Nanjing, Qinhuai Flower Street.

Zhu Yuanzhang built the Fuller House here, and arrested the wives and daughters of enemies or criminals to be official prostitutes in the Fuller Academy.

It was used exclusively for the entertainment of wealthy merchants and magnates to obtain money, and officials were forbidden to enter.

In Fuller Funki, men are required to wear a green turban, a red shirt around their waist, and fur boots on their feet. Women wear black hats, black hats, and no fancy clothes. When they walked, they could only walk on both sides of the street, not in the middle of the street.

Fuller House was relocated to the vicinity of Wuding Bridge, and with this as the center, various Qinlou Chu pavilions began to appear, and finally evolved into an entertainment street.

Namely, Qinhuai Flower Street.

The funniest is the Huiguang Temple, a temple that was built from leftover materials from the Great Bao'en Temple. In the Wanli period, it was surrounded by many green buildings, testing the willpower of the monks all day long, and had no choice but to move the temple elsewhere.

Li Xiangjun returned to Flower Street, where she had lived for many years.

This time, Li Xiangjun was accompanied by a team of officials.

"Sister, are you just shouting along the street?" Li Xiangjun asked.

Li Wanchun smiled: "You don't have to shout all the time, you always take turns shouting, otherwise your voice will be hoarse in just one day." ”

Two-thirds of the one hundred and eight female generals in "Datong Female Generals" are already married. After getting married, most of them choose to teach their husbands and children, and those who are unable to have children adopt children, and very few even acquiesce to their husbands taking concubines.

Li Wanchun is one of the few people who is not married, and she is almost thirty years old, because she has a relatively high vision.

The high is not successful, the low is not enough, and it has been delayed until now.

"That'...... Then I shouted. Li Xiangjun said.

Li Wanchun smiled: "Shout." ”

The official sent to post notices along the street, and Li Xiangjun picked up the iron horn and shouted: "Sisters and brothers of Qinhuai Flower Street, the world is the same, the good and the poor are equal. If you want to be good, don't be afraid of the bustard's mother. said that if you want to stop it, you can report it to the official immediately......"

It was the morning, and many of the green buildings had not yet opened.

Li Xiangjun's voice came out, and in an instant, several windows opened, and then the doors were opened, and more than 20 men and women rushed out one after another.

Not only prostitutes, but also turtle teapots.

A man stood on the side of the street, lit a green turban with a candle, removed the red jacket on his body, and walked quickly to Li Xiangjun's side: "Sisters, I have heard that Zhao Tianwang has a good government, and I have been thinking about how to be good these days." ”

Li Wanchun said with a smile: "You can go to the county government to settle down first, and you will be a good person when your household registration falls." Even if he still stays in the Qinglou, he still belongs to a good person, and there are no untouchables under Mr. Zhao's rule. ”

"It's really good," the man laughed, "I don't know what to do after I became good, but I can write and calculate, but I don't know the four books and the five classics." ”

Li Wanchun said: "Since I can write and calculate, I will sign up for the errand service, and maybe I can be a messenger at the police station." ”

There are government offices and county offices in Nanjing, and these officials have long been rotten, and they belong to hooligans with official status, and many of them have to be thrown to mining.

Public security, fire protection, sanitation and other work are all in charge of the Five Cities Terracotta Division. But this institution is also rotten, and many streets in the prosperous and wealthy city of Nanjing are dirty and messy, and it is completely up to the neighbors to clean them themselves.

The first thing Zhao Han had to do was to free the slaves and eliminate the distinction between good and low. Then recruit local lowly people to do errand labor, and do a good job of public security and sanitation in the city.

Li Xiangjun continued to promote along the street, and when he came to a place, Kou Baimen suddenly opened the door and rushed out.

"Can generations of prostitutes be good?" Kou Baimen asked anxiously.

Li Xiangjun smiled and said: "Under Mr. Zhao's rule, there is no distinction between good and bad. ”

Kou Baimen immediately turned around and shouted at Qinglou: "Dad, mother, come out quickly, you can live a serious life in the future!" ”

The mother is the mother, and the father may be the father.

Kou Baimen is even worse than Li Xiangjun, Li Xiangjun was born in a military attache family, while Kou Baimen is a prostitute for generations.

Her father is a musician, her mother is a prostitute, her household registration is linked to the Teaching Workshop Division, and her work in the Qinglou is an outsourcing business, and she also receives door-to-door service orders from large customers.

Kou Baimen is fifteen years old, and her job is to work as a maid for prostitutes, and in another year she should be listed for business.

Not long after, Kou Baimen's parents came out together.

Li Wanru asked about the situation and said: "You only need to go to the county government to settle down, and if you have a household registration, you will be a good person." If you want to continue your business, you can apply for a license for the Song House and Dance Pavilion ......"

"Not necessarily!" Father Kou hurriedly said, "I will continue to be a musician to support my family, and my wife and daughter will have to make a living." ”

"Whatever you want." Li Wanru said.

Nanjing's urban population is too large, and there are a large number of unemployed homeless people, Zhao Han cannot give them land, and he is not able to solve the problem of employment for the time being.

can only clean up the officials who have done a lot of evil, clean up those ruffians and hooligans, and send them all to the mountains to mine. Then the government recruits some civil servants, who can read a few words and take the exam.

As for those who are illiterate, they have already returned to their hometowns with the soldiers and civilians, and they will next have to transport grain from Hunan to provide disaster relief, and they can recruit homeless people as coolies to transport grain for the time being.

To tell the truth, many domestic slaves and happy households are good, and they really can't find a job for a while, and there are only a few who can be admitted to the civil service.

Nanjing's Qinhuai Flower Street cannot be directly banned, but it is necessary to order each family to apply for a song house license, and in principle, it is not allowed to engage in the leather and meat business, and it is not allowed to restrict the personal freedom of employees.

Of course, the change is still obvious.

Prostitutes who make a lot of money, especially those who are famous, choose to live a good life. They don't worry about life, they just want to be serious people.

The propaganda team left, and the Kou family discussed behind closed doors.

Kou's mother said: "I have heard that Jiangxi is open-minded and does not dislike the lowly family. The daughter is fifteen years old, she is still a virgin, and she will definitely be able to find her in-laws. Don't count on the big officials, go find a matchmaker, inquire about officials or officers, and make a matchmaker to achieve a marriage. ”

"Marrying an official, isn't that a hard life?" Father Kou disagreed.

Kou Mu said: "Zhao Tianwang's officials are different, and he can be an official in the future." Looking for those officials from Jiangxi, maybe they can be the magistrate in the future, and then the daughter will be the magistrate of the county. We also have some savings in our family, and we will give more dowry when the time comes, and the son-in-law is just a small official, so I will be happy in my heart. This vision should take a long-term view, today's officials, tomorrow's officials, we will not lose. ”

There are really a lot of people who have this kind of idea, and the matchmaker business in Nanjing is booming.

These matchmakers were guarding near the yamen, and when they heard an official speaking a foreign language, they stepped forward to ask if they were married. And the gambling swear that although the girl was born in a prostitute family, she is definitely still a virgin.

Not only that, but the matchmakers also went to the guards of the city to talk to them, asking which soldiers had not yet taken wives. As long as it is a military position above the rank of chief, the daughters of prostitutes are willing to marry.

Bian Yujing, one of the eight Yans of Qin Huai, was only thirteen years old at this time, and his parents were looking for someone to match.

Bian Yujing is also the daughter of a prostitute.

Whatever comes from a family of eunuchs, they are all beautified by literati. Wu Weiye's article flickered, and Zou Shu was much more straightforward, making it clear that Bian Yujing was a "family of singers".

Whether it was Lehu Congliang in Qinhuai Flower Street, or the liberation of the slaves in the city, in fact, there was not much movement.

For most people, although the lowly status has become a good one, the content of the work has not changed.

Because the prices in Nanjing were too high and it was difficult to find a job, the house slave became a helper and continued to be an underservant honestly.

In the British Industrial Revolution, it was necessary to carry out agricultural reform and land enclosure movements first, and force the peasants to the cities before they could develop industry. In Daming, this step can be skipped directly, and the population in the big cities has exploded. There is only a shortage of jobs, not a shortage of people.

The campaign to clean up urban hukou was carried out rapidly.

Zhao Han took some of the newly released data, and suddenly felt a headache, there are too many unemployed homeless people in Nanjing!

Outside the city, the land of the nobles and officers is being distributed to tenants and military households, and the number of acres of land is still not enough.

Wu Yingji said: "In the general town, there is a lot of wasteland in the south of the Yangtze River, but the field endowment should be treated differently. ”

"There is a lot of wasteland in Jiangnan?" Zhao Han felt incomprehensible.

Wu Yingji explained in detail: "The taxes in Jiangnan were too heavy, and after the Yongle Dynasty, a large number of peasant households fled, a large number of cultivated land was abandoned, and powerful households took the opportunity to forcibly occupy abandoned land. Emperor Xuande's reform attracted displaced people to cultivate wasteland to prevent powerful families from annexing land. ”

"During the Jiajing period, there was a Juntian restructuring in the south of the Yangtze River, which was fruitful at that time. But in the Wanli period, a large amount of land was abandoned. The first is that the land endowment is too heavy, and the second is that the water conservancy is in disrepair. ”

"There is also the supply of grain, and there are many cotton fields in the south of the Yangtze River, but the grain must be levied. In the beginning, farmers had to sell cotton and buy rice, which was handed over to the government, and they were subjected to multiple exploitations during this period. After many years of trouble, he could sell cotton for silver. ”

"During this period, a lot of farmland was abandoned. The government can only recruit displaced people to reclaim wasteland, and as long as the wasteland is reclaimed, local farmers are exempt from paying taxes for five years, and non-local farmers are exempt from taxes for ten years. Guess what kind of mess this will make? ”

Zhao Han thought for a while and said: "The gentry colluded with officials to use ripe fields as wasteland to evade taxes. ”

"Exactly," Wu Yingji said with a smile, "but there is something even more chaotic, as soon as the tax exemption period is up, the peasants will immediately abandon the land again!" ”

Zhao Han was stunned when he heard this, and then shook his head and smiled bitterly.

It was the peasants' own fields, and the self-cultivators were not appropriate, and they took the initiative to abandon the land and flee to other places to become refugees or vagrants. It is conceivable how heavy the taxes are!

Not only are the taxes collected by the imperial court too heavy, but the big families will also send tricks, so that these yeoman farmers have to pay taxes many times. Moreover, the land they can get is not good land, and even if they only pay taxes, it is enough to choke.

In addition, the tax exemption period set by the government can almost turn the barren land into mature land. At such a time, there will be heroes who will come out to seize the land, and after taking the land, they will let these yeoman farmers continue to serve on errands, and the yeoman farmers will definitely escape.

In addition, the displaced people are outsiders and are often bullied by the locals, which is also one of the reasons why they run away after a few days of planting.

The magistrates constantly introduced new policies in an attempt to retain yeoman farmers and crack down on the gentry. But they all started to have an effect, and they were exploited after a few years or more than ten years.

This broken place in the south of the Yangtze River is very weird, on the one hand, there are many people and little land, and on the other hand, a lot of abandoned land.

The big clans are also very interesting, but whenever there is a disaster year, half of the land planted by their own families is directly abandoned, and the remaining half is intensively cultivated.

What is home-grown land?

It is not rented to tenants, but hired workers to farm, and such hired workers are actually domestic slaves, who are only paid a small amount of wages every month for food. It is also sometimes referred to as "slave for hire".

Half of the wasteland and half of the farming, this farming method has been written into the family rules by many families, and it is regarded as a classic operation like a family heirloom.

Wu Yingji said: "There are still many barren fields in the south of the Yangtze River, which belong to salt and brine land. In fact, some salt brine land, with the support of good officials, has gradually improved. But if you change to a mediocre official, you will be immediately abandoned, because the mediocre official will not reduce the land endowment. ”

"The town should collect land taxes as appropriate, build a large number of water conservancy, and encourage the people to open up land and rejuvenate, so that there is no shortage of land in the south of the Yangtze River."

Zhao Han became more and more serious about Wu Yingji, nodded and said, "You write out all your ideas, and I will hand them over to officials at all levels to govern as appropriate." ”