Chapter 95 Rugby Game
In the cold winter, heavy snow was falling. In the gymnasium, Zhao Dezhao and Sun Yue were enthusiastically discussing matters related to the first Rugby League of the Song Dynasty.
"Your Highness, what is the official's meaning? Can the Palace Front Division and the Guard Division be in groups to fight?"
"No, no, no, Brother Sun's news seems to be not very well-versed. The reorganization of the imperial guards has come to an end. My father intends to set up four guards under the third yamen. This competition is also intended to try the waters in advance, so this competition will be divided into four groups. How to plan overall, but I am worried. Brother Sun, if you don't help me, I really don't know how to do it. It's a lot of work."
"Oh? So, the government attaches great importance to this competition?"
“It attaches great importance to it.”
Sun Yue smiled and didn't say anything, but couldn't help but feel overjoyed.
It has been nearly two years since the founding of the Song Dynasty. In the past two years, Zhao Kuangyin's intention to reorganize the army can be said to be well known to everyone. It can even be said that he has been busy with this matter in the past two years except for the conquest of Li Yun and Li Chongjin. Although he has not yet been formally reorganized, he has basically prepared almost all of the time. This rugby game seems to be a bit of a test.
Speaking of the Four Guards, Sun Yue had to admire Zhao Kuangyin's imagination. After Murong Yanzhao left, he personally took charge of the inspection of the Palace Front Office. To put it bluntly, this position was abolished. After releasing the military power with a cup of wine, he was exempted from Gao Huaide's deputy inspection, but he did not find anyone to take over the position, so there was no chief in the entire Palace Front Office.
The Office of the Palace has no commander, and the Office of the Guards is supposed to be the first of the Imperial Guards. Haha, of course not. The Office of the Guards is currently making a split. He is actually quite embarrassed. Moreover, the reason why Zhao Kuangyin drove away Murong Yanzhao and Han Lingkun was because he was afraid that they had too much power. If Shi Shouxin was pushed up, wouldn’t it be a change of soup or not? So, Zhao Kuangyin set up four guards below, namely: the Iron Cavalry Army below the Palace of the Palace, the Control Crane Army, the Long Jie Army below the Guards, the Hu Jie Army below the Guards, and four commanders below the Four Guards. Briefly, each soldier has a bunch of leaders with big and small leaders on his head. When he is not fighting, he can’t even figure out who is his boss, and directly minimizes the possibility of self-respecting.
Shi Shouxin is actually a special product of the reform period of the Guards. It seems that he is the number one soldier in the world, but it seems that nothing is wrong to say that he is a mascot.
What Sun Yue has to do now is to make him unable to even be the mascot.
Since Zhao Kuangyin attached great importance to this rugby game, Zhao Dezhao naturally attached more importance to this rugby game. This was the first serious thing he did after he became a palace this year. He was determined to do this game beautifully. This guy didn't know the conflict between Sun Yue and Shi Shouxin at all, and was excited to discuss the arrangements of the competition system with Sun Yue.
Since they sincerely asked for it, Sun Yue naturally took the initiative to get the matter done.
Originally, football is not suitable for winter, because the grass is gone in winter, and it will hurt to fall on the ground, and it will easily get sick after running and sweating. However, this game is still a training game. The biggest enemy of the Northern Song Dynasty was always the Khitan in the north. Khitan usually invades in winter, so Zhao Kuangyin deliberately arranged this game to winter. Anyway, if Sun Yue saw it, it would be a word, loss.
Zhao Kuangyin had many such damages. For example, when paying wages, he would ask the soldiers from the east of the city to get grain in the west, and the soldiers from the west of the city to get grain in the east of the city to get grain. He was not allowed to hire a car. He stood happily on the commanding heights in the city and watched the soldiers in the city carrying at least 300 kilograms of copper coins on their backs, as if they could not carry it, and they would throw it down. This was not that they would not send it to you, but that they were not able to withdraw money.
So in short, all the soldiers of Song Chu were almost ruined by Zhao Kuangyin. When they learned that they were going to play rugby without protective gear on cold weather, they all calmly said that we were already used to it.
The competition system set by Sun Yue is like this. The four guards have a total of 16 wings, 160 armies, and 1,600 battalions. The battalions are first compared with each army themselves, and finally 160 teams are selected. The four armies are divided into forty groups to fight each other. Each group is promoted to a team. Which army has more battalions, and which army will win the championship. Then the forty groups will be eliminated. The final match is the champion. The promotion and salary increase of all the soldiers in the battalions is also simple and crude.
With such a large project, this football game will probably have to be celebrated for the New Year. That is, Zhao Dezhao has the time to do this thing. If Sun Yue had not been thinking about Yinshi's trustworthy work, he would have to find a way to push it.
However, Zhao Dezhao felt that the reason why Sun Yue could agree was because of his own pulling. He did not know anything like Lu Mengzheng and others when he played ice hockey last time, and it was indeed a foresight. It was also a coincidence between them. What's more, Sun Yue's brain was really imaginative. He wanted to pry open his brain to see if the child's brain was in it.
What kind of uniforms and cheerleading are all performance projects that he has never heard of. What kind of advertising investment is even proposed by this guy? Sponsorship? Brother, we are training troops. Can you be more serious?
Sun Yue said, "If your highness does not agree, you might as well ask the officials for their opinions on this matter. Such a large-scale training will cost more than a million. If you count the competitions of each army, it will be a super competition of 1,600 teams. Besides, the soldiers of each battalion finally broke through the siege. You can't just reward the championship. Where does such a large reward come from? Of course, I know that the government can afford this money, but this competition will be held this year, and it will not be done next year? If you do it every year, you can't afford to have a gold mountain in the treasury. Your Highness, you can't do it well in this competition. If you can come up with a way to make this competition run every year and truly play the role of training, that is the ability, and the officials will look at you differently. What does your Highness think?"
Zhao Dezhao thought about it and seemed that what Sun Yue said was indeed very reasonable. Although the Song Dynasty was rich, Zhao Kuangyin was very poor. On the day of the Chenqiao Mutiny, why did the soldiers not go into the city to rob? That was because Zhao Kuangyin emptied the entire country's treasury, which filled the stomachs of the soldiers.
It's been two years since I finally saved some money, and I released the military power with one cup of wine, and I've said that all the military power was "buyed" back. He was kind, but the secret library was so empty. Otherwise, would he be so stingy? There were only one hundred palace maids and eunuchs in the entire palace plus one yuan. Compared with the tens of thousands of palace maids during the Li Longji period, there was not even a fraction of them. To the outside world, it was said that the official was frugal, but do you think he really didn't want to spend money? He really didn't have it, otherwise it would be difficult for Zhao Guangmei to spend two dollars, and the old lady had to find a way for him.
Zhao Dezhao doesn't care, but the three words "supporting the throne to his son" are firmly attracted by him. Who doesn't want to pass the throne to his son? Who wants his younger brother to be the leader? To put it bluntly, aren't he just afraid that he can't take on the responsibility of his young age? If he can prove to his father and the world that he has the ability, he is willing to do anything.
Chapter completed!