Open the search bar and type in the national football team and Gao Yu.

The search results that Xun Ze originally came up with would still be posts discussing whether modern football was invented by Gao Yu. But I didn't expect that what came out of this search was basically news that I hadn't seen before.

'Halfway through the World Cup group stage, can the national football team change its fate against the sky and successfully qualify. ’

After a small loss to Russia, it was forced to draw by Uruguay, and the national football team has little hope of qualifying. ’

'The former World Cup runners-up are getting worse and worse, who is to blame for the national football team. ’

'The whole group stage sleepwalked, and if the performance of the national football team was seen by Gao Yu, I was afraid that I would jump out of the coffin again. ’

Huh?!

Why did the World Cup start all of a sudden? And it's already halfway through the schedule?!

Calling Xunze originally thought that there was a problem with the search results, and got a bunch of old news for him. But when I looked at the release time behind the news, it was basically within these few days, and I immediately understood that the early start of this World Cup may have something to do with the historical changes caused by Gao Yu.

I didn't bother to check how the national football team entered the World Cup this time, so I asked Xun Ze to bookmark the last time, and click to open Gao Yu's encyclopedia webpage to view Gao Yu's encyclopedia introduction.

Gao Yu, the rule-maker of modern football and the inventor of the wooden bicycle.

Sure enough, this time Gao Yu's encyclopedia has two more titles than the last time I called Xun Ze to see it.

One is the inventor of the wooden bicycle, needless to say, called Xunze taught Gao Yu how to make wooden bicycles, and Gao Yu must make wooden bicycles to dedicate to Song Huizong.

Although at the beginning, wooden bicycles were only popular among the elite because of their complex manufacturing methods and low practicality. However, the emergence of wooden bicycles still added an additional means of transportation to ancient China, and after hundreds of years of optimization and improvement, wooden bicycles have gradually become popular, and until now the people also have a large number of wooden bicycles.

After all, bicycles have an incomparable advantage that they are not only cheaper than cattle and horses, but also do not have to eat grass and gas.

Although the wooden bike doesn't have a handbrake, it's actually not fast, and even if you fall, you'll be injured at best, making it ideal for city riding.

casually looked at the introduction of wooden bicycles, and called Xun Ze to read the introduction article on the development relationship between Gao Yu and modern football.

The origin and development of modern football.

Author: Dong Yunli

As we all know, modern football, as a popular sport all over the world, originated in China, and most of the rules were formulated as early as ancient China. But what is little known is that the reason why modern football appeared was not just for people's entertainment, but also as a training method to improve the combat ability of the army.

In 1113 AD, during the Song Dynasty of Song Huizong, Gao Yu, who had previously served in the border army, was transferred back to the capital by Song Huizong because of his meritorious work in compiling medical books, and was in charge of more than 200,000 forbidden troops.

The reason why Huizong of the Song Dynasty appointed Gao Yu as the commander of the forbidden army was very simple, that is, because with the development of the Song Dynasty's conscription policy for the purpose of maintaining stability, the combat capacity of the inland army of the Song Dynasty became lower and lower, including the forbidden army responsible for defending the capital.

The large number of forbidden troops not only did not go to the battlefield, but also rarely trained, which brought a great burden to the imperial court and increased social instability.

Therefore, Song Huizong hoped that the forbidden army would have a certain combat capability.

Gao Yu, as a rare capable minister who could do practical things at that time, naturally took over this errand.

But after Gao Yu took charge of the forbidden army, he found that this was not a simple matter. Because the entire forbidden army not only has a low willingness to fight, but also is unwilling to undergo harsh training, rashly training the forbidden army according to the standards of the border army can easily lead to a mutiny in the army.

Therefore, after reading the military books of the past dynasties, Gao Yu found an excellent training method, that is, to improve the Keju sport that once appeared in the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era, which was popular in the army to train the forbidden army.

After half a month of preparation, Gao Yu changed Keju to football, and stipulated that only kicking with feet, not with hands, not fighting with each other, kicking, the field area should be unified, the goal is composed of two bamboo poles, a certain distance from each other, and the court used in the game must add a net to the goal.

These provisions, though in their current view, are unremarkable. But you must know that before the rules of Chinese football were introduced to the United Kingdom, the British were even allowed to touch the ball with their hands, and it was not until 1848 that the British formally established the football league after learning the modern football rules of China. The clubs and players who did not agree with the rules of Chinese football founded the Rugby League in 1871. (I can't imagine that rugby and football used to be the same sport.) ）

In addition to establishing rules, Gao Yu also created a football club system. He divided the 200,000 forbidden army into 20 divisions, each of which selected players who played well in football, formed football clubs, and then played against each other. It was also the predecessor of the modern football league.

The use of a campaign to improve the combat capabilities of the forbidden army was previously unimaginable to any official of the imperial court. And many people raised objections, believing that Gao's move may lead to the erosion of the forbidden army.

However, with the support of Song Huizong, Gao Yu still successfully established the Great Song Forbidden Army Football League. In addition, in order to save money, Gao Yu also allowed the citizens of the capital at that time to go to the football field of the military camp to watch football matches.

Compared with the previous Keju, modern football is more ornamental and suspenseful. Therefore, with the efforts of Gao Yu, football soon became popular in the capital, and a group of football players who were familiar to most citizens at that time were born.

For example, Lin Chong, the captain of the Liangshan football team of the Great Song Dynasty, such as the black whirlwind Li Kui, the striker of the Shuibo football team, and Shi Jin, the defender of the Shaohuashan football team. In order to promote football, Gao Yu also deliberately compiled the information of a total of 108 of these famous football players into a book, named 108 Football Players, and sold them to the public at a low price. Because, for the first time in human history, the concept of football stars was born.

Gao Yu's football reform was not only popular among the people, but also made many dignitaries and nobles at that time often go to the stadium to watch the game, and through the service of these people, Gao Yu also obtained a large amount of money to make up for the losses of the forbidden army, which made Song Huizong very happy.

How much football improved the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army at that time is impossible to verify in modern times. But there is no doubt that modern football was born in China.

Today, although in the wave of commercialization reform, China's national football team has changed from a strong team that can reach the World Cup finals to the bottom team that is now out of the group stage, but Gao Yu's contribution to modern football is worth remembering.

Finally, I wish the national football team a smooth appearance in this World Cup. (Although there is little hope.) ）

Note: The idea of Lin Chong, the head of the leopard, the captain of the Great Song football team, came from the book review of Xuanyuan Qin at midnight. The daily task of copying books and reviews is completed √.