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Chapter 340 The Spread of Mahjong

In early February, Zhu Biao led a huge team to leave Beijing. Lao Zhu and the civil and military officials went to see each other off. Because there were too many people, the fleet traveling almost filled the entire river surface, and the people who came to see him off also stood on the dock.

Lao Zhu took Zhu Biao's hand and gave advice for a long time, then explained to Li Jie and other ministers, and finally ordered the entire fleet to set sail. Zhu Biao immediately boarded his own ship and then led the fleet to slowly leave the port. Lao Zhu stood on the shore and refused to leave for a long time.

In fact, because Zhu Biao was accompanying this time, it was impossible for him to set off all at once, so the entire team was divided into three parts. Zhu Biao led the first part to set off first. In the next month, two fleets would leave Beijing and rush to Beijing one after another.

Li Jie has his own ship. After all, he did not leave Beijing alone this time, but took Zhu Yuning to Beijing with him. In addition, Zhu Xueqing was also with them, so he brought more things, and the boat was even a little crowded.

It is worth mentioning that Li Jie's parents did not go to Beijing with Li Jie. After all, they have just started moving the capital, and Beijing is still unstable. In addition, Li Jie's parents have to take care of their young son, so it is not convenient to travel a long distance. So Li Jie discussed with his family and planned to wait until the capital stabilizes in the future, and it will not be too late for the whole family to move.

This time, Li Jie and the others no longer took land or sea routes. Instead, they chose to take a boat down the river and then enter the canal north. After all, they brought more people this time and had a lot of family members, so it was more comfortable to travel by water. Shipping is actually OK, but after all, it is more dangerous, so Zhu Biao dared not take so many people to take risks.

When Zhu Yuning left Jinling City for the first time, when she first boarded the boat, she was embarrassed to leave the cabin because there were too many people on the dock. After the fleet entered the Yangtze River, she and Zhu Xueqing couldn't help but walk to the bow of the boat and looked at the scenery on both sides of the river. For her, these scenery was extremely novel. Even seeing someone on the shore with ox plowing the fields, she could make her scream, without the reserve of the princess in the past.

Li Jie was on Zhu Biao's ship at first because Zhu Biao wanted to gather important figures in the fleet to discuss the matters, mainly to inform him of the itinerary. Although Li Jie had known it a long time ago, he still accompanied Zhu Biao to hold the meeting, and then said goodbye to return to his ship to accompany Zhu Yuning to enjoy the scenery on both sides of the strait.

However, after the initial novelty passed, Zhu Yuning was finally willing to go back to the cabin to rest. It happened that Zhu Yunyu also came, so Li Jie took out the mahjong he had prepared long ago, and then the four of them started playing mahjong. Anyway, they were idle, so of course they had to find something to kill the time.

Zhu Biao was also very busy at the beginning. After all, if he traveled with such a large fleet, he would definitely encounter big and small things. However, he quickly straightened out the matter and handed over most of the affairs to his ministers. Zhu Biao was better than Lao Zhu. At least he was willing to trust the ministers and knew how to delegate power to them. He didn't need to experience everything himself. After all, he did not have the vigorous energy and strong body of Lao Zhu.

All the matter was left to the ministers, and Zhu Biao slowly got idle. He happened to have time that day and was about to ask his son Zhu Yunxi to come and talk to see what he thought about this relocation and what plans would he have in the future when he arrived in Beijing?

Zhu Biao learned mahjong and realized the joy of winning money. Then he was naturally out of control. He ran to Li Jie's boat to play mahjong almost every day. However, in the end, the four of Li Jie and the other two were unwilling to play with him. The main reason was that Zhu Biao's luck was so good that the four of them could not play with him together, so Li Jie simply gave Zhu Biao a pair of mahjong and asked him to find someone else to play.

It’s true that after Zhu Biao had mahjong himself, he quickly summoned several close ministers to play. After these ministers learned mahjong, the mahjong gameplay spread quickly. More and more people made mahjong plaques. Finally, the fleet arrived in Suzhou. The entire fleet was already full of mahjong sounds, and there was almost no one in the entire fleet who could not play mahjong.

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Faced with this situation, Li Jie was also amused and crying. Mahjong was originally something he used to entertain himself with his family, and he had not planned to spread it before. However, he did not expect that it would spread on the way to Beijing this time, and it would probably spread throughout the Ming Dynasty soon.

It's interesting to say that mahjong is said to be invented by the ship workers on the fleet when Zheng He was voyage to the West when he was bored. The mahjong is also spread when they took a boat to Beijing. It seems that mahjong is indeed a fate with water.
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