Thanks to the naïve Shura, King's Landing is like a mountain, two big rewards, and a big monthly pass for pants to ward off evil spirits, Ah Yong thank you!

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Three days later, the Qingsi Hall of Daming Palace was crowded, surrounded by mostly sergeants from the Shence Army, and Li Bao took Ouyang Hui and others to the court. ⊙，

He plans to play in person today, and he has secretly trained for a long time in the past to please Li Yi, and today's game is a good opportunity to show his skills.

In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, light cavalry was prevalent in the army, and the imperial court focused on training light cavalry with high speed mobility and long-distance running.

At that time, the Tibetan envoys learned that Tang Taizong liked polo, and specially gave him a polo as a gift. However, Li Shimin didn't want the Tubo people to know his true intentions, so he pretended not to like it and burned the polo. But since then, the game of polo has become popular throughout the Tang Dynasty unconsciously.

Nowadays, princes and nobles, scholars, and soldiers all like to play polo, and even many ladies, including the palace ladies in the imperial city, are very good at polo games. However, ordinary people can't afford to buy horses, and there are few opportunities to ride horses, so they are not good at equestrianism, so they play foot ball.

Foot ball is a bow, and polo is a bow. Kemari was the prototype of football that swept the world in later generations. However, the most popular thing in Datang today is to play polo.

Nowadays, the polo field of Qingsi Hall is slightly wider than the standard football field of later generations, but the length is slightly smaller, and the total area is similar to the size of a football field, but the construction quality is extremely exquisite.

In order to make the ground smooth and flexible, no grass grows in summer, and no freezing in winter, Xuanhui Institute does not hesitate to spend a lot of money, and regularly pours barrels of oil on the court in spring, summer, autumn and winter. With such great effort, the talent of the court in front of the Qingsi Hall is kept clean day by day.

In addition, eighteen of the twenty-two emperors of the Tang Dynasty were very fond of polo, and Mu Zong and Jingzong both died because of polo [1]. It can be seen how the Tang royal family liked to play polo at that time, and their obsession with polo was no less than the love of football in later generations, and even more so.

Especially the current emperor Li Yi, who is a self-proclaimed master of polo. He basically watches polo every day, and he often plays polo in person, Tian Lingzi's Shence Left Army and Yang Siqi's Flying Dragon Army all take turns to play with Li Yi in the palace.

However, today's game was presided over by Tian Lingzi, first, he wanted to find a high-ranking official for his brother Chen Jingxuan, and second, he still had the intention of returning home.

Moreover, the anti-thieves led by Huang Chao are wreaking havoc in the heart of the Tang Dynasty, he must make some plans in advance, his hometown of Shuzhong is the best place to avoid military disasters. The central region of Shu is deep and complex, and the roads are not smooth, which is conducive to long-term separation, and the products are abundant. As long as he can control the emperor, then his power will not decrease much.

And as long as his elder brother is the envoy of the Xichuan Festival, then no one can do anything to him if he has internal and external authority, and as for Li Bao, the king of Ji who has been pressing himself, he will not be able to look at his eyes and act when he arrives?

However, this time I don't know how to be heard by King Ji Detective, which made him a little unexpected, and he is also very annoyed now.

Tian Lingzi probably knew Li Bao's intentions, and when he learned that Li Bao wanted to play today, he knew that Li Bao must have come this time to be unkind, and since he wanted to spoil his own affairs, he didn't want to be polite.

Polo has fierce conflicts and strong confrontation, so if there is a mistake in this polo game, it can only blame King Ji for his bad luck, and it has nothing to do with himself. Thinking of this, Tian Lingzi felt a little happy in his heart.

So he recruited Chen Jingxuan, Niu Miao, Luo Yuangao, and Yang Shili, who were going to play today, all of whom were his henchmen in the Shence Army, and they were also polo masters.

Chen Jingxuan and Tian Lingzi are brothers, so the brothers look similar. It's all ugly and surprisingly good. This rural bun who used to sell baked cakes has now become a hot general in Chang'an City because of Tian Lingzi's relationship, but his nouveau riche temperament has not changed much.

Tian Lingzi said to the four of them: "Today was originally a few of you to discuss, but that King Ji got the news and wanted to come to ruin our business, so you don't have to be polite today." Try to deal with him when you get the chance, you know? ”

Chen Jingxuan laughed: "This bastard King Ji can't get along with us all day long, and we will be afraid of him, the prince of the clan who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun all day long?" ”

When Yang Shili and the other three heard Chen Jingxuan say this, they immediately echoed and said, "I will definitely give King Ji a good look in a while." ”

Tian Lingzi's side was trying to counteract, and Li Bao was not idle, he pulled Ouyang Hui and a few Hu players to sit together and prepare to enter the court.

Ouyang Hui and his Hu people, most of them are from Tubo and Dangxiang, and they have lived on horseback since they were children, so their riding skills must be no problem. Moreover, playing polo was originally raised by the Tibetan people, so playing polo is not difficult for them at all.

However, this polo still depends on coordination and coordination between players. So in the past three days, Li Bao and Ouyang Hui have almost been training polo, and the training effect of the temporary assault is still there, but Li Bao is not a little inferior to Ouyang Hui in equestrianism.

Therefore, Li Bao's countermeasure is that he runs less, grabs the ball and blocks all hands over to Ouyang Hui, and his main task is to shoot.

After the game strategy was agreed, everyone began to make some pre-game preparations.

First of all, individuals should bring some protective measures, such as knee pads, elbow pads, and horse legs, and horse belly, all need to do some protection, these protective tools are not available at this time, but Li Bao invented.

These protective gears are made of leather and rattan armor, which is light but very effective, and he often gets injured during polo practice, but with these protective gear, the injury rate drops dramatically.

After Ouyang Hui got the protective gear, he tried his best to praise Li Bao for being wise and thoughtful and having great merits. This kind of protective gear can not only be used in polo fields, but also can save the lives of many soldiers on the battlefield.

In addition to the protective gear of the human body and the horse, there is another place on the horse that needs to be taken care of, that is, the horse's tail, because the horse runs fast during the polo process, and the horse's tail will cause great interference in the game, so the horse's tail must be knotted before the polo starts.

The so-called knot is to weave the ponytail like a twist braid, and then fold it in half, so as to minimize the hindrance of the ponytail.

After everything was in order, Li Bao came to the emperor with his inner servants, and Tian Lingzi said with compassion: "Today's competition is to select loyal ministers for the country, but King Ji insists on coming to participate in this competition. After the official family agreed, it was agreed that King Ji would lead his generals to participate in the game, but the polo game has always been dangerous, and King Ji should be careful. ”

Li Bao laughed and said to Tian Lingzi: "Today's game, firstly, is to learn from the ball, and secondly, it is also to choose loyal ministers for the country. Now he is also a meritorious envoy in Weizhou, and winning a festival envoy through this competition can be regarded as a reward from the official family. ”

Li Bao said explicitly, Tian Lingzi's face was a little unbearable, he pleaded with the emperor to agree to this competition, just for his own selfishness, so he did everything possible to finally ask the emperor for his consent in this competition, I don't want this auspicious king Li Bao to suddenly come out and want to pick fruits, how can he be willing.

Emperor Li Yi doesn't care, it doesn't matter who is the official in his opinion, it's better for him to have fun. So he said to Li Bao and Tian Lingzi: "Father and Liulang, don't waste time, let's start quickly." I've been here since morning, and you can't let me down. ”

Li Bao bowed to the emperor, and then went with a smile, and looked at Tian Lingzi before leaving, and the smile was extremely obvious. The competition stipulates that the first place will be awarded to the Xichuan Festival, the second will be awarded to the Dongchuan Festival, and the third place will be awarded to the Shannan West Road Festival.

These three places are the richest in Xichuan and are the essence of Shuzhong, followed by Dongchuan and Shannan Xidao. Therefore, Tian Lingzi must ensure that Chen Jingxuan gets the first.

However, Li Bao didn't plan to do so, and the ultimate purpose of his coming to participate in the competition was to embarrass Tian Lingzi. After all, this dead eunuch hasn't been cleaned up for a long time, and it's disgusting enough that he has brought disaster to the country and the people to this point.

Li Bao returned to his camp and jumped on his white horse. Then he turned back to Li Ying, Ling'er, Xin Niang and Yun Fang, who came to watch the battle not far away. His relatives and beauties are here, Li Bao only feels as if he has returned to the campus time of the later life, at that time he was not confident, and he was full of envy for the classmates who were sought after on the court.

At this time, his self-confidence has become more and more self-sufficient, and he has become the center of attention, which is a good feeling. He waved his hand at several beauties, and then put his finger in his mouth and whistled loudly, and for a while, the whistles on the Qingsi Temple Polo Field continued to come and go.

Tian Lingzi was very dissatisfied when he saw Li Bao being so high-profile, but he couldn't say anything, he just glanced at Chen Jingxuan and the others, and then he sat back in his seat, nodded at Emperor Li Yi, and then shouted in a male duck voice: "The game is on!" ”

At this time, the maximum number of players on both sides of the polo game is ten people, but there is no limit to the minimum, that is, the number of players on both sides is not required to be exactly equal, if you want, one person will not care about the other ten people.

But today's polo game has to test individual results in order to select official positions, but Li Bao led people to participate, and at this time, he also had to pay attention to the results of the two sides, which was a battle of spirit between the two groups, so both sides held their breath.

As Tian Lingzi's words landed, Li Bao, who had successfully guessed the ball, took the lead in kicking off, he held the club, and wanted to make a splash, so he swung vigorously in the direction of Chen Jingxuan's goal, and Ouyang Hui led his men to chase in the direction where the polo landed.

Who knew that Li Bao used too much force in this shot, and actually knocked the polo out of the field, almost hitting the sergeant of the Shence Army who was outside the court, which caused a burst of laughter from the onlookers.

Li Bao was secretly annoyed in his heart, and said in his heart: Hey, pretending to be too much.

The crowds who were fighting outside the arena had different expressions, and Ling'er Xinniang was all annoyed, "Oh, it's a pity!" ”

Li Ying smiled and shook her head, "Liulang has started to show off again." ”

Yun Fang was expressionless, but said in his heart: The king is so stupid!

Chen Jingxuan and others kicked off again after getting the ball, this time after they got the ball, the cooperation was very good, Ouyang Hui and others although they were superb in equestrian skills, but they could not be interspersed in the cooperation network of Chen Jingxuan and others. Li Bao also had some appreciation in his heart when he saw them so coordinated, but this time it was a battle of faces, and he couldn't sit still, so he patted his horse to meet him.

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Note [1] Tang Muzong was seriously injured while playing polo, and then died. Tang Jingzong was obsessed with playing polo and playing autumn foxes, and also loved to beat eunuchs, and was finally beaten to death by the unbearable eunuchs.