167.Chapter 167: Mounted Archery Competition
Although Li Tai, the king of Wei, did not accept the royal bookstore, he was still well aware of the influence of the royal bookstore on the powerful if it was successful. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
He is a person who has the heart to compete for the world, and if he becomes emperor one day, he naturally hopes that the Royal Bookstore can restrain the powerful and the family, so at this time, he must help support the Royal Bookstore.
And he believed that not only would he King Wei send someone to the Royal Bookstore to buy thread-bound books, but even the crown prince Li Chengqian and King Wu Li Ke would buy them, and if anyone gave up the Royal Bookstore to buy books in other bookstores, although it would not have any impact for a while, it could reach the ears of his father, and his father's favor for that person would naturally decline.
He was confident that few of his brothers were stupid, and even if they were, wouldn't they have some clever strategists around them?
Since everyone is going to buy it, he Wei King Li Tai doesn't have to worry about offending the powerful because of this, and as far as he knows, now the powerful and the family are vying to buy it, and they still have the heart to care if he King Wei buys it?
Li Tai didn't say these reasons and reasons, he didn't need to say them, as his subordinate, he just had to do what he was told.
And his subordinates were also very smart, and after Li Tai, the king of Wei, gave such an order, he immediately took the order to retreat.
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Wire-bound books swept Chang'an City, and the Royal Bookstore relied on this turmoil to make a lot of money, and it was not until other bookstores also launched wire-bound books that the Royal Bookstore faded from the limelight.
However, because of the booming business before, the business of the Royal Bookstore after the introduction of wire-bound books in other bookstores is still better than that of other bookstores, and with fame, naturally people come to patronize the business.
And in comparison, the decoration of the Royal Bookstore thread-bound books is more beautiful and beautiful.
And when the trend of online book binding gradually receded, the hottest discussion in Chang'an City was the riding and archery competition held at the Royal Ranch six days later.
Every year, the riding and archery competition is participated in by some of the powerful sons of the family who are very popular in Chang'an City, although they are from famous families and scholars, but the Tang Dynasty established the country with martial arts and immediately won the world, so many sons of the family have been trained in riding and archery.
In addition to the simple competition, the riding and archery competition also has the meaning of the imperial court selecting talents from it, so the participants must be people who can have shade, so who else can these people have except these powerful sons?
And before the annual riding and archery competition, the most discussed thing in Chang'an City is that the son of the family is going to participate in the competition, and whose son has got a batch of good horses, of course, there are also some good people who break their legs while riding a horse and cannot participate in the competition for various reasons.
Although the popularity of the riding and archery competition lasted for a short time, in such a short period of time, the people of the capital got a lot of fun and talking points from it.
Of course, the most anticipated of the annual riding and archery competition is in addition to the day's competition, there are also bets on the major casinos, before the start of the annual riding and archery competition, the major casinos in Chang'an City will bet on some popular players, and with the situation of these players and constantly changing, until the start of the game will end the betting, waiting for the results.
Gambling is not a thing supported by the imperial court, but the annual cavalry archery competition is allowed and even supported by the imperial court, and the reason is very simple, the Tang Dynasty has been fighting in the south and the north in recent years, and it needs a lot of military funds, and it is naturally a little stretched thin only by the taxes paid by the people and businessmen, so the annual cavalry and archery competition has become the best time for the imperial court to collect money.
According to the regulations of the imperial court, half of the profits of each casino must be handed over to the imperial court, and after the end of the riding and archery competition, the casino is not allowed to engage in large-scale gambling.
Most of the participants in the competition are some powerful people and sons of families, so in order to show their support for them, friends and relatives of these powerful people and sons of families have to go to the gambling house to bet.
And at this time of year, those families and powerful sons will also compete for the support of their friends, because the more people who support them, the higher their morale will be, and the more they will be able to hit their opponents.
Therefore, before dusk on this day, Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaidao, who had already confirmed their participation in this year's riding archery competition, came directly to Tang Hou's Mansion to seek Tang Zhou's support.
"Brother Tang, I am very good at riding and shooting, you go to the gambling house to bet on me to win, I promise to make you multiply it several times, don't you know, my father chose a good BMW for me, and it is not a problem to win the championship easily."
"Is the second lady very strict about money? If you don't have any money, I'll lend you a little first, as long as you support me, with your reputation in Chang'an City, you will definitely be able to attract a lot of support for me. ”
Cheng Chumo was so faceless and skinless in front of Tang Zhou to support, but Qin Huaidao, sitting on the sidelines and just watching Cheng Chumo beg Tang Zhou, Tang Zhou is not a person who likes to gamble, he doesn't know what riding and archery is, he only occasionally rides a horse, but he doesn't dare to run too fast.
Now Cheng Chumo asked him to come forward to support, for a while he was really a little embarrassed, don't support it, friends should be sad, support it, and violate the original intention, just when Tang Zhou felt embarrassed, Qin Huaidao suddenly stood up and said with a smile: "Brother Tang, if you don't support Brother Cheng today, I'm afraid it will be difficult to clean up your ears, in fact, what Brother Cheng wants is just to borrow your fame to get more support, it doesn't hurt if you bring a few dollars to the gambling house to support him." ”
As soon as Qin Huaidao said this, Cheng Chu responded silently: "Yes, yes, it's just a few pieces of money, Brother Tang shouldn't care, right?" ”
Hearing Qin Huaidao and Cheng Chumo say this, Tang Zhou really wanted to spray them in the face, a few times is not money? A few times a lot of money can make a family of three eat for a few months, how can a few times a lot of money not be money in the eyes of these powerful children?
"Brother Tang, please, go and support it......" Seeing that Tang Zhou was still a little hesitant, Cheng Chumo actually lied coquettishly in front of Tang Zhou, that look was really ...... How disgusting and disgusting it is.
And when Tang Zhou saw Cheng Chumo's disgusting appearance, he finally made a decision, he would rather throw a few pieces of money to Cheng Chumo than see his disgusting coquettish appearance.
"Let's go, let's go to the gambling house."
Tang Zhou didn't want to look at a big man with a beard on his face to be shy, so after he finished speaking, he immediately asked Xia Fan to lead Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaidao with the silver to the Silver Hook Gambling House in Chang'an City.
And Cheng Chumo was overjoyed when he saw that Tang Zhou agreed to support him, and he turned his head to show off to Qin Huaidao, but when he turned his head, he saw Qin Huaidao looking retching.
At that moment, Cheng Chumo felt a little messy, as if there was a faint sadness floating in the wind.