Chapter 120: The Opening

The commanders and envoys also rushed to the scene, and together with Ouyang Yi, the two sides immediately dispersed. As for the forbidden army officer and the stall owner who were personally interrogated by Zhao Yu's criminal department, they had to be completed that night. It took half an hour for the criminal department to convict the stall owner of the wrong and disrespectful. According to Zhao Yu's intentions, he was beaten with ten canes on the spot and then released. As for the Yamen's affairs, he was hasty and hasty, and he listened to the words of one person and took people, which was the reason for his ability, so he severely reprimanded Ouyang and beat the two arresters.

This was originally a small episode, and this unlucky stall owner had the meaning of taking the blame even in Ouyang's eyes, but as soon as it was judged like this, the next day the forbidden army discovered the disharmony on the ground in Yangping. Several commanders went out for breakfast, but they were told that they had sold out. Looking at other business establishments, the forbidden army is exempted from selling licenses. In addition to supplying Ouchi, the logistics of the forbidden army turned around early in the morning, and they didn't even buy rice.

It was almost noon that Ouyang sent people to inform the people from house to house that the goods began to be sold to the forbidden army, but except for rice, salt and other goods stipulated by the imperial court, all prices increased tenfold. It wasn't until the afternoon that after Ouyang's patient persuasion, everything returned to calm. It's as if nothing happened.

The opening ceremony was in a simple open-air gymnasium, which was actually a small valley, with the athletes below and the spectators on the mountain, which was quite close to nature and a real green games.

"What is the spirit of the Song Games? When it comes to spirit, there is unyielding, strong, and so on. But the spirit of the Song Games is just, fair and open. Each contestant is asked not only to himself, but also to his opponent. You each represent your own county, and you are not ashamed to lose, but you have not only lost your people, but also the face of your county. Below were nearly 300 athletes, Ouyang stood on the temporary rostrum and said: "This competition is purely competitive in nature, and no personal grudges are allowed." If someone is found to have violated the rules, the referee committee will disqualify them from the next session of the county. Next, I would like to invite the emperor to speak for you, everyone is welcome. "The first day was the opening ceremony, and there were also some preliminaries for the competition, and the preliminaries were due to the fact that there were too many people in a certain event. For example, more than 80 people signed up for the swimming event, which all went down to the Qinghe River, and the water level of the Qinghe River had to rise by a few inches.

There was a crackling applause, which was explained in advance.

Zhao Yu came to the stage accompanied by the ninth prince and two palace maids, and when he looked down coldly, the three hundred pairs of eyes looked at him in unison, and he was indeed a little stunned, and said after fixing his mind: "Everyone is the people of my Great Song Dynasty." I'll just tell you a truth. People who are in good health are less sick, and they have more strength than others. Whether it is farming, workshops, even businessmen must have a good body. No one wants to be called a medicine jar, does it? ”

"Yes!"

Zhao Yu nodded with satisfaction: "I announced that the opening ceremony of the first Great Song National Games has begun. ”

Ouyang shouted on the stage: "The first show: chorus, we are all a family." As a result, European music, which subverted traditional music, stepped onto the stage of history. Not only songs, but also dances. Ouyang personally showed off a collection of drums, although the technical level is only a beginner in the eyes of modern people, but it still won bursts of applause in the Great Song Dynasty.

Magic, acrobatics, ventriloquism, and cross talk are in vain, and although the one-hour entertainment program performance is full of flaws due to poor preparation in advance, each program gives the audience a different feeling. Anyway, Ouyang can't watch any opera for an hour, since he is the host, everyone has to like it whether they like it or not.

Zhao Yu smiled with Xiaoqing on the side and said, "This guy is too good at tossing." ”

"It's beautiful." Xiaoqing nodded

"Earn enough limelight for him."

An entertainment program makes everyone unsatisfied, Ouyang has no time to toss, for example, he will teach a person a song, and then this person will continue to teach. He doesn't know how to have any staves, and with the advantage of years of karaoke and not being able to run many tunes, he has passed it on. All the participants are looking around. The singing and dancing are basically composed of Shanggu and Yangping prostitute troupes, Ouyang has discussed and proposed to their mother, change the brothel into a song and dance troupe, and if conditions permit, they can conduct a national tour, which is more profitable than selling their bodies.

The next step is to start the swimming heats in the afternoon. After lunch, all the players went to Qinghekou in the new city outside the east gate to take their places. According to the number of one, two, three, a group of more than 20 people played first. Half a mile of slow counter-current competition, the top 10 entered the finals. On one side of the Qinghe River is a big mountain, on the other side is the county embankment, the onlookers are watching on the edge of the embankment, and there are dozens of small boats in the river responsible for carrying the referee and rescuing the people who have fallen into the water.

Not only men but also three women took part in the swim. As soon as the whistle blew, more than 20 people jumped into the water in unison, and the scene was quite spectacular. But as soon as they entered the water, chaos ensued, and a fight began in the water. And it's a mixed rack, no one knows who started it first, anyway, it caused a lot of chaos.

Ouyang smiled, he already knew, and waved his hand. A servant sounded the gong. Several fishing boats drove in and fished out all the people who had been in place for more than half a minute. In the end, there were only six people who didn't fight. So the first preliminaries ended immediately, and the six entered the finals, and the others were eliminated. Not only do these people have to pay for their own journey, but they are also no longer able to eat food.

Incidents always have to be investigated, so you can know that the people are polite, but there are problems with the forbidden army and internal guards. The reason for the incident was that after a forbidden soldier went into the water, he was grabbed by the people behind him and pressed his leg into the water to take advantage of the situation. The forbidden soldier was furious, and when he came out of the water, he punched one of the guards. The internal guard was punched inexplicably, of course he didn't want to, so he fought with the forbidden army in the water, and this fight hit other people, and the outer forbidden army and the internal guard saw that their own people were being bullied, and gathered towards the center, so that the people who didn't want to fight were crowded together, and then there was chaos.

Ouyang quietly made a gesture, and as soon as a certain extras made a noise, more than 30 audience members rushed over and beat up all but two of the 20 people who were from Yangping. There's no way around it, don't beat you if you violate the rules, there are still people below who imitate it, anyway, I won't say that I beat you.

After making trouble for an hour, the second preliminaries began, this time Ouyang learned well, let all the athletes get on the boat, and then the boats lined up, so that everyone would not be entangled together. It had gone well, but in the middle of the race, something went wrong when a trailing janissary grabbed the foot of a leading athlete next to him. The referee watched carefully and immediately used a fishing net to catch the forbidden army. After the forbidden army came ashore, Ouyang was spontaneously beaten by a group of people before he could make a gesture. This habit turned out to be the custom of later competitions, and any foul athlete had to be beaten by the audience, so that a special audience group was later set up, all of whom were big men.

In the third preliminaries, everyone was much more honest, and in the well-behaved game, if they accidentally touched their opponents, they would pull a cold sweat in their hearts. Here, it doesn't matter whether you are an internal guard or a forbidden army, you will fight if you fight, and if you go to the emperor to complain, people will ignore you. And so the first day of the competition came to an end in harmony and disharmony.

The next day, it was a race. The first thing to start with is long-distance running, which is also the event that will produce the first gold medal. There were more than 100 applicants. To start from the east gate from the outer city to the south gate, and then to the west gate into the county seat, out of the east gate to the Qinghe River, the total distance is more than 20 miles. You can rest, drink water or even eat halfway, but you are not allowed to take shortcuts.

At the beginning of the game, the internal guards and forbidden troops with better physical fitness immediately formed the first group, and of course, there were two officials from Yangping. The spectators can only watch below, and the city wall belongs to the VIP seats, with tea and water and people serving them, which is the place of a few ministers.

After leaving the South Gate, the First Group split. The Tokyo Forbidden Army obviously couldn't keep up with the physical strength and began to fall behind, while the contestants of the East and West Forbidden Army did practice hard, and their physical fitness was quite good, and they advanced together with the two officials of Yangping. Zhao Yu looked at it and said with a not very good face: "Palace, what kind of statement is this?" ”

The palace marshal said while sweating: "Back to Your Majesty, after taking over the lowly position, I found that when Gao Yu was in power before, the training of the forbidden army was all a trick, and it was lively to dance knives and guns together. The Xidong Army, on the other hand, was dressed in thirty pounds and ran with weapons for training, and the Great Song Dynasty lacked horses, so they wanted to compare with horses. ”

"Humph! Every day it is said that the Tokyo Forbidden Army is elite. If it weren't for this comparison, I would still be fooled by you. ”

Li Han on the side said: "Your Majesty, what else do you see?" "He is the identity of the emperor, and he can only show up at this time.

"What?"

Li Han said: "The bodies of the southeast and northwest of the Great Song Dynasty are different, and the southwest endurance is obviously better than the southeast endurance. And the Northwest has the highest endurance. Your Majesty, this is a big mystery. The body of the people, one is for training, and the other is for nourishment. As the saying goes, you have as much strength as you eat. Your Majesty, there is a situation of people's livelihood in various places. ”

Why didn't I see it, Ouyang looked left and right in confusion, and I didn't know if it was because of his low political level or poor eyesight, except for the forbidden army, I didn't see any big difference.

A minister said: "The southwest is bitterly cold, the northwest is full of wars, and the people are brave." Although the southeast is good, it is the key place of exploitation during the reign of Emperor Taishang. Weichen once served in the southeast, and Huashigang was everywhere, and ordinary people had a half-full meal a day, which was already considered rich. ”

"Don't mention it." Zhao Yu said coldly, and she was angry to find that her internal guard was not Ouyang Ya's opponent. How did she know that the morning jogging of the servants was a compulsory course. This running has something to do with the body, but there are also big skills, breathing and foot coordination can make people get twice the result with half the effort.

"Come on!" The people on the ground are overjoyed, too capable, this is more than money, and this is not comparable to others. Objectively speaking, the daily food of these two servants is much better than that of everyone here, plus the home field is waiting for work, and the advantage is a few points more.

Now the internal guard has also fallen, and only the four people of the Northwest Forbidden Army and the official servants are advancing together. Zhao Yu looked at it for a while and said angrily: "If I pass on my words, if you get back a brand, one hundred taels of gold per person, if you can't get it back, you will be scolded by the staff." ”

"Yes!" An inner guard galloped down the wall.

The palace marshal also waved his hand and called his own soldiers and whispered: "Tell them, it's too embarrassing to lose if you lose." Otherwise, you will have good fruit to eat when you go back. ”

"Yes!" Cronies also ran down the walls.

When these two pieces of information came, the internal guards and the Tokyo Forbidden Army immediately became pale, and the two internal guards actually caught up with the first group. Ouyang said to the white lotus beside him: "Order, the first aid team prepares." ”

"Yes!" White Lotus fired arrows at the two guard positions.

Zhao Yu glanced at Ouyang suspiciously, and said dissatisfiedly: "You look down on my people like this? ”

"Huh!" As soon as Ouyang laughed here, he immediately saw an internal guard fall to the ground motionless, obviously in shock. The first aid team immediately arrived, pulled the inner guard to the side of the road, and then squeezed the chest and artificial respiration, the inner guard woke up leisurely, and then poured a cold decoction medicine prepared earlier, and pulled it to rest under the shade of the tree, which was considered fine.

Zhao Yu sighed and asked, "Ouyang, I have always wanted to ask you, are you human?" How did you know he was going to faint? ”

Before Ouyang could answer, the other internal guard also fainted, and all the internal guards were eliminated. Looking at the others, some have begun to walk briskly and can't run. It took a while for the game to reach the West Gate.

"Brothers, the forbidden army has a little face for you." A general of the Tokyo Forbidden Army yelled on the city wall, he was shouting at the Northwest Forbidden Army, and he couldn't tell so clearly at this time. If you lose to the people in such a long-distance race, it will be a loss to the dead.

The Yangping people didn't agree and shouted back: "Liu Sanmao, kill the forbidden army, I will ask for the kiln money this month." ”

"Zhang Fugui, kill the forbidden army, I'll help you find a little wife."

"Kill the Forbidden Army, kill the Forbidden Army." That night's episode finally made the audience feel the difference between friend and foe. The spectators began to run after the runners, shouting and cheering. There is a way that the forbidden army is outcropping, and the whole city shouts and beats, and I don't know that I think the forbidden army is rebelling.

"Yangping Zhixian can't be provoked, and it turns out that the people of Yangping can't be provoked." Liu Bangchang floated a sentence without yin or yang.

"Lord Liu, this is a comparison of ability." Zhao Yu answered for Ouyang.

"Yes!" Liu Bangchang didn't dare to speak again.

Gan Xin said in Ouyang's ear: "My lord, this young master seems to have trouble with you?" ”

"It's normal to be jealous if you're too handsome."

Looking at the game again, it is almost out of the east gate. Although the two officials have some advantages, these two Northwest Forbidden Army are the first-class good players selected by Tong Guan. When he went out of the east gate, he pulled down the two officials. Zhao Yu waved his hand: "Let's go to the front and have a look." ”

"Yes!" How could a courtier not agree.

After walking for a while, I heard many people shouting at the end of the road: "The forbidden army is mighty." "When I got closer, sure enough, the forbidden army won the first place. The gold medalist was still on his knees crying, as if he didn't believe everything was true. A pure gold medal, plus a bonus of 500 yuan, it is enough to save a little in this life, how can you not be excited?

After waiting for another half an hour, the runners who could run finally arrived one after another. In the end, according to statistics, the Northwest Forbidden Army took the top two, the Yangping government service was the third or fourth, and there was a young man in Xincheng who was fifth. The most shameful thing is that only one of the four members of the Tokyo Forbidden Army completed the game, and it was twelve.

At the award ceremony, the gold, silver and bronze medals were distributed by the county lord Xiaoqing. Yangping people are also more kind-hearted and applauded and congratulated. The gold medalist first bit the sign, then cried with joy and clenched his fists on all sides.

In an interview with the Royal Daily, Li Yifeng asked: "May I ask the champion, how do you feel as the most capable runner in the Great Song Dynasty now?" ”

"Excited!"

"Except for the excitement?"

"Still excited."

"Is there anything you would like to say to the readers?"

"I'm excited."

Li Yifeng reluctantly stuffed a paper ball for him: "Read it according to what is written above." ”

"I can't read."

"My day, you can play while playing!" Li Yifeng wrote with tears in his eyes: "First of all, I want to thank the Western Army for its cultivation, if there is no Western Army, I would not be where I am today." I would also like to thank the emperor for giving me this opportunity, and I would like to thank Yangping for organizing this event...... In the end, the champion cried tears of joy for the third time, and the reporter took care of his emotional ups and downs, and temporarily gave up further interviews. ”

In the afternoon, there is a preliminaries for shooting, which requires four out of ten within 100 steps. But the only ones who can come are characters with two brushes. Even the representatives of Xincheng were hunters dug up by Uncle Ouyang in the deep mountains and old forests, and only less than 20% were eliminated in the first round. Zhao Yu didn't go to watch it, but after hearing about the battle, he was quite satisfied. Ouyang saw that most of them could get the travel fee, so he went on a second round of elimination, moving the target. The moving target is a kite that allows a person to pull a few meters to run irregularly, and one of the three arrows will be promoted. This hand down makes everyone uncomfortable. But looking at the results, the faces of the forbidden soldiers were very disgraceful.

The forbidden army has not fought for many years, and most of the training is a dead target. And most of the people who came to participate were hunters. There is a way to rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, as long as you rely on a big mountain, you can feed a family. And hunting is the top priority. It is undeniable that some prey will wait for the arrow, but more often it will be prey on the run. This has an advance quantity to estimate. So in this round, among the eight athletes in the forbidden army system, only Qin Fenglu, who Han Shizhong was in charge of, advanced with the last arrow of the forbidden army. In contrast, the promotion rate of the common people is as high as 50%. Ouyang saw that the number of people was about the same, so he stopped the promotion game and ended today's schedule.

Although it was evening, Ouyang was still busy. This is to be meticulous in the details of the competition, second, to screen the projects that invest in Hangzhou New Town, third, to receive businessmen waiting in line to ask questions, and fourth, to understand the reception of the emperor and ministers. Fortunately, there are a large number of servants, and most of them can stand alone. In addition, Gan Xin, a capable official, is inside the master and Zhan Ming is outside the master, but there are a lot of things missing.

"My lord, Sister Huilan just found me on the street and said that if you have time, you can go over for dinner." White Lotus entered the report.

"Dinner?" Ouyang touched his chin, Huilan should know that she doesn't have much time, and she is not an ignorant person, so she may have something else to do when she is busy with dinner. I looked up and saw that the sky was full of burning clouds, and my stomach was indeed hungry. So he put down his official duties and said: "Bailian, you let Lord Gan watch it, and ask someone to come to me if you have something." ”

"Yes!"