Originally, only a few guests were angry, and most people were just watching.
Hundreds of years ago, the people of Jing would have been charged with treason and their entire clan would have been exterminated if they had worshipped Lord Qing. However, in the relatively open New Calendar Ten Kingdoms period, as long as they honestly admitted that they had worshipped the wrong person, the matter would have been over.
The time of Xiangzhou people is not wasted, and not many people would spend their time on such things.
To put it bluntly, there are too many people in Xiangzhou who are betraying their country openly or secretly. People with a little bit of common sense are too lazy to care. Since the emperor is not in a hurry, the eunuchs don't need to care too much. After all, those who betray their country have connections everywhere, and you never know which current cabinet minister or former prime minister is behind it.
So when the incident happened, everyone in Yingfang Pavilion ate melons, watched the fun, and discussed it, just treating it as an interesting matter.
It was not until Hua Qingniang pointed at everyone present and said that she was not wrong and that anyone who dared to discuss the matter again would be reported to the police and arrested, that a few people exploded like firecrackers and began to accuse and attack Hua Qingniang one after another.
The bystanders who were watching the show were also confused. After all, Yingfang Pavilion was an asset of Qingjiang Trading Company and was very famous in Baling City. Moreover, this brothel was at least clean on the surface and was not an ordinary brothel. The singers and dancers were not ordinary prostitutes and they all claimed that they were selling their art and not their bodies.
However, the guests who come here all know that the reason why the singers and dancers in this brothel sell their art but not their bodies is just to increase their value. They only sell their bodies to scholars, high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen. At least, only those who have passed the imperial examination, are officials of the seventh rank or are from famous families can make them sell their bodies.
Even though people knew they were selling their art and bodies, many people still paid to watch them because these women were so good at singing and dancing.
Who knew that this would happen.
There was chaos in Yingfang Pavilion. Those who had come to watch the fun started to join in when they saw that things were getting more serious and began to blame Hua Qingniang.
That night, the people of Baling who heard the news surrounded Yingfang Pavilion and demanded Hua Qingniang to apologize.
At the beginning, Yingfang Pavilion relied on the power behind it and ignored the besiegers. Soon, a scholar from Jing State posted this matter on the discussion list, which attracted the attention of some people.
However, the people of Qing and Jing paid more attention to it, while people from other countries just took a few glances and left. After all, the matter had little to do with them.
Below this article, the people of Qing and Jing began to debate.
At the beginning, it was the people of Qing who were sarcastic.
"The people of Xiangzhou are very humorous. Even the madams and prostitutes want to be beaten and killed. No wonder the good people of Xiangzhou became the Xiangzhou thieves that everyone cursed after they surrendered to Jingguo."
"I guess only Xiangzhou thieves would bully a weak woman."
"It's just a song and a dance. If a singer praises another country's heroes, shouldn't he commit suicide?"
"The hearts of your people are made of glass."
"Please separate opera from politics."
Afterwards, the Jing people began to fight back.
"Everyone in Qing Country probably has millions of silver in their home. Hua Qingniang is famous all the way to Xiangzhou, and has countless 'noble men'. Now she manages all the brothels of Qingjiang Commercial Bank in Xiangzhou. If this is a weak woman, then men below the level of Jinshi in the human race probably don't deserve to be called men."
"If someone paid respect to Lord Jing in a brothel or restaurant in your Qing capital, probably no one would care, after all, you Qing people are very generous. However, I heard that during the military competition two years ago, when Lord Qing arrived and raised the Qinglong flag, a Jinshi general did not bow his head and did not salute, and was criticized by everyone in Qing. In the end, the Jinshi general was forced to move out of Qing and live in Kongcheng. It seems that the glass hearts of you Qing people are more fragile, a bunch of Qing idiots."
"You Qing people are so shameless that you say you want to separate folk art from politics, but decades ago you ordered all brothels and other places to perform a song and dance that vilifies us Jing people every ten days. You Qing people are really divided, a whole circle."
In addition to the debate, some Jing people just discussed the matter itself and did not argue with the Qing people.
"My dear brothers, may I ask who this Hua Qingniang is? Why did she not care when she was found worshipping the portrait of Lord Qing, and instead blamed the guest? Also, is she really that stupid? Worshiping the monarch of another country in Jing State? Is she really a spy planted by Qing State in Xiangzhou?"
Many people answered, but none of them could explain the reason.
Afterwards, a scholar from Kongcheng told the truth of the matter.
"I see many people accuse Hua Qingniang of being a spy of Qing. As a person from Kongcheng who often travels between Qing and Xiangzhou, I can say that she is not a spy of Qing. Why did she ask the singing and dancing girls to pay homage to Lord Qing? You may say she is stupid, but she is not. The song and dance she choreographed is to praise Lord Qing. Her purpose is very simple, that is, to gain the appreciation of Huaiyu, a master of singing and dancing in Qing. Many people should know who Huaiyu is. She has an ambiguous relationship with Lord Qing. Paying homage to Lord Qing will naturally please her."
"Once she is appreciated by the great lady Huaiyu, Hua Qingniang will leave the ranks of ordinary brothels. As long as her noble is willing, she can be promoted to a celebrity. She is no longer short of money, and her influence is even greater than that of a county magistrate. She just wants to get a better status, so when someone opposes her, she doesn't care at all and thinks she is not wrong."
"She is not stupid, but she is actually very stupid. When she is criticized by customers, she just apologizes and says she will donate money to charity. Then the customers will not care. After the matter is settled, she will take the singers and dancers to Qing Kingdom. Who can do anything to her? No one will care. Humans are very forgetful. But she thinks this matter is nothing. She thinks she has a noble person behind her, so she is unscrupulous and arouses public anger."
"However, this matter will definitely end in nothing. She is just a brothel owner. Who can say anything from the Xiangzhou and Jingguo government? They think too highly of a brothel owner. If Fang Xusheng stands up and says he wants to punish her, it will end up with Fang Xusheng getting into trouble, which will only make Hua Qingniang's reputation even worse. However, if the Jingguo government completely ignores it, it means that Jingguo is rotten from top to bottom. In short, this matter will probably end in nothing. After all, those who are truly powerful in Jingguo don't want to offend Qingjiang Commercial Bank, let alone the nobles behind Hua Qingniang."
More and more people from Jing and Qing participated in the discussion. Soon, everyone discovered that Ge Yiming, the nephew of Ge Baiwan of Qingjiang Trading Company, also appeared and replied with a sentence.
"Qing Jun is a benevolent king. You should bow to him when you see him."
The people of Qing began to praise Ge Yiming, while some people of Jing cursed him, and some people of Jing left the discussion board and stopped talking about the matter.
In a small courtyard behind the governor's office, Fang Yun was reading through the documents sent from the governor's office.
Next to his desk, there were a large number of book boxes filled with documents. From time to time, people would carry book boxes in and take some away.
Fang Yun has been looking through the documents from the governor's office all day today. These documents are not important to the Holy Academy and have not been entered into the Holy Academy, so Fang Yun cannot check them directly with the official seal and can only read them here.
The sun was about to rise and Fang Yun was about to go to bed. Before going to bed, he habitually held the official seal and glanced at the discussion list, and found the event of Yingfang Pavilion paying homage to Qing Jun.
.(To be continued.)