Chapter 9: Game Day
From the beginning of the bet between the two, Li Yu and the others in the room all looked at each other with a smile. In fact, they didn't believe that Lin Feng could win at all, and subconsciously, they also hoped that Lin Feng couldn't win. It's just that you are good at writing and smart, and you still want to be both civil and military, so many good things in the world have made you alone? For Li Yu, he has been guided by famous teachers since he was a child, and he is naturally a genius who is proficient in civil and military affairs, and he is also very curious about how many surprises this Lin Feng can show himself.
"It's just that I've been doing well lately, so let's use this to cheer up. Congqian and I will be arbitrators. Li Yu said excitedly.
Li Congqian is only eleven years old, which is the age when he loves to make trouble and love to play, and he finally slipped out of the palace to play once, and when he encountered such a lively thing, of course he refused to let it go: "Good, good, good." I'm going to be an arbitrator! ”
Under the influence of Li Congqian, everyone laughed. There are many rules in the palace, and it is really boring to hold it all day long, and there is excitement to see who is unhappy. Liu Cheng went out angrily to prepare.
Lin Feng bowed deeply to Li Yu: "Your Highness, there are still things I want to ask you below." ”
Li Yu grabbed Lin Feng's hand: "Please sit down and talk in detail." ”
"Please forgive your Highness. Since ancient times, it is true that being a Ming Jun and a saint is beautiful in front of people, but it must be difficult behind it. From major national events to small documents, everything is detailed, and everything has to be considered, and His Royal Highness probably won't have much leisure time. ”
Although Li Yu is a cup emperor, he has left too many miracles in the field of art. He is very intelligent, broad-minded, calligraphy self-created gold wrong knife, placket book and stirrup book three-body, painting, then the main landscape, ink bamboo, feathers, his ink bamboo people called "iron hook lock". Li Yu is also proficient in music and rhythm, not only composing his own songs such as "Nianjia Mountain Qu Po", "Vibranium Bell Qu Po", etc., but also legend has it that he and Zhao Hui Zhou Hou reviewed the remnants of the former Tang Dynasty's "Ni Clothes and Feather Clothes Song". At the same time, he was a rich collector and a good connoisseur. Also, he is very good at poetry and writing, especially his words, which are simply his signature and business card.
Such a person may cheer up a little in a short period of time, but there are many smart people who have no longevity, and after a long time, his nature will inevitably pull him to turn in the direction he loves the most. Therefore, from the very beginning, Lin Feng was not prepared to expect Li Yu to carry the great cause of his family and country alone.
"Oh, how?" Li Yu's eyes widened suddenly. He is indeed not very enthusiastic about the affairs of his family and country, so he can be free and happy by blowing small songs, chanting poems, and drinking a little wine?!
"It's simple. A royal palace or even a country is like a big ship. For a large ship to sail successfully, it must be equipped with professional personnel. You just have to be the captain of the ship and master the course, and leave the following work to someone like me to do, which requires more people and more talents, I think so......" Lin Feng bent down and whispered a few words in Li Yu's ear.
On the 20th day of the third lunar month in 950 AD, it has been called "Happy Day" by many people in the palace since then, because an open, lively bet made the whole palace boil. Of course, since then, more historians have taken this bet as the starting point of Lin Feng's rise in the Southern Tang Dynasty political arena, and identified this date as the starting date of Lin Feng's legend of "shining like a comet in the Tang Dynasty political circles", which is a later story, not to mention for the time being.
It is better to be happy alone than to be happy in all. This is Lin Feng's suggestion that Li Yu make the bet public and entertaining. In fact, what Lin Feng wants is to put all his actions and things in the sun, make things simple and sunny, his ambition needs the support of the broadest masses of the people, if he only relies on the so-called schemes and conspiracies, it can only be a waste of spirit and vain effort.
As a result, the whole bet has been upgraded on a large scale. Li Yu took out ten yuan as a bonus for the winner of each gambling game, and took out the usual money as an additional bonus for the long-distance race, all the guards in the palace can participate, regardless of the results, those who persist to the bottom are all rewarded with consistent money.
However, when Li Congqian rushed to run before the game, as soon as he heard about it, he immediately doubled all the rewards out of his own pocket. Even, Li Congqian also intended to open a gambling game to let everyone indulge in gambling once, but Li Yu glared back with stern eyes and didn't dare to mention it again.
The casino is located in the palace of ten acres of martial arts field, according to Lin Feng's requirements, around the periphery of the martial arts field to draw a large ring-shaped circle, the diameter of the inner circle is 124 meters, just the inner circle is about 400 meters, the width of the runway is set to 5 meters. Four water points were set up along the route to facilitate drinking water for participants. In the shade of the trees in the northeast corner, a simple competition viewing platform is set up. After the viewing platform, the playful and active Li Congqian also instructed the servants to set up a long row of tables and prepare to put fruits and pastries on the table. Later, Li Congqian didn't think the atmosphere was enough, so he asked the servants to place a circle of Datang flags along the runway.
Fresh, fun, happy, these factors make this gambling contract more and more attention, the people in the palace basically rushed early in the morning, some maids and subordinates also cowered and rushed to come, but look around, everyone is discussing excitedly, no one looks at them at all, so they put their minds at ease, and after a while they also began to talk in a low voice.
When Lin Feng appeared in the martial arts arena dressed in Confucian costumes, he was stunned for a moment, isn't this a miniature version of the sports field of future generations and the live version of the ancient costumes of the international competition?!
Lin Feng's residence is the innermost and quietest courtyard in the guest rooms of King Zheng's Mansion. For today's game, he put a lot of effort into it last night. He cut a pair of calf pants below the knee, and a piece of Chinese cedar cut off the front half of the elbow, and made it into a pair of antique breeches with short sleeves. As for the shoes, I chose soft shoes with mille-feuille soles, and if I ran for a long time, any unsuitable shoes would be expanded in the long race.
Therefore, when Lin Feng was led to the martial arts arena by the servants in the guest room dressed in Confucian clothes, few people noticed; When he walked to the front of the stage to bow to Li Yu, a lot of eyes suddenly looked over; When he took off his Confucian clothes outside, revealing a strange sportswear, his muscles looked relatively developed, and at this moment, everyone's eyes looked over.
In the frenzied word-of-mouth transmission, everyone knew that there was a mysterious gentleman in the Daoist Mansion, and no one thought that Lin Feng would show off in front of everyone in such a way.
Lin Feng didn't care, and waved his hand to the onlookers in the mansion with great interest, and almost shouted: "Comrades, good morning!" Seeing this scene, the audience was a little lively. In this era, the boundary between dignity and inferiority is still very obvious, and when I see such a Confucian scholar without a frame, people still feel very intimate and pleasing to the eye. Some people shouted: "Mr. Lin, hello! "Mr. Lin, come on!"