Chapter 653

After the Shangyuan Festival, Li Er negotiated with Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, changsun Wuji and other courtiers and accepted the suggestions put forward by Li forgetful on that day. It was officially confirmed that the Tang National Games was held in Chang'an City in March of the fourth year of Zhenguan.

Li Er issued a royal edict to inform the world. Envoys from various countries also sent messages to their respective countries to start recruiting and selecting personnel to participate in the games and prepare to go to Chang'an.

Now more than 30 vassal states have confirmed that they want to participate in the movement.

In the first year of Zhenguan, Li Er divided the country into ten roads according to the mountain situation, namely Guannei Road, Henan Road, Hedong Road, Hebei Road, Shannan Road, Longyou Road, Huainan Road, Jiangnan Road, Jiannan road and Lingnan road.

In this sports meeting, Li Er also preached these ten channels, asking each channel to select personnel to participate in the competition, and gather in the capital in March next year to participate in the sports meeting.

Chang'an Wannian county and Chang'an County formed separate teams, as well as the South Ya forbidden army and the North Ya forbidden army. A total of 14 teams participated in the Datang National Games. Plus the representative teams of the vassal countries, that is, 40 or 50 teams compete for the final championship, which can be described as quite fierce competition.

As for the competition items, in addition to the five items proposed by Li QIAOYOU in the chaotang hall on that day, such as ball hitting, long-distance running, archery, horse racing and weightlifting, after discussing with the officials, Li Er also added the items of Cuju, corner strike, hammer pill, wooden shooting and tug of war.

Li Qieyou didn't expect that Datang still has so many sports events.

Cuju, needless to say, is the predecessor of modern football.

And there are many ways to play Cuju in Datang, including double goal and single goal.

Single goal is a bit like future volleyball, but it is much more difficult. Both sides stand on both sides of a goal, pass the ball back and forth with their feet, and the ball cannot fall to the ground. Passing through the round hole called "wind eye" hanging above the goal is a score.

The double goal, which is not different from modern football, is similar to the Polo popular in the Tang Dynasty. But shooting is more difficult. You also need to shoot the ball into the romantic eye above the opponent's goal to score.

Wrestling is wrestling, and later Japanese Sumo was learned from the Tang Dynasty.

In Li's opinion, chuiwan is a bit like a combination of golf in later generations and the gateball played by the elderly. The rule is to hit the ball into the hole with a club.

Wooden shooting is almost the prototype of bowling in later generations. Ten wooden pillars are written with red pen with "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, warmth, kindness, courtesy, frugality and concession", and five wooden pillars are written with black pen with "slow, proud, sycophantic, greedy and abusive".

During the game, roll the wooden ball out, hit the red wooden column for victory, and hit the black wooden column for negative.

Not to mention the tug of war, it is the same as the rules of later generations. The difference is that the tug of war in the Tang Dynasty is too spectacular.

The rope was over a thousand feet long. Thousands of strong men participated in the tug of war. Tens of thousands of people watched the scene. A row of naked warriors beat drums to cheer.

There was smoke everywhere, like a landslide.

According to the records of Feng Shi Wen Jian Ji, such a scene once made the scene "the tourists and scholars were not shocked by the tomb", so that "the Huns lost their tendons, worshipped and drank again and said: if this is the case, the vassal state will die."

Pulling a river can scare the Xiongnu envoys to pee, which shows their momentum.

The people in Chang'an City naturally talked about the Datang National Games for a while. "Sports meeting" is an unheard of new term, which sounds very interesting.

These days, there is no concept of national fitness. People can eat enough. Not hungry is the era of prosperity, let alone the concept of nutritional fitness.

This is the so-called poor culture and rich martial arts.

There is not enough food, even a lot of meat, but you can't train a body of tendon meat. As for reading, it costs a lot less. At least drinking porridge and starving won't affect learning.

What the people want is a lively scene. After all, there are still too few entertainment activities in Datang. Although no one has seen the Datang games, it does not affect the people's yearning and expectation.

Li Qieyou took this opportunity to apply to Li Er for a new baseball field, but he was rejected directly.

It's not that Li Er was reluctant to allocate land to Li forgetful, but that the civil and military of man Dynasty were jealous.

Li forgot to worry about spending 20000 taels of gold to build a tennis court. He was ridiculed as a black sheep by the people of Chang'an City, and all the officials of the court also made fun of himself.

However, after the twenty thousand taels of gold was completed and put into use, the benefits generated in just two competition days shocked all officials.

For two consecutive match days, the Jokhang baseball field was full.

After some calculations, the officials of the Ministry of civil affairs were stunned to find that Huxian Bo Li forgot his worries and had earned no less than 10000 yuan just by selling tickets.

Not to mention, there is also the proceeds from the sale of lottery tickets and the sale of cooked water and food in the stadium.

Dai Zhou, the Minister of civil affairs, estimated that after such a year, Li QIAOYOU would earn no less than 300000 yuan by relying on this stadium.

After reading the calculation given by Dai Zhou, all officials were dumbfounded.

Who especially meow said that Huxian Bo Li forgets worry is a black sheep?

Those officials who secretly ridiculed Li forgetful's "loser" now feel hot and painful on their faces, which are slapped by the data given by Dai Shangshu.

After embarrassment, it is full of jealousy.

Where can the hall leaders sit in front of such huge profits? Naturally want to take a share.

It's only twenty thousand taels of gold and twelve thousand taels of copper to build a baseball field. You can earn it back in six months. Fools don't do such things.

In fact, Li's Jokhang ballpark does not belong to him personally.

As early as the beginning of the construction of the tennis court, Li Qieyou was very knowledgeable. He found the empress Chang sun and presented 40% of the members with both hands.

Cheng Yaojin's house, he also sent 20% of the members. It's really unreasonable to ask Cheng Yaojin, an old man, to borrow a lot of gold when he repaired the tennis court. He can't help but share some benefits.

In fact, Li Qieyou didn't get so many tickets for the baseball field.

He had already asked Li Er that half of the ticket revenue would be given to the 22 forbidden troops. The final league champion, the baseball field, will also provide a valuable bonus as a reward.

But Dai Zhou's prediction is also correct. According to the calculation of Li forgetful worry and her beautiful boss, even if half of the ticket revenue, as well as the operating costs and expenses of the tennis court are removed, the revenue will not be less than 200000 yuan a year.

In other words, every year, Li Er and Li QIAOYOU, their uncle and nephew, can get no less than 80000 Guan's income from this tennis court, and Cheng Yaojin also has 40000 Guan's bonus.

Although Li Er made a lot of profits from it, he could not take this as a reason to stop Dai Zhou's suggestions. After all, he is the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He should consider the court hall, not just the income of the library in the imperial palace.

Therefore, Li Er rejected Li forgetful's proposal to build a new tennis court. Instead, the Ministry of civil affairs and the Ministry of work began to find a suitable Lane in Chang'an City and prepare to build a new tennis court.

In this regard, Li Qieyou can only shrug his shoulders and express regret.

He doesn't care much about it. There are many ways to make money. Chaotang is willing to invest in the construction of a tennis court, which is also a good thing.

Even he was a little happy. At least the officials of Datang finally saw the rich returns brought by the "sports industry". With such stimulation, Datang's sports development may have a different track.

Li Qieyou is happy to see such changes