Section 642 Entertainment in the Southeastern Province
The way of civil and martial arts, one gallop, can last.
Speaking of which, the Chinese in the southeast province are hard enough, they fight the heavens and the earth, hack the natives to death, and dare to change the sun and the moon for a new day for the sake of sacrifice and ambition!
Southeast Asia was originally economically backward and had very poor living conditions. The area is hot and humid, mosquito-ridden, miasma-ridden, and full of primeval forests and swamps.
Although Nanyang is rich in tropical products, from an agricultural point of view, the local mountains are dense and the arable land is limited, so it does not have much agricultural value.
Everywhere there are deep mountains and jungles and large rivers and swamps, coupled with the local heat and humidity, tropical diseases are prevalent.
There are many tribes in Southeast Asia, and they are unruly and untamed, and they are not easy to tame, and the cost of ruling is very high.
However, the development of the Chinese has made Southeast Asia rise to a fabulous rise of a city, a miraculous rise of a mountain of gold!
Cities, plantations, and farmland have become the scenic spots of Southeast Asia, to achieve self-sufficiency in grain, the ruling class of the southeast province has long understood the truth that there is no agriculture and instability, and grain production has always been extremely tight, every year when Yan Dashao was there, he personally went to the field to plant rice, and when he was away, his daughter-in-law Yang went to the field to plant rice, and helped the plough to move forward!
Yang Yinger, the daughter-in-law of the Yan family, made a show and went to the tea mountain to pick tea!
Labor is glorious, and everyone must be diligent and progressive.
This kind of attitude, which level of officials dare to take it lightly!
The plantation industry has made great strides, first with sugar, tobacco and liquor, and then with oil palm.
The export of sugar, tobacco and liquor makes a lot of money, and oil palm meets the domestic demand of the southeast province, and the next thing is to pour into the mainland!
There is also the mining industry, gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, coal, etc., vigorously developed, only the peak gold production in Jinshan Province reached 100,000 taels of gold per year, and all localities realized the use of coal for fuel instead of cutting down trees.
Smelting metal, making cannons and muskets, do you need cannons? What I have here is!
Southeast Asia produces good wood, in addition to construction and furniture, the most prosperous shipbuilding industry needs a lot of wood, in Southeast Asia, the rich give their youngest son a birthday gift is a yacht!
The Chinese in Southeast Asia have achieved an astonishing annual economic growth of 20 percent, and the birth rate has grown at a high rate of 3 percent, which is a very gratifying figure for senior officials.
The main reason is the continuous influx of population and long-term development, there are no high housing prices in Southeast Asia, there is a lot of land, if it is not enough, they will fight the natives to grab their territory, and the children born will all have subsidies, food, milk, clothes, etc., and there is a medical system as a guarantee!
More births, more fertility, more glory!
In Southeast Asia, there are indeed many opportunities to make money, and they are not oppressed by the government, and they can get rich through labor!
Chinese people are really tired and tired every day, working, fighting, giving birth, and then raising them!
The strings are tightened every day, which is naturally inappropriate, so Yan Dashao gave everyone a "public holiday" and provided more and more entertainment for them.
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The city of the Rising Sun, the capital of the southeastern capital, is an ever-expanding and vibrant city, with a huge construction site on its southern side, where the people of the city come from time to time and eagerly await its completion.
This is the "Colosseum!" ”
The main structure is a racecourse where horses can be raced.
The substructure is a group of six cockfighting rings, where cockfights can take place.
The Southeast Province Jockey Club, or Jockey Club for short, was established as a non-profit club organization responsible for providing horse racing, sports, and betting entertainment.
As for cockfighting, originated from Zhangzhou cockfighting, the Ming Dynasty has appeared, the people of southern Fujian broke into the South Seas, bitter and no entertainment, so the Nanyang "Fanji" and Zhangzhou local fighting cocks were selected, matched and fought, spread in the South Seas, from the chicken to the people, through the cockfighting to see the regional humanistic character. Zhangzhou cockfighting culture is unconsciously integrated into the body of Zhangzhou people, Zhangzhou cockfighting "life is endless, fighting is not stopped", but also coincides with the concept of "love to fight to win" of Minnan people.
It's a place where you can legally gamble!
Everyone looks at their favorite horses and cockfighting bets, and the dealer is the big Colosseum, charging commissions, and making sure that you don't lose money.
The southeastern province stipulated that cockfights and horse races should be held in the city of the rising sun, and that cockfighting rings should be established in the provincial capitals for open and legal gambling.
For example, the income and expenditure of the Jockey Club are: the income is the amount of betting, the expenditure is the payout, betting tax and the income of the Jockey Club, the lottery is distributed to bettors, the tax revenue is collected by the government, and the income of the Jockey Club is managed by a public welfare foundation after deducting the operating expenses, which is mainly used for sports, entertainment, education, social services and medical care, etc., and has gradually become the main force of charitable donations.
Except for government-mandated gambling in the Jockey Club and cockfight, all other gambling is illegal!
Seriousness is written into the law, so that everyone's gambling psychology is counseled and managed.
The government believes that it is the best of both worlds, the Chinese people are good at gambling, and everyone wants to gamble, but it must be managed, so as not to cause gamblers to go bankrupt and their wives to be separated.
There were also disgruntled elements who complained that this was a clear and tyrannical measure of "only the governor was allowed to set fires, and the people were not allowed to light lamps", so the leaders simply earmarked the funds for all the infrastructure!
The gaming tax is paid separately, strictly audited by the superiors, and used for public welfare expenditures such as temples, municipal construction, roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, etc., so that all people have nothing to say!
After all, building the Mazu Temple is the right thing for believers, the roads and bridges built by the government may be walked by, the hospital may be used, and the school is used by everyone's children.
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In addition to the Colosseum, a large sports field is also under construction.
The southeastern province vigorously promotes sports competitions, including rowing, windsurfing and rowing, and gradually subdividing, for example, rowing has single, double, four, eight-person races, etc., and sailing races have long-distance and short-distance sailing races.
There are also shooting competitions, competitions with muskets, including rifle shooting, pistol shooting, target running and target throwing,
The most revered and highly honored is the "Ironman Pentathlon", which includes shooting, weight running, swimming, equestrian and trail running!
These three events are close to the characteristics of the war years, and have been highly valued by the government, and the rewards given to the players are very high!
In addition to awarding trophies, gold medals and bonuses, titles are also allowed, that is, manufacturers can advertise, increase the rewards for players and subsidies for the organizers, which is the first of the leaders, so what "Teacup Before the Rain", "Nanyang Cigarette Championship" and so on came out one after another, promoting the great development of the advertising industry!
Sports also include athletics competitions and ball games, track and field have running, high jump, long jump, javelin and discus throwing, etc., the ball game of that period due to the ball manufacturing technology is not good, the rise of rugby!
The athletes put on armor, held the ball and rampage on the field, the defender grabbed the opponent, everyone fought, the scene was hot, and the audience laughed and cheered.
He yelled, "Bump him, hit him!" ”
Or: "Grab his ball, take him down!" ”
Rugby was more violent, often hitting people on the field, and blood flowed, satisfying the dark psychology of the audience, and soon became all the rage.
So everyone wrote and asked the leaders to allow gambling in rugby games, on the grounds that horse racing and cockfighting are both livestock and poultry gambling, and we think of human gambling!
And the leader actually got it!
Therefore, rugby has become the most popular sport in Southeast Province!
Every year when there is a drought, the competition continues, and the city carnivals!
Sports projects are carried out, as well as cultural and entertainment projects, including the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting of Chinese culture, when the primary school students in the southeast province have entered the campus, they have to study the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and there are quite a lot of competitions every year, as well as poetry recitation, Chinese culture competitions and so on.
The government attaches great importance to folk culture, such as the temple fair culture of the Mazu Temple, the spontaneous blowing, playing and singing of the folk and folk arts, etc., which have a lot of support.
In addition to official support, there are also corporate sponsorships, various sports, cultural and recreational activities are in the ascendant, red and red fruits, as if overnight, the southeast province has changed from a cultural desert island to a place with great cultural and sports activities, which is breathtaking!