British 1986

Chapter 321 Aristocratic Sports—Polo

According to Allen's idea, the two of them can give each other a step down.

On the surface, they are harmonious, but they don't live together normally. They each do their own thing, don't talk nonsense to the media, and just make do with it.

It's good to maintain the current superficial calm.

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

All the criticisms directed at the royal family from the outside world are not just superficial accusations of misbehavior and chaos.

Ordinary people don't mess around?

So why is The Gambia developing so fast?

So many little black sticks are almost worn out, and no one comes out to criticize them.

In fact, most of the outside criticism of the royal family is disguised as morality and attacks class.

To put it bluntly, they hate the rich and the class.

Even if Boss Cha does nothing and deserves to be scolded, he will still be scolded. He will be scolded no matter what he does, not entirely because of his personal behavior, but because of his identity.

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

If the reputation of the royal family becomes bad in the future, other nobles will also be scolded.

So after understanding this relationship, Allen extremely did not want to lose the reputation of the royal family too quickly now.

He just wants to keep his current status and wait until he can enjoy his life in peace and contentment.

All day long on February 13, Allen did nothing else but go to the temporarily rented stable to look after the horses.

According to records in books, the sport of polo first appeared in Asia.

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

But according to Allen's inner wish, he prefers East Asia, that is, ancient China!

This thing was originally an entertainment item in the ancient Chinese army. Later it was changed into a sport for the nobles. Then it slowly spread and became an auxiliary cavalry training item.

Polo in Great Britain came from India.

And India.

Polo in India was introduced by the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty. After they improved and localized it, they were learned by the Europeans who later colonized the country. Later, the British drove away other Europeans and completely ruled most of them. India brought polo back to Britain. It was not until the early 19th century that Britain introduced more complete polo rules.

Theoretically speaking, whether it is now or in the future, polo is a proper aristocratic sport. Let alone ordinary civilians, even the middle class can at most go to the polo club to play once in a while, and have fun. Don't even think about raising your own horses, attending parties, etc.

The bar is simply too high.

For example, according to the polo rules of Great Britain, in each game, both teams have four players, plus two referees, and there are only ten people on the entire field.

And how big of a field do these ten people need to play polo?

That’s as big as nine standard football fields combined!

And this is still the simplest venue issue. In addition to the venue issue, the other major remaining threshold is the horse issue.

Polo matches are generally divided into 4-8 quarters. Each quarter is also called a round. The formal name is a round. Due to translation problems, it is now often called a quarter, like a basketball game.

The number of quarters in each game is different depending on the identity of the contestants.

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

As for the polo match, each quarter lasts about seven and a half minutes. In such a short period of time, the horse racing under the players' crotch is exercising a lot. This is not a horse that can play the entire game.

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

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

In other words, if you play a 6-quarter polo match, a player will need to change at least 6 horses under the best circumstances. If the player is picky, he can even change to 10 horses. horse!

The horses used to play polo and the horses needed to play equestrian are not the same type at all.

The horses needed for polo matches are, theoretically speaking, war horses!

This kind of horse requires professional training from an early age.

Ordinary racehorses may be expensive due to their pedigree, appearance, etc., but they are inevitably very delicate.

Some horses are afraid of cold, heat, insects, mice, etc., and have various quirks. These horses are like caged birds and need to be treated with care and gentleness.

The horses used in polo matches are different.

The cultivation and training of these horses is much stricter than that of equestrian competition horses. The most important thing is that these horses must have strong and durable hides.

Not to mention being afraid of bugs, they can't be afraid even if they are led by a lion.

In addition to being brave, you also have to be unafraid of pain.

The polo game is very fierce, and bumps and bumps are inevitable. Sometimes the polo ball is so small that it hits the horse or its legs while flying at high speed. This is inevitable. In ordinary horse sports, it is suddenly hit. If you hit him like this, you might end up kicking him.

But not this kind of horse.

Not being afraid of death and not being afraid of pain are all trained, but in the end you have to train other things.

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

This kind of horses requires professional trainers to feed and train them, but the people who ride them are noble men. If they are afraid of people and accept life, wouldn't they be doomed?

You can't let noble gentlemen train horses by themselves, right?

Therefore, the cost of each horse specially trained for the polo match is extremely high!

The most rubbish and common ones cost about 100,000 pounds each.

This is still the worst!

And if an aristocratic gentleman likes to play polo games, he usually has about ten to twelve specially trained horses at home.

A few nobles with good relationships have agreed to form a small team and bring their own horses!

As for the nobles, maybe their football skills are not good, but you can’t buy the worst horses, right?

The slightly better ones, priced at 2 to 300,000 pounds per horse, can only be regarded as mid- to low-end prices.

There are also prices ranging from five to six hundred thousand and one million pounds per horse.

Assuming that a medium-sized horse costs 500,000 pounds per horse, if a family raises ten horses, the horse purchase alone will cost 5 million pounds!

This does not include the cost of annual feeding, the cost of hiring professional trainers, venue fees, etc.

Nowadays, the average annual income of ordinary people in the UK is just over 10,000 pounds per year, and this is before tax!

If ordinary people wanted to play polo like the aristocrats, or raise their own horses like the aristocrats, their annual income of 10,000 pounds per year would be enough to buy enough horses without eating or drinking for five to six hundred years.

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

Of course, this algorithm is based on the average and upper-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 around, and play a game, that’s okay. .

Or just buy an ordinary horse with hundreds or thousands of pounds, and ride it leisurely for fun, but this can be regarded as self-deception at best.

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

The main purpose of the ship that set off early some time ago was to transport this batch of horses. This time Boss Cha brought a total of 40 horses. His specifications were based on 32 horses for 4 players and 8 spare horses. Brought.

The average price of each of his horses has reached more than 600,000 pounds!

Counting forty horses, the value of a single horse has reached more than 20 million pounds, and this does not include 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 as 40 million pounds. That’s not a lot, right?

What is the concept of 40 million pounds in 1992?

Buy a well-equipped destroyer!

Coupled with the personal worth of the contestants, how can ordinary people have time to train equestrian and horse riding since childhood?

Nobles have to participate in training these professional skills since childhood. How much does it cost and how much time does it take?

These costs are beyond the reach of ordinary civilians.

This kind of event is not called a game exclusive for nobles. What other games can be considered exclusive for nobles?

On the afternoon of Valentine's Day, February 14, 1992, in the suburbs of Mumbai.

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

But this time the security at the polo ground was extremely good. Due to Allen's arrogant and domineering behavior of beating people two days ago, the Indians didn't know what they were thinking. They seemed to be a little timid. Anyway, in order to successfully host this polo match , specially mobilized police from nearby cities, and finally assembled a total of 3,000 Indian police for peripheral security.

The entire polo field only has viewing areas on both sides of the long field. As for the short sides at the top of the field, there are no viewing areas. Those two sides are too dangerous. Whether it is hit by the ball or if the horses rush out, it will cause many consequences. Big safety hazard.

Despite the size of the venue, there were only less than 5,000 spectators in total.

Civilians with no identity want to come in and watch the game?

Go ahead and dream!

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

The worst one would have to be a Kshatriya. No matter how lowly the race was, they would not even be able to pass the test of the Indian police in charge of security on the periphery.

Class, this moment is vividly reflected here.

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

On his left hand side is Diana. Sitting next to Diana is Boss Cha. Sitting next to Boss Cha is the royal "king" of Kerala, the most developed country in southwestern India. Beyond that, there are various princely states. Kings and other large and small royal families.

Although these people are all Indians in name, they still play the feudal system internally, and they just follow India as a whole on the surface.

On this occasion, we don’t talk about politics, just family matters.

Allen has no interest in these people. Although the royal families and high castes in 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. , that’s it.

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

A traditional aristocratic gentleman from Great Britain should behave like this!

The reason why Boss Cha was being nice was to make the scene less deserted, and because of his personal cultivation and identity needs. Allen didn't have to worry about this kind of problem at all. His coldness seemed normal.

There were even a few members of the royal family who bent over and took the initiative to strike up a conversation with Allen, but he waved them away and kept his eyes raised above his head, looking arrogant!

But the more Allen behaves like this, the more people are interested in him, as if whoever can talk to him will be superior to others. This makes Allen even more annoyed!

Fortunately, as the opening ceremony officially began, the scene finally became quiet.

Regardless of whether it is a movie or a TV series in India, the most indispensable thing is that it is interspersed with various singing and dancing. It is said that they will start dancing when they disagree with each other. It is obvious that the good and the bad are about to fight to the death. Suddenly the style of the painting changes, and the good and the bad are revealed. Pi started to dance.

Even people who have died due to plot reasons can appear and dance and sing again to kill memories.

If a movie, no matter how good the story is, but the movie is very fast-paced and there are no singing and dancing programs in it, it will definitely not do well at the box office in India!

If you want to succeed in the Indian film market, firstly, there must be singing and dancing in the film, and secondly, the duration must be as long, lengthened, and longer as possible!

Don’t say 120 minutes is enough. In India, a movie starts at 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 stay in the cinema for a longer period of time with the air conditioner blowing, so that they can feel the value of the ticket.

As for Allen's previous movies, there is no market at all in India!

The status of women in most parts of India is generally low. Under such circumstances, if Indians watch a movie about a woman looking for a duck, they will have no sense of empathy at all.

As for the movie where the wife cheats on her husband, they have no sense of involvement!

What they like is coercion, not cheating.

From the Indian point of view, the excitement of having an affair is basically equivalent to no excitement.

According to official statistics, in India, on average, a vicious incident of forcing a woman occurs every twenty minutes.

In this environment, what's the point of cheating?

How boring is that? You have to spend money to go to the cinema? In addition, the movie is not very long, so whoever goes there will have a brain problem.

Therefore, even though Allen is now well-known in the film industry, he really has no reputation in India. Except for Bollywood, others only know that he is a handsome traditional aristocratic boy with a very explosive temper. I don't know.

Looking at the dance performance of a large song and dance group 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 competition soon?"

"Hmph! Confidence?! I'll beat them to tears!"

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

On average, he is about 1.7 meters tall and skinny.

The current polo match in India is about technique, while the polo match in Great Britain is about confrontation!

Allen can't guarantee that for others, but for these Indians, to put it bluntly, he is the only one who can chase them as a team.

It’s that sense of déjà vu that you don’t have to struggle anymore, the four of you are already surrounded by me!