They saw how much effort the children put in to alleviate the drought.
Once the news spread, many parents sent their children to Moxiang Academy.
The people in the other two cities of Qingshi State are not fools. Who wouldn't want to fight for such a good thing?
There are more and more children attending Moxiang Academy now.
It has reached about five hundred people.
Among them, there are about four hundred people who can practice.
Many of the rest have just come into contact with it and are unable to practice it for the time being.
Of course, Ji Wan also invited all the teachers who had previously run private schools in various places to come to Moxiang Academy.
Teach knowledge together with Pan Zhuo and Lin Chanhua.
In just a few months, the mental outlook of people walking around the city has changed a lot.
The ones who benefit the most are farmers.
Many farmers now have smiles on their faces, no longer looking numb and powerless as before.
What Ji Wan did benefited the entire city. After many people in Qingshizhou learned about it, they respected and loved her.
Especially compared with Zhang Baojiang, the people of Tongcheng's admiration for Ji Wan reached an unprecedented high.
For example, today, when Ji Wan just arrived at the door of the epidemic prevention station, there was an old lady in a linen skirt holding a basket of green vegetables in her right hand.
Seeing Ji Wan coming towards her, the old lady came over excitedly and handed the basket full of vegetables to Ji Wan.
"Your Highness, please try the vegetables I've just harvested. Thanks to Your Highness, you have the fairies watering my vegetable garden every day."
When Ji Wan instructed the children to water the farmland outside the city, he had not yet thought of watering the small green vegetables grown by each household in the city.
It was Pan Zhuo who brought it up at that time, and Ji Wan then realized what he had overlooked.
Now, after a month of irrigation, some of the early-planted greens can be picked and eaten.
Ji Wan raised her hand to stop the soldiers who were about to drive the old lady away.
Yang Guan took away many young eunuchs, and Ji Wan was short of guards, so Jin Lie specially sent a team of soldiers to serve as temporary guards for Ji Wan.
Obediently, she reached out and took the basket from the old lady. "Auntie, your vegetables have arrived so early. How's the harvest from the vegetable garden? Is it more or less than in previous years?"
Ji Wan handed the basket to the nearest soldier and asked him to help her hold it.
The old lady was a very honest person. The basket she gave to Ji Wan was made of bamboo and was huge in shape.
It seemed like there were some other things added to it, and she could hardly lift it.
When the old lady saw Ji Wan taking the basket, a simple and grateful smile appeared on her face.
"Of course it's much more than in previous years. Your Highness ordered fertilizer to be applied to many of our families. If it doesn't grow more, it would be a shame to Your Highness.
We have many children. If Your Highness hadn't saved those precious little ones and given us food to eat, they probably wouldn't have lived past their first month, just like they did in previous years."
What the old lady was talking about was the current situation in many families in Qingshi Prefecture. People in ancient times did not have particularly effective means of contraception.
Therefore, if a woman becomes pregnant, she can only give birth to the child. However, if the child is born and then experiences a severe drought or disaster, it will be impossible to raise the child.
Some poor families could not even survive and had no choice but to feed their newborn babies.
Ji Wan nodded and instructed, "Auntie, that fertilizer is not something precious. It is human feces collected from public toilets and then fermented together.
You can also use some rotten vegetables, chicken manure, duck manure, etc. to ferment them into fertilizer at home.
I'll ask someone to go check on your home later. You can call all the villagers nearby and I'll teach you in detail then."
The old lady's eyes flashed with gratitude, and she spoke incoherently: "Thank you, Your Highness. This old woman thanks Your Highness! Long live Your Highness."
She didn't expect that His Highness would be so approachable, so kind-hearted, and even patiently give her instructions.
The nobles would never speak to them like this before.
After Ji Wan gave her instructions, she turned around and told the guard beside her: "Take her to the county magistrate's residence to find Mr. Rucheng and Mr. Yuqing from Moxiang Academy.
Let the gentlemen take the children to the aunt's house for guidance."
"yes!"
The guards behind him and the overjoyed old lady went to the county magistrate's mansion together.
Ji Wan stared at the basket that the old lady brought, reached out and turned it over. Sure enough, there were a lot of chicken eggs and larger duck eggs hidden under the green leafy vegetables.
In ancient times, most farmers were poor, and chicken eggs and duck eggs were considered rare and high-quality meat dishes.
Except for the rich families who can eat it every day, the rest of the people can only afford to eat one or two during festivals.
The basket of chicken and duck eggs given by the lady was enough to last a poor family two to three years.
The old lady was a down-to-earth person. In order to express her gratitude to Ji Wan, she gave away almost all of her family's food rations.
Ji Wan asked Pan Zhuo to take the children there purely to thank and help the old lady, and to teach the nearby residents how to make fertilizer.
But Ji Wan brought Cui Min with him just to change Cui Min's view of civilians.
After observing for such a long time, Ji Wan confirmed one thing.
Cui Min is a man with perfect political talent, perfect governance ability, perfect emotional intelligence and perfect interpersonal relationships. The only thing is that the class barriers in his heart are too deeply rooted.
Too much emphasis is placed on the difference between aristocratic families and students from poor families.
Maybe this is a common problem among children of aristocratic families, but Ji Wan is not optimistic about his class barriers.
This time, Cui Min was called to tell him openly what Ji Wan was aiming for.
Ji Wan did not expect Cui Min to change his view on the poor, but only hoped that he would consider his boss's face and not treat his colleagues from poor families harshly or bully the students from poor families.
Of course, although Mr. Pan Zhuo is not from a truly poor family, all the children under his guidance are truly poor students.
Ji Wan cannot openly and forcefully change the worldview and values of his advisers.
But she will still hint and lead by example.
Obviously Cui Rucheng was a smart man. After receiving the message from the guards, he stood up and met Pan Zhuo and the children behind him.
It didn't take long for him to figure out why Ji Wan asked him to accompany Pan Zhuo this time.
He had a feeling that this was as he expected. He had already figured out Princess Yongkang's general style of governance from the first time he met her.
He thought he had restrained his views enough.
However, he didn't expect that in the princess's heart, he still couldn't meet her requirements.
Is the disguise failing? Or is Ji Fuguang asking for too much?
Tsk, trouble.
Cui Min also understood in his heart that although Ji Wan was indeed tolerant of his subordinates, if someone crossed the bottom line, they might be as miserable as Jiang Jian and Governor Jiang.
I heard that he has been directing the fertilization outside the city for almost a month and will not be back until after the autumn harvest.
He didn't want to be like Jiang Jian, surrounded by disgusting excrement all day long.
Alas, I have to go no matter how troublesome it is, and I have to express my stance when I go.
The arm cannot twist the thigh, and he needs to use the princess and the imperial concubine as rafts to compete with the prince.
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