Chapter 299 Horse Racing (3)
"Xin'er, don't run around."
Seeing Lian Xin's excited appearance, Zhao Yue quickly told her, for fear that she would make mistakes. Women like them are the targets of many human traffickers. Zhao Yue had heard a lot before. In the last horse racing competition, a royal family member was kidnapped, which was her clan sister. Although she was found later and the traffickers were also confiscated and exterminated, the royal girl could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide by jumping into the river. The girl's mother was too sad and died of depression in just one year.
Even though they have hundreds of elite guards around them now, it is difficult to maintain any deviation. As the eldest sister, Zhao Yue must handle everything properly to avoid trouble for her husband.
"I'll take a look." Before coming, Lian Xin was also taught by Zhao Yue, so she naturally knew the danger, but she was attracted by the noisy scene. After getting married, she rarely came to such a lively scene, and there were only three days a year, so how could she not be excited?
"General, my wife, my master couldn't leave for a while, so he ordered his servants to come and take him in."
Before everyone could stand still, a handsome middle-aged man came over and saluted respectfully, followed by dozens of burly guards, invisibly emitting a murderous aura, allowing the people around him to subconsciously avoid it.
"Work is in charge of the business." Li Yu was naturally familiar with this manager. He was Wu Fang, the eldest son of Wu Yingyuan, and was a capable adviser. He heard that Wu Fang was a native of Chu and was a nobleman. He studied at Jixia Academy. For some reason, he was devoted to Wu Yingyuan, and was highly valued by Wu Yingyuan, who was responsible for the horse trading of Wu.
After relocating to his luxurious carriage, Li Yu glanced at the crowd surging in the distance, and was still a little worried, but he could only urge the whole city guards to cheer up.
After his generous work and the selection of the cavalry camp, Li Yu had the confidence that no one in the city guards would violate his orders at will, and the thorny noble soldiers also bowed their heads to their ears.
After bent around the sea of people, the carriage entered a castle. The tall wall blocked the noisy voices, as if dividing the inside and outside of the city wall into two worlds.
After the carriage stopped, Li Yu got off the car and saw the densely packed luxury carriages, one more luxurious and one more showing off his wealth. The luxury carriages of Li's mansion were parked in it, and instead became the most inconspicuous one.
Seeing this, Li Yu couldn't help but sigh that there are quite a few nobles and rich people these days. However, many of them should be the powerful and wealthy people of other countries. After all, an important purpose of this horse racing competition is to launch the good horses they cultivated by the Wu family ranch, and the nobles and powerful people of the various countries are the biggest consumers. As for the ** parties, they will not buy so blatantly. Even if they want to buy, the State of Zhao would not allow it. Therefore, the rest of the State of Zhao only purchased a batch of good horses through the hands of the State of the powerful. In this regard, Zhao's control over war horses was quite effective, which can be seen from the fact that Li Yu's cavalry camp became the only cavalry battalion in the world.
"General, Madam, Ying Yuan has never been to welcome him, so don't be surprised."
Lian Xin and his friends had just walked off the carriage, and a generous baritone voice sounded, and a middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes strode over. It was Wu Yingyuan, the eldest son of Wu's family, the helmman on the surface of Wu's family.
"Young Master, you are kind." Li Yu was also very polite in the face of the richest man in Zhao State. His cavalry and the war horses of the second camp of Hu Ben were all provided by the other party. Without the war horses, the two cavalry under his command would have been blind.
"General, Madam, please."
Walking up the wide steps, when you reach the city wall, a huge platform appears in front of everyone. On the top of the city wall, dozens of steps wide, there are erected one gorgeous pavilion after another. It is roughly estimated that there are no less than a hundred, and it looks spectacular.
It turns out that this castle is built at the highest point of the hill next to the racecourse, and the city wall is also in a slightly curved arc. From here, you can find that the sight is excellent and the bottom is clear.
Many pavilions were filled with nobles, and the horse racing competition had not yet begun, so the powerful and wealthy people were chatting, and some even talked about transactions. Seeing Wu Yingyuan personally welcomed him, everyone could not help but show curiosity in their eyes. You must know that as Zhao State is a wealthy man in the world, the people who can make this young master of Wu personally welcome him can only surpass the number of ten fingers in the world.
"Who is that person? Why haven't I seen him before?"
"I don't know, I haven't seen it."
"I wonder which family's son is the eldest son of the Wu family who value it so much?"
"The princes of Pingyuan Jun and Pingyang Jun are there, is it the princes of Pingling Jun?"
"It shouldn't be that the young master of Pinglingjun is not married yet, and those beauties are all dressed as wives."
"That's General Li."
"Who is General Li?"
"Do you think any other young man in Zhao can be called General Li?"
"It turned out to be General Li who captured Zhou Ding, no wonder."
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Under the introduction of some local nobles, the powerful and powerful people in other countries also knew Li Yu's identity, so it was not surprising that they were about Wu Yingyuan. Among the other powerful circles, Li Yu was not small, especially among the five Shandong countries, who could stand against the powerful Qin and win the Zhou Ding and defeat hundreds of thousands of coalition forces, but was in the limelight. Originally, many people thought that King Zhao would use this to confer the title of Li Yu, but unexpectedly, there was no movement. Just a little reward, there was no follow-up, which really shocked the powerful and powerful people in all countries.
"Those beauties are good. I never thought that in the future, there will be such good beauties in Handan City in Zhao State in a few years." In a pavilion, a pale aristocratic young man looked at the beauties who had just walked up, and his eyes were filled with unconcealed light.
"Tian Yu, you are so slutty and courageous. You dare to mess with that person. You must know that even your father, who is the prime minister, dares to say this." The young master sitting opposite the noble young man sneered, and a trace of coldness flashed when he looked at Li Yu and others.
"Zhao Biao, who is that?" After hearing what Gongzi Biao said, Gongzi from Qi asked in surprise. He really didn't know when there was such a person in Handan City. Zhao Biao would actually say that even his father Tian Dan dared to mess with him.
"Your father suffered a big loss just now, that's the commander of our Zhao army." He was praising Li Yu, but Zhao Biao was filled with rage. Since he was punished by Li Yu in the street last time, Zhao Biao has always remembered this shame, wishing to cut Li Yu into pieces, or even let the other party kneel at his feet and beg for mercy. But Li Yu stepped to the peak of the powerful step by step, but he was powerless and could only hide in the dark and resentful.
"He is that Li Yu?" After Zhao Biao said this, Tian Yu's eyes widened. If he hated someone the most, it was undoubtedly the General Zhao who failed his father. But he did not expect that Li Yu from the famous six countries would be so young and look younger than him.
It was precisely because of the loss of Yongcheng that the father of Prince Yi's father Qi Xiangtian Dan's prestige in China fell sharply, and the royal families jumped out one by one to accuse his father of ruining the country. If his father had not been deeply rooted in Qi, just this would have been the Tian family, their Tian family would have disappeared from the aristocratic level. How could this not make Tian Yan angry?
"Yes, why, do you want to vent your anger for your father?" Zhao Biao asked with a sneer as he looked at Tian Yu's gritting teeth.
"Haha, what's wrong? Today is a horse racing competition. I still want to have a good fight with this general, but I don't know if he has such a good war horse." After anger, Tian Yu laughed instead of anger. He would like to strike the young general's arrogance today.
"You bought the best war horse again?" Zhao Biao looked over with some surprise when he heard Tian Yu's words. He naturally guessed what the other party was talking about. Today's horse racing competition, in his spare time, these nobles would also organize some small gambling competitions. Several nobles each played for horses and won the winner in one bet.
"Yesterday, I just returned from the caravan of Yanmen, and one of the white horses was the leader of the wild horses, which cost me a total of three thousand gold." Tian Yu's face showed a smug smile. It would be a big profit to buy a horse king of three thousand gold. If outsiders knew about it, they would still not know how to envy him.
"The leader of the wild horse group? Horse King?" Zhao Chang, who was sitting there silently, couldn't help but look over in surprise when he heard Tian Yu bought a horse king.
As a top noble who is living a life of scattered life, Zhao Chang is not like his elder brother Zhao Biao. Running horses is his greatest and only interest. He spends less than ten thousand yuan on buying good horses every year. The leader of the wild horse group is a real nobleman among horses. It is hard to find a thousand gold, and there is no market for the price, so he can't find it. Zhao Chang only saw one in the palace. It was Zhao Wangdan's ride, but he is still fifteen years old and has no style as a king among horses.
How could Zhao Chang not be envious and jealous when he heard Tian Yu buy a horse king so lucky, and he was more regretful. He had been hunting outside these days, and he forgot that the most good horses were the time for horse racing. This horse racing competition was not only a feast for the Wu family horse farm, but also a feast for horse merchants all over the world. Even the Hu tribes would send caravans to buy and sell.
If it were him, Zhao Chang would be willing to pay for it even if he paid ten thousand gold. The leader of a wild horse can be called the king of horses, which is enough to be worth thousands of good horses.
"Lucky by luck." Seeing the envy in the eyes of Zhao Biao brothers, Tian Yu said modestly, but his expression was extremely proud.
"Then I wish Brother Yu a bad anger in his heart." Seeing Tian Yu's arrogant look, Zhao Biao felt unhappy, but his face was filled with a smile.
Unlike his younger brother, Zhao Biao's biggest interest is beauty, and riding a horse is second. His anger towards Li Yu was not only the last time he was humiliated, but also an important reason was that Li Yu married the two noble daughters of the most outstanding nobles in Handan City. In his sleep, he never thought of those two noble daughters. Whenever he thought of Li Yu pressing the woman he liked under his body to celebrate with pleasure, Zhao Biao's heart seemed to have been gnawed by millions of ants.
However, Zhao Biao, who loves beauty, also has a strong interest in horse racing. Who gave up these two things, there is nothing else worth playing with. A wild horse leader who is known as the horse king is enough to arouse his interest. Unfortunately, he knows Tian Yu's identity and has no hope of buying it from the other party. It is even more impossible to rob it. However, when he thought of letting Li Yu defeat him for a while, Zhao Biao felt extremely comfortable, as if he had seen Li Yu's loss.
Chapter completed!