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After Yang Yi said this, he took out a mercury mirror from his arms and started looking at himself.

Zhao Yuanqing asked, "Yang Yi..."

"I know what you want to ask, but please call me hero, otherwise I won't answer."

"...Hero Yang, why did you say we were going to become official prostitutes?"

Yang Yi snorted, adjusted the azalea flowers on his temples, put the mirror back into his arms, and said calmly, "Because I have seen a lot of them. You are from other places, right? From Chang'an?"

"Correct."

"There are no men traveling with you, only four women?"

"Exactly."

Yang Yi glanced at them a few times and said, "They are young, good-looking, and they have no male protection. Aren't they good targets?

They would just find a random crime, put the woman in jail, starve her for a few days, and when she was exhausted, they would convict her and drag her to the official brothel, and then start their business.

I've seen a lot of this kind of thing since I came to Qinzhou. Let me ask you, have you been accused of murder?"

"Uh, they said we poisoned someone."

"That would be all right, wouldn't it be a young man?"

"Yes, but the man's body stinks. We didn't kill him at all."

Yang Yi waved his hand. "I know. That guy is an old actor who has harmed several groups of people. Before, it was an old man, but that old man was completely stinky and useless, so they replaced him with this young man. Here!"

Yang Yi pointed to an empty cage in the distance and said, "He was there before, but he was killed and used as a prop. When he became smelly, he was thrown away and replaced by someone else."

Zhao Yunqing and the others were a little surprised. They didn't expect the truth behind it to be like this.

But, “Why did they force decent women to become official prostitutes?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Yuanqing understood that this should be a method used by Sun Ping to gather his soldiers in Longyou Road.

As the governor of Longyou Road, Sun Ping had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and generals under his command. In order to make these people loyal to him, he had to give them money, food, horses, weapons, and even women to satisfy their selfish desires.

No wonder Sun Ping did not report the discovery of the refined copper mine to the court after he found it, because he wanted to refine weapons himself. He also did not report the discovery of the gold mine after he found it, because he wanted to keep it to win people's hearts.

He wanted to obtain the title of Longxi Herdsman in order to control the horses of Daqing Kingdom.

This guy really wants to rebel.

But now, in order to satisfy the selfish desires of his soldiers, Sun Ping is arresting women indiscriminately and forcing them into prostitution. This is so despicable!

Yang Yi said, "Ordinary courtesans are either relatives of officials who have committed crimes, decent women who have sold themselves, or slaves from enemy countries. But now it's a peaceful and prosperous time, everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, where do so many courtesans come from? Wouldn't those people find another way?

Just wait and see, in a few days you will be too hungry to have any strength left and will be dragged off to the official whore camp."

Zhao Yuanqing asked, "Is it the same in other places along Longyou Road?"

Yang Yi sneered, "You're about to put your own safety at risk, yet you still care about others? So what? This Longyou Road is all under the name of Sun. His godsons are following his example, but it's not the same everywhere."

"Why didn't anyone report this to the court?"

"Why would they say it? The victims weren't locals anyway, and local residents and soldiers benefited from it. Why would they say it?"

"Has no one come to look for the missing woman's relatives?"

"It's useless to look for it. The road to the Western Regions is thousands of miles long. Along the way, there are not only soldiers and officials, but also robbers, bandits, human traffickers, and man-eating beasts. How can we find it?

Besides, they don’t just use this method to capture women. Some are trafficked, some are robbed, and there’s no way to find them. Even if their families come, they can only give up hope.”

Zhao Yuanqing's face was solemn. The situation in Longyou Road was so serious. Did the emperor know?

Yang Yi asked curiously, "Who are you? When I told those women about this before, they were all terrified and screamed. Why are you so calm?"

Zhao Yuanqing didn't answer, but instead asked, "You're known as a knight-errant. The greatest knights are those who suppress the strong and support the weak, and uphold justice. Why didn't you save those women, and instead watched them become part of the official whore camp?"

Yang Yi was unhappy. "Yo yo yo, I told you the truth out of kindness, but you blame me instead? It's true that I'm a ranger, but you can't ask me to do things by the standards of a saint. You're blackmailing me! I'm not related to those women, why should I save them?"

Zhao Yuanqing sighed in her heart. What Yang Yi said was right. It was not his fault. But she was indeed in a bad mood. She ignored Yang Yi and turned around to sit on the ground.

Meng Jiu, Wen Qian and Xu Shi also followed Zhao Yuanqing and sat on the ground in unison. The four women were all silent, looking a little frail and pitiful.

Yang Yi felt a little uncomfortable. He was a kind-hearted person. He was in his early twenties, and he loved to talk and save face.

He scratched his head and said irritably, "Forget it, forget it. It's okay to tell you. Actually, I arrived in Qinzhou a month ago and found three women murdered. So I went to the official prostitute camp and rescued them. I didn't expect to be discovered, so I was imprisoned here."

Zhao Yuanqing replied, "How good are your martial arts? Aren't you a knight? Why were you captured by them?"

"Of course I'm a martial arts expert. I'm my master's most proud disciple, but no matter how powerful I am, I'm only one person. I rescued the three women and put them on the donkey cart. After the soldiers caught up with me, dozens of bows and arrows were pointed at me. I couldn't run away even if I wanted to."

"What did they sentence you to?"

"For disturbing public order, lock me up for six months."

"But I think that yamen runner Ma Hu is very afraid of you?"

"That's because I'm good at martial arts. I can shrink my bones, so I can get out of this wooden fence. He wanted to beat me up, but I went out in the middle of the night and stripped him naked. So he didn't dare to mess with me anymore."

Zhao Yuanqing asked curiously, "Then why don't you run away?"

"Why would I run away? I'm out here to explore the world, and it doesn't matter where I go. Besides, I have food and shelter here, so I don't have to spend money on hotels. If I want to go out, I can just go out and come back to sleep at night. They won't bother me."

Yang Yi said somewhat listlessly, "The most important thing is, if the whole world is like Qinzhou, what's the point of going to more places?"

"No! Believe me, not all places are like Qinzhou or Longyou Road. There are still many good places! For example, Chang'an, Chang'an is great!"

Yang Yi became interested, "Really?"

"real!"

"Well, then I'll go to Chang'an! Judging from your performance, the women in Chang'an must be very different!"

"Yang Yi, what do you want to do in Chang'an?"

"I want to marry the most beautiful woman, and I want to be the most powerful hero!"

"Beautiful women are expensive to keep. Do you have the money? Even a great hero would kneel before an official. Don't you want to be an official?"

"Uh......"

Yang Yi felt his pockets. If he had money, why would he live in a prison cell? If he had an official position, why would he be afraid of a small Qinzhou County Magistrate?

Zhao Yuanqing saw his embarrassment and stopped pressing him. He gently persuaded him, "If you help us kill Sun Ping's adopted son and rescue the women in the official prostitute camp, I will give you a huge reward and introduce you to the high officials in the capital. How about it?"