Chongzhen, who pretended to be "Master Geng", persuaded the villagers who complained and came to Luoyang, Henan Mansion in the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Luoyang is no longer the grand occasion of the capital of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but it is still a big city in the Central Plains.

In order to avoid people's eyes, Chongzhen specially got off the carriage in advance, acted separately with many entourages, and came to the famous building on the edge of the Luohe River - Peony Building.

"Mei Zhihuan, can you find out this Zhao Si's personality fetish?"

Chongzhen simply rested for a while, wiped his face with a hot towel, and asked Mei Zhihuan before and after running.

Mei Zhihuan replied respectfully, "Your Majesty, it's all clear, this Zhao Si also happens to like leaf opera, and he is very addicted to cards, and he has the same interests as His Royal Highness King Fu." I often accompany His Royal Highness King Fu to play in the first half of the night, and then come back to play in the middle of the night. ”

"Good!" Chongzhen's spirit perked up, "I'm worried that there is no way to get in, so there is a ready-made one to send it." Let's use him as bait for now. ”

He turned his head to Li Ruolian, who was dressed in disguise and accompanied by the Jinyi Wei Qianhu beside him, "Let the wind go, just say that you are a salt merchant from Yangzhou, and you want to find the top rich people in Los Angeles to form a private card game." ”

Li Ruolian got the order and went out to arrange.

Mei Zhihuan on the side saw it in his eyes, and couldn't help but ask, "Your Majesty, you are the Supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, and you have all the opportunities." If you really want to concoct King Fu, send a little yellow gate to Zhongzhou, and send him back to Beijing, why make such a roundabout and go through a lot of trouble? ”

Chongzhen shook his head, "Where is it so easy as you say?" After all, King Fu is my imperial uncle, if it wasn't for the Donglin Party who directed and acted in a murder case, he might be the one who sits in the world. ”

"If my master is unknown, even if he is lucky enough to take it down, it will inevitably attract the opposition of the world's clans and many ignorant scholars, not to mention his family property. It won't be beautiful then. ”

Mei Zhihuan muttered, "If it is for the sake of the name, the Holy Lord summons him to Beijing to worship his ancestors on the grounds that Emperor Shenzong has a dream, and King Fu is not filial if he does not go." It is disloyal to resist the decree in the name of illness even though he is in good health. Aren't these two articles enough to condemn him? ”

Chongzhen looked at Mei Zhihuan and said with a smile, "Mei Qing, it seems that the governor of Henan has wronged you, and I should give you a history of the left capital." ”

He patiently explained, "Although these two items have been explained, the severity can only be lifted high and gently put down. In the end, those ancient ministers inevitably came to persuade me to hide from each other, maintain human ethics, and not to criticize King Fu too much, and punish him for tens of thousands of taels of silver. Isn't it a toss in vain? ”

Mei Zhihuan was puzzled, "Then Your Majesty designed it like this, what kind of handle can you catch King Fu in the end?" ”

Chongzhen smiled without saying a word, waved him and sent him back to work.

A day later, Li Ruolian was ready to stop, so he came to report to Chongzhen, who was playing a set of Water Margin leaf cards in his hand.

"Your Majesty, the little fish has been hooked."

"Okay, let's catch small fish first, and then go catch big fish." Chongzhen looked at Li Ruolian and asked with interest, "This leaf card has endless changes, how did you become a master?" ”

The so-called leaf card is a card game with only the size of a leaf in the Ming Dynasty, and the rules are roughly similar to running fast.

On the Water Margin leaf card, there are four suits: one, hundred, thousand, and thousand, and each hero has its corresponding amount of money, such as Qin Ming represents 70,000, Lei Tong represents 80,000, etc.

The first person to finish playing the cards in his hand can check the remaining numbers in the other people's hands and multiply them by the base amount of money agreed upon at the beginning of the hand.

Since the Chenghua years, leaf cards have been popular in cities of the Ming Dynasty, and even high-ranking officials like Zhou Yanru have indulged in it.

Li Ruolian said suddenly, "When the minister was on an errand in Jinyiwei before, he was not subject to the weight of the above, and when he was bored, he only played cards with a few colleagues with the same temperament every day, and he practiced a card skill. ”

Chongzhen nodded and said, "Don't pressure your skills, when you play cards, I will also pretend to be a gambler and try my hand on the side." ”

Although Li Ruolian was reluctant in every way, after all, his arms couldn't reach his thighs, and Chongzhen finally sat at the table as he wished.

After a while, Zhao Si, the target of this trip, also got on the card table, and the big horn went to the chair.

In the first game, three people other than Zhao Si deliberately played him, almost did not deliberately press his cards, let him get three cards, and then played all his cards.

Zhao Si hugged the consistent money on the table into his arms, and scanned everyone with a smirk.

"Why don't we get something bigger?"

"How old is here?" Li Ruolian asked.

"Come to Silver Slots, do you dare?"

"I still think how old you are going to come, if we want to come with silver, it will be three taels of silver ingots, do you dare?"

Zhao Si licked the corner of his mouth.

This bamboo leaf play is no better than other games, if calculated according to the silver ingot, in case the big cards in a hand do not have a chance to play, one round can output three or five hundred taels.

Although Zhao Si has taken advantage of the majesty of the palace in recent years, he has scavenged a lot of money, but he is not a fool. At present, these three people are all businessmen from other places, what if they join forces to cheat themselves?

"If you don't come to the silver ingot, you will come with five cents of silver horn."

Li Ruolian glanced at Chongzhen secretly, and pretended to be impatient and said, "Okay, it's up to you." I didn't expect you to be angry at all, and you were cringe. ”

Everyone came for more than ten rounds, and now everyone will no longer keep their hands, otherwise Zhao Si will definitely be able to see the clues.

But Li Ruolian, who was sitting in the upper hand position of Zhao Si, fed him a lot of cards in a row, so that he had lost the right to play a small card again.

This caused the silver in front of Li Ruolian to decrease significantly, and the silver in front of Zhao Si was piled up into a small mountain.

"Hey, you won so much money, even if you come a little bigger, you won't lose, what do you say?"

Zhao Si narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment. These people in front of them are really not good at poker, especially the one on the house, who is a vegetable and loves to play big, it is simply for nothing.

"Okay!" Zhao Si nodded.

Li Ruolian clapped his hands, and someone immediately moved a box of silver ingots behind him, refilling the table in front of him, which stimulated the light of greed for money in Zhao Si's eyes to flicker more and more.

After playing a few games in a row, Li Ruolian consciously controlled the rhythm, so that Zhao Si had losses and gains, and earned more and less.

At this time, Chongzhen scratched his head, and Li Ruolian knew that it was the emperor who let him close the line.

The night passed, and the silver in front of Zhao Si had been lost like water, and his whole body was hot, and he only had a small shirt left.

His eyes were red, and he said, "Do you still have any silver?" Give me a little more credit, and I'm going to win it back! ”

"Still borrowing money?" Li Ruolian looked at him with a somewhat unkind expression. "You owe me 50,000 taels!"

Are there so many? Zhao Si was a little distracted. suddenly came back to his senses and roared angrily, "You dare to trick me, I'm from the Fu King's Mansion?" ”

"What is in the palace? We still come here to sell illicit salt! Li Ruolian grabbed his shirt viciously and slammed his head into the corner of the table.

Zhao Si had never been treated so toughly, and cried, "What do you want? As long as you don't let me owe the prince, I'll give it to you! ”

"Hmph, it's quite righteous." Li Ruolian let go of Zhao Si, "That's it, we're still playing cards here these days." If you can find a few high rollers, we'll write off all the debts you owe us. Otherwise, we will find your home. ”

"What kind of high roller are you looking for?"

"Of course it's not as stingy as you." Li Ruolian couldn't help but glance at Chongzhen again, "You want to find the master who doesn't treat silver as silver!" ”