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Lin Chong originally did not want to use modern military force to directly destroy the vitality of Fangshan Stronghold. Although Lin Chong's staunch brother Liu Tang was persecuted and became a cripple, and the two birthday gifts were most likely carefully planned by the evil forces of Huaixi Wang Qing, and Chao Gai, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, whom Lin Chong always respected, was also very likely assassinated by Huaixi Wang Qing for no reason.

But Wu Song, who had been undercover in Fangshan Village for more than ten days, received bad news after some investigation.

It turns out that during the more than ten days that Wu Song was undercover in Fangshan Stronghold, he unexpectedly learned that the main source of income for Huaixi Wang Qing was actually the trafficking of women and children in various places. Due to the prosperity of brothels in the Song Dynasty, the industrial chain of trafficking in women and children, as a gray industry that cannot be seen in the light, is also very prosperous among underground evil forces. In order to obtain huge profits, Wang Qing created such a vicious and cruel profit chain, which really exceeded Lin Chong's bottom line as a human being.

In fact, the laws of the Song Dynasty had strict sanctions and crackdowns on the crime of child trafficking. The Song Dynasty Criminal Code also clearly stipulated: "Those who kidnap and sell children as slaves shall be strangled; those who sell them as soldiers shall be exiled 3,000 miles; those who sell them as wives, concubines, or children shall be sentenced to three years in prison; those who kill or injure children shall be punished as robbers; those who seduce children shall be punished one level less."

In other words, those who kidnapped and sold people as slaves were sentenced to death by hanging, those who kidnapped and sold people as servants and child laborers were sentenced to exile 3,000 miles away, and those who sold children to ordinary families as their children or grandchildren were sentenced to three years in prison. Exile 3,000 miles away usually meant serving in the army in Hainan or the northwest to guard the frontier.

After Lin Chong had a brief understanding, he clearly knew that the Song Dynasty divided the trafficking of women and children into two types: "luomai" and "heyou". Luomai means taking them by force and then selling them. Luomai is actually trafficking in human beings, a criminal act with the nature of coercion, violence, and abduction. There are various criminal methods such as individuals and gangs, and it has always been the target of crackdown in the Song Dynasty.

Abduction refers to the use of various methods of temptation to separate men and women under the age of 20 or married people from their guardians or families, and the trafficking of children under the age of ten. "Abduction" of children under the age of ten will be treated the same as "kidnapping", which means that the punishment for child trafficking will be more severe.

However, if you walk in any prosperous area of ​​the Song Dynasty, you can see prostitutes and "ladies" everywhere. This also makes many legal regulations of the Song Dynasty ineffective, because the huge underground interest chain cannot be eradicated. Just as Marx said in Capital, if capital has a 50% profit, it will take risks; if it has a 100% profit, it will dare to trample on all human laws; if it has a 300% profit, it will dare to commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged.

Regarding the title "Miss", according to "Yu Yu Cong Kao" by Zhao Yi, a Qing Dynasty historian and writer, "In the Song Dynasty, girls in the boudoir were called little ladies, and Miss was a title for a lowly person." It has always been a taboo for ladies from wealthy families.

In the Song Dynasty, however, the common people were not prohibited from visiting prostitutes, nor were they punished or dealt with as illegal or criminal acts. The legislation of "banning visiting prostitutes" was actually only aimed at government officials. This also led to the Song Dynasty's prohibition of visiting prostitutes being just a formality, and more often used as a weapon to attack political opponents. The scholars and officials who shouted "banning prostitution" at the time actually got into the "prostitution door" after leaving the government office. The so-called "banning prostitution" was just thunder with little rain.