From to 1935 2020

The Sea Race Association was established in Shanghai in 1850 by 5 foreign nationals including Hogg, who served as directors themselves.They "permanently leased" 81 mu of land at a price of less than ten taels of silver per mu, and built Shanghai's first racetrack, the Old Park.

1854年，跑马总会把老公园分10块每亩超过200两银子的价格卖出。而从浙江中路南京路两侧以9700两银子的价格圈定了第二个跑马场——新公园。1861年，他们又以100036两银子的价格卖掉第二个跑马场，而在今人民公园处强圈了500亩大小的第三个跑马场。

The Jockey Club implements a board of directors system consisting of seven members.The directors are elected at the basic membership meeting of the Jockey Club held every year, and there is one chairman.The secretary of the board of directors is a full-time manager.There are two departments under the general association: one is the club, which is located above the stands of the racetrack hall, and has a pétanque room, billiard room, restaurant, bar, and card game room.The second is the racecourse, where there are consultants, deacons, supervisors and other positions, most of which are held by members of the general association.

After 1908, the Jockey Club began to recruit a small number of Chinese as informal members (there are three types of names: honorary members, hired members, and social members).At that time, the Race Club had 320 formal members and 500 informal members.Formal members and non-formal members have the same requirements for paying membership fees, both of which are 10 yuan per month, but there is a big difference in rights. Non-formal members can only participate in horse racing on festivals.

The Jockey Club only organizes the horse races and does not provide horses. The participating horses are raised by the horse owners.Apart from tickets, the income of the Jockey Club mainly comes from the betting commission during horse races.They adopt the method of listing fixed quota lottery. After the owners of each gambling stall pay a deposit to the racetrack, they set up a stall to gamble in the venue. The profit and loss are the responsibility of the stall owner, and the racetrack takes profit.

After 1909, in order to pursue greater profits, the Race Club changed to issuing lottery tickets before horse racing.Set up jackpot, second lottery, third lottery and zero lottery and many other prizes of different sizes to lure everyone to buy.Among them, champagne tickets are issued the most, each 10 yuan.The jackpot has gradually increased from 10 yuan to 15 yuan to more than 22 yuan.It is said that the probability of winning the champagne ticket is one in [-], and it is even more difficult to win the jackpot.So at that time, there was a popular ballad on the beach: Champagne tickets were sold everywhere, sucking the blood of the Chinese people, and filling the pockets of the big boss behind the scenes, the British.

In the Jockey Club during this period in 1935, the person who did the dirty work of betting on horses was Huang Jinrong, a famous youth gang leader in Shanghai.

Elena helped Huang Jinrong's daughter-in-law to detoxify and gained Huang Jinrong's friendship. In return, Huang Jinrong's daughter-in-law gave Elena a good horse. There will be a racehorse that is about to "retire"-because it is older, it is no longer at its peak, and it cannot run well.Originally, according to the bird virtues of foreigners, these retired racehorses were "executed" directly. The reason was to prevent genetic confusion. In fact, it was to prevent people from being used for breeding.Everyone understands the virtues of foreigners, ghosts, and white-skinned animals.

After Elena got the horse, she made a request the next day: she would participate in the upcoming horse race.After Elena and Huang Ke came to China, Elena was dressed in a blond and blue-eyed pure-blood Caucasian, which made it very convenient for her to walk in the concession area. She was always mistaken by foreigners as "noble pure-blood Caucasian". The former Jockey Club approved her membership application.

Elena wanted to ride the "old horse" that was about to retire to the game, and she didn't encounter much resistance.A good horse with a beautiful woman is a great boo to attract the attention of the audience. It's too late for the people at the Jockey Club to be happy.A British "gentleman" at the Jockey Club even "kindly" wanted to change Elena to a better horse for her to use in the race - this British gentleman was somewhat fascinated by Elena, probably because he wanted to treat her Offered favor, but was rejected by Elena.

After Elena got the horse sent by Huang Jinrong, she came to the racecourse of the Jockey Club to compete on the third day. Before the event, the news of "a noble lady from Europe going to race the horse" had already passed through the Shanghai Bund. Newspapers spread the hype.

In the spirit of watching the excitement (beauty), on the day of the race, more than 3000 spectators flooded into the racecourse, and the proceeds from the sale of tickets alone made the people of the Jockey Club so happy from ear to ear.And the total amount of horse bets received that day was as high as 650 million, of which Elena's total bets in the last game were as high as 210 million.

Everyone is very happy.

Huang Ke and Elena were also very happy, because before the race, Huang Ke placed a bet of 80 yuan on the horse that Elena was riding. If Linna wins the first place, she will have a profit of [-] oceans.

"Mr. Huang, you bet too much. That "Silver Lightning" looks like a good coat, but it has already passed its prime, and it hasn't won a championship for a whole year and a half."

Before the race, John, a British director of the Jockey Club, sighed to Huang Ke.On the surface, this gentlemanly British man seemed to be lamenting that Huang Ke made a wrong bet, but in fact, this guy was gloating in his heart.

"Miss Elena, a beautiful white princess, actually followed such a yellow-skinned monkey..."

Because of her beauty, Elena is considered a "celebrity" in the foreign circles in the concession, and has countless admirers (greedy about her body). Even Huang Ke, who claims to be "her man", has also been raised in value and become a No "celebrity" - but a "celebrity" who was secretly cursed by countless foreigners who gritted their teeth with hatred.

When Director John expressed sympathy and regret to Huang Ke with a smile on his face, he was thinking in this way:

"One hundred thousand oceans, what a big bet! It's better to lose you to death, because you go bankrupt and jump into the Huangpu River..."

But Huang Ke smiled disapprovingly: "That's just a month's pocket money my father gave me, as long as Elena is happy, it doesn't matter if I lose... Well, the competition is about to start, we Go and explain to Miss Elena."

Huang Ke pretended to answer him in American English, regardless of whether the English gentleman could understand it or not.

After saying this, Huang Ke walked to the side of the race track. Elena's seat was on the outermost lap of the track, closest to the audience seats.Thirty seconds before the start of the game, Huang Ke walked outside the fence beside her, stretched out his right hand, and shook Elena's white-gloved right hand.

The moment he shook hands, he handed a thumb-sized crystal to Eileen, and after Eileen took it, she pretended to tidy up the harness, and embedded the crystal into a hole that had been prepared on the saddle for a long time. Stick to the body of the horse.

Thirty seconds later, with the sound of the starting gun, the gates of each horse race opened wide at the same time, and eight horses from eight tracks galloped out.

"My God, is this silver lightning? How could it run so fast?"

"This is impossible!"

In the first five seconds, the "Silver Lightning" driven by Elena knocked the other horses down by half a body position at an astonishing speed, and within the next 20 seconds, it pushed the other horses back by two positions.

Then, the speed of "Silver Lightning" slowed down, and the other riders gradually caught up, getting closer...

"Miss Elena's riding skills are really good, but Silver Lightning is a bit older, after all, it is an old horse that has passed its prime."

Standing next to Huang Ke, the person talking to him was another high-ranking person in Shanghai: Du Yuesheng—Du Yuesheng himself did not smoke opium, but some of his subordinates and close relatives were addicted to it. He was treated by others, and established a "nodding acquaintance" friendship with him.

The person who can catch up from behind and become the tyrant in Shanghai is naturally not the idiot villain in Xiaobai's web novels with his eyes open and blind. During Du Yuesheng's brief relationship with Huang Ke and Elena, Very early on, I felt that the two had "extraordinary backgrounds" and had been intentionally making friends.

In today's race, Elena requested that the horse position be on the outermost circle, which was what he agreed to.In order to show his goodwill, Du Yuesheng generously placed a bet of [-] silver dollars on Elena's riding position to show that he was "optimistic".

On the racetrack, the other seven horses were chasing closer and closer under the whip of the rider. After running for two-thirds of the lap, the two closest horses were within one-third of the distance from "Silver Lightning". The body of a horse.

Huang Ke smiled and said: "Silver Lightning is not old, it's just that he didn't meet a good rider in the past. Mr. Du, your bet will not be wasted."

When he said this, the eight horses on the field had already entered the final sprint stage, and the two horses ranked second and third had almost caught up with Eileen's horse. A situation where three horses go hand in hand.

The riders of the two horses, black and white, frantically swung their whips and whipped the horses. The speed of the silver horse under his crotch was getting faster and faster, and he was about to surpass Eileen.

At this moment, Eileen, who was still maintaining her original whipping speed, turned her head to look at the white horse closest to her, and a red light flashed in her eyes instantly.

At a glance, the white horse suddenly let out a howl, its front hooves gave way, it fell forward, and fell directly to the ground, even throwing the rider on its back onto the track.

And a track away, another dark horse, for some reason at this time, actively slowed down, refused to run fast no matter how the rider swung the whip, and then kicked its front hooves abnormally, half-flying into the air, Almost knocked the rider off his horse.

Although the rider stabilized the horse in time, this abnormality not only made it lose the chance to hit the first place, but also allowed other horses behind him to catch up.

The final result of the race was naturally that Ai Nalin easily won the championship by relying on the second No.3 rider to have accidents one after another.

"Boss Du, you did not make a mistake with your [-] oceans!"

Winning the horse betting, Du Yuesheng was also very happy, smiling and celebrating with Huang Ke.On the arena, after winning the championship, Elena was surrounded by several young foreign gentlemen, who presented flowers and helped lead the horses, and then went around the arena as a winner to celebrate.The unpopular gamblers who made the right bet were ecstatic, the gamblers who lost money yelled and cursed, and the bloody and brainy gamblers stared viciously at the female rider's uneven body, wishing to swallow her in one gulp.

"80 silver dollars, I got it! The speed of this money is no slower than robbing the Bank of Communications' mortgage car. Unfortunately, this kind of thing can only be done once or twice."

With Eileen's status today, she doesn't have to worry about being thrown into the Huangpu River at midnight by racecourse or gangsters after winning 80 oceans.However, the two of them can only do this kind of unpopular betting with high odds occasionally.And Eileenna played the game today under the name of "raising funds for charity for the orphans in Shanghai". After winning the game, all the betting money will be spent on the orphanage.With righteousness, background, identity, and backing, plus a good relationship with Boss Huang, Huang Ke and Elena have the courage to earn this money.Huang Jinrong is grateful to the two of them for curing his addiction to cigarettes, and he can tolerate them betting on horses and winning once or twice, but if there is too much wool, the favor will be exhausted.

However, after 80 oceans are in hand, it is enough for the two of them to plan next.

"For the foreigner's dinner tonight, when are you two going to leave?"

"Leave at eight o'clock. I'll be at Boss Du's place at 07:30 and pick you up. How about it?"

After chatting with Huang Ke for a few words, Du Yuesheng left under the escort of a group of bodyguards, and Elena also rode back to the stables in the backstage at this time to make room for the next game.

With Silver Lightning's ability, no matter how good Eileen's riding skills are, it would be difficult for her to win the championship.In the end, I was able to run first, of course someone cheated.

The crystal embedded in the saddle is another "construction work" made by Huang Ke under the guidance of Elena. It is called "Bloodstone", and it is placed in a different world. It can upgrade the mount in a few minutes The strength and speed of the game have a similar effect of stimulants.

However, in the land of exile on the earth, the improvement effect of this "low-level" mad blood stone has shrunk by [-]%. As long as it is more than three meters away from Huang Ke's body, the magic power hidden in the magic pattern inside , it will be deprived by the laws of the earth world in a minute and a half, completely invalidated and turned into an ordinary crystal stone.

This is also the reason why "Silver Lightning" was "as fierce as a tiger" when it first came out of the slaughterhouse, and the slower it ran, the slower it was finally overtaken by people: because the magic blessing effect was constantly weakening and even finally failed. ——This kind of magical cheating means, the best participant is not Elena but Huang Ke.If Huang Ke played, relying on the cheating force field of his own independent mini world to wrap the horse, he could easily use cheating means to run the entire field without being affected by the environment, causing the magic power to continue to decay.However, Huang Ke doesn't know how to ride a horse yet, and for the time being, only Elena can play.

As for the accident in the final sprint of more than ten meters, Elena cheated again and used the "fear technique" at that time to scare the two poor horses—if it was in a different world, Elena Linna's frightening technique of killing people with eyes can stare people to death with a single glance.But in the earth world, it only caused the two horses to have the illusion of being targeted by the natural enemy of the beast at that moment. Although that feeling was only for a very short moment, it was enough for the competition field.

After the game, Huang Ke unexpectedly met an "acquaintance" at the stables in the backcourt——Zhou Yusheng, who was the great-uncle of his classmate Zhou Lin.

Huang Ke was 2010 years old when the world saw him in 98, but 75 years ago, in 1935, he was a young man of only 23 years old.At that time, his task was to bathe the horses in the stables and clean the stables.

At first, Huang Ke didn't recognize this young man washing horses. It wasn't until someone called him "Yu Sheng" that he caught his attention. After he asked casually and learned that his surname was Zhou, he finally confirmed that this was the "Yu Sheng" of his old classmate. Great uncle".

Huang Ke asked him in the local dialect: Are you from Nanxun, Huzhou? "

"That's right, you too, sir?"

"I'm from Lianshi. It's only a few dozen miles away from your residence, so I can be considered a fellow townsman."

After a few simple greetings, Huang Ke casually tipped the great-uncle of this "future" old classmate a few dollars, asking him to take good care of Elena's horse - Huang Ke's residence does not have a stable, the horse is a foster care here.

For Huang Ke, meeting Zhou Yusheng again 75 years ago is just a "small matter".

But the surprise he didn't expect was...

After 2010, the old man "75 years later" who lived in Xiaolianzhuang, Nanxun, Huzhou, had a dream one night.

He dreamed that when he was a groom at the Jockey Club when he was young, one day a man and a woman came to the racecourse.

The woman was a foreigner, very beautiful, and she rode an eliminated racehorse in a race. She was upset that day and won the championship, earning a huge sum of money in gambling.

The man, a young man who spoke very kindly, gave him ten dollars as a reward afterwards, asking him to take good care of the horse.

However, how could the young man who appeared in the dream look exactly the same as the young man who came to me to ask about the history of the Republic of China not long ago, and his name was also Huang Ke?

The things I dreamed in my dreams were basically forgotten when I woke up in the morning, and there was not much left.

When he woke up early the next morning, Zhou Yusheng, who had lost all his teeth, unexpectedly discovered that the memories in his dream were so clear, as if they were not just random thoughts in a dream, but happened in "reality" yesterday. Average on him.

"That kid said that he wanted to write the Republic of China, and asked me for information. I dreamed of him and then dreamed of him..."

At first, the old man didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just an accident in a dream...

Zhou Yusheng thought it was very funny. When he visited Zhou Lin's house that night, he told Zhou Lin about it as a joke.

"Huang Ke? That person is my classmate!"

Hearing "Little Uncle" talk about this, Zhou Lin was taken aback.

However, she didn't think much about it, she just picked up her mobile phone and called Huang Ke afterwards, chatted for a while, and found out that her old classmate was still on Earth and hadn't "traversed", so she took it as an accidental "joke".

On the phone, she smiled and asked:

"Huang Ke, when did you suddenly want to write the Republic of China?"

"Anyway, the summer vacation is still long, I'm bored, I want to try to play."

"Well, that's so fun, I'm also thinking about some novel themes recently..."

On the phone, Zhou Lin suddenly became excited.

It was only then that Huang Ke remembered that his old classmate was actually a female literary youth, and she was a bit corrupt. During this period, he was dreaming of being a film and television screenwriter.

-------------------- Chapter 41 Concession Ball --------------------

"This car is really good, which foreign company made it?"

"I didn't buy it, it was custom-made by the family, and it is purely handmade."

Today's dinner was hosted by Ferry, the British director of the Shanghai International Settlement. Elena was lucky enough to get the invitation letter from him—Huang Ke didn't have a share at first, but he pretended to be a "follower" by hugging Elena's thigh "(Boyfriend, Ruanfan), I also had the opportunity to sneak in and deal with some local high-level officials who participated in the reception salon.

In terms of background and status, the current Huang Ke and Elena have no background, so they are really shabby.No matter how beautiful Elena is, she will only be a courtesan in a vase.In order to get rid of this embarrassing situation, Huang Ke paid great attention to packaging himself from the very beginning.

As mentioned earlier, there are two cars in Elena's cross space that can be taken out and used directly. One is a domestically produced Wuling Hongguang car, and the other is a 2010 740Li BMW sedan.The car has a 3.0T 327 horsepower L6, powerful horsepower, and extremely advanced. Even in 2020 before Huang Kechuan, it is still a valuable luxury car.

And when Elena took it out and put it in 1935 to "pretend", she immediately beat the so-called foreign famous cars of this era so that her parents didn't recognize her.

In order to conceal the fact that this car is a "BMW" brand, Huang Ke manually removed the BMW logo on the hood of the car, and then found a different world in Elena's cross space. The "handicrafts" produced were installed as car logos.At the same time, some electronic devices on the car that obviously do not belong to this era have also been removed and replaced.

In the position of the original BMW mark, it has now been replaced by a golden dragon lying down and spreading its wings. In fact, this "golden dragon" is really related to dragons.It is an unlucky golden dragon that traveled from another world to Elena's world during the twilight of the doomsday. After being killed by Elena, the dragon skin, dragon meat and keel were eaten by the residents of the other world as food. The dragon soul and dragon power After being sacrificed to the gods and eaten up by the inhabitants of another world, only a bunch of "dragon bones and dragon teeth" that have been stripped of their divinity remain.

Eileen only kept a few golden dragon teeth as souvenirs.Unlike ivory, dragon teeth are golden.During the half-month preparation time, Huang Ke found a statue sculptor in Shanghai to carve the dragon teeth into the image of a western golden dragon. After polishing, the gleaming dragon teeth logo was installed on the BMW for use. Pretentious.

A luxury car in the 21st century has its own air conditioner, premium leather upholstered seats, a frighteningly advanced instrument panel, and an electronic ignition to start!Even Du Yuesheng, a well-informed Shanghai beach tycoon, was greatly surprised by the magnificent decoration and advanced functions in the car after sitting in it.

Huang Ke sat in the driver's seat, Elena sat in the passenger seat, and Du Yuesheng took him and his wife and aunt in the back seat.When the car drove to the place where the British director's dinner was held, there were two Rolls-Royce cars in the front and one in the back for protection.

When this luxury car made in the 21st century drove into the parking lot of the residence of Mr. Ferry, the director of the concession, it naturally got everyone's attention.

Gorgeous streamlined body full of sci-fi colors (compared to this era), unique car logo, and powerful engine just by listening to the sound, just relying on one car, Huang Ke and Elena can fully demonstrate their style up.

"Which domestic car is this?"

"A German car? No, those German guys don't have such skills!"

"Could it have been made by the Yankees?"