In fact, it is not uncommon for Emperor China to have an affair with prostitutes. From the concubines Wei Zifu and Zhao in the Han Dynasty to their first wives, Zhao in the Tang Dynasty, Zhao and Li Shishi in the Song Dynasty, every dusty story will be interpreted by future generations with many romantic stories.
But these are not as good as the Ming emperors, because in that era when the personality was extremely open and the emperor was extremely dissolute and lewd, stories about the Ming emperors and prostitutes were even more common and became a typical social phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was the first person to have sex with a brothel. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang had a lingering relationship with a beautiful prostitute in a brothel before he became rich. Later, the woman secretly tied a bead for this purpose and returned her son to Zhu Yuanzhang after he became emperor. But such rumors are more from the imagination of the people, purely for their own entertainment, and should not be true.
The only thing that can be taken seriously is that in the early years of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanwa once set up the sixteenth floor on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, opening the wind of official prostitutes, and personally wrote couplets for the hospital and made a report on prostitution mobilization. The emperor's advice on whoring is very fresh. The object of the emperor's proposal for whoring is rich people such as "businessmen", which is euphemistically called national tax increase. However, when the emperor harvested a large amount of "unplanned income", it inevitably swept the imperial decrees and the dignity of officials.
The emperor's vigorous advocacy naturally made Qinhuai romantic and prosperous, but in addition, the unique and cruel sinner system of Ming emperors Ming Taizu and Judy was also an important reason for the prosperity of brothels in Ming Dynasty. In addition to serving his sentence, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty, sent all his wives, maids and maids. Walk into the teaching hall.
After the war in Jingnan, Ming Taizu Judy not only brutally slaughtered Minister Wen Jian, but also brutally abused his wife, daughter and relatives. For example, Qitai and Huang Zicheng, their nephews and daughters-in-law were sent to Jiao Fang as prostitutes, and twenty strong men abused them day and night. Xu Shangshu's wife was gang-raped to death by Jiao Fang's children in Liyang.
According to statistics, more than 654.38 million ministers and workers were killed in Hongwu and Yongle dynasties in the early Ming Dynasty. Most of the wives and daughters of these sinners were put into Jiao Fang, where they were recorded as musicians and became the main force of government-run brothels at that time. Because these women come from official families, they often have high academic knowledge and are good at poetry, music, song and dance calligraphy. In this sense, it was their participation that greatly improved the quality and grade of brothels in the early Ming Dynasty.
Judging from the historical records left at present, we can't judge whether Zhu Yuanzhang had physical contact with prostitutes, but one thing can be concluded: it was precisely because of the policy support of the two emperors in the early Ming Dynasty, coupled with the economic development and the gradual opening up of sexual concepts in the Ming Dynasty that the brothel industry represented by Ning and Jing entered a period of vigorous development.
There is a mixed saying in Zhao Zhe, Xie Ming: "Now prostitutes are all over the world, and there are hundreds of people in the metropolis; It is also common in other remote cities. They make a living by selling jokes and prostitution at home all day. At this point, the livelihood is poor! Shijing Jiao Fang officially collected its tax, which is called "powder money". People living in the county are all happy families. Those who live at home and engage in prostitution are usually called priva.
The fornication of the Ming Dynasty is inevitably reflected in the fornication and lewdness of the emperor. From Ming Xianzong to Ming Shenzong in about 108, there were emperors such as Xiaozong, Wuzong, Sejong and Mu Zong, but they became more and more attractive, and even Ximen Qing was ashamed. The women in the palace still can't satisfy their sexual interests, and they also extend their claws to the teacher's workshop that caters for the hostess's banquet. According to "Zhu Xuan Miscellaneous Notes Year", "Three years after Chenghua, there are only more than 800 musicians in Jiao Fang Division, which is not enough to apply for World Heritage. It is the administrative department of Wenshishan and Shaanxi, and musicians have chosen to serve. "
Basically, it is certain that some musicians in Jiao Fang Branch have become playthings specially serving the emperor. It is said that due to the connivance of Ming Wuzong, it is difficult for musicians in Jiao Fang to agree. So he hinted to Wu Zongjian that there were many musicians in foreign houses. Their outstanding looks and superb skills tickled Wu Zongxin's heart. They immediately ordered the Ministry of Rites to select highly skilled musicians from Hejian houses to enter the palace. Musicians such as beauty, music, singing and dancing, acrobatics and juggling all live in the leopard room for Wu Zongxiang to enjoy.
In addition to the beautiful women provided by Jiao Fang, Ming Chengzu even had ridiculous incidents of soliciting prostitutes into the palace and going out for sightseeing. The typical ones are Ming Jing and Wu Zong of Ming Dynasty, and their deeds are even recorded in the history books. Wang Shizhen's "Fengzhou Miscellaneous Magazine" said: "When Emperor Jing called a prostitute into the palace, when Lord Wu called Liu Niangniang as a Jinyang prostitute." This record reveals the "scandal" of the two emperors to the world very clearly.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were detailed records about Jingdi's prostitute Li Xier entering the palace. In July of the seventh year of Jingtai, Yiyou said, "Actor Ang Lee was appointed as a hundred security guards. My sister, Ansel, is lucky to be a waitress in the teacher's workshop, so it's fate. "In the first year of Tianshun, Ding Hai said," Chen Yi, the official of the bell and drum division, died a glorious death. At the beginning of Jingtai, Rong was flattered and Yi Chengzhi chose a prostitute. He entered the palace one after another. As for Jiao Fang's teacher, he told the story.
Yue:' You are a wicked little man. You want to get rich by pleasing yourself! The bosses immediately released the prostitutes to their relatives. Rong and Yi will be copied by the Royal Guards. "Have the power to suppress the enemy. Shen Defu's Records of Ming Yingzong and Records of Jingtai also said: "Pingyang has no clothes to change. But there are-for example, Jingdi and Wudian, and the first emperor Fu Shi and the later emperor called their brother Ang Lee the imperial robe. After the restoration of Emperor Rui, only the garrison was stationed, and Chen Yi, the bell and drum officer, and Si Jiao were promoted to the left.
According to the above three records, we can generally draw the conclusion that Chen Yi, an official in the bell and drum room, and Zuo, the master of the workshop, are both proud of their wealth. They called Li Xier, a prostitute from outside the palace, to serve Jing Di, who liked this woman who was good in bed and gave her to Ang Lee, Li Xier's younger brother.
It is expected that Yi Herong will be killed in the name of chaos shortly after the restoration of British Zong. It's just that Yi Herong's death is a little wronged, because judging from the misdeeds of Ming Chengzu, it's really no big deal to recruit prostitutes into the palace, and Ming Wuzong often secretly does such things.
As for the romantic story of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, it can almost be said that it is "difficult to write a book", and its debauchery and lewdness are second to none among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, so that even Ming Yingzong's memoirs, which have always been good at concealing, can't help but criticize him for being "indulgent and brotherly". His deputies once gave him the lure of "debauchery and wealth", saying that he had four diseases, which could not be cured by a medicine stone. The leopard house he built and the brilliant footprint of going out left him with many notoriety in history.
The leopard room is actually a special palace near the palace.
There are usually two versions of Wu's story: one is Shangwaima, the editor of Wan Li Wild, and it is said that she is the wife of musician Yang Teng. Wu zong's trip to Shanxi asked the local officials for Taiyuan female music. Wu Zongfa is now in Liu Meiren, offering sacrifices to women in music. He is greatly spoiled and brought into the leopard room. Another version comes from the Ming Dynasty, saying that Liu Meiren was a geisha in Datong Palace. Wu Zong once pretended to be a junior officer and went to the palace to teach. He met Liu and finally took her to Beijing.
Judging from these two versions, the former is official and has higher credibility, while the latter is an official novel with much stronger fictional elements. However, it is an indisputable fact that Liu Meiren was favored by Wu Zongchao. According to historical records, Wu Zong once took Liu Meiren on a southern tour. Wherever he goes, whenever he meets a famous temple, he must burn incense, kowtow and make a wish.
Whenever the temple owner offers a temple, he is required to write: "The governor's military affairs are mighty, and the general company commander, a surname, and the Duke and Duchess Liu". Unabashedly called his wife, Mr. Wu, who has always been promiscuous, also has a single-minded side.
Due to the limitation of historical data, we can't comprehensively sort out the beautiful traces of the royal brothels in the Ming Dynasty. However, in the process of sorting out the data, the author found a very special phenomenon between Ming history and brothels: brothels started in the Ming Dynasty and ended in brothels. Why do you say that?
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang once operated a brothel in order to increase the revenue of the national treasury, which caused the brothel industry to start a prairie fire. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen abandoned Chen Yuanyuan, a famous prostitute in the south of the Yangtze River, and became a woman in Wu Sangui, and finally staged a shocking scene of "Angry Crown". What is right and wrong here, the cycle of history, and for whom?