Chapter 19: Fighting Thieves

Jia Rui is not really interested in such things as land annexation, middle-class bankruptcy, wealth disparity, and troubles among displaced people.

These things, even if he are asked to take care of them, he can't manage them. He still has this self-knowledge.

What he can do is to prepare as much as possible in advance, and how to protect himself and his family once the troubled times really come.

There are many things about the rise and fall of dynasties in history, but it is just a change of emperor, and the common people should live their own lives, or they still have to live. Maybe it would be better to change the emperor.

"Uncle said about business, I really have a business to discuss with my uncle."

"I know that Brother Rui has an idea, tell me quickly, what kind of business is it?"

"This business is not difficult, but it is a little cumbersome, but if it is done well, it can be a big business."

"I'm not afraid of cumbersome, anyway, I don't have anything to do for a day, besides, which business is so simple to make money."

After experiencing punctuation, Huang Jin is now very confident in his nephew.

If you don't want to have faith, you can't do it, but it's a disciple of Wenchang Xingjun, what can you do wrong?

"It's called poker, which is a type of playing cards, and there are fifty-four cards in total. I've already drawn the pattern, and I've brought it with me this time. ”

"Show it to me."

Jia Rui took out the playing cards from his coat and began to explain to his uncle.

This playing card is what he recently drawn. However, instead of hard paper, rice paper is used.

This problem is not big, and when printing in the future, it will be enough to change to hard paper.

According to the current level of printing technology, although the printed playing cards will not be very beautiful and durable, they can be used as games.

The poker system is basically the same as that of later poker, and it is also a four-suit of hearts, spades, diamonds, and clubs, plus two trump cards.

Changes have been made in some places to take into account the current situation.

From A, 2, 3...... To K, A is changed to "one", and so on, all the way to ten.

J is changed to eleven, and the pattern on the card is Fortuna.

Q is changed to twelve, and the card pattern is the beautiful Shih Tzu.

King is changed to thirteen, and the card pattern is the old birthday star.

J and Q add up, it's money, beauty.

With these two things, I want to live longer, so K is the old birthday star.

The rest is to play the trick.

It's not enough to have poker, people don't know how to play it, and in the end no one buys it.

This is actually more difficult to do than print poker. But it's not impossible, it's just that it needs a stage of publicity and promotion.

Jia Rui already has a detailed promotion plan for how to play.

"This poker, printing doesn't cost much, and the cost won't be too big. Whether it is a dignitary, a peddler, a pawn, a small farmer, a farmer or a craftsman, it is just a matter of tens of dollars, and they can afford it. ”

"From the emperor's relatives to the maids, you don't need to have read a book, anyone can learn it."

"It doesn't matter the time, it can be long or short, it can be white or night. Regardless of location, fields, boat inns, market shops, court yamen, wealthy families, rural grass people, anyone can play. ”

"One person, two people, three, four, five or six people can ......."

Jia Rui opened his mouth and listed the advantages of poker.

"Uncle brought my aunt and cousin, and I'll show you how to play this poker."

"Okay, okay, let's go find it."

Soon, he found his aunt and cousin, and Jia Rui played with them while explaining how to play.

"There are countless ways to play poker. There are dozens of I know. What we are playing at the moment is called fighting the landlord. ”

"Father is the landlord, at this moment we are fighting father?"

Cousin Huang Ying's mouth is fast, so she said it casually.

"You dead girl, how can you talk to your father like that?"

My aunt said angrily.

"This landlord is a kind of saying, you can not call it a landlord, you can call it a thief, or you can call it a thief."

"Yes, yes, it's better to call it a thief. Now there are landlords everywhere, where can they fight, so people are not happy to hear it, they wanted to buy it for fun, maybe they didn't buy it. ”

Jia Rui felt that his uncle's statement was very reasonable, and since then he has changed the landlord to the thief.

"There are other ways to play, as well as upgrades, percentages, fifty-three, December, hanging, crossing, arching pigs, fishing, drawing turtles, solitaire, red ten, fraudulent golden flowers, and so on."

"I've written it here, and if my uncle has time, he can take a closer look. I've been here for the past two days, teaching you how to play poker. ”

Listening to Jia Rui's chatter, cousin Huang Ying's eyes widened with a look of adoration.

"Cousin Rui, you are really knowledgeable, how do you know so much?"

Hehe, little cousin, it's not that your cousin is knowledgeable, it's that your cousin was fun in his previous life, and he learned it unconsciously.

"Your cousin is a disciple of Wenchang Xingjun, so he naturally understands this."

My aunt said.

"Cousin, isn't Wenchang Xingjun in charge of the imperial examination and articles, why did he even teach you this? Is this Wenchang Xingjun a little unprofessional? ”

Huang Ying, you dead girl, why do you have so many problems. Let's not ask such a sharp question, okay? Wenchang Xingjun taught me to play poker? It seems to be a shame for his old man.

"Cousin, Wenchang Xingjun is tired, and he also wants to have fun, and the emperor often travels to the mountains and rivers, don't you say?"

"That makes sense. My cousin is just learned, and he can even make so many articles with cards. ”

Little girl, are you praising me or scolding me?

However, looking at the appearance of the yellow warbler, it doesn't seem to be sarcastic.

The reason why the game of poker is common is because the way to play is simple, easy to learn, and easy to popularize.

Soon, the uncles learned how to fight thieves.

"It's not that difficult, adults and children can learn it. I think this business is going to work. ”

Huang Jin was completely confident this time.

"The most important thing is how to teach the way to play, people will play and buy poker."

This point has always been the most concerned about Jia Rui.

"It's not difficult, but if it doesn't work, I'll give up some of my capital, give some away for free, and teach them how to play by the way. One to ten, ten to hundred, and not a difficult task, it is easy to learn. ”

"I can teach others too."

Huang Ying was a little eager to try.

"I will also teach others, the daughters-in-law and girls in the village, I can teach them."

My aunt is not far behind, and she can also see that this is a way to make money. As long as you can make money, it's okay to show up and walk the streets.

It's just a rural person, not a young lady or daughter-in-law from a big family, and there is no door to go out and no two doors.

For the next three days, Jia Rui taught them to play cards at his uncle's house.

If it weren't for the fact that there was only one deck of cards, and it was drawn on paper, Jia Rui repeatedly told him to keep it secret, so as not to leak the idea, and the family would have gone out with a poker to show off.

On the fourth day, Wang Xifeng's little servant Zhao'er suddenly came.

said that Wang Xifeng was going to have a treat, and Jia Dairu told Jia Rui that he must go back to participate.

Although Jia Rui didn't think it was important for Wang Xifeng to entertain guests, he should go back to prepare for the scientific expedition, so he returned to the city.

Uncle Huang Jin waited until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and then went to Jia Rui to start the poker business.