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Chen Man was once a girl who was popular on the Qinhuai River. She was originally from Suzhou. Her father was a poor scholar who failed many provincial examinations. In addition to studying, making art and studying eight-legged essays, she turned a blind eye to things outside the window. Fortunately, her mother Liu opened an embroidery shop and earned dozens of taels of silver every year. Her life was pretty good in childhood. She was a jasper in her family and received a good education. When she was twelve or thirteen, she was proficient in both piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Unfortunately, her father was seriously ill at the age of fourteen. The family saved money to cure her illness and even sold her mother's embroidery shop. In order to help her, Chen Man finally sold herself for 200 taels of silver. At the age of fourteen, she took a small bag and carried her pipa to Nanjing on a boat, becoming a priest on the Qinhuai River flower boat, and then became a popular man.

However, she always eats youthful food in this industry. So many beautiful young women join in, new ones come and old ones go, and Chen Man is quickly replaced by younger and more beautiful girls. Fortunately, she has saved a lot of savings in those years, and saves the rest of herself in addition to giving the part to her family.

Later, like many colleagues, she married a small official in her fifties as a concubine and went to Huguang. After a few years of life as a concubine, she did not have a good life. Her husband had a jealous wife who had been married as a concubine for several years, but she had no children. Then her husband died suddenly. Although she left a last word for her farmland and several shops to support her, unfortunately, before she passed away, her main wife drove her out of the house before she entered. In fact, they were not allowed to take her away except for the boxes and cages she brought in when she entered.

Chen Man was only in her twenties at this time, but she was already old in the fireworks shop. She could not return to Jinling to work on her old business, but Huguang was not her home. Although she still had a home in Suzhou, she could not go back there. Although she sold herself to save her father and saved that home, her father refused to recognize her daughter again.

Chen Man is strong, has her own ideas and persistence. Just like when she sold herself for 200 taels of silver, this time she took out all her savings and opened a brothel.

The brothel did not open in Wuchang, the bustling water and land wharf, nor in Nanchang, but in a noisy town in Beitaiping Township, Macheng County, Huangzhou Prefecture.

The yard is not big. A three-story wooden building is located in the center of the long street opposite the Hutouguan Yacheng. Standing on the platform on the third floor, you can even see a group of strong young men practicing there every day on the playground in Yacheng, sweating profusely.

There were originally only a few shops here, but no brothels.

Now, with the young General Lian taking his Nine-Headed Bird Group here, it is also bustling here, with a population of more than 2,000, various houses are constantly being built, and the streets are also being extended. There are more young men here, but there are no families. Chen Man was originally just passing by here, but after seeing the lively scene here, she stopped and stopped moving forward.

She rented the house on the street, renovated it into the first brothel here, and attracted more than a dozen young girls from all over the place, and even bought more than a dozen young girls from all over the country to cultivate their singing and dancing skills by themselves.

The red lanterns with the three words "Hongxiufang" added a bit of ambiguous atmosphere to the brothel. At night, the pink lights and the laughter of young women always attract the attention of young men and make them distracted.

Every night, there are always guests in the building. Chenman is very good at operating. This brothel is not just about selling color, appearance, skin, and meat. There are wine, tea, and various snacks, blind men telling books, blind women playing the piano, and there are also various dresses that are very unique and dance very graceful. Come here not only to have fun and have fun, but also to listen to music and watch dance.

The first floor is the hall, with singing and dancing performances every day, and the second floor is a small private room where guests can drink tea and drink while ordering a beautiful girl playing the piano and dancing.

At this moment, the lights were just around the corner, and it was just the most lively time of the day when Hongxiufang was in the most lively. The soft and graceful singing and piano sound drifted away with the cool evening breeze of summer night, making it tingling with the pedestrians nearby and passing by.

Chen Man was dressed up tonight and even sprinkled some rose dew from Taixi on her body. He held a very beautiful embroidered brocade hand in his hand, and stood in front of the door and looked around.

Today, a generous guest paid a deposit of 100 taels and booked the largest elegant private room on the second floor. She also asked her to prepare a table with the best seats and let her free up the best girl. Chen Man naturally liked such a generous guest, but the one who asked her to stand in front of the door and wait for the guests was not the one who was invited tonight.

The generous guest invited tonight was the first person in Taiping Township now, Liu Jun and Liu Jiye, the county troupe training chief.

Chen Man opened a shop here, so he naturally had to find out the local snake here. Liu Jun is not the kind of local snake who is gangster, but he is actually the owner of this place. The prosperity here is all because of him. Even her Hongxiufang is rented from Liu Jun. In addition to paying the rent every month, he also has to pay an extra amount of money, which is called the public security management and sanitation fee. In short, it means protection fee.

Although they paid an extra amount of money, it seemed normal for Chen Man, who had traveled all over the country. The other party also asked for the money very reasonably. They collected the money and issued the order, and there was no other request for the card. After paying the money, they did ensure that no one would make trouble. If someone made trouble, they would come forward to settle the garbage in front of the house and the alleys in the door, behind the house, and even they were responsible for cleaning up the garbage.

Of course, if it were just like this, Chen Man would not care so much. She looked at Liu Jun so highly because after she opened here, she watched the ever-changing changes here with her own eyes. Since her opening, Liu Jun has never been to her place. She often saw Liu Jun passing by the building gate, but never entered once.

This made Chen Man very curious about this young man.

Today, a guest was hosting Liu Jun at Hongxiu Challenge. Chen Man wanted to look at Liu Jun up close. And now that her business is getting better day by day, she also has a little idea to establish a good relationship with Liu Jun, the landlord. If she can get closer, or even have a show or two, that would be even better.

She is, so she doesn't mind a little intimate relationship with a young, tall and mighty man like Liu Jun.

The person who invited the guests tonight was Hu, a juren. He passed the imperial examination in his early thirties, but after more than ten years of examination, he failed to pass the imperial examination. Then he calmed down. After being introduced by someone, he was lucky to work in the Andong Palace. He was very grateful to the prince in the Andong Palace. Now he has become an external manager in the Prince's Mansion. Although he has no rank or rank, he has also earned a rich fortune.

Hu Guang was able to make a fortune in his family because of King Anton. Of course, he was not cheating on the name of the royal palace, but because he was in charge of the big deal of selling salt for the royal palace. The royal palace made a big profit, and he only earned the rest of his money.

In the Ming Dynasty, no one sold salt to make money.

In the early years, various salt administrations, such as the establishment of China and France, asked merchants to transport grain to Jiubian, and then exchanged salt to the salt farm to support salt, allowing those border merchants to make a lot of money, especially Shanxi merchants.

However, by now, China and France have long disappeared. Now it is mainly the salt law. To put it bluntly, the court established a course. Only salt merchants with names on the course have the right to transport and sell official salt, that is, monopoly power.

The court directly changed salt from a government-owned monopoly to a commercial monopoly. The government only cared for cash and taxes, and then designated salt merchants to monopoly the official salt monopoly. The descendants could inherit this monopoly. The government then designated areas for these salt merchants to transport and sell salt, which was very simple.

The salt merchants colluded with officials through powerful people to apply for qualifications from the court's Salt Transportation Department, then paid a deposit, and then found a merchant to obtain the insurance policy, and then obtained the order issued by the court.

The so-called "women" is actually a certificate of legal transportation and sales of official salt issued to salt merchants by the court, and a license. The "women" will indicate the amount of salt inlets obtained by the salt merchant and the transportation and sales area.

With this thing, there is the right to monopolize monopoly. This nest can be hereditary or bought and sold by descendants.

After the house order is established, they become the official designated salt monopoly vendor, with monopoly rights. According to the court's instructions, each salt merchant transports and sells official salt in their respective monopoly areas, and each salt merchant is not allowed to sell it across the border. This is the sole right. There is also a type of selling called a joint sales, where multiple salt merchants jointly operate a region and divide the sales quantity internally.

After having this house order, I will pay the money to the court every year and then apply for a qualification certificate for this year, which is the New Year house. With the New Year house, I will have the monopoly rights for this year.

In short, under this kind of salt system, the most important thing is to have a bait order. If there is a bait order, there will be a monopoly and monopoly.

Many powerful people make a profit by obtaining orders and reselling them. They do nothing after getting orders and reselling them directly can make a fortune. King Anton is the descendant of King Yi's enfeoffment, and of course they also belong to this interest group. However, King Anton did not directly resell orders like many powerful people in the capital. He mastered a lot of salt intent and operated it himself.

The area for sale of house orders obtained by King Andong was the eight counties of Qihuang. Of course, King Andong could not eat them alone in such a large area. In fact, this area, one prefecture, one prefecture, eight counties, were led by the two palaces of King Yi of Jiangxi and King Jing of Qizhou. There were also several county princes including King Andong participated and sold them together to gain the exclusive right to sell official salt in Qihuang.

How profitable is salt? It is very profitable, which makes the powerful and powerful people flock to it.

For example, in the Qihuang area, the official salt sold by Andongwang and others were transported from Lianghuai Salt Field. The entire Huguang, Jiangxi, Huainan, Liangzhe and other major regions belong to the salt area of ​​Lianghuai Salt Field. The exclusive sales area occupied by Andongwang and others is in the salt area of ​​Lianghuai Salt Field.
Chapter completed!