This D is also arrogant, a silver ingot is generally ten taels, and this guy bet 50 taels at one time, which is equivalent to two years of salary for ordinary soldiers.

Yes, he has the least number of people at this table, except for the Admiral, there is only an old man with thief eyebrows and a person who looks like a Taoist priest, surrounded on the other side of the table, and he also bets dozens of taels at a time.

The little guy saw that the bet had been made up, and shouted: "Break the gate of heaven and have food." ”

Unveiled the dice cup, 224 small.

I saw an assistant next to him holding a long wooden stick, quickly dialing all the silver in the large area into the inside, and then according to the same amount, the silver was allocated to the small area and paid to the person who bet on the small.

The Admiral had obviously lost money, and the oil on his face was constantly glowing.

I saw him push all the silver into a large area.

Open the cup again, 135 hours, and he lost again.

The Admiral slammed the table and scolded, "Come on, open a board." ”

I saw the assistant running over, attached to the Admiral's side and said, "My lord, three boards have been opened today, are they still open?" ”

"Open another one."

The assistant looked up at the HG guy, and the HG guy gave the fat man at the other table a look, and the fat man nodded slightly.

Soon, a plate of silver was served, there were about twenty of them, and seeing this, Chu Fan probably understood the situation in his heart.

In the DC of the Ming Dynasty, the board: is the slag board, that is, the money.

Open board: It is to borrow money from you.

Today, the eldest brother has already opened the board three times, and if each time according to the calculation of more than twenty silver ingots each time, he has already borrowed almost 1,000 taels of silver today.

One thousand taels, what is the concept? A five-grade Admiral Wei, if he only takes Yulu, it will take about 5 years, of course, the officials of the Ming Dynasty cannot only take Yulu, after all, thousands of miles for officials are only for money, this is not groundless. People like Mr. Hai Rui are really rare, and there can't be a few in a hundred years, otherwise Luo Yuren's matter would not have had such a big impact.

Even if some are greedy, as a commander in this great northwest guard, one thousand taels will have to dig out their hearts and minds to make money for more than half a year, not to mention that it is impossible for him to come empty-handed when he comes, and he doesn't know how much he has lost.

I only heard the little guy who gave the silver put the silver ingot on the table, nodded to the admiral, and said, "Master, I opened a board of twenty-five taels for you, and a ninety-seven board for your feet." ”

Lord Admiral nodded, and without saying a word, pushed ten ingots of silver into the "Big." ”::

Chu Fan had already observed the fat man at the other table, no matter which table was open, he would ask him with his eyes, and although he was sitting at the other table, he always paid attention to the situation at the table of Lord Admiral, and it was obvious that this was the DC boss.

I saw the little guy holding the S cup with both hands, shaking it, his eyes fluttering in the audience, and after a quick contact with the fat man, he snapped the S cup on the table. Open up, 135, nine o'clock, still small.

Chu Fan saw the problem, but he didn't make a sound, and whispered to Qin Hong lightly, and Qin Hong nodded lightly.

Lord Admiral was obviously a little impatient, and the sweat on his head had already flowed down inadvertently.

However, he was also rational, and this time he only took out five taels and bet big.

The little guy shook the cup again.

Qin Hong's hand quietly lifted up from his sleeve, but suddenly stopped.

The little guy opens the S cup: 355, large.

Qin Hong gently leaned into Chu Fan's ear and whispered, "Kill big and lose small, this group of people is very ghostly." ”

When the Admiral saw that he had finally won, he pushed out all the money in front of him at once, and he still bet big.

Seeing this, the little guy also hesitated slightly, and his eyes were handed to the fat man again.

Although the guests at this table are all d-large, it is still rare to have two hundred taels at a time.

The fat man nodded lightly with an imperceptible amplitude.

The little guy hadn't moved yet, but the old man next to him also pushed dozens of ingots of silver into the "small." ”

Qin Hong observed it and said softly to Chu Fan, "It's time to kill." ”

This time, the little guy seriously shook the S cup, up and down, left and right, back and forth, giving everyone a full sense of ritual and mystery, and the moment the S cup fell on the table, Qin Hong gently knocked on the table. The little guy seemed to realize something, and his eyes were staring at Qin Hong and Chu Fan, and he didn't lift the lid for a long time.

"Hurry up, why don't you open it?" While the onlookers shouted, the little guy was indifferent, and his eyes kept asking the fat man for help.

Seeing that something was wrong here, the fat man stood up and walked over.

While walking, he completed eye contact with the little guy, and the boss went deeper into the city, and after nodding slightly, he no longer looked at the little guy, just quietly observed the card game.

The little guy slowly lifted the lid, 226 big.

Lord Admiral was overjoyed and laughed, "I knew I was going to go big." ”

And the fat man had already squeezed to Chu Fan's side and patted Chu Fan's shoulder: "Brother is so good?" ”

"Well, it's the first time I've come, and the boss has a good business."

"If you are taken care of by everyone, you will just do it, and it's okay to lose money, just be happy." The fat man arched his hands and smiled heapedly.

"The boss is humble, how can there be a reason not to make money in such a good business?"

"What do you want to play? There's a lot of stuff in the next game. ”

"Oh, I don't play, I just watch."

The fat man's smile was slightly retracted, and his tone changed: "Don't play? I'm sorry, we're not a theater, what's there to see? Go out without playing. ”

With that, several strong men surrounded him.

Qin Hong was about to draw his sword, but Chu Fan held his hand down.

Chu Fan laughed: "Boss, don't worry, I'm afraid that you won't give me money if you lose." ”

"Joke, when did I Li Dafu lose and not lose?"

"Come on then?" The corners of Chu Fan's mouth trembled, and as he spoke, he took out two ingots of gold from his waist and placed them on the table.

Gold, in this dynasty, is not only money, but also luxury, Zhang Yutong and her grandfather were raided back then, and 100,000 taels of silver were copied out, and there were only a few dozen taels of gold at home.

Because gold is so scarce, the world holds very little, so even the rich may not have much gold in their hands, and they will not spend it casually until they have to.

As soon as this master made a move, there were two golden ingots, which really shocked everyone present.

It's not that I haven't seen gold worth hundreds of taels, but it's really rare to take it out and gamble on it.

When the fat man saw that Chu Fan's shot was at the level of one hundred taels, he immediately became alert.

It's not been a day or two since Li Dafu opened DC, and on this day, Shuiwei is also a famous big DC, but he is not a small boss who has never seen the world.

The little boss may have seen so much gold, his eyes are full of you, and he will offer you with a smiling face, who knows how many gold ingots you still have.

But Li Dafu is very smart, he can take out so much gold, and he helped the Admiral just now, which is definitely not an idea, and it is not something that he Li Dafu can pick if he wants to.

Li Dafu immediately put on a smiling face: "Master, the small shop is thin, I don't dare to pick up your stubble, you can change places." ”

"Yo, I just said that you never didn't pay, why did this change?" It was Qin Hong who said this.

Qin Hong wandered on the rivers and lakes in the early years, and she had seen all the bloody and bloody winds, and she had already seen through this trick in the casino, so she had already whispered the situation to Chu Fan.

Today's Admiral is just an idea, and the old men and Taoist priests sitting on both sides are sentinels, that is, the boss's trust, in fact, today is to set up a bureau to collude with the Admiral, and the people who are shouting next to him, except for a small number of people who eat melons, most of them are also sentinels. The so-called heel board is the money borrowed today, and you have to pay it back today, if you don't pay it back, you will follow you wherever you go, until you repay the money.

As for why this boss is so bold, even the boss of the Admiral's Yamen dares to collude, I don't know, maybe it's selling favors and asking for attention, maybe there is a bigger background behind it, which is enough for him to magnify his courage and collude with the Admiral.

As soon as these people quarreled, Lord Admiral's D game stopped, and Lord Admiral, who had just won a few hundred taels, stood up and drank: "What is the noise?" I've just risen, and you're arguing here

What? ”

Chu Fan patted Yang Dafu's shoulder and said softly, "Let the Admiral play first." ”

Bureau D started again, Chu Fan didn't leave, I didn't play, I just stood by and watched, and the boss didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, standing aside and staring at Bureau D.

The little guy here began to show up again: "Buy and leave, buy and leave." ”

The Admiral immediately pushed another pile of silver into it, and staked it big.

After a few rounds, the Admiral lost again, and shouted to the little guy: "Give me another board." ”

This time, without waiting for eye contact, Yang Dafu leaned in by himself and said: "My lord, I have already opened four boards today, and I really can't open it, so let's do it, if you lose today, count it as mine, you don't have to pay it back, just come here today?" ”

The Admiral nodded and smiled, "That's pretty much it. ”。 Flicked his sleeves, got up and walked out, and Chu Fan and Qin Hong followed.

As soon as he walked out of the casino gate, Chu Fan walked two steps quickly and followed the admiral: "Lord Admiral." ”

Lord Admiral stood still and smiled, "Thank you, little brother, for today." ”

Chu Fan arched his hand and said, "So the adults saw it?" ”

"Brother, I'm not stupid, you really think I'm an idea, waiting for them to pick me?"

After the Admiral's explanation, Chu Fan realized that it was the Admiral's subordinates who were addicted to DB, so that the Admiral's yamen was about to close, and the officers and soldiers were trying to get money all day long, Dbo, Dbo, and money, and even there had been cases of theft and robbery by officers and soldiers.

As a result, he killed Chu and bit gold halfway, and brutally destroyed the admiral's plan, and the boss also saw that there were high-ranking people present today, so he sold a good man and honestly sent away the three evil stubbles.

"So that's it? Forgive me, Lord Admiral, for accidentally disrupting your plans. ”

Lord Admiral arched his hand and said: "Okay, okay, brother is also kind, and to be honest, I didn't find any evidence of their skills, but you came to rescue me, but brother, you, but you have something to do with me?" ”

Chu Fan took out the imperial court's letter of appointment from his bosom and handed it to the Admiral: "My lord, I'm here to report to you." ”

Lord Admiral unfolded the letter of appointment, just looked at the line, was suddenly startled, rubbed his hands, bowed and said: "It turned out to be the god general of the Broken Widow, the second assistant Lord Chu, who has lost his welcome, atoned for his sins, and has seen Lord Chu in Xia Tianshui Wei Admiral Wang Zheng." ”

"Where, where, I am now the inspector of your Admiral's Ganzhou Wei, and I ask the Admiral to take care of it."

Wang Zheng, a native of Shanxi, because of his average examination results when he was young, has been serving in the local government, just transferred from Shanxi to Tianshuiwei in the previous period, half his life mixed in the local officialdom, the release of Beijing officials, is still very clear, some people are released for a lifetime, basically offended the emperor, some people are just to travel, stay for a long time to go back to entrust the important task, this is generally offended by hundreds of officials, have to be delegated, some people stay for a few years and then return to Beijing to reinstate the official, this is mostly offended the cabinet, waiting for the cabinet to change the first assistant, basically turned over.

Chu Fan must be the second type, the one who tops the tank for the emperor is basically here to travel, not to mention that Chu Fan is from the position of the second assistant of the cabinet and the secretary of the household department, the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and he can beat Wang Zheng from the fifth grade with a sneeze, so he is always respectful to Chu Fan.

Wang Zheng led the way, invited Chu Fan to the lobby of the guard, and after sitting down, he personally watched tea for Chu Fan.

It is also pitiful, although the level of Tianshui Wei is higher than that of the two guards in Gansu, but in fact there are not many people, after all, Tianshui is surrounded by the Qinling Mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is far away from Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang, there is not much risk, and the greater role is to supervise other guards, as well as as as military backup, the dignified Admiral, not even a person who poured water, all ran to gamble.

"Lord Wang, everyone in this guard has run to DB, can't you control it?"

Wang Zheng took a sip of tea and begged: "There is no way, now the military salary given by the imperial court is very low, plus the northwest is still stable, there is no war, and the capitation fee on our side is even more surprisingly low, a big soldier's salary for a year is not enough to feed two children, the population of the northwest is also small, and it is even more difficult to recruit soldiers, so it is easy to recruit a few soldiers

Power or something, it's more money than this, and being a soldier here is just trying to be idle, so it's really hard to manage. ”

"Also, if the atmosphere is already like this, it will be difficult to change." Chu Fan echoed.

"Lord Chu is a pillar of the country, and I have heard that it is said that the recent stock business of the household department has made a lot of money."

"Really? I've been out of Beijing for months, and I don't know anything about it. ”

Indeed, Chu Fan has basically not stayed in a big town since he left Chang'an, and the news has been closed for a long time, and when I heard Wang Zheng say this today, I guessed that the first round of stock issuance must have had a good effect and raised a lot of funds.

Wang Zheng clasped his hands into fists and waved to the east and said: "The emperor Shengming, the appointment of talents, the great achievements made by Lord Chu are now spread all over the court, and they all say that if it weren't for Lord Chu's insistence on the operation policy of the royal company, even if Liaodong is recaptured today, the royal company would have been finished long ago." ”

"How's the war going on in the east now?"

"Lord Zhang of the household department allocated 400,000 taels to the Ministry of War, and Wu Weizhong formed a new Qijia army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the day before yesterday had arrived at Shanhaiguan to start a war with the Japanese slaves, and the Japanese slaves were driven to the vicinity of Liaodong, and the recapture of Liaodong was just around the corner."

Wu Weizhong led the troops to fight in Korea for the first time, as a support force and Chu Fan combined the command, Chu Fan knows this person very well, brave in battle, not afraid of sacrifice, in the south of Pyongyang, almost surrounded and suppressed by the second wave army, fortunately Wu Weizhong's Qi family army desperately resisted, only to give Chu Fan the opportunity to encircle the second wave army, defeated the second wave army in Pyongyang.

This time, the court did not use the wrong person, and it was also Chu Fan's recommendation when he left, he was afraid that in the future, the household department would have money, and then he would be divided into half by which bastard general soldier would meet, so he recommended to the emperor Wu Weizhong, who had the most experience in fighting against Japan, to reorganize the Qi family army and resist the second wave army.

It seems that it has also had an effect, and Wanli, who was dying by the Northeast Battlefield, can finally take a breath.

"Lord Chu is a pillar of the country, I don't dare to let my lord go to Ganzhou, or I can rest here, I will write a letter of appointment and send someone to Ganzhou Wei, just when you have been to Ganzhou."

Although Chu Fan was relegated to the northwest, but what he did saved the country, this kind of uncle, sooner or later, he will have to return to Beijing, how can he be lazy, so Wang Zheng's mind turned, and he immediately thought of how to arrange it properly, in fact, it is not an arrangement, just provide it, this kind of immortal, you are here this day, what are you waiting for if you don't supply it?

Chu Fan shook his head: "No, no, no, Lord Wang still let me go to Ganzhou, there are important things to do." ”

Since he said that there was something important, Wang Zheng couldn't stop it, so he had to say: "Since Lord Chu insists on going, arrange the affairs over there as much as possible, Lord Chu and give me some time, live in Tianshui for a few days, let me do a little bit of landlord friendship, and then it's not too late to go." ”

Officialdom is like this, you can't be too axis, it's okay to refuse once, and it's a bit impersonal to refuse again, yes, then live in Tianshui for a few days.

That night, Wang Zheng entertained Chu Fan in the largest restaurant in Tianshui, and the two tasted the high wine brought by Chu Fan, and Wang Zheng was full of praise until Lingding was drunk.

It's easy to spit out the truth when you're drunk, and it's true that this is true.

Although Wang Zheng also has the bad style of officialdom and the suspicion of flattery, he is still a very upright person in his heart, and he does not pretend that there is an upright character in his name.

Wang Zheng's academic performance in his early years was average, and he did not get into the upper class, and later started from the master in his hometown in Shanxi, and along the way, he was also conscientious, and he worked hard to be the commander of Wupin, but although his cultural level was not high, his personal ability was not very strong, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment in the counties and governments under his rule, and he was promoted many times.

But the Ming Dynasty is a dynasty that looks at academic qualifications, a person from a background, it is very difficult to make progress, plus a few years ago Ran Xingrang was greedy in Shanxi, Wang Zheng has been mediating and resisting, and has been hated by Ran Xingrang, and he has been pressed to get up, so he has only now mixed up with a petty official in a remote area.