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In order to justify the existence of female officials, Xie Qingzhi, Chen Luoxue and other female officials read history books to pieces.

Finally, it was discovered that the previous dynasty had a system of female officials in the palace, who were mainly responsible for teaching palace maids and training etiquette for new concubines. Senior female officials would teach princes and princesses, and even had the task of compiling palace history and so on.

Shen Dongsu seized on this point to shut the mouths of those old censors. Female officials did not receive salaries from the Ministry of Revenue, and the work they did was not under the jurisdiction of the six ministries.

It was a brand new institution that belonged exclusively to the Queen, and there was no reason for the court to adopt the system of banishing female officials.

At the same time, the political achievements of the female officials were listed. Just one of them was that the Empress funded the opening of large clinics in various counties, all of which were managed by female officials. This one item was enough to shut up all the officials.

In addition, Ling Moxiao was overbearing and tyrannical in this matter. He directly scolded the officials who reported the incident, saying, "It's okay for you to interfere in my reforms at ordinary times."

Now you dare to point fingers at the Empress! When I was on the Northern Expedition, the Empress was in charge of Youzhou City for two years. The female officials made great contributions. How can you deny it with just one word?

In short, Ling Moxiao tolerated all the officials before, but this time it exploded. The female official system was renamed as a new institution outside the six ministries, under the jurisdiction of the queen.

The examination for female officials was the same as the imperial examination, which was held every three years. There was even an institution called the Women's Officials Academy, just like the Hanlin Academy, which was specifically designed to train talents for the Empress.

Shen Dongsu took the opportunity to bring the money house under his control. No one objected to this because the officials had not yet realized how important the money house would be in the future.

I just thought it was a new institution specially set up by the Empress to facilitate business. The Empress was good at business, and Youzhou was able to develop in the beginning, all thanks to her business income.

Although the queen’s private property does not return to the national treasury today, it is also used for people’s livelihood, such as building medical clinics, post stations, military areas, land reclamation, colleges, etc., all of which are supported by the queen with funds injected behind the scenes.

Shen Dongsu knew very well that the reason why the officials from Chang'an always opposed her power was because Ling Moxiao did not take a concubine. They were worried that their power would be too great and affect the government.

In the blink of an eye, it was March, the spring sowing season. The officials in Chang'an had witnessed the speed of Youzhou. During the spring festival, the emperor and the empress went to the experimental fields together to sow seeds.

The officials in Chang'an were dumbfounded, because in Chang'an, this kind of show had long been meaningless.

No matter whether it was the former emperor, the deposed emperor or the deposed crown prince, even if they participated in the spring sacrifice, they would not let their feet get dirty.

But the emperor and empress before them were experienced in sowing techniques, and they plowed the fields very quickly with the newly made plow of Mo Men.

The key point is that not only the emperor and empress did it themselves, but the officials in Youzhou were accustomed to it and also rolled up their trousers and went to the fields, and each institution had its own experimental field.

Truly achieve spring ploughing by the entire nation, with agriculture as the foundation.

The officials in Chang'an looked at the new experimental fields that had been allocated to them, and they were so sad that they could only bite the bullet and lead their entire families to join the experiment.

Those noble ladies who had never done housework looked at the Queen Mother who was just like a peasant girl, and even took the Prince and Princess to sow seeds together.

The Queen Mother's grandfather, who was in his seventies, was in high spirits directing the whole family to sow seeds.

They were both surprised and terrified. The Queen herself was a peasant girl, but she wanted to trample all the noble ladies into the mud!

Why should we, with such noble status, do such lowly things?

Then they discovered that those female officials, like the group of noble ladies sent by the Queen Mother, were working in the fields just like before.

Jiang and Zhang Chaoying also took the lead and questioned directly.

No matter how noble you are, can you be nobler than the queen and the princess?

After receiving the divorce letter, Jiang cried for a while and felt like she was reborn. She had long regarded herself as a member of the Queen's party and was always the first to take the lead in responding to anything the Queen proposed.

The ladies had no choice but to go to the fields. Shen Dongsu laughed inwardly, "Do you know about labor reform?"

Those noble sons complained bitterly, but the emperor just said directly that he didn't need useless people who didn't know the difference between grains and were lazy.

Either you prove yourself capable or go back to Chang'an.

It must be said that farm work can really cleanse one's soul.

Mainly because he was too tired, he fell asleep as soon as he got home. Anyway, the court was much quieter during the spring ploughing period.

No matter how much you study the skills of officialdom, you will be so tired that your hands and feet will become weak and you will not have the leisure to find fault.

The spring plowing season in Youzhou was extremely long, and the emperor and empress attached great importance to farming. In addition to planting rice and beans, they also went to the salt fields, which gave the officials in Chang'an a little shock.

The Empress Dowager personally taught them how to dry salt. Looking at the vast expanses of white salt fields, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue felt both happy and worried.

The good news is that with the salt drying method, Daxia no longer lacks salt, and the lower-class people can also afford salt. The bad news is that the salt tax, an important tax revenue, will be reduced.

After returning from the salt fields, it was not over yet. The emperor took the dignitaries to the ranch outside the north city to inspect the spring ranch.

In the past, emperors would take their civil and military officials on spring hunting, but our emperor takes them to work. He teaches them how to grow alfalfa and migrate with the water flow. The empress will even deliver ewes.

There is a proverb circulating among the people of Youzhou: There are no lazy people in Youzhou, and lazy people have no way to survive.

Now the officials understand that this sentence applies not only to the people but also to the court. In Youzhou, it is difficult to be lazy!

What did officials in Chang'an do in the spring? They would enjoy the flowers and drink wine, then call on famous prostitutes to recite poems and write fu, and listen to music in the flower tower.

What do people do in Youzhou in spring? They plough in the suburbs, dry salt on the beach, and graze on pastures. Of course, many farm works do not require officials to do them themselves.

But being a supervisor is also very tiring! Everyone has their own tasks assigned to them. The emperor directly said that if someone is still idle during the spring plowing season, then it means that your position can be revoked.

The Ministry of Works was extremely busy. In addition to the imperial palace and outer city which were still under construction, they also had to build roads and canals.

Even the Queen thought they were doing useless work, disliked their tools as being too primitive and a waste of manpower, and asked the Momen to help them improve their tools.

Then the Empress wanted to set up a special group for the Yellow River governance, and asked the Ministry of Works to send a group of people, and the Mo Men to send a group of people. The officials did not understand, the Yellow River had been fine for several years, why should they govern it properly?

Shen Dongsu was even more speechless. Do you have to wait until something happens in the Yellow River before sending people to deal with it? It is better to take precautions before it happens, right? Floods are like plagues, and must be prevented in advance.

I thought that with the spring sowing over, I could take a good rest and start the social season unique to the powerful.

Speaking of it, the noble ladies want to cry, as there are flower shows and tea parties every three to five days in Chang'an.

In Youzhou, it is considered good if one concert can be held in a month.

But for some reason, the laws in Youzhou are so strict, and it is not as prosperous as Chang'an, the capital city that has accumulated over hundreds of years of prosperity.

But if I really let them leave Youzhou, I would feel reluctant.

Here, women can go shopping openly, go to college, and even their families begin to support them in taking exams to become female officials.

Compared to being kept in seclusion in Chang'an, she had no chance to go out except to pray and burn incense.

The only thing to consider before reaching the age of 15 is to find a good husband and marry into a good family.

They had previously mocked the Queen for her noble status but always doing hard work that only lowly people would do.

But gradually, they were infected by the confidence, independence and freedom of the queen and the ladies-in-waiting, and envied them when they were loved by the people.

From ridicule to admiration, do I also have the chance to become such an outstanding woman?

Just as Shen Dongsu has always said, there are some things you don’t have to force people to change. As long as you provide them with a free environment, they will want to change themselves.

For example, if she strongly demands that girls should not get married before they reach the age of 15, they should wait until they are at least 18 years old.

I guarantee that everyone in the world will oppose this, thinking that she, as the queen, is too controlling.

But she just needs to popularize the issue of fertility, let the people of the world see the fertility rate in Youzhou, and know that if women have children again at an older age, the rate of difficult labor will be lower.

Not only will the mother be healthy, but the child will also be strong. However, if a woman becomes a married woman at the age of 15, it is easy for her to die twice.

If you think that raising a daughter at home for a few years is a waste of food, then I will provide a handicraft workshop for women to enter, so that raising a daughter is no longer a loss-making commodity, but a popular commodity.

She then spread her ideas through newspapers, magazines and other publications. She didn't have to emphasize anything or give any instructions or requirements.

From the powerful to the common people, everyone naturally thinks it is good for their daughters to marry late.

To the officials' disappointment, they are still very busy after the spring plowing season.

In May, the Emperor went to the base and personally trained the navy.

The Queen presided over the summer grain harvest ceremony, and the little prince performed a blessing dance. Then the whole nation rushed to harvest the summer grain.

At the same time, people were sent to Minzhou, saying that there would be severe sea breezes in Minzhou in May and June, and precautions should be taken in advance.

After six months of training, the officials in Chang'an have gotten a bit of the rhythm of doing things in line with God's will. They don't like red tape, and they hate it most when local officials conceal things and fail to report them, and they are most annoyed when officials procrastinate and are lazy in their work.

Moreover, the emperor and empress were both very energetic and never felt tired. They were always able to take precautions before disasters occurred and consider them before they happened.

Well, they don’t know that the female officers also have a secret agency, which is the national intelligence system.

Combined with the Jiang family's intelligence at sea, it is normal for Shen Dongsu to consider some things in advance.

The reason she kept the female official intelligence system secret was that she was worried that officials would think that this intelligence agency was specifically used to monitor officials.

By then, she would oppose the female official and cause trouble.

It was a coincidence, of course, Shen Dongsu thought it was a coincidence, but Ling Moxiao insisted that it was because she was a lucky star and was blessed by God.

When the previous emperor was in power, there were natural disasters in various places every year. Since Ling Moxiao ascended the throne, it has been half a year with good weather and good harvests. Even in summer, the heavy rains came after the harvest.

The dignitaries who remained in Chang'an hoped that a major natural disaster would occur, so that they could use the excuse that the emperor had moved the capital and brought down heaven's punishment, and then force the emperor to move back to Chang'an.

Or directly trigger a civil uprising and support another little emperor to take the throne.

Unfortunately, after waiting for half a year, they still did not get what they wanted. Moreover, they had previously mocked the dignitaries who moved to Youzhou. Just wait, they would surely be tortured to death by the emperor and empress soon.

As a result, half a year later, I only heard that Youzhou was becoming more and more prosperous, the population was increasing rapidly, and after the full opening of maritime trade, there were signs that all nations were coming to pay tribute.

The emperor and empress never focused on disciplining the powerful and wealthy.

Chang'an City will soon be left behind. And those dignitaries who insisted on not moving the capital and insisted on staying in Chang'an City.

It will also be left behind by Youzhou like yesterday's yellow flowers.