Zhu Bao's head was drooped, his eyes were red and swollen, and he couldn't express the grievances in his heart. There were some things he didn't have the shame to tell his aunt.
I spent money to buy a few women. In fact, they were just actresses, not concubines with any status at all. They were domestic prostitutes raised by the family!
Why raise? Playing with oneself is not the main thing, the key is that the shameless officials who welcome us love this!
The official atmosphere in the late Qing Dynasty was extremely unhealthy. Eating and drinking, corruption and corruption were all minor matters. What else would these people do after they had enough to eat and drink? I want to smoke cigarettes and have sex with women!
Both sides of the canal are economically developed areas. Almost all commercial towns and cities have brothels, and places like brothels are like the red light districts of later generations, they are high-consumption places!
We are all in the officialdom, so we can’t look for women with half-hidden doors, right? You have to go to a brothel or a club to find a famous girl with status!
But places like this are all gold-selling dens for big money. Girls with ordinary goods start at a hundred taels, and some red girls are worth thousands!
Sometimes Zhu Bao can’t understand. It’s just a pile of meat but it’s placed in different places. Why is there such a huge difference in price?
With a half-open door and a big dirty bed, an eighteen-year-old girl could sleep with only one silver dollar, but in a place like this, she would have to spend hundreds or even thousands of taels!
It’s really not worth it! In fact, there are many girls with hundreds of taels who look just like that. They are not as good as some rural flowers in the countryside below. On the contrary, some of those part-time workers with half-open doors are stunning!
It's a pity that even if it's not worth it, he has no place to reason, because the environment is also money. In officialdom, when everyone talks about things and does business, the environment is what matters!
The better the environment, the more money and food is wasted, and the more it reflects the dignity of the guests and the sincerity of the host!
Zhu Bao had already fallen into a deep financial crisis before. He could still afford to drink and dine at 2,300 taels per table, but drinking flower wine for one night cost four digits of silver. He really couldn't. My flesh hurts!
After much deliberation, I decided to buy a few actors to support my family. I would play and sing for myself on weekdays, and when guests came, I would let the prostitutes sleep with them. This way, the guests would feel more respectable!
This is Zhu Baocai’s true intention of buying a girl. It’s really a perfect combination of personal use and favors!
But her aunt Fuhui only thought that he was lustful and lustful, and she directly put all the blame on herself. However, there was no way to defend this matter. Should a nephew talk to his aunt about women's sex work? He didn't dare to speak!
"Auntie! Every year I spend more than 100,000 taels on just favors. In the end, the little money was not even enough to celebrate the New Year... I just got out of the river job because I had no choice!"
"To tell you the truth, when I took the money, I went to the Taoist priest on Mount Tai to figure it out... Next year will also be a year of little rain, so there won't be floods!"
"I have been a bit embezzled this year, but if there is no water supply tomorrow, I can use next year's river construction money to make up for this year's shortfall! The river embankment will definitely be repaired by then, and the people will not drown..."
"Bah! Use your nonsense to deceive ghosts!" Fuhui opened the windows angrily. "Is this the reason why you embezzled five million taels? Even if what you said is true, you don't have enough money for a year." …That’s not even five million taels!”
"In the final analysis, you are still greedy and shameless!"
Zhu Bao said with a bitter face, "My dear aunt! You have wrongfully accused me to death... I said there was a deficit of five million in the book, but I didn't say that it was all in my pocket!"
"There are more than a hundred officials in Jining Mansion, and that one doesn't share this money! These five million are shared by all the officials in Jining Mansion!"
"You can't blame me entirely! I only shared 600,000..." Zhu Bao said that 600,000 was still in his heart. He actually shared 2.2 million for this corruption, and the rest was It was the officials below who separated them!
Fuhui's head was spinning with anger, "Okay, okay...so good...this is a good official of our Qing Dynasty...collective corruption! collective corruption...in the end, you want me to wipe your butt." ?”
"Auntie, I don't have that much money to fill your mess!"
Zhu Bao quickly kowtowed, "No! Auntie has misunderstood what I meant... My nephew, I just want you to say something to the higher-ups. Whether it is the head of state or the third uncle, it only takes one sentence to handle this matter!"
"As long as you save face and don't let those censors impeach you, it's very simple! Auntie, please don't leave..."
With a bang, the window was closed again, and Zhu Bao was rejected!
Hey... Zhu Bao slowly got up from the ground with a long sigh, rubbed the soreness of his knees and said aggrievedly, "I don't want to either... but this officialdom is so dirty, what can I do?"
"Now the Qing Dynasty has suppressed the Changmao and Nian armies, and suppressed the Gansu-Shaanxi rebellion. The northwest is about to recover... Tongzhi Zhongxing!"
"All the officials have taken this to heart and become more particular about it. Nowadays, the trend of extravagance is ten times greater than it was ten years ago. Not to mention that my aunt can't stand it, I'm even dizzy after seeing it!"
Zhu Bao turned around and looked at the two figures on the pavilion, bowed quickly and said, "Two aunts, please say something to me, my aunt has such a temper that only you can persuade me!"
The two people who had been watching the excitement in the pavilion were Ping'er and Qingwen. They both looked at this dirty official coldly, with disdain in their hearts!
Chinese people have not had a good impression of corrupt officials since ancient times. This is all tradition!
"Ouch... We are just maids, but we can't interfere with your official duties. Please ask someone else!" Qingwen pushed Zhu Bao away with one word, turned around and walked away.
Ping'er also wanted to leave, but Zhu Bao quickly stepped forward and stopped her, "Aunt Ping'er! I can only ask you now... If my aunt doesn't save my life, Long Live Lord will really chop off my head!" "
"For the sake of my respect to my aunts, please give me a word!"
Zhu Bao is very good at entertaining guests and giving gifts. Every year during major festivals, he sends gifts north to his aunt in Tanggu City. Fresh fruits, local specialties, and nourishing medicines and ingredients from all seasons are all available at no cost!
And Zhu Bao did not win over the twelve golden hairpins that time, especially the aunts like Ping'er, Xiren, and Qingwen who had a close relationship with the head of state!
Over the past few years, Zhu Bao's reputation among these women is still very good!
Ping'er frowned and said, "How can my wife get used to the things you do? There are officials of all ages in the Tanggu Special Administrative Region, who are as dirty as you?"
"Everyone is extremely well-behaved, and no one dares to corrupt... Madam, you are comparing yourself to others, so the more I look at you, the angrier you become!"
"I can't help it, I can't control you!"
Just when Ping'er was about to leave, Zhu Bao knelt down with a bang: "Aunt! You have to save me... I have always done my best for my aunts!"
"By the way... I already have an idea of the person you asked me to find. Your lost uncle is most likely in Shandong... I have already found the clues!"
"Ah! You...you found it?"
