The little vendor smiled, bowed to Su Yonglin habitually, and then went back to do his own business.
Su Yonglin sat down with emotion, took his bowl of snail soup with clear juice, and took a sip.
Well, it still tastes the same as before, not changed at all.
Putting down the bowl, he saw Su Changsheng and Zhang Shi looking at him curiously, smiled, and then told what happened just now.
After hearing this, Su Changsheng and Zhang Shi were both very surprised.
"This is indeed a strange thing."
"Indeed, it is not easy to meet him after fifteen years."
Su Yonglin sighed and nodded.
"Who says it's not the case? That night fifteen years ago, I had already made up my mind to die. I thought at that time that I would die anyway, so I might as well have a good time. When I made an agreement with him, I I didn't think I could really come back.
Leading hundreds of people to fight against the Jin Kingdom with hundreds of thousands of troops, to overthrow them, and also to overthrow the superior people, can only be said to be a lucky coincidence that allowed me to succeed and allow me to come back here again. Drinking a bowl of snail soup with clear juice, what else can I not be satisfied with? "
The three of them laughed together, and then sighed while eating and drinking snail soup, feeling happy.
While eating and drinking, Su Yonglin also listened to the Hangzhou people around him setting up dragon gate formations at tables. As he listened, he heard someone talking about the fifth child of the Chen family who lived on a street in Qinghefang.
It is said that Chen Laowu was originally a careless person who liked to drink, gamble and go to brothels. He was often beaten by the fierce woman in his family who was famous in Qinghefang.
Later, the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty and built factories one after another around Hangzhou. Chen Laowu and his wife both worked in the factories.
His wife was strong and capable, eloquent, and dared to take responsibility. She soon became the team leader in the textile factory, then the team leader, and finally was elected as the chairperson of the women's committee in the factory. She had a good reputation, and the factory director and instructors respected her.
Chen Laowu refused to change his stubbornness and was willing to work, but he could not change his habit of cheating and cheating, and he always secretly used his wages to drink wine.
Finally, his wife couldn't bear it anymore. One day, his wife ran from Hangzhou No. 1 Textile Factory to Hangzhou No. 3 Steel Smelting Factory, chasing him with a wooden stick and beating him.
The screams were so loud that they could be heard all over the place. Three or five men couldn't stop his wife, and they insisted on beating Chen Laowu until she begged for mercy. Finally, Chen Laowu was carried to the infirmary. Treat the famous bone-setter.
For this matter, the Hangzhou Renaissance Association branch and the judicial department specially sent people to negotiate with the couple.
They said that visiting brothels is immoral, and beating people until they break bones is even more wrong. Ming Dynasty has very clear laws to prevent family members from hurting each other. His wife is suspected of breaking the law and committing a crime. They say that according to the law, she must be fined and punished, and her current position is also very Danger or something.
When Chen Laowu heard this, he couldn't do it. Regardless of his injured body, he begged the judicial department not to arrest his wife, saying that it was all his fault and his wife was not wrong.
In the end, the factory, the Renaissance Association and the judicial department negotiated among three parties, and the main reason was that Chen Laowu understood his wife. His wife would not be severely sentenced, but she would have to be fined and detained for half a month. The factory would suspend her work without pay. Show punishment.
This incident made everyone very unhappy. Chen Laowu was criticized by many people. He seemed to have completely realized his mistake and never went to a brothel again.
Finally, in the eleventh year of Hongwu's reign, brothels in Hangzhou were banned, and Chen Laowu became completely honest. He worked down-to-earth in the factory, and went to and from work at the same time. The family was considered stable.
I heard that Chen Laowu is now an honest person. He goes home immediately after get off work and takes his children to chop wood and boil water for cooking. However, his wife is often busy late at night because of the Women's Committee affairs. It seems that the roles of the two have been reversed.
It's quite an interesting conversation.
When Su Yonglin heard the two protagonists in the story, he felt they sounded familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember where he had heard them.
On the other hand, the banning of brothels made Su Yonglin quite satisfied, and it seemed that there was no resistance among the people. Everyone seemed to accept the outcome.
It's just that others don't know it, but Su Yonglin knows that the banning of brothels really doesn't happen overnight. It requires all aspects of planning and preparation, and the final blow can completely end the existence of brothels.
If he had banned brothels as soon as he established the Ming Dynasty, he would probably face opposition from every class and every group from top to bottom.
Even the lower-class farmers who have actually suffered a lot from this may not be happy.
Because this prevents some of the unscrupulous bastards among them from selling their daughters to make money.
From ancient times to the present, parents do not need to take exams, so ancient parents may not know how to be parents better than modern parents. Some things have never changed.
So until after the third great purge, Su Yonglin believed that the time was almost ripe, and since the tenth year of Hongwu, he has successively tried to ban brothels across the country.
The DPRK had always known that Su Yonglin was trying to ban brothels, saying that he wanted to protect the interests of women, so members of the Renaissance were never allowed to visit brothels. Later, the scope was expanded to include all officials, and further expanded to include civil servants.
Although the officials accepted it, there were always voices of opposition in the DPRK.
This voice is not about the banning of brothels themselves. I don’t know what everyone is thinking, but the words on their lips are highly unified.
They all agreed that brothels exploited and oppressed women, and that brothels should not exist in the Ming Dynasty, which advocated revolution and liberation.
But the real problem is how to arrange the upstream and downstream practitioners after brothels are banned nationwide.
Many upstream practitioners have been involved in life-threatening lawsuits. If we really want to investigate, few of them will be clean. It is easy to prosecute and not difficult to deal with. The main problem lies with those downstream practitioners.
Apart from taking money from men's pockets, these employees have no other legitimate abilities. Although it is definitely a good thing to destroy their jobs, they can't be allowed to starve to death like that, right?
If they lose their livelihood, it will be easy for the girls in the future, but these brothel girls are still alive now and have no jobs. Could it be that the court is paying to support them?
Su Yonglin had some ideas about this.
So he selected several big cities with a relatively large number of brothels for pilot projects, including Hangzhou.
The Fuxing members took all the old madams and girls to the labor reform base and held special classes for them.
In the morning, I studied revolutionary knowledge and theory, and realized the mistakes I made in this industry. I talked about the disadvantages of this matter from multiple levels such as legal and moral aspects, and awakened the shameful heart of some women who no longer have any sense of shame.
This course also needs to bring out some famous examples from previous history, or simply write some stories about brothel girls.
Su Yonglin personally wrote the story "Du Shiniang", using the tragedy of Du Shiniang to awaken the sorrow and shame of these brothel girls.
These education models, which use reason to teach and move people to empathize with emotion, have indeed produced good results.
After studying in the morning, skills training classes are held in the afternoon so that they can learn skills that will make it easier for them to find jobs and support themselves, such as textile skills, sewing skills, and medical care skills.
These are very practical skills that can be used once you learn them. Factories around big cities recruit a lot of people. If they learn these skills, they can be assigned to work in factories. They will have a place to go and earn wages to support themselves. There is no need to place your hopes on others.
By the twelfth year of Hongwu, this group of old madams and brothel girls had achieved 100% transformation from study classes to social work. They had all joined the factory, became formal workers, and began to earn wages through labor. Own.
As for their marriage, it is obviously a big problem, but quite a few of them have already accepted their fate from the beginning and know their fate in this life.
Most of them chose to reject suggestions from revival members who tried to arrange marriages for them.
What they mean is that they originally thought that they would die in misery after old age and beauty, but now there is a second way to go, and they can still live on the benefits of the factory, and there will be benefits such as retirement in the future, which is no different from the second choice. second life.
So they decided that the sisters would support each other, build a big family that helps each other, change their minds and start a new life, and then they would stay together for warmth, take care of each other together in the future, and say goodbye to each other.
As for marriage, let it be your fate and never force it. Although there are many good men in the world, there are only a few who belong to them, so don’t bother the people in the revival meeting to worry about it.
The revival members then ceased their activities and only focused on arranging their work and no longer interfered with their private affairs.
So far, this wave of pilots has been considered a success.
By the beginning of the twelfth year of Hongwu, all brothels in six cities, Zhongdu, Chang'an, Luoyang, Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Xiangyang, had been banned, and all practitioners were in jail, and those who worked hard were in jail.
In fact, at this moment, even if Su Yonglin does not take this action, from a national perspective, the brothel business is still in a process of continuous decline, and the decline is also very fast.
the reason is simple.
Except for a few exceptions, most of the women in brothels in history were poor women who were sold by their families or had to fall into the world of poverty to make ends meet.
Family factors are the main reason why they fall into brothels, and oppression and exploitation are the fundamental reasons that cannot be avoided.
After the Ming Dynasty wiped out the old ruling class, it greatly alleviated the suffering of the people by overthrowing exploitation and oppression, and carried out economic construction across the country, constantly broadening women's survival paths and reducing their difficulty of survival.
While collective farms and handicraft workshops were opened on a large scale, the interests of the people at the bottom were guaranteed.
Moreover, the Ming Dynasty abolished the low status and granted all citizens the status of [citizens]. Everyone is equal under the law. Human trafficking is explicitly prohibited. There are very strict regulations for dealing with this. You can also see bloody dramas such as families forcing their daughters to sell themselves. Not here.
Now that everyone has money, land, and food to eat, they don't have to sell their sons and daughters to survive, so naturally they won't violate this taboo.
Under such circumstances, the brothel's simple method of obtaining fresh blood through the so-called legal channels of the past dynasties is no longer sustainable, and few families will sell their daughters to the brothel.
The biggest way to obtain it is gone, what other way is there?
Of course, the brothel operators are also very anxious, and some old bustards are also really anxious, running around looking for resources, and even secretly going to the countryside to negotiate with rural people.
But in today's world of collective farms and revival organizations at the grassroots level, the behavior of some old madams is tantamount to seeking death.
In the tenth year of Hongwu's reign, the madam of a brothel in Xiangyang was very anxious because she had no fresh "resources" for several months in a row, so she secretly went to the cabinet collective farm outside Xiangyang to discuss the sale of her daughter with the farmer.
This incident caused an uproar in Xiangyang and Zhongdu at that time.
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