It will definitely not work, and Lao Zhu will not allow it.

Lao Zhu, who started with a bowl, was born as an honest man, and he was resistant to and rejected such harmful things as gambling houses.

Now that Zheng Xiong has the heart to rectify, Lao Zhu agrees, so he naturally wants to give it convenience.

"How many large and small gambling houses are there in Yingtianfu? What is the relationship between China and China? How much do you know about this?"

Mao Xiang was still calm, obviously doing a lot of homework, and was calm about Lao Zhu's questions.

"There are one hundred and thirty gambling houses in Tianfu, and there are about twenty officials above the third grade who are related to the title of marquis or above, and the others are all below the third grade and not in the stream."

When Lao Zhu heard this, he couldn't help but gasp in his heart.

In this way, even if a gambling house radiates 100 people, then there will be tens of thousands of people participating in gambling.

Although tens of thousands of people may not seem like much, there are tens of thousands of families that can be connected with them.

This kind of instability is absolutely intolerable for any aspiring emperor.

Lao Zhu immediately asked.

"What's the situation? I don't even know how there are so many gambling houses."

Mao Xiang still looked unchanged and replied to Lao Zhu.

"The main reason is that there are more new gambling houses, and in the past year, dozens of new casinos have been opened."

"After a few years of recuperation, the current nobles and officials in Beijing have some savings in their hands."

"In addition to gambling, there are many people who use gambling houses to make money, and because this money is easy to make, there are more gambling houses."

When it comes to this, it is inseparable from these nobles and meritorious officials.

Extravagance is synonymous with them.

In order to accumulate wealth quickly, gambling houses are naturally within their goals.

The greed of human nature is endless, and Lao Zhu originally wanted to treat these meritorious men well.

But if you can't stand these people from dying, and you will break Lao Zhu's foundation again and again, then you can't blame Lao Zhu for using the butcher's knife.

It's the same with this gambling house, more and more words, I don't know how many people are restless.

Shake your foundations, that's not okay.

Lao Zhu saw that the situation was serious, and now there was just such an opportunity, so he immediately said to Mao Xiang.

"You give Zheng Xiong a copy of the list in your hand and give it to him secretly."

"In addition, this group of people under your command will release the rest in advance in the past two days, and do their best to monitor these places in the gambling house."

"The Terracotta Division and the Ying Tianfu Mansion are also keeping an eye on us, and if there is any trouble, we will control it as soon as possible, and fully cooperate with Zheng Xiong to sweep away this group of tumors in Ying Tianfu for us."

"Remember not to leak the news, let go of someone, remember?"

Such a big move, of course Mao Xiang is willing, this is an excellent place to show himself.

His own strengths also have a place to use, and he hurriedly said.

"Yes."

After Mao Xiang finished speaking, he retired and left.

But an undercurrent storm is sweeping in, but not many people know about it.

Wait until Zheng Xiong returns home.

Most of the officials were also on their way to clock-out work.

Wang Tongzhou, the commander of the Terracotta Division, as a member of the off-duty army, followed after arranging the patrol.

When he returned home, he spoke to his own official.

"Arrange for two men to take my warrant and tell them to go out and send me a message."

"Let's just say that the wind is blowing tightly, and it is not appropriate to move for the time being."

"Remember?"

"Yes."

After arranging, Wang Tongzhou ate with confidence.

The official family arranged two people to tell Wang Tongzhou's words.

The two of them took the warrant and rushed to various places.

Mao Xiang sent people to spy on Wang Tongzhou when they saw the strangeness of Wang Tongzhou's place, and hurriedly reported the situation back.

Not avoided

An accident happened, and Mao Xiang, who wanted to behave well, gave an order to the person who was watching.

"Send a few people to arrest these two people for me first, and see what the purpose is."

The two people sent out by Wang Tongzhou to deliver the message, because they had their warrants, and the people who patrolled the city were also their own people, so the road was unimpeded.

It didn't take long to walk out of the mansion, and just wanted to knock on the door, but was knocked on a stuffy stick by a stick that suddenly came out from behind, and he fell to the ground.

After looking left and right to see that there was nothing unusual, he put the person into a sack, carried it and left.

The same thing happens.

It didn't take long for the two to be brought to Mao Xiang.

As a basin of cold water splashed down, the two gradually came to their senses.

Looking around blankly, the two saw each other.

Before the doubts in their hearts could be solved, the two were separated and tied to a pillar.

Mao Xiaoren didn't say much, waved his hand directly, and then said.

"Give me a beating first, remember to be careful, don't leave any external injuries."

Before the dazed two people could recover from their confusion, they saw two people who looked very ruthless, holding a stick-like thing in their hands, and a layer of flannel wrapped in it.

didn't say anything, and greeted the two directly.

The pain must have hurt, and the whole space could hear the screams of pain from the two of them.

"Wait~Ah! Wait~ Ah! You guys~ah! I~Ah! There are words~ Ah! Say."

The speech was intermittent, but no one paid attention to it and continued to fight.

I don't know how long it took, but the two of them didn't even have the strength to scream before they stopped.

Mao Xiang walked over slowly and asked one of them.

"I ask, you answer, is there a problem?"

The tortured person was weak, and he reluctantly looked up, and from a small whisper of explanation to full of resentment, he suddenly had strength.

"I'm a servant in the family of the commander of the Terracotta Division, what do you want to ask, you say it first! You don't ask how do you know if I say it or not, and now that I'm beaten, you ask me if I didn't fight in vain?"

Mao Xiao calmly wiped the splashed saliva and slowly spoke.

"No, let's see if your mouth is hard first, do you want to say it now?"

Seeing that there was no one living in the backstage, the little guy just wanted to say, but after thinking about it, he beat people with a wooden stick wrapped in flannel, obviously not wanting people to see the injury.

It's all beaten now, and you can't beat yourself to death! I stiffened my breath for a moment.

"You have the ability to beat me to death, or don't think about asking anything in my mouth."

After listening to this, Mao Xiang smiled.

This is the first time I have heard such a request.

Since you've asked for it, it's embarrassing not to fight.

"As you wish, this time let's play a different way and play a melody with a small hammer."

As soon as Mao Xiang's words fell, the executioner on the side dropped the small hammer on the man's joint, with a hint of rhythm, as if it was really like a melody.

And the little guy wailed in pain for the first time he was hit in the joint, and even his face was distorted a little.

didn't wait for the second time to come, and immediately begged for mercy.

"Wait~Wait, I~ said, don't~! Hit."

Seeing this, Mao Xiang said lightly with a normal expression.

"It's late, the song has already started, let's enjoy this song first, and then we will talk."

The dull blow was over, and the little guy was hot and painful, and he could only moan in a low voice.

"I ask, you answer, do you say?"

This time, the little guy no longer had the courage he had at the beginning, and hurriedly spoke.

"Say~Say."