After my soul traveled to ancient times, I don't want to be cannon fodder

"At the same time, someone recorded this scene faithfully, stored it in a container, and shared it with everyone. That's the short video..."

Hearing this explanation, Qi Yu's face suddenly darkened.

"I will not go to the brothel..."

"It's okay for you to go... You're just curious, I understand!"

"Curious?" Qi Yu asked in a deep voice, "So Your Highness means that Your Highness is also curious? Do you want to go too?"

Zhong Ning smiled awkwardly and quickly waved her hands: "How could that be possible? I just heard about it, that's all..."

"Really? I wonder if Your Highness still remembers where Zhou Ge was brought from?"

"Uh...haha..." Zhong Ning laughed, but when he saw Qi Yu's suddenly serious face, he felt as if he was facing the dean of studies.

Zhong Ning's face drooped, and she admitted her mistake directly: "I was wrong..."

"What's wrong?"

"I shouldn't have gone to Nanfeng Pavilion..."

"Heh....Your Highness, having a minister isn't enough, are you looking for pleasure outside?"

"It's unfair. I was just curious at the time. Plus, Zhaoyang had never seen much of the world, so I wanted to take her to have a look..."

"and then?"

"Then, then Nanfeng Pavilion was too expensive, and I couldn't bear to leave it, so I came back... and saved Zhou Ge by the way..."

Qi Yu:.........

Qi Yu pressed his eyebrows, knowing that the prince was too young and was just beginning to be curious about new things.

"Your Highness, please don't go to such places again..." Qi Yu said seriously. Zhong Ning restrained his smile and explained seriously: "I won't go. I was just curious at the time because I had never seen it before..."

Qi Yu raised his eyebrows and asked, "In your time, wasn't there such an elegant place?"

"Well, there are some, but they are all done in secret. The country is trying hard to suppress this kind of custom industry..."

Qi Yu was even more puzzled, "Why?"

In his opinion, these Qinlou and Chuguan are actually a form of stress relief and relaxation. They not only provide a place for some scholars to show off their elegance, but also serve as a gathering place for collecting intelligence.

After all, he is a man and knows the bad nature of men.

I like colors, but I don't like being lonely.

Therefore, in the eyes of the imperial court, although officials were expressly prohibited from visiting prostitutes, these industries were not prohibited for the general public.

But I didn’t expect that there would be a time when the government would suppress these industries!

"Because..." Zhong Ning's expression suddenly became serious, "People are not commodities..."

Qi Yu's body stiffened slightly, but he heard Zhong Ning continue:

"In this world, there are only two kinds of people: men and women. To destroy a country, you only need two steps: one is to break the backbone of the men, and the other is to destroy the dignity of the women."

"Our country has risen from the flames of war. It was the countless revolutionary martyrs who fought and died on the battlefields to protect our new nation today."

"They are the ones who have rebuilt the backbone of men and put clothes back on women..."

"And our great leader, he personally issued an order to ban prostitution. This is not only a protection of the personal freedom of our citizens, but also a constraint on social morality."

"You know how profitable the sex industry is. It can bring huge benefits to individuals and even the country."

"But at the same time, the high profits and risks of the sex industry are bound to make the evil forces behind it extend their claws to countless families..."

"Human trafficking will usher in new waves of climaxes, countless families will be broken up, and countless marriages will be severed."

"This is a crime!"

"This is a crime that takes the lives of ordinary people. This is a crime that builds on the suffering of the weak."

"Neither a brothel nor the Nanfeng Pavilion should be a place where crimes are hidden."

“It’s like a fragrant garden…”

Hearing this, Qi Yu fell silent.

To be honest, he had never thought that this would be the reason.

There actually is an emperor who cares about the human rights and freedom of ordinary people.

He was still feeling complacent about the fact that his country had such a developed brothel industry. He even had several brothels under his name opened in different cities, which were specially built as places for him to collect intelligence.

In his eyes, those prostitutes were not real people, but commodities for him to make profits, or tools for him to obtain information.

But now, at this moment, he actually felt inexplicably guilty.

That guilty feeling almost reached its peak when Zhong Ning said with a clear look in his eyes that people are not commodities.

Zhong Ning ignored his expression and continued, "When I first came here, when I first became a princess, I actually thought about whether I should find a way to destroy the entertainment industry here."

"But later I realized that I was overthinking it. Every era has its own laws of development. What was required in our time can't be fully applied here."

"Just like, in our place, kneeling is the highest form of etiquette, performed only towards elders and ancestors, but here, it is a very common form of greeting."

"It took me a long time to adapt to this situation before I could control the urge to help him up!"

"If that's the case, then how should you perform etiquette when meeting the emperor or someone in a higher position?" Qi Yu couldn't help but ask.

Everything Zhong Ning said overturned his three views.

When they met the emperor, couldn't they perform the ritual of three bows and nine kowtows?

Zhong Ning shook his head and said, "First of all, we don't have an emperor..."

"How is this possible?" Qi Yu suddenly stood up, his eyes wide open. His usual calmness and self-confidence were completely shattered at this moment. "Without an emperor, how can we govern the country?"

"There is no emperor, but there is a national leader, similar to your emperor, except that there is no family inheritance model like here."

"Our country is governed by a single party, and its leaders are elected every five years... naturally, elections are also held within the party... I don't know much about this, so that's all I have to say."

"The nature of our country is socialist. It is a social model based on liberating and developing productivity, eliminating polarization, and so on."

"If we compare your era to the Song Dynasty a thousand years before ours, it was a dynasty with weak national power but flourishing social and economic development."

"But the era we live in is truly people-oriented. When we meet national leaders, we don't need to kowtow or bow. A handshake to show respect is enough."

"Oh, yes, shaking hands was the social etiquette for interacting with others in our time..."

Zhong Ning stood up, extended his hand gracefully, and said, "Hello, my name is Zhong Ning..."

Qi Yu instinctively reached out his hand, shook it gently, and then brought the person into his arms.

Zhong Ning punched his back hard and said angrily, "Just a handshake will do, no need for a hug..."