After returning to the state office, Wei Chen made a plan to hold a Keju competition to resolve the contradictions and disputes in the city of Yuzhou.

Early the next morning, through Zhao Ceying, he found several major merchants such as the Jun Porcelain Guild and the Medicinal Materials Guild to discuss the matter, and immediately scraped together five hundred taels of silver as the lottery head for the winner of the competition.

On Gu Tingye's side, he was ordered to let the local people and foreign merchants put together two teams.

And, according to Weichen's instructions, the composition of each team must be half locals and half outsiders.

In addition, Wei Chen directly changed all the current rules of the game, and directly changed it to two teams fighting for a ball and kicking towards the opponent's goal.

There are no rules other than not touching the ball with your hands and not deliberately beating an opposing player.

The reason why the rules are simplified like this is to make it easier for players who are exposed to the new rules for the first time to learn, reduce the barriers to understanding, and make the game run as quickly as possible.

After five days of intensive preparations, the first "Yuzhou Cup" Keju competition finally kicked off.

The competition venue is the school field used by the Yuzhou team practice on weekdays, which is enough to accommodate thousands of people to watch the game.

The news of the Keju tournament has long been known under the vigorous publicity of Weichen, and on the day of the official competition, many people came to the gate of the stadium to guard it from early in the morning.

When the doors opened, the crowd poured in, numbering in the thousands.

Although it is not as good as the annual bidding of Jinmingchi in Bianjing City, which often has hundreds of thousands of spectators, it is already a rare grand scene in Yuzhou.

"There are so many people!"

Zhao Zongquan, who was invited to watch the game, had already heard the noisy noise before he entered the door, and when he walked into the school field, he was even more surprised by the number of spectators in the game.

I saw a sea of people around the stadium, rubbing shoulders, I was afraid that half of the people in Yuzhou City had arrived.

This was really unexpected by Zhao Zongquan.

Three days ago, Wei Chen came to the door and invited Zhao Zongquan to watch the game.

In this regard, Zhao Zongquan was not very interested in it.

He has never been a lively person, and when he has time to play Keju, it is better to plant two acres of rice himself.

But Wei Chen warmly invited, but Zhao Zongquan couldn't help but give this face.

He immediately agreed, promising that he would be there on time.

And also very enthusiastically proposed that the school field used in the daily practice of the Yuzhou regiment training could be lent to Weichen as a competition venue.

Wei Chen was worried that there was no place to fit so many audiences, and when he heard Zhao Zongquan's proposal, he was overjoyed, and immediately thanked Zhao Zongquan, and then said goodbye and left.

It's just that Zhao Zongquan at that time would never have thought that this was only the first time that a Keju competition was held, and the news only spread a few days ago, and so many people gathered to watch the game at once, and the huge school field was crowded.

Wei Chen, who was accompanying him, saw Zhao Zongquan's surprised expression, and couldn't help chuckling: "It's all idle and nothing to make trouble, the people of Da Zhou like to watch the excitement the most, there are people quarreling on the side of the road, and a group of people can surround it, let alone such a big ball game?" ”

When Zhao Zongquan heard Wei Chen's explanation, he couldn't help but laugh and nodded approvingly.

About a moment later, on the stage, the officials and gentry who had been invited to watch the game finally arrived.

Wei Chen was not interested in bothering much, so he directly gestured to Gu Tingye, who was the referee of the game, and then only heard a sharp whistle pierce the sky, and the much-anticipated ball game finally officially began.

In the field, the red and blue teams are red, and the red team is on the side, and the tall Shen Congxing is the most eye-catching.

In the early years in Bianjing, he worked as a ball leader in Qiyun Club in Bianjing for three years, and his ball skills were very good.

I saw Shen Congxing snatch the ball from the opponent's feet with great dexterity, and then picked up the ball with his heel, rolled over his back, over his head, and landed on his toes.

This set of smooth performances caused a burst of jubilation in the audience, and the shouts and cheers were deafening.

On the stage, Zhao Zongquan couldn't help but applaud his brother-in-law, but Wei Chen, who was standing beside Zhao Zong's body, shook his head silently.

Seeing this, Zhao Zongquan couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and asked curiously at the moment: "Xingyun, which team do you think will win?" ”

After getting along for a year, Zhao Zongquan and Wei Chen are no longer as restrained as they first met, and directly use Wei Chen's words to show their closeness.

Wei Chen said with a smile: "No one can say for sure about the competition, you have to look down to know." However, I heard that the handicap of the red team is higher, probably because of Kezhong (Shen Congxing), the head of the Bianjing Qiyun Society. ”

Zhao Zongquan was surprised and said: "Why do you listen to Xingyun's tone, it seems that you are not optimistic about Kezhong?" ”

The corners of Wei Chen's mouth raised slightly, revealing a little schadenfreude: "Now that the rules have changed, the way the ball is played should naturally change with it, I don't think Kezhong seems to understand this yet, I'm afraid he will have to suffer a little." ”

As soon as Wei Chen's words fell, on the court, Shen Congxing, who was immersed in showing off his skills, was knocked down by Zhao Ceying, who had been eyeing him for a long time, and then another blue team player took advantage of the situation and took the ball.

"Human step shoulder!"

Zhao Zongquan saw it really on the point platform, and immediately exclaimed: "This is a forbidden move!" Zhong Huai, the referee, doesn't care? ”

One is his brother-in-law, and the other is his own son, Zhao Zongquan did not favor anyone, but simply questioned it from the perspective of rules.

The so-called human shoulder is to hit people with their shoulders, which is a forbidden move that Zhao Zongquan understands as a juju competition, which is not allowed by the rules.

As soon as Wei Chen heard it, he knew that Zhao Zongquan hadn't carefully read the new rules he had modified, but he hadn't broken them.

just smiled and said: "Those who can play, all of them are good men with rough skin and thick meat, and they are not delicate daughters, what is it to be knocked down by someone, roll yourself and get up, how can you pay so much attention?" ”

Zhao Zongquan is not a stupid person, when he heard Wei Chen's words, he suddenly thought about it, and asked tentatively: "Xingyun, do you want to imitate the method of juju training in the Han and Tang dynasties?" ”

Wei Chen nodded and said, "Exactly!" ”

"But this is a drama in the army, I'm afraid that ordinary people may not catch a cold."

Zhao Zong said with a worried face: "If you are not popular with the people, and no one cares about you after one or two games, wouldn't it go against Xingyun's original intention of holding the competition?" ”

"I'm worried about the team practice."

Wei Chen waved his hand disapprovingly, and said: "In fact, the more intense the exercise, the more people like it." Otherwise, a sumo wrestling match in Bianjing City would not have attracted thousands of spectators casually. ”

Hearing that Wei Chen compared the sumo wrestling that was popular in the Great Zhou to Keju, Zhao Zongquan was quite speechless in his heart.

Kemari is Kemari and sumo is sumo, these are obviously two completely different sports, how can they be compared?

But—

Look at it from another angle.

Tripping, ramming, sliding......

All kinds of forbidden moves in the ordinary sense appear in turn in this Keju competition in front of you, which makes you dazzled.

In addition to not allowing malicious injuries, the "retro keju" in Wei Chen's mouth is really similar to sumo matches!

Thinking of this, the corners of Zhao Zongquan's mouth twitched a few times unconsciously.