When Li Dai got closer, she realized that the so-called public notice was just a eunuch-like figure pasting up yellow silk brocade, who then didn't forget to read the contents aloud. The whole scene carried quite a strong air of an imperial edict being proclaimed.
Li Dai also heard the eunuch's proclamation clearly. It was basically a recruitment call for talented men from all over the world, inviting those interested to sign up.
It was just that the requirements for recruiting these talents were rather strange: they had to be young men between fifteen and twenty-five years of age, unmarried, of pure body, and who had never engaged in that kind of relations with women.
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