"What do you mean?" Chang Xiaolai asked stupidly.

Seeing a wicked smile on the corner of Gu Bei's mouth, he finally figured out the meaning of Gu Bei's words.

“...... I'm going to kill you!"

When the two were laughing and playing, on the wooden platform, the old man was embarrassed by Wu De's words.

"Lord Wu, I'm afraid this matter is inappropriate, after all, he has just been sealed as a county man for a long time......"

The old man and Wu De naturally talked about Gu Bei.

In the face of the old man's hesitation, Wu De looked upright: "The old man, the horse, the country's armament, the sky is gone, and the country will be in danger." Gu Xiannan offered this horseshoe, his merits are no less than opening up the territory, such a miraculous feat, how can he not ask for a reward for him? If the old man is unwilling, then the lower official will ask for a reward for the county man. ”

The old man hesitated: "Lord Wu's words, the old man naturally agrees." But Gu boy, after all, he has just been knighted, if he is knighted again, will this be a bit of a seedling? ”

It turned out that Wu De actually advised the old man and asked the old man to play the horseshoe with Gu County's male Jin and give him a knighthood reward.

For Wu De's concert, the old man was quite hesitant.

It's not that he is unwilling, to be honest, with Gu Bei's merits, he only sealed the lowest county man at the beginning, which is already a disadvantage.

After a large number of trial production of four-wheeled carriages, the Ministry of Industry found that the speed of transporting grain and grass with this carriage was not only several times faster than before, but the loss was reduced to one percent of the original.

This alone has stabilized the precarious South.

The military pressure in the south is very great, especially in order to defend against the pirates, Great Xia has always wanted to invest heavy troops, but it is limited by supply difficulties.

From Suncheonfu to several important states and counties in the south, the distance is more than 2,000 miles. The wealthy merchant families in the south have always controlled the state capital, and the grain and grass supplied can only barely resist the pirates, and it is very unrealistic to mobilize grain, grass and soldiers on a large scale.

Before Gu Bei made the four-wheeled carriage, it took a month or two for the ox cart to transport grain and grass from Shuntianfu to the southern coastal prefectures.

The people on the road ate and chewed horses, and finally the supplies that arrived in the south were not left.

After the Ministry of Industry tried to produce a four-wheeled carriage, it used four horse-drawn carriages to travel from Shuntianfu to and from the southern prefectures and counties, but it used only a few thousand men and horses, and used heavy grain and grass for a year.

This greatly relieved the military pressure on the south, and even began to have the ability to reintegrate the coastal state capitals into the territory of Bactria again.

After receiving sufficient supplies, there were even voices in the DPRK and China, discussing whether to completely exterminate the pirates.

In short, the seemingly inconspicuous four-wheeled carriage brought to Great Xia was by no means just a means of transportation.

Now the horseshoe made by Gu Bei is no weaker than that of a four-wheeled carriage in Daxia. Therefore, Wu De persuaded the old man to make a speech and asked His Majesty to knight Gu Bei again.

"Old man, my husband is not rewarded for his merits, and he loses his hope for goodness!" Wu De continued to persuade the old man.

Bai Luoshi, who was beside the old man, couldn't help but say at this time: "Grandpa, grandson thinks that Lord Wu is reasonable, and husband ......"

Before Bai Luoshi finished speaking, he was interrupted by the old man, pondered for a while, and nodded slowly: "Then according to what Lord Wu said, the old man will show this old face and play for that stinky boy once." ”

The title of Great Xia is a gift from the emperor to the noble relatives. How to award the reward, Your Majesty can decide in a word, and there is no need to consult with the ministers.

The old man asked the guards to summon Cheng Wudi on the side, and whispered a few words, but Cheng Wushu couldn't help but look at Gu Bei, who was still fighting with Chang Xiaolai.

This young man is amazing!

Thinking of his ten sons, Cheng Laohuo, the military boss, felt a little congested, and sure enough, the topic of "other people's children" has been unavoidable since ancient times.

Regarding what the old man said, Cheng Wudi agreed, and then went to work.

Gu Bei, who was fighting with Chang Xiaolai, didn't know that he was about to be knighted again.

Great Xia has never been stingy with meritorious officials, not to mention that it was jointly played by several leaders of Tianfu, and the knighthood must have been captured.

Besides, there were Gu Bei's four-wheeled carriage drawings and sand table before, and today he offered a horse's shoe, which is meritorious in itself, and several bigwigs are invited, and it is basically a certainty.

In fact, the promotion of the title is not of much significance to Gu Bei now, and he doesn't want to be an official, let alone get involved in court politics.

All he needed was a talisman, a noble identity, to be able to protect himself and his family, and nothing more.

As a man who has no ambitions and tries to wait for death in Great Xia, the title of being too high is actually a burden.

However, others naturally don't look at it like this, and Chang Xiaolai muttered that he wanted Gu Bei to have a treat.

This little rascal wanted to go and drink flower wine with the young ladies, Gu Bei glanced at him with disdain, and could only nod helplessly in agreement.

But he hasn't forgotten about building a polo field and running a polo league.

Daxia's cultural and entertainment life is so boring that he finally found a sport he likes, so he naturally wants to make it more lively and pass his boring time.

Gu Bei put forward his own suggestions to Wu De.

Wu De naturally did not object, he was also interested in batting, but when he heard that a polo field containing tens of thousands of seats and stands was to be built, he couldn't help but hesitate again.

"Gu Xiannan, now the state treasury is not rich, I am afraid that the construction of this polo field will be huge, and the court really can't afford it......"

In fact, as early as three days ago, Gu Bei proposed to build a large polo field, so that tens of thousands of Yingtian people could watch polo matches, and he was tempted.

After returning to the state capital, Wu De recruited an official from one of the six treasury of the state capital and asked how much would it cost to build such a polo field according to Gu Bei's idea.

However, in the end, the rough calculation of the cost by the officials of the industrial library surprised him.

First of all, it is necessary to expropriate land, according to Gu Bei's planning, such a large polo field, only the south of the city has enough area.

And to build such a huge polo field, at least two miles would need to be combined.

The official of the Gongku took the map of Ying Tianfu and circled two Li Fang, Yun Fang and Xing Fang to Gu Bei.

Yunfang is 661 meters long, Xingfang is 955 meters long, the total length has reached more than 1,700 meters, the two squares are 477 meters wide from north to south, and the area is enough to build a polo field with a length of 1,000 steps.

The cost of building a house in Great Xia is not high, but the land area in Yingtianfu is quite high.

As the saying goes, "every inch of land, the same price as gold", even if Yunfang and Xingfang are located in the south gate of Yingtian, which belongs to the cheapest place in Yingtianfu, it is still sky-high.

Although the low price in the south of Yingtian City is much cheaper than the official residence area in the north of the city. However, after roughly estimating by the officials of the Ministry of Industry, the acquisition of all the land of Yunfang and Xingfang would also require 100,000 taels of silver, which is more than 10,000 taels of gold.

And that's just the price of the acquired land.

According to Gu Bei's concept, a large amount of soil needs to be piled up on both sides of the polo field to form a high stand.

A simple elementary school math problem is a rectangle 1,500 meters long and 400 meters wide, with a circumference of 3,800 meters. All of them were piled up to a ten-meter-high mound of earth, which is a very impressive amount to the eyes of the blind.

The officials of the Ministry of Industry and Treasury calculated the cost, and estimated that no less than 100,000 taels of silver would be needed, which was a huge expense.

Coupled with other ancillary settings, the officials of the Gongku reported to Wu De a number that gave him a toothache.

two hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver, and twenty-five thousand gold.

In fact, the state government barely took out this money, but he was reluctant.

With so much gold, he didn't think it was cost-effective to build a polo field for the entertainment of the people.

"Gu Xiannan, to build the polo field you mentioned, you need at least 25,000 taels of gold, such a large sum of money, the treasury is really stretched." Wu De spread his hands and expressed that he had no money.

Wu De said that there is no money, and Gu Bei is not easy to say anything, doesn't this product understand the truth that if you want to have output, you must have input?

Three days ago, he had a hot brain and came up with the idea of building a polo field. But in the past few days, Gu Bei has carefully grinded this matter and feels that there is a lot to be done.

Tickets to the polo field, on-site advertisements, and attached peripheral shops are all money.

And for a long time in the future, it is impossible for a second polo field of this scale to appear in Yingtian City, are you afraid that it will not be profitable?

There is such a lack of entertainment in Daxia, polo is loved but it is rare to see, are you afraid that every game, the stadium will not be full?

originally wanted to take the state capital to play together, but since Wu De said that he had no money, Gu Bei had no choice but to invest it himself.

After Wu De left, he was not at all unhappy that Chang Xiaolai asked him to have a treat.

Thanks to the cute Chang Xiaolai, he was forced to go to the Northern Army Barracks to watch a polo match.

As a result, watching a polo game, he also had empty gloves and white wolves, and earned a giant polo field in Yingtianfu.

Of course, what satisfied him the most was the good horse, Gu Bei couldn't put it down, and he was even more grateful to Guo Gao, the boy who gave away money.

Good people, Great Xia needs such good people!

But as the saying goes, handsome is no more than three seconds. Gu Bei's smug mood didn't last long......

The moral standards of the officials and nobles of Great Xia are still on the average line.

At least after the batting, there is no one who is so shameless as the old soldier Cheng Invincible, and he loses his gambling account.

In less than two days, each family sent people one after another to send gold to Cheng Wuyi's mansion to settle the gambling account.

Cheng Wudi, the old man, didn't block Gu Bei this time, so he happily asked people to send him 10,000 taels of gold.

One tael of the Xia Dynasty is equivalent to about thirty grams in later generations, and ten thousand taels is the weight of three hundred catties, which is not too heavy, and a four-wheeled carriage can be easily pulled away.

However, as soon as such a large sum of gold left the house, it was intercepted by Xiao Ran and taken away.

This is the cost of Gu Bei's construction of a large polo field, he doesn't want to go to the house to find a lady at that time, and he will talk a lot, as for the fifteen thousand gold short, Gu Bei's idea is to talk about it then.