This Liu Piaopiao was appointed by Li Qi, but he did not expect Xu Poxi to be there, so he whispered to Gao Yanei: "Yanei, did you call this Xu Poxi?"
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As expected, Gao Yanei smiled lewdly and said with a dark face: "But I can explain in advance that this Xu Poxi is a private hire of mine and has nothing to do with the four small groups and is not restricted by that bullshit contract."
Could it be that ---. Li Qi looked gossipy and whispered: "You have already succeeded?"
Gao Yanei smiled coquettishly and said: "Not yet, but it will be soon. If she doesn't want to get along with me, why should she agree to me? Just wait. She will have to live in my Gao Mansion within this year."
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"so smart?"
"It's really slow this time."
"I admire you."
"Where, where."
When Feng Yinu saw Li Qi and Gao Yanei whispering to each other, his eyes rolled around, and he quietly leaned in to hear them.
It's a pity that Li Qi has become very cautious now. He listens in all directions and sees in all directions. He immediately coughed lightly and said: "Very good, very good. I am very satisfied."
Feng Yinu curled his lips and muttered: "Who cares to listen to this!"
While they were talking, Liu Piaopiao and Xu Poxi also came over, saluted Li Qi and said, "Piaopiao (Poxi) comes to see the Privy Councilor, Mrs. Li."
But when they looked at Feng Yinu, their eyes shone with envy and jealousy. In their circle, Feng Yinu was the happiest, even more envied by the world than the original Li Shishi. To put it bluntly, Li Shishi was just being taken care of by the emperor.
But Feng Yinu married the most popular person in the current dynasty by virtue of the imperial edict, which is probably unprecedented. Moreover, Li Qi also loved Feng Yinu very much, so Feng Yinu suddenly became a popular song.
As role models for prostitutes, these singing prostitutes all hope to become the next feudal slaves.
This is probably the reason why Xu Poxi agreed to Gao Yanei. Now she is still at the top of the court, and she is very beautiful. She has good capital, but this also indicates that she is about to go downhill, so she has to take advantage of now to find someone to marry.
Of course she also wanted to get close to Li Qi's big tree, but after several interactions, Li Qi's words were eloquent, but he did not express any meaning. Even though she gave out a lot of hints, Li Qi always pretended to understand.
Confused, she also knew that there was still a big gap between herself and Feng Yinu, so she could only give up.
Although Gao Yanei is very carefree, he is still very considerate and cheerful towards women. For them, he is a very good home. Of course, the premise is that they do not want to marry a farmer or craftsman and live a penniless life.
As for Liu Piaopiao, she is a bit like Feng Yinu in her view of love, with beautiful longings, but it’s a pity that the dragon girl has a heart. Prince Xiang has no dream, and Chen Anan only has Xiaoyu in his heart, and Xiaoyu is Li Qi’s favorite disciple. Although Xiaoyu is
She is not as good-looking as Liu Piaopiao. But Xiaoyu is in charge of the Zuixianju Group, and her status is much higher than that of ordinary petty officials. Even sixth- and seventh-grade officials have to call her "Jade Lady" when they see Xiaoyu.
Liu Piaopiao has given up now. There is no comparison. This is also the choice of a smart person.
Li Qi smiled and said: "No gifts, no gifts. Madams, it's been a long time. I hope you are well."
Feng Yinu returned the gift very generously. In the past, she and Xu Poxi had a lot of grudges. After all, they were competitors, but now she no longer cares about these, thinking that she already has everything.
Then the smoke disappeared.
Xu Poxi raised her head and suddenly saw that Li Qi was always covering his nose with his hands, so he asked, "Is the Privy Councilor feeling unwell?"
Can you please stop asking, Yan Fu, your elbow really came at the wrong time! Li Qi avoided the important point and said lightly: "I got some wind and cold, and I always have a runny nose."
Zhou Hua said aggrievedly: "Brother, why didn't you tell me that?"
Li Qi glanced sideways, as if to say, she is a beauty, are you?
Gao Yanei said carelessly: "Ms. Xu, don't let Li Qi fool you. It was a pig that hit a tree, and he hit a pig."
"ah?"
Beauties like Xu and Liu looked at Gao Yanei in astonishment, pursed their lips, and tried not to laugh out loud.
Day. I was just joking, but you took it seriously. I have never seen you have such a good memory when studying. Li Qi smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm just joking." Then he immediately changed the subject and said, "By the way, listen.
Said that both ladies have joined the four small groups?"
The two beauties looked at each other, then nodded slightly.
Li Qidao: "Then I have to say congratulations to you two. Please rest assured that your choice is the wisest. I guarantee you that within two years, your worth will increase tenfold, and you don't have to act based on other people's faces."
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The two of them are not fledglings anymore. They joined the four small groups just for their own future, so those rhetoric is not necessary for them. It is better to be more practical.
Sure enough, the two girls were overjoyed and bowed and thanked them one after another.
Li Qi smiled and said: "You're welcome. The key is that you have to work hard."
At this time, Su Yun came over, and Gao Yanei hurriedly greeted him, took Su Yun's hand and said disgustingly: "Thank you for your hard work, madam." After saying that, he winked at Li Qi proudly, as if to say, I also have something.
Beauty accompanies.
Although she has many women, she is not like Li Qi, who can be brought out by anyone, not to mention those widows, and his wife is a lady of the family. Unless it is a big occasion, she rarely goes out and spends all her time at home.
Husband teaches son.
Things are different now. Ever since Su Yun married into their Gao family, Gao Yameni always took her with him when he went out. Because Su Yun was a very smart woman, especially in business, so even Brother Qiu had
They all valued their new daughter-in-law very much, and even personally gave Su Yun a pair of priceless jade bracelets. Her status in the Gao family was second only to Gao Yanei's first wife, because Gao Yanei's first wife was the daughter of Brother Qiu's brother-in-law.
Marriage is a marriage at home, and Gao Yanei also respects his wife very much, and her status is unshakable. Su Yun also understands that their tasks are very clear, she is the master of the outside world, and his first wife is the master of the home.
This idiot wants to compete with everything. Li Qi shook his head helplessly.
Seeing so many people there, Su Yun quickly broke away, bowed to Li Qi, and said: "Those people are already ready. I wonder if the Privy Council intends to meet them one by one, or let them come out together?"
Gao Yanei said anxiously: "Of course we come out together. It's so spectacular to have so many beauties standing together!"
Li Qi snorted and said: "Don't pay attention to him, but it's too slow to meet one by one, so let's go in groups of four."
Su Yun nodded and said: "Yes, I will make arrangements right away."
Gao Yanei hurriedly said: "I'll help you."
Li Qi grabbed his collar and said, "What are you going to do?"
Gao Yanei said: "Look at them changing clothes, ah---no, I'm going to help my wife."
Su Yun rolled her eyes at him and went straight to the backstage.
Li Qi looked at Gao Yanei and said, "Just sit here honestly."
A group of people sat in the row of seats in front, with Li Qi and Gao Yanei in the middle, but their treatment was completely different. On Li Qi's side were Feng Yinu, Xu Poxi, Liu Piaopiao, while on Gao Yanei's side were Fan Shaobai, Xiaojiu,
Chai Cong, Zhou Hua and others.
So unfair!
The Yamen felt extremely aggrieved.
Can you blame me? They want to sit next to me. I cover half of my face and you can't beat me. Who can blame me? Oh, no wonder I often wake up because of my own handsomeness.
Li Qi looked at Gao Yanei's resentful eyes and felt extremely happy.
Feng Yinu suddenly came over and whispered: "Husband, what exactly are you planning to do?"
Li Qidao: "Let Geisha no longer attract people's contempt."
Feng Yinu was moved after hearing this. She was also a geisha, so she could best understand the sorrow and sadness in it. She couldn't help but gently hold Li Qi's hand.
Li Qi smiled and said, "My husband has only one hand left."
Feng Yinu snorted, patted Li Qi's hand gently, and whispered: "You deserve it."
After a while, the first group of singing girls came onto the stage.
All the men, including Li Qi, looked expectantly and saw that the first batch of singing girls were all wearing cheongsam. All of them had plump buttocks, but they did not look like girls. The young women were still
almost.
Where is the girl you promised?
Li Qi was stunned.
Gao Yanei said excitedly: "Li Qi, what do you think? These are all found by my Yanei. Tsk tsk, with this figure and this face, our four small groups are going to be determined."
But Li Qiwu kept his dumbfounded expression.
Feng Yinu touched him lightly and said, "Hey, I've come to my senses."
Li Qi was startled for a moment, then waved towards the stage and said, "Sisters, please go wash your face first and then come back."
"puff!"
As soon as these words came out, Chai Cong, Liu Piaopiao and others all laughed out loud.
The four geishas on the stage were all stunned and seemed at a loss.
Li Qi added: "I don't know what your aesthetics are, but I don't like to make your face look like a monkey's butt. I don't even know your original appearance, so how can I judge? Go and wash your face.
Bar."
The Privy Councilor had already spoken, so they could only sing in unison, their embarrassed expressions not even covered by their thick rouge, and they hurriedly retreated.
Gao Yanei said in confusion: "Li Qi, do you understand and appreciate it? I think this is quite good."
Li Qi hummed: "Wouldn't it be better to just let them take it off?"
Gao Yanei's eyes lit up, he shook the red flower and said, "Is this necessary? Then go and tell them. I don't mind. It's not good to take off your clothes. How about letting them come up in their underwear."
Beauty pageant? Bikini, you can have this one, wait a minute, I almost got spoiled by this guy. Li Qi quickly shook his head, rolled his eyes and said: "You have agreed on the girl? Why do you guys give me sex with all the young women?"
Here I am, I have a stick of incense worth several thousand sticks, and I don’t have time to play with you here."
Chai Cong said: "Ask the yamen, he was the one who found it."
Gao Ya said inwardly: "Isn't it good? Young women are as good as young women. Moreover, we also need young women when we play Condor Shooting, right?"
Li Qi said angrily: "That's another matter. Our theme today is to find the four little beauties."
Xu Po said pity: "Secretary Envoy, Piao Piao is here, why are you looking for the Four Little Flowers?"
Li Qi knew that she was using Liu Piaopiao to ask him, so he said hehe: "Ms. Liu and Madam Xu are the leading ladies of the four small groups, they can also be said to be the pillars, but the goals of the four small groups are not just that. We have to
Take a longer-term view and think about training your successors now."
Xu Poxi nodded and said: "That's it."
Fan Shaobai suddenly said: "What the Privy Council does not know is that in fact, these women found in the Yamen are all very remarkable. They were once official prostitutes."
"Official prostitute?"
Chai Cong said: "When the emperor came to the throne, he purged the government and the public and sent a large number of officials into exile. However, the emperor was kind-hearted and did not make things difficult for the official and private prostitutes in the officials' mansions. He also gave them freedom. From then on, they were reduced to
Among the people, most of their property was confiscated by the court, and they had to work in various restaurants to sell songs. However, they were trained by wealthy families since childhood, and they are good at singing, dancing, playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting."
In fact, strictly speaking, the prostitutes in the Song Dynasty were just like the entertainers of later generations. Most of them were prostitutes rather than prostitutes. Moreover, the literati atmosphere in the Song Dynasty was quite strong. Ordinary women, great talents, and scholar-bureaucrats looked down upon them. They were literati and elegant people.
To have fun, you need to find prostitutes who can talk to you, but such prostitutes are hard to find.
Therefore, wealthy families have trained singing girls from the beginning and taught them music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and official prostitutes are even more remarkable. They are the ones who come out to sing and dance to accompany the banquets held by officials, and all of them are talented.
Women, otherwise they would not be able to communicate with those officials of the Song Dynasty.
Usually there are private prostitutes in officials' mansions. However, since Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty came to the throne, most of the official prostitutes have become officials' private prostitutes, that is, using the public for personal gain. For example, there are hundreds of private prostitutes in the mansions of Cai You and Wang Fu. They are very luxurious.
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Moreover, for officials of Cai You's level, the private prostitutes in their palaces were all ladies of the world, descendants of those officials whose homes were confiscated. Their appearance and temperament are quite outstanding.
Li Qi was a strange person. From the beginning to the end, there was not even a single prostitute in his mansion. You must know that his father-in-law, Wang Zhongling, always had prostitutes in his mansion.
The prostitutes on the market are called market prostitutes, and Feng Yinu was one of them, and they are all outstanding. Otherwise, you can't make it in this industry, and you can only become a prostitute, that is, a meat seller.
However, in the Song Dynasty, prostitutes were far less popular than geishas, because there were many literati, and those with money were also literati. What they pursued was spiritual communication, and spiritual communication must be established before proceeding to the next step.
Most of these singing prostitutes live relatively affluent lives, although their status is relatively humble. Like official prostitutes, private prostitutes are like slaves and can be freely exchanged, bought and sold. The law has little protection for them, but then again, humble is humble.
, these singing girls of the Song Dynasty were arrogant and arrogant. They were not like the entertainers of later generations. The rich were their fathers. They did not care about money, but they cared about love and talent. Therefore, the objects of their admiration were all those romantic talents who were handsome and talented.
Cheese.
Therefore, after the rise of Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, there were many lines of defense between men and women. The court even stipulated that prostitutes would only accompany people with drinks and not provide other services. But in private, who knows that many prostitutes often have sex when they meet the object of their admiration. In addition,
Even those high-ranking officials are not vegetarians, so there are many innocent geishas, but not many, after all, they are in this circle.
Of course, there are also some unlucky singers who often lose all their money and money when they meet those ruthless and unrighteous talents. This was a very common thing in the Song Dynasty.
However, this situation has gradually decreased since Zhao Kai came to the throne, because Zhao Kai has been very strict in rectification, and no one dares to break the rules. Official prostitutes are official prostitutes, and they are not provided with sleeping companions.
Moreover, the Legislative Yuan has also recently initiated a project to address this phenomenon, preparing to introduce laws to protect these singing girls and improve their status. The first step is to lift the shackles of singing girls and make them completely free. They can no longer trade and buy freely as before.
, are personal belongings and will adopt an employment system, which is also inseparable from Zhao Kai's policy.
First, Zhao Kai does not want his ministers to indulge in drinking and sex. You must focus on your work. Therefore, Zhao Kai personally set an example and reduced the number of court prostitutes dedicated to serving the emperor by two-thirds.
A small number of singing girls were left to take charge of the palace banquets, and even her concubines were pitiful, with only a dozen or so.
Secondly, because of Zhao Kai's expansion policy, women are directly related to the foundation of the Song Dynasty. Women have to have children. If you dominate so many women by yourself, and you don't want them when they are old, you will also lose the best period to have children.
, and other men cannot find wives, how can the population increase? Population is the basis for expansion.
Moreover, these women are all very good, and the genes of the children they give birth to are definitely better than ordinary people. Therefore, the new laws will definitely regulate official prostitutes and private prostitutes, and there may even be laws to eliminate private prostitutes. In fact, many officials now
I no longer dare to keep private prostitutes on a large scale.
Qin Hui knew Zhao Kai well. Since he took office as prime minister, he has taken in several concubines and not even a single prostitute in the house. In fact, Qin Hui in history was also quite lewd, but compared to his power, these are nothing.
Therefore, Li Qi started to integrate the entertainment industry to cater to Zhao Kai's policies and lay the foundation for the laws to be introduced. No matter what, the status of women must be raised. After all, men are limited and they have to go to war. Now the Song Dynasty is full of flowers.
, there is a great need for talents and manpower. It is foreseeable that there will be no shortage of women in various industries in the future.
In fact, with the emergence of Bai Qiannuo, Li Qingzhao, Zhe Meiyue, Su Yun, Xiaoyu, Zhang Chuner, Liang Hongyu and other women, women have begun to gain the attention of society.
But this is just a beginning, and it is far from reaching Li Qi's goal.
After hearing this, Feng Yinu said with a hint of sadness: "Husband, in fact, they are all quite pitiful."
Li Qi immediately smiled and nodded: "Young women are young women. As long as they meet the requirements, I will accept them."
"Um?"
"No, I mean the four small groups have all been recruited. Anyway, rehearsing the Condor Shooting, the Divine Condor also needs so many people." Li Qi said, looking around again, and said: "This is the second group, why haven't you come on stage yet?
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Su Yun came forward and said with an embarrassed look: "They have all gone to wash their faces."
"Well...!"
Gao Yanei said dissatisfied: "I think this makeup is very good, why do you have to wash it off?"
Li Qi said angrily: "What do you know? What is makeup called? It is specially used to attract men. We are not running a brothel. I want something fresh and refined, do you understand?"
"don't know."
"Huang Rong, Xiao Longnu."
"The yamen already understand this. Shouldn't you have said this earlier?" (To be continued...)