Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1356 Immigration Conditions

“So the ultimate form of circus is to hold the Olympics???”

[Look, everyone likes to watch this, right? That's right. Human rituals always have to consider the viewing experience. Every year, the sacrificial meat for the heaven is brought back for everyone to share. The ritual is said to be a worship of heaven, but to put it bluntly, it is prepared for humans. It is indeed a good idea to hold an 'Olympic Games' for Qigong practitioners. And didn't you participate in a sub-event? ]

"Ah," Shangluo nodded, "Car race, right?"

Shangluo remembered that the car race really turned into a battle of wits in the end. It was like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing their magical powers.

That match really provided entertainment for everyone. Because the match took place on the street, the road was temporarily closed for a whole morning, and there were spectators everywhere.

However, Shangluo himself didn't want to participate again - he didn't see Zhu Xianxun play the game himself at that time.

In the final analysis, the most important purpose of this competition is to select those who can project their own strength onto external objects. After all, there are actually many Qigong practitioners in the world, but only a few can really use it freely.

What was being tested in that competition was the ability of Qigong practitioners to influence external objects.

Other competitions were similar - no matter how high one's own cultivation was, one could only protect oneself. He had to at least show up to make people listen.

This reminded Shangluo of the old days when many people would convert their money into silver and bury it in their homes after making money. This part of the silver was eaten by him and completely withdrawn from circulation. He himself did not enjoy it, and his descendants might not be able to enjoy it either, and many people suffered because of the money he made.

At least he spent the money, which can be considered as giving back to society through consumption.

The same is true for Qigong practitioners. If one cultivates a set of skills and consumes a lot of golden elixirs just for the sake of seclusion and longevity, then the golden elixirs consumed are completely out of circulation.

Shangluo didn't want to force all the Qigong practitioners out to work. He thought that at least all the Qigong practitioners should be allowed to participate deeply in society, even if it was just to participate in competitions and win prize money.

Among all the competitions, the martial arts tournament was the most eye-catching.

As Zhu Ling said, events that lack confrontation or events where the confrontation is not direct enough can easily lose their entertainment value.

Softball is a particularly outstanding one. It is even difficult to explain the rules of softball in one sentence, because there are too many levels of abstraction - confrontational games are an abstraction of war, and baseball abstracts confrontation again by using "hitting to count time, and running for the rest". To those who are not interested, it is extremely boring.

Many spectators are happy to watch because the team they support is there. Only here with the fans can the confrontation between the teams be materialized.

Football and basketball are much more direct. Although this is also an indirect confrontation, the two sides directly use the ball to achieve confrontation, which is one less level of confrontation than baseball.

Of course, fighting with hands is more interesting than football or basketball. The Romans loved to watch bloody gladiators at first, but later they had no choice but to watch chariot races.

However, although there are many sports in the current sports that can be played directly.

For example, fencing, boxing, etc.

But there is a problem with weapons like fencing - it's too fast. Unlike the scenes of swords clashing in the minds of many people, high-intensity weapons confrontations often last very short periods of time. Close-range swordfights can decide the outcome in a second, so fast that the audience can't even see clearly.

Boxing and other fighting are similar. Either you keep score or you try to get your opponent to a physical contact. There are also competitions where you win by knocking your opponent down, but they are obviously not suitable for public screenings.

Because in the end, even if it was a direct fight, no formal sports competition had the goal of killing the opponent, and the consumption rate would be too high. But this kind of competition might be feasible for Qigong practitioners.

"Sumo. It's still sumo." Shang Luo nodded. "It looks like the closest form is sumo. Although other events can also be held, I think it's best to base the competition on sumo - the sumo of the prodigal Yanqing and Optimus Prime, everyone loves to watch."

He also wanted to take this opportunity to find something for the Qigong practitioners to do. Because if they were not fighting in the arena, who knew what they were doing at home. Many people who really couldn't spare any time could also come to participate in the professional Qigong competition.

As the founder of heaven and the manager of the supernatural world, he can decide the events of this competition himself.

[Ah, it feels like a knight dueling for everyone to see. That would be so fun.]

"Because watching the fun is human instinct."

Although the original intention of the Song Dynasty to organize sumo and other professional martial arts competitions may have been to suppress private force, now that martial artists have been completely suppressed, professional qigong competitions have been regarded as promoting martial virtues. Shangluo can also use this opportunity to bring many qigong practitioners into its scope of observation.

He was not afraid that these Qigong practitioners would not respond to the call. He was mainly afraid that he did not know where the Qigong practitioners were.

He has to understand the details of the Qigong practitioners before he can rule them.

"Um"

Zhu Ling on the opposite side blinked: "Ah, so handsome, you are thinking."

She touched Shangluo's face.

"Don't make trouble, I'm thinking about something very important."

"what are you thinking about?"

"Hey, Zhu Ling, does the imperial court have something called an 'imperial edict'? A notice is posted outside, and heroes can go and uncover it?"

"It's not like Sun Wukong is a skilled doctor, so how could there be so many notices? Anyway, I haven't seen anyone post them. What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking, it's time. We need to start mobilizing all the Qigong practitioners across the country."

Previously, Lan Fang did the best in this regard. Because Lan Fang would subsidize all the Qigong practitioners in the territory, help them join various sects, and encourage them to deeply participate in the operation of society. The Ming court was relatively conservative in this regard.

Previously, Shangluo's recruitment of operators was only passed on within their own interpersonal network and was not truly made public.

But now, he felt that he could use this as a starting point to prepare for ending the isolation between Qigong practitioners in the future.

"Do you want to post the notice? Where do you want to post it?"

"I happen to have a forum that you forgot about. All Qigong practitioners go to that forum, and I can just recruit people there. I'm actually in need of someone who can find out about the situation on the moon. After all, we can't wait until we fly over the surface of the moon to start reconnaissance. So, I plan to organize a commando team first. Well, just post the list and select some people."

(End of this chapter)