Day 2!

Yang Xiaoyu got up early in the morning and dressed neatly under Xu Xiaoxiao's careful service!

A blue robe was worn on him, a little more elegant, a little less immature, and the whole person looked very energetic.

Today is a good day for him to take office for the first time in a thousand households, and the pomp and circumstance naturally requires the officials of the town who live in a thousand households.

A spacious and luxurious carriage with more than twenty black-clad guards with knives standing around the body.

Chen Yingren, who was also dressed in black and wearing a sword, rode a tall horse and stopped on the side of the carriage.

Yang Xiaoyu walked into the carriage with great vigor and lifted the curtain to enter.

The carriage grunted slowly, and the wooden wheels creaked on the ground.

Yangzhou is a good place, where the richest merchants of the Ming Dynasty gathered, and also gathered the most beautiful scenery of the Ming Dynasty, 'Yangzhou Thin Horse'.

Yangzhou salt merchants are so rich that they can only be used to describe the rich landowners, but not the rich salt merchants in the world.

The salt merchants dominated the world's salt, and the gold and silver money were piled up like a mountain, and under their own economic conditions, they began to like some strange changes. After they were tired of the aesthetic of plump breasts and fat buttocks, the "thin horse" came into being.

It is not difficult to understand that the skinny horse is also a thin and sick horse, and the skinny horse is also a slender and weak woman. Taking thinness as beauty, satisfying the aesthetics of wealthy businessmen and wealthy people, and then making money, this is the allusion of Yangzhou thin horse.

For example, if you have a skinny horse, you must first buy a skinny girl who is naturally beautiful from a poor family, and then start raising a skinny horse. The raiser, that is, the training, is not enough to have a thin body. The skinny horse's demeanor is full of gestures, and he smiles. must strictly conform to the aesthetic taste of the wealthy businessmen.

For example, when walking, be light and do not make noise. For example, eyes. Learn to look with affection.

The skinny horses raised in this way sell quickly. The price is good, at that time, there were many people in Yangzhou City who were like cattle dealers, doing thin horse trading.

Among these people, there are Ya Po, and there are even Gang Bao "The Gang is a middleman who specializes in the trade of livestock, and they can't make money from making livestock, so they come to do the thin horse business." Moreover, this kind of thin horse trading, the market is optimistic, the profits are quite large, and the businessmen are profit-seeking, so they naturally flock to it. )

If the news of a businessman buying a skinny horse comes out, these tooth wives will target the buyer like flies attached to it, and they can't pounce on it.

Most of the "skinny horses" are children of poor families, at the age of seven or eight. Bought by human traffickers.

After that, a long period of devil training awaited them. The thinness of the "skinny horse" is due to the fact that it is born weak. It was also deliberately "starved". According to the congenital conditions, the "skinny horse" is divided into three, six, nine and so on.

Not all "skinny horses" can successfully marry into wealthy families. In the end, some of the remaining "skinny horses" had to be sent to the green. Lou Chu Pavilion, the chair door is smiling, and the voice is begging.

On the banks of the Qinhuai River, most of the singers of "Yangbang" are born as "thin horses". And those "thin horses" who are "lucky" to be accepted as concubines by wealthy businessmen and noble sons of official eunuchs do not necessarily live a happy life from now on.

Thin horses are divided into three classes, and girls with first-class qualifications will be taught to "play the piano and blow the flute." Poetry and writing, painting and Go. Play double-landed, wipe dominoes. all kinds of obscene tricks", as well as fine makeup skills and body training.

Girls with second-class qualifications can also read and play dot songs, but they are mainly trained to be financial and accounting talents, who know how to keep accounts and manage affairs, so as to assist businessmen in running the industry.

Girls with third-class qualifications are not allowed to read and write, but only learn some female celebrity, tailoring, or "frying and steaming cakes, cooking food, arranging fruits, and each with their own skills", and are trained to become qualified housewives. Of course, Ya Po tried her best to train the skinny horse in order to find a good buyer and sell it at a good price in the future.

When a woman is trained to be a slim girl by the tooth women, the price has increased hundreds of times, and some women with good looks can be sold for tens of thousands of taels of silver, and some women with average looks can only be sold for a few hundred taels of silver.

Most of these women who were trained to be thin horses came from poor families, and as long as they were beautiful and well-looking, there would be tooth women who came to the door with silver money to beg for money, and the good ones could be sold for a few hundred yuan, and the average ones were only a dozen yuan.

In their view, women are outsiders after all, and men are the lifeblood of the lineage.

Therefore, when some poor women were six or seven years old, they were sold by their fathers to Ya Po for silver taels.

And most of the women who are engaged in the Ya Po industry are some old women, and they are also willing to do these things, after all, the profits in it are too big, and they can't help but be tempted.

Yangzhou thin horses are famous all over the world!

Yang Xiaoyu had heard such a change in his previous life. A piece of history.

The reason for this is that the court officials ruled the country, and the officials and businessmen colluded and colluded, which made the salt merchants get rich overnight, and began to spend all day drinking, drunk and drunk, so that more and more inhuman entertainment appeared.

Yangzhou has a special geographical location, which is the way for soldiers to fight.

Therefore, this place has always been the world of soldiers and merchants, and a large part of the reason why Qinhuai courtesans are rampant is that there are many rich people here.

The streets are crowded with people, and the noise is endless!

Yang Xiaoyu was sitting in the car, and the sound of the guards outside opening the road kept coming into his ears.

About an hour later.

The carriage stopped in front of a vermilion gate with stone lions.

Yang Xiaoyu stepped out of the carriage and looked at the majestic mansion in front of him.

Within a radius of several miles, there is only this mansion, which looks a little arrogant.

Under the vermilion gate stood six men dressed in blue, with swords hanging from their waists, their eyes like swords, and they looked domineering.

"Hurry up and report, the new Thousand Households have arrived, let them come out to greet them!" Chen Yingren knew the rules of officialdom, and he also knew that Yang Xiaoyu was coming to Jinyiwei for the first time and didn't understand the way inside, so before Yang Xiaoyu could speak, he had already shouted at the six men guarding the door.

Among the six men in blue, a man who was about forty years old and a few others looked at each other, then took a step forward and asked in a loud voice: "Since it is the new Lord of Qianhu, then there must be an order from the Jinyi Guard, and please take out the order, otherwise, the villain will not dare to disturb other adults at will." ”

"Look!" Chen Yingren took out the order of the ministry and gave the middle-aged man a moment to look at it from a distance of dozens of steps.

"Please wait, the villain will go and report!" From such a distance, the middle-aged man couldn't see what was written on the appointment at all, but he had already known a few days ago that the new Qianhu was about to take office here, and besides, Jinyiwei was famous, and he didn't believe that anyone dared to pretend to be Jinyiwei Qianhu.

The middle-aged man pushed open the door and trotted in to report.

Yang Xiaoyu looked as motionless as a mountain, standing quietly in front of the mansion, not squinting, and exuding a posture of not being angry and arrogant.

It's a long time later.

A middle-aged, black-faced man in a flying fish suit was the first to walk out.

He was followed by three men who were also wearing flying fish suits.

The three men were all about thirty years old, the man in the middle had a fiery red face and a strong body, about eight feet tall, and the man on the right had a black and red face, a thin body, and his eyes were shining, giving people the impression of a ghost.

The man on the left has a slightly yellow face, eyes like an eagle, a cold expression and a yellowish complexion, as if he is sick.

"This is Yang Baihu, this official Li Ming, is the deputy Qianhu of the Thousand Households!" The middle-aged black-faced man walked down the steps and smiled at Yang Xiaoyu.

Yang Xiaoyu knows the rules of officialdom, and he smiles at everyone, and he will do the same, yes, he showed a smile and said: "This official Yang Xiaoyu was ordered by the imperial court to come to Yangzhou Qianhu to take office. ”

"This is the official document of the Ministry of Officials, Deputy Li Qianhu can take a look!" Yang Xiaoyu reached out and took the order from Chen Yingren's hand, and said with a smile.

Li Ming's eyes flickered slightly, and he said with a smile: "Lord Yang came to Yangzhou to take office, and the official is very welcome, but as for the official documents, the official will not read them." ”

Yang Xiaoyu listened to Li Ming's mouthful of officials, and smiled coldly in his heart, an official from the fifth grade claimed to be his official in front of him, an official of the fifth grade, didn't this clearly provoke him!

"Please Lord Li see clearly, this is an official document of the imperial court, not a private message from someone Yang!" Yang Xiaoyu's face changed, his expression was cold, and he said without a trace of color in his mouth.

"Then the official will take a look!" A flash of contempt flashed in Li Ming's eyes, and he stretched out his hand to take the order from the officials, glanced at it a few times in a hurry, and then handed it to the other three people behind him.

After the three of them read the appointment order respectively, they handed over the official document to Yang Xiaoyu.

"Lord Yang, this official has set up a banquet in the thousands of households to catch the wind and wash the dust for Lord Yang!" Li Ming looked down at Yang Xiaoyu, with a posture that I am stronger than you, uncle.

"That's fine, the official came from afar, and he wanted to drink some wine to wash away the bad luck on his body!" After Yang finished, he waved his big hand and took a cadre of guards to enter the Thousand Households.

"Lord Yang can go in, and the next person doesn't need it, after all, this is the public mansion, not the private residence of Lord Yang's family!" Li Ming stood up to stop Yang Xiaoyu from going to the road, and said with a smile.

"Manager Chen, this official is the chief official of the Thousand Households, but he can't even enter the mansion where he works, you say, what can I do?" Yang Xiaoyu ignored Li Ming, who was blocking the way, and turned to Chen Yingren behind him and asked with a smile.

Chen Yingren's sharp eyes swept over Li Ming and the three men behind him, and said with a sneer: "If you go back to your lordship, since someone doesn't want you to come here to take office, you don't have to do this drudgery, just report directly to the ministry and transfer someone else to take office." ”

"Good idea, just do it, to be honest, this official doesn't want a five-grade official hat!" Yang Xiaoyu was very satisfied with Chen Yingren's reply, with a smile on his face, he wanted to turn around and leave.

"Lord Yang, this official didn't refuse to let you take office, it was you who wanted to bring your subordinates into a thousand households, and this official is also a businessman, and I ask Lord Yang to forgive your sins!" Li Ming didn't dare to let Yang Xiaoyu stab this matter to the ministry, and when the time came, Jinyiwei's family law would not recognize people!

"You are a mouthful, an official, let me ask if the Ming Dynasty has no etiquette? This is disrespectful to the officials, and according to the law, he should be punished with a rod for fifty years, so as to set an example! Yang Xiaoyu's face flashed with a touch of ruthlessness, and he said coldly. (To be continued)