The brothel industry was first founded by Guan Zhong and officially operated.
During the reign of Duke Qi Huan, Guan Zhong placed 700 female Lu and levied her night money to fill the country.
These women in the guest house of Qi provided paid services for their own nobles and envoys of other countries, and the prostitution money was used to increase the national income.
Therefore, Guan Zhong is the world's No. 1 bustard, the protector of prostitutes.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, prostitutes were basically official prostitutes, working for the state, not for private enjoyment, and barely considered public servants.
They are often referred to as "female musicians".
For example, in order to paralyze the chieftains of Xirong, Qin Mugong sent 16 female musicians, causing King Rong's kidneys to collapse and his cattle and horses to die halfway.
In order to curry favor with the Jin State, Zheng Guoren sent musicians and female musicians to the Jin Mourning Prince, and the Marquis of Jin rewarded 8 of them to the minister Wei Jiang to reward him for his conquest of Xirong.
It can be seen that even if other countries do not run official brothels, they will cultivate official prostitutes for gifts and rewards.
When official prostitutes were given to ministers, they lost their state establishment, and some of them went to the people, where they were adopted by wealthy merchants and turned into domestic prostitutes.
During the Warring States period, commerce was developed, and the magnates spared no expense to buy so-called singers and dancers from the government for themselves and their guests, or borrowed women's colors for profit.
Lü Buwei cohabited with the best dancers of Handan Zhuji, which is a typical example. In fact, businessmen should have been supporting domestic prostitutes for a long time, and the first one to go down in history was Lü Buwei, who we think was the pioneer of domestic prostitutes.
The most famous and mixed best domestic prostitute is, of course, Qin Yiren's wife, the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji.
She is lascivious by nature and loves the axle artifact of Chang Yu, which brought a psychological shadow to the young First Emperor, and also created a historical mystery that we talk about, so let's talk about it in detail later.