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It's September now, it is the preparation period of the Tianning Festival, the capital is full of lights, the bigwigs of all walks of life and the provinces either enter Beijing in person or send envoys to congratulate, for a time Beijing every day is like a big gathering, people come and go endlessly, ready to meet this annual grand festival The bigwigs in the court have also temporarily put aside their grievances, and the matter of the prince has also been put aside, and the preparations for the ceremony wholeheartedly, who also understands that now is a good time for them to behave in front of the emperor.

Zhao Ta entered Beijing for more than ten days, went to the court twice, had dinner in the palace, and met all the aunts, aunts, brothers and sisters, relatives that is, his grandfather's family, and he had already prepared a heavy gift to greet him. His time in Beijing is very short, and there is no old thing, the left neighbor is the eldest brother Zhao Tan, the right neighbor is the third brother Zhao Yan, and the rest are still young and raised in the palace.

Early in the morning of this day, Zhao Ta went out with a few guards and an unworthy guard, his palace is in the northeast of the city, adjacent to Mahang Street in the west, looking up to the east, you can clearly see the iron tower standing there, and around the palace there are some residences of middle-level officials in Beijing, which can be said to be a civil servant community.

They didn't ride horses, but the group staggered westward for only a mile, and they had reached the street. Although it was morning, the streets were already full of people and bustling, but fortunately they did not ride horses, otherwise they would have had to be stuck in traffic.

There are dense pharmacies in the north of the street: Jinzi Medical Officer Pharmacy, Du Jin Hook's Family, Cao's Dusheng Medicine Pills, Palangzhong's Pediatrics, Ren's Obstetrics...... These shops have unique trademark signboards to attract passing customers. The market has both special goods, as well as general goods, as well as retail goods, etc., the morning market mats that sell these goods, all kinds, varied, just like walking into the modern small commodity wholesale market, from the precious gold and silver jewelry, to the needle and thread, daily necessities can be bought here.

At the entrance of every street and alley, there are groups of people of all shapes and sizes, among them are wood and bamboo craftsmen, handyman porters, brick and tile masons, and even Taoist monks, all of whom are waiting to be hired. These "manpower" stand with their necks stretched out one by one, just hoping that people will call. The reason why they came out early to sell their labor was because in the big cities, there were a large number of millionaires, feudal officials, powerful authorities, and yamen officials...... This requires a large labor market to serve them. Every morning is the best time for these dignitaries to choose these "manpower"1 or more accurately, the low-ranking citizens, waiting for the high-ranking citizens to be hired.

Zhao Ta and his entourage came out, Pan Long and Xue Bao, several people were the "head snakes" who lived in Beijing, and the others were a group of "mud legs" he brought from Xiangyi, of course, including Zhao Jing, the prince. The prosperity here made them dizzy, and the noisy shouting made them overwhelmed.1 The enthusiastic shop guys told them that they couldn't bear to refuse, and after only half of the street, Zhao Ta's wallet was deflated, and there were some more messy big bags in everyone's hands. bag, I don't know what to do with Lu Dao taking it back, but these people are still thriving, and they have no intention of stopping, anyway, they are all accounts of the prince, of course they will not let it go.

"Second master, shouldn't we eat something!" Jianxi, who was following Zhao Ta, pointed to the purse and then pointed to the restaurant in front of him, and asked in a low voice.

"Oh, it's noon now, I'm hungry too, shall we go upstairs and rest?" Zhao Ta suddenly understood, the money he brought today was about to be spent, otherwise there would be no money for food, he nodded and turned to everyone.

"Okay, but I know that there is a restaurant in front of Lang Road, which specialized in river fresh in the early years, and it tastes very good, so why don't we go there!" Xue Bao replied.

"Okay, just listen to Master Xue, I walked in front of the door back then, but I never went in, let's try it today!" Hong Ba said with a smile.

"Second master, wait a while, Zhao Xin has entered the jewelry shop over there, and he hasn't come out yet!" Zhao Yuzhong looked left and right and said.

"Then let's go and have a look!" Zhao Ta said with a smile, but there were few responders, and these men were not interested in these, so he had to let Jianxi go in and pay the bill. After a while, Zhao Xin came out happily with a delicate ivory comb, followed by Jianxi with a sad face, he smiled bitterly at the prince and shook the money bag in his hand, and there were a few clanging sounds of copper plates hitting it. ,

Zhao Ta saw the happy demeanor and understood, the money was spent, but this group of people were waiting for their own treats, do they still want to go home to get the money, or it seems that the overlord meal, just when he was thinking of ideas, he suddenly saw a group of people holding a long well pole, with clothes, money strings, and a fish fluttering on it, they greeted the crowd, whistled, and walked through the downtown area.

"What are they doing?" Zhao Ta looked at the strange behavior of this group of people and asked curiously.

"Second master, they are Guan Po who has won these artifacts and is showing off!" Pan Long said with a smile, but look at the question mark on the prince's face, knowing that he hadn't figured it out yet, and explained it to him again, Zhao Ta figured out that this "Guan Pu, in fact, is gambling, betting big with a small amount, but this kind of gambling is not in the gambling hall, but on the street, the goods of ordinary vendors, or toys, or candy, or clothes or mirrors, or pearls and jade, can be sold or closed." The owner and the merchant agree on the things to buy and sell, and the price is closed according to the quality, and the winning is the thing, and the loss is the money, which is simple and easy, as long as there is money and things.

"Gambling money, gambling on the street, no one cares?" Zhao Ta asked in surprise.

"Second master, how can you not care! My big Song Dynasty is only limited to New Year's Day, winter solstice, and cold food for three days each, but now the Tianning Festival is approaching, so the official government is putting pounces, taking the meaning of the people of ten thousand people, you see that the people on the street are all coming and going, regardless of whether they are high or low, they are going to and fro several big places, competing to buy, is the second master interested in a try? Seeing Xi said with a smile, just because the palace has always banned gambling, so everyone didn't dare to mention it, and now when the prince is asked, they are all looking forward to it. Small gambling ceremony, big gambling hurts the body, since the government allows, everyone will be happy, but if you say that you will lose and your family will be ruined, and you can't lift your pants, don't ask me to borrow money! Zhao Ta saw that everyone was eager to try, and agreed with a smile.

Everyone saw that the prince was approved, and Pan Long's several nursing homes seemed to have been provoked to be unbearable, so they made an appointment to meet in Tongle Building after an hour, and immediately dispersed as birds and beasts, and each looked for a target. There were only a few guards left around Zhao Qing, such as Jianxi, Zhao Xin, and Erwa, and he smiled bitterly, and also found a place with a lot of people to see what was going on.

Zhao Ta turned around for a while to understand that Guan Pounce is not unruly, and there are some conventional specific sayings when Guan Pounce, the two sides of the pounce will take the money on the ground or in the tile basin, without any effort, in the words of the Song people: Throw money for the blogger's play, see how much the front of the money is, and the front "said the word, said before dusk". Where money is on the back, it is called "pure". If several coins are all thrown into the back, it is called "Pure Pure" and "Pure Pure" is a sign of winning.

The purpose of the shop is to attract business, but some citizens do get chariots and horses, houses, singing boys, dancing girls, utensils, and food from the shop...... This kind of accidental gambling is not able to solve people in the upside down, which is really meager capital, and hopeless, and also provokes the citizens living at the bottom of the society to go to the idea of shutting down no matter what, just like now some people for tens of millions of jackpots, at the expense of embezzlement and embezzlement of public funds to buy lottery tickets. However, a pounce means a pounce, and the people who pounce are all cautious, and some are so nervous that they "ah, ah, yes...... Shout!

Zhao Ta and the others walked to a shop, where a group of people gathered, looking like a group of noble sons there "Guan Pu" He leaned over to take a look, these people seemed to be red-eyed, and a jade belt was placed on the ground, "My jade belt is made in the palace, how about the price of fifty yuan?" A seventeen or eighteen-year-old said.

"This son, I think it's better to forget it, I'll give you back your horse, let's forget it!" The shopkeeper said.

"You don't know each other well, the young master's family doesn't lack these few dollars, so I want to fight with you!" The boy pointed to the shopkeeper and shouted.

"That's it, you have a lot of money and nowhere to spend it, you just want to have fun, you hurry up and put this profit!" One of his companions shouted.

"Hurry up, otherwise I will make my son-in-law unhappy, smash your shop, and burn your house!" Several people's domestic servants and guards also made a fuss, and they had the intention of beating people if they disagreed.

Zhao Ta looked at it for a while, and understood, the shopkeeper opened a gold and silver antique shop, in order to attract the public to pounce with himself, and he did not lose the capital, carefully designed, and asked the craftsman to make a three-foot silver disc, which was engraved with hundreds of birds and utensils, they were no more than half an inch long, as large as a human finger, and the small one was only the size of a bean, with shoes and belts, and bows and strings. The vendor rotates this trivial disc and uses a needle and arrow with a five-colored feather to attract the public to "buy" the buyer to throw a lot of money, and then he can use the needle arrow to shoot at the rotating disc. After the same circle stops, the seller will see if there is any difference with his own observation, if there is no difference, the citizen who shoots the poultry and fish utensils on the disc can get different items, of course, the smaller the part to get the more valuable things, and the dealer takes the needle and arrow from the disc, and then rotates the disc to start the next sale.

To shoot a bird's eye on a rotating plate, a character's shoes, this is quite difficult, so people only get some worthless gadgets, these sons pounced here for a long time, lost all the gold and silver on their bodies, and rode horses, and only got a bunch of bamboo answers, lacquer boxes and the like, the most valuable are only two small silver darts, of course, they are unwilling, and they began to pounce on their bodies after reaching the most.

The shopkeeper had no choice but to follow them, and turned the silver plate again, a guy took the arrow and squinted at the plate and prepared to shoot, but the plate turned fast, to see the fine patterns on the top, without a superhuman eyesight, accurate techniques, it is impossible to do...... (To be continued.) ）