Chapter 311 Coordinating Arrangements
On the other side, Wei Ruo, who was not following Wei Qingwan, came to Xianqiu Pavilion.
This was originally the wing of the magistrate's office, but now it has become the place where Wei Ruo and a group of female gentlemen and housekeepers work.
These people who work with Wei Ruo are all capable housekeepers and accountants selected by Mrs. Yuan, His Majesty the Seventh Prince and the powerful wives in Taizhou Mansion, and specially sent here to help Wei Ruo coordinate the disaster relief.
Because disaster relief involves a large number of people, money, and food, there are many things to do, such as arranging different victims to different places, solving accommodation and food problems for them, arranging money and food, and assigning caretakers.
Mrs. Yuan and Nanny Qin come every day. Nanny Qin is involved in the whole process and helps with things. Mrs. Yuan just takes some time to come and accompany everyone every day to see if everyone needs anything, and she helps arrange it.
Wei Ruo first went to meet Mrs. Yuan in the next room.
Seeing that Wei Ruo came a little later than the previous two days, Mrs. Yuan asked with concern: "But what's the matter? Are you still a little tired?" "It's okay, it's just that
my mother asked me to bring my sister with me before going out, so It took some time." Wei Ruo explained.
Mrs. Yuan knew about the relationship between Wei Ruo and her family, and when she and Wei Ruo met for the second time, Wei Qingwan almost caused Wei Ruo to fall into the water, so she knew that Wei Qingwan had no good intentions towards Wei Ruo.
Now that Mrs. Wei wants Wei Ruo to bring her sister over, it is not difficult to guess her intentions.
"Your mother wants your sister to also earn a good reputation, right?" Mrs. Yuan said.
In the past few days, Wei Ruo let all the noble ladies in Taizhou Mansion see her ability and knowledge. For a while, everyone praised the eldest girl of the Wei family for her strategy and talent, which made Wei Ruocai famous far and wide.
When large families marry, they value the future matron's housekeeping abilities and moral character, so people like Wei Ruo are very popular. She believes that after this disaster relief, more people will want to marry the Wei family.
"If my sister performs well, it will be of great benefit to her personally and to the Wei family. In the short term, the Wei family can gain more credit for their hard work; in the long term, it will be of great help to my sister's marriage. It's beneficial." Wei Ruodao.
"It would be understandable if she was nice to you, but she doesn't have any good intentions towards you. With my temperament, it's no wonder that I'm in the fifteenth year when others are in the first year of junior high school. I will never imitate the saints in repaying evil with kindness." Mrs. Yuan said with a smile. .
"So I asked Qingyi to take the people to Huichun Pavilion. Madam, please don't blame me. I didn't explain it to you first, so I made the arrangements privately." Wei Ruodao.
"What a big deal. Didn't I tell you that I will let you arrange these courtyards during these days? You can do whatever you want, as long as it doesn't affect your mood or the progress of our business." Mrs. Yuan said.
"Thank you, madam, for your understanding." After saying that, Wei Ruo turned the topic back to today's business, "Madam, has the list of food that was put into the warehouse yesterday arrived?" "It was just delivered," Madam Yuan said while taking the account book from the maid's hand and handing it over
. He gave it to Wei Ruo and said to Wei Ruo, "In just three days, the government's big granary is full."
Wei Ruo took the list and started to read it, and then saw a familiar name in it - Fan Chengxu.
"Boss Fan from Zuixianju also participated? He even gave away five thousand taels of silver and ten thousand shi of rice?" "
Yes, although the Fan family is not a wealthy local family in Taizhou Prefecture, the Fan family is above the court. He is very influential, but this Fan Chengxu is different from ordinary children of aristocratic families. He likes to do business. Although he was not invited to the discussion that day, it is obvious that he is also interested in the work-for-relief matter proposed by Ruo'er. I'm very interested and want to get a share of the pie."
Mrs. Yuan thought Wei Ruo didn't know Fan Chengxu, so she explained it to her. "He is willing to provide money and food. No matter where he is from, whether he is an official or a businessman, we are very welcome." Wei Ruodao.
Wei Ruo sighed inwardly at Fan Chengxu's business acumen. He really didn't want to miss any profitable business.
"This is the second time the Xu family has sent food here today." Madam Yuan added, "And according to Madam Xu's wishes, she will dispatch another batch of food."
"Scheduling? From where?" Wei Ruo asked.
Nowadays, there is a shortage of food everywhere, and it is very difficult for ordinary people to buy food from other places.
"The Xu family started to take root in Taizhou Prefecture from Mrs. Xu's father's generation. Their hometown is in Lin'an, where the Xu family still has some farmland." Mrs. Yuan explained.
As she spoke, Mrs. Yuan couldn't help but say something: "Speaking of which, the old man of the Xu family and the former Duke Xu are of the same clan, and both came from the Xu family in Lin'an." "Gong Xu? Is he the Duke Xu who
just overturned the case?" Wei Ruo asked.
"Exactly. If there hadn't been famines everywhere, this matter would have been dealt with." "
I heard that when Xu Guogong's mansion was raided, all the relevant people were also dealt with. Why is the Xu family in Taizhou Prefecture okay?" Wei Ruo asked.
"First of all, they are indeed quite far apart. Although they are both from the Xu family in Lin'an, they are far apart from each other in terms of blood. Secondly, the emperor later softened his attitude. He cared about the queen. "
After Mrs. Yuan finished speaking, she suddenly realized that she had taken the topic far away.
"Look at me, I talk too much and say things that I shouldn't say. Just listen to these words and don't say them outside." Mrs. Yuan warned Wei Ruodao, "Especially in front of Mother Qin, don't mention it."
Wei Ruo nodded. She knew what topics she could discuss and what she couldn't discuss casually. She was neither interested nor wanted to discuss matters involving the royal family.
After discussing the list in detail with Mrs. Yuan, Wei Ruo returned to the next room and worked with the two female accountants to compile statistics on the grain that had been stored so far, and then began to allocate manpower to transport the grain, which would be determined two days before today. Food has been delivered to several bases.
Because the scope of land reclamation involved this time was relatively wide, Wei Ruo studied the map of Taizhou Prefecture two days ago, determined the scope of land reclamation needed, and set up corresponding base points.
At present, Wei Ruoding's land to be reclaimed and improved is mainly sandy land and saline-alkali land, and mountainous areas are not considered for the time being, because the situation in mountainous areas is relatively complex, different mountains have different conditions, and the cost of reclamation is also higher than the previous two. higher.
As for the plan for digging holes in sandy land and saline-alkali land, it remains the same as before. Sweet potatoes will be planted in the sandy land, and winter wheat will be planted in the saline-alkali land after the improvement is completed.
Today, Wei Ruo's main job is to stay with several female gentlemen at the prefect's office to coordinate the deployment, but starting from tomorrow, Wei Ruo will need to go to the field to conduct surveys, and then formulate different improvement and reclamation plans based on different soil qualities.
(End of chapter)