Chapter 18 The Song Dynasty Underworld Visits
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He said he found a suitable house in Xiwai Village, just outside the county seat.
In his introduction, the location of that place is good, but it is far away from the county seat.
It's a good thing, it's their special request.
Yalang said that it was not near a stream, but near a hill.
It's not bad either, each of them has the idea of digging a cave in their hearts.
At that time, Yalang enthusiastically introduced: "The villagers there are simple, and they will not disturb the tranquility of several officials, otherwise the thatched cottage would not have been built there in the first place......
Wu Dapeng also asked him in detail through Wan Shida, it is still a separate courtyard, it is said that it was originally a villa built in the countryside by a scholar with a certain amount of wealth, ready to be used for hard study, and then participate in the imperial examination.
This period was very utilitarian for studying for the imperial examination. Even Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng publicly wrote the "Encouragement of Learning", and the original poem is as follows:
Rich families don't need to buy fertile land, there are thousands of bells in the book.
There is no need to erect tall buildings to live in peace, and there is a golden house in the book.
Don't hate unscrupulous matchmakers when marrying a wife, there is Yan Ruyu in the book.
Don't hate to go out with no one, there are many cars and horses in the book.
The boy wants to fulfill his life's aspirations, and the six classics are read in front of the window.
This meaning is very clear, study, as long as you pass the scientific examination, my Great Song Dynasty government will make you rich. The Great Song Dynasty government's utilitarian motivation for learning may be a sincere performance, but this is an era when all people are business, and if it is only for the sake of wealth, then there are many ways for the Great Song people.
Later, the scholar repeatedly failed the exam, but went into business, and after becoming richer, his family moved to Lin'an Mansion.
The villa in the countryside was left to an old man in the countryside to take care of.
However, this rental price is a bit more expensive, more than twice as much as the previous one.
At this time and space, the rent in the suburbs of Lin'an Mansion is only five to ten times a year, of course, it can't be counted in Lin'an Mansion, where the house price is different depending on the location.
But your house in the countryside of Lin'an County also has to be eight!
But it doesn't matter, isn't it just that you can pay for it, and we'll have it in the future.
When everyone first received the meeting, they looked at it again and again, and found that it was the printing level of the underworld coins in that world!
Okay, let's talk about it when we go back, and we can print as much as we want when the time comes.
At that time, except for Song Ziqiang, who cared about the price being higher than expected, no one cared about this.
In this way, even if the house was rented, they went to see it together under the leadership of Yalang.
It was indeed far away from the county seat, and the seven of them walked for about two hours before they arrived at the village outside the river.
The house was a straw-roofed house, with a row of five rooms, with a bamboo fence in front of it, and a large courtyard surrounded by a large courtyard, except for a path that could be walked by one person, and the rest of the place was full of barren grass.
When I walked in, the house was full of dust nets, and there were leaking marks on the roof and cracks on the walls.
Quiet said: "It's okay, let's repair it again." But what about the furniture here? ”
Wu Dapeng said: "Have you noticed the ground? ”
The floor is paved with green bricks and is covered with thick dust.
But it is clear that there are places where there is little or no dust, and the traces indicate that there was once furniture and that it had just been removed.
Song Ziqiang was about to get angry at that Yalang at that time.
Zhang Guoan immediately grabbed him and said: "This is a little cheap, you just let them take advantage of it, we can be here for a long time, don't be like them, remember, now that we are rich, don't easily get angry with the people at the bottom." ”
Song Ziqiang held back at that time.
A few people looked around again.
Very good, the people who read in this time and space pay attention to purity, and the nearest people are a kilometer away from here.
Behind the house is a small hill, which can be twenty meters high.
Several people climbed the steps along the originally paved bluestone path to the top of this hill.
There is farmland all around.
In the distance, you can see a series of farmhouses.
What a place!
A few people took advantage of Yalang's absence and made a simple plan, this small hill can still be used, and it is good to have the opportunity to dig a hole in the future.
Then they happily returned to the Didian and began to act.
The pace may be slower, but they must build the nest first, and then start reselling the relics, which will be a long-term action, not a one-shot deal.
They got the plasterers and began to repair the house, at least to replace the straw on the roof, so that it was so rotten and ugly that it could be seen on the surface.
They also asked carpenters and blacksmiths to make the furniture they had drawn and some daily necessities, in the Song style, which was too inconvenient.
Song Ziqiang casually drew a number of three views, I really didn't expect that the carpenter and blacksmith of the Song people were unequivocal, and after asking a few words, he said that he understood the requirements, and then took over the work.
The wages of the craftsmen in this time and space are not cheap, Song Ziqiang calculated, damn it, it is higher than the labor cost of the world over there.
In the end, they paid Yalang and signed a lease agreement to rent the house for a year.
It's good to have money, and now, everyone here does things for them, and they are all full of hospitality.
The original shopkeeper seems to often change people to do things for them.
Wu Dapeng asked the original shopkeeper curiously, why do you always change people.
The original shopkeeper smiled and said, "Several guest officers have given a lot of rewards...... It can't always be won by villains. ”
"Oh, you're willing to share the bounty with others?"
“…… Here's how the rules are. ”
"Are you stupid? You are still young, you must save more money and start a big business on your own! ”
“…… Propriety. ”
"The rules are a fart, you just tell the shopkeeper, we only need you to serve alone, by the way, what's your name?"
"The little one's name is Wu Er."
"You see, we were originally a family, if it was someone else, I wouldn't care about this idle matter."
Wu Dapeng looked at Wu Er's tempting appearance with a smile.
After that, that Wu Er didn't know why, he was unhappy for several days, why he was unhappy, Wu Dapeng didn't care.
At this time, someone took the initiative to come to the door.
This person is about 1.65 meters tall and weighs less than 60 kilograms, and he looks relatively strong, of course, only compared with the current Song people.
He claimed to be Hu Dalang's apprentice on West Street in the county seat, and this time he came to invite a few officials to go to Hu Dalang's cabinet to play.
When Wu Dapeng introduced himself to this person, he peeked at Wu Er's expression when he led him.
When Wu Dapeng saw that he seemed to be a little afraid of this person, Wu Dapeng knew in his heart, damn it, this is almost a guy who is engaged in the underworld.
The place of gambling in the Song Dynasty was generally called the cabinet shop.
Gambling as a social phenomenon of human beings has a long history.
Gambling is probably the two oldest professions of mankind, along with sex work, and they are likely to continue to evolve as humanity develops.
Normal human society does not want to ban it completely, but can only guide it in various ways.
During the Great Song Dynasty, people were all good at gambling.
Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty recorded in a recital: "There are more than 100 households in the city who open cabinets, and they are on the card list and recruit soldiers and civilians to gamble." ”
Yan Shu also has a word cloud: "I live in Xiqin, and I take gambling with me." ”
As a result, the term gambling was formalized in this era.
In this time and space, the emperor was addicted to gambling, not only gambling money and goods, but even gambling on national laws and policies. Scholars and literati were greedy for gambling, and they could even throw tens of thousands of dollars. People love to gamble, and they can even gamble on buying vegetables.
During this Great Song Dynasty, a distinctive feature of social and economic development was the rapid prosperity of the commodity economy, the emergence of a large number of commercial centers, and the breakthrough of the original concept of fang and city, and "trading day and night", especially in the Southern Song Dynasty.
The rapidly inflated profits brought about by the rapid development of the commodity economy have greatly stimulated people's greed. The commodity economy itself is very speculative, which coincides with the gambling nature. Because gambling itself is about wanting to win the maximum return with the least investment, chance or skill.
Throughout ancient and modern times, all dynasties where the prohibition of gambling was not effective, the more developed the commodity economy, the more prosperous the gambling style, and the same was true during the Great Song Dynasty. In particular, the gambling that accompanied the booming commodity economy at that time confirmed this point.
Now, Hu Dalang, who sent his younger brother to openly invite them to participate in gambling, also confirmed this.
Of course, the Great Song Dynasty knew the dangers of gambling, and they also issued all kinds of strict gambling bans, ranging from fines and repatriations to beheadings.
However, the anti-gambling laws of the Song Dynasty were mainly concentrated in the Taizu and Taizong periods, and from the perspective of the "Song Hui Yao Manuscript Criminal Law Chronicle", it was mainly aimed at the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture in the capital.
At the same time, the Song Dynasty was also known as "governing the country with literature", so after the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, gambling was not only widely popular among the citizen class, even literati and scholars, all of them were keen on it, especially in the Southern Song Dynasty.
And because the emperor took the lead in gambling, "the punishment was light, and the law was not enough to punish adultery." There are many offenders. Scholars and doctors also regarded the prohibition of gambling as "a matter that is not urgent, and those who know but do not ask, are always seven or eight out of ten." Because the lawsuit is filed with the official, there are those who are not accepted. ”
This naturally made the already bad gambling style more prosperous during this period.
With the prosperity of gambling, of course, there will be a group of professional gamblers and social scoundrels who make a career out of it.
Wu Dapeng understands that this matter cannot be taken lightly at the moment.
He sent away the little brother of Hu Dalang and told him to come back tomorrow.
Wu Dapeng immediately summoned Wu Er again and asked about the identity of this Hu Dalang, he wanted to have a good understanding of the background of this underworld.
In Wu Er's depiction, Hu Dalang's full name is Hu Zhennan, with a height difference of less than 1.70 meters, slightly chubby, and sparse hair.
Both of his arms are full of tattoos, and he is nicknamed "Flower Arm Tai Sui".
He knew how to wrestle with one hand, and he had five or six younger brothers, all of whom had tattoos, but on one arm.
That year, a passing merchant also took a few followers to Hu Dalang's cabinet to play, and there was a conflict in the middle, but Hu Dalang didn't use his younger brother, and he beat all the other party's people down alone.
Since then, he has been nicknamed "Out of the Mountain Tiger".
Song Ziqiang interjected and said: "The government doesn't care about this kind of blatant underworld?!" ”
“……”
Wu Dapeng smiled and said, "Can the Lin'an County Order punish them? ”
Wu Er said briskly: "Yes, when the street cane hundred!" ”
Wu Dapeng asked in shock: "Cane hundred? Will the man survive? ”
"After the execution, he can go home on his own......"
"How big is your staff?"
Wu Er gestured, this is just the level of a small slat.
Then Wu Er said quickly: "In the third class, there are all Hu Dalang's friends......"