Early in the morning, Li Hong drank bird's nest porridge, put on casual clothes under the service of Zhao Hong's skirt, and hurriedly left the Cheng'en Palace. {When he came to the Chongjiao Hall, Chen Gong and the thirty guards had been waiting for him for a long time in civilian clothes.}

"Let's go!" Li Hong said, and strode out of the East Palace.

Today he is going out of the palace to play, not to the green onion noodle restaurant in Yanshoufang, but to prepare to go to Cheng Dazhi's gladiatorial arena. Because today is the opening day of Cheng Dazhi's dog fighting ring, gladiatorial arena and polo field. Li Hong didn't have much interest in dog fighting, as for polo, he didn't play much because of his weak body before, but he longed for this kind of extremely bloody sport, but today he is not going to go to the polo field, the place he really wants to go is the gladiatorial arena. And to open a gladiatorial arena in Chang'an City, Li Hong was thoughtful, he felt that this might not be a good thing, but for the current people of Chang'an, such a way of entertainment must be available, otherwise a group of bloodless people, how can they have aggressive ambitions?

The Han nation, since ancient times, has been too modest and pays too much attention to its own discipline, so it is necessary to die by name and suffer crimes, and would rather starve to death than send food to the leading country, but in the end it is still not a good one. You don't see the rice country of the future generations, fighting everywhere, bullying small countries, not to mention the festival, those small countries still have a shy face to praise their stinky feet? Therefore, in Li Hong's view, as the future prince of the Tang Dynasty, he does not allow this kind of thinking to exist, and if you want to be kind to the surrounding small countries, the premise is that you have to hit it with blessings and sincerely recognize your overlordship, so that he can be grateful for your kindness. Of course, the premise is that the people of his own country can eat and drink warmly, otherwise he will starve to death the people under his rule to give grace to the country, and he will not be able to do such a thing.

Leaving the East Palace, not long after riding a horse, he came to Cheng Dazhi's gladiatorial arena. At this time, it was still morning, so there were very few people near the gladiatorial arena, and everyone didn't pay much attention to Li Hong, which was also the reason why Li Hong came early in the morning.

"See Your Highness!" Seeing Li Hong, everyone waiting at the door hurriedly bowed down and saluted, except for Xue Yan, who was training soldiers in the valley outside the city, Qin Zhan and Wei Chi Xunyan had all arrived, in addition to Cheng Dazhi and the leaders of the Axe Gang.

"Let's go in and talk about it." Li Hong said, and walked into the gladiatorial arena under the support of everyone.

The courtyard is large, with a gladiatorial arena in the front, a training ground in the middle, a place dedicated to the training of gladiators, and a core residential area in the back.

Cheng Dazhi invited Li Hong to a study in the backyard, and after everyone was seated, Li Hong moved his gaze to Wei Chi Xunyan and asked, "Is there any progress in monitoring the Nine Tribulations in the past few days?" ”

"Nine tribulations went to the Great Mercy and Grace Temple again, but I didn't find anything suspicious other than that." Wei Chi Xunyan frowned and said, if it goes on like this, it is not a way.

"Is there really no way to deal with him?" Chen Gong opened his mouth and said that he had been to the Great Solemn Temple with Li Hong, and he had seen the faces of the Nine Difficulties, and he was very angry at the arrogant appearance of the Nine Difficulties in front of Li Hong.

"What do you think?" Li Hong asked Wei Chi Xunyan that as an intelligence chief, Wei Chi Xunyan's opinion was very important.

"If you go back to Your Highness, I'm afraid you will have to take extraordinary measures this time." Wei Chi Xunyan replied, "It's not a way to keep monitoring like this, and maybe the enemy will be let go because of this." ”

Li Hong thought for a while and asked, "How about the martial arts of the Nine Tribulations?" Do you have any difficulty trying to capture him alive? ”

"Nine Difficulties is definitely a master, but as long as the minister and Qin Zhan make a move, it is not difficult to restrain him." Wei Chi Xun thought about it for a while and said, although the martial arts of the Nine Tribulations are good, but he was born in a Jiangmen family, and the martial arts of him and Qin Zhan are not inferior to the Nine Tribulations, if the two of them join forces to deal with the Nine Tribulations, it will not be difficult to capture the Nine Tribulations alive.

Li Hong nodded slightly, and said in a deep voice, "It's not difficult to catch him, but the difficult thing is how to get what we want from his mouth." ”

Wei Chi Xunyan understood His Royal Highness the Prince's worries, so he said with certainty, "Your Highness don't worry about this, the minister believes that Zhou Xing has this ability." ”

Seeing Wei Chi Xunyan's confident appearance, Li Hong's expectations for Zhou Xing became even stronger, so he pondered for a moment and replied, "Okay, this matter is settled, next time you go to the Great Ci'en Temple in the Nine Difficulties, you will capture him alive and then hand him over to Zhou Xing to deal with." ”

"No!" Wei Chi Xunyan and Qin Zhan led the order.

"How's the preparation for today's duel?" After solving the problem of the nine difficulties, Li Hong moved his gaze to Cheng Dazhi and asked.

Cheng Dazhi said confidently, "Your Highness, please rest assured, everything is ready and will not disappoint Your Highness." ”

"What is the strength of the dueling people?" Li Hong asked. Whether the duel competition is exciting or not, it depends on the players, the first time it is held, it is a slave duel, he is really afraid that Cheng Dazhi will find a few parallel goods to appear, so that the performance on the first day will be smashed, who will come to see it again.

"There are a total of sixteen slaves to participate, and the minister divides them into blue and red, with eight members on each side, and the strength is high and low, but the minister has arranged a strong man on each side, and there will be no major problems in the exciting aspect of the duel." Cheng Dazhi said that he still has a lot of confidence in Sangran and Barrant, because these two people are not only physically strong, but also veterans of a hundred battles in their respective countries, so that the gladiator who has been tempered by life and death will definitely make the duel more exciting.

"Is the market open?" Li Hong asked again.

Wasn't another purpose of his gladiatorial arena to make money by opening gambling plates? Otherwise, why do you work so hard? And he not only wants to make money from the children of rich families in Datang, but also wants to earn money from foreigners living in Datang. Because the gladiators participating in the competition are all foreign efforts, he believes that when the competition is popular, it will definitely attract the attention of these foreigners, and if they participate in it, it will be the most profitable time for the gladiatorial arena.

"It's already opened, don't dare to win or lose between blue and red, we won't lose money." Cheng Dazhi said.

"Yes, that's fine." Li Hong nodded slightly, he didn't think about giving Cheng Dazhi any more advice, since he was fully entrusted with Cheng Dazhi's responsibility, he didn't want to get involved anymore, and was ready to give power to Cheng Dazhi.

Immediately, Li Hong chatted with Cheng Dazhi and Wei Chi Xunyan for a while, and saw that the time was up, this was the time for the gladiatorial arena to open, and Cheng Dazhi still had a lot of things to do, so Li Hong let Cheng Dazhi leave. Then Wei Chi Xunyan and Qin Zhan also left the study, because they gave Li Hong some time to be clear.

After Wei Chi Xunyan and Qin Zhan left, Li Hong sat on the chair in the study and pondered for a while, and suddenly, he thought of something and began to write on rice paper.

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At noon, after lunch, an hour later, the gladiatorial arena competition began.

Li Hong came to the gladiatorial arena and found that the design of the gladiatorial arena was no different from the gladiatorial arena in the Roman period, the venue was in the center, surrounded by a circle, and a lot of seats were set up on the high platform around the venue, which was for the audience who bought tickets, and it could accommodate about 1,000 people, and the box set up in the best place of sight was specially prepared for the princes and nobles, and there were four men in the gladiatorial arena, obviously two were reserved for gladiators to enter and exit, and the other two were reserved for managers.

Li Hong's private room has the highest line of sight, and the setting is also the most luxurious, in addition to the security and confidentiality is also the strongest, in this private room, only he can see the people outside, and the people outside can't see him clearly. He sat on a chair in the private room, and when he looked out, he found that the gladiatorial arena of more than 1,000 people was full, and even the luxurious private room was full of people.

"There are a lot of people here today!" Li Hong said with emotion, seeing that there were so many people watching the game on the first day, he also saw how many idle people there were in Chang'an City.

"Your Highness, there are many children of rich families among the people who came today, but there are not many ordinary people." Cheng Dazhi explained on the side.

"It's all rich kids down here?" Li Hong asked in surprise, "Why is this?" ”

"More than half of them are children from rich families, and they came from the dog ring next door to place bets because we opened a gambling market." Cheng Dazhi said, "Many of them like dog fighting, and when the dog fighting ring opened in the morning, they were already gambling crazy. Today, there are 300,000 wagers in the dog ring, and we have made about 30,000 kan. ”

Hearing this number, Li Hong was also surprised, just in a short morning, the dog fighting ring earned 30,000 copper coins, this kind of money is too fast!

"How many people bet on this duel, and how much money is there?" Li Hong suppressed the joy in his heart and asked.

"There are more than 300 people participating in the bets, and the bet amount is 800,000 yuan, and we can earn 80,000 copper coins from it." Cheng Dazhi said, seeing that Li Hong was surprised, he explained, "However, the gladiators in the gladiatorial arena are more expensive than dogs, it is not easy to train, and the cost is relatively high, so the net profit of the dog arena can earn 30,000 yuan a day, although the gladiatorial arena has a lot of gambling money and a lot of money, but the net profit is only 30,000 or 40,000 yuan." ”

He is not ambiguous about how much money he makes.

Being able to earn 60,000 or 70,000 copper coins a day is really amazing, because this is only the money earned in one day, if you make it every day, how much money do you have to earn in a year? However, if you think about it carefully, Li Hong will be clear, this is because of freshness, everyone will come to play, if the time is long, the freshness has passed, the profit of the day has stabilized, and it is estimated that it will be very good to earn thirty or forty thousand.

But even if you make 30,000 or 40,000 copper coins a day, this speed of making money is crazy... Thinking of this, Li Hong smiled, because he found that as long as the gladiatorial arena and dog fighting ring could make money like this, he would open the Imperial Bank in August, and he would not be afraid of being hit by the big family, because he could afford to lose!