Chapter 122: How to ride this thing

August 20th, Camp Clearwater.

The horse market, which lasted for eight days before and after, seemed particularly lively on the last day. Many unsold goods had their prices lowered as merchants were eager to get rid of them, leading to another wave of trading.

In addition, this year there is also a novelty – horse racing. Led by the newly-appointed Imperial Inspector, many horse officials signed up to participate in the event, and the three departments of Shaanxi sent officials of the fourth rank or above to support the event, and even the Shaanxi governor, Mr. Wei, was personally present at the event.

Mr. Wei name Quan, the word Tang Yuan, about forty years old, square cheeks wide forehead white face micro-whiskers, looking at the instrument hall official phase full, or serious two list of scholar origin, can not be said to have no talent. But Su Yan’s impression of him is limited to a request for the abolition of the two temples of the folding, it is suspected that he is in the development of armaments on the situation of some short-sighted.

He had inquired about Wei Quan’s person beforehand from the accompanying brocade guards.

From the Jin Yiwei sentry strongholds back to the intelligence, this person for the official is quite clean, not corruption and bribery, good at managing the household registration and money and food, in the communication between the governor and the prefectures and counties quite a set. In addition to often hanging out in the streets, there is no big problem.

Su Yan silently gave Inspector Wei a comprehensive rating of his business level in his heart – “b level”.

Wei governor still do not know what the new imperial historian what temperament, what techniques, but at the moment of seeing the real person, the heart also habitually hit a face level comprehensive rating – “A on”.

With an ulterior motive, Gao Shuo secretly put his eyes behind his back and said to Su Yan, “Lord Su, pay attention to this person Wei Quan, he likes beauty and travels on land and water.”

Oh I know, Governor Wei is bisexual, Gao Shuo you are so gossipy, Su Yan has a cold face.

Nowadays he is almost numb to the prevalence of men’s style in the Daming Dynasty – in a sense, the style is more open than in modern times, and the erotic culture is so developed that you can get a glimpse of it just from the book “Plum in the Golden Vase”.

What is more staggering is that, although there are still some on the table, official occasions are not good to openly take out to say, but the civil acceptance of the south wind is really surprisingly high.

In this dynasty that could be called magical, Long Yang was almost regarded as a normal and common hobby. With the exception of those who defended the ancient ways, the public did not associate it with a person’s character and cultivation. This culture made it difficult to clearly define “friendship” and “long yang”, and the so-called “reciprocating with one’s own body” or “mutual admiration” was often regarded as the most common hobby. Whether the so-called “reciprocate with one’s body” or “mutual admiration”, it is often regarded as an extension of “friendship”.

All in all, as long as the sleeve breaks pure, breaks faithful, do not like a certain Prince that like changing male favorites like changing clothes, two same-sex best friends with the body to exchange true love, it seems to be no big deal.

What is the definition of “fidelity”? According to the people of this dynasty, the focus is on the heart. Even if the body is a flirt, as long as the lover is in the heart, and can die for him, it is considered faithful, and the other party also agrees with this kind of fidelity.

If the person concerned is of high moral character, and the love affair is covered with a layer of “chastity, loyalty and righteousness” moral aura, then not only will not be dishonored, but will also make the crowd sigh in admiration.

This trend, Su Yan came to this dynasty for a full year, still feel a little broken three views.

When confronted with Takasaku’s caution, he rolled his eyes and replied, “You’re overthinking it.”

As it turns out, Gosaku was indeed overthinking things, guarding the fence gate for the Shangguan, guarding it as a bird of prey.

Wei how to mess with male and female male relations, at most, also subterfuge a lap pupil, will not be so outrageous as to hit the idea to the imperial court sent to the imperial historian. But because the young imperial historian is really very consistent with his aesthetic, he also do not begrudge more appreciation of a few eyes, with people more than a few sentences.

Of course, the main reason is that, Su Royal Historian quite get the favor of the Holy Spirit. Not long ago in Yan’an city because of the ringing horse thief prison robbery involved in danger, even alarmed the holy hear, pigeon letter order him to send a thousand elite soldiers special protection, he was scared out of a cold sweat, for fear that the people in Shaanxi out of a long and short, the emperor to take the wrath of him.

Visible this Su twelve is really a royal red, and was ordered to investigate the things he played, what else can be done? Coaxing.

Su Yan and Wei Quan humbled each other as they took their seats, and ended up sitting side by side at the head of the stands.

Wei inspector surveyed the divided race track, uniformed judges and supervisors, as well as the advertising banners pulled by businesses on both sides of the race track, felt very novel, stroked two moustaches to Su Yan: “In ancient times, there was Tian Ji horse racing, Sun Tzu won by betting on horses with the art of war, and was appointed by the King of Qi as a military advisor, which led to the later battle of Ma Ling, a great defeat of Wei. Today, Su Royal Historian wants to follow the example of his predecessor?”

Su Yan was ashamed, I just wanted to fix someone to establish authority, and on the way to earn some money to buy a sword for my guards.

He laughed and replied, “What virtue and ability does the next official have, how can he dare to be comparable to Sun Tzu, even picking up the wisdom of others can not be considered. It’s mainly just to join in the fun and give the Clearwater Camp horse market a boost.”

Wei Quan saw his humility and felt that Su XII was much better than the rumors, seeing that the rumors were misleading, so his face became more springy and warm.

The participating officials have just finished counting the names, except for a few who are sick or really can’t make it, all of them have arrived. Each wearing light military clothing, holding a horse whip, strong spirit, standing in the squarely planned preparation area waiting for the field.

Because of the tall, short, fat, thin, old and young are very different, at a glance it looks like a square tripod stewed in a big mishmash, turnip long potato flat, some of the words are difficult to describe.

Su Yan smiled as he scanned the room and instructed the announcer to announce the rules of the match.

The announcer is a practiced lion’s roar of the loud young man, voice line high-pitched loud comparable to the latter-day megaphone, the first time in this kind of 10,000 people in the spotlight on the occasion of the headline, nervous want to hiccups, hand clutching the script.

The rules are simple: the participants are divided into six teams according to the department in which they serve. Horses are also divided into six batches, and the captain draws lots to decide which horse his team will drive, and runs ten laps around a circular track, with the fastest winning the race.

First, there was an individual competition, in which each team nominated three people to participate. The total time spent by the three people will be added up to the score of each team, and the first, second and third place winners will be awarded. The prize money is generous.

Then there is the group race, also called the friendly race, where everyone can run as they please, and there are prizes for those who reach the finish line within the time limit.

It sounds very harmonious and focuses on participation, rather like the activities of labor unions in later generations of institutions.

After hearing the rules of the race, the officials have been relieved, that Su Royal Secretary is to use the horse race to do a reunion activity, by the way to take them to pay the judging fee to send out benefits. Early to say that, causing them to rush all the way to the Qingshui camp, the unknown situation in the heart of the nervousness is very much.

The six teams, the three candidates for the single race were quickly settled, all young, strong and well ridden, and then the drawing of lots began.

The signature is a bit strange, it is not a horse breed or a number, but “Kaicheng, Guaning, Anding, Qingping, Wan’an, Heishui”.

“What does …… mean by signing two words?” The contestants cross their fingers and ask each other.

An official immediately recognized it, “This is the name of the Six Courts!”

Shepherding official horses in six courts. Under the Lingwu, Changle two supervisors. And the two prisons are subordinate to the court horse temple and the line too servant temple.

The fences at the end of the track slowly opened and six lots of racehorses were driven out.

The participating officials looked with wide eyes at-

Skin broken ridge wear horse, bone high hair off the horse, walk two steps on the four feet trembling horse, neck rickety mouth foaming horse …… a horse without half a bit of fat, the body of the bones are all pronged out, said hoof damage muscle thin are also raised, is simply skin and bones.

It’s not a horse, it’s not even a fucking guard dog!

The officials are still stunned: how can you ride this kind of thing? How can you ride this thing? You won’t even be able to stand, you’ll be on the ground before you even sit on it, so how can you race it? And run ten laps?

Qingshui camp horse market is unprecedented, so many Tiqi from the North Desert, randomly select a number of can, actually take the six court raised official horse as a racehorse, the organizers this is the brain into the water?

脑子进水的苏御史，笑微微地朝播报员颔首示意，于是那青年就更紧张了，磕磕巴巴吼：“请、请各队队长立、立刻抽签，决定各队的参、参赛马匹！”

Does it make a difference which batch you smoke? Both are worse than dogs ……

The captain of the Yuanma Temple team was Li Rong Li Siqing, and he drew a lot with “Qingping” written on it when the sign box was handed to him first.

He raised the signet and asked the player, “The horse from Qingping Court. How is this official’s hand?”

The Qingping Yuan caught in the team Yan Chang cold sweat seeped out, immediately whispered: “No way, Lord Li! Despicable court …… last time by a surname Su fake horse merchants pit a sum of money, and by the Ningxia Wei’s Zhang Qiandu swept through, and now the rest are crooked and cracked date, can not be used!”

Li Siqing’s rounded face lost its smile immediately.

The others rushed in with the idea, “Re-smoke!”

Li Siqing walked over with a big belly and put on his official voice, asking for a redraw. The jinyiwei holding the stick in his hand ignored him and turned to the other team.

This team was the representative team of the Row Tai Servant Temple. Because Yan Cheng Xue Yan Siqing was confined, his deputy Xue Shaoqing took over as captain and drew lots on his behalf.

Xue Shaoqing drew a “Valium”.

Lingwu Supervisor’s Wang Jianzheng face is also green, he has picked and picked and sold the official horses of Anding Yuan, the horse skin has been peeled off a few layers, what is the virtue of the rest of the horses, can not be clear? Immediately also called out: ”This also can not! Lord Xue na, hurry up and change the sign!”

Xue Shaoqing had also heard a lot about the quality of the Supervisory Court’s official horses, so he was busy accepting good advice and said to the Tea Horse Division’s team on the next track, “Change or not? ‘Valor’ is good, at least it’s better than the ‘Kaesong’ in your hands!”

Bah! The ambassador of the Tea and Horses Department said, “Who doesn’t know what kind of character the officials of the six courts have developed? The “stability” and “open city” are all the same thing, and even dragged us into bad luck. We tea horse division although not many horses, but at least it is also with the northern barbarians, xifan mutual market to get, even if you take are others out of the goods, but also than you raise the official horse strong!

Ambassador Xu glared angrily, “No change, ‘Kaesong’ is ‘Kaesong’!”

Xue Shaoqing searched around, the sign was not exchanged out, and returned to the original place, bitterly said to Li Siqing: “Lord Li, I see you are also worried, why don’t we exchange?”

Li Siqing hesitantly looked at the sign in his hand and asked his subordinates in an undeterred manner, “Does anyone know how the horses of ‘Valium’ are?”

The subordinate stammered for a moment and finally confided in him, “It’s all the same, Lord Li. Let’s put it this way, some herdsmen have made up a song that says, ‘Ride a donkey, ride a cow, ride a boar, but don’t ride a horse from the Six Courts.’……”

The announcer’s loud voice rang out: “Attention all teams, the race requires that the horse and horse arrive at the finish line at the same time, if you can’t run, then dismount and lead, if you can’t lead, then drag, if you really can’t drag, then pack. Either the horse carries the person, or the person carries the horse! No matter what, you must bring the horse and the people to the finish line. If you abandon your horse and run away, the Jinyiwei will serve you with a cane!”

Li Siqing’s hand loosened and the sign snapped to the ground.