golden scales

In the late Ming Dynasty, the south wind was extremely strong, especially in the south of the Yangtze River.Not only is it not a scandal for your young master to keep a child prostitute, but it is a beautiful thing.Zhang Dai listed his twelve "good" in "Ziwei Epitaph", the top three are "good house, beautiful maid, good child molestation", followed by fresh clothes and delicious food, horses and lanterns, etc. .

Zhu Guobi would not think that just because the crown prince looked at him twice, he was Gu Panyouqing... Even if the crown prince is a good child prostitute, he would not treat a fat and ugly old man like him.

Zhu Guobi just thought that the crown prince was more interested in other people's wives and concubines.

Is not it?

Since entering the table, among the women the crown prince has asked, which one is not a young woman who has already been accepted?On the contrary, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never asked a single question about the Nanqu girls, court ladies, and oirans who are famous on the Qinhuai River.

Zhu Guobi made an excuse to change clothes, and went out to ask the doorman Qingke to find out who Ma Xianglan was. He happened to meet Ruan Dacheng who also came out to "change clothes".The two looked at each other, knowing what the other meant.Zhu Guobi thought to himself: You Ruan Huzi really spend money like water, you don't even know the identity of the prince, so you want to curry favor?

Ruan Dacheng even wanted to treat Hong Chengchou's mother as a favor, as long as the other party was from the clan, what was it worth sending a beautiful girl?It's just a trivial matter of a hundred taels of silver.

Sure enough, I only heard Ruan Dacheng say to the Qing guest who came by the boat: "Go and find out if there is a sister named Ma Xianglan, just buy it, it will be useful for you."

Knowing that it was time for him to get the kickback again, the Qing Ke hurriedly smiled and left.These people have wandered around Qinhuai for a long time, and they know which girls are in which family.The name Ma Xianglan sounds familiar, but I can't remember it clearly. In short, I will go to the house of a girl surnamed Ma and ask.

The two returned to the banquet one after another, and Mr. Li was talking about garden layout and other matters, his eyebrows were beaming, but his words were quite interesting.Zhu Cihong has visited many gardens in his past and present lives, but this is the first time he knows that the Ming people's designs for the Jingshe gardens are rich and varied, combining aesthetics and optics.The so-called garden tour is by no means as simple as walking around and watching the lanterns.

"My family also has a few gardens, and I don't think there's anything special about it when I walk through them on weekdays. Listening to Mr. Li's explanation, I really waste everything." Zhu Cilang said with a smile: "In the future, I will ask Mr. to be a tour guide. Let me This laity is more elegant."

Mr. Li said with a smile: "Mr. Zhu is studying the knowledge of managing the world and helping the people. Arranging flowers in a good garden and planting operas in vases are all things that are not on the table."

Zhu Cihong shook his head and said with a smile: "Sir, why bother to be self-effacing. My Huaxia certainly has the philosophical mantras left by the masters, but if these 'things' are really wiped out, will Huaxia still be Huaxia?"

Ruan Dacheng is also a master of this, and immediately smiled and said: "Young master is very knowledgeable. The difference between China and Yidi is that there are sages' words of enlightenment, which make the people out of ignorance and conform to Daoism. And opera and entertainment. Which one is not the image of Dao Well. In my opinion, the enlightenment function of these 'things' is more useful than the words of the sages."

"Oh? I'd like to hear about it."

"Ordinary people, who would read the words and deeds of saints? As for the biography of poetry, books and scriptures, they are even less known. But the common people can be educated, know the etiquette, righteousness and shame. Most of them come from dramas." Ruan Dacheng laughed: "So I said, read "" Jing Zhong Ji is enough to learn Yue Wang's loyalty to serve the country; reading "Qian Jin Ji" is much more thorough than reading "Historical Records" and "Han Shu".

Kou Baimen said with a smile: "According to what Mr. Shi Chao said, in the future, there is no need to test the Four Books and Five Classics in the examination hall, and only use these dramas of the predecessors and the present, so that loyal officials and filial sons can be selected."

Ruan Dacheng laughed loudly and said, "Stay true to what you want. At that time, Shiwen anthology will not be sold in bookstores. But my family's "Quyuan Zatan" can be changed into a daily newspaper!"

"If this is the case, I still need Mr. Ruan to support me a lot." Mr. Li stepped forward suddenly, and saluted respectfully, with a smile on his face.

"Oh? Why did you say that, sir?"

Mr. Li said with a smile: "I met a nobleman today. Marquis Fu Ning is willing to help a certain private class, and Mr. Zhu is willing to open up the joints in the army for his subordinates. If Mr. Ruan preaches in the newspaper again, how can my Li family's class Isn't it just relying on the wind to borrow power?"

Ruan Dacheng laughed when he heard this, and agreed, and said to himself: It sounds like this person is just a clean-up man, I don't know why he was treated so courteously.Maybe it's true talent.

"But I also said," Zhu Cihong said, "The operas in the army can't only be played by talented scholars and beautiful ladies. Mr. Li still needs to go deep into the army and write more morale-boosting songs like "Jing Zhong Ji"."

"I understand." Mr. Li smiled.

"Mr. Zhu never forgets important national affairs even when he travels to Yezhangtai. What is it if he is not 'loyalty'? The concubine salutes you with this wine." Kou Baimen said, drinking a full glass and looking at Zhu Cihong with a smile.

Zhu Cihong nodded, but didn't drink.He doesn't like alcohol very much, and always feels that it affects his judgment.If it was in the previous life, he had to pay attention to interpersonal relationships, but now that he is the crown prince, he naturally doesn't need to give face to a concubine who was born as a singing girl.

When Zhu Guobi saw that Kou Baimen was acting like a fake show, he regretted it for a moment, but he looked away in a blink of an eye.He is a typical butterfly in the flowers. The so-called wife is worse than concubine, concubine is worse than maidservant, maidservant is worse than prostitute, whore is worse than stealing, stealing is worse than not being able to steal...he is talking about people like him.

Before accepting Kou Baimen, this woman was like a goddess, wishing she could go to Kou's house every day.When I really waited to welcome into my home, I found that it was nothing more than mediocre, and I was always suspected of gaining fame.Therefore, only two or three months after he took in Kou Baimen, he lingered around the North and South Courtyards all day long, and the number of times he went home to spend the night was very few, and he became increasingly indifferent to Kou Baimen.

Just as he was thinking, Zhu Guobi suddenly saw his family members waving outside, and hurriedly apologized.

"Did you find out? Which family's girl is it?" Zhu Guobi asked immediately, fearing that Ruan Dacheng would be the first.

The family grinned and put on a bitter face: "Master Hou, that Ma Xianglan was really a famous Qinhuai prostitute, but she was from the Jiajing and Longqing periods. She has been dead for more than 40 years now. If she is alive, there must be eight or ninety Years old."

Zhu Guobi shook his hand, and when he turned his head, he happened to see Kou Baimen chuckling, covering his mouth and heart, as if the crown prince had told a very funny joke.He had an idea at the moment, waved his family back, and returned to the banquet.

"Why is Ma Jun so depressed?" Kou Baimen had seen Ma Shiying, saw that he was silent, and of course turned the focus to him in order to liven up the atmosphere of the meeting.

Ma Shiying's hand trembled, spilled half a glass of wine, and said hastily: "It's all right. It's just that I'm a little tired from the heavy work recently."

"Being scolded badly." Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "Who has never encountered such a thing, just don't take it to heart."

"Nowadays, those scholars are like shrews and mad dogs. They scold whoever they catch." Ruan Dacheng said, "Even the crown prince dares to scold, let alone others?"

"The crown prince also went too far. All the officials in the Yingtian Mansion were changed all at once. He killed so many experienced officials, and he didn't know how to carry out common affairs." It is the habit of Jiangnan famous prostitutes to publish political opinions, and it is also because of this that they broke away from "" The way of entertaining people with women's sex".Before Kou Baimen finished speaking, he heard Zhu Guobi coughing.

"Master, did you choke?" Kou Baimen still felt sorry for his husband, and motioned for Meiji, who was serving Zhu Guobi, to beat his back.

Zhu Guobi really wanted to bump his head to death: If he knew it earlier, he should have let her know!

"Are you okay?" Zhu Cihong looked at Zhu Guobi, of course he knew why he was coughing.

Panting heavily, Zhu Guobi quickly straightened his position and said, "Those officials should be killed! There have been many famines in Nanzhi and Zhejiang these years, and the people have no food and clothing, but they are still rich! As for those small officials, they are even more cruel. My servant, eleven out of ten deserve to be killed!"

"Why is there an extra one?" Xiao Mo laughed as he heard it was interesting.

"There is another one who works for the public."

Everyone covered their mouths and chuckled, but Zhu Cihong couldn't laugh.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Officials during the Chongzhen period, there were only 5 court officials nationwide.Among them, the two capitals each accounted for two to three thousand, and the other thirteen provinces had only more than [-] officials.During the reign of Chongzhen, the national population had exceeded [-] million, which led to insufficient staffing of grassroots officials.Therefore, officials have only two options: one is to try not to do anything, and the other is to hire temporary workers, which are called "official workers".

Temporary workers earn a relatively low income because officials have to pay for it themselves, but their purpose of recruiting is to be harsh on the common people and gain benefits from various work projects.Such people often do not have any awe and culture. Their ignorance and audacity lead them to be unscrupulous.In terms of responsibilities, they are the root of the Ming regime, but the rot also starts from their link.

Thinking about Jiajing, the roots were not rotten, even if state officials like Yan Song and Hu Zongxian became more corrupt, it would not have a significant impact on the lives of the people.Once the root is broken, the common people's feeling is very intuitive.During the reign of Chongzhen, almost all the people were corrupt, so the people would not have to live.

"What advice does Mr. Zhu have?" Kou Baimen asked.

"Killing is not the purpose, the purpose is not to kill." Zhu Cihong's interest in this recreational activity has come to an end: "The country has its own laws, no matter who they are, as long as they follow the laws, they will not be able to fall on their heads .”

"Young master is right, very true!" Zhu Guobi said: "It is precisely because of these people's self-indulgence that they don't follow the law, and they don't obey the law. The shame of the country's change has just been put down, and you want to repeat the old tricks, how is this possible!"

"Master, didn't you say a few days ago that this kind of killing method will kill the magistrate and leave?" Kou Baimen kindly reminded.

"Let them go!" Ma Shiying suddenly shouted: "These silverfish will go if they don't! If I can see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in person, I will be ordered to be imprisoned!"

Kou Baimen was even more puzzled, why is the wind blowing in the opposite direction today?Shouldn't all the officials and citizens in the south of the Yangtze River be quite resistant to the crown prince?

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