Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

"Ah?"

Liu Xie raised his head from his deep thoughts, with obvious shock and confusion on his face.

He ignored the suggestion of Zhuge Military Advisor for the time being, but turned his head and asked Liu Bei impatiently:

"What the emperor's uncle said before, didn't deceive me?"

Liu Bei smiled gently, shook his head and said:

"I have said before that I have served the Han Dynasty with sincerity from beginning to end, without a single falsehood."

"This light curtain is really what later generations..."

"Naturally."

"Then..."

Tens of thousands of questions suddenly emerged in Liu Xie's heart, and finally he asked with a trembling voice:

"I and Fu Shou..."

Liu Bei sighed softly, which made Liu Xie's heart suddenly feel like falling into an ice cave, and then his hands were pulled up by the emperor's uncle.

"According to the records of later generations, I was defeated in Yiling and died of illness. I was unable to help Your Majesty, which led to the theft of the Han Dynasty."

"When I was young, all the things Your Majesty said in the quiet room were true."

Listening to the emperor's uncle's soft voice, Liu Xie gradually recalled that at that time he had lamented that he was trapped in Xuchang without any help, and he laughed and sighed that if the emperor's uncle had planned things earlier, he might have suffered less.

But at that time, the emperor's uncle just smiled and said that he was also a person who could achieve success. Then he talked about the death of his brother and the defeat in the fire, as well as the perverse actions of the Wei and Jin dynasties that harmed the country and the people. At that time, he thought that the emperor's uncle was exaggerating and comforting him, but now it seems...

Sitting for a while, Liu Xie turned his head stiffly, and looked carefully at Zhuge Kongming, who the emperor's uncle had emphasized, and then raised a sincere smile from the corner of his mouth:

"I don't know about the light curtain, so I shouldn't say more."

"But if you have any requests, Zhuge Military Advisor will present them to the emperor's uncle for decision, and leave a letter to me."

This made everyone in the hall look different, and Ru Xinbi, Geng Ji and others were even more hesitant to speak, but seeing the light curtain in the middle of the air that could not be explained by common sense, they really couldn't say what they wanted to say.

On the contrary, Liu Xie seemed to have really unloaded a heavy burden, and pulled Liu Bei back and said:

"After today, the emperor's uncle must tell me in detail about the future. I am very curious-it should not be like this foreign country..."

Liu Xie tried hard to organize his words and tried to find a suitable word. Fortunately, Liu Bei saw the dilemma and continued:

"The future of China will surely open your majesty's eyes."

"That's good." Liu Xie breathed a sigh of relief, looked behind the light curtain again, smiled and nodded to the emperor's uncle and Kong Ming, and sat back in his seat.

Then he leaned back a little closer to his wife Fu Shou, and sighed in her ear in a voice that only the two of them could hear:

"I am lucky that the Han Dynasty has not lost its destiny."

"Fortunately, I am not destined to be."

Ordinary people should say this with great disappointment.

But in the twenty years since Fu Shou became the queen, it was the first time she heard her husband's tone so relaxed.

It was as if a heavy burden had been lifted off.

He even began to point out the paintings on the screen that were said to be from the Ming Dynasty:

"This painting is not bad. This Ming looks similar to the Han Dynasty. I haven't played the game of throwing pots for a long time."

Fu Shou raised her head together. The Ming scroll on the screen was gradually enlarged. The voice of the later generations, which the emperor's uncle said was from later generations, also sounded.

[Although "Ming Xuanzong's Pleasures" is often mentioned when there are sports events, it must be made clear at the beginning that the sports that Xuanzong enjoyed and participated in in this painting are not very competitive. However, we will talk about this later and take a look at these events first.

The content of the picture is relatively simple. It is basically a scene of Xuanzong wearing casual clothes and a brimmed hat watching various sports performances in the imperial garden, and occasionally participating in them himself.

The order is archery, Cuju, polo, chuiwan, and touhu. Before returning to the palace, he looked back reluctantly, as if he had not finished yet.

The first event Xuanzong played, archery, is familiar to everyone.

After all, throughout history, we have many Chinese archers, such as Yang Youji, the source of the term "shooting a willow through a hundred steps", and Li Guang, who is said to be able to shoot a stone with one arrow. In addition, there are Lu Bu who shoots the halberd at the gate, Xue Rengui who conquered Tianshan with three arrows, and so on.

Therefore, it is inevitable that some people will be curious. If these archery masters in ancient times have the opportunity to compete with modern people on the same stage, will they be able to easily win medals or will they be beaten by modern training methods?

But this question is actually an unanswerable question, because from our history, we always think that archery is a sport that requires talent, but from the experience accumulated in modern competitions, archery is actually a project that competes with national strength.

There is a common saying in modern archery that archery is about consistency, that is, an excellent marksman can shoot every arrow with the same posture, so as to ensure the arrow hits to the greatest extent, that is, the reproducibility of the hits.

So from here, you will find that the content of archery competition is not complicated. First of all, of course, it is boring and requires persistent training to engrave the posture, muscle force and breathing during archery into the bones.

And then the most important thing is the equipment. In order to ensure the hit, the modern recurve bow has a lot of optimization content compared to the ancient traditional bow, including but not limited to sights, balance bars, counterweight bars, arrow rests, arrow side pads, etc., and on the arrow, from carbon fiber materials to streamlined arrows that reduce wind resistance, to the center of gravity adjustment of the arrow center of gravity in millimeters, etc., all of this is to assist archers to improve their hits.

On the basis of archer training and equipment assistance, there will be a large number of staff using specific venues to calculate archers' more reasonable force and breathing methods, to correct the invalid and redundant movements of archers in each bow drawing process, so as to ensure the consistency of the final target shooting.

It can be said that every time an archer draws a bow in the Olympic Games, there are dozens of venues and hundreds of people working together, thousands of mathematical models are calculated, and tens of thousands of auxiliary corrections are made.

From this point of view, it is not just archery, but almost all sports competitions are comprehensive competitions of national strength. This is why small countries in modern Olympics can only excel in individual events, but the top few changes in the total medal list are very small.

And this perspective is actually applicable to viewing "Xuanzong Xingle Tu".

The decline of bows and arrows in the Ming Dynasty is partly due to the factors of firearms.

And the fact that Cuju and polo have become performances can actually give us a glimpse into the root of the decline of the Song and Ming dynasties.

In a sense, this can also be regarded as looking at history through sports. 】

In Ganlu Palace, Li Shimin stretched out his hand and made a bow-drawing gesture, then looked at the scene on the screen with a mixture of laughter and tears:

"So, I don't even know how to shoot an arrow anymore."

"But... I really want to compete with the archer as people say in later generations."