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Chapter Forty The Legendary Woman

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the legal status of the technical woman system lasted for more than 2,500 years, until the Republic of China!
The system still has not undergone fundamental changes, and the industry of technical women is still prosperous and developed at this time.
Before and after the Republic of China, this tradition continued to flourish, and many celebrities had an indissoluble bond with these places!
In 1934, a person named Wang Shunu wrote a book that was astonishing at the time, The History of the Development of Technical Women.
According to statistics in the book, in Shanghai in 1920, according to survey data from the Data Survey Society, the total number of registered technical women at that time exceeded 60,000.
In addition, the number of black households and foreign registered households is not below this, so the total number of people in the industry is expected to exceed 120,000, and the total number of people in Shanghai is only 2.48 million!
During the Republic of China, prominent figures such as officials, warlords, and parliamentarians were mostly frequent visitors here, and they led social trends to a large extent.
During the Republic of China, this industry was so developed, and it benefited from the legalization of the industry. Under the background of legalization.
Both shops and women must hold licenses to operate and work as long as they meet government requirements, accept government management, and pay taxes on time.
In principle, any individual or group can open a store, and of course, stores are divided into three, five, and nine levels.
Some high-end stores have the shadow of big shots behind them, and ordinary stores are not immune to their control, but generally speaking, they are still mainly private operations.
Stores in Shanghai are generally divided into four classes. First-class and second-class stores are high-end stores, and those who go in and out of them are either rich or expensive.
Of course, those who can open this business are not ordinary people, such as Huang Huangrong's wife and Lin Guisheng, the owner of the fireworks room shop.
When she came to Shanghai, she was still a young girl in her 20s. Lin Guisheng was not an easy-going person.
At such a young age, she dared to open a shop in a crowded place like Shanghai, which shows her courage and ability.
Before Huang Huangrong met Lin Guisheng, he was just a detective in the French Concession, and he could only be said to have some influence.
After Huang Jinrong married Lin Guisheng, who was well-known in the industry at that time, his life ushered in a huge turning point.
Lin Guisheng first moved his family to Shiliupu, and then openly recruited disciples from all over Shanghai. At that time, Shiliupu was a no-nonsense area.
Lin Guisheng used the various religions and nine circles he had made friends with over the years of opening a store to recruit thousands of people in a short period of time, becoming the largest organization in Shanghai at that time!
Everyone knows what this organization is. After Lin Guisheng founded the organization, Huang Huangrong suddenly became a tycoon in Shanghai.
As the woman behind him, Lin Guisheng played a crucial role in the development and growth of the organization.
Of course, after Lin Guisheng became the eldest sister of the organization, he did not give up his old profession.
Instead, he used this as a fulcrum to continuously expand his business scope, and finally controlled almost the entire Shanghai business.
Lin Guisheng also became the famous Sister-in-law Bai in Shanghai, Huang Jinrong obeyed her, and Du Yuesheng was also promoted by Lin Guisheng.
Du Yuesheng broke into Shanghai at the age of 14 and worked under the organization. Because of his shrewdness and ability, he was quickly appreciated by Huang Huangrong.
Once, Lin Guisheng was seriously ill and asked a young and strong man to take care of him so that he could use his yang energy to ward off evil spirits.
Du Yuesheng was selected and had access to Huang Huangrong's inner chamber. Du Yuesheng took care of Lin Guisheng very hard and was very considerate!
Lin Guisheng was also very satisfied and soon asked Du Yuesheng to start managing the organization's business. Soon Du Yuesheng became another tycoon.
Lin Guisheng got to know talents from all walks of life. Not only did he have a close relationship with the political circles in Shanghai at that time, but he also formed ten sisters with bosses who were involved in Shanghai's technology industry, and he named himself the eldest sister.
Of course, during the Republic of China, there were very few people working in this industry who could stand out like Lin Guisheng.
There are only a handful of people who have achieved good stories like Xiao Fengxian, and most of them are the kind of people who are squeezed and eventually forgotten by the world.
Moreover, Lin Guisheng's ending was not very good. Later, the lustful Huang Huangrong wanted to marry the famous Shanghai actress Lu Lanchun as his first wife.
Finally, Huang Huangrong forced Lin Guisheng to divorce him. In anger, Lin Guisheng left the Huang family with 50,000 yuan in alimony.
In 1922, Lu Lanchun was married to Huang Jinrong. Her artistic life was suppressed and she rarely performed on stage.
Just a few years after getting married, Lu Lanchun fell in love with a man named Xue Heng, the second son of Xue Baorun, a wealthy businessman in the Shanghai pigment industry.
This man was suave, a well-known opera fan, and particularly fond of Pihuang (opera tune). Only after meeting Xue Heng did Lu Lanchun realize what true love was.
Finally, the young and beautiful Lu Lanchun took advantage of Huang Jinrong's absence and swept away the land deeds, bonds, gold bars, etc.
Huang Huangrong, whose heart was filled with despair, said to Du Yuesheng with emotion: "I have made this wrong move in my life. I made my fortune through women, and I also lost my fortune through women."
After the golden event, 600 sweet-scented osmanthus trees were planted in the garden of the Huang family compound to commemorate Lin Guisheng.
But Lin Guisheng never went back in the end. This woman who once founded the organization and turned Shanghai upside down.
Finally, he died alone in the old house on Seymour Road in Shanghai in 1981, ending a legend in Shanghai.
She acted wantonly throughout her life, and although she lived to be 104 years old, she lived alone for 60 years and ended up miserable.
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At this time in 1920, it was still the era of technical women. Wait until May 1920 when the Board of Directors was abolished and the wave of abolition of technical women began!
They changed their jobs and became dancers publicly, but secretly they were still doing technology business. A few years later, the Board of Directors announced that this plan had failed!
Although dancing spread to Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty, it has always existed in nightclubs and clubs among foreigners, quite far away from other people.
In 1922, the Yipinxiang Hotel in Shanghai held a social tea dance imitating foreigners, which kicked off the practice of ballroom dancing.
Deng Xin was quickly pulled to the door by Cheng Shi. It said Little Garden Hotel. Cheng Shi already knew that this was Zhang Xiaolin's territory!
Zhang Xiaolin and Du Yuesheng, both Shanghai's three tycoons, both started their fortunes in Huang Huangrong's mansion.
But compared to Du Yuesheng's smooth journey, Zhang Xiaolin's rise was much more difficult.
Because he had been an enemy of Huang Jinrong in his early years and robbed the business of Huang Clan's disciples, he was later taken under Huang Clan's disciples and was not trusted or reused for a long time.
Zhang Xiaolin submitted a certificate of surrender when he entered the Huang Mansion. Under Huang Jinrong's instruction, he personally killed his former partner and benefactor Fan Kaitai.
As one of the three tycoons in Shanghai, Zhang Xiaolin started the latest and has the lowest qualifications, but compared to Huang Huangrong and Du Yuesheng.
He also has his own advantages. Lin Guisheng's business is for low-end and middle-end customers, while Zhang Xiaolin's business is for high-end customers!
He is known as the three-color tycoon. The most important of the three colors is yellow. They also do other businesses, but Zhang Xiaolin does the technology business best.
Zhang Xiaolin has his own business model. He recruits beauties widely, assigns a number to each beauty, and allows customers who have spent money to rate them.
The scoring criteria cover appearance, figure, speech, service attitude, professional skills, etc.
There is a flower list in the hotel, and the girl with the highest overall score is the oiran. The girls below are also divided into first class, second class, and third class according to their scores. The higher the rank, the higher the worth.
Moreover, Zhang Xiaolin also provides unified training to the girls to enhance their service awareness and professional skills.
Girls are willing to study actively in order to get high scores and increase their social status. In a virtuous circle, the number of girls is increasing and their quality is getting higher and higher. Countless wealthy businessmen and boys come here because of its reputation.
Zhang Xiaolin has taken the hotel industry to a new level. His ingenious rating system has made Little Garden the most popular place in Shanghai, with an endless stream of guests who even require reservations.


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