The officials and yamen runners from all over the country who witnessed this scene suddenly realized that these ordinary people who had not been taken seriously by the bigwigs in the past were not really indistinguishable from good or bad, and could be manipulated and fooled at will.
On this day, many people suddenly realized that some of Yu Zizhen's behaviors, which seemed foolish to them, might bring him great help in the near future because of the people's spontaneous kneeling and sincere gratitude to him.
To enlighten the people was something they thought was extremely difficult to accomplish, and even if it was accomplished, it would seriously threaten the ruling class headed by Yu Zizhen.
They believed that Yu Zizhen's behavior was dangerous and not conducive to her rule of the country.
But now it seems that with her action of "winning the hearts of the people", those ordinary people who were originally very easy to fool and use, even if their horizons are broadened and their personal abilities are improved in the future, they will not be an obstacle to Yu Zizhen's governance of the country.
Not only will they not be an obstacle, they will even become the strongest backing for Yu Zizhen to implement her philosophy of governing the country.
By then, they would fight wherever Yu Zizhen pointed. The aristocratic families that once had a transcendent status and could even compete with the emperor from time to time would no longer have the transcendent status they have today.
Many officials from aristocratic families felt a strong sense of crisis because of this scene. They suddenly realized that when they chose to "temporarily avoid" because of Yu Zizhen's extraordinary strength, they had already begun to fall into a disadvantage little by little.
Yu Zizhen made great strides forward when they did not dare to test his edge, but their interests were constantly damaged because of Yu Zizhen's continuous progress.
However, they only now realized that Yu Zizhen was different from the powerful monarchs in the past who asked them to "step aside temporarily and wait for the future" and would no longer give them the opportunity to influence the imperial power. It was obviously not too late.
Everyone was very upset, thinking that they had missed the best opportunity to gain greater benefits for themselves and their families.
This was because Yu Zizhen didn't know what they were thinking, otherwise she would have looked down at them condescendingly and said sarcastically, "Don't act like you chose to 'temporarily avoid' because you had other options."
Be it then or now, she has never given those aristocratic families the opportunity to resist her or overthrow her.
When facing her, they only have two options: submit or die.
But they obviously don't want to go to the underworld as a family to report to the King of Hell.
On the one hand, she used the excuse that she was in confinement after giving birth to her child to openly pressure Xiao Yuanjin to do work for her, while on the other hand, she happily listened to the baby-voice system reporting to her on the progress of Chen Nianzhi and Yu Zicheng's relationship.
Just as Chen Nianzhi herself predicted, the Princess of Zhenbei still looked down upon her new identity.
What's worse is that Princess Zhenbei, who had no idea that Yu Zicheng had no feelings for anyone else, drew a wrong conclusion from Yu Zicheng's rapid change of affection.
She believed that her son didn't really need the former merchant girl or the current orphan girl. He just liked girls like them who were relatively independent and unique.
Thinking of this, Princess Zhenbei immediately asked someone to help her draw up a new list of candidates for her future daughter-in-law.
This time she did not choose someone based entirely on her own preferences, but instead combined her own preferences with those of her son, wanting to find a girl who not only met the important labels of "noble birth", "good looks", "virtuous", "smart and capable", but also had the talent to be an official or do business, so that her son's eyes would light up and fall in love with her again.
Objectively speaking, Princess Zhenbei had too many requirements for her future daughter-in-law, but after making great efforts to inquire, she actually found two girls who met her latest requirements.
However, the reason why Yu Zicheng was able to fall in love with someone else smoothly last time was not what she thought.
The reason why he was willing to bear the label of "unfaithful" was simply because he knew very well that he had not actually done anything unfaithful.
In order to facilitate the marriage more smoothly, he did not tell his mother that Chen Nianzhi was the woman he liked before.
The mother and son entered a new round of tug-of-war due to information asymmetry. Princess Zhenbei was so angry that she cried every day and said her heart ached because Yu Zicheng refused to meet the two girls she had chosen.
As for Yu Zicheng, he tried to coax Princess Zhenbei with sweet words at first, but because he refused to cooperate, Princess Zhenbei directly brought the two girls to the palace, catching him off guard. This even caused a misunderstanding between him and Chen Nianzhi, and Yu Zicheng became tough in his attitude.
The mother and son were in a stalemate, and Chen Nianzhi became more and more afraid of the Zhenbei Palace. Since Yu Zicheng had never changed his original intention, she did not propose to break up with him.
Every time Yu Zicheng came to see her, her attitude towards Yu Zicheng remained the same, without any change, but privately, she devoted more energy to work.
With the high-tech civilization of his previous life to rely on, Chen Nianzhi quickly produced one refreshing good thing after another amid the astonishment, envy and even jealousy of his colleagues.
Thanks to her, everyone's living standards, from high-ranking officials to ordinary people, have been steadily improving over time.
Her "inventions" earned a lot of money for the national treasury, and also greatly facilitated the daily lives of everyone, including Yu Zizhen.
Although Yu Zizhen knew that her "inventions" were the ready-made achievements of modern high-tech civilization, he still gave her the honor and treatment she deserved.
So during the more than one year of stalemate between Princess Zhenbei and Yu Zicheng, Princess Zhenbei was shocked to find that her son did not become lame again this time.
The orphan girl he later fell in love with, although her family background was extremely ordinary, was actually very capable.
In just seventeen months, she had transformed herself from an orphan whose parents had died young and whose grandparents had passed away three years earlier, and who had nothing, into one of the fastest-rising officials in the government.
First, she was suddenly appointed by Yu Zizhen as a fifth-rank official in the Ministry of Works, and then she soon used her outstanding contributions to slap the faces of all the officials who looked down on her and mocked her in a sarcastic manner.
As she continued to innovate, her official rank soared from the fifth rank. It seemed like just a blink of an eye, and she was promoted by Yu Zizhen to the third rank of Minister of Works.
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