The brothel girls who are truly proficient in all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and painting are the pillars of each brothel who have been painstakingly cultivated. They are people who are clamoring all day long to sell their art but not their body.
Therefore, apart from anything else, in terms of the quality of this woman, Jiaofangsi can crush the entire brothel industry in the capital. According to common sense, such a Jiaofangsi should despise the brothel industry in the world and be the only one who can dominate the world.
.But the reality is exactly the opposite. Let alone being the leader, Jiaofangsi cannot even be ranked among the top four brothels in the entire capital. The top four are all private brothels.
Why is this happening?
There are only two reasons. Firstly, Jiaofangsi is a yamen of the imperial court after all. Although it is only a ninth-rank yamen, it is still a yamen. Except for the madam and the disciples, the people on duty there are not officials.
He is a junior official. Even though a dignified scholar is an official, it is still very shameful to serve as an official in a brothel. Therefore, among officials in the capital, other official positions are highly sought after, even if
I would rather be an official who is idle and has no luck, and no one wants to be an official in the Jiaofang Department.
Another reason is that the Jiaofang Division is only open to officials. What are officials? If in this Hongwu year, an official only relied on his salary to live, then he could only live a tight life. In other words, officials are all
Some poor people have no money. And even if they have money in private, they don't dare to spend it extravagantly. If they are targeted by Lao Zhu, they will be inviting disaster.
Therefore, this leads to a phenomenon. When the official comes to Jiaofangsi, the sister also orders, drinks the wine, listens to the music, and sleeps. When the time comes to pay, it is very likely that
**The officer slapped his butt with both hands, and two words popped out from between his teeth: "No money!!!"
Faced with this helpless behavior, what can the Jiaofang Secretary do? How can the madam and the disciples dare to make the decision easily? They can only quickly find the officials in charge.
But it’s useless when the official comes. This official is just a small official of the ninth rank. And those officials who eat, drink and have fun in the Jiaofang Division are at least seventh or eighth rank officials, and even the fifth and sixth rank officials.
There are all officials. Even the most senior officials would crush people to death. Facing officials who are several levels higher than themselves, what can a small ninth-level official say? What can he dare to say? Not only does he not dare to say anything,
, and you have to carefully and constantly apologize to the other party, so you can't avoid being scolded in turn.
If things go on like this, there will naturally be more and more cheating people.
And faced with such a situation, no matter who is in charge of the Jiaofang Division, I am afraid they will not have any thoughts about improving the Jiaofang Division. They will only think about how they can survive this period, or who to find.
Therefore, the operation of Jiaofang Division became worse and worse day by day, and became more and more bleak.
When Lao Zhu first established the Jiaofangsi, he wanted to learn from Guan Zhong, hoping to use it to amass wealth for the country. Fortunately, in the first few years, the Jiaofangsi contributed a lot of money to the Ministry of Household Affairs every year.
It was a big income. But after a few years, the income of Jiaofangsi has been declining. Since two years ago, Jiaofangsi can no longer contribute a penny of income to the Ministry of Household Affairs, and even in turn pays back
I want to survive on the assistance from the Ministry of Revenue.
Of course Lao Zhu did not agree. Not only did he not give Jiaofangsi a penny, but he also demoted the person in charge of Jiaofangsi in anger. It is said that the person who was demoted was so happy that he almost didn't light firecrackers to celebrate.
From then on, no matter how many people Lao Zhu replaced to take charge of the Jiaofang Division, the Jiaofang Division never showed any signs of improvement. Until Han Du took over, the position of the Jiaofang Division had been vacant for more than half a year.
I don’t know why Lao Zhu thought of letting Han Du take over the Jiaofang Division.
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Han Du couldn't think of a way to solve the problem for several days. On this day, Han Du sat by the railing in the corridor and thought hard.
Seeing that Han Du had been depressed these days, Han Jingyun thought for a moment, bit his lip and sat next to Han Du. Seeing that Han Du was still unaware, Han Jingyun had no choice but to say, "Brother."
"Huh?" Han Du turned around and saw that it was Jingyun, and said casually: "It's you, why are you here?"
"Come and see brother." Han Jingyun smiled and then asked: "Brother is still worried about Princess Anqing?"
Han Du sighed lightly and said directly without hiding it from his sister: "Yes, I didn't expect the emperor's attitude to be so decisive. Now I don't know what to do."
"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. I believe that as long as the eldest brother and Princess Anqing are in love, you will eventually get married." Han Jingyun saw that the eldest brother was in a low mood, so he had to pick up some nice words to encourage him.
If only it were that easy.
Han Du knew that Lao Zhu must speak out about this matter. As long as Lao Zhu refused to let go, the matter with Princess Anqing would only be a matter of hopelessness.
However, it is enough for Han Du to worry about these things by himself. There is no need to tell his sister. Telling her will only make her worry in vain and will not be of any use.
Han Du pretended to smile lightly, touched the girl's head, nodded in agreement and said, "Then thank you for your kind words."
Han Du looked at the girl for a while and found that she was hesitant to speak, so he asked: "What are you worried about? Tell me and let the elder brother listen. As long as the elder brother can do it, he will never refuse, how about?"
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Han Jingyun timidly raised his head, looked at Han Du and mustered up the courage to say: "I heard that since the eldest brother was appointed to be in charge of the Jiaofang Division, the eldest brother has never been there once, right?"
Han Du was obviously stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the girl would care about this. He could only nod and said: "That's right, you also know about brother's affairs. Now I can't even worry about Princess Anqing's affairs. I don't have the energy to control the education department anymore."
matter."
"Brother, the matter of Princess Anqing cannot be solved for a while. Can't eldest brother take advantage of this time to take care of the affairs of the Jiaofangsi?" Sister Jingyun asked hurriedly.
Han Du was surprised when he heard this, and said doubtfully: "Why are you so concerned about the affairs of the Jiaofang Division? Do you know anyone there?"
Since the women in the Jiaofang Division are all officials, it is entirely possible if the girl has a handkerchief with a good relationship and handed it in. After all, Lao Zhu is moody, who knows that official will be unlucky enough to hit his knife edge.