Jiang Nianjiao's eyes swept across the entire hall. The hall was crowded with people, and because there were so many people, the people who came later could only stand outside the room.
After confirming that no newcomers would arrive, Jiang Nianjiao said, "I called everyone here today. In addition to making some personnel arrangements, I also want to distribute some meeting gifts to everyone."
Seeing that Jiang Nianjiao was not scolding them,
And there were still things to collect, so the people below couldn't help but get a little excited, and everyone couldn't help but start talking about what they would receive.
Jiang Nianjiao didn't stop when she saw such a scene. She just called Ling Xiu, who was standing at the head of the team.
Then she just said, "Aunt Yingxiu, I leave the distribution of gifts to you."
Ling Xiu was originally here to assist Jiang Nianjiao. After hearing this, she only said, "If anything happens, Princess, just do as you are told."
Jiang Nianjiao smiled and nodded.
Then Lianying on the side handed over the first-come, first-served list to Aunt Xingxiu.
Aunt Yingxiu only distributed the gifts according to the names on the list.
Everyone who received the purse had a smile on their face. Just by weighing it, they could tell that the money was there.
No one does not love cash, so a group of people were naturally very happy after receiving such a gift.
However, the person who received it inevitably opened the bag to see how much cash was inside.
Soon they discovered that some people put enough money in the kit bags, while others only had one or two coins.
Then there was another uproar below. Jiang Nianjiao had naturally noticed the uproar, but she had no intention of explaining it.
At this time, the distribution of money was still continuing. After all, the work of eighty or ninety people was not easy to complete.
Jiang Nianjiao could keep her temper calm, but among so many people, there were always those who couldn't. Plus they had such a big trouble today and Jiang Nianjiao didn't react at all. They thought that Jiang Nianjiao was easy to bully.
Therefore, their already thin awe became even rarer.
One of them directly raised his purse and said, "Princess, how can some people here collect money, but I only have one or two coins in this bag. Could it be that the money was misplaced when distributing it?"
Hearing him ask this question, some people just thought that this man was brave enough to ask anything, and some people were looking forward to Jiang Nianjiao's answer.
Jiang Nianjiao was waiting for this moment. She only whispered, "As for the morning meeting today, I informed you yesterday. The wind and snow are heavy and the road is difficult to walk. I understand. But I can do it." Come here? Is it difficult for the rest of you to work together to get here? "
Everyone originally thought that Jiang Nianjiao was not going to mention this matter, but they didn't expect that she was waiting for them here. Her words naturally stopped the others.
Seeing that no one said anything, she continued to explain, "The cashier is the one who came here early today. The one who received the one or two coins is the one I asked Cui Qiao to urge. As for the one who didn't come, this Naturally, there are no more greeting gifts.”
"I also want to tell everyone that if you are willing to cooperate with me, the silver reward will naturally not be cut off in the future, and I will not miss you a bite to eat. But if you have to go against me, the palace will naturally not tolerate such a person. exist."
After saying this, Jiang Nianjiao just said, "The dozen or so people who didn't come today should all be kicked out of the house."
Hearing this, there were rewards and punishments. The master only made his attitude clear. There was nothing else that everyone didn't understand.
After saying this, they waited for a while before everyone received all the money. After they all said thank you in unison, it was about personnel appointments.
Although Jiang Nianjiao had already made plans, she had no intention of immediately cleaning up the chaos in Prince Jin's Mansion.
After all, the servants in this house seem to be the servants in her house. However, these people were sent here from various places early, and the people who sent them here naturally had the intention to monitor the movements of King Jin from the beginning. .
Although King Jin is gone now, his existence may not be the most important piece on the chessboard to them.
However, these people who were sent here had their own owners, so she had to observe them for a while before taking action.
And she didn't want to keep the sleeves any longer. Emperor Yong may have wanted the sleeves to serve her closely, but if anything happened to him, it would inevitably be transmitted to the palace through the sleeves.
So she only said to Yingxiu, "Aunt Yingxiu, there are many people in the house, and I can't handle them for a while. Now can I ask you to take charge of the middle class for me, and as the housekeeper, be in charge of the internal affairs of the house. "
Upon hearing this, Lingxiu was just shocked.
This arrangement is naturally the most suitable for the people given by Emperor Yong in terms of status.
After all, no matter how great the background of other people everywhere, no matter how great the background is, it cannot be greater than the person who was given by Emperor Yong.
The housekeeper is in charge of many personnel changes in the government. Those who can take on this responsibility must be old people with high moral standing and deep qualifications.
It's a pity that Prince Jin's Mansion is a newly opened one, and the people who come here are all people who took advantage of the chaos, so I don't know how to start talking about being highly virtuous and respected, let alone having deep qualifications.
Therefore, it seems that Jiang Nianjiao is blameless for always picking on others.
However, for Tingxiu's personal situation, this is not a suitable choice.
Since she entered the palace, she has been the emperor's personal maid, and her daily tasks are just serving tea and serving people. Although sometimes she would help other maids deal with some urgent problems, everyone respectfully called her "Aunt Xingxiu" because she was the emperor's servant.
However, she is not the aunt in charge.
Therefore, asking her to be a housekeeper is like rushing a duck to the shelf, and she has to learn everything from scratch.
And although she had never been involved in the matter, judging from today's situation, the people under Prince Jin's Mansion were probably some hard-nosed people.
Therefore, if she really works as a housekeeper in Prince Jin's Mansion, she may have to learn from scratch, and this kind of thing can easily become the target of public criticism if she is not careful.
It's a pity that the princess's appointment was polite, and he couldn't refuse her in public.
After all, since Emperor Yong gave himself to her, she is now his apparent master.
Therefore, Ying Xiu had no choice but to accept Jiang Nianjiao's appointment.
After Xingxiu accepted the appointment, the next personnel arrangements naturally fell on Xingxiu.
It seems to be to express full trust in Tongxiu.
After Jiang Nianjiao asked Lianying to hand over the list to Xingxiu, she returned to her room.
No one expected that the heavy snow in the capital would last for two days, and the snow that was originally half a foot thick would deepen to more than a foot thick.
Fortunately, there were guards on the inner palace road to clear the snow, and snow plows were also hired to clear the snow in other towns and major commercial streets.
Therefore, although the snow is very thick, the traffic between the main streets in Shangjing is still very smooth.
Even because of the heavy snow, many officials almost took two days off.
That's why Jiang Nianjiao chose to return home on the second day after Xueluo.
She didn't want to wait until she returned to Jiang Mansion, but Aunt Du was the only one at home.
And Jiang Nianjiao only found out after asking Aunt Du:
It turned out that although the heavy snowfall in the past two days had no impact on them, in the west of the city, because the houses were not strong enough, accidents occurred occasionally, causing people to collapse and freeze to death.
And this is just one accident that happened in Beijing.
Not to mention other colder areas, presumably there will be countless disasters.
It was also because of this that his father was urgently summoned to the palace this morning to take countermeasures. As for his cousin, in response to the call from the Imperial College, he only went to the west of the city to help clear snow and help with disaster relief.
Therefore, Jiang Nianjiao only took one empty trip back home today.
Therefore, Jiang Nianjiao left the Jiang Mansion without staying much longer.
She just didn't want to see that when she got on the carriage, she could see the usually deserted Wangliufang Street and some people who came out to beg for food in the cold weather. They were dressed in rags and still had rice bowls in their hands. , only shivering in the cold wind.
However, if they saw a carriage passing by, they would inevitably surround them and ask for some benefits from the people at the carriage.
At a glance, these people knew that they should be the victims of the disaster in the west of the city.
On weekdays, although Wangliufang and Chengxi both belong to Shangjing, they are
It's like two realms, and they are two realms that do not interfere with each other. Now that the victims have arrived at Wangliufang, the situation on the west side of the city is probably very bad.
While Jiang Nianjiao was thinking this, the group of victims naturally saw what happened after the door of the mansion was opened.
Therefore, after they were expelled by other people at the carriage, they swarmed in front of Jiang Nianjiao's carriage.
They held their own broken bowls and just begged Jiang Nianjiao, "My kind lady, please do something! We haven't eaten for a day, and the children are about to starve to death."
As soon as the coachman saw these people approaching, he subconsciously wanted to use his riding crop to drive them away.
But before the coachman raised his whip, Jiang Nianjiao said loudly, "Stop."
After drinking to stop the driver, Jiang Nianjiao said to the group of people, "Everyone, please wait at the door of the house! I will go to the inner room to ask about the situation. If there is porridge, water, rice and food in the house, I will ask them to bring some out."
After listening to Jiang Nianjiao's words, the others naturally just said hello.
When Aunt Du saw Jiang Nianjiao leaving and coming back, she asked curiously, "Why is the girl back again? But what was left behind?"
Jiang Nianjiao shook her head when she heard this. She just whispered, "There are victims outside asking for porridge and water. Auntie, there is some extra rice and cloth here."
Listening to Jiang Nianjiao talking about this, Aunt Du naturally nodded repeatedly, "Of course there is. Yesterday I saw the snow fell half a foot thick, so I thought that in the next few days, someone would inevitably come to ask for some porridge and water, so this I've been preparing it for several days."
After saying this, Aunt Du asked the people below to go to the kitchen to get porridge and water and go out.
When Jiang Nianjiao came out, the hot porridge was also carried out of the house by the servants.
