Chapter 51: The Flying Tale of Mad
Chapter 51: The Flying Tale of Mad
The career of
gambling, Du Wei basically handed over to Made... He can't help it, although he is leisurely, he is strictly controlled by the lockdown order, and he cannot leave the castle to inspect his gambling career.
It's Made, this former horseman, whose status can be said to have completely turned over! Originally, this "Master Chief" who was assigned to the territory of the Luolin family with the lost young master, everyone knew that his identity was that of a former horseman. The supreme leader of the family servant here is the old butler, and although Mad, an outsider, holds the title of chief manager, he has always been only a light pole commander.
It's different now! He is the Grand Master of Young Master Du Wei! Commanded the entire Rollin Family Plain, half of the Cottage Province's gambling business!
Now as soon as Mad goes out, the owners of those major casinos almost send people to greet the chief manager warmly, no matter where Mad goes out, there will be a string of gambling industry people behind his ass.
Just waiting, looking forward to it, as soon as Master Mad is happy, something leaks out of his fingers, then, Uncle Mad eats meat, and everyone can drink some soup with it.
At Du Wei's instruction, Mader once pretended to inadvertently reveal the compensation of several football matches, and sure enough, the casino owners who bet on the periphery made a small profit.
Du Wei deeply knows the way of being a person, although the so-called exclusive right nominally allows Du Wei to monopolize this industry, but secretly, after all, there are still a large number of people to follow the trend.
Even in the past life, the underground gambling group could not be eradicated.
Du Wei didn't want the hat that led the yellow gambling and drug trend in the Rollin Plain to be buttoned on his head. Since the blockage cannot be blocked, then there is only guidance!
Du Wei patted his head and immediately made a decision! Starting today, all gambling in the surrounding cities will be suspended! Du Wei wants to put things in order!
It can be described as "the young master moved his mouth, and Mad broke his leg."
Du Wei patiently gave Madet an urgent three-day intensive training, and no matter how much poor former horseman could understand and understand, he taught poor Mader a lot of things anyway.
As for what he didn't understand, Mader could only slowly study himself on the road.
First of all, Young Master Du Wei said, in the future, gambling, absolutely do not say "bet"! The young master has come up with a strange thing that can be sold publicly before each ball game, although it is the same to test the results of the game, but the tricks are slightly different.
"From now on, we will no longer be betting houses! We are a shop that sells our products! What we sell is called... Football Lottery! When he said this, Du Wei's expression was extremely serious, even a little sacred, and after a pause, the young master also added: "In the future, you are not allowed to say 'gamble'!" We don't call this gambling, but call... Gamble legally!
As for legality, Du Wei made the simplest criterion: each time the proceeds are donated to local governing bodies!
All right!
No matter how much Mader understood, he could only take a carriage and a few servants and rush to the avenue of the Rollin Plain, going between the nearby towns, ready to do the "football lottery" that the young master said.
By the way, before leaving, Mad couldn't help but ask one more question: "Young Master, since we plan to open a shop to do business... Well, our store must always have a name. "
Foot Lottery Center!" Du Wei answered crisply.
Therefore, our Grand Master of Mader, in the future, expectedly, he is destined to have an additional title on his head: director of the Foot Lottery Center!
And the second thing that Du Wei told Made... Du Wei is ready to make a huge adjustment to the current "league"!
It can be said that until now, all the teams and players in the league are still from the thousand guards next to the castle. And now, the repair period of the soldiers is almost over.
If these soldiers continued to play football all day long and abandoned the army's training, then Du Wei was worried that the old butler might have to tell him again in his letter to the imperial capital.
So... Du Wei is ready to build a real league!
In the current castle guard army, only the formation of the next team remains. And Du Wei let Mad run several cities and will form a team in each city! Now the game of football is almost popular in the entire Rollin Plain, and it must not be difficult to find a dozen or twenty people who play well in each small city.
After that, teams in each place can start playing according to the league model... This idea makes Madea extremely excited!
The list calculated by Du Wei seems that this so-called league still seems to be very profitable at present... First of all, Roland's players, they do not demand high signing fees and salaries. Most of the players, made up of farmers, craftsmen, carpenters, blacksmiths, miners, and even hairdressers, are already happy to play football occasionally, and each person is rewarded with one or two gold coins per month, which is enough to make them run around the game with excitement.
And the expected huge profits of the football lottery are enough to pay these players a paltry salary.
However, Du Wei did not give up his attempt to squeeze the maximum profit... He even sent Mad to find the biggest furrier in a nearby city... That merchant had long supplied the Luo Ling family with all kinds of leather goods.
Du Wei promised that in the future "football league", players in local cities will wear uniform clothes when they play... Each player's clothes will have the name of the leather merchant's shop written on them!
Considering how popular this game is now, and every time the game is played, the crowd of onlookers will surround the town square... Such popularity...
The leather goods owner generously paid Du Wei 500 gold coins as the cost of "naming rights" for the coming year.
In this way, the city's team, the official name to the outside world became "Rollin Plain Emerald Town Old Crondale Leather Shop Football Team"!
Dewey sold the naming rights to the league's first team in front of Made. Then, the elder's job was to find a way to sell the naming rights of the twelve teams of the future league to the local wealthy businessmen.
All these things add up... Mad almost began to look at this young master who he had been holding since childhood with almost adoring eyes!
Who said that our young master is an idiot?
Have you ever seen an idiot who can earn tens of thousands of gold coins with his mouth?
Old Mader almost broke his leg, and he ran almost all over a dozen large and small towns from south to north and east to west in the Rollin Plain! Twelve teams were finally established, and the naming rights of all twelve teams were finally sold.
As for any strange names such as "xx jewelry store team" or "xx weapon shop team", Du Wei ignored them all... He was pleased with the thousands of gold coins that Mader had brought back. Twelve teams, a total of five thousand gold coins were sold.
"It's only the first year, my dear Made. In the future, when our league is successful, the annual naming rights, you don't have to run, those merchants will come to you in boxes and boxes of gold coins! At that time, a few thousand gold coins, I am afraid that even the naming rights of a team could not be bought! Du Wei looked outsideThe faithful servant who had been running for a month couldn't help but be a little moved, so he decided to give this faithful servant a little more reward.
"My dear Mad... Are you interested in becoming the first FA president of the Rollin Plains Football Association?
In this way, in addition to the titles of "Master Supervisor" and "Director of the Football Lottery Center", Made's head has another magical-sounding title: President of the Football Association!
Although he still can't fully understand what this "football association president" is, the young master is still very touched by his weight, so he gladly accepted the young master's suggestion.
Du Wei was obviously in a good mood.
After all, the five thousand gold coins that Mad brought back were enough for him to solve his urgent needs.
The football league has not yet begun, and the proceeds of the football lottery have not yet been shadowed, and the naming fee of these five thousand gold coins seems to be the only liquidity in Du Wei's hands.
Damn Solskjaer... That guy burned several thousand gold coins again, and still made no progress.
With the thousands of gold coins brought back by Mad, Du Wei could breathe a sigh of relief. Taking advantage of the joy, Dewey took our football association president to see some of his new inventions.
In the place behind the castle where Du Wei specializes in developing fireworks, Mad once again gave his young master a reverent look...
Although, he still didn't know what the young master was tinkering with again this time.
The thing in front of him seemed to be a huge basket.
Well, that's right, it's a big basket. Big enough to stand in three or five people, the edge of the basket was high, the height of the person's waist, and the person stood in it as if he were sitting in an open carriage.
And above... A huge spherical thing sewn from a dozen cowhides floated gently on top of the basket!
Yes, that's right, a huge spheroid!
A stove below is desperately baking the balloon, baking the gas in the balloon.
The color of the flame burning is very bright, and Du Wei works a little magic in this link... It was a fire magic he had just learned, and Solskjaer had come up with something like an additive that would further enhance the burning effect of the fire.
"This thing is called a hot air balloon! My dear Mader. Du Wei smiled happily.
This is the result of his hard work in a month! Although during this period, nearly fifty pieces of fine cowhide were damaged ... The hides were bought at a very low price from the furrier who first bought the franchise naming rights.
Ignoring Mader's blank eyes, Du Wei briefly introduced his new invention.
The former horseman, the current chief manager, the head of the football lottery center, the president of the football association, Mr. Mader, already felt that he was about to faint, he looked at the young master, and stammered: "Young master... You, you mean, this thing, it can fly? You mean 'fly'? Did I hear you right?
"Heard me right, my dear Made!" Du Wei smiled and said, "So, now I give you an honor!" Come and experience your first test flight with me! This is a historic moment! You are the first human being to take to the sky without relying on any magic or the help of other magical creatures!! What
happened next was like a dream for Old Mad!
Du Wei swung his knife and cut the rope tied to the basket, and the huge buoyancy of the hot air balloon slowly brought up the basket below and Du Weimad in the basket!
When the basket left the ground little by little, higher and higher... Everyone stopped breathing, did not dare to make even the slightest sound, so their eyes widened, their mouths grew and looked up at Du Wei and Mad who were getting taller and taller...
There are even people who forgot to wipe when the water flowed out!
For someone who lives in an era without any flying machines, this scene is too ... Shocked!!
It wasn't until the hot air balloon planted Du Wei and Mad flew to the height of almost the top of the castle that the craftsmen on the ground let out a huge cheer! All fell to their knees and praised the great gods with the most pious voices ...
Compared with the people cheering on the ground, Mader only felt that his legs were now so soft that he couldn't stand!
For the first time in his life, he "flew" to the sky, so that Mader's legs have been shaking non-stop since he left the ground, his face is pale, his eyes are as big as a bull's eye, his teeth are rattling, and his hands are clutching the edge of the basket...
"How? My dear Made..." Du Wei looked at his feet... The hot air balloon is slowly floating, and from this height, the scenery around the castle, the mountains in the distance, the forest nearby... Glance!
"Isn't this scene unforgettable..." Du Wei was intoxicated.
"Young Master..." Mad swallowed hard and asked cautiously, "This... I don't know how to say it anymore... This, this is simply amazing... But, but what I want to ask is... We have now flown so high ... But how do we land?
At this moment, Du Wei also changed color, he took a deep look at Mad, and then looked strange: "Oops... I just know how to fly ... But I don't know how to land this thing.
Made: "Young Master... You are truly the most genius person I have ever met...... ％※％-; ※...-; (...※" Du Wei: "
Made! You spit on me!
The people below began to look at each other after being excited: "Young master, when will they come down?" It's almost time for dinner, right? "
Under the setting sun, the hot air balloon floats higher and higher in the infinite sunset, and floats farther and farther...
What a wonderful world! Isn't it?