At this time, other brothel girls who refused to leave were also killed by Yuan Keli's guards and servants.
Liu Xiang'er was so frightened that she sat on the ground and screamed: "Ah!"
The sound was very sharp.
For a moment, Liu Xiang'er shouted: "Yuan Fu, please spare your life! This is all what the masters and husbands asked us to do! The slave family accepts the court's arrangement, and the slave family is willing to be a real couple! Woo hoo!"
With that said, Liu Xiang'er turned around and fled outside.
At this time, Liu Xiang'er recognized Chen Mingxia, who had made an oath to each other with her.
So, like meeting a patron saint, Liu Xiang'er gritted her teeth and used her last strength to run towards Chen Mingxia, shouting loudly: "Mr. Chen! Mr. Chen, save me!"
Chen Mingxia was frightened when he saw the guard Yuan Keli behind him holding a bloody knife and killing people very quickly. He was deeply afraid that he would be killed if he had any further connection with Liu Xiang'er and other brothel girls.
Therefore, Chen Mingxia directly pushed away Liu Xiang'er who rushed towards her: "Get away! Bitch! My surname is not Chen!"
Then, Chen Mingxia ran away from here in a hurry, so much so that after someone knocked off the scarf on his head, he didn't bother to pick it up.
His friend Li Senxian ran away before him.
After Liu Xiang'er was pushed to the ground, she was not killed again.
Because after Yuan Keli saw that most of the people retreated, he also asked his guards and servants to withdraw. After all, these people were not Tatars. He did not want to kill them all, but just borrowed a few heads to scare them. That’s all.
When Bi Ziyan saw this scene, he couldn't help but shook his head: "I have always listened to your good advice. Now Yuan Fu has taken action. Are you satisfied?"
Here, Zhu Yanxi, who was offering wine at the Imperial College, was still standing where he was.
"These are all fair-skinned beauties!"
"Who is not charming and lovely, like a fairy!"
"What a shame that Yuan Suizhou doesn't know how to show mercy to others, so he kills them all. He is like a butcher!"
Zhu Yanxi, who was watching all this, burst into tears for a moment, shouting in her heart, and even glanced at Lan Lan, who had just been dragged away by the slaves of the Yuan family.
Because of this glance, Zhu Yanxi couldn't help it anymore, pointed at Yuan Keli's retreating back, and shouted: "Butcher! You surnamed Yuan, you butcher!"
Yuan Keli turned back and glanced at him.
Zhu Yanxi immediately shut his mouth, a chill suddenly ran down his back, and he thought to himself: "He won't kill me too!"
Zhu Yanxi hurriedly handed over his hands and forced out a smile that was uglier than crying: "Yuan Fu! Why did you turn around, but what advice do you want to give to the subordinates?"
Yuan Keli also laughed and asked, "Mr. Zhu, were you calling me just now?"
"ah!"
Zhu Yanxi responded like a fool, and then said: "I am deaf, what is Yuan Fu talking about!"
Yuan Ke immediately handed over and walked away.
For Yuan Keli himself, the scene that just happened was not disturbing at all.
Because although he was a civil servant who commanded the army in Liaodong, he was the most ruthless to the Donglu in all the economic strategies. As long as he won, he would massacre the Donglu and destroy the country at every turn.
Therefore, Donglu had long called him Yuan Butcher, and he was hated by Donglu just like Xiong Tingbi, who was also nicknamed "Xiong Manzi" by Donglu.
Even in the original history, after the Manchus took over the Central Plains, they hated him. When compiling the "History of the Ming Dynasty", they did not give him a biography of a minister who had been a minister. Even the documents were destroyed. Later generations could only find epitaphs related to Yuan Keli. Ming.
"Congratulations to Yuan Fu!"
Zhu Yanxi bowed her hands to Yuan Keli and said goodbye in a humble manner, fearing that she would offend Yuan Keli because of this small mistake.
After all, he is also afraid of death.
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Next, the brothels in the capital had to cease operations and were forced to switch to opera or acrobatics. Arts such as opera and acrobatics, which are more life-oriented, naturally cannot make customers spend money as easily as the brothel business. These require a lot of money. Audiences can generate a lot of income.
After these brothel people changed careers, they had to start serving the entertainment needs of the general public, instead of just pleasing the literati, they did not go up to the upper class as before, making ordinary people unable to experience the spiritual nourishment brought by literature and art.
The people are naturally very happy.
Although the income of the powerful gentry has not increased as much as before due to the internal affairs reform, the income of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty has increased significantly.
Therefore, ordinary people are now willing to spend a few dollars to watch theater and listen to books.
Therefore, brothel owners who have turned to entertaining the public rather than pleasing the elite are once again on the rise.
The powerful gentry were naturally dissatisfied with this, and they also despised some of the brothel people who started to entertain the public. They felt that these people had betrayed themselves, and even said that these people were despicable.
Now, the most dissatisfied among the powerful gentry is Yuan Keli.
After all, Yuan Keli first introduced a new business tax and then banned brothels, which completely offended them.
Even the clan members hated him because he killed the prince.
Only King Zhu Yousong of Hirado had no time to complain about Yuan Keli, because he found a business opportunity. He told his official, the so-called steward, "Take half of the silver coins saved in the house and go immediately. He opened a brothel in Nagasaki and selected the best local Japanese women. After the establishment was completed, he went to Jiangnan and invited several Jiangnan literati to come to Beijing to promote it. Now that Mr. Yuan is doing this, he will undoubtedly force the large-scale brothel business of the Ming Dynasty away. To go to my Ming Dynasty’s overseas special zone, we have to go to these places to make a fortune first!”
As Zhu Yousong spoke, he ordered his other steward: "Take the other half of the silver coins saved in the house, go to the Shipping Bureau to buy some big ships, and go to the Qinhuai River in Nanjing to find someone to make these big ships more gorgeous. , hire some retired old sailors, organize a shipping fleet, and then be responsible for transporting the dignitaries from China to have fun! If you don’t have enough money, go to Daming Bank for a loan."
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"Your Majesty, the implementation of the commercial tax in Shuntian Prefecture is quite smooth now, because everyone's attention is focused on banning brothels, and the voices opposing the new commercial tax have been suppressed by the voices opposing the ban on brothels and other businesses. , but because Yuan Fu killed some brothel girls on the pretext of resisting the imperial decree, they did not dare to act recklessly, but now there are many people secretly scolding Yuan Fu, even more than Fang Wenzhenggong back then!"
Wei Zhongxian reported to Colonel Zhu You here.
Because Fang Congzhe had been given the posthumous title Wenzheng by Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian called him Fang Wenzhenggong.
In order to let the civil servants behind him work hard for him, he naturally had to be more generous and directly give Wen Zheng the posthumous title that the civil servants cared about most.
"Is there anyone who hasn't scolded me? Especially among the noble clan members."
Zhu Youxiao asked.
"There is one person, His Highness King Hirado. My servant was about to report to you that he suddenly sent someone to go to Nagasaki with a large amount of family property. In addition, he also prepared a loan to buy a ship from the Shipping Bureau and specially set up a fleet for preparation. In the future, he will take people from China to Nagasaki. To this end, he plans to buy a boat and go to the Qinhuai River in the south of the Yangtze River to build a large flower boat. He will decorate his boat extravagantly enough to prevent the passengers from falling off identity."
Wei Zhongxian replied.
Zhu Youxiao laughed after hearing this: "He is quite keen!"
Then, Zhu Youxiao asked again: "You reported to me last time that you found out about someone who had been hired as a servant by your side. Have you found anything now?"
Wei Zhongxian replied: "My slave asked people to interrogate secretly in the mansion for fear of being exposed, but after using Wuxiang, he was also interrogated."
Zhu Youxiao hurriedly asked: "Who is the person behind the scenes?"
Wei Zhongxian suddenly replied in a low voice: "It's the assistant minister in the political affairs hall."
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