Due to the large area of the racecourse, it was initially located outside the city, and for this purpose it also occupied a large area of farmland. The racecourse stands are made of concrete bricks, with a sand-paved racetrack in the middle, and a green space the size of a football field in the center.

When not racing, the green space in the middle is occasionally used for cockfighting, bullfighting, etc., as well as pig racing.

In addition, livestock breeding in Yongxing and Wuping has also set up work points in the racecourse, specifically collecting which male animals survived the gladiatorial fight for breeding and breeding.

But as long as it is gambling, there is always a market. The gambling horse farm is a facility for people to entertain in peacetime, and the solid wall during the war is just used as a fortress garrison outside the city, relying on each other with the royal city, so at the beginning of construction, the racecourse is close to the royal family's city, and an underground secret passage is dug underground, and the cement is poured to cover the ceiling for wartime transportation.

At this time, it is the afternoon rush, the crowd outside the racecourse is surging, because the betting horse is a mass product, coupled with the substantial growth of the commodity economy in recent years, the people have a lot of surplus money in hand, and there are more people who are willing to participate, so the price of gambling tickets is not high, and the poor class participates in the situation of betting on horses is more common, accounting for more than half of the gamblers.

Hundreds of gamblers flocked to the entrance to watch the winning rate of the horses on the blackboard under the bulletin board, Zhou Kong was watching the horse race for the first time, and the string of numbers was dizzy and uncertain so:

"Why are there so many numbers on it?"

Bai Liyan said with great interest:

"The age of the horse, its unique designation, and the number of places in each race since it was raced. The gambler knows the horse's win rate by considering the horse's participation.

For example, the horse No. 35 has participated in a total of 276 horse races, winning 52 first places, 31 second places, 78 third places, 66 fourth places, and so on. As you can tell from the results of the other horses, this horse is in the upper reaches of the overall position, so the odds are not high.

On the other hand, the higher the overall position, the higher the odds, you see the No. 66 horse, the bottom of the list, the odds are as high as 100, in 259 races, only two first, five second, 35 third, most of the rest are hovering between fifth to tenth, because of the winning rate, so the chance of entering the top three is slim, the price is higher. Even if you win a bet once, it is a hundred times the odds. ”

Zhou Kong seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and said of course:

"In this way, as long as you buy the highest odds every time, wouldn't you make a profit or lose money?"

"No, all like Mrs. this idea, first of all, the bet on the horse farm can not lose money, deduct the profit of the horse race, the bet of each horse race is unchanged, if the odds are always fixed, the horse farm has to be upside down, so the odds are changing, and the quality of the horse does not determine the odds, the odds are determined by the gamblers who buy gambling tickets, which horse presses more, the lower the odds. Conversely, the colder the horse, the higher the odds. ”

"Isn't this cheating, the odds are adjusted around, how can there be such a gambling reason."

"But this is the fairest, when the total amount of each game is fixed, the dealer horse farm to withdraw the due profit, the rest is the gambler wins or loses and then divides, which is much more reasonable than the dealer to pay for himself. It not only curbs the room for casinos to make huge profits, so that they can participate in gambling within the rules, but also restricts the odds by limiting the amount of each game, so that most people will not be addicted to gambling and seek to get rich overnight. ”

At the beginning of the rise of the gambling industry, Bai Liyan convened Huang Che and other gambling industry bosses to formulate a gambling law to regulate the gambling industry and make it tend to be basically fair and reasonable.

At the same time, the amount and odds of each game are restricted, so that the gamblers will not fluctuate. Although the profit of the bookmaker will be much less than that of traditional gambling, the increase in the size of the gambling industry and the increase in the number of gamblers after the economic improvement will still make the profit very lucrative.

After carefully looking at the afternoon session and the participating horses, Bai Liyan came to the ticket office and paid for ten first-class tickets, unlike other gamblers to buy a horse number or two or three horse numbers, Bai Liyan bought four joint tickets ranging from three to twenty times, that is, each horse race has more than three horse numbers, which has become a joint ticket.

The guy who sold the tickets of those people rolled his eyes at Bailiyan, and couldn't help but slander the rich and noble people in front of him for being stupid and sick, and then looked at Bailiyan's identity Wen Mu was taken aback, and hurriedly got up to apologize:

"Yo, it turned out that the big Si Nong was here, and the little one was rude."

Baili Yan's face did not fluctuate, and he only said lightly:

"Do your business, Ben Hou came in plainclothes today, don't make a noise, don't notify the racecourse, otherwise you will be asked."

"Yes, yes, the little one understands......"

The man made a lot of noise, took out a small seal, flipped to the last square of the identity document and knocked the red seal, and then handed back the identity document with a smile, and he didn't dare to take a breath.

Zhou Kong looked puzzled, stepped forward and hurriedly asked:

"Bet on a horse and also have identity documents?"

"Yes, individual gambling needs to have an identity document, such as the number of times civilians participate in gambling every month, if it is a rich person and a powerful person, go to the government to apply for an identity document will be stamped with different seals at the end of the document to show the difference, so that the rich and powerful have no limit on the amount."

In view of the fact that gambling cannot be banned and there are social harms, it is necessary to impose hierarchical restraint and regulation on individual gambling items.

At present, when going out, all those who go out of the county, whether they are poor or have official status, in principle, need to issue official road guides, identity documents, and even customs clearance documents to the government, but in reality in most cases it is not operable, most of the real use of official vouchers are business travel, and the elite class basically looks at the pomp registration number, and there are indeed not many people who dare to pretend to be the powerful and shout five or six.

Therefore, if the inbound business travelers want to participate in all gambling projects, they can participate in gambling with their identity documents and official routes, while the rich, powerful and commoners of their own country need to go to the government to issue a "seal" with a checkered checkered "seal" and paste it at the end of the identity document and stamp it with a special seal.

The seals of different classes are also different, the seal of civilians is black, and the specific gambling items need to be stamped and stamped, and the full amount will be disqualified from participating in gambling, and they will be re-received next month.

When the farming season is busy, the quota for the common people will be halved to facilitate agricultural farming, but those who abandon the peasants due to gambling will be suspended from gambling for three years as a punishment.

At the beginning of the establishment of the system, the behavior of the majority of people can be regulated, but the law will always lag behind the development of society, and there will always be a small number of people who take advantage of the loopholes in the system to step on the red line to participate in illegal things, and gambling is an activity that can get rich overnight, even more so.

handed over the horses to the guards, and Bai Liyan only brought Wei Qi and other eight guards into the field to watch the game. As soon as the front foot entered the entrance passage, the sound of screaming immediately came from the field was deafening, and Zhou Kong couldn't help frowning and showing a little disgust:

"Isn't it just a bet on a horse, which can cause such a noise."

"Human nature is like this, some people gamble on interest, some people gamble on money, and some people gamble on the future. All in all, in today's world, ordinary people lack a way to make a living, and gambling can bring a way that can change a life. ”

"Aren't you harmful, it's okay to say if you win, but if you lose, you won't be ruined."

"This will not be, the royal family is still rich and noble, and most of the civilians who come to participate in gambling are the people of villages and counties under the rule of Chenling, and their influence is limited. As long as it is supplemented by laws and regulations, even if some commoners will be extremely poor and rich, the number is really limited, and it will not affect the atmosphere.

Let's go, let's get a seat. ”

Even if it is a middle-class commoner, its wealth is higher than that of ordinary peasants outside of Chenling, because the local prices are high, consumption is also high, commerce is developed, the flow of funds is very fast, the local civilian consumption level is much higher, and the harm caused by gambling is also small. Even if the commoners of the villages and counties under the rule of Chenling attract the royal family to gamble, the impact is very limited, and the road of only a hundred miles is enough for ordinary people to toss back and forth for a few days.

First class seats are the best seats in the racecourse, with brick and concrete stands and hard seats, but you need to pay a fee to book tickets, ordinary seats are standing tickets, only a small entrance fee is charged, and the crowd is gathered around the one-foot-thick, half-person-high cement fence four steps outside the racetrack to watch the race. In addition, there are four cement stands one foot higher than the ground for gambling objective games, and the scene is noisy.

From time to time, there are also vendors selling dim sum and snacks pushing carts back and forth, selling all kinds of food to satisfy the hungry appetite of gamblers. Of course, in such a crowded public place, if there are no thieves and pickpockets, it is obviously not tolerated, so you have to be extra careful of your own pockets.

There are two entrances to and from the first-class stands, left and right, and there are full-time thugs in the racecourse to guard the entrances and exits, so as to avoid unnecessary trouble caused by thieves and gangsters.

Of course, if you are familiar, it is actually okay not to buy tickets, after all, the customer is God, and the horse farm is a privately run business after all, and you don't dare to offend the powerful in a rash manner. Sometimes when you encounter a horizontal one, you can only open one eye and close one eye.

At this time, the third Marseille game in the afternoon had just ended, the midfield of the gear was trimmed, and the gamblers in the stands moved frequently, or they had already finished watching a game to exchange gambling funds to continue to buy gambling tickets and bets, or they lost their interest and left, and there were also temporary transfers of drinking water and eating and peeing, and there were many seats vacant in the stands for a while.

"Game 4 is going to start soon, so let's just sit here."

Baili Yanjing pulled Zhou Kong to sit down, and saw a bell tower in the west building of the racecourse, Zhou Kong said in surprise:

"It turns out that there is also a bell tower in the racecourse."

Bailiyan looked at the big bell erected on the rostrum at the west end, and said disapprerovingly:

"Competition, there must always be a fixed one, the sun and the water clock are much different, the mechanical clock is convenient, anyone can see and understand."

While the two were talking, a wrestler on the west rostrum waved a large yellow flag left and right, and the big yellow flag had a capital letter on it, so as to signal that the fourth Marseille was about to begin, and when the third yellow flag was erected, the knight rode into the track, and the salute was used as a call, and the race was started.