So the local area is a good place to live and work in peace and contentment, and it also produces beautiful women. Many girls are born with beauty and elegant temperament.
Secondly, Nanjing and Yangzhou have enjoyed convenient land and water transportation and prosperous trade since ancient times, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Yangzhou, in particular, is the settlement of Huaihe River salt merchants, which is extremely rich and luxurious.
Rich businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River are affectionate and lustful, spending women in various ways-buying handmaiden, concubines, holding actresses and visiting brothels.
For example, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the romantic places along the Qinhuai River were famous for their songs and dances.
This provides a huge demand and living soil for "raising thin horses", making Yangzhou's "raising thin horses" the most popular in the country.
Of course, there are many rules and social hidden rules in the deformed industry of "raising thin horses".
For example, there are strict standards for choosing "thin horses". There are only seven selection criteria for "three-inch golden lotus": "thin, small, sharp, curved, fragrant, soft and upright".
Generally speaking, it has a good foundation and good qualifications. Generally, they are seven or eight-year-old girls, with good face, skin and skeleton figure, no physical problems and intelligence.
People who specially select "thin horses" are called "tooth women" and "tooth men", but they are actually traffickers. After finding the "thin horse", they will send it to a special training institution-Jiao Fang.
In the teaching workshop, there are specialized personnel to manage and professional people to teach.
The training courses are rich and rigorous, including physical training, beauty and health care, beauty and makeup, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, singing and dancing, needlework, and even cooking, bookkeeping, housekeeping skills, and social skills such as observing words and feelings, pleasing and controlling men.
In this training process, according to the IQ, EQ performance and characteristics of the "thin horses", they will be classified, filed and classified into Le Shu.
The "thin horse" will be trained by the devil in the concentration camp here and reborn.
When you grow up, you need to find someone to send to society to make money.
A first-class "thin horse" will become a concubine of the rich. Because the "thin horse" at this time is not an ordinary prostitute, it will not cause too much damage to the reputation of men. However, according to custom, female musicians usually get married at night.
Second-rate, will become the handmaiden of the rich. After all, this kind of girl looks pleasing to the eye and has been trained in housekeeping skills.
Third-rate prostitutes are sold to brothels.
"Yangzhou Thin Horse" is famous all over the world, so that government agencies and officials have become collection agencies or customers.
Jiangnan officials get the moon by being close to the water, so it is convenient to eat "Yangzhou thin horse" and give it to others as a gift.
In Qing dynasty, there was a weaving bureau in Jiangnan, which was subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and specialized in purchasing Jiangnan silk and tea for the royal family. They also often consume "Yangzhou thin horse", but it is hidden.
For example, in December of the thirty-second year of Kangxi, Suzhou Weaving Xu Li played a secret song: "Now we have found some girls to teach a group of plays to make the emperor laugh ..."
Therefore, in the special social environment, the industry of "raising thin horses" can exist openly and the industrial chain is becoming more and more mature. Although the investment is large and the cycle is long, the profit is also rich. So that some wealthy businessmen and officials also invest in it to make profits.
Obviously, this is an abnormally developed dross industry.
The victims are all "thin horses".
They were born beautiful, but they came from poor families. Their lives are dominated by others, and they become tools for others to make money. They live a life of selling their talents and serving others with colors.
If you can be chosen as a concubine by rich people, you are lucky. But this is a very small number after all, and it is often difficult to be accommodated by the main office and family. Many of them were forced to leave home halfway.
Most of the "thin horses" are miserable and can only be reduced to handmaids and prostitutes. In ancient times, it was normal for girls to be reduced to brothels and fireworks alleys because of poverty.
Li, Dong Xiaowan, Bian Yujing, Liu and Chen Yuanyuan are all "thin horses". Their beauty is amazing, their temperament is superior, and their talents are outstanding, which is called peerless elegance.
However, they only have a short life moment of marrying into a rich and famous family. In troubled times, life is bumpy and tortuous, which makes people sad.