Huai'an City is divided into the old city, the new city, the city (also known as the city), commonly known as the "Huai'an Three Cities", with the Huai'an Mansion City is the most firm and high, easy to defend and difficult to attack, known as the reputation of "iron beating Huai'an City". Ming Hongwu year to increase the repair of the old city around the 11 miles, the east and west path, the north and south paths are all 525 zhang, basically is square, wrap bricks and stones, and build the city tower enemy platform around it, the city is 30 feet high, there are 5 city gates, the east is said to be the wind gate, the south is said to be the Yingyuan gate, the west is said to be the cloud gate, the north is said to be the sect gate, the southwest is slightly north and there is the door called the Qingfeng gate. There are sub-cities in the four gates, and there are city towers in the city, and there are 3 corner towers, 53 nest shops, and 3 water gates. The layout of the castle is somewhat similar to the pattern of the inner and outer castles of the capital division, with the streets leading to the various gates being the widest and the main thoroughfares. The residents in the middle are divided into various squares, there is "li" under the square, and then changed to "shop", the whole city has 18 squares, and the population is about more than 200,000.

Early the next morning, as soon as the garrison opened the city gate, he was startled, and it was dark outside, full of crowded people. Soon other sergeants came to report that the situation outside the other doors was the same, and seeing the fanatical expressions on the faces of these people, the sergeant suddenly realized in his heart that it must have something to do with the two heated discussions in the city.

People poured through the main roads, and the streets were crowded with people. But the most crowded and eye-catching place is South Street, which is where the prize is drawn. The further you go, the trees on both sides of the street, hanging countless colorful silks with slogans, the crowd is moving slowly towards the front, from time to time someone begging the readers in the team, the readers put on a posture, and they have to explain the meaning of the slogan, the streets are full of people, people are flocking to the podium like a tide, the ground is covered with lottery tickets that have touched the crosses, and a gust of wind blows, as if in the woods of late autumn, and as if in the rolling snowflakes of the northern country.

In a dark room in the high-end gaming area, Yang Bo sat leisurely on a Taishi chair and drank tea, and now he was the most idle person in the audience.

"There aren't enough people over there, and the queue is too long!" Yang Bo got up and observed the situation, and said to Steward Li with a frown

Steward Li put down the cup and beckoned to the back, and a few waiting jobs rushed towards the crowded low-end area under his leadership.

After a while, the panting Zhang Gou'er also ran over with a few people, "Less, young master, it's all done, Zhang Gou'er is back to his life"

Yang Bo nodded, and said warmly, "The dog has been running around hard, go drink a glass of water and rest, and go to Tie Niu to help in a while, right?" ”

For the planning of gambling activities, Yang Bo focused on publicity, the shrewd Zhang Gouer and Xiao Mochou were sent out by him to be responsible for this aspect, the dog took a group of beggars, aunts, and idlers to walk the streets and alleys in the city to promote gambling activities, Xiao Mochou was scurrying around in the nearby ten miles and eight towns, because the distance was different, Xiao Mochou has not yet rushed back. Yang Bo squinted and looked at the few guys around him, they were busy counting the big silver ingots and neatly packing them in the sandalwood box, locking them and pasting them with seals.

Yang Bo's leisure did not last long, there was an extreme shortage of people in various gambling areas, and there were some quarrels and shovings at several counters during this period.

Yang Bo checked the surrounding situation while walking, a fat aunt hired by Zhang Gouer told the nonsense of getting rich overnight in the crowd, the joke was instructed by Yang Bo, it was nothing more than a beggar who picked up a discarded prize redemption paper on the ground, but he didn't expect to win the jackpot luckily, and since then, he has three wives and four concubines......

The effect of the aunt's speech directly led to the reincarnation of the abandoned lottery tickets on the ground to be recycled and then abandoned, some people are hindered by their identities and are not easy to see with those beggars, but looking at the enthusiastic faces, Yang Bo knows that the aunt's words undoubtedly scratch their itch. Of course, the best publicity effect is those who touch, they are all dressed in red and hung colors, in the sound of firecrackers around the gaming area, there are already waiting on the side of the drummer blowing the festive suona, beating the gong and drum, congratulations to the sound of the sound of one after another, such a situation is to stimulate the madness of the crowd.

The clever shops around are just dawning, and when the people are released, they come to the vicinity of the gambling area with stoves and burdens to open their doors to do business, and there are more and more shops, and there is a tendency to spread to another street.

"I should have charged them some management fees if I knew it" Seeing the lively appearance of those stalls, Yang Bo, who was patrolling here, shook his head with some regret, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat?

"Young Master Yang, Young Master Yang ......" At this moment, a hurried voice sounded behind him

Yang Bo turned around, and a home-like person beckoned to him, he was blocked in the gaming area and couldn't get out, so he could only shout anxiously towards this side.

Yang Bo knew him and was a subordinate of Steward Li.

"What's the matter?" Yang Bo pushed all the way, and he fought his way out of the crowd

"There's a problem with one of the lottery tickets, and the steward asked me to come and see you......" said the housekeeper, wiping his sweat

"Oh?" Yang Bo was shocked and hurriedly followed his family towards the dark room.

When he arrived at the dark room, Steward Li was already waiting there, in addition to a few familiar people in the house, there was also a guy who looked like a rich man in the countryside, he was sweating while accompanying his smiling face, Yang Bo glanced at him, and he already roughly understood what was going on.

"Young Master Yang, look at this, um, ...... Redeem the prize ticket" Steward Li didn't care about being polite and stuffed a lottery ticket.

Yang Bo took it and looked at it, the paper of the Ming Dynasty was quite good, when Yang Bo used relatively expensive colored paper when making lottery tickets, the award roll was two paper cards glued together, and the front and back were stamped with an italic seal of "Huai'an Gaming", there were several annotations in it after separating the paper, the rich man's piece of paper was written with "Equal Prize, a piece of white jade paperweight, number: one one two three " There are two lines of small characters on the side, which read: "Number: 1123, one-one-two-two"

Yang Bo glanced at it a few times, looked up and said to Steward Li: "Send someone to see, have you ever redeemed the prize, the prize numbered One One Two Er?" ”

A bookkeeper took a note and wrote down the number Yang Bo said, and quickly ran towards the prize area where he was waiting for the prize, the rich man had already begun to turn pale, and he was smiling, Yang Bo knew it in his heart, and he didn't care about him.

At the beginning of the design, Yang Bo had already considered the possible surname of the fraudulent collar, and he made various preparations for this. All the prizes are divided into categories by the sexagenary branch, and the prizes in each category are numbered, and in order to ensure that the reading power of the lottery ticket is readable, he also uses a combination of Arabic numerals and English words to mark it. The lottery ticket of the rich man is obviously fake, if Yang Bo's judgment is correct, it should be imitated according to the lottery ticket numbered One One Two Er.

Sure enough, the bookkeeper came back soon, and he whispered a few words in the ear of Steward Li, and with a wave of his hand, several wolf-like housekeepers stepped forward and tied the rich man with ropes, and pushed him out for a good beating.

"The first prize has been redeemed...... And the prize corresponding to this lottery ticket does not match" Steward Li saw Yang Bo's black face and hurriedly explained to him

"Ask me, who imitated it, we must arrest this person," Yang Bo said viciously.

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