Ao Huang muttered softly, "When the workshops are doing well, those workers are all good workers. But when the workshops fail, they all become bad workers. If they could change so easily, they would have become officials long ago. Of course, there must be some issues among them."

Fang Yun glared at Ao Huang and said, "Yingwu, continue. Did you personally experience the events back then?"

Fang Yingwu shook his head and said, "I didn't experience it personally, but Mr. Wu, who worked with me, was an advisor to the head of the Mizhou Workshop Department at the time. He analyzed it thoroughly. After Liu Shan successfully vilified the workshop workers, he began to have them dismissed. Naturally, the workers were dissatisfied and went to block the county office's doors and roads. However, Liu Shan had already smeared the workers as lazy and incompetent, so the other residents of Mizhou not only didn't sympathize with them but even despised them."

Ao Huang was taken aback and said, "What a clever tactic, even more devious than Fang Yun. No wonder he's the Left Chancellor. I wouldn't have thought of this move! With this, he isolated the workers, putting them at odds with the nation's people and officials."