Quick Wear: Cannon Fodder

No one believed what Ye Zhiqiu said. He also said that no girl of the Ye family would ever enter the harem during her lifetime. Even if she didn't enter the palace, Ye's twelfth lady would be trained according to the palace rules and would keep staring at the emperor. If she really didn't want to enter the palace, why didn't she get engaged early?

No matter what they thought, they all stood on the side of the Li family. They couldn't let the Ye family ruin the game easily. Everyone joined the game together, why should the Ye family make the first move? Who knows what conspiracy is behind this?

Many people had these ideas, but Ye Zhiqiu didn't care. She just supported Liu as the empress. If anyone disagreed, she would go against the emperor. She was busy taking back the management rights of the harem and had no time to care who would be the empress.

When there was no queen, she should have the final say in the harem, but in reality, Li had the final say, which was not acceptable. When the emperor was not in power, no matter how powerful the ministers were, they could not control the harem. It was because the original person was too soft that he lost the right to manage.

She is the Queen Mother, she has the final say, whoever wants to attend the morning court can come, don't call her in the future, she doesn't care. Faced with Ye Zhiqiu's sudden strike, the others didn't know what to do. They were actually happy that Ye Zhiqiu quit the game, but the late emperor was ill, and before he died, he left a will that all important matters in the court must have the seals of the two Queen Mothers before they can be released to the public.

So Ye Zhiqiu couldn't go on strike. It was okay if he really didn't like attending the morning court, but he had to hand over the seal.

Ye Zhiqiu did not return to Renshou Palace after leaving the Hall of Supreme Harmony. She took Bai Zhi directly to the Inner Six Palaces Office and took over the management of the harem by force. She sent out all the people in Renshou Palace. Although the small palace servants were insignificant and had no military power, with the Queen Mother taking the lead in beating people, the managers, big and small, did not dare to resist with force.

They could only yell, but this was of no use to Ye Zhiqiu, who directly asked Bai Zhi to bring the palace servants who learned martial arts to stuff their mouths with rags. With their hands and feet tied and their mouths stuffed, no one dared to move. No matter how important power and loyalty were, they were not as important as their lives.

Rumors in the palace spread very quickly. These past two days, people have been saying that Empress Dowager Ye in Renshou Palace has gone crazy, and everyone is guessing the reason for her drastic change in temperament. Everyone even tried to avoid passing by Renshou Palace, but they didn't expect that they still couldn't escape.

The tied-up managers were trying hard to recall whether they had offended Ye Zhiqiu or made any serious mistakes. If they had, they would kneel down and beg for mercy. From now on, they would walk with their heads down when they saw the dogs in Renshou Palace.

Ye Zhiqiu doesn't need these people to beg for mercy, nor has she thought of turning all the people below her into her own people. She just needs these people to be obedient. Disobedient subordinates can be replaced, and the people below should be happy to be promoted and get a raise.

A group of stewards understood that they were just asked to hand over the account books and cards, and that they could not listen to Empress Dowager Li in the future, but must listen to Renshou Palace. Of course, they could not listen, and Ye Zhiqiu did not want to kill them, but just send them to the imperial farm outside the palace to live in retirement.

Who wants to be forced to retire and have to provide for their old age? Everyone knows the situation of the imperial farm. If you have money, it's ok to go there. If you don't have money, don't even think about your old age. It's good enough if you don't get bullied. The palace maids are better off. Eunuchs who lose their power all have a bad end.

This group of eunuchs know who they are and who the other eunuchs are. They have never thought about having a good life when they are old, so they cannot give up the power in their hands as long as they live.

Betraying the master is a matter for the future. Right now, if you don’t obey, Empress Dowager Ye will really send you away, so you’d better get through this hurdle first.

So they all rushed to hand in their account books, cards and keys. Some clever ones not only handed in their accounts but also secretly found Shannai to expose their companions. They thought they had never offended Renshou Palace, but Empress Dowager Li was different. Reporting and exposing not only gained merit, but also reduced a competitor. If they could also plant one of their own people, it would be even better.

Ye Zhiqiu felt a headache after hearing this, so she let Shannai make the decision herself. She just wanted to be a boss comfortably, but she didn't want to manage everything herself. A huge harem couldn't generate profits, so no matter how well it was managed, it was just a logistics position.

There is no operating pressure and no need to worry about going in the wrong direction. Good management is nothing more than a matter of reducing costs and increasing efficiency, and also a matter of whether the people below can live a better life.

This is the same as the fiscal allocation unit. The annual budget is fixed, so whether you can live well depends on the management level of the harem master. She is confident in Shannai. If she can't manage well, she will be behind her.

There is no need to worry about mistakes in logistics management. If there are mistakes, just correct them. It is not like going to the battlefield where the tolerance for mistakes is low. With past examples as a reference, what big mistakes can there be?

Shannai was inspired by Ye Zhiqiu's words, and all the worries in her heart disappeared. She had to manage the harem well, so that everyone could eat meat and drink soup together. If she didn't manage Renshou Palace well, she would go back to the days when she was inferior to Empress Dowager Li in everything.

According to the rules, the master is the Queen Mother, the Empress Dowager, who is the real number one in the harem. Why should she fall behind a concubine in everything?

Ye Zhiqiu was very satisfied with Shannai's ambition, so he found something for her to do, and she didn't have to keep an eye on her every day. She was already annoyed by being locked up in the harem, and it was even more annoying to have to listen to people talking about the palace rules every day.

From today on, she is the boss in the entire harem and her words are the rules.

As soon as Li sat down in the palace, she was asked to see someone below. After hearing the report, she was furious. Ye was indeed planning something bad. She hadn't settled the score with her for supporting Liu yet, and now she dared to seize her power in the palace. No, she couldn't stand this tone. No one could go against money.

She wanted to go find Ye Zhiqiu to settle the score, but halfway through she remembered that Ye Zhiqiu was no longer the same person he used to be. He would beat people at the slightest provocation now. It would be very disadvantageous for her to go alone, so she decided to find some helpers.

The emperor returned to the study in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, regretting that he had not been able to decide on the empress at the morning court session, when the eunuch reported that Li had arrived. He was about to get up to greet her when Li came in with a group of people.

The emperor frowned slightly. It was like this again. Even his own mother did not take him, the ruler of a country, seriously. She could just walk into the important study room without even saying hello. No wonder others were worried about letting him rule the country.

Mrs. Li had no idea that her own son was blaming her in his heart. She came up and started crying about Ye Zhiqiu's crimes, not noticing Prince Jin sitting next to her at all.

The King of Jin coughed lightly, thinking to himself that it was no wonder that the late emperor wanted to find someone to suppress Li when he was about to die. But the late emperor was also wrong. He thought that Ye had lost her mother's care since she was a child, had a weak temper, and had a mediocre relationship with her half brothers. Such a person would not cause any trouble if she became the empress.

I didn't expect that Ye was just pretending. She could endure it after entering the palace and she could still endure it after becoming the empress dowager. I don't know what kind of outrageous thing Li did to anger Ye and make her reveal her true nature.