Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 232 The Great Ming Beggar's Enterprising Spirit!Thank you Hong Wudi? 【Seek full order】

I saw a young man of eighteen or nineteen standing at the door of a tea house, shaking his arms and shouting loudly to attract customers.

"What kind of teahouse is this?" Zhu Han had never seen such a teahouse to attract customers.

In Zhu Han's impression, teahouses are very quiet and elegant places, and there is never such a yelling to attract customers.

Chen Baodao was at the side, glanced at it and said with a smile.

"Dian, oh, my master, this is our new tea house in Yingtian. There are storytellers and critics in it, and there are performers with big tops. Hehe, there are often white slaves sold by the Persians dancing. Those with big white legs dangling, Tsk tsk tsk!" Chen Baodao was drooling at the corner of his mouth as he spoke.

A Caucasian female slave, whoever meets Daming, is all of good looks and figure, at least a few tens of taels of silver.

Except for princes and nobles such as Zhu Hanzhi, ordinary people have no chance to get close and enjoy it.

"This teahouse has some business acumen." Zhu Han said with a smile.

"Yes, I heard that the most popular thing in Yingtian City now is to listen to operas and watch dances in this tea house. The brothels are full of short Japanese women, who are really not as good-looking as these white slaves. Now the common people regard this Planting a teahouse is called a music teahouse!" Chen Baodao said with a smile.

"What? Music cafe?" Zhu Han's face was darkened.

This is a wretched thing, no matter when there will be a point of tacit understanding.

According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, all the common people of the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to be slaves or prostitutes. For brothels that dared to take the common people of the Ming Dynasty as prostitutes, the leader would be beheaded to show the public, and the rest of the followers would be exiled to Nanyang.

In the face of this severe punishment, all the brothels in Ming Dynasty turned into Korean women and Japanese women.

These two places are weak and poor, and under the de facto control of Daming, there is no need to buy or sell by force. As long as the businessmen of Daming show the price, many Koreans and Wa people will take the initiative to give away their sisters and daughters. They even offered to sell their wives to Ming merchants as long as the price was right.

Most of the Goryeo and Japanese women don't have any concept of chastity. They come to Daming Brothel to eat and drink well, and after working for three to five years, they can redeem themselves according to the laws of Daming.

So now, in the brothels of Daming, almost all of them are filled with Korean and Japanese women.

However, there are still a small number of women from Nanyang, Annan and other countries.

As for the high-priced white slaves, naturally they would not do this kind of retailing, and they all became high-end products of various big firms and merchants.

After listening to Chen Baodao's introduction, Zhu Han also became interested in this kind of music teahouse, and wanted to go in and find out.

As soon as he lifted his foot and walked forward, he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the front.

Zhu Han turned his head and saw that the crowd not far away had gathered into a circle and let out bursts of exclamation.

I don't know what kind of jugglers there are.

It's just a little strange that the traditional jugglers would burst into applause, but the crowd around them shook their heads and sighed apart from exclaiming.

"Let's go and have a look over there first!" Zhu Han became curious again.

He led Chen Baodao and the two of them approached.

Squeeze a gap in the crowd and come to the back of the front.

Zhu Han finally saw the scene inside clearly.

A fat man introduced to the surrounding spectators in the center of the venue.

In the middle of the field, there were two eight or nine-year-old children, all dirty, and it was impossible to tell whether they were male or female.

The appearance of these two children is really scary.

One of them has no hands or feet, and the arms and legs slide on the ground like sticks.

The other child was covered with black hair, crawled on the ground like a dog, and barked from time to time.

At this time, the fat man standing in the middle introduced him again.

"This child is born to be pitiful, without hands and feet, and I am the only uncle. Watch him save his life, take him around the streets, and let the big guys watch him. If you are happy watching, give me some money! "

"As for this child, that is the most anecdote in the world!"

"The child's mother is a big girl with yellow flowers in my hometown. When she went to the mountain to cut firewood, she was targeted by a thousand-year-old wolf on the mountain. After that, she gave birth to this wolf child, and then hanged herself. Although it is a wolf child, it still has one life. You guys are pitiful, so I will reward you with a few coins, and give the three of us a meal!"

After the fat man finished speaking, he yelled again, and the two children started to circle around hard on the ground.

Such cruel entertainment is really weird and uncomfortable.

But it also said that many people gave generously.

The sound of various copper coins and silver coins on the ground continued in an endless stream.

The fat man bowed and clasped his fists while smiling all over his face, while picking up the money on the ground.

"Old Chen, do you know what this is?" Zhu Han asked, frowning.

"Boss, didn't he just say that?" Chen Baodao looked puzzled.

Zhu Han snorted coldly, "Only fools would believe such nonsense!"

It is estimated that only people in ancient times could really believe in the nonsense of wolf children.

Not to mention Zhu Han, not many of the people present believed it, but they didn't know the origin of this fat man and were unwilling to expose his nonsense.

How could Zhu Han believe him.

"Send someone to keep an eye on them, to see where he's going after a while," Zhu Han said.

"As ordered!"

I really didn't know that a guard was sent to stay here to watch.

Zhu Han and Chen Baodao entered the music teahouse, and walked out after enjoying some singing and dancing.

It has to be said that the performance of the white slaves inside is still very exciting. The bosses of these teahouses will not show mercy to the training of the white slaves, and the talents shown are definitely of a high level.

The guard Chen Baodao sent to keep an eye on was already waiting at the door.

"How is the follow-up?" Zhu Han asked directly.

"Report Your Highness, the fat man took two children to the Earth Temple in the south of the city. His subordinates also saw many beggars there. They seemed to be in the same group. The subordinates were afraid of scaring the snakes, so they did not go any further."

When Zhu Han heard this, he was sure to agree with what he had guessed.

The miserable show just now earned a lot of money, so I must find a safe place to put down the money before continuing to perform.

"The matter of Chen Baodao is entrusted to you, go and tell Ying Tianfu, and make more spies to investigate this matter." Zhu Han said.

Upon hearing this, Chen Baodao immediately took the order and went to Yingtian Mansion.

Over the years, Daming has always paid attention to the development of people's livelihood. The people's living standard has recovered very quickly. It can even be said that it has not only recovered, but has greatly surpassed any previous dynasties.

The people's life is good, and the spare money in their hands gradually increases.

For businesses such as parading and performing arts, it ushered in a new period of development.

However, snakes, insects, rats and ants are also easy to mix in.

Zhu Han felt that these two children who were selling miserably to make money on the street today must have unusual origins, most of them were abducted and trafficked, but the law of Ming Dynasty does not allow human beings to be bought and sold, so that fat man said they were the children of his relatives.

As soon as Chen Baodao arrived at Yingtian Mansion with Zhu Han's order, Hu Weiyong, the governor of Yingtian Mansion, immediately arranged the most capable spies to investigate this matter.

"Old Chen, what does Your Highness mean?" Hu Weiyong invited Chen Baodao to the seat and said.

Chen Baodao took a sip of tea and let out a sigh of relief, "His Royal Highness attaches great importance to this matter, I am trotting all the way here, you have to get your subordinates to cheer up, and you must investigate this matter clearly .”

Hu Weiyong nodded, he immediately realized the importance of this matter.

He is now the governor of Yingtian Fu, the third rank, and he needs to personally intervene in such large and small cases, especially in such an important place under the emperor's feet. Taming children into animals is absolutely appalling evil.

"These unscrupulous people, it seems that if they don't kill a few leaders, it's not enough to clean up the people's morals!"

. . . . . .

Night falls.

In the south of Yingtian City, in a dilapidated earth temple.

A few beggars in shabby clothes were sitting around a table, counting the mountains of copper and silver coins on the table.

An old beggar headed by them was drinking tea and eating snacks beside him with a smile on his face.

"This good day is really getting better and better, today's revenue has increased a lot, right?" asked the old beggar.

"Guard Master, although the calculation has not been finished, it has already exceeded yesterday's revenue." A fat beggar said.

This beggar was exactly the one that Zhu Han saw during the day, the one who took children and sold their disabled to make money.

"Emperor Hongwu is good. You see, he was born in our beggar's business. He lived a good life and didn't forget about us beggars!"

The old beggar who was called help by the fat man said with a smile.

The name of this old beggar is Hong Dafu, and his ancestors have been the head beggars here in Yingtian for three generations.

Yes, the industry of beggars is a skill passed down from generation to generation.

Leader Hong has no other skills, but he can manage a group of beggars, big and small, in an orderly manner, discover the potential of each beggar, and find a suitable begging strategy for them.

In the past two years, Yingtian City has become more and more prosperous.

Leader Hong's careerism is also getting stronger and stronger, he is no longer satisfied with ordinary begging for food, but has begun to get involved in some gray area industries.

Among them, going to other places to buy some disabled children and let them sell miserably to make money is a new way.

It's just that there are not many children with disabilities. You can buy back some children with healthy hands and feet first, and then break the hands and feet yourself to make "products" suitable for your own business.

This business was called Caisheng Zhecut at that time.

Harvesting is to buy fresh goods, and cutting means to cut the goods into the shape you need like wood.

As for the goods, poor children.

Gangzhu Hong was not proficient in this craft before, and he only got it after sending people to other sects to learn from it.

After this period of operation, the income can be described as very considerable.

The current Gang Leader Hong no longer lives in a slum, but has built a three-entry mansion in Yingtian City. The neighbors around him are either hundreds of households or wealthy businessmen and celebrities.

Moreover, Gang Leader Hong would change into a clean and decent outfit and return to the city after counting the money here every day.

In the eyes of ordinary people, they have no idea that this well-dressed man is actually the leader of the Yingtian Beggars' Sect.

After some counting, Gang Leader Hong took away the bulk of the revenue, and the remaining half was divided among several leaders.

After Gang Leader Hong took the money, he dressed decently, sat in a carriage, returned to the mansion in the city, and started a nightlife of drinking and sex.

And the leaders under him also took the money, put on clean clothes, and went to the brothel. Each ordered one or two Korean girls and went happily.

All of them were recorded one by one by the secret agents of Ying Tian Mansion who were watching them secretly.

The spies of Yingtianfu Yamen quickly reported the information they found to Hu Weiyong.

As Yingtian Fu Yin, Hu Weiyong was not very satisfied with the information he obtained.

"This is a case ordered by His Highness the King himself. If you find out about these furs, how can I explain to His Highness!"

Hu Weiyong asked sharply to several spy leaders under his command.

During the reform of the Hongwu official system in the Ming Dynasty last year, all court officials, large and small, became official officials under unified management.

These spies were originally small officials, and they had no hope of promotion, and they were the most likely to fool the errands assigned by the Shangguan.

But since they have all become official officials, the original iron rice bowl is also facing the assessment of the courts, large and small.

They all restrained their original ability to fool Shangguan, and now they heard Hu Weiyong's questioning, and they were all very panicked.

"Master, it's not that you guys don't check carefully, it's really that those beggars gather together, and if they get closer, they will startle the snake."

"Besides, I heard that the head of the beggar gang, Hong, is very close to several of our Yingtian mansion's arrest officers. If any other cases are involved in it, the younger ones really can't bear it!"

The two spy leaders explained in unison.

Yingtian Mansion's spies are of very low rank, and the chief officer they mentioned just now is the official in charge of real power in Ying Tianfu.

All kinds of people of various religions and nine schools are often local government officials, and the power of the governing party is supplemented. Many secret personnel and information are often reported to the government through these people of three schools and nine schools.

And the security guards of the treasurers of various squads in the government are the officials who have direct contact with these people.

"You two idiots, I can't tell the difference between the big and small. The black hats on our heads are all allowed by the court. His Royal Highness is half of the court. You don't have to check the case that he explained, so what are you worried about? Yasi, I think you are tired of work!" Hu Weiyong said with a cold smile.

When the two spy leaders heard this, they immediately panicked and knelt on the ground to kowtow to Hu Weiyong to plead guilty.

In Yingtian Mansion, the power of the abbots is also very great, especially since they are all official officials of the imperial court now.

All appointment and dismissal penalties must follow a formal process.

Originally, the chief official of Ying Tianfu wanted to punish them, all he needed was one sentence.

But now if you want to punish officials at the level of the chief officer, you must go through a formal process.

The purpose of doing this is naturally to prevent local officials from having too much power and turning the imperial government into their own hall.

"Hurry up and get out!"

Hu Weiyong waved his hands and drove the two unreasonable guys out.

The information handed over by these two spies is actually not very confusing, it clearly states some shady activities of this gang of beggars.

Especially that Gang Leader Hong, who was able to collect so much money every night, and was able to spend his days and nights in the city, singing and dancing, was definitely not something that could be accomplished simply by asking his subordinates to beg for food.

After the two spy leaders ran out, they arranged their subordinates overnight and tried their best to get more detailed information.

Early the next morning.

Hu Weiyong had a new pile of thick reports on his desk.

Hu Weiyong is quite satisfied with these new reports.

(End of this chapter)