The prince is most afraid of being labeled as "winning people's hearts".
Even the Fourth Prince spoke up, and everyone naturally knelt down: "Your Majesty, although this old minister is not talented, I am willing to do my part."
"That's right. I am willing to follow your Highness and do my best to help you."
Many things require an opportunity, and these old-timers in the officialdom are well aware of this. Now... is that opportunity.
After returning home, everyone started buying rice and grain immediately. They became extremely active in an instant. Starting from that afternoon, porridge shops were set up one after another outside the city, distributing porridge and clothes, and it was a busy scene.
Outside Fuyuan, the people who had gathered at the gate of Zhuangzi gradually left.
The matter seemed resolved.
But in fact, there are still people who are full of resentment, thinking that other people can have porridge without doing anything, but Yuefang still has to work!
For this kind of people, Yan Shiyue directly instructed them to drive them out if they were found! It was really like asking for food but complaining about it being cold. She couldn't tolerate these people's bad habits.
But when they really had to be driven away, these people refused to leave. They were not stupid and of course they knew how rare it was to have a place to live in the current situation.
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Yan Shiyue continued to make disinfectant powder with the Fourth Prince. After the finished product was tested, he asked people to rush to deliver it to the disaster area. He also kept a batch and sent it to the Imperial Guards to be used for disinfecting water utensils outside the city.
The two continued to make the next batch.
At this point, the craftsmen were all skilled in their work and she no longer had to do everything herself. However, she had been in a bad mood recently because of the disaster relief work, so she simply found something to do for herself and came here every day.
When the second batch of materials entered the aging stage, they could take a temporary break. Yan Shiyue and the Fourth Prince were talking as they walked out of the construction site when they were suddenly blocked by a group of people.
This group of people were wearing the robes of students from the Imperial College, and there were more than a dozen of them. The first one had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and it was Shi Lei who was at the Osmanthus Society that day.
Everyone greeted.
Yan Shiyue's first reaction was that Yan Shitu would not beat up his classmates, right? Then he felt a little guilty and asked politely, "Is there anything wrong?"
Shi Lei said sternly: "Your Highness! We have something unclear and would like to ask Your Highness for advice."
"What is it?"
Shi Lei said in a clear voice: "Your Highness is the blessed queen praised by everyone, why do you act like this..." He paused and chose a gentler word: "Weird?"
Yan Shiyue asked: "Why did Shi Xiaolang say that?"
Shi Lei said, "Those disaster victims have been forced to leave their homes and families, and have already experienced human tragedy. In addition, most of them have been injured and sick and are weak after fleeing all the way. Why do you still want to exploit them? Why do you still want them to work? It is said that even women and children are not spared... Is this really what Your Highness wants? Or are the slaves below doing this behind your back? We all don't believe that Lady Fu is such a person!"
The Fourth Prince frowned and was about to speak.
Yan Shiyue stopped him, took out a small ingot from his arms, and threw it directly to the ground: "Go pick it up, I'll give it to you!"
Shi Lei was stunned, surprised and embarrassed for a moment: "Your Highness! Your Highness you..."
His eyes were full of hurt: "Although Shi Lei is only a scholar, he is not a slave who can be ordered around by Your Highness! Isn't Your Highness's action too, too frivolous?"
Yan Shiyue bent down slightly on the horse and looked into his eyes: "Shi Lei, a gentleman does not eat food given out of pity, and a man of high ideals does not drink water from a stolen spring. You feel insulted by my "frivolous" charity and are unwilling to take it. Then, why do you think that others are willing to eat charity porridge?"
Shi Lei was stunned.
He stared at her blankly for a long while before he suddenly realized, "So that's it! So that's what Your Highness is thinking! So Your Highness wants to choose those who are worth saving from the disaster victims! Right!"
The fourth prince said coldly: "Fu Yan once said to me, 'It is not advisable to get things by begging. Once a person's spine is bent, it can never be straightened again. So it is better to let them do useless work and make them get paid through labor.'"
Shi Lei was stunned, and everyone seemed to be thinking about something.
The fourth prince said, "Fuyan recruited people to do simple jobs picked from the workshop. Eight out of ten things made by these people are unusable, and the materials are wasted. In addition, preparing houses and three meals a day, these many things are much more difficult than giving out porridge! And they require much more effort!"
The students were even more surprised and asked one after another: "Is it really like this?"
The fourth prince continued, "Put yourself in their shoes. If a person has nothing to do all day and only hopes for a mouthful of porridge that may be gone at any time, which one is better, compared to having something to do, a place to live, food to eat, medicine to take when sick, and money to earn? You have read the books of sages in vain, but you don't even understand such a simple truth?"
The students were overwhelmed with shame for a moment.
Yan Shiyue felt that the Fourth Prince was truly a god-like assist.
When she did these things, she never thought about getting anything in return.
But she was not a kind-hearted person who did good without expecting anything in return. If she didn't say anything in this situation, those fools would really think she had taken advantage of her.
But she really didn't know how the Fourth Prince knew all this?
She asked, "Fourth Brother, how do you know that 80% of what they make is unusable?"
The fourth prince said as a matter of course: "I went to see your people burning the materials. They said that 70% to 80% of them were unusable, and the rest mostly needed to be polished, which was about the same amount of work as the new ones." He glanced at her and said: "You are really wasting your time."
All right, she kneeled down to the Fourth Master's seriousness. Fortunately, she was not pretending to be kind. If she was, she would be found out immediately by the Fourth Master with his sharp eyes.
Yan Shiyue smiled and said, "Fourth brother, good people will definitely be happy to make friends with you, but bad people, especially hypocrites, will definitely not be happy to make friends with you."
"What friends? I don't have time to make friends." The fourth prince was very feudal and said, "Besides, even if he is a hypocrite, he can be used as long as we can first distinguish whether he is a true gentleman or a hypocrite."
Shi Lei and his companions returned to the Imperial College. Mr. Fan was reading a book. When he saw them coming back, he put down the book and asked, "Did you find out?"
Shi Lei said ashamedly: "I have asked clearly."
He repeated the story, and Lord Fan nodded slowly: "Your Highness has great righteousness in mind."
They went there from the dining hall, and it was not just Fan Gong's group that went there. Naturally, each disciple told their teacher about it when they returned.
As a result, this matter spread quickly throughout the Imperial College, and most of the students in the Imperial College were the second generation of officials, the second generation of the royal family, etc., so naturally they brought the news back to their homes.
Different from the civil and military officials in the court, most of these students of the Imperial Academy were young and energetic. They had always admired Her Highness Fu Yan very much. Especially the participants in this incident, they spontaneously explained for her without anyone telling them.
The wind direction in the capital has quietly changed.
A day later, something big happened again.
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