Of course, seeing this kind of money, it is inevitable to be a little jealous.
It is definitely useless to report on Du Wei, everyone knows this. But... It's okay to share a piece of the pie with Duke Tulip, right
So, soon, some "following" behaviors appeared in the imperial capital, and many other casinos also began to set up bets on martial arts tournaments, and the names of the bets almost all imitated the betting methods of the Tulip family.
In addition, "pirated" competition scriptures also appeared! The printing quality is slightly inferior, and most of the content is copied from Du Wei's competition scriptures, but the price is low, and it is still very popular among ordinary gamblers!
This time, Du Wei quit! !
Du Wei is considered a generous person. If he is happy, he doesn't mind more money and less money, since he is already rich anyway.
However, if you grab food from Du Wei's mouth without even saying hello, this will touch Du Wei's bottom line!
Soon, under Du Wei's annoyance and pressure, several other underground casinos were "looted"!
The brigade, the soldiers of the Imperial City Guards who were heavily armed, rushed into several casinos like wolves and tigers in broad daylight, and robbed all the property in the casinos under the threat of swords and whips! All the betting money in the past few days, and even the gambling funds for the normal operation of the casino itself have all been moved away!
Then the leading officers didn't care about the begging of those casino bosses, whether they threatened or bribed them, they couldn't move these soldiers!
Than backstage? snort. I know that all of your casinos have backgrounds! It is some rich and nobles secretly real estate!
However, no matter how big your background is, is it bigger than Duke Tulip! Bigger than the Regent!
result. Several casinos were cleaned up, all gamblers were driven away, and a group of people were arrested.
As for the pirated editions of the Sutra printed on the market, they were also seized, and several printing workshops were seized.
Many people immediately understood! It won't work to rob the Duke of Tulip for money!
There were also some people who relied on their identities and carried some weight, ran to the palace and cried to Prince Chen.
But all he got was a severe reprimand from the regent!
-of course! Under Du Wei's advocacy, the gambling industry of betting has been regarded by the regent as a blood vessel to supplement the empire's finances! Depend on! You are not only stealing Du Wei's money! They are also stealing my money! !
Of course, there are also some dead-headed people, so we must argue for an explanation: for example. We don't engage in gambling, we just sell game books, so it's not illegal! Your tulip family can sell it, why can't we sell it! !
Many people asked Qu to report to the relevant departments. At this time, Du Wei directly asked the Imperial Finance Department to sign an exclusive authorization document for himself.
snort. Do you know what it means to protect intellectual property rights
Fight piracy! Long live the original! !
Of course, there are also some smart people who know that it is impossible to compete with Du Wei for food. Some people who had turned a corner in their minds hurriedly found a way to see Lord Tulip Duke, just asking him to loosen his fingers a little: You eat meat, can you also give us some soup? All belonged to the aristocratic circle. If you look down and don't see you, look up, there must be a little bit of love.
Facing this kind of requesting guests, Du Wei was still very polite. After receiving a few people, his attitude was very amiable, but the meaning in his words revealed a faint message: want to join the game and play together? Yes, pay the membership fee!
This "membership" fee. Du Wei liquidated in two ways: First, he wanted to join the game. First pay a "Join Application Fee". For each betting point, a franchise fee of 5,000 gold coins is required. this fee. Du Wei didn't want a single cent, and handed everything over to the Imperial Treasury.
In addition, all betting points must be supervised by the officials of the Imperial Finance Department throughout the process! Finally, 30% of the proceeds from the liquidation must be handed over! !
This kind of condition can be said to be harsh, but now that Du Wei holds a knife in his hand, his attitude is very clear: either you can hold your nose and agree, or you can stop thinking about this matter!
As a result, after this turmoil, the Minister of Finance of the Empire was very grateful to Du Wei. If Du Wei hadn't married his wife, and the granddaughter of the Minister of Finance had already engaged Du Wei's younger brother, the Minister of Finance wished he could have an extra granddaughter. Marry Du Wei!
"Do you know what business is the most profitable? Monopoly! Any business, as long as you can monopolize the entire industry, even if you sell ordinary nails, you can count the money until your hands cramp!"
Du Wei said this to Zach Jr. afterward, and Zach Jr. was amazed by this idea.
Lao Yan is a bit busy these days.
As Lord Tulip Duke's head of guard, it stands to reason that he should stay by Lord's side at all times. Unfortunately, Du Wei doesn't seem to need people to protect him... With his strength, there are very few people on the mainland who can hurt him now-if there is really an opponent of this level, then it is also possible. It's definitely not something that Lao Yan and those guards can resist.
Therefore, as Du Wei's most trusted confidant, Lao Yan often does some shady secrets for Du Wei.
Like this time!
On the night of the third day after the Qingfeng Festival, the Duke suddenly called Lao Yan into the study alone. Majesty: This matter must be kept absolutely secret! Only let Lao Yan do it alone, no one is allowed to take along! Never reveal a word afterwards! Just let this matter rot in his stomach forever!
Seeing what the adults said so solemnly, Lao Yan, who was loyal to Du Wei, immediately vowed with his own life that he would finish it.
Afterwards, Du Wei stated the content of the order: let Lao Yan go to a certain place outside the city tonight and quietly dig out a corpse from the ground! Then send this corpse to the Luolin Plain in the south overnight!
Du Wei still admired Lao Yan very much.
Although Lao Yan's martial arts are not high-strength, he is only an intermediate-level warrior now, and he has only just started in fighting qi. But Lao Yan is very active in doing things, and he has a tight mouth. What Du Wei likes the most is: as long as the things are told to him, he will never ask questions that should not be asked, but will follow Du Wei's instructions. Finish things carefully!
That night, according to Du Wei's instructions, Lao Yan ran to a certain barren forest outside the city alone in the middle of the night, then took out a shovel, and dug out a big big bag from the ground. Corpse!
Lao Yan arranged a carriage, and he drove the carriage himself, and took the corpse down the road to Luolin Plain in the south.
And on the way, the corpse came back to life! !
This thing can be said to be very weird! But Lao Yan didn't ask a word.
Even along the way. He tried not to talk to the resurrected corpse.
After arriving at the Luolin Plain, Lao Yan was in charge of finding a remote small farm in the south of the Luolin Plain, which was a property owned by Du Wei, and settled him here.
He did it carefully and didn't ask for anything.
He didn't know that this person he brought to the south by himself. Just a few days ago, he was sitting in the palace wearing the emperor's fine clothes.
After that, Lao Yan ran non-stop to the southern province of Lille. In a small village, he secretly picked up a family: a middle-aged woman and two little girls, and took them to the previous farm.
After finishing all this, he left a sum of money for him and told the old man, "You will live here. All the daily necessities are here. Within a month, you are not allowed to leave this farm for half a step! This is the tulip His Excellency's order!" , and then left.
Groom survived the catastrophe, so he was very excited, and he was able to reunite with his family. He was naturally grateful to Du Wei.
At the same time, he also knew that his own life was an extremely risky gamble! In case the news gets out. I will die! So he followed Du Wei's order very carefully and lived in that secret farm.
And Du Wei wouldn't let him live there forever. According to Du Wei's plan. In a few days, someone will go there. Then take this family to the south, and at a certain port, take the big ship of the Duwei family to go to sea... In the distant Southeast Asia, they can settle there. Du Wei's maritime fleet has already opened up routes and trade routes, and has also established several strongholds in Nanyang.
Lao Yan completed the task assigned by Du Wei, and when he returned to the imperial capital, nearly a month had passed.
He didn't know that as the news of the martial arts tournament spread throughout the mainland, more and more unsuccessful warriors from all over the mainland were rushing to the imperial capital.
For a while, on the official road leading to the imperial capital, the business of the car shop, wharf and hotel exploded several times.
On the twenty-eighth day after the Qingfeng Festival, Lao Yan returned to a small town ten miles outside the imperial capital. This is responsible for defending a small acropolis of the imperial capital.
With hundreds of years of peace, it has developed into a city with a population of 100,000. At the same time, a royal city guard was stationed here.
After Lao Yan had lunch in a hotel here, he was ready to go on the road. He could return to the Tulip Duke's Mansion in the imperial capital before evening to report to the adults that he had completed the task.
But when Lao Yan walked out of the hotel, the waiter next to him brought his horse, and when Lao Yan got on the horse, his movements suddenly paused, a trace of surprise appeared in his eyes, and he stared at the front of the street, as if in a daze one time.
"Yi... Could it be..."
That familiar figure flashed among the crowd, but when Lao Yan came back to his senses and looked again, he was no longer seen. He froze for a moment, then frowned: Could it be that he was wrong
But that figure is clearly familiar...
For the soldiers of the Imperial Capital Police Department, these days are simply exhausting!
All of them have given up their vacations, and all of them have devoted themselves to endless overtime... It's conceivable.
According to the statistics of the Cavaliers Association, the number of applicants has increased to 3,400 in this one month!
And among so many people, almost half of them are foreigners from all over the mainland!
It is conceivable that when more than a thousand warriors from all over the world poured into the imperial capital, what a hidden danger it would bring to the security of the imperial capital!
Most of those who practice martial arts are brave and ruthless people! The so-called Wen Wu first, Wu Wu second! People who practice martial arts will not easily be convinced by other martial artists!
The imperial capital is full of foreign warriors with various accents. These warriors are prone to some friction and small conflicts in their daily life.
For example, when signing up, among the crowded crowd, there were bumps and bumps. For another example, due to the sudden influx of too many outsiders (not only participating in the competition, many tourists from other places came to watch the fun), all the hotel and car dealerships in the imperial capital were already overcrowded! Even the price of the Chase bed in the car dealership has tripled!
At this time, maybe you are in a small teahouse or restaurant, and you accidentally bump into someone while walking, and the other person is a samurai! And when it is overcrowded, because of snatching rooms, snatching tables, snatching empty seats, even snatching carriage seats...etc.
For those who practice martial arts, most of them don't like to reason with their mouths! They usually use only one method: use force to speak! Whoever has a hard fist is right!
As a result, there were more than 300 serious fights in the imperial capital this month, resulting in seven deaths, more than 20 injuries, and more than 200 people were arrested and sent to the prison of the Public Security Department.
The Commander of the Security Department has already written to the Regent for help!
He is very helpless, there are only 10,000 soldiers in the Imperial Capital Public Security Department, and he is usually responsible for the safety of a big city with a population of one million... That's fine! Now more than a thousand warriors who are brave and ruthless are suddenly pouring in! And in every dispute and battle, most of these outsiders are not afraid of the soldiers, and even some ruthless characters who are too drunk dare to draw their swords and fight with the soldiers of the Public Security Department!
In less than a month, the cells of the Sheriff's Department were full.