The first person to invent official prostitution was Guan Zhong, the prime minister of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period. Guan Zhong governs the Qi country, and there is a female Lu (read lv), and the female Lu is a public prostitute, which is not a kiln approved by the government, but a kiln run by the government. This is the earliest public enterprise in China.

Guan Zhong was probably the originator of the industry, and he implemented this measure more than 50 years before the national brothel opened by the political reformer Solon in Athens, ancient Greece. Solon's purpose in opening a state brothel was nothing more than to satisfy the demands of young men, or to protect women of good families from harassment. However, Guan Zhong's purpose in implementing this measure is greater, first of all, he is to increase the government's financial revenue through this measure, then it is conducive to social stability, third, it can attract a large number of talents, and another purpose is to send prostitutes to the enemy, so as to achieve the goal of settling disputes without blood. Guan Zhong's initiative was soon imitated by other countries, and official prostitutes flourished for a while.

Among the official prostitutes, there is a type of prostitute that specializes in serving the army, called a camp prostitute. The earliest inventor was Goujian, the king of Yue, and it was in the Han Dynasty that it became a formal system. In the Han Dynasty, there was no precedent for prostitutes, only the system of women restraining military camps. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because the suppression method was easy to disturb the order in the army, a prostitute system was deliberately set up to appease the soldiers who fought outside or fought on the border all year round.

The prostitutes of the Han Dynasty generally came from the families of sinners. The ancient unit of human rights was not the individual, but the family. When a person sins, it often involves a family. The usual formula is that all the men are slaughtered, and the wives and daughters are reduced to official prostitutes. The second is the slaves and maids in the royal family of the Han Dynasty, which is recorded to be as many as more than 100,000. Of course, there was not so much need in the court, so he acted as an official prostitute. There is also a source that originally belonged to a woman from a good family, who was sold to this kind of place for various reasons and fell into the dust.

There were two types of prostitutes in the Han Dynasty. One is the female music in the barracks, which is dancing with tunes. In the Han Dynasty, women's music was quite prosperous, but it was limited to special classes, and at that time, in addition to the monarch 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 of the soldiers.

In ancient times, military camps were generally placed in military markets. The main purpose of setting up a military market is that there are prostitutes in the army, and they must be properly arranged to maintain order in the barracks. 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 border fortress, and the Luoyang North and South Army Camp belongs to this kind of military camp.

Because of the frequent wars in Liangzhou, the Assassin Mansion generally has standing county soldiers. The large battalion of the county soldiers is in Zixiu Mountain, outside Longxian County, where the county seat of Liangzhou Thorn Shifu is located, five miles away from the city. Because of the continuous war in Xiliang, there has been no army stationed in this large camp for a long time. Last month, the Xiliang rebels were defeated on all fronts, and the official army returned to Liangzhou again. After the Thorn Shi Geng contempt returned to the Thorn Shi Mansion with Ma Teng's 2,000 cavalry, the large battalion regained a little vitality.

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Tonight, the full moon is high, the stars are brilliant, and the 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, several good-looking women gathered around Cheng Qiu, pouring wine and beating him on the back. More than a dozen cavalry officers sat down, drinking and teasing the women around them.

Cheng Qiu is in his forties, not tall, thin, with a long emaciated face, a relatively wide forehead, and a pair of flickering eyes that are dull, looking very cautious and cautious.

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

"Thank you, sir, for your hospitality. It's rare for the brothers to open meat once, and there is wine, meat, and women, and they are so grateful to the adults. Ma Wei hurriedly bowed down and thanked him. Ma Wei is the general of the Ma Teng family, a strong man in his thirties.

"I can't talk about breaking the bank. This time, you rushed to Pingxiang City with me, three or four hundred miles back and forth, it was very hard, and you should be rewarded. Cheng Qiu said with a smile.

"Your Excellency took us to the barracks this time, why didn't you bring that ant thief leader with you? Didn't you judge it? Ma Wei sat down on his seat and said with a smile, "There are many ways to get the death row prisoner to speak, brothers can try slowly, forgive that ant thief for not daring not to speak." ”

Cheng Qiu smiled faintly and didn't make a sound.

He was ordered to lead a team to search Li Hong's camp this time, and originally thought that he could find stolen goods nine times out of ten, but he didn't expect to find nothing. Without stolen goods, there is no way to cure Li Hong's crimes. If Li Hong's sin cannot be cured, he will not be able to complete the tasks handed over by the above. So in desperation, he had to use the most brutal means to provoke Li Hong and see if the young Li Hong would make a big mistake because of a momentary impulse.

Where did Li Hong put that huge amount of money? They also searched the wounded barracks that Li Hong placed in Huaili, and the big camp also searched, how could there be no things? That hundreds of millions of dollars of property are loaded in cars, and more than a dozen big cars are needed, how could they disappear out of thin air? He had been working hard for several days, but he had found nothing, and he was very puzzled.

"Your Excellency is still worried that Li Zhonglang's Fengyun Iron Cavalry will kill you?" Ma Wei laughed, "He doesn't have that guts, adults don't need to be careful." Now that the battle on the front line is tense, he can't deal with the side chapter, where is the time to come back to deal with this kind of thing. I think he only thinks he's unlucky. ”

Cheng Qiu glanced at him and smiled. He was afraid that Li Hong would not come, so he deliberately arrested Sima Zuoyan, a marching soldier in Li Hong's army. Since the money is not in the camp, Cheng Qiu estimates that Li Hong has already dealt with it privately. This kind of thing is generally only known to Li Hong's henchmen. This Sima, who surrendered from the Yellow Turban Army, doesn't look like Li Hong's henchman no matter how he looks at it, and he is estimated to have beaten him to death, and he can't ask what he is famous for.

"I'm just afraid that he will kill me, so I took you to hide here. If something happens, we can still run to the camp of Lord Taiwei in time. ”

"My lord, we have a warrant from Lord Taiwei, what are you afraid of him?" Ma Wei said strangely, "It was our guards who beat and killed people, can he still kill all of our guards?" ”

"There are a lot of them now, so it's better to be careful." Cheng Qiu said with a smile, "Didn't Lord Geng say it, only we are not here, that is, Li Hong personally rushed to Longxian, what else can he do except take that Sima?" We're not in Longxian, he just wants to take revenge, and he can't find a target. A northern barbarian, what a brain. ”

"I heard that Li Zhonglang was beaten by Xianbei when he was a slave in Xianbei, and he was an idiot." An officer interjected.

Laughter erupted in the tent.

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Late at night, a front-line messenger rushed to the city of Longxian to call the door.

The gate slowly opened a small crack, and the soldiers guarding the gate stuck out their heads and asked in a loud voice, "Have we won the war?" ”

The knight who delivered the letter wrapped his head and face in a black cloth, and shouted loudly: "Hurry, hurry, defeated." ”

The soldiers guarding the gate were startled and hurried to help. Half of the door was then opened.

The messenger patted his horse and entered.

"Why......" the messenger suddenly shouted to the soldiers guarding the door, "there seems to be a lot of cavalry outside. ”

When a few soldiers guarding the gate heard this, they hurriedly ran to the door and looked out of the city. The messenger smiled coldly, suddenly jumped off his horse, drew two swords from behind his back with both hands, and slew them with his head covered his face. Several people didn't snort and fell to the ground and died. At the same time, from the street near the city gate, more than a dozen big men rushed out and rushed up to the city tower.

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

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

Junhou Cui Hao was on duty today, sleeping on the desk, he heard the noise outside in a daze, and wanted to get up and go out to have a look, but at this time, the door opened. A big man rushed in like the wind, and there was a kick in his face, Cui Hao screamed miserably, fell heavily to the ground, and then a bloody war knife fell against his face.

Chen Ming walked out of the darkness.

Zhao Yun saw him and asked in a low voice, "Zi Chan, have you figured out the place?" ”

"It's all clear." Chen Ming said, "Arc Ding and I will take this kid to the cell, as long as the door of the cell is opened, the rest will be done." You and Abandoning Shen take people to the storehouse, take all the war horses with you, and take all the money and silk silk inside. ”

"What about Ma Teng's cavalry?"

"There were only six hundred men in the city, and the remaining thousand or so were in the camp. If we move faster, the cavalry in the city may not notice. Chen Ming glanced at him worriedly and asked, "You won't go to the City Guard Mansion to kill Ma Teng's cavalry, will you?" ”

Zhao Yun shook his head and asked, "What about Cheng Qiu?" ”

"In the afternoon, he took two hundred cavalry to the camp of Zixiu Mountain, five miles away from here." Chen Ming said hatefully, "The barracks are so big, and Ma Teng's cavalry is here, it is difficult to catch him." Let's rescue Mr. Zuo first, and then go to Zixiu Mountain to try our luck. ”

Zhao Yun agreed in disappointment, and said to Arc Ding and Qi Shen: "Let's go, let's fight quickly, 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 four hundred Black Panther attendants.

Several of Chen Ming's subordinates hurriedly greeted him.

"How?" Chen Ming asked eagerly, "Have you infiltrated the camp?" ”

"Back to a few adults, Cheng Qiu and the two hundred cavalry are drinking and having fun in the camp prostitute tent in the military market, and now is a good opportunity to start."

Zhao Yun and Chen Ming were overjoyed when they heard this.

"Luck." Chen Mingxi smiled.

Zhao Yun whispered: "Let's go, let's go to the military market." When you see Ma Teng, you can't kill them. ”

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Arc Ding and Abandonment Shen quietly surrounded the two side tents with their soldiers like ghosts. With an order, hundreds of war knives were waved at the same time, and everyone cut open the cowhide tent and rushed into the tent. Suddenly the terrible screams, the screams of fear, the roars of rage, and the dull sound of the blade cutting through the flesh filled the whole tent, sounding particularly terrifying and bloody in the dark night.

These two hundred soldiers belonged to Ma Teng's personal guards, and their combat effectiveness was very strong, but they had drunk wine in the middle of the night with the woman, and they were already confused, and their hands and feet were weak, and they had no power to fight back in the face of this group of hateful black panther followers.

In the big tent, I saw the swords flying, the blood splattered, the heads rolling down, and in the blink of an eye, there was no enemy to kill, and even the innocent camp prostitutes fell down and were finished. From the beginning to the end, there was no enemy standing up to fight.

Arc Ding killed four people in a row in one go, and the last one was snatched from his men.

"Those who dare to beat us are tired of life, and they kill ......" Arc Ding raised his knife and chopped off the enemy's head with a single sword.

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

Cheng Qiu was stunned, his eyes were round, his mouth was wide open, and before he could scream, he saw several laughing heads flying into the air with a tent of purple-red blood. Several of the women beside him screamed and flew up as if they had seen ghosts, but were then knocked to the ground by the oncoming roaring crossbow arrows.

With a "......bang", a bloody woman's head fell onto the table full of wine and meat, and a pair of frightened eyes on the red and bright little face stared straight at Cheng Qiu, as if begging him to save his life, and then a warm canopy of blood fell from the sky and sprinkled his head and face.

Cheng Qiu finally screamed, but only half of it screamed, and the other half was swallowed back. He saw Zhao Yun and saw that calm and handsome face. This face is too beautiful, so he has never forgotten that he saw it from afar when he was in the Huaili camp, and it was the personal attendant who followed Li Hong. The leopard finally came to the door.

Zhao Yun strode inside the military tent, his white face looking murderous under the dim candlelight. He was carrying a bloody war knife and staring at Cheng Qiu with his eyes.

Ma Wei rolled and crawled, embarrassed, and finally escaped the pursuit of the three war knives, he drank heavily, drew his knife and flew up, no matter what the object was, he slashed with the knife. Zhao Yun smiled coldly, he didn't look at him from the corner of his eyes, but the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and the left hand hidden behind his back suddenly flew out, and the spear in his hand roared sharply, like lightning, and a "poof......" pierced Ma Wei's throat with a "poof".

Ma Wei did not believe that there was such a fast gun in the world until he died, he opened his eyes in anger and held his sword high, but he was no longer conscious.

Zhao Yun raised the gun in his left hand and strode forward. Ma Wei was picked on the spear, holding a knife and slashing posture and retreated straight. One life and one death, one advance and one retreat, looks weird and gloomy.

Zhao Yun's eyes never left Cheng Qiu. Cheng Qiu felt fear for the first time. A person who kills people without eyes, a person whose murderous aura in his eyes is like a war knife, a person who is terrifying, and now, this person is flying forward. Cheng Qiu's mind was blank, dazed, and he even forgot to subconsciously dodge.

There weren't enough people in the main tent to kill, and the soldiers who rushed in were disappointed.

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

Zhao Yun took a step further and aimed at Cheng Qiu is a kick. Cheng Qiu screamed, and the heads of the people rose into the air together, and a Xianbei soldier who rushed up took the back of the knife and smashed it down. Cheng Qiu let out a terrible scream, his body hit horizontally, and flew out of the big tent diagonally.

"Tie it up." Chen Ming shouted loudly.

Zhao Yun put the gun behind his back, glanced around, and said in a low voice: "Let's go......"

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Li Hong did not stop, and the overseers rushed forward.

In the afternoon of the same day, the troops rushed to Maverick Mountain. Because he needed to tell Zhou Shen about the situation on the front line and his own consideration of the later battle situation, and ask Zhou Shen's opinion, Li Hong ordered the troops to stop marching and rest for the time being.

Zhou Shen saw Li Hong and said in surprise: "Zimin, do you have the ability to predict the future?" ”

Li Hong and a few of his subordinates were saluting him, and he didn't know why Zhou Shen said this, and he was a little confused for a while.

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

Zhou Shen did not answer Li Hong's greeting, but motioned to his marching Sima to take out a volume of documents and hand it 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 at Rongqiu, Hanyang County. Lieutenant Huangfu and General Dong immediately led some troops to break through. Now, Captain Huangfu's troops had retreated to Yicheng, while 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 wrote a letter asking us to rescue. ”

"I just received the letter, and I was about to send someone to send it, but I didn't expect you to come with 10,000 cavalry, it's really timely." Zhou Shen reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said, "What's the matter, the people still have the ability to predict the future?" ”

Li Hong took the bamboo slip, didn't even look at it, and handed it to Xu Rong.

"General, I don't have the ability. I am going to take my troops to Longxian City, rescue my subordinates, and get back the money of the army. It was pure coincidence that I arrived here with troops. I can't fight this battle anymore. Li Hong said angrily, "Don't hide it from the general, the corruption of Xiliang officials has reached the point of shocking and lawlessness. If this battle continues, we will not only not be able to defeat the enemy, but will also die at the hands of the enemy. ”

Zhou Shen's expression changed greatly, and the wrinkles on his forehead suddenly twisted.

"People, what's wrong?"

Xu Rong, who was standing next to him, saw Li Hong's angry appearance, and was afraid that he would talk too much and be even more angry, and once he didn't listen to his words and annoyed the old general, things would be in trouble, so he immediately replied: "General, things are like this......"

So he recounted in detail the matter of Cheng Qiu leading people to search the camp.

Zhou Shen looked at Li Hong strangely and said, "You are so good at fighting, how to deal with this kind of thing is like a child." Is this kind of trivial thing to be so angry? And with thousands of troops, are you ......? ”

Zhou Shen pointed to his head, meaning whether he had a problem with his brain.

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

"Cheng Qiu, a clown who jumps off the beam, you can fix him however you want, or even kill him, as long as you don't get caught. But after you kill him, the people behind him will still find someone to do this kind of thing, and they will still deal with you and frame you. You're going to deal with the people behind Cheng Qiu, not Cheng Qiu, you know? ”

Li Hong nodded. Zhou Shen spoke simply and clearly, in one sentence.

"People, it's a trivial matter for you to lose your head alone, but it's a big thing for everyone who follows you to lose your head. You must consider the tens of thousands of subordinates who follow you. Zhou Shen said, "You have been leading troops to fight, you have never been in the officialdom, and it is normal to have this kind of blood, but you must not do it next time." ”

"Look at it, Xu Duwei, Koji Duwei, Huada, I just handed it over to you, and you took them to death, you ......"

Li Hong's face was red and his ears were red, and he was very embarrassed.

Zhou Shen knew that he had repented, so he nodded appreciatively and said, "You are still young, your future in the future is immeasurable, there is no need to fall for the villain." Treat gentlemen, use the way of gentlemen, treat villains, use villains, understand? ”

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

Zhou Shen looked at him lovingly, and said in his heart, the matter of taking 10,000 iron horsemen to kill a villain is probably something that only this person who doesn't even want to do military merits can do.

"Let's take the troops to Yicheng."

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