Chastity Layman

"Go, go out and eat."

Seeing that the three of them were still thinking in a daze, Qin Lang simply dragged the three of them out to eat.

Today's Pingkangfang is very lively, it is an area for entertainment, dining and leisure. Qin Lang happened to have 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 and the shops on both sides to be 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, so as to cover up his inner loneliness.

Walking along the street, he saw a girl selling flowers, so he paid for a few of them. 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 Laiheng also picked a flower each, and they all stuck it in their hats or put it directly in their ears.

On the street, there are many people arranging flowers. Women will pick bright flowers and put them on the black silk. Men also like flower arranging. The younger they are, the more they like it.

Seeing that Qin Lang had given too much money, the girl 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 Pingkangfang 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.

The two sides of the street are paved with wooden planks, which makes the sound like stepping on the 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, they 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 trees haven't grown 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 the other places outside? Do you know that the owners of the shops here still have to pay taxes?"

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 have to 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 fully operated by the transshipment department.

Even the general name of Kaiyuan Bank is set up in Pingkangfang.

Eating 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 place was originally a civilian residential area. Now that it has been transformed into a commercial area, 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 bulldozed.

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 afar.

"Sanlang is here, come and have a look. Today is my team and Xiaohei's team. You can 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 people 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 playing polo definitely costs money, the league Qin Lang described will definitely make everyone happy while playing polo and make money.

Cheng Chumo is now the captain of the Cheng family's polo team, the curly lion team, and one of the thirteen registered members of the Cheng family's polo team.

Today, Cheng's curly-haired lion team competed with Yuchi Gong's Yueyue Oolong team. The audience can watch for free, but the league has already been publicized three days in advance, and many invitations have been distributed.

In addition, the organizers of the league have also started to issue quizzes with prizes. Everyone is welcome to place bets.

According to the rules set by Qin Lang and everyone, the income of the league is mainly the prize money for betting and guessing, as well as the money for selling tickets. In addition, the arena will also sell some drinks and snacks, and the other is advertising fees and sponsorship fees. fee and so on. And these revenues are to be shared with the teams.

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 free snacks and drinks.

There are already thousands of people sitting in the stadium that can accommodate 3,000 people.

"How much did the lottery ticket sell for?"

"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 or loser, 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 guaranteed to make a profit without losing money.

Lai Heng asked, "Isn't this gambling?"

In the past dynasties, gambling was actually opposed to prohibition, but Qin Lang promoted buying and gambling in Pingkangfang, which was naturally approved by the imperial court.

"It's competitive entertainment, and the proceeds from lottery sales are taxable."

A lot of boxes were purposely repaired on the court, and the ticket prices for these boxes would definitely be very high. Qin Lang even asked them to offer 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 was quite satisfied with his tactics. The offensive frenzy was still good to play. Although the conservative ball was more of a test of skill, it was nothing to watch.

If you play a whole game and the result is 0-0, then others may find it boring.

Yuchi Baoqi and his elder brother Yuchi Baolin came over.

"Cheng Dalang, will you play the competition later?" Yuchi Baolin provoked Cheng Chumo as soon as he came up.

"Of course, I will personally lead the team this time." Cheng Chu said unconvinced.

Bao Qi smiled and said to Qin Lang, "Sanlang hurry up and place a bet on our Oolong Baoyue Foals team to win, it would be nice to earn some pocket money."

"I bet 10,000 yuan 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 Chumo proudly called the betting staff, "Saburo doesn't bet on points?"

"Those are too difficult to guess, so I won't bet on them."

The three bettors of Shangguanyi 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 venue staff accepted the money with a smile, and immediately handwritten the betting slip, stamped it, and tore the slip apart, leaving half for each person.

Immediately afterwards, a few people were presented with a glass of syrup and a small packet of fried taro sticks.

"Sanlang, your 10,000 yuan today is useless." Yuchi Baoqi walked away with a dark face, and 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 arena, got off his horse, piled up ten copper coins on the arena, then rode on his horse, and circled the arena with his crescent stick raised.

"What is this for?"

"Xiao Erhei is going to show off his skills." Qin Lang laughed.

Sure enough, the next moment, Yuchi Baoqi rode his horse and 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.

He circled around and flew back again, another blow, still only one hit.

Repeatedly like this, Yuchi Baoqi hit one ball each time, hitting ten balls ten times, showing amazing skills.

This show of skill caused the audience to exclaim in amazement. The game hadn't started yet, so many people began to scramble to bet on Yuchi's Oolong Baoyue Foal team to win.

Bao Qi came back after showing off on the field.

"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!"