Of course, when you see this kind of money, you will inevitably be a little jealous.
Reporting on Du Wei will definitely be useless, everyone knows this. But... it's okay to share a share of the pie with Duke Tulip, right?
So, soon, some "following the trend" behavior appeared in the Imperial Capital, and many other casinos also began to set up betting on the martial arts tournament, and the betting names almost all imitated the Tulip family's betting methods.
In addition, "pirated" Sai Bibles have also appeared! The printing quality is slightly inferior, and the content is mostly copied from Du Wei's Sai Bible. However, the price is low, and it is still very popular among ordinary gamblers.
Welcome!
This time, Du Wei quits!!
Du Wei is a generous person. If he is happy, he will not mind more or less money. Anyway, he is already rich.
However, if you don't even say hello and just grab food from under Du Wei's mouth, this will touch Du Wei's bottom line!
Soon, under Du Wei's anger and pressure, several other underground casinos were "looted"!
Brigades of heavily armed Imperial City Guards soldiers rushed into several casinos like wolves and tigers in broad daylight. Under the threat of swords and whips, they robbed all the property in the casinos! All of them.
All the money invested in the past few days and even the gambling funds for the normal operation of the casino itself have been moved away!
Then the leading officer did not care at all about the hard and soft pleas of the casino owners. No matter threats or bribes, these soldiers could not be moved!
Compared to a backstage? Huh, I know you casinos all have a backstage! It is a secret industry of some wealthy nobles!
However, no matter how big your backstage is, is it bigger than the Tulip Duke? Is it bigger than the Prince Regent?
As a result, several casinos were wiped out, all the gamblers were driven away, and a group of people were also arrested.
As for the pirated copies of the Bible that were printed in the market following the trend, they were also wiped out, and several printing workshops were raided.
Many people understood immediately! It would not work to compete with Duke Tulip for money!
There were also some people who, relying on their status and some weight, ran to the palace and cried to Prince Chen.
But all he got was a stern reprimand from the Prince Regent!
Of course! Under Du Wei's encouragement, the gambling industry has been regarded by the Regent as a blood vessel to supplement the empire's finances! Damn! You are not only robbing Du Wei's money! You are robbing my money too!!
Of course, there are also some stubborn people who must argue for an explanation: For example, we don’t engage in gambling, we just sell the game, it’s not illegal, right? Your Tulip family can sell it, why can’t we!!
Many people complained to the relevant departments. At this time, Du Wei directly asked the Imperial Finance Office to sign an official document authorizing exclusive authorization for him.
Humph. Do you know what protecting intellectual property is?
Fight against piracy! Long live the original!!
Of course, there are some smart people who know that it is impossible to compete with Du Wei for food. Some people who have turned around in their minds quickly find a way to see Lord Tulip Duke, just hoping that his fingers can be relaxed a little: You
Eat meat, but also give us some soup, okay? We all belong to aristocratic circles, and we always see each other with our heads down and our heads down, so there must be some kind of friendship.
Du Wei was still very polite in the face of such guests who came to ask for help. After receiving a few people, his attitude was very amiable, but the meaning behind his words revealed a message: Want to join the game and play together? Yes, let's talk
Entry fee!
Du Wei settled this "joining" fee in two ways: First, if you want to join this game, you must first pay a "joining application fee". For each betting point, you must pay a joining fee of 5,000 gold coins. This fee,
Du Wei didn't want any of it and turned it all over to the Imperial Finance Office.
In addition, all betting points must be fully supervised by officials from the Imperial Finance Department! 30% of the final liquidated profits must be handed over!!
This condition is by no means undemanding, but now Du Wei has a knife in his hand. His attitude is very clear: Either hold your nose and agree. Otherwise, don't even think about it!
As a result, after this incident, the Imperial Finance Minister was extremely grateful to Du Wei. If Du Wei had not already married his wife, and the Finance Minister’s granddaughter had already engaged Du Wei’s younger brother, the Finance Minister would have wished he had a granddaughter.
Marry Du Wei!
"Do you know what business is the most profitable? Monopoly! In any business, as long as you can monopolize the entire industry, even if you are selling ordinary nails, you can count the money until your hands cramp!"
Du Wei said this to little Zach afterwards, and little Zach was impressed by this concept.
Lao Yan has been quite busy these days.
As the captain of the bodyguard of Duke Tulip, it stands to reason that he should always stay by your side. But unfortunately, Du Wei seems to have never needed anyone to protect him... With his strength, no one on the mainland can hurt him now.
There are very few people. If an opponent of this level really comes, it will definitely not be something that Lao Yan and those guards can resist.
Therefore, as Du Wei's most trusted confidant, Lao Yan often did some shady and secret activities for Du Wei.
Like this time!
On the night of the third day after the Qingfeng Festival, the Duke suddenly called Lao Yan to the study alone. At that time, the Duke's face was very serious and solemn, and he gave Lao Yan a secret mission. Moreover, the Duke's tone at the time was very serious.
Majesty: This matter must be kept absolutely confidential! Let Lao Yan handle it alone, and don’t bring anyone else with you! He is never allowed to reveal even a word afterward! Just let this matter rot in his stomach for the rest of his life!
Seeing what the adults said so solemnly, Lao Yan, who was loyal to Du Wei, immediately swore on his own life that he would complete it.
Later, Du Wei said the content of the order: Let Lao Yan go to a place outside the city tonight and quietly dig out a corpse from the ground! Then send the corpse to the Luolin Plain in the south overnight.
!
Du Wei still admired Lao Yan very much.
Although Lao Yan's martial arts skills are not very strong, he is now an intermediate warrior. He has just started fighting in terms of fighting spirit. But Lao Yan is very careful in doing things and has a tight mouth. What Du Wei likes the most is that
: As long as something is told to him, he will never ask questions that shouldn't be asked. Instead, he will follow Du Wei's instructions and complete the matter carefully!
That night, Lao Yan followed Du Wei's instructions and ran to a deserted forest outside the city alone in the middle of the night. Then he took out a shovel and dug out a large sack from the ground. After untying it, it turned out that there was a body inside.
Corpse!
Lao Yan arranged a carriage, rode the carriage himself, and took the body along the lower road to the Luolin Plain in the south.
And halfway through, the corpse came to life!!
This matter can be said to be very strange! But Lao Yan didn’t ask a word.
Even along the way, he tried not to talk to the resurrected corpse.
After arriving at Luolin Plain, Lao Yan was responsible for finding a remote small farm in the southern part of Luolin Plain, which was Du Wei's property, and settled the man here.
He was very careful and didn't ask any questions.
He didn't know that the man he had brought to the south was sitting in the palace wearing the attire of an emperor just a few days ago.
Then 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 doing all this, I left him a sum of money and told the old man, "You will live here. All daily necessities are here. You are not allowed to leave this farm for a month! This is a tulip."
"The Duke's order"!, and then left.
Grum survived the catastrophe, so he was naturally very excited, and was able to reunite with his family. Naturally, he was filled with gratitude to Du Wei.
At the same time, he also knew that his life was an extremely risky gamble! If the news leaked out, he would be dead! So he followed Du Wei's order carefully and lived in the secret farm.
And Du Wei wouldn't let him live there forever. According to Du Wei's plan, in a few days, someone would go somewhere and pick up the family and go south. At a certain port, take the Du Wei family's big ship to sea...
They can settle in the distant Southeast Asia. Du Wei's maritime fleet has already opened up shipping routes and trade routes. It has also established several strongholds in Southeast Asia.
Nearly a month had passed when Lao Yan completed the task assigned by Du Wei and returned to the imperial capital.
He didn't know that as the news of the tournament spread throughout the continent, more and more frustrated warriors from all over the continent were rushing to the imperial capital.
For a time, the business at the Chedian Pier Hotel on the official road leading to the imperial capital increased several times.
On the twenty-eighth day after the Qingfeng Festival, Lao Yan returned to a small city ten miles outside the imperial capital. This was a small acropolis responsible for protecting the imperial capital.
Over hundreds of years of peace, this place has developed into a city with a population of 100,000. At the same time, a royal guard army is stationed here.
After having lunch in a hotel here, Lao Yan was ready to hit the road. He could return to the Tulip Duke's Palace in the imperial capital before evening to report to the adults that he had completed his mission.
But just when Lao Yan walked out of the hotel, the waiter next to him brought his horse. When Lao Yan got on the horse, his movements suddenly paused, and there was a trace of surprise in his eyes. He stared at the front of the street, seemingly stunned.
one time.
"Yi...could it be..."
The familiar figure flashed through the crowd, and when Lao Yan came back to his senses and looked again, he could no longer see it. He was stunned for a moment, then frowned: Could it be that he had seen it wrong?
But that figure is obviously very familiar...
For the soldiers of the Imperial City Public Security Bureau, these days are simply exhausting!
Everyone gave up their vacations and devoted themselves to endless overtime work... This is conceivable.
According to statistics from the Knights Association, within this month, the number of applicants has increased to 3,400!
And among so many people, almost half are foreigners from all over the mainland!
It is conceivable that when more than a thousand warriors from all over the country poured into the imperial capital, it would bring great hidden dangers to the security of the imperial capital!
Most of the people who practice martial arts are brave and ruthless people! The so-called civility is not the first, and martial arts is not the second! People who practice martial arts will not be easily convinced by other warriors!
The imperial capital is filled with foreign warriors with various accents. In their daily lives, these warriors can easily break out into frictions and minor conflicts.
For example, when registering, you bump into each other among the crowded queues. Another example is that because of the sudden influx of too many out-of-towners (not just contestants, many of them are tourists from out of town to watch the excitement), all the people in the imperial capital
The hotels and carriage shops are already overcrowded! Even the price of a bed in the carriage shop has tripled!
At this time, you may be in a small teahouse or restaurant and accidentally bump into someone while walking. The other person is a samurai! And when it is overcrowded, because of fighting for rooms, tables, empty seats, and even
The position of the carriage...etc.
For those who practice martial arts, most of them don’t like to use their mouths to reason! The only way they usually use is to use force to speak! Whoever has a stronger fist will be justified!
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 being taken to the jail of the Public Security Department.
The commander-in-chief of the Public Security Department has already written to the Prince Regent asking for help!
He was helpless. There were only ten thousand soldiers in the Imperial City Public Security Bureau. They were usually responsible for the safety of a large city with a population of one million... Forget it! Now more than a thousand brave and fierce warriors suddenly poured in.
! And in every dispute and fight, most of these outsiders are not afraid of soldiers, and some ruthless people who have drunk too much dare to draw their swords and fight the soldiers of the Public Security Department!
Within a month, the cells of the Sheriff's Department were full.