"Yu Zhouwen and Zheng Xuan, you two have managed the martial arts hall well." Yunxi said with a smile.
"Your Majesty is ridiculous." Yu Zhouwen immediately replied: "This is the system set by Your Majesty at the beginning. I and Chief Secretary Zheng are just acting in accordance with the rules set by Your Majesty."
"Haha, if other yamen officials flatter me like this, I won't accept it. However, Jiangwu Hall is indeed a school that I personally established back then. I am also the first vice-principal, so I can deserve it." Yunxi.
Said half-jokingly.
"Vice-Principal Yu is not trying to flatter His Majesty." Zheng Xuan also said with a smile: "The regulations set by His Majesty were not only rigorous, but also took all things into consideration, so I and Vice-Principal Yu don't need to move too much.
Brain, just follow the rules and regulations."
"Hey, Zheng Qing, if you continue to flatter me like this, I can't accept it." Yunxi said this time: "No matter how much you consider when formulating the charter, there will always be things you can't take into account. And managing a school is better than taking charge of a school.
The yamen is even more difficult, and you can't just do things according to the regulations. You can't be like me. So you can manage the martial arts hall well, and I take credit for it."
"Since you have meritorious service, I will not begrudge you a reward. But I will talk about the reward for you two later. I will first tell you what I want to tell you about this visit to the martial arts hall."
Having said this, Yunxi stood up and glanced through the glass window at the students taking martial arts classes on the campus. Just now, under the guidance of Yu Zhouwen and Zheng Xuan, he had already walked around the entire campus with his three children.
Once again, I also knew that the martial arts class was being taught by two first-grade classes who had just entered school a few days ago this year.
"Do you think the current martial arts classes are good or bad?" Yunxi asked, pointing to the two classes taking place outside the window.
Yu Zhouwen and Zheng Xuan looked at each other. His Majesty's words were clearly dissatisfied with the current martial arts class. However, the current martial arts class regulations were also set by His Majesty back then. It is not good for them to criticize at will.
After thinking for a moment, Yu Zhouwen decided to tell the truth. "Your Majesty, I think the martial arts class is not bad. The gentlemen who teach the martial arts class are all the soldiers with the strongest martial arts skills selected from the Beijing Guard Army. What they teach is not the martial arts of fighting alone, but the martial arts class.
The fighting techniques used in melee are very practical."
"But can the students trained by the Jiangwu Hall use fighting skills?" Yunxi asked back: "Whether students from the Jiangwu Hall stay in the capital or return to their hometowns after graduation, they will start at least as a fifth-grade vice-thousand household, or in the capital.
, Xingdu Division, Wei Li serves as a staff officer, and is also an official of the fifth and sixth grades."
"It's easy for them to get promoted. Those who serve as Deputy Qianhu can be promoted to Qianhu as long as there is a vacancy in the Qianhu in the Wei. After a few years, they can be promoted to the commanding officer in the Wei and stay in the Wei as a staff officer.
It’s almost the same. If you go to Dusi, you will be promoted faster if you work as a staff officer in Dusi.”
"And when they are promoted to generals in the guards, why do they need martial arts? If even the commander of the guards has to go into battle, then the battle will be lost. Whether the generals know martial arts is of little use."
"Furthermore, the current exam method for martial arts classes is not suitable. I initially asked them to compete with each other to determine the ranking, but students from thousands of families did not dare to defeat students from noble families, so we had to change it to the current class-based approach.
Score them all together. But this is not very appropriate."
"So I want to reform this course."
'The rapid promotion of students who graduated from the Jiangwu Hall is not the result of the late emperor and your majesty's preference.' Zheng Xuan thought in his heart. From the 28th year of Hongwu, when the first graduates took up posts in the capital and local governments, all local governments have reported
In the promotion list, graduates of the Jiangwu Hall must be accurate. Graduates of the Jiangwu Hall who have the same merit will be given priority for promotion. Recently, four divisions will be established in the Dusi and Xingdu divisions. It is estimated that this will be a good opportunity for them to be promoted.
However, although Zheng Xuan complained in his heart, he also understood the reason why the two emperors did this. After all, the students who graduated from the Jiangwu Hall had studied in the capital, met the emperor, and experienced the education of loyalty and patriotism. Compared with those from other places, they had never entered the capital.
Of course, the military commanders are more trustworthy.
Moreover, His Majesty now not only wants to better control the army, but also carries out reforms. Of course, students who have been educated in the martial arts hall should be appointed.
"I dare to ask Your Majesty, how to change the martial arts class?" Yu Zhouwen, not thinking as much as Zheng Xuan, asked.
"What I mean is to abolish the martial arts class." Yunxi first said this, which shocked the two of them, and he was about to give advice, and then said: "I plan to set up a ball game in the martial arts hall. Every day
The class is a team and competes with teams from other classes, and the ranking is calculated based on the competition points, from the full score of ten to the lowest one."
After hearing the second half of the words, Yu Zhouwen and Zheng Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. They heard that Yun Xi's change was to cancel the martial arts class and move the points of this class to this unknown ball sport. In this way, the school
The system will not undergo major changes, and it will have little impact on them.
"I wonder what kind of, um, ball games your Majesty wants to set up in the Lecture Hall?" Yu Zhouwen asked again.
Yunxi did not answer immediately, but looked at the door of the public room. Yu Zhouwen and Zheng Xuan also looked at the door strangely, and suddenly heard a knock on the door, and a high-pitched voice came: "Guanjia, my servant is here."
Things have been brought."
"Come in." Yunxi said, and the door was opened immediately. Wang Xi walked in from outside the house, holding a one-foot-square box in his hand. Yunxi took the box from his hand, opened the lid of the box, and took out the box.
A round sphere less than a foot wide smiled at Yu Zhouwen and Zheng Xuan and said, "This is the ball game I want to promote in the martial arts hall."
"Your Majesty, this is Ju? The ball game your Majesty wants to promote is Cuju?" Zheng Xuan asked.
Yes, what Yunxi wants to promote in the Martial Arts Hall is football, which is known as the number one sport in the world.
Football has a very long history. During the Warring States Period, Su Qin described Linzi like this when he lobbied King Xuan of Qi: Linzi was very rich and practical, and its people all played the pole, played the harp, and played ju. It can be seen that football has been born at least since the time of King Xuan of Qi.
Since then, there have been records about Cuju in all dynasties. It reached its first peak in the Tang Dynasty, and inflatable football was also invented.
Afterwards, it reached its second peak in the Southern Song Dynasty, and a football club named Qiyun Society emerged that specialized in organizing football matches to earn ticket money as a means of livelihood.
During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, the economy in the south of the Yangtze River was relatively developed. Mongolians did not care about anything other than making money, and Cuju was still popular. The wars at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty caused great damage to the economy. Although agricultural production was quickly restored, the urban economy did not.
It recovered so quickly, and Zhu Yuanzhang implemented a strict policy against businessmen, so the people were not very wealthy and the sport received less attention.
But with the recovery of the national economy, urban people are gradually becoming richer and have some spare money for fun. Therefore, Goulanwashe has become prosperous again, and some people have begun to make a living by performing fancy football and earning rewards. Yunxi also happened by chance.
Hearing the eunuch in the palace mention seeing a freestyle kicking performance in Vasili, he remembered this sport and immediately decided to promote it.
As a sport, the first function of football is to exercise the body. In later generations, in a 90-minute football match, players on both sides except the goalkeeper would have to run more than 10,000 meters, which is more than 20 miles. And
The effect is much better than simply running circles.
Secondly, football will also train the players' coordination ability, as well as the captain's or head coach's commanding ability. Everyone knows that winning a game cannot be won by just having strength. Tactical coordination is also brewing in this.
It is very useful to train the team's tactical coordination ability.
Thirdly, football has a long history and has flourished in previous dynasties. Although the football promoted by Yunxi is quite different from the previous Cuju, once everyone hears that this is something that has happened before, they will have less resistance and it will be more conducive to football.
Promotion.
In fact, compared to football, rugby is more in line with Yunxi's idea: rugby's confrontation is more intense, there are more physical collisions, and the requirements for the field are lower. But for one thing, rugby, a ball game that can be played with hands, is very important to Ming Dynasty.
It is a new thing; secondly, football is more prone to injuries; thirdly, he has not watched many football games and is not clear about the rules. So he decided to promote football after repeated weighing.
At this time, Yunxi introduced: "This is a ball I asked the craftsmen in the palace to make. It is made of cowhide and is inflated inside. In the future, we will use this method to kick the ball." During the Chinese New Year, Yunxi not only recruited ministers to join
The palace discussed military reform and asked the internal officials to call a few craftsmen into the palace to study football, but no one paid attention to it. After repeated studies, these craftsmen finally determined that the ball made in this way had the best elasticity, and Yunxi was
Use this ball.
"As for how to set up the competition, I already have an idea. For one school year, the Cuju team of each class will compete with the Cuju teams of the other nine classes. There will be a total of forty-five competitions in each grade. It is specially opened for people who want to work.
Each first-year class also has to form a Cuju team to compete with other classes."
"There are no formal competitions between classes in different grades and professional classes, but they can play against each other for practice purposes."
"The specifications of the stadium are about twenty feet long and thirteen feet wide." Because the flexibility of football in this era was certainly not as flexible as that of later generations, Yunxi reduced the size of the football field.
"As for the rules, each team has eleven players on the field, including one goalkeeper and ten others. There is a goal on each side of the court, and the goalkeepers guard the goals..." Yunxi then introduced the rules in detail.
Yu Zhouwen and Zheng Xuan were a little dizzy. They suddenly heard so many rules that no one could remember them. Zheng Xuan had to carefully interrupt Yun Xi who was talking happily and asked: "Your Majesty, there are so many games.
,How many stadiums does Your Majesty plan to build?"
"I want to build fifteen stadiums near the martial arts hall. Five for each grade and one for the senior class. We use a rotation system for daily training. The two classes share one stadium and take turns using it every other day."
"Your Majesty, there are fifteen golf courses. There is absolutely no place to build so many golf courses near the Lecture Hall." Yu Zhouwen said.
"Of course I am prepared for this. Originally, the Longxiang Guards were stationed near the Lecture Hall. I moved the guard's station to another place, and the original station of the Longxiang Guards was given to the Lecture Hall to build a stadium."
When they heard that even the guard station was being moved to build a stadium, Yu Zhouwen and Zheng Xuan looked at each other and knew that His Majesty had made an irreversible decision. They did not dare to ask any more questions, but only made some small suggestions.
"Your Majesty, I think that the martial arts lecture hall has opened this year, and the martial arts classes have also begun. I'm afraid it would be inappropriate to cancel it hastily. In my opinion, it is better to set up a Cuju competition this year, but the martial arts classes will not be canceled for the time being, but the test score changes will be reduced.
The score will be five points and will be canceled next year; the score of this year’s Cuju competition will be lower for the time being and will be set at five points. At the same time, the future of these sergeants should be arranged in advance." Yu Zhouwen said.
"That's fine." Yunxi thought for a while and nodded in agreement. There has to be a buffer time for the students. Moreover, the arrangements for the sergeants who teach the martial arts class must be carefully considered and properly arranged. You can't just kick them back to the original guard station.
That seems too cool.
Afterwards, the two of them discussed the details with Yunxi and finalized the rules. Yunxi said: "Now these competition rules have just been established, and even the eunuchs I taught in the palace can't figure them out. After the stadium is built,
, I will personally be the referee for the first match. From now on, the eunuchs in the palace who have been taught by me will be the referees. You must also select people suitable to be referees in the martial arts hall, you cannot always use internal officials."
He emphasized: "In the Cuju competition that I envision, the referee is extremely important. If the referee's whistle is wrong on the court, the team that was going to lose might win. When you choose a referee, you must choose someone who will not be affected."
There are many distinguished students in the hall. Although there are distinguished students in every class, there is no guarantee that the referees will be affected, and it is difficult to determine whether some penalties are truly misjudgements or biased judgments.
"Yes, Your Majesty." The two of them also realized the importance of refereeing and agreed quickly.
Yunxi talked with the two of them for a long time, and it was not until nearly noon that he finished arranging the football matters. Zheng Xuan glanced sideways at the time, bowed to Yunxi and said: "Your Majesty, it is almost noon now. I have arranged the canteen for
Your Majesty, will you cook?"
"No need, I have something to do in the afternoon, so I won't have dinner at the martial arts hall." Yunxi also glanced at the time. Min'er is still on that street. If he and his three sons were in the martial arts hall,
Eat, he didn't want to have a good dinner tonight.
Yunxi smiled again and said: "I didn't want to tell Cuju Yi so much to you, but I didn't expect that I couldn't stop once I started talking."
"Maybe it's because since the 25th year of Hongwu, my spirit has been tense most of the time. Now I can finally relax, so I want to see the sports I watched most in my previous life right away, even if the level is far different." He
Thinking.
"I have another thing to tell you. I originally planned to talk to you a few more words, but it's not too early now, so I can only keep it short."