I am the cook, but I am Li Er's son-in-law

The popularity of mahjong and poker will inevitably lead to the prosperity of casinos.

Especially now that the people of the Tang Dynasty have money in their hands, although most of them still improve their quality of life in a regular manner and spend it on food and clothing.

But there will always be a group of people who seem to be born with something lacking in their brains, so they can live a good life, but they don’t want to go to a place like Tongfu Teahouse where they can play mahjong and don’t gamble, so they have to rush there Gamblers send money.

The imperial court has been very strict about gambling shops recently.

Except for the gambling houses set up by the imperial court, only the gambling houses under Jiu'er's hands still survived, and the remaining ones, no matter whose family's property or family's gambling houses, Datang is very gentle. Advise them to forcibly close the door.

Not to mention those black gambling houses.

One checks one, checks one kills one.

It is a capital crime to set up a private gambling house, and it is also a serious crime to set up a private gambling game. If the gambling capital exceeds [-] Wen, or you don't use money, but use some rare things as gambling capital.

If the crime does not entail death, it can be fined with silver or imprisoned.

This is not a level that ordinary people, or even ordinary casinos, can afford.

But even if the punishment is so severe, those who are willing to set up a private gambling game, or even set up such a game by themselves, will continue to move forward.

Bad people can't find out.

The ranger under Jiu'er took on this responsibility.

Of course...the nature of the matter is different when these rangers take action. They don't need to follow Tang's law, they only look for those gambling houses that use banknotes.

They don't care if you set up a private gamble, and they rangers are not qualified to take care of it.

But if you use the banknotes produced by Mr. Zhengyang, you have to drag them into the small black room and talk about it, maybe after a heart-to-heart talk, the constipation that has been struggling for many years will suddenly heal...

This afternoon.

Jiu'er huddled next to Li Lizhi and the others' table, listening to the little girls discussing about the machine that could blow cold air—the air conditioner, which the little girls still haven't figured out yet.

A ranger came over and reported something to Jiu'er.

Jiu'er was a little careless at first, but after listening to a few words, her face gradually became serious, until finally, she asked back in surprise: "Really?"

The Ranger nodded cautiously.

Jiu'er frowned and thought for a while, then waved to You Xia'er, walked to Yin Xuan's side, and said softly, "Brother Zhengyang, something strange happened at the casino."

Yin Xuan raised his eyebrows: "What strange thing?"

Jiu'er collected her thoughts, and said slowly: "Isn't You Xia'er helping bad people to patrol those black gambling houses recently? This one has arrested a group of people."

"Since we have caught it, let He Ri deal with it." Yin Xuan didn't take this matter very seriously, "Don't care who is behind it."

Jiu'er shook her head again and again: "It's not that there is any great person behind that person, the mastermind is just a farmer, but that's where the problem lies."

Yin Xuan sensed that there might be something interesting, so he listened carefully.

Jiu'er continued: "That person not only opened a black gambling house, but also used tricks to defraud money. Because the one who wins always wins more, he reported it."

"He's honest. After You Xia'er went to catch him, he confessed honestly."

"But when he explained his thousand skills, he made a small mistake. He asked that person to demonstrate it a few times before. In front of the rangers, no one could see that he had done something wrong."

"It wasn't until he slowed down a few times that our guys saw how he did it."

Speaking of this, Jiu'er paused for a moment: "You Xia'er thinks that this person is considered a talent, so he came to ask me and brother Zhengyang, what should I do with this person?"

Yin Xuan fell silent.

Things like Qianshu didn't make him have any ideas in the gambling house. It was just an expedient measure to promote banknotes and control the economic discourse power.

Development is impossible to develop.

Those three dirty things, Yin Xuanzheng wished that they would die cleanly.

Instead, it reminded him of something else—magic and tricks.

Magic and juggling are two very different things, or more obviously, two distinct schools of thought in the art of "tricking the brain".

Although they all achieve the purpose of deceiving the viewer's brain and eyes through techniques or mechanisms, but fundamentally, they are very different.

Magic, which originated in the West, is rooted in sects and beliefs. Its most important purpose is not whether it is successful in deceiving, but whether it can achieve its performance.

No matter how successful a magic cast is, if it fails to achieve the desired effect, then the magic will fail.

But even if a magic trick fails, but the performance is achieved, then the magic is successful—of course, the performance of most magic tricks is closely related to success.

Juggling is a local thing in China. Perhaps at the beginning, it is the same as Western magic, and its roots are in sects and beliefs.

But the sect has no way to influence the fate of any dynasty in China.

So juggling has become a skill that craftsmen put on the streets.

And most tricks are divided into two types, one is purely performative, and the other is more or less colorful.

The former one is rare, not to mention hard work, and not earning much money. Most of the performance is a shake of the coat, pulling out a few full water basins from the crotch, pulling out the brazier, or even taking them out and stacking them together. Something taller than oneself will come out, or else it will swallow iron eggs and swords.

The latter is more common.

Put a table on the street, three balls and two bowls, let you guess which bowl has more balls and which bowl has fewer balls.If he guesses wrong, just give him a few pennies, but if he guesses right, he will give him several times the bonus.

But the fact is that it is impossible for people to guess right for a lifetime.

What is used here is the way of immortals picking beans.

There may be a ball in the bowl, and the rest are in his hands, but even if you make it so clear that you grab his hand to check, you can't find where the ball is in his hand.

Yin Xuan knew so clearly...

It is also thanks to a girlfriend who used to be a psychologist. Out of her interest in magic, she specially studied magic for several years, and then learned juggling for several years.

Wrote several papers on magic and tricks, and published them in an academic journal with an impact factor of over ten.

Of course... when he thinks of magic now, he doesn't want to hold any magic show, but thinks... at this moment, magic seems to be a very useful thing.