Datang: It's a showdown, my son-in-law is going to rebel!

Chapter 148 Lottery
Mahjong is very popular in Chang'an City.

This thing was supposed to be entertaining, but after being overly entertaining, it becomes not entertaining.

Because of Li Yuan's good start, Tang Jian, Pei Ji and Samurai Yi won almost lost their underwear.

Naturally, Tang Jian and Pei Ji followed suit.

Since the Supreme Emperor has opened this hole, then we can also do it like this.

For entertainment, if there is a lottery added, it is not entertainment.

This has changed the flavor.

With the popularity of mahjong, gambling suddenly swept the entire city of Chang'an.

Originally, gambling has always been carried out in casinos, but now this thing has entered every household along with mahjong.

If there is gambling, there will naturally be winning or losing. Those who win want to continue to win, and those who lose want to get back their money.

This is human nature.

Just bet and lose, that's the truth.

Time never stands still.

Almost every household of these people around Chang'an City is addicted to the world of mahjong, unable to extricate themselves.

The day of spring plowing is approaching, and there are no more seedlings in this field.

The household department is all anxious. It's time and they haven't started working yet. Isn't this causing trouble?
Soon the matter was stabbed to Li Shimin's side.

Datang is a farming society, when the common people don't cultivate the land, is that okay?

It's completely rootless.

If you don’t open seedlings now, what will you eat this year?

How much surplus food is there?

How long can it last?
So this matter is very serious.

Li Shimin was quite angry. How could he not be angry when he encountered such a thing?
After investigation, Li Shimin found out that Fang Qi was the cause of this incident, so he went directly to find Fang Qi.

"???"

After Fang Qi heard Li Shimin's words, a black line appeared on his forehead.

What the hell!

Can this also be blamed on me?

what does it mean?

"Father, my son saw that the imperial grandfather was too boring, so I taught him this thing. I wanted to let the imperial grandfather not be bored, and wanted to show my filial piety."

Fang Qi said to Li Shimin: "This matter is not my son's fault."

"No, this matter is caused by you, you must find a way to get this matter resolved!"

Li Shimin didn't talk about martial arts at all, and asked Fang Qi to solve this matter directly.

"In this case, then ban gambling."

Fang Qi looked at Li Shimin, and then said: "As long as they are involved in gambling, if they are caught, as long as they catch a few typical ones, basically everything will be fine.

Of course, you don’t need to go to the homes of ordinary people to catch them, just go to the casinos to catch them. "

Fang Qi looked at Li Shimin and said, "This trick is called killing chickens to scare monkeys, and the effect is obvious."

After listening to Fang Qi's words, Li Shimin nodded and said, "Okay!"

Fang Qi looked at Li Shimin, and after a while, he said, "Father, since gambling is banned, would you consider the matter that I mentioned earlier?"

"Go and discuss with Xiao Yu."

Li Shimin said: "This matter, you tell him, let the Ministry of Households be the supervisor, and you can implement it."

"Thank you, Father, I will go find Xiao Yu now!"

After Fang Qi heard what Li Shimin said, he immediately went to find Xiao Yu.

Of course, Xiao Yu had nothing to say about this matter.

Adding so much revenue to the national treasury, no fool would agree.

The main reason is that Fang Qi drew a big cake for Xiao Yu, saying that this business is making a lot of money every day, and that the Ministry of Household Affairs should set up a special department to take charge of this area.

Xiao Yu was taken aback by Fang Qi.

Xiao Yu was stunned all of a sudden, okay?

Fang Qi has already researched the anti-counterfeiting of lottery tickets and banknotes. At this time, it is not difficult for Fang Qi to do these things.

Soon a new industry appeared at the door of every square city in Chang'an City.

Basically, a person appeared at the gate of every square city in Chang'an City, responsible for selling lottery tickets.

These lottery tickets are all a piece of paper, and the value of this piece of paper is two coins a piece.

The winning rules are written on the back of this lottery ticket seller.

In general, the rules are actually the same as the lottery.

For two pennies, you can win up to [-] guan.

Get rich overnight!

For a while, the stalls at the gates of each market were full of people, and some people had already started explaining the rules.

After everyone heard this rule, few people would try it.

Because this is a bit unimaginable, how could there be a pie in the sky?
Not many people would believe this kind of thing.

Although two pennies are not much, they are definitely not much. In this era, many people only earn one hundred pennies a month, and they also have various expenses. One hundred pennies may not be enough to spend. How can they have spare money to do these things? ?

There are a lot of onlookers, but not many people actually attack, they are just watching.

These things, for these people, need to wait and see.

Zhang Wei is a beggar, a real beggar, he begs in Chang'an City every day, he often eats and starves, and sometimes he is beaten violently.

He is a person living at the bottom of society.

With so many people gathered at the gate of Fangshi, he naturally wanted to come here to try his luck.

When he came here, he heard someone explain this rule.

When Zhang Wei heard that if he was lucky, two pennies could win [-] guan, his heart suddenly moved.

Looking at the two pennies in his broken bowl, the two pennies were what he asked for today.

Anyway, I have nothing left, the big deal is just starving for a day.

If I win, then I will be able to have enough food every day in the future!
After thinking clearly, Zhang Wei quickly squeezed into the crowd.

Zhang Wei was full of stench, and no matter where he went, others would stay away.

Soon he came to the lottery ticket seller, took out the two coins in the bowl, and said to the man, "Give me one!"

"Let's talk about the numbers. The front area selects five numbers from one to 35, and the back area selects two numbers from one to twelve."

Zhang Wei quickly reported a series of numbers, which he reported casually, and the lottery ticket seller quickly gave Zhang Wei a lottery ticket.

After Zhang Wei took the lottery ticket, he quickly put it away next to his clothes.

This is just a microcosm. Although these lottery sales outlets are crowded with people, there are not many people who actually buy lottery tickets.

In addition to their mistrust, there is another point, that is, many people think that this is Li Shimin trying to collect money.

"Fang Qi, didn't you say that many people would buy it? Why didn't anyone buy it?"

Xiao Yu and Fang Qi were also watching these things.

Fang Qi said with a smile to Xiao Yu: "Xiao Xiangguo, this is just the beginning, wait a few more days, and you will understand that this thing can bring huge income to the treasury, wait for a while before looking at it, and take advantage of it." During this period of time, you should hurry up and get this department out, it may be too late by then."

(End of this chapter)