Maxwell Fa's Enlightenment in the Monastery Chapter 504

"What is the closing price?"

Li Longji looked at the prince beside him. Li Heng's voice was trembling when he answered, "Aye, the stakes for this game exceeded 20 million guan!"

Hearing this number, even Li Longji was stunned, but he then thought of the population of Chang'an City, which was one million, and the numerous noble families and wealthy foreign merchants. The 20 million strings of cash was not surprising. Shen Lang was right. The wealth of the Tang Dynasty was in the hands of these people. How much money could be squeezed from the common people? No wonder Guozhong called for increasing commercial taxes.

On the field, as the whistle sounded, when the Japanese and Silla Cuju teams started the game, the envoys and princes sitting in the vassal states all started cursing. Who could have thought that both Japan and Silla had invited Cuju masters from the Tang Dynasty to play on behalf of their own teams? If they had known this, they would have done so, and they would not have been eliminated so early. Maybe they could have even shown their faces in such a grand occasion.

"Kill those Silla dogs!" "Send those Japanese pigs home!"