Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 336 Gaming
The game of Luoshui, a conference that has been publicized since last year, was accompanied by chess players holding tokens who began to take their seats.

They began to concentrate on facing the opponents in front of them. The opponents in front of them might be masters or rookies.

And the only thing chess players can do is to concentrate their attention on fighting!

The first test is a game to determine the outcome, and it can even be regarded as a cruel knockout match that directly eliminates the number of people.

After all, there were too many people who signed up for the competition, and even those who had spare time in Luoyang City, most of them came to sign up for the competition.

Therefore, even if Li Tai used nearly half of the Daoshu workshop as the competition venue, the first round of the competition lasted for five days. However, with the end of the first round of competition, the time for the next competition was consumed It's pretty fast.

As the number of matches drops, basically one game in the morning and one game in the afternoon will reduce the number of people on the second day to only a quarter.

So the speed of playing chess every day is getting faster and faster. At the No. 13th day, this meat grinder-like schedule is finally strangled to the end.

"A seat three, Hedong Pei Xingjian won and entered the semi-finals!"

Pei Xingjian could not help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard that he had won. After all, it is not surprising to encounter any monsters in the preliminary round.

Under such circumstances, until now every game has been determined by one game. Under such pressure, each game still consumes a lot of energy and willpower. Tolerance rate.

"Seat A, eighteenth, Li Jingxuan from Jiaojun, entered the semi-finals!"

Pei Xingjian raised his head, but saw Li Jingxuan was also looking at him with a somewhat reserved smile.

The two quickly raised their heads to look for Pei Yan, because Pei Yan followed him in seat A, and Ma Zai went to seat C.

The two didn't dare to get too close, because they couldn't get close to one meter around Go, and at the same time, they couldn't directly affect the game.

However, it is allowed to wait and see from a distance. If you violate the regulations, you will be punished and directly disqualified from the rematch.

However, the two soon saw that Pei Yan was caught in a hard fight. His opponent was also a child, who looked even younger than Pei Yan, but this child played chess more smoothly and with a kind of adaptability. The feeling of destiny.

Especially looking at the overall structure of his chess is thick and vigorous, but he can attack from all sides, which is quite amazing.

Pei Yan still struggled to hold on at the end, especially at the end of the match, he managed to recover a little bit, but he still lost in the end.

"Seat A 21, Wenxi Qiu Yanhan wins!"

Hearing this, Pei Yan glanced at Qiu Yanhan suddenly, and said, "Are you from Wenxi?!"

"You too?" Qiu Yanhan was also stunned when he heard Pei Yan's words, and asked with a little bit of surprise.

"Hedong Pei family, Wenxi Pei Yan, I will never lose to you next time!" Pei Yan said seriously.

"Okay!" Qiu Yanhan hesitated for a moment, then said, "Pei Langjun's chess game is pretty good."

"Hmph, I don't want your comfort!" Pei Yan snorted coldly, then returned to Pei Xingjian's side and said, "Brother, let's go!"

Obviously you won, but you also praised me for playing well. This clearly shows that you are stronger!
On the contrary, Pei Xingjian smiled modestly at Qiu Yanhan and said, "Pei Yan didn't mean anything malicious, please forgive me."

"I understand!" Qiu Yanhan nodded. After all, there are too many people who are not convinced by him because he lost to him. Most of them are similar to Pei Yan. He really understands, but he is not very interested in the wailing of the loser. .

Pei Xingjian and Li Jingxuan took Pei Yan out of seat A and went to seat C, and soon they saw Ma Zai coming out dejectedly.

Seeing Li Jingxuan, Ma Zai bowed and said, "Looking at Brother Li's red face, I guess he won!"

Hearing Li Jingxuan's reluctant smile and slightly dejected state, Li Jingxuan couldn't help frowning, "You lost?"

"When I met Master Yuan Ke from Yizhou, he was very powerful in chess. Anyway, I had no choice but to lose!" Ma Zai said.

"Master Yuan Ke from Yizhou?" Hearing Ma Zai's words, Li Jingxuan's expression became solemn involuntarily.

The group of people was about to leave, but when they reached the door, they were stopped by someone. The students of the agricultural school, represented by Chen Kai, organized staff and began to promote continuously:

"Every chess player selected for the semi-finals should come to receive the token of the Chess Academy by virtue of his own guidance or the certificate issued by the government.

Those who have tokens can bring one person into the chess academy. Regardless of winning or losing, basic necessities of life will be provided by the sponsor.

Until the end of this year's Luoshui Game Competition. "

Hearing this, the group didn't hesitate much. After Li Jingxuan took the token, Ma Zai beside him looked at Li Jingxuan's token somewhat enviously, and his eyes were really eager to see through.

Li Jingxuan waved the token in his hand to Ma Zai, and said, "Let's go to the Chess Academy to have a look and see what we have prepared!"

"Thank you, Brother Jingxuan!" Ma Zai expressed his gratitude to Li Jingxuan.

However, the competition did not start immediately on the second day, but gave everyone a five-day rest.

And the most important thing in these five days is to make time to sell tickets.

Because there are almost [-] Go games held at the same time, and the list of games is arranged, and then these tickets are sold according to the number of games.

The game between the players is carried out in a quiet room, but every move of the players can be shown to every player who bought a ticket through Tiemu, Magneto, and Louche.

After all, I made the game of Luoshui so lively, what's the point if the common people don't participate, I must encourage the common people to participate more!
The only regret that Li Tai felt was that there was no loudspeaker device, so even though chess players were arranged to speak chess, not many people could really hear them clearly.

This is also the reason why Li Tai wants to split up eighteen rooms. If there are more rooms, the tourists who are sitting may not be able to hear a word.

Of course, in addition to the entrance fee, you can get tea, preserved fruit, and even jerky and fish jerky if you want.

As for beef jerky, to be honest, if it wasn't for the court's ban, I could get it myself.

After all, how much is the ticket fee worth? Buying snacks, buying drinks, and even setting up a game (crossed out) for gambling is the big deal.

"Wei Xu, take advantage of these five days, you take advantage of these five days to visit all the casinos!" Li Tai said, looking at Wei Xu.

"Do you want them to ban the game?" Wei Xu couldn't help but ask seriously when he heard Li Tai's words.

Because Wei Xu knows very well that his own King Wei has always been at odds with gambling.

Since coming to Luoyang, gangster industries, big and small, have been suppressed. It would be easy to say if the casino is just operating normally, but if it does something bullying, basically all the gangsters, big and small, will be thrown into the mine to mine. .

This made Luoyang's life in the Jianghu suddenly worse. After all, the evil forces in any era belong to the kind of government that is strong and they are weak, and the government is weak and they are strong.

Generally speaking, if the government still needs them to help the government with dirty work, at the same time, the government itself is not strong enough to reach the bottom of society to maintain order.

Then the bottom will naturally form a group to deal with corrupt officials, local hooligans, and then become a new local disease.

After all, even the grassroots are controlled by aristocratic families or landlords, how could it be possible to manage these gray areas? It can be said that various gangs are almost inevitable products of feudal society.

But to Li Tai, it doesn't matter what kind of gang you are, as long as you dare to hinder your plan, you will eat the iron fist of feudal imperialism.

Wei Xu and other veterans are composed of bad people. Although these guys are more or less disabled, they are all murderers who have come down from the battlefield. As long as they really do something, it is really aimed at human life.

In addition, Li Tai never pays attention to loyalty or disloyalty, so he just throws money at him.

If you kill these gangs that hinder the happiness of the people and die, you will sacrifice your life for the country. The country doesn't say anything, but your [-] pennies for settling down allows you to have no worries.

Not to mention, if you kill a gang with more than five people, and every time you catch one more person to serve in the mine, then you will be responsible for killing the gang by five hundred coins more.

Don't talk about meritorious deeds, if the money is spent, all the bad people will stare at everything when they hear that there are gangs.

Especially when I heard that there was a corporal leader surnamed Zhao who was involved in the Tiger Gang a few days ago, my brother who was also a bad person felt very regretful, why didn't I seize this opportunity one day.

To be honest, for bad people, the gangs formed by these hooligans are all money!
And these geographical hooligans are in the Luoyang territory, and they know Wei Wang's temper even more.

The king of Wei said he was scary but he was horrible, and he was kind and kind. As long as you don't push it, you'll be digging in the mine for three months to a year at most.

Even if a lot of people who came out of the mining went to farming obediently, at least the punishment would not be death, which made the local hooligans dare not fight against bad people.

But precisely because of the mentality of the gang, the gang, which almost regarded gambling as its main business, began to become painful.

Anyway, they couldn't beat Li Tai, and Li Tai was not polite, and used their account books to extract the fourth-tier profits as taxes.

Of course, Li Tai didn't care if they made false accounts, as long as they accepted the rule of extracting four-tier taxes.

Wait until they commit other things, and then take out this article and ask them to make up the tax. I believe they should be able to eat it up reasonably and legally.

After all, in the feudal society, it was impossible to completely eradicate this kind of gray force, Li Tai just hoped that they would abide by the rules.

Naturally, these casinos don't know that there are such ruthless guys in this world who have planned to ruin their fortunes from the very beginning.

If they really managed their business honestly, Li Tai would just turn a blind eye.

But as long as they have a thought and want to take a shortcut, they will really go straight to the Palace of the King of Hell with a whoosh.

"Tell them that betting in Luoshui Games is not called gambling, but lottery tickets, and the money and food obtained will be used for the construction of Luoyang and the next Luoshui Games.

So this time Luoshui Zhiyi's gaming income is divided fifty-five with them, and there is no need to pay taxes!Let them think clearly! "

Li Tai said to Wei Xu.

"No!" Wei Xu agreed, but he was still a little confused about this scene.

Because in Wei Xu's view, these casinos usually charge a four-tier tax, and these casinos are crying for their fathers and mothers. Now that King Wei has asked for an extra tax, how do you think these casinos and the gangs behind them may become riots.

As a matter of fact, after Wei Xu notified the incident, all the casino bosses burst into tears.

Originally, all of them were cautiously and covertly making bets, but they immediately started to make a lot of noise.

Because Li Tai has suppressed gambling since he came to Luoyang. Now that he has finally taken a breath, how can these casino owners continue to cover the items that he can openly offer.

Secondly, and most importantly, one should not think that the most important thing about gambling is gambling itself.

These gangs naturally have their own gray income behind the scenes, and it would be too conspicuous if these gray income were directly spent on the front.

After all, the ancient times are not as good as the modern ones. In the modern times, if someone dies at the opposite door, it may not be clear, but in the ancient times, if you go to the brothel one more time, you will be pointed out by the people around you. Was watched.

And Li Tai started gambling because he wanted to recover this part of the gray funds.

At the same time, I can also know how many gray industries there are under my rule.

I still know how much cash ordinary people have in their hands. After all, the food stamps they own correspond to the materials they produce, so the bills put on the market are limited.

Then, from the data of gambling games purchased from his own bills, he can roughly estimate the income ratio of the black industry in Luoyang as a whole.

To be honest, Li Tai doesn't think he can eradicate all the gray industries of the feudal era.

But at least I need to know how much money there is in the gray industry, so that I can make a better decision whether I am enacting laws or cracking down on this gray industry.

Because in Li Tai's view, everything has a cost. If you want to make the gray industry extinct, you must raise the cost of this gray industry to the point where the operators are desperate, otherwise the gray industry will be destroyed. existing.

However, some gray industries will inevitably be born because the reality cannot provide what they need.

For example, the most common illicit salt sale in ancient times, even though Li Tai’s Tianjin Salt Farm started it, the illicit salt still cannot be eradicated until now.

Because Tianjin salt is not enough to meet the needs of the whole country, and because it can only be sold along the canal.

For many places that cannot be reached by shipping, the gray industry of private salt still exists.

Therefore, Li Tai opened the lottery to these Luoyang gamblers, because he just wanted to know how many gray industries there are in Luoyang.

In the future, maybe the entire black industry in Datang will take advantage of this Luoshui game to launder money.

But it doesn't matter to Li Tai, the more the better.

It is far better to know the specific data and let yourself know it than to not see the existence of this gray economy.

After all, I have to see these things before I can solve them.

"True Confucianism?" At this moment Li Tai put his eyes on Wang Zhenru, and asked, "How are those low-rent houses built?"

加更任务：11月30日23：00号前，根据月票总数除以100，为下月加更章数。

　I also want to add more, but several times, I prepared [-] words each time, and I wanted to add two more the next day, but my will did not allow it.

　　There is no way that the road of will will not work, so let’s take the oath route. Everyone’s monthly pass determines the number of additions I will make next month.

　　In addition, I have given everyone a chance to update, I also want to update, I want to challenge my weakness, but the monthly pass is not enough, I can't help it.Ha ha

　　By the way, I calculated the numbers, adding more tasks is not worth the money.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)