Quan Yutianxia GL

At the beginning of November, the Liaodong Army officially set off from Muyang City. The reconnaissance and cavalry department cleared the Xianbei sentries and eyeliners in front, covering up the information transmission.

Until the soldiers approached the city, Yuan Taiyou, who was stationed in the Black Bone City, didn't react—sent troops in winter!Throughout the ages, very few people dared to send troops in the cold winter season of November. Could it be that this Liaodong army was not worried that a heavy snow would freeze the men and horses to death?Don't they worry that the snow will cover their retreat?

However, Liaodong is really not worried about this. When they first entered the city, they directly sent a letter of persuasion to the city. If they didn't get a response in a quarter of an hour, they directly hung up the flag and went to war.

Yuan Taiyou had never seen such an impatient army before. He had just put on his armor and came to the front of the city. Before he had time to ask who was the commander of the army under the city, he saw a stone with the size of a head being thrown into the city and smashed into the city. On the roofs of houses big and small, and even many soldiers and civilians running on the streets, all suffered such disasters.

"The catapult? Damn, how did these people set up the catapult so quickly?" Yuan Taiyou was stunned, and then cursed. After scolding, seeing that there were only a thousand soldiers under the city, he felt relieved and ordered: : "Quick! Send out two Xiaojia, lead people to fight out, and destroy those catapults!"

Xiaojia is an official position in Goguryeo. A Xiaojia leads about [-] troops. During the order, more than a thousand Goguryeo soldiers rushed out from the city gate. The bow and crossbow were raised, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of crossbows and arrows were shot from the opposite side, overwhelming the sky and falling directly into the Goguryeo army.

Although the soldiers of Goguryeo were generally armored, less than [-]% of their armor was equipped with iron armor. Most of them were leather armor and bronze armor. Within the range of a hundred steps, they couldn't stop the strong crossbow from the opposite side.

After several rounds of arrows and rain, the soldiers of more than a thousand Goguryeo collapsed, and even those who fled were shot and killed.

"Close the city gate! Quickly close the city gate!"

Seeing the unexpected and disastrous defeat in the battle, Yuan Taiyou had no choice but to let go of the retreating soldiers from the city, reluctantly ordered the city gate to be closed, set up several heavy crossbows on the city wall, and resisted the catapult carts below the city.

Standing on the temporary podium, Chu Rou held up a telescope to observe the enemy's situation in the city. Seeing that the enemy had already set up the heavy crossbow, she ordered to retreat fifty steps back.

As a result, the Liaodong Army withdrew from the range of the heavy crossbow on the city, and the catapult also lost its function. Chu Rou couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that this city guard general is not easy to deceive!"

She deliberately pretended to be so aggressive, but the opponent did not send a large number of soldiers. Instead, after suffering a small loss, they broke their arms to survive, and were extremely cautious.

At the same time, Chu Ning, who was far away in Shepherd City, was standing with Yan Lingge next to the battlefield model map in the military council office, discussing the war.

"There are high mountains on the left and right sides of Black Bone City, and the outer city wall is built section by section along the ridge. It is oval in shape, with a total length of more than [-] li, and can accommodate a hundred thousand people." Yan Lingge introduced to Chuning: "This There are three entrances and exits in the city, east, south and west, and the south gate is at the entrance of the valley, Chu Rou should lead troops here to lure the enemy."

"Sun Xing and Yang Dehou are at the east gate and west gate respectively?" Chuning pondered, "I see that the gates are far apart. If we divide our forces like this, aren't we afraid that Goguryeo will attack them all?"

In Black Bone City, the distance between the three city gates is basically a straight line, and there is a mountain stream separating the city. It is basically impossible for the three armies in Liaodong to support each other.

"With our army equipped with all kinds of weapons and the soldiers are full of energy and energy, if Goguryeo does not have three times as many troops to go out of the city to fight, it will undoubtedly be defeated." Yan Lingge picked up the wooden stick and pointed to the three gates of the Black Bone City : "There are only 2000 Goguryeo soldiers in Black Bone City, but they have to guard three gates respectively, that is to say, each gate has at most only more than [-] people."

"Based on our military weapons, even if we only send a thousand soldiers to each gate, it is enough to pose a threat to them." Chuning crossed his arms, looked at the terrain map and asked, "What if the generals of Black Bone City Didn't fall into our trick to lure soldiers, so why not stay in the city?"

"Then we can only attack by force." Yan Lingge picked up several blue pennant flags, inserted one in front of the east gate and south gate, and inserted two in front of the west gate: "Three gates attack at the same time, Divide their forces and attack Simon with heavy forces."

After all, it was the first time that the entire Liaodong Group took the initiative to use troops abroad. Although Chuning was quite confident in his own army, he was still a little worried: "According to President Yan, can this battle successfully capture the city?"

"Your Majesty, just wait a moment." Yan Lingge calculated in his heart several times, and comforted him: "It will only take ten days at most, and the good news will definitely come back."

However, this expected good news did not make Chuning wait until ten days, and it was presented to Chuning only on the seventh day.

"On the first day of the confrontation, the Goguryeo general Xiaozhong's plan to lure the enemy was executed by General Chu Rousi at the South Gate." After the messenger presented the victory report, he explained the battle situation to Chuning in detail: The general temporarily changed the attack tactics, and divided our soldiers into three shifts to take turns to rest. Regardless of the day and night, some people made loud noises to persuade them to surrender, or people beat drums to declare war. With no opportunity and no way to ask for help, he led his army out of the city and surrendered."

"Good! Very good!"

The first time he took the initiative to declare war to the outside world, he won the flag, and the victory was so neat, Chuning was overjoyed immediately, and quickly summoned the ministers of the government to start discussing the post-war matters.

When the meeting was over, Chuning couldn't wait to study ink and pick up a pen, and began to write a letter to Bai Su.

As usual, Chuning wrote an extremely long letter. First he greeted Anhao, and then he chatted about many things, such as the perfume Liang Boxin refined, the stock of dried salted fish in Liaodong, and other things that had nothing to do with the overall situation.

When Bai Su received the letter, it was already late November, and the knockout round of the gambling game had ended, leaving only the final round.

The finals of the three events were not held at the same time, but in the order of football, polo and Marseille.

From the start of the knockout round, Li Rui began to organize people to sell spectator tickets. The ticket prices vary according to the position. The gamble allows those who failed to participate in this shocking gamble to have the opportunity to participate; Bai Su was not idle either, and she also started selling something called 'lottery tickets' in the name of Kyushu Bank.

The lottery ticket is extremely cheap, it is printed on palm-sized paper, and costs three to five cents a piece, but the odds are higher than the gambling games at Qianjintai.The first prize is [-]% of the total amount of the current period; the second prize is [-]% of the total amount of the current period; the third prize is half of the total amount of the current period; the fourth prize is [-] cash; the fifth prize is [-] cash; The first prize is fifty essays.

The first issue was released for five days, and after the lottery was drawn, the lottery caused a huge commotion in the entire city of Chang'an.

It is said that there are three first prize winners, one of whom is a boat tracker on the Weihe River. This time, a few pennies were exchanged for two or three hundred guan. The legend.

When Bai Su opened two more lottery rounds, the final round of the game also ended.

The first prize of the football game was won by the Donglai football team brought by Bai Su, and the second prize went to a smaller family, which made the family smile with joy—their family only gave out [-] yuan to make up for it. It's so lively, but doubled the profit, how can you not smile?

Unsurprisingly, the first prize of the polo match fell to Yuan Shi, the second prize went to Zheng Shi, and the third prize went to Zhang Shi.

Of these three events, the most surprising thing is the horse racing - it has been extremely fierce since the knockout round. Yuan's horse racing team is unprecedentedly strong, defeating several teams one after another, and once became the favorite to win the championship with the Bingzhou team. On the betting table of the table, the odds even dropped to the level of [-] to [-].

However, in the first game of the final, the Yuan's cavalry drew the team of Bingzhou Liu Yunji, and the two battled for the front, and the Yuan's cavalry was eliminated.

The narrow victory of the Bingzhou team intensified the intensity of the game, attracting Chang'an people to watch it, and the betting odds of Qianjintai also fluctuated because of this.

Just when everyone thought that the Bingzhou team was expected, the Liaoxi team and the Zhangye team also broke out their strengths one after another and reached the finals strongly.

In the end, Wei Chuyan's Zhangye team won the championship, Xiao Hongfei's Liaoxi team won the second prize, Bingzhou Liu Yunji won the third prize, and lost a full 20 guan. He was so angry that he sent someone over to yell at the shady game.

Although Yuan Shixiang failed in his goal of winning the awards, he still earned 30 yuan. Although he was unwilling, he was not as extreme as Liu Yunji. I am also very proud.

After the bonus was paid out, Li Rui brought the account book to Heaven and Earth to reconcile the account with Bai Su.

"The three teams I sent here didn't win a single award, and all of the 30 yuan of gambling money was lost." Li Rui sighed repeatedly: "Selling tickets for the game, selling snacks... only [-] in total. Yu Guan, you can’t make ends meet, this time you’re at a big loss.”

"Look at this." Bai Su said, and put another account book in front of Li Rui.

"The account of Qianjintai?" Li Rui opened the account book as he spoke, and after a few glances, he was stunned: "This... this... is it all earned this time?"

"Yes." The corners of Bai Su's lips were slightly curved, and with a slight smile in his eyes, he took back the account book: "This is the remaining account after deducting the 30 gambling money from Qianjintai."

"..." Li Rui let out a deep breath, barely suppressing his excitement: "Even if my 30 gambling capital is removed, I have made nearly a million coins this time... I can't even imagine that this Chang'an city is so Hiding so much money!"

Bai Su handed over another book of accounts, and said in a slow voice: "Chang'an has a total population of about two million, and there are many wealthy families. Why only a mere million dollars? Just look at this."

This is an account for selling lottery tickets. So far, Bai Su has sold three lottery tickets in Chang'an City.There were not many buyers in the first phase, and the total amount was only less than [-] guan, but the second phase showed a double increase, directly breaking the [-] guan mark, and the scope of sales was not limited to Chang'an City, but the surrounding counties There are sales branches in every county.

"This is only the third period, and the total amount has already exceeded [-] yuan?" Li Rui took a breath while flipping through the accounts: "If this goes on, when every county and county sets up sales branches, how can the total amount of a single period be the same?" Wouldn't it be more than one hundred thousand?"

"One hundred thousand is only a conservative estimate." Bai Su said: "Lottery tickets are cheap, three tickets for one ticket, five tickets for two tickets, ordinary people can afford it, and people with a little extra money may buy a few more tickets at once. "

"But your profit..."

"In the future, this lottery will be changed to a monthly issue. 40.00% of the sales in the current period will be bonuses, 20.00% will be distribution costs, 20.00% will be adjustment funds, and 15.00% will be public welfare funds." Bai Su took back the account book , continued: "The last [-]% is the tax paid to Liaodong County."

"No profit?" Li Rui couldn't believe it: "Jiuzhou Bank spends so much time and energy on making paper and printing, yet there is no profit from the budget?"

"We have driven the paper mill and the engraving workshop." Bai Su said: "If the cost is well controlled, it can probably save 5.00% to [-]% of the profit from the cost."

Li Rui couldn't help shaking his head: "The profit is too thin, isn't it? What about the public welfare fund?"

Bai Su explained: "The public welfare fund will be used to set up rural schools, homes for the elderly, nursery homes, and homes for the disabled..."

"That's great!" Immediately, Li Rui became happy: "If these can be repaired in counties and counties across the country, all the lonely, old, disabled and weak people in the world will have shelter from the wind and rain..."

While the two were talking, Bai Qingmo came in to report that Eunuch An had come to heaven and earth.

Li Rui knew the nature of the emperor, and knew that he sent Eunuch An to ask for money, so he hurriedly helped Bai Su collect all the accounts.