The group entered the restaurant. This time, they did not book in the lobby, but instead ordered a private room for lunch.

After all, it was a limelight on the dock just now. If you eat in the lobby, you might be able to see it. At least you know the identity of the Jinyiwei, it would be bad.

During the meal, Emperor Chongzhen did not speak, and except for Concubine Yuan, others generally would not speak. Concubine Yuan likes quietness, and it is possible that what happened just now was still affecting her, so she didn't speak. There was almost no sound in this private room.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay attention to these things, but was thinking about things in his heart, thinking about what had just happened.

People's transactions have been legally present since ancient times. Such things are still a bit difficult for the souls of later generations. But for this era, they are used to them. According to the nature of Emperor Chongzhen, people's transactions should be directly prohibited. The buyer just now did not let her go, because of this kind of factors in later generations.

Of course, with his current prestige, it would not be a big deal if he really issued an order to ban it. However, Emperor Chongzhen was not willing to act so arbitrarily. For now, it was a legal transaction, and simply using administrative orders was not the best solution.

However, even legal population transactions will breed many gray areas and even cause crimes. For this, the ultimate goal is to make the population transactions of the Ming Dynasty disappear and prohibit them.

Emperor Chongzhen thought, and soon came up with a simple method, which was to increase the tax on population trading and increase the cost of population trading.

If one of the prerequisites for population trading in the past was that they could not survive, or that their living conditions were too poor, and they voluntarily sold themselves as slaves, concubines, and others. Then, in the Ming Dynasty, the economy is developing rapidly. As long as it is not too stupid or too stupid, they can always find job opportunities to support themselves. If not, aren’t there any vassal states able to go to!

Nowadays, there are more and more foreign vassal countries, and each vassal country needs a large number of Ming people to enrich their ruling population to suppress the local indigenous people. It can be said that the people of Ming Dynasty basically have no prerequisite for population trading now.

Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about this while having a meal. Suddenly, some noisy sounds sounded, forcing him to interrupt his thinking and return to reality. After listening to it a little, he knew what was going on.

It came from the private room next door. I heard the sound of a group of young men shouting.

"Everyone Chen plays this piano well, let's have another one!"

"Everyone Liu sang well, both are good, all are good!"

"Haha, today's courtesan is hard to tell the difference!"

"Everyone, you guys, this is great. Let's compare poetry and see who everyone..."

“…”

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen's brow frowned slightly and facing the next door's elegant room, Liu Xingzuo approached Emperor Chongzhen and whispered: "The local scholars next door should be drinking and having fun, and they all invite local prostitutes to accompany him. Otherwise, the villain will tell him and tell them not to be so loud?"

Emperor Chongzhen still frowned slightly, looked at a Jinyiwei lieutenant and asked, "Is this the trend of scholars in Yangzhou Prefecture?"

Regarding the matter next door, Liu Xingzuo and Emperor Chongzhen's views are basically completely different.

In Liu Xingzuo's eyes, this was a normal thing, but they were too noisy and affected the emperor, so he thought about making the other side quiet.

But on Emperor Chongzhen's side, he thought of the issue of the trend for the first time.

Whenever Emperor Chongzhen arrived at a place, Liu Xingzuo would draw a local Jinyiwei to accompany him, which was a bit different from the previous tour. It can also be said that this is a little experience summarized after the tour. After all, if the local Jinyiwei followed him, he would not know nothing about the local affairs, or it would shorten the time to know the local situation.

The Jinyiwei lieutenant asked by Emperor Chongzhen was naturally from Yangzhou Prefecture. When he heard Emperor Chongzhen’s question, he immediately replied respectfully: “After the master’s words, the scholars in Yangzhou Prefecture have been differentiated. Some scholars have been discussing scientific and technological knowledge on weekdays. But most scholars still drink and have fun and are jealous as before. However, there is a little difference. Now there are fewer criticisms of major events in the court.”

In the south of Jiangnan, including Yangzhou and other places, it was the territory of the Donglin Party members and later the territory of Fushe. However, with the exile of Fushe leader Zhang Pu, the four Fushe masters were also attacked last year. Especially after Fang Yizhi, one of them, was immersed in scientific and technological knowledge, there were fewer tricks on the court.

Emperor Chongzhen was very concerned about the atmosphere in Jiangnan and immediately asked: "What are the proportions of the old atmosphere of gatherings and the atmosphere of discussing scientific and technological knowledge?"

For him, will a country become stronger or decline? One big key point is to look at the younger generation of scholars. Of course, the books read by this scholar include the Four Books and Five Classics and scientific and technological knowledge.

The wind of luxury cannot grow, and the wind of decay cannot exist! This requires the merit of education and guidance.

After all, the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty was already very corrupt. Even if Emperor Chongzhen has been working hard to promote scientific and technological knowledge in recent years, he will definitely be down-to-earth. However, this kind of thing is not something that Emperor Chongzhen said to change, and he can change it in one go. If possible, Emperor Chongzhen would naturally not miss any opportunity to change and guide the atmosphere.

The Jinyiwei Captain hesitated for a while when he heard Emperor Chongzhen's question, but he understood that he had to tell the truth about the emperor, so he reported: "It is only one-twentieth of the proportion that is mainly about discussing scientific and technological knowledge."

After he said this, he peeked at the emperor's face, and then quickly added: "The situation in each place is different. Other places are still a little higher than Yangzhou."

When Emperor Chongzhen first heard this, he thought that after all, it had not been many years to promote scientific and technological knowledge. With this result, he thought it was okay. However, when he heard the report from the Jinyiwei Captain, he said "um" strangely.

The Jinyiwei School Captain knew the emperor's "well" and asked what happened. After thinking about it for a moment, he replied respectfully: "I think this is related to the many places in Yangzhou."

"Oh?" Emperor Chongzhen was a little curious when he heard this. He put down his chopsticks and asked intently, "How do you say this?"

It is obvious that the Jinyiwei lieutenant had a summary, so he immediately replied: "Now the imperial examinations in the court have included scientific and technological knowledge. This matter is a top priority for scholars, so it is natural for them to care about scientific and technological knowledge. However, most of the famous prostitutes in the land of Fengyue only learn the previous ones, and scientific and technological knowledge has no big impact on them. And those scholars gather to recruit prostitutes, so naturally they will not talk about scientific and technological knowledge during the meal, and they are mostly the same as before."

Liu Xingzuo listened silently, until this time, his subordinates stopped talking, and he added: "Since ancient times, romantic people and famous prostitutes have been helping each other. Those romantic celebrities have mostly made famous by famous prostitutes, and those famous prostitutes have also relied on the pursuit of romantic celebrities. This is still the most elegant. The second-rate, mainly women, is actually even more in conflict with the down-to-earth learning process..."

Listening to Liu Xingzuo's addition, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly remembered a summary of a phenomenon, that is, when there are too many enjoyment phenomena, the wind of corruption and luxury prevails. Once the wind of corruption and luxury prevails, people's hearts are fluctuating. Who would do things steadily and enjoy them? In this way, how can the country be strong? Generally speaking, this situation occurs in the end of the dynasty!

Haha, I remember the fireworks land! Emperor Chongzhen thought in his heart, and decided to clean up the country's enjoyment place. The so-called romantic people, when I sit in the emperor's position, I have to let the word romantic change the meaning!

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately thought of the scene on the dock. Perhaps it was the prevalence of the corruption and luxury that made Yangzhou thin horses, and beautiful girls who were abducted from childhood or other means to become members of the fireworks land.

Not only that, Emperor Chongzhen soon thought of one of his purpose of coming out this time, to see the actual situation of women across the country, the relationship between the situation of liberating half of human labor, and the relationship between women's power and status.

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen thought a lot.

He was thinking, but the next door was even more lively, and the sounds of men and women laughing and becoming more and more presumptuous. It was still noon, and there was a tendency to proclaim lust in the daytime.

Is this the scholar nowadays?

The Education Department must severely punish such behaviors, and severely punish them once they are discovered!

"Brother Liu Gaosheng, come on, come on, everyone Chen and Brother Liu, haha!"

"Yes, you have to serve Brother Liu comfortably. He has now become a member of the newly established yamen, but it is related to you!"

“…”

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen frowned and couldn't help but ask: "Is there an official next door to participate?"

The local Jinyiwei lieutenant was also a little unable to answer, so he asked for instructions: "I dare not confirm."

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and asked him to verify it. Liu Xingzuo, who was beside him, said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Master, I'm afraid it's true. Officials practice it, and there is a custom of letting famous prostitutes accompany you. It is also common for officials to go to and from the fireworks."

He mastered the Jinyiwei. Although he was from the north, he also knew what the situation among the people in the north and south was roughly?

Emperor Chongzhen remembered this when Liu Xingzuo said this, for example, the famous Qinhuai Eight Beauties in later generations. Most of them married famous scholars at that time as concubines, and these famous scholars, such as Qian Qianyi, Gong Dingzi and others, were all court officials.

Judging from the original history, these officials probably enjoyed more and had no integrity. I won’t say that the famous water is too cold, just say that Gong Dingzi, as a military clerk in the Chongzhen Dynasty, should be a model of morality. As a result, the King of Chuang came to welcome the King of Chuang, the Qing Dynasty came to welcome the Qing Dynasty, and even became the Minister of Rites under the Qing Dynasty.

Gong's Yuanma, Tong, was far better than Gong Dingzi's moral integrity. She was named a gentleman by the Ming Dynasty twice. After the demise of the Ming Dynasty, Gong Dingzi surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Not only did she live alone in Hefei and did not follow Gong to Beijing, but she also refused to accept rewards from the Qing Dynasty (Gu Hengbo, one of the eight beautiful women, was named a first-rank lady), which was in sharp contrast with Gong's behavior.

In fact, according to the Ming Dynasty, officials were naturally not allowed to enter and leave the fireworks, but with the corruption of the atmosphere since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, this regulation has become useless. Emperor Chongzhen thought about this in his mind, and regardless of what the next door, he entered the chat group and privately chatted with the admiral of Dongchang Wang Chengen, saying: "The Dongchang counts the records of the fireworks in the country!"

Then, he immediately contacted Sun Chuanting, the Minister of Personnel, and said: "Private morality is very important, especially the lords involved in people's livelihood. If private morality is not cultivated, it will have a great impact on the atmosphere in the place, and Sun Qing should pay attention to it!"

As for what to pay attention to, it is important to the emperor, so it is of course not to mention.

Wang Chengen and Sun Chuanting responded to Emperor Chongzhen as soon as possible and immediately began to arrange the matter. They knew that it seemed that there would be another big shock in the Ming Dynasty officialdom.

The reason for this is that scientific and technological knowledge has shocked the officialdom a lot before. The appointment of middle- and low-rank officials by the Ministry of Personnel has focused on officials with scientific and technological knowledge. Among the senior officials, several officials in important positions are labeled as scientific and technological knowledge, which shows that.

Now that the crackdown between officials and the romantic places will begin again, this is also a big impression on officials, in terms of the current background.

In the next private room, the Jinyiwei School Captain rushed in directly, and immediately calmed down a little. After all, a person he didn't know suddenly came in, which naturally disturbed their elegant pleasure.

The Jinyiwei Captain just glanced at him, then frowned and did not speak. He retreated and went back to report to Emperor Chongzhen. He did not expect that there was actually more than one official in this group of people.

These scholars at the party were a little unhappy for being so upset. After all, they were looking for fun, and no one wanted a stranger to suddenly break in. Without saying a word, he didn't even apologize. After watching their monkey show, he retreated.

So, a few of them drank a little too much and were having fun, so they were not happy. They patted the table and chased them out, wanting to ask for an explanation. However, the Jinyiwei School Captain guarded the private room of Emperor Chongzhen, and they couldn't get in at all, and they immediately started a fuss outside.

Emperor Chongzhen had already heard the Jinyiwei lieutenant come back and report that more than one official next door was involved in this kind of thing. He was a little unhappy when he heard that there was a quarrel at the door and he didn't want to eat anymore. He ordered Liu Xingzuo to say, "Take those officials down and send them to the Yangzhou Censorate to punish him according to the law!"

It is not convenient for local government offices to manage this matter, but the Censorate's duty is to manage the officials, and it is just right for them to manage them, and it will be better than the factory guards who take action directly to ask civil servants to repair civil servants.
Chapter completed!