Since the people have been released, new people must also be recruited into the palace. Empress Fang asked the emperor and issued an order to recruit palace maids around the capital, which was not in vain. This time, in the court, enough money was given according to the rules. In the past, at least half of the money from the sale of the little palace maids was embezzled by those silverfish in the Internal Affairs Office.

Now that those silverfish have been removed, the emperor is still on fire, and the newly appointed officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who dare to commit crimes against the wind, will naturally give the little palace maid's family enough money. This made many people around the capital rush to send their daughters to the palace maids.

Especially those who are poor. It is an honor for a daughter to enter the palace, although she is a palace maid, it is better than being a maid in a big family. Besides, the money given by the palace is not a lot, and it is the same price as the ordinary price of selling daughters. However, the palace is not sold out, and when the daughter is twenty-five years old, the daughter can still choose to leave the palace, and she can also get ten taels of silver to leave the palace. This time out of the palace, many palace maids were rewarded by Queen Fang, which was dozens of taels, enough for the family to spend a few years.

Who wouldn't? Therefore, it is particularly easy to recruit palace maids this time. Soon the harem was stuffed again.

After Empress Fang settled the matter of the palace maid and the old lady, she began to fill the harem for the emperor. Counting up, the emperor has not drafted a girl in the private for many years. Now many of the concubines in the harem are old, and there are very few young ones.

Empress Fang already has two sons, and she is already a queen, and she is not young anymore, so she naturally knows deeply that the emperor's favor is no longer with her. Besides, she has a stable position, and she doesn't care about the little love between men and women. Therefore, she is very generous to the emperor, saying that the concubines in the palace are getting older, and they should choose beautiful women to enter the palace to serve the emperor. However, in the whole world, the draft costs a lot, and it is easy to disturb the people, so it is better to select show girls into the palace among the capital or local officials, and among the noble officials above the fifth grade. Moreover, the principle of adherence is still voluntary, and it is not forcibly recruited.

This idea was unanimously approved by the government and the opposition. In the court, among the magistrates, those wealthy families, and many people in the noble family have seen that Queen Fang is different from the previous Queen Yang, she is a wise and generous person, and in addition, there are two princes by her side, and her position is indeed stable.

The queen's position is stable, so there is no need for Xiao to think about it, but the positions of the concubines below are still empty? The four concubines are missing two, and the rest of the concubines, Zhaoyi and other high-ranking positions are also missing. Although the emperor is old, there are not many princes, and heirs have come out one after another in recent years. Anyone who gave birth to a prince or raised a prince was crowned a concubine.

Such wealth, especially the stimulation of Concubine Wanrong's favor, and the rise of the Wan family, have made many families in the government and the opposition ready to move. They all volunteered to send the young girls in the family into the palace to win wealth and wealth.

As soon as this Empress Fang's book came out, it gave them an excellent excuse, and naturally everyone said that Empress Fang was virtuous. When Emperor Changping saw this, he was also happy to push the boat, praised Queen Fang, made a will, and began to draft in the house of the nobles and eunuchs.

These things are naturally the responsibility of the relevant personnel of the imperial court, the harem and the Star Picking Tower, and Qin Mingyue did not interfere in them.

However, she still sighed at the cleverness of Queen Fang, the future mother-in-law.

Xiao Rui looked at Qin Mingyue and smiled while looking at the news report, and asked casually: "Mingyue, what are you laughing at?" ”

Qin Mingyue said: "I didn't expect that the queen's mother was so clever, and she didn't spend much money, and she was actually loved and praised all over the palace." The harem is all appreciative, and the queen mother actually came up with a way to draft in the former dynasty's noble family. This makes many families who want to climb the dragon and the phoenix happy. They all praised the queen mother as a virtuous queen. ”

Only then did Xiao Rui know that he was reading the news about his mother, and he couldn't help laughing: "To be honest, these things are really not my idea for the queen mother." I didn't expect the queen mother to come up with such a method herself. It's a good idea. Especially for the palace maids and grandmothers, they quietly cleaned most of the remaining forces in the palace, and they were actually praised. In fact, the amount of silver spent was only tens of thousands of taels. ”

Qin Mingyue said with a smile: "It's made a big order for my weaving and dyeing workshop, and I want to thank the queen mother." ”

Xiao Rui said: "What's this, it's just that the fertilizer and water don't flow into the fields of outsiders." In previous years, the tribute satin was actually not as affordable as your printed silk segment. At least the printed silk section is still the popular color of the year, and the tribute satin issued in previous years is the color of the bottom of the box in the palace, and no one wants it when it is given. ”

"Well, speaking of which, although these tens of thousands of taels of silver are not much, they also account for one-third of my annual pocket money for my mother. The queen mother is not as simple as a little concubine before. The queen mother is now in charge of the entire harem, there are many things, and there are more people who need to be wooed. The cost has also increased. Also, the fourth brother is also growing up, and he needs to send more people, and he spends more money every day. I should have given the queen mother some more silver. It just so happened that some time ago, the new profits of the Jinlou were sent, and there were many more orders and profits in the past few months, so I hurried to send another 100,000 taels of silver to the queen mother. ”

Qin Mingyue nodded when she heard this and said, "The palace is indeed the first place with a lot of expenses. You should have sent the queen some more silver. The queen has just ascended the throne of the Middle Palace, and there are many places in the palace that need to be reformed, and money is used everywhere. By the way, you just give the queen mother more than 100,000 taels of silver every year, and don't you buy some property for the queen mother? ”

Xiao Rui said: "Why didn't you buy it? In the past, I gave money to the queen mother. Later, it was not the case of the eldest brother's rebellion, and the father and emperor raided a lot of homes and sold a lot of properties. Did I take the opportunity to ask Zeng Yukun to buy me a lot of property? Actually, my money is not bad. You must know that the two gold and silver mountains in Miaojiang alone can produce six or seven hundred thousand taels of silver every year. Pure profit. Actually, it's not just that every year, it's just that I secretly gave half of the profits to my father to enrich his inner treasury. Therefore, I got six or seven hundred thousand taels of silver. Actually, if you want more, you can do it, but I think about the long stream, that is, the gold and silver mountains have a day when they are dug up, so I told people not to dig too much, maintain the output, not dig too much, dig enough, stop work, and dig again next year. ”

Xiao Rui's method is good, anyway, it doesn't cost so much money, why do you work hard to mine? This mountain of gold and silver also has a day to dig up, okay, it's right to take it easy.