It is because of the large and small, high and low mountains outside the Xuanfu today, there are few mountains on it that are not bare, at a glance, except for gray is yellow, or gray and yellow-

Without the shield of the forest, there are more stormy weather.

Although it was already evening, there were still a lot of people on the street, bustling with people, and there was no need to be in a hurry. The restaurants and brothel casinos on both sides are the most prosperous time for business, with people coming and going, and it is extraordinary. It's not like the city of Beijing, when it comes to the evening, those who don't go home hurry home, and those who don't go out of the city hurry out of the city, for fear that the city gate will be locked and locked.

But Xuanfu is different. Originally, Xuanfu also had a curfew, and it was very strict, after all, it was a military town and a military city, and hundreds of thousands of troops were stationed, and the most feared thing was to make some noise at night and cause the camp to roar, because the rules were extremely strict at night, and there were many patrols, and no one was allowed to appear on the street, and no abnormal sound was allowed.

But now, it is almost deserted - this is not the foot of the Son of Heaven in Beijing after all, and the rules can still be roughly adhered to. In Xuanfu Town, the curfew at night is probably just a matter of stationing some soldiers at various intersections to maintain law and order.

This is the north and south streets inside the Guanglingmen Gate.

The construction of Xuanfu town is very regular, it is an extremely standard four directions, the length of the four sections of the city wall is almost exactly the same, the circumference of the city is twenty-four miles, and the length of each section of the city wall is six miles. Four city walls, four city gates, the north gate, Guangling gate, the west gate, Taixin gate, the east gate, Anding gate, and the south gate, Changping gate. The east and west gates are located at the midpoint of the east and west walls. The North Gate and the South Gate are slightly further east at the midpoint.

In the whole Xuanfu Town, there are two main streets, which constitute the main axis of this city.

The name is also very simple, they are the North and South Streets and the East and West Streets, the North and South Streets between the South Gate Changping Gate and the North Gate Guangling Gate, and the East and West Streets between the Anding Gate and the West Gate Taixin Gate. The two main streets form the main axis of the city, and there are countless streets and alleys on both sides of the streets, which are connected to one by one, whether they are houses or storefronts, and so on.

The construction of Xuanfu Town is very attentive, at least for these two central axis streets, the street is full of three zhang wide, all of them are paved with large bluestone slabs to build, the street houses are built in the Yongle period, in order to look good and magnificent, all of the water are bluestone bottoms, blue bricks and slip surfaces, look neat and unified, extremely regular. At the beginning, it was built according to the specifications of the military town, and the people responsible for the construction were mainly the army, supplemented by the people, and the law was carried out by military orders, which was based on the high quality of the building, which was similar to the quality of the things produced by the army in later generations.

The houses built back then have been built for more than 200 years, but they are already solid and sturdy, rarely collapsed, and they are all very well preserved. At a glance, almost all the specifications of these facades on the street are the same, the difference is just the brand, the flag.

There are many deep rut marks on the large bluestone-paved streets, which are the traces left by how many horse-drawn carriages have run over them over the years.

The street in the Guangling Gate, sixty steps south of the city gate, the east of the road is a small façade, there is no sign and flag outside, the small door is also covered with a thick cloth curtain, this curtain must be extremely thick, and there are things underneath, even the wind can not blow. There is not even a window for this one door.

From time to time, there was a lot of noise, but it was cut off by a thick curtain, and there was no movement outside. It's impossible to get a glimpse of it.

If a local from Xuanfu sees it, he will smile and know what kind of boundary this is.

Casino.

That's right, that's the casino.

Gambling was strictly forbidden in the Ming Dynasty.

The harm of gambling goes without saying, and the future generations are still poisonous, not to mention that in the era of the Ming Dynasty, due to the imperfection of the legal system, the rule of man is greater than the rule of law, which makes people more unscrupulous, and the harm of gambling is magnified countless times. For example, in later generations, if you lose gambling and gamble, and when you leave, your family will be forced to pay debts, harassed, and intimidated at most. But in the Ming Dynasty, if you lose the bet and leave, I am afraid that your wife and concubine's property will be snatched and sold directly. In this era, how many people open casinos without background and no skills?

Nine out of ten bets are lost, the small one loses the gold and silver property, and the big one loses the family property, wife, concubine and children. In the late Ming Dynasty, public security was not good, gambling was also one of the reasons, gamblers lost their betting, one poor and two white, a big son could not take out, and was afraid that the dealer was too big, and did not dare to rely on the banker's account, so he went to rob the weak and steal others. What's more, some of them lost their families and lost their fortunes, and they could no longer stay in the local area, so they fell into the grass and became robbers.

Not only the common people gamble, but also the rich and noble, officials and doctors also often gamble, so there are many people who are not interested in political affairs.

Emperor Hongwu, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, who was born in the lower classes, is clearly concerned about these things, and he deeply understands the harm caused by gambling, because since he ascended the throne, the crackdown on gambling is very strong, and this emperor who was born as a cowherd baby has really a lot of crooked tricks.

After the capital was set in Nanjing, it was learned that there were many idle people who gathered to gamble and became a habit, which led to the destruction of the family and the death of many people. Zhu Yuanzhang's temperament, where can there be sand in his eyes? After learning about it, I was very annoyed, and even if I planned to deal with it strictly. He had even more concerns in his heart, at that time, the founding of the country had not been long ago, and Zhu Yuanzhang was also sympathetic to the people's livelihood, knowing that from the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the present, the rebels first fought with the imperial court, then the rebels fought internally, and then with the imperial court...... After fighting for many years, the world was ruined and the people were poor, so Zhu Yuanzhang also imitated the Wenjing of that year, lightly punished the meager endowment, rested with the people, and ruled harshly. It stands to reason that this period of time, all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, the politics are clear, and the taxes are small, no matter which dynasty or generation, it is a good day for the common people, but at this time, gambling is so serious, if it goes on like this, what kind of extent will it develop?

Lao Zhu also wants to kill this trend ruthlessly, and it is best to cure it radically.

He has always killed people without blinking, he is the prince and princess, and it is just a matter of saying that he is slaughtered, but this time he did not kill people directly.

However, the methods he used were much more ruthless than direct killing.

This preacher ordered someone to build a building and named it "Xiaoyao Building". Then he issued a decree to arrest and imprison the gamblers in the "Xiaoyao Building", and let them gamble happily in it, but they were not given food, gambled, gambled casually, and gambled to death.

Those gamblers were still elated at the beginning, and said in their hearts that this emperor is really good, and he specially built such a building to gamble for us, but when he gambled, he found that something was wrong. If you go on like this, won't you starve to death?

This went on for several days, and by the end of the day, the gamblers were dying of hunger. They really experienced the pain of being so hungry that their stomachs burned that they hated to chop off and eat their arms and legs, and to be honest, this pain was definitely greater and more intense than the pain caused by chopping them with a knife. They finally knew what a price they had to pay under the nose of this old Emperor Zhu!

At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang asked people to release them, and before they were released, they naturally had to give a lecture: Do you dare to gamble? If you continue to gamble, if you don't do your job properly, you won't be able to produce, and sooner or later you will starve to death! This time, let's preview what it's like to starve to death, and prepare in advance.

Not to mention, among the gamblers who were caught and released this time, there are really a lot of gamblers who have changed and will never gamble again. However, I am afraid that only a very small part of them realized Zhu Yuanzhang's deep meaning, so they repented and reformed, and more of them were afraid of this Emperor Zhu, for fear that they would be caught and starved to death again, so they quit gambling.

Lao Zhu has always loved to use knives, but this time he didn't use knives, but the effect was very good. However, this is a palliative treatment after all, gambling is one of the nature of human beings, coupled with the desire to get rich overnight without hard work, so that gambling is impossible to be completely banned.

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