Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 596, The First Football Match of Ming Dynasty

Tianjin, an area near the Tianjin Maritime Academy and the Daming Royal Military Academy in the new urban area. Here, a huge open-air stadium is undergoing its final overhaul. It is about to usher in the first football match of the Ming Dynasty.

In the stadium, Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao were talking and laughing to discuss the details of the first football match.

"Old Liu, this venue is fine, big enough, and cool enough~"

Zhu Houzhao looked at the huge football field with great satisfaction.

The entire football field is in the shape of an ellipse. Except for a few important positions on the east side that are not open-air, all other positions are open-air.

If the stadium is fully filled, it can accommodate [-] people to watch the game at the same time. Such a huge stadium, even if it is placed in later generations, it is still a big stadium.

The playing field in the middle is very flat, and grass is planted at the same time. After careful inspection and construction by special personnel, it seems that people are very eager to sweat on the court.

"Haha, of course, I want to build a stadium, so naturally I want to build the best stadium."

Liu Jin is also very satisfied with the stadium in front of him. As a fan who traveled over from later generations, he attaches great importance to Daming's first football match. The stadium must be good and big.

And this time, Liu Jin sent invitations to many dignitaries in the capital, even the Emperor Hongzhi and the Empress, inviting them to come to Tianjin to watch the football match.

A very important thing about football is the atmosphere.

Having a good vibe is extremely important.

The football in the later generations of China is not good. Although there are many factors, the big one is the bad atmosphere. There are not many football fields in a city, and there are not many people who play football. There are not many football games throughout the year. The game, the atmosphere is too bad.

Of course, in the Huaxia of later generations, due to many factors, the common people are also suffering, and they don't have so much time, energy and money to spend on sports.

Unlike Europeans and Americans, they have less working hours, high income, good foundation, and various sports are more popular.

As for the foundation of teenagers, the physical education classes of later generations have been completely squeezed out, and they are all working hard for exam-oriented education, so let's go to physical education.

Traveling to the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin felt that he could do a lot of things, such as sports.

If the Ming Dynasty can continue to expand and colonize the world, the Chinese descendants will spread all over the world in the future, and they will have a vast living space. In the future, they will not be limited to East Asia.

With a lot of land, a lot of resources, and good living conditions, it is natural to develop a variety of sports, and football is no exception.

"When it's time for the game, the stadium is full of people. Tens of thousands of people are cheering for you and cheering for you. Just thinking about it makes people excited."

Zhu Houzhao clenched his fists. He is the main force of the Tianjin Royal Military Academy team. Thinking that he will play here, his heart is full of excitement.

"Your Highness, don't be so excited, take some practical actions, how much money are you going to give as a bonus?"

Liu Jin smiled. To watch football, you really have to go to the scene to have the atmosphere.

"bonus?"

Zhu Houzhao was slightly taken aback.

"That's right, how can this competition work without prize money? I've sent people to collect donations everywhere, and now I've almost raised one hundred thousand taels of silver, but the more prize money, the better of course."

Liu Jin nodded and said.

"I'll pay one hundred thousand taels of silver, one hundred thousand taels is indeed a bit small."

Zhu Houzhao thought for a while and said very grandly.

"That's great."

Liu Jin laughed immediately, Xiao Zhu was indeed very willing to spend money in this regard.

"Sell newspaper~sell newspaper~"

"Tianjin will host the first football match of Ming Dynasty~"

"The competition prize is as high as two hundred thousand taels of silver."

"Sell newspaper~sell newspaper~"

Soon, the streets and alleys of Beijing and Tianjin, and the football match that will be held here in Tianjin also immediately spread throughout the entire Beijing-Tianjin area through the Ming Morning Post.

"football?"

"What is football?"

The person who saw the newspaper asked very curiously.

Many people know about football in Tianjin, because Tianjin Maritime Academy, Tianjin Royal Military Academy, and many industries under Liu Jin have football games, and everyone usually kicks them around, but the current spread is not widespread.

Now through the form of Daming Morning Post, football has also been spread throughout the entire Beijing-Tianjin area.

"Isn't it clearly written in the newspaper? It's similar to Cuju in the Song Dynasty, but it's a little different."

"It's very interesting~"

"The prize money for this competition is as high as [-] taels of silver, which is really a sky-high prize money."

The entire Beijing-Tianjin region was discussing the football match, and the focus was naturally on the two hundred thousand taels of silver prize.

Two hundred thousand taels of silver is definitely an astronomical sum for ordinary people.

Since ancient times, money has been the most touching thing, not to mention such a huge number, all of a sudden, from the elders of the imperial court to the ordinary people, are discussing this matter.

"This Liu Jin is just messing around~"

"Cuju is Cuju, can it be changed by changing the name?"

"Don't you know that Song Huizong of the Song Dynasty appointed Gao Qiu as the Taiwei because he liked Cuju, making people in the Northern Song Dynasty miserable."

"And bring the prince to play this Cuju together, the prize money is two hundred thousand taels of silver."

"I heard that a competition venue was specially built here in Tianjin, and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were spent just to build this competition venue."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the Daming Morning Post, then at the invitation letter sent by Liu Jin, and said angrily.

He originally liked Liu Jin very much. Although this Liu Jin was young, Emperor Hongzhi was very satisfied with everything, but in the case of Cuju.

He was rather disappointed, especially when Liu Jin brought his prince Zhu Houzhao to Cuju together.

Playing with mourning!

"Your Majesty, you might as well go and have a look at that time. It's not too late to draw conclusions after seeing how this football game is going."

"Since the prince got mixed up with Liu Jin, we have seen the changes. He is not the kind of Gao Lian who can only rely on flattery to get to the top."

Empress Zhang on the side looked at Emperor Hongzhi's angry look, and said with a smile.

There is no doubt that Liu Jin has meritorious service.

If Liu Jin hadn't earned tens of millions of taels of silver for the royal family every year, Emperor Hongzhi would have money to repair the palace?
Have money to reform the military system and feed the Ming army?

Maybe she, Queen Zhang, is going to weave now.

More importantly, since the prince followed Liu Jin, he trained and studied in the barracks, and his body has become stronger. He is no longer as thin as before, and he is more sensible.

"Well, it is."

Hearing what Empress Zhang said, Emperor Hongzhi nodded.

Liu Jin is indeed a person with real skills, and he doesn't need to rely on flattery to get to the top.

"Since you said so, then I will go to Tianjin to have a look at that time. I haven't been to Tianjin for a while. I heard that Tianjin is now more prosperous than Beijing."

After thinking about it, Emperor Hongzhi decided to go to watch this football match, and he also wanted to go to Tianjin.

"Okay, then I will go too."

"If the prince likes football, he likes football. People always have to have some hobbies. This kind of football is more exercise and exercise, and it is also good for the body."

Empress Zhang said with a smile.

"You, always spoil the prince like this."

"This can't be done. He is the prince of Ming Dynasty, the prince of the country, and he will take over the country in the future. In his mind, he thinks about how to protect the foundation of his ancestors. He can't always think about playing."

Emperor Hongzhi was a little helpless. Empress Zhang doted on Zhu Houzhao very much. Of course, Emperor Hongzhi actually doted on Zhu Houzhao himself. Many times he couldn't bear to punish the prince.

"The prince is still young after all. When he grows up, he will naturally become sensible."

Empress Zhang said with a smile.

Emperor Hongzhi had only one wife, Empress Zhang, who gave birth to two sons and one daughter, but except Zhu Houzhao, the other two died young, which is why they loved Zhu Houzhao.

Just this one child, holding it in the palm of my hand for fear of falling, holding it in my mouth for fear of melting.

"football?"

"Isn't Liu Jin thinking of some profitable business again?"

In the British government, Zhang Mao looked at the latest Daming Morning Post, and then looked at the invitation letter sent by Liu Jin.

He didn't think that Liu Jin's playing football was a plaything. The first thing he thought of was whether this football was another money-making project that Liu Jin came up with.

Liu Jin never trades at a loss.

Liu Jin never does things that don't make money.

Every thing Liu Jin thinks of, it is to make money.

Zhang Mao is very sure of this point. Liu Jin, who was gifted to the God of Wealth, can turn stones into gold, and he can give you silver for any thing.

I heard that this newspaper has started to make money.

"It took hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to build a venue~"

"The prize money of the competition is as high as [-] taels of silver~"

"It's a lot of money, I guess it should make a lot of money."

"No, no, I have to go to Liu Jin. No matter what, I have to get involved in this football game. How can I be missing out on making money."

Zhang Mao kept thinking in his mind.

Although he didn't see where the football game made money, Zhang Wei felt that as long as it was something that Liu Jin organized, he would come along with him.

Making money is easy.

Just follow the right people.

This is the secret of Zhang Mao making money now.

Anyway, he followed Liu Jin, wherever Liu Jin invested, he followed wherever Liu Jin invested, and whatever business Liu Jin did, he followed.

Following Liu Jin, he never loses money, and makes money in every transaction, making a lot of money.

This allowed Zhang Mao to accumulate an unimaginable wealth in just a few years, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as wealthy.

So in this football game, he instinctively felt that he should also play a role. If he followed Liu Jin to organize this football game, he would definitely be able to make money.

"Well, when the time comes, find Zhu Fu and Xu Guangzuo to go to Tianjin to have a look."

　Why can't football~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)