When she got better, it was July, and seeing that it was about to reach the summer solstice, the day was a little hotter, because she was sick and not suitable to move around, so she had to be bored in Yongning Palace every day, but Yongning Palace was no longer as quiet as before, since she took over the power of the queen to govern the harem, people who came to Yongning Palace were in an endless stream, in addition to the emperor's concubines, some of the ladies and married princesses also gave gifts in person.

She was not very enthusiastic about human relations, and she also felt cumbersome about the trivial matters of the harem, but at this time, there was no reason to hide, so she could only go head-on, although Liu Concubine was on the side to assist her, but after all, she couldn't be as comfortable and leisurely as before, knowing that the queen's position was not easy to do, but she couldn't understand why the queen still had the heart to find an opportunity to calculate her in the past.

She never cared about the use of the palace before, the first thing was to settle the use of each palace carefully, of course, she has her own purpose, she admitted, she is still worried about the tax, she wants to reduce the tax more, because she knows that the reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty is very important is that the tax is heavy, the people's hearts are lost, so that the later peasant uprising has been the trend of the prairie expansion and growth, if this problem is solved from the beginning, then maybe the history of the fall of the Ming Dynasty can be rewritten.

However, she also knew that reducing taxes was not a simple matter, because it meant that the revenue of the treasury was reduced, and the treasury was related to the political, military and economic development of a country.

The way she thought of was to open up the source and reduce the expenditure, and in terms of the open source, if all the taxes were reduced or reduced, the most important source would be cut off, and it could only be considered from the throttling, which would naturally be implemented from the palace downwards.

This is not to know, she is really surprised, the entire palace in a month to pay 300,000 taels of silver. And the cosmetics of the harem reached 400,000 taels per year.

This is naturally an astonishing amount of money, so she specially invited the emperor to present the calculated account book to the emperor for inspection.

The emperor looked at the account book carefully, his expression became more and more solemn, and after a long time, Fang said: "There are not many concubines in the palace, and there are only hundreds of concubines in the first emperor, so I didn't expect that there would be so much in a month." "The emperor doesn't know? I don't think the queen had ever calculated these accounts in detail.

"Although there are not many concubines, but each master has to raise a large group of palace people, and there are a few practical minions, take my Yongning Palace as an example, according to the rules, there are thirty-six palace people who should be configured by a concubine, but what I really can use on weekdays is only a few intimate people, except for those who do work, at least half of them are dispensable, and those people still hold the silver, and all aspects of life are also a big expense."

"I understand what Xin'er means, but the ancestral system is like this, if you order half of the slaves to be sent out of the palace, I'm afraid you won't be able to convince the public."

"What the emperor thinks about is that since you can't use strong ones, it is of course best to make the harem concubines respond spontaneously."

"Spontaneous response......" The emperor heard this, pondered, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "If I reduce the minions of the Qianqing Palace by half......"

The emperor has always advocated the style of diligence and thrift, which is a point she greatly appreciates, and she nodded in agreement: "In this way, from the queen down, in order to respond to the emperor's actions, he will be willing to lose half of the palace people, so that it will naturally not cause turmoil in the harem." ”

The emperor nodded in agreement.

"In addition to this question, there is one more." As he spoke, he carefully found something in the account book and sent it to the emperor: "Your Majesty, please look here, the annual cosmetics cost of the harem reaches 400,000 taels, but if the concubines save a little, they can also save a lot of money every year." ”

"It's just that this is implemented, I'm afraid it's a little difficult, the so-called women are pleasing to themselves, who would be willing to lose rouge gouache money."

"The emperor also said that women are allowed to please themselves, but I don't want to think about who they are for!" As she spoke, she turned her face away feigned anger.

"Why does this air smell sour, which vinegar jar has been overturned?" As she spoke, the emperor leaned over and tickled her, and she couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, okay, let's get down to business, when it comes to this matter, it will bother the queen mother, if the queen mother is willing to set an example for the harem, the other concubines will naturally follow suit." Speaking of the queen, she looked embarrassed.

The emperor tightened her waist and said, "This is not difficult, I'll go tell the queen." ”

"I'm just suggesting, but in the end, I still ask the emperor to decide." As she spoke, she actually got up and bowed cautiously, and the emperor was about to come to help her, but she stopped and insisted on finishing the salute, and then said: "The emperor is wise and wise, courageous, and loves the people like a son." The concubines thank the emperor for the people first! ”

Every time he saw her speak to himself so cautiously before, the emperor was a little worried, because once she was polite to him, she would definitely be disappointed in him and cold and alienated, but this time the emperor was extremely happy in his heart, because he knew that this time, she was approving and disapproving of himself from the bottom of his heart.

Since that day, the two have been busy in order to implement these plans.

When the emperor reduced the palace people in the Qianqing Palace by half, as they expected, the harem concubines headed by the queen immediately learned from the emperor to reduce the palace people in his palace by half in order to cater to the emperor's wishes, and even all the concubines of the former emperor also reduced their palace people by half, which was beyond their plan and could be regarded as an unexpected gain.

After that, she set an example and began to face the sky, and under the emperor's persuasion, the queen was also without makeup, and the other concubines in the harem were reluctant at first, because after all, not everyone has the natural beauty of Tian Guifei, and not everyone can be as beautiful as the morning glow and the snow without powder.

For a while, gossip came from the palace, and Daotian Guifei just relied on her natural beauty and held the right to govern the harem, so she wanted to overshadow the other concubines in front of the emperor and favor the harem herself.

For the sake of the emperor's stability in the world, she is willing to bear these infamy, and the emperor also knows all this, so he pities her even more.

But these rumors were quickly broken, because they found that every time the emperor saw him without makeup or a little thin powder, he would look at them a few more times and even praise them a few words, so they all put away the rouge gouache beautifully, except for solemn occasions to wear a little heavy makeup.

In the past, there was a purge of Wei Zhongxian's party, and then there was an action to reduce and reduce taxes, and now the wind of diligence and thrift prevailed in the palace, and suddenly the government and the opposition were more subservient to the emperor, and the people were also more supportive of the emperor, all of whom praised the emperor's merits and virtues, and also praised the virtues of the harem concubines.