Afterwards, Qian Ruoyu instructed Yan'er on the matter.

After Yan'er arranged the personnel, she immediately took the silver bills and several palace guards to various money houses to exchange them for cash.

Next, nearly thirty servants from the palace came to the courtyard and began to tear down the surrounding walls one by one and tidy up the entire courtyard.

Qian Ruoyu still has feelings for this courtyard. After all, she has lived here for five months.

Compared to the Prime Minister's Mansion, this place feels more like my real home.

Now, she is more worried about iron and silver mines.

The military camp needs a large amount of iron ore to make ironware and armor, otherwise, even if there are more craftsmen, it will not be enough.

At present, the source of these iron ores is purchased from the capital and surrounding areas. Although she can barely afford it, she feels that this is not enough.

In addition, she needed silver mines to make silver.

There will be many more places to spend money in the future.

Even though she is the princess now, there is no guarantee that the prince will have a conflict with the emperor at any time... She has to make plans early.

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Two hours later, Yan'er brought all the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to the palace.

Qian Ruoyu was very happy when he saw all the silver.

"Yan'er, put the silver in the warehouse and have someone guard it well."

Yan'er said, "Yes, Princess!"

Just as Qian Ruoyu gave the order, Li Zhiyi walked in with a smile on her face.

See that cart of silver.

Li Zhiyi was shocked.

"Sister, could this silver be the money from the palace before?"

Qian Ruoyu was naturally unwilling and sneered, "If you want to take it, then take it. Anyway, these are the military funds issued by the court. I remember that our court's laws seem to say that those who rob military funds will be executed at the Meridian Gate?"

Li Zhiyi, who had already stretched out her hand, was so frightened that she retracted her hand.

Qian Ruoyu said calmly, "Sister, if you need money, just come to me. Why are you staring at these things? If this money was from our palace, wouldn't it have been given to you long ago? Do you think I would deliberately embarrass you?"

Although she heard what Qian Ruoyu said, Li Zhiyi still didn't dare to say anything more. After all, everything was controlled by her now. Even her financial lifeline and source were all controlled by her, the queen. How could she dare to say anything more?

Qian Ruoyu just casually said to Yan'er beside her.

"Yan'er, since my sister wants money, go to the room, open the box, and take out the fifty taels of silver."

As soon as Yan'er heard these words, she immediately walked into the courtyard that was being renovated, came to the room, took out fifty taels of silver, and then returned to Qian Ruoyu.

Yan'er also held the silver in both hands in front of Li Zhiyi.

Even though she is now the housekeeper of the palace, she knows that Li Zhiyi is the third most powerful person in the palace, so there is naturally no need to offend her.

But Li Zhiyi was stunned for a moment, because she never thought that she could actually get a full fifty taels of silver from her "sister"!

"What's wrong? If you don't want it, I can let Yan'er take it back. Anyway, the palace is very short of money now!"

After hearing what Qian Ruoyu said, Li Zhiyi naturally took the silver quickly.

Originally, she wanted to complain about the decoration of the yard, but after all, she had received the fifty taels of silver given by Qian Ruoyu, so she was speechless for a moment, and instead said.

"This... Sister, are you decorating the yard?"

Qian Ruoyu just nodded slightly.

After all, Li Zhiyi's words were not so harsh now, so her attitude towards Li Zhiyi became much better.

When Li Zhiyi saw Qian Ruoyu nod, she also nodded quickly and said.

"I see. It seems like your room is not big enough. But I won't bother you anymore. I'll leave right away..."

Qian Ruoyu just nodded, and then let Li Zhiyi leave.

But Li Zhiyi was extremely happy in her heart. After all, she never expected to get more than one and a half months' worth of money at one time. Her heart was already beaming with joy.

Within a few days, Qian Ruoyu's new yard was completely renovated successfully.

The yard is twice as big as before, covering the nearby ditch and a small garden, and even its depth is more than twice as wide as before.

There were no less than fifty people coming to help in the palace, and the entire expansion project was easily completed in two days, without her having to spend any effort at all.

Aunt Zhang and Grandma Wang also came. They kept yelling at everyone to work harder, and they also took a few maids to start laying flower beds and gardening in the yard.

After seeing this scene, Qian Ruoyu felt extremely comfortable in her heart. After all, she had truly regarded this place as her own private home.

The palace is one's home, and this courtyard is the home within the family.

Qian Ruoyu then arranged to set up two corridors inside the courtyard wall.

Two corridors connect all eight houses, and you can walk to any room in the yard through the corridors.

After all, there were only himself, Yan'er, Jinlianhua and a few maids living in the yard.

Although there are not many people, they can almost all be said to be his confidants.

Therefore, Qian Ruoyu believed in them and was naturally willing to share her home with them.

Later, she arranged another small house next to her main room. This small house was not for Jinlianhua or the maids to live in.

Yan'er even went straight to a few bricklayers and spoke to them.

"The queen said that this small house should be built with twice as many bricks, and the surface should be painted with three layers of realgar, then covered with a layer of tiles, and then painted with three layers of realgar again!"

Whether it is realgar or ceramic tiles, the purpose is to prevent fire. These are ancient fire prevention methods.

After hearing this, everyone nodded.

That’s right, Qian Ruoyu was planning to transform this small house into a safe to store the silver for daily use.

In addition, she also asked the blacksmiths in the east of the city to prepare several iron plates, which she also planned to cover the outside of the house. In this way, her safe would be even safer.

At the same time, the door of this safe is the only one in the entire palace that is made of iron. After all, she doesn't want the silver inside to be stolen.

Even if it is not all the silver, but even one or two taels of silver, I don't want it to fall into the hands of others.