Yuan Chun said with a smile: "If the money is given from the inner treasury and the Heavenly Dao Academy is established, then all the research results of the Heavenly Dao Academy belong to the royal family." In the future, the Ministry of Internal Affairs may be able to do some other business besides the glass accident. This business is getting bigger and bigger, and the emperor is making more and more money! When the time comes, those ministers may come to talk about it again, saying that the emperor is competing with the people for profit or something...... How does the emperor plan to deal with it? ”

Shui Xiao laughed: "After those ministers give up their family's business to others and distribute their family's fields to tenants, then come and discuss with me the issue of competing with the people for profit!" My life with the queen couldn't be more frugal! Even if I compete with the people for profit, the profit will be used for the people. It's not like some of them, they don't have mercy when they compete with the people, and most of the profits they fight for are used to eat, drink, and have fun! ”

"That's just as well!" Yuan Chun smiled.

Considering health factors, Yuan Chun and Shui Xiao's diet is very light and restrained. Except when she was pregnant, she and Shui Xiao basically ate diet meals or close to diet meals, the taste was very light, and the cooking techniques were mainly boiled, steamed, and stewed. The chefs in the imperial dining room, except for those who followed the emperor, the queen mother, and the concubines to the North Palace, the other imperial chefs were already idle with grass on their bodies - there was nowhere to do their work of frying, stewing, and frying!

Speaking of frugal life, Shui Xiao remembered a letter of advice he received today: "Lantai Temple has produced a wonderful person!" This person's name is Feng Xia, in his early forties, and he is as thin as a monkey. Today, he actually joined forces with several imperial historians to advise me not to live too frugally, so as not to damage the dragon's body; He also said that I am now the Son of Heaven, so I should take care of the world or something! Ha ha! ”

Yuan Chun couldn't help but be a little funny: "Is this Feng Yushi a unique kung fu in sycophancy, or do you really think that you are being mean to your own life?" From which point did he come from? "I don't know if I'm a doctor? I'm going to sit back and watch my husband slam the door to the point of losing his body?!

"It's still hard to determine, I've already asked Lin Ruhai to keep an eye on him." Shui Xiao smiled and shook his head, "Feng Xia was a Jinshi who was just in high school last year. Because of the opening of Enke this year, the monks of the Hanlin Academy dispersed ahead of schedule, and he was assigned to Lantai Temple to make a royal history, and he was in office for less than a month. He didn't know where he heard that we live frugally, so he wrote this letter and looked for someone to sign it together. There may be Yushi who thinks that his sycophant is very level, so he follows the joint sycophant. I received such an admonition from the court today, and I really couldn't laugh or cry. ”

"And how did you reply to him?"

"For such a wonderful admonition, I have no choice but to say: I am too worried! Then I gave him a homework assignment and rewarded him with a set of "Eight Volumes of Shangyi" and asked him to read it carefully to make up for the lack of what he had learned in the Hanlin Academy. ”

Yuan Chun smiled and said: "No matter what, the emperor remembers this person!" "If this is Feng Xia's purpose, then his purpose has been achieved.

Feng Xia is still just a small person now, Shui Xiao casually mentioned it, gossiped a few words, and no longer bothered on him. He directly turned the topic back to the establishment of the Heavenly Dao Academy: "I will ask the people of the Internal Affairs Office tomorrow to see how much silver can be used in the Inner Treasury." ”

The large sum of silver and materials in the royal inner treasury are under the control of the internal affairs government and at the disposal of the emperor, and the empress Yuanchun has no right to meddle.

"Yuan Yuan, how to build this Heavenly Dao Academy, I rely on you for guidance!" Shui Xiao asked Yuan Chun for advice without any obstacles, "How should this course be opened?" What do students learn? ”

For this question, Yuan Chun also has a headache: In the era of scientific enlightenment, how should the curriculum be set up?!

"Let me think about it! I don't have a clue right now. Yuan Chun rubbed his forehead with a headache.

The next day, before Yuan Chun could figure out how to set up the curriculum and how to compile the teaching materials of the Heavenly Dao Academy, Shui Xiao came back with a thin layer of anger on his face!

He said angrily: "Those slaves of the Internal Affairs Office actually cried poor with me!" said that there were too many royal events in the past two years, first the king of Shui Ting, and then the canonization of the crown prince, the emperor of the inner Zen, the renovation of the North Palace, two longevity festivals, two thousand autumn festivals, etc., the silver spent was gone! The Ministry of Internal Affairs can't come up with this money! If you insist on squeezing out this silver, the queen's mother's repair of Yihe palace bathroom will be suspended! These slaves! When I don't know how to do things, it's easy to fool, or do I join forces with those ministers outside to oppose the Heavenly Dao Academy? ”

Yuan Chun smiled secretly: Diao Nu is a creature that exists everywhere!

When she used to manage the housework of the Jia family, those Diao slaves dared to falsely report prices and fill their own pockets. Those slaves in the Ministry of Internal Affairs will only go even further!

In her previous life, she had seen some information on the Internet, and she had analyzed how those slaves in the Qing Dynasty's internal affairs government were greedy.

Emperor Guangxu liked to eat eggs very much, and the market price of an egg at that time was about three or four copper plates, but the price reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Emperor Guangxu was 30 taels of silver for eggs. As a result, Emperor Guangxu had to spend more than 10,000 taels of silver just to eat eggs a year. Emperor Guangxu asked his teacher Weng XX - the name Yuanchun had forgotten, and said: Eggs are so expensive, can you afford to eat them, teacher? His teacher didn't dare to offend the Internal Affairs Office, and he didn't dare to say that the Internal Affairs Office was falsely reporting prices, so he had to excuse himself and say: Eggs are very expensive, and the minister's family only buys one or two during the sacrifice, and they usually can't afford to eat them.

Emperor Daoguang was a very frugal person, and once his pants were torn, he asked the people from the Internal Affairs Office to make up for it before he continued to wear it. Later, the pants were mended, but for this patch, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the cost of 1,000 taels of silver! It is said that at that time, a set of ordinary new clothes and pants only cost a few dollars of silver.

Another time, Emperor Daoguang wanted to eat vermicelli soup or something, but he didn't eat it for many days. He asked an official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs said: It costs more than 70,000 taels of silver to make vermicelli soup in the palace! We're raising funds! Emperor Daoguang was furious: Ma Dan, before labor-management ascended the throne, he ate vermicelli soup on a certain street, a bowl of a few pennies! You don't have to do it yourself, just call a little eunuch to buy it!" After waiting for many more days, Emperor Daoguang still didn't eat the noodle soup. When asked, the official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said: We went to XX Street to look all over, but we didn't find a noodle soup seller, and we are planning to go farther away to buy it these days! But it was the people from the Internal Affairs Office who forced the people who sold vermicelli soup on such and such a street to move out! In the end, in order not to spend more than 70,000 taels of silver, Emperor Daoguang had to never say that he wanted to eat vermicelli soup again!

Believe it?

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is so good! is to dare to knock on the bamboo pole of the emperor Lao'er like this!

Now, he has been replaced by Shui Xiao, who was ripped off by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"In this case, there is no need to use the silver of the inner treasury to repair the bathrooms of Yihe Palace! I'll use my own body and money to repair it! Yuan Chun said very virtuously.

Shui Xiao glared at her, kissed her on the mouth heavily, kissed her for a while, and kissed her so much that she was almost out of breath before letting go of her.

He gasped slightly and said, "Deliberately angry with me, huh?" I am the king of a country, and I still need my wife to use the dowry money to repair the house? He gritted his teeth slightly, "If I can't even cure those Diao slaves from the Internal Affairs Office, I don't have to be this emperor anymore!" ”

"The emperor will do it!" Yuan Chun thinks that he is definitely a good wife, and tries to encourage her husband when his career encounters setbacks, "I'm optimistic about you!" ”

She is indeed optimistic about Shui Xiao.

Shui Xiao is not Guangxu, when he was still the king of Zhaohui, Yuan Chun deliberately led him to deal with a lot of chores, he knew how to do it, and knew the price and people's livelihood. He is not a Daoguang, he has the ability and means to do things; And now the power of this internal affairs office has not swelled to the point of Daoguang and Guangxu in another world!

He has not moved the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the time being, but because he has just ascended the throne, he has to deal with things with prioritization.

"Just say 'look after me'?" Shui Xiao was slightly dissatisfied, "Tell me, how did you deal with those slaves of the Jia family?" Teach a little experience! ”

Yuan Chun smiled: "My methods at that time were completely simple and rude. Take the handle first, and deal with a batch again, and the rest will be more honest. You can also try this method at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The most important thing is: divide them, don't let them form a group against us! ”

Shui Xiao nodded: "Reasonable!" "He actually already has a case in his heart.

After speaking, he sighed again: "I really imagine that when we were in the Zhaohui Palace, all the procurement in the palace adopted the bidding system. It's a pity that we can't do this now, lest the merchants who won the bid be forced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to be unable to open their shops! ”

When they were in the Zhaohui Palace, they have always adopted the bidding system to reduce corruption in the procurement process. Although bidding cannot completely eliminate cheating, it can at least reduce the degree of corruption. After they were promoted to the emperor and empress, considering the situation, they did not directly move this set into the palace, and the internal affairs office still operated according to the original model.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has set up obstacles in the matter of Shui Xiao's establishment of the Heavenly Dao Academy, I wonder if it wants to take advantage of the opposition of the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee to the Heavenly Dao Academy, to test the new emperor's skills, abilities, and attitude towards the Internal Affairs Office?

"Don't worry, take your time!" Yuan Chun sincerely comforted Shui Xiao and directly changed the topic, "The most important thing now is to clear the eyes and ears that King Xiaogong has planted in the palace. Xiao Tuanzi can now crawl all over the ground, and we have to provide him with a safe and relatively secure environment to grow up. ”

"Don't worry! It's almost there! Shui Xiao let go of Yuan Chun, walked to the edge of the cradle, and looked at Xiao Tuanzi's peaceful sleeping face, "Within ten days, those people of King Xiaogong will have action." I'm going to catch them. Although it can't help King Xiaogong himself, it is enough to make him lose all his ears, eyes and minions in the palace! Even if one or two slip through the net, there is no need to worry! ”

It is not an easy task for the people of King Xiaogong to murder Xiao Tuanzi.

During the day, Yuan Chun basically took the small group with him, and there were also Daiyu, Feiying, nurses, palace maids and many other people around him. In front of everyone's eyes, it is impossible to succeed.

At night, Yuan Chun and Shui Xiao couldn't stay awake all night staring at Xiao Tuanzi, so they arranged for Qin Zhen, Ah Zhen, Ah Wu and the palace maids to take turns to keep vigil. Yuan Chun requested: At least four people must be on duty at all times around Xiao Tuanzi, and the people on duty must stay awake and can't sleep or nap. So it's hard to get started at night.

After peeking for a while, King Xiaogong's people found that it was impossible to successfully murder Xiao Tuanzi without taking a little risk and without a trace!

So one night, several people of King Xiaogong climbed over the wall and quietly sneaked into Zichen Palace. They wanted to use the smoke to bring down the palace maid who was guarding the small group, and then poisoned the little group, but they were arrested.

After these people were arrested, Shui Xiao personally interrogated and pry out a lot of inside information. Combined with some of the information he had grasped in advance, he basically uprooted King Xiaogong's power in the palace.

Some people also confessed that they were instructed by King Xiaogong. Shui Xiao took the confession and went to the Emperor Taishang to interrogate King Xiaogong. King Xiaogong did not admit to his death, saying that these slaves were biting him at will, and said that if Shui Xiao wanted him to die, he would directly give him a cup of poisoned wine, so that he didn't have to dig out his mind to fabricate charges against him, saying that Shui Xiao's nephews and nieces were still young, and begged Shui Xiao to let them go.

The emperor was soft-hearted, and finally interceded for King Xiaogong, characterizing those confessions as false accusations. In the end, King Xiaogong was only dismissed from his ministry and returned to his house to think about it behind closed doors.

Although this matter failed to deal with King Xiaogong, the safety of Yuanchun's family of three in the palace was basically guaranteed. Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun can be regarded as barely gaining a foothold in the palace.