The group entered the restaurant, and this time they did not settle in the lobby, but asked for a private room for lunch.

After all, it was a limelight on the dock just now, and if you eat in the lobby, there will be onlookers who can see it, at least if you know the identity of Jinyiwei, it's not good.

During the meal, Emperor Chongzhen did not speak, except for Yuan Guifei, others generally did not speak. And Yuan Guifei's temperament is quiet, it is possible that what happened just now is still affecting her, so she didn't speak. There was almost no sound in this private room.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay attention to this, but was also thinking about things in his heart, thinking about what happened just now.

Human trafficking has been legal since ancient times. This kind of thing is still a bit difficult for the souls of the future generations to accept. But for this era, it is customary. According to the nature of Emperor Chongzhen, it is necessary to directly prohibit human trafficking. I didn't let go of the buyer just now, and it was also because of this kind of afterlife.

Of course, with his current prestige, it wouldn't be a big deal if he really ordered a ban. However, Emperor Chongzhen was not willing to act so arbitrarily. For the time being, it is a legal transaction, and simply using an executive order is not the best solution.

However, even if it is legal human trafficking, it will breed a lot of gray areas, and even lead to crime, etc., for this, the ultimate goal is to make the human trafficking disappear and prohibit it.

Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, and quickly thought of a simple way, which was to increase the tax on human trafficking and increase the cost of human trafficking.

If one of the prerequisites of human trafficking in the past was that they could not survive, or their living conditions were too poor, they voluntarily sold themselves as slaves, concubines, and others. For today's Daming, the economy is developing at a high speed, as long as you are not too stupid, not too stupid, you can always find job opportunities to support yourself. No matter how bad it is, aren't there still vassal countries to go to!

Nowadays, there are more and more feudal feudal countries, and each feudal state needs a large number of Ming people to enrich its ruling population to suppress the local natives. It can be said that the people of the Ming Dynasty basically have no premise of human trafficking.

Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about this while eating. Suddenly, there was a loud noise, which made him have to interrupt his train of thought and return to reality, and after a little listening, he knew what was going on.

It came from the private room next door, and listening to the voice, it was a group of young men shouting.

"Chen, everyone played this piano well, let's have another one!"

"Everyone Liu sings well, all are good, all are good!"

"Haha, today's Oiran, but it's hard to tell!"

"Everyone, everyone, that's good, let's compare poems to see which one of you ......"

“……”

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen's brows furrowed slightly, and his side face facing the private room next door, Liu Xingzuo approached Emperor Chongzhen and whispered: "Next door should be a local scholar drinking and having fun, and they all invite local famous prostitutes to accompany him." Or the villain will inform them not to be so loud? ”

Emperor Chongzhen still frowned slightly, looked at a Jinyi guard captain and asked, "The scholars in Yangzhou Mansion are all like this?" ”

As far as the matter next door is concerned, Liu Xingzuo and Emperor Chongzhen's views are basically completely different.

In Liu Xingzuo's eyes, this is a normal thing, but they are too noisy and affect the emperor, so he just wants to make it quiet over there.

On Emperor Chongzhen's side, he thought of the atmosphere for the first time.

Every time Emperor Chongzhen went to a place, Liu Xingzuo would send a local brocade guard to accompany him, which was a little different from the previous patrols. It can also be said that this is a little experience summed up after the previous patrol. After all, if you have a local Jinyi guard with you, you won't be ignorant of local things, or you can shorten the time to know the local situation.

The Jinyi Guard Lieutenant asked by Emperor Chongzhen was naturally from Yangzhou Mansion. Hearing Emperor Chongzhen's question, he immediately replied respectfully: "Back to the master's words, now the scholars in Yangzhou Mansion have been divided. There are some people who read books, and they meet on weekdays and are already discussing scientific and technological knowledge. But most of the scholars, as before, drank and had fun with prostitutes, and were jealous. However, there is also a difference, and now there are fewer criticisms of the court's major affairs. “

This side of the south of the Yangtze River, including Yangzhou and other places, used to be the territory of the Donglin Party, and later the territory of the Fushe. But with the exile of Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, the four sons of the Restoration Society were also attacked last year, especially after one of them, Fang Yizhi, immersed himself in scientific and technological knowledge, and there were fewer things to criticize the DPRK situation.

Emperor Chongzhen was very concerned about the atmosphere in Jiangnan, and immediately asked: "What is the proportion of the old gathering atmosphere and the gathering atmosphere of discussing scientific and technological knowledge?" ”

For him, is a country going strong, or is it going to decline? One of the key points is to look at the younger generation of readers. Of course, the books that this scholar reads include the Four Books and the Five Classics and scientific and technological knowledge.

The wind of luxury cannot be long, and the wind of erosion cannot be had! This requires both edification and guidance.

After all, the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty has been very corrupt, even if Emperor Chongzhen has been working hard to promote scientific and technological knowledge in recent years, he must be down-to-earth. But this kind of thing is not something that Emperor Chongzhen said could be changed at once. If it were possible, Emperor Chongzhen would naturally not miss any opportunity to change and guide the atmosphere.

Hearing Emperor Chongzhen's question, the captain of the brocade guard hesitated for a moment, but he understood that for the emperor, he had to tell the truth, so he said: "About one-twentieth of the proportion is mainly to discuss scientific and technological knowledge. ”

After he said this, he peeked at the emperor's face, and then hurriedly added: "The situation in each place is different, and other places are still a little higher than Yangzhou." ”

When Emperor Chongzhen first heard it, he thought that after all, it had not been many years to promote scientific and technological knowledge, and with this result, he thought that it was okay. However, when he heard the announcement of the captain of the brocade guard, he let out a strange "um" in his heart.

The captain of the brocade guard knew the emperor's "um" and asked why this situation would occur. After thinking about it for a while, he replied respectfully: "My subordinates think that this is related to the land of Yangzhou. ”

"Oh?" When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he was a little curious, put down his chopsticks, and asked intently, "How do you say this?" ”

Obviously, this Jinyi guard captain has made a summary, so he immediately replied: "Now the imperial imperial examination has included scientific and technological knowledge. This matter is a top priority for scholars, so it is only natural that they should be concerned about scientific and technological knowledge. However, most of those famous prostitutes in the land of wind and moon only learned the previous set, and their scientific and technological knowledge did not have much impact on them. And those scholars gather to recruit prostitutes, and naturally they will not talk about scientific and technological knowledge during the banquet, and most of them are the same as before. ”

Liu Xingzuo had been listening silently on the side, and it was not until this time that his subordinate stopped talking, and he added: "Since ancient times, romantic people and famous prostitutes have mostly helped each other, and most of those famous people have to use famous prostitutes to become famous, and those famous prostitutes also rely on the pursuit of famous prostitutes. This is still the most elegant. The second, mainly female, is actually in conflict with down-to-earth learning......"

Listening to Liu Xingzuo's supplementary explanation, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly remembered a summary of a phenomenon, that is, there are more hedonistic phenomena, and the wind of erosive luxury prevails. In this way, how can the country be strong? Generally speaking, most of them are at the end of the dynasty, so this is the case!

Hehe, the land of fireworks, I remember! Emperor Chongzhen thought in his heart, so he decided to clean up the pleasure places in the country. The so-called romantic person, I sit in the position of the emperor, and I want to change the meaning of this romantic word!

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately thought of the scene on the dock. Perhaps it is precisely because of the prevalence of erosive luxury that there are thin horses in Yangzhou, and beautiful girls who have been abducted and sold since childhood or by other means to become a member of the land of fireworks.

Not only that, Emperor Chongzhen quickly thought of one of the purposes of his coming out this time, which was to see the actual situation of women all over the country, the situation of liberating half of the human labor force, and the relationship between the issue of women's power status.

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen thought a lot.

He was thinking about it, but the next door was more lively, and the voices of men and women were getting more and more presumptuous. It's still noon, and there's a tendency to prostitute during the day.

This is the reader of the moment?

On the part of the Department of Education, such behavior must be severely punished, and it will be severely punished once it is discovered!

"Brother Liu is promoted, come on, come on, everyone Chen and Brother Liu will have one, haha!"

"That's right, you have to serve Brother Liu comfortably, he is now a member of the newly established yamen, but he has something to do with you!"

“……”

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen frowned even more, and couldn't help asking, "Is there an official next door involved?" ”

The local Jinyi Guard Captain was also a little unable to answer, so he asked, "My subordinates don't dare to confirm it." ”

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand when he heard it and asked him to verify. Liu Xingzuo on the side played to Emperor Chongzhen: "Master, I'm afraid it's true." Officials practice, and there is also a custom of letting famous prostitutes accompany them, and it is also common for officials to go in and out of the place of fireworks. ”

He has mastered the Jinyi Guard, although he is a northerner, but he also knows what the civil situation in the north and south is?

As soon as Liu Xingzuo said this, Emperor Chongzhen remembered it, for example, the famous Qin Huai Bayan in later generations, many of whom married famous people at that time as concubines, and these celebrities, such as Qian Qianyi, Gong Dingyu and others, were all court officials.

Judging from the original history, these officials estimated that they had a lot of pleasure and had no integrity at all. The famous water is too cold, let's not say it, just say that this Gong Dingyu, as the military department of the Chongzhen Dynasty, should be a model of morality, but the king of Chuang came to welcome the king, the Manchu Qing came to welcome the Manchu Qing, and even under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he has been the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Gong's Yuan and his wife Tong are far better than Gong Dingyu's conduct and virtuousness. She was twice named a widow by the Ming Dynasty, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Gong Dingyu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, she not only lived alone in Hefei, did not follow Gong into Beijing, and refused to receive the reward of the Qing Dynasty (Gu Hengbo, one of the eight Yan, was named Mrs. Yipin), which was in stark contrast to Gong's behavior.

In fact, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, officials are naturally not allowed to enter the land of fireworks, but with the corruption of the atmosphere since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, this regulation has become a virtual reality. Emperor Chongzhen thought about this in his heart, and regardless of the situation next door, he entered the chat group and chatted privately with Wang Chengen, the governor of Dongchang, and said: "Dongchang counts the records of officials from all over the country entering and leaving the place of fireworks!" ”

Then, he immediately contacted Sun Chuanting, the secretary of the ministry, and said: "The appointment of officials, especially those involving the people's livelihood, private morality is very important. If private morality is not cultivated, it will have a great impact on the atmosphere of a place, and Sun Qing should pay attention to it! ”

As for what to focus on, it is emphasized by the emperor, so it is needless to say.

Both Wang Chengen and Sun Chuanting responded to Emperor Chongzhen as soon as possible, and immediately began to arrange this matter. They know that it seems that there will be another big shock in the Ming officialdom.

The reason why it is again is because the previous scientific and technological knowledge had a great impact on the officialdom, and the appointment of middle and low-grade officials on the part of the Ministry of Officials was biased towards officials who attached importance to scientific and technological knowledge; Among the high-ranking officials, several officials in important positions are labeled as scientific and technological knowledge, which can be seen from this.

Now that the crackdown on officials and Fengyue places is about to begin again, this is also a great impression on officials, as far as the current background is concerned.

In the private room next door, the captain of the brocade guard broke in directly, and immediately quieted down a little, after all, an unknown person suddenly came in, which naturally disturbed their Yaxing.

The Jinyi Guard Lieutenant just glanced at it, then frowned, didn't speak, retreated, and went back to report to Emperor Chongzhen. He didn't expect that there was actually more than one official in this group of people.

The scholars at these gatherings were a little unhappy when they were disturbed in this way, after all, they were having fun, and no one wanted a stranger to suddenly break in, without saying a word, without even apologizing, and after watching their monkey play, they retreated again.

So, a few of them who had drunk a little too much and were having fun were not happy, and chased them out on the table, wanting to ask for an explanation. However, Emperor Chongzhen's private room was guarded by the captain of the brocade guard, and they couldn't get in at all, so they immediately made a fuss outside.

Emperor Chongzhen originally heard that the captain of the Jinyi Guard came back to tell him that more than one official next door was involved in this kind of thing, so he was a little unhappy, and when he heard that there was a commotion at the door, he didn't want to eat, so he instructed Liu Xingzuo: "Take down those officials, send them to the Yangzhou Metropolitan Procuratorate, and punish the crime according to the law!" ”

It is inconvenient for the local yamen to take care of this matter, but it just so happens that the duty of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is to manage the officials, and it can just be managed, and it will be better than the factory guards to directly take action and let the civil officials repair the civil officials.