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Under the new concept proposed by Zhao Wuxian and Zigong, the nobles of Cao State, the great merchants, and even the sons and grandsons of other countries organized one or even several Keju teams and participating chariots, and they participated in the annual "league", which was divided into two levels, A and B, and horse racing was divided into two types: four-horse and two-horse driving.

Zhuang Zigong introduced to everyone: "In addition to spring sowing and autumn sowing, summer harvest and autumn harvest, as well as some special days, such as the funeral of Dr. Qing, or the death of someone from the clan, the two leagues had to be suspended for a few days. For most of the past year, Keju and racing have been the most attractive competitions for Chinese people. ”

The horse racing that Wuxian was looking forward to suffered the loss of the times and did not improve for a long time, which was the only miscalculation he had.

Because the private servants of the aristocratic family can start training Keju by pulling a piece, and they can compete in a few months, but it is just a matter of whether they look good or not. In the case of racing cars, the family has its own horses and chariots, but there are very few people who can participate in the race on horseback.

Yesterday, after watching a horse race with only a few people, Zigong's suggestion made Wuxian cry and laugh: "If Si Kou rides Rongdi's Jinyang alone in Domado, or Beiyan starts this business, it may be better......"

So Wuxian could only admit it: "Okay, let's stop this business first, you can't bring Cao Bo's hunting light cavalry, or the light knights in the martial arts to compete." ”

In history, in just over a hundred years, the horse racing industry will rise in Qi State, which is why there is an eternal story of "Tianji Horse Racing". So the shirtless also began to worry. If the crooked attack is right, the Qi State will rise up the custom of riding alone and riding a horse in advance, creating a difficult cavalry opponent. It's not beautiful, so let's stop.

Anyway, the original intention of Zhao Wuxian to hold the horse race was to collect excellent horse breeds. In the process of racing, Zigong will also observe and buy excellent horses from various countries, and the effect is the same. With the expansion of the territory, the plan to raise war horses and breed has to be put on the agenda, which is a decades-long or hundred-year work, and it is better to start as soon as possible.

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On the west side of the arena is the entrance for the contestants and referees, and the two chariots that participated in the race have entered the stall in advance, and the bell rings when the race begins. The fence in front of the fence opens in unison, and then the riders drive the cars out of the fence.

Amid a burst of cheers, the five cars that participated in the race performed their own tricks on the track, covered with coal residues and paved with sand and dirt. The horses galloped like lightning to the sound of whips, and in an instant a distance of a hundred and ten paces passed in a flash.

Zigong was explaining the rules of racing to Yan Yan and the others, while Zhao Wuxian straightened up and looked. He saw two tall brown Donglai horses, pulling a bamboo light cart with the number "four" in the lead. Leaving the other cars far behind, it looked like a posture of winning the championship in one fell swoop, but the surrounding Cao Guo audience let out bursts of cheering boos.

Wuxian asked, "Whose carriage is that?" So unpopular. ”

Zigong was extremely familiar with this competition, and after taking a look, he said, "That's the racing car of a small sect of the Chen clan of Qi Kingdom. The owner of the car is a young man named Chen Pingzhong, Qi is the only one who is willing to cooperate with me, Si Kou should have met last time. The reason for the applause. Probably because they modified the car this time, which made Cao Ren dissatisfied. ”

Zhao Wuxian nodded. He shook his head helplessly: "It's still the wit of the Qi people, and the other chariots are all original hardwoods." It was heavy, but they improved the structure of the car to make it lighter. It seems that the rules of the competition still have to be refined, otherwise they will definitely be imitated in the future......"

Zigong apologized: "It's careless, but the whole game has to go around the field for six weeks, and a week and a half miles long." If you run too fast at the beginning, you will slow down later, and the physical strength of Donglaima in Qi is not good, so although the people of Qi have played a slippery head, the victory or defeat is still unknown. ”

As if to confirm Zigong's words, after three laps, the brown Qi carriage, which was far ahead before, gradually slowed down, and the distance between the cars, which was originally dozens of paces, was also reduced by half in the blink of an eye, and what followed him was a black and red horse of different colors, pulling the carriage marked two.

Amid the cheers of thousands of people in the stands, the No. 2 carriage had already caught up with the Qi people's car and quickly overtook several paces. With only half a lap left, the horsepower of carriage No. 4 has declined, and the winner has been decided.

"That's the carriage of Cao Guoda's ......"

Zigong finished speaking, looked sideways, and saluted the great Sicheng of Cao Guo, who was proudly holding his beard, to congratulate him.

After taking a lot of benefits from Wuxian and Zigong, Lord Sicheng, the ruling Sicheng of Cao State, is now the biggest supporter of the arena. He is already old, I am afraid that he will not stay in this position for a few years, and for the status of Qing, money and face are very important, so his family's racing car is the best Xianyu horse and substitute horse in the world.

If he can win, not only will the emperor have a considerable bonus, but the value of the horse will also be doubled, and Dasicheng can get a share of the prize, and at the same time, his prestige among the countrymen can overshadow his colleagues.

However, just when everyone thought that the victory was decided, a roar suddenly erupted in the arena like a landslide, and five thousand people came out in unison, dragging out the neighing of the horses.

Before Wuxian looked back, he heard Yan Yan and Kan Zhi shouting in unison: "Those two cars collided together!" ”

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This is the fun part of the race, and there are always accidents, and at the last corner, the hubs of the wheels of carriages No. 2 and No. 4 were mixed together and stopped at a distance of only 100 paces from the finish line.

The opportunity was fleeting, so it was the unexpected one who won the game in the end. The horse tickets for betting on horses in the stands fell to the ground, and the people of the country scolded, and no one expected this result.

But those who know how to think about it will understand, unexpected, but it is also reasonable, because it is two snow-white horses driving the car.

As long as the entire arena was a person who knew horses, there was an uproar.

"It's a horse!"

Pulling the cart were two young horses, who were too young to be favored. But they ran the whole distance without breathing, narrowing the gap with their opponents. And took the opportunity to complete the sprint.

The owner of the car is Gongzi Ke from the Tang Kingdom, and he is now saluting Cao Bo, Zhao Wuxian, and Wu Guoren from afar on a seat on the side. Wu people learned of his identity years later. also under the leadership of Qu Wuji, he got up collectively and returned a salute.

Horses. Zhao Wuxian smiled, the Tang Kingdom is gone, and the son of the Tang Kingdom can be exiled to Taoyi, which is indeed the pot of the Wu people.

Tang was one of the "Hanyang Princesses", and in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, it became a vassal state under the coercion of Chu, equivalent to a vassal. The horse is a unique and cherished horse breed in the mountainous area of the Tang Kingdom, and the name is cloudy, and the horse color is like frost. This kind of horse is very protective of the owner, and the endurance is amazing, and it is regarded as a national treasure by the Tang people.

At that time, Yin Zichang, the commander of the Chu State, was one of Wu Zixu's enemies, and he coveted this horse. He was detained when Tang Chenggong was in charge of Chu, claiming that he had to give him a few horses as he did to the king of Chu before he could be released. Tang Chenggong did not comply, so he was imprisoned for several years, and in the end, the doctors in Tang couldn't stand it. secretly disobeyed the king's order and sacrificed the horse to Zichang, so that the monarch could be redeemed.

Since then, Tang Chenggong hated Chu Guo and Zichang, so five years ago, he was with Cai Hou, who had a similar experience. Together with the state of Wu to attack Chu, they led the way well, and the Wu division conquered the capital of Chu Yingcheng in one fell swoop. avenged Tang Hou.

But the emaciated camel crushed the horse, and in the second year. The state of Chu moved troops from the state of Qin to rescue troops, and Zipu, Zihu, Ziqi and others led tens of thousands of coalition troops. The chariot was 500 times, and after the defeat of the Wu army, it attacked the Tang army in Caiyang. In July four years ago, the Qin-Chu coalition besieged the capital of the Tang State, and Tang Chenggong was killed in battle, and the Tang Dynasty was destroyed.

Although the prince of the Tang Kingdom, Ke, escaped alive, he had no motherland, so he could only go from prince to prince, and only came to Taoqiu last year. I didn't expect him to have a few horses in his hand, and today he really didn't make a sound, and it was a blockbuster.

Therefore, even Zigong, who has mastered most of the information resources in advance, cannot guess the outcome of the game at all.

On the loser's side, Chen Pingzhong of Qi Guo in the stands opposite smiled in return, while Cao Guoda's face was a little unhappy.

But the result is not much different for the operator, it's just a matter of earning more and earning less, Zhao Wuxian once said a serious word to Zigong based on several painful experiences in his previous life.

"You know, the dealer can't lose in the casino!"

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At the end of the game, the following emperor led the horses to stand in a row, today is a special game, so the treatment is like the league final, printed with the carriage of gold, silver, bronze, this is the prize of the championship and the second season.

After the racing, there is a relaxing entertainment show, first with a superride, similar to the equestrian acrobatics of later generations. Then a group of advocates came up and walked around, causing the audience to laugh, and Wu Guoren was also amused.

Taking advantage of this gap, Zigong also whispered to Zhao Wuxian to calculate an account:

"For ordinary Chinese people in Taoyi, spending a day here, as long as they don't gamble, tickets and lottery heads are counted together, which is the money for a meal. The extravagant place provided new amusements, so it was not a problem for the young men of the aristocracy to soak here every day, and the children of the rich families to come four or five times a month, and the children of the middle families to come two or three times a month. When it comes to racing and Kemari race days, the place fills up, so the humble school field, which previously could only accommodate 2,000 people, could not meet the demand, so a new arena was built. ”

The shops and land here were "given" to Zhao Wuxian by Cao Bo at the beginning, and now the price has increased nearly 100 times. It can be said that after the construction of the arena, the barren land that was once barren and had to be reduced for farming suddenly became a big gold mine. Although Cao Bo was also red-eyed, he couldn't help but forcibly retract and sell under Zigong's suggestion of "don't kill chickens and take chickens".

After making profits from many parties, although it has been established for less than a year, Zigong, the "Wei Jia", has already caught up with Qi and Zheng in Taoqiu's power and financial resources. Just as Zhao Wuxian gained a firm foothold in the west of the Lu State, Zigong also took root in Taoqiu, and all parties were well organized, and he was not as embarrassed as being controlled by others a year ago, and was even bribed by a competitor to be placed under house arrest in the Cao State officials!

Now, the rest of Zhao Wuxian's industries are also preparing to enter the Taoqiu market, so that Zigong can compete with the Qi Zheng merchants, especially the Chen merchants!

Of course, all this is also indispensable to the Wu people around them, the nobles of the Wu Kingdom who came from the north are not less than throwing money and silk here, Wuxian is to look at these Wu people with the mentality of killing big households, they are the future suppliers of copper, tin, leather and other raw materials in the eyes of Wuxian.

In addition to metallurgy and shipbuilding, Wudi's handicraft industry is relatively backward, five years ago in the Battle of Breaking Ying, the Chu people have been robbing the property accumulated for hundreds of years, bronze, gold and silver have to be pulled by carts, as long as the market is opened, they can also become Zhao Wuxian's money and silk porters.

After the performance, it was another major event, Keju, which was designed by Zhao Wuxian and managed by Zigong to play a similar format to the football league of later generations. It's a pity that now Cao Guolian's office and the Gongzu Keju team have only formed more than ten teams, which is barely enough to play in the two leagues of division A and division. And the formation of each team is still short, the level is uneven, last year's league, it was Zhao Wuxian left that the Wushu Juju team won the championship without suspense.

Zigong said: "As far as I know, there are more than a dozen ministers, businessmen, and foreign sons and sons who have funded the formation of the Keju team, and by the time they wait until next year, they will definitely increase a lot." ”

Wuxian nodded, Keju was as lively as ever, and the confrontation was fierce. In the end, the people couldn't sit still, standing in the stands and shouting at the stadium. Even the Wu people on the main seat gradually joined the wave, and Qu Wuji also said that he would also form his own Keju team in the future and send Taoqiu to compete.

As for the matter of racing, Qu Wuji didn't mention it, although it was his ancestor Wuchen who taught the people of Wu to drive and fight, but now Wu still has few horses, and the proportion of chariot soldiers in the army is extremely low. Besides, if Sun Wuzi knew that Qu Wuji would take precious military supplies, horses, and chariots for fun, he would not be allowed to be dealt with by military law......

Now the influence of extravagance has gone beyond Cao and affected neighboring countries, along with various competitive sports. After the arena is built, this speed will be accelerated, and perhaps in another five or ten years, Zhao Wuxian will be able to organize the vassal states together and hold an oriental version of the Olympic Games......

At this point, today's trip is coming to an end, and during the whole process, Yan Yan pays more attention to his own image, just watching with a smile, and has to help others translate a few sentences from time to time.

On the other hand, the crucian carp on the side is more unique, I don't know if he doesn't understand or doesn't understand the rules, he seems bored, scratching his ears and cheeks. When Keju was over, he began to pull Yan Yan, insisting that he translate some words and say that he would listen to Zhao Wuxian.

"Doctor Lu Guo's little Si Kou, the fun in this arena seems to be lively, but it's actually boring, can you add some interesting, bloody fun?"

Wuxian muttered: "Boyu refers to cockfighting, dog fighting, and horning? ”

As if he smelled blood, he licked his lips, patted the short sword on his waist and said, "Fei Ye, these are too ordinary, what I'm talking about is the game of killing with weapons in the arena and resting to the death." Or a single or several people with swords, let them fight with fierce beasts, okay? ”

Zhao Wuxian was stunned, isn't this the gladiatorial battle between Greece and Rome in the West?

His face suddenly darkened. (To be continued......)

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