Hearing the announcement of the race, the three horse masters in front of him and all the people in the stable looked at Shao Xi at the same time.

They wanted to determine if the decision Shao Xi had just made would change at this moment, and Shao Xi still gave the answer that they couldn't understand.

"According to what I said, you can play the first game, just do your best!"

Shao Xi patted the horse master on the shoulder, turned his head and said to the other two horse masters: "The strongest horse will race the second time, and the white horse will play the last race." ”

Seeing that Shao Xi's attitude was so resolute, everyone didn't dare to raise too many questions.

After all, Shao Xi was personally sent by the king to the stables to arrange the competition, no matter what the final result was, no one dared to disobey Shao Xi's will in this process.

So everyone began to get busy, and the horse master, who was scheduled to race for the first time, led the horse out of the stable and went to the horse race venue with a confused expression.

Some of the other people were full of doubts and whispered, and some shook their heads and sighed softly, as if in their opinion, according to Shao Xi's arrangement, this year's horse race was bound to lose.

Shao Xi also smiled wryly when he looked at the performance of these people, and his perennial habitual thinking made them feel that the first game was the most important of the three games every time, as if it was impossible to win again if they lost the first game.

At this time, Shao Xi really wanted to know what kind of expression they would have when they saw that they had won the last two games?

After instructing the other two horse masters in the order of appearance again, Shao Xi left the stable with Lao Wu and Wu Qiu'er and went to the arena of the competition.

Speaking of which, although it is the Royal Marseille of Loulan Kingdom, in fact, the venue of this competition is not too big, similar to the playground of a school.

The circular racecourse has four tracks paved with sand, and the racecourse is surrounded by high platforms made of stones, and spectators sit on the high platforms to watch the horses in the race.

After Shao Xi and the others walked up to the stone platform and sat down, they saw that not far away, Fa Yi Ze and a person dressed in Western Turkic clothes were sitting on the main seat, and the ministers of Loulan State and some of the entourages brought by the Western Turkic envoys were sitting beside them.

The other waiters stood quietly with trays of wine and food for Fa Yize and the Western envoys to enjoy.

Although Shao Xi couldn't hear what they were talking about, he could see from Fa Yize's flattering smile how humble Loulan Kingdom was in front of the Western Turks.

The fact that a small envoy can make a king so inferior shows what the status of the two countries is.

Before Shao Xi and the others came out, a singing and dancing performance had just been held in the racecourse under the stone platform, and at this time, the men and women who were performing songs and dances were withdrawing from the field.

The horses and masters of both sides have been brought to the race at this time, and they have come to the starting point.

The horsemen of both sides rode on horseback, looking heroic and seemingly confident of victory.

The horse master of the Western Turk came with the envoys of the Western Turk, and naturally he was also a Western Turk, but I saw that he was straight and arrogant, as if he did not take the horse master of the Loulan Kingdom around him in his eyes at all.

It's no wonder, after all, last year, Loulan lost to the Western Turks in the horse race, and the Western Turks originally looked down on the Loulan people, not to mention their own defeated men?

Under the crotch of the Naxi Horse Master was a tall horse with a fiery red body, and it could be seen that he was full of spirit, and his temperament was as fierce as fire, and his front hooves were constantly digging the ground, as if he was already impatient.

Although Shao Xi has lived in the grassland for ten years, he has not studied much about horses, but judging from the appearance of the horse, he guesses that it may be the legendary sweat and blood horse.

Through the information brought back by Lao Wu, it was learned that the order of the horses on the Western Turkic side was still strong, medium, and weak, that is, the strongest horse was placed in the first appearance.

So the horse that Shao Xi saw at this time was the best of the three horses in the West, so he naturally liked it in his heart.

Sweaty BMW, Shao Xi had only heard about it from the Internet, but he had never seen it with his own eyes.

If the horse I saw today is really a legendary bloody horse, it is really an eye-opener and a long experience.

With the sound of a long horn, signaling the start of the first race, the crowd watching the horses on the surrounding stone platform was also excited.

The two horses in the field had obviously been trained for a long time, and they seemed to be more and more excited after hearing the horn, and they looked ready to rush out at any moment.

When the horn stopped, and with a dull drum beat, the first horse race officially began, and the two horse masters on the field buckled their horses with their feet, and both horses rushed out of the starting point like arrows off the string.

At this time, the drums became rapid and dense, and the people watching the game on the surrounding stone platform also waved their arms and shouted loudly for both sides of the game.

Looking at their excited looks, Shao Xi seriously doubted that they were also betting in the gambling house?

According to the rules of the race, you have to run three laps around the racecourse, and the first to reach the finish line is the winner.

As soon as the two sides crossed the starting line, they were neck and neck, and there was no sign of the advantage, and the two horses galloped like black and red lightning across the racecourse.

After a whole lap, both sides were evenly matched, but when they entered the second lap, it was obvious that the dark horse on the side of Loulan was not strong enough halfway, and gradually began to be overtaken by the fiery red BMW of Xiju.

At the beginning it was only a head over, but by the end of the second lap it was a full horse.

Although the horse division of Loulan Kingdom was desperately urging the horse to chase, it didn't seem to have any effect, but it was falling behind more and more.

By the third lap, the dark horse of Loulan Country was already lacking in stamina, and it was a little difficult to run.

However, the red steed did not slow down at all, but seemed more excited, and was able to sprint faster in the last half lap.

As a result, at the end of this first game, the horses of the Loulan Kingdom were left behind by the horses of the Western Turks, and it can be said that they were completely defeated.

At this time, not only was there a burst of lamentation and sighing from the surrounding stands, but even Fa Yize, who was sitting in the main seat of the stands, had a very ugly face.

According to the experience of previous years, if you lose the first game, you will become more and more unfavorable in the future, and you will only lose this Marseille in the end.

So when Fa Yi saw this result, he couldn't help but secretly curse himself for being deceived by Shao Xi.

Now that he is embarrassed again in front of the Western envoys, he is really a little unbearable as the king of Loulan Kingdom.

He couldn't help but stand up and look at Shao Xi, who was sitting not far away, there was not only dissatisfaction in his eyes, but also a faint murderous intent.

I thought that Shao Xi was full of confidence and would definitely help him win this year's Marseille, but he didn't expect to lose the first game, and it seemed that he was tricked by this young man.

At this time, he secretly planned in his heart that he would definitely not let Shao Xi go after this horse race was over, and let him know what price he would pay for deceiving himself.

But when Fa Yi looked at Shao Xi, Shao Xi looked at him with a smile on his face, and raised his hand and waved at him.

This made him even more angry, and he even felt that Shao Xi was mocking him and teasing him at this time, just to make him make a fool of himself in public and be embarrassed in front of the Western envoys.

But as the king of Loulan Kingdom, the envoy of the Western Turks was sitting beside him at this time, even if he had hatred in his heart, it was inconvenient for him to attack, so he could only glare at Shao Xi fiercely, and sat back in his seat.

In his opinion, the next two games are no longer meaningful.

Because the first race was his best horse, and the next two horses were even more incomparable to the best horses in the West.

If you continue to compare, you will only lose even more.

But the rules of horse racing are to finish three races, and the winner of two games is the winning side, and there is no such thing as taking the initiative to admit defeat, so Fayi can only sit there at this time, ready to continue to lose people in the next two races.

And the Western envoy sitting next to him was smiling at this time, looking smug and complacent.

On the surface, this horse race seems to be just entertainment, but in fact it is a kind of humiliation to Loulan by the Western Turks, and it is a warning to Loulan to never fantasize about defeating me with the reward I have given you.

As a vassal country, Loulan can only be teased and entertained by its own masters, but it does not dare to show any dissatisfaction.

Of course, the Western Turkic forces also knew what purpose the Loulan Kingdom was attached to them, so they naturally had no respect for the Loulan Kingdom.

If you ask for me and attach yourself to me, then you can only bear what I do to you, and this is the fate of being in the hands of others.

In the face of this first defeat, Fa Yi could only accompany the smiling face and say congratulations to the envoy of the Western Turks, but in fact, his heart had already cursed thousands of times.

The Western envoys knew that Fa Yize was only doing superficial work with a smile on his face, but he accepted Fa Yize's compliments with peace of mind, and looked like he was on top.

The country is small and humble, weak and small! At this time, it is vividly reflected in the body of Fa Yize.

At this time, Shao Xi watched from a distance, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The national strength is weak, even as the king of a country, there is no dignity at all, let alone those small people.

If you want your people to hold their heads high and live with dignity, you must strengthen the country and enrich the people, and make the whole country strong.

In this way, when facing other countries, both monarchs and commoners can straighten their backs and have dignity.

The country is rich but not strong, just like a person with a lot of money but no power to restrain the chicken, in the eyes of others, he is just a piece of fat on the board, to be slaughtered and divided by others.

If the country is poor and weak, then it can only be plundered, trampled on, and ridiculed, and its fate can only be in the hands of others, and it may be destroyed anytime and anywhere.

Such a country is not to say that it is dignity, even survival is a luxury, Loulan is like this in front of the Western Turks, and Shaweaving is also like this in front of Loulan.

Therefore, no matter what era a strong country is in, it is a goal that the ruler of a country must persevere in to achieve, otherwise he will only see this at this moment, and he can only humbly survive.

Loulan Kingdom has come to this point because of Fa Yize's greed and self-cleverness.

He thought that if he hugged the thigh of Xiji, he could do whatever he wanted in this desert, bully the surrounding small countries, and squeeze benefits from them.

However, he forgot that in the eyes of the Western Turks, he was just like the small countries around him, but he was also the object of the Western Turks' exploitation.

In order to cling to the Western Turks, he constantly bullied those small countries, and finally made Loulan the object of hatred of those small countries, and in the end he could not escape the oppression and bullying of the Western Turks.

It was he who made himself the one who was caught in the middle, and the two ends were not human beings.

After the first race, before the second race, there are some singing and dancing and warrior fights as entertainment to adjust the tension of the horse race that has just been raced.

At this moment, Fa Yize was chatting with the envoy of Naxi with a smiling face, and he still looked humble.

Shao Xi was not interested in what they were talking about, but was interested in the fiery red BMW horse in the first race.

"Old Wu, that horse just now is a legendary bloody horse?"

Lao Wu squinted at Shao Xi, as if he had seen through his stomach and had a crooked idea.

"Yes and what? Don't tell me that you started to fight that horse again at this time, it was brought by the Western envoy, and your idea of hitting it is equivalent to hitting the idea of the Western envoy.

"Do you think that our trip to Loulan City has gone too smoothly, and we plan to make some trouble for ourselves if we have nothing to do?

"I can remind you, we are in Loulan Country, not in Wuhai Country, not in the Central Plains, now there are only three of us, don't plan to let me help you poke this hornet's nest."

Shao Xi saw that the words were directly pinched by Lao Wu, and he didn't want to say anything more, holding his face with his hands, looking at the two warriors in the arena who were fighting to the death and fighting for their lives.

But in his mind, he was still thinking about the sweaty BMW with a fiery red body and a beautiful body.

If the Central Plains can have such a good horse, coupled with the advanced smelting technology of the Central Plains, it will definitely be able to create a unique iron-armored heavy cavalry in the whole world.

This is just like the armored forces in World War II, which are mobile at high speed and invincible, which can disintegrate the enemy's fighting spirit in the shortest possible time, turning the original confrontation between the two armies into a devastating and decaying rapid mobile operation.

This not only minimizes your own casualties, but also speeds up the course of the war by ending the battle quickly.

Deciding the winner in a short period of time avoids the consumption of personnel, materials, grain and grass caused by long-term tug-of-war operations, and thus reduces the burden caused by the war on the common people.

If you can find a way to get it back to the Central Plains as a stallion, you may be able to breed a group of equally good horses.

It is precisely because of this idea that Shao Xi's covetousness for the sweaty BMW has become stronger and stronger, which makes him really a little itchy.

He couldn't help but turn back to Lao Wu and said: "Lao Wu, I don't like this horse because of selfishness, how good it would be if such a good breed horse could get back to the Central Plains as a stallion, what do you say?" ”

When Shao Xi said this, Lao Wu seemed to be a little moved.