"A football team, a rugby team, that means you can play official games, but that's not the most important thing."

His Royal Highness the Prince stood up and paced as he said, "What really matters is that these two sports should be carried out in each company as a unit!" I demand that more than 70 percent of my troops be exposed to one of these two sports - either football or rugby! ”

His Royal Highness the Prince added a gesture: "The football team and rugby will become the main sports after the training of my soldiers, in addition to strengthening the physique and enlivening the body and mind—"

His Royal Highness the Prince paused and aggravated his tone: "These two sports are the movement of strength, courage, will, and speed, and the movement of confrontation and cooperation. I repeat, strength, courage, will, speed! Also, the spirit of tenacious confrontation and the sense of teamwork! ”

The other three people present, including Wall, all listened enthusiastically, especially Brooke and Bird, the two of them, who had never thought that the sport they were engaged in would have such a lofty significance?! Bird, who had already calmed down initially, trembled slightly again. This time, though, it's not nervous, it's exciting—the heavens are going to be on me!

His Royal Highness the Prince ended his impassioned exhortation with a resounding sentence: "In short, football and rugby are men's sports and military sports!" - You guys, understand? ”

"Understood! Your Royal Highness! ”

His Royal Highness nodded in satisfaction and said, "In the future, if my troops are expanded." New establishment. That's all right! ”

"Yes. Your Royal Highness! ”

"In order to promote football and rugby throughout the army, I will lead the formation of a ...... group, I will personally serve as the team leader, the Chinese army leader will be the first deputy team leader, and the deputy team leader Zhang will be the deputy team leader! Well, you have to do your best to make relevant plans, and I will provide you with the necessary resources to wait for the Chinese New Year to pass. Let's take action! Do you understand? ”

"Understood, Your Royal Highness!"

Guan Zhuofan focuses on football and rugby, although it is to "develop sports and enhance the people's physique", but this is still secondary; In the future Olympic medal table, China will enter the first group 100 years ahead of schedule, which is of course a beautiful thing, but it is not the original intention of Guan Zhuofan's behavior - he has too many things to do, competitive sports, and is not on the priority of the agenda.

Not even for the sake of this plane. The shame of Chinese football has been washed away in the original time and space.

Guan Zhuofan's purpose is to put it bluntly. It's very simple and very important: when the Xuan soldiers are not training, he has to find something to do for them.

Except for the Sunday holiday -- the internal schedule of the Xuan Army is a weekly system -- from Monday to Saturday, the Xuan Army is completely closed and managed, and all day and night, training, training, and training. With sufficient and good nutrition and continuous high-intensity physical training, the soldiers of the Xuan Army, no matter what their physical qualities were when they joined the army, after a year and a half, they all became strong and strong, and they were fierce and fierce.

Tens of thousands of young and strong men, with endless exuberant energy, there must always be a place to go!

When he was not in wartime, Xuan Jun did not prohibit prostitution. However, the scope of the "military forbidden zone" demarcated by the Xuan Army far exceeded the barracks themselves, and the entire Xinma Avenue and its surroundings were within the scope of control, so it was impossible for there to be brothels around the barracks.

At the same time, the military camps in Machang, Xiaozhan, and Tanggu are all quite far from the city of Tianjin, and in the absence of sufficient means of transportation, it is really too stressful to return to the barracks before eight o'clock in the evening for a one-day holiday on Sunday.

Therefore, on Sundays, the soldiers of the Xuan Army rarely "enter the city", and most of them stay in the barracks or think about consuming Chenguang nearby.

But the soldiers' exuberant physical demands don't go away.

On more than one occasion, soldiers have been caught exploding chrysanthemums with each other, and there have even been attempted rapes of civilian women. After the unlucky guy who attempted to rape the people's girl was found out, he was naturally hung on the gallows; But there is no explicit prohibition on the matter of popping chrysanthemums, and it cannot be put on the table to deal with it, so I have to secretly warn sternly, "confiscating the tools of the crime for repeated offenders", and the gourd mentioned the matter.

On more than one occasion, some people have built that the Xuan army should set up its own brothels around the barracks, for the reason that, of course, it can not only solve the physiological needs of soldiers, but also facilitate management, including health and safety issues.

was vetoed by Guan Zhuofan every time.

In this era, it is a very common and normal thing for soldiers to prostitute themselves; The establishment of different forms of military prostitutes has also been a common practice in various countries "since ancient times". For example, in China, since the former Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there has been a "camp prostitute". Many modern national armies have long adopted similar practices to address the sexual needs of soldiers. It will take another hundred years or so for the military prostitutes to completely disappear from the world.

However, Guan Zhuofan couldn't pass his own level. The country and the army he crossed over didn't have this thing at all, and they still fought and won the war, so he always scoffed at the statement that "not solving the sexual needs of the military will affect the combat effectiveness of the army": what a JB calf!

However, Kwan did not shy away from the question. His solution is exactly the same as that of "the army of that country" that he crossed over: strengthen the spiritual and cultural life of the soldiers, carry out a variety of sports, fill their spare time, and give them enough channels to vent their excess energy.

"The construction of spiritual and cultural life" is not listed for the time being, and the Lions Club will elaborate on it in a separate article, first of all, "rich and colorful sports".

Guan Zhuofan's choice is actually very limited, at this time - in the sixties of the nineteenth century, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, and badminton have not yet been invented; Polo, cricket, tennis, such pretending things, and not suitable for ordinary soldiers to participate, there is no value in the large-scale promotion of the army, and there are almost two suitable options for football and rugby.

First, these two sports have a low threshold and a wide range of participation, and they are indeed the movements of "strength, courage, will, and speed" and the "tenacious confrontation spirit and teamwork consciousness" that Guan Zhuofan said, which are very suitable for large-scale promotion in the army.

Second, the systems of these two sports have basically matured, and the rules are not much different from modern football and modern rugby. That is to say, it is "scientific" enough, and there are enough training techniques and means - technically speaking, the conditions for large-scale promotion.

Well, other sports, such as basketball, volleyball, table tennis, and badminton, may be able to come up with ideas and invent them in advance, but it is better to focus on promoting football and rugby first.

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After Brooke and Bird went out, Wall's face became solemn: "Yixuan, have you read the 'weekly report' that the 'Military Committee' reported to you last week?" ”

As explained above, Guan Zhuofan established a "military committee" system within the Xuan Army, with himself as "chairman," Wall as "chairman," Daniel Zhang as "vice chairman," and Forrestal, Bai Qiwen, Ixan, Jiang De, and Anderson as "members."

The chairman of the "Military Committee" and below are responsible for the daily management and construction of the Xuan Army; At the same time, it is necessary to write a "weekly report" on the military situation of the week and report it to the chairman.

Guan Zhuofan was slightly stunned and said, "Not yet." ”

In the past two days, he has been busy with two major cases in Beijing, and on the other hand, he has been busy explaining the "official language" to the Queen Mother, and he has not had time to read the "weekly report" of the last week.

Wall's face was very stern: "Yixuan, you have to hurry up and see." The two cases mentioned in the 'Weekly Report' should be taken seriously by you. ”

Guan Zhuofan's eyebrows raised slightly: "Is there something wrong?" ”

"It's not too big, but I think it's very representative," Wall said. The most crucial thing is that within the 'Military Council', there are very different views on these two cases. Yixuan, I think, there is an urgent need for you to come forward personally, well, in your words, 'unity of mind'. ”

*(To be continued......)