Qiming 1158

Chapter 1562 The end of the brothel

The little vendor smiled, bowed to Su Yonglin habitually, and went back to work on his own business.

Su Yonglin sat down with emotion, took a sip of his bowl of clear juice snail soup.

Well, still the original taste, not changed at all.

Putting down the bowl, seeing that both Su Changsheng and Zhang Jin were looking at him curiously, they smiled, and then they talked about what happened just now.

After hearing this, both Su Changsheng and Zhang Shi were very surprised.

"It is indeed a strange thing."

"Indeed, it's not easy to meet him after 15 years."

Su Yonglin sighed and nodded.

"Who said it wasn't? On that night 15 years ago, I had already made up my mind that I would die. I didn't think I would really be able to come back.

Bringing hundreds of people to oppose the Jin Kingdom with hundreds of thousands of troops, to overthrow them, and to overthrow the superior people, can only be said to be a fluke, let me succeed, and let me come back here again. Drink a bowl of clear juice Tianluo soup, what else am I dissatisfied with? "

The three laughed together, and then sighed with emotion, eating and drinking snail soup, feeling very happy.

While eating and drinking, Su Yonglin listened to the surrounding Hangzhou people putting together a table and setting up a dragon gate array, and while listening, he heard someone talking about the fifth Chen family living on a street in Qinghefang.

It is said that Chen Laowu used to be a casual person. He liked to drink and gamble and go to brothels. He was often beaten up by the savvy woman in Qinghefang at home and ran around the streets. He was beaten many times and fractured.

Later, when Daming destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, one factory after another was built around Hangzhou. Chen Laowu and his wife both worked in the factory.

His wife was strong and capable, articulate and daring to take responsibility, and soon became the team leader in the textile factory, then the team leader, and finally was elected as the chairman of the women's committee in the factory.

Chen Laowu did not change his stubbornness, but he was willing to work, but he couldn't change his temper of cheating and cheating, and he always used his salary to drink flower wine secretly.

Finally, his wife couldn't bear it any longer. One day, his wife ran from Hangzhou No. [-] Textile Factory to Hangzhou No. [-] Iron and Steel Smelting Factory, chasing after him with a wooden stick.

The screams were quite loud and could be heard all over the place. Three or five men could not stop his wife. Chen Laowu, who had to beat him, begged for mercy before giving up. In the end, Chen Laowu was carried to the infirmary. Treat the famous osteopath.

For this matter, the Hangzhou Revival Association branch and the judicial department also specially sent people to negotiate with their husband and wife.

They say that visiting brothels is immoral, and beating someone to break a bone is even more wrong. Daming has a very clear law to prevent family members from hurting each other. His wife is suspected of breaking the law and saying that he should be fined and punished according to the law. Dangerous or something.

Chen Laowu couldn't listen to it, and regardless of his injured body, he begged the judicial department not to arrest his wife, saying that it was all his fault, his wife was right, and so on.

In the end, the workshop, the Renaissance Society and the judiciary negotiated with Chen Laowu as the main reason, not to punish his wife severely, but he must be fined and detained for half a month. show punishment.

This wave made everyone very unhappy. Chen Laowu was pointed at by many people, and it seemed that he completely realized the mistake, so he never went to the brothel again.

Finally, in the 11th year of Hongwu, the brothels in Hangzhou were banned, and Chen Laowu was completely honest. He worked in the factory down-to-earth, and the line between work and work was stable.

I heard that Chen Laowu is an honest person and work. He immediately goes home after get off work and takes his children to chop wood and boil water to cook. However, his wife is often busy late because of the work of the Women's Committee, and the roles of the two seem to be transferred.

It's not an interesting talk.

Su Yonglin felt a little familiar to the two protagonists in the story, but for a while, she couldn't remember where they heard it.

On the contrary, Su Yonglin felt quite satisfied with the banning of brothels, and it seemed that there was no resistance among the people. Everyone seemed to accept this ending.

It's just that others don't know, but Su Yonglin knows that banning brothels is really not a one-time thing. It requires all aspects of planning and preparation, and finally, a single blow can completely end the existence of brothels.

If he banned brothels as soon as the Ming Dynasty was established, he would probably face opposition from every class and every group from top to bottom.

Even the bottom-level peasants who are actually suffering from it may not be happy.

Because this prevents some of them from selling their daughters to make money.

From ancient times to the present, these parents do not need exams, so ancient parents may not know how to be parents better than modern parents, and some things have never changed.

So until after the third major purge, Su Yonglin believed that the time was almost ripe. Since the tenth year of Hongwu, he has successively tried to ban brothels across the country.

The DPRK always knew that Su Yonglin was trying to ban the brothel, saying that it was to protect the interests of women, so Fuxing members were never allowed to visit the brothel. Later, the scope was expanded to all officials and further to officials.

Although the officials accepted it, there were always voices of opposition in the DPRK and China.

This kind of voice is not about banning the brothel itself, and everyone doesn't know what to think in their hearts, but the words on their lips are highly unified.

They all agree that brothels are exploiting and oppressing women, and that brothels should not exist in the Ming Dynasty, which advocates revolution and liberation.

But the real problem is, after the nationwide ban on brothels, how should those upstream and downstream practitioners be resettled.

There are many upstream practitioners who are involved in legal lawsuits. If you really want to investigate, few are clean. It is easy to ask the guilt, and it is not difficult to deal with. The main problem is those downstream practitioners.

Apart from taking money from men's purses, these practitioners have no other legitimate skills, and they ruined their jobs. Although it is definitely a good thing, they can't be allowed to starve to death like that, right?

If they lose their livelihood, the girls in the future are easy to talk about, but these brothel girls are still alive and have no jobs. Could it be that the imperial court is paying for them?

In this regard, Su Yonglin has some thoughts.

So he chose several large cities with a relatively large number of brothels to conduct pilot projects, including Hangzhou.

The revival members took all the prostitutes and girls inside to the reform-through-labour base and held special classes for them.

In the morning, I studied revolutionary knowledge and theories, learned about my own mistakes in this industry, and told about the disadvantages of this incident from multiple levels of law, morality, etc., and awakened the shame of some women who have no shame.

This course also brings out some famous examples from previous history, or simply writes some stories about women in brothels.

Su Yonglin personally wrote a story "Du Shiniang", using the tragedy of Du Shiniang to awaken the sorrow and shame of these brothel women.

These educational models, which are informed by reason and moved by emotion, have indeed achieved good results.

After the study in the morning, skills training classes are held in the afternoon, allowing them to learn skills that are convenient for them to find a job and support themselves, such as textile skills, sewing skills and medical skills.

These are very practical skills that can be used after they have been learned. The factories around the big cities recruit many people. After they have learned these skills, they can be arranged to work in the factories, where they can go and earn wages to support themselves. Don't put your hopes on others.

By the 12th year of Hongwu, this group of procuresses and brothel girls had achieved a [-]% transformation from study classes to social work, and had all entered the factory, became regular workers, and began to rely on labor to earn wages to support themselves .

As for their marriage, it is obviously a big problem, but quite a few of them have already accepted their fate from the beginning and know the end of their lives.

Most of the revival members refused to try to match them with suggestions that they would get married.

What they mean is that they thought they would die of misery in old age, but now there is still a second way to go, and they can still rely on the benefits of the factory to live, and there will be benefits such as retirement in the future, which is tantamount to second. next life.

So they decided to support each other as sisters, build a big family of mutual help, make a change and start anew, then hold a group to warm up, and then collectively support each other and say goodbye to each other.

As for marriage, let it be a matter of fate and never force it. Although there are many good men in the world, there are only a few who belong to them, so there is no need to bother the big guys in the Renaissance Society.

The Restoration members died down, focusing only on arranging their work and no longer interfering in their private affairs.

So far, this wave of pilots has been successful.

By the beginning of the 12th year of Hongwu, the brothels in the six cities of Zhongdu, Chang'an, Luoyang, Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Xiangyang were all banned, and all employees were jailed, and those who worked were jailed.

In fact, at this moment, even if Su Yonglin does not engage in this action, from a national perspective, the brothel business is in a process of continuous decline, and the decline is very fast.

the reason is simple.

Except for a few exceptions, most of the brothel women in history were poor women who came from poor families, were sold by their family members, or were forced to fall into the dust and eat their food.

The family factor is the main reason why they fell into the brothel, and oppression and exploitation are the root cause, and they cannot be avoided.

After the Ming Dynasty pacified the old ruling class, by overthrowing exploitation and oppression, the suffering of the people was greatly alleviated, and economic construction was carried out across the country, which continuously broadened the way of survival for women and reduced the difficulty of their survival.

While collective farms and handicraft workshops were opened on a large scale, the interests of the lower classes were guaranteed.

In addition, Daming abolished low-ranking status and gave all citizens the status of [citizens]. All people are equal in law, and human trafficking is explicitly prohibited. There are very strict handling regulations for this. Not anymore.

Now that everyone has money, land, and food to eat, they will not be able to survive by selling their sons and daughters, and naturally they will not break this taboo.

Under such circumstances, it is no longer sustainable for the brothel to simply obtain fresh blood through the so-called legal means of the past dynasties, and no one will sell their daughter to the brothel anymore.

The biggest way to get it is gone, what other way is there?

Of course, the brothel operators are also very anxious, and some old prostitutes are also really anxious, jumping up and down to find resources, and even sneaking to the countryside to negotiate with rural people.

But in today's collective farms and revival grassroots organizations all over the grassroots, the behavior of some prostitutes is tantamount to courting death.

In the ten years of Hongwu, the prostitute of a brothel in Xiangyang was very anxious because there was no fresh "resources" in the account for several months, so he secretly went to the cabinet door collective farm outside the city of Xiangyang to find a farmer to discuss the matter of selling his daughter.

This incident caused an uproar in Xiangyang and Zhongdu at that time.

(End of this chapter)