Feng Twelve shook his head without hesitation: "Lord Xue said that it was late, Building B was already full, and there were still two vacant rooms in Building C, but my lord knew that this Building C was much worse than Building A and Building B." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Xue Mi looked at the room in the middle of the first floor with a bitter face, there were several women on it, and there were two women sitting in the middle, and the women in this room were all wearing cheongsam, you know, although the cheongsam is popular now, in fact, the cheongsam is now only the clothing of the prostitutes in the family, and the formal dress is still the traditional palace dress and skirt, etc., especially the princess and lady who have status, but these two princesses appeared in high heels and cheongsam in public, which made those orthodox scholars and doctors see it, and it is inevitable that they will scold again.

Building C is much worse than the second floor of A and B, just look at the upstairs now, the second floor of A and B is very loose, but the C building is crowded, disorderly, obviously some civilians, and those downstairs stretch their necks to look inside are mostly small citizens, and even some people look at some ruffians.

Xue Mi frowned, and Feng Twelve said tentatively when he saw this: "The two princesses seem to be very happy today, and Lord Ding is also upstairs, and in addition, Room A No. 1 is still empty." ”

"Okay, let's go to room No. 1. Xue Mi felt that he couldn't do this, he looked too cowardly, so he made a heroic look, Liu Han couldn't help but smile when he looked at it, but he was behind Xue Mi, Xue Mi didn't see it, but Feng Twelve saw it clearly.

The two of them went upstairs, this A No. 1 room, this room is relatively large, the facilities inside are very simple, one side of the wall is hung with a picture of a lady, the other side is pasted with a big static word, there is a vase on the small round table in the middle, a few plum blossoms exude a faint fragrance of flowers.

As soon as you step here, there is a kind of elegant leisure, which forms a sharp contrast with the hustle and bustle outside.

Feng Twelve followed in, chatted with Xue Mi and Liu Han for a few words, and called a maid to send melon and fruit tea, and then said goodbye to Xue Mi, the maid quickly sent tea and melons and fruits, Liu Han looked at the room briefly, and then walked outside, the room was connected to a terrace, and sitting on the terrace you could clearly see the cockfighting arena below.

The terraces on the second floor of the entire building are connected, separated by a half-height wooden fence, and the two adjacent rooms can face each other.

Two fighting cocks are fighting bravely in the cockfighting ring, one of which is bleeding from its neck, and the other has a small piece of its comb pecked off and hangs on the chicken's head.

"Rush up!

"Bite it, bite it!"

"Hurry!"

Most of the people around were waving the notes in their hands, like small fish rushing to grab food, their faces flushed, and they screamed hoarsely.

..

"That reed flower is gone. Xue Mi sat down, looked at it casually and said.

Liu Han was slightly surprised: "Oh, yes?"

"You really don't understand, you don't understand. Xue Mi raised his eyes and looked at him, a little surprised and stunned, although Liu Han didn't understand much just now, Xue Mi actually didn't believe it, in his opinion, how could a rich man like Liu Han not understand cockfighting.

"Cockfighting is not very popular in the Western Regions, only a few Jin people like to play, the favorite of the people in the Western Regions is horse racing, Brother Xue, I heard that there are also horse races in the imperial capital, and they are generally raced there?" Liu Han sat beside him, the maid was still standing in the corner of the room, Liu Han waved at her, and the maid bowed to the two of them and retreated.

"Horse racing?" Xue Mi glanced at the middle, this No. 1 room A is at the very edge of the first building, the room of the two princesses Room A No. 5 is located in the middle, Ding Xuan of No. 3 room A is chatting with a few people, and from time to time he also looks at the cockfighting arena below, and there are also a few people with extraordinary bearing chatting in room No. 4, through the crowd, the people in room 6789 on the other side have already arrived, among which there are several Hu people wearing Hu clothes.

"Horses are generally not in the city, and the houses in the city are too small, and they are all outside the city, in their respective estates. Xue Mi said: "However, horse racing is generally only held in the spring, in May and June, and in the summer, no one will do horse racing in autumn and winter." ”

Liu Han nodded, Xue Yu suddenly remembered something, turned his head and asked, "I heard that there is a big racecourse in that country in the Western Regions, have you ever seen it?"

Liu Han couldn't help but smile: "Why haven't you seen it, the racecourse of the Cheshi Country is very famous in the Western Regions, and horse races are held every summer." ”

He said to himself that I did this racecourse, how could I not know.

He suddenly had an idea, so he said: "I have an idea, if you see if it will work, if it is possible, you will propose it to the emperor." ”‘

Xue Mi was stunned for a moment, and then became interested: "Oh, you tell me first, I'll total." ”

"What do you think is the monthly income of this cockfighting ring?" Liu Han looked down, the cockfighting had already divided the winners and losers, Xue Yu's vision was really good, some people were depressed, others were excited, laughing loudly, he couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart, this cockfighting looks very simple and fair, but it is too simple to control the outcome of the game.

Xue Mi looked down, thought about it for a while, and shook his head. Liu Han sighed: "The racecourse of the Cheshi Country, every year in the horse racing season, the income is more than 100,000 taels of silver, the Western Regions is vast and sparsely populated, such a place, every horse racing season has 100,000 taels of silver, you said that in the imperial capital to run such a racecourse, can the income of each horse racing season be 500,000 taels?"

Before Xue Yu understood, he frowned and asked, "You said to set up a racetrack, just like this cockfighting ring?"

Liu Han nodded, and Xue Yu's head shook: "How is this possible? ”

"If you add casinos, do you think you can earn a million a year?" Liu Han asked again, Xue Yu's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it at all.

"The racecourse of the Cheshi country can accommodate about 10,000 people, if we build a racecourse that can accommodate 50,000 people, and watch the horse races for two copper coins each time, so that we can earn 100,000 copper coins for watching a horse race, which is about 1,000 taels of silver, and from early spring to early autumn, for half a year, a horse race is held every three days, so that there will be about 60,000 taels of silver, in addition, we can also repair some such boxes, the annual rent of each box is 500 taels, and we repair 100, which will be 50,000 taels a year, so that the total income is 110,000 taels of silver。

But this is only the income of the horse race itself, we can also open a casino, if each person who comes to see the horse race takes out ten copper coins to gamble, then the gambling money of a horse race is 5,000 taels of silver, and after 60 games, there are 300,000 taels.

In addition, we can also provide tea, snacks for spectators, and outside the racecourse, we can also provide shops, how much is that?"

Liu Han casually settled the account for Xue Mi, and simply calculated, this already has an income of nearly 500,000 taels of silver, and this is still calculated according to the minimum, even if the gambling money of these ten copper coins, even if it is this cockfighting ring, the average gambling money invested per person is no less than twenty copper coins.

Xue Mi's eyes widened as he listened, his mouth slightly open, and he was a little stupid.

Liu Hanxin said that in the previous life, the Hong Kong Racecourse had an annual income of tens of billions, and it was not easy to make some money in this world.

Xue Mi was dumbfounded for a while, but finally came back to his senses, combed through Liu Han's words, and finally cleared up a little thought: "Then where is this land? and how much is the cost of building this racecourse?"

Liu Han looked at him and shook his head, Xue Yu was even more puzzled, Liu Han sighed: "We can't do this thing, we have to do it, especially you, you are an official of the imperial court, what is it to open a casino, this matter can only be handled by the imperial court." ”

Xue Mi finally came back to his senses from the money scene depicted by Liu Han, and couldn't help but say regretfully when he heard the words: "Brother, aren't you kidding, how can the imperial court go to open a casino, no." ”

Liu Han also shook his head, and the host in the cockfighting arena announced the start of the next round of cockfighting, took out the two fighting cocks, and showed them to everyone.

"Why do you want the imperial court to do this?" Xue Mi felt that it was a pity that he didn't earn one million taels of silver a year, and then thought of Liu Han's shrewdness, how could he not think of this, there must be a reason for this.

"Anything can actually be done, it depends on what name," Liu Han said lightly, looking down: "Look at them, how happy they are, it's like a festival." ”

"Dude!" Xue Yu saw that Liu Han lost his appetite, looked around, except for Cui Jun, the other rooms were full, and the C-shaped building that turned out to have vacant seats was also full, this Cui Jun was about to arrive, so they couldn't help but be a little impatient.

"Didn't you say that anything can be done in the right name as long as it has the right name. Liu Han said: "For example, the money earned, the imperial court can be said to clean up the canal, it can also be said to be to resettle the displaced people, in addition, it can also be said to improve the transportation of the imperial capital, and also, you can divide the money into various academies in the imperial capital, these reasons are easy to find, as long as there are these reasons, you can do it." ”

Xue Mi's brows were still furrowed, Liu Han looked over there and approached Xue Mi: "If the emperor still wants to ask, you tell him that this money is actually the money of those rich people who earn, and it doesn't matter how much money it looks like horse racing, and the real profits are actually gambling, but do you think, is gambling more than Ding Xuan's bets, or is the following civilians betting more?" This conclusion is actually very easy, Ding Xuan has a lot, isn't the imperial treasury empty, where the salt tax goes, won't it go to people like Ding Xuan, with this method, it will neither disturb the people nor alarm them, brother, do you think this can be done?"

Xue Mi pondered for a moment and gradually smiled, this business was done, Liu Han further strengthened his mind: "In addition, if the imperial court feels that it has a bad reputation, it can be handed over to the businessman, and the imperial court can collect heavy taxes, for example, sixty percent of the annual profit, or even seventy percent, this is also six or seven hundred thousand taels of silver, and this silver is very stable, it has nothing to do with any natural disasters, it happens every year, do you say that this business is cost-effective." ”

Xue Yu's eyes lit up, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was feasible, even if the emperor did not agree, he would have nothing to lose, so he looked at Liu Han with a different gaze.

"Bang!" A gong sounded, and the two fighting cocks stretched their necks to look at their opponents, and Xue Mi jumped up and rushed down, waving his fists and shouting: "Bite it! Bite it!"