England 1986

Chapter 321 Aristocratic Sports - Polo
According to Allen's thinking, the two of them could give each other a step down.

On the surface, they are amiable, but usually they don’t live together, they play their own games, don’t talk nonsense to the media, just make do with it.

It's good to maintain this superficial calm.

Only when the royal family is calm can all nobles benefit from it.

Now all the criticisms against the royal family from the outside world are not just superficial accusations of indiscretion and messing around.

Ordinary people don't mess around?
So why is Gambia developing so fast?
So many little black sticks are almost worn out, and no one has come out to criticize them.

In fact, most of the external criticism against the royal family is to attack class under the cloak of morality.

To put it bluntly, it is hatred of the rich and class.

Even if Boss Cha didn't do anything, he deserved to be scolded, he would still be scolded, and he would be scolded for whatever he did, not all because of his personal behavior, but because of his identity.

Only when the royal family is on the top, it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, and other nobles can enjoy it with peace of mind.

If the royal family's reputation is bad in the future, other nobles will be scolded along with it.

So understanding this relationship, Allen extremely does not want the royal family's reputation to be lost too quickly now.

He just wants to keep his current position, and wait until he enjoys this life with peace of mind.

All day on February 2th, Alan did nothing else but went to the temporarily rented stable to watch the horses.

The sport of polo, according to the records in the book, first appeared in Asia.

As for whether it is East Asia or Central Asia, there is controversy.

However, according to Allen's inner wishes, he is more inclined to East Asia, that is, the ancient Huaguo!
This thing was originally an entertainment item in the ancient Chinese army, and later it was changed to a noble sport, and then slowly spread, and became an item to assist cavalry training.

The polo on the British side came from India.

And India.
Polo here in India was passed down by the Mongols in the Yuan Dynasty. After they improved and localized, they were learned by the Europeans who later colonized. Later, the British drove away other Europeans and completely ruled most of them. India brought polo back to Great Britain. It was not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that Britain introduced more perfect polo rules.

Theoretically speaking, whether it is now or in the future, polo is a proper aristocratic sport, not to mention ordinary civilians, even the middle class, at most occasionally go to the polo club to play once in a while. If you want to raise your own horses, go to parties, etc., it's out of the question.

The bar is simply too high.

For example, according to the polo rules of Great Britain, each match has four players from each team, plus two referees, and there are only ten people on the field.

And how big is the field needed for these ten people to play polo?

Nine standard football fields add up to that size!
And this is the simplest venue issue. In addition to the venue issue, the remaining hurdle is the horse issue.

A polo game is generally divided into 4-8 quarters, and each quarter is also called a round. The formal name is a round. Due to translation problems, it is now called a festival, just like a basketball game.

The number of quarters varies according to the identities of the contestants in each game.

For example, nobles and members of the royal family like Allen and Boss Zha are not professional players, and their physical fitness cannot keep up. They certainly cannot play 8 quarters like professional players. Generally, they play 4 quarters or 6 quarters.

In a polo game, each quarter lasts about seven and a half minutes. In such a short period of time, the horses under the players' crotches are exercising a lot.

If you play like this, after a game, the horse racing will be useless.

Instead, players are required to change horses after each quarter.

That is to say, if you play a polo match of 6 quarters, a polo match is calculated. Under ideal circumstances, a player needs to change at least 6 horses. If the player is picky, he can even change to ten horses. horse!

The racehorses used in polo and the horses needed for equestrianism are not the same type at all.

The horses needed for a polo game, in theory, are war horses!
This kind of horse needs professional training from an early age.

Ordinary racehorses may be expensive in terms of pedigree, appearance, etc., but they are inevitably very squeamish.

Some horses are afraid of cold, heat, insects, mice, etc., and have all kinds of eccentricities. These horses are like birds in cages, and they need to be treated with care and tenderness.

The horses used in polo games are different.

The training and training of these horses is much stricter than that of horses for equestrian competitions. Most importantly, these horses must be durable.

Don't talk about being afraid of bugs, even if you lead the lions, they won't be afraid.

In addition to being courageous, one has to be fearless of pain.

Polo competitions are very intense, and bumps and bumps are inevitable. Sometimes the polo is so small, and it is unavoidable to hit the horse or the horse's leg during high-speed flight. If you hit him like this, you might get kicked.

But this horse will not.

Not afraid of death, not afraid of pain, have been trained, and finally have to train other things.

For example, the most important thing is not to be afraid of people!

This kind of horse needs to be fed and trained by a professional trainer, but the people who ride them are all noblemen. If they are afraid of people and recognize their own lives, wouldn't they be finished?

You can't let the nobles train the horses yourself, can you?

Therefore, the cost of each horse specially trained for polo games is extremely high!
The most rubbish and most ordinary ones cost about [-] pounds a horse.

That's the worst!

As for a nobleman, if he likes to play polo, he usually has about ten to twelve specially trained horses at home.

A few aristocrats with good relationships, everyone meet to form a small team, and bring your own horses!

As for the nobles, maybe their game skills are not good, but you can’t buy the worst horses, right?
The ones that are a little better, the price of two or three million pounds a horse can only be regarded as the low-end price.

There are also horses with a high point of 60 million and millions of pounds.

Calculated on the basis of a medium-sized horse of 50 pounds, a family raising ten horses would cost 500 million pounds to buy the horses alone!
This is not counting the cost of annual feeding, the cost of professional trainers, trainers, venue fees and so on.

Now the average annual income of ordinary civilians in Great Britain is just over 1 pounds, which is still pre-tax income!
If ordinary people want to play polo games like the nobles, and imagine raising horses by themselves like the nobles, their annual income of 600 pounds per year, without eating or drinking, can save them for five to six hundred years before they can get enough horses.

Sun Wukong has only been suppressed for 500 years at the foot of Wuzhi Mountain.

Of course, this algorithm is calculated according to the upper-middle-level gameplay. If you just play for the purpose of experiencing it, you can spend a few hundred pounds at a time, go to the club to experience it, ride a horse for a lap, and play a game. .

In other words, you can just buy some ordinary horses worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, and ride them slowly for fun, but this kind of self-deception is at best.

In this competition, all the horses were raised by Boss Zha himself and brought over from Daying.

The main purpose of the ship that set off earlier was to transport this batch of horses. Boss Zha brought a total of 40 horses this time. His specification is based on the specification of 4 horses for 32 players and 8 spare horses. with.

The average price of each of his horses has reached more than 60 pounds!

Counting the forty horses, the value of a single horse has reached more than 2000 million pounds, and this is not counting the total value of the horses of the opposing polo team.

For a polo match between two teams, the price of all the horses is calculated at 4000 million pounds, not too much, right?

92 million pounds in 4000, what kind of concept is this?
Buy a well-configured destroyer!
Coupled with the personal worth of the contestants, how can ordinary people have time to train equestrianism and horseback riding since childhood?

Nobles have to participate in the training of these professional skills since they were young. How much money will it cost and how much time will it take?
These costs are beyond the imagination of ordinary civilians.

This kind of competition is not called a competition exclusive to nobles, what other competitions are exclusive to nobles?

On the afternoon of Valentine's Day, February 1992, 2, in the suburbs of Mumbai.

This is a polo field that occupies a huge area. Before arriving, the road was surrounded by Indians who received the news and came to join in the fun.

But this time the law and order in the polo field was exceptionally good. Due to Allen's aggressive beating behavior two days ago, the Indians didn't know what to think. , Deliberately mobilized the police from the neighboring cities, and finally gathered a total of [-] Indian police officers on perimeter guard.

The entire polo arena only has viewing areas on the long sides of the field. As for the short sides of the top of the field, there are no viewing areas. Those two sides are too dangerous. big security risk.

Regardless of such a large venue, there are less than [-] spectators in total.

Unidentified civilians want to come in and watch the game?
Go dream!

Those who were invited to watch the game today, in addition to members of the royal family of several large states, were also elites from all walks of life who came from New Delhi.

The worst, the worst, has to be a Kshatriya. No matter how lowly the race is, it can't even pass the test of the Indian police in charge of security.

Class, this moment is fully reflected here.

Allen sat in the first row of the viewing area, next to Diana.

On his left is Diana, next to Diana is Boss Cha, and next to Boss Cha is the royal "king" of Kerala, the most developed state in southwestern India. The size of the royal family like the king.

Although these people are all Indians in name, they still play the feudal system internally, but they only obey India as a whole on the surface.

On this occasion, we don't talk about politics, only about family affairs.

Allen has no interest in these people. Although the royal families and high castes of these Indian states look similar to white people, Allen still maintains his usual indifferent attitude, and only nodded slightly to them when the two sides greeted each other just now. , and that's it.

However, Allen's way of ignoring them made many people take it for granted.

A traditional aristocrat from Great Britain, this is what he should do!

Boss Zha was kind enough to make the scene less deserted, out of his personal cultivation and identity needs, and Alan didn't have to worry about this kind of problem at all, it was normal for him to be cold.

There were even a few members of the royal family bent over and took the initiative to strike up a conversation with Allen, but he drove them away with a wave of his hand, with one eye protruding above the top, defiant!

But the more Allen is like this, the more people are interested in him, as if anyone who can talk to him can be superior to others. This makes Allen even more annoying!
Fortunately, with the official start of the opening ceremony, the scene finally became quiet.

Regardless of whether it is a movie or a TV series in India, the most indispensable thing in it is interspersed with various singing and dancing. It is said that it will start dancing when there is a disagreement. Pi started dancing.

Even people who have died due to plot reasons can come out and have another memory killing while dancing and singing.

If a movie, no matter how good the story is, but the movie is very fast-paced and there are no songs and dances interspersed in it, then the box office in India will definitely not be good!
If you want to have something to say in the Indian film market, first, there must be singing and dancing in the film, and second, the duration should be as long, long, and long as possible!

Don't say that 120 minutes is enough. In India, a movie starts with 200 minutes. The longer the better!
Because there is air-conditioning in the cinema, a movie that is long enough will allow the audience to blow the air-conditioning in the cinema for a longer period of time, so that they can feel that the ticket is worth it.

As for Allen's previous films, there is no market at all in India!
The status of women in most parts of India is generally low. Under such circumstances, Indians have no sense of substitution at all if they are asked to watch movies about women looking for ducks.

As for the movie where the wife cheats on her husband, they don't even have a sense of substitution!

What they like is coercion, not cheating.

The excitement of cheating, in the eyes of Indians, basically means no excitement.

According to official statistics, in India, on average, every 20 minutes, there will be a vicious incident of coercion of women.

In such a big environment, what is cheating?
How boring is that, and you have to spend money to go to the cinema?In addition, the length of the movie is not long, so whoever goes has a problem with his brain.

So. Even though Alan is already well-known in the film industry, he is really not well-known in India. Except for Bollywood, other people only know him as a traditional aristocratic handsome guy with a hot temper. I don't know.

Looking at the dance performance of a large song and dance troupe composed of thousands of people on the polo field, Diana tilted her head towards Allen, covered her mouth with her hand and coughed: "Are you confident in the game?"

"Huh! Confidence?! I'll cry them!"

Allen glanced with extreme disdain at the few thin monkey-like Indian players participating in today's polo match not far away.

The average height is about 1.7 meters, and he is thin and thin.

Their current polo game in India is all about skill, while the polo game in Great Britain is about confrontation!
Others Alan can't guarantee it, but these Indians, to put it bluntly, he is the only one, and he can chase them to play as a team.

It's the kind of déjà vu that don't struggle, the four of you are already surrounded by me!
(End of this chapter)