It is said that the profession of yūme originated from the shrine maidens of the island country. As the witches gradually left the shrine and wandered outside, performing songs and dances everywhere, and providing sex for men became a side job for them.
Since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, people in the island country who originally had no strong concept of racial differences among the Tang people have believed that "China is dead." Therefore, the first overseas geography book published by the island country in the eighth year of Genroku (1695) was called "Huayitong Business Examination". This "Hua" refers to the island country itself, and China under the rule of the Qing court became a member of the "barbarians" in Confucian culture.
In response to this situation, the Maruyama girls who provided services to the Tang people in Nagasaki were also divided into a separate group. The service targets of Maruyama Travel Girl are divided into Japanese, Chinese and Dutch. Those who serve the Japanese will never serve the Tang people and the Dutch, because the latter two are "foreign barbarians".
The shogunate's regulations on this were, "Tang people are not allowed to go out at will, and women other than wandering girls are not allowed to enter."
In the first month of the second year of Genroku (the twenty-eighth year of Kangxi), when the first batch of Chinese businessmen moved in at Tang Ren Yashiki, dozens of Maruyama wandering girls arrived the next day. However, they were not doing business that day, but were visiting as a group to familiarize themselves with the environment.
With the arrival of Tang ships one after another, Maruyama's business of traveling women from the Tang Dynasty grew rapidly. It should be known that the karajin yashiki can accommodate up to 3,000 people at the same time. As a result, 20,000 Maruyama wandering girls enter the karajin yashiki every year, and the peak reached 40,000. It can be said that "prostitution flourished".
It is said that in Maruyama Town, Nagasaki, the relationship between yūna and yūnyōya is divided into two types, one is official yūnyō, and the other is nominal yūnyō (the payment is made under the name of yūnyōya). "Shikiri wandering girls" are a special group of nominal wandering girls.
The reason why Shikiri Yumei is special is that according to the established rules, they can only serve one person in their life, and her entire source of income can only rely on that one person.
Lu Yun is an official wandering girl. She only serves Shen Jingdan.
In order to find out what the government's plan was for the big ship, she took her maid Adon back to the "Yangkasankan" in Maruyama Town early in the morning. In addition, she still has something important to report to the Yanghuashan Pavilion.
This Yangkasankan is the largest of the seventy-four tourist houses in Maruyama Town, covering an area of 1,500 square meters (nearly 5,000 square meters). It has been nearly 1,500 square meters since its opening in Kanei's 19th year. It’s been ten years (in real history, it didn’t close until 1929, so it’s a time-honored brand.)
Because boss Yamaguchi had something to do outside the area, Lu Jun was chatting with the boss's wife in a room on the second floor of Maruyama House.
"Adi, are you really pregnant? How long have you been pregnant?" the landlady asked happily. "Green Jun" is the name given to her by Shen Jingdan, and her nickname in Maruyama is Oginoto.
"I asked the doctor to check my pulse a few days ago. Judging by the number of days, it must have been more than two months."
The landlady said enviously: "Boss Shen really loves you. Ah Di, you are lucky."
Shen Jingdan originally liked Lu Yun very much. Because she was pregnant with her child, she applied to the Nagasaki Enforcement Office a few days ago to increase the "yangdaiyin" (fee for traveling girls) given to Lu Jun to one thousand kilograms of white sugar. At this time, the wholesale price of sugar in the Nagasaki market was more than three taels of silver, which was a lot of money.
The payment of travel expenses for women in the Tang Dynasty was strictly controlled by the shogunate.
For example, Shen Jingdan cannot give money to Lu Yun casually. He must first pay the banknote (silver check) to the Nagasaki Executive Office, and then the administrative office will convert the silver note into silver and issue it to Yanghuashan Hall. Only after deducting the corresponding nominal fee can the Yanghuashan Hall fall into the hands of Lu Jun. inside.
For example, when Shen Jingdan donated goods to Lu Yun, he had to first hand them over to the execution office through the town officials, and the execution office calculated the corresponding market price at that time, and then paid the money to Lu Jun.
By the way, there is no contraceptive technology in this era. However, businessmen in the Qing Dynasty were trapped in the "Chinese Courtyard" every day. In addition to drinking, eating, listening to plays, and doing other things with wandering girls, it was quite common for wandering girls to become pregnant.
According to the rules, Luyun must report to the Nagasaki Law Office step by step through Yanghuashan Hall. As long as Shen Jingdan agrees, the law enforcement office will approve the birth of the child. Before the child was born, Lu Jun had to find a "name-paying prostitute" who would take care of the confinement period and go to a Chinese house to give birth to the child. However, due to the underdeveloped medical technology in this era and the low survival rate of babies, some of the love crystallizations between wandering girls and Tang people died in infancy.
The shogunate prohibited these mixed-race children from returning to the country with their fathers. They were usually raised in the home of the wandering daughter's mother. When they grew up, many of them took on their mother's Japanese surname.
Lu Yun chatted with the proprietress and talked a lot about the parents. During this period, people came and went, and some of the wandering girls with whom she was interested also came to say hello.
Seeing that it was almost noon, Lu Yun felt that the preparation was almost done. At this time, she and the proprietress were the only two people left in the room, so he asked the proprietress: "Do you know what the government's plan is to deal with the big ship that came yesterday?"
"Is this what Boss Shen asked you to ask?"
"Yes, I heard that the big ship is on the waterway where the Tang ships leave the port. Many Tang people are afraid of getting into trouble. My husband asked me to help inquire about it so that we can make arrangements in advance."
The proprietress looked around, covered her face with a fan, and whispered: "The guy who came to deliver the food this morning said that there were a lot of officers and soldiers coming from outside the town, there must be thousands of them."
"ah!"
While the two were talking, the barrier door was opened and boss Yamaguchi walked in.
"Ah, Ah Di, you are back."
Now Luyun's net worth is different from before. With the confidence of a thousand kilograms of white sugar, she can turn to good deeds at any time after giving birth. Therefore, the boss and his wife were very polite to her and did not treat her like an ordinary wandering girl.
After some polite greetings, the landlady started talking about Boss Shen asking Lujun to inquire about the big ship outside the port.
Boss Yamaguchi pondered for a moment before speaking: "Adi, does Boss Shen still have a lot of goods in Xinjizang?"
Lu Jun replied: "I heard him say that most of the goods purchased before were brought back by others, and now there are only a few books left."
Yamaguchi nodded: "That's good."
The "New Ksitigarbha" they mentioned refers to the warehouse at Tangren Wharf. Because it is an artificial island created by reclamation from the sea, it is called Xin; island people call the warehouse "Zang".
"Why do you ask this?" Luyun asked strangely.
"It's a coincidence that you're here today. I just came back from the town hall. Starting tomorrow, martial law will begin in every town in the city."
After hearing this, the proprietress and Lu Yun thought for a moment, and then asked in surprise: "Do you really want to expel us by force?"
Yamaguchi nodded heavily and said in a low voice: "I heard that last night the Saga Clan and the Fukuoka Clan had arranged most of the troops in the bansho to the warehouses at the port and the new Jizo of the Tang Dynasty. This is to prepare Feel free to board the ship for expulsion.”
Lu Yun was about to ask again, but the proprietress asked hurriedly: "I heard that that foreign ship is as big as a mountain, and the sides of the ship are scary high. Isn't it difficult to handle a fight?"
"You don't know. I heard that His Highness Izumomomo has notified the surrounding feudal clans to send out troops. The soldiers and horses of the Omura and Isahaya clans arrived outside the city last night. It is estimated that the navy of the Satsuma clan will also arrive in two days. "
"Why is there such a huge formation?"
Boss Yamaguchi stood up and opened the barrier door, looked around, then closed the door and sat down, saying in a low voice: "I heard Mr. Ikeda say that the people on the foreign ships are all descendants of the Tang Dynasty. They came here to celebrate the event fifty-eight years ago. It’s an old matter, and I need to ask the Choshu clan to collect debts.”
"Ah? Then why did they come to Nagasaki? They should go directly to the Choshu Domain."
"Tsk~~This is only one, there is also the second. Mr. Ikeda quietly told me that the bow of the foreign ship said that they have rice, and I heard that it is still polished rice!"
The landlady and Lu Jun were immediately stunned. How much rice must be loaded on a foreign ship as big as a mountain?
Boss Yamaguchi sighed and said in a low voice: "Same, Mr. Izumo, it would be great to find someone to buy the grain secretly overseas. Now people are starving to death everywhere in the city. After those foreigners have sold out the grain, naturally they will not Stay here. As for the Choshu clan, it’s none of our business.”
Regardless of the feasting and feasting here in Maruyama Town and the drunkenness and sleepiness over there at the "Chinese Courtyard", many townspeople in Nagasaki Castle are struggling on the verge of death at this time. Now the price of food in the city has skyrocketed, and many people have run out of food at home. Along with famine came infectious diseases.
Nagasaki is a city that was formed based on maritime trade. The shogunate adopted a state-managed trade system. It locked the only trading port in Nagasaki, so the locals had to work hard to serve the trade. And everyone's food and clothing also depended on the prosperity of maritime trade.
Because fewer and fewer Dutch merchant ships have arrived in the port in the past two years, trade volume has declined. In order to raise the funds to be paid to the shogunate, Lord Izumo Shou began to increase taxes on commodity transactions, increase labor burdens, severely punish private sales of trade goods, and immediately arrest and torture at the slightest suspicion, which made many townspeople engaged in maritime trade business and Businessmen were in panic.
Lord Izumo Shou also reduced the salaries of officials and ordered the officials below to stop drinking. But he himself secretly asked the Dutch to provide red wine and various overseas luxuries for his own enjoyment, and indulged in wine and sex all day long.
(So everyone knows why after Toda Shimo died, Nagasaki citizens lined up to urinate on his grave, right?)
At lunch, boss Yamaguchi specially ordered a simple version of "しっぽく cuisine" (Takufu cuisine) in order to celebrate Midori's pregnancy and fortune.
This thing is also unique to Nagasaki. Nagasaki people really appreciate the Tang Dynasty's way of sitting around the Eight Immortals table, sitting with their arms and legs stretched out, and then having family reunions and eating with friends and family. So the Eight Immortals table was changed into a round shape, the legs of the table were shortened, the tabletop was dyed vermilion, and a tablecloth was spread on top; everyone sat around and ate.
Even the punching orders performed by people in the Tang Dynasty at the wine table were called "様quan", "huoquan" and "thumb fight" by the locals. Because these tricks were learned by wandering girls from the "Chinese Courtyard", the vocalizations are also in Chinese.
In the menu of Zhuofu cuisine in later generations, there must be a large platter, a Dongpo pork, braised snapper, plus various local delicacies and Chinese snacks; such as peach steamed buns, cloud cakes, bean paste cakes, gold cakes, Honey fruits and so on.
After hearing what Boss Yamaguchi said, Lu Jun began to worry about Shen Jingdan. He went to the foreign ship in the morning and didn't know what the situation would be. If the eviction by force begins, they may be implicated in some way.
So after lunch, she hurried back to Chinatown with her maid. But when I arrived at the residence, Shen Jingdan was not there, and neither was Shen Xuan.
After she sent her maid to find someone to inquire, she finally found out from Lao Huang that Ah Quan had disguised himself and boarded the ship with Shen Jingdan in the morning, but the two of them actually stayed on the ship and did not return.
This is bad!
(End of chapter)
