Chapter 176: The First Martial Arts Competition

May 15 is the first day of the most prestigious Yuanfang meeting in Beijing. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The annual Yuanfang meeting lasts for three days. Although the results of the competition will be announced on the last day, it is natural that there will be much attention. But for a long time, the last thing people want to miss is the first day of the Yuanfang Club.

Because on the first day of the Yuanfang Club, the popular girls of the Yuanfang Pavilion will appear together and perform collectively for all the guests. Of course, this kind of performance is only a performance, more to set off the atmosphere and arouse the enthusiasm of the audience. Therefore, it is perfectly possible to call it a benefit, which is not only pleasing to the eye, but also free of charge.

The next day to be held on the second day is the official content of the Yuanfang Meeting, and it is also its purpose - competition.

Most of the girls participating in the competition are rookies who have not been in the cabinet for a long time, and they are not very familiar to the guests. Therefore, they all want to use this rare opportunity to show their talents and beauty to the guests, so as to increase their value.

When it comes to the value of these girls, it is not a verbal compliment, but a real gold and silver jewelry.

Liao Jingdong, the owner of Yuanfang Pavilion, is really a businessman with a very good mind. Ever since he thought of promoting the girls in the pavilion to the guests by holding a Yuanfang party, so as to boost the business of the Yuanfang Pavilion, he saw other opportunities to make money. The two most important of these are the opening of gambling games and the sale of goods.

The opening of a gambling game is naturally easy to understand, that is, when guests watch the competition, they can bet on a certain girl they like. If the girl really came out on top, the bettor would have made a lot of money as a result.

And when it comes to consignment goods, it's quite puzzling. In fact, this is also Boss Liao's whimsical idea after he had an idea.

According to the rules at the beginning, in the competition, each guest could present a flower to the girl he thought was excellent. Of course, this flower is from Yuanfang Pavilion, and the guests need to spend money to buy it.

In the beginning, the price of a flower was one tael of silver.

At any time, before the end of the competition, the guests can put the flowers they have bought into the basket with the name of the girl they like. There is no limit to the number of flowers that can be thrown by each guest, and it is not limited to just one girl's flower basket.

But over time, as the Yuanfang Club became more and more famous, more and more guests came to the meeting, and the wealth status became higher and higher, and the flowers of one or two silver were too cheap.

Soon, the price of a sprig of flowers rose to one or two gold, more than tenfold. However, this still does not satisfy the demands of those who are willing to spend money, or even to show off their wealth.

It was in such a situation that Boss Liao, who had always seen money, turned his head and came up with a wonderful solution.

He visited several well-known jewelry stores in the capital, and even went to several antique calligraphy and painting shops, and negotiated a deal with the bosses.

As a result, since the Yuanfang Club three years ago, the flower voting system has been cancelled, and another way that looks more elegant but also burns more money - in-kind rewards.

Next to the arena of the Yuanfang Society, a long platform has been added for the shops that have an appointment with the Yuanfang Pavilion. On the table, there are exquisite ornaments or antique calligraphy and paintings selected by various shops, all of which are clearly marked with prices. This makes it convenient for those who attend the Yuanfang Club, and they can buy one or several of them at any time and give them to the girl they like.

In this way, it not only shows the financial resources and tastes of the customers, but also sells the goods for each store. It's just that this boss Liao has never been a person who doesn't ask for anything in return, and in the contracts he has signed with various shops, the details of the sharing are unambiguous.

But then again, to judge the value of each girl by the value of the goods sold in the shops is indeed too cheesy and has too much copper smell.

After all, most of the guests who came to participate in the Yuanfang Club were not rich businessmen, but some literati and even Jianghu figures. If these people want to show their support for a particular girl, they have to do it in their own way.

Literati can recite poems and paint, and they can also present their own music scores. And the value of these things is to be collectively evaluated by all the girls who participate in the competition.

After the results of the evaluation are in, the creator will publicly say which girl he wants to dedicate his work to. This will not affect the fairness of the girls' evaluation of the works, nor the creator's autonomy in choosing the girls.

Sometimes if a piece is really outstanding, the girls will give it a very high evaluation, even far beyond the value of the gold and silver jewels. And the creator himself will become famous in one fell swoop, and there will naturally be businessmen who are quick to see the opportunity and buy the rest of the works from him.

And when it comes to guests with the identity of Jianghu characters, it is inevitable that it will be a little embarrassing.

How many powerful people or wealthy people would go to the rivers and lakes? These people in the rivers and lakes rely on nothing more than their own martial arts, even if they occasionally have some swords and knives and other things, they don't dare to show them easily, and naturally they are even more reluctant to give them to those girls as gifts.

However, when it comes to martial arts, there will naturally be a distinction between superior and inferior, and it should also be used as a part of the evaluation. But the competition is different from the competition, as long as each shows its strengths. The competition is to fight each other with real swords and guns, which will have the possibility of bleeding and injury, or even death by mistake.

First of all, the government will not allow such open fighting. Besides, this kind of bloody thing is really not suitable to appear in an occasion like the Yuanfang Society, whose purpose is to compete for business and attract business.

Therefore, although the Yuanfang meeting has been held for many years, there are not many people who come to participate in the meeting. And even if these people come, most of them are just spectators, and they only need to pay for tea to find a seat in a remote corner and enjoy it.

Therefore, when Liao Jingdong, the owner of Yuanfang Pavilion a few days ago, personally announced to the public that the rules of Yuanfang Club had been changed this year and a martial arts competition had been added, the whole capital and even the entire rivers and lakes were shaken!

The reason why this news caused such a big sensation is inseparable from Dayu Wulin's current embarrassing situation.

His Majesty the Emperor of the present day does not like martial arts, and those who are officials naturally have to appreciate the holy will, and even the martial arts of the imperial court are becoming more and more perfunctory, and the local government has extremely strict restrictions on civil competitions.

It turned out that the Huashan Sword Discussion Meeting, the Songshan Divine Fist Meeting, and even the Taishan Martial Arts Conference, which was the largest in terms of momentum, were all suspended due to the intervention of the local government.

Martial arts people have no battle for honor, so they all run their own sects, anyway, whoever has more disciples will have a higher status in the rivers and lakes, at least they will occupy the majority of the people first. And the lonely swordsmen in the past have no place to stand and gradually disappear.

Slowly, the rules of the rivers and lakes have quietly changed - fighting alone has become a stage for no one to cheer, and rushing to fight in groups has become a means of martial arts competition. And the direct consequence of this change is that there are no rules anymore.

In this chaotic situation, Yuanfang Pavilion, a Fengyue place that has nothing to do with martial arts, at most has a little bit to do with the rivers and lakes, suddenly announced that it was going to hold a martial arts competition. How can this not make all the people who heard this news feel unbelievable and even more incredible?

But no matter what those Jianghu people think, anyway, Yuanfang Pavilion is so confident that there will be a martial arts competition at the Yuanfang meeting, and it will be held on the first day.

What is especially eye-popping is that even the opponent of this first martial arts competition has been determined. And the origins of those two are really not small, so that all martial arts people can't help but have the idea of wanting to see it.

Speaking of the two people who participated in the first martial arts competition of the Yuanfang Society, the first one to mention is naturally the great commander and prince Shaobao who is in charge of the 100,000 forbidden army in the capital - Zhao Zhan.

From the second-rank court member, and at the same time the champion of martial arts with a previous conviction, whether in terms of his status or martial arts, I am afraid that in the entire Dayu country, he may not be able to pick out a few characters who can be compared.

And this time Zhao Zhan's opponent, Han Bing, although he has no official position and no name in the martial arts, but the fact that Zhao Zhan can allow him to be his opponent is enough to show that this young man is extraordinary.

What's more, not all the rumors about the extraordinary skills of this son of the left prime minister are groundless. At least in the battle of Tianmu Lake more than two months ago, many people have seen this cold ice's martial arts, and they can definitely be among the first-class masters.

In this way, this so-called first martial arts competition is not a gimmick made by Yuanfang Pavilion in order to attract guests. What people will see will not be just a bluff show, but a real battle of masters, which is definitely a martial arts event worth looking forward to!

But in addition, what is more interesting is that the final prize of this martial arts competition - Qingluo girl.

Although Yuanfang Pavilion did not announce it publicly, it had already been rumored in the capital, and the two opponents who participated in the martial arts competition were all going to Qingluo girl. Therefore, the winner among them is very likely to have a beautiful back!

In this way, the first martial arts competition held by Yuanfang Pavilion was not only expected by those Jianghu figures, but also paid attention to almost the entire capital.

Of course, there will always be some old and serious people who strongly disagree with this practice of using the famous Qingluo girl in the capital as a prize, and even more openly oppose this kind of battle that is obviously of the nature of a competition to recruit relatives.

Not only did the government not come forward to stop it, but on the day of the competition, both the Jingzhao Mansion and the forbidden army had to send people to the scene to maintain order.

As a result, those who opposed it also fell silent one by one, and at most they staged a sit-in protest in their own homes.