Chapter 17 Opening Ceremony of the Games

On the ninth day of July, today's Chang'an Stadium is destined to go down in history, the people of the surrounding counties of Chang'an are gathered in the Chang'an Stadium at this time, the stadium that can accommodate 50,000 people when it was originally designed, now more than 100,000 people, so there are tens of thousands of people still congested around the periphery of Chang'an Stadium.

Xu Yang also never expected that the Wanbang Games would be so popular with the people of Chang'an, and originally prepared 80,000 admission tickets, but now, because of the strong demand of those powerful people in the surrounding counties of Chang'an, Xu Yang had to temporarily increase ticket sales, and added 20,000 new admission tickets, so as to block the mouths of those nobles.

There are too many nobles in Chang'an, not to mention the four counties such as Lantian and Nanshan, just the nobles in Chang'an City, there are more than 50,000, not counting their wives and children. So it's reasonable that the number of people is full this time.

The stadium was already crowded with people, and there was still half an hour before the opening ceremony began, and the entire stadium was already full of people.

The figures of the members of the Chengguan garrison team also appeared in the stadium, but most of them were dark whistles, and there were very few in the open.

There was still half an hour before the opening ceremony, Li Er and his eldest grandson and concubines began to enter, and for a time it seemed to ignite the atmosphere of the entire stadium, and countless people cheered on the high platform of the gymnasium, enjoying the most magnificent scene in the world.

Li Er still seems to be a little unaccustomed to others standing on a high place looking at him, since he ascended the throne, he has always looked down on others. And in this stadium. It was all the people who sat on high and looked at themselves. made him a little displeased, but the scene in front of him was indeed very magnificent and novel, more lively than when the two armies were arrayed, and it also slightly slowed down Li Er's awkwardness.

"Your Majesty, please go up to the high platform here." Xu Yang walked in front of Li Er and raised his hand to signal, and Li Er stepped into the VIP passage with the royal family of the royal warbler Yanyan and went straight to the best viewing platform.

Thinking that Cheng Chumo and Wei Chi Baolin paid for the construction of this stadium, Xu Yang fully considered it. As the only large stadium in Chang'an City, Li Er will definitely come here to visit or inspect in the future, in order to highlight the status of the ruler, the best viewing platform must be built, not only to build, but also to build some luxury, more silver needed, from Xujiazhuang can be taken, in short, must highlight the noble status, convenient for the emperor to watch the game.

I have to say that Xu Yang's idea was very prescient. Now, every investment has paid off. At least when Li Er sat on the tiger skin bench of the best viewing platform and looked down on the entire stadium, he returned to his lofty imperial status and said to the people beside him: "I am very satisfied with what this viewing platform has done." ”

With his words, Xu Yang's previous investments were all worth it.

After Li Er sat down, Gong E and those maids began to arrange the seats of concubines, princes, and princesses, like Li Chengqian, who sat next to his father, and the eldest grandson sat with Li Zhi and Li Tai, the family was not far apart, but the status was visible at a glance. Of course, there are also Concubine Yin, Concubine Yang, Li Ke, Li Zhe, and so on, when Li Er's family members are settled, the opening ceremony of the World Games will begin.

This era is not like later generations, there are high-tech audio, LED tube subtitles, wide-angle screens, nothing is used here, some are just a magnificent stadium.

Therefore, for the opening ceremony, it is impossible to announce which team of which country has entered the stadium in the form of guò broadcasting, and can only distinguish which country's team is through the distinctive costumes and flags.

After discussion, many countries that came to the Datang competition this time also determined their own national uniforms and flags, and the Tang people made zuò for them for free.

Although there are no commentators and there is a lot of noise outside, there are still commentators around hundreds of royal relatives and nobles in the best viewing platform.

"Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, princesses, princesses, now you see that the first team to enter the track is the Tubo team, their flag is the pattern of three snow-capped mountains, symbolizing the characteristics of the Tubo people in the high mountains, their uniforms are white, and they also think that the holy white, they are the largest number of athletes sent to participate in the competition except for my Datang, presumably they also have a great desire for the championship." Beside Li Er, the narrator is a young woman, she was the eldest daughter of the Lu family in Chang'an, graduated from the women's college of Nanshan Academy, and has been working as a counselor in the women's academy.

Li Er raised his head and looked at the woman in front of him, as if he was a little shocked that a woman would be so bold in front of him and be able to say so many words, you must know that in the palace, even the maid who has served him for many years does not dare to say a few more words to herself, and it is not easy for this woman in front of her to do this kind of Cheng dù.

Stared at the woman twice, but he didn't expect that dense beads of sweat had oozed from her forehead, Li Er also shook his head and smiled, and waved his big hand: "Go on." "No." The woman was relieved, and then continued to explain.

"At this time, the team facing His Majesty, look at the flag held by their flag bearer, there is a wolf head on it, yes, they are the Western Turkic team with the wolf as the totem, they are in the steppe, every Turkic is an excellent rider from birth, this Wanbang Games, they are also well prepared, a total of seven small items under the horse riding competition, there are horse archery, horse racing, horse fighting, and polo, etc., it can be said that this time the Turks have full confidence in the movement of horses."

Hearing the narrator's introduction, Li Er was also very interested, and leaned over to look at the phalanx not far away......

"Daddy, look, those people are shirtless!" On the observation deck, a young child pointed to the Turks on the football track of the Sports Institute Pavilion and said excitedly.

"That's the custom of the Turkic people, they have to show their shoulders before every horse race, so that the tribesmen on the steppe can see their strong bodies, do you know, Xingtang~." Xu Yang lovingly hooked his son's little nose.

"Oh~" Xiao Xingtang blinked his big eyes and said excitedly: "Daddy, when will our Datang phalanx come out?" Do they want to be shirtless too~"

Xu Jingshi, who was sitting next to Liu Mengli, interjected: "You have forgotten this, Daddy said that the Games are the last of the host's team to appear every time, and this Games is held by us, so our Datang phalanx is naturally the last to appear~"

"The girl knows so much." Xu Yang also picked up Xu Jingshi excitedly, kissed her tender little face, and provoked her to giggle. "Daddy's beard is so prickly~" Xiao Jingshi's words also made Liu Mengli and Jin Shengman on the side laugh...... "The host team is about to play, and the Datang Royal Polo team is coming on, and this time facing a strong opponent; The captain of the Western Turkic Polo Team, the Datang Royal Polo Team, said that it is necessary to let the Turks know what real polo is!

Following the Datang Royal Polo Team, is the Nanshan Academy football team, Nanshan Academy is famous all over the world for three, students, science and technology, and Keju, can be known as the three famous, presumably in the football competition, the scholars of Nanshan Academy will let the countries appreciate the style of my Datang Juju!

Behind the football team of Nanshan Academy, there are athletes who participate in various sports events in Datang, and I can only say one thing about the identities of these athletes, they are all from the most elite unit in Datang: the Chengguan Garrison Team......

Athletes from many countries have already appeared, after going around the stadium, they stopped on the playground, and at this time the athletes of the Tang people finally appeared, and without waiting for the explanation, the moment they saw the golden dragon flag fluttering in the wind, the whole stadium was boiling...... (To be continued......)