Zhao Zhen was very satisfied with the competitive relationship between the Imperial City Department, the Palace Front Department, and the Guards and Military Department. In his opinion, this allowed the three parties to check and balance each other, which perfectly explained the old Zhao family's division of military power. Wudu is full of such means of division and checks and balances.
As for the clan and relatives... Zhao Zhen suddenly found that he was not worried anymore. To other dynasties, they were a threat, but to the Song Dynasty, they did not even have the most basic political rights. What threat was there?
If Ye An knew Zhao Zhen's thoughts, he would definitely complain on the spot. If this is the case, what should the Imperial City Division do?
From the Wude Division to the Imperial City Division, what was the significance of the expansion of Taizu and Taizong? Was the Imperial City Division guarding civil servants? The official system of stacked beds and houses, and the influence of Confucianism made it almost impossible for the literati of the Song Dynasty to rebel. Not only the literati of the Song Dynasty, but also the literati of all subsequent dynasties had almost no possibility of causing rebellion.
As for the military generals, how can a group of military generals rebel when their rights to lead troops, deploy troops, and use troops have been completely divided among themselves and are suppressed by the powerless literati?
Then what is the significance of the existence of the Imperial City Division? To show the gate to the Tianjia?
No matter how careful Taizu Taizong was, he wouldn't be like this! It is enough for the Palace Front Division and the Guards and Military Division to show the gate to the Tianjia. It can also play a role in checking and balancing and dispersing military power.
Therefore, the existence of the Imperial City Division was aimed at the clan from the beginning, spying on intelligence, supervising officials, clan members, and relatives, and maintaining an elite armed force of ten thousand people in the palace. Aren't all these things worried about "palace changes"? !
The confident Zhao Zhen was ready to show off his talents in the court, and planned to work hard to govern and enrich the country and strengthen the army. In private, he described his grand blueprint with Ye An, who was leisurely, to "punch the Khitan in the Northern Dynasty and kick the northwest parties."
Ye An smiled. Didn't that young man have the ambition to achieve unparalleled achievements?
But in the current Song Dynasty, it is almost impossible to unify the mountains and rivers. Although the Song Dynasty has internal stability, economic prosperity, and cultural prosperity, it is still difficult to use external troops.
Many factors were restricting the Song Dynasty's external expansion, both internal and external factors, but Zhao Zhen obviously didn't want to hear these at this time.
Right now it is a Cuju competition between the Imperial City Division and the Dianqian Division, but now people call Cuju football. The reason is naturally due to Ye An’s improvement of Cuju.
After changing the romantic eye to both teams, it reduced useless charades and acrobatics, and promoted more physical confrontation and endurance competition. This passionate sport immediately aroused the people of Tokyo to imitate and enthusiastically pursue it.
So much so that the civil servants, military generals, and even the emperor Zhao Zhen were exceptions.
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival on May 5th. All civil servants and generals have been summoned to the palace by Zhao Zhen. Zhao Zhen is good at this. He treats his ministers very considerately. He is not willing to be alone during the festival. He invites the ministers to the palace to have a banquet and watch a football match.
At the beginning, the civil servants were still reciting poems and writing poems to "edify" the officials' elegance with literary ethics. Ye An was also "forced" by Zhang Shixun and Li Di to compose a poem.
"Sparse points of yellow plum rain. Different directions meet again. The corners of millet are covered with gold, and the grass and cattails are covered with jade. The scenery is still jingchu. The shirt is cut with moxa and tiger. The hairpin is decorated with vermilion talismans, and the arms are wrapped with red thread. The powder is applied to the fragrant cotton, calling. The wind damask fanned the small window at noon."
The original plan was to take the exam for Ye An, but Ye An just picked it up without thinking, which really embarrassed many civil servants present. But fortunately, Ye An was well-known in the court of the Song Dynasty for his literary and military skills.
His behavior has been automatically ignored.
On the contrary, the fierce football match at the moment has attracted all their attention. There is no way, football is inherently full of "fatal" attraction to men.
After Zhao Zhen just kicked off the ball in person, the competition between the two sides was very lively.
This is the charm of football. When you see the two sides really fighting, without those fancy skills, using physical confrontation, dribbling the football to penetrate the opponent's defense, or going straight in, or cooperating with each other, the body will
It will secrete hormones subconsciously to make you excited.
The charm of football also lies in the countless changes and accidents. Even if you fail to score, the complicated scenes will make your blood boil. This is the instinctive impulse imprinted in human genes.
After hitting the ball into the goal with a fierce shot, no one could restrain their excitement. Even bystanders would be infected by the hard work and confrontation on the court and couldn't help but shout "Okay!"
Ye An's plan to transform Cuju into a football game quickly spread among the armies of the Song Dynasty. This game with more rules but also greater freedom raised the antagonism between the two sides to an unprecedented height.
The most shocking thing was the military generals of the Song Dynasty. Compared with the civil servants who watched the fun, they saw the secrets from this little football.
Both sides have their own goals. They guard their own goals and attack the other's goals. The twelve-man team is divided into forwards, centers, wingers, and defenders. This is like a strategizing battle.
The football rules formulated by Ye An are very simple. Both sides must wear clothes of different colors, mainly red and blue. In physical confrontation, in addition to fighting and pushing, there is no static shoulder impact. The premise is that
You can control the ball at your feet.
Even Zhao Zhen changed from his usual mature and solemn appearance, clenching his fists and waving and shouting. As for the civil servants, they were already excited. Some even took off their headdresses and cheered at the top of their lungs.
As the censor, Pang Ji originally planned to restrain the behavior of the officials, but gradually he also joined in, and the generals became even more unbearable, shouting and annoyed, and wished they could end in person.
Ye An looked at all kinds of people getting excited because of football, and suddenly felt an urge to laugh. This is the colorful life in the Song Dynasty!
Compared with the stubborn conservatism of the Chinese literati recorded in history books, the current literati show their natural and unrestrained character, and the military generals are not the stereotyped ones. On the contrary, they can also recite poems, compose poems, and are proficient in Confucianism.
These people shouted wantonly in this improvised arena, cheering for the team they liked, and Zhao Zhen...
The young emperor had already stood up and looked at the court with clenched fists. This was an out-of-bounds corner kick. Cheng Gongshou of the Imperial City Division stood on the edge of the court, looking at the group of people on the opposite side and volleyed out with his feet.
, the football filled with pig urine made an arc in the air and landed on Xu Yongzhang, and then he headed the ball into the goal of Dianqiansi.
Seeing that the incense was about to burn out, the soldiers of the Dianqian Division did not give up, but fought back. After the whistle was blown several times, both sides gave up.
Watching a simple football match entertained all the civil and military officials, and many people even found it unsatisfying. Ye An did not expect that after the game changed from Cuju to football, the enthusiasm of Song people would be so high.
Even Zhao Zhen kept lamenting: "Cuju players will last for a long time, and football players will last for generations."