Jiaosifang is a very interesting and twisted existence.
There are generally three sources of girls in the Jiaofangsi. One is imperial captives. Of course, this kind of women are rare in the Jiaofangsi of Da Qi nowadays.
The second type is those who sell themselves into slavery because they can't make ends meet and are quite pretty, so they sell themselves and give the money to their families so that they can survive.
Compared with private brothels outside, the official prices are higher.
As for the third type, they are the wives and daughters of criminal officials.
For officials who committed serious crimes, the male members of their families would either be beheaded or exiled, while the female members of their families would be sent to the Jiaofangsi.
Lu Chen was not sure whether the emperor who issued the decree to establish the Jiaofangsi had a pair of horns on his head, but he felt that the emperor must have had a very twisted mentality.
What puzzled Lu Chen even more was that this was an era when Confucianism was flourishing and everyone valued propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame, but the Jiaofangsi still existed.
Just imagine that an official who had good interpersonal relationships in the past suddenly committed a crime one day, all the male members of his family died, and the female members of his family were sent to the Jiaofangsi. Then, the official’s colleagues, who were previously called uncles by these female members, suddenly became guests and pulled the women into a small room to talk all night. What a tragedy this is!
As the manager of the Jiaofangsi, facing such bad things every day, Jiang Tao felt that his psychology was even more distorted.
But he never expected that the seemingly righteous Master Lu in front of him was actually more twisted than him.
Even in the teaching office, girls who are too young will receive special care.
In the past, all these children had to do was learn music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and do some odd jobs within their ability. As for things like accompanying guests, the teaching office would never let them do it.
It would be a very scary thing if a subordinate department of the imperial court did not even have this bottom line.
So when Jiang Tao saw Lu Chen walking towards the little girl, he was shocked, but at the same time he started thinking about how to save the little girl.
Lu Chen is not easy to fool. Jiang Tao is not completely sure. If he stops him, he might offend Master Lu. Wouldn't that mean the end of his career?
But a real man has things he does and things he doesn't do. He is flattering, he is cunning, he likes to take shortcuts, but he thinks he is a good man!
Jiang Tao took a deep breath, quickly chased after him, and stretched out his hand to stop Lu Chen, saying, "Master Lu, this child..."
"Shut up and get out of here!" Lu Chen's face turned cold, and he no longer had the easy-going look he had before.
Seeing this, Jiang Tao's heart skipped a beat and he thought to himself, it seems like today is my last day as an official.
But just as Jiang Tao was about to desperately stop Lu Chen's roar, Lu Chen stared at the little girl with a burning gaze and said, "Are these things on the ground yours?"
Huh? Jiang Tao, who was about to step forward again, was stunned. Could it be that things were different from what he imagined?
His eyes unconsciously followed Lu Chen's finger and looked at the ground, and then he saw some white seeds on the ground.
This was found on the little girl by the guards when they searched her just now.
Did he misunderstand Master Lu? Could it be that Master Lu rushed over here just for this thing?
Looking at Lu Chen's anxious face, Jiang Tao didn't know what to say for a moment.
Showing a lollipop to a little girl and snatching her lollipop are two completely different crimes.
You are a great national master, you shouldn't snatch a little girl's snacks, right? I would rather you were so crazy as to want to possess the little girl.
Lu Chen didn't bother to pay attention to what Jiang Tao was thinking. He still stared at the little girl in front of him and said, "Answer my question. Is this thing yours?"
The little girl was so frightened by Lu Chen's shout that her body began to tremble and she couldn't speak at all.
Fortunately, a woman nearby ran out at this moment, hugged the little girl in her arms, and lowered her head to respond to Lu Chen: "Sir, these things are ours. I gave them to my young lady."
Lu Chen looked at the woman in front of him and shouted in his heart, "I'm late!"
The woman in front of me was actually a foreigner... ahem, a Hu Ji! The kind with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Of course, whether the other person looks good or not is not the point. Lu Chen feels that he has long been free from vulgar tastes.
He looked at the other person with burning eyes and asked, "Do you still have this thing?"
"Yes, there are more..." The woman hugged the little girl, her expression became even more terrified. Maybe she didn't understand why the official in front of her cared so much about a little snack.
"Go get them, get them all, right now!"
How could Hu Ji dare to disobey Lu Chen? Led by two Jinyiwei, she hurriedly left and then hurried back.
After Lu Chen took a small bag from her and confirmed that the things inside were not cooked, he breathed a sigh of relief.
In the pocket are dozens of pumpkin seeds!
Lu Chen never dreamed that he would be able to get pumpkin seeds before he even sent anyone to North and South America.
It doesn’t matter how Hu Ji got these seeds. What matters is that they are now in Lu Chen’s hands, and Lu Chen happens to have a large fiefdom!
Pumpkin seeds are good things. If men eat more pumpkin seeds, it will be very good for the prostate.
Of course, this is not the point. The point is that pumpkins can be grown with pumpkin seeds, and the pumpkin's amazing yield per mu and its characteristics of being both grain and vegetable allow it to feed many people.
Lu Chen had read some relevant information before, and found that the yield of ordinary pumpkins could reach about 3,000 kilograms per mu.
If the crops are planted using hanging poles, the yield per mu can even reach tens of thousands of kilograms.
What does it mean to weigh tens of thousands of pounds? In this era, it is definitely a cheat.
There has always been debate in the academic community about whether pumpkin is an alien species or a native species.
Lu Chen didn't care who was right or wrong, as long as this thing could be grown.
Thinking of this, he carefully handed the cloth bag in his hand to Mou Ping and said, "Keep it well. It is more important than the lives of all the civil and military officials in the court!"
Mou Ping looked at Lu Chen in confusion, then looked at his pocket. For a moment, he suddenly felt overwhelmed.
Lu Chen turned around and pointed at Hu Ji and the little girl and said to Jiang Tao, "Be kind to them. I'll go talk to the princess. Maybe she'll be interested in taking them over."
Upon hearing this, Hu Ji and the little girl were overjoyed, and they both knelt down and kowtowed to Lu Chen.
Lu Chen waved his hand, turned around and walked to the pair of jewelry. After searching for a long time, he finally found two nice pieces of jewelry.
He took a deep breath and decided to go to the princess's mansion after all.
"Alas, good and bad fortune are hard to predict!"
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