Chapter 19 Changes in the Arena
The streets of Jinling City are slender and narrow. In addition to the street-facing shops, there are also various small stalls on both sides of the street. The shops have stores, most of which sell clothes, medicinal materials, antiques, and martial arts halls. The small mobile stalls sell some food, toys, etc., and each has its own division of labor. All of them have to pay protection fees to the Queen of Jinling City, Hujie.
The narrow and long streets are filled with people coming and going. Bai Yu and Liu Yingying are pushed forward by the crowd. They will go to the most prosperous and lively place in Jinling City without having to tell the direction.
The two walked on the long street. After Liu Yingying had money, she started buying and buying. She always stopped in front of the interesting and boring stalls. She couldn't stand it until she was pushed by the crowd and couldn't stand it. Bai Yu walked slowly in front with her hands behind her back. From time to time, a beautiful girl would come up to chat with her, but she refused one by one.
The two of them followed the crowd and walked forward a distance. Noisy noise came from the front. At first glance, they could see the majestic buildings standing in the distance. Liu Yingying saw the excitement and took Bai Yu's hand and moved forward, and was very clever in the crowd.
Bai Yu held her right hand and refused. She felt that her little hand was soft and cold, and she had a desire to protect and hold it tightly. However, this desire for protection was not for Liu Yingying, but for Lenggongyue. Bai Yu thought of Lenggongyue from Liu Yingying's back, thinking of the short, happy and somewhat regretful time with her, thinking of Lenggongyue's little hand was cooler than Liu Yingying, Lenggongyue's body seemed to be a piece of ice that could never be warmed. Lenggongyue's eyes returned to her former alienation, and Bai Yu's heart was tangled into a group.
There seemed to be a ghost in front of him. It was the shadow of Leng Gongyue overlapping on Liu Yingying's body. Bai Yu couldn't help but hold the other party's hand tightly: "Gong Yue, how can you warm you, Gong Yue." He asked again and again in his heart.
Liu Yingying could not guess Bai Yu's thoughts at this time. She did not realize that she had become someone else's substitute. She felt the force conveyed by Bai Yu's palm and was very happy and sang loudly towards the majestic building ahead.
The building is 100 meters high and has a circular shape. You can see a general outline when standing in the distance. When you are close, you can't see the end at all. In front of you, there are white walls, and there are entrances and exits for tourists to enter and exit. People in uniform dress stand in front of you to sell tickets. A ticket costs ten taels of silver is not worth mentioning to the rich, and for the poor, it is the sum of income for two or three years. Just these ten taels of silver makes it impossible for the poor to enter the interior of the majestic building.
There is no doubt that this is one of the most distinctive places in Jinling City. The arena was founded by Linghu Xuanzhou. The original intention was to satisfy the men's bloodthirsty and curious desire instinct. During the period of Linghu Xuanzhou, there was no charge for watching fighting skills in the arena. They opened gambling games on the field to serve as the banker, using the winners and losers as the banker, and bets freely. All income was obtained through gambling commissions. At that time, the arena was the only place in Jinling City where the poor and the rich live together. Whether you have money or not, you can spend a lot of money on the fighting skills you are optimistic about in the same stands.
All of this changed fundamentally after Sister Hu took over the arena. Sister Hu settled into the position of King Jinling City and reformed the arena according to her own ideas. The first move was to transform the arena from free entry and exit to charged entry and exit, and to start charging ticket fees, with a ticket price of ten taels of silver. These ten taels of silver are insignificant for the rich, but for the poor, it is astronomical. It can be said that Sister Hu's move is to turn the arena into an entertainment place exclusive to the gentry!
The two paid the money and went in. When they arrived inside, they saw a total of eighteen floors of stairs. The back twelve rows of seats were continuous benches, with bluestone tiles on the surface; the front six rows were separate seats with marble on the surface, and there were only seven seats closest to the competitive arena, all located in the east.
This is the second move made by Sister Hu after taking over Jinling. She designated the six rows of seats closest to the arena as VIP seats and set up exclusive seats. The first row is the honorary VIP, and the second row is the ordinary VIP. Looking at the number of honorary VIPs in the entire Jinling, there are no more than ten people, and they are all figures that even Sister Hu needs to win over and flatter. The threshold for ordinary VIPs is relatively real. As long as you pay 5,000 taels of silver, you can get the qualification certification of ordinary VIPs. It is worth noting that there is no limit on the quantity of ordinary VIPs, that is, as long as you pay enough fees, you can get an exclusive pure gold ordinary VIP waist card that symbolizes status. This waist card is forbidden by the monk who breaks the precepts, and there is no possibility of forgery.
Because there is no limit on the number, the VIP guests who come to the arena to watch fighting competitions with their waist cards every day are far more than the VIP seats. The VIP seats are located on a first come first served basis. If there is a forced grab, the staff in the arena will be responsible for handling it.
After Sister Hu introduced the VIP seat system, there were endless streams of people coming to buy VIP waist cards. It was not because of this initiative that they did not know that there were so many rich people in Jinling City. In the past two years, this initiative alone has increased the income of three million taels of silver to the Order of Phoenix (formerly Qinglong Gang), which is equivalent to the total tax revenue of the entire country in half a year.
The design of the arena is very interesting. It leads directly to the fifth floor of the audience seat from the entrance. After that, the roads are separated, one goes upwards and the other goes downwards, and you can choose whatever you want. The arena is crowded, and even if the ticket fee is as high as ten taels, it still cannot stop people from watching the bloody fighting skills. Men's desire for blood comes from the remaining animal nature in their bones. If humans were not so good at fighting, they would not eventually dominate Jiuzhou and command the world.
The wild shouts were rising and falling, and the entire arena was immersed in the carnival atmosphere, and people's eyes were filled with madness. Even if Liu Yingying was as beautiful as a fairy, Fang Baiyu had no time to take care of her appearance than Pan An. Here, only the flying blood and life are the only things worthy of people's attention.
Finally, I found a not-so-crowded place. Looking around, the ring was divided into three parts - the largest main ring, facing seven honorary VIP seats; two smaller auxiliary rings were distributed on both sides of the main ring. This is the third reform measure of Sister Hu's fighting arena.
In the past, there was a fighting competition in five rings at the same time. Each ring had a long-term champion. There was no difference in the performance of the ring, facing different positions and taking care of people from all aspects. Now it is different. Sister Hu divided the stages into the main ring. The main ring is the main performance venue, and all the finale shows are performed in the main ring. The auxiliary ring is the auxiliary performance venue. The stimulation level of the performance content is far less than that of the main ring.
In this way, only a few of the honorary and ordinary guests can fully see the competition process on the main ring, while people in other positions cannot see clearly or at all even if they want to watch the competition, and can only be forced to watch the competition on the auxiliary ring. As a result, people with the highest power enjoy the most special care and gain a sense of superiority over the people.
Sister Hu's three-step transformation of the arena was actually all about catering to the upper class and suppressing the common people. Compared with Linghu Xuanzhou, she adopted an attitude of exploitation and exploitation of the lower class people in Jinling City, while Linghu Xuanzhou also attracted him in the exploitation, and even the Beggars' Sect stationed in the city was used by him.
A glimpse of the whole picture is revealed. The two's unique attitude towards life has led to the dissatisfaction of the lower class of Jinling City's rule of Tiger Sister, and the satisfaction of the high-level leaders of Jinling City's rule of Tiger Sister. During the Linghu Xuanzhou period, what he could not handle was those people with high positions and power, and they were in a confrontation with them. Because of his great power, the upper nobles did not dare to act rashly.
One is a real hero who is made with his fists, and the other is a strong woman who is a strong man who has become the leader by killing his own men. The two cannot simply say who is right and who is wrong. Both are in their respective positions, and have a unique world outlook and unique attitude towards the world due to their different development processes.
So people, family environment is very important. After a person who gets up from the mud, he will inevitably win over a group of good brothers who are also rolling in the mud and prove his value with his fists; when a person who has learned to flatter and learns to curry favor with others, he will inevitably make more attentive to make friends with the powerful and powerful people after he gets powerful; when a person has a wealthy family and has not experienced the sufferings of the world, he will definitely reform and establish his own ideal country according to his own ideas. Such a person can bring happiness to people, because his ideals must be the best, and the most perfect world will not be filled with extreme violence, nor will it be filled with vanity of oppressing the lower class to please the upper class to firmly sit in his position. The new world that such people strive to create must be the closest to perfection!
Unfortunately, there are very few people like this!
Too many grassroots people! Because only grassroots have the ambition to become a big tree one day, and the branches that are on the forks rarely think about being able to climb to the top of the tree one day, they think it is already very good now.
The changes in the world are always so subtle. There are too many things in the world that human power cannot control. Even a hero like Linghu Xuanzhou will fail because of Ye Fei's appearance. What is the most lacking in the world is the strong. No matter what situation he is in, no matter how huge resources he has mastered, it is very critical to constantly polish himself and increase his own strength. Otherwise, he will be knocked down one day.
Chapter completed!