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Nanjing, Qinhuai Flower Street.

Zhu Yuanzhang built Fule Yuan here, and captured the wives and daughters of enemies or criminal officials to be official prostitutes in Fule Yuan.

It is specially used for the entertainment of wealthy businessmen to obtain money, and officials are prohibited from entering.

In Fule Yuan, men must wear green turbans, red turbans and fur boots. Women wear black hats and black regular pants, and are not allowed to wear fancy clothes. When they walk, they can only walk on both sides of the street, not in the middle of the street.

Fule Yuan was moved to the vicinity of Wuding Bridge. From this center, various Qin Towers and Chu Pavilions began to appear, and eventually it evolved into an entertainment street.

That is, Qinhuai Flower Street.

The funniest thing is Huiguang Temple. This temple was built with leftover materials from the Great Baoen Temple. During the Wanli period, it was surrounded by numerous brothels, which tested the willpower of the monks all day long. In desperation, they had no choice but to move the temple elsewhere.

Li Xiangjun returned to Huajie, where she had lived for many years.

This time, Li Xiangjun was accompanied by a team of official officers.

"Sister, are you just calling me from the street?" Li Xiangjun asked.

Li Wanchun said with a smile: "You don't have to shout all the time, you have to take turns shouting, otherwise your voice will become hoarse in just one day."

Two-thirds of the 108 female generals in "The Record of Datong Female Generals" are already married. After getting married, most of them choose to support their husbands and raise children. If they are unable to have children, they adopt children. A few even acquiesce to their husbands taking concubines.

Li Wanchun is one of the few who is not married, she is almost thirty years old, because she has a higher vision.

It has been delayed until now.

"Then...then I'll shout." Li Xiangjun said.

Li Wanchun smiled and said, "Shout."

When the official went to post the notice along the street, Li Xiangjun picked up the tin trumpet and shouted: "Sisters and brothers on Qinhuaihua Street, the world is unified, the good and the bad are equal. If you want to be good, don't be afraid of the madam stopping you. If you say you want to stop, you can report it to the official immediately... …”

It was now morning, and many brothels had not yet opened for business.

When Li Xiangjun's voice came out, many windows opened instantly, and then the door was opened, and more than 20 men and women rushed out one after another.

Not only prostitutes, but also turtle teapots.

A man stood on the side of the street, lit a green turban with a candle, took off his red shirt, and walked quickly to Li Xiangjun: "Sisters, I have already heard that King Zhao has good governance, and these days I have been thinking about how to be good. Woolen cloth."

Li Wanchun said with a smile: "You can go to the county government to settle down first. Once you register, you will be a good man. Even if you still stay in the brothel, you are still a good man. There are no untouchables under Mr. Zhao's rule."

"That's really good," the man said with a smile, "I don't know what I will do after I become a good man. I can write and do calculations, but I don't understand the Four Books and Five Classics."

Li Wanchun said: "Since I can write and do calculations, I will sign up for the sergeant examination. Maybe I can become a sergeant in the Inspection Department."

There are government offices and county offices in Nanjing, and these officials have long been rotten. They are gangsters with official status, and many of them will be thrown into mining.

Public security, fire protection, sanitation and other tasks are all responsible for the Wucheng Military and Horse Division. But this organization is also terrible. Many streets in the prosperous and prosperous city of Nanjing are dirty and messy, and it is completely up to the neighbors to clean them.

The first thing Zhao Han had to do was to free the slaves and eliminate the distinction between good and bad. Then recruit local people from lowly backgrounds to work as servants to improve public security and sanitation in the city.

Li Xiangjun continued to promote along the street. When he reached a place, Kou Baimen suddenly opened the door and ran out.

"Can prostitutes who have been prostitutes for generations be able to practice good deeds?" Kou Baimen asked anxiously.

Li Xiangjun smiled and said: "Under Mr. Zhao's rule, there is no distinction between good and bad."

Kou Baimen immediately turned around and shouted to the brothel: "Father, mother, come out quickly, so that you can live a serious life from now on!"

My mother is my biological mother, and my father may be my biological father.

Kou Baimen was even worse off than Li Xiangjun. Li Xiangjun was born in a military attaché family, while Kou Baimen was a prostitute for generations.

Her father is a musician and her mother is a prostitute. Her household registration is in the Jiaofang Division. Her work in the brothel is an outsourcing business, and she also takes home service orders from big customers.

Kou Baimen is fifteen years old this year. She works as a maid for prostitutes. In another year, she should open her business.

Not long after, Kou Baimen's parents came out together.

Li Wanchun asked about the situation and said: "You only need to go to the county government to settle down. Once you have the household registration, you will be a good partner. If you want to continue business, you can apply for a singing house and dance pavilion license..."

"No need!" Kou's father said quickly, "I can continue to be a musician to support the family, and my wife and daughter have to make a living."

"It's up to you." Li Wanru said.

Nanjing's urban population is too large and there are a large number of unemployed people. It is impossible for Zhao Han to allocate land to them, and he is temporarily unable to find employment.

We can only clean up the officials who have done many evil things, clean up those local ruffians, and send them all to the mountains to mine. Then the government recruits some civil servants, and those who can read a few words can take the exam.

As for those who are illiterate, those who have accompanied the army and civilians have returned to their hometowns. The next step is to transport food from Hunan for disaster relief. For the time being, homeless people can be recruited as coolies to transport food.

To be honest, many domestic slaves and Lehu were good people, but they really couldn't find a job for a while. After all, only a few could be admitted to the civil service.

Qinhuai Flower Street in Nanjing cannot be banned directly, but each shop must be ordered to apply for a singing house license. In principle, it is no longer allowed to engage in skin sex business, and the personal freedom of employees is not allowed to be restricted.

Of course, the changes are still obvious.

A large number of prostitutes who made money, especially those who were famous, chose to live a good life. They don't worry about life, they just want to be decent people.

The propaganda team left, and the Kou family discussed behind closed doors.

Kou's mother said: "I heard people say that Jiangxi is open-minded and doesn't dislike being born in a lowly family. The daughter is fifteen years old and is still a virgin. She will definitely find her husband's family. Don't count on the big officials. Go find a matchmaker and inquire about officials. Or military officers, matchmaking to make a marriage."

"Wouldn't it be a hard life to marry an official?" Kou's father disagreed.

Kou's mother said: "Zhao Tianwang's officials are different. They can be officials in the future. I only look for those officials from Jiangxi. Maybe they can be magistrates in the future. At that time, my daughter will be the magistrate's wife. Our family also has some savings. At that time, give more dowry, and the son-in-law is just a petty official, so he will be happy in his heart. We must take a long-term view, today's official, tomorrow's official, we will not lose."

There are quite a few people who have this idea, and the business of matchmakers in Nanjing is booming.

These matchmakers stood near the yamen, and when they heard officials speaking foreign languages, they stepped forward to ask if they were married. And I swear, even though the girl comes from a prostitute family, she is definitely still a virgin.

Not only that, the matchmakers also went to strike up a conversation with the soldiers guarding the city, asking which soldiers hadn't married yet. As long as they have a military rank of ten or more, the daughters of any prostitutes are willing to marry.

Bian Yujing, one of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai, was only thirteen years old at this time, and her parents were already looking for a matchmaker.

Bian Yujing is also the daughter of a prostitute.

Whatever comes from a family of eunuchs is beautified by literati. Wu Weiye's article is evasive, but Zou Shu is much more straightforward, explaining that Bian Yujing is a "family of kabuki".

Whether it was Congliang, a happy household in Qinhuai Flower Street, or the liberation of the entire city's domestic slaves, there was actually not much commotion.

For most people, although the cheap status has become a good status, the content of their work has not changed.

Because the price of goods in Nanjing city was too high and it was hard to find a job, the domestic slaves became servants and continued to be servants honestly.

The British Industrial Revolution had to carry out agricultural reform and land enclosure movement first, and forced farmers to the cities before they could develop industry. But in Daming, this step can be skipped directly, the population of big cities has exploded. There is only a shortage of jobs, not people.

The campaign to clean up the urban household registration was carried out rapidly.

Holding some of the newly released data, Zhao Han suddenly felt a headache. There are too many homeless people in Nanjing!

Outside the city, the land of nobles and military officers is being distributed to tenants and military households, and the number of acres is still not enough.

Wu Yingji said: "General Town, there are a lot of wasteland in the south of the Yangtze River, but land taxes should be treated differently."

"There is actually a lot of wasteland in the south of the Yangtze River?" Zhao Han found it hard to understand.

Wu Yingji explained in detail: "Taxes in the south of the Yangtze River were too heavy. After the Yongle Dynasty, a large number of farmers fled, and a large number of cultivated land was abandoned. The rich and powerful households took the opportunity to seize the abandoned land. Emperor Xuande reformed and recruited refugees to cultivate the wasteland to prevent the powerful and powerful households from annexing the land."

"During the Jiajing period, there was a land equalization reform in the south of the Yangtze River, which was very effective at that time. But in the Wanli period, a large amount of land was abandoned. One is that the land tax is too heavy, and the other is that the water conservancy is in disrepair."

"There is also grain supply. There are many cotton fields in the south of the Yangtze River, but grain grains have to be collected. At first, farmers had to sell cotton to buy rice and hand it over to the government. During this period, they were exploited multiple times. It took many years to sell cotton and pay money."

"During this period, a large amount of farmland was abandoned. The government can only recruit refugees to reclaim it. As long as the wasteland is reclaimed, local farmers will be exempted from taxes for five years, and out-of-town farmers will be exempted from taxes for ten years. Guess the town, what kind of trouble will this cause?"

Zhao Han thought for a while and said, "The gentry colluded with the officials and used cultivated land as barren land to evade taxes."

"Exactly," Wu Yingji said with a smile, "but there is even more chaos. Once the tax exemption period is up, the peasants immediately abandon the land again!"

Zhao Han was stunned upon hearing this, then shook his head and smiled wryly.

That is the farmer's own field, and the self-cultivator is not a proper farmer. He voluntarily abandons the land and flees to other places as refugees or vagrants. It is conceivable that the taxes are heavy!

Not only is the tax collected by the imperial court too heavy, but the big households will also send slyly, making these self-cultivating farmers have to pay taxes many times. Moreover, the land they can get is not a good field, even if they only pay the normal tax, it is enough.

What's more, the tax exemption period set by the government can almost turn barren fields into mature fields. At such times, there will be tyrants who come out to seize the fields, and after taking the fields, let these self-cultivating farmers continue to serve as servants, and the self-cultivating farmers will definitely run away.

In addition, the reclamation refugees are foreigners and are often bullied by the locals, which is also one of the reasons why they ran away after planting a few days.

Local officials continued to introduce new policies in an attempt to retain owner farmers and crack down on gentry tyrants. But they are all effective at the beginning, and after a few years or more than ten years, loopholes are exploited.

This broken place in the south of the Yangtze River is very strange. On the one hand, there are many people and little land, and on the other hand, a lot of abandoned land.

The big clans are also very interesting. Whenever there is a disaster year, half of the land they planted will be abandoned directly, and the remaining half will be intensively cultivated.

What is self-grown land?

That is, instead of renting to tenants, let hired labor do the farming. This kind of hired labor is actually a domestic slave, who only pays a small salary for taking care of the food every month. Sometimes also called "hired slaves".

Abandon half of the land and cultivate half. This farming method has been written into the family precepts and regulations of many rich families, and it is regarded as a classic operation like a family secret.

Wu Yingji said: "There are still many barren fields in the south of the Yangtze River, which belong to salt bittern land. In fact, some salt bittern land has been gradually improved with the support of good officials. But if you change to a mediocre official, it will be abandoned immediately, because the mediocre official does not reduce the land tax."

"The general town should collect land taxes as appropriate, build a large number of water conservancy projects, and encourage the people to reclaim wasteland and cultivate crops. In this way, there is actually not much shortage of land in the south of the Yangtze River."

Zhao Han paid more and more attention to Wu Yingji, nodded and said, "You write down all your ideas, and I will let officials at all levels govern as appropriate."