"Rush! Come on! Rush Rush! "Even a big official with connotation like Di Renjie is roaring there!

The other sanctimonious officials also screamed hoarsely, their faces flushed, and their fists were bruised.

It is impossible not to be infected, in the magnificent huge building, which is now crowded with people of all kinds of accents but all speaking the same language, they come from all over the world, all colors and looks, but they all use Chinese, cheering for their favorite carriage combination!

This is the hippodrome of Constantinople, and it is also an arena, because everyone says that it is an arena.

Once a place where the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire enjoyed racing cars, it is now a new world for the Tang people, where they watch a wide variety of races.

In addition to the highly spectacle game, the key is to be able to gamble legally, that is, the official operation, and the audience bets on the game side!

Chinese people have strong gambling habits, but in addition to the official filing, the rest of the gambling is illegal.

Being able to gamble legally gives the Chinese people a channel to vent, so everyone is very enthusiastic.

The winner is gratifying, very happy, of course.

The loser is not sad, there is a self-comfort, a new big slogan added to the racecourse: "The racecourse profits, all for public welfare!" ”

It's Wei!

Therefore, as long as the Tang people say "I contribute to the public welfare", everyone will understand that this guy has lost the bet.

Now the Tang people know that public welfare has many aspects, and it is an important aspect of national rule.

De, for example, "boiling water", doesn't it mean that all the official people of the Tang people outside the Guanxi drink boiled water, and the poor people who have no money also drink boiled water? Part of the subsidized boiling water bill comes from the public welfare income of the racecourse!

Those who slander Wei say, "Wei is so smart that sometimes he doesn't need to spend a copper plate, and uses the money in everyone's pocket to help his public welfare undertakings and put gold on his face!" ”

Of course, there are also people who refute this statement: "As long as many rulers get money, they have in and out, and Wei can not be greedy, which is commendable!" ”

Wei's actions are very much, which has caused a great controversy among the people who eat melons, and a variety of opinions on Wei's views continue to collide in the court and the people, but no matter who it is, they have to admit that "the people have benefited from it, and there are many!" ”

And he is praised for one thing, he does not publicize publicly, for example, there are abridgements in the public welfare memorabilia reported to the imperial court, and he does not brag about himself (hehe, is there really such a live thunder / feng?). The intelligence agency behind it did a lot of work, but no one knew about the work of the remote intelligence agency at that time), so Wei won a reputation for "modesty", saying that he did more and talked less, and was vain.

The shouting on the racetrack was deafening, and in addition to everyone's natural instincts, the key was that this racetrack was the only place that would never have a high-end Byzantine style.

It's unique!

There were ancients before, but there were no people after.

"Ancients" means that it is exactly modeled after the Colosseum in Rome, but about 40 meters longer than the Colosseum, and such a structure will not be rebuilt.

The arena is 500 meters long and 117 meters wide, with many columns, as well as marble and bronze statues, and in the center stands an ancient obelisk brought from Egypt. The track, paved with sand, can accommodate eight horse-drawn carriages alongside each other, and the surrounding stands can accommodate tens of thousands of spectators.

The rough stone obelisks, with their gilded bronze cloaks, were well protected and plundered in battle, and they are ornate structures that shine in the sun.

The obelisk in the center... The Juodosi Obelisk, the oldest monument in Istanbul, is carved from pink granite with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and was built between 1549 and 1503 BC. This obelisk, originally located in the temple of Karnak (in ancient Egypt), was brought back by Emperor Theodosius in 390 AD, with reliefs of the emperor himself and his family on top.

The Snake Pillar is also an ancient sight on the racetrack. The small pillar, jutting out of an underground cavern, is a basin of gold supported by three entwined serpents, erected in the temple of Apollo at Delphi in commemoration of the defeat of the Persian army by the Greek coalition in 400 BC, and was later brought back to his new capital by Constantine the Great.

After seeing this obelisk, Princess Taiping pestered Wei (privately) and begged softly: "Where are we going to grab a few obelisks and pillars, and add reliefs of me, you, and our family on them, okay?" ”

Hehe, the true face of Princess Taiping is an out-and-out lady of the village, a robber mother-in-law!

Sometimes her greed for territory and material things was even fiercer than Wei's, and she spared no effort in supporting expansion.

Wei didn't have time to pay attention to the boring thoughts of a little woman like her, but he couldn't stop Princess Taiping from doing it herself, she had the power in her hands (in fact, he also caused it), and there was no shortage of officials who flattered her, so the remnants of the stone pillars of the Greek Agamemnon were loaded onto ships by her officials and transported to the East. (Excessive weight, inconvenient for train transportation)

As a result, the ship sank halfway, and the stone pillars were all collected by the Sea Dragon King. . . The Dragon King also wants to use it to decorate his Dragon Palace.

Princess Taiping was taken aback, and her heart to do such a bad thing was restrained for a long time.

People at the time were superstitious, and someone told Princess Taiping that why Constantine the Great was able to put the obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmos III in the temple of Nacke was because it was a new dragon against an old dragon.

"Your Majesty, if you want to get a (antiquity) souvenir, you have to find another dragon to come out and suppress it!"

Another dragon?

Isn't that her husband!

In the end, she succeeded, taking advantage of the promise that Wei would give her a gift on her birthday, and she asked Wei to help her get a souvenir.

Wei Ai's wife was so heartfelt that he personally went to the Philae Temple in Egypt and transported the flower pillars in the temple back to the capital for placement.

It's also amazing to say, others can't be lucky, he used the sea ship by hand, all the way was calm, and returned to the imperial capital safely!

Princess Taiping carved her own appearance on the stone arches on those pillars, and recognized herself as the new goddess of love, Isis, who was in charge of fertility and reproduction, not only in charge of fertility, but also the patron goddess of all!

……

This is a matter of the future, and now the competition is very fierce, and almost everyone is unenthusiastic, but Wei just clapped his palms, and Princess Taiping, who was sitting next to him, asked him if he didn't like it.

"Like, but not intense enough!" Wei said.

"You've seen more intense?"

"Of course!"

"Where did you look?"

"Ben-Hur!" Wei replied mysteriously, and a look of amazement appeared on his face.

Ben Hur is an action movie about a Roman carriage race, filmed violently, with a very intense car chase, but you can't go back to it!