Chapter 161: High Tone - Playing Diao Chan
Jin Liang transferred 10,000 people from Han Hao's Tuntian Corps, all of which were allocated to Tian Chou to raise horses and cattle, sheep and dogs in the pasture. Tian Chou, www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun", recruited more than 100 horse breeders from Youzhou as the chief priests of various ranches to train the 10,000 people on how to raise horses.
Even so, Jin Liang still felt that the horses were not enough to use, so in the name of the cabinet ministers, he issued a document to the whole world to promote horse politics, encouraging all families or poor landlords to plant pasture grass on the edge of their fields, which could not only consolidate the water and soil, but also graze cattle and horses. Jin Liang buys horses from all over the world, and the prices are above the market price.
Many poor landlords choose wasteland such as alfalfa at the foot of the mountain and by the river to plant alfalfa and other pastures, raise dozens or hundreds of horses, and can breed war horses to sell to the army, and the profit will be higher than the field rent, if they can breed good horses, the profit will be much higher than the field rent, but if the cultivation is not good, they have to sell it to homesteaders and the government at a low price for horse-drawn carts, but the profit obtained is also the same as the field rent.For these poor landlords, raising horses does not consume land, the pastures used are barren land, and the initial investment is the breeding fee, because the stallion is too expensive, many ranchers go to the official ranch to breed, although the breeding fee is high, the price is much lower than that of the stallion. Once the cultivation is successful, as long as they carefully follow the booklet issued by the Taifu Cheng, the reproduction rate is very high, and the survival rate is also very high, they can hire the middle and senior priests and veterinarians trained by the Taifu Temple at a high price to guide them.
Five years later, in addition to having more than 200,000 war horses in the government-run pastures, Jin Liang bought more than 100,000 war horses from the folk families and Hanshu landlords, especially more than 70,000 horses raised by the Hanshu landlords.
With so many horses, the fine feed is consumed countless times a year. It's a bottomless pit. It is supported by taxes and income from tuntian. It's too strenuous. Jin Liang remembered the popular horse gambling horses in a free trade port in later generations, although there are often legends about who bet on how much money the horse won, but it is the government that makes more money.
Jin Liang absorbed this successful experience and created a horse racing betting system, preparing to raise horses with horses. First, a racecourse was established in Xiangyang, which was almost completely arranged according to the racecourse of a port, and the stepped grandstand surrounded the race field covering an area of 100 acres, and the grandstand could accommodate more than 10,000 people to stop and watch. At the same time, the personnel of the horse racing division of Taifu Temple are responsible for opening the gambling game. Twice a day, two quarters of an hour before the race, the horses race around the field, allowing bettors to objectively see the competitive state of the participating horses, and then bettors flock to the betting window to place bets according to their own judgment, which lasts until a quarter of an hour before the start of the race. Double the bet is ten coins, but it is also possible to multiple. Ten horses compete in the same field and the first or second horse to reach the finish line can win a prize. The prize amount is based on the total amount of bets, once the underdog wins. The prize is high, and it is even possible to win nearly a million dollars for ten cents. It is this allure of getting rich overnight. It has made many people obsessed with betting on horses to the point of obsession.
In fact, most of the gamblers are to make selfless contributions to the horse politics of the central government and army, which costs money and time and energy, and only a very few people can realize their dream of making a fortune, but the legend of the very few people is enough to stimulate other people to participate in horse gambling frantically. On the first day of the racecourse's opening, Lu Bu rode a red rabbit horse, a blue-maned horse with Dian Wei, a Hua horse from Xu Huang, and seven other generals rode famous horses and raced together. The Son of Heaven, the Queen Mother, Lu Zhi and other princes and ministers all attended the event, and the scene was extremely hot.
Jin Liang did not deliberately create suspense, let the red rabbit horse play, and easily ran to the finish line first.
On the first day of opening, most of the residents of Xiangyang won money, and Taifu Temple lost money, because most of the residents pressed Jin Liang's red rabbit horse, and the red rabbit horse lived up to expectations, and in the days that followed, those residents found that they lost more and won less, but they were already immersed in the crazy gambling atmosphere in the racecourse. Since then, every horse racing day, the rich and magnates, the eunuchs, the citizens of Shengdou, and even passers-by from all over the world have come to feel the crazy atmosphere on the racecourse, and to try their luck. Tian Chou has built hundreds of racecourses throughout the country, with the increasing popularity of horse racing betting throughout the country, the income of horse racing betting is also getting higher and higher, and after stabilization, in addition to paying for pastures and buying horses, the annual treasury is up to billions of dollars.
Jin Liang also created a new type of exciting game, polo, both rapid collision, dodge, and fast horse sprint, the body also needs to cooperate to make a variety of movements, it can be said that the culmination of equestrianism, not only peddling tickets, and setting up gambling games. Polo quickly became popular all over the world, and like the Keju game advocated by Jin Liang, it became the two favorite sports of the Han people.
The prosperity of betting on horses and polo also stimulated the folk horse breeding industry, and later, as long as they could afford to raise horses, they either wanted to breed good racing horses and sell them for money, because a good racing horse was worth millions of dollars, or wanted to practice equestrianism to participate in polo competitions.
Just as Lu Bu and Tian Chou were discussing the matter of Ma Zheng in the Jinliang Mansion, they suddenly heard a commotion outside, and a servant jumped down from a red horse, ran into the study, and shouted loudly: "Young master, a man is pestering Diao Chan girl!" ”
"What?!" Jin Liangteng stood up and said to Tian Chou: "Zitai, I have family matters to deal with, let's discuss the matter of Ma Zheng tomorrow." ”
Tian Chou knew that Jin Liang was a man of temperament, and he put the safety of his family very seriously, so he smiled and said: "The matter of Ma Zheng cannot be rushed, it must be done slowly. ”
Tian Chou continued to stay in the General's Mansion and discussed with Han Hao, the general of the Diannong Zhonglang, about the mutual cooperation between Tuntian and the pasture.
Jin Liang carried the stone dragon knife, stepped on the red rabbit horse, and rode his horse to the main gate of his Zhengnan General's Mansion. Because this Zhengnan General's Mansion was to tear down the courtyard wall of the original house, and merge several surrounding houses into it, covering an area of more than 80 acres, it takes a quarter of an hour to walk by walking, and can only run across the horse.
When I got out of the gate, I saw Diao Chan frowning coldly at a young general in front of him: "Mr. Gao, I have nothing to do with you, why do you bother with it?!" ”
The young military general had a square face and big ears, and under the thick silkworm eyebrows, there were a pair of eyes the size of mung beans, exuding bursts of obscene and obscene light: "This young lady, although I have a wife." But I've been thinking about you since I saw you. You can't be my wife, though. You can be my concubine. ”
"Gao Gan. I'm already married, don't be entangled anymore, if you are entangled again, don't blame me for calling my husband the master! Diao Chan trembled all over his body by Gao Gan's shamelessness, and wanted to say cruel words to scare this person away, but Gao Gan was the eldest son of the Gao family of the Chen Liushi family, and the nephew of Yuan Shao, the former lieutenant of the school, without any scruples.
"If we are together for one night, husband and wife, 100 days! You'll know for sure I'm good! "Gao Gan, although the sperm worm hurts the brain. But he didn't dare to force himself forward, so he had to use words to transfer.
"Shut your dog's mouth, you dare to talk nonsense again, I'll let people tear your dog's mouth apart!" Gao Gan's humiliation made the gentle and lovely Diao Chan can't help but scold.
On this day, she took Yahuan to visit the Central Army garrison, and just returned to the gate of the General's Mansion, when she happened to be seen by a passing senior cadre. Gao Gan hurriedly stepped forward to entangle, trying to persuade Diao Chan to be his concubine, because although his wife Zheng was a beautiful girl, she was really too good-looking. Diao Chan is the first beauty in the world. Although he didn't know the details of Diao Chan, Gao Gan didn't feel that his identity was anything he couldn't take.
Diao Chan saw Gao Gan. I didn't know who he was at all, after all, they hadn't met before, and compared to Jin Liang's handsome and extraordinary appearance, Gao Gan was too good-looking.
"Gao Gan! Go back to your Chenliu, if you dare to harass my woman again, I will definitely kill you!" Jin Liang just listened to Diao Chan's words, and knew the whole truth of the matter, seeing Gao Gan shamelessly harassing Diao Chan, he was furious, and stepped forward, and the stone dragon knife slapped the side, and swept Gao Gan off the horse with a bang.
"Jin Liang, you, oh, it turns out that she married you!" Gao Gan plopped on the ground, got up in embarrassment, and glanced up at Jin Liang, he recognized Jin Liang, and he didn't dare to fight with Jin Liang, because Jin Liang's level of characters could only be contacted by his two uncles, and with his current status, he couldn't compete with Jin Liang.
Gao Gan hurriedly climbed on the horse, slapped the horse and was about to flee, but after a few steps, he suddenly turned the horse around and asked sharply: "General Jin, I remember that your wife is the second daughter of Mr. Cai Yong Cai Da, when did she become Diao Chan?!" Could it be that you take her as a concubine?! ”
"It's a flat wife, not a concubine!" Jin Liang decided that all the women in his future would be equal wives and no longer concubines. It's a pity that Jin Liang's statement is only agreed with by himself, and only within the family agrees with each other, but in the eyes of outsiders, there is no difference between a flat wife and a concubine.
The other five auxiliary ministers of the cabinet are all bad old men, and they don't accept his mention at all, Ma Riyan said bluntly: "Whether it's a flat wife or any other title, it can't change their status, it can't change their status in the eyes of others, they are concubines, no matter what title you give them, it won't help." Xianting, don't think that you can change the patriarchal ethics of the Han Dynasty with the power of one person! ”
What Ma Riyan said seemed to be right, but Jin Liang didn't admit defeat, he started with the title, first from his own attitude, as long as he didn't treat Diao Chan as a concubine, others would not dare to treat them as Jin Liang's concubines.
"Jin Liang, what a flat wife, is a concubine! This beautiful young lady was taken as a concubine by you! I can't swallow this breath! Gao Gan's eyes were round, and he looked majestic, but it was a pity that his eyes were a little bigger.
"Fuck, how is your mother?" Jin Liang saw Gao Gan kicking his nose on his face, laughed angrily, and asked with a hint of evil smile.
"Yes, yes. Is my mother okay, what does it matter to you? Gao Gan asked in surprise.
Dian Wei and the 500 Flying Tiger Army defending the General's Mansion had long known from Jin Liang that words like ",," had a deeper meaning, and after listening to the conversation between Jin Liang and Gao Gan, they couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Fuck, how is your sister?" Jin Liang continued to ask with a smile.
"Well, she's very good. Uh, General Kim, what's the matter with you? How do you greet my mother and my sister? In this era, the Chinese people have not given a deeper connotation to words such as "dry,, engage", Gao Gan's character means the country's talent, and Cao Cao's character means conduct, so Gao Gan doesn't understand why Jin Liang asked, and why Dian Wei and a group of them burst into laughter.
"Fuck, how are your mother and your sister?" Jin Liang continued to ask jokingly.
"You dare to insult my family, I will fight with you!" No matter how stupid Gao Gan is, he can see the implicit meaning of Jin Liang and Dian Wei's group of people squeezing their eyebrows and laughing weirdly, and they lifted their spears and took Jin Liang directly.
Gao Gan's appearance looks obscene. But marksmanship is not obscene. A shot that stabbed out angrily. A few spear flowers were shaken out and bloomed in front of Jin Liang's eyes.
Although Jin Liang has been taking Gao Gan to make fun of it, his eyes have been observing Gao Gan, and he found that this kid has strong muscles and flesh, a strong breath, and his martial arts are not super first-class, and he can barely be regarded as being at the end of the first-class class, treating such a general. It is impossible for Jin Liang to overturn him within one combination, it may be about three combinations, and he was slapped off the horse with a knife just now because Gao Gan was caught off guard.
In the face of Gao Gan's trembling spear, Jin Liang's body was slightly back, and the halberd picked it up, and came to the bottom of the sea to catch the moon, slashing at Gao Gan's spear from the bottom to the top, making a loud bang, it turned out that Gao Gan's spear was also made of mixed iron. With that loud bang. Gao Ganhu's mouth was numb, so he hung his spear and let go. I couldn't help but sigh secretly, this gold is a lot of strength.
The spear was swallowed by the halberd, shook out a long distance, and suddenly went into the air, Gao Gan's shot just now was fierce, once it missed, his body staggered, and he almost fell off the horse.
Jin Liang took advantage of the situation and stabbed Gao Gan's stumbling body along Gao Gan's spear, as if to stab Gao Gan's heart. Gao Gan was so frightened that he hurriedly came to hide in a stirrup and dodged Jin Liang's fatal blow. Jin Liang's attack is dense, one move is empty, and it quickly changes its moves, and each move changes naturally, without a trace of flaw. The stone dragon knife ran as good as it could in Jin Liang's palm, and once it was shot in the air and withdrawn, it took advantage of the situation to stab the barb of the big knife against Gao Gan's gun, snorted hard, and then pulled hard.
Gao Gan was hiding in the stirrups, the spear couldn't be grasped at all, and Jin Liang snorted hard, the tiger's mouth cracked, Jin Liang pulled it hard, and Gao Gan watched the big gun fly sideways towards Jin Liang.
Jin Liang stretched out his hand and grabbed the spear, slammed it on the ground, and then clamped the belly of the red rabbit horse with his legs, the red rabbit horse suddenly turned Gao Gan's horse head, Jin Liang's big knife waved, and the stone dragon knife pressed Gao Gan, who had just sat firmly on the horse, and the sharp halberd tip was only an inch away from Gao Gan's throat.
Gao Gan opened his eyes and roared: "My uncle is an ally with you, you can't kill me!" ”
Jin Liang said coldly: "I'll try, kill you, will Yuan Shao break the alliance with me?!" As he spoke, he pushed the tip of his knife forward.
"Uncle, help!" Gao Gan shouted in frustration.
"Where is your uncle?" Lu Bu hadn't seen Yuan Shao's figure for the past two days, and thought that he had returned to Runan with the edict of appointment, but later learned that the guy was still hanging around in the inn where the heads of those families lived in Jingzhou, hoping to recruit more talents to return to Runan with him.
"Xianting, keep people under the knife!" Before Gao Gan could answer, Jin Liang heard Yuan Shao's voice in the distance.
The big matter of discussing Dong was imminent, but Jin Liang still didn't want to offend Yuan Shao for this kind of thing, so he stopped the stone dragon knife and looked into the distance.
Yuan Shao hurriedly rode his horse and rushed over, and Yan Liangwen followed behind him. It turned out that Gao Gan came from Chen this time, that is, he followed the orders of Yuan Shao's strategist Guo Tu and others, and came to answer Yuan Shao, when Gao Gan was pestering Diao Chan, one of Gao Gan's family generals saw that this was Jin Liang's mansion, and he was afraid that the butcher Jin Liang was not good for the little master, so he hurriedly rushed to tell Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao knew that Jin Liang was willing to kill any hostile man for the woman he loved, so he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly urged the horse over, and watched Jin Liang's knife tip deliver to Gao Gan's throat from a distance, Yuan Shao loved this nephew very much, and treated him the same as his sons Yuan Tan, Yuan Shang, and Yuan Xi, and didn't want him to make any mistakes, so he hurriedly shouted loudly: "Xianting, keep people under the halberd!" ”
When Yuan Shao approached, Jin Liang shouted loudly: "Yuan Benchu, your nephew actually molested my beloved wife, what do you say?" ”
"Bastard, don't you know that this is the residence of the Cabinet Auxiliary Minister, the Captain of the Division, and the General of Zhengnan, General Jin Liang? How dare you go wild here! Yuan Shao stepped forward, waved his horsewhip and whipped Gao Gan a few times.
Jin Liang watched coldly, he had seen a lot of Yuan Shao's tricks in his previous life, if many children offended those whose parents could not afford to offend, those parents first pretended to punish their children, hoping that those who could not afford to offend could be punished lightly for the sake of their own strict discipline, in fact, if their children bullied those children from poor families, most of them were protective and connived.
Gao Gan screamed in pain: "Uncle, you don't know, I wanted to marry this woman, but I was taken as a concubine by Jin Liangna, and I can't swallow this breath of nephew!" ”
"Oh, I see." Yuan Shao put away the horsewhip, urged the horse to take a few steps forward, and said with a smile on his face: "Brother Xianting, why do you want to make a big deal about my nephew for a concubine, it's better to look at my face and return my nephew's wife who has never passed the door to him, if you are really reluctant to give this beauty to Brother Xianting, I will send ten beauties to you tomorrow!" ”
"Bastard! Yuan Shaopifu, don't dream. I was born a member of the Jin family, and I died as a ghost of the Jin family, and I still wanted to marry me back, wishful thinking! Diao Chan scolded angrily.
"You mother-in-law, you actually insult my father-in-law!" Yan Liang waved his big knife and immediately stepped forward to kill Diao Chan.
With a bang, Yan Liang's fiercely chopped big knife was blocked by a black big knife, Yan Liang was shocked by the powerful energy gushing out of the big knife, and even people took Ma Tengteng back a few steps, and hurriedly fixed his eyes to see the owner of the big halberd. (To be continued.) )