At noon, Zhao Jun and Fan Zhongyan went home first to rest, and then ordered to go down and let the soldiers go down to the cave in shifts, and not let each other stop for 24 hours.

This time, the Imperial City Division's Praetorian Guard, together with Kaifeng Mansion, transferred 5,500 people from the Dianqian Division, totaling 14,500 people, to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the underworld forces underground.

The whole process lasted three or four days, and the Manchu civil and military were paying attention to this matter. Even the next day, Zhao Zhen ordered the soldiers and horses in front of the palace to block the city gates and check suspicious people.

At the same time, the various markets are also the coming and going of the army at the moment, and the inner and outer cities are full of soldiers stepping on neat steps, as if they are hurriedly going to perform some task.

Fortunately, it has rained in Bianliang in recent days, although the rain is not heavy, but there are many fewer pedestrians on the streets, and there are not many people in and out of the city, which makes it difficult for bandits to go out of the city directly even if they run out of the ground.

However, most of the bandits will not leave the city from the outer city, because there is a passage underground that can directly go to the downstream exit of the Bianhe River, Cai River and other rivers, so if you want to run out of the city, you don't have to be so troublesome.

A few days later, after several days of encirclement and suppression, most of the underworld forces entrenched in the underground canals of Bianliang were annihilated by almost all the branches, Ghost Fan Tower, Ghost Market, Beggars Gang, and the rest of the underground forces entrenched in the underground canal of Bianliang.

October 13, Liangmenli Street, Xianning Fang, Duying Lane.

In the early morning, the streets are as bustling and lively as usual, with people coming and going, shuttling between various markets, and breakfast shops and morning tea shops are crowded with people.

In the past, everyone sat in the shop and chatted while drinking tea, but now everyone is drinking tea and reading the newspaper at the same time.

Today is the time for the new issue of the newspaper to go on the market, and the streets and alleys are full of citizens.

Since the newspaper was published, the business of the morning tea shops has improved a little. When everyone is free, they are more willing to sit in front of the tea stall, drink hot tea in early winter, and take stock of the latest real-time events.

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers. The latest Bianliang periodical report is only 12 yuan a piece. ”

Almost at the end of the day, at the beginning of the morning, a large number of newsboys appeared in the streets, walking the streets and selling newspapers.

Since the first time a newspaper was given to all tea stalls in Bianliang for free, this thing has completely opened up sales.

All kinds of news gossip and poems on it, there is always one you like.

Now that it is the third issue, there are more people who buy newspapers, and even many people have specially made appointments with three or five friends, come to the tea stall to wait for the newspaper to go on sale, and then talk together.

"Quick, get one."

Liujia Tea Shop in Duying Lane, under the tent set up, four or five tables are all crowded with people, and there are seven or eight tables in the store, and business is much better than usual.

As soon as the newsboy arrived, the newspaper sold out a dozen copies in an instant.

At the nearest table on the street, several neighbors immediately came over and listened to the friends who knew the words read to them.

"Zhao Zhiyuan smashed Sanssouci Cave, Ghost Fan Tower and other underworld forces, and captured more than 8,000 prisoners."

"More than 10,000 abducted women and children have also been rescued."

"Oh my God, I didn't expect the forces such as Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Tower to be so huge, I don't think I think they have so many people on weekdays."

"There are too many people in Bianliang, and compared with the above, there are indeed not many 20,000 or 30,000 people underground. And as long as you're not running a shop in the outer city or working on a dock, you'll rarely deal with them. ”

"I still want to thank Zhao Zhiyuan, first sweep away the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Kaifeng Mansion, and then extinguish this underground Sanssouci Cave Ghost Fan Tower, for our Bianliang bandits, clean up the world."

"Why don't you say that Zhao Zhiyuan is the Qingtian Lord sent by God? It was also the official's discernment that put the prefect in that position, so that there is today. ”

"But I really didn't expect that Wang Dashan, who is kind and charitable on weekdays and often helps the poor, is actually the owner of the Ghost Fan Building."

As they spoke, everyone turned their eyes to a manor diagonally opposite the Liujia Tea Shop in Duying Lane.

The outside of the manor is enclosed by a wall, covering an area of more than four or five acres, even in Xianning Fang, it is the most luxurious house, which is said to be worth more than fifty or sixty thousand yuan.

The mansions in Bianliang are expensive, and the price of the inner city is very high, which has reached tens of thousands in the Renzong period, and in the later Huizong period, the mansions near the imperial city can even be worth hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

Being able to have such a big house in Xianningfang in the inner city is enough to see that this owner is worth a lot of money.

Neighbors often wonder what the family does for a living, but they only hear that there are a large number of shops, land, and buildings in Bianliang, but they don't know what kind of business his family does.

It wasn't until today that I learned that they were doing the business of killing heads.

At this moment, the gate of the royal mansion was locked, and the seals of Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division were hung, and all the people were arrested, which was on the afternoon of the second day when Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Tower were ended.

It is said that the owner of the Sanssouci Cave saw the opportunity early, and after sensing that something was wrong, he immediately abandoned a large amount of property, only brought some cronies and a small amount of easy-to-carry property, and escaped from Kaifeng through the underground culvert of the Cai River.

At present, the Kaifeng Prefecture has sent people to inform the 16 counties of Gyeonggi Road, and put up wanted notices in all counties and towns of Gyeonggi Road.

The owner of the ghost fan building was reluctant to break the wrist of the strong man, and did not take the opportunity to flee immediately, planning to wait for the limelight to pass, but he was betrayed, and the Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division came to the door on the second day.

This matter is still Jiang Dalang's meritorious service.

Di Qing chased the ghost Fan Lou's right palm whip Ma Zhiwu did not catch up, that guy was too cunning, and he actually arranged a trap in the passage in advance, as long as the mechanism was touched, a large amount of dirt would fall down on it to block the passage, so that Di Qing's success fell short.

Jiang Dalang's side successfully grabbed the left palm whip Scarface, and sent it to the Imperial City Division for interrogation that morning.

The Imperial City Division naturally found out the identity of the owner of the Ghost Fan Mansion on the bright side, and found out this "Wang Dashan man" who was quite famous in Xianning Fang, and even hung up a Dali commentator on the side of the imperial court.

However, this Wang Daping is not an official official of the Song Dynasty, but a Jilu official who was bought, and there is no specific grade.

Selling official mantles began in the period of Zhao Guangyi of Taizong of the Song Dynasty, when Dali judges only needed to spend 4,000 stone of grain to buy, and now it costs 13,000 yuan.

Only with the salary of Dali judges, there are no dispatches, titles, loose officials, etc., and you have to receive 60 years of salary to return to the capital.

Moreover, these officials who buy officials not only have no real power, but also it is difficult to be sent, and the pure honorary nature is basically a method for the court to collect money, so the owner of this ghost fan building really can't be regarded as ruining the reputation of the court.

However, this person took advantage of his status as a barely half official to make friends with a large number of powerful people, and escorted him for human trafficking, committing crimes, and bullying and dominating the market.

Now this manor is also blocked by Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division, and it is estimated that it will not be long before it will be auctioned by the government and usher in a new owner.

However, although the people of Xianningfang have received a lot of favors from this Wang Dashan person, after learning the true situation of this person, people often come to spit at the door and throw rotten eggs.

By noon, the news had spread.

Almost all of the 54 Goolan brothels in Bianliang opened their doors in the afternoon and afternoon, and at this time the newspapers also circulated to the prostitutes and ladies.

Among them, the most unsettling are the Yingchun Garden on the west side of Taimiao Street, the Taohuadong brothel on the north side of the old Songmen North Street, the Tibetan Flower Courtyard in the back lane of Jianghang near the Tax Street on the east side of the Secretary Province, the Baifang Pavilion in the record lane in the east of Xiangguo Temple, and the Qionglin Building in the small sweet water lane in the north of the temple.

Because the bosses behind these are all underworld forces such as Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Building. Now that the bandits behind them have been eliminated, it seems to be a good thing, but for the ladies of the brothel in Goolan are terrified.

None of them knew what fate awaited them in the future.

At this moment, Zhao Jun was sitting in the carriage, his brows furrowed slightly, he was now on the way to Yingchun Garden, and it was a troublesome matter how to deal with these industries.

It's just that he also knows that it is impossible to ban prostitutes now, and the food must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be taken step by step. New China can do it because the new era has begun in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, gradually improving the status of women, and a large number of women have slowly awakened.

Under the call of the revolution, the slogan that women can hold up half the sky spread throughout the country, and since then, sisters and sisters have stood up and are no longer the objects of oppression and exploitation.

But if he did this in the Song Dynasty, it is estimated that the first to stand up against it is these prostitutes.

It's as if after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government conducted a clean-up survey of prostitutes in the capital at that time and found that most of the prostitutes were voluntary.

Many women in the old society had a low social status and found it difficult to survive independently on their own. If you become a prostitute, you can at least ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing, and save some money to live well for the rest of your life.

Therefore, most prostitutes do not want to quit and leave after joining this profession and become helpless. Zhao Jun can only take his time, and he can't directly cut it all.

"In the future, when Jenny's spinning machine and cotton are promoted to the whole country, I believe that a large number of women will join the spinning industry, which proves that women can also be independent and self-reliant, and then they can start to ban the appearance of prostitutes, and restore their freedom and self-esteem."

Zhao Jun thought in his heart.

The carriage slowly stopped, and Yingchun Garden was already surrounded by soldiers at this time.

At noon, not a single guest dared to approach it.

The hall in the building was empty, and the turtle and thugs were all arrested, leaving only a few hundred prostitutes and ladies.

There were as many as 10,000 brothels in the Northern Song Dynasty, and "Tokyo Menghualu" recorded: "There are secluded alleys in the city of Tokyo, and there are tens of thousands of Yanguan Song Towers", which shows how many employees there are.

However, not all of these hundreds of prostitutes are prostitutes, among them are singers, dancers, courtesans, young ladies, Qingqi, Hongqi and so on.

Fifty-four Goolan refers to the fifty-four largest, most formal and most luxurious brothels in Bianliang City, Tokyo, which is equivalent to a five-star hotel in later generations.

This Yingchun Garden is one of them, behind which it was funded and built by the Ghost Fan Building, and the Ghost Fan Building abducted and trafficked people, and cultivated prostitutes with signs since childhood, which made the business booming, ranking extremely high in the Bianliang Hook Column.

At the moment, most of the prostitutes and ladies were cautiously hiding in their own houses, not daring to go out. Only in a women's room in the back garden, more than 20 girls gathered.

"Mother Liu, what can I do now?"

"What if the government takes us all away?"

"It is said that Zhao Qingtian knows right from wrong, and we have never done anything to hurt the heavens and reason, so he shouldn't do anything to us."

"That's not good."

In the wing house, more than 20 girls warbler Yanyan made the fragrance tangy.

The old woman who was surrounded in the middle looked like she was forty or fifty years old, with gray hair and an old face, holding the latest newspaper in her hand, and sighed: "It would be great if Zhao Zhiyuan could come to Bianliang ten years earlier." ”

"Mom, can you say something?"

A woman nudged her.

Mother Liu smiled, lifted the white hair on her sideburns, put the newspaper on the table, and said, "What is there to say, the court will place me and so on." ”

"Oh no."

At this time, the door was pushed open, and a woman came in and said anxiously: "Mother Liu, those big-headed soldiers outside have broken in, and they want to see the steward." ”

"I'll go."

Mother Liu got up and comforted many women and said, "You are so good to stay in the backyard, don't go anywhere." ”

"Yes."

"Woo woo, Mom, you have to be careful."

"I'll go with my mother."

"It's okay, you're just waiting here."

Liu's mother refused a few girls who wanted to accompany her, tidied up her clothes a little, and walked out the door.

This Yingchun Garden is very large, the front building is the main building, there is a hollow shape, there are girls' rooms on the left and right stairs, you can listen to music in the room, or open the back window, watch the drama in the back hall of the front building.

Every night in the middle of the main hall there is a singing and dancing and music performance, and then behind the main building is a huge hall, like a stage, where the main drama can be performed.

After that, there is the back building, which is the main place of business, where most of the girls are doing some leather business.

Strictly speaking, many girls are victims, some are taken captive, some are abducted since childhood, and some are even more pitiful, and poor families cannot afford to support them, or they think that their daughters are dragging oil bottles and want a son, so they simply sell them to brothels for money.

In addition, most of the miscellaneous dramas in the Song Dynasty were burlesques, and many of the performers in them were like animal makers, human bottles, disabled dwarfs and storytellers, so as to satisfy the audience's comical curiosity.

It can be said that a brothel like this is a miserable place for many people.

But the irony is.

Here is another bite to eat.

It's tangled.

Mother Liu came out of the house, and put on a flattering smile, and when she saw that it was a young official in a purple robe, she was shocked, and then said with a smile: "Old body Liu Xi'er, the girls all call me Mother Liu, and the presence of the prefect really makes Yingchun Garden shine." ”

"Mother Liu is polite."

Zhao Jun arched his hand slightly, it was not strange that the other party recognized his identity, after all, he was a bustard in a brothel, so he naturally had to have an eyesight, looked at the other party's old appearance, and then sighed and said, "Sit down and talk together." ”

"How can the old man sit with the prefect?"

Liu's mother was flattered.

Zhao Jun shook his head with a smile and said: "The Industrial Imperial City Division of Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Tower has long been investigated, and I have also found out your foundation clearly, and even in the many Goolan brothels in Bianliang, there are already inspectors of the Imperial City Division, and the character of Mother Liu, I still know." ”

Mother Liu's face was silent, so she sat down on the chair next to her and said in a low voice: "The old body is also from a poor background, and he can't do any great good, so he can only shelter the girls from being bullied." ”

"Although you are also a tiger player, but you have no choice, and the girls under your command are indeed grateful to you, and the court will not ignore this. So there are more than ten bustards in Yingchun Garden, and the rest of them have been arrested, and the reason why you can sit here. ”

Zhao Jun remembered the Imperial City Division's investigation of this person.

Most of the bustards in Qinglou also did this when they were young, and when they were old and decrepit, they managed to achieve the management position and became the bustards.

And in order to show loyalty to the boss, these old bustards will spare no effort to oppress the girls under their hands, forcing them to take more customers.

Even many women who were sold or abducted to Qinglou were unwilling to give in at first, and did not want to sell their innocence, and they were basically trained by these old bustards.

For example, they sent turtle men and thugs to beat them, denied them food, and then sang red faces and white faces, and let the thugs sing white faces to scare them, they sang red faces to persuade them, and even coaxed and deceived and beat them, forcing those women to comply.

But there are also a small number of bustards who still have some conscience, and they will give others an umbrella if they have been drenched in the rain.

This is the case with Liu's mother.

once helped several women who were abducted to Qinglou find their families at his own expense.

As for those who are sold, they all ask if they are willing to sell their bodies, and if they are willing to sell their bodies, they will send contracts, and if they are unwilling, they can only sell them to other Qinglou or other bustards.

There are many shelters for the girls under them, and in the mud of the fifty-four Goolan brothels in Bianliang, it can be regarded as a rare clear stream.

Otherwise, Zhao Jun would not have come over today.

Mother Liu only felt that her nose was sore, wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and said with a forced smile: "I didn't expect the old body to just see the girls pitiful, and he was kind, but he could end up well." I just don't know how the government will settle us girls in the future, they have nothing to worry about, if they go out of this Spring Garden, there is nowhere to go. ”

"You don't have to worry about that."

Zhao Jun pondered for a moment, and then said: "Yingchun Yuan will continue to stay, but this illegal thing can no longer be done." Business is business, or do legitimate business. ”

"How are the girls going to make a living?"

Liu's mother was taken aback.

Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "It's not that you are forbidden to be prostitutes, it's that you are not allowed to kidnap people, only allowed."

His mouth stopped for a moment.

His sentence of legitimate human trafficking is really a bit unspeakable.

During the Song and Song dynasties, human trafficking was officially prohibited, but due to monogamy and concubinage and the existence of untouchable status, human trafficking was allowed to a certain extent.

Among them, it is mainly focused on the sale of concubines, maids, and prostitutes, for example, Wang Anshi's wife bought him a concubine for 900 yuan.

Although it is legal to buy and sell prostitutes, they are still living people, but they are bought and sold like goods, which really makes Zhao Jun feel speechless.

Even if it was not his fault, but the fault of the evil old society, but now that they are in a high position, they still can't change their situation for the time being, which still makes Zhao Jun feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.

Mother Liu already understood, but just got up and bowed down and said, "The old body has thanked the prefect for his kindness." ”

"Don't thank me."

Zhao Jun sighed, thought for a while and said, "In the future, this Yingchun Garden will be in charge of you, and I will also send you the title deed and the deed of sale of the girls." ”

"This"

Mother Liu was shocked: "The old body is just a slave, how can he afford such a big responsibility?" ”

Zhao Jun said: "Just because your heart is not bad, and you have been born here since childhood, it is not difficult to do a good job in this Yingchun Garden." ”

"Old Body"

Mother Liu was so excited that she couldn't speak, choked up and wanted to kneel down and kowtow and said, "The old body is for the more than 200 girls in Yingchun Garden, thank you for the great kindness of the prefect." ”

"Alright."

Zhao Jun helped her up and said: "In the future, hundreds of girls in this Yingchun Garden, so many theater actors, Mr. Storyteller, and then recruit some innocent turtle princes and the like in the future, it will all depend on you. ”

"Yes, yes."

Mother Liu wiped her tears of excitement and nodded again and again.

Zhao Jun got up and said, "Okay, I still have to go to Peach Blossom Cave, Tibetan Flower Courtyard, Baifang Pavilion, Qionglin Tower, and other places." It's not easy to find a person with a conscience like you here. ”

"The old body is sent to the governor's house."

Mother Liu sent Zhao Jun to the door step by step, her eyes full of admiration and admiration.

Zhao Jun put his hands behind his back, walked out of Yingchun Garden, and suddenly remembered something, turned his head and said to Liu's mother: "Mother Liu, I have something I want to ask you." ”

Liu's mother hurriedly said: "Please say that the old body must know everything and say everything." ”

"The inspectors of the Imperial City Division said that you only came to this Yingchun Garden ten years ago, and you looked quite young at that time, were you already in your thirties at that time?"

Zhao Jun was very puzzled just now.

This Liu's mother looks like she is forty or fifty years old, but when she came to Yingchun Yuan ten years ago to work as a prostitute, it was said that she was still very young and beautiful.

Mother Liu lifted the white hair on her sideburns and said with a miserable smile: "It's good to let the Zhiyuan know that ten years ago, the old body was twenty-nine peach and plum years." ”

"Twenty-nine peach and plum years?"

Zhao Jun's eyes widened: "You were only eighteen years old at that time?" ”

"When I go back to the Zhiyuan, it is so. In the past ten years, the women who came with the old body have either disappeared or died, and some have been ransomed and bought by good people, but gradually no one remembers the age of the old body. Even the old body himself almost forgot, the old body has not yet reached the age of thirty standard plums, but the poor girls in the garden call me mother. ”

Liu's mother barely smiled, but tears kept flowing from the corners of her eyes.

Zhao Jun just looked at her blankly.

watched her tears rain down her face, and put on the pale makeup on her face, revealing a wrinkled face.

There were no words for a long time.

Ten years.

A young girl in the prime of her cardamom years has become an old woman in her forties and fifties.

The evil old society turned people into ghosts.

My damn willpower, the leave note was written, but I endured dizziness, runny nose, nasal congestion, and all kinds of small problems, and forced me to write 6,000 words. I guess it's yang again, hasn't it come again recently? After taking cold medicine, the symptoms were only slightly mild, but it was still very uncomfortable, but I just wanted to write, and no one could stop me from getting up and working! I'm going to code words, I'm going to roll them to death!

(End of chapter)