The young patrolman's name is Liu Chuanzong, and he comes from a military family in the Ming Dynasty. His father is just a small general, and his family background has been ruined. He has nothing but martial arts passed on to him.
He himself has an upright personality. In the Datong Army, he listened to the missionary officer's explanation of the "Datong Collection" and his thoughts became more upright and bright.
The next day, Liu Chuanzong was called by his boss for a talk.
Several of his superiors were also veterans. After some small talk, they quickly became close to each other, and then they started to reason. It was just that the foreign slaves were not Chinese, and they did not need to abide by the rules in "Datong Collection".
Liu Chuanzong subconsciously obeyed the order, but when he returned to the patrol dormitory, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this shouldn't be the case.
When he went to look for the rescued girl, he found that the girl was missing and had been returned to the brothel. Liu Chuanzong was very angry about this and went to his boss again to argue, but he was angrily scolded and given a major demerit.
Amidst the confusion, Liu Chuanzong worked for another half month.
"Take it." Fan Liang threw a bunch of copper coins over. Fan Liang was the senior patrolman that day and had been patrolling the streets with Liu Chuanzong for a long time.
Liu Chuanzong looked at the copper coins and asked doubtfully: "What is this?"
Fan Liang explained with a smile: "We rely on mountains to eat mountains, and we rely on water to eat water. We work as patrol officers in the Qinhuai River, so naturally we have to eat the rouge money of the Qinhuai River."
"Accepting... taking bribes?" Liu Chuanzong couldn't believe it.
Fan Liang said: "What does accepting bribes mean? We have not broken any laws, nor have we broken the court rules. Don't worry, this is not some dirty money. If those brothels dare to force Chinese people, they will definitely be punished. They teach foreign women, this
We have nothing to do with it, so we can just turn a blind eye."
Liu Chuanzong asked: "Is this money available every month?"
Fan Liang said: "It's available every month. It's not too much. I can only buy a dozen kilograms of rice. It's good to see the water flowing down."
Liu Chuanzong was silent, every patrolman had one, and those superior officers must have one too, and the money they received must be more.
Datong New Dynasty should not be like this!
Moreover, if the money comes from other places, Liu Chuanzong may be able to reluctantly accept it. But this is flesh and blood money from a brothel, obtained from a poor woman, and Liu Chuanzong will feel dirty if he gets it!
Fan Liang saw his unhappy look, smiled and consoled him: "Don't be confused, you have to live this life. You are a veteran, am I not? I am also a veteran of Chongzhen for 12 years. I was dismissed because I was too old.
I went home and farmed for several years. I heard that Nanjing was expanding its recruitment of police officers, so I went to the city to sign up the year before last. With luck, I was assigned to work as a patrol officer on the Qinhuai River, where the oil and water are thicker than elsewhere."
"Didn't you learn "Datong Collection" when you were a soldier?" Liu Chuanzong asked.
"I've learned," Fan Liang said, "I've told you that women from foreign countries are not Chinese, and they don't even have a household registration, so they are considered citizens? Since they are not citizens, then we don't need to worry about it, and it doesn't violate the "Datong Collection"."
Liu Chuanzong asked: "If the brothel did not commit any crime, then why did it give money to the police?"
Fan Liang chuckled and said: "Whether it's a low-level hook-and-mortar house or a high-level brothel, doing this kind of business will always bring shame. Although those women from foreign countries are not citizens, they are still human beings. It is inevitable that some will be disobedient.
He was beaten half to death, or even beaten to death by mistake. The government can take care of it, or it can ignore it. Whether it takes care of it or not depends on whether the money is enough."
"This is unreasonable, human life is nothing but child's play!" Liu Chuanzong was filled with indignation and clenched his fists, trembling all over.
Fan Liang's head hurt, and he said depressedly: "Why can't you understand? Those are foreign women, bought like piglets. Dozens of Han women from the Qinhuai River immigrate to the north every year, no matter how many prostitutes they have,
We can't stand this. Today, at least 60% of the prostitutes in the Qinhuai River are bought from foreign countries. Your Majesty doesn't care about it, how can you and I care about it?"
Liu Chuanzong said: "It's not that your Majesty doesn't care, he must have been deceived by Xiao Xiao!" He threw the string of copper coins to the ground, "Such dirty money can dirty my hands for nothing!"
"Really?" Fan Liang asked.
"No!" Liu Chuanzong said firmly.
Fan Liang felt that something was going to happen, so he had to go to his boss again and said that his new partner was a fool.
Something had already happened before the boss even responded.
Jinling Mansion, Office of Integrity.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate is the headquarters of the anti-corruption department, but the office is located in the imperial city and Liu Chuanzong cannot enter at all. He can only go to the Integrity Department of Jinling Prefecture to report.
A clerk received the reception, took out a pen and paper and recorded according to the process: "Name, occupation."
Liu Chuanzong said: "Liu Chuanzong, the willow of the willow tree, passes down the family line from generation to generation. He once served as the commander of the cavalry division of the Datong Army and is currently the patrol officer of Qinhuai Hebei District, Shangyuan County, Jinling Prefecture."
The city of Nanjing belongs to Shangyuan County and Jiangning County. Shangyuan County is to the north of the Qinhuai River, and Jiangning County is to the south of the Qinhuai River. There are brothels on both sides of the Qinhuai River.
The clerk continued to ask: "Who are you reporting for corruption and perverting the law?"
Liu Chuanzong said: "Police officers on both sides of the Qinhuai River accept bribes from brothels. They do this every month, and it has become a rule."
The hand holding the pen shook as the clerk trembled and looked at Liu Chuanzong in surprise. This is the case at the emperor's feet!
After a while, the clerk said, "Tell me everything you know in detail."
After finishing the record, the clerk did not dare to neglect, or even let Liu Chuanzong go, and immediately went to notify the chief official of the Integrity Department.
The matter was so big that it involved the police teams of two counties in the capital. Most of those policemen were retired Datong soldiers, and they might be some of the former subordinates of the prince or marquis. The Integrity Office of Jinling Prefecture did not dare to act rashly, and immediately reported it to
The Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Metropolitan Procuratorate almost came out in full force to start the investigation.
Yingmin Hall.
Zhao Han flipped through the files and asked casually: "All arrested?"
Xiao Huan replied: "We have all been arrested. Except for Liu Chuanzong, the person who reported the report, all the police officers on both sides of the Qinhuai River have received money. The one who took the most bribes will be given two hundred silver dollars per month; the one who took the least bribe will be given one hundred copper coins per month."
Ten articles."
"In the land of Fengyue, there is a lot of oil and water. This matter is not unusual," Zhao Han was actually not angry and just ordered, "Those who accept bribes of more than one silver dollar per month will be dealt with severely; those who accept bribes of more than 300 silver dollars per month will be punished according to the regulations.
Deal with it; those who accept bribes of less than 300 yuan per month will be dismissed from their posts and the stolen money will be recovered."
It seems that the severity of punishment is measured based on the amount of bribes accepted, but in fact it is dealt with based on official power.
Those who take the most bribes must have real power and have higher official positions.
In this case, Zhao Han's focus is elsewhere, that is, there are a large number of foreign women in brothels in various places.
How to deal with it?
Zhao Han asked: "Where did you buy those foreign women?"
Xiao Huan replied: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate has asked the brothels in detail, and there are these types of female slaves from Fanbang."
"The first type is black, mixed with Southeast Asian and Japanese blood, mainly from Macau, and are all descendants of slaves. More than a hundred years ago, the Jesuits began to raise, breed, and sell slaves in Macau;"
"The second type is women from Japan and North Korea. Prostitutes from all over the country are selected to immigrate to the north every year. The brothels work with some maritime merchants to purchase women from Japan and North Korea to supplement their numbers."
"The third type is women from Southeast Asia. Spain and the Netherlands captured indigenous women from Southeast Asia and sold them to China to earn gold and silver. These Nanyang women were not in good shape and appearance, and were mainly sold to low-class Goulanwa.
There are also some who are sold to wealthy households as slaves. They even sell Nanyang men to serve as tenant farmers for wealthy households. Those Nanyang men..."
"Say!" Zhao Han felt something was wrong.
Xiao Huan was silent for a few seconds: "In my dynasty, we allowed the people to settle down and allot their fields, and they continued to immigrate to the north. The gentry from the southern provinces actively cooperated with the allotment of fields. Each family member could keep twenty acres of land. How could they cultivate it if they couldn't recruit tenants?
?There are also nobles in the court who are rewarded with land for their military exploits, so their fields will be more. Although the natives of Nanyang are not good at farming, they can do more than animals after all."
Zhao Han understood clearly that the nobles in the court and the gentry of the previous dynasty had too much land to recruit tenants, so they bought Nanyang natives to farm the land.
Good guy, I went to Nanyang to immigrate the Han people, but you actually bought the natives from Nanyang and brought them back to China.
But it has to be said that this behavior does not violate the law.
In ancient times, there was no distinction between nationalities. You could not issue passports to foreign workers.
"Keep talking." Zhao Han said.
Xiao Huan said: "The fourth type is Persian women. The sources of Persian women are one from Batavia and the other from Banten. The Dutch transported Persian women to Batavia; other European merchants brought Persian women to Batavia.
The women were transported to Banten. Chinese merchants opened shops in these two cities, bought Persian women, taught them music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and then transported them back to our country for sale."
The Persian women here are not purely from Persia.
Some are from the Ottomans, some from Persia, and some from India. Since Chinese pleasure seekers like white skin and beauty, all those sold are white people. Mainly war captives, secondly religious captives, and thirdly sold by relatives or
kidnapping.
The three countries of Ottoman, Persia, and Mughal India were always at war, and they especially liked to trade prisoners of war as slaves.
In the Ottomans and Persia, sectarian struggles were very cruel, and sometimes massacres were carried out. The trafficking of women from rival sects was purely a side business.
South India had not yet been occupied by the Mughals, and the Mughal Empire continued to invade the south. Many of the princely nobles in South India resisted fiercely. After the Mughals conquered the princely states, the die-hard high-caste nobles often killed them. The British took advantage of the opportunity.
Doing business, transporting high-caste white women to Banten and selling them to Chinese maritime merchants.
Zhao Han's land distribution policy, immigration policy, and brothel rectification policy all stimulated the slave trade. As a result, the slave trade in East Asia became countless times more prosperous than in history, and China became one of the major consumers of the global slave trade.
The British did not have colonial strongholds in Southeast Asia, but they had a very good relationship with the Mughal Emperor of India. These guys even targeted untouchables and wanted to sell untouchables to China to farm land for big families. Anyway, untouchables are not human beings and can be caught as soon as they are caught.
It's a big handful, no matter how much you catch, it won't cause trouble.
Zhao Han's original intention was to abolish slavery, but unknowingly, he created a large number of foreign slaves in China.