Princess Consort Is No Pushover

When Zhou Qing was drafting the decrees, he first emphasized the harm of water pollution and the severity of dysentery, so the common people agreed with those decrees after reading them.

People didn't know before that they had dysentery because of this.

Now that they know it, they also follow the law and take the initiative to learn to protect the water source, no longer discharge sewage randomly, and do not drive their own cattle and sheep into the river.

Zhou Qing also spread the decree made by Chu Xuanchen to the other six counties, asking the other six counties to follow suit.

All of a sudden, the seven counties launched vigorous activities to protect water sources.

After a period of protection, the wells and reservoirs in the county gradually became clean.

Yun Ruoyue taught everyone to drink boiled water instead of unboiled water, and taught everyone various little knowledge about disease prevention. Finally, the number of people suffering from dysentery gradually decreased.

Seeing such a result, Yun Ruoyue finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In this way, the matter of protecting water sources was finally resolved.

Recently, Yun Ruoyue discovered that the seeds they had sowed in the ground before slowly began to germinate and grew rapidly.

Seeing these fresh shoots, Yun Ruoyue was very pleased. She hoped that the weather would be better this year so that these crops could be harvested as soon as possible.

If you don't have anything to eat, you will go fishing at the seaside with baits that have been put on fish lures.

Yun Ruoyue is constantly improving the taste of the fish lure, so those fish like to eat it very much, and everyone's fishing is still as easy as ever.

With the fish in the sea to satisfy their hunger, and the people's food reserves, the people finally don't have to go hungry anymore.

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After not having to go hungry, Yun Ruoyue and Chu Xuanchen led the people to start other tasks.

For example, directing everyone to build schools and mobilizing all the children in the village to study.

There used to be a small private school in the village, which was opened by an old scholar who failed the exam. He wanted to teach everyone, but the students had too much farm work at home.

They couldn't even eat, so they stopped going to school, and went back to farming one by one, and the private school slowly declined!

Yun Ruoyue knows that books are the ladder of human progress and the cornerstone of civilization.

Reading can make people sensible, cultivate their morality, cultivate their sentiments, increase their knowledge, and make them intelligent, progressive and civilized.

The reason why Longxing County is so barbaric and barren is because the people read too little and know too little.

If you want to change the style of this place, you must let the people here read books.

Therefore, after solving the problem of getting enough to eat, Yun Ruoyue and Chu Xuanchen mobilized the common people to help build the school together.

They want to build a bigger school, and then hire a few educated teachers to let the children come to study.

When the villagers came to build the school, Yun Ruoyue would also pay them wages and take care of two meals for them.

So upon hearing the news, many villagers rushed to help.

With the help of the villagers, soon, everyone built the first school near the county government.

Then, Yun Ruoyue named the school "Knowledge Academy", implying that students come here to seek knowledge.

After the school was built, she asked County Magistrate Fang to help find several scholars in the county to teach, including the old scholar from the private school.

Then, Yun Ruoyue asked the masters to mobilize those parents to let their children come to school.

As a result, the master came back and reported that the people did not let their children go to school because they had too much farm work and needed help.

Seeing that the people were so short-sighted, Yun Ruoyue and Chu Xuanchen were also very helpless.

These common people don't even know half a word, so how can they be sensible? How will society develop?

If they don't come to school, wouldn't everyone's efforts be in vain?

In the end, Yun Ruoyue felt that these children had to go to school, they could not continue to be ignorant like their parents.

So, she thought of a way.

She and Chu Xuanchen paid their own money to set up a canteen in the school.

She asked the masters to tell the villagers that as long as their children come to school here, they can eat two meals in the school for free.

The children come to school during the slack season. If the farming season is busy, she will also give the children a holiday and let them go back to help farm.

When the common people heard these conditions, they immediately felt very attractive.

There is no school in this world that provides meals for children.

The children can read and fill their stomachs, and they can go home to help farm the fields when the farming is busy. This is a great thing, and they are of course reluctant to give up.

So, soon, the people rushed to send their children to school, and the school recruited a lot of people at once.

With students, the school opened up.

Yun Ruoyue asked the masters to teach everyone knowledge, teach the principles of life, and break ignorance and feudal superstition.

There is also law education for them, so that they understand the law and understand what can and cannot be done in life.

The living expenses of the children, including the salaries of the masters, were all paid by Chu Xuanchen and Yun Ruoyue themselves.

When this matter reached the ears of the common people, everyone immediately praised them both, and more people came to study.

In the other six counties, Chu Xuanchen also asked the county magistrates to follow suit and recruit students in the same way.

Soon, there were schools in the seven counties under his jurisdiction, and many students were recruited to go to school.

Not only that, after Chu Xuanchen arrived in the fief, he did one more thing, which was to reduce taxes for the common people.

Because of natural disasters and the low yield of crops, the farmers had no harvest, so Chu Xuanchen decided to reduce their taxes for two years.

This tax cut policy has helped him gain a lot of popular support.

After the tax reduction, Chu Xuanchen took Fang County Magistrate and others to the garrison of the seven counties to inspect the army.

As a result, he arrived at the army, and he saw such a scene.

I saw those soldiers playing cards in the barracks, drinking alcohol, some sitting crookedly, and some lying directly on the haystack and sleeping.

Each of them stood without standing or sitting. They didn't look like soldiers at all, but they looked a bit like bandits on the mountain.

Seeing this scene, Chu Xuanchen's face turned dark!

No wonder the people said before that there are always rogues and bandits coming down the mountain to rob. With an army of this quality, of course the rogues would dare to come.

So how to protect the people and defend the country?

"Magistrate Fang, why are these people so unruly? Are they still soldiers? It's unreasonable!" Chu Xuanchen looked at County Magistrate Fang and the others, his voice full of anger.

County magistrate Fang hurriedly said: "My lord, please calm down, my subordinates will call General Lin over to ask."

As he said that, he quickly looked at a soldier and said, "His Royal Highness Li Wang is here, where is your General Lin? Why doesn't he come out to greet him?"

"General Lin? He has something to do right now, so he might have to wait a while." The soldier said timidly.