The abandoned wife married into a wealthy family, and the scumbag father wailed every night

"Your Majesty, I will die for your advice!"

When the morning court session was about to end, an old minister with a white beard suddenly stood up and knelt straight in the center of the hall, with an expression of being ready to die.

Feng Junyi looked at the old man kneeling in the center of the hall. He remembered that this man was a cabinet scholar and was always honest and upright.

"What's the big deal that requires you to die?"

"Your Majesty, the financial power of the court is now in the hands of a group of women. We ministers have to pay money when handling official business. In the past, we paid money at the Ministry of Revenue, but now we have to go to the Ministry of Finance to ask a group of women for money. How shameful!"

The scholar's indignant words resonated with all the court officials. They were seven feet tall and had to ask a woman for money. If this got out, where would the face of these court officials be?

"Yes, Your Majesty, how can we, as men of great stature, ask a woman for money?"

When the ministers saw someone coming forward to complain, they all stood up. They had long disliked that group of women from the Ministry of Finance!

They are upright gentlemen, how can they be inferior to a group of women? How disgraceful!

"If I remember correctly, there are men in the Treasury."

"Your Majesty, you don't know that the Ministry of Finance is now dominated by women."

A minister secretly glanced at Xiao Qingning and Zhou Nianchu standing in front and said somewhat unconvinced.

He was a genuine Jinshi, while Xiao Qingning and Zhou Nianchu were able to achieve success because they caught the Empress's eye.

He entered the temple with his own real ability, and they entered the temple with connections. How can they be associated with them without any legitimate reasons?

Xiao Qingning stared coldly at the minister who was speaking. This man asked her to withdraw money a few days ago. She found that there was a problem with his spending and temporarily suppressed it. She had not yet attacked him, but he had complained to her.

Now that she was in charge of the entire Ministry of Finance, how could she allow her Ministry of Finance to be trampled on by others? So she sneered and stepped out:

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Works, when we paid the construction fee to Fu'an Construction, which was founded by the people, 40 taels of silver were overcharged this month. How can someone who can't even calculate numbers have the nerve to speak so arrogantly here!"

As soon as Xiao Qingning finished speaking, Lord Si's face turned ugly. This was how he always reported expenses. Reporting a little more was also considered a bit of profit for himself.

He has always been careful with his accounts and there have been no problems over the years. He didn't expect that this time, the gossipy Xiao Qingning would find a flaw.

The other ministers' faces also changed after hearing what Xiao Qingning said. When they went to the Ministry of Finance to report their accounts recently, they were more or less found to have made some miscalculations.

They have always reported accounts in this way, and they have become accustomed to it over the years, and the Ministry of Revenue has always turned a blind eye to it.

This has been a common practice at work for many years. Some people really want to make some money, but some of them are really unintentional mistakes.

Now Xiao Qingning has brought this up openly, which is really embarrassing in front of the Emperor!

They glanced at Feng Junyi and found that Feng Junyi was looking at them seriously. They were frightened and lowered their heads in silence.

However, he secretly cursed Xiao Qingning in his heart. They were all from the imperial examination system, and what they studied usually focused on "The Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "The Analects of Confucius". They only had a superficial understanding of mathematics.

Besides, mathematics is something that businessmen are not suitable to learn. They are gentlemen of noble character. Why should they learn such things? They don't want to be tainted with the smell of money!

"I was wondering why the late emperor had handed me such a mess. It turns out that the family fortune of the Great Deng was ruined by a bunch of loyal ministers like you who can't even count their number."

Feng Junyi's light words frightened the ministers so much that they fell to their knees and cried out that they were wronged.

They dare not admit the crime, it is a capital crime!

"Master Si, be fined one month's salary and leave the court!"

Feng Junyi was too lazy to continue entangled with this group of pedants, a group of people who couldn't even count. Fortunately, his little queen established the Ministry of Finance, otherwise, the great Deng might really have been brought down by this group of pedants!

"Say something, Lord Wang!"

Lord Si, who was fined by Feng Junyi, felt more bitter than coptis chinensis. He had no salary to take home this month, and he didn't know how much his wife had to suffer!

Their current salary is not low, and it is considered a considerable income for the family!

"What can I say?"

Wang Maolin looked puzzled. You are the one who can't figure it out. What does it have to do with me? You want me to help you, but your abacus beads are about to hit me in the face.

"The Ministry of Finance took away your Ministry of Revenue's financial power, and you're not angry? You don't resist? Are you still a man?"

Lord Si looked extremely distressed!

His words resonated with the officials around him, and they all looked at Wang Maolin with eyes that said "you need to stand up straight".

Wang Maolin waved his hands repeatedly:

"Don't talk nonsense. We are now in charge of land, taxes, household registration, and we have to hear cases involving household registration, land and real estate disputes from time to time. This has increased the workload of the Ministry of Justice. How can we spare the time to manage money?"

"Besides! Sir Xiao manages the Ministry of Finance in an orderly manner, which is far beyond my reach!"

After Wang Maolin finished speaking, he bowed to Xiao Qingning and smiled in a flattering manner.

The Ministry of Finance is the most troublesome department for their Ministry of Revenue. It not only manages income but also budget and expenditure. They are busy and exhausted every day.

Every year when each department is asked to submit its budget, there is always arguing for a month or two as each department wants to increase its budget.

This department wants to increase its budget, that department is unwilling to cut its budget, and every department is saying that they do not have enough money.

But the money in the national treasury is limited. How can it be possible to satisfy every department? It gives me a headache just thinking about it!

Now that he has finally thrown away this hot potato, he is not stupid, why should he take back the financial power?

Wang Maolin's feet seemed to be greased and he disappeared quickly!

A group of ministers looked at Wang Maolin, who was trying to avoid them, and indignantly scolded him for being spineless and daring not to fight against power.

What they didn't know was that the annual budget reporting was about to begin. Wang Maolin must be afraid that Xiao Qingning would block their Ministry of Revenue's budget, so he deliberately showed goodwill to Xiao Qingning!

Budget? Budget!

All the ministers reacted and looked at Xiao Qingning with a smile on their faces showing their collegiality.

"Haha, Lord Xiao, we just had a disagreement on political views! Political views are the only thing! There is absolutely no personal likes or dislikes. You know that when we serve as officials in the court, it is inevitable that we will have disagreements. We have always been about the matter, not the person!"

The Minister of Works spoke first, and spoke to Xiao Qingning with a warm face.

"Hahaha! That's right, Lord Xiao! As an official in the court, it is inevitable that there will be disagreements. We definitely don't have anything against you! You know that Lord Jiang and I have always had a good relationship, haha~"

The Minister of Works glared at Lord Si who had just stood up, and hurriedly spoke to Xiao Qingning in a flattering manner, even pulling out Xiao Qingning's husband to get close to her.

Xiao Qingning glanced at the officials who surrounded them, then turned around and left with Zhou Nianchu.

A group of important officials of the Great Deng looked at the two beautiful figures who left mercilessly, and couldn't help but whispered:

"Women nowadays are really crazy! They all have such bad tempers!"

"That's right! The world is really going downhill. We, men of all ages, still have to look at women's faces!"

"I think they are doing a great job managing the Ministry of Finance! Since the establishment of the Ministry of Finance, our military salaries have been paid on time every month, unlike before when our military budget was either used by one department or borrowed by another."

A military general looked at the angry ministers and said cheerfully that he hoped Xiao Qingning and others would be in charge of the Ministry of Finance in the future!