Liu Qiniang's new life has begun. She is very unfamiliar with her new life. She needs to get used to the days without servants.
At the beginning, the business model of Yanxing Tower was based on teaching workshops. However, as the times changed, this behavior of putting officials and their families into teaching workshops was criticized by literati and writers, and the court was strife, even if it meant killing all the people. It is better to be exiled than to be thrown into a religious workshop and become an official prostitute. During the Zhengtong years, even a large number of royal properties were sold. From that time on, the court was ashamed of talking about profit.
During the Yongle and Xuande years, the Ming Dynasty made a total of seven voyages to the West. While promoting its military power, it also conducted a large number of official ships and official trade to gain wealth. Above the three generations of Wu and Fa, public opinion began to form, such as being ashamed of speaking for profit, amassing profits to become treacherous ministers, seizing love to retaliate against injustice, and civilian officials killing military generals.
Later, Yanxing Tower became a place where old madams brought prostitutes to make a living. If they refused to accept customers, they would starve. They would simply be locked up in the woodshed and starved. This was enough to force people to submit.
Beating, usually not beating, is in the business of skin and flesh. If the skin and flesh are damaged, you can't accept customers.
But the terror of hunger is enough to make anyone choose to surrender.
Once I started receiving customers, I no longer had so many scruples. I spent the whole day walking among dignitaries, as if I was also a dignitary, sinking and degenerating in the world of fireworks.
Liu Qiniang is new to a new life, and her emotions include fear, curiosity, confusion and a little disdain.
The main source of fear is not that she can survive on her own without servants to take care of her. Her fear is the fear of the unknown. After walking out of that huge restaurant, she was afraid of the hot and bright sunshine, and she was even more afraid. Being laughed at.
But no, because no one knew what kind of person she was before she came.
She stretched out her hand out of curiosity and let the autumn sun shine on her hand. This was a new experience.
This disdain came from the fact that she saw these weavers, all of whom did not apply makeup or apply makeup. But soon her disdain turned into envy. She had spent most of her life living in buildings, mostly in the shadows. , just like cockroaches and mosquitoes in the corner, who cares about her life and death?
These weavers can live in the sun without applying makeup.
Liu Qiniang began to be busy. She put the spun wool from the spinning factory on the loom and started weaving. Liu Qiniang could weave, which was not difficult for her. Soon, she I don't have as much emotion as time, because Yongshenghao Woolen Factory is very busy.
The work was rushed, and there was no time to think about it. After finishing the work, she had to eat, and after eating, she continued to work. In the evening, when the longitude and latitude lines could no longer be seen clearly, Liu Qiniang took some time off, and then received her own The agents in the factory did not dare to neglect the bedding because she had the palace badge. They all thought that this clever lady was someone who had come out of the palace.
Coming out of the palace, for the people in the palace, it is like falling from the sky to the ground, but for the people on the ground, it is like falling from the sky. If you neglect the palace easily, it will not be a matter of just a few words. It's time to make a business trip.
The most important thing is that Liu Qiniang still holds the palace badge.
Liu Qiniang fell into a busy life and quickly adapted to this kind of life. It was busy and fulfilling. She felt that it was good to live like this in her life. She planned to save enough money and go to the nursing home to adopt a child. She was no longer able to have children. , the madam didn’t know what she did to Gong Han. Anyway, she would not be able to get pregnant in this life, and she would not be able to get married if she couldn’t get pregnant. But these days, she lacks everything except orphans.
Liu Qiniang received her first salary on the seventh day, one silver coin and eighteen copper coins. This was her reward for seven days. It was indeed incomparable to that in Yanxing Tower, but the expenses in the official factory were also smaller. There was almost nothing to buy and the money seemed like a lot.
There is a lot of money spent in Yanxing Tower. The guests seem to be spending a lot of money, but in fact, all they have is hard-earned money in their hands.
Yan Xinglou, the madam, and the tortoises who solicited customers all had to take some of it away. The money that fell into Liu Qiniang's hands was not much to begin with, and they had to compete for beauty. This competition for beauty also requires money.
Rouge and gouache cost money, raising servants costs money, incense costs money, and preparing various snacks also costs money. There are also some guests who like to be arty. Accompanying guests in an elegant way also costs money, and there is not much left.
Prostitution, a profession that has existed since ancient times, is now an extremely mature industry, with dirty blood flowing from beginning to end.
As Mr. Xu said, he didn't earn much from working in the woolen factory, but he kept a lot, which saved money and made his life much more stable.
These days, a stable life is a rare luxury. Emperor Tianhuang, a noble man, was first assassinated and then his house was ordered to be stolen. There was a lot of uproar. On the day of the murder, even the water of the Jinshui River was Dyeing red, there were more than 700 heads. The executioner could not find so many heads. They were all executed by the Tiqiu themselves.
Liu Qiniang counted her money again and immediately became happy. She started to cry with joy. Her tears kept flowing down but she didn't make a sound.
When I was in the building, I had to cry behind someone's back, and I absolutely couldn't cry out loud. The person who was eating people showed a little bit of weakness, that is, no bones were left after being eaten.
Liu Qiniang was used to crying like this.
She knew that the world was getting better, because the dignitaries who used to spend all day in the building were so busy that they never had time to go to Yanxing Tower to listen to Qingyin and sing. Most of them came to talk about something. After talking, he left in a hurry, came in a hurry, and left in a hurry.
The girls' business changed from being an official in Jingtang to being a supervisor in the Imperial College. It didn't take long before the supervisors stopped coming.
On the one hand, the supervisors also became busy. For some reason, the emperor fell in love with arithmetic. Not only did he like arithmetic, he also wanted other Ming students to also like it. Arithmetic is really not a lie. It's really difficult. Last month, there was an incident where a prison student couldn't learn how to jump into a river. However, he was rescued and had to continue learning.
There are monthly exams every month. If you do not do well in the exam, your name will be posted on the Donghua Gate. You will be embarrassed, and your whole family will be embarrassed. Zu Chongzhi and Zu Xun were ancient people more than a thousand years ago. Just those few words, Your Majesty, a child can understand it, but the Confucian scholars who claim to be dragons and phoenixes among men, and have their hands tied to the blue dragon, still can't understand it.
In the recent period, business has been even worse. For some reason, the emperor suddenly built a forest of happy monuments outside Chaoyang Gate and asked Hai Rui to supervise the big event of killing corruption. All of a sudden, the officials and gentry Even fewer of them come. Being targeted by Hai Rui and being engraved into the Forest of Happy Steles as an indicator of becoming a Dharma master is not just humiliation, but infamy for eternity.
Yanxing Tower is a gold-selling cave. People who come to a place like this are worth a lot of money. Hai Rui needs to carefully figure out where this official's money comes from.
There are fewer customers, but there are still so many fairies. The business in Yanxing Tower has become deserted, and we have to find ways to please the customers. People like Liu Qiniang, when business is deserted, they push customers like Sun Jigao away. There are very few.
The water in the spring river is warm and the ducks are prophets, and the wind and clouds are strange and the prostitutes are singing at dawn.
Liu Qiniang put away her money, lay down to sleep happily, and prepared to go to work the next day.
"I want to go to work, why am I not allowed to go to work?" Liu Qiniang didn't understand the rules, so she asked Zhi Niang's boss in confusion.
"You can't work after seven days. You have to rest for two days." Da Baotou was also a weaver. Liu Qiniang thought that Da Baotou was a nanny, but what Da Baotou said was not the words of a nanny.
Da Baotou couldn't understand this law very much. She also shook her head and said: "You can't tell me the rules set by Da Sikou himself. I have to rest for seven days. You can go to the Guanchang School to take a look. You can go and sit in. , it’s good to know some words.”
Liu Qiniang failed to go to work on the second day. She had to take two days off after working for seven days, and she could not go to work even if she wanted to. This was a rule set by the supervisor of the wool official factory and the Ming Gong chief official in the court.
The reason why Da Si Kou set this rule is that the labor remuneration system design of the official factory has been based on quantity from the very beginning. The more you work, the more you will get, the less you will get, the less you will get, and the less you will get, not the time.
People need to combine work and rest in order not to affect the production speed. Wang Chonggu's past experience told him that fishing from the marsh is not as sustainable as fishing from the marsh. Everything is like this. Taking a break can actually increase the production speed.
This experience is extremely broad.
For example, if you want to farm the land, you plant two crops. In the first crop, you plant grain, and in the second crop, you have to plant beans. "Spring and Autumn" says: Today is a beautiful crop, here is a beautiful wheat. If you don't rotate crops, the crops in the soil will There is not enough fertility, and there are also bugs that specialize in eating wheat, so it is necessary to rotate crops and leave them fallow.
For example, fishing should be closed, because if the fish in the river are not allowed to reproduce, there will be less and less fish caught. When the time comes, there will be no fish in the river, so what else can we make up for?
For example, the training of the sergeants of the Beijing Camp also requires one or two days of rest. The Ming Dynasty Beijing Camp's squadron returned to Beijing, and the former Yongping Guard sergeants took over the defense area. The Ming Dynasty Beijing Camp had enough rest and had to go out to fight.
People will inevitably suffer from fatigue after long-term and high-intensity labor. Taking a break will actually help production speed.
Even for Zhang Juzheng's New Deal, this year is the time to retract his fists and gather strength after striking hard.
Practice has also proved that Xiu Mu is a virtuous circle. In order to make money, Wang Chonggu has really done his best.
Liu Qiniang has always been cautious in her life. She is afraid that her past will be known. She is a low-life and has no intention of getting married. It will harm others. What she is most worried about is that her past experiences will be completely revealed. He handed her a piece of paper, which was her hometown and her hometown. She completely broke away from the humble business and became a human being.
Liu Qiniang cried secretly in the corner again. She still didn't dare to cry out for fear of being heard by others.
When Liu Qiniang was immersed in her new life in the official factory, miscellaneous newspapers from the capital of the Ming Dynasty were surging, and there were more and more discussions about the labor diagram. In order to refute the labor diagram, a whole set of "Supply and Demand Diagrams" was established. This set of supply and demand Illustrations can well explain the phenomenon of rising and falling prices of items.
Many Confucian scholars could discuss "The Illustrated Theory of Labor" and "The Illustrated Theory of Supply and Demand", and soon Zhu Zhongxing wrote a magnificent article that closely combined the two to explain the material situation and commodity value.
This time, in "The Theory of Things", the value given to labor, time and intensity determine the use value of items, while supply and demand determine the exchange value, and the analysis is very clear.
This time, Zhu Zhongxing analyzed the Yanyin of the Ming Dynasty.
With the advent of "The Theory of Things", the academic trend of learning from hundreds of schools of thought and being tolerant was accepted by most people for a time. The concept of contradiction, opposition and unity was gradually accepted by people.
This article was jointly written by Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng was thinking about the relationship between supply and demand when he tossed silver coins. It is difficult to explain some problems using separate labor diagrams and supply and demand diagrams.
For example, in the supply and demand diagram, price fluctuations are entirely attributed to the imbalance of supply and demand. But assuming that in an extreme case, the total supply and total demand happen to be balanced, then what determines the price of an item? The labor diagram theory cannot explain some strange phenomena, such as the inexplicable price increase of some magical things beyond everyone's expectations.
For example, during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, the price of pearls rose to a sky-high price due to the purchase of jewelry in the palace. If Song Renzong had not banned the purchase of jewelry in the palace in time, the price of pearls would have continued to rise.
The consumption in the palace is not that much, but knowing that the palace wants to buy big and good pearls, all the pearls are being chased up, and you are chasing after me, which ultimately leads to this situation.
Zhang Juzheng and Zhu Yijun, two people with a top understanding of the theory of contradiction, under the pseudonym Zhu Zhongxing, completed this negation of negation and completely perfected the definition of material conditions and commodity value.
Just when everyone thought that the war of words ended in a state of reconciliation, another article with a dumbfounded author came out.
Qi Jiguang felt offended by the content published in the miscellaneous newspaper. The good old Qian'an Bo used Qi Jiguang's real name for the first time to criticize the article "Ping Japanese Records" under his real name, and published it in the Quan Jin Quan Chu Quan Above Zhejiang Miscellaneous News and Di News.
The article written by Qi Jiguang is called "Shit Bu Tong Ping Japanese Records".
Yu Jieyu’s story about the fight against the Japanese is written from the perspective of a mother in Taiping County, Taizhou, describing the content of the guest soldiers’ fight against the Japanese in Taizhou.
The contents inside can be described as unsightly.
The Japanese pirates created in this "Ping Japanese Records" are teachers of benevolence and righteousness. They join the Japanese pirates in order to rescue the people who are caught in the harsh punishment of the court. It depicts a large number of people's welcome to the Japanese pirates and a prosperous scene. These scenes Including the Japanese pirates teaching the people to farm, building water conservancy for the people, suppressing bandits and settling the area for the people, and in order to save the people's cattle, a Japanese pirate was washed away by the flood.
But as Qi Jiguang led the Nan soldiers to defeat the Japanese, the scene began to turn sharply.
The mother was raped by a Xiaoqi (ten-man captain) under Qi Jiguang's tent. The mother's eldest son heard the news and wanted to kill the Xiaoqi, but Xiaoqi killed him in the name of interfering with the Japanese. The mother swallowed her humiliation and made concessions, but still could not satisfy Xiaoqi's selfish desires. Her daughter was soon brutally murdered, and most of the women in this small village in Taiping County were murdered by the guest soldiers.
That's not all. With the word "crucian carp" in Xiaoqi's name, the villagers are not prepared to catch crucian carp. There are countless such evil deeds.
I don’t know if people still think Qi Jiguang is the Japanese pirate.
Qi Jiguang refuted it from many aspects such as army construction, Japanese pirate atrocities, military achievements in quelling the Japanese, and support from the people.
"Have all the people been ordered?" Zhu Yijun had already prepared his armor and was fully clothed. He stood in front of the Chengtian Gate and asked Zhao Mengyou if he had ordered the soldiers and horses.
Zhao Mengyou looked at the slightly ferocious nine-pound cannon and asked quite solemnly: "Your Majesty, everyone is here, but even if it is a book club, there is no need for artillery."
"You have to pull him over if you don't need it." Zhu Yijun did not mount his horse, but took to the street with the brightly armored Tiqi.
He is not Qi Jiguang, he is not a good old man, he is angry.
Qi Jiguang could still patiently refute all of them, but Zhu Yijun directly asked Jin Yiwei to supervise the matter.
When he went out, he specially asked Wang Chonggu to give him a driving ticket. This was not a yellow paper case or a white paper case, but an iron case. Zhu Yijun was a very rule-abiding person.
Zhao Mengyou has already found out the origin of the demon book, and Zhu Yijun personally leads the team to deal with it. He is young and still has the qualifications to play nonsense. If he is older, it will be difficult to do things like killing Confucian scholars.
Zhu Yijun came to this book club and blocked the gate with nine-pound artillery. Tiqi surrounded the entire book club.
"Go and shout, if you don't open the door on the count of three, then fire." Zhu Yijun's tone was cold. He signaled Luo Sigong to go and shout. Luo Sigong took three steps forward and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty said, if you don't open the door on the count of three, fire!"
"three!"
"two!"
“…”
Luo Sigong didn't shout out after all, because the door opened from the inside, and a lot of people fell to their knees.
Zhu Yijun walked into the bookstore carrying the Qijia waist knife. There were seven people in the bookstore, and they were all pushed to the ground. Zhu Yijun found the pen writer named Chen Youren, who wrote Ping Japanese Records.
"Your Majesty, the common people are stupid, they don't know the details, and they are talking nonsense. Your Majesty, spare your life!" Chen Youren saw the knife and finally realized that he was afraid. The emperor personally came to deal with it, which Chen Youren never expected.
During this period, various miscellaneous newspapers appeared in an endless stream, and fierce debates began around the labor illustrations. The reason why Chen Youren wanted to write such a book about Ping Japanese was based on the two major premises of Rouyuan and Xingwen and Wu. point.
The main purpose of what he wrote in "Ping Japanese Records" is to portray that Japanese pirates are also human beings, not all Japanese are bad people, and not all Ming soldiers are good people. By the way, they exaggerate the harm of guest soldiers. These guest soldiers only know Kill people and do all the bad things.
This kind of nonsense that ignores the facts has been going on for more than a hundred years in the Ming Dynasty. How can we achieve the goal of promoting culture and military affairs without rendering the warriors as heinous people?
Chen Youren is just speculating and making outrageous remarks to gain attention. Miscellaneous newspapers also need sales, otherwise it will be difficult to maintain.
But this provoked a thunderous blow from the emperor.
"No, no, no, it's not that you don't understand. On the contrary, you understand it very well. You just made a precise exchange of what Qi Shuai did for what the Japanese pirates did. It's not that you don't understand, but you understand it very well. You did it on purpose." Zhu Yijun waved his hands repeatedly and said.
Zhu Yijun pulled out his sword and said very solemnly: "Since ancient times, the only one who has called out to report to the emperor and rescue the head of Guizhou is Qi Shuai. The only one who can have a cow washed away by the flood for the sake of the people is Qi Shuai's soldiers."
"His Majesty ordered to publish miscellaneous newspapers, isn't it just to make people talk?!" Chen Youren was still struggling. Since he was publishing miscellaneous newspapers, it was to let civilian pens speak, and he could only praise virtues but not criticize them?
Zhu Yijun said calmly: "Let me talk, don't talk nonsense, you don't understand at all. In the first year of Longqing's invasion of the capital, the capital was shaken. Less than ten years have passed. If Qi Shuai was not in Jizhou, guess what the Beibei would do Is it so easy to talk? Once you have passed the peaceful days, you will forget about fear and put down the job of scolding your mother. Only you bunch of cheap scholars can say it with peace of mind."
The slogan "Southern soldiers led by Qi Jiguang, save the head of Guizhou" was shouted again. It would be 350 years later, and the cheap Confucians had no idea what it meant.
Zhu Yijun knew it very well. He solemnly said: "In the name of the Emperor of Heaven, I will sentence you to death."
When Zhang Juzheng heard that the emperor and his Tiqi suddenly left the palace, he knew something was wrong! The little emperor must be doing something big, so he immediately rushed from Wenyuan Pavilion to the book club in the outer city.
When he first arrived, he heard Zhu Yijun judging someone to be executed.
"Sir, are you here?" Zhu Yijun saw Zhang Juzheng and smiled, took out the bone prying knife, accurately inserted it into Chen Youren's neck, and twisted it hard. The fourth cervical vertebra was pried open, and he was already dead and could no longer die. .
He picked up the waist knife, raised it high, and cut off Chen Youren's head cleanly with one stroke.
Beheading is not an easy task. Zhu Yijun's knife was fast and accurate, and his manpower was very strong, so he completed this set of actions.
Blood spattered three feet, and the head rolled to Zhang Juzheng's feet.
"Huh!" Zhu Yijun held the waist knife in his hand. Martial arts training is useful. Apart from letting the soldiers know that their king is not a coward who can't endure hardships, he is a little venting his anger. You can do it yourself.
"See Your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng ran a little hastily, and then he caught his breath and saw the head.
"Sir, are you going to say that I am not abiding by the rules? Do you want to admonish me for mercy?" Zhu Yijun wiped the knife clean on Chen Youren's body and asked calmly.
Zhang Juzheng hurriedly said: "No, no, no, Your Majesty, I have no such intention. This person does deserve to die, but he should also pass the official document of the Ministry of Punishments. This yellow paper case can easily cause trouble for Qi Shuai and Ti Shuai."
Zhao Mengyou took out the driving notice and said: "There is an official driving notice from the Ministry of Punishment. It was given to me by the Chief Secretary before I came here."
A bunch of courtiers came running behind Zhang Juzheng. They all came after receiving the news. They couldn't help but tremble when they saw the emperor's action of sheathing the sword and the scene of blood all over the ground.
"Yuan Fu, this is indeed a driving letter from the Ministry of Justice. I just didn't expect His Majesty to be so quick." Wang Chonggu replied blankly, proving the authenticity of the driving letter. His Majesty, when he really lost his temper, I also know how to drive!
In this way, this was a case recognized by the foreign court, but it was handled on an urgent basis, and the person who took action was the emperor himself.
Even Wan Shihe, the mildest official minister, looked at his head on the ground and the bone prying knife placed aside, and said with emotion: "Your Majesty is really kind. Before he died, he pried his bones." ”
"What Dazai Wan said is that at my young age, I can't cut off the head without prying the bones." Zhu Yijun wiped the waist knife and the bone prying knife clean and said brightly.
"Good, good! Good kill!" Tan Lun clapped his hands and spat viciously, without caring about the scholar's politeness.
Tan Lun highly praised His Majesty's sword-sharpening behavior. Qi Jiguang could defeat all foreign enemies, but Qi Jiguang, who did not turn his sword inwards, could not do the same thing as a swordsman.
But Your Majesty can, because the Emperor is the supreme being and the embodiment of the rule of law, and does not need to abide by so many rules. However, His Majesty still abides by the rules. Before doing things, he got the driving certificate from the Ministry of Punishment, so there will be no problem.
Some things must be done urgently, and we cannot tolerate it for a moment.
After Zhu Yijun killed Chen Youren, the depression in his heart dissipated and he felt much refreshed.
He couldn't sleep well these past two days. If Qi Jiguang really looked like the bastard described in Chen Youren's works, how could he defeat the Japanese bandits?
When Qi Jiguang arrived, he looked at the mess and looked helpless. He knew that this would be the case.
He is the emperor's martial arts teacher, and he knows very well the emperor's temper. The emperor will not compromise, and the emperor will tolerate the assassination of the king in exchange for the stability of the court, but when encountering some principled issues, the emperor will The sunny and cheerful boy turned into an indescribable monster.
"I thank your Majesty for your kindness." Qi Jiguang said very solemnly. The emperor did this to protect Qi Jiguang's reputation.
"It's over here. I'm going back to the palace first. Are you going to deal with the aftermath of Da Sikou?" Zhu Yijun just came out to kill people. After the killing, he planned to go back and continue studying.
"It's my honor to send it to Your Majesty." Wang Chonggu quickly agreed. It was a great honor to wash the floor for Your Majesty personally.
Zhu Yijun smiled and returned to the palace with a long string of tails.
The courtiers were standing in this book club. You looked at me and I looked at you. Ge Shouli suddenly said: "Yuan Fu has worked hard, and Yuan Fu will continue to work hard."
This is not because the emperor is moody, but there is a thread there. As long as it is not touched, His Majesty is still a very talkative and cheerful person.
"When Yuan Fu is in charge of the country, he must do his duty. The court officials must work together sincerely so that Yuan Fu can stay in this position of power for a long time." Wang Chonggu said with sadness.
You have to seal the little emperor!
After Zhu Yijun returned to the palace, he had been waiting for someone to reprimand him. After all, killing someone himself was indeed a bit deviant.
"Didn't the Queen Mother come over? Didn't Sir, sir, write the Notes on Sinners?" At night, before Zhu Yijun went to bed, he didn't get any admonishment. The Queen Mothers of the two palaces ignored him, and even Zhang Juzheng didn't send any memorials.
Zhu Yijun thought he would fall into public opinion, but with the cooperation of his courtiers, the chief minister Wang Chonggu chose to deal with it strictly coldly and suppressed the matter without any news. The cleaning was very professional.
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