Chapter 455: A Happy Beginning
At first, everyone was a little uncomfortable, after all, today's hammering pills is a kind of play, the venue is very small, the play is pure skill, no need to work hard, but golf is a combination of strength and skill.
It's not the same thing.
But soon, everyone got used to it, after all, not everyone is like Yang Mingshen, who has been hollowed out by women, such as Wang Jiaping, Wang Xijue and others, they are very self-disciplined, they are not very old, their bodies are very good, and they are more and more handy in swinging.
What Guo Dan didn't expect was that their daughters were faster than them and played more devotedly than them.
Thinking about it, we have to hold a women's competition.
It turns out that pounding pills is more popular among women, after all, women have nothing to do, and getting together is either to play horse hanging, or to play pounding pills.
They showed enthusiasm to outperform their husbands.
Not only that, but it also seems to have strengthened the friendship between their kings and courtiers.
In fact, Guo Dan didn't learn golf because he liked it from the bottom of his heart, his favorite sport was swimming, and a large part of the reason was because of socializing.
Golf can provide a great social platform.
Wang Jiaping and the others quickly realized this, and took advantage of the break to talk to Wanli about political affairs, Wanli was very happy, and he did not refuse to come, while enjoying the shade of the tree, while talking to them about government affairs.
Unconsciously, the sun was setting, and Wanli and a group of ministers, as well as their families, were still going to their residences.
"Guo Dan is really good, occasionally going out for a walk, my body does feel much more comfortable."
Wanli said as he stretched his arms.
The imperial doctor next to him was depressed, we told you a long time ago, how do you remember that Guo Dan said this.
Wang Jiaping said suddenly: "Your Majesty's dragon body is healthy, that is the blessing of the country, and the minister also thinks that Your Majesty should go out for a walk." β
Wanli was surprised: "Really? Aiqing also agreed. β
Not only Wang Jiaping, but also Wang Xijue, Xu Guo and others nodded one after another.
Wanli couldn't help but be even happier when he saw that the ministers didn't go against him, and said with a smile: "Every year in the civil and military competition, I will also come over to have fun with the Qing family." β
Wang Jiaping listened, only to feel that it was too rare to hold it once a year.
Today is really made Wang Jiaping and these capable ministers taste the sweetness, they really want to talk to Wanli about business, don't want to tear up with Wanli, but Wanli used to be in the palace, and they didn't see each other a few times a year, and most of the communication between the two sides had to go through the eunuchs, and they really didn't say as much as these days, so they thought that if Wanli could often go out of the palace to go around, they would have more opportunities to chat with Wanli.
If the Zhengde Ancestor heard this, he would probably be angry, and he was always scolded because he was wandering around outside every day.
And Wanli went out for a few days, and the ministers were very happy.
It's really more popular than people!
......
After a day of entertainment, the next morning, the team went to Marseille, because today was the day of the reopening of Marseille, and before that, Marseille had been silent for a whole year.
If it weren't for that, Guo Dan wouldn't have bothered to ask Wanli to come out and cheer.
And this time the arrival of Wanli did not cause much of a sensation, because today's protagonist is Marseille, not the emperor.
Wanli didn't care about this, they were divided into two ways, and the family went to the racecourse, where they had prepared a lot of food to entertain them.
And Wanli went straight to the prize pool hall.
I remember that when Marseille first started, he used 200 miles to expedite to report the situation in the prize pool hall, and he couldn't wait to experience it himself.
Guo Dan had already left all the VIP private rooms to them.
"One hundred and fifty thousand taels?"
Wanli, who had just entered the private room, immediately locked his eyes on the prize pool below, and couldn't help but exclaim, and asked Guo Dan again: "This should have just opened the door!" β
Guo Dan replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the prize pool hall was opened yesterday. β
Wanli nodded, a little disappointed.
However, there are people below, and when they talk in the private room, they all have to talk at the top of their voices.
For many people, this is not coming, then of course you have to buy a handful, join in the fun, everyone thinks so, this prize pool hall naturally more and more people, everyone talks to each other, which once again arouses everyone's enthusiasm for buying horses.
Although Wanli sat in the private room, his enthusiasm was not lower than that of the people below, and he liked this atmosphere too much, and he kept looking at the prize pool, looking forward to the next card change.
"Your Majesty! The British duke, Xiangcheng Bo, they asked to see. β
"Let them in."
I saw Zhang Yuangong walking in in a hurry, and after saluting, he couldn't wait to ask: "Your Majesty, I heard that the imperial court is going to hold a civil and military hammering pill competition?" β
Wanli was stunned for a moment, and said: "This matter has not been determined for the time being, I don't know what the British Duke and Xiangcheng Bo think?" β
Zhang Yuangong said: "This is really good, the old man wants to teach ...... a lesson early on." β
Shen Shixing, Wang Jiaping, they immediately looked at him.
Li Chenggong hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is sympathetic to the courtiers and thinks about the health of the courtiers, and the ministers are really grateful. β
Wanli smiled and said, "It's imperative to watch this pounding pill competition!" Ha ha! β
This kind of thing is either not mentioned, but brought up, it is really imperative.
Not only in the Ming Dynasty, which dynasty, the civil and military are full of various contradictions, but the problem is that there is no platform for them to vent, they can only fight each other in the court, but there is a good saying, this show only meets soldiers, and it is reasonable to say.
The mutual confrontation between the civil and military forces is also fully manifested in the fighting, and it does not belong to the partisan struggle.
Comparing poetry and songs, martial arts generals completely stop cooking, no matter how well Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong" is written, it is still slightly inferior to the professional lyricist Su Dongpo.
If it is better than archery on horseback, civil officials are not good.
This hammering pill competition is applicable to both civil and military affairs, and it is really fair to have a civil and military confrontation in the game of hammering pills.
A university scholar smiled and said: "The British public doesn't know, this new type of pounding pill competition is not only a skill, but also has to use some ingenuity, the British public is working hard this night, but don't flash the waist bones!" β
Guo Dan, who was standing on the side, thought to himself, isn't this what I said to ridicule Yang Mingshen.
Wan Li happily glanced at Zhang Yuangong.
As if asking, the British prince should have had a good time these two nights.
Zhang Yuangong didn't know that they were sarcastically running to the Exotic Museum, and immediately sneered: "Thank you Scholar Wei for reminding me, the old man's body is very tough, Scholar Wei should remind Scholar Yang a lot, the old man heard that he didn't even touch the ball, so he flashed his waist, I knew this, it was better to stay here with the old man to hang out." β
"You're ......!"
The bachelor surnamed Wei was stunned and said, "I really hope that I can try it out with the British Gong when the time comes." β
Zhang Yuangong said with a smile: "The old man can't wait to see the skills of the scholars!" Ha ha! β
Wang Jiaping and Shen Shixing also looked at Zhang Yuangong sideways, you are too arrogant, do you really treat us literati as papier-mΓ’chΓ©?
The gunpowder grew stronger.
Although Wanli was secretly happy, he didn't want the powder keg to explode in this private room, because he was still paying attention to the changes in the prize pool, coughed lightly, and said, "I don't know if the British Duke and Xiangcheng Bo can buy horses?" β
Zhang Yuangong was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if you ask about buying a horse, you can be regarded as asking the right person, but the old minister rarely buys a fault." β
Wanli said: "Really? β
Zhang Yuangong said: "Your Majesty believes in the old minister, buy No. 1 Zhang Jiaxian, you will definitely win." β
Wanli looked sideways and asked, "Is this true?" β
If he wins, he will definitely buy it, this win is a little bit, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, and Wanli, who is diligent and thrifty, will not let go of this opportunity.
Without waiting for Zhang Yuangong to speak, Zhang Whale on the side smiled and said, "British duke, isn't that Zhang Jiaxian your grandson?" β
Zhang Yuangong hurriedly said: "The governor's words are wrong, the old man buys horses, and there has always been a clear distinction between public and private. β
Guo Dan glanced at Zhang Yuangong in surprise, this old man is quite thick-skinned, he can buy a horse and be official, admire, admire.
Zhang Whale smiled but did not speak.
Wanli glanced at Zhang Yuangong depressedly, and almost fell for this old man.
Li Chenggong said suddenly: "Your Majesty, those who are familiar with buying horses have heard a sentence, called, the heat will die, even if you win, you can't win much, Jiaxian is indeed expected by everyone, so you can't buy him, the minister thinks that the third Li Shoujie is good." β
Wanli immediately asked, "Your son?" β
Li Chenggong nodded and said, "It is the youngest son of the minister." β
His eldest son Li Shouqi has been blocked by Marseille last time, and Li Chenggong is also powerless to return to the sky, because it involves the Tianjin fire, Li Shouqi is completely abolished, and he began to cultivate his youngest son, who is bound to regain the glory that belongs to the Li family in Marseille.
Wanli was speechless for a while.
You bastards.
Zhang Yuangong was bored with himself, and suddenly looked at Xu Mengxi, who was hiding in the corner, and said, "Xing'anbo, why didn't Rong'er participate this time, are you afraid?" β
Last time, Zhang Jiaxian lost in the hands of Xu Jirong, he has always been unconvinced, no one can lose to Xu Jirong!
Xu Mengxi was immediately very annoyed when he heard this, his Xu family was thin, and Zhang Yuangong loved to bully him with this matter, so he arched his hand and said: "Rong'er will forget it this time, I wish Xian'er can be ashamed and win Xu Jirong's cup home." β
"Poof!"
Guo Dan hurriedly covered his mouth, thinking, it turns out that the Xu family has pretending to be a gene!
"Xu Jirong Cup?"
Wanli looked back at Xu Mengxi.
Xu Mengxi wrote lightly: "Back to Your Majesty, the trophy of this Marseille is named after the grandson of the minister, because the first Marseille was unfortunately won by the grandson of the minister." β
"Xing Anbo is right, that's really a coincidence."
Zhang Yuangong suddenly slapped Guo Dan on the shoulder and said, "Guo Dan, the old man thought he had to change his name." β
Guo Dan suddenly pointed down, "It's up 20,000 taels." β
"Twenty thousand taels?"
Wanli stood up suddenly, after two days of exercise, the fat house's skills became more agile, looked down, only to see that the prize pool had just changed cards once, and said in surprise: "It's really up 20,000 taels." β
As he spoke, he suddenly found that the box was very quiet, and he also felt like a man on his back, only then did he realize that he was a little out of shape, coughed tactically twice, sat back, first handed Guo Dan two blaming glances, shouting something, making me lose my temper, and asked: "Guo Dan, why did it rise so much this time?" β
Guo Dan replied: "Back to Your Majesty, this is because the people who buy horses, not only look at the players, they will also bet according to the situation of the prize pool, the smaller the amount of bets on the players, the more they will get, so the closer to the competition, the faster the amount of the prize pool will rise." β
"I see."
Wanli nodded, he couldn't care about Zhang Yuangong and them anymore, and paid attention to the changes in the prize pool.
This time Wanli is to experience everyone's enthusiasm, with the amount of soaring, from time to time there is an uproar, and see a lot of rushing to the counter, the amount continues to rise.
It's so exciting!
It's so exciting!
Wanli is not far behind, he can't wait to go down to the fire and let everyone buy more, and at the same time he is calculating in his heart how much he can earn.
In the end, the total amount of the three games on the first day was set at more than 210,000 taels.
This directly broke the single-day prize pool record.
In fact, it was originally to be counted separately, after the first game, the second game can still be bought, but because the emperor came, the emperor could not wait too long in the middle, so he bet on three games.
After the prize pool hall was sealed, everyone rushed to the racecourse.
Because it is a sign that Marseille is about to start.
The new racecourse is more than four times larger than the previous one, and is much larger because of the more equestrian shows, but it is still crowded with people.
Of course, the emperor and the ministers sat at the top, and the female dependents were under some big trees next to them, after all, women can't show their heads, sitting under the trees, they can still cover up, and it is obvious that the number of women has increased, mainly because there are many more girls, although they are all wearing veils, but it is not difficult to see that they are very excited, which is difficult to get out of the door.
"That's a lot of people!"
Wanli sat in the middle, looking at so many people, densely packed, he couldn't help but feel very strange, this was much more than when he came here the day before yesterday.
"The courtier's brother has seen the emperor's brother."
Zhu Yihua was embarrassed to come to the stage and saluted Wanli.
Wanli looked at this precious brother and said with a headache: "Why are you only here now?" β
Zhu Yihua rolled his eyes and said, "The younger brother just went to help Xu Jirong prepare, and he is going to appear later." β
Xu Mengxuan listened, and was very worried in his heart, don't help more and more.
I can't afford to lose this face!
Wanli looked at Zhu Yihua with sleepy eyes, and at first glance, he had just woken up, as for the fact that so many ministers were there, he was inconvenient to wear, so he just nodded and asked him to sit down quickly.
Zhu Yihua sat next to Guo Dan.
Guo Dan whispered: "Lord Wang, pay attention to your body." β
Zhu Yihua said: "It's all your fault, let this king open an exotic museum, of course this king leads by example." β
Leading by example? You really don't blush. Guo Dan scolded secretly in his heart, and suddenly worried: "The little uncle didn't just get up, right?" β
Zhu Yi said angrily: "He got up early, and he is also one of the culprits, because he patronized the performance and left after watching it, so the burden of the second half of the night was on the shoulders of this king alone." β
"It's really hard work."
What else can Guo Dan say.
Suddenly I heard a shout.
"Red Whisk!"
"Red Whisk!"
I saw a four-passenger carriage coming out of the rockery in the east, with a drum behind it, and a woman in a red dress danced on the drum.
There was constant screaming on the sidelines.
Wanli looked surprised and asked, "Who is this woman?" β
Zhang Cheng hurriedly explained to Wanli.
It turned out that this woman was the one who started the game with a bow and arrow.
Gradually, this woman also became a star in the race, but everyone who has seen Marseille knows her, and because she always wears a red dress and is heroic, everyone calls her Red Whisk.
Her name comes from the Red Whisk Girl in the Tang Dynasty's "The Legend of the Bearded Guest".
After walking for a while, he came to a small forest, and the red whisk suddenly spun brilliantly, and opened his bow and arrow, which was an arrow.
Snapped.
I saw that the colored paper fell one after another, and at the same time a huge pictorial fell.
This has never happened before.
But it was a big surprise for everyone!
"Good!"
Wanli couldn't help but applaud.
There was thunderous applause on the sidelines, but in just an instant, soon, the applause turned into boos, and I saw that Wanli's applause was covered up.
Because it was none other than Marseille's image ambassador Xu Jirong.
Guo Dan secretly glanced at Xu Mengxi, and saw that the old man was hiding on the very edge, with a loveless face.
He was still worried that Xu Jirong would be embarrassed, but before this person came out, his face was already lost.
Not only Guo Dan, but also Wanli and many ministers looked sideways at Xu Mengxi.
Suddenly, the boos were even louder.
Guo Dan knew that Xu Jirong must have appeared.
Sure enough, I saw Xu Jirong wearing a bright red horse racing suit, riding a tall horse and running out of the woods in the east.
The boos shook the sky!
There was no man present who did not hate Xu Jirong.
Who made Xu Jirong the king of forced kings.
Don't boo him boo whom.
But Xu Jirong enjoyed this boo very much, he came to the front of the red whisk, led the red whisk carriage around the field, and in the face of everyone's boos, he waved with a smile on his face.
When everyone saw that he was so cheap, they scolded him even more.
"Rubbish!"
"Double waste in the capital!"
......
Xu Jirong smiled even more happily.
Wanli in the stands wondered, "How can this be?" β
It was such an atmosphere at the beginning, and it was so joyful.
Xu Mengxi really couldn't help it, and said, "Your Majesty doesn't know anything, it's all because they're jealous of Rong'er." β
Zhang Yuangong snorted: "Xing'an Boke is really good at talking, what does this have to do with jealousy?" Rong'er has never been popular. β
Xu Mengxi said: "Does the British know how many people come to my house every day to propose marriage?" β
Zhang Yuangong said: "Xing'an Boke, don't be fooled, those people are all trying to make money for your family." β
"You...!"
"Good!"
A burst of applause interrupted Xu Mengxi's counterattack, and he was overjoyed, could it be that the front was just a prank, and he hurriedly raised his eyes to look, and his face suddenly changed, as if he had eaten stool.
It turned out that the red whisk shot another arrow, and another pictorial fell.
It is the favorite of this competition, Zhang Jiaxian.
"Jiaxian!"
"Jiaxian!"
Many supporters chanted in unison.
Zhang Yuangong said: "I didn't expect Xian'er to be so popular. β
Xu Mengxuan said indifferently: "It seems that there are a lot of people who bet on Xian'er!" β
PS: At the beginning of the month, I came to the big chapter, and by the way, I asked for a monthly pass.