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Chapter 239 Military Entertainment

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    Originally, many people had serious concerns about rectifying military discipline. After all, now is the time when the enemy is facing us.  But later everyone discovered that the deterrent power of a bearded head was unimaginable.

    When Huang Mingyuan¡¯s order to improve military discipline was issued to all ministries, many battalions had already started ideological education that night.  The literate chief officer began to study and educate the soldiers according to the propaganda materials issued by Fa Cao.  Of course, this is related to the fact that Huang Mingyuan did not forget the political and cultural education of the officers and soldiers during military training. Many illiterate generals were forced to read by Huang Mingyuan.

    Early on the next morning, the military discipline rectification team led by Li Xizhi and Yu Chong began to enter the army and began to rectify individuals and groups that affected the appearance of the army and violated the military rules and disciplines.

    In less than ten days, the military discipline rectification team dealt with more than 200 individuals and more than 110 related incidents. More than ten people were dismissed from their posts, and 13 people were directly imprisoned.  Bad habits in many departments, including military law and logistics, were swept away, and all erroneous ideas that had already emerged in their infancy were also swept away.

    And after this purge, the entire Datong Army became more energetic than before.

    ¡°But this only treats the symptoms, not the root cause.

    Although after this purge, bad habits such as gambling, alcoholism, and prostitution in the military have been greatly controlled, Huang Mingyuan knows very well that the military needs a rich spare time life.  If the free time of officers and soldiers cannot be fully utilized, then when these people are bored, they will return to their old jobs and once again reach out to gambling, prostitution and other activities.

    However, Huang Mingyuan was a little undecided about what activities to promote in the military.

    ¡°In fact, the entertainment life in the military is really lacking now. Soldiers really don¡¯t know what to do in their free time, except gambling and drinking.  Because of their high energy and excessive drinking, the number of people picking fights and causing trouble increased.  Huang Mingyuan tried to promote sports in the soldiers' spare time. The biggest purpose was to consume the soldiers' excess energy.

    Huang Mingyuan also wants to introduce an art troupe system into the military. After all, women are the catalyst for men's struggle.  But now that the war is approaching, in Fengzhou, a poor place, Huang Mingyuan really has no way to find a group of girls who are good at singing and dancing.  Although many women who were rescued before joined the Datong Army and became nurses and domestic helpers, if they were allowed to show up, sing and dance, they would rather die than go.

    In fact, Huang Mingyuan is planning to go to the land of Yanzhao to buy a group of young prostitutes to train. These people have the foundation of performance. The key is to be bold and dare to go on stage.  Moreover, Li Zixiao has many people under his command who are good at rehearsing scenes of joining the army. They can act as directors for them and can also come over to help them at critical moments.

    Of course, these all take time to prepare. Even if there are female soldiers from the art troupe, they will still need to rehearse.

    What Huang Mingyuan values ????is still football, and there are a few men in later generations who do not love football.  I don¡¯t know how to kick, but I still like to watch.

    China is the birthplace of ancient football. The Chinese have long had the habit of playing Cuju. The game is divided into two teams, each has offense and defense, and the outcome is determined by the number of times the ball is kicked into the opponent's court. It is similar to modern football.  However, Chinese Cuju emphasizes too much on skills and tricks, making the players look like acrobats, so Huang Mingyuan is not ready to let the soldiers play Cuju.  What he wants to promote is modern football, a somewhat bloody and brutal English football.

    It¡¯s a pity that the promotion of football has not started yet.

    In fact, many ball games that were popular in later generations cannot be promoted now.  It's not because people at this time had different interests and hobbies than those of later generations. They didn't like to play or couldn't play, but because Huang Mingyuan couldn't find a suitable replacement for things like football and basketball.

    The earliest primitive footballs were made from the bladders and stomachs of animals.  Modern footballs used to be made of cowhide and tendon.  Huang Mingyuan asked people to try to make two footballs, and they were able to take shape, but inflating them was a problem.

    There is no way, Huang Mingyuan has seen modern football, but he is not a craftsman and cannot make it himself.  The craftsman has skills, but it is still difficult for him to create something out of thin air, even with Huang Mingyuan's design.

    The craftsmen here are still exploring how to make footballs, and Huang Mingyuan has a new choice.

    It turns out that Huang Mingyuan spent all day thinking about how to enrich the spare time life of officers and soldiers, playing Cuju and making football, which aroused everyone's surprise.

    Huang Mingyuan didn¡¯t say anything, and no one dared to ask.

    After looking at it for a long time, Lu Zhen asked with confusion: "Mr. Lang is trying to think of ways to make leather bows for the soldiers, but why not let them shoot them?"

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    Huang Mingyuan has never heard of this movement.  When I heard it was Ju, I thought it was a sport similar to Cuju.  Until Lu Zhen told him that several people were shooting on horseback.??, Huang Mingyuan suddenly realized.  Isn't this the legendary polo? Has polo already spread from Persia to China?  According to relevant historical records, the history of polo can be traced back to Persia around 600 BC. It was later introduced to Tibet and then to China in the early Tang Dynasty, also known as "Polo Polo".  Of course, some people say that polo originated in Tubo, stemming from the Tubo people¡¯s development of horse racing and equestrianism.

    Huang Mingyuan has never seen polo since he came to this world, so he thought it was really like this.

    After Lu Zhen explained it to himself, Huang Mingyuan realized that he had made a mistake, and he took it for granted.  When he was young, he was in Zoushan, and when he grew up, he went to Yangzhou. As an adult, he also fought in the north and south. It is normal that he has never seen polo in Chang'an.

    It is true that polo was popular in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but in fact polo had already appeared in the Han Dynasty.  In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Zhi's "Famous Capitals" included the poem "Riding and riding on the ground, with countless skilful moves" to describe the situation of people playing polo at that time.

    There are various myths about the origin of polo. The main reason is that after the Tang Dynasty, its prosperity suddenly exploded, which led to the misinformation that it was an imported product.

    Thinking about it carefully, there are certain reasons why polo broke out during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.  Riding a horse was originally a very difficult task, because the earliest equestrians had to hold the horse's belly between their two thighs and gallop on it.  So let alone performing movements on it, early horse riders were already very good at maintaining high speeds without falling off their horses.

    At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the painted wood carvings of equestrian figurines and pommel horses unearthed from the Leitai Han Tomb already had high-bridge saddles; the gilt copper-wrapped wooden stirrups from Feng Sufu's tomb of the Northern Yan Dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms period discovered in Beipiao, Liaoning, were the earliest discovered by later generations.  Realistic double stirrups.  This shows that by the late Sixteen Kingdoms at the latest, the last shortcoming of horse equipment, the double stirrup, had basically appeared.  After hundreds of years of development and change, the complete set of modern horse gear has basically been equipped with knights in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.  With the assistance of these harnesses, horsemen can complete many actions that could not be completed before, and war horses have become the most loyal and effective friends of soldiers.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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