Chapter 277 Curly Lions Team
"Go, go out to eat."
Seeing that the three were still thinking in a daze, Qin Lang simply dragged the three out to eat.
Today's Pingkangfang is very lively, the entertainment, dining and leisure area, Qin Lang happened to make an appointment today, and he brought the three of them together. When going out, Qin Lang didn't take a car or ride a horse as usual. He liked to walk on the streets of Pingkangfang, feeling the colorful and colorful signboards on both sides of the street.
He likes the street full of pedestrians, with shops on both sides being lively and popular.
People say that the more they like lively people, the more lonely they are.
Qin Lang felt that he seemed to be a little lonely in his heart now, so he fell in love with the excitement to cover up his inner loneliness.
Walking along the street, he saw a girl selling flowers, so he paid for a few. He picked a gardenia with a strong fragrance, green leaves, pure white flowers, full of fragrance, and inserted it directly into his ear.
The three of Lai Heng also picked a flower each, and they all stuck it in their hats or pinned it directly to their ears.
On the street, there are many people arranging flowers. Girls will pick bright flowers and put them on the blue silk. Men also like flower arranging. The younger they are, the more they like it.
The girl saw that Qin Lang gave too much money, and she didn't change the money. She just smiled and bowed to Qin Lang, "Thank you, Lord Yiguo, for the reward."
There are no shopkeepers or peddlers in Pingkang Fang who don’t know Yi Guogong Qin Sanlang now, and everyone has become accustomed to Qin Sanlang’s generosity. As long as he likes what he likes, he will spend generously reward.
Both sides of the street are paved with wooden planks, making the sound like stepping on upstairs. This is a pedestrian path, and the main road in the middle is for carriages and horses.
"In the next issue, we will pave the streets of Pingkangfang with bricks, so that even if it rains, it will be clean." Qin Lang said.
Shangguanyi was a little surprised. Now the streets of Pingkangfang are so clean. The streets are paved with sand from the river. There are even wooden sidewalks in front of the shops on both sides, and beautiful cherry trees are planted. How much does it cost to lay bricks.
Passing by a stall selling kebabs, Qin Lang stopped, threw out a handful of copper coins, and asked for some kebabs.
The barbecue peddler thanked him happily, and specially picked some skewers of the best meat.
"These cherry blossom trees haven't grown up yet. After two years, the trees will grow taller. In March, the streets will be full of cherry blossoms. That will be beautiful."
Shangguanyi sighed, "Pingkang Fang and Chang'an City outside the Fang are like two worlds. And Chang'an and other prefectures and counties outside Chang'an are even more two worlds. Although Yangzhou is prosperous, it is far behind Chang'an. It’s still too far away. It’s even more incomparable with the excitement of Pingkangfang.”
But he said with some hesitation, "Pingkang Square is too lively, people who come here enjoy themselves to their heart's content, and the vendors here are just chasing money blindly. I don't think this is necessarily a good thing."
Qin Lang smiled, stood there and instructed the businessman to correct some tricks, and told Shangguanyi, "Do you know that this Pingkangfang is only one square, how much industrial and commercial tax do you have to pay for the court in a month now? Here every day How much tea, wine and sugar do you need to consume? Do you know how expensive the houses and shops here are?"
"Do you know that the rent here is several times that of other places outside? Do you know that the owner of the shop here still has to pay intermission tax?"
Pingkangfang is like a special zone established by Qin Lang in Chang'an.
Every day here seems to be a waste of money and gold, but the transshipment department has set up many new taxes here, such as the housing tax, which is the housing tax. Courts, etc. also levied interim tax.
Not to mention the market entry tax, residence tax, etc., and prostitutes must pay rouge tax.
The streets are clean and tidy, and behind the numerous shops is a brand-new industrial and commercial management tax system, which is the full operation of the Transshipment Department.
Even the general name of Kaiyuan Bank is set up in Pingkangfang.
Eating the freshly grilled mutton skewers, the outside is burnt and the inside is tender, and it is extremely delicious.
Qin Lang brought the three of them to the northeast corner of Pingkangfang. This was originally a residential area for civilians. Now that the business has been remodeled, the common people have obtained resettlement houses in the south of the city. They also took the demolition money and moving expenses, and moved away happily.
The original houses were all demolished and flattened.
A polo field that can accommodate 3,000 people has been built, and the Chang'an Polo League proposed by Qin Lang is under preparation.
Cheng Chumo greeted him from a distance.
"Sanlang is here, come and have a look, today is my team competing with Xiao Hei's team, please give me some pointers, we must kill them today."
To build a polo league, at least there must be teams, at least sixteen teams.
Now the league is in the preparatory stage. While busy repairing the stadium, it is also starting to select teams. Initially, any team can sign up. After the deadline, all teams that sign up will have a round of preliminaries first, and finally the sixteenth team will be determined. A team, come to play the league.
The rules of the ball game are based on the points system. Other rules are basically the same as the current polo rules. A team requires player registration, and each team can register up to 13 players. During the game, only registered players can play. In addition, each game must be registered in advance, and each team can have seven main players and two reserve players.
In a game, only these nine players are eligible to play.
There are many rules, mainly to ensure the fairness of the game.
Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Gong’s family are both upstarts of the Tang Dynasty. For example, Yuchi Laohei is one of the ten richest men in Chang’an. The family has a lot of money. Of course it is not a problem to form a polo team of their own. After all, they are all generals.
Although it is said that playing polo will definitely cost money, the league described by Qin Lang will definitely make everyone happy while playing polo and make money.
Cheng Chumo is now the captain of the Cheng Family Polo Team Curly Lion Beast, and is also one of the thirteen registered members of the Cheng Family Polo Team.
Today, the Cheng family's curly-haired lion team competed with Yuchi Gong's family's Baoyue Oolong team. The audience can watch for free, but the league has been publicized three days in advance, and many invitations have been distributed.
In addition, the organizer of the league has also started giving out quizzes with prizes. Everyone is welcome to place bets.
After publicity in advance, although today's game is not an official game, there are still quite a few people coming because of the good publicity, free admission tickets and some free snacks and drinks.
There are already thousands of people sitting in the stadium that can accommodate 3,000 people.
"How many lottery tickets were sold?"
“Thousands of copies have been sold.”
"Thousands?" Qin Lang saw that there were only a thousand people on the field.
"A lot of people who didn't come also bought it. Anyway, once the results of the competition are announced, they can be cashed in within a month."
The lottery designed by Qin Lang has a variety of ways to play, the simplest is to guess the winner, and then there is guessing the number of goals, as well as guessing the total number of goals and the total score. There are various ways to play, exciting and exciting.
The betting ends before the start of each game, and half of the total betting amount is used as a bonus, and the odds are adjusted according to the amount.
But no matter how you guess, the league side that is the banker is sure to make money without losing money.
Lai Heng asked, "Isn't this gambling?"
Each dynasties, in fact, opposed the prohibition of gambling, but Qin Lang promoted buying and gambling in Pingkangfang, which was naturally approved by the court.
"It's competitive entertainment, and the proceeds from lottery sales are taxable."
Many boxes were purposely repaired on the stadium, and the ticket prices for these boxes would definitely be high. Qin Lang even asked them to introduce services such as annual tickets, monthly tickets, and season tickets.
He looked around and found that most of the advertising spaces specially set aside on the court were still vacant, and it was only some advertising spaces that Qin Lang took the lead in buying that had advertisements for the Qin family's products.
"We need to step up publicity!"
"Old Cheng, what tactics are you going to use soon?" Qin Lang asked.
"I'm going to use an all-out attack tactic, only attacking but not defending, and compete with them for the number of goals. This way the game will be more exciting. Although we are only in the preliminaries now, we have to play well, right? Get up."
Qin Lang is quite satisfied with his tactic. Playing in a frenzy of offense is still good. Although the conservative ball is more of a test of skill, it is not worth seeing.
If you play a whole game and the result is 0-0, then others may find it boring.
Yuchi Baoqi and his brother Yuchi Baolin came over.
"Cheng Dalang, will you play the competition later?" Yuchi Baolin provoked Cheng Chumo as soon as she came up.
"Of course, I will personally lead the team this time." Cheng Chu said silently.
Bao Qi smiled and said to Qin Lang, "Sanlang hurry up and place a bet on my Oolong Baoyue Foals team to win, it would be nice to earn some pocket money."
"I'll bet 10,000 on Dalang's curly-haired lion team." Qin Lang laughed.
The Yuchi brothers were unhappy, "Is Sanlang looking down on our family or something?"
"It doesn't mean that, I just think Da Lang has a strong will to win today."
Cheng Chu silently called the betting staff, "Saburo doesn't bet on points?"
"Those are too difficult to guess, so I won't bet on them."
Shangguanyi and the three betting staff came to ask, but they were too embarrassed not to bet, so they had to bet 100 yuan each, betting on winning or losing.
"Chenghui!"
The field personnel collected the money with a smile, and immediately wrote a betting slip by hand, stamped it, and tore the slip, half of each person.
Immediately afterwards, a few people were presented with a glass of syrup and a small packet of fried taro sticks.
"Sanlang, today's 10,000 yuan is useless." Yuchi Baoqi walked away with a dark face. After a while, he was already wearing a rattan helmet and armor and riding a black horse to lead the team out.
He rode his horse to the field, dismounted, piled up ten copper coins on the field, then rode on the horse, and circled the field with a crescent stick.
"What is this for?"
"Xiao Erhei is going to show off his skills." Qin Lang laughed.
Sure enough, the next moment, Yuchi Baoqi galloped into the arena, leaned forward on the galloping horse, swung his stick, the crescent stick knocked away the copper coins, but only the top coin in the stack of copper coins flew away.
circled around and flew back, another blow, still only hit one.
Repeatedly, Yuchi Baoqi hit one ball each time, hitting ten **** ten times, showing amazing skills.
This show made the audience exclaim in admiration. The game has not yet started, so many people began to scramble to bet on Yuchi's Oolong Baoyueju team to win.
Bao Qi came back after showing off on the court.
"Sanlang, it's time to change the charge and return it."
"It's okay, it's only 10,000 small money, just for fun! It doesn't matter if you win or lose!"
(end of this chapter)