Eat the whole family? I emptied the storehouse of the Marquis' Mansion and married the crippled

"Jintang, Jintang, come and see."

Xiao Mo ran anxiously to Ye Jintang's bedroom with a memorial in his hand.

In the afternoon, Ye Jintang, who had just woken up from a nap, glared at Xiao Mo fiercely. He was already an adult, but he was still so jumpy.

"What important matter has made His Majesty so excited?"

"Look, this is a memorial from the Lord of Quyang City. Haha, Li Shaojiang is such a cunning old man. It hasn't been long since your imperial decree arrived in Quyang City, and he has ordered all the gambling houses in Quyang City to be closed. I don't know if it's true or not, but he said that six of them are owned by Empress Dowager Deren. They are busy checking the accounts now, and the account books and money will be sent to the capital soon."

"I didn't expect Lord Li to be so smart. He guessed my plan right away and sold me out in advance."

The two men smiled at each other. Although they didn't say it explicitly, they both knew it in their hearts. Li Shaojiang's prestige in Quyang City was really high. If he said to close the gambling house, he would close it, without any ambiguity.

But the more he did this, the more Ye Jintang suspected him.

Ye Jintang once started out in the medical equipment business, and there were many twists and turns involved. It goes without saying that she was able to succeed, and her methods were very useful.

According to her experience, it takes at least half a month for officials from all regions to get feedback. The fact that Li Shaojiang responded so quickly shows that there are many problems involved.

"Your Majesty, I suddenly find it very interesting to participate in government affairs."

"Oh? Why do you say that?"

"Fighting against the sky or the earth is not as interesting as fighting against people. I'm afraid there is something wrong with Li Shaojiang. Your Majesty should send someone to investigate."

"That's exactly what I was thinking. When the names of the city lords are called city lords, they sound like princes in fiefdoms. They have great power within their jurisdiction."

"But they forget that even the city lord is an official of the imperial court. It is impossible for him to dominate the major cities and become a local emperor."

Ye Jintang looked at the anger in Xiao Mo's eyes and picked up the teacup on the table and handed it to him.

There are still too many problems in Tianqin State, and the two of them still have a lot to do.

They still have a long way to go if they want to mend their broken country. If they get angry over such a small matter now, they will probably be angry to death in the future.

"I love dealing with disobedient officials. Your Majesty, why don't you just hand over the gambling house matter to me."

"That's fine, but this matter involves a lot of things. I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it. Your Medical School has just started recruiting female medical apprentices, so you'll be busy these days."

"Liuli is watching over the Medical Girls' School. I just need to pay attention to its development on weekdays."

Speaking of this, Xiao Mo sighed in his heart that Ye Jintang was a capable woman, and she was first-class in both business and medical skills.

The women around her are the same as her.

Liuli had just given birth to her child a few months ago, and she devoted herself to the Medical School for Girls.

A few days ago, he heard Shi Bin complaining that he, a great general, had to take care of the children in the general's mansion every day. Sometimes there were emergencies in the army and he couldn't get away, so he took his precious daughter with him to the army. Many of his colleagues laughed at him for this.

He hoped that Ye Jintang would quickly recruit some capable female officials so as not to keep his wife busy every day.

There is also Gu Wan'er. She used to be just an ordinary girl in the inner house and had never done business. But now she is in charge of a large workshop with thousands of employees. Looking across the entire capital, there are very few women with her abilities.

His wife is really amazing. No matter what the people who get close to her were like in the past, their minds will become extremely tough after being with her for a long time. No matter what difficulties they encounter, they will face them head-on and try their best to solve them instead of complaining about everything.

"Jintang, how about I help you select a few female officials to serve you in the future? You have so many things to do, so you need someone to help you run errands and copy some documents."

"That's what I was thinking. There are too few people around me who can be used."

This is the imperial palace. The people Ye Jintang had trained before were almost all men who were running around outside, and there were very few female officials who could serve her.

"Your Majesty doesn't know from whom he will select this female official. He won't just send out a notice and wait for people to sign up, will he?"

Ye Jintang knew a little bit about it. In the past, most of the female officials serving the queen in the palace were selected from major aristocratic families. They mainly helped the queen deal with miscellaneous affairs in the palace.

But the female officials around her needed to help her with matters inside and outside the palace, and if they didn't have some skills, it would be impossible.

"I want to select some from poor families. Most of them come from scholarly families, are literate and know etiquette, and are easy to teach in handling matters."

There is another important point that Xiao Mo didn't mention. Ye Jintang did not have a strong family to support her. He was afraid that many years later, if he left first, the noble families in the capital would make things difficult for her.

But if Ye Jintang could get the support of the humble and upright people, she could live well even if he was gone.

"Okay, then I'll listen to the emperor and select a few female officials from humble backgrounds."

As soon as Ye Jintang issued the imperial decree to select female officials, it immediately attracted a lot of attention in the court.

Some of the more perceptive ones saw that Xiao Mo wanted to select female officials from humble families to serve in the palace, and they roughly knew what he was planning.

But most people did not take this matter seriously. She was just a female official, and it didn't matter how she was chosen. It was not like choosing a concubine for the emperor.

Selecting female officials is much easier than cleaning up gambling houses. In just half a month, hundreds of people gathered in the capital to participate in the selection of female officials.

"Your Majesty, these are the preliminary candidates for female officials that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has drafted. Please review them."

Nanny Zhang took out a thick memorial book and handed it to Ye Jintang to read.

It always records the names of twenty female officials who have passed the initial screening. After entering the palace, they have to undergo training and assessment, and then only four people can stay with Ye Jintang as female officials.

The memorial recorded in detail the ages of these twenty women, where they came from, their specialties, and what outstanding things they had done in the past. All of this was recorded one by one.

Ye Jintang glanced over it and handed the memorial to Nanny Zhang.

"Just these few, let's choose first. If there is no suitable one, I will choose again at the end of the year. It's better to have nothing than to have something less than perfect. If there is no suitable one in the end, I will not keep any of them."

"Yes."

As soon as Nanny Zhang went out with the memorial, a young eunuch came to report that Qiao Yuan wanted to see her.

"Let Master Qiao go to the small study."

Ye Jintang had been busy the whole morning and hadn't seen his two children yet. They were learning to paint in the small study room, so he went over to take a look.

Outside the small study, Qiao Yuan told Ye Jintang the details of his investigation into the gambling house in Quyang City.

"Your Majesty, the list Cui Lanwei gave is correct. There are only two gambling houses in Quyang City that belong to Empress Dowager Deren. The other four gambling houses given by Li Shaojiang are his own."

"Very good, Li Shaojiang is preparing to cut off his own flesh to save himself, what are the reactions of other places?"

"There are quite a few people causing trouble in the capital, especially a few who have some power behind them. They have been refusing to close the gambling house and have even brought people to cause trouble a few times."

"The situation in other cities is much better than that in the capital. Most of the gambling houses have been successfully sealed."

"It seems that the most difficult ones to deal with are the people in Beijing."

Ye Jintang was looking at the two children's graffiti in her hands, but she was thinking in her heart that these people in the capital were not convinced by her as the queen, so she would not be polite.