Another attack by Wu Xing and Qi Wang ended in failure again.
However, Xiao Liuzi was obviously a little dissatisfied with Li Min's handling.
Xiao Liuzi couldn't help but asked Li Min: "Your Highness, the aristocratic family has repeatedly provoked them, why don't you give them a taste of their power?"
Hearing Xiao Liuzi's words, Li Min smiled slightly and said: "Xiao Liuzi, in my opinion, the aristocratic family is just a clown, unable to make much trouble. However, as long as there are aristocratic families and Tubo and Tuyuhun are around, I, the king
It will be as stable as Mount Tai.”
"If the aristocratic family is suppressed to the point of collapse, maybe this king will not be so stable! Now that the aristocratic family is constantly provoking, someone is watching the show behind the scenes! Haha, this matter is not something you should worry about. By the way,
The king has arranged a very important thing for you now, and you must handle it well for me."
Hearing Li Min's words, Xiao Liuzi immediately said excitedly: "Your Highness, if you have anything to do, just give me your instructions. Xiao Liuzi will take care of it and handle it for you."
This little six was following Li Min, and Li Min was able to use it easily.
However, it is impossible to keep him by your side all the time. This would be too stingy.
Originally, Li Min was planning to release him and serve as a local official.
But Xiaoliuzi refused to leave.
He was already used to being around Li Min, and he never thought about going out to become an official. He just wanted to stay by Li Min's side.
Li Min had no choice but to let him go.
Li Min couldn't help but said to Xiao Liuzi: "Isn't the Yizhou New City and the gymnasium already completed? Go and watch over there. Recently, I will hold the first Sixteen Nations Games, and the final competition venue will be
Over at the gymnasium, all competition equipment must be prepared in advance, so you must keep an eye on it."
Xiao Liuzi nodded and said: "Yes, Your Highness, I will take care of things, so don't worry!"
After Li Min gave his instructions, Xiao Liuzi went down to work on this matter.
At this time, Xiao Liuzi also understood that the aristocratic families such as Wu Xingqiwang and others had been provoking His Highness, but why His Highness had not touched them.
It turns out that the existence of La Tubo and other aristocratic families is actually a kind of protection for His Highness.
What is this called? What does it weigh? Well, that’s probably what it means.
Huh! Let’s wait until His Highness ascends the throne and see how His Highness will deal with them then!
…
Li Min believes that with the completion of the construction of the tracks from Hangzhou to Yizhou and Hangzhou to Chang'an, Yizhou will definitely become more prosperous.
But now Yizhou's foundation is still insufficient, so Li Min decided to hold the first sports meeting of the Sixteen Nations to further strengthen Yizhou's influence.
Of course, in order to convene the Sixteen-Nation Games, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, must have been consulted for instructions.
Li Shimin still doesn't quite understand the significance of holding a sports meeting.
Then Li Min explained to him that holding a sports meeting could allow all people to participate and enhance the cohesion of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Similarly, athletes are another outlet for the people of the Tang Dynasty, which can promote the exercise of all people in the Tang Dynasty and improve the overall quality of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
After hearing Li Min's explanation, Li Shimin was moved and readily agreed to Li Min's request.
Next, Li Shimin submitted credentials to the other fifteen countries and invited them to participate in the Sixteen-Nation Games.
In the certificate of credence, the events to be held in the sports meeting and the competition rules are explained in detail.
The other fifteen countries all responded and readily agreed to Datang's invitation.
Because for them, the Sixteen-Nation Games was a good opportunity to strengthen their exchanges with the Tang Dynasty.
Now, their country has obtained a new species of potato.
And after planting, it was found that just as His Highness the King of Shu of the Tang Dynasty said, not only was the land unscrupulous, but the yield was also very high.
As long as they can be promoted nationwide, food self-sufficiency can be guaranteed.
This is of great significance to them.
Moreover, their fifteen countries sent their royal children to study at Yizhou University.
After studying, they discovered that the culture of the Tang Dynasty really surpassed them by a lot.
Their royal children only studied in the Tang Dynasty for a few months.
After returning home, in terms of arithmetic, they are invincible within their entire country!
From this we can see how big the gap between them is.
It's ridiculous that when they proposed marriage last time, they actually dared to raise questions to embarrass Datang. Thinking about it now, it's really ridiculous!
And this sports meeting can promote further exchanges and communication between them. Of course, they will not miss this excellent opportunity.
…
For this sports meeting, Li Min decided to launch ten major events: running, high jump, long jump, weightlifting, equestrian, new Cuju, archery, martial arts, iron ball, and javelin.
Because this is the first Datang Games, events such as swimming, rowing, skating, etc. are not currently set up.
This can be added gradually in subsequent sports meets.
These ten major items can also be subdivided.
For example, running can be divided into three small events: 100 meters, 800 meters and 10,000 meters.
Long jump can be divided into standing long jump and triple jump.
As for the others, we will not subdivide them for now.
Nowadays, the people of the entire Tang Dynasty still don't understand the various events of the sports games. They are divided into too fine details. In fact, there is no need at all.
But I believe that as long as the first Sixteen Nations Games is held, there will be someone who will specifically study the competition system.
In subsequent sports games, it will definitely be refined and different events will be added.
Next, Li Min found Xia Yuntian, the editor-in-chief of Yizhou Monthly News, and ordered Xia Yuntian to publish the news in the newspaper and publicize it.
In fact, Li Shimin had already issued instructions to all states in the Tang Dynasty long before the Yizhou Monthly Report.
List all the competitions involved in the Sixteen Nations Games in detail.
Then the states in the Tang Dynasty were ordered to select talents for various competitions, and finally a national competition was held in Yizhou to determine the top two to participate in the Sixteen Nations Games.
Because Datang is the host, it will naturally have this privilege and can have two teams participate in the final Sixteen Nations Games.
In other countries, each event can only send at most one team or one player to participate.
This rule naturally has many loopholes.
However, this is the first sports meeting, and there will definitely be various problems.
In the second session, an admission threshold can be specified based on the results of the first session.
Only teams or players who have achieved this result can be admitted, which will be much more perfect.
Soon, the news that the Sixteen Kingdoms Games was going to be held in the Tang Dynasty spread throughout the Tang Dynasty.
In the Yizhou Monthly Report, various events of the Sixteen Nations Games were introduced in detail, as well as the competition requirements for each event.
At the same time, the rewards for the competition were also given in the Yizhou Monthly Report.
Teams selected in each state will be awarded by the states and counties themselves.
The team or individual that takes first place in the country will receive a gold medal and a bonus of 500,000 yuan.
The second place will receive a silver medal and a bonus of 300,000 yuan.
The third place won a bronze medal and a bonus of 100,000 yuan.
If you can win the championship in the Sixteen Nations Games, you will receive a gold medal in the Sixteen Nations Games and a bonus of one million yuan.
The second place won a silver medal in the Sixteen-Nation Games and a bonus of 800,000 yuan.
The third place won a bronze medal in the Sixteen Nations Games and a bonus of 500,000 yuan.
Seeing this reward rule, the people of the Tang Dynasty were all moved by it.
There is no threshold for the selection of athletes for this Games.
As long as you have this ability in various projects, no matter what your status is, as long as you are a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, you can sign up.
As long as you can win, you can win bonuses.
Therefore, those able-bodied people of the Tang Dynasty who thought they had a chance to win the championship were all excited and went to the local yamen to sign up.
But this time, in order to expand his influence and prevent officials from various states and counties from being perfunctory, Li Shimin also used his thoughts.
He directly linked this selection to the officials' performance.
If we can deliver the top two teams or individuals in the country, we will gain extra points in terms of political performance.
Those who can deliver the top three in the Sixteen Nations Games can be directly promoted.
Stimulated by political achievements, all states and counties are doing their best to do this.
Wealthy states such as Suzhou and Hangzhou have implemented various incentive measures in selection.
As long as you can pass the pre-selection, you can get a lot of rewards.
If you can finally win the first place in the state, you will be directly rewarded with 100,000 yuan.
This reward is for the national bronze medalist.
Under heavy money, there must be brave men.
Therefore, people from various states also signed up to participate.
For a time, the entire Tang Dynasty was completely mobilized for this Sixteen-Nation Games.
…
Su Wen is from Hangzhou. He is tall and thin, has an unattractive appearance, and his reputation in the countryside is not very good.
Because this person has dirty hands and feet and is a frequent visitor to the county government office.
However, after being arrested and imprisoned for three to five days, Su Wen would continue to commit crimes after being released and would not change despite repeated admonitions.
Even the local magistrate had no good solution to him and could only secretly hate him for being unable to hold up the wall.
Because this Su Wen didn't steal anything valuable.
Or they steal steamed buns from other people’s bun shops or steamed buns from steamed bun shops. The most valuable items are, at most, a roast chicken, a roast duck, etc.
Moreover, he stole these things not to eat for himself, but to support his old mother.
This also made many people feel angry and cruel towards him, but they also had some pity.
This Su Wen is a filial son and extremely filial to his parents.
It turned out that when my father was still alive, he suffered from a serious illness. He finally recovered from his illness, but the family was completely ruined.
Now there is only one old mother left in the family. In order to support her, Su Wen often has to do some stealing.
And because this guy is tall, has long legs, and can run extremely fast, he is almost never caught.
Of course, he has already registered with the county government.
As long as someone files a complaint with the county government, he will definitely not be able to escape.
Later, even in those shops, as long as he didn't go too far, people no longer bothered to talk to him.
On this day, after Su Wen worked for half a morning, he only had two cents.
These two pennies can buy ten large snow-white steamed buns, which is enough money for today's meal.
However, the old mother has recovered from typhoid fever in the past few days and needs some meat to replenish her body.
These two cents can't buy any meat.
It was hard to explain, so Su Wen had to prepare to go back to his old business and prepare to order another roast chicken from the roast chicken shop.
Su Wen took his sights on Liu Ji's Roast Chicken Shop in front of him, and spotted an opening where the shop assistants were not paying attention. He was about to go over and steal some roast chicken.
Suddenly, two people behind him grabbed his arms and pushed him to the ground.
When Su Wen turned around, he found that they were two official servants. He couldn't help but put on a humble smile on his face: "Two officers, the younger one didn't commit anything today and never stole. Are you afraid that you have arrested the wrong person?"
"Stop talking nonsense! You are the one being arrested. Come with us!"
"Don't worry, I didn't do anything wrong today? Why did you arrest me?"
"Why? Humph! Let me tell you the truth, boy, you are lucky! After you get to the county government, use all your strength, and as long as you can run, no one will be able to catch you. Not only will they not punish you, but they will also give you
money!"
"Really? Is there such a good thing?"
"Tch! Of course it's true. Otherwise, when we're full, would we still lie to you?"
The news about the Sixteen Nations Games had long been spread through the propaganda of Yizhou Monthly.
Furthermore, the government also posted official documents.
But Su Wen is illiterate and not very popular. No one has ever told him about it, so he still doesn't know about it until now.
To this day, I still feel dubious when I hear what the official said.
Not long after, Su Wen was taken to the county government office.
The two officials were still telling him: "Remember, I will use all my strength to run away later. Do you understand?"
"Okay, just take a look!"
Then, the two officials soon knew what he meant.
It turned out that as soon as the two of them let go, the kid ran away with a whoosh, faster than a rabbit, and couldn't stop shouting.
Half an hour later, the two officials finally found Su Wen who was about to commit the crime.
While he was not paying attention, he caught him again, and they were so angry that he kicked them several times.
"Why are you running away?"
"Didn't the two officers ask me to run away?"
"Go away, we are letting you compete with others, and we will reward whoever runs the fastest. We are not asking you to run away in the summer!"
"Oh, oh, the villain knows!"
Not long after, Su Wen was taken to the county government again and participated in a competition with thirty other people who had signed up in the county government.
This competition is a 10,000-meter long-distance race.
It means running in circles in the yard of the county government. One lap of the yard of the county government is about more than a thousand meters, and there are ten laps in total.
Of course, this number is not exact, it is just an approximate value.
And Su Wen lived up to expectations and gave full play to his ability to run.
After ten laps and 10,000 meters, I easily opened up a gap of more than three laps over the second place.
Seeing this scene, the county magistrate couldn't help but be overjoyed and rewarded Su Wen one hundred coins in public.
And he was asked to report to the county government office in the past few days.
After getting the money, Su Wen felt like he was in a dream, feeling unreal.
So this is true?
Do you still get money if you finish first?
Tell me earlier!
If I had said there was such a good thing, he would have been here a long time ago.
But soon Su Wen knew that the Sixteen Nations Games was about to be held.
Those who ran with him today were all those who signed up for the 10,000-meter race.
And he has passed the preliminary examination.
I heard that if you can get first place in the state, you will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan!
If you can get first place in the country, you will be rewarded with 500,000 yuan!
If you can get first place in the Sixteen-Nation Games, you will be rewarded with one million yuan!
Oh my god!
If I can get first place in the Sixteen Nations Games, that will be a reward of 16.7 million yuan!
How great would it be if I had so much money?
When the time comes, I will eat big meat buns every day, lose every one I eat, and become rich, that’s how willful it is!
However, let’s not say that he ranked first in the Sixteen Nations Games.
Just talk about the entire Datang, how many people have signed up to participate?
By then, how many masters will there be? Can you really do it yourself?
With a worry about gain and loss, Su Wen went to a roast chicken shop and bought a roast chicken.
After getting the roast chicken, he turned around and ran away.
The waiter at the roast chicken shop immediately shouted: "Su Wen, you stole roast chicken again. If I catch you, your legs will be broken if you don't!"
It was only after I finished shouting that I realized, Huh? That’s not right, he paid me this time!
If you give me money, why don't you run around?
But Su Wen didn't realize until he ran all the way, Huh? That's not right, I paid you today!
After giving you money, why am I still running around?
When I got home, I handed the roast chicken to my old mother.
The old mother took the roast chicken without eating it, but kept crying.
Su Wen quickly picked up a handkerchief to wipe away the old mother's tears, and then said: "Mom, it's still warm. Eat it quickly!"
The old mother said sadly: "Wen'er, you stole this again, right? It's all because of my mother. She's such a useless burden. She might as well have died early!"
Su Wen quickly said: "Mom, what are you talking about! The roast chicken today was really not stolen, it was bought by me! Today, I ranked first in the county office, and the county magistrate rewarded me with it.
I have one hundred pennies!"
Su Wen explained to the old mother for a long time before the old mother understood.
Then he told Su Wendao: "Wen'er, you are your chance, run well! If you can get a ranking and become rich, you can also marry a wife when you come back. When my mother dies, I will be under the fire, so I can give it to you."
Yeah, there’s an explanation!”
In the next few days, Su Wen tested the 100-meter and 800-meter races and won easily.
In the end, he ranked first in the county and was sent to the state examination, and Su Wen also received a reward of 500 yuan.
In the end, in the state examination, Su Wen finally achieved first place in all three items.
Based on this achievement, he directly received a reward of 300,000 yuan.
Three hundred thousand dollars!
This was a figure that Su Wen had never dared to think about before. He would never earn so much money in ten lifetimes.
But now, he just competed with others a few times and got so much money easily.
For a moment, Su Wen felt like he was in a dream.
Su Wen spent tens of thousands of dollars and bought a house in the county town.
He took his old mother to the county seat and bought a maid to serve her.
Then he followed his old mother's advice and gave gifts to his neighbors in the village and the stalls he had stolen from.
The neighbors around Su Wen were all envious of Su Wen's bad luck and suddenly became rich.
I heard that the state will send him to Yizhou.
If he can achieve the first place in the country in Yizhou, he will receive even more bonuses.
Half a month later, the prefecture gathered this group of selected athletes and headed to Yizhou.
This time, they went by boat, which would take about a month or two.
It would be great if the railway is repaired. Once the railway is repaired, it will only take two days to reach Yizhou.
But now the entire Tang Dynasty is going all out to build railways, and the current construction speed is very fast.
About one-tenth of the road section has been built now.
And this speed will only get faster and faster. I believe it should be completely completed this year.
Two months later, Su Wen and others came to Yizhou.
A group of people were immediately stunned by Yizhou's advancement and prosperity.
In their opinion, Hangzhou is already prosperous enough, but compared with Yizhou, the gap is really not that big.
After they repaired for half a month, teams from all over the country finally gathered in Yizhou.
Next, the qualifiers began.
There were 358 states in the Tang Dynasty, so the number of participants in each competition must be more than 400.
Well, although no state can only send one person to a project, there are always exceptions.
For example, Cheng Yaojin, Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong and other old guys all came here with shy faces.
For example, armies from various places will also select people to participate in the competition.
For example, Cheng Chuliang and his gang of little guys are here too, and they have signed up for all the projects.
Even Li Yuanfang and Xue Rengui came to compete.
Of course, these two people were sent by Li Min.
The two of them are not as shameless as Cheng Yaojin, Cheng Chuliang and the others.
Li Yuanfang only signed up for martial arts, and Xue Rengui only signed up for archery.
Li Min believes that if Li Yuanfang signs up for martial arts, he has a good chance of winning the championship.
As for Xue Rengui's archery, it is almost a certainty.
Even among the Sixteen Kingdoms, I'm afraid there aren't many people who are better at archery than Xue Rengui.
Unfortunately, this time, Su Wen's first group of 20 pre-selected people happened to meet a bunch of old guys like Cheng Yaojin.
And through their chat, Su Wen quickly recognized Cheng Yaojin and the others.
There was no way, Cheng Yaojin's voice was really too loud, even if he didn't want to hear him.
"Yu Chi has a black face, you will definitely not be able to outrun me this time, Lao Cheng, so just be obedient and be the second best, quack!"
"Bah! You idiot, Cheng, is it you? It's useless if I ask you to run on three legs, you just have to follow me obediently!"
"Hmph! You are so arrogant, don't you take me, old Qin, seriously? Think about it when you and King Qin conquered the world together, who didn't know that I, Qin Qiong, was the fastest?"
have to!
I actually participated in the preliminaries with some old men.
Su Wen had to secretly sigh that he was unlucky.
These old princes fought in the north and south, and made great achievements in battle. Their achievements were made with swords and guns.
Those are all real abilities and real skills.
When the princes were fighting in the north and south, he was still unborn in his mother's womb!
If you compete with several princes, you will definitely lose!
Just when Su Wen was in various tangles in his heart, the game started.
Several old princes seemed to have eaten chili peppers, each running faster than the other, and they swished past Su Wen.
Su Wen couldn't help being shocked. These old princes were really powerful!