Thinking deeply, Li Kui couldn't imagine that the people of the Great Song Dynasty were so good at gambling. Mahjong has such an important position in the minds of the Great Song people, and in less than three days, all the Great Song people who have been exposed to mahjong have basically fallen.

Even when he goes to sleep every night, his ears are still sparse, and the sound of mahjong shuffling is still sparse.

Until he remembered that there was a very grand festival in the Great Song Dynasty, and the place was a little better, but in Kaifeng Mansion, it was definitely the participation of the whole people, and it was a first-class liveliness.

This is the three days after the New Year's Day of the first lunar month.

It is also known as the 'Guan Po Festival'. The proclamation of the imperial court should be like this: three days of indulgence and indulgence are actually the sacred days for the whole people to participate in gambling.

It can be explained as a grand festival attended by the whole people. This is a day when everyone from the official family, the royal family, the doctors, the common people, merchants, and geisha can indulge in it. The gambling money is so strange that later generations can't understand the enthusiasm of the people of the Great Song Dynasty for Guan Pu, food, small objects, vegetables and fruits, and even charcoal have been taken out to gamble.

Restaurants.

Craftsman.

Even the geisha Wazi Alley has a similar guanpu.

There are few participants, so they can only buy tickets on the side to watch and wait for the win. Although the sense of participation is not strong, the people are still in high spirits, and they have become the protagonists of the city of Kaifeng Mansion one by one.

Although the common competitions such as cockfighting and dog fighting are the most lively, not everyone is qualified to play, so some people who do not have such animals to make money for themselves have also come up with a variety of ways to play.

The most popular competition is sumo, which is held at the Qionglin Garden on the edge of the Jinshui River, where the emperor and the nobles of the harem will participate.

But these are the showcases of the nobles, and ordinary people also have ordinary people's play. Better than clothes, more gorgeous than decoration, and even burning a porcelain bottle, there is also a way to take it out and try it out. This kind of pediatrics, Li Kui felt funny when he heard it, playing with hair! What's the point?

For such a big Song Dynasty who has gambling genes in his bones, after Li Kui threw mahjong out, he soon became the brightest boy in the Royal Boxing Gym and even in the Baokang Gate area.

Early in the morning, someone was waiting for him to teach him how to play mahjong.

For a whole month, Li Kui didn't do anything, and he actually let people pull him to play mahjong.

When he woke up this day, Li Kui stared at Fang Liang and silently recited three sentences: "I'm going to work hard today!" The master is here to take the Jinshi exam, not to popularize the mahjong game. ”

After washing, I found that my mother Zhang was hurriedly picked up by the old mother-in-law of the neighbor's family, and Xiao'e even because she was Zhang's personal maid, and now she has mixed with candied fruits worth two pounds and one pound.

Pushing open the courtyard door, Lin Chong had been waiting at the door for a long time, and he had been waiting for a while. Lin Chong is still as dead-eyed as Li Kui when he first met him, he will never call the door, and only wait for there to be movement in the yard, and then he will shout two sentences outside the courtyard: "Uncle!" Worried that the master and others would be impatient, after Lin Chong saw Li Kui, he was eager to pull Li Kui to the carriage, and shouted while pulling: "Uncle Shi, one hundred thousand is urgent, and one of the three is missing!" ”

"Isn't there still a Wang sect leader?" Li Kui pulled the door away and wondered.

Lin Chong said helplessly: "Wang Jiaotou stayed up all night with Liu Jiaotou and others yesterday, and he lost this month's Yulu, and his old man has no money. ”

That's right, two days after Wang Jin swore by the gambling curse, he tore off his face and threw it on the ground and stepped on it several times. This just learned how to play mahjong, so he couldn't wait to pull Zhou Tong to start researching, mahjong this thing, if it is not a little interesting, it will be very boring.

At the beginning, Wang Jin didn't look down on this kind of mahjong at all, what!

It's boring to shuffle the cards, draw the cards, and then wait for the house to miss the cards to yourself.

What is this called, wait for the rabbit, and a fool will be obsessed with such a superficial thing.

But when the little meaning appeared, Wang Jin suddenly changed as if he was a person, and when he touched the cards, he had a sense of sacredness on his face, and there were words in his mouth.

At the beginning, Li Kui was worried that he would always win, which would make Wang Jin and others think that he was cheating and causing dissatisfaction, but these few people were touching, and it was difficult for him to win if he didn't want to. Fortunately, the chips were not big, so I accompanied Li Quan to rest and rest. After all, martial artists also need to rest, so they can't be stupid in the martial arts training field all their lives, right?

What is especially gratifying is that on the fifth day, Li Lin also learned to play mahjong.

But when Wang Jinhui played mahjong, it was different, shouting to save the game, and raising the chips.

At this moment, it was immediately stimulated.

The Imperial Boxing Gym was the first Great Song Dynasty Yamen to fall.

Secondly, the Imperial Doctor's Office on the side also fell almost at the same time.

When An Zhongyang was a doctor, everyone disliked him in the Imperial Doctor's Office, but now he has become a guest of honor, and he easily dare not offend a capable person.

Many yamen in the inner city also fell one after another.

But because there is no one to teach mahjong skills, I can only play with a person who can play with my eyes. The beauty said: intertwined.

Among the many mahjong masters, Li Kui is the most famous and is respected as the Baokangmen gambling king.

Li Kui himself couldn't understand why he was just a pair of mahjong, and he became the gambling king of Baokangmen in a daze, why did it become like this?

When he figured it out, the Great Song people who could treat Guan Pu as a festival were really weak in their resistance to mahjong. I don't even want them to learn, and I don't want to.

More than half a month ago, Li Kui, who really couldn't stand being harassed like this, had to let Qiu Xuanhuai open a mahjong parlor on the royal street. The mahjong parlor does not accept individual visitors and only focuses on teaching.

Tuition fees are staggeringly expensive, 20 per day. There will be no 10-day study, and all tuition fees will be refunded. When this rule was established, Qiu Xuanhuai was still quite nervous, feeling that the young master was so arrogant, and the ending might make his old man embarrassed. But after all, Li Kui is the master, he is in charge, even if he has doubts, he does not dare to question Li Kui's decision.

In fact, Li Kui also has enough reasons to do this, mahjong, if you study hard for ten days, don't expect him to play mahjong in this life, it's not that the teacher is not conscientious enough, but the students are brainless, the teaching cost is too high, and it's not worth continuing to bother. Li Quan has learned, and he has learned it in ten days, and he still dares to say that he is a normal person?

Basically, the first day of familiarizing yourself with the rules of playing cards stumbled; The next day, skillfully calculate the number of fans, and play cards neatly; On the third day, the apprenticeship can begin.

But even so, the first batch of 300 students was full in half a day. The students who were not admitted even refused guests because they were dissatisfied with the mahjong parlor, and even went to Kaifeng Mansion to file a lawsuit and report.

The people of Bianliang, Tokyo, are so strange, they are rejected from gambling, and they still have the face to report it.

This also made Li Kui refresh his new understanding of the Great Song Dynasty, I thought that he had been in the Great Song Dynasty for two or three years and had enough understanding of the Great Song Dynasty. But as a result, he didn't understand at all that the people of the Great Song Dynasty had a deep thirst for entertainment, which can be summed up in two words, that is: failure!

To sum up, there is only one reason for the failure, the Great Song Dynasty, it seems that only by living in Kaifeng Mansion can it be regarded as living the life of the Great Song Dynasty. Elsewhere, it's just scratching the surface.

What made him feel even more incredible was that Qiu Xuanhuai also placed a super order for 10,000 pairs of mahjong to the Ruzhou Qingliangsi Kiln Factory.

That's right, it's the kiln factory that fired official kilns for the royal family, but they also received large orders from the private sector. It's just that private orders will not be as refined as government orders. After all, the Great Song Dynasty is a commercial society, so it has become the tax supervisors of the Great Song Dynasty, and the kilns and mines in various places can all throw away the so-called face in order to make money. If after the year, the mahjong of the Ruyao Qingliangsi brand is flying all over the sky and has become a bargain on the bad street, Li Kui really has a headache, and most of this pot will have to be carried by himself. After a thousand years, I am afraid that the famous saying of porcelain in the world will be changed.

The family wealth is thousands, it is not as good as a piece of Jun porcelain, and a piece of Ru kiln.

Changed to: family wealth, not as good as a piece of Jun porcelain, a pair of Ru kiln mahjong.

As soon as he entered the courtyard of his senior brother Zhou Tong, he saw Li Yun drinking strong tea with a reluctant face, and the tea soup was almost catching up with the ink, Li Yun, who was haggard, raised his eyelids and glanced at Li Kui, yawned, and said hello.

Li Kui kindly asked, "What, you haven't slept again?" ”

"I was about to fall asleep last night, and I was pulled by Wang Jiaotou to turn over the book, which is good, this Yulu, who just received it yesterday, folded it in one night." Li Yun doesn't care, his calculation ability is good, unlike Wang Jin, who played a few rounds of cards and often found that one card was missing. If this product can be successfully turned, Li Yun will change his surname.

Li Kui smiled and said, "Sect Leader Wang has stopped now, right?" ”

"No, I found a job to teach playing cards, and went to the Japanese army to teach skills. Three or five days are indispensable. ”

"Wang Jiaotou usually goes to the Japanese army to teach guns, and this time he goes to teach mahjong, I'm afraid it's enough for him. There are 20 commanders of the Japanese army, 10,000 people, if they all learn, Wang Jiaotou wants to leave the barracks before the Lantern Festival. ”

"That's it, this is also his creation, he finally has a place to eat, and there is money to take, and he has made a lot of money."

Ha ha...... A bunch of undisciplined laughers were out of breath.

In Tokyo, there are only a few rich people who can go to the Royal Street Mahjong Hall to learn to play mahjong, and more people want to play, but they don't know the rules. He urgently needs someone who knows how to solve his problems.

Li Kui looked at the face opposite, looking a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it, so he raised his hand and clasped his fist and asked, "Who ......is this brother?"

"In the next day, thank you Li Gongzi for taking care of your brother." Li Qianjun stood up and clasped his fists and saluted: "Before going down, I was on business on Qinfeng Road, and I didn't see each other, and I asked Li Gongzi not to blame." ”

"It turned out to be the brother of the previous steward, and he was clumsy, although he felt familiar before, he didn't recognize it. However, Brother Ling doesn't need to be taken care of by others, he is a talented person, but the past few years have been unfavorable and unlucky. And Brother Ling is diligent and humble, and he will have a great future in the future. Li Kui smiled indifferently, his tone was neither humble nor arrogant, neither putting himself in the position of the benefactor, nor saying that Li Qianjin was unbearable.

It's just a relationship between the employer and the steward, and there is no need to cling to friendship.

If Li Qianjun was to thank Li Kui at this time, Li Kui's meaning just now would be very clear, and there was no need.

"Don't dare to hope." Li Qianjun was really worried because his younger brother was caught in the harem battle. Now that the Liu family has made a fortune, Liu Qingjing has been named a virtuous concubine, and Liu Baosheng is even more a court teacher, Li Qianjun is even more worried about his younger brother's comfort. He brought a thousand pieces today, and wanted to honor Li Kui by playing cards and get closer to each other.

Zhou Tong held a black lacquered box, put it on the square table with a chattering spirit, and then introduced to Li Kui: "Brother Xian, look at what good treasures you have brought to your brother?" ”

After opening the box, a piece of lustful light cyan mahjong was full of yards in the box, Li Kui gently picked up one, as smooth as clotted fat, the feel was excellent, and he couldn't help but sigh: "After all, it is an imperial kiln factory, and the craftsmanship is so outstanding." ”

I have to say that the Ruzhou Qingliangsi kiln factory is too powerful. The various royal workshops of the Great Song Dynasty can also accept orders from outside, and the name of the business empire is not to be said. Qingliangsi kiln factory received the pattern on the first day, the first batch of ten sets of molds on the second day has been done, the third day of the mud embryo drying, the sixth day of glazing, less than half a month, the first batch of 100 pairs of mahjong sent to the capital to start selling.

This level of efficiency is simply breathtaking.

If it weren't for the fact that the army of the Great Song Dynasty was too waste, with such a strong manufacturing system and logistics capabilities, if the army of the Great Song Dynasty was a little more decent, it would even be able to fight the surrounding countries all over the place.

"Brother Xian has seen it?" Zhou Tong originally thought that Li Kui couldn't avoid the battle in the past few days, obviously tired of playing mahjong. Today, he bought a pair of Ruyao mahjong at a high price, and was going to find Li Kui to win over his feelings.

Can playing mahjong win over feelings?

Yes.

However, it is not reliable.

He then thought that Li Kui was the inventor of mahjong, and this mahjong card may have some relationship with Li Kui.

Li Kui explained: "I heard that Huitong Qianzhuang placed an order for the Imperial Kiln Factory, and I am afraid that this is the batch of goods. The best ones were sent to the palace, which was a defective product. However, there are not many on the market. ”

Zhou Tong suddenly said a message: "By the way, the young shopkeeper of Huitong Money Village is talented and capable." I heard that on the third day of the first lunar month, they will hold the Kaifeng Mansion Mahjong Guan Fight Competition, the first place, the reward is 10,000. ”

"Playing so big?"

Li Yun's eager eyes, couldn't help but eager.

And Li Kui is a little silent, this is definitely playing off the line, these blind things, can this thing hold a competition?

Sioux House.

Su Zhe suffered a lot of anger in the Vertical Arch Palace, and the good old man Su Song was attacked by a group of imperial historians again, these people of the new party who have no bottom line are so shameless that people are gnashing their teeth.

When I returned home, I first went to the small courtyard where my nephew was studying, outside the courtyard, I heard the sound of reading aloud, Su Zhe nodded with satisfaction, and came to his study, Su Zhe called the housekeeper, and said on a whim: "Is there any news from my brother's three disciples today?" ”

"The second master's disciple?" The housekeeper didn't react, and Su Zhe reminded: "It's Li Kui, Li Yun, and Gao Yu." Seeing that the first month is approaching, Shangshu Province has already drawn up a date, and the provincial examination will be held in Gongyuan in late February. They have been in the capital for more than a month, even if there are new things everywhere and they have played and made trouble, they should pay attention to reading, right? Let me ask you, how many of them are now studying at the disciple's house of the second brother's family? ”

Su Shi had many disciples in the capital.

Now the best disciples in the capital are no more than two people, Huang Tingjian and Qin Guan.

Su Zhe pondered, if Li Kui was not stupid, he should study hard at Huang Tingjian's house. Although Qin Guan's knowledge is good, the article is biased, talented, and reveals a strong personal style, which is a taboo in the imperial examination strategy, if you are unlucky, there is a risk of falling.

The housekeeper remembered that there was such a thing, but he didn't know whether to tell Su Zhe the news he knew. Now these three people are thriving in the capital, especially Li Kui, who has only been in Kaifeng Mansion for more than a month, and has been mixed to the extent that almost everyone in the capital knows about it. On the surface, it's a good thing, but the fame of these three has nothing to do with reading.

Thinking of back then, the old lady took the second master and the third master to the capital for several months and did not let the two masters become famous.

If he hadn't met Old Man Ouyang Xiu in the end, what happened to the second and third masters would probably be difficult to say.

The housekeeper stood up, he really didn't dare to say anything about Li Kui, for fear of making the old man angry, so he got up: "Master, didn't you say that they should be left to fend for themselves?" ”

"It's Gao Yu and Li Yun, who are embarrassed. Li Kui is different, Brother Yao Fu said that this person is the key to whether my old party can forge ahead. If Li Kui fails this imperial examination and wastes three years, I am afraid that our situation will be even more difficult. Perhaps only this son can resolve the gap between us and His Majesty. ”

Su Zhe rubbed his fingers tiredly, after Zhang Zihou returned to Beijing, Su Zhe felt more and more that this person was acting domineering and difficult to deal with, and what scared him the most was the hatred in Zhang Di's eyes.

And the only way to keep the old party from falling apart is to keep the emperor's hatred for the old party from pouring in. Su Zhe also knew that he and other ministers had done a lot in the past few years, and he was bent on following the Empress Dowager Gao, but he ignored the feelings of the official family who had already become an adult. One thing in particular may have planted a sting in the emperor's heart that will never be removed.

This stinger is not Cheng Yi, an old man who forces the emperor to be old and serious every day, but the emperor's biological mother Zhu.

Emperor Shenzong is the son of the Empress Dowager, and as a crown prince, there is naturally no problem at all in inheriting the throne. But today's His Majesty is not born to the Empress Dowager Xiang, but to the harem concubine Zhu. The Zhu family was not born as a female official, but a palace maid who was fortunate to be sent by the Divine Sect and had a humble status. But the mother is more precious than the son, and Sima Guang didn't know who he had listened to, and after the death of Shenzong and the new emperor's accession to the throne, Shangjuan begged Zhu to be named a concubine.

The queen mother and the concubine, the difference between one word.

But it is an orthodox difference.

At the same time, it is also equivalent to telling the world that the emperor is not the undisputed prince who ascends the throne, but a concubine.

I'm afraid that no emperor can endure such humiliation, and the saints can endure it today, but there are also signs that they can't bear it.

The wrong move at the beginning was finally retributed to himself and others, and Su Zhe also began to get anxious. And Li Kui's ability to be an official is no problem, and his knowledge is not too bad, especially when Li Kui actually has a relationship with Liu. As long as Li Kui and the Liu family marry and then win the Jinshi, Li Kui can become an opportunity to ease the contradictions between the old party and the emperor.

When the housekeeper heard that the master valued Li Kui so much, he suddenly became nervous: "Master, Li Gongzi didn't go to any house to study. ”

Su Zhe frowned and said, "If you don't study, what is he going to do?" ”

"He's become the gambling king!" The housekeeper was about to cry, he knew this, he ran to mention it, wouldn't it be a lot less trouble?

Su Zhe was dumbfounded: "The king of gambling? What the heck? ”

The housekeeper said bitterly: "The gambling king of Baokangmen, and there are good people who respect him as - Tokyo Mashen." ”