Chapter 519: The Victim of a Big Gamble
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Zhao Zonghui wanted to open his mouth to scold again, but he opened his mouth but lost his voice, and only let out a "you" and his throat was hoarse, and everyone was so sure that Yang Huairen said that Zhao Zonghui colluded with the Khitan and intended to rebel was half-convinced, at this time Zhao Zonghui suddenly lost his voice nervously, and then believed Yang Huairen two or three more.
Zhao Xu said eagerly, "The prince of Tongyuan County knows something, come quickly." β
"Wechen obeyed. It all started more than half a year ago......"
Yang Huairen bowed to Zhao Xucha, sorted out his mood, and spoke slowly.
"Presumably, among all the colleagues present, many people know that in the autumn of last year, Wei Caiwei, the shopkeeper of the original Wei family's main store, met in Guiyan Building to try his cooking skills because he was a little discordant with Zaixia."
Hearing this, many people in the hall had watched the competition on the spot, and now they still remember it vividly, remembering the wonderful performance of Yang Huairen in front of them at that time, the perfect combination of red oil and rice, and couldn't help but salivate.
And a little cook at the beginning has now become a great hero of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was also given the title of Tongyuan County Prince, Yongxing Military Road Festival Envoy, and he began to sigh again when he remembered how difficult it was to go further on his official career for many years.
But in the end, they couldn't help but wonder, this didn't seem to have anything to do with Yang Huairen's collusion with the Khitan by Zhao Zongchu, the king of Pu, so they didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Yang Huairen's gourd.
"Everyone knows the results of that cooking competition, and there are not a few people in the palace who were present at that time. Among them, including Pu Wang Zhao Zonghui. β
Zhao Zonghui saw that several officials who had seen him go to Guiyanlou looked at him suspiciously, made an innocent expression, and asked with the tearing pain in his throat, "Yang Huairen, what's so strange about this king going to Guiyanlou to watch a cooking competition?"
There were more than 200 people present at the time, why don't you talk about these people? What does this have to do with your wronging of this king for fornicating with the Khitan, you'd better make it clear! β
"Don't worry, listen to me slowly."
Yang Huairen sneered, "I won that cooking competition, and I won the bet from the shopkeeper Wei." But the shopkeeper Wei lost this competition and made himself bankrupt......"
Zhao Zonghui interrupted Yang Huairen's words with a disdainful sneer, "The surname is Yang, are you whimsical?" Wei Cai lost a competition and went bankrupt?
Did you know that the Wei family store has been famous in Tokyo for a hundred years? How big the plate of his family's business is, how much turnover there is every year, and how much surplus there is, even if he has not done business in the hall, he should be able to calculate a rough idea.
The Wei family's main store was passed down to Wei Cai's generation, even if the family property did not have one million, at least six or seven hundred thousand.
At the beginning, King Jiazhuang opened this competition, even if Wei Cai lost, he only lost 200,000 yuan, and he wouldn't be bankrupt, right?
Yang Huairen, you are also a person with a family property of at least hundreds of thousands of yuan, and if you lose 200,000 yuan, it will not be, at least there is a Zhuangzi, a real estate, and a shop......"
"Prince Pu is so calculating, haha!"
This time it was Yang Huairen's turn to interrupt Zhao Zonghui, Yang Huairen slapped his face and smiled, "Prince Pu has long taken a fancy to my family's industry, no wonder it is so clear, haha......
Ladies and gentlemen, according to Prince Pu's reasoning, what he said seems to be right, a person with a family property of hundreds of thousands of yuan, if he loses 200,000 yuan, he will not go bankrupt.
But think about it again, after this incident, is the Wei family store closed? Isn't it a long time since Wei Cai appeared in the city of Tokyo? β
In fact, these officials don't care much about this kind of thing, but now when Yang Huairen asks like this, several officials who often go to Wei Jiazheng's store also remember, Wei Cai and Yang Huairen did disappear for a while after losing the Guiyanlou cooking competition, and Wei's Zhengdian is indeed no longer open for business.
Yang Huairen paused for a moment, and waited for everyone to recall this incident before he continued, "The reason is actually very simple. At that time, Wei Cai came up with the idea of trying my cooking skills, but in fact, the drunkard didn't mean to drink. β
"The meaning of drunkenness is not in the wine, but in the mountains and rivers" is the famous sentence of Ouyang Wenzhonggong, the prime minister of Jiayou, and the civil officials present are naturally familiar with it.
The meaning of this was originally very poetic, and it was used by Yang Huairen here to describe a person with other meanings, which was both ingenious and vivid, but it made everyone feel that Yang Huairen still had some literary talent.
The reason why Wei Cai did this was actually to play a good show in tandem with the black tiger gang in Tokyo, and wanted to continue to open underground gambling tables to grab greater benefits.
But they didn't expect their conspiracy to be discovered by the subordinates, and they also acted in a play with them, and finally let them lose the gambling they opened, and both suffered huge losses.
As a result, Wei Cai lost almost all his family property, and a big gang that had been entrenched in the capital for a long time also collapsed and disappeared from people's sight. β
Yang Huairen said this, and everyone in the hall suddenly realized, thinking of an invisible and untouchable dark tide surging in Tokyo at that time, it turned out that there was such a story in it.
In the end, Wei Cai did disappear for a while in Tokyo, and the famous Black Tiger Gang in the market has gradually faded out of people's sight since then.
Thinking about it this way, the officials also felt that Yang Huairen's telling of the truth behind this incident was indeed in line with some strange things that happened at that time, and also in line with the final result, so they determined that what Yang Huairen said was true.
"In this case, there were not a few people who participated in the gambling market at that time, many people lost money, or won the gambling market and did not get any profits, and the vast majority of people were victims of this gamble.
Among these victims, there is actually a person who has suffered a lot of losses, and that person is above this great hall! Saying that, Yang Huairen looked at Zhao Zonghui with a smile.
Zhao Zonghui's face immediately turned iron-blue, and he couldn't hide his panic even if he wanted to.
Yang Huairen deliberately asked as if provocatively, "Lord Pu, what I said is half a lie?" β
Zhao Zonghui knew that since Yang Huairen dared to say this, he must have a great connection with the Black Tiger Gang and the Qinglian Gang that opened the gambling market at that time, and if he didn't admit it, he was afraid that Yang Huairen would be able to directly come up with evidence to slap him in the face.
So he admitted without thinking, "Small gambling is pleasant, the current atmosphere of the Great Song Dynasty is like this, why not let me learn from the people to play with a few dollars casually?" β
"Just playing? Prince Pu is so generous, if you don't have any money for 200,000 yuan, you don't feel distressed at all? β