These four words are enough to show that although gambling is harmful to people, it is also a nature that many people find difficult to completely reject.
It comes to mind that during festivals, when relatives and friends get together, they have to have something to play. Not to mention the ancient times when entertainment methods were scarce, even in modern times, there are countless people addicted to this.
Therefore, the Emperor did not suppress this instinct, but opened a gambling house himself, using various rules to restrict people from gambling, and only allowed those who entered to gamble small.
Even the Supreme Emperor is adapting to people's nature instead of blindly suppressing it. So it shouldn't be considered unethical if he comes up with some new tricks and only puts them in the Supreme Emperor's gambling house...
It’s really not a bad thing, right?
He has always had a vengeful temperament. It is not his style to suffer silently when the British government provokes him.
Feeling a little undecided, he said to Tao Zhu: "If this duck incident is really the work of the British government, should we fight back?"
"You should fight back. But how?"
Tao Zhu's eyebrows knitted together, feeling a little worried.
"Isn't he running a gambling house? Let's compete with him for business and bring all the people in his gambling house to the Supreme Emperor."
"...How to grab this business?"
Obviously, Tao Zhu couldn't understand his thinking.
"I just want to think of some novel ways to attract customers for the Emperor's gambling house."
"Is that so?" Tao Zhu's eyebrows gradually wrinkled: "Although the Supreme Emperor's gambling house is a serious gambling house, if the novel method you come up with is so attractive that many people are addicted to it, isn't that committing an evil act? "
"……you're right."
Looking at Tao Zhu's clear eyes, Li Qiao nodded, but he smiled and asked, "Are you so sure that I can come up with novel ways to play?"
"Of course, you're so smart."
Tao Zhu nodded matter-of-factly, but then added: "If he engages in this unethical business, let the British government do it for him, and we won't get involved."
"Isn't it just ducks? It's not like we can't buy ducks through other channels."
"Okay, it's up to you."
Seeing the seriousness on Tao Zhu's face, Li Qiao smiled and squeezed his hand.
Now that Brother Zhu said so, he would try another method.
Find a way to cripple the British public.
You are already so old, why not enjoy yourself? Why do you have to have trouble with this young man when you are just fooling around all day long?
Li Qiao listened to Tao Zhu and had no intention of shaking up the pillar industry of the British government. However, he never expected that on the second day after his duck shop put up a wooden sign for buying ducks, a company suddenly appeared in the capital. The empty shop also put up a sign for buying ducks, and the price was two cents higher per catty than his.
Moreover, at the gate of Shengjing City, a stall selling ducks also popped up.
This stall buys ducks from all the farmers outside the city, and the price is two cents per catty higher than Li Qiao's.
Generally speaking, the ducks raised by farmers weigh two to three kilograms, and each kilogram costs two cents, so a duck can cost four to six cents.
This is not a small amount of money for farmers or ordinary people.
Therefore, after five days, the duck shop will not be able to purchase enough ducks.
At this time, Xin Zhi, the boss, inquired and found out who was behind the rush to buy the ducks.
The British government was really not wronged.
It was indeed the British government that did it.
The profit of the duck shop is too big. The total number of clerks in this small shop is less than thirty, but the profit in a month is more than three thousand taels. This is really enviable.
That's more than 40,000 taels a year, which is almost as much as the annual income of Xin Zhi's family's fields.
Moreover, this is only the profit of Shengjing.
Li Qiao's duck shop in Sanliu Village makes tens of thousands of taels of profit a year.
If the British government opened a similar duck shop in his hometown, the profit in a year would definitely be as much.
If you add the two places together, it's a hundred thousand taels.
The key is that it doesn't take much energy and energy. Just figure out the recipe and wait for the rest to make money.
Who wouldn't be jealous of this?
"Brother Li, the money coming in from your shop is not much worse than that of the gambling house. No wonder the British government is interested."
Xin Zhi couldn't help but sigh.
Hearing this, Li Qiao immediately retorted: "This is a serious business, not the same as a gambling house."
"I'm just making an analogy." Xin Zhi clicked his tongue, and then asked: "What should you do now? Although my family raises ducks, even if I include my relatives and friends, they can't support your shop. .”
Before the duck shop came out, people like them didn't like ducks much, so they didn't raise many.
Li Qiao sighed: "It's too much to bully others."
"Actually, my family can help you raise ducks. Our family has no shortage of land. But it's too late to raise ducks now, and we will definitely not be able to supply tomorrow's goods. Then why don't you go to the Holy Emperor to complain? He is definitely provoking a dispute with malicious intent."
Xin Zhi could only suggest this.
"Let me think about it again."
Li Qiao still shook his head.
Although Sheng Hong is on his side, if he goes to Sheng Hong for everything, it will definitely leave an impression on Sheng Hong that he is incompetent and has many things to do.
Sheng Hong's bias should be used on the edge.
However, it was too much for the British government to cut off his financial resources.
Although this is not the only way for him to make money, he cannot get used to this kind of malicious competition.
And everyone in Shengjing is watching.
If he gives up this time, then maybe all kinds of cats and dogs will come to bully him in the future.
After returning home and having dinner, when Zheng Qianqian took Li Xiaorui back to the main courtyard, Li Qiao talked about his plan with Tao Zhu.
"I know gambling is very immoral, but we can propose to the Emperor that the limit for each game is based on the identity of the guests. If they are ordinary people, they can only play for five cents or ten cents per game. If they are rich and noble people, they can only play for five cents or ten cents per round. , then you can only bet five taels or ten taels in each round."
"how do you feel?"
Since the Supreme Emperor has placed so many restrictions on his gambling house, he should be able to agree to his proposal, right?
After hearing what Li Qiao said, Tao Zhu blinked his eyes, thought for a while, and then said: "You can only attract people who want to gamble a little. Those who really want to gamble must go to England." The government’s gambling house.”
"Yes, but at least we can steal some of his guests. We can't do nothing."
Tao Zhu thought for a while and nodded: "I can't swallow this breath."
Once he decided to do it, he immediately began to urge Li Qiao: "Hurry up and think of interesting new ways to play. At worst, we can donate more money in the future."
Li Qiao smiled when he heard this: "Okay. Let's see whether the British government develops the formula for duck food faster, or I think of new ways to play it faster."
At present, the British government is only purchasing ducks and has not actually opened a shop. The other party is probably still in the stage of developing duck products.
In that case, let's compare speed.
Nowadays, there are not many ways to play in gambling houses. The most common ones are rolling dice, pai gow, and leaf cards.
Not to mention rolling dice, this is the simplest and most common.
Pai Gow is a more complicated way to play, but what Li Qiao likes is its appearance, which is similar to mahjong. Therefore, even if he makes mahjong, it will not arouse suspicion.
There are also leaf cards. The gameplay of leaf cards at this time is very simple. There are some birds and animals painted on them. The basic gameplay is that wild beasts eat small beasts.
What Li Qiao likes is naturally not its gameplay, but its appearance.
Leaf cards are playing cards.
Therefore, even if he makes playing cards, it will not arouse suspicion.
After five days of "hard thinking", Li Qiao made mahjong and playing cards.
He directly borrowed the wooden tiles used to push Pai Gow and made a complete set of mahjong tiles, which he named the mahjong tiles.
After making mahjong, he took Tao Zhu and Li Dashan Zheng Qianqian to play together.
In the first few rounds, Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian Li Dashan both stumbled and had to play cards while reading the rules written on the paper.
But there is no doubt about the charm of Mahjong. After playing a few games, all three of them got started. After one night of playing, they were conquered by Mahjong.
Before the game ended, Zheng Qianqian shouted that he would play again tomorrow and asked Li Qiao to come back early from get off work.
Li Qiao smiled and nodded.
But after get off work the next day, he took out the playing cards again.
There are many ways to play poker, but he can't remember most of them clearly. He was busy working in his previous life and had no time to play after the apocalypse. Now he only remembers the two ways to play poker: Landlord Fighting and Leveling Up.
But he is not panic, a game of Landlord is enough to show the charm of poker. He remembers that when he was in college, his three roommates also played various mobile games, but they never gave up Doudizhu.
Because the gameplay of Landlord is diverse, fast and convenient, you can start a game anytime and anywhere.
However, this time and space cannot be called a landlord fight, because all nobles actually belong to landlords, and every household has at least 10,000 acres of land.
Li Qiao changed the name of Doudizhu, changing Big King and Xiao Wang to Big Lucky Cat and Little Lucky Cat, and this game was changed to Fighting Bullies.
Compared with Mahjong, the gameplay of Doudizhu is simpler. After only three games, Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian got started.
After Zheng Qianqian's play, even Li Xiaorui couldn't care about it.
This bully fight seems to be more interesting than the mahjong card game. The game is over quickly, and only three people can play it, and there is no need to gather four people.
Yesterday, he and Li Dashan were playing mahjong cards, so they could only leave Li Xiaorui to Li Xia and Li Ershan.
But when it comes to fighting bullies, he only needs to hand Li Xiaorui over to Li Dashan, and he and his brother-in-law Uncle Zhu can play!
"Brother Qian, which of these two ways of playing do you like best?"
When the show was over, Li Qiao asked Zheng Qianqian.
Zheng Qianqian hesitated for a moment: "I like them all. But the three of us can play fighting bullies, and I prefer fighting bullies."
Li Qiao immediately laughed when he heard this: "That's right, everyone has his own merits anyway."
The charm of Mahjong and Landlords, even in another time and space, can still sweep across men, women, and children.
At the beginning of November, Li Qiao handed Sheng Hong a discount.
