At this time, Xiaomei had been beaten by Zhang Deqing and others, her face was covered with bruises and tears. Her body trembled more violently than Zhang Deqing's just now, wailing: "Master Lin, spare my life!......"

  Lin Yan furrowed her brow and looked at Xiao Mei for a moment before saying to Zhang Deqing, "The wicked slave deceived the master, let's handle it according to the rules."

  Xiao Mei let out a mournful cry and fainted, then was dragged away.

  Lin Wan felt that she wasn't a particularly cruel person. The people in this place didn't consider slaves as human beings, if it were another master, after being bullied for over a month, they would have definitely beaten the palace maid to death. At least she had spared her life.

  After getting rid of Xiaomei, Lin Wan started selecting palace maids. Her husband had four servants at his beck and call, whereas when she was the CEO of a branch company, she only had two assistants and two bodyguards, and couldn't order people around as she pleased. Yet her husband, who was merely an eighth-rank official, could have four people at his service. Lin Wan felt that the corrupt life of ancient nobility was truly blissful.

  Lin Yan strictly followed the recruitment standards of "Human Resource Management", first establishing the talent target for the vacancy, and after assessment (at this point, it could only be observing words and expressions), she selected four optimal candidates. Two palace maids were named Chunxue and Chuyun, and two inner attendants were named Xiaoguizi and Xiaochengzi.

  These four people were all in the second row, and there were several dark-skinned, honest-looking palace maids in the first row that Lin Yu didn't choose. Zhang Deqing looked a bit surprised, he had specifically sent over several of his best servants, with the intention of showing off to Lin Yu and making up for past grievances. But this master's thinking was not ordinary, she didn't pick the honest ones, only the lively ones.

  Lin Yan understood his meaning, nodded and smiled to show her gratitude: "Thank you, Director Zhang, I'm very satisfied." Then she picked up the teacup and saw him off.

  Zhang Deqing bid farewell with a hint of surprise and thought to himself: Lin Xiaozhu is not simple, I must serve him well in the future.

  The four remaining palace maids became the people of Mirror Moon Pavilion. The four of them followed the rules and performed the ceremonial greeting, Lin Yuande looked at them for a few moments before opening her mouth to say:

  "From now on, we are tied together like passengers on the same boat."

  These four people all had a certain level of intelligence and understood Lin's words, kneeling on the ground to pledge their loyalty, with phrases like "born to die for you" and "die to be buried with you". Lin held her tea cup and almost laughed, these slaves were too exaggerated, she wasn't even their birth mother, it didn't have to be so extreme.

  It seems that the two words "dying loyalty" are the highest professional ethics of ancient slaves? The understanding of management science in ancient times is different from that of modern people, because ancient people did not regard slaves as human beings, but only regarded them as owned objects. They liked slaves who lived for their masters, preferably those who were stupidly loyal and easy to control, and would jump into the lake when ordered to do so without hesitation.

  But Lin Wan felt that this approach could not bring out the maximum utility of her subordinates. Servants are also human beings, what they need is all-round motivation and control, Lin Wan did not want to suppress the thoughts of her subordinates, letting them fully exert their subjective initiative as a person, helping their masters to plan and strategize. Simply put, they should be capable and intelligent.

  Of course, smart people have a lot of small thoughts and are not easy to control. But Lin Yuan felt that it didn't matter, no matter what kind of person, it's impossible to make them live for you alone, those who seem loyal but end up stabbing you in the back are many. It's better to hold their family members hostage or entice them with the most valuable things. Any loyalty obtained through coercion and temptation is useful.

  As for the details of these people... Lin Yuen couldn't figure it out for the time being and could only wait and see later.