The first month of the year is over in the blink of an eye.
Emperor Ming Yan came in disguise to take a look.
With the Fifth Prince watching all the way and Yan Shiyue's advanced ideas guiding them, the manufacturing of the Shenwei Cannon has made encouraging progress. The weight of the cannon currently manufactured has been reduced by 30%, the effective range has reached two miles, and the maximum range can reach four and a half miles. The next step will be to continue researching the issue of shotgun shells.
As for Yan Shiyue, it is said that there has been no progress.
The fifth prince said helplessly, "In the first few days, my son could call her out, but later, only Jing could call her out. Now Jing gets angry when he calls out, and won't eat or listen to advice. No one can stop him."
Emperor Ming Yan went there personally and asked someone to knock on the door for a long time before it was opened.
Upon seeing Emperor Mingyan, Yan Shiyue immediately rushed over, hugged him and started crying: "Father, I can't make it! Wuuwuwu..."
Emperor Mingyan held her head helplessly and said, "If you can't make it, then don't make it! Besides, you asked the craftsmen to do these things, but you did it yourself! Look at your face, it's not even pale! You just recovered from your injury, and it's not good for you to give birth!"
She just hugged him and cried.
Huo Qijing came over in a hurry, and the fifth prince joked with him: "When you are in front of Aye, you are three years old, and in front of me, you seem to be three hundred years old."
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Huo Qijing answered irrelevantly: "Everything will be fine after you finish crying."
Yan Shiyue cried so hard that she wet the front of Emperor Ming Yan's clothes. She hiccuped after crying. She went back to the room to wash her face. She was still pouting and looked unhappy.
Emperor Ming Yan coaxed her softly, "With the Shenwu Cannon, we are already the best in the world. It doesn't matter if we can't make other things... Nothing is perfect in this world. With your temper, how can I assign you tasks in the future? You are also a prime minister, you should also learn how to do things perfunctorily like those people do."
Yan Shiyue was amused by him and couldn't stop hiccuping while laughing.
Emperor Mingyan said helplessly: "Look at this! What a mess!"
The fifth prince poured her a cup of tea. Yan Shiyue drank it in one breath and kept burping. She slapped him anxiously: "What should I do! Burping... How can I stop it!"
The fifth prince said helplessly: "I don't know how to cure hiccups."
Yan Shiyue thought about drinking a mouthful of water and swallowing it seven times, and then she said to him, “Scare me.”
The fifth prince asked, "Why are you scared?"
Yan Shiyue said: "Just scare me out of the blue and I won't fight."
He clapped his hands at her twice. She said, "That won't work! Hiccup..." She waved her hands, "Forget it! Ah yeah, hiccup... I'll take you to see the ones that have been made first."
Emperor Mingyan said, "Didn't you say it can't be made?"
She said: "I can't make good ones, I can only make a few average ones."
A few people went there, took out a few sticks, found an open space, set up a few targets, and picked one to Emperor Ming Yan: "This is the first one made."
She taught him how to use it carefully. Emperor Ming Yan tried to point it at the target. The straw targets were very large and close to him. One shot shattered the straw targets.
Emperor Mingyan was surprised and asked, "Isn't it possible to call it like this?"
"Yeah, it's terrible, isn't it?" Yan Shiyue gave him another one: "This is the second one I made."
Emperor Mingyan tried it again. This time it was more powerful and easier to use than the first one. Yan Shiyue said, "The third one is similar to the second one. This is the fourth one."
Emperor Ming Yan took it and tried it again, and found it even easier and smoother.
Emperor Ming Yan looked at her speechlessly.
Even the Fifth Prince couldn't help but ask a soul-searching question: "So, what do you mean by being unable to create it?"
Yan Shiyue said: "Now we can only fire one shot at a time! I think we should fire at least ten or twenty shots in a row, right?"
Emperor Ming Yan held her head in silence, and he really had a lot to say: "It's good now! For the rest, take your time."
He gave the order directly: "Come back with me and rest for a while. I'll leave this to Wulang."
Yan Shiyue refused: "No! I must make a burst-fire one!"
Emperor Mingyan said, "The Imperial Concubine is pregnant, you should go back and see her." Yan Shiyue was stunned, and Emperor Mingyan said, "You can't figure it out if you stay here, maybe you can figure it out if you go back and have some fun."
That's right! So Yan Shiyue followed Emperor Ming Yan and left.
Yesterday, the Imperial Concubine found out that she was pregnant, and probably all the women in the inner courts of the entire capital were looking forward to making friends with her, but she was not at home.
The father and daughter chatted along the way. When they passed the small hill where the disaster victims lived, Yan Shiyue asked, "Are those disaster victims still here?"
Emperor Mingyan frowned and said, "We have driven them away several times, but there are still people staying."
After a major disaster, it has always been a hassle for the victims to return home. Emperor Ming Yan issued two edicts in succession for this purpose. Despite all the favorable conditions, some people still stayed here.
Yan Shiyue asked: "What about me?"
Emperor Mingyan said, "I asked Ding Xiaoyan to go and tell them that after the Granary Filling Festival, no more houses will be provided. These people must be afraid of the reputation of Lady Fu, so they quickly vacated their houses." He touched her head and said, "I will ask someone to rebuild it for you later."
Yan Shiyue suddenly exclaimed.
She took a closer look, straightened her clothes, opened the door, jumped out of the carriage, and shouted, "What are you doing?"
When the victims turned around and saw that it was her, they immediately knelt on the ground, and then the person in the middle was revealed.
The young woman in the middle was panicked. It took her a long time to come back to her senses. She knelt down and said, "Your Highness."
Yan Shiyue walked over slowly, and Jia and a few others followed him on high alert.
Yan Shiyue walked among the victims, reached out to help the young woman up, and then asked, "What happened?"
The woman lowered her head and said, "Your Highness, today is the second day of the second month, and I thought that there is a custom of eating spring pancakes on Dragon Head Festival, so I asked the servants to make spring pancakes and come here to distribute porridge and spring pancakes, but I didn't expect..."
There were too many victims and too few of them, so these people rushed forward and started looting.
Yan Shiyue nodded and looked at everyone calmly: "Others are kind-hearted, but you are doing this robbery. Aren't you ashamed?"
All the victims bowed their heads. Someone said, "Mrs. Fu, we are really hungry!"
Others also echoed.
Yan Shiyue put his hands behind his back and said calmly, "You know you're hungry, but don't you hurry back home? If you don't go back home to farm, you'll miss the spring ploughing season, and what will you eat in the fall? If you suffer a disaster once, can you still escape for the rest of your life?"
She paused for a moment. "The Fourth Prince has been in Bianzhou to provide disaster relief. He will not let you go hungry. But if you stay here, the good farmland will be divided up by those who returned home first! There are more people than land in Bianzhou now, and the farmland you get will be more than what you had before. With such a good thing, why don't you go back quickly? What are you waiting for here? Are you waiting for a pie in the sky?"
The victims were so scolded by her that they didn't even dare to raise their heads.
Yan Shiyue looked back and saw the woman staring at her blankly.
Yan Shiyue didn't recognize her either. He looked at her basket and saw dozens of spring pancakes. He took them out and distributed them to them, saying, "I'll ask someone to exchange them for some copper coins and give some to everyone. After the distribution, I'll return home immediately. Did you hear me?"
Everyone responded in unison.
Jiahe also nodded in response.
Yan Shiyue then turned around and motioned for the woman to go first. The woman bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."
"You're welcome." He gracefully escorted her to the carriage, but when she looked up, she saw the sign of Prince Chun's Mansion.
Yan Shiyue: “…”
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