"Li Chunfang is really stupid!" Tang Shen came back from Xingyuan, and as soon as he approached Tang Yi's study, he snorted angrily. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"He's not stupid, he's bad! Use his stupidity to cover up his badness! Tang Yi sat on the chair, grabbed the iron kettle casually, and poured a cup of tea for himself and his father.

Tang Shen didn't have the heart to drink, but instead squinted his eyes, made a contemplative appearance, and grinned for a while, "You always hit the nail on the head, Li Chunfang is indeed bad!" It's bad! ”

Horse racing is not a trivial matter, different track lengths, different terrain environments, will affect the outcome of the race, for example, Arabian horses are suitable for middle-distance racing, Tang Yi set the track length at 3,000 meters, you can play to your strengths and avoid weaknesses. Mongolian horses, on the other hand, are good at long-distance running, doubling the distance of the track, and the result is not certain.

It's also a racing race, just changing the distance of the game, the result may be different, Li Chunfang directly changed the type of game, from racing to polo, without even discussing, and agreed directly!

When he mentioned this, he still looked disapproving, and said with a smile: "Lord Tang has found a divine horse, showing off the prestige of the country, the old man is in the cabinet, he is fascinated, I can't wait to watch it in person, I heard that the polo game is more lively and intense, I think my Ming Jianer will be invincible, and make great contributions, and then the old man will personally ask His Majesty and Xu Ge Lao for credit......"

Li Chunfang's eyes were sincere, his words were sincere, and he put his figure very low, like a kind elder, but Tang Yi just wanted to tear his face apart, stuff him under his feet, and step into the mud.

Polo is also called ju, and Cao Zhi wrote the poem "Even riding to hit the bow, clever and swift", proving that at least since the Han Dynasty, polo has appeared in the land of China.

In the Tang Dynasty, polo was even more popular all over the world, up to the royal nobles, down to the ordinary military and civilian people, all of them were intoxicated, and the dignitaries and dignitaries were competing to raise polo, every New Year's Day, the birthday of the emperor, the army triumphed, a grand polo game would be held, and the whole country was jubilant. At that time, some military attachés and knights generally equipped four war horses as standard, three of which were used for war, and the remaining one was for polo.

It's just that the pomp and circumstance of polo also tended to decline with the end of the Tang Dynasty, such as the Song Dynasty, which lost all the horse farms, how to play polo, just come and bow, so there is a great Gao Yu Gao Da...... Embarrassment!

In the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols entered the Central Plains, polo rose again, and by the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were still many people playing polo, but in the past 100 years, the world has been peaceful for a long time, and the most important thing is that Xun Guiwu will be suppressed to the limit and completely become the edge.

Relying on disdainful efforts, civil officials confined the emperor in the palace, ate the nobles to death, and turned the generals into slaves...... Of course, it is also the lack of horses in the Ming Dynasty, the price of good horses is too expensive, and even the price is too high, and the cost of organizing a polo team is too high, not to mention the family of a small rich, even if it is a dignitary.

As far as Tang Yi knew, among the armies on the nine sides, only Ma Fang's subordinates still had polo games, and among Xungui, only his uncle Zhu Xizhong raised two polo teams, and almost none of the others had heard of it.

No matter how decaying the Mongols are, they also have hundreds of thousands of cavalry and countless horses, and every year Naadam will hold a polo match, at least compared to the Ming Dynasty, the level is not known how much higher.

Li Chunfang casually agreed to the proposal of the Mongols, not waiting to lose!

"Okay, go ask Cheng Guogong and Ma Dong to see if they can succeed." Tang Shen suggested, there was not much confidence in his voice.

Zhu Xizhong was also at the small station, and he was invited over after a while, he likes to brag, but in the face of the Tang family, how dare he talk nonsense, spread his hands, his old man is purely playing tickets, and the polo team is a showcase, in order to show that they are still a noble family, relying on the wealth that they get right away, and that's it.

"I'm not afraid to play, but I'm not sure if I win!"

Nonsense, can't win what do you do!

Tang Yi had no choice but to pin his hopes on Ma Dong, and after asking, Ma Dong shook his head, their polo team may be better than Zhu Xizhong, but there is a lack of good horses, and only during the Chinese New Year, there are a few competitions, and the training is not successful, so it is really not very certain......

"Polo, horses account for seventy percent, people only account for thirty percent, don't we have more than a dozen heavenly horses, hand them over to Ma Dong, may not be able to fight with the Mongols." Tang Shen proposed.

There was only this way, and he called Zhu Shan again, and Zhu Shan's head shook like a rattle.

"My lord, Pegasus is lively and active, and it is not easy to control, so it is suitable for racing, but it may not be suitable for polo matches. The polo field needs to be mobile and dexterous, and the docile and obedient horses do not need to be too fast, but the movements must be vigorous, and when the machine plays polo, the people and horses must cooperate well. Neither I nor my knights have ever played polo, and as for Ma Dong, I'm afraid they won't be able to cooperate with Pegasus. And then there's ...... The polo game is very fierce, both people and horses will be injured, and the Mongols have bad intentions, in case they secretly attack and lose the Pegasus, won't they be able to catch up......"

Zhu Shan said a lot, it boils down to one meaning, don't race, the race has won completely, not only is it an overwhelming victory, but the iron back made a trick, pitted himself, lost half of his life, and made enough money in the face. Moreover, horse racing has also become famous, and wealthy merchant families from all over the country have paid huge deposits just to get a Pegasus as soon as possible...... Everything is going in the direction of perfection, everything is logical, why make extraneous branches, do this extra move, and give the Mongols a chance, simply expel them all from the Ming Dynasty.

When Tang Yi doesn't want to do this?

This is the "bad" side of Li Chunfang, as a cabinet scholar, he was sent by Jiajing to be a messenger, and his status is respected, and what he promised is invalidated, what will the Mongols think of the Ming Dynasty, and it is guaranteed that some people will say that Tang Yi has lost his national body and will attack him wantonly.

But if you go to the game according to Li Chunfang's request, you will lose your face and will also be scolded.

The most desperate thing is that when the time comes, Li Chunfang only needs to spread his hands, saying that he doesn't understand war horses, or just find an excuse to put the blame on Tang Yi, saying that they are not well prepared, and at most they will be scolded, but Tang Yi's face has been lost.

This is a typical decision to pat your head and leave......

"Okay, we finally won a big victory, the country's prestige and military prestige, the people's morale was greatly boosted, and the martial arts flourished again, how could it be destroyed in the hands of Li Chunfang." Tang Shen slapped the table, stood up and said, "I'm going to go to Gao Butang and Jiang Butang and join forces to force Li Chunfang to cancel the polo match!" ”

Tang Shen is still a man of action, and as he spoke, he walked outside, Tang Yi hurriedly got up and quickly pulled his father back.

"Dad, I dare to say that you are getting old, Li Chunfang promised to nod, and he also went back to find Tiebei and Wumur and canceled the game."

Tang Shen was stunned, "Isn't that good?" ”

"Fear the enemy and avoid war, coerce the elder pavilion, do you think it's okay?" Tang Yi said with a wry smile.

From Li Chunfang's tricks, Tang Yi tasted a trace of Xu Jie's taste, he couldn't swallow it, he couldn't spit it out, so that you didn't know it left and right, it looked like he hadn't seen him for more than a year, and Xu Jie's skills had recovered a lot.

Tang Shen returned to his seat, his teeth chattering, he, a teacher, how could he be so calculating! If Xu Jie could use his calculating skills for government affairs, the world would not be like this.

"There is only one way to get ahead!" Tang Yi's face was grim, and he looked at Zhu Shan and Ma Dong, "Ma Dong, immediately take your people to get acquainted with Tianma, practice hard, and find a way to buy a little time." ”

"My lord, how long can you give us?" The two of them hurriedly asked, this is not a joke, it must be determined.

"Three days, three days at most."

Tang Yi also wanted to take a long time, but the horse racing conference was already a month smaller, and if it was delayed, people would be sleepy and tired, and it would delay the business, so it must be ended as soon as possible.

He walked up to Ma Dong and Zhu Shan and patted them on the shoulders hard.

"A thousand pounds of heavy burden, you must carry it!"

The two of them looked at each other and nodded vigorously, "Please rest assured, if you lose, we'll see you up!" ”

……

Three days, in a blink of an eye, Tang Yi arranged manpower, renovated the field, the polo field is very wide, the size is equivalent to ten football fields, the game has not started, Gao Gong came to the stands first, seeing Tang Yi and Tang Shen are coming, Gao Gong took the initiative to come over.

"How's that, are you sure?"

"It's hard to say." Tang Yi's face was solemn, "Zhong Xuangong, the key to the polo game is the horse, our heavenly horses have great strength, good endurance, and are brave and good at fighting, but the big deal is to cripple the Mongolian horses, so that they can't fight!" ”

"Well, that's a good idea!" Gao Gong said with a smile: "Do things, the old man is still at ease, just these days betting, before and after winning five hundred taels of silver, the old man bet on another treasure, it is not a secret, a year ago, I took a fancy to a Song Yan, finally able to get it." ”

Gao Gong was full of optimism, but Tang Yi frowned, and a big pimple was blocked in his heart. Judging from the sprint competition, there is definitely a master of conspiracy hidden in the gang of Tiebei Taiji, and they will not be unprepared when they propose a polo match.

Just as Tang Yi was thinking, someone suddenly ran over, and in the middle of the arena, he proposed a red piece of paper with the rules of the game written on it, which was very eye-catching.

Tang Yi couldn't help but get up, walked closer, up and down, and looked carefully.

Each team of nine players participates in a total of seven games, and the first 10 points in each game are the winners, and the cumulative four wins are the final winners.

These are quite ordinary, when Tang Yi saw the content of the last line, his face instantly turned blue: cherish horsepower, play two rounds per horse at most, and then replace the new horse.

Tang Yi glanced at the Great Seal of the Qincha at the place where he was registered, and a bone-chilling cold light was released from his two eyes, and a thought surged in his heart, and he shouted frantically: Li Chunfang, are you the elder of the Ming Dynasty, or the elder of the pavilion of I? With a messenger like you, do you still need an enemy? (To be continued.) )