Chapter 483 The Meaning of Football
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As the black and white football flew over the goal line and hit the fishing net, the Bear Claw tribe in the stadium audience The audience gave a thunderous cheer.
Several elders of the Niutou tribe were stomping their feet anxiously. They were already three goals behind and wanted to end the game in person.
Frederick and Peterson's large family were together. Peterson had two wives and a total of five adult children. Jason was the third oldest. Nelson, who had an affair on the ship, was the eldest son. The kid who scored the goal just now was the kid from the fourth family.
So the family cheered the loudest and warmest, and the fourth child said happily: "Give him two chicken drumsticks tonight!"
The eldest brother said with a smile: "It's time for you to arrange a marriage for him. "
Then the five brothers discussed whether to marry back a girl from the Niutou tribe. This girl will participate in the women's football match later and has a very strong body.
Frederick smiled and listened, thinking that football was the most successful cultural export he had ever created.
He originally came up with football not just because he liked to play it, but because of its important attribute: community attribute.
The relationship between victory and defeat in football is simple and clear. It can be seen at a glance. The confrontation is fierce and entertaining, and it is deeply loved by people.
Compared with other sports, it has another characteristic: there are many people participating in a game.
There are more than ten or twenty players in a team, and behind them are more than ten or twenty families. Plus the players' neighbors, relatives and friends, the total can be related to dozens or hundreds of families.
Because of this, a team can directly and indirectly connect most families in an area and become a representative of this area.
The farm where Frederick built a greenhouse for the first time, their greenhouse team has become one of the symbols of the farm, and the same is true for other farms. Almost all the people in the farm go out for every competition. Watch the game at the stadium and cheer for your family and friends.
It is precisely with this atmosphere that football has become a link from community farms, to urban areas, and finally to principalities. In the future, it can rise to the national and ethnic levels, and it has become a stage for confrontation between different regions.
This bottom-up cohesion is very powerful, transcending the traditional three-level ruling structure of peasants, landlords, nobles, and royal families in feudal society, and provides a foundation for social change.
The changes in Frederick's territory were essentially a bourgeois revolution. Because he had an overwhelming advantage in strength and reputation in the territory, and relied on external pressure to provide opportunities for reform, this revolution was Gentle, hidden.
But in other places, such as the Vali Earldom on the south coast of the Inland Sea, the battle between the emerging class and the traditional forces has not stopped.
Frederick not only needed to win over as many friends as possible in terms of financial interests, but also needed to unite more people spiritually. This is why he built the Germain Cathedral and the Edelweiss Library. Museum and the underlying reasons for letting Maria take charge of the Ministry of Culture.
In addition, the bottom-up bond of football culture will be one of the important tools.
The changes brought about by football are difficult to appear outside the Principality of Wesson. Looking at the pastoral pastoral from a distance, and the closed and solidified farms up close, it will appear more in the relatively wealthy economy and the relatively relaxed political environment. The city then became the link that united the emerging classes.
What Frederick did not expect was that in northern tribes with poor economic conditions but a relatively democratic political environment, football would be accepted and popularized because of its hunting attributes.
However, it seems that local productivity is unlikely to change dramatically in the short term. Football can only unite tribes and serve as exercise and bloodless war.
The fierce competition ended. In the end, the men’s team of the Bear Claw Tribe won the game with a score of 6:3 and the women’s team 5:1, winning a place to study in the Nature Church.
The day was still very long, and everyone had to continue working. The busiest ones were Larson and his wife, who had to treat more than a dozen injured people who came off the court.
Frederick originally wanted to go fishing for snails in the nearby river with his children, but the Bear Claw tribe came forward and invited him to attend a drinking party among the elders of several tribes.
The Bear Claw Tribe has a good port. When he was a pirate, he accidentally made a lot of money. He got a three-masted sailboat and then became a good man.
The cheapest way of transportation now is water transportation. The fjord that goes deep into the land is right next to the Bear Claw tribe. Another big river flowing out of the mountain forest is a kilometer or two away on the other side of the tribe. This big river finally A waterfall hundreds of meters wide is formed on the cliff of the fjord. The only way to enter the sea is through the middleman of the Bear Claw tribe.
The surrounding tribes are very jealous, but they are just jealous. Last year, there was a tribe who did not respect martial ethics and wanted to take advantage of Petersen and others to go to sea to sneak attack. As a result, they were taught how to behave by more than 20 double-barreled shotguns. The population, supplies and hunting grounds were divided among the surrounding tribes. It makes sense to have big fists. The Niutou tribe is also quite wealthy. They have a lakeside grassland with more than 2,000 cattle. They used to beat the table with the Bear Claw tribe, but now their voices are much softer.
Not to mention other small and medium-sized tribes, they speak politely, for fear that they will not accept the goods from their own tribe.
In today's informal gathering of elders, Elder Michelson, who wears a bear's head from the Ox-head tribe, has the confidence to speak to Frederick, a wealthy man from the south.
"Brother Wesson..."
Michaelson and Frederick were familiar with each other, but Peterson on the side was not happy.
Peterson glared at Michaelson and said, "When did you become my brother?"
Michaelson said matter-of-factly: "Brother Wesson's name means that he is local, and his family raises cattle. My family also raises cattle, so of course we are brothers.”
Frederick suddenly couldn’t laugh or cry. The pronunciation at the end of the men’s names here was the same, and the pronunciation at the end of his own surname happened to be almost the same.
At the same time, many professions here are passed down from father to son. Over time, people in the same profession become more or less related. The question is whether raising cattle is like this, Frederick didn't know.
Peterson was certain that Michaelson had no such relatives, but his statement that was tantamount to cheating sounded very reasonable, and it sounded like that was indeed the case.
Maxon ignored Peterson and continued to say to Frederick: "Brother Wesson, I know you are rich and live in a palace made of amber."
"Can you give me a hand? Buy more of our stuff.”
Frederick thought about it, there are a lot of good things here.
The most exported thing here is wood. There are many hard and strong trees in the forest. The wood used as the foundation of the "Emperor's Exclamation" in Weissenburg Castle was imported from here.
The furs here are also famous in the south. The most popular ones are mink and fox skins. Good snow bear skins are even more rare. Susan was the only one in Frederick’s family who had a winter set. Suit.
There are also a lot of minerals here. There are many iron mines of different sizes, and the ore is of high grade.
Magic crystals abound in places with extreme natural environments. With the popularity of implosion machines and refrigerators, the demand for wind magic crystals and ice magic crystals has greatly increased, and there happens to be a lot of them here.
However, the same problem remains: transportation is inconvenient, coastal areas are easy to access, and good things from inland areas cannot be transported.
The first thing to consider when building a railway here is economic benefits. It requires a large enough mine. Dozens or hundreds of tribes are not worth it.
Frederick did not directly say whether to buy anything, but thought about it and said, "How about I send more merchant ships here in the future?"
Peterson immediately said: "Sir, you can build a guild hall and navigation radio station in our tribe."
He is the most open-minded person among the many tribes in this area to see the world. As usual, Maxson also wants to be brothers and get closer. He directly used financial interests to win over Frederick.
Now the Bear Claw Tribe is the economic center of this area. If they strengthen their cooperation with Frederick and purchase a large amount of arms, future achievements will be unimaginable.
Frederick just said calmly: "I will have people come over and take a look."
He was invited by the Church of Nature this time. It is no problem to coach the football game. He will be sent by the church It is not a problem to discover one or two talented young people within the framework of overseas students, and it is normal to send a few ships to do business, but it is a bit impolite to take the initiative to establish a stronghold here without the framework of the church.
Peterson and Maxson noticed Frederick's indifference, and everyone looked at each other in confusion.
(End of this chapter)