After Li Ye returned to Beijing from his inspection tour, the weather in Chang'an became warmer day by day.
Li Ye's daughters also had wings in their hearts and flew to the distant south of the Yangtze River.
The study tour plan has been arranged long ago, and the departure date is scheduled for the last day of February.
Since ancient times, sages have taught the students of the younger generations diligently, read thousands of books, traveled thousands of miles, and gone out to see more to increase their knowledge.
Therefore, study tours have always been an important part of the academic career. Usually, a few friends meet to travel together, hire a car or a boat, bring some expenses and go out.
When you go out, you usually spend money on three things: food, accommodation and transportation.
However, the imperial court encourages study tours and will also take some measures to help students who study abroad. It will require various places to build dormitories and provide food and accommodation for students who study abroad. Generally, as long as students have a study tour guide and a student status card, the local education department will arrange food and accommodation.
Accommodation is free, and a small amount of rice and vegetables will be charged for food. It is much cheaper than spending money to eat out. A bowl of noodles at a stall outside costs 20 cents, but in the dormitory, it only costs a few cents.
That's enough.
This arrangement is to reduce the burden on students, but of course, the conditions are definitely more difficult.
If you are from a wealthy official family, the children will be different when traveling. They will be accompanied by old servants and young men, take a big boat, stay in an inn, and eat out in restaurants. Some wealthy families are afraid that their children will be kidnapped, and they will also have guards following them.
This is a normal thing. If you have the conditions, be more comfortable, and if you don't have the conditions, endure the hardships. However, in order to train their children, some wealthy families let their children travel with students from ordinary families to endure hardships and hone their will. This is not the case.
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Even for hundreds of aristocratic students from Hongwen Hall, it was very difficult to travel. Prince Li Tan and others all went to endure hardships. They first took a boat to Longyou, then rode on horseback, made their own fires to cook, slept in tents at night, and arrived at Longyou.
In the future, I will go to work in the fields, visit mines, experience mining, and experience military camps. I will also stay in Chiling Fort for a few days to experience soldiers guarding the border, and then I will go to Dadou Valley to travel to Hexi.
Of course, someone will take care of them. Although the conditions are difficult, they will not be exhausted. After all, they are teenagers. They are only allowed to visit and experience, and they will not be allowed to mine themselves or train with soldiers.
When they are seventeen or eighteen years old, they will go out to study, and then they will really know how to work hard and train hard.
But even so, it would take two or three months for all the noble children to become dark and thin, but they have all been tempered, their knowledge has increased, their characters have become more determined, and they have more collective spirit.
But it is completely different when the female students of Hongwenkan Girls' School go on a trip. They are all precious girls from the families of third-rank officials, and they are all teenage ladies. In particular, there are three princesses among them, a total of forty-eight people. They study on the trip.
It’s not about going out to endure hardships. To be precise, it’s about going out to enjoy the mountains and rivers. It’s about going out to broaden your horizons and gain knowledge.
Therefore, their trip alarmed many departments, as well as many states and counties along the Yangtze and Han Rivers. The Internal Security Bureau sent a thousand people to the eight counties where they planned to disembark in advance for control. Not only were they accompanied by female professors, but also
Several maids and dozens of female guards.
They basically took the entire journey by boat. They first took ten thousand-stone passenger ships to Shangluo County, then spent a day in Shangluo County, and then took five three-thousand-stone passenger ships to Xiangyang and stayed in Xiangyang for three days.
Finally, we set off on the Tianzi's 30,000-stone Shuguang high-rise boat. Along the way, we will disembark in Jiangxia, Qiupu, Yangzhou, Jiangning, Suzhou, and Hangzhou.
The final destination is Hangzhou, and I also have the opportunity to go out to Hangzhou Bay to see the sea. The journey takes three to four months, and it is already summer when I return.
This is the difference between men and women. Boys have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of governing the country and maintaining the country in the future, so they have to endure hardships and work hard and experience people's livelihood.
The young ladies will get married in five or six years. Now traveling is a kind of compensation for them. The conditions are very comfortable and safe, so that their families can rest assured.
Li Ye's three daughters were so excited that they couldn't sleep well all night. Before dawn, the three of them came to Hongwenguan School to gather. Forty-eight female students all arrived.
Their luggage had been sent away in advance, and each of them only brought a small carry-on bag. They gathered together in twos and threes to discuss, and were particularly excited.
At this time, the teacher Xue Wenniang clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Girls, if you want to go to the toilet, go quickly, we are leaving immediately."
Xue Wenniang is the daughter of Xue Qian, a great scholar in Guanzhong. She married the son of Pei Xiangqing, the Minister of Rites, at the age of seventeen. Unfortunately, her husband died of illness when she was thirty. She became a professor in her father's Tongwenguan School, specializing in teaching the daughters of aristocratic families. In Chang'an
Very famous.
She was spotted by Queen Dugu Xinyue and invited to be the teacher, or principal, of Hongwenguan Girls' School.
Ten palace carriages had stopped at the door, and everyone got on the carriages. There were also six female professors, eight maids who took care of daily life, seven cooks, thirty female guards, plus the travel manager, who was also the teaching envoy.
Jiang Wenliang, amidst the chirping, a whole army of one hundred and twenty women set off in a mighty manner.
Their first target was Guangyuntan outside Dongcheng, from where they could take a boat to Shangzhou.
In early March, 40,000 Tang troops who rushed to Suiye arrived in Xizhou. Xizhou is Gaochang, which is today's Turpan Basin. This is also the area with the largest population and the most developed commerce in Beiting. The Tang army stationed 5,000 troops here.
The 40,000-strong army will rest here for five days before continuing towards the Yili River Valley.
There are southern and northern routes to get rid of broken leaves. The southern route starts from Dunhuang and enters the long Gobi Desert, then arrives at Puleihai, which is Lop Nur, and then along the Chihe River to Qiuci, the headquarters of Anxi Jiedu Prefecture, and continues
Continue walking along the southern foot of Tianshan Mountain and cross the Tianshan Mountains at Lingshan, not far from Suiye.
The northern route takes Beiting, enters the Yili River Valley, and finally reaches Suiye.
Relatively speaking, the army is more willing to take the northern route when going to Suiye. There are grasslands and lakes all the way, which are friendly to war horses and camels, especially the Yili River Valley and the snow-capped mountains and pastures. The scenery is extremely magnificent.
Caravans prefer to take the southern route. There are many small countries and many Sogdian settlements along the way, so they can do business along the way.
The 40,000-strong army agreed to join the Anxi Army at Suiye, so they took the northern route.
The army was going to rest in Xizhou for five days, so they set up camp outside Gaochang City. Businessmen immediately came upon hearing the news and set up stalls at the entrance of the military camp to do business, selling local specialties. It was very lively.
But the best business was in the red tent area at the far end, which was the brothel. More than a dozen brothels came to operate, dozens of red tents were set up, and soldiers lined up in long lines.
Let me say a little more here.
From ancient times to the present, in order to improve the morale of the army, rulers will find ways to solve the physiological needs of soldiers. The Jiaofangsi was originally used to reward and comfort the army. The high-quality prostitutes with outstanding appearance and good singing and dancing were used to reward the generals, while the general prostitutes were
It is a reward for soldiers. It is a national welfare and does not require soldiers to pay for it.
The second is local condolences. When the army is passing through the border, in order to ensure local peace, local officials will pay the government and organize a group of prostitutes to reward the army to ensure local peace.
Secondly, there are the military prostitutes. From the time they entered the military camp at a young age until their final death, they basically followed the army. This is the most common method in history. The fate of military prostitutes is generally quite miserable.
There are also commercial prostitutes who do business next to the military camp. This is second only to military prostitutes.
The last step is to rob the women of the enemy country. Wealth and women have always been hard currency. Soldiers rob young women of the enemy country not only to satisfy their own needs, but more importantly to sell them for money.
Sometimes we wonder, where did those kidnapped women end up? There were no soldiers marching with them, so they were actually sold.
If you are lucky, your family will redeem it with money; if you are unlucky, you will sell it to a trafficker.
But since Li Ye implemented the abolition of slavery, there has been no Jiaofangsi, and the military prostitute system was too inhumane, so it was abolished, leaving only commercial prostitutes, which is currently the most common form of the Tang army.
There are also two types of business prostitutes. One is the garrison business prostitutes, which is what is happening next to the Gaochang military camp. No matter where they are stationed, businessmen will come to them after hearing the news.
The other type is military prostitutes. There is no difference in form between military prostitutes and military prostitutes, but they are completely different in nature.
Military prostitutes are slaves, just like a machine. They have no autonomy and no income, except for occasional rewards from soldiers.
The purpose of working with military and commercial prostitutes is purely to make money. It is a business. They can leave when they want, stay as long as they want, and they can stop accepting customers if they are not feeling well. They do nothing but receive customers. Unlike military prostitutes, they do nothing.
There is laundry and cooking to do.
Under the abolition of slavery, the military prostitute system was abolished, and the Privy Council promulgated regulations on commercial prostitutes accompanying the military. One of the articles did not allow brothels to accompany the army, but only individual prostitutes.
The biggest advantage of this regulation is that the price is cheap, but the prostitutes who accompany the army can also earn a lot.
The generals are quite popular with the business prostitutes who accompany the army. They can not only solve the physical needs of the soldiers, but also solve psychological problems. For example, if the soldiers lose control of their emotions, if they bring the business prostitutes to comfort them, the soldiers will feel better. Another example is the soldiers.
Holding competitions and having business prostitutes dance on the stage can also lighten the atmosphere.
According to the regulations promulgated by the Privy Council, the generals must open a separate place for them, and are not allowed to camp together, and prepare a large tent and food for them.
Most of these military and commercial prostitutes are older prostitutes, around thirty years old, and they are their own proprietors. Their prices are cheap, twenty or thirty cents a time, but fortunately there are many soldiers, and there is no exploitation by the madam.
Therefore, the income is generally generous. If you work for ten years and save a pension, you can stop working when you are forty.
This time the army went to Suiye, and they were accompanied by more than two hundred merchant prostitutes who accompanied the army.
The army was stationed in Xizhou, and the business prostitutes who accompanied the army went shopping to buy makeup and powder during the holidays. The business was given to the business prostitutes stationed in the army, so there were long queues in front of the red tents of the brothels outside.
On the second day after being stationed in Xizhou, Li Fei Shouyu, the governor of Beiting, came from Tingzhou and brought the latest news about Sui Ye.