[Marriage exchange brings happiness + Crazy King marries first and loves later + powerful woman's power strategy + disaster management + refreshing article]
Shen Mingtang was originally a merchant girl, but she was put into a sedan chair by her stepmother to marry Chongxi, the mad king who was rumored to have a habit of murdering his wife.
On her wedding night, she saw a "disaster account book": whoever owed the people a disaster debt, she could get it back with interest.
From then on, Shen Mingtang settled the private accounts of the house as well as the public accounts of the court.
Whoever swallows the relief money, whoever conceals the disaster situation, and whoever trades the lives of ordinary people for official positions will be recorded in the disaster account book.
The world laughed at her, saying that a merchant girl was not worthy of being a princess. . . . .
Later, the victims of the disaster petitioned for her life, all the officials avoided her sharpness, and the Mad King personally put on the marquis robes for her.
