Great Han Empire

Chapter 204
Guan Zhong, the prime minister of Qi State in the Spring and Autumn Period, was the first to invent official prostitutes.When Guan Zhong ruled the state of Qi, there was a female lv (read lv), which was a public prostitute. It was not a kiln approved by the public, but a kiln run by the government.This is the earliest public enterprise in China.

Guan Zhong is probably the originator of this industry. He implemented this measure more than 50 years earlier than the state brothel opened by Solon, a political reformer in Athens in ancient Greece.The purpose of Solon's establishment of national brothels was nothing more than to satisfy the demands of young men, or to protect women from good families from harassment.But the purpose of Guan Zhong’s implementation of this measure is bigger. Firstly, he uses this measure to increase the government’s fiscal revenue, secondly, it is beneficial to social stability, thirdly, it can attract a large number of talents, and another purpose is to send prostitutes to fight against the enemy, so as to achieve the goal of fighting without bloodshed. resolve disputes.Guan Zhong's pioneering work was quickly followed by other countries, and the official prostitutes flourished for a while.

Among the official prostitutes, there is a special service for the army, called camp prostitutes.The earliest inventor was Goujian, king of Yue, and it officially became a system in the Han Dynasty.In the Han Dynasty, there was no precedent for camping prostitutes at the earliest, and there was only a system of women's restraint and distribution in military camps.During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because the restraint and matching method easily disturbed the order of the army, the prostitute system was specially set up to appease the soldiers who were fighting outside or guarding the border all year round.

The camp prostitutes in the Han Dynasty generally came from the family members of sinners.The ancient human rights unit was not an individual, but a family.When one person commits a crime, the whole family is often implicated.The usual formula is: the men are slaughtered, and the wives and daughters are reduced to official prostitutes.The second is the servants and maidservants in the royal palace of the Han Dynasty. According to records, there are as many as more than [-].Of course, so many were not used in the court, so they acted as official prostitutes.There is another source that originally belonged to women from good families, who were sold to this kind of place for various reasons and fell into prostitution.

There are two types of camp prostitutes in the Han Dynasty.One is the female music in the military camp, which is played and danced.Women's music flourished in the Han Dynasty, but those who enjoyed it were limited to special classes. At that time, apart from the monarchs and nobles, only the soldiers in the military camp could enjoy the happiness of women's music.The other is to solve the physiological problems for the soldiers.

In ancient military camps, there were usually military markets.The main purpose of setting up the military market is because there are camp prostitutes in the military, and they must be properly settled to maintain the order of the military camp.Of course, this military camp mainly refers to a military camp that is fixed in a certain place and does not move for a long time, such as the frontier fortress, and the Luoyang North and South Army Camp belongs to this type of military camp.

Because of the frequent wars in Liangzhou, the Governor's Mansion usually has a standing army of the county.The camp of the state soldiers in this county is located in Zixiu Mountain outside the city of Long County, where the governor's office of Liangzhou is located, five miles away from the city.Because of the continuous fighting in Xiliang, there have been no troops stationed in this camp for a long time.Last month, the Xiliang rebels retreated across the board, and the government army returned to Liangzhou again.After Governor Geng Bi brought Ma Teng's [-] cavalry back to the Governor's Mansion, the battalion regained a little bit of vitality.

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Tonight, with the full moon hanging high and the stars shining brightly, Zixiu Mountain Camp is quietly bathed in the soft moonlight.

In the military market on the east side of the camp, sporadic candlelight and laughter came from a huge cowhide tent from time to time.

In the military tent, a few fair-looking women surrounded Cheng Qiu, pouring wine for him and beating his back.A dozen or so cavalry officers sat at the bottom, drinking and joking with the women around them.

Cheng Qiu is in his 40s, not tall, with a thin body, a long thin face, a relatively wide forehead, a pair of dim eyes that flicker, and looks very cautious.

"Marquis Ma Jun, are you all enjoying yourself?" Cheng Qiu looked at Ma Wei who had just walked in, and asked with a smile.

"Thank you, sir, for your kind hospitality. It's rare for brothers to serve meat. There is wine, meat, and women. I am so grateful to you." Ma Wei hurriedly bowed to thank him.Ma Wei is the general of the Ma Teng family, a strong man in his 30s.

"It's not worth the expense. This time, you followed me to Pingxiang City. The journey of three or four hundred miles back and forth was very hard work. You should be rewarded." Cheng Qiu said with a smile.

"My lord brought us to the barracks this time, why didn't you bring the leader of the ant thief? Don't you want to interrogate me?" Ma Wei said with a smile as he sat on his seat, "There are many ways to make the condemned prisoner speak, brother We can try slowly, forgive that ant thief for not dare not speak."

Cheng Qiu smiled lightly and remained silent.

This time he was ordered to lead a team to search Li Hong's camp. He thought that he could find the stolen goods with all odds, but he didn't expect to find nothing.Without the stolen goods, there is no way to punish Li Hong for his crime.If Li Hong's crime cannot be punished, the task assigned by the superior cannot be completed.So in desperation, he had no choice but to use the most brutal means to irritate Li Hong, to see if the young Li Hong would make a big mistake due to impulsiveness.

Where did Li Hong put that huge sum of money?They also searched the wounded battalion where Li Hong was placed in Huaili, as well as the big battalion. How could there be nothing there?That sum of hundreds of millions of property was packed in a car, and it required more than a dozen large cars. How could it disappear out of thin air?He worked hard for several days, but got nothing. He was very puzzled.

"My lord, are you still worried that Li Zhonglang's Fengyun cavalry will kill you?" Ma Wei smiled, "He doesn't have the guts, so you don't need to be careful. Now that the frontline is tense, he can't even deal with Bian Zhang in time, so how can he have time to come back and deal with this kind of thing?" .I think he only thinks he is unlucky."

Cheng Qiu glanced at him and smiled.He was afraid that Li Hong would not come, so he deliberately arrested Li Hong's marching Sima Zuoyan.Since the money was not in the camp, Cheng Qiu estimated that Li Hong had already handled it privately.Usually only Li Hong's confidants know about this kind of thing.This Sima who surrendered from the Yellow Turban Army didn't look like Li Hong's confidant at all. He was probably beaten to death, and he couldn't ask for anything.

"I was afraid that he would kill me, so I took you to hide here. If something happens, we can go to the Taiwei's camp in time."

"My lord, we have a warrant from the Taiwei, what are we afraid of him?" Ma Wei said strangely, "It's our Qinweitun who beat people and murdered, can he still kill all of our Qinweitun? "

"There are too many of them now, so it's better to be careful." Cheng Qiu said with a smile, "Didn't Master Geng say that only we are not here, even if Li Hong rushed to Long County in person, what else can he do besides take that Sima away? We He's not in Long County, he just wants revenge, but he can't find someone. A barbarian from the north, what brains does he have?"

"I heard that Li Zhonglang was brainwashed by Xianbei people when he was a slave in Xianbei. He is an idiot." An officer interrupted.

There was a burst of laughter in the military tent.

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In the middle of the night, a frontline messenger rushed to the city of Long County to call the door.

The city gate slowly opened a small gap, and the soldier guarding the gate stretched out his head and asked loudly, "Did we win the battle?"

The knight delivering the letter had his head and face wrapped in black cloth, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up, hurry up, we're defeated."

The soldier guarding the gate was taken aback and hurried to help.The half door was pulled open immediately.

The messenger came in flatteringly.

"Hey..." the messenger suddenly shouted at the soldier guarding the door, "There seem to be many cavalry outside."

Several soldiers guarding the gate rushed to the gate and looked out of the city.The messenger smiled coldly, jumped off the horse suddenly, pulled out two sabers from behind with both hands, and killed them head and face.Several people didn't even hum, and fell to the ground dead.At the same time, more than a dozen big men rushed out from the street near the city gate, and rushed up to the city tower like flying.

The messenger immediately opened the door and whistled into the night.After a while, hundreds of cavalry galloped quickly along the base of the city walls on both sides of the city gate, and everyone swarmed in.More soldiers jumped off their horses and rushed to the tower.

There were not many soldiers defending the city, and they were caught off guard and killed.

Marquis Cui Hao was on duty today and was sleeping on the table. He heard the noise outside in a daze, and wanted to stand up and go out to have a look. At this moment, the door opened.A big man rushed in like the wind and kicked him in the face. Cui Hao screamed and fell heavily to the ground, and then a bloody saber was pressed against his face.

Chen Ming came out from the darkness.

Seeing him, Zhao Yun asked in a low voice, "Zicichan, have you figured out the place?"

"It's all clear." Chen Ming said, "Hu Ding and I will take this kid to the cell. As long as the door of the cell is opened, the rest will be easy. You and Qi Chen will take the guy to the warehouse. Take all the horses, and take all the money and silk inside."

"Where's Ma Teng's cavalry?"

"There are only 600 people in the city, and the remaining 1000 people are in the camp. Let's move faster, the cavalry in the city may not notice." Chen Ming gave him a worried look and asked, "You won't go Did the Chengwei Mansion kill Ma Teng's cavalry?"

Zhao Yun shook his head and asked, "Where's Cheng Qiu?"

"In the afternoon, he took [-] cavalrymen to Zixiu Mountain camp, five miles away from here." Chen Ming said bitterly, "The barracks is so big, and there are Ma Teng's cavalry, it is difficult to catch him. Let's first Save Mr. Zuo, and then go to Zixiu Mountain to try your luck."

Zhao Yun agreed in disappointment, and said to Hu Ding and Qi Shen: "Let's go, let's make a quick decision. We still have to go to Zixiu Mountain."

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In the early morning, Zhao Yun rushed to Zixiu Mountain with more than 400 black panther attendants.

Several of Chen Ming's subordinates hurried up to greet him.

"How is it?" Chen Ming asked eagerly, "Have you sneaked into the camp?"

"Going back to the adults, Cheng Qiu and those two hundred cavalrymen are drinking and having fun in the tent of the prostitutes in the military market. Now is a good time to make a move."

Zhao Yun and Chen Ming were overjoyed upon hearing this.

"It's very lucky." Chen Mingxi smiled.

Zhao Yun said in a low voice: "Let's go, let's go to the military market. Anyone who sees Ma Teng will be killed."

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Hu Ding and Qi Chen led the soldiers and quietly surrounded the two side tents like ghosts.Following an order, hundreds of swords were swung at the same time, and everyone cut open the cowhide tent and rushed into the tent like flying.Immediately, screams of misery, screams of fear, roars of anger, and the muffled sound of weapons cutting flesh filled the entire tent, which sounded particularly terrifying and bloody in the dark night.

The two hundred soldiers belonged to Ma Teng's personal guards, and their combat effectiveness was very strong, but they were already confused after drinking wine in the middle of the night with the woman in their arms, and their hands and feet were weak. They didn't have the strength to fight back at all.

In the big tent, swords were flying, blood was splashed everywhere, and heads rolled down. In a blink of an eye, there were no enemies to kill, even the innocent camp prostitutes fell down and were killed.From the beginning to the end, there was no enemy who stood up to fight.

Hu Ding killed four people in a row, and he snatched the last one from his subordinates.

"The people who dare to beat us, you are tired of work, kill..." Hu Ding raised the knife in his hand, and chopped off the enemy's head with one knife.

Zhao Yun was in the front, Chen Ming was behind, leading people into the main tent.

Cheng Qiu was stunned, his eyes were round and his mouth was wide open. Before he could scream out, he saw several laughing heads flying into the air with pools of purple blood.The women around him screamed and flew up as if they had seen a ghost, but were immediately knocked down by the crossbow arrows that roared towards them.

"Boom..." With a sound, a bloody woman's head fell onto the desk full of wine and meat, and a pair of terrified eyes on that bright red face stared straight at Cheng Qiu, as if begging him He saved his life, and immediately a cloud of warm blood fell from the sky, spraying his head and face.

Cheng Qiu finally screamed out, but only half the cry, and swallowed the other half.He saw Zhao Yun and saw that calm and handsome face.This face was so beautiful, so he never forgot that he had seen it from a distance when he was in Huaili Camp, it was the personal attendant following Li Hong.The leopard finally arrived.
Zhao Yun strode inside the military tent, his fair face looked murderous under the dim candlelight.He was holding a bloody saber, and his eyes were fixed on Cheng Qiu.

Ma Wei scrambled and scrambled, in a panic, and finally escaped the pursuit of the three sabers. He shouted loudly, drew the sabers and flew up, no matter what the target was, he swung the sabers and slashed.Zhao Yun smiled coldly, without looking at him from the corner of his eyes, but the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, the left hand hidden behind his back suddenly flew out, the spear in his hand howled fiercely, like lightning, "Poof..." pierced through the horse. Wei's throat.

Ma Wei didn't believe that there were such fast guns in the world until his death. He opened his eyes angrily and held his sword high, but he didn't feel any more.

Zhao Yun raised the gun in his left hand and strode forward.Ma Wei was picked up on the spear, and he retreated straight while maintaining the posture of raising the knife to kill.One life and one death, one advance and one retreat, it looks weird and gloomy.

Zhao Yun's eyes never left Cheng Qiu.Cheng Qiu felt fear for the first time.A person who kills without eyes, a person whose murderous intent is like a sword in his eyes, a person who makes people terrified, and now, this person is flying towards him.Cheng Qiu's mind went blank, he was at a loss, and even forgot to dodge subconsciously.

The people in the main tent were simply not enough to kill, and the soldiers who rushed in were disappointed.

Zhao Yun swung his long spear sideways, and with a little force, Ma Wei's body on the gun immediately flew into the air, over the crowd, and rushed out of the big tent.

Zhao Yun went one step further, aiming at Cheng Qiu with a kick.Cheng Qiu let out a scream, and together with the table, the food and drinks, and the human head rose into the air, a Xianbei soldier who rushed up pointed the back of a knife at his body and smashed it down.Cheng Qiu let out a miserable scream, his body was thrown sideways, and he flew out of the big tent obliquely.

"Tie it up." Chen Ming shouted loudly.

Zhao Yun put his gun behind his back, glanced around, and said in a low voice: "Go..."

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Li Hong didn't stop, and the warlord rushed forward.

In the afternoon, the troops arrived at Maverick Mountain.Because he needed to tell Zhou Shen the situation on the front line and his own considerations for the later stage of the battle, and seek Zhou Shen's opinion, Li Hong ordered the troops to stop marching and take a rest temporarily.

When Zhou Shen saw Li Hong, he said in surprise, "Minister, do you have the ability to foretell?"

Li Hong and several subordinates were saluting him, why Zhou Shen said that, he was a little puzzled for a moment.

"Is the general feeling better these two days?" Li Hong asked.

Zhou Shen did not answer Li Hong's greetings, but signaled his marching commander to take out a roll of documents and hand them to Li Hong.

"A few days ago, the troops of General Dong and Captain Huangfu were surrounded by the Qiang-Hu coalition forces that thundered in June in Rongqiu, Hanyang County. Captain Huangfu and General Dong immediately led some of them to break out. Now, Captain Huangfu's troops have retreated Arrived at Yicheng, but General Dong's troops were surrounded by the Weishui River north of Wangyuan City, and the situation was very critical." Zhou Shen said slowly, "Master Fu and Captain Huangfu jointly sent a letter, asking us to rescue them."

"I just received the letter, and I was about to send someone to send it there. I didn't expect you to come here with [-] cavalry. It's really timely." Zhou Shen forced a smile and said: "Why, the people still have prophets What's the matter?"

Li Hong took the bamboo slips without looking at them, and handed them to Xu Rong.

"General, I don't have the ability. I'm going to lead the troops to Long County, rescue my subordinates, and get back the money of the army. It's purely a coincidence that I brought the troops here. I can't fight this battle anymore. Li Hong said angrily, "To tell the truth, the general, the corruption of Xiliang officials has reached the point of shocking and lawlessness. If this battle continues, not only will we not be able to defeat the enemy, but we will die at the hands of the enemy."

Zhou Shen's expression changed drastically, and the wrinkles on his forehead suddenly tightened.

"Son, what happened?"

Seeing Li Hong's angry look, Xu Rong, who was standing beside him, was afraid that if he talked too much, he would become even more angry. If his words were inappropriate and annoyed the old general, the matter would be troublesome, so he immediately replied: "General, the matter Is such that……"

So he narrated in detail how Cheng Qiu led people to search the camp.

Zhou Shen looked at Li Hong strangely and said: "You are so powerful in war, how do you handle this kind of thing like a child. Is it necessary to be so angry about such a trivial matter? You are going with thousands of troops, are you no……?"

Zhou Shen pointed to his head, meaning to ask if there is something wrong with his brain.

Li Hong sat in front of him angrily and remained silent.

"A clown like Cheng Qiu, you can do whatever you want, even kill him, as long as you don't get caught. But after you kill him, the people behind him will find someone to do this. I still have to deal with you and frame you. What you have to deal with is the person behind Cheng Qiu, not Cheng Qiu, you know?"

Li Hong nodded.Zhou Shen spoke simply and clearly, to the point.

"My son, losing your head alone is a small matter, but it is a big deal if everyone who follows you loses their heads. You must consider the tens of thousands of subordinates who follow you when you do things." Zhou Shen said, "You have been leading troops to fight, I have never been in the officialdom, and it is normal to have this kind of enthusiasm, but I must not do it next time."

"Look, Captain Xu, Captain Qu, Master Hua, I just handed them over to you, and you led them to death, you..."

Li Hong blushed, feeling extremely embarrassed.

Knowing that he had repented, Zhou Shen nodded appreciatively and said, "You are still young, and your future is immeasurable. There is no need to be fooled by a villain. Treat a gentleman like a gentleman, and treat a villain like a villain. way, understand?"

Li Hong was so moved that he knelt down and kowtowed.

Zhou Shen looked at him lovingly, and thought, the matter of taking ten thousand cavalry to kill a villain, probably only this person who doesn't even need military exploits can do it.

"Let's take the troops to Yicheng."

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(End of this chapter)