choke element

After half an hour.

Amidst the suppressed and excited roars of countless people, under the steaming smell of sweat, Han Xi roared loudly: "Pull his leg! Kick! Kick to death!"

After yelling twice, he turned around and grabbed Jia Sidao by the collar: "How about it, I can't place a bet! Wealth is in danger!"

Jia Sidao repeatedly said: "Wait, wait until I see clearly, you said this..."

Before the words were finished, Han Xi turned around again, leaned out half of his body from above the railing, and waved his arms frantically: "Hit! Hit! Don't hold back!"

Around him, no less than dozens of luxuriously dressed men who looked either rich or noble yelled in unison, and a fat man who tore off his brocade jacket to reveal his hairy chest even shouted: "Beat! Kill Li Xunhuan!" ! I will pay you ten pennies to buy his life!"

As soon as the fat man said this, curses came from the opposite side of Langgan.Someone directly threw a handful of Xingzaihuizi into the soil field below, and shouted: "Yang Feixiang! If you win, these are all yours! One hundred guan!"

Encouraged by Baiguan Huizi, the strong man named Yang Feixiang yelled violently, clamped his legs, knocked Li Xunhuan to the ground, and captured him.

Li Xun Huan yelled and struggled, he stood up several times but was pushed back.

Jia Sidao thought that this fight should be over, but Yang Feixiang couldn't stop fighting, instead he punched Li Xunhuan in the face one after another.

This guy's fist was so heavy, every time he punched, there was a muffled sound in the dirt field, and Li Xun Huan's head was hit by the fist repeatedly hitting the ground and bouncing up again, gradually looking like a torn meat pancake.

The idlers standing in the tiles on both sides of the railing looked at it with a smile, showing no intention of obstructing it at all.

Seeing the blood splatter, hundreds of spectators shouted wildly and cheered loudly, and some people beat their chests and stamped their feet: "This Li Xunhuan is a top-ranked sumo wrestler who claims to put on his hat in front of him to threaten him with fists! Knowing that it is so useless, I lost to a Sanshou jungler!"

What everyone is currently in is a tile house located on the outskirts of Lin'an City, along the shore of the West Lake.

The so-called "Wazi", also known as Washe and Washi, is the synonym for the large-scale market in Bianliang City during the heyday of the Song Dynasty.At that time, the most famous tile in Bianliang City was the Daxiangguo Temple. The two verandahs in the atrium of this temple could accommodate thousands of people, and all business travelers and exotic goods traded in the world gathered in it.

After the Song Shi went south, the nature of Wazi changed.During the Shaoxing period, Yang Yizhong, who was in charge of the Chinese army at that time, had many soldiers from the Northwest and it was difficult for him to abandon his family and business, so he established tile houses inside and outside the city and called prostitutes to entertain them as a place for soldiers to entertain.

As a result, Wazi has gradually changed from the original trading market to a synonym for entertainment venues.Anyone who entertains people with sensuality is among them, which is the so-called "Goulan Washe".

A big benefactor like Jia Sidao is naturally familiar with this.He has heard of the eighteen tiles outside Lin'an City and the five tiles inside the city, and has been to many of them.Jia Sidao is even more familiar with the three restaurants, teahouses, Fencha hotels, and high-end restaurants in Dawa, Zhongwa, and Nanwa in the city, and the 13 Goulan in Beiwa.

But this tile does not belong to any of the 23 tiles. It is located on the side of the West Lake with dense forests, and it is deeply covered by many noble villas and manors. There are several checkpoints along the way.

Along the way, the two met people with swords several times blocking the way to verify their identities.Without Han Xi leading the way, Jia Sidao would never have been able to reach this place. Of course, he had never heard of this place before.

This place is also different from any other Goulan.

In Jia Sidao's other hooks, what he saw, such as dropping swords, hanging silk puppets, jumping ropes, and even sumo wrestling, dancing swords, were mostly performances rather than competitions, and most of the competitions themselves were limited to There is almost no direct confrontation or conflict.

But in this never-before-heard tile, this scene is obviously for real, what's the deal?
It's not that Jia Sidao has never seen a dead person, but he has never seen this kind of scene where blood splatters in the arena while others are smiling, and he almost held his breath for a while.

Until Li Xunhuan's feet twitched, he could only breathe out, but not breathe in.A sharp whistle sounded from somewhere, and the idlers who were watching from the rail turned over and jumped into the dirt field, grabbed Li Xun Huan's feet, and dragged him out.

Where Li Xun Huan's limp body passed, there was a bloodstain several inches wide.Just looking at the speed of the bleeding, Jia Sidao knew that this person would not survive half an hour without first aid.

Jia Sidao grabbed Han Xi's shoulders and dragged him back, and shouted in his ear: "It's going to kill someone! Then Li Xun Huan is going to die!"

Han Xi looked at Jia Sik firmly and said, "Brother Xian, is the fun in this place still exciting?"

"Yes, but..." Jia Sidao pointed at the bloodstain, stuttering for a while.

"Brother Xian, do you know where this is?"

"What's the point? Isn't it a special tile?"

"Haha, that's right." Han Xi and Jia Sidao took a few steps back and sat down again.

The two of them vacated the space next to the railing, and immediately other excited audiences made up for it.And beside the two of them, there were also people standing and shouting, so that the one or two couches they were on seemed to be a place for small conversations in a chaotic environment.

"Brother Shi Xian, your father used to be the county magistrate of Baoying County, Chuzhou, Huaidong. In just two years, such a fortune has been saved. However, the border trade between Da Song and Da Jin is more than what your father has seen."

Han Xi's change from fanaticism to calm conversation was completed in an instant, even Jia Sidao was stunned for a moment.

His first reaction was that Han Xi was testing something.So I deliberately didn't mention the Bohai Sea trade of the Ding Navy on the Huangshuiyang to the east, but changed the topic a little bit.

"In the past few decades, the Huaihe River has been crossed privately, and ridicule has been strictly prohibited, and the people are free to violate the law. I have heard that in the area from Huaixi to Jinghu Lake, the land is sparsely populated and the counties are weak, and treacherous people and profiteers appear on the border. In the meantime, it originated in Jiangxi, and the waves flowed in the north of the Yangtze River, because it engulfed thousands of young adults and shook counties and counties, and the imperial court could not control it."

"Border traitors, profiteers?"

Han Xi asked with a smile: "Brother Xian, smuggling at the border is so rampant, only in Huaidong, those treacherous people and businessmen leaked some scraps of good from their fingers, and let your father eat. The sea to the east of Baoying County Mao, what is the scale of the smuggling between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty in the thousands of miles west of Baoying County? To tell you the truth, there are 600 million guan in one year! Do you really think that it is something that traitors and profiteers on the border can do? Made it?"

Jia Sidao's heart moved, but his face still remained blank: "You mean, all these smugglings have our officials from the Song court behind the scenes..."

"Because the north is divided by the Dajin, the salt industry on the Kaifeng Mansion in Nanjing has to turn to the Song Dynasty. And the Song Dynasty has to make a decision on this, and there will be no result without two or three years of disputes. That's the case, the bottom Wen Wu had no choice but to find a way to maintain the situation. For this reason, a senior relative in the court and a senior official from Jingxiang on the border wrestled privately and reached an agreement."

This kind of secret inside the imperial court is really not something that a magistrate's son can easily find out, and a son of Zaifu, even the son of Zaifu who was beheaded because of the failure of the political struggle, is ten times stronger than Jia Sidao hundred times.

Jia Sidao nodded, wrote it down, and asked: "What does this have to do with the fight in front of us?"

Han Xi brought a cup of tea for Jia Sidao: "Brother Shi Xian, the reason these two people fought so fiercely just now is because the masters behind the two are each adhering to the meaning of a noble person. The two sides quarreled and quarreled. It is generally scheduled, but the losers have to vent their anger, the winners have to show their prestige, and even some trivial matters have not been discussed, or there are others who want to intervene a little... Each family will send out their own people who are good at fighting, and fight in this tile. Fight, whoever wins will get more benefits."

"Although this advantage is trivial outside of big business, it still starts with at least a few thousand guan. Those of us who have serious backgrounds in Lin'an City invest no less than a thousand guan in daily gambling. Compared with it, a mere one So what if a sumo wrestler is dead? Even if he once performed in front of His Majesty, does His Majesty still remember him? Those who want to perform here must first understand this point!"

"I see……"

Jia Sidao nodded again and again, got up and looked into the soil field again.

While the two were talking, Yang Feixiang knocked over another person.This match was even more brutal than the previous one. It turned out that it was not a sumo wrestling, but a fight with swords and cards.Relying on his strength and strength, Yang Feixiang cut off the opponent's group card with several consecutive slashes, and chopped off the arm holding the group card at the root.

When the wounded screamed and retreated, Yang Feixiang held up his weapons in both hands, showing off his might.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the gong sounded loudly from the height of the earthen yard, and another person leaped into the earthen yard vigorously.

This person doesn't hold the lion card, but only holds a plain knife, and his movements are as fast as a predatory beast.He rushed in front of Yang Feixiang, and with a flash of the knife, Yang Feixiang's head flew high, and the whole field was filled with blood full of anger!

At the same time, Jia Sidao saw the face of the man holding the knife clearly.

He stepped back, sat back on the spot, thought for a while, and sneered twice: "What a fun, interesting, and exciting!"

This person is clearly an old acquaintance of Jia Sidao, a member of the Red Coat Army who has fought in battle several times, and Yang You, who is known as the "Nine Kings" in the army.