Traveling through the emperor, overthrowing the empress dowager at the beginning

Ye Chen had lunch in the military camp.

While eating, he also checked the diet of hundreds of people.

Although the food was not as good as usual, Ye Chen still insisted on getting along with the soldiers.

The diet of these hundred people also follows the standards of the imperial guards.

"A generous amount of corn rice with pea and meat soup, at this standard, would cost about five coins. Two meals a day for a hundred men, that would be a thousand coins, not counting the military pay."

After asking Cheng En, Ye Chen frowned and thought while eating. It turned out that maintaining an army was the most expensive thing.

Especially professional soldiers.

Therefore, many of Dayu's soldiers would settle in the original place and farm, serving as soldiers during wars and farmers in their spare time.

Soldiers raised in this way have relatively low consumption, but their combat effectiveness is worrying.

And it is impossible for Ye Chen to only support these one hundred soldiers.

In the future, Ye Chen must have a large elite army in his hands.

After all, this world is ruled by strength.

Only the gun is hard.

Speak with confidence.

The first thing Ye Chen had to solve was the issue of military expenditure.

He had investigated the Ministry of Revenue before, but now, except for Du Min, all the officials in the Ministry of Revenue are against him.

The Ministry of Industry was also almost paralyzed.

It is necessary to replace these two departments with their own people and completely control these two departments in order to control Dayu's finances and most of his expenditures, which is also the source of future military expenditures.

But to find these people, you must go to Yingchuan Academy.

So after lunch.

Ye Chen brought Qin Man to the Yangxin Palace.

"Mian'er, wait for me outside while I go change my clothes."

Ye Chen instructed Qin Man.

"Ah."

Qin Man waited obediently outside the Yangxin Palace.

And in the Yangxin Palace.

Hua Rui brought several palace maids forward and helped Ye Chen undress.

At this time, Hua Rui seemed to be not very interested, with a hint of loss on her face.

Seeing her like this, Ye Chen changed into casual clothes and hugged her in his arms.

"What's wrong? Tell me, did someone bully you?"

Ye Chen's tone was gentle.

Upon hearing this, Hua Rui shook her head.

"Your Majesty, is that the young lady from the Marquis of Jing'an's residence outside?"

"Ha, Huarui, are you jealous?"

Ye Chen suddenly laughed, his tone gentle. Hua Rui's lost expression gave her a feeling of Lin Daiyu, making people want to hold her in their arms and take good care of her.

"Your Majesty, I dare not."

Hua Rui shook her head. She knew that the emperor could not have only one woman. To be Ye Chen’s woman, she had to be prepared to accept Ye Chen’s harem.

But she still couldn't completely ignore it.

After all, Ye Chen had doted on her too much before, and now knowing that Ye Chen was good to another woman, she felt like she had lost something important.

"Oh, Huarui, look at me."

Ye Chen stared at Hua Rui's pretty eyes with sparkling eyes, and said word by word in a very domineering manner: "I like you, and I will definitely make you my woman."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty~."

Huarui's voice trembled.

In Dayu, it was almost uncommon for a man to express his feelings to a woman so directly.

After all, men are superior to women, so we must pay attention to the protection between men and women.

Even most of the time, men and women have never met each other before getting married.

How could someone like Ye Chen directly tell a woman that he likes her? Not to mention that Ye Chen is the emperor, and his status and position are completely different from Hua Rui's.

Huarui was deeply moved.

"Okay, I'm leaving."

Ye Chen stretched out his hand to touch Hua Rui's fair and delicate face, kissed her lightly, and then walked towards the gate of Yangxin Palace.

Only Hua Rui was left standing there blankly, looking at Ye Chen's back with an obsessed look in her eyes.

Ye Chen didn't care too much about this, as he knew Hua Rui very well.

It is impossible for women in ancient times to be unwilling to share men with other women like in later generations.

As long as Ye Chen shows his true feelings, he can be controlled in minutes.

When Ye Chen left the Yangxin Palace, he saw Qin Man and Shen Qiu.

Shen Qiu had changed into men's clothes, with a ponytail on her head, dressed like a cold and stern knight, her temperament as cool and detached as ever.

Standing next to him, Qin Man looked like a protected young lady from a wealthy family.

Her pure temperament is set off by a hint of pity.

Ye Chen looked at the two perfect couples and felt that they each had their own merits. Although Shen Qiu looked a little more cold and elegant, Qin Man had a sexy and full figure that Shen Qiu did not have.

Among the women Ye Chen knew, the only one who could completely surpass Qin Man in terms of beauty was Su Mengjiao.

"Let's go, Qiu'er, Meng'er."

Ye Chen smiled slightly and made the invitation.

And heard Ye Chen's affectionate name.

Qin Man didn't say anything, but Shen Qiu frowned slightly, feeling more and more that Ye Chen was deliberately taking advantage of her.

And it was not enough that he took advantage of her, he even did not let the young lady of the Marquis of Jing'an go, but she couldn't say much.

Wait until all three of them got on the carriage.

The carriage headed out of the palace.

However, this time, because Qin Man was present, Ye Chen was unable to ask Shen Qiu to teach him the Bone-Splitting Hand Technique.

Ye Chen felt a little regretful about this, but he quickly began to ask Qin Man about the specific situation of Yingchuan College.

Qin Man also answered every question.

Yingchuan Academy was established as early as the founding of the Han Dynasty, more than three hundred years ago.

The presidents of Yingchuan Academy throughout the ages were all great Confucian scholars of the time, highly respected by the world. Over the past three hundred years, Yingchuan Academy has continued to expand, and its disciples are spread all over the world, enjoying a very high reputation among Confucian scholars.

Moreover, after hundreds of years of development.

Nowadays, Yingchuan Academy is divided into two gates, inner and outer gates. If you want to enter the inner gate of Yingchuan Academy, you must first have a letter of introduction. Children from poor families can only study in the outer gate.

Many of the famous books collected by Yingchuan College are open to students from other schools, but they have to pay to rent them.

"So, does this mean that Yingchuan Academy has become exclusive to the children of aristocratic families?"

Ye Chen narrowed his eyes and had roughly figured out the situation of Yingchuan Academy.

"Your Majesty, I was like this when I left Yingchuan College, but that was three years ago. I don't know what it is like now."

"However, children of the Marquis like us can come in at any time, either to borrow books or to have fun, as long as we don't interfere with the teacher's teaching."

Qin Man said to Ye Chen.

"Oh, Meng'er, since you have left the palace, don't call me Your Majesty. Call me Master Ye."

Ye Chen said in a gentle tone.

"Yes, Mr. Ye."

Qin Man nodded slightly and said quite obediently.

After the carriage left the palace, it made a few turns and finally reached the main street outside the east gate.

Ye Chen opened the curtains and quickly discovered that there were pubs and teahouses on both sides of the street.

Occasionally, you can hear bursts of chanting sounds, which are actually some poets and writers in restaurants and teahouses showing off their romanticism and reciting poems and composing couplets.

There were many horse-drawn carriages passing on the streets.

Many scholars were dressed in brocade robes and wore tall crowns on their heads.

Almost all the literary styles of the entire capital are gathered here.

Ye Chen was a little surprised.

He had never thought that there would be so many scholars in the capital.

There must be talent here.

However, if one is not from a noble family, even if one has extraordinary talent, he will still be buried.

Ye Chen began to frown and think. It was really disadvantageous to the country that the ministers in the court controlled the educational resources.

The recommendation system has been in place for over four hundred years and is no longer suitable.

It is time to reform the system of selecting talents.

And just then.

"Please stop the carriage ahead!"

Ye Chen was slightly stunned, and immediately looked ahead and saw a middle-aged man wearing a tall crown standing in front of the carriage.

He actually stopped all the carriages.

"What's the matter?"

The coachman who was responsible for driving Ye Chen asked.

"Are you planning to enter Yingchuan Academy?"

The middle-aged man bowed and asked in a neither humble nor arrogant manner.

"Yes."

The driver paused and said, "The lady in the carriage is from the Marquis of Jing'an's mansion."

"This is a Marquis's mansion, one carriage, three horses. Um, your Excellency is entitled to enter through the left door."

The middle-aged man pointed to the alley beside him and said calmly.

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen immediately raised his eyebrows.