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-- In April, the temperature began to warm up.

After several months of preparation, the 2nd Far Eastern Games officially opened on 13 April, and the Far Eastern Games were hosted by the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and the Chinese team was also formed by the East China Autonomous Political Axe.

And the Beiyang political axe stayed aside.

In today's China, the status of the local political axe in the East China Autonomous Political Axe is much higher than that of the Beiyang Political Axe, which is the nominal central political axe.

The Beiyang Political Axe does not attach too much importance to the Far Eastern Games, and the East China Autonomous Political Axe does not attach too much importance to it, and Xia Jun still attaches great importance to the development of sports.

Sports are a kind of evolution from war, and all sports carry the shadow of war, which is still helpful for improving the martial spirit, and can also improve the physical fitness of the people.

For this Far Eastern Games, Xia Jun is not worried about anything, because the East China Autonomous Political Axe has already formed a relatively professional team.

The major media paid more attention to this event, after all, this is the first time that China has hosted a sports event, and it is the first time in the world.

In such a situation, media attention is natural, and media attention also means the attention of the people, but after the New Year, people are so busy that not many people go to watch the game, and can only get the progress of the game through newspapers, radio, and radio.

After the opening of the Far Eastern Games, the Chinese team really killed all sides on the field, and the Philippines and the two countries were not opponents at all, among which the two countries were in a period of ceasefire at this time, and the smell of gunpowder on both sides was relatively strong, and there were almost physical clashes several times.

After nearly half a month of competition, the results came out without any suspense.

The Chinese team won the championship with a total score of 98 points. Among them, Li Rusong won the 440-yard run championship with a time of 54 seconds; Guo Yubin won the 880-yard and one-mile races, with a time of 2:06.6 and 4:50.8 respectively. Huang Yuandao won the 120-yard hurdles with a time of 17.4 seconds; Ji Ziying won the five-sport championship with a score of 341 points; Cai Wenbing, Yang Jinhui, Lin Fu and Li Robb won the 200-yard relay championship with a time of 2:25.8; Rob Lee won the 220-yard freestyle with a time of 3:27.4; The Chinese football team defeated the Philippine team to win the championship, the Chinese basketball team defeated the Yueben team to win the championship, the Chinese steel team defeated the Philippines to win the championship, and the bicycle race also won the championship.

The Chinese team won 90% of the championships and became the biggest winner of the Far Eastern Games.

This result is much better than the result of the second Far Eastern Games in history, and this is the advantage of forming a professional team.

However, this advantage must be maintained, and in addition to China's overall victory in the second year, China's results in the subsequent Far Eastern Games are getting worse and worse, because other countries are actively developing sports competitions.

If you want to truly gain a foothold in sports competition, there are two ways, one is to set up a professional team and practice hard, which is the case in China in later generations.

The second is a more amateur way, but it has a broad mass base, such as some European and American countries, many of their citizens have the habit of exercising, plus there is enough nutritional supply, and sports performance will naturally go up.

Take football as an example, people often say that there are 1.3 billion people in China, why can't they choose 11 to play football? But in fact, how many of these 1.3 billion people have ever played football? The number of people who are passionate about the game may be less than a tenth of those who are in the powerhouses.

The reason for this is that the hardware facilities are insufficient, how many football stadiums can China have in the future? Many schools have football fields, but no one plays them, and the fields are full of people, and it's not easy to play. The second is that there is no one to teach, and the physical education teacher basically does not teach these things much.

In fact, there are many things that need to be done by the political axe, just like this in the development of sports, no matter what the results of the competition, the most important thing is to improve the physical fitness of the people.

Xia Jun is still quite satisfied with the result of this competition, but he knows that this model will not work at all, and sports must be popularized.

Exercise is based on a full stomach, so that there is surplus energy to exercise, the current rapid development of industry, agricultural development is even faster, so the problem of food and clothing has been well solved, has the conditions for the development of sports.

First of all, it is necessary to increase the funding for schools and increase the size of schools for the construction of sports facilities. To put it bluntly, these sports facilities occupy an area, and the others do not cost much money.

Then it's time to decide on the various competitions, the competitions within the school, the school-to-school competitions, and the competitions between the professional teams.

This requires a special department to manage, so Xia Jun found You Zhengbin and asked him to set up a sports department, which will be responsible for managing various events and planning the construction of sports infrastructure.

The East China Autonomous Government soon issued a document on the development of sports.

"Each province set up a track and field team, football team, basketball team, volleyball team, baseball team, rugby team, a large-scale competition every year, between schools, and then set up primary school students, middle school students, high school students, college students competition, school physical education courses should account for more than 15% of the total curriculum, schools should hire professional physical education teachers to guide students, focus on the development of sports projects with cooperative surnames, enhance the sense of national unity."

The document issued by Xia Jun is also looking for a livelihood for those athletes.

Just like those athletes in later generations, they will have to face livelihood problems after retirement, but if schools can hire professionals to guide students in sports, then these professional athletes will be able to find jobs easily after retirement.

The victory of the Far Eastern Games made the people excited for a while, but Xia Jun was not so excited, the sports competition was just a sports competition, and it could not determine the national fortune.

However, it is very good for raising the pride of the people, so it is worth developing vigorously.

After the Chinese New Year, various industries have entered a busy stage, especially in terms of railway construction, and the railway construction speed of Lianghu and Sichuan has accelerated.

This year, the agricultural reclamation company has invested a large amount of money in Lianghu and Sichuan, so it is necessary to repair the railway as soon as possible, otherwise agricultural products in some places will not be able to be transported.

The Ministry of Water Resources has received a huge amount of funding this year, and the Ministry of Water Resources is no longer limited to the seven autonomous provinces in East China.

With the expansion of the agricultural reclamation company, or the agricultural policy of the East China Autonomous Government, the Ministry of Water Resources must control the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.

In particular, the Yellow River basin, where cotton is grown, and Hubei, a province with many lakes.

Water conservancy construction in other provinces is currently very backward, basically maintained at the level of ancient times, and many are old and in disrepair, with fragile dikes and clogged ditches.

Against this backdrop, it is reasonable for the Ministry of Water Resources to receive huge sums of money.

The East China Autonomous Axe basically shared most of the water conservancy aspects of the central government, while the Beiyang government invested very little in this area.

In order to keep up with the pace of agricultural expansion, the Ministry of Water Resources began to focus on the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins this year, while the Huai River basin began to vigorously control the river basin as early as last year.

While the East China Autonomous Axe was busy building factories, railways, water conservancy, and houses, the Beiyang Axe was busy preparing for the restoration of the imperial system.

Due to the advent of the First World War, China's national capital entered a golden age, and the industrial and commercial development of the provinces under the rule of the Beiyang political axe was relatively fast, but it was extremely limited compared with the East China Autonomous political axe, and most of the capital of the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Province entered those provinces under the permission of the policy.

But this is enough to greatly increase the tax revenue of the Beiyang political axe, and due to the agreement reached between the East China Autonomous political axe and the Beiyang political axe, the Beiyang political axe has basically completed the separation of military and political at this time, and Yuan Shikai is in power.

Coupled with the training of the model brigade organized by Yuan Keding, the eldest son of the Yuan family, the Yuan family has a direct subordinate army, which is full of confidence and straightening the rocker.

Although he still lacked confidence in the East China Army, at this time, the East China Army was fighting with Yue Ben, which made Yuan Shikai secretly happy in his heart.

On the issue of being the emperor, Yuan Shikai is testing Xia Jun's attitude through various means.

At the closing ceremony of the Far Eastern Games that day, a reporter asked Xia Jun: "May I ask the chairman, what is your opinion on the restoration of the imperial system?" If China were to restore its imperial system, who would you be the best person to be the emperor of China? ”

Xia Jun avoided answering this question, and replied: "As for the restoration of the imperial system, this is not the issue that we should consider now in East China, the issue we are currently considering is to increase infrastructure construction and strive to make money for the people." ”

"What if the central government thinks about this?" The reporter asked fiercely, Xia Jun pondered for a while, and replied ambiguously: "I personally think that the local political axe should respect the correct decision of the central political axe. ”

The right decision, who knows how you decide.

You can say that he is right or you can say that he is wrong, and this answer is completely empty words, clichés, and has no clear position.

Due to the reporter's instigation, Xia Jun's subsequent questions completely deviated from the topic of the Games, and instead became a problem of China's internal system.

"Chairman, I'm a journalist. At present, although the relationship between the central political axe and the East China political axe is relatively flat, but the lives of the people in other provinces are not very good, what do you think about this, or what actions will we take to change this situation? ”

"We are currently working hard to put the administration of the central government on a correct path, and I think the effect is huge. At present, the central government has completed the first stage of separating the military from the government administratively, and is now moving toward the second stage of clean administration under the supervision of the Joint Supervision Yuan. In addition, in the next few years, the East China Autonomous Government will share the task of border defense for the central authorities, severely crack down on separatist organizations, and strive to establish a basically unified China within three to five years. Xia Jun replied, although there are still some clichés in the answer, but there is also a lot of substance, but the answer to the fundamental question is still avoided.

At present, the development of other provinces is very slow, which is mainly the reason for the administrative incompetence of the Beiyang political axe, many intellectuals can no longer tolerate this kind of behavior, but what makes them very depressed is that the East China autonomous political axe has no intention of launching a unified war so far.

There are even some intellectuals who accuse the autonomous government of East China of being irresponsible and of focusing only on the seven provinces and ignoring the whole of China. It's just that such accusations don't quite hold up, so it's not very popular yet.

(To be continued)