The first thousand two hundred and thirty-five chapters swept the schools
What they value is different from what ordinary people value. What the officials of the Ministry of Rites value is the improvement of the overall physical fitness of the people of the empire, the improvement of the teamwork spirit of the people of the empire, especially the young people, etc.
As long as they can meet this requirement, they don't care what method they use. Promoting polo and stepball is just one of their attempts, and it's just one of many attempts.
So they are still pushing each school to set up various teams. You can set up a walking team, a polo team, but not a polo team. There are also things like the Chuiwan team, the ice play team, and the rowing team.
Wait, maybe you don’t engage in various sports, but you engage in other extracurricular activities.
Anyway, as long as the school enriches students' extracurricular activities, cultivates children's sense of teamwork, and strengthens children's physical fitness.
The Department of Culture does not care about the process or methods, they only care about the results!
However, although other types of sports or activities are also promoted, they are far inferior to stepball.
All major preparatory schools and middle schools in the empire have organized step teams and polo teams, and students are also very active in participating.
It's just that although many students pay attention to the polo team, not many students join the polo team, and more of them join the football team.
The main reason is that the requirements of the polo team are relatively high and the cost is higher. The school will not provide you with high-quality riding horses, because these high-quality riding horses can easily cost hundreds or even thousands, and a polo game
The game is divided into many sections, and at least two or even three horses need to be prepared for rotation.
A polo player must prepare at least three or even five excellent horses for the game.
How can the school have so much money?
Therefore, many schools basically only provide venues, which don’t cost much anyway!
You can come and play polo, but please bring your own horses!
Therefore, polo is destined to be a sport for the rich and powerful, and has nothing to do with ordinary students.
For the football team, it's easy. All you need is protective gear, and the protective equipment is not as expensive as polo. Schools can often afford it, but if not, ordinary families can also afford it.
Under many circumstances, the footwork teams of each school have developed quite well, and the enthusiasm of the students is also very high. This enthusiasm, after a game last winter, triggered the enthusiasm of the major preparatory students to participate in the footwork teams.
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Last winter, Jinling Preparatory School’s footwork team played a match with the Royal Youth Cadet Academy. Jinling Preparatory School beat the Royal Youth Military Academy. What was even more surprising was that not long after the game, the captain of the Jinling Preparatory School’s footwork team
He and two of his teammates got the opportunity to interview in the martial arts school in advance, and then passed the interview and entered the martial arts school in advance.
In one competition, three students from Jinling Preparatory School were interviewed by Wu Xuetang in advance and obtained admission qualifications. This event had a great influence.
The people of the contemporary Tang Dynasty have an extremely longing for joining the army. Well, joining the army specifically refers to being admitted to a military academy and becoming an officer. Being a soldier does not count.
Because this can change the fate of himself and even the entire family.
Regardless of whether they are poor children or children of the rich and powerful, the elite among them all have the goal of enrolling in military schools as their teenage life goal.
Ordinary poor children can change their own destiny and the destiny of their family by joining the army, while those powerful children or elite geniuses are eager to preserve their family's glory and wealth or even go further.
Because the real top dignitaries in the Tang Empire, especially the nobles with titles, more than 90% of them were military nobles.
In fact, many people also hope to be a scientist who can get a knighthood by staying in the laboratory without having to work hard.
Unfortunately, scientists require too much IQ. Unless you are a genius, you can't expect to make any scientific research contributions.
Doing scientific research is the path of extraordinary geniuses and has nothing to do with ordinary elites.
Being admitted to a military academy and becoming an officer is the biggest pursuit of ordinary elite students.
Generally speaking, elite students with excellent academic abilities and those who are in good health often want to apply for military academies. Only elite students with poor physical fitness who cannot meet the threshold to apply for military academies will settle for other universities.
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It's just that the enrollment quota for Datang's two major military schools has always been limited. It is extremely difficult for students from ordinary preparatory schools to apply, because they not only have to compete with each other, but also with the military students of the Royal Youth Military Academy who have been trained as officers since childhood.
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The students of the Royal Youth Military Academy have received all-round military education since they were young, and they all graduated from the Youth Military Academy in various provinces step by step before finally being admitted to the Royal Youth Military Academy. The comprehensive quality of every student there is
They are all quite strong, and the bad ones have been eliminated long ago.
The top ten graduates of the Royal Youth Military Academy every year are the targets of the army and navy. This shows the high quality of the students of this school.
When graduates of the Royal Youth Military Academy compete, most students from preparatory schools are no match. This is why many preparatory schools do not necessarily have a single student admitted to the military academy in a year.
But now, three students from Jinling Preparatory College were specially recruited to enter the Army Martial Arts School in advance, which suddenly caused a violent reaction.
Almost overnight, preparatory schools across the empire set off a wave of organizing football competitions. Many preparatory schools hoped to compete with the Royal Youth Academy football team and prove themselves...
This made the members of the Royal Cadet Cadet Team very depressed and even angry!
We provoke whomever we provoke, and everyone is prepared to use us as a stepping stone!
After the first month of this year, the Army Martial Arts Academy added to the fire. They notified the major preparatory schools in the empire that a preparatory school football team competition will be held in the fall. At that time, some outstanding performers will be given early written tests and
Opportunities for interviews.
This aroused the enthusiasm of those elite students even more.
As mentioned earlier, students in preparatory schools who are preparing to apply for military academies are often influential figures in each school, and can even be said to be leaders. Their every move has a relatively large impact.
This is why in major preparatory schools today, people are focusing on the football team. As for other sports, they are just hobbies at best, but they are far from being a fanaticism.
This was definitely something the Department of Culture had not expected.
However, they are also happy to see the results. The Army helps them promote football, and they can tap some military talents. The Department of Culture can see that the physical fitness of the people has improved. This is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.
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And Sheng Tianzi soon learned about the major preparatory schools setting up footwork teams, which left him a little speechless.