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Chapter 298 The Origin and Development of the Red Lantern Club

The original origin of the Red Lantern Club comes from an ancient profession with a long history - boat prostitution.

There is an old saying in the past that millions of water workers depend on their food and clothing.

Many people regard this sentence as a classic slang collection of keyologists, but they do not know the true origin of this meme.

Tianmen City used to be the largest water transport terminal in the north, with literally millions of water transport workers.

This water transport system not only refers to the boatmen who transport grain and the workers who move goods on the docks, but also a huge ecological circle extending around the north-south water transport system.

Boat prostitutes are an important part of this ecosystem.

In the past, there was an unwritten rule in Tianmen. Whether on the boat or in the courtyard of the alley, those who hung red lanterns at night were young ladies working in the technology industry.

I cannot elaborate on this, as it will be blocked again.

This is where the name "Red Lantern Club" comes from.

What kind of virtues do Western sailors have? You can basically imagine what the U.S. military stationed in Japan is like. It cannot be said that the original flavor remains the same. At least in modern times, it will still suffer a little pressure from public opinion. At that time, there was no pressure at all.

In fact, their fate has been doomed for a long time. Like thousands of poor people of that era who were impacted by Western civilization, they are destined to become victims of the wheels of history.

In fact, the formation of the Red Lantern Society was essentially due to the exploitation and oppression of foreigners.

As for the living conditions of these people at the bottom, the officials at that time could not see and were unwilling to take care of them. If you dare to take another look, you will not only be surprised by your allies, but you will also be despised by your own colleagues.

The rise of international maritime trade and the arrival of Western sailors had a devastating impact on Tianmen City's original water transportation system. The first one to bear the brunt is a series of ancillary industries including boat prostitutes.

In this era, there are also many self-proclaimed noble people who treat the Red Lantern Club with great contempt and malice. They use the most vicious words in private to slander and spurn them as much as they can, and then feel that their souls have been purified and regenerated. .

That is the Western sailor.

At that time, the imperial court was corrupt, the Western powers were making trouble, and the coastal areas suffered greatly. The most well-known are the various bad deeds of Western missionaries and businessmen, but there is another group that has left almost no traces in the history books, but it is real and has had a very bad impact on the moral customs of coastal cities.

Until Our Lady of Red Lotus lights the first sky lantern.

How dare you speak for a mere boat prostitute? I didn’t expect you to be so good at it. What kind of taste do you have?
We all drive a Mercedes-Benz, and you drive a Mazda. You deserve to be stuck in traffic! At what level do you want to sit with us?

But this does not mean that the Red Light Society is an improper organization.

She said, sisters, stand up and resist!

I will lead you to burn the church and kill the foreign monsters!

Li Mumu stood on the shore, looking at the brightly lit boat in front of her, feeling filled with emotion. In the world before she traveled over, there were very few records about the Red Lantern Society.

There is only an understatement in modern history textbooks - in 1900, the Western Allied Forces invaded Tianmen, and the leader of the Red Lantern Society, Lin Moyan, led his troops to fight bloody battles with the allied forces. The entire Red Lantern Society was wiped out, and no body was left alive.

What more people are familiar with is a video that has been circulated on the Internet from an unknown year. In it, several so-called masters of Chinese studies and history experts sit together, shaking fans, drinking tea and talking about the past and the present. When talking about the red lantern party, one of them laughed and said: "They are just a group of blind and ignorant old prostitutes who drew swords from Western sailors when they couldn't get their money. They have never even read a book, how can they understand the justice of their family and country?" , it’s all just a figment of people’s imagination.”

Then everyone laughed, clapped and praised, thinking it was wonderful.

The Red Lantern Club in this world is larger in scale and more prestigious. After decades of development, it has formed a fairly mature and complete organizational structure. Although there is only one Tianmen chief rudder in name, which is the painting boat in front of you, it does not have its own armed guards like the Forward Church. It looks like a housewife mutual aid association, full of Chinese pastoral and rural atmosphere.

But there is a local saying in Tianmen that the meat in a bun is not in the folds.

People can mature only if they learn to be humble and low-key, and the same is true for organizations.

In fact, the power hidden under the water of the Red Lantern Society is extremely terrifying. The first generation leader, Our Lady of the Red Lotus, has now attained the status of Bodhisattva, and her divine name and authority span both sides of the ocean. This is something Li Mumu understands deeply.

There are a total of eighteen red-clothed elders like Zuo Yan, the first-generation direct disciples of the Red Lotus Mother.

The second-generation direct disciples under the elder in red are called the "Thirty-Sixth Lamp-Helding Rakshasa", each possessing unique skills...

This is all first-hand information revealed to him by Senior Sister Zuo Yan, and it is true and reliable.

There are still seventeen people as powerful as me. Are you afraid?
That said, but over the years, most of the red-clothed elders have taken a back seat and no longer interfere with the affairs of the association. Even when the incense hall is held, there are only three red-clothed elders present at most, and their main task is to act as mascots. . As for the specific work, it is all left to the various lamp-holding Rakshasa.

The person who is now the chief helmsman in charge of the faucet... No, she is called senior sister in the meeting, and her name is Shi Yulan. She also has two other identities on the surface. One is the vice chairman of the Tianmen Martial Arts and Gymnastics Association, and the other is the head of the Tianmen branch of the Chinese Maternal and Child Aid Federation.

The biggest achievement this senior sister made during her tenure was that she never opened an incense hall. Even during the war that affected Tianmen City a few years ago, she never took the initiative to open an incense hall.

Although the main high-level members of the Red Lantern Society had records of participating in the war at that time, at that time, either Our Lady of the Red Lotus issued a decree directly, or the President personally came to point out generals. Shi Yulan herself had never taken the initiative.

The benefits of this are obvious, and it indeed allows the Red Light Club to achieve long-term and stable development. But it can't be said that there are no disadvantages. It just makes some people completely forget, or they don't know the existence of the Red Light Society at all.

Once people forget, they become ignorant, and ignorant people lose their fear.

This time, it was not Shi Yulan who opened the incense hall, but her biological daughter, another lantern holder, Yang Youxuan.

Zuo Yan arrived late because she brought Li Mumu and Winston along the way. By the time they boarded the boat, three elders in red were already there, and they just missed the most exciting performance at the beginning of the show.

Seeing that the people inside had started talking, she was not in a hurry to go in. She took the two of them to the side and opened a crack in the window to peek inside.

I heard someone inside shout loudly: "This is a blatant provocation! Elders please make the decision for the disciples!"

(End of this chapter)