The truth seems to be different from what he thinks, Zhen Qian is not a psychologist, let alone a roundworm in someone else's stomach, it is impossible to know what others are thinking, just know what they think, but there will eventually be a group of people who want to know what others are thinking, and as a result, they become the rulers of this world, or the superiors.

Maybe Abe Zhongmaro is a very simple person, he wants to see the Wa Kingdom, and ignores Zhen Gan's appearance, and the matter of returning to the Wa Kingdom has long been prepared, and he doesn't need Zhen Qian to worry about it at all, he thinks that a sea ship of 500 stones is not safe, and he has to get a sea ship of 1,000 stones, Abe Nakamaro has no opinion on this, and in his eyes, these are not a matter.

As for the extra group of singers, Abe Zhongmaro thinks it's a very good thing, hoping that the singers can bring the songs and dances of the Tang Dynasty to the Wa Kingdom, and at the same time hope that these singers can learn their songs and dances in the Wa Kingdom, Zhen Qian doesn't know if this is a cultural exchange, anyway, he can't see it now.

The next day, Zhen Qian went to visit Zhang Tianbao and a few other maritime merchants, and told them that he had brought a thousand-stone sea ship, hoping that they could find a few more skilled sailors for themselves.

When Zhang Tianbao heard that Zhen Qian had a thousand-stone sea ship in his hands, his eyes immediately became hot, and he told Zhen Qian that he had a lot of sailors under him, and Zhen Qian could pick and choose. Secretly, a bag of gold was stuffed over, hoping that Zhen Qian could help him load some goods on the Thousand Stone Sea Ship, and the conditions were open to Zhen Qian casually.

The Qianshi ship was already a giant ship in the Tang Dynasty, the larger the ship means the more places that can be loaded with goods, but these are not important, the important thing is that the goods on the Qianshi ship are exempt from inspection, and there is no need to pay taxes to the inspection department, which is equivalent to official trade, Zhang Tianbao hopes to exchange sailors for cargo space on the Qianshi ship.

The goods he carried were not much, at most he could only fit one-fifth of the warehouse, Zhen Qian took out one-fifth of the position of the warehouse in exchange for Zhang Tianbao's experienced sailors, Zhang Tianbao couldn't understand why Zhen Qian had to take the horses to the Wa Kingdom, in his opinion, this was to get along with money, and even the chef and the singer went to the Wa Kingdom together, Zhang Tianbao already wanted to cry without tears.

The Tang Dynasty was very strict on gambling, and gamblers were found to have "a hundred rods" and confiscated their family registration "floating wealth". If it is a person who sets up gambling to take profits, the law stipulates the "theory of quasi-theft". If you are caught gambling in the capital and are punished with capital punishment, you will be punished with confiscation if you are caught gambling by the people.

But these are all private gambling games, and if you want to gamble, you must get the permission of the government, so the people who can open casinos are not ordinary.

The gambling style of the scribes of the Tang Dynasty can be described as "the gambling style is fierce", Li Bai, Du Fu, Han Yu, Liu Yuxi, Luo Bin Wang, these shocking ancient and modern names often appear in the classics related to gambling at that time. They are also unabashed about their actions, and express the joy of gambling in their poems and books.

During this period, the main popular gambling games were Oak Pu, Shuanglu, Caixuan, Chess, various fighting games and ball games, among which Oak Pu, Shuanglu and Cockfighting were the most popular. In particular, it should be worth mentioning that the dice were finally formed in the Tang Dynasty.

Gambling is also known as Guan Pu, the transliteration of the English word "Gamble" is very similar to Guan Pu, and there is a legend that Marco Polo of the Yuan Dynasty brought the word Guan Pu to Europe.

In Yangzhou casinos, there is also a very peculiar gambling called buying.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was already a buy, and in the Song Dynasty, it reached the level of full name enthusiasm, from small clothes and dolls, to large chariots and horses, and when they were sold, they were all engaged in "selling", bidding and buying, which was a system in which the government sold some kind of taxing power or other power to merchants and households, and later became an "auction".

Zhen Qian took Pilates to the casino where he used to work today, the casino is very big, and the shouting on the first floor can overturn the floor of the casino, but Zhen Qian is not here to gamble, and there are two things to do.

The shopkeeper of the casino is surnamed Ma, a fat man like a dwarf winter melon, and the whole person is like a big head on a meat ball, which looks very funny, and wants to laugh when you see people.

Behind the shopkeeper stood two Huai transfer envoys, this official position even if the long history of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion saw it, he had to give three points of courtesy, and naturally it was not something that a small Ministry of Rites could provoke.

Seeing the shopkeeper, Zhen Qian first explained his intention, pointed to the Pilates standing behind him and said: "Pilates has become Zhen's guard, bring him to talk to the shopkeeper today?" ”

The shopkeeper picked his eyelids, and said in a strange manner: "Pilates is so blessed!" After following Director Zhen, the future is immeasurable, how can Ma stop it? ”

Pilates is not a slave in the hands of the horse shopkeeper, naturally there is no ability to block, but another black slave with the same Pilates is different, listening to Pilates, this man is infinitely running like flying, and there is no difference between victory and defeat in the fight with Pilates, Zhen Qian immediately became interested, and two strong men like black charcoal stood behind him, and the feeling was different.

"This is fifty taels of gold, I heard that there is a Kunlun slave here who is the same as Pilates, I want to buy him, I don't know if the shopkeeper is willing to cut his love!"

Fifty taels of gold, equivalent to four hundred copper coins, it is enough to buy ten Kunlun slaves, Pilates said that this horse shopkeeper is very greedy, that is, the kind of person who reaches out to die in the legendary coffin, Zhen Qian is ready to stun him as soon as he makes a move.

The fat on the shopkeeper's face twitched violently a few times, stretched out his hand and stroked the five gold bars that were shining with gold, his eyes were full of greed, his throat "grunted", he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and a shiny smile immediately appeared on his face: "Fifty taels of gold, does Director Zhen know how much effort Ma has spent to raise Weituyi since he was a child, and the head of the martial arts instructor has invited no less than five or six people, who have eaten me, lived in me, and worn my ...... here over the years, do you want to count this money?" ”

"Seventy taels, this is my final bottom line!"

Two more gold bars were placed in front of the shopkeeper, the fat of the shopkeeper's whole body trembled, a pair of fat hands grabbed seventy taels of gold, put them in his mouth one by one and bit them, seeing that the gold bars left a row of tooth marks, he stretched out a fat hand with difficulty and shook it in front of Zhen Qian, and shouted from his throat: "One hundred taels!" One hundred taels of gold, and the Wittui will be yours! ”

Zhen Qian grabbed the fat hand of the shopkeeper, took his hand away from the gold bar, took one out of the gold bar, looked at the shopkeeper with disdain and said: "Now I have changed my mind, sixty taels, I didn't come to beg you!" ”

"I'll kill Witui so you don't get anything!" The shopkeeper roared angrily, but his eyes were fixed on the gold bar in Zhen Qian's hand.

"If you don't want any gold, then you can keep it for yourself! Give me back the gold! ”

Saying that, Zhen Qian stretched out his hand and prepared to take back the remaining gold bars from the hand of the shopkeeper, but saw the shopkeeper holding the gold bars and saying, "Seventy taels, it's sold!" ”