A cool-headed, tyrannical INTJ auditor mouse x a top-tier lunatic, a dragon lord desperate to marry into her family (blurb halfway done)
Woman disguised as a man / son-in-law romance / equally skilled in letters and arms / court politics and infrastructure / Make Ming Great Again!
In the fifth year of Wanli, 1577 AD, the Ming Empire wasn't exactly short on money.
The land survey and Single Whip Reform were being tested. The Taicang silver vault took in 4,359,400 taels of silver a year and spent 3,494,400, with money left over.
The Examination and Evaluation System had been in place for five years. The bureaucracy had been overhauled, and the political climate was completely renewed.
Altan Khan in the north had been granted a title, bringing peace to the border and greatly reducing military expenses.
But all of this depended on the continued life of Zhang Juzheng, the pillar of the Ming Dynasty.
Shen Yanqiu was born into a high-ranking Ming family. Her father was one of Qi Jiguang's right-hand men, her mother was Zhang Juzheng's sister-in-law, and her elder brother doted on her. Oh, and she also had a handsome fiancé who resented the idea of marrying into her family.
Then her family suddenly fell into decline and accrued huge debts. Her little fiancé immediately broke off the engagement. Aaaah! The fury of this auditor mouse will burn everything to the ground!
She took up an inherited ninth-rank post as a patrol inspector at Yuegang in Zhangzhou, effectively becoming a customs officer of the Ming era. Counting on her connections, she arrested every smuggler she found, stirring up trouble until the port's crooked merchants lived in fear, corrupt officials were brought down, the southeast received military supplies, and piracy ended.
Her direct superior patted himself on the backside and left. "Come on, you can take this post." He recommended her for county magistrate, leaving her to clean up the mess.
When the circuit censor came to Fujian, she caught him and gave him a good beating. So she was promptly kicked up to the capital on a temporary assignment!
On her first day in the capital, Shen Yanqiu clung to Zhang Juzheng's leg and sobbed. "Uncle, you absolutely must take care of your health!"
If Zhang Juzheng died, she probably wouldn't survive until the next day.
To her surprise, even a temp could become the top secretary at the Wenyuan Pavilion. She was so good at handling children that even Feng Bao couldn't compete.
The fifteen-year-old Wanli was still easy to fool. "Minister Shen is truly the most beautiful accountant in the dynasty." He handed over hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for her to invest.
During the Controversy over Mourning, anyone who dared criticize Zhang Juzheng had better first ask themselves if they were in the wrong, and whether they could stand up to the Ming Dynasty's number-one troublemaker.
Shen Yanqiu returned to the southeast and took charge.
The accountant woman took the economy in hand, pushed reform and opening-up, and ushered in the Wanli Renaissance.
Generations of people trapped in hereditary servitude? Abolish personal dependency and free the labor force!
No silver for the Single Whip Reform? Trade first, then take the land. If the enemy can come and go, so can we!
Agricultural taxes nearly eighty percent? Switch straight to a poll tax, a hundred years ahead of its time.
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Shen Yanqiu faked her death and slipped away, taking up an inherited ninth-rank post as a patrol inspector. She thrived in office and rose to the highest rank, completely forgetting that she had a pretty-faced husband at home.
Lu Jingyuan shed tears and burned paper offerings, observed three years of mourning, and poured his heart into wiping out the Japanese pirates, all to avenge his childhood sweetheart and fiancée.
[Ding! 10,000 merit points have been deposited in your account today. Please check your balance.]
Shen Yanqiu checked her account balance. Lu Jingyuan, who are you?
Lu Jingyuan: Your dear wife ran off to become an official without even telling me?
Shen Yanqiu: What dear wife? At work, use my title: Grand Tutor to the Crown Prince, Minister of Revenue, Grand Secretary of the Wuying Hall!
After eating and drinking her fill, Shen Yanqiu reclined in a rocking chair for a nap. "Little Lu, is there anything you still regret in this life?"
Lu Jingyuan fanned her and shooed away the mosquitoes. "That I wasn't able to..."
Reading Guide:
1. It makes perfect sense for an accountant to become Minister of Revenue.
2. There will always be a mouse king in a low-energy mouse colony who shoulders the burden.
3. This is an ensemble story about fixing the Ming Dynasty's fiscal problems. Money is the means, but it's not the whole point.
4. Zhang Juzheng does not die of illness and will keep working until he is eighty. Wanli is obedient and well-behaved.
5. The heroine faces setbacks, gets discouraged, and gets angry. The hero is completely devoted to her. Overall, the romance takes up a smaller part of the story.
6. Most events will be based on real examples, with some minor fictional adjustments to keep things plausible. References include the Veritable Records of the Ming, On the Eastern and Western Oceans, and Miscellaneous Notes from the Wanli Era, along with current scholarly consensus. I've researched the figures, and welcome corrections from experts.
7. It may look absurd, but it's grounded in reality. I'll polish and revise the writing after the story is complete.
Thank you for reading!
My next book will be a great sea adventure: a remarkably strong fisherman's daughter and a frail little servant, a Ming-era rental-house story, traveling around the world!
Theme: Anger and courage are the hymn of human civilization
No matter what era it is, the lucrative industry of selling people is carried out secretly (even if I think of the early orphanages that openly "sold" children abroad, they also found decent reasons) Apart from enhancers, I can't think of anything else more profitable than this.
That's what buying and selling is like 🐶
Mr. Ma is a good person. Good people live a safe life [Lie down]
He has neither the Matrix's mind nor the Matrix's ability. He only thinks about the glory of his early years. Don't worry about saving face, you're going to jail soon [covering face, laughing and crying]
Damn, the Ming Dynasty is beginning to decline, and the Japanese pirates are in constant chaos along the coast, because just suppressing the Japanese pirates costs a lot of money, but in fact they don't seem to be doing much to suppress them. Only a few famous generals have been demoted. The aristocratic family is definitely causing trouble in it, and it is profitable. Naturally, they don't care about the children who sell civilians.
I actually won the lottery, thank you very much!
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!! Everyone, take a rest! It's business for young couples to post stickers! The holidays are truly a rare and happy time with family and friends!
Lian Geng is too strong! The author needs a good rest!
Has the memory not been completely restored yet? Isn't it the end of the story before I can fully recover it? (I skipped watching just to see when it will be restored.)
Touch the kitten's head, and you won't have to worry about it in your life; touch its back, and you'll live a good life; touch its mouth, and the mother and child won't quarrel; touch the kitten's butt, and you'll never get sick [touch head]