Cuju, also known as football in the later world, was very popular in the Song Dynasty. Playing Cuju became a fashion. Everyone was proud to be able to play Cuju. From time to time, you would see some children playing in the streets and alleys. Adults were interested.
Whenever they come, they will play a kick or two, and the princes and nobles even regard kicking Cuju as their biggest entertainment project. Every New Year, some Cuju competitions will be held in the capital to entertain the public.
And Duan Wang Zhao Ji was the biggest fan among them! Zhao Ji has been fond of pen and ink, painting, horse riding, archery, and Cuju since he was a child. He also has a strong interest in exotic flowers, rocks, birds and animals, especially playing Cuju.
Obsession. In Prince Duan's Mansion, Zhao Ji was so proud that he established the Duanwang Qiyun Society and the Duanwang Mansion Cuju Team. Every day, in addition to writing poems, painting, riding a horse, and shooting arrows, he also
He spent a lot of time on the Cuju court, playing Cuju with the Cuju players to his heart's content. It is said that his level is not bad, but I don't know if the servants in the mansion deliberately let him do it. According to the news from the spies, Su Shi's little book boy Gao Qiu has already
She hooked up with Zhao Ji through Cuju and became one of Zhao Ji's senior playmates.
In later generations, Wu Zhi himself was a football enthusiast and loved playing football when he was in school. So in his first year in the capital, he took Xiao'e to watch a Cuju competition during the Chinese New Year, which was a huge scene.
, the audience was very enthusiastic, there were a lot of people, it was a sea of people, it was a spectacular sight. But the level of the players playing Cuju and the scene made Wu Zhi dare not compliment them.
The scene of Cuju playing on the field at that time was similar to the scene Wu Zhi saw on TV and movies in later generations. There was a goal in the middle of the large field. The two teams competed on both sides of the goal. They played each other, and there was no physical contact between the players of the two sides.
, after one team has performed a series of dazzling moves, the captain of the field will kick the Cuju to the door hole on the goal, and one point will be scored if kicked into the door hole. Then it is the turn of the next team to play, and this cycle continues until three
The game ends after rounds, and the one with the highest score wins.
Wu Zhi looked at it with no interest. Where did all this go? Isn't this just a pure Cuju performance? Where did the horse-style Cuju that was popular in the Tang Dynasty go?
This kind of game with nearly 30 people seemed lively, and everyone showed off their footwork skills on the court, and from time to time won bursts of cheers and applause from the audience on the sidelines, which made Wu Zhi very helpless. In his
In Wu Zhi's eyes, these people were too showy. The one-person performance was okay, but the Cuju competition without physical collisions and personal confrontation was almost unbearable to watch in Wu Zhi's eyes.
From then on, Wu Zhi came up with the idea of developing a new type of football (Cuju). Unfortunately, he did not have the financial strength to start it. Now, after more than a year of development and growth, he already has the financial strength.
Strength, the idea of starting a new football sport came to his mind again. Wu Zhi decided to make careful plans to see how to promote the new football sport.
After countless days and nights of planning, Wu Zhi spent more than 10,000 yuan to purchase a piece of wasteland covering an area of more than 40 acres beside the Nanbian River near Dongxiaomen outside Bianliang City, and spent a lot of money to ask for it.
Then the craftsmen leveled the field and built a standardized football field in the center of the field, 105 meters long and 68 meters wide, with a 400-meter track around the perimeter. Short grass was planted on the football field.
, divide the side lines, center lines, large and small penalty areas, goal areas and other areas, erect a wooden frame 7.3 meters long and 2.44 meters high as the goal, and tie a fishing net behind the goal as a goal net. The surrounding stands are made of green
Built of bricks, the front is low and the back is high, forming a step-like structure. You can sit on the spot, and the stands form an oval. In order to protect against sun and rain, Wu Zhi also specially built a roof on the stands so that spectators can watch football games without
The pain of being exposed to the sun and being soaked by rain. Behind the stands, Wu Zhi surrounded the entire stadium with blue bricks, making it an independent arena. A ticket office and a ticket check-in were also set up. There was a fee to watch the game.
.This stadium is named "Wanda Football Stadium"!
What is more humane is that Wu Zhi built four public toilets around the arena. What he built was not the toilets of the Song Dynasty, but the public toilets of later generations! Wu Zhi designed the drawings himself and first found someone to dig a large toilet.
The septic tank was separated with blue bricks, installed with custom-made ceramic pipes from Wu Jiacai Porcelain Burning Factory, and introduced into the toilet and toilet respectively, and then covered with thick wooden boards, covered with a layer of soil to isolate the smell, and dug out the feces port
It is placed outside the wall, and the ground part is built into a house with blue bricks. The ground is paved with green bricks and jointed with glutinous rice mortar. The urinal is in the form of a groove, with the front high and the back low. A water tank is hung at the front end as a container.
When it is full of water brought from the water tanker, it will automatically pour down the water, thereby flushing away the urine, which is convenient and hygienic! The toilet area is separated into separate cells with blue bricks.
In the single room, the squatting toilet is equipped with a simple squatting toilet customized by Wu Zhi from Wu Jiacai Porcelain Burning Factory. The surface is glazed and smooth, and a hole of about three inches is left at the bottom. The back is also connected with a custom-made water trap ceramic pipe.
When entering the septic tank, the trap can isolate the stench from the septic tank, which is very effective. Each cubicle is equipped with a bucket and a ladle to facilitate flushing and washing hands when using the toilet.
Water also comes from a water tanker. As for toilet paper, Wu Zhi plans to give each audience a few pieces of toilet paper when they check in to check in. This will solve the wiping problem and avoid clogging the pipes, killing two birds with one stone. Wu Zhi is very interested in this design.
The public toilets are quite satisfactory.
In order to solve the problem of water supply in public toilets, Wu Zhicai deliberately chose the venue by the river. The purpose is to facilitate water collection. At the same time, if the septic tank overflows to the warning line, it can also secretly flow into the Nanbian River from the ceramic pipe.
The role of excretion. This was Wu Zhi’s selfishness that no one could know. Although people at that time did not have environmental awareness, Wu Zhi still felt guilty.
After the stadium was completed, the team could be formed. Wu Zhi first registered and established a football club called "Wanda Football Club". Then he spent another sum of money to purchase a piece of land next to the stadium and built many houses.
, as the operating base of Wanda Football Club, integrating office and accommodation.
After the house was built, the sign of Wanda Football Club was officially put up. The stadium also had a plaque saying "Wanda Football Stadium". Wu Zhi immediately published an article in Qiushi Weekly to recruit 26 players and two coaches.
In addition, there are five referees, and the treatment is favorable.
A few days later, there was an endless stream of people who came to apply for the job based on the recruitment information in Qiushi Weekly. Wu Zhi personally interviewed and selected 26 players who were more spiritual, had good physical fitness, and were relatively young to form a team.
Team A and Team B selected two men, Gao Sen and Meng Cheng, who were good at playing and could read and write, to be the coaches of the two teams respectively. He also selected five referees that he liked. He stipulated that
The monthly salary of each player and referee is 12 guan, and the monthly salary of each coach is 20 guan. In the future, certain rewards will be given based on performance in each official game. The football club arranges food and lodging in a unified way, and everyone has
A private room of their own. Such treatment made all the players, coaches and referees ecstatic.
In public, the players, coaches and referees followed Wu Zhi to the arena. When they saw the new-style court, they couldn't help but be stunned. They had never seen such a court. How should the ball be played? Coach,
The referee and the players were confused.
After Wu Zhi took the stage to demonstrate in person, everyone suddenly understood, but they were still puzzled. They had never heard or seen such a Cuju kicking method of running long distances and letting themselves go. They were very curious.
Seeing everyone's doubts, Wu Zhi had no choice but to explain the new style of football to everyone, and handed over the pre-written rules of the game to the two coaches and five referees for detailed review, and asked the teams A and B to form their own teams.
, eleven people from each team played a game in front of him. The scene was like trying to catch a duck, it was chaotic and disorganized, and it was simply too miserable to watch.
After Wu Zhi saw it, he could only shake his head helplessly. He had no choice but to practice more like this.
It wasn't until a few days later that the two teams had developed a complete formation and could basically compete in a decent manner, and Wu Zhi felt a little relieved.
In fact, such a novel and unique Cuju combat method and kicking method, which becomes more intense and exciting after physical contact and collision, has already attracted the strong interest of two coaches, five referees and many players, and everyone is excited.
I really want to learn it.
At the same time, Wu Zhi published an article in Qiushi Weekly, introducing the new way of playing football in the name of "Pan Gongzi", and officially changed the name of Cuju to football.
As a result, people all over the capital began to come into contact with the new football, which was a new thing. There were different opinions and mixed reviews.
In mid-June, Zhang Chun, Cai Jing and others proposed the "Changping Exemption from Service Order", which fully restored Wang Anshi's reform regulations. This time, since the old party members had been almost wiped out by Zhang Chun, Cai Jing and others,
There was almost no opposition in the court, and the comprehensive restoration of the new law this time did not encounter many obstacles and was successfully implemented throughout the country. The comprehensive restoration of the new law this time has allowed the court to build up a lot of money and armaments.
It has also been enhanced a lot.
In mid-July, there was an earthquake in Beijing. Numerous houses collapsed, killing many people and injuring many people. People were panicked for a while. Wu Zhi took advantage of the situation and proposed to hold a new football charity match at the Wanda Football Stadium in Beijing, and all the proceeds were donated to the earthquake victims.
The people affected by the disaster will be used for post-disaster reconstruction work!
This news was like a ground-breaking shock, bringing endless shock and heated discussion to people in the capital. The tens of thousands of tickets during the seven-day pre-sale period, and their affordable prices, made people snap up and eager to see what the new football is like.
A new law.
After more than a month of training, Wu Zhi's two teams have initially mastered the new football techniques and tactics, and the training has been quite effective.
On the day of the match, the wind was breezy and the sun was beautiful. In the Wanda Football Stadium, the new-style stadium, new-style stands, new-style public toilets, and new-style services made people feel fresh and new. The unique game format and fierce confrontation during the game were even more profitable.
It caught people's attention and made the audience fascinated and hooked. The new football charity game was an unprecedented success!
For this competition, Wu Zhi specially recruited more than 20 people from the water transportation company to come to help. After a brief training, they were put on the job. Basically, there were no mistakes.
After the new-style football charity match became an instant hit, the new-style football began to be gradually accepted and popular among people. The spectacle of its fierce confrontation was extremely shocking, which made people in the capital gradually abandon the embroidered pillows of the past.
The traditional Cuju competition method began to turn to the new football game.
Even in Prince Duan's Mansion, after watching a new-style football charity match, Zhao Ji felt that his Cuju team was childish and ridiculous. When he returned to the mansion, he immediately disbanded his Cuju team and reorganized it according to the pattern of Wu Zhi's football team.
He joined the team, built a new football field in Duanwang Mansion, and started playing new football.
Under the influence, people around the capital and other places began to slowly popularize the new football. This made Wu Zhi's Wanda Football Club and new football famous, and the new football movement was successfully promoted.
All provinces and cities have followed suit and formed new football teams based on the template of the Wu Zhi team. They have also built new football venues based on the new stadium style of the Wanda Football Stadium. The new football movement is in the ascendant.
By the way, people are talking about the new toilets and eager to imitate them.