The participants of the county horse race are all famous and wealthy merchants in the county, although many officials also have a hobby of raising horses, but due to the meager income, the horses in their hands are certainly not as good as the horses in the hands of the merchants.

Although there are also merchants who quietly give some valuable horses, this kind of thing cannot be put on the surface, after all, it is no different from bribery.

Therefore, the county horse racing club is basically the world of the merchants, and in order to win the horse race, so as to go to the royal capital to show their faces in front of the king of Yizhou, the merchants did not hesitate to spend a lot of money, and the horses that can be brought to the competition are at least five or six hundred taels of silver war horse level, and more worth a thousand taels of good horses.

Fang Ling and the three of them followed Cao Yaode into the county government, and they also met many participating businessmen along the way, although everyone was an opponent, they still looked kind on the surface.

Many people noticed Song Ying'er, and one by one they couldn't help but ask Cao Yaode curiously, Cao Yaode waited for the opportunity to introduce Fang Ling, let him mix a familiar face, after all, when he is away, there are many friends and many ways, and it is not wrong to know more people, which is also a little reward for Cao Yaode's gratitude to Fang Ling for helping to choose a horse.

In addition to the need for a pair of minds, eyesight is also very important, to see people not only to see clothes, but also to see his spirit, to see his temperament, the eyes of the businessmen who came to participate in the competition are naturally very vicious, a look at Fang Ling's dress and temperament, and then look at the stunning beauty and majestic entourage around him, he knows that he must be from everyone, and there is a horse farm at home, so he is naturally willing to make friends, so along the way, Fang Ling almost took a picture with the giant businessmen in the county.

The county government is just like the situation that Meng Zhiyuan and others listened to, it is heavily guarded, and every soldier is armed with a spear and his eyes are blazing, and he is the elite soldier in the city.

There is a special racecourse in the county, and when everyone arrives at the rest place outside the field, the horses are brought over from the other side and handed over to the merchants, who determine the order in which the horses will appear.

When they saw the three horses of the Cao family, many merchants laughed out loud, the northern horse was reasonable, he was tall and strong, and the other two were southern horses and mountain horses, both of which were at the bottom.

However, the Cao family has never won a race in the county, so everyone just laughed at it, this horse purchase not only has to invest a lot of money, but also have a pair of eyesight, otherwise just listen to the braggado of the horse dealers, only suffer themselves.

It wasn't until the horses had also finished appearing that the county guard Jiang Wenshan and his officials appeared.

Jiang Wenshan walked at the front of the team, this person was in his forties, his physique was not as weak as that of ordinary literati, he seemed to have some hard work, and he even walked quite powerfully, his face was white and beardless, and he was dressed in a county guard uniform, but he was quite official.

Behind him were the county officials, county lieutenants and other county officials, there were more than a dozen people, and almost all the officials with important positions in the county town had arrived, which showed the importance attached to the Jockey Club.

Not long after Jiang Wenshan sat down, he announced the start of the horse race, and the merchants formed opponents according to the draw, and after three rounds of competition, one person was won, and the winner was drawn again, and the other opponents were contested to finally determine a winner.