Today's Qinhuai River, that's different again.

With the imperial court allowing prostitutes to be free and good, and with the perfect immigration system, many men and women engaged in the Fengyue industry have gone north to start their new lives. Anyway, when I went to the north, no one knew my past and could live like a normal person.

As far as Qinhuaihe is concerned, it is necessary to strictly inspect it once every two or three years to see which one is operating in an irregular manner and has things that restrict women's personal freedom.

Coupled with the criticism of Tian Zheng, many bosses and famous prostitutes were implicated. After the boss was exiled, other merchants took over and simply turned the brothel into a vasher.

It is necessary to define Vasher, which can be understood as a comprehensive commercial place.

There is a stage for performing talents, and there is also an area where goods are sold. After watching the magic show here, you can walk some distance to the shopping area to make purchases.

Vasher, there are meat and vegetarian dishes.

The meat ones are also brothels, and the vegetarian ones are more formal.

The brothels in the Qinhuai River have been converted into washers, which is a reflection of the economic development of the citizens. The citizen class, more and more people have spare money, and the consumer population continues to grow, and the operation of a comprehensive washer is much more profitable than a simple brothel.

With the increase in the number of tiles, merchants will inevitably roll up.

At first, you have to get a ticket, and you have to give money to get in.

Gradually, the free admission model is emerging, and you can walk around without paying a penny. The performance makes you feel good, and you can give a reward on the spot. When you get tired of watching the performance, you can go to the shopping area to wander around, even if you don't buy gold and silver jewelry, you can buy three melons and two dates.

Zhao Han went out of the city for an outing, and returned to the palace in the middle of the afternoon, and many ministers invited him to go to Vasher together.

Zhang Tieniu, as the grandfather of the country, is still so picky. He didn't go to the high-end Vasher that needed tickets, pulled a few military friends and got into a free place to resist.

It wasn't even evening, and Vasher was already crowded.

There are even big girls and little daughters-in-law, who follow their families to Vasher for recreation, and many children sit on the shoulders of adults, excitedly pointing to a certain stage and shouting.

Due to the low end of Vasher, there were no auditoriums around the stage, so everyone stood still to watch the performance.

Zhang Tieniu was standing in the crowd, performing acrobatics on stage. I saw a man wielding a sword, playing with it, and began to swallow the sword, and the two-foot-long sword was slammed into his mouth, causing the audience to exclaim.

"Good!"

Zhang Tieniu applauded and slapped.

Fei Ruhe rolled his eyes, he was forcibly pulled, he was not interested in this kind of performance, and at first glance, he knew that the sword swallowing was fake.

Suddenly, a small guy came and squeezed around the crowd with a wooden sign: "Peanuts, melon seeds, cheese, pastries, sesame sugar, honey......"

"A few packets of peanuts." Zhang Tieniu shouted.

"Okay!"

The little guy left happily, and soon brought the peanuts.

Fried peanuts are wrapped in straw paper and are more expensive than outside. But the audience is watching happily, and they don't care about the expensive money, they eat snacks and watch the performance at the same time, how comfortable and enjoyable.

There are also vendors who come with shelves, and the so-called shelves are straw tied to the top of bamboo poles. All kinds of toys and snacks are stuck in the straw and sold exclusively to children.

"Wind Wheel (Windmill), Dad, I want Wind Wheel." The child really couldn't resist the temptation and begged his father to buy something.

"Jewelry, jewelry!"

There are also jewellery vendors wandering around, all of them are low-grade goods, and the target group is women from ordinary families.

Women and children have always had the best money.

When these vendors enter the market to sell things, they need to pay for the vashe, usually in terms of months.

The fixed stalls in the shopping area are more expensive, and the goods are more upscale.

As night fell, the lights were lit up, and the tourists in Vasheri were at their peak, and several places near the stage were directly crowded.

This kind of tile house is often to build several brothels, and then build a fence to merge them, covering a very large area. The original brothel building, of course, is also continuing to operate, with food and play, and the consumption is higher than that of the open places outside.

Zhang Tieniu and others watched the performance for a while, and then went to eat and drink together.

There is also a small stage where people are telling stories.

The generals ordered some wine and food, and between pushing the cups and changing the lamps, Wu Song had already finished speaking.

Then a dwarf came out and made all sorts of antics to make the guests laugh. There are also anti-string actors dressed as matchmakers, who come out to interact with the dwarfs and tell some jokes about the market. As he spoke, he talked about interesting things overseas, and then led to the next orchid performance.

The so-called orchid is actually an Indian Brahmin woman.

On the Indian side, there have been years of war, especially the insurgents Sivaji, who have occupied half of Bijapur. This product liked to sell the captive pagan nobles as slaves to the Portuguese, and many Brahmin women were sold to China in this way.

Cheerful Indian dance music sounds, and "orchids" are dressed in exotic costumes with their snow-white bellies exposed. In order to be retro, a large number of spinning movements were also added, and the merchants said that this was a restoration of the Hu Xuan Dance of the Tang Dynasty.

The audience can't figure it out, just dance nicely anyway.

Especially the white belly, the belly button is still wearing an umbilical ring, how energetic it is to twist around, Chinese women will not be so out of line.

"Good!"

It was so hard to see that some guests began to give tips, and threw money directly on the stage.

Zhang Tieniu is almost fifty years old, and he is hooked to the point of being hot. He asked in a low voice, "Where did this orchid come from?" ”

"It must be the Western Regions." Fei Ruhe said.

Yang Zhan, who had led troops in Quang Nam Province for several years, had a clear understanding of this kind of thing, so he explained: "Some came from Persia and some came from India. They were all slaves, transported to Macao for bulk goods, and then sold to the mainland by traffickers. The orchid in front of him is of the highest quality, and he must have been trained for a few years, and he must be worth at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. ”

"So expensive?" Zhang Tieniu's eyes widened.

Jiang Dashan has been back to Nanjing for two or three years, and he said with a smile: "Last year, there was an orchid who was sold to China at the age of nine and trained for several years. Not only does he speak fluently, but he is also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Listening to those who read books, even the poems and articles are decent. A rich merchant bought it, and guess how much money it spent? ”

"How much?" Fei Ruhe couldn't help but ask.

Jiang Dashan gestured.

"Eight hundred taels?" Zhang Tieniu muttered, "It's not expensive." ”

"Eight thousand taels!" Jiang Dashan said.

Zhang Tieniu was speechless: "Eight thousand taels? How many ploughing cattle are that worth! ”

Yang Zhan smiled: "Grandpa Zhang, you don't understand this. There is no shortage of orchids in China, and there is no shortage of orchids who can be good at poetry and painting. But if you're beautiful, you can do anything, but it's rare. The rich merchant bought it and went home, and the laity came to visit him, and he made the orchid dance and sing; When the literati came to visit, they asked the orchid to compose the lyrics. If you think about it, how face-saving it is? Businessmen have no status, isn't what they lack is face? ”

"That's right." Zhang Tieniu nodded again and again, and looked at the dancing orchid, and his heart was hot and he wanted to buy an orchid.

He had already received many rewards for his military exploits. Won the battle with the Khalkha Mongols, and obtained the right to operate a mine, and there was really no shortage of silver in his hands.

Lao Zhang is also going to fall, and it hasn't been long since he returned to Nanjing.

Fei Ruhe muttered in his heart, should he also buy an orchid. Although he has no interest in orchids, he must buy them for the sake of face, otherwise everyone else has them, but he doesn't have them at home.

Zhang Tieniu pointed to Jiang Dashan: "Do you have any orchids at home?" ”

Jiang Dashan smiled but did not speak.

"Hey, you're still hiding, I haven't seen you since I went to your house last time!" Zhang Tieniu scolded with a smile.

These military generals played in Vashe, while Qian Qianyi and a group of civil officials listened to music in the painting boat of Xuanwu Lake.

Qian Qianyi has long been old, and he has no heart for women, mainly to communicate and discuss art. But I'm not in the mood today, listening to the music and drinking in silence.

Others didn't bother, knowing that he was not happy.

As for the reason, patting the emperor's sycophant accidentally slapped on the horse's leg and misinterpreted the meaning of the emperor's poem.

Although Zhu Minghao is young, he is only 50 years old this year. But he and Zhang Pu are good friends, and he was pulled into the Hanlin Academy by Zhang Pu to compile history, and he has a good relationship with Qian Qianyi, and he said in a low voice at this moment: "Mu Weng, Your Majesty is broad-minded, and he will not be annoyed by a few words." ”

"I'm not because of that." Qian Qianyi said.

Zhu Minghao said with a smile: "Your Majesty's thoughts, you and I both understand, just speak and do things according to the holy will." You see, those officials who committed crimes are rich and powerful, and they are all sent to Heilongjiang and Tibet. But the peasant soldiers who killed the officials in Yunnan obviously committed a capital crime, but they were only exiled to the Pingnan Military and Civil Division. Is that also called exile? To put it bluntly, it's immigration! ”

Qian Qianyi sighed: "Your Majesty treats the people so well. ”

Yunnan peasant soldiers, who killed the mayor of the town without permission, were like a rebellion, but they were only exiled to Burma. How far can Yunnan and Myanmar be from each other? That is called fart exile.

Zhao Han printed the ins and outs of the matter in detail in the "Datong Monthly". The news spread to all provinces across the country, and many of the grassroots officials who oppressed the people were frightened, fearing that the peasants and soldiers under their rule would also kill them to vent their anger.

"Drink, drink." Zhu Minghao said with a smile.

Zhu Minghao's father was a martial artist in the Ming Dynasty. Because of his father's early death, the family was rapidly declining, and he had to give up his studies to become a teacher to support his mother and younger brother.

When Chongzhen was not dead, Zhu Mingho was evaluated as "the first person to restore the society". Not only because of talent, but also because of his filial piety.

Moreover, although his friends have a group of wives and concubines, Zhu Mingho insists on not accepting concubines. When he entered the Hanlin Academy as an official, a businessman asked him to write an epitaph, but he did not accept money if he had a good reputation, and he refused directly if he had a bad reputation. Nowadays, I live on a dead salary, and my life is very plain.

Zhu Minghao is very satisfied with the new dynasty of Datong, and the current stable situation is not what he pursued when he joined the Restoration Society?

He often wrote articles praising the new dynasty, and also wrote a book to record the social changes in the late Ming Dynasty from the perspective of a down-and-out literati. But this book is not popular in the circle, and many of those old friends who were born in the Restoration Society secretly laughed at him as a sycophant.

President Wu of "Datong Monthly" resigned many times because of old illness, and there was a faint rumor that the emperor wanted Zhu Minghao to take over the "Datong Monthly".

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