The lottery issuing agency affiliated to the Ministry of Finance of the Ming Dynasty has now developed into an extremely important financial aid institution in the Ming Dynasty. After Nguyen Phuc, who invented this game, was recruited by the state, as the lottery issuance surged, officials also gradually became bullish. Now his status is basically equivalent to the deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance. Strictly speaking, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance is even worse than that of him who can allocate huge amounts of funds in a very short period of time.

After becoming a national official, this speculator immediately exerted his talent to the fullest. He developed various lottery games one by one, contributing considerable income to the Ming Dynasty finance every day. With the connection between the big cities such as Yuejing, Shaoyang, and Zhengyang, the development of lottery has shown explosive growth. In the past, due to inconvenience of transportation, all places basically played their own games, but now with wired telegrams, the news can cross thousands of miles in an instant. Ruan Fu

Naturally, I reached out to those places. When the Ming Dynasty needed money, I could take out a lot of silver to build wired telegraphs. They were all extremely economically developed areas. Correspondingly, the people in these places were extremely wealthy. They had spare money to play these gambling. Anyway, every time they invested very little, and if they made a small fortune, they would become very prosperous all of a day. Moreover, they would not be afraid of dealers playing with such lottery tickets, because the dealer was the Ming Dynasty court, and when they went to those casinos, the risks were obviously much greater.

But now, Lord Ruan Furuan was crawling in front of Qin Feng, prostrating himself and trembling.

Although Ruan Fu is doing a great job now, he has very few opportunities to meet Qin Feng. If he sees him very little, he will naturally be afraid if he doesn't understand him. What's more, Qin Feng's face is ashen and he is furious now.

The cause is that Nguyen Fu's lottery issuing a new gambling method. The battle of Kunling County that had just ended ended ended will end within a few days. There are four options for lottery, ten days, twenty days, thirty days, and more than thirty days, and only one of them can be chosen for four.

Qin Feng didn't know about this, but Minister of Finance Su Can treated this matter as a manifestation of Ruan Fu's cleverness and told Qin Feng.

Before Ruan Fu introduced this gameplay, he first asked a member of the Ministry of War to write an article on the Kunling battle situation. In the article, the member of the Ministry of War Wailang discussed in detail the deployment of the Qi people in Luzhou and the military strength of the Ming army in Kunling County. He commented on the combat effectiveness of both sides, and then predicted how long the battle would end, which of course ended with the victory of the Ming Dynasty. The member of the Ministry of War Wailang predicted that the battle would last for at least one month.

As a result, most lottery players who bought lottery tickets like this chose this option for more than 30 days. As a result, the Ming Dynasty court dispatched a large number of combat airships and rapid-fire cannons to the Kunling War Zone, which made the battle end within just twenty days. Guo Xiancheng lost his troops and fled back to Luzhou in a panic.

The result of this incident was that almost all the lottery players had lost their lives and the lottery department made a lot of money. The result was that the Ministry of War was suddenly notorious, and many people who invested a lot of money even smashed rotten vegetables and rotten eggs on his door at midnight. For several days, the Ministry of War was afraid to go out to the Ministry of War to work because he was afraid of being beaten on the street.

No one expected that the dignified Ming Dynasty War Minister Wailang, a military expert in the eyes of ordinary people, would publicly fool them in the first and most authoritative weekly report of the Ming Dynasty!

"Your Majesty, you have found out that Ruan Fu gave the Ministry of War a 100 taels of silver to the pen fee for the Ministry of War and asked him to write this article according to the situation of ending the war for more than 30 days." Zeng Lin from the Supervision Department looked at Ruan Fu lying on the ground with a hint of ridiculousness. Judging from the result, the court had gained benefits for this matter. He had not yet figured out why the emperor was so angry. As for the pen fee for the pen fee of 100 taels of silver, he also felt that it was no big deal. Not long after the Ming Weekly was launched, in order to increase his influence, the imperial officials were invited to publish articles on it many times. Each time the pen fee was much more than the one hundred taels. Even he also talked about the Ming Dynasty's supervision system in detail on the Ming Weekly.

"Send that guy to me overseas and let him go to Lin Shu's men to be a military officer." Qin Feng was still furious and slapped the table.

"Yes." Although Fang Dazhi, the Minister of Personnel, did not understand why the emperor made a big fuss, a small minister was not worthy of his argument with His Majesty. Besides, he would not be beheaded. He just went to the Western Continent to work for a few years. If he did well, he would not be transferred back? Moreover, if he went to the Western Continent, his salary subsidy would be several times higher than being a minister in the Ministry of War. However, the emperor may not know this. Perhaps His Majesty believed that it would be a punishment for the poor Western Continent to the poor Western Continent from Yuejing, which had a good life.

"As for this Ruan Fu, he will be reduced by one level and fined three years of salary." Looking at the guy in front of him, Qin Feng originally wanted to dismiss him from office directly, but he thought that this guy was still indispensable to the lottery department. Now the country does need a lot of money, so he can only give up hatefully. Looking at Ruan Fu who is still shaking there, he cursed: "Why are you lying down? Get out of here."

After Ruan Fu rolled and crawled away from the meeting hall, Qin Feng still felt angry and slapped a piece of paperweight on the table to the ground with a bang.

"Your Majesty, in fact, this matter is not leaked in detail. What he said is public affairs, and all the views expressed specifically meant that it is just a personal opinion. On this, they just set up a maze array. Everyone only saw his identity as the Ministry of War and ignored the others." Jin Jingnan advised: "In fact, this Ministry of War did not reveal the real military secrets. After all, Nguyen Phuc did this to make money for the country, not for himself."

Qin Feng glanced at him, "Do you think it's just because of the surface of this matter?"

Jin Jingnan was stunned.

"This Yuanwailang dared to write such an article because he knew that the court would soon mobilize a large number of combat airships and rapid-fire cannons from Kunling County, so he had the confidence to cooperate with Ruan Fu to make money. When did the Lottery Department have such power to control the important officials of the Ministry of Recruitment to cooperate with them? This time it was Yuanwailang, and then next time, would he be a minister or even a minister? Or an important member of the Political Affairs Hall?"

Hearing Qin Feng's cold voice, Jin Jingnan couldn't help but be stunned. He had never thought about this problem at all.

"As you said, Ruan Fu is making money for the country, so you know that in the Ming Dynasty, there are already many underground gambling houses? Their market quotations are much larger than those of the lottery department? Tian Zhen, you say!"

Tian Zhen, deputy minister of the Ministry of State Security of the Ming Dynasty, responded.

"Your Majesty, there is an underground gambling house in Yuejing City. They follow the opening of the lottery department. However, their intelligence sources are much more accurate than those of the lottery department. They even know exactly how many combat airships we sent to Kunling County, time and other information. This time, the lottery department made a lot of money, but the real big head was taken away by these underground gambling houses. The people involved in these underground gambling houses are not ordinary people, and the funds invested are amazing. Each order is tens of thousands, and the largest one this time is as high as 100,000 taels. According to the information we have collected at present, such underground gambling houses are in various economically developed regions, and they are connected to each other, and have formed a large-scale underground organization."

"Did you hear it? The markets opened by these underground gambling houses are all kinds of strange and full of everything. They are even betting on the candidates of the chief officials of various departments of our Ming Dynasty and the direction of our next policy. Hehe, if you say it, you may not believe it, they actually bet on when I will have a fourth child!"

The meeting room was filled with coughs. The ministers wanted to laugh, but looking at Qin Feng's face, they really didn't dare to laugh, so they could only force themselves to hold it in.

"You guys find it funny? I don't think it's funny at all." Qin Feng said coldly: "The power of these underground gambling houses is already quite large. Not only are ordinary people joining, but also rich people joining, and even many officials joining. I think everyone understands what the gambling house dealer is, of course, a huge benefit. Have you ever thought about what they will do when one day they find that they may lose money? Will they use their huge financial resources to secretly exert influence, so that the court can change its original intention to change a certain policy?"

When everyone heard Qin Feng's interpretation, they were stunned and a little confused, but when they thought about it, they felt that it was not unreasonable.

"For example, they opened a plagiarism and the bet Fang Dazhi became the next prime minister of our Ming Dynasty. Once they found out that it was possible that Fang Dazhi could not become the prime minister but another person, they would suffer huge losses. What should I do? If it were me, of course I would do everything possible to help Fang Dazhi get into this position, and use various means to discredit another person who is likely to be in the prime minister."

Jin Jingnan coughed a few times.

Fang Dazhi is like sitting on pins and needles.

"Just like this." Qin Feng looked at everyone and said, "For example, we plan to launch a war of alignment after the New Year. The market they opened was before the New Year. Our army would occupy Changning. What would they do? They would mobilize all the power they can use to push the court to start a war in advance, or even collude with the enemy to create trouble to force the war in advance. Or the market would be the opposite, and they would try their best to prevent us from starting a war on time. Is this difficult? It is not difficult at all. They just need to move their hands on logistics, or let our important generals have any accidents at this critical moment to achieve their goal?"

Jin Jingnan just recalled: "I understand Your Majesty, are you saying that these groups of forces may interfere in major affairs in the court because of their own interests?"

"It's not possible. When they have a certain ability, they will definitely do this. We have ignored this in the past, and from now on, we have to be alert."

"Take these underground gambling houses, catch a group, kill a group, and lock a group!" Jin Jingnan said with a murderous intent.

"There is no chance to kill all the benefits in the present? Our lottery department has already pointed out a bright way to make a fortune for these people. After killing this group, there is another group to come out. The chief assistant, think carefully about how to control such things within the scope of control that is the right way."

Jin Jingnan felt awe-inspiring in his heart. In the emperor's words, he was afraid that he might not mean only these underground gambling houses. In fact, there are still many forces that can affect the political situation of the Ming Dynasty. For example, in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the business group, which is increasingly powerful, has now expressed their political demands in a concealed manner, but has made some demands openly.

The current Ming merchants are basically integrated with the Ming court, prospering and losing. Without the huge benefits created by these merchants, the court's operation will immediately fall into trouble.

You can't change your course and collect taxes from farmers again, that will ruin big things.
Chapter completed!