Chapter 22: The Nine-Fingered Ghost Hand
"Great! Big! Big! Go big! β
Dozens of gamblers gathered in front of a rectangular gaming table, dozens of pairs of eyes staring directly at the dice cup in the dealer's hand, and the dealer slowly opened it.
The three dice lay quietly, and the dealer glanced at it and said, "Four, six, six, buy big win!" β
"Hahaha! Win again! β
The three bald gamblers pulled all the chips in front of them into their arms, the dealer's face was a little unpleasant, these three guys have been here for three days in a row, every time they bet on the dice, every time they win, the dealer is almost bankrupt, and always can't catch the handle.
The dealer is confident that his dice throwing skills are absolutely first-class in Shanghai, although he can't reach the realm of supernatural skills, but he wants to be big and will never come out of a small, but these three bald heads don't seem to be simple, no matter how they throw, it seems that they can't escape from their palms, not only can they guess the size of the points they throw, but also every time they can win the banker's bankruptcy, which is terrible!
"Tell the boss."
The dealer whispered to the people around him, if you win once and a half times in the casino, even if the number is larger, no one will say anything, but someone will come to congratulate you on your good luck, but if you use the casino as an ATM, then you can't say anything.
"Hehe, the brothers are really lucky."
The dealer smiled and congratulated, since his debut at the age of twenty, he has never suffered such a big loss, although it is a polite congratulations on the surface, in fact, he is about to ask their eight ancestors in his heart.
"Hahaha, it's so easy to make money in the casino, no wonder our luck is so good, we'll be back tomorrow, everyone, see you tomorrow!"
The three bald men exchanged a lot of chips for a silver silver ocean and put them in the sack they carried with them, and the dealer glanced at the thug who was standing at the door watching the field, and the thug signaled that he understood, and after the three bald men walked out of the casino, they quietly followed behind, and if anyone had a good eye, they could clearly see a black gun handle pinned to the thug's waist.
After the three bald heads left, the gamblers around the gambling table immediately turned into birds and beasts, and most of them did not pay attention to it. In contrast, it is not uncommon for people to go bankrupt overnight.
"Fifth master, those three bald heads came again yesterday, and this time they won more than the previous ones. They are also too rampant to understand any rules. β
The thugs watching the scene were reporting to an old man with his back on his back about tonight.
This old man who looks to be about sixty years old is Qin Ming, the boss of Greater Shanghai! Liang Shaoxiong's stepfather is him! No one looks like a big guy who has been on the beach for decades.
Under the rule of the United States and Britain and other countries, the concession has long become an important port for the foreign traffic of the Republic of China government, and foreign goods and foreigners can be seen everywhere, although Shanghai Tang is nominally managed by the mayor, in fact, the lifeblood of Shanghai Tang's economy is in the hands of foreigners, coupled with the strong armed forces of foreigners in the concession, even the mayor has to respect foreigners for three points, for fear that the foreigners will not be satisfied, in case of provoking trouble, it will be terrible, so the government's management of foreigners is to turn a blind eye.
Although the government has a pocket, it does not mean that all the people buy foreigners' accounts, in the former Qing Dynasty, there was a martial artist named Huo Yuanjia who fought on the streets of Shanghai Beach and beat Russian martial artists who despised the Chinese, which greatly increased the morale of the Chinese.
There is another kind of people who don't take foreigners in their eyes, that is, the local snakes in Shanghai, the tycoons in Shanghai, who are like fish in water in the business field, which is not covered by someone in the official face, and which is not some power in the road. They are all a group of people who are the second in the world, where are they willing to endure the bullying of foreigners, not to mention in their own territory, this group of black bosses and foreigners have also had a lot of conflicts, and the government and foreigners have also suppressed it many times.
Later, the government, the foreigners and these black bosses reached a partial agreement, and the two sides did not invade each other without interfering with each other's interests, which also formed a rare tranquility on the surface of Shanghai Tang. Pornography, gambling and drugs can be seen everywhere in Shanghai, and even if the people in the police station see it, they sometimes don't bother to take care of it, maybe there is some force behind these people, and they can't take risks.
In the British Concession, a bustling crowd of people lined up at the entrance of a nightclub called Greater Shanghai, including Mrs. Kuo and Mrs. Yang wearing gold and silver, although this is a casino opened by Chinese in the British Concession, but the foreigners in line are very aware of the rules, all honestly line up to enter, and none of them dare to make a loud noise.
In Shanghai, who doesn't know the reputation of Qin Ming and Qin Wuye, in the media he is a rich philanthropist, who has helped children displaced in the war many times, and won a good fortune, on the road, he is a famous bigwig, almost controlling half of the gambling industry in Shanghai, there was once a small gang that did not have long eyes to challenge Qin Wuye's power, and he was removed from Shanghai in just a few days. Even foreigners don't dare to offend Qin Ming and Qin Wuye easily.
A dragon in the river, two snakes on the beach!
Qin Ming is one of the two snakes of the two-headed snake, Qin Ming followed his father in Jiangnan since he was a child, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made an uprising, Qin Ming's Lao Tzu participated in Li Hongzhang's Huai Army, killed countless enemies in the military camp, did the three-grade military attachΓ©, has been active in southern Jiangsu, and then the Qing court was not good, Qin Ming took Lao Tzu's family foundation, and moved his family to Shanghai Tang, relying on his father's previous relationship in the army, plus Qin Ming himself is also very smart, and his brain is also good, and he soon became a mixed wind and water in Shanghai.
Later, when the revolutionary party revolted, Qin Ming also secretly provided a large amount of material support, and later the revolutionary army went to Shanghai and disposed of a group of slaves loyal to the former Qing Dynasty, not only did not attack Qin Ming, but also praised Qin Ming, saying that he was a good citizen of the Republic of China.
When the new government came to power, the new mayor realized that Qin Ming's power was too big and not conducive to his own management, and he wanted to suppress Qin Ming, at this time, Qin Ming's power had expanded to various fields after decades of development.
After several years of hard work, it was only two forces that could barely confront Qin Ming.
Qin Ming has a little-known characteristic, that is, he has never only worn Tang costumes, whether it is at a foreigner's banquet or a gathering of Chinese people, no one has ever seen him wearing a suit.
"Oh? Since you don't know the rules, do you follow the rules? Let them have a long insight. β
Qin Ming asked kindly, outsiders may not know what the law is, but insiders are clear, in the casino, it doesn't matter if you make a small fuss, it's just Tu Yile. But if you win too much and infringe on the interests of the casino, the rule is to eat as much as you want and spit out, and even your life will be put into it. Don't think that this is Boss Qin's unreasonableness, in fact, no matter where it is, this rule is universal, and it will even cause trouble to the family, Boss Qin is already kind, he just wants to teach a lesson and remove his legs.
"Fifth master, this, this, this."
The thug became a little slurred, and his face became a little ugly.
"It's okay to say something, the fifth master won't blame you." Qin Wuye is fierce outside, that is to the enemy, and he has always taken good care of his own people, especially his brothers.
The thug got Qin Ming's assurance, so he let go, what he was afraid of was that Qin Ming would start a fire to blame himself, in case that was the case, it would be troublesome.
"Fifth master, those three bald heads have won no less than tens of thousands of oceans today, and even Mr. Zheng has been planted in their hands, Xiaoliu quietly followed them today, planning to get the money back in a place where there are few people, but when it comes to the general, he loses the person."
"Hehe, I don't blame you for this, it seems that this was premeditated, and I Qin Wu was going against me in Shanghai."
Hearing this, Qin Ming didn't laugh angrily, he had been on the beach for many years, and no one had dared to do it with him, even if it was a dragon with the same name as himself.
"Fifth Master, I don't see it yet."
A person who looked to be more than ten years younger than Qin Wuye pushed the door in, without even saying hello, the person who came in had white hair, and he was wearing a decent Zhongshan suit on his body, and he looked very energetic.
"Hehe, who should I be, it turns out that you old thing is back, Xiaosi, you go back first, and I'll call you later if I have something."
Qin Wuye was very happy to see the old man come in, and he could see that these two people were old acquaintances. When Xiao Si left, he bowed respectfully to the old man and said, "Master Zhang! β
Zhang Ye smiled and bowed his hand to signal him to go down, and Xiao Si gently closed the door when he left.
"Hehe, I don't know what troubles Qin Wuye has encountered recently, you might as well say it to the old man."
Zhang Ye sat at Qin Ming's table, took out a cigar from Qin Ming's cigarette case and took a puff hard, not showing any respect for Qin Ming from beginning to end, and Qin Ming was not angry.
"Hahaha, where, it's just that a few ignorant hairy boys have been provoked by others, and I don't need to remember Brother Zhang, my brother will naturally handle it properly."
Qin Ming bowed his hand disapprerovingly, Boss Qin's family has a big business, and he didn't take the loss of tens of thousands of oceans in his eyes, nor did he take it to heart, the solution in Boss Qin's eyes is nothing more than to arrest them and force the instructors behind the scenes to come out when they come next time, and then break their legs and throw them into the Huangpu River.
"Don't jump to conclusions."
Zhang Ye gave a different opinion on the conclusion reached by Qin Wuye, although Zhang Ye looked younger than Qin Wuye, but in fact, Zhang Ye was five or six years older than Qin Wuye.
If you look closely, you can see that Zhang Ye only has four fingers on his left hand, and the entire little finger is missing.
For others, the loss of a finger will cause a lot of changes in life, but this is indeed an honor in the eyes of Zhang Ye.
People who are mixed up in Shanghai, maybe not too many people will know this name when mentioning Zhang Ming, if you mention the nine-fingered ghost hand, even a three-year-old child may have to give a thumbs up!
When Zhang Ming was young, he offended Lao Qian in the casino and was cut off a finger by Lao Qian. Zhang Ming vowed to practice gambling hard, and finally practiced a pair of amazing skills, crisscrossing the gambling world for more than 30 years, without a single defeat, and broke into the name of the nine-fingered ghost hand.
It was only in the hands of another gambling king, Ye Batian, that he later folded his wings, which was also the only defeat in Zhang Ming's gambling career, and this defeat did not cast a shadow on Zhang Ming's career, but greatly contributed to his fame. It wasn't until later that Qin Ming wanted to intervene in the gambling world on the beach, personally invited Zhang Ming, and privately called him a brother, that Zhang Ming was accepted under his command and became the head gambling king in Shanghai at night.
"Oh? According to Brother Zhang, what do you think? β
Although Qin Ming is Zhang Ming's boss, sometimes he has to listen to Zhang Ming's opinion on things in the casino, after all, interlacing is like a mountain, although Qin Ming controls more than half of the casinos in Shanghai, it doesn't mean that Qin Ming also knows how to deal with things in the casino.
"You say they were instructed, but I don't think so."
Zhang Ming took a puff of his cigar and continued.
"As you said, in this Shanghai Beach, who doesn't know the reputation of Qin Wuye, even if some people are dissatisfied with the Fifth Master, how many people who can get mixed up in Shanghai Beach are fools, people who want to move you, and who will not consider your power first, even if someone wants to design to harm you, who would dare to take it?"
Turning his head and thinking about it, what Zhang Ming said is not unreasonable, in this way, it makes some sense, isn't there only one possibility left, that is, they are a group of new masters.
"Hehehe, Brother Qin, don't worry, continue to listen to me."
Zhang Ming saw Qin Ming's thoughts and interrupted Qin Ming's train of thought.
"Don't hide it from Brother Qin, the old man has been sending people to pay attention to these gamblers for several days, and according to the old man, they have not made a thousand, nor have they violated the rules of the casino."
"Oh? Not out of the thousands? β
As soon as Qin Ming moved his murderous intentions, he was dispelled by Zhang Ming's words, in Qin Ming's consciousness, a person who can easily take tens of thousands of oceans from the hands of his gambling king master is definitely not a serious person.
"Nope."
Zhang Ming shook his head and said.
"According to my observations in the past few days, these people have been playing dice, never playing poker, if my guess is correct, they should have practiced an extraordinary gambling skill, can accurately guess the number of dice."
"Really?"
Zhang Ming also revealed a look of appreciation and admiration between his words, to be honest, Zhang Ming did start to love talents, and raised the idea of wanting to include them in his own name, so that with their ability to play dice, I believe that under their own training, it is not impossible to become the dice king of Shanghai Town.
The prosperity of Shanghai Tang is only limited to the concession of foreigners, outside the concession, is the national area ruled by the Nationalist Government, although it is only separated from the concessions of the great powers, but the survival level of the people is indeed a world of difference, the rich people all live in the concession, and those who live outside are all poor people who have no money. (To be continued.) )