The weather was not good, a heavy gray iron condensed in the sky, and it was just past noon, and the lights had been lit in the study.

The woman in a plain robe was about to write, but she put the pen aside again, picked up the ink strip again and began to study the ink.

"Lady Ye, how many people have sent posts today?"

"Princess, there are only six posts for today."

The eldest princess of Yueqing lowered her head and smiled: "Six, a lot."

Lady Ye nodded and said, "The British government closed its doors to thank guests, and Yong Yibo was questioned for embezzling silver taels from Taifu Temple...... The two uncles used to be a double lord and a powerful Yanjing, but now there is one less. The wealthy families in Beijing have relatives in contact, originally to be each other's assistants, since His Majesty has been involved in each other's inspections, and when Chu Jiyuan enters Beijing, the rest are afraid that it will not be easy."

"Huge families with high doors, they don't think about serving the country, they only think about how to occupy the acres and loot the people, and they deserve to be rectified. What happened to the weaving mills and dyeing mills lately? Can you get a new place to live?"

"Rest assured, the princess has been moving in for a month, and there are several leaks in the house, which have been repaired before the strong winds that began a few days ago. It's just that I heard that His Majesty's edict has ordered the selection of female talents everywhere, and we also encourage them to read and write more when we select female workers, and now I am quite moved."

The ink gradually became thicker, and Princess Yueqing smiled: "This is a good thing, Your Majesty is a little irritable, and he still loves the person he chooses, Zhang Qi was so domineering before, if he hadn't really committed a taboo, he wouldn't have ended up." If they have to prepare their own charcoal food, they will prepare them all, and then they will give them a set of cotton clothes, so that they can go to the test warmly and without worry."

Lady Ye said with a smile: "Everyone else knows that our weaving factory, dyeing workshop and garment workshop are the best for female workers, and the princess is so benevolent, I am afraid that it will be more difficult to recruit workers in the spring than last time, and the threshold can be broken."

"Then open a few more, I am not short of money, and it is my blessing to be able to place more women."

Picking up the pen and writing down the word "therefore", Princess Yueqing slowly asked, "Isn't there any news from Zhenjun?"

"There has been no news from us, and Miss Chuiyun left Beijing after sending us a letter, and she has not returned. Princess, you want us to go and see it."

One stroke fell on the paper, and after a while, looking at the "old people into my dreams, I know my appearance"*, Princess Yueqing still shook her head:

"You don't have to go out of your way to see it."

But she said, "Look at the weather, isn't it snowing?"

"Yes."

Princess Yueqing fell silent again.

Ye Nuguan stood on the side.

There were long, long quiet years in the princess's house, and no one spoke, and no one felt too bleak, just silent.

The richest and most powerful woman in the Dayong Dynasty was just a widow who lived deep in the house, and even if she gave thousands of women a livelihood, the hustle and bustle and vitality in the distance still could not wash away this quietness.

Probably after a stick of incense, or even longer, Princess Zhao Mingyin of Yueqing raised her head:

"True King's birthday is almost here." ….

"Yes, Princess."

Female Official Ye glanced at her expression and said, "Princess, Lizhenjun is young and talented, and she is by no means vulgar, now that His Majesty has set up a Duanji Palace, and female officials are being selected everywhere, if Lizhenjun can be selected among them, with her talent, she will definitely be able to be reused, and she can also be freed from the shackles of Ning'anbo Mansion."

"Duanji Temple." Princess Yueqing read these three words lightly and shook her head slowly, "Today's Duanji Palace is a fire pit, a chess piece sandwiched between the emperor and the queen mother, if you can't really get out of the palace, it will only be the second six games and twenty-four divisions in the future, why should she be driven by someone in it?"

"That's what the princess said. It's just that if Zhenjun can really do something in the Duanji Palace, he can also let the world know that men can be women and can do it."

"Huh."

Princess Yueqing smiled.

"What a man can do, what a woman can do, who is in the world

I don't know? Lady Ye, do you really think that what men say that women are powerless and less wise is because they are rigid and ignorant? If this is the case, then why did some people say that I was a chicken Si Chen? Since they believe that women cannot do what men can do, why do they toss and turn as if they are facing a great enemy every time a woman appears before them?"

Picking up a warm handkerchief and wiping her hands, the princess, dressed in plain clothes, lowered her eyebrows, and her tone was as light as a morning mist:

"The more a liar is, the more he knows what a lie is, and the more he knows what is true and what is false. The most difficult thing in Duanjidian is not to prove oneself to the world, because this does not need to be proved. The most difficult thing for those women who entered the Duanji Palace was to prove themselves to the imperial power, to prove that they were more obedient and sharper, to prove that they were more loyal and useful, because they did not take their standing in the court for granted, so they could not relax for a moment, so that even fairy-like girls would become snarky, and even the most open-minded gentlemen would become stubborn. With such turbid water, why bother to let the true monarch in?"

Lady Ye lowered her head and replied for a long time: "What the princess said is true."

Thinking of that palace, Princess Yueqing smiled slowly:

"When my imperial brother ascended the throne, he wanted to overthrow the eunuch Wang Gui, who was reused by my father, and Chai Gong ordered the female officials to secretly collect evidence and submit it together, but what did they end up with? My imperial sister-in-law was in charge of the harem and didn't like the female officials to hinder her, so she sent Chai Gong Ling to the bookstore and let Chai Gong Ling stay in the bookstore until she died. My imperial brother is already a soft-hearted person, how could he ever have thought that a group of women would sacrifice their lives and forget to die for the sake of his position? Just because he is His Majesty, there are people in the world who can be used by him, more obedient, sharper, and more handy, and men are willing to take on all kinds of looks for him...... After all, there is no need for women. His Majesty now looks like he is going to use female officials, but when he really clears up the old accounts of the Taifu Temple, the female officials will probably get a better fate than the Chai Gong Order, but in just a few years, the future of the female officials will come to an end."

With such a future, if she was just a female worker, she was lucky enough to be admitted to a female talent or a female official, and she could be the master at home from now on, it would be not bad.

Lizhenjun is not among them.

"There is no room for truly talented women in this world, there is no future, and there is no way back. Well, these things have nothing to do with me, a rich idler." ….

The maids in the princess's mansion walked lightly, like falling snow, but this time the snow fell a little urgently:

"Your Highness, Your Majesty is here."

When Zhao Mingyin arrived at the main hall wearing a coat and a xiaxia curtain, he saw a man wearing a January white straight-robed shirt standing in the hall, looking up at the couplets hanging on the wall.

"Camp and camp, where all things fight. It's clear and quiet, and the world is boiling here."

Turning around and seeing Zhao Mingyin, he smiled and said, "Aunt Huang's couplet, I thought I had arrived at a deep mountain Taoist temple when I saw it."

Zhao Mingyin stood at the gate of the palace, looking at his nephew, who was the emperor, with a pair of eyes that had been scrubbed and brightened by the clean days: "Your Majesty was even more unkind when he came last time, and asked me to raise a few more noodles to add some vitality to this princess's mansion."

Shen Shiqing laughed in her heart when she heard this, she really deserved to be Zhao Surui if she could say such things.

The two sat down, the maid quietly brought the tea in, Shen Shiqing took a sip, it was an extremely light white tea, and the sweet taste returned to the tip of the tongue after a moment in the mouth.

"Shaozhou tea, good."

"This was brought back by my subordinate when he went to Guangdong to search for dyeing methods, but it is better than the tribute given by the palace."

Looking at the young man sitting opposite him, Zhao Mingyin's voice was soft: "Your Majesty rarely came to look for me, and I guessed for a long time and didn't guess the reason. According to Your Majesty's temperament, if something happens to my horse's own family, you will also tell me first. If there are other clan affairs, it has nothing to do with me, an idler."

Shen Shiqing smiled: "Aunt Huang might as well guess again."

Zhao Mingyin smiled: "Your Majesty came to look for me, an idler, it wasn't just so that I could guess the riddle and solve the boredom, right?"

Shen Shiqing put down the teacup: "The days of the imperial aunt are light, if I can relieve my aunt's boredom, this trip will not be in vain."

The hall fell silent again.

After a while, Zhao Mingyin sighed softly:

"The Empress Dowager asked Mrs. Baoping Hou to kneel at Xi'an Gate to listen to the "Internal Training" has spread, such a humiliating edict is not what the Empress Dowager Dayong should do, and I will contact several clan relatives and daughters to write together with the princess in two days. Your Majesty, the Queen Mother can do this, because you were too tolerant a few years ago...... Now that I think about it, if the Queen Mother had thought about it in accordance with the decree of the ancestral family after she said those words, instead of giving grace to the Cao family repeatedly, she would not have done such wanton things again and again."

Shen Shiqing lowered her eyes and listened to Princess Yueqing's meaning, what did the Queen Mother do wrong but was gently let go by Zhao Surui, she wanted to find someone to ask for clarification about this matter.

From her words, Shen Shiqing also heard that Princess Yueqing had always been dissatisfied with the Queen Mother's actions, and she was not afraid of offending her "imperial sister-in-law", which made Shen Shiqing more and more determined in her heart.

"Aunt Huang, I didn't handle the previous matter well, I thought that disposing of Cao Fengxi would make the Queen Mother more cautious, but I didn't expect that she would become even more serious, in order to make her angry, the queen has already hid in Xiyuan to live permanently, and she also let the imperial history say that the queen is not filial."

Hearing this, Zhao Mingyin smiled, and his tone was not as soft and tactful as just now: "Everything the queen does is done according to the holy will, and the queen mother's dependence, in the final analysis, it is still Your Majesty, if Your Majesty doesn't want the Queen Mother to reprimand the queen, you just need to let the Queen Mother understand that Your Majesty will no longer be kind enough to protect her and the Cao family." A few days ago, His Majesty appointed Mrs. Baoping Hou as the co-organizer of the Duanji Palace, but he gently let Cining Palace go, like the Queen Mother and others, such a light handling will not let her stop there." ….

Shen Shiqing was silent.

She handled it lightly, naturally waiting for the Queen Mother to continue to be a demon, and she could also take the opportunity to make another move.

At this moment, Zhao Mingyin stood up, looked at the couplet on the wall, and said, "Your Majesty, you let the Queen Mother provoke in order to take the opportunity to create a Duanji Hall that is difficult for the courtiers to tolerate, and let a group of women become university scholars because of a woman's ferocity and arrogance, this ...... not righteous."

She slowly turned around and looked at "Emperor Zhaode":

"If Your Majesty really wants women to stand in the court, you should let them do practical things, choose a person who is respectful, do something that can be done, and don't let those women get involved in the power struggle between the Queen Mother and the Empress, but let them show their merit to the previous dynasty and Your Majesty. In this way, the female official and the Duanji Hall can stand in peace and not be annihilated."

"Annihilation?" Seeing that Zhao Mingyin was still as calm as he looked, Shen Shiqing was careful in his heart.

Seriously, she and Zhao Mingyin have been friends for a long time, but they only have a few faces.

For Shen Shiqing, who is known as "Lizhenjun", Zhao Mingyin is a sparse and open-minded friend, and for the Zhao dynasty, the eldest princess of Yueqing is also a qualified princess.

Because she never begged her to be the emperor's brother and nephew for personal matters, and also restrained her subordinates from doing forbidden things, although some people thought that she opened so many weaving factories, dyeing workshops, and garment workshops to compete with the people for profit, Shen Shiqing knew that almost all of the income she got was used on the thousands of female workers, and she had to operate, and the price of cotton cloth in Gyeonggi and even Shandong has always been stable, and the common people who have a little extra money in their hands can buy themselves a new dress during the New Year.

Not to mention that most of the thousands of female workers were hard-working women who were abandoned by their families, and with the help of Princess Yueqing, they were not only able to support themselves by their crafts, but they could even read and write.

Before coming to the princess's mansion, she also asked some old things about Princess Yueqing.

The court and the court all know that the horse that died young was reused by the first emperor because the horse made a contribution when the first emperor overthrew the eunuch Wang Gui, but few people knew that the credit also had a share of Princess Yueqing.

When Wang Gui colluded with King Huan to rebel, he led people to capture Donghua Gate, which is well known to everyone.

After the horse captured the Donghua Gate, he entered the palace to escort the car, and it was the Princess Yueqing who really led the guards and maids of the princess's mansion to guard the Donghua Gate and retreat the rebels all the way, but this matter is not known to the world.

After the first emperor rewarded the horses, he wanted to add the word "protect the country" to the eldest princess of Yueqing, but was dissuaded by the hundred officials in the name of "not to kill the chicken", for which the first emperor rewarded a large number of acres of land as "compensation."

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Knowing this, when she came to the princess's mansion and saw the couplet, Shen Shiqing felt that Princess Yueqing had a grudge in her heart.

"Camp and camp, where all things fight. It's clear and quiet, and the world is boiling here."

Who is the Kiki Camp?

Who are all things?

Who is Qingqing Jingjing?

Who is it that stops the boiling?

Looking away from the couplet, Shen Shiqing said with a smile: "Even if it is annihilated, it is a blessing that they can't ask for for those women who should live in the deep palace and deep mansion, why should the royal aunt, a quiet person, worry about them?"

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