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Chapter 1445 Rouge Workshop

Governing London was a bit tiring at first, but once everything was ordered and someone else did it, it wasn't that busy.

After all, the war came quickly and shortly, and it ended just right almost as soon as people felt fear and before people got used to the existence of war.

Today's England is full of demons.

Westminster Abbey, the base camp of the Anglican Church, was occupied by the Ming army. It was first used as a kitchen and then a hospital, and now it has become a Chinese language school. The state religion declined, and Catholicism followed Alan and Spanish soldiers across the ocean. , to start a liquidation against the Puritans.

The bandits and bandits all over the place are no longer suppressed by the nobles. Today they take the fields from the government, and tomorrow they sell the fields and fall into the weeds again. No one can do anything about them.

Even if Tang Xianzu is a well-known jurengong and has a year of experience in governing in Muye County, he is still a clever woman who can't live without rice and can only do as the Romans do.

Confucius taught students according to their aptitude, and Tang Xianzu did what he liked, and he had no time to worry about big things. As long as those Luocao bandits hadn’t become rebels, and the people in the countryside had the Dongyang Banner Army guarding their farms, he didn’t have the energy to go to them for a while. Tube.

It is Tang Xianzu's top priority to manage the troublemakers that Liu Zhi said in the city of London, and not let them delay the construction of government offices in the city.

They love to drink, regardless of whether it is Baishan wine, Spanish sherry, Dongyang Makino brewed or Havana rum, the government will send a fleet to buy them with stacks of Dongyang Asia Tongbao.

They love brothels, and the Zhifu Yamen invited Wei Jinzhong from General Ying Ming of Puzhou to register all the brothels in Lower London, flatten a slum with no one, and build eight streets and fourteen alleys, named Rouge Square.

It is planned to integrate 670 large brothels licensed by the old Tudor royal family, 460 official prostitutes, and 48 casual prostitutes into [-] brothels, and issue official tickets to allow them to operate.

This matter was not easy for Wei Jinzhong, who was illiterate, because there were too many legal documents issued by the Bishop of Winchester to restrain prostitutes within his jurisdiction.

Fourth Master Wei doesn't even know many Chinese characters, so you still expect him to understand these characters?It all depends on Liu Zhi, Fei San, and Bai Lier angrily giving him multiple guesses, mutual translation, and telepathic communication.

The reason for the exasperation is that everyone thinks these legal provisions are very rude.

Of course, there are some reasonable provisions, such as the madam can not buy and sell prostitutes against their will; can not lend more than a certain amount to prostitutes so as not to repay the debt; religious women, married and pregnant women are not allowed to participate in this industry and so on.

But more, in Wei Si's eyes, it is too much, such as not being able to have a boyfriend or even get married, not being able to wear an apron so as not to be confused with a good woman, and having to spend the night with the last guest of the night and so on.

Once violated, you will be fined or imprisoned, and you will be punished severely.

Who is the fine handed over to?Handed over to the Archbishop of Winchester, so that the prostitutes in Lower London were called Winchester's geese.

In order to clarify these legal provisions, Wei Jinzhong led people to occupy the monastery in the slums of Lower London. This is the only magnificent and tall building in the slums. It is incompatible with the surrounding environment and has a courtyard that can be called vast.

The front yard is a well-tended garden and a tree-lined cemetery. In the middle is a gorgeous main church and a splendid dome. It is the bedroom decorated luxuriously by the monks.

Those bedrooms are absolutely luxurious. First of all, in England in this era, having a bedroom is a luxury, because the word bedroom: Bedroom has not yet appeared.

The term was coined by Shakespeare several years later, first appearing in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which premiered on May 1594, 5.

In Wei Jinzhong’s residences in London, he didn’t see many people who could afford glass windows. The windows were either square holes for ventilation or nailed to death by wooden boards, but this monastery was all made of colorful glass.

Of course, this point is actually Wei Jinzhong's illusion. Although the glass windows are expensive, they are not so expensive that the noble merchants in London can't afford them. It's just that when fleeing, the rich families choose to remove the glass windows and put them on the carriage. gone.

So what was left for him was a four-way ventilation hole, which was very popular not only in England, but also in France, Spain and Italy.

The most exaggerated thing is that this monastery has two warehouses on the ground, and two large cellars underground, one stores grain, and the other is directly a brewery.

Wei Jinzhong sent a special number of people, 420 barrels of beer that have been fermented, and 370 barrels of beer that are being fermented.

Absolutely.

What is life like in this populous South London slum?It's stealing, robbing, gambling, whoring, drunkenness, muddle-headedness, and side-by-side fishing.

Those casinos, brothels, and taverns all demand high taxes. As the price for what is not allowed in the city, who is going to pay the taxes?

Give it to the church.

These entertainment venues all drink alcohol. Where does the alcohol come from?

Buy it from the church.

All right.

In Wei Jinzhong's little mind with limited knowledge, the last person who could form such a perfect business closed loop was Chen Mu.

Now this business genius is lying naked like a white pig on the grass outside the church. To avoid being indecent, Wei Jinzhong even asked someone to bring him a blanket to cover him.

Because half an hour ago, when Wei Jinzhong surrounded the monastery with a small banner of Dongyang cavalry and two hundred herdsmen, intending to take almost all the legal documents, the monks all ran away.

As long as he left without legal documents, Wei Jinzhong didn't bother to stop him.

Only the bishop didn't know what he was doing upstairs and didn't run away.

When the Ming army knocked on the door, they heard the sound of broken windows. It is a pity that a generation of business geniuses forgot that he lived on the second floor under nervousness. The height of the monastery was particularly high, so he broke his leg.

As for who the girl with big breasts and wide buttocks covered in sheets ran out of his house, Wei Jinzhong didn't know and didn't ask. Anyway, from the window, the white linen sheets ran into the nun next door.

If it is said that the bishop's small private treasury turned Wei Jinzhong's depressed mood in an instant, then the large beer workshop hidden in the cellar made him even forget that he had just been beaten.

However, the chaos of the brothel industry in London quickly ruined his good mood.

He is Ying Ming's man, and now General Ying has asked him to work under the magistrate Tang's family. What he is doing is to rectify the chaos in the lower city and build a new south bank of the Thames River.

In Wei Jinzhong's eyes, the four pillar industries of taverns, theaters, brothels, and boxing must undergo drastic reforms.

Everything starts with a brothel, because Wei Jinzhong is familiar with this.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)