Daming 1805

Chapter 174
The Ottoman Princess Irene, and the sixteen maidservants who accompanied her, underwent five consecutive days of inspection in the West Factory, and finally it was basically confirmed that there was no problem.

Then they were brought in front of Zhu Jingyuan again by the housekeeper and the nanny, and the two sides could have relatively close contact.

Zhu Jingyuan looked around for a while, and asked to call sisters An Xiaona and Luo Feiya over, and introduce these new companions to them:

"This is the new Irene, I will study with the three of you in the future, and you will teach her the rules here.

"The other 16 people are divided into four groups, Xiaona, Xiaofu, Fei Ya, Irene, the four of you are the group leaders, and each of you manages a group.

"Everyone forms a team together, and Xiaona is the captain, and you can report to me directly if you have anything to do."

Whether it was Sister An Xiaona and Luo Feiya, or the newcomer Irene and the sixteen maidservants, they were a little confused when faced with Zhu Jingyuan's orders.

Everyone is obviously Zhu Jingyuan's maid, so this order feels like forming an army.

However, due to Zhu Jingyuan's status and absolute authority, everyone subconsciously agreed with a daze.

After the liveliest An Xiaona agreed, she couldn't help asking Zhu Jingyuan:

"Your Highness... I, the captain, and us team leaders, with these new sisters... what exactly are we going to do?"

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and said:
"This is also your task. You, the captain, think about it first. What should you do with them?"

An Xiaona thought for less than three seconds:

"Our task is first to study, and then to take care of His Highness's daily life and clean His Highness's room. Will all these tasks be entrusted to us in the future? Can we not use the nuns?"

The servants in Zhu Jingyuan's room and surroundings are still the same as those in the palace, and they are basically middle-aged women.

Sister An Xiaona and Luo Feiya can only be regarded as helpers now, and they are still learning how to work from the aunts.

Zhu Jingyuan now has sixteen new young maidservants, and An Xiaona feels that she can completely take over the related matters.

Zhu Jingyuan shook his head lightly and said:
"You children are still too young to replace the servants directly with you, and there will be trouble.

"And your task is not just to serve me, you also have to learn knowledge.

"So, you four groups, take turns helping out.

"The team leader followed me, helped me carry things, and also followed me to learn.

"The four members of the corresponding group work with other elderly people.

"When the members of the other three groups do not follow me, they rest or attend classes."

An Xiaona immediately agreed seriously:

"understood."

Zhu Jingyuan watched on the spot now, and asked An Xiaona to divide the sixteen maidservants into groups on the spot.

Each group has a slightly older, about 15 years old, who serves as the deputy leader of the group.

After the division, let An Xiaofu lead the team to stay by her side, and An Xiaona took the others to rest, and they also got to know each other well.

Irene and the sixteen Taixi maids were placed in a separate courtyard when they were inspected by the West Factory.

After passing the preliminary examination, Chai just moved to the courtyard where Sister An Xiaona and Luo Feiya lived.

In order to distinguish their identities, Zhu Jingyuan let two of the four team leaders live in one room, and four common maidservants lived in one room.

This is because the rooms are limited now. After the new palace is built, the team leader will be able to live in a single room.

To take care of the newcomer Irene in the future, Sister An Xiaona was separated.

An Xiaofu shares a house with Luo Feiya, and An Xiaona takes the newcomer Irene with her.

These days, Irene was first sent to Quicksand City from Istanbul, and then received continuous interrogation for several days.

Many inexplicable questions were asked repeatedly, and asked again when they were disrupted.

Although Irene told everything truthfully and didn't need to think carefully every time she answered, she was still extremely exhausted from being tormented.

At the same time, he was afraid of being judged to be wrong, and also afraid of being driven away by His Royal Highness Prince Dashi, so he was always tense.

Now that she finally got Zhu Jingyuan's approval and finally has a formal identity here, Irene's spirit finally relaxed.

Sitting on her own bed in the future, Irene was not in the mood to appreciate the surrounding environment, and subconsciously wanted to sleep first.

As a result, An Xiaona took out a few pieces of paper, and greeted Irene very warmly and energetically:

"Oh, don't sleep yet, come and tell me about the knowledge you have now, and then I will arrange what you need to learn.

"If you don't want to be an ordinary maid, if you want to become His Highness's woman, you must hurry up and study."

Erin was obviously taken aback:
"Pose to master? Your Highness's woman?"

Hearing these phrases, Irene immediately thought of a lot of strange things, but at the same time they were taken for granted:
"To become His Highness's woman, do you need to master some special postures? Is this specially requested by His Royal Highness?"

An Xiaona wanted to say:

"Not all of them are specially arranged by His Highness, but the difficulty of knowledge specially arranged by His Highness is too high.

"We need to master a lot of basic and prerequisite knowledge before we can master the advanced knowledge required by His Highness.

"The three of us came a few months earlier than you, and we are still learning the prerequisite knowledge."

An Xiaona just said a few words casually, but Irene felt that she was greatly shocked.

Then, after quite complicated thinking and imagination, Irene said a little embarrassed and frustrated:

"On the way I was selected to be sent to the Great Food Kingdom, the nuns from the palace taught me something urgently.

"But I haven't had time to master it at all, and I don't know how to practice..."

Listening to Irene's words, An Xiaona thought she basically understood the situation:
"That is to say, you haven't studied systematically before? Then your current knowledge level may only be at the level of elementary school students."

An Xiaona took out one of the several sheets of paper:

"Then use this form, look at the knowledge points on it, and fill in according to your knowledge, whether you are proficient, understand, or don't understand."

Now it's not just the world, even within the Ming Dynasty, only the mainland is barely unified in terms of primary and secondary education.

There are great differences in teaching content between the native land and the vassal state, between the vassal state and the vassal state, and between the vassal state and Huangzhuang.

Therefore, where there are often transfer students, some knowledge questionnaires will be prepared.

Let the new students click and assign grades according to their mastery.

Sister An Xiaona did a similar test when she was at Xiyang Cape Huangzhuang.

When I left Huangzhuang School, I also specially applied to bring some test questionnaires of different levels.

Listening to An Xiaona's description, Irene was completely dazed, and said in disbelief:
"Is there... is there a special school for this kind of thing? Is there still a school for elementary school, middle school and university? Do you still need an exam..."

An Xiaona said naturally:

"Of course there are schools of different levels, otherwise how can we acquire enough knowledge?"

After An Xiaona finished speaking, she pressed Irene to a writing desk, and put the questionnaire and pencil in front of her.

"Is this the secret technique of the Ming court..."

With extreme shock, Irene looked down at the questionnaire in front of her, and then she froze completely:
"This... so you are talking about the knowledge of these schools!"

An Xiaona said naturally:

"Otherwise, what kind of knowledge can it be? What kind of school knowledge can it be? Artisan school?

"Your Highness doesn't need us to be craftsmen, His Highness said that the content we need to master is mainly in the direction of business management.

"A basic understanding of craftsman-related professional skills is enough..."

Immediately after Irene's shock passed, she began to feel annoyed by the fantasy in her mind just now.

Then he was so ashamed that his entire face flushed completely red.

And asked An Xiaona very puzzled:

"Why...why do you need to master this kind of scientific knowledge to become a woman of His Highness?"

An Xiaona was also puzzled and said:
"Of course it's because His Highness requested it. Can there be any other reasons?"

Erin was completely speechless.

It is completely unimaginable why Prince Dashi would have such a strange request for his maid, or the slaves used in the room.

Compared with this requirement for scientific knowledge, Irene felt that the postures she had thought before were more reasonable.

An Xiaona is a very clever girl.

When chatting across servers just now, An Xiaona didn't notice anything, but Irene's last reaction made An Xiaona aware of the abnormality.

"So... the knowledge you thought about before... what kind of knowledge..."

Erin bowed her head in silence.

An Xiaona recalled the conversation just now:

"On the way you came, what did those nuns teach you? What is the knowledge that you are not very proficient in, and you have no chance to practice?"

Erin covered her face with her hands.

An Xiaona thought about Irene's identity, felt that she had fully understood, and then said enviously:

"As expected, she is indeed a princess, and she has a special nanny to guide her."

Erin lay down directly on the table:

"Stop talking!"

An Xiaona pulled another chair, sat down next to Irene, grabbed Irene's arm, and said happily:

"Teach me too! Your Royal Highness!"

Erin begged for mercy directly:

"Please, don't bully me. Ottoman's princess has no status. I am no longer a princess when I come here. I am just a maidservant of His Royal Highness just like you..."

An Xiaona continued solemnly:
"I didn't bully you, I'm serious now, I really want to learn what you said.

"That should be from the Ottoman court... The professional skills and knowledge are definitely very useful...

"We want to become His Highness's women in the future, of course we must learn this knowledge!

"But before... no one taught us at all, and His Highness didn't arrange it himself."

Irene was a little surprised and asked back:
"Nurse in the palace, didn't someone arrange for you to teach you?"

An Xiaona nodded resentfully and said:

"Not only did the mothers of the palace not teach us, but they also repeatedly reminded and warned us that we are not allowed to touch these things until His Highness is 16 years old.

"But now the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and His Highness will be 16 years old after the Chinese New Year, so we need it right away!
"But there is still no one to teach us, so Irene, you came too timely!"

Under the influence of An Xiaona's sincerity, Irene finally believed that An Xiaona was serious and really wanted to learn those knowledge.

With the mentality of building a good relationship with her seniors, Irene also slowly calmed down the shame in her heart, and said cautiously:

"Then... then let me tell you... what I know?"

An Xiaona is very serious and enthusiastic, she nodded solemnly and said:

"Well, thank you very much."

Irene blushed slightly, tried her best to search for the content in her memory, and explained it to An Xiaona rather unfamiliarly.

An Xiaona was very serious, she studied very seriously for an hour, and then interrupted Irene with a sense of time:
"Come here first today, and continue to study tomorrow.

"Let's start with the knowledge of the school, I will check your knowledge level first.

"Now tell me, what grade level is your school in Ottoman?"

Erin thought about it:
"I feel like I should be able to go to middle school..."

An Xiaona changed a piece of paper and handed it to Irene to fill in the form:
"This is the knowledge points from the fifth grade of Daming primary school to the first grade of middle school. Let's see how much you have mastered."

(End of this chapter)