God Weird Fairy

Chapter 207: The Battle between the Gluttonous King in the Gambling House

Nan Yi returned to Du Mansion, called Yan Qingyun and Guo Lai, and prepared to move to another place.

At present, he has officially put the matter of Zhenqi Martial Arts on the agenda, and needs to deal with it separately from the nine parts of Dali.

In this situation, although Du Heng was a good friend of Tao Zhiming and could suppress the officials of the Mu Ling Department for Nan Yi, Nan Yi could not stay in Du Mansion for too long.

The place he moved to was a house under the name of Luo Wuji of the Luo family, which was cleared out yesterday for Nan Yi and others to stay.

However, accommodation is a trivial matter. The key is the basic information on civil and military officials that Nan Yi asked Luo Su to prepare yesterday.

Nan Yi was away from Beijing and was not familiar with the place. Only by asking for help from the old people in Beijing could he figure out the situation and find a good starting point.

Therefore, when Nan Yi came to Lijing City, the first person he found was Luo Su, the master of Wuxiang Academy.

Although Luo Su would not personally support Nan Yi, it would be effortless to stop officials from the Ministry of Education and then provide intelligence support to Nan Yi.

Nan Yi took a jade slip and a golden token from the Luo family's servant.After entering the guest house, he looked into the jade slips and took a quick look at them, then looked closely at the information of officials from the Ministry of Commerce.

The Commercial Department is divided into two departments: Finance Department and Daoyun Department. The former is in charge of taxation, coinage, and salary, while the latter is in charge of transportation, logistics, and exploration.

At this morning's court meeting, the person who refuted Nan Yi with economic laws was none other than Lin Ye, the current director of the Finance Department of the Ministry of Commerce.

Nan Yi looked at it carefully.

The current officials of the Department of Finance are all officials of the Department of Finance who were quickly transferred from various counties by Emperor Li after the "Several Crimes" case in the first year of Tianqi.

At that time, Emperor Li asked: "In the majestic capital city, where dignitaries and dignitaries are entrenched, and wealthy merchants gather, why is the per capita tax rate not as high as that of the entire Dali?"

Su Guang, then director of the Finance Department, could not answer, which led to the resignation of all officials of the Finance Department in Beijing.

Lihuang transferred people from various counties and made special promotions, and finally stayed as officials of the Finance Department in the capital. Compared with the older officials, they listened to Lihuang's words more, allowing Lihuang to slowly gain the right to speak.

But listening to Lihuang's words does not mean that he will follow Lihuang's lead. He will still have his own interests to consider.

After all, no matter who is an official, scholarly power will naturally conflict with imperial power.

Moreover, it has been three years since these Finance Department officials were promoted by Emperor Li.In the past three years, they had secured their position, and they did not have to worry too much about Lihuang's own wishes.

Even though they knew that Emperor Li wanted to appoint Nan Yi as an official and spread Zhenqi martial arts, they clearly expressed their opposition, and even became the biggest resistance Nan Yi faced at the moment.

Just because, for the officials of the Department of Finance, promoting steam technology can increase tax revenue; promoting Zhenqi Martial Arts, but there is no benefit at all.

After reading the information of the current Finance Department officials, Nan Yi looked at the information of Su Guang, the former Director of the Finance Department who was demoted by Emperor Li in the "Geometry Crime" case.

Su Guang, who is thirty-eight years old, is a rare female cultivator who wants to become an official and join politics.

He has a down-to-earth and generous personality, makes many good friends, and seldom makes enemies with others. Therefore, his official career is quite smooth. At a young age, he is already the minister of the Ministry of Commerce and the director of the Finance Department. He is a third-rank official.

At that time, Su Guang was even the female cultivator with the highest official position in the entire Dali. She talked and laughed like a scholar, but had no idle contacts.

As a result, not long after he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, Su Guang met the sudden death of the previous emperor Li Huang and the current emperor ascended the throne. He also encountered the emperor Li who wanted to consolidate the imperial power and not act as a powerless emperor.

Faced with the soul torture question of why the per capita tax in Beijing was less than that in Dali, Su Guang was stunned and didn't dare to say a word.

Of course she knew that the powerful people in the capital were the best at tax evasion, and of course she knew that Emperor Li wanted her to stand up and report all the powerful people in the capital, so that Emperor Li would have an excuse to rectify the officialdom.

After all, Su Guang had just taken office not long ago. As long as she reported it and said that this was an old matter and it was not due to her negligence in office, and she was willing to find out the details for Li Huang, not only would she not be demoted, but she would also be expected to move up to a higher level. Building, he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Commerce.

Just like Lin Ye, the current director of the Department of Finance, it was because he had the courage to report when he re-examined Tianqi's financial accounts in the first year that he was promoted and secured his position as director - although Lin Ye only dared to report kittens and puppies at that time Three or two, not daring to seriously arouse public outrage.

But Su Guang is not Lin Ye after all.Lin Ye was a transferred official with no foundation. In order to strive for special promotion, he had the courage to pick out some soft persimmons to report.

Su Guang, who was suddenly questioned by Emperor Li, thought it better not to offend the powerful people in the capital than to be the knife of Emperor Li.

So she remained silent and was dismissed and demoted by Emperor Li under the disappointed gaze.

However, even though Su Guang was dismissed from his post by Emperor Li, because he did not choose to report to the powerful people in the capital, he did not harm his popularity and was still a guest of the major aristocratic families in the capital.

It's just that for monks, connections and popularity can only be regarded as the icing on the cake, rather than the foundation of practice.

Su Guang lost his official body, and without his official body to assist him in his cultivation, he only relied on his daily homework to polish his Taoism. It took a long time to achieve perfection in his transformation from the mortal world.

She has tried writing essays.

But Su Guang, who was once the director of the Finance Department, was good at making money, but not good at writing.

His new book has been in preparation for 23 months, and so far it has not reached [-] words.

Perhaps because he knew that he was not the material for writing a book, Su Guang often stopped writing in the middle of the book and went to search for spiritual realms, using the gifts gained from conquering spiritual realms to rapidly increase his Taoism.

Just conquering the spiritual realm depends on luck.If you are unlucky and encounter a spiritual realm that is difficult to solve, you will not only be unable to capture it, but you will also be unable to escape.

Recently, Su Guang seemed to have returned from a certain spiritual realm, contracted bad luck, and needed to spend money to ward off the disaster. He was in a gambling shop called Mailou in the city. He had been losing money for three days in a row, and he seemed to be in decline. God possessed.

Seeing this news, Nan Yi fell into deep thought.

Finally, he decided to rush to the Mai Tower to contact Su Guang.

Nan Yi went out alone, and when he passed through a certain alley, he separated from his clone Qiu Changsheng.

Previously, they had to borrow the teleportation formation from the Jade Blessed Land. With the simple thought of saving a little bit of teleportation fee, Nan Yi and Qiu Changsheng quietly merged.

Since there was nothing that Qiu Changsheng needed to do for the time being, Nan Yi never released the combination.

But now, it's time.

Nan Yi divided his money into two parts, put one part into the Qiankun Ring and gave it to Qiu Changsheng, and the other part was temporarily placed in the gourd space.

The two of them worked in tandem, divided into two groups, and rushed to the Mai Tower where Su Guang was currently located.

The Mai Tower is seven stories high and is magnificently built with an air of luxury.

The tower door is wide and engraved with golden patterns, which seem to be shining when exposed to external light.

Entering the Demai Building, it seems vaguely like clouds and smoke, but it is the smoke of special spices burning in the building. The smell is refreshing and refreshing, and at the same time, people feel an inexplicable excitement and nervousness.

At regular intervals on the wall, there are glass lamps hanging, illuminating the entire Mai Building like daylight, as if the time in the outside world has nothing to do with this building.

The light shines on the ground, casting mottled shadows, giving people a dreamy feel.

Nan Yi frowned slightly when he saw this, feeling as if he suddenly ran from the world of immortality to the cyber studio.

However, as a gambling house, the Pulse Tower is not like the world of cultivating immortals, there is no ethereal atmosphere at all.

The first and second floors of the Mai Tower are places for mortals to engage in gambling.

The crowd was noisy, filled with the impassioned and excited shouts of the gamblers.The gambling table is covered with bright red silk and satin, and various gambling equipment are placed on it, making it dazzling.

At every gambling table, there are many gamblers betting to gain instant wealth.Here, Nan Yi seems to be able to feel the real human desire and the breath of the world.

However, the willpower of such people has long been dyed with the color of desire, and is not suitable for collection by immortal monks.

Nan Yi, who was still calm and unaffected by the atmosphere of the Mai Tower, suspected that the owner of the Mai Tower was a side sect monk.

Nan Yi took a deep breath, stopped scanning the scenery in the building, and walked towards the stairs leading to the second floor.

Seeing that he was wearing a green shirt and had a distinguished temperament, the two young men guarding the stairs did not stop Nan Yi.

Nan Yi walked from the second floor to the third floor.

The two young men, who had made a small amount of cultivation, felt that Nan Yi was restrained and could not figure out the details, so they did not stop him.

He continued from the third floor to the fourth floor.

The two deacons, who had perfected their Qi cultivation and had stronger cultivation, felt that Nan Yi's aura was as powerful as an abyss and difficult to measure. Instead, they became more humble and did not dare to stop Nan Yi, who looked very young.

It wasn't until Nan Yi went up to the fifth floor that a steward of the Mai Tower, who had just entered the mortal world, asked respectfully: "Fellow Taoist looks unfamiliar, but are you interested in the "Slut King Fight" in the Mai Tower? "

The first and second floors are mortal gambling games, with various gambling equipment, and mortals have a strong sense of participation.

The third floor corresponds to the introductory or minor cultivator of nourishing qi, and the fourth floor corresponds to the accomplished cultivator or perfect cultivator of nurturing qi.

As for the fifth floor, it is only open to beginners or minor monks.

At the same time, starting from the fourth floor, there are no gambling games in the Mai Tower, only gambling games, that is, gamblers are not allowed to bet at close range, but gamblers are allowed to enter the private room to place bets first, and then play games, avoiding as much as possible Gamblers interfere with gambling.

The gambling game on the fifth floor is called "The King of Gluttons".

There is a kind of spiritual fish called juàn, which is artificially cultivated into red and blue colors.

The blood hawk looks ferocious, has a slender and powerful body, has sharp teeth and strong fins, and can shuttle flexibly and swiftly through the water.

They are ferocious and cruel in nature, and when hungry, they will often fight and eat each other.

The Mai Tower pits 128 groups of red and blue blood monsters against each other, allowing gamblers to bet on the outcome of the red and blue games. This is the first round.

After the first round, each winning blood wolf has a number, and it will continue to be divided into groups - the red and blue confrontation groups will be divided first, and then the extra blood wolf of the same color will be allowed to fight against each other.

In this way, 128 goes into 64, 64 goes into 32, 32 goes into 16, 16 goes into 8, 8 goes into 4, 4 goes into 2, 2 goes into 1, and the final winner is determined along the way, who is the gluttonous king.

Taotie means sacrifice.

The entire "Double King's Fight" is, in a sense, a sacrificial ritual between bloody gluttons.

The King of Gluttons who finally wins will jump from the middle level of the Yellow Level to the top level of the Yellow Level, and become a veritable spiritual fish, who can gain one month of Taoism by eating it.

Mailou will give away the King of Squid for free to all the gamblers who finally bet on the King of Squid, and whoever guesses and wins the most games.

If multiple people guess and win the same number of games, the bet will be given to the one with the highest final chip increase multiple.

If it still remains the same, priority will be given to the strangers who are new to the Meridian Tower, or those who have won the King of Sluts less times in total.

This is to prevent some monks from deliberately fighting for the King of Swords by virtue of their special abilities.

After all, the food of one King Sian can gain one month of Taoism. It may not seem like a lot, but it can't hold up more than one "Double King Fight" in the Mai Tower every day.

If you can continuously win over the King of Gluttony and feast on it, your cultivation will not grow too slowly.

This is also the reason why Mailou remains standing and brings the gambling house business to the monk community.

But if we want to maintain the Mailou business for a long time, we must be as fair as possible. While not engaging in shady activities, we must also restrict gamblers from cheating.

Although the private room where the gamblers are located is actually quite particular. There is a corresponding magic circle that can isolate the monks' spiritual consciousness in the private room, preventing the monks from transmitting messages to the outside world, or using their spiritual consciousness to secretly interfere with the outcome of the bloody confrontation.

When monks place bets on the "Double King Fight", they mainly focus on vision, but there is also a certain element of luck.

Perhaps the blood glutton that was originally at a disadvantage would suddenly strike with a sudden strike, severely injuring another blood glutton.

It's just that the monks' methods are unpredictable, and there are always some methods that are difficult to guard against. Even though they are in a private room, they can still easily secure the victory.

Therefore, if there are multiple people suspected of cheating and it is completely impossible to distinguish the top from the bottom, priority will be given to strangers.

Back to business, when asked by the manager of Mailou, Nan Yi said, "I'm here to look for Su Guang."

The steward of Mailou was a little hesitant.Because Nan Yi looked unfamiliar and did not look like an acquaintance of Su Guang.And since Su Guang had been gambling in the Mai Tower for three days, it was unlikely that he had arranged to meet someone here beforehand.

So the steward of the Mailou hesitated and asked, "Did Fellow Daoist have an agreement with Fellow Daoist Su before?"

Nan Yi smiled and said, "We have no appointment. But just inform us that Nan Yi, the leader of Yiwu, has come to visit and wants to help fellow Taoist Su with his cultivation. I hope fellow daoist Su will not hesitate to meet you."

The steward of Mailou then went to the corresponding private room to ask Su Guang for instructions.

Su Guang finally agreed to Nan Yi's visit, so the steward of Mailou, who had returned, led Nan Yi into the elegant Tianhua Pavilion where Su Guang was staying.

Entering the elegant room, Nan Yi looked at Su Guang and was secretly surprised.

I saw Su Guang sitting in front of a mahogany table, his face pale, his eyes dim, and even his breath seemed depressed.

She was supposed to be a pretty female official in her prime, but now her brows were frowning, and even her forehead was wrinkled.

Su Guang, who was frowning, did not look at the tank in the field through the one-way transparent floor-to-ceiling window.

Every time there was a new bloody battle, Su Guang would simply and mechanically place bets, throwing away chips, as if he didn't care about winning or losing.

Then, no matter how Su Guang bets, even if it seems like a sure-fire confrontation, he will win.

As long as Su Guang dared to bet on the stronger side, the stronger side would immediately lose to Su Guangkan.

In a sense, Su Guang's current gambling luck is like the law of cause and effect, and his bad luck has reached its limit.

Nan Yi tried to talk to Su Guang, but Su Guang only shook his head subconsciously, as if he had no intention of answering.

He suddenly suspected that when Su Guang asked for instructions from the manager of Cai Cai Tower, he probably just nodded and did not reply seriously at all.

Seeing that Su Guang was waiting for her to finish gambling, Nan Yi asked the maid accompanying him in the private room in a low voice.

"Can I also place bets in this private room? Or do I have to open a separate private room before I can place bets?"

The maid responded in a low voice: "Young Master can place bets directly in this private room. However, the bet cannot be contrary to Miss Su's bet."

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(End of this chapter)