Chapter 935: Another Analogy
Keju has been practiced for a long time, and the rules and forms of each dynasty and generation are different, but there are generally no three types.
One is pure fun, which can be seen at banquets, but gathering people to play casually is the right to have fun.
Second, as a kind of competition, this form is more popular with the people of the time, so there is a juju competition every year on the Qingming Festival in Yejing.
There is a third kind, which is used for military training, but now people rarely use this method to train soldiers, each military general has his own training experience, and there are many more famous art of war to test, so Keju training is not in vogue.
An Sheng had never seen the prestigious Keju competition in Yejing City in his previous life, but he will see him for the first time today.
When he entered the hunting ground, he could already hear the voices of people in the distance, Lu Zheng rode his horse and walked beside An Sheng's carriage, and introduced today's competition to An Sheng from time to time.
Today's participants in the competition are all young talents who Ye Jing has now faced, it is a competition, it is natural to divide the team, in previous years, the competition was a draw to determine teammates, but this year, because of the great prince's strong insistence, a different method was used to decide the candidates for the two teams.
Lu Zheng told An Sheng that he was the captain of their team, representing His Royal Highness the Prince, and Wang Shangshu's eldest grandson, Wang Wen, was the captain of the other team, representing His Royal Highness the Great Prince.
Because the eldest prince insisted, today's game said that these sons and young masters were compared, but in fact, it should be said that he was compared with the prince.
He insisted as hard as he could, and in order not to let this little "trivial matter" reach the ears of the emperor and tell the emperor to be safe, he agreed to come down, but he only said that he was his brother, not to fight for one or two, but to contact each other.
The magnanimity of the crown prince and the gloom of the prince fell in the eyes of everyone, and everyone had their own plans in their hearts.
Now is not the season of hunting, although the Keju competition is popular, but it has not reached the point where the emperor and queen have to come forward, Nanzhao has already established the prince, today's game, is hosted by the prince, the eldest prince assists from the side, the remaining princes are too young, in addition to being able to join in the fun, the main thing is absolutely not good.
Of course, it is precisely because the other princes are too young to do anything that the eldest prince has always been eyeing the position of the prince, and always feels that the prince has robbed him of the position that originally belonged to him.
The crown prince is in charge, and the eldest prince assists from the side, and the two naturally have to part with each other.
However, this time is different from the past, the eldest prince, His Royal Highness the Rui King, is not as good as the Sacred Heart in the past, and the officials who were close to him in the past have somewhat retreated, so the eldest prince has become more and more irritable recently.
The prince of Chunfu took the lead, and the eldest prince was very angry in his heart, and discussed with his grandfather how to make a stumbling block for the prince, but Wang Shangshu kept telling him to wait for the opportunity, even if he was unwilling, but he didn't have a good way to hit the prince for a while, so he kept moving.
In a blink of an eye, the annual Qingming Keju competition was ushered in.
In previous years, although this game was also the prince's main business, the eldest prince assisted from the side, but in previous years, he was in the limelight, even the prince had to avoid him for three points, so he was naturally proud, but this year he was not enough saints, and the prince's edge was gradually revealed, so this juju game said that he assisted from the side, in fact, most of the prince himself was in charge, and he was used to losing his temper and scolding.
In this world, even my father and mother can't stand it, you often pull a face, and you don't have a good voice, let alone others?
Therefore, after being scolded by the eldest prince many times, the people who followed the errand did not like this His Royal Highness King Rui very much, but the eldest prince himself was not aware of it.
Seeing that Qingming had arrived, he and the crown prince followed the emperor to worship their ancestors, and then set off to the hunting ground on the outskirts of Beijing.
The Keju competition is in the evening, and it is not yet noon, it is the time for lunch, and the prince comes early, so he naturally has to have lunch on the hunting ground, but fortunately, the competition is held here every year, and these things have been arranged for a long time.
The people who can come to watch the game today are all the nobles of Kyoto, and how dare they not serve them.
The eldest prince attaches great importance to today's game, the more generous the prince is, the more disdainful he is, and the more he wants to step on the prince's face to the bottom, so in order to make Wang Wen just play for him, even the lunch is called by Wang Wenzheng to use with him.
During lunch, the eldest prince naturally had to ask Wang Wenzheng a few more words, and from time to time asked Wang Wenzheng how sure he was that he could win Lu Zheng?
It is precisely because he values this game that he is a little uncertain in his heart.
You must know that since Lu Zheng participated in the first Keju competition at the age of thirteen, the leader of each year in the future has nothing to do, he took it all off, and now Lu Zheng is the captain of the enemy team, how can he not worry?
But it doesn't matter if he is worried, but he really shouldn't have pulled Wang Wenzheng to ask questions on the eve of the game, asking this and that, it was useless not to say, but it made Wang Wenzheng angry and bored.
But Wang Wenzheng is not like his father, his joy and anger are all shown on his face, he is more like his grandfather, although he is not very old, he is very good at hiding his emotions, so when the eldest prince asks, he just remembers his grandfather's advice and perfunctory the eldest prince.
Wang Wenzheng was perfunctory with the eldest prince here, but on the other side, Lu Zheng and Wen Tao had already welcomed An Sheng and Xie Wanrong into the hunting ground for the female guests to rest.
When they arrived at the courtyard where the female guests were staying, it was difficult for the two of them to enter, so they only called the courtyard steward and told her to serve An Sheng and Xie Wanrong well, and then went back to their courtyard together.
Both of them are going to play today, and the rest of their team is resting in the same courtyard at the moment.
Naturally, they are all familiar and have a good relationship on weekdays, everyone is the same age, the oldest is only in his early twenties, a group of young men gather together, how can there be a time to stop, no, seeing Lu Zheng and Wen Tao come back, the yard is full of laughter.
Lu Zheng and Wen Tao made a sentence to anticipate this situation, and they were very calm in the laughter of more than a dozen people, and they didn't blush.
What's the matter, they are going to pick up their future daughter-in-law, these boys are envious and jealous, and they have to have a daughter-in-law to pick them up!
Compared with Lu Zheng, Wen Tao was obviously ridiculed more.
First, he is used to laughing, and he is also kind, unlike Lu Zheng, who is dressed in a cold face, and it is not easy to joke when he looks at it, and secondly, he and Xie Wanrong's marriage date is close at hand, and they will get married in less than two months.
Lu Zheng was also piggybacked and said a few words, but his body was too cold-conditioned, and everyone didn't dare to say it deeply, so they only took it to joke.
The people in this courtyard still have a good relationship with him, and if they change to someone else, they won't dare to make jokes.