A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 358 Gambling, fallen Taoist

Seven years of light and harmony
The twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month
Luoyang, Five Colors Expo Theater.

"Lu! Lu!..." "Pheasant! Pheasant! Pheasant!..."

"Lottery! Big lottery!" "Oh, I won!"

"Haha, I did it, I did it!"

I saw a crowd of people surging in a gorgeously decorated house. Everyone gathered in front of an open space, looking crazy, staring directly at a cup on the ground.

"Okay, let's buy it and let's go!"

The cup was uncovered and there were five wooden pieces inside. They were pointed at both ends and wide in the middle. They could be carved. They were shaped like flattened almonds and were called five pieces of wood.

Gambling is going on here, and this is a kind of gambling called Five Woods Game. It can be used for gambling. It is also the simplest way to play and is deeply loved by ordinary gamblers.

There are five pieces of wood, three of which are painted in black and white on the front and back, and the other two have a calf (cow) and a pheasant (pheasant) on the front and back respectively.

The black part is called "Xuan" and the white part is called "White". The calf can be regarded as black and the pheasant can be regarded as white.

There are five pieces in total. Each time you throw them together, twelve different combinations can appear.

Among them, three black and two calves are called completely black, called Guicai, and they are named "Lu"; three white and two pheasants are called all white, and they are named "White", which is also Guicai.

In addition, Guicai also has three white and two calves, named "calf"; three black and two pheasants, named "pheasants". The rest are called miscellaneous.

The names of the picks are different, and the odds of each pick are also different. Luce sixteen is the highest multiplier. If you win the Luce, it will be directly multiplied by sixteen times. Fourteen are collected from pheasants, ten from calves, and eight from whites. The magnification is the same as the sampling number.

The gambler bets money on Guicai, and the banker throws five wood. If the result is Guicai, the banker will pay according to the multiplier of the gambler's bet.

But if the roll is successful:
Sai (three mysterious, one pheasant and one calf), Bald (two mysterious, two calf and one pheasant), (two mysterious, one pheasant, one calf and one white, one mysterious, two calf and two white), Zhu (two mysterious, two pheasant and one white, one mysterious and one white) A calf, a pheasant, and two whites), a tower (a black pheasant, two pheasants, and two whites), and a Kai (a calf, a pheasant, and three whites).
In these eight situations, the dealer takes all.

Regarding the probability of these results, the probability of Lu, Pheasant, Du, and Bai is one in 32; the probability of Sai and Kai is two in thirty-two; Tu, Ta, (one black, two cubs, and two white) ), the prong (two black, two pheasant and one white) is three-thirty-two parts;
The last one (two mysterious, one pheasant, one calf and one white) and the prong (one mysterious, one calf, one pheasant and two white) are 6/32.

Of course, there are many kinds of gambling here, and there is another kind of gambling called "horse beating", which also requires the use of five pieces of wood.

However, this kind of gameplay is too complicated and sophisticated, and extremely brain-consuming. Moreover, the bets placed are very large, and generally only the children of nobles can play it.

"Horse racing" requires two players, sitting opposite each other, each placing any bet. The theater will send a "supervisor" to referee for both parties, and collect a certain proportion of the "supervisor's money" from them.

The winner of this bet can get all the bets made by both parties except the "supervisor" of the theater. In the gambling game, there will be horse racing, and a small bet must be set for this. If a "horse" is beaten once, the other party must be given an agreed bet.

There is a chessboard between the two sides. There are seventeen by seventeen squares on it, which are called "chess positions". Each side has six chess pieces, and the chess pieces are called "arrows".

In the initial layout, all the arrows are arranged in a long row, and then divided into three "gatherings". There are gaps between the arrows in each "gathering" for chess positions, which are called "".

Use the two ends of the long column as the starting point and the end point. By throwing five wooden arrows, the number of steps taken is the number of steps. When all six arrows reach the end point, the player wins.

In addition, the gaps between "Gathers" are called "Guans", which are not chess positions. The result of non-throwing is that you cannot pass. There are two places.

The first chess position in each level is called a "pit", and the next chess position is called a "pit". There are three places in each level. When reaching the front of the level but no guicai is thrown, the player can only move the arrow into the "pit". , only by throwing Guicai can you move out of the "pit", cross the level, and gain the right to throw in another round.

At the beginning of the game, both parties place all the arrows at their starting point, throw five pieces of wood, and move the arrows according to the number of steps, which is the number of steps.

If the move misses to the chess position where one's own arrow is, it can overlap, which is called a chess stack. Afterwards, the two arrows can be moved together. Of course, in principle, all six arrows can be stacked together.

If you miss the position where the enemy's arrow is, you can knock the enemy's arrow back to the starting point and get another round and the chips specially agreed upon by both parties. This is called "beating the horse".

Number of picks: sixteen for Lu, fourteen for pheasants, twelve for quarrels, eleven for plugs, eleven for calves, eight for whites, five for towers, ten for balds, three for prongs, and two for picks.

The noble ones are Lu, Pheasant, Du, and Bai, and the miscellaneous ones are Sai, Tu, Kai, Ta, and Zhu.

As the largest gambling hall in Luoyang City, the Five Colors Gambling Hall has all the gambling equipment and can play any kind of gambling. In addition to the Five Wood Game and Horse Racing, there are also Hu Tou, Six Game and so on.

The people who play in it range from the ministers of the court, nobles, traffickers, merchants and craftsmen. Every day these gamblers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in it.

The Expo Theater is also making a lot of money every day. Compared with Juxian Pavilion, Shixian Pavilion's income is much higher. Together with the other two Yinwu Pavilion and Hongchen Pavilion, it is one of the three largest gold-selling caves in Luoyang.

The main business of Yinbu Pavilion is Kabuki, which has the largest number of singers and dancers with the most powerful skills in the world. The performers in the Yinwu Pavilion can be bought and sold, and the prices vary depending on their skill level. It is the main source of performers needed for various noble mansions to entertain guests.

Of course, the price of a performer is very expensive, easily worth tens of gold. If a famous performer in Luoyang is famous, one cost thousands of gold.

If the government has insufficient funds, you can also come to the Yinwu Pavilion to rent a song and dance team, which will naturally require less money. As for the Hongchen Pavilion, it is a pure brothel and brothel. The women in it are all of excellent appearance. An ordinary night's consumption here will cost a lot of money. If you want to ransom a famous prostitute, you will have to spend at least several hundred gold.

In the museum, a young man with an ordinary face was looking at the strong man opposite him with a ferocious expression.

The strong man looked at him teasingly: "What, Mr. Tang, do you want another game? I can also lend you a gold. How can you, a man like Mr. Tang, not pay back just a few gold?"

The strong man is the banker of the casino and a veteran of the casino.

Yes, the Expo also serves as a bank for lending money, and it is a loan shark. As for why the Expo has so much turnover, and it is a loan shark, and no one is looking for trouble, we have to mention the people behind it.

I heard that the person behind it was a eunuch, but some ministers or nobles who knew the inside story knew that the person behind the theater was actually named Liu.

The young man was Tang Zhou who came from Julu and was responsible for contacting Luoyang's internal affairs.

Even though the people in the world are not well clothed and have insufficient food to eat, Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty, is a prosperous and luxurious scene.

How could Tang Zhou, a young man from the local area, have seen such a prosperous scene and come into contact with gambling, and he immediately fell into it.

Not only did he entrust the Taiping Road to him, he also lost all the funds he was responsible for winning over the two regular servants in the palace, as well as several key generals in the Forbidden Army, and he also owed the Expo Theater dozens of gold.

From the time he arrived in Luoyang in November of the sixth year of Guanghe's reign to the first month of the seventh year of Guanghe's reign, Tang Zhou had been in the theater for two full months, where he experienced a luxury he had never experienced in his life.

Taking the hundreds of gold given to him by Taiping Dao, he continued to squander it and enjoyed the pursuit of these gamblers. He truly understood the feeling of counting gold while squandering it.

Tang Zhou suddenly calmed down after listening to the strong man's words: "Humph, the money I spent with you is only a hundred gold? In this way, I still have things to do. When the work is finished, let alone a hundred gold, just Even a thousand pieces of gold or ten thousand pieces of gold are indispensable from you."

The strong man looked at the suspicion on Tang Zhou's face and asked tentatively: "You are not from Taiping Dao, right? I heard that Taiping Dao is going to rebel. When the time comes, in troubled times, I really won't be able to get back these dozens of gold."

Tang Zhou's expression changed greatly, and then he suppressed the violent movement in his heart and asked in the calmest voice: "Taiping Dao? Do you know Taiping Dao?"

The strong man smiled and said: "Who doesn't know about Taiping Dao now? Mr. Tang, you must have been in the library for a long time. Half a month ago, Luoyang kept spreading the news that Taiping Dao was about to rebel.

But we didn't see any action from the court, maybe someone was spreading rumors. "

Tang Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a while, and said casually: "I don't know what Taiping Road is, but don't worry, I will definitely return these tens of gold to you. That's it, I will return it to you. If you have something to do, take the first step."

"Hey, Mr. Tang, wait a minute. Look, you have never told us where you live, where your home is, and who your relatives are. If you leave now, who should we ask for money from if you run away?"

Tang Zhou said with a cold face: "Then what do you think we should do?"

The strong man apologized and said with a smile: "Half a month, the owner of the library said that he can only be granted grace for half a month. If you can't repay the principal plus interest within half a month, then the library will take some special measures." Take action.

And you can't leave Luoyang during this half month. Since you are our distinguished guest, you are allowed to move around in Luoyang City, but you have to follow our people and don't dare to leave your sight for a moment. "

As he spoke, six sturdy men appeared behind the strong man.

Tang Zhou couldn't help but shed a cold sweat on his temples as he looked at the six big men holding swords on their waists. He reluctantly swallowed and nodded in agreement.

Then he took these six "guards" and returned to the yard where he lived temporarily these days.

As for why there are rumors in Luoyang that Taiping Dao is planning to rebel, it is not the reason of Tang Zhou.

Tang Zhou was responsible for controlling the funds needed by Taiping Dao in Luoyang City, and there were other people who contacted those inside and issued tasks. Those people only needed to complete the tasks assigned by Taiping Dao.

Tang Zhou put the promised money in a designated place for those who should take it as funds for activities.

But starting in December, Luoyang's internal agents found that they had not received the rewards they deserved after completing their tasks.

Since the handle of Taiping Dao was in the hands of himself and others, he did not dare to directly ask the people of Taiping Dao. He could only secretly spread the news of Taiping Dao's rebellion in Luoyang to express his and others' dissatisfaction.

As a result, these people did not expect that Tang Zhou, the person in charge of Luoyang, did not know about this at all, but instead attracted the attention of some discerning ministers.

During this month, several ministers wrote to Liu Hong, saying that there were signs of rebellion in Taiping Road, and they hoped that Liu Hong could take concrete measures.

However, under the obstruction of Feng Xu and Xu Feng, Liu Hong did not pay attention to it. Instead, he scolded these people for doing nothing and staring at these frivolous things.

Although Liu Hong did not pay attention to it, there were still some keen ministers and thoughtful people who were collecting information about Taiping Dao overtly and covertly, and they already had some clues at this time.

(End of this chapter)