Niu Meng kept asking questions he wanted to know, and Su Yonglin kept giving him answers and was very satisfied with him.
He is indeed not as stupid as he looks. He is a smart person, not stupid at all, but he has a good heart, so he looks a bit stupid.
But he always understood what Su Yonglin said faster than others.
This made Su Yonglin have a lot of expectations for him, and finally expected him to go to Zhongdu to have a meeting together, and then chat together.
Su Yong has always been by Su Yonglin's side, guarding against anyone who might harm Su Yonglin.
But listening to what Su Yonglin said, he felt a little uncomfortable.
He looked at Su Yonglin who was happily chatting with the workers around him about his thoughts, and felt sour in his heart.
He saw how Su Yonglin worked hard to build the Ming Dynasty from scratch.
He admitted that the people played a great role. They were mobilized and organized, sacrificed their lives, and made great contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, they got all this. Su Yong also acknowledged it and felt that it was deserved.
But from the bottom of his heart, he felt that Su Yonglin shouldn't have handed over such significant power.
The people got what they deserved, as it should be.
Then why can't Su Yonglin get what he deserves?
Su Yonglin worked so hard and expended so much effort to bring the Ming Dynasty to this point, but now his power has to be allocated to some nine-person group and some institutional meeting. Instead, he himself only retains a small part of the power, even the emperor. Not anymore.
From the bottom of his heart, he felt that Su Yonglin was not worth it.
No one knows better than him how hard Su Yonglin worked to make the Ming Dynasty great. No one knows better than him how much hardship Su Yonglin suffered and how much energy he expended.
Su Yong has no political talent and cannot share Su Yonglin's worries, so he feels that he should at least protect Su Yonglin. He feels that always leading troops to protect Su Yonglin is the most important thing and even the only responsibility of Su Yong in this world.
He has always been protecting Su Yonglin, so he feels that he should continue to protect Su Yonglin forever.
But Su Yonglin is no longer the emperor, and the word "guard" in the Huben Imperial Guard will also be removed.
The Huben Army is still the garrison of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the strongest army to protect the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the only army at the center of power in the Ming Dynasty. But in Su Yong's heart, the only one the Huben warriors should protect is Su Yonglin.
Everything is possible now because of Su Yonglin. This has always been Su Yong's view, and this is also the view of the soldiers of the Huben Imperial Guard.
Everyone joined the Huben Guards with great honor, worked hard to squeeze out the competitors, and stood out in the cruel competition to join the Huben Guards in order to protect Su Yonglin at close range.
They want to protect the God within them.
But soon, God no longer wanted them. He no longer needed them to protect him. He wanted them to protect others.
They are confused.
Since the promulgation of the Reform Edict and the New Year Edict, although Su Yonglin still controlled the Ming Dynasty's military, the officers and soldiers of the Huben Imperial Guard were generally confused and did not know what the meaning of staying in the Huben Army was.
If it is just to protect Zhongdu, then any army can do it. There is no need to let such a powerful army take on the responsibility of protecting Zhongdu. Zhongdu is not as important as Su Yonglin at all. They should always follow Su Yonglin.
They asked Su Yong, but Su Yong couldn't give them an answer.
So, how should we go about the future?
Can they continue to protect Su Yonglin?
Su Yong doesn't know.
Su Yonglin continued to talk to the workers in the factory, talked to them, told them what was in his heart, and dispelled their concerns about the new system of the nine-person group.
At noon, everyone gathered together to eat. Su Yonglin shuttled among the tables, chatting and laughing with the workers.
In the afternoon, Su Yonglin also decided to hold a Cuju competition with some able-bodied workers.
Cuju has a long history in China. There are legends that Cuju appeared in the Huangdi period. However, it was actually recorded clearly in Linzi, Qi State during the Warring States Period.
Because the Qi State relied on the profits of sea salt to become the most prosperous country in the world, and its residents were wealthy, they developed a variety of leisure and entertainment activities, including Cuju.
During the Han Dynasty, Cuju developed further, and even because of its special nature, Cuju was used to train soldiers. This was the first peak of the development of ancient Cuju.
The second peak was in the Southern and Northern Song Dynasties. With the development and growth of the citizen class, Cuju activities gradually became civilians from the aristocratic activities before the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
During the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, a large number of Cuju societies emerged among the people, holding competitions among themselves, and gradually evolved into professional positions such as football forward and center, making the games more enjoyable to watch.
Lin'an and Kaifeng, the capitals of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, were the places where Cuju activities were most prosperous. The royal family took the lead in playing Cuju, and the people also followed suit. If there was a Song Dynasty Cuju League A, you could earn a lot of money from the tickets.
Su Yonglin's era happened to fall in an era when everyone loved Cuju and was willing to accept it, but Su Yonglin didn't pay much attention to Cuju at the beginning.
Military affairs are the most important, so what does Cuju mean?
Until one day in the sixth year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin received a report from an official inspecting the factory. When it mentioned the daily life of the workers, it also mentioned that the workers liked to organize Cuju competitions for entertainment.
Only then did Su Yonglin gain some understanding of the fact that people in this era played Cuju like this.
Later, the bad memories of Chinese football poured into his mind across time and space at that moment, and they were even clearer than the many happy memories of his previous life, which made him very unhappy.
So he decided to take advantage of the current trend of Cuju being loved by the whole people, and continue to develop it to promote the development of ancient Cuju into modern football.
He personally designed the rules for the new Ming Dynasty Cuju, eliminating some movements that were purely for viewing in Cuju competitions, and adding some purely physical confrontational movements.
In order to make it easier for workers to understand, he also hired painters to draw pictures and compiled a copy of "Da Ming Cuju Competition Rules and Practice Patterns" and gave it to major factories.
He tried to get the factory management to pay attention to teaching this new entertainment sport to the workers, to change the original Cuju game, and to transform Cuju from a state where the nature of the game is greater than the nature of confrontation, into a competitive sport with strong confrontational nature.
Because of the state-owned nature of the factory and the abundant spare time of the workers, the new Cuju that Su Yonglin vigorously promoted has developed relatively well.
Workers who have ample leisure and entertainment time and sufficient nutritional supplements are very willing to play a new style of Cuju that is full of confrontation in their spare time. This is not only because they like it, but also because of the vigorous promotion of Su Yonglin, the national leader. There are also big reasons in it.
The workers were very willing to learn the sports that Su Yonglin personally modified for them.
So starting from the end of the sixth year of Hongwu, the new Cuju began to flourish in major factories across the country.
Workers often form several teams, and each team has its own competition team.
Everyone will conduct collective training after get off work in the factory while it is still light, to understand the rules of the new Cuju competition, and then hold in-field competitions or practice matches on rest days.
Each team or production team will form its own Cuju team, with a limited time and limited number of people, to launch a fierce battle, and determine the winner or loser based on the number of goals scored.
The final winner will receive honorary titles such as [Competition Champion], [Sports Expert], and [Cuju King] and some material rewards that are more honorary than economic.
What everyone is pursuing is not financial rewards, but happiness, the happiness brought by pure competitive sports.
The feeling of dribbling the ball across the field and scoring goals while the crowd cheers is great.
In this era of serious lack of popular entertainment activities, the emergence of new Cuju can undoubtedly wipe away the fatigue caused by work for workers, and they can cheer and sweat to their heart's content.
