Why didn't a brothel woman stay after Emperor Guangxu's two campaigns against pornography?

From the end of Xianfeng to the beginning of Guangxu, it only took eight hutongs a decade or two to accumulate experience, strength, popularity and influence, and gradually emerged. This is its outbreak period, and it is developing as fast as the nouveau riche.

Therefore, the eight hutongs feel that they have confidence and capital, are not satisfied with their present situation and situation, want to develop and expand their territory, and even want to recapture the red light district that East and West City once occupied by old Beijing and then lost, just like regaining lost ground. It doesn't expect itself to "hate thousands of feet overnight", but it doesn't want itself to just "show its role in Xiao He".

It began its "counterattack".

This "counterattack" was carried out twice, which is unique in the history of the eight hutongs.

In the early years of Guangxu, brothels spread to Zhuanta Hutong, Qianchuan Hutong, Sandailan Hutong, Zi Yuan Hutong and Daiyu Hutong in Xicheng. This is an old red light district that has existed since the Yuan Dynasty, but it has completely declined due to the gradual migration of brothels to Dongcheng and the emperor shunzhi's resolute expulsion of Han people from the inner city. Unexpectedly, one day, the potential power of the eight hutongs will make it see the light of day and kill it. It is said that for a time, the famous businessman Qi longed for him.

On one occasion, in the 25th year of Guangxu, Xicheng killed another brothel. This time, they occupied the alley at the bottom of the southern pocket from the brick tower alley in the traditional area. It is said that there were two famous prostitutes at that time, Yufeng and Dayu Feng, who were wrapped up by the powerful people at that time, Sheng Kezhai and Zheng. At that time, it was named after them, which made the reputation of the bottom grow bigger and bigger. This time, the momentum is bigger than the last time, brothels are relatively concentrated, prostitutes and singers are on the rise, and the voices are endless. That scene, because of the tempering and tempering of the eight hutongs, is fearless, and there is no absolute beauty who can paint poems and sing a whole page of garden dreams in previous years.

Of course, this was intolerable by the Qing government at that time. If only you were allowed to make trouble in the eight hutongs in the outer city. However, the more you stick your nose in your face, the more ridiculous it is. You are so self-righteous, you "fought back" and ran to the alley of the brick tower without saying anything, even taking out your pockets. This is the famous "bottom event" in history. Brick pagoda hutong became an ironic symbol at that time.

In this way, the two "counterattacks" of the eight hutongs ended in short-lived victory and final failure.

Zhang pointed out for the first time that he was expelled from the inner city by the Qing government and returned to the eight hutongs.

The second time, it is forbidden to expel the inner city and return to the eight hutongs.

Eight hutongs are completely stable and down-to-earth. It knows it can't replace other places, but there is no other place to replace it.

It was in this second round that the radish came out of the mud and Sai Jinhua was hit by mistake, which made her closely linked with the eight hutongs. Let her be the protagonist of the eight hutongs in the backcourt. Sai Jinhua, who just came to Beijing from Tianjin, began to live in Li Tieli, next to the eight hutongs, and listed for visitors. However, because of the noise there, she moved to Gaobei Hutong behind Xingbu Street in the inner city, near the hutong at the bottom of her pocket. It was the twenty-fifth year of Guangxu. Who would have thought that it was catching up with the "bottom event"? Not only brothels are not allowed in this area of Zhuanta Hutong, but all inner cities are across the board, and residents are not allowed to set classes. There is no way. Sai Jinhua had to go back to Tianjin first, even though business was booming at that time, he had the right to live. In the future, like most prostitutes who moved back to the Eight Hutong from the inner city, they also settled in Shaanxi Lane of the Eight Hutong and became famous in Zhangyan. That's a new version of the theory of "three customers are excellent" in the period of Gengzi. Excerpt from Baling of Eight Hutong.