Chapter 53 Martial Arts Contest (1)
August 15 is the most lively day since the establishment of Dongjun City.
Because today is the pearl of the city lord of the East County City, the day of the Hongyun County Lord's martial arts competition.
Today is a day of universal prosperity for the people of Dongjun Town.
In fact, many of them are not the local aborigines of Dongjun, and most of them are displaced people from various parts of the Great Xia Kingdom who suffered from famine due to natural disasters.
When Dongjun Castle was first built, no matter where the disaster victims and refugees came, the city lord was very bold to settle them one by one. The taxes collected by the lord of the castle were also very low, so most of the refugees basically chose to stay in the East County Town after the disaster, and became the second generation of residents of the East County Town.
Therefore, their love for the city lord can be imagined. The lord of the castle is their reborn parent.
Today is the recruitment meeting of the city lord's daughter, the princess of Hongyun County, and it has naturally become a day for the people of the whole city to rejoice.
The people of the city were as excited and happy as if they were going to marry their daughter. Every household puts up lanterns early to celebrate.
A few days before August 15, the entire Dongjun town has become a sea of lanterns and flags, and the whole city is immersed in a joyful atmosphere, almost every day is brightly lit, like a city that never sleeps.
Because at this time, the entire city has poured into nearly a million foreign population, and they are all contestants, literati, merchants, and people who have rushed to the meeting after hearing about the recruitment meeting of the county lord of Hongyun. Since you come to participate in such a grand event, you are naturally willing to go to bed too early at night, so it is often an all-night amusement.
Because there are too many people who want to participate in the competition and recruit relatives, the city lord will start the audition before August 15, and it will be similar to a super girl.
The first step is to take a writing exam. How can the lord of Hongyun marry an illiterate person? Therefore, you must be literate and hyphenated. So in the first level, many big bosses in the rivers and lakes were eliminated.
The second level is that the contestants who have passed the text exam, and then compete with the guards of the City Lord's Mansion, and if they win, they can enter the real competition and recruit relatives, and they have the qualifications to participate in the competition, and a contestant identity token is issued.
After such screening, no more than 100 people finally entered the real jousting tournament. These are all real martial arts masters.
Yang Songyun, one of the five masters of Dongjun, is a super-first-class true qi master, and it is naturally easy to obtain qualifications.
The final competition of the Hongyun County Lord's recruitment meeting was held in the inner city of the East County City.
Although there are nearly one million outsiders in the eastern county, and there are two million people in the local population, there are only about 40,000 or 50,000 people who can enter the inner city to watch the martial arts.
Most of these 40,000 to 50,000 people are high-ranking officials and nobles, famous businessmen and tycoons, and their families and relatives.
Because of the special identity token system of Dongjun Town, there is no way to buy scalper tickets if you want to. They are all real-named, and there is no way to impersonate them.
Although most people can't directly see the live scene of the tournament, it is not difficult for the lord of the city. Among the monks he invited to worship, there was a monk who was skilled in water illusions, and could transmit images into the water curtain. Therefore, it is possible to broadcast the competition live.
This kind of water-based illusion itself is not a powerful spell, and it does not consume much spiritual power, as long as it is supported by one or two lower-grade spirit stones, it can be operated.
The lord of the city set up more than 100 video water screens in the city of Dongjun. Therefore, most people can still watch the wonderful competition of the tournament through the video water screen.
More than 100 image water curtains require more than 200 lower-grade spirit stones. As a mortal, it was not easy for the Dongjun City Lord to collect so many low-grade spirit stones. It can be seen that the city lord has spent a lot of energy and effort for his precious daughter. It can also be seen how powerful the power of the city lord is in the Great Xia Kingdom. Otherwise, how could it be possible to exchange so many spirit stones with the monk.
Although they are all low-grade spirit stones, they are not small sects that can take out so many. It's not enough for them to use it themselves, how can they sell it to mortals.
The city lord of Dongjun is not a fool, he has made so many video water curtains, and it is not just for the people to have fun with him. He also opened a betting handicap, where you can bet on every match. In this way, the city lord can make a lot of money again, and there is nothing more profitable than opening a casino.
Participating in gambling & gambling, the enthusiasm of the people is naturally more excited and fanatical. There's nothing like gambling to get people involved.
Seeing this, Li Zhaoyuan also admired this Dongjun City Lord very much. No wonder he was able to build such a thriving city in just a few decades. It turns out that the lord of the city not only has political acumen, but also business acumen, and he is a rare talent everywhere, and he is a great talent.
As soon as it was dawn, people flocked to the video water curtains all over the city. They are in order to occupy a good position first, so as not to be too late, and they can only watch from the periphery, and they lose the advantage of vision.
These people all brought a day's worth of melons, fruits, food, and wine, as if they were going out on an outing. Pull the family with a mouth, carry a small bench on your back, hold a carpet and other daily necessities that can be used temporarily. Everyone is smiling in beautiful new clothes, as if it is the New Year.
Li Zhaoyuan and Dongjun Wujie also entered the martial arts venue in the inner city very early.
The family of Dongjun Wujie was originally a local magnate, and Yang Songyun was also one of the contestants, so they were naturally qualified to enter the inner city to watch the competition. Li Zhaoyuan also easily entered the venue with Yang Songyun's kinship.
The venue where this tournament is located looks very new, and it took the city lord several months to build it in order to recruit relatives for the tournament.
In the middle is a platform for martial arts, more than a foot high, the size of a football field. Around this competition platform, there are layers of stairs built up all the way, and the stairs continue to rise obliquely, as if you have seen a football field in the earth.
However, there are no seats on these steps, only steps, and the distance between the steps is wide, so people can only sit on the steps to watch the fight. In such a short period of time, this competition venue was able to be built and put into use. I don't know how the lord of Dongjun built it. Li Zhaoyuan sincerely admires the architectural level of Xuanwu World.
Although it is a little simple, but those dignitaries, rich businessmen and celebrities do not dare to complain, and no one begs you to come, you can already have a lot of face when you come in.
The east side of the stand is different from the other three stands. There are private rooms built there, not only with seats, but also with various canopies. The boxes were used by the lord of the castle and what he thought were the real magnates.
Although the family of Dongjun Wujie is already a big local family, they are not qualified to sit in the east stand, so Li Zhaoyuan can only sit on the stairs with them in the south stand.
People entered the stadium one after another, but no one appeared in the stands on the east side. Apparently they won't show up until the official start. The powerful don't want to waste their time waiting. They would rather eat, drink and be merry.
As the saying goes, the more late you arrive, the more distinguished you are, the more big the name, the more you have status. Only the poor who are miserable are in a hurry. The poor practice is that the early bird gets the worm.