hsntnovel Chapter 1848 Encountering Difficulties
Chapter 1848 Encountering Difficulties
"It's finally about to begin." Cheng Chusi said excitedly.
They have been waiting for more than a year. Originally, this plan was thought up by them. Later, King Ji joined in and made their plan even more perfect.
At first they just wanted to hold a football game and collect some ticket money.
But after Li Shen joined, they found that Prince Ji wanted to become bigger and stronger.
"Haha, I've been waiting for a year. Last year I bought a big house in Chang'an City, and I've spent almost all my money.
I was too embarrassed to ask my father for money, so I was thinking about how to make some money.”
"You also bought a big house, and my father took all my money. He said that as the eldest son, all the money in the house will be mine in the future, so please help me save it now."
"I gave all my money to the princess, and she managed it. I don't have much money at ordinary times, and it takes me half a month to save money to go to the pleasure boat secretly."
When a group of people heard about making money, they became very excited and started to complain about how difficult their lives were now.
Some of these people had their money taken away by their fathers, such as the Cheng brothers, and some had their money handed over to the princess, such as Cheng Chuliang, Tang Shanshi, Fang Yiai and others.
Some of them moved out to work after getting married. They are not the eldest sons and cannot inherit the family business, but they want to live outside on their own, so they buy their own houses.
But this does not belong to separation, it is simply living away from home.
The Tang Dynasty law does not allow brothers to divide up their property while their elders are still alive.
So there was a reason why Li Shen almost got beaten when he talked about dividing the family in front of Li Shimin some time ago.
Listening to everyone complaining, Li Shen understood them very well. It turned out that he was not the only one who was betrayed by his father.
"Hey? Cheng Chuliang, what did you just say? How dare you sneak into the pleasure boat? You bastard, Cheng Chusi, beat him up for me."
Li Shen suddenly reacted, pointed at Cheng Chuliang and shouted at him.
"Your Majesty, I'm not...I didn't...Oops."
Cheng Chuliang was still trying to argue, but the eldest brother Cheng Chusi came up and kicked him twice, quite hard, making Cheng Chuliang grimace.
"Do you know you are wrong?" Cheng Chusi asked with a stern face.
"Your Majesty, I was wrong." Cheng Chuliang bowed to Li Shen with a bitter face. There was no way to justify his wrongdoing.
"Humph, I will never let you off easily next time. Eleventh sister is virtuous, well-educated, and treats you so well, yet you actually sneaked to the pleasure boat.
Do you know what crime you would be charged with if His Majesty found out?
What if you get sick and infect Eleventh Sister?
Eleventh Sister has so many maids around her, why don't you take a concubine for you?"
Li Shen snorted coldly. Cheng Chusi married Li Shen's eleventh sister, Princess Qinghe Li Jing, whose courtesy name was Dexian.
Princess Qinghe had a good personality, she was gentle, kind and virtuous. It was a waste for her to marry Cheng Chuliang.
As the son-in-law of the emperor, he actually cheated on his wife. If the emperor, his father-in-law, found out about this, would Cheng Chuliang be okay?
"Yes, yes, your Highness is right. I will correct myself in the future." Cheng Chuliang quickly admitted his mistake.
"Okay, let's get back to the topic, our football money-making plan has officially begun.
But we need to have a plan and follow it step by step.
Please take a look. "
Li Shen pointed to a board that had been prepared in advance and said.
I saw a large piece of paper pasted on the board, with the words "Making Money Plan" written on the first line of the paper.
Then there is a mind map.
Li Shen pointed to the first square and said:
"Everyone, our first step is to occupy the entire market, in addition to Chang'an City, there are also surrounding cities.
Luoyang is one of the important locations.
Our business is football matches, and the most important thing is to eliminate these underground casinos first.
Have you investigated the matter I asked you to investigate that day?"
When the City of Ice and Snow opened, Li Shen asked all of them to start investigating the underground casinos in Chang'an City.
"Your Highness Prince Ji, shouldn't we first form a team? Is the football field already built?"
Cheng Chusi asked.
King Ji said that the football stadium he built was a super large football stadium that could accommodate 40,000 spectators.
It looks like it hasn't been built yet.
Sure enough, Li Shen shook his head:
“The football stadium has not been built yet and it is estimated that it will not be completed until the middle of the year, but we can start the preparation work first.
This may take a long time.”
"Your Highness Prince Ji, we have basically investigated all the gambling houses in Chang'an City." Fang Yiai said.
"Well, what's the situation? How many families are there in total?" Li Shen nodded and asked.
"Your Majesty, you won't know until you check. Once you check, you will be shocked.
According to our investigation, there are more than 50 underground casinos in the 108 districts of Chang'an City.
It involved many nobles, aristocratic families, gentry, and even royal families in Chang'an City.
These casinos are large and small. Generally speaking, the casinos owned by aristocratic families are larger, and each family controls at least three casinos.
The Wei family, the Du family, the Pei family, the Liu family, and the Yang family are all involved." Fang Yiai reported.
"There are so many of them?" Li Shen was also a little surprised. He did not expect that there would be so many underground casinos in Chang'an City.
There are also members of the royal family who open casinos.
Are these people really not afraid of death, or is it that no one cares about the welfare of the privileged class?
"Yes, Your Majesty, it may not be easy for us to eradicate so many gambling houses. There is a big backer behind these casinos.
The relationship is complicated and intricate, and it is difficult to deal with it." Tang Shanshi echoed.
These dudes all find it tricky, so you can imagine how complicated it is.
"Well, you are right. It is indeed difficult to deal with. If we force our way through, I am afraid we will have to offend the entire Tang Dynasty."
Li Shen stroked his chin and thought, he was not Li Tietou, who would confront everything head-on.
It’s okay if there are only a few of them, and I can still protect them, but there are too many of them. Almost half of the powerful people in the Tang Dynasty are among them.
If I force my way through, how many people will I offend?
"Your Highness, why don't we just forget it and just play our own game and live in peace." Yuchi Baolin suggested.
His father is a duke, a third-rank official, equivalent to a prime minister, yet he feels that he cannot defeat these people.
Li Shen frowned and looked at everyone and said:
“Everyone, if they can live in peace, I will not want to eliminate them.
What we are doing is a very profitable business, and the gains in the future will be beyond your imagination.
Wouldn’t they be jealous of such a big piece of meat?
If these gambling houses follow our example, then what they lose is our hard-earned money, do you know that?"
"Your Majesty, we know this, but...
Even if we have more people, we can't afford to offend so many princes and nobles.
I also heard from Aye that these underground casinos have been around for many years, whether in Chang'an County or Wannian County.
No county magistrate dared to do so, and even reporting to them would fall on deaf ears and receive no response.
Unless His Royal Highness Prince Ji goes directly to His Majesty to give it a try, we definitely don’t have the strength to do so.”
(I saw someone talking about the problem of more than one million people eating three million dan of grain.
Are there any people born in the 70,80s or s who can tell me how many bowls of rice they ate in one meal when they were young?
I remember when I was a teenager, I ate a bunch of noodles by myself, which weighed two kilograms.
Now a bag of instant noodles is enough to fill you up.
The main reason was that I didn’t have much fat in my stomach at that time.
Based on this, I feel that ancient people really could eat a lot, of course, provided they had time to eat.
Just like in martial arts novels, five kilograms of beef and two kilograms of liquor are often used.)