Datang romantic little landlord

As for mahjong, it cost a lot of money to find jade and carve it.

The mahjong created by Li Wangyou has already become popular in Chang'an City. Among the guests today, there are not a few who like mahjong. Seeing the excitement of hunting, many guests don't care to continue shopping. They gather friends and occupy a private room. Then began to build the Great Wall.

Li Wangyou naturally let them go, he just ordered the maids and servants in the theater to take good care of these big bosses, and led Li Er and the others to continue strolling.

794 Shameless

Li Wangyou accompanied Li Er to a spacious hall in the theater, which aroused Li Er's interest again.

"Ziyou, what are the tables placed in this hall for?"

If there are people who have traveled through the tables that Li Er is pointing to, they will naturally know at a glance that they are several pool tables.

To be precise, a few snooker tables.

This is naturally Li Wangyou's new stuff.

Billiards are actually very simple to make. The history of billiards in Europe is at least 600 years old, so it is not difficult for Li Wangyou to find craftsmen to make them.

The cue and table top of the pool table are very easy to make.Let the craftsmen directly lay the polished and flat stone, and then spread a layer of flannelette, and you will have a smooth, flat and non-deformed high-quality countertop.

The only thing that cost a lot of money was the billiard balls on the table.

At first billiards balls were also made of wood, later ivory billiards appeared, and finally in modern times, they were made of synthetic resin.

Li Wangyou, a "local tyrant", didn't like wooden billiards, so he just waved his hand, took out a lot of copper coins, and asked people to buy ivory everywhere, and made a batch of billiards out of ivory.

Snooker requires the use of one white ball, fifteen red balls and six colored balls, for a total of 22 balls.

And one ivory can only make five billiard balls.Just one snooker needs the ivory of at least three elephants to make it.Moreover, the quality of the billiard balls was high, the roundness must be round, and the weight of each ball had to be the same. Therefore, for this batch of ivory billiard balls, Li Wangyou spent a lot of money.

Fortunately, there is no such thing as animal protectionism nowadays, otherwise Li Wangyou's extravagant approach would have been criticized by many people.

However, Li Wangyou didn't feel any guilt about this. Anyway, even if he didn't use these ivory, those elephants would still be slaughtered by Europeans in the future.

After all, in history, European nobles slaughtered at least [-] elephants every year for ivory billiards.In comparison, Li Wangyou's use of so much ivory is nothing more than a little bit of ivory.

As for whether he brought this billiard ball to Datang, whether it would attract the nobles of Datang to follow suit and hunt those poor elephants, Li Wangyou was out of his control.

Li Wangyou is actually not very proficient in billiards, but he was bored in Datang, so he naturally wanted to have fun for himself, so he spent a lot of money and asked craftsmen to build these billiard tables.

Regarding Li Er's question, Li Wangyou smiled and explained the rules of billiards: "Uncle, this is a billiard ball made by my nephew. The gameplay is very simple. Hit the white ball with a club and let the white ball hit other balls." , You can score points by hitting them in the four corners of the table and the holes on both sides. Balls of different colors have different points, red balls get one point, yellow balls get two points..."

While explaining, Li Wangyou took the club and showed it to Li Er and others.After some explanations from him, Li Er, his eldest grandson Wuji and other bigwigs became interested.

"Ziyou, this thing is very interesting, it is somewhat similar to Chui Wan. Come on, how about playing a game with me?" Li Er understood Li Wangyou's explanation, and immediately beckoned someone to pass the club, imitating In Li Wangyou's posture just now, he lay down on the table and gestured.

For this, Li Wangyou naturally would not refuse, and motioned to the maid who was serving at the side to arrange the ball on the table for them, and then made a gesture of invitation to Li Er, inviting Li Er to kick off.

In later generations, Li Wangyou was not good at playing billiards, but he was at least adept at it.Against a "rookie" like Li Er, he was naturally able to handle it with ease. After a round of snooker, he won quite easily.

This aroused Li Er's competitive spirit, and he pulled Li Wangyou stubbornly, demanding to continue.

The sage had an order, so Li Wangyou naturally had to obey, but he didn't show Li Er any favors, and went to another city unceremoniously, making Li Er's face black with anger.

Therefore, Li Wangyou, who still wanted to continue to show off his "ball skills", was kicked off the table by Li Er, and replaced by the long-awaited eldest grandson Wuji to continue playing with him.

The result is self-evident, the rookies pecked at each other, and Li Er, who had two rounds of experience, narrowly defeated Changsun Wuji, and finally laughed heartily.

"Yes, this thing is very interesting, Mi Tuo, bring me a pool table back to the palace later!"

Li Er was also not polite at all, he didn't even say hello to the master Li Wangyou, so he turned his head and gave instructions to Mi Tuo who was beside him.

Li Wangyou was almost angry, but he had nothing to say, he could only secretly slander the shameless Li Er in his heart, is there any law to rob other people's property so openly?

But no matter how much he has an opinion, he can only hold it in his heart. After all, the world is big, and Li Er is the biggest...

Li Er had enough of his billiards addiction, and visited the Tang Theater with Li Wangyou. He was very interested in the various entertainment and leisure facilities, and praised Li Wangyou again and again.

It wasn't until noon that Li Wangyou ordered the servant girl to invite the big bosses who had a great time to dinner.

In the theater, there are many boxes with different decorations, which are specially used to entertain guests.

Li Wangyou respectfully invited Li Er and the others to a box named "Dongfeng Pavilion".

Li Er looked at the words "Dongfeng Pavilion" on the box, and asked curiously, "Ziyou, what is Dongfeng Pavilion?"

Li Wangyou was waiting for Li Er to ask this question, immediately coughed lightly, and said loudly: "Uncle, this is taken from a poem, uncle will know it when he hears it."

"Oh? Read it and listen."

"The sun, the moon, the light and the virtue of heaven, the emperor lives in the mountains and rivers. There is no way to repay the peace. I wish to seal the book in the east." Li Wangyou immediately read the poem shamelessly, but Li Er couldn't help being a little surprised. Behind him, the eldest grandson Wuji, Big bosses like Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui had weird expressions.

It's no wonder everyone has such expressions, it's because Li Wangyou's poem is too shameless.

Li Wangyou read this poem, which was written by Chen Shubao, the empress of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, who was imprisoned in order to flatter Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty.

Dongfengshu refers to Fengchanshu.

Chen Shubao's poem is a tribute to Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, saying that his meritorious deeds are so high that he should go to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen.

Li Wangyou shamelessly used this poem to flatter Li Er, that's why everyone looked so weird.

"Uncle, the world is peaceful today because of my uncle's sage spirit to protect and auspicious. Now my Tang Dynasty is renewed and prosperous, and the people of the people all sincerely worship my uncle. Uncle is the son of heaven, and his achievements have surpassed the three emperors and five emperors. My nephew thinks that uncle Be worthy of Dongfeng Book! That's why I boldly named this pavilion Dongfeng Pavilion."

In fact, Li Er never managed to enshrine Zen in his whole life.

However, Li Er was in his prime at this time, so he naturally longed for Feng Chan Taishan.

Li Wangyou's blatant flattering words made Li Er very useful.But he wasn't ashamed to say anything, he just coughed dryly: "Ziyou has a heart."

Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others are not as shameless as Li Wangyou, and they are not easy to talk about this topic, so they can only walk into this "Dongfeng Pavilion" with Li Er with a dry smile...

795 The Curtain Opens

Naturally, all the guests, including Li Er, enjoyed the lunch. Needless to say, the delicacies of the Li Mansion have long been famous in Chang'an.

The only thing that made Li Wangyou feel uncomfortable was the old rascals Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde, who drank so much that they were almost ready to go crazy and tear down his theater.

Even Li Wangyou was caught by these stinky old guys and poured a few glasses of wine, making his face flushed.

If it weren't for his fast running, it is estimated that the opening of the Datang Theater today would have been disturbed by these old guys.

After lunch, Li Wangyou hurriedly asked the maidservants to bring hangover soup to the guests. After taking a rest, he was ready to enter the main topic of today's opening and go to the theater to watch the performance.

Li Wangyou put a lot of effort into building this theater, not to mention the huge circular ceiling alone, which caused headaches for the craftsmen who had never built such a building before.

The theater can accommodate [-] people, the stage is about two meters high, and it is all made of wood and stone.The bottom of the stage is empty, where various mechanism props and actors can be hidden.