In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 75
Mao Tong was guarding the door with a livid face, leading a few brothers.

Most of the people who came were his colleagues, and he wanted to maintain the order: "Stop, the inside is full, you wait."

The people behind could only laugh along with them: "Officer Mao, let us go in."

"How to get in when it's full, queue up."

"Hey, it's pretty hot outside."

"That can't be helped, it's full of people."

"I'll go in and have a look, avoid the sun, okay?"

"Well, then you go in."

Mao Tong disturbed the head, and according to what Zhao Yurui said, about 50 people were let in.

50 people is also the limit inside.

After everyone went in, they found that there were many girls inside, wearing uniform blue long skirts, and there was a word on the back of the long skirts: "Café de Joy".

Although these girls are not young and have average looks, they are still very enthusiastic in their service.

People who come in get a cup of herbal tea for free, and then they will help them arrange and pick up the balls. There is a girl in front of each table who is a waiter, and you can talk to them about anything you need.

"How much is a game?" Someone asked, "I was introduced by the magistrate."

"25 cents for a quarter of an hour."

"So expensive?" Someone exclaimed.

"Isn't it [-]% off?"

"It's just discounted."

All around exclaimed.

At this moment, there was a trust arranged by Zhao Yurui.

It's at this point that Tony comes on the scene.

"What? Fifty Wen for a quarter of an hour? Grabbing money?" A middle-aged man pointed at the person who just asked, "Why do they pay 25 Wen for a quarter of an hour?"

"He's from the Imperial City Department, and was introduced by Officer Mao, there's a discount."

"Ah, there are discounts for soldiers."

The officers and soldiers of the imperial city all around raised their chests and smiled happily, what's the matter, soldiers can't get discounts, I'm mad at you.

"Can it be cheaper, we want to play for an hour."

"Three moments are the same price."

"Ah, okay, okay, come for an hour first."

"Okay, four hundred Wen." The girl smiled.

The officers and soldiers of the imperial city looked at the commoner who took out four hundred coins, and they all looked at each other in blank dismay.

This is an ordinary soldier, which is five hundred coins a month, which is only enough to play here for an hour.

The salary of the Imperial City Secretary is relatively high, but for ordinary relatives, it is always about more. Fifty Wen and a quarter of an hour are really expensive.

Think about the current prices, 75 yuan for a chicken.

Four hundred wen for two hours. In the future, an ordinary chicken will cost about 30 yuan, which will be about 170 yuan for two hours, and more than 80 yuan for one hour.

If calculated according to the price of rice, two guan is one stone, and one stone in the Song Dynasty is 120 catties.

Four hundred wen counts as more than 20 catties for later generations, two yuan per catty, which is equivalent to more than 40 yuan an hour.

Ordinary people pay fifty Wen for a quarter of an hour to play, and soldiers naturally can't care about whether 25 Wen for a quarter of an hour is expensive or not.

Let's play.

Anyway, there can be several people at a table, and everyone pools money to play.

After a while, the Dajia Le poker room was overcrowded, playing everywhere, only the sound of hitting the ball was heard in the room, and some people came to play for the first time. It felt very fresh and fun.

Upstairs Zhou Qiong was a little strange at this moment: "Don't King Yi's guests mainly rely on the common people? Why are the common people so expensive? How can ordinary people afford to play?"

Zhou Qiong believes that the majority of customers for this kind of business are ordinary guests and scholars in the capital, because there is a school opposite Café de Coral, and there are many young scholars. up.

Zhao Yurui remained calm, thinking, ordinary people don't care, it's better for people from the Imperial Army and the Imperial City Division to come and play.

It is his real plan to make friends with the Imperial Army and the Imperial City Secretary.

But he obviously didn't expect how popular this thing would be, and there were many ordinary people who came later, forcing him to raise the price again.

Less than half an hour after the opening, more than 200 people have already stood outside, and many passing people are also queuing. Want to go in and have a look.

Mao Tong stood guard outside with a smile on his face. Today Yi Wang gave him a red envelope, of course he was very happy.

And he also sincerely hoped that King Yi's business would be good. Now it seems that it is really booming, and now he is helping King Yi to calculate the money in his heart.

25 Wen for every quarter of an hour, [-] Wen for an hour, and [-] Wen for five hours.

King Yi has fourteen tables, which are open for five hours every day, that is fourteen guan, more than 400 guan a month, and this is still a discounted situation. If the common people come to play fifty coins, they have to double.

This business can be done, it is really profitable.

King Yi said that he wanted to open a new store and wanted Mao Tong to join him, but Mao Tong agreed on the spot without even thinking about it.

What King Yi said was right, as long as it is popular, there is no need for a market entrance. It doesn’t matter where it is, and there will always be people looking for it.

I have to look for a store in the past two days, and the task assigned to me by King Yi must be done well.

Mao Tong was happily thinking about a great plan to make a fortune, when a group of people suddenly rushed in front of him.

His eyes widened, his face paled in shock.

It was his superior, Li Jiqian, who walked in front.

Mao Tong hurried forward: "Meet Li Ganban."

"Yang made a point, Zhou Ganban, Xu Commander, Liu Commander."

Li Jiqian brought four people, a total of five people, all of whom were middle and senior generals of the Imperial City Division. Under the introduction of Mao Tong, they quickly came to the second floor.

The five people paid their respects to King Yi one after another. Zhao and Rui were overjoyed and led them to the box on the second floor, where there was a big box with a mahjong table and a pool table.

Yang Yuehu is from a family of imperial guards. His ancestor Yang Weizhong was the first commander of the Dianqian Sidu during the Song Gaozong period, and now he is the Imperial City Sidi Dian.

The biggest official in Huangcheng Division is the promotion of Huangcheng Division. There is only one member.

Yang Yuehu is one of them, and Li Jiqian is his confidant.

The other Zhou He and Li Jiqian are brothers, and they are also Yang Yuehu's confidantes, and they are officials.

There are five commanders under each cadre office, the first commander (both chief) Xu Youzhong, and the third commander Liu Tieshan, all of whom are Li Jiqian's confidantes.

This wave of people plus Mao Tong can be regarded as a system.

But they all have one characteristic. It was only later that Zhao and Rui found out that neither of them was the confidant of Qian Bin, the current secretary of the imperial city.

Qian Bin is also from a family of the Forbidden Army, and has even more feud with the Yang family.

Qian Bin's ancestor, Qian Yin, had never competed with Yang Weizhong for the commander of the Dianqian Division during Gaozong's time, so he went to the Imperial City Division for promotion.

One is equivalent to the head of the Zhongyang Jingwei regiment, and the other is equivalent to the commander of the Beijing Division's garrison commander. Qian Min must be upset.

Now the feng shui turns, Qian Bin is promoted to the Imperial City Secretary, Yang Yuehu is under his command, naturally he cannot become his confidant, and Qian Bin is still the prince Zhao Mian.

Of course, Zhao Yurui didn't know these details at this meeting. He wanted to make friends with the Imperial City Secretary and the Forbidden Army generals, and everyone was very welcome to join him.

Billiards is easier to learn, and you can learn it once you teach it. Mahjong is a bit troublesome, but Zhao Yurui still had patience and taught them all first.

The generals tried playing for a while, and immediately felt the joy of mahjong.

Originally, Li Jiqian wanted to bring people to the game to show his favor to King Yi, but he didn't think this billiards was so much fun. An official at his level usually wouldn't be too addicted to these games.

But after playing this mahjong, I really feel different, it's fun, it's really fun.

(End of this chapter)