�0�1bR�3@��U�R^6�V8K4�Ѧ�٫�S�3ۓ�+1; ��o���>�; jC P1E Gf When Li Shimin said these words, Chu Suiliang and Shanyang merchants were the happiest, and there were long queues in various shops selling snacks, and even high-end restaurants were full, and there were many diners waiting to eat, which is a great thing! Therefore, he quickly ran to the barracks and reported the situation to Sun Xiangfu.

"Your Majesty, you have seen how much a military parade has promoted Shanyang's business!"

Sun Xiangfu listened to Chu Suiliang's report with Li Shimin, and when he heard the words, he said to Li Shimin with a smile.

"Tell me, where is the business opportunity?"

"That, Your Majesty, you should first send someone to the martial arts venue outside the city and inform the afternoon martial arts exercise to be postponed by one hour, so that the people can take turns to finish eating and can see the process of the martial arts exercise."

When Li Shimin heard this, he gave Wang Deyong a look, and Wang Deyong immediately took a cadre of internal servants to give an order to the general who led the guards. ”

"Tournament?"

Li Shimin was stunned when he heard this, Chu Suiliang seemed to react, as soon as the military parade ceremony was held, the turnover of all the catering industries in Shanyang today increased several times, if this martial arts competition was held, wouldn't it be ······

Chu Suiliang is still thinking about it! I saw that Sun Xiangfu kept giving him a look, meaning that he was asked to call Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong and other generals who were dining on the table not far away.

Although his action was seen by Li Shimin, Li Shimin did not stop it, and after a while, a group of military generals and bigwigs who had not eaten enough were invited to Li Shimin's table.

"Your Majesty, the martial arts competition that the minister is talking about is not a simple fight, but the training of the whole army is divided into many items and used for competitions, such as archery, foot shooting, mounted archery, continuous shooting, fixed targets, and moving targets, which are several major events.

Another example is running marching, sprinting, long-distance running, obstacle running, relay running. High jump, long jump. Fist and foot fighting, wrestling, blade fighting, horse fighting, etc.

Even throwing chain hammers, lifting stone locks, operating bed crossbows, operating trebuchets, wrestling······ Such projects can be included in the competition. ”

Crackling, Sun Xiangfu said dozens of items after a while, and then said, "For the champion who wins first in each event, I Shanyang plans to reward 100,000 yuan and a gold medal."

The runner-up of the second place will be rewarded with 50,000 yuan and a silver medal.

The third place runner-up will be rewarded with 10,000 coins and a bronze medal. ”

"Wait, you want to take the money from Shanyang's treasury to reward our Datang sergeants?" Li Shimin interrupted Sun Xiangfu's words a little depressed, this is a big problem, and Sun Xiangfu can't be allowed to come.

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "No, no, I think that the businessmen of Shanyang will be very willing to pay this money." Because, as long as they contribute a little money, the business may double every day until all the competitions are over. ”

Sun Xiangfu said this, Chu Suiliang, who knew his business thoughts, now fully understood, this boss thought of a wonderful trick to gather wealth for Shanyang, Datang, the most important thing is to watch the lively rich people!

As the parent official of Shanyang's main economy, Chu Suiliang is a little sorry for the people of Shanyang if he doesn't jump out to say something now, and hurriedly takes Sun Xiangfu's words and says, "Your Majesty, this is the common wish of the people of Shanyang City and all the merchants, and please fulfill it." ”

Speaking of this, Qin Qiong still didn't understand what Sun Xiangfu was talking to Li Shimin just now, and hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, Zhengming's suggestion can stimulate the enthusiasm of the training of my Tang Army, and also allow them to obtain high honors and rich rewards, which is an excellent strategy to kill multiple birds with one stone, and the minister seconded it." ”

"Uh, Shubao, why did you second?"

Wei Chigong, who hadn't understood too much, asked Qin Qiong in a low voice.

Qin Qiong glanced at him impatiently and said, "It's to let your subordinate sons compete with everyone, those who win can be in the limelight, and there is money to take, and if you lose, there is nothing to lose." ”

"This is a good feeling! Some of them are earned, and the minister also seconded it. ”

Then, after the conversation between the two of them, as well as the previous invitation of Chu Suiliang and Sun Xiangfu, the rest such as Li Jing, Li Ji, Duan Zhixuan, Hou Junji, Chai Shao, Zhang Gongjin and others all knew what they were talking about, and they hugged their fists one after another, "The ministers and others seconded the proposal." ”

Li Shimin saw this posture, and was even more stunned, in fact, there is nothing to compare with the guards and sergeants, in the past autumn training, it is not that there has been no comparison, it may be a competition, thinking of making money This way of people come up, there is only Sun Zhengming in the whole Datang.

The crowd was excited, and it seemed that it would not work to disagree, Li Shimin nodded and said, "How to operate specifically, you come up with a charter as soon as possible." ”

"Obey."

Seeing Li Shimin nodding, Sun Xiangfu and Chu Suiliang looked at each other and smiled, only the two of them could know the subtleties.

Then, Chu Suiliang retired, and he also arranged for the inspectors of the Public Security Bureau to sound the gong to inform the people of the postponement of the military performance.

Sun Xiangfu took advantage of his free time to talk to everyone about some of the general ideas of this all-army competition.

"Your Majesty, you are going to return to Chang'an in September, and the time of this big competition, the minister thinks that it is more appropriate to start in early August, and it will last about twenty days in total."

In October, the first imperial examination of the Zhenguan Dynasty was about to begin, and Li Shimin had to lead the courtiers back to Chang'an in advance to preside, and take the scholar as an official, which was what Li Shimin had to do now.

However, the current time is only late June, and the competition will start in early August, which is at least more than a month and a half, but Li Shimin is a little confused about Sun Xiangfu's meaning, the elite of the guards is in Shanyang, if you want to compare, can't you compare it at any time?

Seeing Li Shimin's puzzled gaze, Sun Xiangfu said again, "Your Majesty, this all-army martial arts competition is not so simple, first of all, it is necessary for the ministers and the generals to agree on the competition items, rules, in addition, the construction of some special competition venues, the equipment and tools needed for the competition, need to be made. Also, it's propaganda, this big military parade just attracted some people in the north who like to watch the excitement, most of them are still our ordinary people in Shanyang, from them, the merchants in Shanyang can't make much money.

All the expenses of this competition, the minister intends to let the merchants of Shanyang bear it, which requires more big money owners to spend in Shanyang, so that they can earn enough. ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin understood, and said, "You want to publicize your Shanyang's martial arts competition to the whole country in the newspaper, so that those who have the conditions to come to Shanyang to watch will come to Shanyang to watch the excitement, right?" ”

"Hehe, Your Majesty is wise, the minister is thinking exactly this, in addition, the minister also plans to invite the Xue Yantuo Khanate, the Xia Division, the Murwei Division, the Khitan Division, and the Jin Ya Division, all to send teams to participate, this is a great opportunity for us to deepen exchanges with the warriors of all tribes and promote national friendship."

Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "This method is feasible. ”

Sun Xiangfu saw that Li Shimin instantly understood what he meant, so he said, "The minister still has a follow-up plan, the construction of Dingxiang will be completed within two years, and the minister plans to hold a national sports conference in Dingxiang City in the third year to promote the economy of Dingxiang City."

At that time, the participating teams were not limited to the Sixteen Guards, and the surrounding tribes, and the powerful Shangzhou in the country could form their own teams to participate, and the competition items would be wider, and the prize money was ten times that of this competition, and there was also a team championship award of 100,000 yuan. ”

"Ten times? 100,000 team awards? ”

As soon as Sun Xiangfu said this, not only Li Shimin, but also several generals who were ready to compete for a good result in the next competition, were also stunned, just now Sun Xiangfu said that the champion of each project can get a reward of 100,000 yuan, which is 100 times, if it is ten times, it is 1,000 yuan.

Just now, Sun Xiangfu thought of dozens of competitions that he thought of temporarily, and this is not counting the additions of the generals after the guards, so the final competition items are likely to exceed 100, doesn't that mean that when the time comes, it will cost hundreds of thousands of yuan just to pay bonuses?

"That's right, it's ten times, do you think your subordinates have earned too much money?"

Sun Xiangfu asked rhetorically, but made General Zhuwei shake his head again and again, as contestants, they wished that Sun Xiangfu would set the prize higher! Because no matter how bad their team is, they can win medals in a few events, and it's all money!

Li Shimin was the first to feel that something was wrong, and said to Sun Xiangfu, "Tell me, what is your purpose in doing this, can those businessmen really afford such a high fee?" ”

"Your Majesty, in fact, can you afford it, you will know after watching this martial arts conference, take the racecourse that opens every three days in Shanyang, do you know the amount of money that the sons of the family bet on each time at the racecourse? At least 10,000 times.

A mere racecourse, opened in Shanyang for less than a year, made a profit of no less than 100,000 yuan, and for Shanyang's finances, it has set a tax revenue of more than 100,000 yuan.

And what we want to do is an event with hundreds of competitions, which is the first competition in the world. Think about it, at that time, not only the rich people of our Datang, but also the nobles of the surrounding countries would also come to watch and place bets! The amount of revenue from catering, accommodation, and service industries is not to be estimated, but the merchants who open gambling stalls are estimated to earn all the money used to pay for the prize money in one day. ”

This era is not like later generations, what are the restrictions on the opening of the handicap, the place of operating the game, is an individual, there is capital, you can open, although the racecourse of Shanyang relies on selling lottery tickets, the monthly profit is as high as 10,000 yuan, but compared with those businessmen who opened the handicap in private, it is not worth mentioning, there are more businessmen in the past, the economic flow is large, these industries are bound to rise, Sun Xiangfu does not limit it, because a group of rich people fall, there will be another group of rich people rising, Sun Xiangfu prefers to see wealth rotate in the hands of these people, because, So that he can keep collecting taxes.

Of course, making money is only a relatively superficial thing, three years later, the people of Datang have almost solved the problem of food and clothing, and began to move towards prosperity, maintaining their martial spirit, and stimulating their enthusiasm for sports, which is also a meaningful thing for the country.

However, his real purpose is only afraid that the people of this world may not be able to understand, because he wants to change the mode of war and switch to the sports field, instead of killing each other.

So many bonuses, for some tribes like the Turpentine, Murowei, or a small country like Gaochang, is enough to change their domestic economic situation, if, when they are poor, not only robbing the rich Tang can go, but by their own hard training, they can also fight for enough bonuses to change their living conditions, then, are they still willing to take risks?