Bai Liyan took out the telescope from the leather case, handed it to Zhou Kong, and said:

"You might as well use a telescope to see clearly."

"No, you can see that these eight horses are good horses."

"These riders have money behind them, and the rider and the horse get a prize for winning the event, and the money owner behind them gets the money from the horse farm bet, so they will spend their money on the best horses."

"Since you have bought a good horse with blood, why do you only see the Central Plains horse, but not the high-headed horses of Qianliyue, Qianli Ma and Jin Xuedi."

"It would be a pity that there are not many such good horses for horse racing, and I have long since made it forbidden to use these three types of horses in racetracks. For the sake of fairness, the horses must be of roughly the same breed, otherwise Marseille will not be very interesting. ”

"So what happens if the rider and the horse keep losing?"

"There is a fee for renting a race, and the owner makes some money from the event, and if he doesn't make a profit for a long time, he loses money, fires the rider, or changes the horse. However, at present, most of the financiers are powerful and wealthy families, purely for fun and face, and it doesn't matter if they lose or earn, anyway, they have a large grain field and fiefdom in their hands, and it is still easy to raise some horses. ”

As he spoke, a second yellow flag had been raised on the rostrum, and the faintly dispersed crowd gathered on the concrete wall outside the racecourse, and some climbed onto the public stand in anticipation. At this time, the first stand poured into the gamblers one after another, looking for empty seats to sit down, several big men in armor crowded into the front desk, and raised their voices in front of the chest of the bearded strong man and shouted:

"Blind your dog's eyes, do you know whose seat this is, is it yours who can sit, why don't you get out of here!"

The strong man at the head was reprimanded, and the Bailiyan guards stood up and said sharply:

"Who are you waiting for, dare to make a mistake!"

The strong man was very disdainful, stretched out his right index finger and pointed at the cloth on the chest of the Baili Yan guard, and said contemptuously:

"Ha, I actually met someone who didn't have long eyes today, you don't plan to let it, right?"

"I advise you not to provoke right and wrong, otherwise it is not for you to eat the sin, and you will not retreat!"

The quarrel attracted Bai Liyan's attention, and the next moment he said to Wei Qi:

"You go and see, who are these people in armor, don't show off."

"No!"

Large public casinos are not allowed to enter and exit with long-bladed weapons, but they can wear armor, and the people who come to watch them wear armor, not the town army nor the auxiliary soldiers, let alone the forbidden army, it is private armor, and there is a black circle printed on the right side of the chest, and there is the word "salty" in it, which is a private soldier belonging to the powerful.

These types of nails are hard leather and are pressed from three fine cowhides, which are extremely tough and were forbidden to be sold before.

After the Xian army was equipped with a large number of steel scale armor, piercing armor, plate armor, and chain mail, the traditional leather armor was obviously insufficient in protection, and the leather was taken from cowhide, which consumed more financial resources than the iron armor produced by industrial processing, so it withdrew from the town army early and equipped auxiliary soldiers.

Some of them were sold to powerful and private merchants, and even private people could go to the government and designated weapons shops to buy armor as long as they had money, so the domestic armor market was very open in recent years.

On the one hand, the common people can afford to buy them when they have money, and on the other hand, secondary armaments are stored in the civilian population, which is conducive to mobilization and conscription in wartime, and preparing their own armor can reduce the logistical pressure of war, and the soldiers will be trained and sent to the battlefield in a centralized manner as soon as possible, which is much more efficient than the traditional official conscription and re-equipping equipment. Combined with the regular training system of the people's army, the combat effectiveness of the people's army that was rapidly assembled was very strong.

Of course, the liberalization of armor does not mean that everything is sold, and the armor level of the government and the designated armor shop is one or two levels lower than that of the Xian army, which is basically equivalent to the standing army of other vassal states, so that it will not cause trouble caused by internal rebellion, and at the same time, it is conducive to the people's army to cooperate with the regular army to fight against foreign invasion.

Finally, the advent of guns and hot weapons will eventually eliminate conventional armor, and in the face of thermal weapons, armor is simply vulnerable, and its role is still limited to the damage of cold weapons. As long as the barrel of the gun is tightened, even if it is worn into an iron barrel, it will not help, and the internal rebellion is not a cause for concern at all. Instead of hoarding a large number of obsolete equipment in warehouses, it is better to sell them for money and use the funds to accelerate the transformation of the leather industry.

When he was young, Wei Qi came to the front of the people and asked about the guards:

"Song Cong, why are they making a fuss here?"

"Back to the Wei guards, these people are unreasonable, so they have to ask me to give up my seat."

Wei Qi looked at the people, all the five big and three rough and fierce gods, dressed in cowhide and armor, like bullies and hooligans.

"Who are you waiting for, and why are you driving away those who come first?"

The bearded man sneered:

"Seeing that you are not very old, you dare to take care of your master's affairs, I am tired of you!"

"Hmph, if you speak in broad daylight and intimidate the good people, you can be sentenced to picking quarrels and provoking trouble, punished with 20 sticks, detained for 30 days, fined twice, and the person in charge will be punished by one degree, you have to think clearly."

"Hahaha......" The strong man roared: "I, Lao Tzu on this land is the king's law, there is a kind of you to sue, who will eat the lawsuit is not necessarily!" ”

"You!"

Wei Qi was angry, he was also half of the son of the Yongxing Hou Mansion, he was used to the deference of outsiders, almost no one dared to bully the head of the Yongxing Hou, and today was the first time he was bullied by others, and he couldn't help but be a little stunned and annoyed.

At this time, the two sides had been deadlocked for a moment, and the yellow flag was raised for the second time on the rostrum on the west side, and the impatient urging voice of the young man came from behind the strong man in armor:

"Kong Zeng, haven't you sent a few minions away!"

The bearded man named Kong Zeng replied:

"Childe, there are a few people who don't know how to lift up occupy your seat, and you don't know how powerful you are if you don't move."

"Yo, whoever is tired of living and dares to occupy the seat of this son, they all dodge away, and this son wants to see who is blind to the dog's eyes."

A group of armor soldiers left and right, two young people in their twenties, dressed in blue and white brocade robes, squeezed forward, one of them was thin and slightly taller, wearing a silver crown, wearing a white satin waist with jacquard brocade, his face was as white as jade, and the young man wearing a sachet lowered his head and glanced at Wei Qi and others, and saw that Wei Qi and others were all in fine cloth, and his face suddenly sank.

"Who are you waiting for, I don't know if this seat belongs to this son."

Where did Wei Qi eat his set, and said to each other:

"There is a precedent in ancient times when the first come, and there is no reason for the latecomer to force the first to give up."

At this time, the bearded man on the side hurriedly complained to the young man Bai Jin:

"Childe, these eyeless things, the subordinates will immediately expel them."

Bai Jin Gongzi didn't think about it, and said lightly:

"Then hurry up, don't let Ben Gongzi wait in a hurry."

"No!"

After finishing speaking, the white brocade youth and the blue brocade youth hid aside, and the bearded and armored strong man broke off and shouted:

"Come on, let me get rid of this unsightly thing!"

"No!"

Several people spoke in unison, and with a sigh, the Bailiyan guards stepped forward together. Then came a loud voice:

"I'll see who dares!"

Bailiyan stood up, with his hands behind, and Wei Qi and the others pushed left and right to make way for the passage.

The bearded man followed the prestige, only to see a middle-aged man wearing a jade crown, wearing an indigo straight coat, and a white jade belt hanging from his waist.

"You, who are you?"

The bearded man asked, Bai Liyan looked to the left at the two young men who were standing, and said leisurely:

"Whose son are you, dare to commit murder in broad daylight, don't you know the king's law!"

The young man Bai Jin didn't know Bailiyan, and he was shocked by his momentum, but he didn't show weakness:

"This son is Zhaoyangjun, who are you?"

"You are Hu Ai who inherited the title of Zhaoyang Jun!"

Seeing that the visitor reported his name and surname, Hue was shocked:

"Who are you, I once knew the name of Benjun."

"Hehe......" Bai Liyan sneered, only thinking that this person was an imbecile.

At present, the upper-class people with a little status and status only need to know the knighthood, and most of them can report who is knighted.

This Hu Ai inherited the title of his father Hu Jiaojun two years ago, and every year the succession of the title needs to be reported to the cabinet, re-registered with the Department of Taxation and the Department of Taxation in order to collect taxes and pay tribute, and the seal ribbon used must also be re-issued by the internal government, and the new heir must enter the palace to accept the re-canonization.

The predecessor Zhaoyang Jun Hu Jiaojun is also a bastard thing, Yongxinghe fought the king of Qin, Hu Jiaojun and his father led troops to kill and returned defeated, and then they retreated to the king's family on the grounds that there were no soldiers available, neither recruiting troops nor taking the initiative to ask for war, and dragged on until the tide of the war turned around.

The Xian army counterattacked the western county of the capital county, and Hu Jiaojun and a group of nobles of King Qin were gearing up, waiting to go to the capital county to enclose the land for themselves.

Bai Liyan foresaw that this result would happen, so he persuaded the king of Xian that he would rather delay the repair of the army than indulge the powerful to advance westward to seize the fruits of the war, which led to the new land policy and the results of today's reforms. Since then, Hu Jiaojun has been honest, and after inheriting the title, he has been mixed in the fief and the royal city, eating, drinking, and having fun to raise private soldiers.

A few years ago, the land administration advanced to the east, and the imperial court actively reformed the hidden households, Hu Jiaojun, like other magnates, in order to resist the imperial court's household registration policy, the hidden households bound to the land were incorporated into private soldiers. At the same time, the Xianjun Army reformed, and a large number of surplus ordnance and armor were opened for sale, so Hu Jiaojun pulled up his own people again.

However, more than two years ago, Hu Jiaojun died of serious injuries due to a carriage overturning accident on the way back to the fiefdom, and his son Hu Ai inherited the title naturally. At present, the title system is hereditary, and there is no principled fault, no demotion, and no reduction. Hu E, who inherited the title, inherited his father's usual bastard virtues, and surpassed them, not only continued to expand his private army, but also married his sister to Mi Yi, the eldest son of Qing Xijun.

Qing Xijun Mi Yuan has two sons, the eldest son Mi Yi, Baili Yan has seen, the second son Mi Ke, should be twenty-two years old this year, Bai Li Yan has never seen it, but it is said to be delicious. His eyes fell on the face of the young man with blue brocade on Hue's side, the upper and lower four stout hairs, holding a two-hundred-milliliter glass bottle in his right hand, and scooping out a few huge fish roe with a copper spoon in his left hand and sending them into his mouth.