In the eighth year of the emperor, at the end of December.

A man rode an ox and came to Chaoge from nowhere.

Suddenly, the cow vanished.

"Zhao Gongming greets the master!"

A handsome boy saluted respectfully.

Tongtian bowed: "Can you find your senior sister Shiji?"

Zhao Gongming said: "My sister is at the north gate of Chaoge, setting up a hexagram stall, telling hexagrams for others, and once offered treasure to the king of Zhou, and even used the Qiankun circle to kill Nezha in the king of Zhou, and has achieved cause and effect. ”

"Fortune telling?" When Tongtian heard it, he didn't like it very much.

Zhao Gongming hurriedly explained: "Don't worry, Master, there is Jiang Ziya in the west gate, and Yun Zhongzi in the east gate, and my sister is trying to win the hearts of the people." ”

Tongtian pinched one or two, and sure enough: "Yuan Shi is really variable, and he has made Yun Zhongzi live in Chaoge for a long time, and you can follow me to take a look around." ”

Tongtian specially came to the song in order to see the center of the catastrophe for himself.

The catastrophe is coming, the heavens are chaotic, even the saints can't calculate it, they just feel that the previous calculation seems to have changed, and they want to come to the court song in person to see if they can calculate it more clearly.

The two went to a wine shop.

The method of making fruit wine has been rumored, although the brewing time is a little long, but there is basically no cost, and ordinary people have not yet made wine, but most of them have begun to pick up wild fruits for brewing.

The wine shops that hoarded old wine in the song lowered the price because of this, and if they waited until the fruit wine was brewed in the people's homes, the price would only be lower, resulting in most people now being able to afford to drink wine.

Tongtian and Zhao Gongming ordered some drinks and quietly listened to the people's discussions.

Tongtian is a little strange, in the mouth of the people, the king is an extremely virtuous king, but in the mouth of the richly dressed nobles, it is another image.

Although the nobles did not say anything, the meaning was obvious.

"Looks like we'll have to see. Tongtian shook his head and asked, "Gongming, where are there many people in Chaoge?"

Zhao Gongming thought for a while and said, "There is a horse race today, and it should be the most crowded in the suburban racecourse." ”

"Then I'll go to the suburbs. ”

Zhao Gongming whispered to the little guy and paid.

The little guy shouted at the top of his voice: "Today's expenses are paid by Zhao Gongzi!"

There are many excited yellers in the crowd, who doesn't like to eat a drink for nothing?

Even the nobles have a little more smile on their faces.

Zhao Gongming smiled, the master came in person, there should be some pomp.

Tongtian and Zhao Gongming walked to the outskirts of the city, suddenly stopped, and said, "What did you take just now?"

Zhao Gongming took out the copper coin and said: "This is a copper coin, it was minted in the song of the court a few months ago, and it is being implemented in the world, it is the currency of the mortal world, and the disciple picked up some antiques before going out of the mountain, and changed a lot." ”

Tongtian said solemnly: "This thing has great merit. ”

At the level of a saint, more emphasis is placed on merit.

"The disciple has a good relationship with the two casual cultivators who cast copper coins to manage the Chaoge business, and they can be regarded as having some friendship. ”

Tongtian nodded: "Although it is a casual cultivation, it has merit and is worth befriending." ”

Before the two of them left the city gate, they came to the market, saw a stone tablet, stopped all the time, and asked, "What is this?"

Zhao Gongming said: "This is a perpetual calendar, created by the official of the central court, containing the calendar and festivals. ”

It is clear to the sky: "This thing has merit." ”

The two walked to the outskirts, saw a garden, and asked, "Where is this?"

Zhao Gongming said: "This place is called Xiyuan, and the king of Xuan recruited seven mountain spirits with meritocracy, sealed official positions, and let them live here. ”

"The king of the human world can appoint the demon clan, which is quite in line with the teachings of my religion. Tongtian laughed, but stopped abruptly, faintly saw a golden light, and said in a daze: "Here, there is a sign of merit." ”

He was a little confused, how could Chaoge have so much merit?

It's just that casual cultivation occasionally has the opportunity to have merit, and a mortal and a mountain and wild spirit can actually obtain merit?

The two continued to walk towards the racecourse, and when they passed a Zhuangzi, they took a few steps back.

Before he could ask, Zhao Gongming had already learned to answer: "This village is where the clan Bigan lives." ”

"This..."Tongtian couldn't calm down, the signs of merit here were even stronger, and ordinary monks couldn't see it, but as one of the saints, he could even be sure that once the signs of merit here were formed, the merit from heaven would be immeasurable.

Tongtian became even more suspicious, Shang destroyed Zhou Xing was really the destiny of heaven? Is it really the trend of the times?

Then why does the Great Commercial Capital have so much merit?

In confusion, Tongtian and Zhao Gongming had already come to the racecourse.

The horses were being prepared, and the white leaders brought the horses and riders to the starting line.

The riders were mainly earthwork captives, with a small number of merchants.

The starting point of a horse race consists of small spaces separated by each horse.

Zhao Gongming explained to Tongtian: "Horse racing is a pastime that has just emerged, and the horse that reaches the finish line first is the champion, followed by the leader, and then the flower exploration. ”

Tongtian looked over into the crowd and asked, "What's that?"

"It's... Where people bet, they can bet on a favourable horse, and after the race, if the bet is wrong, no money will be refunded, and if the bet is correct, it will be paid according to the amount of the bet and the odds specified earlier. ”

Tongtian became interested, which was a novelty: "Gongming, let's also bet and try." ”

"No. 1, I'll press No. 1! Bet fifty cents!" An old woman squeezed through the crowd and finally got the number plate.

The number plate is made of wood, with a number engraved on the front and a fifty engraved on the back.

If you use brocade silk and bamboo slips to record these things, some of the gains outweigh the losses, and the wooden cards that can be made into ten or fifty are different, and they can be reused, and ordinary people will not bet too much at a time, mostly between these amounts.

Looking at the wooden board with the odds written all day, the No. 1 horse race has the lowest odds, and the old woman is a person who seeks stability.

Subsequently, he saw the number ten with the highest odds, which actually reached one to one hundred.

Tongtian decided: "Bet on the tenth." ”

He didn't deliberately deduce, it didn't mean anything at all.

He purely likes this kind of pleasure of being small and big, and it has a great attraction for him in the dark.

Zhao Gongming was stunned, he had also watched horse racing a few times, and there were few upsets, and a loss of 100 was the biggest odds so far, and it was almost impossible to win the ranking.

It's just the order of the master, he still stepped forward and said: "Bet ten, bet ten." ”

It is always a thousand texts, and ten runs are ten thousand.

The large number made many people look sideways, and they didn't know where the nobles came from.

But he was a little stupid to press the tenth, it shouldn't be the Hou family in Jizhou, right?

The old woman who had just left couldn't help but mutter: "The nobles really don't take the money properly, the money has always been lost like this, how many vegetables do you have to sell to make money!"

Chao Tian, the person in charge of the racecourse, couldn't help but sigh when he saw Zhao Gongming's generosity.

His Majesty really had a clever plan, and on weekdays, even the nobles had no entertainment, and as soon as the horse race appeared, it attracted all the nobles, and betting on horses made them invest a lot of money.

But gambling horses can only bet on copper coins, and Xiao Daochang and Cao Daochang, who are responsible for the promotion of commerce and copper coins, are full of praise for this, which greatly improves the promotion speed of copper coins and makes people more aware of the value of copper coins.

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