heart was beating violently. Although she was familiar with and practiced every word beforehand, she still felt nervous. It was the first time she spoke so much in front of so many people. At first, the refugees were making a fuss, but soon they calmed down with the soldiers' suppression and her words.
The porridge was distributed spoonful by spoonful. Although not everyone could eat their fill, the hot porridge gave these people hope.
"I will come again tomorrow. I hope you can be patient until the cure is developed."
After returning, he immediately led the servants to prepare tomorrow's food. There were too many people outside the city, and the consumption was far beyond expectations. Jiang Ruohua asked Gan Yunsheng to find ways to get food from those who had mountains of food but were making dirty money at this time. There was no need to act gloriously.
"Miss, I will go with you tomorrow."
Li Ge wiped the sweat off his face and looked at the temporary stoves in the Duke's Mansion, feeling worried.
"There are still enough manpower now." Jiang Ruohua watched everything in person, and then said, "I have to be busy with this matter, and I'm afraid I can't take care of the mansion. Aunt Ying is still pregnant, and Aunt Yuan has to take care of the young son. The mansion can't be left without anyone to take care of it,
so I'll leave it to you." "Yes..." Li Ge's interest seemed to have faded a little, but she didn't complain. Almost all the servants in the mansion were busy, and they all had to contribute to the plague. Jiang Ruohua gave them twice the monthly salary this month, and the servants' complaints stopped abruptly.
In fact, she was a little curious why Jiang Ruohua did this.
But as they continued doing this day after day, people's mentality seemed to have changed. There were indeed wealthy families in the capital who were willing to give out porridge, but few of them were like Jiang Ruohua, who gave almost everything. Others were trying to gain some fame at this time, but they did not expect that someone who really wanted to feed all the refugees would sneak in among them.
Jiang Ruohua was using practical actions to show the world her brilliance.
At such a young age, she was in charge of a huge Duke's Mansion, not to mention that it was well organized. Even under such circumstances, she could still devote so much energy to doing things that others could not do, which was enough to shock people. Not to
mention that the white porridge given out every day was not only large in quantity, but also unlike other families' clear soup with barely visible rice in a bowl.
But with such a large amount of daily supply, even if the Jiang family was hollowed out, even with the help of the Wen family, it would not be enough. Soon someone knew about Gan Yunsheng's existence and knew that this man was helping the Jiang family manage the industry and was using some unfair means to obtain food to help the refugees.
Jiang Ruohua and the Duke's Mansion suddenly became popular among ordinary people, but it also hindered those evil-hearted people who were trying to make a fortune. They began to fabricate and fabricate all the evil words aimed at Jiang Ruohua.
"It's too much!"
Everyone in the Duke's Mansion was fighting for Jiang Ruohua. Those ugly words were used against a teenage woman, but these people were not ashamed!
"Okay, forget it after hearing it." Jiang Ruohua glanced at today's share and yawned a little tiredly. "No matter what people say outside, it's just to target us. Do we have to stop doing it just because of what they say?"
The porridge distribution is carried out day by day. Although some people still inevitably die from the plague, it is not completely useless. It would be a lie to say that there is no sense of accomplishment. In the past, who would dare to think that a woman with a group of servants could help the victims of the disaster?
This has always been the job of officials and men.
Li Ge once curiously asked the doubts in her heart in her day-to-day life, and Jiang Ruohua's answer was: she wants to do it, and she can do it, so she will do it.
Looking at those people who have a hard time living, perhaps it is indeed difficult to suppress the compassion, but can she only feel compassion in her heart?
Usually, when a woman encounters something, she asks her father to solve it before she gets married, and her husband to solve it after she gets married. When her husband dies, her son solves it. When she can't see these people, she prays for them day and night. Jiang Ruohua can't help but wonder, what's the point of asking others to solve the problem and praying day and night for someone to help solve the problem?
It takes a lot of time, but it doesn't work.
So why doesn't she do it herself?
She also grew up listening to her father's reputation and the stories of loyal and virtuous ministers. She also learned to be loyal to the country. She has been influenced by all this, but she doesn't want to be influenced by all this for the rest of her life.
The outside public opinion and the slander of those people with ulterior motives did not hit Jiang Ruohua. Instead, she felt more and more that if she didn't do it, who else would be willing to do it?
Fortunately, whether it was his father, grandfather, or other family members, they all supported Jiang Ruohua's approach. Their Jiang family has been loyal for generations, and regardless of whether they are men or women, the word "loyalty" should be engraved in their bones and blood!
It was naturally shameful to instruct Gan Yunsheng to use improper means to obtain food, but such an action solved the emperor's urgent need.
Since the one sitting on the dragon chair is in this position, he is naturally worried about the people. But asking these rich people to spit out food for free to the court and the refugees is as difficult as climbing to the sky. The national treasury does not have that much money, and it is impossible to meet the requirements of these rich people.
Jiang Ruohua did not do it gloriously, but he did what the emperor wanted to do but could not do.
As a result, not only did the Jiang family not receive any punishment, but they were praised and rewarded by the emperor. The emperor was even more surprised when he learned that this was actually the idea of a young girl named Jiang Ruhua.