It was another early morning, and the two princes were sweeping the streets on Zhuque Street.
There are two different types of street sweepers on Zhuque Street. The first type is the people who are originally responsible for keeping the place clean. They are the handymen under the city guard. They not only sweep the streets, but also clean the trees when the weather is dry.
Watering, responsible for the smooth flow of waterways on rainy days, and ensuring the cleanliness of the streets on weekdays.
This first type of person wears a bright red vest with the words "Clean Street" printed on the front and back.
There is also a category where everyone wears a sky blue vest with the word "Penalty" printed on the front and back.
Usually, the maximum number of people wearing red vests on Zhuque Street is sixty. You must know that the total length of Zhuque Street is almost ten miles. According to the calculations of later generations, the total length of Zhuque Street is 5020 meters and the width is 150 meters. Sixty people manage this street.
The streets are also hard work, but fortunately under strict orders, no one pours dirty water or throws away debris.
Today, there are more than 200 people wearing blue vests, and only eight people wearing red vests. The task of these eight people is not to clean, but to supervise the people wearing blue vests.
On New Year's Eve, if you drank too much or went a little crazy while visiting the park, especially on New Year's Eve, as many as 2,000 people were punished to sweep the streets in Chang'an City, including more than 60 women.
One reason was that I was too excited, so I did some extraordinary things, but they were not minor mistakes that would violate criminal law.
Even if some people injure others because of drinking, the master will not pursue the case and the punishment will be light.
Among the blue vests sweeping the streets, there were not only two noble men, Li Chengqian and Li Ke. Among them, there were dozens of young masters from the Xungui family in Chang'an alone. The most eye-catching one was not Li Chengqian, but the order of Yaozhou.
Cen Wenwen. His crime was drunk driving. After being drunk, he actually let the horse run away in Le Min Park while riding.
Therefore, he was fined three times and ordered to sweep the streets for five days.
The first street sweeper of the fourth grade in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
Cen Wenwen has nothing to be embarrassed about. He is not the first nobleman to be punished for sweeping the streets, and he is definitely not the last. It’s just that his official position is the highest at the moment, but he believes that there will probably be a higher level in the new year.
Officials will also be fined for sweeping the streets.
After scanning his paragraph, Cen Wenwen wiped his sweat and handed the sweat towel to his entourage. "Everyone is equal before the law. I'm afraid the Legalists will be very happy."
The entourage said softly: "You don't know something. After your incident was on the headlines of Chang'an Newspaper, the theory at the end of last year was that it was a manifestation of the great rise of Confucianism. The reason why aristocrats are valuable is that they know etiquette and are valuable in their pillars. So aristocrats are valuable.
Sweeping the streets is setting an example for the people, and it is also a sign of etiquette!"
"Nonsense!" Cen Wenwen laughed and scolded.
However, Confucianism is also making progress, and Cen Wenwen, as a disciple of Confucianism, does not object to this.
At this time, in the Admiral Tiance's Mansion, before the door was opened, Lao Cheng banged it down. The concierge thought to himself, who is so brave and dares to smash the door of Admiral Tiance's Mansion?
But as soon as he opened the door, the concierge was pushed to the ground by Lao Cheng. Several guards quickly took a few steps back when they saw that it was Demon Cheng.
"Your Highness, can you get up?" Cheng Motou shouted.
"Good morning, General Cheng. Your Highness is doing morning exercises in the Central Garden. I'm afraid he will be back for breakfast in half an hour." A squad leader from the Guards hurriedly came over to reply.
Cheng Motou strode inside and shouted from a distance: "I heard that His Highness asked the two boys to bet against each other. The loser will give up the land beside the dock. Old Cheng also wants to bet, and he must do it well."
bet!"
Li Yuanxing's scalp felt numb. Cheng Motou's voice was too loud, and it was still early in the morning.
"What does Lao Cheng want to bet on?" Li Yuanxing took a towel and wiped his face.
"I bet with Lao Hei on the shops at Dandong Wharf. Dandong is so small that it doesn't need too many shoe stores. There are only three stores between Lao Hei's shop and Lao Cheng's mine, so Lao Hei decided to bet with him and lose the store.
If we let it go, Lao Cheng can expand his business. Also, Lao Cheng also has a piece of land in Nanyang. Let's take a gamble with Zuo Lingwei. Also, that little shabby place in Nanyang Kuching only needs a paper mill. Lao Cheng and I
Niu wants to take a gamble, representing our Youwuwei. If he loses, he will be responsible for selling sugarcane bagasse. And..."
Lao Cheng was not done yet. He said that he was afraid that he would not be able to remember, so he took out a scroll from his arms, opened it and was about to read it.
"Lao Cheng, let's have breakfast!" Li Yuanxing said.
"Ah, I happen to be hungry." Lao Cheng laughed and stuffed the scroll into his arms: "Let's get down to business after eating."
Something unexpected happened to Li Yuanxing.
Just as breakfast was served, Brother Heitan also came. He wanted to make a bet with Lao Cheng for the shoe store in Dandong.
Li Yuanxing ordered: "Here, go and order the kitchen to prepare a banquet!"
Eat breakfast, what kind of breakfast? After hearing Yuchi Gong's words, he knew that at least twenty people came to Li Yuanxing's place this morning, including civil servants, military generals, and some second- and third-rate aristocratic families.
"How much is a shoe store worth?" Li Yuanxing ate some snacks by himself and served tea.
"It's worth more than a thousand guan. After one year, the profit is at least 1,300 to 400 guan. That shop supports a hundred members of my old Cheng family." Cheng Motou said the truth.
Yuchi Gong's shop is similar. It also supports more than a dozen families including some of Yuchi's family members or servants.
The two stores are too close together, and some of them fight for customers in the vicious competition.
They were all military commanders, so fights were common.
Li Yuanxing wanted to say, business competition. You people really don’t know that in the modern era, in some large shopping malls, dozens of brands of shoes are put together, and business wars are also fierce.
But no matter what, the people of the Tang Dynasty are the people of the Tang Dynasty. When they saw Li Yuanxing asking the two princes to make a bet, they also wanted to make a bet.
"Well, with such a small amount of money, it's too much trouble to play a football match." Li Yuanxing didn't want to accept the matter.
But Lao Cheng smiled: "There must be a rule, this Qian Guan thing. According to His Highness's gambling rules, if Lao Hei loses, he will give the store to someone for 800 Guan. So, let's change the gambling method
.”
Li Yuanxing thought for a while and asked someone to make two dice.
One of the dice has six events written on it: running, long jump, high jump, gun throwing, hurdles, and poles. On the other dice, there are three numbers: one, three, and five. One number on each side, and a total of three numbers on six sides.
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"Just bet on this for a trivial matter of less than three thousand guan. You can throw it away yourself."
"What about the big bets?" Brother Heitan grabbed the two dice in his hands and asked Li Yuanxing eagerly, because he also had several big bets. The bets were also on the port land and a workshop. You know, in Nanyang
How much money can a cannery make? It's not even a million dollars a year.
Speaking of larger areas, there are also mining areas.
Especially in two adjacent mining areas, it is inevitable that there will be fighting.
Li Yuanxing pressed his forehead, crying in his heart.
It's a mess, it's a total mess.
But if you think about it more carefully, business competition is also very cruel.
Service awareness, industrial quality awareness, channel awareness, etc. People in the Tang Dynasty did not have these yet. Everything was due to the rapid development, so a lot of knowledge was not popularized.
Forget it, you can gamble if you like, just think of it as a national fitness exercise.
"Let's do this, five big balls, two small balls. Let's use this ratio. In fact, some people in Chang'an are not unfamiliar with it, but they have never had a formal game."
The five major sports are football, basketball, rugby, baseball, and volleyball.
Volleyball can be said to be the least popular game in the Tang Dynasty, not because of the venue, but because it is not intense enough. After the protests of later guests, volleyball was canceled. But football, a game played only with feet, is extremely skillful.
Qiang, Cuju has been around since the Spring and Autumn Period, and is a familiar sport to both aristocrats and civilians.
It's just that Li Yuanxing improved the ball and the rules, making it more interesting to play.
Basketball is a small field. Only Datang can make the ball, and it is made of rubber. The unusual nature of the ball has made it a favorite confrontational sport among the military.
The two small balls are tennis and badminton.
It was originally a women's sports competition in Qin Wangzhuang, but tennis, especially, has become the favorite sport of the Guards.
Soon, many places outside Chang'an also learned it.
Cheng Motou took out a copper coin: "Old Hei, the front is tennis and the back is badminton. You win two out of three games. If you lose, the only milk powder business in Malacca will be Lao Cheng's."
"Bet on the shoe store first!" Brother Heitan held the dice.
"I also want to bet on the natural abaca forest on Luzon Island. The three armies are your old subordinates, Lao Cheng, but the other half are also my old subordinates. If this abaca forest is cut in a regular manner, it will be fine.
Guaranteed to be young every year. It happens that the two armies are evenly matched in baseball, so why not make a bet."
Even Qin Qiong participated.
Li Yuanxing knew about that area. The two armies were too close. Although they were taking care of each other, each could make his own money.
That large natural abaca forest represents tens of thousands of tons of high-quality fiber. It is cut down regularly to ensure that there is no problem with the fifteen thousand tons of dried fiber bundles every year. This is a lot of money.
You must know that Datang's current demand for abaca is increasing by two thousand tons per month.
"Well, the silk business in Japan does not need four companies. I think it is appropriate to keep two companies." Representatives of the Li family and the Li family in Longxi also came out to speak. The four companies competed cross-wise, and in the end the two companies with the most points were left.
With this kind of competition system, the people of the Tang Dynasty all knew the rules.
"Forget it!" Li Yuanxing really couldn't persuade these people.
"Let's make arrangements. The government will summarize the opinions and ideas put forward by everyone. Then start to arrange the competitions in sequence. Make an agreement first. Only when both parties involved agree, can they compete. The method of choosing the competition should also be determined by both parties.
Approved, there must be no forced participation.”
"Your Highness is wise!" everyone said in unison.
Ying Ming, Ying Ming Dandan. Li Yuanxing said in his heart, it’s not you people who have forced me to do this. At this time, Li Yuanxing had a vague feeling that this was also an interesting thing. Now they are fighting
These business interests, but one day, will they fight for the interests of the fiefdom? At that time, will they start gambling? Or fight? (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)