Yangzhou prefect Jiang Yao's mansion, in the study.

Jiang Yao sat at the table, her face pale. Yue Leopard's black face was the color of pig liver, and he stood with his hands down, and he didn't dare to come out.

Speaking of which, this Yue Bao and Jiang Yao have a layer of kinship, Jiang Yao is a distant cousin of Yue Bao. But Jiang Yao has always been very disgusted with Yue Bao's usual behavior, and Jiang Yao and Yue Bao are not very close.

At this time, Jiang Yao had already learned last night that Qin Li was Wu Jing's godson, Qin Li and the emperor played mahjong in the middle of the night, coaxing the emperor to be extraordinarily happy, and the emperor ordered to promulgate the Ming Patent Law and other things to Yue Bao.

The more Yue Bao listened, the more chilled he became, and he regretted going to Lin's house to make trouble last night, and he was very frightened.

Jiang Yao rolled his eyes at Yue Bao and said, "What kind of character this Qin Li is, you should know it now." There is a red eunuch next to the emperor as a godfather, and he is favored by the emperor, can you afford to be provoked by a small gambling house shopkeeper? I told you a long time ago that doing business depends on personal ability, don't engage in some crooked ways, but you don't listen. You still provoke Qin Li, I think you think your life is too long, right? ”

"I will definitely correct it, stop provoking Qin Li, and do business well." Yue Bao whispered again and again.

Seeing Yue Bao's obedient appearance, Jiang Yao said slowly, "Fortunately, Qin Li didn't mention that you went to his house to make trouble yesterday, and in my opinion, this matter has passed like this." Yue Bao, although I am the prefect of Yangzhou, who can a small prefect afford to provoke? In the future, you must remember that you must be a man with your tail between your legs! ”

"I made a note of it!" Yue Bao raised his head and said sincerely.

At this time, Yue Bao was really convinced. As the saying goes, under the low eaves, you can't help but bow your head!

Finally, Yue Bao bowed deeply to Jiang Yao and came out of the study.

Jiang Yao let out a long sigh, "Alas! This Qin Li is really a scourge, seeing that Yangzhou gambling is flourishing, this Yangzhou is becoming more and more difficult to govern. ”

Although Yue Bao is a reckless man, his brain turns extremely fast. Suddenly thinking that when he came out of the Lin family yesterday evening, Qin Li said that he could give them a way to make money in the future, and he couldn't help but light up. I secretly thought, looking at that cub's posture doesn't look like it's a lie, and now that it's over, I might as well go and ask for a lesson or two.

A person like Qin Li will definitely not be an enemy in the future. Because the other party is too powerful, he has no capital to be an enemy of others at all, but Yue Bao thinks very clearly at this point.

Just after noon, Yue Bao bought some gifts and strode into the Lin family.

Today, Qin Li went out early in the morning to play mahjong with the emperor, and he has not come back yet.

The Lin family's gambling house was taken care of by two shrewd guys, and it was smooth sailing, and Lin Ying naturally became the shopkeeper. At this time, he was sitting at home drinking tea and relaxing.

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Lin Ying saw Yue Leopard, hesitated slightly, and welcomed Yue Leopard into the living room. After all, the Lin family is a woman's family, and she is not as generous as Lin Ying, and she humiliated Yue Bao fiercely, and in the end, Lin Yan'er came out to persuade her, so that she could persuade her mother to go to the street to buy vegetables.

Lin Ying and Yue Bao sat down for tea, Qin Li frowned, and came in from outside with a lot of worries.

Yue Bao hurriedly stood up, flattering to the extreme, and said with a smile, "Qin Gongzi, yesterday everyone was a villain, you have a lot of adults, and the prime minister can support the boat in his belly, don't mind, today the little one is here to make amends." ”

Seeing a burly man looking like a third grandson in front of him, Qin Li smiled secretly in his heart, a little satisfied, and his gloomy mood was slightly relieved.

He smiled indifferently and said, "As long as the shopkeeper Yue doesn't trouble my family in the future, the past is in the past!" Hehe! ”

After saying that, he planned to go back to his room to rest. Unexpectedly, Yue Bao said with a wry smile on his face, "The villain doesn't hide it from Qin Gongzi, the villain has one more thing to do when he comes to the door today." It's just that Qin Gongzi didn't say yesterday that he wanted to continue working in the gambling house, can Qin Gongzi show the villain a clear way? Look at this ......."

When Qin Li heard this, his eyebrows were deeply locked, thoughtful.

It turned out that yesterday Qin Li really thought of a way out for Yue Bao and the others. Because now only the Lin family gambling house operates mahjong, the Lin family gambling house is overcrowded and in short supply. Qin Li thought of opening a mahjong chain store.

Yue Bao and others have been engaged in the gambling industry for a long time, and they can just use it. Of course, all of their gambling houses will become branches of the Lin Family Gambling House, and part of the proceeds will be handed over to the Lin Family Gambling House.

This is obviously a good way to expand the scope of business and increase revenue, but now Qin Li doesn't want to do it.

Today, Qin Li played mahjong with the emperor all morning, although the emperor still wanted to continue playing in the afternoon, but Liu Niangniang was not happy. Liu Niangniang said that she wanted the emperor to accompany her to visit the beautiful scenery of Yangzhou in the afternoon, and Emperor Zhengde didn't want to go against the wishes of the beauty, so he had to agree.

You know, this Liu Niangniang is Zhengde's sweetheart!

It is said that this Liu Niangniang's name is Liu Liangnu, who was originally a woman from a poor family in Datong Mansion, but was somehow discovered by Zhengde. Because Liu Niangniang is extremely beautiful, Zhengde immediately brought her into the leopard room.

Liu Niangniang also has some means, and it doesn't take long to make a righteous and moral fan, and she is fascinated.

This time, Zhengde led the army out of the capital, and according to the convention, he could not bring his dependents. Zhengde and Liu Niangniang played romance. and Liu Niangniang met at Luhe outside the capital. Liu Niangniang gave Zhengde a hosta as a token.

Who thought that Zhengde lost the hairpin when crossing the Lugou Bridge, Zhengde couldn't do it, and searched for a hairpin for three whole days.

In the end, he still didn't find it, so Zhengde turned around and went to pick up this Liu Niangniang alone.

It can be seen that Liu Niangniang's status in Zhengde's heart is much more powerful than the three armies!

The emperor went to accompany her wife, and Qin Li naturally couldn't follow as a light bulb.

It was still early, and Qin Li slipped to the Lin family's gambling house.

The gambling house was crowded with people, and everyone was sitting together, playing mahjong with great interest, Qin Li was really happy when he watched it for a long time. Just about to come out of the gambling house, suddenly a withered and unkempt man came in from outside.

The man held a few taels of silver in his hand, squeezed to a table, and shouted, "Get out of the way, make room for the uncle, the uncle has the silver in his hand, and he is here to turn over the book today, and he must get back all the losses he lost a few days ago." ”

Mahjong was originally played by four people, and there were exactly four people sitting at that table, and no one moved the place, and no one gave him the place.

The man was suddenly unhappy and scolded, "What's the matter? No one gave way? It's up to you, get out of the way for the uncle! As he spoke, he picked up a thin old man.

The old man didn't look thin, but he was not good at stubble, his eyebrows were twisted, and he scolded, "Wang Qi, what's wrong with losing red eyes?" Don't you see I'm playing? There has to be a first-come, first-served arrival! ”

"Oops! Uncle Ma, it's you! Just let me have a place and let me play for a while. I borrowed all this money, and I must return it today. Since this mahjong came out, I have lost ten taels of silver, and if I don't win some money back today, I won't be able to live my life! When the man saw the old man's might, he suddenly withered, and changed to a pleading appearance, with a crying tone in his voice.

Seeing that Qin Li had been watching quietly, he seemed to be very interested. The short guy in the gambling house quietly came over, pointed to the sloppy man Wang Qi and introduced, "He was originally a steamed bun seller on Wangyue Street in Yangzhou City." Ever since our mahjong came out, I've been fascinated like crazy. I've been playing here these days and lost a lot of money. It is said that his mother-in-law in the family made trouble with him for this death-seeking person. But this guy is just shameless, always losing and always playing. I don't know where I borrowed the money again. ”

Qin Li listened silently, his heart suddenly tightened, looking at Wang Qi, he always felt that it was not a taste. It seems that what Jiang Yao said is right, Yangzhou really has signs of family destruction because of mahjong!

In later generations, although he did not learn and did not know how to eat, drink and have fun, his conscience was still intact, and he still had the least sympathy. Seeing that Wang Qi, a small boss who sells steamed buns, fell to this step of the field because of mahjong, his heart suddenly had mixed feelings, and he couldn't tell what it was like.

Later generations of old men and old ladies are very fond of playing mahjong, and as a good entertainment pastime after tea and dinner, I have not seen anyone who has gone bankrupt for playing mahjong. The so-called "small gambling pleasure, big gambling loser", but to really treat mahjong as a gamble, it would be misguided.

If it really makes people have no intention of doing their job, and they want to play mahjong to win money, so that Daming's gambling is flourishing, then the sin of the person who launched mahjong is great. Hundreds of years later, maybe the first one on the list of traitors in the Ming Dynasty will be me Qin Li.

Thinking of this, Qin Li couldn't help but feel chills all over his body.

A gentleman loves money, and the more the merrier, but he can base his wealth on the suffering of others, and he can't do that kind of work.

Crossing the Ming Dynasty is to enjoy the glory and wealth, and sit on a beautiful wife and concubine. It can't become a scourge for the ages, leaving a stench for thousands of years!

Qin Li had no intention of staying in the gambling house any longer, and left the gambling house worried, so he returned home.

On the way, Qin Li originally dispelled the idea of opening a mahjong chain store, and he must limit the gambling funds of mahjong. At this time, seeing Yue Bao's anxious and pitiful appearance, Qin Li simply sat down, frowned and pondered.

Qin Li thought that judging from the current situation, this mahjong is really as Jiang Yao said, it is better to be blocked. Only then did he make up his mind and said lightly, "Opening a gambling house is not a legitimate business in itself, and if you want to make a lot of money by opening a gambling house, it is even more unacceptable." The only way out I can give you is to support your family. ”

"Okay! The little one now has nothing else to ask for, just to have a living, earn a little silver taels, and eat a little bit! Yue Bao lowered his breath in a low voice.

Qin Li nodded, and then he told him the idea of opening a mahjong chain store. However, Qin Li made two agreements: one is that playing mahjong can only be for entertainment, not as official gambling, and the gambling amount cannot exceed ten yuan each time. Second, the opening hours of the casino shall not exceed four hours a day.

The casino makes a profit by taking a certain percentage of the gambler's gambling capital, so that the casino's income is obviously reduced too much.

Lin Ying had no opinion on Qin Li's arrangement. He was a very easily satisfied person, as long as he could eat and drink without worrying. In his heart, money must be something outside the body, and too much is useless.

Yue Bao grinned when he heard this, and said in his heart, it's over, it seems that you don't want to make a lot of money in the future! But it's better for the casino to continue to operate than to close its doors after a break, right? Moreover, Qin Li only charges 10% of the income of the gambling house below, which is almost negligible.

Yue Bao only nodded again and again, saying that he would look forward to Qin Li in the future, and slapped Qin Li hard before leaving.

Before Yue Bao could leave the courtyard, Lin came back with a basket of vegetables. As soon as he arrived in the courtyard, he opened his throat and shouted, "Old man, you kill a thousand knives, don't go and see, something big has happened to the old Jiang head's family, it may have something to do with our son-in-law, and the people on the street are scolding our son-in-law!" ”