In the past, most of the resources for brothels in Xiangyang City came from the surrounding rural areas.
These old bustards have secret connections with some landlords and gentry in surrounding farms.
Under normal circumstances, the brothel will not lack resources, and the officials and petty officials will naturally act as the natural helpers of the old bustard. In order to make money, they "help" the old bustard and destroy many farm families. The old bustard can use a lot of money. Access resources at low cost.
But if something goes wrong, and occasionally some Qingtian old men still have conscience and will take the initiative to restrain the behavior of officials and officials and stop engaging farmers, the brothel will be short of resources in those few years.
When the old madams lack resources, they will take the initiative and cooperate with local landlords and gentry to bankrupt the farmers who own the favored "high-quality resources", thus forcing good girls into prostitution.
After obtaining the "resources", the brothel will give some benefits to the landlords and gentry who assist them, and the landlords and gentry can also obtain some land. Everyone gets what they need, a win-win situation.
In this process, the only one who can save the farmers is the government.
But it is a pity that in most of the past history, the government's duty was not to save the peasants, but to play the most vicious role in persecuting the peasants. Landowners and brothels had to call them "Master" in front of them.
Even if one or two Qingtian lords occasionally appear and persecute the peasants less fiercely, they will not take the initiative to save the peasants.
The big men in Qingtian generally don't have a bad relationship with these landlords and gentry. The local gentry is dominated by the wealthy county officials. Although the big men in Qingtian don't understand what they do, what they can do is very limited. .
Qingtian men usually serve for three or four years. There is no need to sever the relationship between themselves and the local government for a group of idiots who have nothing to do with them during their three-four-year term.
Maintaining a better relationship, the local government can actively cooperate with the Qingtian masters to carry out water conservancy projects as political achievements, and spread the reputation, so that [officials and the people will be happy] and so on.
When Mr. Qingtian leaves office, they can still buy a group of sailors to pretend they can't bear to pull his car and prevent him from leaving, and give Mr. Qingtian a practical gift.
In this way, Master Qingtian's term of office will be complete, waiting for promotion.
Why study hard in Hanchuang?
Is it to bring justice to the mud-legged man?
Therefore, for the sake of his future, Mr. Qingtian, whose personal moral character is quite good, can only turn a blind eye. As long as he doesn't go too far and make it known to everyone, Mr. Qingtian can just treat it as nothing. happened before.
It is normal for one or two farm families to go bankrupt, and it is normal for one or two farm families to die. The gentry will take the initiative to control the situation and will not let these things affect the political performance of Lord Qingtian.
Everyone maintains a subtle tacit understanding.
After three or four years, Mr. Qingtian patted his ass and left, and everything remained the same, and everyone continued to bully the farmers. Hello, I am ok, everyone is ok.
Officials like Hai Rui can only truly ask for orders from the people to protect the mud-legged people.
How did Haibijia plead for the people?
When he was in a certain place, the wealthy and powerful people were frightened by the news, and they all ran away with curses. The poor people straightened up and cursed at the powerful people.
Comparing the two, superiority and inferiority are obvious.
But eight years after Hongwu, times changed.
The Ming Dynasty intervened forcefully in the south of the Yangtze River and launched an unprecedented agrarian revolution in the Xiangyang area.
The members of the revival waved flags and shouted and took the lead in the charge. The mud-legged people swarmed up with a roar and a tsunami, and hanged all the powerful local gentry.
To the powerful gentry, this is not Lord Qingtian, but the coming of their living ancestors.
After the powerful gentry were hanged, the Renaissance Society organized a series of villages to end the old production model, established collective farms, and started a collective economy. The situation of agricultural production was excellent.
Because people's living conditions are improving day by day, and the Ming Dynasty's legal system on population is very strict, which strictly prohibits the sale of people, and devotes great efforts to crack down on illegal industries, many illegal industries have withered and gone bankrupt because of this, and are unsustainable.
At first, many brothels found that all the upper-class gentlemen had been killed, and it was difficult to survive by continuing to sell at high prices, so they lowered the prices. However, they welcomed a group of new customers and breathed a sigh of relief.
But soon, the old madams discovered the seriousness of the problem - their brothel had no fresh blood to add.
The original girls in the brothel are getting older day by day, and they are losing their competitiveness and attractiveness in the industry day by day. The brothel is in urgent need of fresh blood to enhance its own strength.
But there really aren’t many people selling their daughter or themselves anymore.
Practitioners in the brothel industry went out for research and were surprised to find that the poor peasants who used to be poor farmers had become rich and had enough to eat. This made them feel astonished.
When did these idiots have enough money?
Which Bodhisattva is so kind-hearted that he can actually make these people have enough money?
After further investigation, they discovered that every household outside the city had joined a collective farm.
They farm the land collectively and take turns working outside, earning two wages per person.
They built water conservancy, roads, city walls, and houses for the government. They did hard work and earned hard money. It was quite tiring, but let alone, they made a lot of money.
At the same time, handmade workshops were established outside Xiangyang City, the scale of which was far beyond their imagination.
Many workers do not rely on land, but only work in factories to earn wages. They rely on factories to eat and earn money. They can buy houses and furniture in the city. A small family of three, four and five can live quite comfortably.
Now that they are rich, the business in the brothel has actually experienced a small explosion for a period of time, and the number of customers has increased a lot, which the old madams are quite happy about.
But the old bustards know very well that this is unsustainable.
If a brothel wants to survive, it must have the infusion of fresh blood. It must continue to have the infusion of fresh blood, and it must constantly hold up courtesans who belong to a certain period as facade signs to attract a lot of money.
Otherwise, guests will get bored sooner or later.
However, all their original collaborators were killed by the Ming government, and the grass on the graves was more than three meters high. The original most efficient method failed.
Ming government officials never pushed farmers into bankruptcy. Instead, they tried every means to provide farmers with a home and benefits.
this……
They really can't imagine why the government would really provide benefits to the mud-legged people to make their lives better. This is really strange!
Now that the farmers have money, they no longer have the motivation to sell their daughters. They can't force them, and they can't wait for volunteers. They have no choice but to go to their homes to persuade them in person, trying to lure farmers to sell their pretty daughters at high prices. Drop it to them.
As a result, the farmers who had cooperated with him turned a cold shoulder to the old bustard and stayed away from him.
When the uncooperative farmers heard about the identity and purpose of the old bustard, they suddenly changed their minds. They picked up the guy and beat him on the head and face, and then escorted the old bustard to the office of the collective farm revival association.
The cabinet door collective farm revival meeting learned about this matter, took it very seriously from top to bottom, and handed over the old madam to the Xiangyang Prefecture Judicial Branch.
According to the Ming Dynasty, the Judicial Branch sentenced the old madam to prison, and then banned the brothel. It also strictly controlled the brothels in Xiangyang. When the brothels were banned in the eleventh year of Hongwu, Xiangyang was included in the first batch. Among the list of pilot cities, brothels have been completely banned.
By the time Su Yonglin went south to Shandong in the twelfth year of Hongwu, there were no brothels in the entire Xiangyang Prefecture.
The government and Renaissance organizations encourage the public to expose the existence of any brothel-related industries. Once verified, generous rewards will be given.
Among the six cities, all the former brothel practitioners were arrested. According to the clear law, those who were convicted were investigated and included in special training classes for labor reform.
The results achieved are also quite good, which fully proves the effectiveness of the [Accusation-Reformation-New Life] model.
Therefore, during this period, even if the Ming government forcibly banned brothels across the country, it would not cause much trouble among the people.
In fact, everyone has already acquiesced in the final outcome of the brothel in their hearts.
Su Yonglin then decided to officially announce the ban on brothels across the country after returning home.
From then on, the laws of the Ming Dynasty will explicitly prohibit the reopening of brothels, completely outlawing this social cancer that has continued since the Spring and Autumn Period, and driving it into the abyss of illegality for the first time in a legal sense.
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