After hearing the emperor's words, Sima Guang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is only in the age of destiny, and your holy body is in good health..."
"Don't hold on to common people's opinions!" Zhao Zhen interrupted him calmly: "My body has been getting worse and worse since last year. The doctors dare not say it, but I know it myself. The imperial examination and the emperor's holy life did not exceed sixty. I
I guess I am no exception."
"Everyone has his own life span, how can we generalize?" Sima Guang said softly: "As long as the officials cultivate their vitality and take good care of themselves, they will not worry about a long holy life."
"Haha, emperors throughout the ages, whether they are British masters or foolish emperors, everyone wants to live forever, and they all taboo the word 'death'. But through the ages, who can escape?" Zhao Zhen shook his head and said: "It's just a matter of not mentioning it.
I'm just deceiving myself. However, when I'm awake I don't think about the funeral, and when I'm in danger, I can't understand what I want to say, and even a mere child pretends to pass on the edict, which brings great disaster to the country, and even threatens the country's subjugation. You are a historian,
Isn’t this kind of thing rarely seen in books?”
Of course there were too many such things. Sima Guang nodded. After a long silence, Fang whispered: "I... obey the order."
"Very good," Zhao Zhen nodded in approval, and then instructed Sima Guang to change the situation where Zhao Conggu asked Zhao Conggu to lead the army but could not, but sent Zhao Zongji to supervise the army, to change it to Zhao Conggu recommending himself and Zongji to supervise the army or to be a general.
"Actually, both Conggu and Zongji are suitable. Do you know why I don't let Conggu go?" Zhao Zhen thought about it and asked.
"I don't dare to be arrogant," Sima Guang said in a low voice.
"But it's okay to talk." Zhao Zhen said calmly: You know what I said today and I know it. No outsiders are allowed to know, do you understand?"
"Weichen understands." Sima Guang could only grit his teeth and said, "Weichen thinks that the military power is better left in the hands of Taizong's family."
"Not bad..." Zhao Zhen glanced at Sima Guang suddenly, and became more and more aware that this person was not simple. He whispered: "Let the Zong generation be in charge of the army. The meat will rot in the pot anyway."
Sima Guang's heart froze, and he guessed it right. The reason why Zhao Zhen did not let Zhao Conggu lead the army may be because he liked Zhao Zongji, but more importantly, he was worried that Taizu's line would regain control of the army. Zhao Er was
What he did to Dafang was too great. In any case, Zhao Zhen didn’t want Dafang to do the same thing again.
He felt a cold wind on his spine. The emperor's mind was so terrifying!
Zhao Zhen saw him in a daze. He said calmly: "I'm sorry that you already know my painstaking efforts, but you can't tell the truth. Telling the truth will not benefit anyone."
"Please remember." Sima Guang responded quickly... It was already midsummer, and the first Bianjing Football Club's spring league ended, and the top sixty-four finalists for the autumn championship were determined.
The world has been at peace for a long time, and the wealth and coquettishness have created the Bianliang people's crazy pursuit of entertainment. Although the types of entertainment are not comparable to those of later generations, the Song people's enthusiasm and investment in entertainment are incomparable to later generations.
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Take sumo wrestling, for example. It's just two men in thin robes wrestling. It fascinated the people of the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years, and supported hundreds of sumo clubs of all sizes in Bianjing City. They received daily sumo wrestling.
His gambling capital amounted to millions.
Moreover, sumo wrestling is not yet considered a national sport. After all, only those guys with great strength and brute strength dare to compete in sumo wrestling. In terms of the degree of obsession and participation, the number one sport in Bianjing City is Cuju.
Whenever spring comes, the people in Bianjing City rush to the gardens to play football. Men, women, old and young all become opponents of Cuju. You come and I go, and the sky is filled with shooting stars. Every spacious place among the entertainment venues in the city becomes a ball.
A place where citizens practice playing football. This nationwide craze for physical exercise will not be seen in later generations of China.
However, Cuju in the Song Dynasty mainly involved several people standing in a circle and kicking each other back and forth to compete with who could keep the ball from falling and who could play tricks better. Only kicking across the net was somewhat confrontational, but it was still
It's more fancy but not intense enough, so although there are many participants, it has not produced various highly anticipated competitions like sumo.
Chen Ke asked the princess to verify the "Tang-style Cuju", and then modified it according to the rules of modern football to improve the tournament system. With generous bonuses and overwhelming publicity, the world's first football tournament was held in the spring of Jiayou's fifth year.
, kicked off in Bianjing City.
The early preparations were thorough, and the warm-up alone took half a year. In order to promote the game, Chen Ke ordered people to launch overwhelming advertising in Bianjing City. He also published the "Bianjing Football News" and gave it to major restaurants and tea shops for free.
, gambling houses, brothels, and paying helpers to read to the guests.
Under such a high-intensity publicity offensive, no one in Bianjing City was unaware of this football match. Even the officials in the palace knew the rules of the game, the bonus settings, and the methods of betting on football. He once asked Sima Guang
, I heard that if I can win the championship, the cumulative bonus will reach more than 10,000 yuan?
Sima Guang was not sure, so he quickly went back to find a copy of the Football Newspaper. The next day, he reported that the teams that could be shortlisted for the spring league would be divided into thirty-two groups and play in a single round-robin, winning a game with a hundred goals.
Even if you lose, you will get 20 yuan appearance fee.
In the end, the top two in each group will advance to the Autumn Championship. After being divided into groups, they will fight against each other. The first round promotion bonus is 300 coins; the second round bonus is 500 coins, the third round is 800 coins, the fourth round is 1,000 coins, and the semi-finals are one thousand coins.
One thousand five hundred coins, two thousand coins in the final. The loser will only have one hundred coins as an appearance fee.
Based on this, if a certain team can maintain complete victory in the league and championships, it can theoretically receive a bonus of 10,000 yuan.
"Who is so rich?" Zhao Zhen asked curiously.
"It is said that the fifth prince and Chen Zhongfang participated in polo matches when they were in the Liao Kingdom. They felt that only a sport full of confrontation could strengthen the people's bodies and cultivate courageous spirit. But in the Song Dynasty, we lacked horses, so it was unrealistic to organize polo matches.
, it happened that the Princess of Chang'an found out that Tang Cuju was as fierce as polo, so the two of them lobbied wealthy families to fund the tournament."
"It seems that the wealthy households in Bianjing City are very interested in it." Zhao Zhen said calmly.
"Weichen estimates that Bianjing City has been playing old tricks for a hundred years. Now there is finally something new, and the rich are willing to support it." Sima Guang replied: "Besides, Chen Zhong is rich, and it is said that he is out of luck.
Half of it..."
"This guy has a lot of lice and doesn't bite him, so he's not afraid of the censors impeaching him for gathering the people with ulterior motives?" Zhao Zhen said with a half-smile but not a smile.
Sima Guang looked at the emperor's expression and knew that he was just joking, so he said softly: "It is because of the benevolence of the officials that he dares to act recklessly. I heard that he is going to build some kind of 'wisdom courtyard' in the Thirteenth Line, which is really disturbing.
I don’t know what to say.”
"If the sky is going down and my mother wants to get married, let him do it..." Zhao Zhen sighed softly: "It's so good to be young... Under the temptation of huge bonuses, hundreds of football clubs, large and small, have been established in Bianjing City.
They have formed their own team and are gearing up to compete. Although they all look down upon this "unruly" form of competition, no one can live with the money.
After only a few games, people discovered that compared with Song style Cuju, this Tang style Cuju was more intense, more suspenseful, and more stimulating. The competition was organized in the form of a league, which made it more competitive and complete.
The nature of the game also makes the team and the stars more popular among the people, making the audience feel more involved. With the supporting team, they can taste the excitement of victory, the frustration of failure, the surprise of the weak defeating the strong, and the twists and turns.
Of course, the popularity of football matches is inseparable from the enthusiasm for gambling, because it involves one's own winning or losing. Those strong teams soon gathered a large number of fans, with thousands of spectators during the game, crowding the stadium... This is still
Because there is no professional stadium, it cannot accommodate more spectators.
It's not that Chen Ke was reluctant to build the stadium, it was because the stadium looked too much like a castle and he didn't want to be labeled as having evil intentions.
But the spectators were fully immersed in it, shouting for cheers, cheering and cursing, and the crowd was no less loud than the scenes in later generations.
As for the organization of the game, Chen Ke didn't need to worry about it. People in the Song Dynasty were very good at playing and organized many kinds of fun. Just look at the regulations he provided and you would know what to do. There was basically no chaos as he imagined.
Even in the riots, I don’t know whether the people of the Song Dynasty were too obedient or too qualified...
Not only is the game exciting and exciting, there is also a special "editor" after the game, who uses the form of storytelling to summarize the day's game results, select the best team, best player, best goal, etc., write jokes and publish them in "The Football News".
It can be printed into a newspaper early the next morning and sent to all parts of the capital. The idle people read it out to satisfy the appetite of those who are not able to watch it. Even those who were present in person yesterday also enjoy recalling it in this way.
Most people don't realize how amazing this is. But the bosses of the bookstores in Bianjing City were stunned. You know, even the most skilled craftsmen are required to print such a publication of tens of thousands of words.
It would take more than ten days to complete the article. However, this newspaper was printed on the same day as the article was written, and could be sold early the next day.
They really want to know how this is done? If they can't figure this out, they are afraid they will close down.
In any case, with constant positive stimulation, the Bianjing Football Club's league has attracted more and more attention, even forcing other games to be unable to be played, because everyone ran to watch the game. Several places outside the city where the game is concentrated
The venue is crowded with people all day long, and is actually more lively than the Daxiangguo Temple.
The businessmen immediately sensed business opportunities and set up tea and wine shops, restaurants, umbrella shops, and golf markets around the stadium. Naturally, the business was surprisingly booming. It is said that after summer, the number of people selling sour plum soup in each major stadium every day is higher than that in the entire city.
There are many...
By the end of May, more than 700 teams were finally divided into groups and the top 64 were determined.
After that, we entered a two-month summer break. It was not until August that the war resumed...divided...continue writing and will post tomorrow morning.
The organizing committee finally got approval to build a stadium five miles outside the city. Naturally, they had to take advantage of the summer break to immediately mobilize craftsmen to speed up the construction.
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