Mao Tong was guarding the door with a livid face, accompanied by several brothers.

Most of the people who came were his colleagues, and he had to maintain order: "Stop, it's full, you can wait a moment."

The people behind could only laugh along with them: "Officer Mao, let us in."

"How to get in when it's full? Queue up."

"Hey, it's quite hot outside."

"There's nothing we can do about it, it's full of people inside."

"I'll go in and see if it's OK to get out of the sun."

"That's it, then go in."

Mao Tong disturbed his head and let about fifty people in according to what Zhao Yurui said.

There is no limit to what can be done with fifty people.

After everyone entered, they found that there were many girls inside, wearing uniform blue long skirts with the words "Caile de Coral" on the back.

Although these girls are not young and have average looks, their service is still very enthusiastic.

Everyone who comes in is given a cup of herbal tea for free, and they will be helped to place and pick the balls. There is a girl in front of each table who is a waiter. You can talk to them if you need anything.

"How much does a round cost?" Someone asked: "I was introduced by the Maoban officer."

"Twenty-five cents and a quarter of an hour."

"So expensive?" someone exclaimed.

"Isn't it 50% off?"

"It's just a discount."

There were exclamations all around.

At this moment, there was a request arranged by Zhao Yurui.

Tuo appeared at this time.

"What? Fifty cents for a quarter of an hour? Stealing money?" A middle-aged man pointed at the person who just asked: "Why do they pay twenty-five cents for a quarter of an hour?"

"I'm from the Imperial City Department. The Mao'an officer introduced me and I have a discount."

"Ah, there are discounts for those who serve as soldiers."

The officers and soldiers of the Imperial City Division all around raised their chests and beamed with joy. What's wrong? Soldiers can't get discounts. I'm so mad at you.

"Can it be cheaper? We want to play for an hour."

"Three moments are the same price."

"Ah, okay, okay, let's give it an hour first."

"Okay, four hundred coins." The girl smiled.

The officers and soldiers of the Imperial City Division looked at each other in confusion as they watched the common people take out four hundred coins.

The average soldier's salary is 500 coins a month, which is only enough to play here for an hour.

The official salary in the imperial city is relatively high, but for ordinary marriages, it only costs around a lot. Fifty cents and a quarter of an hour is really expensive.

Think about the current price, a chicken is 75 cents.

Two hours cost 400 yuan. In the future, an ordinary chicken will cost about 30 yuan. Two hours will cost about 170 yuan, and one hour will cost more than 80 yuan.

If calculated based on the price of rice, two guan and one stone would be one hundred and twenty kilograms per stone in the Song Dynasty.

Four hundred Wen is equivalent to more than 20 kilograms in later generations. Two yuan per kilogram is equivalent to more than 40 yuan an hour.

Ordinary people pay fifty cents for a quarter of an hour to play, and soldiers naturally cannot care whether twenty-five cents for a quarter of an hour is expensive.

Let's play.

Anyway, there can be several people at one table, and everyone can pool their money to play.

After a while, the Café de Coral card room was already overcrowded, and people were playing everywhere. The only sound in the room was the sound of hitting balls. There were also people who came to play for the first time. It felt very fresh and fun.

Upstairs Zhou Qiong was a little strange at this time: "Don't King Yi's guests mainly rely on the common people? Why are the common people so expensive? How can ordinary people afford it?"

Zhou Qiong believes that the largest number of customers for this kind of business are ordinary guests from the capital and scholars, because there is a school opposite Café de Coral, and there are many young scholars. For ordinary people, it is really too expensive for ordinary people to play for fifty cents and a quarter, and not many people play.

Starting from.

Zhao Yurui remained calm, thinking that it didn't matter to ordinary people, it would be best for people from the Forbidden Army and the Imperial City Division to play.

His real plan is to make friends with the Forbidden Army and the Imperial City Division.

However, he obviously didn't expect how popular this thing would be, and there were many ordinary people coming later, forcing him to raise the price again.

Less than half an hour after it opened, there were already more than 200 people standing outside, and many people passing by were also queuing up. They didn’t know what was going on inside, but that’s how Chinese people like to join in the fun. Since this card room is so popular, everyone

Everyone wants to go in and have a look.

Mao Tong stood guard outside with a smile. Today, King Yi gave him a red envelope, of course he was very happy.

And he also sincerely hopes that King Yi's business will be good. Now it seems that it is indeed prosperous. At this moment, he is helping King Yi calculate the money.

Twenty-five cents per quarter of an hour, two hundred cents an hour, five hours the same amount.

King Yi has fourteen tables and is open for five hours every day. That is fourteen guan, which is more than 400 guan a month. This is still a preferential treatment. If people come to play fifty guan, it will be doubled.<

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This business can be done, it’s really profitable.

King Yi said that he would open a new store and wanted Mao Tong to join him. Mao Tong agreed on the spot without even thinking about it.

King Yi is right, as long as it is popular, there is no need for a market entrance, it can be in any location, there will always be people looking for it.

I have to look for a store in the next two days. I must do the task that King Yi has given me well.

Mao Tong was happily thinking about his plan to make a fortune, when suddenly a wave of people came in front of him.

His eyes widened and he was shocked.

The person walking in front was none other than his boss, Li Jiqian.

Mao Tong hurried forward: "Meet Li Qianban."

"Yang Tidian, Zhou Ganban, Commander Xu, Commander Liu."

Li Jiqian brought four people, five in total, all of whom were senior military officers in the Imperial City Division. Under Mao Tong's introduction, they quickly arrived on the second floor.

The five people paid homage to King Yi one after another. Zhao and Rui were overjoyed and led them to the box on the second floor. There was a large box here with a mahjong table and a billiard table.

Yang Yuehu comes from a family of Imperial Guardsmen. His ancestor Yang Weizhong was the first commander of the Imperial Palace during the Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, and is now the Imperial City Secretary Ti Dian.

The largest official in the Imperial City Division is the Tiju Imperial City Division, which has only one member. Under it is the Tidian Imperial City Division, which has from one to six people. In the current Ningzong period, there were only three Tidian.

Yang Yuehu is one of them, and Li Jiqian is considered his confidant.

The other Zhou He and Li Jiqian are brothers and are also Yang Yuehu's confidants, working as officials.

There are five commanders under each cadre office. The commander above him (at the head of the capital) is Xu Youzhong, and the commander three above is Liu Tieshan, both of whom are Li Jiqian's confidants.

This group of people plus Mao Tong can be regarded as a system.

But they all have one characteristic. Later Zhao and Rui found out that they were not the confidants of the current Secretary of the Imperial City, Qian Bin.

Qian Bin is also from a family of forbidden soldiers, and has a feud with the Yang family.

Qian Bin's ancestor, Qian Su, fought with Yang Weizhong during the Emperor Gaozong period for the position of the Commander-in-Chief of the Palace Division, but he did not compete, so he was promoted to the Imperial City Division. Although he was still the top leader, his power and position could not be compared with that of the Commander-in-Chief of the Palace Division.< /p>

One is equivalent to the commander of the Zhongyang Jingwei Regiment, and the other is equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the garrison in the capital. Qian Wei will definitely be unhappy.

Now the situation is changing, Qian Bin is promoted to the Imperial City Division, and Yang Yuehu is under his command, so naturally he cannot become his confidant, and Qian Bin is still the son of the prince Zhao Hong.

Of course, Zhao Yurui did not know these inside stories at this time. He wanted to make friends with the Imperial City Division and the Forbidden Army generals. Of course, everyone is welcome to come and support him.

Billiards is easier to learn and you can master it once you teach it. Mahjong is a bit troublesome, but Zhao Yurui still patiently taught them all first.

The generals tried playing mahjong for a while, and immediately felt the endless fun of mahjong.

Originally, Li Jiqian wanted to bring someone to cheer him up and show his favor to King Yi, but he didn't think billiards was very fun. Officials at his level usually wouldn't be too addicted to these games.
Chapter completed!