Qinhuai River, the romantic business has become increasingly declining in recent years.
The reason is very simple. People's lives are getting better, and there are naturally fewer people selling their sons and daughters. What's more, the imperial court severely cracks down on human trafficking, and those caught are frequently exiled or beheaded.
Even the girls who used to live in the barracks were immigrated to the north in batches. In several northern provinces, not only the population dropped sharply, but the ratio of men to women was also abnormal. There are dozens of female immigration quotas along the Qinhuai River every year - almost semi-mandatory.
sexual.
However, in the past two years, Nanjing's romantic industry has gradually begun to recover.
Die Cui Lou, business is full today.
An old prostitute who still retains her charm walked up to the stairs and said to the guests in the lobby downstairs: "Today my daughter is getting married. Thank you all for taking the time to come and support me despite your busy schedule. The question for this first level has been solved.
It's been more than a month, I believe you all have the answer. Please listen to the question. The majestic ancient temple is hidden in the mountains and forests. I don't know how many monks there are in the temple. There are three hundred and sixty-four bowls. Let's see if they are used up. Three people eat a bowl of rice together.
Four people are eating a bowl of soup together. Sir, please tell me how many monks there are in the temple?"
"I'll come, I'll come!"
"I can also do this question!"
"..."
All the guests in the hall raised their hands. It was a very simple equation problem, and it was announced a month in advance. Even people who didn't know how to do math would have already found someone to figure out the answer.
The old prostitute smiled and said: "Listen, everyone, to pass this test, you can't just tell the answer, but also give the calculation process. Whether you use the ancient Tianyuan Technique or your Majesty's equation, you have to do the calculation on the spot.
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As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar.
Many scholars who only read the Four Books and Five Classics, as well as unlearned businessmen, complained that the old prostitutes were ruining the scenery.
But the more this happens, the more lively the atmosphere becomes.
Wu Weiye said to Mao Pijiang: "Brother Pijiang, why don't you harm Xiaoluo's skills?"
"What kind of skill is this? It's just a middle school question." Mao Bijiang already has some foundation in mathematics. He has been studying textbooks by himself in the past two years. He has obtained his elementary school diploma and is expected to graduate from middle school next year.
Many scholars in the field, like Mao Pijiang, were stimulated by the standards of last year's official examiners.
Examiners need a diploma, and in the future they will definitely need a diploma as well. They need to get a diploma quickly. What if the policy continues to be tightened and adults are not allowed to attend primary school?
The old prostitute began to hand out paper, pens and arithmetic chips, which could be used to solve equations or arithmetic chips.
However, the person who answers the question must pay one or two silver coins!
This year there is a severe drought in several provinces, and grain production has been severely reduced. The price of rice in Nanjing has risen to 13 cents per catty. The registration fee of one tael of silver can buy about 50 catties of white rice, and more can be bought in good harvest years.
But there were many people who signed up at the scene, and they all took out their money and took away paper and pen from the old prostitute.
After some calculations, more than sixty people passed the test.
The old prostitute smiled and said: "Tonight is a joyous occasion. There are so many talented people gathered together. For the second question, please choose any chapter from "The Collection of Datong·Sanyuan Chapter" and write it down silently in a stick of incense. The thirty with the least mistakes
People can pass."
The whole place fell silent, and then became noisy.
This question was not asked in advance, and no one was given time to prepare. Who would be a serious person to memorize "Datong Collection"?
Seeing that there were too many complaints and protesters, the old prostitute could only explain with a wry smile: "Dear guests, it's not that I mean to make things difficult. It's because someone from the government came yesterday and said that in the future, in the future of singing and dancing pavilions, any daughter of any family who gets married will be tested.
You must take "Datong Collection" with you when you are studying."
"puff!"
Wu Weiye was tasting wine when he heard the words and spit it out.
"Cough cough cough!"
Wu Weiye coughed for a while, wiped the wine stains from the corners of his mouth, and said at a loss of whether to laugh or cry: "This is truly unheard of, and today this day is indeed a sage."
Mao Bijiang put down his wine glass, picked up his brush and started writing silently.
In addition to participating in literary conferences recently, he has mainly focused on self-study. "Sanyuan Pian" is part of the middle school textbook. He memorized it a few days ago, and Mao Bijiang is sure that the word is good.
After a stick of incense, the second question was handed in, and thirty people were quickly selected.
There are policies and measures to counter.
The government only stated that the questions must be related to the "Datong Collection", but did not stipulate that the answers must be answered. The old prostitutes then set a quota of thirty people. Those who made the least mistakes could be selected. Most of the selected ones only wrote two or three sentences silently.
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The old prostitute smiled and said: "This third level is the pairing."
"good!"
Many scholars cheered loudly and finally came to their traditional program.
After three rounds, the five finalists were selected.
After comparing talents, it is natural to compare financial resources.
Mao Bijiang spent two hundred taels of silver to buy the girl's first night. Everyone was fighting for it because the girl's reputation had spread throughout the Qinhuai River before she left the court.
The Persian girl can speak Chinese, seems to have been studying for a few years, and can play Chinese and Persian musical instruments.
This is the secret of the revival of Qinhuai River's romance industry. There is a serious shortage of domestic women, so let's introduce foreign women!
Among them, Japanese women have the most, followed by Korean women, and Nanyang women again. The real best are the so-called Persian girls, but in fact most of them are women from Afghanistan.
Persia and India have been at war in Afghanistan for decades and often massacre cities. What does it mean to sell some women over?
The foreign slave trade began a hundred years ago.
First, the Portuguese bought Japanese slaves and resold them all over the world. They also promoted Japanese women as Chinese women and sold them to European brothels to make money.
In the fifth year of Longqing, that is, 1571, the Portuguese royal family issued an order to ban the Japanese slave trade because they were afraid of causing dissatisfaction with the Japanese government and thus affecting normal commercial and missionary activities.
But the orders of the Portuguese royal family were obviously useless. A Portuguese missionary mentioned in his diary in 1598 that Japanese women were sold to Portuguese merchant ships to meet the physiological needs of black crew members.
Macau is the slave trading center in East Asia. A large number of Japanese women were first transported to Macau and distributed to black and Malay slaves. They continued to reproduce slave offspring. These young slaves were then taught from childhood so that they could get more gold and silver when sold. This way
You can mass-produce slaves.
It is equivalent to saying that black, Malay and Japanese slaves are all raised as pigs and then sold after giving birth.
By the time Japan closed its borders, Macau already had about 5,000 slaves, half of whom were underage slaves.
There were also Chinese slaves, but they were few in number and expensive.
According to historical records, the first Chinese slave sold to Europe was actually a scholar. The time occurred in 1540, during the Jiajing period. This Chinese slave's job was to translate Chinese materials into Portuguese...
By the way, most of the 5,000 slaves in Macau belong to the Jesuits.
After Zhao Han expelled the disobedient missionaries and Portugal cut off the Jesuits' funds, the Jesuits in Macau relied on selling slaves to make a living. In particular, slave girls were the most popular and were sold to major brothels across the country, effectively filling the human resources of China's erotic industry.
insufficient.
Most of those slave girls are of mixed race, and there are also black pearls who are mixed with Japanese and Malay ancestry.
Mao Bijiang opened the door. Inside, red candles were swaying, and the girl was wearing a fake wedding phoenix crown and harem.
Lifting the hijab, she turned out to be a Persian beauty, her exotic style was breathtaking.
The Persian girl was a little nervous and kept rubbing the corners of her clothes with her fingers.
Mao Bijiang did not want to offend the beauty, so he chose to chat: "Is the girl from Persia?"
"Yes." The Persian girl replied.
In fact, the girl lied. She had lived in Makran since she was a child, which was the coastal area at the junction of Pakistan and Iran. It was once occupied by Persia and now belongs to the Mughal Empire of India. When she was eleven years old, she was sold to the Dutch by her uncle.
, the Dutch sold him to a Chinese businessman.
Mao Bijiang said again: "Girl, don't be afraid. If you don't want to, just play the piano and drink wine tonight. Can the girl know Persian instruments?"
"meeting."
The Persian girl took out a piano, which looked a bit like a Chinese banhu with four strings.
The girl played the strings of the piano and sang an unknown exotic song. She closed her eyes and kept in time with the music, but she completely forgot about other things.
"ah!"
A shrill scream broke the beautiful music.
Mao Bijiang went out to check the situation, but found nothing unusual. When he returned to his room, he heard a copper whistle coming from the street, and he immediately knew that something must have happened.
By the Qinhuai River.
A dark-skinned girl was picked up wet all over. Looking at her skin color, it was clear that she had black ancestry. However, she had been mixed for generations, but her facial features were more like those of an Oriental, and her skin color was more similar to that of a native of Southeast Asia.
The turtle man and the thugs from the brothel wanted to take the girl back, but were stopped by a patrolman.
There are two patrolmen, one who lets people go and one who doesn't.
The young patrolman pushed away the silver dollar and reprimanded sternly: "The imperial court has ordered that singing and dancing in pavilions are not allowed to be forced to work. You actually forced the woman to commit suicide by jumping into the river. What happened tonight cannot be covered up, so she has to be taken to the Yamen to see the official!"
"Keep your voice down!"
The elderly patrolman scolded: "Xiao Liu, you have just been transferred to Qinhuai River, and you don't know much about this place yet. To tell you the truth, today's Goulan tile houses and brothels have stopped forcing Chinese people. The woman in front of me, at first glance,
You know you are not a Chinese, you must have bought it from Nanyang. Shangguan said that you are a citizen when you settle down and settle down. How can a foreign woman be considered a citizen if she does not have a household registration?"
"I don't care whether she has a household registration or not. Since I encountered her, she must go to the official on this matter!" The young patrol officer did not accept this trick.
The brothel thug suddenly spoke up and said with a sneer: "Where did this stupid young man come from? Take the money honestly and don't toast or eat as a fine. If you continue to make trouble, there will be no money, and you will have to hang out with Shangguan."
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Hearing the threat, the young patrolman suddenly drew his sword out of its sheath: "Last year I killed the Tatars in Liaodong. I followed General Wang out of the Great Wall and killed the Tatar pseudo-Wang Hauge to pieces. I injured my hand tendon and came back to work as a patrolman after retiring.
, it’s not something a bastard like you can bully! If you want to take this woman away, you have to ask me if the knife in my hand will answer my question!"
This young patrolman is not only a veteran, but also a member of the Datong Cavalry.
The Datong Knights are not only proficient in riding skills, but also have outstanding martial arts skills.
The brothel thugs did not dare to cause trouble for a moment, and the older patrolman did not dare to speak. He watched helplessly as the young patrolman took the woman away.
After being stunned for a moment, the elderly patrol officer suddenly ran away and went to find his boss anxiously. The police in the Qinhuaihe area, from the officials in charge to the patrol officers, all accepted the benefits of the major brothels. If this matter got serious, many people would lose their jobs.