According to Allen's idea, the two of them should just give each other a way out.

They seem to be getting along well on the surface, but they don't live together in real life and just play their own games. Don't say anything to the media and just get along.

It's good to maintain this superficial calm now.

Only when the royal family is at peace can all the nobles benefit.

All the criticisms against the royal family now are not just superficial accusations of who is being immoral or messing around.

Ordinary people don’t mess around?

So why is Gambia developing so fast?

So many small black sticks are almost ground into powder, but no one comes out to criticize them.

In fact, most of the criticism against the royal family from the outside world is attacking the class under the guise of morality.

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

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

Only when the royal family was on top of it, could other nobles enjoy the shade under the big tree with peace of mind.

If the royal family has a bad reputation in the future, other nobles will also be criticized.

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

He just wants to keep his current position and enjoy his life peacefully.

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

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

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

However, according to his inner wishes, Allen prefers East Asia, that is, ancient China!

This thing was originally an entertainment activity in the ancient Chinese army. Later it was changed into a sport for the nobility. Then it gradually spread and became a project to assist cavalry training.

Polo in Britain originated from India.

And India...

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

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Theoretically speaking, whether now or in the future, polo is a sport for the nobility. Not to mention ordinary people, even the middle class can only go to the polo club occasionally to play and have fun. If they want to raise their own horses or attend parties, forget it.

The threshold is really too high.

For example, according to the polo rules in the UK, in each game, each team has four players, plus two referees, so there are only ten people on the entire field.

How big a field is needed for these ten people to play polo?

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

And this is still the simplest venue issue. Apart from the venue issue, the other major hurdle is the horse issue.

Polo matches are generally divided into 4-8 quarters, and each quarter is also called a round. The formal name is a round, but due to translation issues, it is now mostly called a quarter, like a basketball game.

Each game has a different number of quarters depending on the identity of the players.

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

In a polo match, each quarter lasts about seven and a half minutes. In such a short period of time, the players and their horses undergo a tremendous amount of exercise, and it is not possible for one horse to play the entire game.

If we play it this way, horse racing will be ruined after one race.

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

That is to say, if a polo match lasts for 6 periods, a player would ideally have to change at least 6 horses in a polo match. If the player is picky, he may even change 10 horses!

The racehorses used in polo and the horses needed for equestrianism are completely different types.

Theoretically, the horses needed for polo matches are war horses!

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

Ordinary racehorses may be valuable because of their bloodline, appearance, etc., but they are inevitably very delicate.

Some horses are afraid of cold, heat, insects, mice, etc. They have all kinds of quirks. These horses are like birds in a cage and need to be treated with care and tenderness.

The horses used in polo matches are different.

The cultivation and training of these horses is much more rigorous than that of horses for equestrian competitions, and most importantly, these horses must be strong and durable.

Not to mention being afraid of insects, they wouldn't be afraid even if a lion came over.

In addition to being brave, you also have to not be afraid of pain.

Polo matches are very intense and bumps and bruises are inevitable. Sometimes the polo ball is so small that it hits the horse's body or legs while flying at high speed. This is inevitable. If a horse is suddenly hit like this during general horse sports, it may kick back.

But this kind of horse won't.

Not afraid of death, not afraid of pain, after all these trainings have been completed, you still have to train other things in the end.

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

This kind of horse needs to be fed and trained by professional trainers, but those who ride them are all noble gentlemen. If they are afraid of people and shy away from strangers, wouldn’t that be the end of them?

We can't let the nobles train the horses themselves, can we?

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

The worst and most ordinary ones cost about 100,000 pounds each.

This is still the worst!

If a noble lord likes to play polo, he usually has about ten to twelve specially trained horses at home.

Several nobles who are on good terms with each other decided to form a small team and bring their own horses!

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

For slightly better ones, those costing 200,000 or 300,000 pounds each can only be considered mid-to-low-end.

Some are priced at five, six, seven, or even millions of pounds per horse.

If we calculate based on a medium-sized horse that costs half a million pounds each, and a family raises ten horses, the money just for buying the horses would be five million pounds!

This does not even include the annual feeding costs, the fees for hiring professional trainers and breeders, venue fees, etc.

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

If ordinary people want to play polo like the nobles, and raise horses like the nobles, with their annual income of 10,000 pounds, they would have to save for 500 to 600 years without eating or drinking, to be able to buy enough horses.

Sun Wukong was suppressed under the Five Finger Mountain for only five hundred years.

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Of course, this calculation is based on medium to high-level play. If you just want to play for the experience, spend a few hundred pounds at a time, go to the club to experience it, ride a horse for a while, and play a game, that's fine too.

Or you can just buy an ordinary horse for a few hundred or a few thousand pounds and ride it leisurely for fun, but this is at best self-deception.

All the horses for this competition were raised by Boss Cha himself and brought from Great Britain.

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. The specification was based on 32 horses for 4 players and 8 spare horses.

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

There are forty horses, and the value of each horse is more than 20 million pounds, and this does not even 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 should be calculated at 40 million pounds. That’s not too much, right?

Forty million pounds in 1992, what does that mean?

Buy a well-equipped destroyer!

Add to that the personal worth of the Saisai runners, how can ordinary people have the time to train in equestrianism and horse riding from a young age?

Nobles have to participate in training in these professional skills from a young age. How much money and how much time does it cost?

These costs are unimaginable to ordinary civilians.

If this kind of competition is not called a competition exclusively for nobility, then what other competition can be considered a competition exclusively for nobility?

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It was the afternoon of Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1992, in the suburbs of Mumbai.

This is a huge polo field. Before arriving, the road was crowded with Indians who had received the news and were coming to join in the fun.

But the security at the polo field was unusually good this time. Due to Alan's arrogant and domineering behavior two days ago, the Indians didn't know what they were thinking. They seemed a little scared. Anyway, in order to host this polo match well, they specially mobilized police from nearby cities, and finally gathered a total of 3,000 Indian police officers to be on guard outside the field.

There are viewing areas only on the two long sides of the entire polo field. As for the two short sides at the top of the field, there are no viewing areas because those two sides are too dangerous. Whether it is being hit by the ball or if the horses rush out, it will cause great safety hazards.

Despite the large venue, there were less than 5,000 spectators in total.

A commoner without any status wants to come in and watch the game?

Dream on!

In addition to royal members of several large princely states, those invited to watch the game today also include elites from all walks of life who have come from New Delhi.

The worst of the worst has to be a Kshatriya. Any lower race cannot even pass the Indian police who are responsible for public security in the periphery.

Class is vividly reflected here at this moment.

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

On his left hand side was Diana, next to her was Boss Cha, and next to Boss Cha was the royal "king" of Kerala, the most developed state in southwestern India. Further over there were kings of various princely states and other royal families of all sizes.

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

In such occasions, we don't talk about politics, we only talk about family matters.

Alan had no interest in these people. Although the royal families and high castes of these Indian princely states looked similar to white people, Alan still maintained his usual cold attitude. He only nodded slightly to them when the two sides greeted each other just now, and that was it.

However, Allen's indifference to them made many people take it for granted.

A traditional aristocratic lord from Britain should behave like this!

Boss Cha is kinder so that the scene doesn't look so deserted. It's due to his personal cultivation and status requirements. But Alan doesn't have to worry about this problem at all. His coldness seems very normal.

There were even a few royal family members who bent over and tried to strike up a conversation with Allen, but he waved them away, highlighting how arrogant and conceited he was!

But the more Allen acted like this, the more people became interested in him, as if whoever could talk to him would be superior to others. This made Allen even more annoyed!

Fortunately, as the opening ceremony officially began, the scene finally quieted down.

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India... No matter it is a movie or a TV series, the most indispensable thing is the interspersed singing and dancing. It is said that dancing starts as soon as there is a disagreement. Obviously the protagonist and the antagonist are about to fight to the death, but suddenly the style changes and the protagonist and the antagonist start dancing.

Even people who have died in the previous part due to plot reasons can appear and perform a dance and sing to recall the past.

If a movie, no matter how good its story is, has a very fast pace and no singing or dancing interspersed in it, it will definitely not do well at the box office in India!

If you want to make a name for yourself in the Indian film market, firstly, there must be singing and dancing in the film, and secondly, the length of the film must be as long, longer, and longer as possible!

Don’t say 120 minutes is enough. In India, a movie must start 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 and enjoy the air conditioning for a longer time, so that they will feel that the ticket is worth it.

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

The status of women in most parts of India is generally low. Under such circumstances, when Indians watch movies about women looking for men, they have no sense of empathy at all.

As for movies where the wife cheats on her husband, they have even less sense of empathy!

They like to be forced, not to be forced.

**That little bit of excitement, in the eyes of Indians, 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 kind of environment, what does having an affair mean?

How boring is that? Why do you have to spend money to go to the cinema to watch it? Plus, the movie is not long, so anyone who goes there must be crazy.

So...even though Allen is now a little famous in the film industry, he is really not well-known in India. Apart from Bollywood, other people only know that he is a traditional aristocratic handsome man with a bad temper, and nothing else.

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Watching the dance performance of a large dance troupe 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 later?"

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

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

The average height is about 1.7 meters and very thin.

The current polo matches in India are all about skills, while the polo matches in Britain are all about confrontation!

Allen couldn't guarantee it for others, but for these Indians, to be honest, he was the only one and he could beat them as a team.

It's that feeling of, don't struggle, the four of you are already surrounded by me!