On the first day after Ye Yao became the crown princess, the queen asked her to pay for the birthday banquet with her own dowry, and the Ministry of Revenue also deducted 100,000 military pay from the East Palace.
The whole palace was waiting for her to be virtuous and forbearing, but she flipped the table on the spot and slapped a three-page list of debts in front of the queen: "We can have a banquet, but we must pay the wages first."
What Ye Yao is best at is turning favors into accounts and unspoken rules into IOUs.
The imperial concubine swallowed the ordnance, so she raised a knife and emptied the imperial concubine's family's shop; when hundreds of officials forced the prince to hand over military power, she blocked the palace gate with three thousand wounded soldiers and demanded war expenses, pensions and unpaid wages one by one.
Everyone called her crazy for waiting for the prince to divorce his wife.
Unexpectedly, the cold-faced prince personally handed her a hot towel and asked her with a smile: "Does your hand hurt? The next one will do it for you."
Until the emperor was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the East Palace account books, Ye Yao dug out a secret from the old accounts: the person who owed the East Palace the most was not the treasury at all, but...
