novelhk Chapter 256
Chapter 256
Small snowflakes began to fall outside. Qi Cheng watched the video and glanced at it from time to time. Although snow was common here in winter, he still liked to watch it.
At this time, Zhou Lu suddenly called and said that he had arrived downstairs of Qi Cheng's building and asked him to come down and move some things upstairs.
The boy brought a box of scented pears and several cartons of beer.
The fragrant pears are grown by his family themselves.
The beer was sent by the distributor.
"Come on, get some snacks over and let's drink while watching TV."
"Aren't you going back to the restaurant?" Qi Cheng asked while working in the kitchen. "How's business been these past few days? You should have some returning customers by now."
"There are some returning customers on the boat. It's been windy these past few days, otherwise I wouldn't be able to come here and would have gone to sea to sail." Zhou Lu took a sip of wine. "My father is in charge of the restaurant now, so business is average."
Qi Cheng nodded while changing channels with the remote control. After watching a few outdated TV series, he finally found a channel that was showing the ongoing ethnic minority sports games.
"This is a crossbow shooting competition, right? Which province do you think will win? I think crossbows are more commonly used in the southwest." Zhou Lu held the snacks and watched attentively.
"Seems to be……"
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Tang Dynasty
Li Shimin had just finished discussing with Li Jing how to deal with Tubo. Looking at the sports meeting broadcast on the sky screen, he felt a sense of regret in his heart. They fought to the death now, but they would be a family in the future.
"Who do you think will win?"
"That's not entirely certain. While the Southwest is certainly good at it, it's not like they're incompetent in other areas." Li Jing looked at the sky screen carefully. "This is held by province, so it depends on their usual training."
"That makes sense, but why are there ethnic minorities in every province, including the Central Plains?"
"Don't we have Hu merchants from the Western Regions in Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty?"
Qing Dynasty
Qianlong looked at the sports meeting and thought the scale was very good. The area of the Qing Dynasty was similar to that of later generations, so it was possible to host such a sports meeting.
"Heshen, I'll leave this matter to you. Do it well."
Heshen quickly shook his head when he heard Qianlong's words. How could this be accomplished at this time? He said that it would be difficult to gather people from various provinces.
It takes at least three months for distant provinces.
It is impossible for everyone to rush to Beijing by 800 miles.
"Your Majesty, this matter is somewhat difficult. I think it would be better to compromise." He Shen said in a low voice, "It seems that each province has a hometown association in the capital. Why not let them find the person..."
"It's up to you."
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After the crossbow shooting competition was over, the TV started broadcasting the coconut tree climbing competition. This was much more interesting than crossbow shooting. Qi Cheng was very envious of the contestants who climbed up the tree quickly.
He can't climb trees.
"That's easy! I think I can participate in this competition!" Zhou Lu said loudly, "I'm really good at climbing trees. I can reach the top of any tree, no matter how high it is."
"I've never seen a coconut tree. Is it the same as an ordinary tree? I've only ever drunk coconut milk."
"It should be about the same. It just depends on how much strength you use your hands and feet."
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Li Tai's eyes lit up. The fruit on this tree was actually edible. He was a little curious about what it tasted like. The fruit didn't look very beautiful when viewed from the sky.
Not like apples and strawberries in later generations.
"I think this is in Yazhou. It's so far away." Li Chengqian sighed, "This thing shouldn't be grown in the north. Even the anchor has never seen it."
Going to Yazhou in the Tang Dynasty would definitely mean demotion. It is better to stay away from such officials.
Ming Dynasty
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the sky and shook his head silently. Although these competitions have national characteristics, they still require a long time of practice. How could the Ming Dynasty have the conditions now?
Most people are still busy preparing food.
People in later generations were able to do this because there was enough food.
"Prince, how are you finding those high-yield grains? What do you think Luzon is saying?"
Zhu Biao replied in a low voice, "We haven't found anything high-yielding over there. Judging from the previous sky, sweet potatoes may take a while to reach Luzon."
Zhu Yuanzhang sighed. It seemed that he really had to arrange a fleet to go to America, but he had no idea about it, so it would probably be difficult.
"Prince, please discuss with the Fourth Brother and arrange for people and fleets to search for high-yield crops."
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Zhou Lu drank two cans of beer and discussed with Qi Cheng about going to the countryside again. He felt that this road should be able to make money, and it depended on whether he could find it.
"I haven't learned my lesson from last time..."
"Didn't you check your phone? The last group of people have already gone in, and they probably won't be able to come out for years. I think our ancient place is pretty good, there must be a lot of good things..."
Qi Cheng smiled. He thought he might have some good stuff, but what if others didn't know about it?
"Just watch the sports meets on TV. They're so open now, there's nothing you don't know about. I think if you have some free time, you might as well find a magnet and use it to attract things."
"I can give it a try..."
Most of the people outside the sky do not listen to what Qi Cheng and the others said, but instead focused on watching the TV inside the sky dome. They had never seen such an exciting game before.
Especially some ethnic groups still living on the border, when they see the future like this, they feel envious. At that time, they were short of food and clothing and could not catch up with the ordinary people in the Central Plains.
"Look at the tree-climbing competitions in later generations. I wonder how much money and food the winner can get as a reward."
"Food? Food isn't very valuable in the future. I think they will definitely give you a lot of meat as a reward."
After the tree climbing competition, it was time for the bamboo pole jumping competition. This looked really amazing. Most people probably couldn’t even stand on it, but the contestants were able to somersault and do somersaults on it.
Qi Cheng didn't quite understand which ethnic group's sport this was, and felt that being a gymnast was enough.
There was also a stilt-walking competition, and being able to run on stilts really surprised everyone.
"These competitions seem to be from the southwest. Are there wrestling, horse-roping and other sports like ours?" The Mongolian men from the north hope to see more strength-based competitions.
They are not very good at this type of flexibility.
"It would be great if we had this kind of competition now. I would definitely be able to win first place, and then the prince would definitely reward me with a few horses."
"What are you thinking? There's always someone better than you." An old herdsman looked at the sky. "But we really might be able to hold it. The emperor in the capital seems to like these things very much..."
"If he gives the order, our prince must take people with him."