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Chapter 803 As long as others lose more, our family profits.

Jin'er pointed directly to the east of the city and said, "Do you know about those three hundred Jinshi (successful candidates in the highest imperial examinations) and those three hundred noble descendants?"

Yu'er nodded, and Jin'er continued, "What Godmother wants is a reliable female student, not necessarily a girl from Ningyang County."

Before Jin'er could finish speaking, Yu'er pouted and said, "Come on, when my godmother returned to the capital, she took Caixia and Mingyue with her."

At that time, there were forty female students in the girls' school in Ningyang County. Empress Ma took away sixteen of them. It wasn't that she didn't want to take the remaining twenty-four, but that the remaining twenty-four were either too young or already working as female clerks in the county government. Taking them away would affect the normal operation of the Ningyang County government.

Yu'er couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache when she thought of the sixteen girls who had been taken away.

That girl is from our Ningyang County!

She is a close friend whom I, Zhu Meiyu, have personally trained and mentored for two or three years!

But things turned out badly; his stepmother took them all!

“Our family is really…” Yu’er whispered directly, “Our godfather is eyeing the county school, our godmother is eyeing the girls’ school, and all the people my husband worked so hard to train have been taken away. Our family has suffered a huge loss!”

Jin'er glared at Yu'er.

Although you can think that way in your heart.

After all, our Yang family is always being taken advantage of, and as the matriarch of the family, I am extremely unhappy about it.

But you can't just say it directly.

Behind the scenes, having adoptive parents is considered unfilial.

While secretly complaining in her heart, Jin'er said, "Our family is definitely going to lose money, but as long as other families lose more than us, then our family will make a profit."

Ok?

Yu'er immediately perked up and said repeatedly, "Sister, tell me in detail, how can we make other families lose more money than ours?"

Jin'er smiled and said, "Think about it, there are hundreds of noble families, big and small, in the capital. If each family sends two daughters over, that's about a thousand."

"If you also include the daughters of collateral branches and illegitimate children from the families of civil and military officials, it wouldn't be surprising if you gathered two thousand people."

Even if you pick and choose and only half of them are usable, it would still cost at least five or six hundred, or even more than a thousand.

While calculating the daughters of nobles and officials in the capital, Jin'er said, "Besides the daughters of nobles and officials, there are also daughters of commoners in other counties and prefectures of Yanzhou Prefecture. If we put them together, we can easily gather a thousand or eight hundred."

"Besides, girls from our Ningyang County don't necessarily want to be female clerks, but girls from collateral branches or illegitimate children of noble families, as well as girls from ordinary families in other prefectures and counties, might not be so uninterested."

"If we can intercept a few, we might not necessarily suffer a complete loss."

Yu'er suddenly felt enlightened and nodded repeatedly, agreeing, "That's not all."

“Since our adoptive mother wants female scribes from Ningyang County, we should first ask her to send a few female officials over to be in charge of teaching.”

"The Shanggong Bureau, Shangyi Bureau, Shangfu Bureau, Shangshi Bureau, Shangqin Bureau, Shanggong Bureau, and Gongzheng Division, each of these departments needs two people, which adds up to fifty people."

Jin'er nodded and said, "That's right. After we get these people, we can arrange for them to work as teachers in the girls' school."

"Putting everything else aside, at the very least, the female students taught by these people are all capable of being the matriarchs of their households."

"Instead of letting those spoiled brats in the capital benefit in the end, we might as well take advantage of the opportunity to promote kindergartens in our Ningyang County, select a few girls from these students who are of good character, academic ability, family background, and appearance, and marry them off to those rascals in the county school."

"We two teachers' wives can't just eat the cicada nymphs that those rascals send us every year for nothing."

At this point, Jin'er sighed softly again, her face full of worry, and said, "But if we keep up this upset with our godmother, we'll probably get another scolding."

Yu'er, however, said nonchalantly, "So what?"

“They say that once a daughter is married, she is like water spilled from a bowl. We are now the matriarchs of the Yang family, so of course we have to consider our husbands’ feelings.”

"It's just a few scoldings, it's not like I haven't been scolded before."

……

Just as Jin'er and Yu'er were plotting how to transfer female officials from Empress Ma to Ningyang County, Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Biao were lying on the deck chairs of the treasure ship, drinking tea.

Zhu Biao picked up his teacup, took a sip, and turned to look at Yang Shaofeng, saying, "Twenty thousand shorty bastards, Huai Liang just gave them away like that. This shows that he's not a simple character either."

Yang Shaofeng chuckled and said, "What's so simple about it? It's just the nature of short and ugly people."

“If you treat them well, they will think you are weak and easy to bully, and they may jump up and bite you at any time.”

"But if you slap them every now and then, they'll treat you like a god and will obediently endure any bullying you do."

"The fear of power without gratitude is perfectly exemplified in the short and ugly."

Zhu Biao said "Oh," and continued, "Among these 20,000 short men, there are probably only a few hundred real Japanese pirates. The rest are all Japanese civilians used to make up the numbers. Brother-in-law, aren't you going to hold Huai Liang accountable?"

According to Huai Liang, the 20,000 short, ugly men he brought were Japanese pirates who frequently raided the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Imperial Guards who went to take over saw it as a completely different story.

Although the short men were all less than four feet tall and looked about the same size, the calluses on the hands of the Japanese pirates who had been wielding knives to kill people for years were completely different from those of the common people of Japan who made a living by fishing and farming. Not to mention, their auras were also completely different.

The short, stocky man, who had spent years hacking people down, exuded an aura of sleazy, ferocious, and tyrannical ruthlessness.

The short, stocky man who made a living by fishing and farming had an air of cowardice and timidity.

Of the 20,000 short and stocky men that Huai Liang brought, perhaps a few hundred were genuine Japanese pirates, while the rest were just civilians used to make up the numbers.

This is just a damn rip-off!

However, Yang Shaofeng said nonchalantly, "I won't bother with him."

"Whether they are real Japanese pirates or civilians from Japan, it doesn't matter."

"As long as these 20,000 short, ugly heads can be displayed on the Jingguan (a mound of corpses), that's fine."

At this point, Yang Shaofeng added with a hint of regret, "Unfortunately, it's still a bit small in scale."

"Even if we fill in all 20,000 short and ugly people that Huailiang brought, it will only make the mound of corpses a few feet taller."

"If only we had 300,000 short, ugly men."

Zhu Biao turned to look at Yang Shaofeng again and asked, "When do you plan to summon Huailiang, brother-in-law?"

Yang Shaofeng said, "Let's leave him hanging for a few days first."