- After listening to the emperor's words, Sima Guang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is only in the year of the Mandate of Heaven, and the Holy Body is in good health......

"Don't be a layman!" Zhao Zhen calmly interrupted him and said, "Since last year, the widow's health has deteriorated, and the imperial doctors dare not say it, I know it myself." The Imperial Examination and the Imperial Ancestor Shengshou have not exceeded sixty, and I think it is difficult for me to be an exception. ”

"How can we generalize when each person has his own lifespan?" Sima Guang said softly: "As long as the official family cultivates vitality and recuperates, they will not worry about the longevity of the saint." ”

"Hehe, emperors throughout the ages, whether they are heroes or faint kings, everyone wants to live forever, and they all taboo the word 'death'. But through the ages, who can escape? Zhao Zhen shook his head and said, "Not mentioning it is just self-deception." However, when you are sober, you don't want to do anything about the future, and when you are in danger, you can't understand what you want to say, and you are even small, and you have a false edict, which brings great disasters to the society, and even has the danger of losing the country. ”

Of course, there are too many such things, Sima Guang nodded. After being silent for a long time, Fang said in a low voice: "Minister...... Compliance. ”

"Very good," Zhao Zhen approved, and instructed Sima Guang to send Zhao Conggu to lead the army but couldn't, but sent Zhao Zongji to supervise the army, and revised it to Zhao Conggu to recommend himself and Zongji to supervise the army or to be the general.

"Actually, both the ancient and the sect are suitable, do you know why the widow didn't let him go from the ancients?" Zhao Zhen thought for a moment and asked.

"Wechen doesn't dare to be reckless." Sima Guang said in a low voice.

"But it doesn't hurt to talk about it." Zhao Zhen said lightly: You know what I said today, and I will never allow outsiders to know, understand? ”

"Wechen understands." Sima Guang had no choice but to grit his teeth and say: "Weichen thinks that the military power is still in the hands of Taizong's family. ”

"Not bad...... Zhao Zhen glanced at Sima Guang, becoming more and more aware that this person was not simple, and said in a low voice: "Let's let the Zongzi generation be in charge of the army, the meat is rotten in the pot anyway." ”

Sima Guang's heart sank, and he guessed correctly. The reason why Zhao Zhen did not let Zhao Conggu lead the troops may have taken a fancy to Zhao Zongji. But more, I am still worried that the Taizu family will return to the helm. Zhao Er did too much to Dafang back then, no matter what, Zhao Zhen didn't want Dafang to do the same thing again.

He felt a cold wind down his spine, the emperor's mental skill was really terrifying!

Zhao Zhen saw him in a daze, and said lightly: "Forgive me for knowing the widow's hard work, but you can't say it." It doesn't do anyone any good to break it down. ”

"Remember." Sima Guang hurriedly responded.

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At that time, it was already the middle of summer, and the chūn season league of the first Bianjing Football Club was completed, and the top 64 of the autumn championships were determined.

Although in terms of the type of entertainment, it cannot be compared with later generations, but the Song people's enthusiasm and devotion to entertainment are incomparable to later generations.

For example, sumo wrestling is just two men dressed in wisps, which can make the people of the Song Dynasty fascinated for hundreds of years. Feeding hundreds of large and small sumo clubs in Bianjing City, each rì received gambling money. There are millions of them.

And sumo is not a national sport, after all, only those guys who are tall and brute force dare to go to sumo. In terms of obsession and participation, the first movement in Bianjing City is none other than Keju.

Whenever the day came, the people of Bianjing City rushed to the garden to play football. Men, women and children have become Keju's opponents, you come and go, and the sky is full of meteors. between the entertainment venues in the city. Everywhere there was a place for citizens to practice kicking football. This kind of physical exercise fever for the whole people has not been seen in China in later generations.

However, in the Song Dynasty, the juju was mainly based on several people forming a circle and kicking each other around, competing who could keep the ball from falling to the ground and who could play well. Only the net kick is a bit confrontational, but it is still more than fancy, and the intensity is not enough, so although there are many participants, there are no various high-profile competitions like sumo.

Chen Ke asked the chief of the small county to come out with the 'Tang-style juju', and revised it in accordance with the rules of modern football to improve the competition system. Under the generous prize money and overwhelming publicity, the world's first football tournament kicked off in Bianjing City on the chūn day of the fifth year of Jiayou.

The preliminary preparation is sufficient, and the preheating alone will take half a year. In order to publicize the games, Chen Ke ordered people to do overwhelming advertisements in Bianjing, and also published the "Bianjing Ball Newspaper", which was given free to major restaurants, tea shops, gambling houses, and jì courtyards, and spent money to help the guests listen.

Under this kind of high-intensity propaganda offensive, there is no one in Bianjing City who does not know about this football game. Even the officials in the deep palace are very clear about the rules of the game, the setting of bonuses, and the methods of gambling. He once asked Sima Guang, I heard that if he can win the championship, the cumulative prize will reach more than 10,000 yuan?

Sima Guang didn't know too much, so he hurriedly went back to find a copy of the "Qiu Bao" to read, and the next day reported that the teams that could be shortlisted for the chūn season league would be divided into 32 groups to play a single round-robin, winning a game of 100 guan, and losing also having an appearance fee of 20 guan.

In the end, the top two in each group will advance to the Autumn Championship, and after the group, they will fight against each other, and the first round will be promoted to a prize of 300 yuan; The prize money for the second round is 500 yuan, the third round is 800 yuan, the fourth round is 1,000 yuan, the semi-final is 1,500 yuan, and the final is 2,000 yuan. The loser only has an appearance fee of 100 times.

In this way, if a team can win all the leagues and tournaments, it can theoretically get 10,000 yuan in prize money.

"Who is so rich?" Zhao Zhen said strangely.

"It is said that the Five Princes and Chen Zhongfang, when they were in Liao, participated in polo matches, and felt that sports full of confrontation could strengthen the people's bodies and cultivate blood and bravery. But I am short of horses in the Song Dynasty, and it is unrealistic to organize a polo match, and it just so happened that the main examination of Chang'an County proved that Tang's Keju, which is not inferior to polo, so the two lobbied the rich to fund and set up this game. ”

"It seems that the rich families in Bianjing City are very buying." Zhao Zhen said lightly.

Weichen estimates that for a hundred years, Bianjing City has been playing old tricks. Now that there is finally something new, the rich are willing to support it. Sima Guang replied: "Besides, Chen Zhong is arrogant, and it is said that half of the ...... is out."

"This kid is a lice and doesn't bite, so he is not afraid that the imperial historians will impeach him for gathering the people and having evil intentions?" Zhao Zhen said with a smile.

Sima Guang looked at the emperor's expression and knew that he was just joking, so he said softly: "He just relied on the benevolence of the official family to dare to mess around, I heard that he was going to build a 'wisdom courtyard' in the Thirteen Elements, which really made people not know what to say." ”

"The sky is going down, my mother is going to get married, let him go......" Zhao Zhen sighed softly: "It's good to be young......"

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Under the temptation of huge prize money, hundreds of clubs in Bianjing City, large and small, have formed their own teams and are ready to participate. Although they all look down on this kind of 'rude' form of competition, no one will get along with money.

After a few games, people found that compared with Song-style juju, this Tang-style juju is more intense, more suspenseful, and more stimulating to people's blood. It also organizes the game in the form of a league, which is more competitive and complete, and also makes the team and stars more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that the audience has a more sense of substitution, accompanied by the support of the team to taste the excitement of victory, the frustration of defeat, and the aftertaste of the surprise of defeating the strong with the weak, and the ups and downs.

Of course, the popularity of the ball game is inseparable from the enthusiasm for gambling, because it involves one's own wins and losses. The powerhouses soon gathered a large number of fans, and thousands of spectators surrounded the stadium during the game...... This is also due to the fact that there are no professional stadiums that cannot accommodate more spectators.

It's not that Chen Ke is reluctant to build a stadium, it's that the stadium looks too much like a castle, and he doesn't want to be labeled as a bad plan.

But the audience was fully engaged, shouting and cheering, cheering and cursing, and the voices were full of voices, which was not inferior to the scenes of later generations.

As for the organization of the competition, there is no need for Chen Ke to be particularly cāo. The people of the Song Dynasty were too good at playing, and there were many kinds of entertainment organizations, so they only had to look at the regulations he provided to know what to do. There is basically no chaos or even chaos as he imagined, and I don't know if the people of the Song Dynasty are too obedient or too qualified......

Not only is the game exciting, but there is also a special 'collection and editing' after the game, which summarizes the current situation in the form of a commentary, selects the best team, the best player, the best goal, etc., and writes a paragraph and publishes it in the "Qiu Bao", which can be printed into a newspaper early in the morning and sent to all parts of the capital. The idlers read it out to satisfy the hunger of those who were not qualified to watch, even those who came to the scene yesterday enjoyed the aftertaste in this way.

Most people don't realize what a great thing this is. But the bosses of those book clubs in Bianjing City were stunned. You must know that even with the most skilled craftsmen, it will take more than ten days to print such a publication of tens of thousands of words. The newspaper was written and printed the same day, and it was ready to sell early the next morning.

They want to know too much, how the hell is this done? If they don't understand this, they are afraid that they will have to close their business.

In any case, under the constant urging of Liangxìng, the league of Bianjing Football Club has attracted more and more attention, and even forced other games to be unable to be played, because people have all run to watch the game. Several venues outside the city where the competition is concentrated, and the end rì is crowded with people, which is even more lively than the Great Xiangguo Temple.

The businessmen immediately smelled the business opportunity and set up tea and wine shops, restaurants, umbrella shops, and ball markets in the stadium, and the business was naturally surprisingly hot. It is said that after the beginning of summer, the major golf courses sell more sour plum soup every day than the entire city......

By the end of May, more than 700 teams had finally finished fighting in groups to determine the round of 64.

After that, there is a two-month summer break. It wasn't until August that the fighting resumed.

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The organizing committee has finally been approved to build a stadium five miles outside the city, so it is natural to take advantage of the summer break to immediately mobilize craftsmen and step up construction.