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Chapter 646 Hey! Okay, I won!

This is what a lowly Confucian is like. Confucius accepts disciples without discrimination and teaches according to the students' aptitude. However, a lowly Confucian has to consider the amount of tuition fees and the disciple's family background, etc., so there are many things to consider.

In the 17th year of Hongwu, when Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to establish the Liaodong Dusi Confucian School, the lowly Confucian scholars shouted that the border people could not be educated and there was no need to set up schools. It was such a great merit to promote education, but the lowly Confucian scholars just wanted to stop it.

Because once a school is established, teachers must be appointed to teach, and teachers can only be selected from the Imperial Academy.

Are these cheap Confucians really Confucians? The words of the great sage they believe in, that there should be no distinction between the classes, have been completely forgotten by these cheap Confucians.

This kind of moral degradation was also very obvious in the court. Even an upright minister and moral role model like Hai Rui could hardly protect himself in the process of anti-corruption. Huang Chun, the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture, died in the Censorate. Public opinion directly pinned the label of "disregarding human life" on Hai Rui.

Among the court officials, Hai Rui was the most dangerous. In the first year of the Wanli reign, he returned to Beijing and joined the Censorate as the Right Censor-in-Chief. Starting from the third year of the Wanli reign, this magic sword began to eradicate corruption, which lasted for nine years. In total, Hai Rui investigated more than 1800 corrupt officials and made a long list every year. The censors of the entire Censorate were as busy as donkeys in a mill.

Such a high-intensity anti-corruption campaign resulted in Hai Rui offending the entire bureaucratic class, including the Censorate he led. However, he did not have countless followers like Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu, so at the slightest sign of trouble, Hai Rui would be in trouble.

In the third year of Longqing, Hai Rui was forced to retire because there was nothing they could do to him but to promote him, make him unemployed and force him to leave the court.

Zhu Yijun still needs this magic sword, and the Ming Dynasty also needs this magic sword.

Huang Chun wanted to exchange his son with Hai Rui? That was wishful thinking!

Zhu Yijun ordered the commander of the imperial guards to personally investigate the case, which turned the anti-corruption campaign into an anti-counterrevolutionary campaign. The difference of one word made a world of difference.

On the first day of September in the twelfth year of the Wanli reign, Shuntian Prefecture was very busy. The golden autumn season is the harvest season and also the two busiest months for border trade. In the golden September and silver October, the caravans lined up from Xizhimen to Longhutai in Changping. Longhutai was close to Juyongguan. Since the completion of the Jingxuan Highway, this trade route has burst out with strong vitality, and countless goods are running on this highway.

Even the most ignorant scholar who ignored the facts could not say what was the point of building such a wide road, because the scale of the caravan was jaw-dropping.

At the end of this highway, the Lugou Bridge Branch Office has been expanded four times, from one branch office to eight branch offices to cope with the increasing number of merchant caravans. Next to these eight branch offices is the headquarters of the Ministry of Revenue's Qingli Division, which has one doctor, one assistant doctor, eight directors, who are divided into four departments: civil affairs, finance, finance, and warehouses. There are a total of 28 ambassadors in charge of various matters.

In the Qinglisi Yamen, there is one eunuch from the Imperial Treasury Branch and eight eunuchs, who are affiliated with the Imperial Treasury and are responsible for supervising the accounts. They are only responsible for one thing, and that is to get not a penny less of the silver allocated to the palace!
In addition, the Northern Pacification Office Tax Inspection Office was set up with one tax inspector for a thousand households and four tax inspectors for a hundred households, for a total of 400 tax inspectors, who were specifically responsible for tax inspection.

The Lugou Bridge Tax Collection Bureau paid a tax of 21 silver coins to the court in the 21th year of Wanli. It was planned at the beginning that the tax would be split -, so an additional silver coins were collected and put into the treasury.

Outside the Lugou Bridge Branch Office, there is a large area of ​​official residences. These official residences are the official residences for the kiln dwellers of the Xishan Coal Bureau. Wang Chonggu began to build official residences for the craftsmen in the fourth year of the Wanli period. In eight years, the official residences were able to accommodate all the craftsmen of the Xishan Coal Bureau.

There are four official residences with four Confucian schools. All the teachers are hired by the official factories, and the children of craftsmen have to pay a tuition fee to enroll in school. However, the price is not particularly expensive. The tuition fee is one silver and seven cents per year, and seven cents of silver is for the students' lunch.

The official residence is particularly lively today, with the beating of gongs and drums and the blast of firecrackers, because today is the day when the results of the Shuntian Prefecture Academy Examination are announced. From now on, all those who are on the list will be scholars from a family of craftsmen. With their meritorious service, they do not have to kneel when meeting an official. With their meritorious service, they can receive six dou of rice per month from the court, which is 72 kilograms of rice. With their meritorious service, they can be exempted from labor and cannot be tortured, among other privileges.

A scholar can be called an official, and he is from the scholar-official class. This is definitely something worth celebrating. The whole official residence is decorated with lights and colors, and the restaurant outside the official residence is making intensive preparations, because the official's parents will definitely host a banquet to celebrate his success in the college entrance examination.

The scholars who passed the examination could receive government stipends, but there was one type of scholar who could not receive it, and that was the Zengguang students. These Zengguang students obtained their status by paying donations, and were looked down upon by the literati. They could participate in the provincial examinations to try to become a Juren, but most of the Zengguang students could not pass.

If these additional students want to make progress, they can pay more donations and obtain the status of students of the Imperial Academy. In the past, students were roughly equivalent to juren, but since the abolition of the imperial examination system in the 13th year of Zhengtong, students could not be recommended to serve as officials in the court. Being a student was the ceiling for these additional students, unless they could pass the imperial examination and become a juren.

The artisan disciples who passed the imperial examination and became scholars in the official residence were all those who had passed the examination in a proper manner. The officials who came to ask for the reward would not leave in front of the door until they received some of the money. Then they would say a few auspicious words, leave, and run to the next home.

Liu Qinniang, the weaver at Yongsheng Woolen Factory and the female teacher at Chongshanfang Girls' School, looked at the crowded streets with a relieved smile, but it was also a bit regrettable that the female students in the girls' school were only allowed to read and write, and were not allowed to take part in the imperial examinations, let alone seek fame.

However, Liu Qinniang never mentioned this matter when she met the emperor. She was familiar with the Theory of Contradiction and the Production Map and knew very well that this was all determined by productivity and could not be changed by the emperor's decree. Liu Qinniang knew even better that if she made unreasonable demands, not only would the female students not gain any benefits, but the girls' school might even be lost.

Women who were born as prostitutes could turn over a new leaf and enter the government-run factory to become weavers, thus transforming themselves and becoming a new and upright person. However, as some prostitutes used their identities as weavers and the prestige of the government-run factory to cheat people everywhere, the deputy prime minister issued an order that prostitutes were not allowed to enter the factory. Even though there was an incident in which a brothel girl redeemed herself and entered the government-run factory but was refused and ended up hanging herself in front of the Nan Ya Weaving Bureau, this ban still existed.

Moreover, Your Majesty has opened a loophole, allowing girls from girls' schools to continue their medical studies in the Jiekuyuan and eventually become female doctors. The Women's Department of the Imperial Medical Bureau judged that Wu Lian was a legitimate official appointed by the court, and if she pushed too far, she would be retaliated against.

"Congratulations to Mr. Bai Bing, the son of Bai Gengsheng, for overcoming all obstacles and becoming a scholar in Shuntian Prefecture. He is truly the lucky butterfly under the seat of the God of Literature. I wish Mr. Bai Bing a bright future!" An officer, holding a gong in his hand, arrived at the door of the Bai family and struck the gong. This was to ask for a reward. Only if the master gave money would the officer hand the document from Shuntian Prefecture to the master.

In fact, it doesn’t matter if you don’t give it. You can just take your household registration ticket to the government office and your identity will be confirmed.

"Good, good! There is a reward." Bai Gengsheng had been waiting anxiously at the door since early morning. When he saw the officer's good news, he immediately handed over the thirty copper coins he had prepared and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work, take this and have some tea."

"I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it. I'll worship Wenchang on the third day of the second month, and my family will have a top scholar!" The officer received the reward, said a few auspicious words, and rushed to the next house.

Liu Qinniang happened to see this scene, her face full of smiles. This year there were a lot of talented scholars in the craftsmen's residence.

Liu Qinnan smiled and then her brows began to frown because she discovered something strange: Bai Gengsheng's son Bai Bing did not go out. Logically speaking, on such an important day, Bai Bing should have been more anxious than his father, but Bai Bing did not show up, and after the officers left, Bai Gengsheng immediately closed the door. Even the neighbors who came to announce the good news with pig intestines looked at the closed door of the Bai family, not knowing what had happened.

The craftsman's yard in the official residence was not very big, with a total of three rooms in the main hall. The yard was big enough to plant a tree. Bai Bing had two younger brothers and one younger sister. The three children lived in one room, while his parents lived in another. There were baskets hanging in the main hall, containing food. The main reason for hanging them was to prevent rats and insects.

Bai Bing was sitting under the peach tree in the yard. He ignored the documents his father brought and sulked as he stared at the courtyard wall.

"Son, why do you look so sad now that you passed the imperial examination?" Bai Gengsheng put away the document, his brows twisted into a knot.

"I saw it all. You took all the money in our house to Uncle Huang's house. That's how I became a scholar. Don't think I don't know!" Bai Bing said in a muffled voice without even turning his head.

The Uncle Huang that Bai Bing mentioned is Bai Gengsheng's fellow townsman, Huang Chun, the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture, who was the Huang Chun who died by hitting his head against a pillar in the Censorate.

"What nonsense!" Bai Gengsheng's face changed drastically, and he said in a stern voice: "I just went to your uncle Huang's house to say hello. The court's lackeys are looking for clues everywhere. You are talking nonsense. Our whole family will suffer!"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Bai Bing immediately turned around and said loudly, "I saw it with my own eyes, and you still say you didn't have it! There were a total of 24 silver dollars in the house, wrapped in red silk cloth, hidden under the kang at home. Before the college entrance examination, you took the silver dollars to Uncle Huang's house. I went to check, and the silver was gone!"

"My dear ancestor, please keep your voice down. Walls have ears. If someone hears what you say, I'm afraid the imperial guards will come to our house tomorrow!" Bai Gengsheng was so frightened that he fainted. He quickly stepped forward and covered his son's mouth.

"Son, listen to what dad says. If you pass the exam to become a scholar, you will be on the fast track to high positions and our family will no longer be poor and hard laborers. Don't talk nonsense. Just pretend you don't know about it. Be obedient and study hard in the Imperial College. Then you can pass the exam to become a juren or a jinshi and bring honor to our family!" Bai Gengsheng said repeatedly.

"Your Uncle Huang has always been cautious in doing things. He accepted money from our family without telling anyone. Now Huang Chun is dead. This matter is known to heaven and earth, you and I. Please don't bring trouble to our family. Do you hear me?" Bai Gengsheng was still worried and told his son that this was no joke. If anything happened, not to mention fame and fortune, the whole family would have to go to jail.

"I know." Bai Bing said blankly, looking at his younger brother and sister, and then at his mother who had become old. His younger brother and sister were still young and didn't know what had happened, while his mother just wiped her tears and didn't dare to cry out loud.

The house, the mill in the yard, two younger brothers and a younger sister, all came into being after their father became a craftsman in the Xishan Coal Bureau. The stable life today is all thanks to the official factory of the imperial court. But now the imperial court is investigating the case of Huang Chun's bribery and is widely soliciting clues. On one hand, there is the public, and on the other hand, there are the whole family. How should Bai Bing choose?

He couldn't decide whether to go to the Imperial Guards and sue his father for bribery. That's why he sat in the yard and sulked.

Sixteen years old is the best age to be full of hatred for evil. Bai Bing has great ambitions and wants to be a figure like Zhang Juzheng in the future. But at the beginning, the fame in the imperial examination was obtained by bribery, which made Bai Bing feel depressed and unable to express it.

"Dad, do you know why the Tiqi are called hawks and dogs by the literati?" Bai Bing said blankly, looking at the courtyard wall.

"Why? Isn't it just that the imperial guards are the emperor's lackeys?" Bai Gengsheng sat aside and said with a smile: "Don't think about those things. You should prepare well. We will go to Quanjulou for dinner later. We will invite the neighbors to the feast to celebrate my son's rebirth!"

Bai Bing turned around and looked at Bai Gengsheng, his eyes dull as he said, "Because the eyes of the Tiqi are as sharp as an eagle, and their sense of smell is as sensitive as that of a hound, they are called eagle dogs. As long as they want to find out something, they can definitely find it out. Dad, do you think our family can get away with it?"

Bai Gengsheng immediately became anxious and said in a stern voice: "You crow's mouth! Stop talking nonsense! How can you curse your own family for bad luck? It's okay, it's okay!"

"Dad, this is cheating in the imperial examination. Although it's just the college entrance examination, Dad, we are in the capital." Bai Bing said with an even more painful expression: "Why don't we report it to the authorities? We can also try to get a lighter sentence."

"No, absolutely not!" Bai Gengsheng said sternly, "The Tiqi are not that powerful. Besides, Huang Chun is dead, nothing will happen to him!"

Bai Gengsheng became more and more excited as he spoke, his voice even louder than Bai Bing's. The reputation of the Tiqi made him terrified and uneasy. If they were discovered, everything would be ruined.

"Bang bang bang!"

There was a knock on the door, and Bai Gengsheng was startled and asked sharply, "Who!"

"Village head, why are you closing the door now that you've passed the imperial examination? Open the door, open the door. I'll give you this ivory plate and you nail this bronze plate on the door." The village head's voice came from outside the door. The village head felt strange. When other families had a scholar, their doors would be open wide and neighbors would come to share in the joy, but this family, on the other hand, kept its door closed.

"Coming, coming." Bai Gengsheng hurried to open the door. The ivory plate indicated his status as a scholar, while the bronze plate was made by an official factory. There were four words written on it: "Family of Scholars". This was a bronze plate that Wang Chonggu had specially ordered someone to make in advance and nailed on the doorhead, which was considered a change of family.

When a man passed the imperial examination, his neighbors would break all the windows and replace them with new ones. This was a customary practice of changing doors and windows, but the doors and windows of the official residence were all made of glass, and it would be a waste to replace them if they were broken. Therefore, a copper plate was used to replace the original customary one. The copper plate was made very delicately, made of white copper, which would not corrode easily.

As soon as the door was opened, neighbors came to congratulate the couple, carrying all kinds of gifts. They sat on the stone bench under the peach tree and chatted about family matters. Before leaving, they asked the scholar Bai Bing to write a few words on their son's desk, which they would then post on the desk of their naughty son to urge him to study hard.

Bai Gengsheng temporarily forgot about the terror of the Ti cavalry and began to welcome and see off people. It was not until noon that he finally sent everyone away.

"Knock, knock, knock!" The knock on the door sounded again.

"I'm coming." Bai Gengsheng opened the door with a smile on his face and said, "I'm here, what else do you want to ask..."

Bai Gengsheng didn't finish his words because there were two people standing outside the door, one wearing a bright red flying fish suit with an embroidered spring sword on his waist, and the other wearing military uniform. They were the captain of the Tiqi and an ordinary Tiqi. You should know that even among the Tiqi, not everyone can wear the bright red flying fish suit, it is a suit bestowed by the emperor.

"I'm Chen Mo, the chief judge of the Northern Pacification Division. I have something to ask you. Please come in and talk." Chen Mo took out his ivory tag to reveal his identity, then motioned for Bai Gengsheng to bring him in. Their attire had already caused discussion and pointing among the neighbors.

"Please spare my life, sir. Please spare my life. I was just confused for a moment!" Bai Gengsheng was so scared that his legs went weak and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

Chen Mo felt somewhat helpless. He signaled the imperial guards beside him to lift up Bai Gengsheng and walk inside.

Chen Mo looked around the Bai family. It could be said that the house was bare and there were not many furnitures. It was obvious that all the living money in the family was used for Bai Bing's education.

"Bai Gengsheng, do you admit that you gave 24 silver coins to the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture in the name of visiting your fellow townsmen on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th?" Chen Mo sat under the peach tree, looking at Bai Gengsheng who was lying on the ground, and then at the several pairs of big eyes hiding at the main hall door and secretly looking out, and asked calmly.

"It is true." Bai Gengsheng did not quibble or resist, but directly admitted that he had given bribes for his son's fame.

"Here are the twenty-four silver coins. Check them carefully and keep them safe." Chen Mo opened a box and counted out the twenty-four silver coins. He took a piece of paper from the hand of the Tiqi next to him and said, "You can't read. Let your son read the official documents."

Bai Bing was originally peeking, and when he saw the captain of the Imperial Guard calling him, he immediately opened the door, walked out, and started reading the official documents on the stone table.

"Fraud?" Bai Bing saw the official document and found that the matter was completely different from what he thought. The court seemed to have a different characterization.

"Huang Chun had no ability to interfere in the imperial examinations. Even the academy examinations were within the responsibilities of the Hanlin Academy, the Imperial College, the Imperial Examination Hall, and the Education Commission. Huang Chun used the excuse that he could interfere in the imperial examinations to extort bribes of more than 3 silver coins from people including your father." Chen Mo explained why it was fraud and not bribery.

Huang Chun was a magistrate. He didn't have the ability to interfere with the college examination. He just took advantage of the examination to make a fortune and made some ambiguous promises. If someone was as hardworking as Bai Bing and passed the exam, it would be a win-win for both of us. If someone failed, he would be accepted as a disciple, and the bribe money would become a tuition fee.

This was not the first time Huang Chun had done this. He did it once in the ninth year of Wanli, but there were only thirteen victims that time. This time, Huang Chun was so bold that he directly demanded bribes from 172 people, and the amount was huge.

Fan Yingqi and Wang Jiaping also accepted money when they were presiding over the imperial examination. At that time, the imperial court had not yet launched an anti-corruption campaign, and this incident was classified as bribery because Fan Yingqi and Wang Jiaping, as co-examiners, really had the ability to interfere with the imperial examination system, but they did not do it.

Huang Chun's crime was not defined as bribery but fraud, which means that Huang Chun simply did not have the ability to do so.

"Don't believe it in the future. The imperial examination is a major event for the country. Any fraud will result in a huge case with many people killed. How can a small magistrate like him intervene? A dog on the roadside knows to pee under a tree to mark its own territory, let alone these officials? They all have their own power boundaries." Chen Mo gave some advice. Chen Mo didn't want the Bai family to really commit fraud in the imperial examination and lose their heads when he was handling a case one day.

"After counting the silver coins, sign and seal the notice of returning the stolen money." Chen Mo pointed at the official documents on the table, indicating that Bai Bing and his son could sign if there was no problem.

"Okay." Bai Bing looked at his father lying on the ground, picked up a pen, signed, and pressed his fingerprints.

"Bai Gengsheng, you and Huang Chun are old acquaintances. Do you know about his other acts of corruption and abuse of power?" Chen Mo put away the official documents and asked Bai Gengsheng who had stood up with the help of the wall.

"I know!" Bai Gengsheng almost hated Huang Chun to death. In Bai Gengsheng's mind, these officials were all in the same boat and would give convenience to each other, so Bai Gengsheng gave all the silver in his family to Huang Chun. However, this guy didn't do it at all, but just wanted to defraud money!

It's so hateful!

So when Chen Mo asked, Bai Gengsheng decided to tell him everything he knew.

"He has a mistress in Tianjin!" Bai Gengsheng told what he knew.

Chen Mo's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "Quick, tell me about this mistress in detail."

This is a new clue. The investigation into Huang Chun is ongoing, and a lot of things have been uncovered. But until now, the imperial guards still don't know why Huang Chun would hit his head against the pillar in the Censorate. If all these things were added together, the worst that could happen is that Huang Chun would be stripped of his official title.

"I know about his mistress because one time he asked me to go to Tianjin to deliver goods to his mistress. Silks, satins, rouge and powder were not convenient for him to purchase by himself, so he gave me some silver. He was very stingy and I even lost a tael of silver!" Bai Gengsheng told me everything he knew.

After Chen Mo recorded the details in the book, he asked, "If you have to go to the lobby of the Ministry of Justice to testify, are you willing to go?"

"This..." Bai Gengsheng glanced at his son and quickly said, "Yes."

For the sake of his son's future, he is willing to take risks in all kinds of situations.

"Okay." Chen Mo nodded and said, "Very good, don't worry, this is the official residence of the craftsmen, and you have to follow the law when you go out. You don't have to believe anyone who threatens you. If they want to do something unruly on Wang Ci Fu's territory, they have to ask Wang Ci Fu if he agrees. Don't you agree?"

"Yes, yes." Bai Gengsheng nodded repeatedly, thinking that what Chen Mo said made sense.

Chen Mo wanted to reassure Bai Gengsheng. In fact, these key witnesses were all being watched personally by the Northern Pacification Division, so there would definitely not be any problems. However, Bai Gengsheng was unfamiliar with the Tiqi and had resistance to them, so it would be better to talk to someone he was familiar with.

"Do you know anything else?" Chen Mo continued to ask.

"I once heard him say that gunpowder was hard to get and that it would cost extra money, but I didn't know what he meant." Bai Gengsheng pondered and finally thought of a sentence that he felt was very wrong: gunpowder. What kind of gunpowder would a magistrate need?
"Very good, take a look. If there is no problem, just sign here. Mr. Bai, read these testimonies to your father." Chen Mo smiled. In the assassination case of Wang Ci Fu, the clue to the second major doubt appeared: the source of the gunpowder.

"Please stay, please stay." Chen Mo was polite twice when he walked out of the house, and Bai Gengsheng hurriedly said goodbye.

Just these two polite words made all the doubts and speculations in the hearts of Bai Gengsheng's neighbors disappear. Generally speaking, the Tiqi are the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons who come to take lives. Since being visited by the Tiqi is not to take lives, then it must be some unknown good news.

Chen Mo came from a humble background, he understood these things very well, he knew if he just left, Bai Gengsheng and Bai Bing would probably be pointed at and talked about for years. The lower one is in social status, the weaker their ability to resist risks. Sometimes you don't even need a knife to destroy a family, rumors can really kill people.

Chen Mo saw it with his own eyes.

"So, I passed the exam to become a scholar on my own?" Bai Bing watched Chen Mo and the others leave, and then finally came to his senses. His lifeless face gradually regained its vitality, and then he became ecstatic and said loudly: "Hey! Great, I passed! Dad, I passed the exam!"

"bingo!"

Chen Mo returned to the Northern Pacification Division and told the commander Zhao Mengyou the intelligence he had collected as quickly as possible. Soon, Chen Mo rode at full speed to Tianjin. Chen Mo was so fast that he arrived in Tianjin in just two hours, and then began to investigate Huang Chun's mistress.

Originally Chen Mo thought he was a step too late and was afraid that Huang Chun's mistress had already run away without a trace. However, when Chen Mo found the mistress's door, he discovered that the lights were still on and there were sounds inside.

"Captain, this sound is a bit strange." A Ti cavalryman who followed along said with a very strange look on his face. The noise inside was obviously that a man and a woman were doing something, and the noise was very loud.

"Break the door!" Chen Mo took two steps back and ordered to break the door.

Originally, the Ti Riders carried a door-breaking hammer on their backs, which was a door-breaking weapon powered by gunpowder explosion and equipped with a hammer head, but the Ti Riders did not like to use it.

As soon as one Ti cavalry stretched out his hand, the other Ti cavalry took two running steps, stepped on the Ti cavalry's hand, jumped up, and nimbly flipped into the courtyard and opened the door. As long as it was not a military operation, the gunpowder for the door-battering hammer would be saved as much as possible.

Frugality is one of your Majesty's eight virtues. If your superiors set an example, your subordinates will follow suit. Everyone in the Ming Dynasty, both inside and outside, will save when it is necessary.

Huang Chun's mistress was arrested. She didn't even know that Huang Chun was dead. No one told her at all.

There was indeed a man on the bed. At first, the mistress thought that Huang Chun had come to catch them cheating. She was so scared that she castrated the man on the spot. But she found out that it was something more serious than catching them cheating.

When Chen Mo was investigating the case, he thought of a saying by Master Wang Qian: Which concubine doesn't cheat?

As Prince Wang is the first person to study the culture of concubines in the Ming Dynasty, this statement is very authoritative.

The man who was having an affair with his mistress was not a decent person either. He was a catamite from the neighborhood. A catamite was a beautiful girl, but this man was a man, a male concubine who specialized in providing services to those with special fetishes.

Chen Mo seized stolen goods worth 720,000 taels of silver in this concubine's room.

(End of this chapter)