扬州城坐落在江苏北部与安徽北部的交界处、长江与淮河的汇合点。这里地当南北要冲,战祸连年。自宋以来,一直灾荒不断。灾民陷入绝境后,为了寻找一线生机,唯有卖掉自己的亲生骨肉。被卖掉的女孩则为婢,稍有姿色者为妾、为娼,这就为“扬州出美人”提供了大量的“货源”。刚从灾民们手里买来的女孩蓬头垢面,不通歌舞,不能成为“扬州 Yangzhou City is located in the junction of northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui, the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River. Here and then as North and South, the war years. Since the Song Dynasty, has been a constant famine. After the victims fell into despair, in order to find a chance, only to sell their own flesh and blood. The girl who was sold was 婢, a little erotic concubine, a prostitute, which provided a great deal of ”supply“ for ”Yangzhou Beauty“. The girls bought from the hands of the victims are unkempt and can not become ”Yangzhou