In April of this year, it seems that everything in the family is getting better after Qingming.

Li Jun got the second-class inheritance and served as an official, although he was only a minor official of Honglu Temple, but Gu Qing was sincerely happy for him.

Li Jun is a man after all, and it is impossible to rely on their mansion all the time. His kind of personality is really not suitable for officialdom, and it may be appropriate to be a speech official, but Li Mao said that there are also things that should be said and what should not be said within the speech official, otherwise it will be a disaster for his family. And he is so straightforward, it is easy to be taken advantage of.

Going to Honglu Temple, maybe it's really an iron rice bowl. In this era, foreign language talents are so scarce, as long as Li Jun learns all foreign languages well, unless he commits something big, otherwise it depends on the fact that he is proficient in the Hu language, and he will not easily get rid of his officials. The so-called one-skill body, the world can go, this is the truth.

Gu Qing told Li Jun about this reason, and Li Jun himself felt very satisfied. Except for the irritability to learn the same nonsense as the book of heaven again, he felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

On the third day of his appointment, he obediently went to Honglu Temple to report to his post.

Li Rui recently made two friends, he promised to give Xue Hua, the son of the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry, a board game, and when he got home, he ordered his subordinates to do it, and sent it to Xue Shilang's family in the Ministry of Industry. A few days later, Xue Hua, the son of the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, brought his friend Qiu Mu to the door to thank him.

This Qiu Mu is the son of Qiu Jing, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, who is thirteen years old this year and is a very stable child. Li Rui wants to learn the art of bow and horse fighting in the morning, and in the afternoon he wants to learn the art of war with the two masters in the Weishuang Hall.

After he invited them to the Qingcang Courtyard, Xue Hua thanked Li Rui first with the gifts prepared at home, and this exchange of gifts can be regarded as a sign that the two have officially met. Not only that, Qiu Mu also brought a meeting courtesy, wanting to ask for the same "one fool amazing".

Qiu Mu brought a trap bird, as long as he pulled the machine spring, it could fly up by itself, circle the sky a few times and then fall. This is one of the toys that Qiu Mu's grandfather made for Qiu Mu, and Qiu Mu wants to use it to exchange for board game cards.

The Qiu family is a prominent family in Binh Duong, and it is said that the ancestors are descendants of the monarchs of the Song Kingdom. Their family was not good at fortifications, but a few decades ago, Qiu Mu's grandfather was a strange man. Qiu Mu's grandfather, Qiu Lan, liked the study of objects since he was a child, and when the emperor fought everywhere, the siege equipment and improved weapons made by Qiu Lan's supervisors played a huge role.

Unfortunately, during a test, Qiu Lan's legs were injured, and he was never able to stand up again, so he could only rely on a wheelchair and prosthetics he made himself, and there was no hope of making it to the next level.

This incident is really embarrassing, after the first emperor established the country, he was given the title of "Prince and Prince", and let him receive the title and live at home. As compensation, his son Qiu Jing won the list in the imperial examination, and the emperor directly sent him to the Ministry of Industry to be Langzhong.

Later, the Qiu family successively entered the Ministry of Industry, the general as a prison and other yamen, which achieved another family learning. Many families also want to send their children to study. Although it is not a university, Qiu Lan is also proficient in water conservancy and geography, which are things that cannot be learned outside.

This is also unintentionally planted in the willows. Although Qiu Lan likes organ learning, he doesn't mean to pass it on as a family study. The emperor let Qiu Jing go to the Ministry of Industry, and in order to do a good job, Qiu Jing had to start learning various organs, water conservancy, and geography from his father, but inherited this skill.

In the generation of his grandson Qiu Mu, he began to lose interest in the agency again, and even the various toys made for him by his grandfather became gifts for him to exchange new gadgets in his circle of friends.

Li Rui looked at the two children and brought a greeting gift to the door like the little adult, which was a little funny. His own brother was only ten years old, and when he saw them as if he were his own brother, he gave them a few sets of game cards from the house, and he did not take the trap birds of the herdsman, so he should give them to play.

waited for Li Rui to send the two away, but found that there was the trap bird under the window outside the door, and he couldn't help but smile.

Since then, as soon as they come and go, Li Rui and Li Ming have become familiar with these two sons of the Ministry of Works, their family also lives in the inner city, it is easy to move around, and their parents are also happy to see them socialize, Li Rui and Li Ming have gradually entered a new circle of friends.

In the Zhiyun Courtyard, after Gu Qing and Mama Hua discussed and adjusted it several times, they finally finished the board game chess and card store that was about to be opened.

The shopkeeper who originally opened a calligraphy and painting shop collapsed, Gu Qing didn't charge him the rent for the last month, and he went out early. The craftsmen in the workshop at home are now rushing to make all kinds of chess and cards copied by Gu Qing, because I don't know if these things can be popular, so Gu Qing didn't make too much, and picked the most popular ones in later generations, each of which only made a few sets of "upper", "middle", "lower" and other three sets, and set a "membership system", if necessary, it needs to be customized according to the level.

For example, the beautifully made, hand-drawn kind requires a high-level "member", which is made for the player's collection or to show his identity. The intermediate ones are well-made, but the general pictures of the primary ones are brushed boards, and the primary ones are for ordinary people to play, all of which are made of wood and paper, which are easy to break, and secondly, they are not as rich as other colors.

The new shop is in a conspicuous place in the East Market and is named "Linglong Pavilion". Because this shop is not small, Gu Qing also asked people to separate this Linglong Pavilion from a place for people to play in it.

Tables and tea are free, but there is a charge for the presiding officer or borrowing chess and cards to play, and there is also a charge for dim sum. This was set up by Gu Qing with reference to the board game room of later generations, and made a change on it, the purpose is to promote board games, and also to meet the requirements of people to make up the number of players when they can't find them.

Qi Shao heard that Gu Qing was going to make these games and sell them, and he specially set aside a shop to operate, and hurriedly pulled his friend who would be the son of the prison to help.

The craftsmen in Gu Qing's house are all making cards, and the decoration and decoration of this shop, the general who is responsible for the repair and construction of the palace is an expert. After asking Li Mao if this was a good practice, Gu Qing spent some money and asked these masters to come up with the drawings of the shop, so that the workers could rebuild the shop according to her ideas.

Li Rui went out to see it a few times, and when he came back, he said that the repair was extremely beautiful, and the color was very lively, unlike other ordinary shops.

Now Linglong Pavilion is still being renovated, and there are many shops every day to inquire about what it sells.

Gu Qing likes to toss, and in order to create an atmosphere, she invited some students who were good at painting and used to study in Weishuang Hall to help paint murals. Some of these people are very fond of the Three Kingdoms, and some of them are very fond of the game of big thieves and arresting civilians, so they create a lot on the walls according to their own ideas and leave their names.

Some students are not good at calligraphy and painting, but they are good at composing poems, and I heard that Gu Qing wanted to make all the games and share them with everyone, so he made different poems for many chess and cards, introduced the rules and fun, and then sent them over.

Gu Qing has never felt that she is a heartthrob that everyone loves, since she crossed into an old woman, she has rarely even gone out of the door, but she is really flattered that there are so many students who she has never known (at least she doesn't know) who have contributed their ideas.

Not only that, she has always thought that the ancient scholars were rigid in their thinking, and they were definitely not as imaginative as modern young people, but the creative ability of these students was really amazing, and some of them were praised by her, a modern person who is used to seeing new things, so not only did Li Rui invite them to have a meal at home, but also thanked them.

"The old body asked his family to open this exquisite pavilion, just because he was really bored at home, and everyone helped him like this, which made the old body feel surprised and full of gratitude. It's just an old woman's game, but it's a shame that you have worked hard for many days. Gu Qing took a glass of wine and thanked the group of students first.

"Old lady, we have been studying in Weishuang Hall in the past few years, and we don't know how much paper and ink and how many snacks have been consumed in your mansion. A scholar of the Guozi Prison said with a smile, "Now many of us have already achieved fame, and we will be released soon, and I don't know when we will return to Beijing, and it is also a little commemoration to be able to leave something in Beijing." I want to go back to the capital one day, and see the paintings made in that Linglong Pavilion, which is another taste. ”

"Exactly." Another scholar said, "A "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and a pair of Three Kingdoms Kill have accompanied us for many boring nights, and we love it so much, so naturally we want to do something." ”

"I heard that there are still a lot of chess and cards in your house to be sold together? I don't know if I can grab it when the time comes. A scholar touched his chin, "Old lady, ask for a convenience for you, let's have a glimpse of it, okay?" ”

Gu Qing couldn't stop smiling, first asked the family to give them some high-level membership certificates, and then pointed to those signs and said: "After all, our family doesn't rely on this to make a living, although I want to promote these games for children to play, but my energy is limited, so I made a membership certificate of A, B, C and III, and sold these chess and cards in limited quantities." The first-class ones have the most varieties that can be bought, and the most beautifully made, these are the certificates of the first class. ”

"The chess and cards at home have not all been done, and now it is not beautiful to take it out, and so on the day of the opening, you will go to the store with the voucher, you can try it out in the game room at the back for a while, there is a fancy to it, and the shopkeeper orders the goods. It's just that these chess cards, the more well-made they are, the longer they will last. The first-class production is a collector's edition, you can play for a long time, so the waiting time is the longest, if you can't wait, you can get a pair of first-class ones in the store to familiarize yourself with first. ”

Don't advertise at this time, but when!

Because it would take some time to fight and make some decorations, Gu Qing set the opening date of Linglong Pavilion for the end of May. From April to the end of May, this time is already extremely fast, but because many of these students are outsiders, and now they have graduated from Guozijian and no longer study, they always have to go home and go to various places from their hometowns to work, so it is a pity to talk about the Linglong Pavilion that opened at the end of May.

One day, in the temple of Zhiyun.

"Grandma, what kind of game is this?" Li Ming's children nested in Gu Qing's room, looking at the various finished products sent from the workshop. Some of them are all Gu Qing's random charcoal drawings, and the rules of the workshop, it is really rare that these craftsmen can make them.

"It's Monopoly. Several people play a game in which a wealthy businessman buys land and buys a house. Gu Qing took the small toy house in Li Ming's hand and nodded with satisfaction.

These craftsmen are very good, this house is only the size of a thumb fingernail, it is rare to make it very fine from private houses to mansions, and it is a different level of house at a glance, and it is very cute.

"Oh, then this reader probably doesn't know how to play." Li Ming put the box containing all kinds of cute props in his hand to the side.

Shinong businessmen and businessmen have always been looked down upon, let alone those who dare to say that they are determined to become rich in business. Although Li Ming is a child, he also looks down on business in his bones.

Li Zhao was interested in this box of things, and flipped through a pile of paper tickets and asked, "Grandmother, what are these papers?" ”

"Oh, it's silver tickets, you can't play games with real money, so I made these silver tickets instead of silver."

In this era, there were no "Jiaozi" and "silver tickets", out of Gu Qing's bad taste, Gu Qing asked the craftsman to make silver tickets from the paper money in Monopoly with mulberry paper, and also made the words "Da Chu Silver Bureau System".

When she arrived in ancient times, she used cash to pay everything, and although she learned the hexadecimal system of this era, she still found it really inconvenient. When she first learned housekeeping with Mama Hua, she couldn't turn around with the bend of "half a catty is eight taels", and she was always used to calculating in decimal system, which made Mama Hua laugh many times.

As for the common thing in TV dramas that angrily slaps a silver ticket of a few thousand taels on the table, she has never enjoyed it. More often than not, he asked his subordinates to take a small scale, use special scissors to wring a little money on the melted silver cake, and then weigh it on the scale.

It's hard to force it, and I don't feel like I'm spending a lot of money at all!

"This is paper, how can it replace silver?" Li Zhao waved a large silver ticket with a thousand taels written on it, and the mulberry paper was thicker and very textured when thrown up.

"It's not a game. Inside the larger box is the silver office, which is responsible for paying the money for the purchase and sale of houses and land, and is also responsible for issuing and finding money, and when you get used to using paper money instead of silver, you will not feel strange. Gu Qing shook his hand indifferently. She wasn't used to using silver before, isn't she used to it now?

You get used to it while you play.

Li Zhao looked at the Monopoly and seemed to be infinitely curious about it.

"This is? Great Chu's army? Li Rui picked up a chess piece made of ivory with the words "Great General" written on it. The other pieces are written "Battle Flag", "General", "Lang General", "Captain", "Captain", "Captain", "Sapper", etc., and one is written "Trap".

"Oh, that's military chess." Gu Qing glanced at it and shook out the chess cloth. "The two armies are facing each other, fighting each other according to the rules, this chess cloth is the battlefield, there are roads and camps, base camps, etc., the two sides fight each other, if you want to win, either kill all the opponent's chess pieces, or the sappers destroy the opponent's trap and take away the flag, or one side has no chess to go, it is considered a victory."

Li Rui looked at the military chess and thought thoughtfully.

If you survey the terrain like your grandmother did before each battle, deduce it on paper with the generals, and then go into battle, I don't know how convenient it will be, and the location of the trap can be quickly calculated. Although it is only on paper, if you can prepare a little more for such a thing as a war, countless people will die.

Was this military chess the idea of my grandmother or my grandfather's idea?

Not only did Li Rui think so, but Li Ming also felt that this military chess was probably deduced by his grandfather in the camp and learned from his grandmother.

'Grandmother can do anything into a game, what a strange person. ’

The two children muttered to themselves.

Li Ming and Li Rui picked up the paper with the rules written on it in the military chess box, sat down on the desk and began to play.

Li Zhao is still studying what paper can be turned into money, and money can be turned into land and houses.

"Shouldn't the one who buys road money in the world be the emperor?"

Gu Qing slapped his head.

Yes, this is a feudal society, and buying road money has to be put in a different way.

"It's not road money, it's wear and tear fees. You see, if you live in someone else's house, you have to give someone a little compensation, right? When you enter the inn, you have to pay for the room. This game is to see who spends money indiscriminately and is not good at management, and the one who goes bankrupt first loses. Each person had 1,500 taels of silver at the beginning, and the money was borrowed from the bank, and the money had to be returned to the bank, and the silver was opened by the imperial court......"

Li Zhao was dizzy by Gu Qing's many explanations, so he could only nod blankly.

It's like a cousin's house in Kyochu, and there are so many things to play!

Grandmother knows a lot!

Uh, what did Grandmother Cousin just say?

Gu Qing checked the boxes of chess and cards, put forward some suggestions for improvement, and asked the workshop to make more replacement accessories. If the small house and small chess pieces are broken, members can customize a new replacement instead of buying a new one.

She often plays all kinds of games herself, and sometimes it hurts to drop a small accessory, and others are really shabby and dead to death if you buckle a bottle cap or something on top of the house, and I'm embarrassed to say that you are a professional.

Most people didn't take it seriously when the old lady in the Xinguo Mansion made such a move. It is normal for this old lady to take care of her children at home all day and make a lot of things to play with her children.

Although it is a bit unseemly to take these things out and sell them, there are many people in the capital who send their families to do business, not to mention that this old lady is just doing a small fight, and the Xinguo Mansion does not rely on this for a living.

But the children of each family are looking forward to it.

Qi Shao has been sparing no effort to promote various games in his circle, and the students of Guozijian have also brought a trend, but after all, it has not been popularized among the people, and it can be regarded as a game among scholars and the upper class.

When the Three Kingdoms Killing just came out, Li Mao made this plaything as a gift and gave it to many people, and now there is no "Three Kingdoms Killing" in the upper echelons of Dachu, and others will be surprised.

Li Mao even gave away the Jin State Mansion, if he was an official in the same dynasty but didn't, how bad should he be, so unpopular?

Fang Mansion.

After the old lady of the Fang family went home, she told her husband about Mama Liu, and Fang Xing was shocked.

Mrs. Fang has been a housekeeper for many years, and when she married her daughter, she kept an eye on it, and the deed of sale of the person who accompanied her was in her hands, and she didn't give it to her daughter, for fear that she would be kind to her subordinates for a while.

The old lady found out the records of entering the house that year, and there were 27 people who entered the garden in the same batch with Mama Liu, which was purchased when the old man bought a house in Beijing when there was not enough manpower, among which there were more male servants, and only nine women, most of them were needle girls and older ones who could work directly.

The Fang family was only a third-class family back then, if it weren't for the marriage with the Xinguo Mansion, I am afraid that Fang Xing would not have climbed so fast. Fang Xing listened to his wife's words, and cold sweat kept breaking out behind his back.

If people like his family have people with bad intentions, then wouldn't there be more people in other families?

Fang's marriage, among the subordinates in the family who were married, only Mama Liu and a needlework lady were the subordinates of the same batch, but many of the male servants in that batch are now in charge of affairs in the house. To check it out for a while, there are a lot of problems, and Fang Xing also feels a headache.

He took the roster given by his wife, looked at the dental office in charge of the official tooth back then, and always felt that this name was very familiar, thinking that he must have committed something, and sentenced to Dali Temple, so he decided to start from here.

Within a few days, Li Mao received letters from the Yue family, Wu Yuzhou, and the Zhang family one after another. The people who sent it all handed over the letter after meeting him in person, and the letter was sealed with fire paint, which was obviously extraordinary.

The first thing he dismantled was the news sent by the Yue family. The letter said that the chief of the dental department who was responsible for sending the batch of people to the Fang Mansion was the guest secretary released by the Qiyang Palace. Two years after he became an official, the King of Qiyang made a rebellion, and he was implicated in the affairs of the King of Qiyang and lost his office, and he has returned to his hometown for almost ten years.

If you carefully investigate the subordinates who entered the various houses from his tooth office during his tenure, you may be able to find out what clues.

Li Mao looked at the news sent by Fang Xing, and his heart set off a turbulent wave.

This news can be deduced that Mama Liu is likely to be the person in the hands of King Qiyang back then. In this way, it can be explained that everything that Mama Liu instigated Fang Wan to do was so vicious, and everything that was buried was a vicious trick to kill people.

Thinking that the rebellion of the King of Qiyang failed because his father led the troops to suppress it, he was full of resentment against their Xinguo Mansion, and if the King of Qiyang was still alive, he had already regarded their family as the object of revenge. They don't want to plot anything, so naturally they wish that the whole government of the Xinguo Mansion would die together.

Then there was the news from Wu Yuzhou, the brother who asked them to investigate Mama Liu, this person was not from the place where the household registration seal was written, Wu Yuzhou sent someone to the local area to inquire carefully, and the news that came back was that there was no such person.

Although I don't know what the role of the chess piece nail in the capital is, Wu Yuzhou still sent a lot of people to watch over Mama Liu's brother's house.

The news given by the Zhang family is the most strange, it is about Xu Gongling, the five senses of the Qin Heavenly Prison.

Lingtailang is a very small official, but he is in charge of celestial observation and climate speculation. This position is naturally useless in normal times, but when it comes to "going out", "sacrificing", "farming", and "hunting", it is necessary to ask for a good weather before the teachers can mobilize the people.

In many cases, the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple have everything ready, and they are waiting for the Qin Heavenly Supervisor to give them an exact time to move before they can start the ceremony.

Li Meng died that year, because there were assassins when the emperor sacrificed to the peasants, and the assassins covered their bodies with soil, and suddenly attacked, Li Meng was only rough in martial arts, and he was escorted by his body, and he suffered several knife wounds and arrow wounds in the back of the year, and died of poisoning.

Not long after the establishment of Great Chu, because of the perennial war, the people withered, and the land was barren, agriculture became very important. In order to show the importance of farming, the emperor would sacrifice Shennong every year around the spring equinox, and set up a home field, support the plough and plough himself, and the ministers also had to go down to the field to plough, which was regarded as a great ritual.

It was originally a good thing to persuade farmers to cultivate in this way, but it led to this regrettable incident back then, which made the emperor and Li Shuo grief.

Since then, Chu Rui, who inherited the throne, has never personally gone to the agricultural altar to worship Xiannong, but only sent officials to sacrifice, and he was not very keen on various ceremonies that required to go out of the palace to worship.

The news given by the Zhang family is related to this assassination.

Originally, it was not that day that the sacrifice was set for the peasants, but the day that Qin Tianjian reported that there might be rain, so it was only one day earlier. Later, it rained on the day that was originally scheduled, but because of the stabbing of the holy driver, no one cared about the role of this correct prediction, and the due reward was gone.

And the facial features at that time were Lingtailang who was this Xu Gongling. Another Wuguan Lang has been mixed up for so long, and he has already been promoted to the deputy of Qin Tianjian, and this Wuguan Lang, I don't know if Lu Dao is really indifferent to fame and fortune, or is not sociable, he has been sitting in this position for several years, and he has not moved once.

It wasn't until Zhang Xuan entered Beijing, won many praises, and successfully predicted several disasters that this Xu Gongling reported his illness at home and asked the officials for "sick retirement", saying that he was seriously ill and damaged his vision, and he was unable to take up the post of Wuguanlang, and wanted to resign and go home.

Originally, this was just a trivial matter, but if it was usual, this kind of illness would have been approved by Zhang Ning before he could leave. It is difficult for the lower officials to go up, and it is too easy for some officials to want to come down.

But Zhang Ning only found out about this Xu Gongling a while ago because of the witch Gu matter, and at this time, when he saw that the lower official came to report that this person was bent on resigning, he looked through his resume file, and asked many old people in Qin Tianjian to find out such a thing.

Since this matter was related to the death of his sister-in-law, Zhang Ning did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent a letter to the Xinguo Mansion. His letter, along with Wu Yuzhou and Fang Xing's letters, was put on Li Mao's desk together.

After Li Mao read these three letters, he instantly felt that the entire Xinguo Mansion was like a thing that people could come in and out at will.

And Zhang Ning, do you know the identity of Zhang Jing? Is this kind of overture deliberately to paralyze him, or is he really unaware? What is the situation of the Zhang family?

Li Mao became more and more aware of how short of people he was, and how important it was to cultivate his own people.

It is no wonder that every family rarely enters from the outside, if it is not checked for a while, it is really an endless disaster. Only the great families of the past generations have the confidence to not need foreign servants, like their family, they don't need foreign servants, and they even have to drink a glass of water by themselves.

Wu Yuzhou and Chen Yi were sent to him by their father at this time, and they were simply sent over to save their lives.

Dad, I should burn more ingots for you this year!