Some people say that the so-called underworld should have four characteristics: first, rooted in the dark side of society, like moss under a rock; Second, it is possible to coordinate and communicate with the government, and there are both 'fighting' and 'peace', rather than simply 'fighting'. This is very important, and the gangsters who leave this point are at most robbers, not the underworld. Thirdly, there is its own armament. Finally, have your own purpose and beliefs.

If you look back at this standard, you will find that the history of the underworld is almost the same length as the history of Chinese letters. For example, the Momen in the pre-Qin era basically conformed to the form of the underworld, but it could only be regarded as the embryonic stage. Gangsters in the real sense were born in the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented the 'salt and iron official camp', and the iron is good to say, the imperial court treats the salt that the people can't do without for a day, as a monopoly item to make huge profits, and it really lacks great virtue.

As a result, a large number of smuggled salt sellers were engaged in the business of killing heads, so naturally they had to be organized and armed, and they also needed the support of the government and the princes, and gangs in the real sense appeared. Later, the salt and iron monopoly was gradually liberalized, allowing private capital to intervene, the underworld began to transform, the gangster color became weaker and weaker, and the commercial atmosphere became more and more heavy.

However, these gangs move between the upper class and the rivers and lakes, and are far away from the ordinary people, so there is still a big gap between them and the first definition of the underworld - rooted in the dark side of society. The underworld that really conforms to the current concept was born in the Tang Dynasty, and big cities such as Chang'an and Luoyang appeared in the Tang Dynasty, as well as the market class.

Compared with the rural areas where farming and weaving are the industry and the people are pure, the unstable factors are more likely to occur in the cities. Including unemployed employees, shabby scoundrels, idlers, ruffians, charlatans, prostitutes, beggars and vagrants...... These people are at the bottom of society, with low status, living in poverty, and they are unwilling or unable to sell their labor for a living, so they engage in illegal activities, and there is an idiom 'scoundrels' to refer to them. When this illegal activity becomes organized, the real underworld is born.

By the Song Dynasty, the commodity economy had developed unprecedentedly, slavery ceased to exist, peasants could move freely, and large numbers of people poured into the cities. Naturally, the scale of the scoundrels in the market is also getting bigger and bigger, and the scale of the underworld is also expanding accordingly. However, the Song Dynasty's crackdown on the underworld was incomparable to that of the previous dynasty.

Especially in the capital city of Kaifeng, no organization with the nature of the underworld is allowed, and the people are forbidden to carry weapons, and the neighborhood mutual protection system is adopted, which makes it difficult for gangsters and their families to move in the sun.

In the capital city with hundreds of thousands of garrisons, if you want to resist the government, you can't even think about it. As a result, the underworld in Bianjing City was either moved to the outskirts of Beijing to operate in areas with weak control, or to underground ditches.

Speaking of the underground ditches in Bianjing, that's really ...... It's spectacular. This is also to blame Zhao Guangyi, who did not let his brother move the capital back then, and as a result, Kaifeng City, a broken place with gentle terrain, has no danger to defend during wartime, not to mention, as long as it rains in peacetime, there will be waterlogging.

Because of this, the builders of the past generations have tried their best to build underground drainage facilities for Bianjing. After more than 100 years of construction, a few feet underground in Bianjing City has formed a spider web-like underground waterway. The main roads of these waterways are generally as high as one zhang and one zhang wide, and at some hubs, there are even two or three zhang high, the size of a football field. Not only can you walk, but you can also run horses, and you can also hold boats in the rainy season.

This is not an exaggeration, the Song Dynasty urban drainage technology was very developed, Jiangxi Ganzhou even a thousand years later still used the Song Dynasty built sewer system, and in the Song Dynasty Ganzhou City was placed in Bianliang, almost equivalent to the later Mohe River to Beijing......

It was this superb sewerage technology that enabled China to have cities with a population of more than one million in the Song Dynasty, and until 700 years later, the twin cities of Paris and London, which were lit up by the so-called light of civilization, were still filthy like large toilets, with manure flowing everywhere and stinking in the sky, not to mention that there were no sewers or even thatched pits, and people would quietly find a corner to solve when they were in a hurry...... But we are not qualified to laugh at others, because at that time, I was a citizen of the Qing Dynasty, and he was also a virtuous person.

And said that the two most cohesive dynasties in China, why is the gap so big?

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This criss-crossing underground labyrinth has become a refuge for the underworld in Bianjing City, so it has also been nicknamed 'Sanssouci Cave'. Every year, I don't know how many desperate people enter this huge underground world from the entrances of hidden ditches, and become a member of Sanssouci Cave......

However, the rats hidden in the ground also need to go to the ground to find food to eat, not to mention that everyone joins the Sanssouci Cave, not just to solve the problem of food and clothing, but to hope that there will be wine, meat and women - these, the underground does not grow. It can only be obtained through the earth.

Wine and meat and even wearing gold and silver are easy to solve...... If the gambling houses, brothels, tooth shops, and docks on the ground want to operate normally, they must pay protection fees, and some of them make a living, and even directly send innocent subordinates to operate them. There are also many insignificant ways to make money to satisfy their material desires...... At least the materialism of the middle and upper classes.

But there is only one thing they can't buy, and that is women......

Although in Bianliang City, brothels are like restaurants necessary for life, they are everywhere and everywhere, which really corresponds to the ancient adage of 'food and sex'. It is said that there are as many as 20,000 prostitutes in Bianjing, but the vast majority of them are 'official prostitutes'...... Official prostitutes are not prostitutes owned by the government, but refer to the meaning of sex workers registered with the government, that is, the so-called 'happy book'.

This means that, on the one hand, they have to serve the government for free in many cases...... However, it does not include the provision of ** services. On the other hand, their personal safety will also be protected by the government. In the Tang Dynasty, it may not be illegal for officials to play with, rape, or even kill official prostitutes, but in the Song Dynasty, let alone kill prostitutes, it was illegal for officials to make official prostitutes sleep in bed...... Outside of Bianjing, of course, this article seems to be a non-existent one.

But at least in Bianjing, if any brothel loses a few girls, it will be a big problem......

In addition, there are also so-called private prostitutes, who are not registered as prostitutes and attract prostitutes in their own homes, that is, the so-called 'half-closed doors', and they have the status of private households, and their life safety is naturally more guaranteed.

Because, forcing prostitutes to come down and serve them, not for nothing, but in small numbers, far from satisfying the demand. It can only be sold by plunder...... The Song Dynasty prohibited human trafficking, and parents would not send their children to unreliable families as slaves, which naturally led to a huge manpower shortage, so the plundering of human beings in the Song Dynasty was very rampant.

The main source of the population they plundered was the remote places of Hebei Road and Liangguang Road, as well as those areas that had been plagued by floods and droughts...... There is naturally some dirtiness behind this, and I will not press it here.

There is also a source, which is to kidnap women from major night markets, and pick beautiful and well-educated small family jasper or big maids to start. Naturally, the number is very small, and it is mainly for the eldest to enjoy.

Hou San is such a kidnapper, he sleeps in the Sanssouci Cave during the day, and when it gets dark, he wanders the night market, looking for a suitable target. He used to be a prank, and he also had a nickname called 'Golden Monkey', and he stabbed the other person in a brawl. Fearing the punishment, he fled into the Sanssouci Cave.

After entering, I realized that although the name of Sanssouci Cave is very beautiful, it is like hell compared to the heavenly Bianjing City on earth. This is not only the case for the sex slaves and slaves who have been plundered in, but also for their low-level minions.

Fortunately, he is still clever and a native of Tokyo, and after months of torture in purgatory, a boss takes a fancy to him and asks him if he should be a kidnapper.

In order to keep his chrysanthemums, Hou San didn't even want to agree to come down, first gave the master Wangfeng a hand, and then the master was arrested by the government, so he took over as the master. Two months after the Chinese New Year, he has already taken his apprentices and abducted three women, as long as he abducts two more, he can be promoted to the hall master, and from then on, he can not rush to the front line, and he can eat and drink spicy women......

It's just that he is young and impatient after all, and the frequency of committing crimes is too high, which has attracted the attention of the government. Throughout March and April, there was an official who patrolled the state bridge all night long, causing him to stay underground even with the moon cat, and occasionally come out for a while, but he could only breathe in a hurry, and he didn't have time to commit the crime.

In the past few days, the patrol of the government has finally relaxed, and Hou San can't wait to bring a few apprentices up, ready to hurry up and turn the two again, and everything will be fine.

People are really forgetful, and it's only been two months since the disappearance of a serial girl. The Zhouqiao Night Market is full of women from all walks of life...... Among them, there are many that make Hou San's eyes shine.

'Why don't you do it early tonight.' Hou San knew that if he started today, it was likely that even the flies would be male in the Zhouqiao Night Market tomorrow, so if he wanted to do it, he had to hurry up: "It's best to ring twice a night, and it will turn the world upside down tomorrow." ’

At this time, his pair of thief eyes stared at a pair of little lovers, and saw that the women were very handsome, and the men were also weak. Hou San put away his thoughts and stared at the two of them.

He followed them and wandered around the night market. The woman seemed to have snuck out and was very obsessed with the man, but after only about half an hour, the woman was about to go back. The man hadn't shopped enough, but the beauty had a life, so he had to accompany her out of the night market......