Alchemy Greater China

"This 500 million taels of silver is not the last sponsorship. As long as Mr. Zhongtang puts the money to practical use, Beiyang will truly become stronger again, so that those soldiers who dedicate their youth and blood and devote themselves to defending the territorial waters of the motherland can show their strengths. I will continue to invest money in you!"

"Hehe, is Lord Zhongtang worried about Thunder Dragon? It doesn't matter. I know about him. He didn't have many faults. It's just that he had a little misunderstanding with my housekeeper and took away a little money... He is willing to stay in Beiyang. Just let him go, just trouble Mr. Zhongtang a lot of trouble!"

"Hey, Mr. Zhongtang and I have never talked openly and calmly before, which led to the accumulation of misunderstandings and escalation of conflicts. Now you should understand that I don't just invest money in the Nanyang Navy and encourage them to fight against Beiyang... Beiyang The navy is also a Chinese navy, and I will treat them equally! I believe that only when the Beiyang and Nanyang become stronger at the same time, the territorial waters of the motherland will be stable, and my heart will be stable. Besides, from the United States to China With the help of Beiyang on this long route, I can feel more at ease, right?"

"Hehe, a smooth road is equal to a good commercial road, and then the business will naturally flourish... I am a businessman, Lord Zhongtang should understand my original intention very well by now, right?"

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"Li Aiqing, Li Aiqing!"

Cixi's call awakened Li Hongzhang from his memories.

Li Hongzhang shook his head and said hastily: "The old minister is here, what orders does the Empress Dowager have?"

"There is something wrong, Ai Qing, you must help me with this matter!"

The Empress Dowager Cixi fiddled with a court lady's hair with her long nails, and said softly: "It's not Aiqing who will do it, Aijia is not at ease!"

"Please clarify, Queen Mother."

"Cough. That's it, what about the emperor. It seems that he has been a little restless lately, and he always goes out of the palace. I sent someone to check, and I seem to have heard some disturbing words like 'foreign gun team' and 'Meiyang is back'... This is Meiyang. Aiqing also knows that it is a miscellaneous army that the emperor used to be bewitched overseas, and now it seems to be back, hiding in the dark... Aijia thinks that the capital is the most important place in the country, and it is still safe and peaceful A little bit better!"

"...The Empress Dowager is right, the capital must not be messed up!"

"So. Aiqing, you should ask someone to check it carefully. Don't let the emperor be deceived by villains, let alone those who have ulterior motives. Take advantage of it! Your majesty, you are too young and too innocent!"

"Go!"

...Long Hao didn't know that the two big royal families were doing more or less things against him. In fact, even if he knew, he wouldn't care too much.

Edward of England and Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty are in his heart.They are all just the existence of clowns.

Once the Shanghai incident was over, Li Hongzhang was sent away, and Long Hao returned to the American continent.

After all.The air in China is good, the mountains are green and the water is green, but the people and things here always give people an uncomfortable and awkward feeling.

Just like a person soaking in a swamp, he has to push up and breathe desperately... In that way, even if the inhalation is pure oxygen, it will not make people happy.

On the contrary, it was Long Bo.Ever since he came up with a mutual aid association, he was quite happy to stay in China, so Long Hao tilted his head and thought about it, and gave him the focus of Alchemy Kingdom's recent work in China.

It is necessary for him to communicate and cooperate with Ai Shili, Long Yilong, Erlongsan and others, and try to take advantage of the gap opened by submarines in Shanghai to input the materials and ideas that awaken the people as soon as possible, so as to take root and germinate. , the hope of seeing the fruits of harvest soon.

The so-called substance to awaken the people is the alchemy thread product that Long Hao has prepared for a long time.

Based on mechanical civilization and using alchemy as the power source, Long Hao will plant the alchemy thread he has summed up in the land of China, waiting for it to germinate.

As I said before, if you just blindly learn from the technology line of the West that started from the steam revolution, the rise of China will be like a bright moon in the well. It looks beautiful and has a bright future, but it is still out of reach.

Only by embarking on a brand-new development path and replacing the technology line with the alchemy line, can the Chinese nation stand tall among the nations of the world again, and it will be the tallest and most majestic one!

As for the concept of input, Long Hao came out of it after traveling in China for the past few months and discovering the "low quality" of his compatriots.

It takes a lot of courage to say that the quality of compatriots is low. Although he is unwilling to admit it, the cruel facts tell Long Hao that China has been enslaved by the Qing Dynasty for too long. Not only has the inherent inheritance of China been lost, but also The spirit of eagerness to learn, progress and dare to pioneer in the blood of the Chinese nation has also been worn out and disappeared!

Even if the Chinese nation has the material foundation brought by the alchemy thread, it will be difficult for the Chinese nation to stand up straight, with their backs straight, and with their heads held high, without a special tailor-made concept.

To make an inappropriate analogy, even if you stuff a primitive person into the presidential suite of a five-star hotel, he is still a primitive person. He may run to scoop water from the toilet and praise you with a silly smile on his face. This water is so sweet...

However, the input of material is easy, but the input of ideas is difficult. In the final analysis, Long Hao has not come up with any quick way so far. Maybe he still has to go back to the "cruel" old road: give up this generation, let go of hope. to the next generation.Only education, especially early education for children, is the best way to change inherent ideas and implant advanced ideas.

Therefore, Long Hao's return to the United States this time, or to be more precise, his return to Xiajia, was for education.

That's right, the first batch of students of the Alchemy Country Football School is about to graduate. After nearly two years of training, the world's first football school is finally going to bear fruit and export professional players to the people of the world!

How could Long Hao, the founder of the football school, miss such a milestone moment?

With the sapphire dragon boat, it is very convenient to travel between China and the United States. Even if it cannot sail at the highest speed now, it only takes two days in the Pacific Ocean. This time loss can still be accepted by Long Hao.

Today's football school has moved from the edge of the Dragon Palace in San Francisco to Xiajia. Therefore, the place where Long Hao rushed to attend the graduation ceremony is Xiajia City.

To be precise, the football school was built on a plain [-] kilometers outside the city, but the city developed very rapidly.Each unit is connected by a railway or a spacious and flat concrete road, so the traffic is very convenient.

You can say that.The current Shanyi City is no longer a city in the simple sense, but a huge urban agglomeration, just like the fungus after the rain in the wet forest, persistently and firmly spreading in all directions!

end of January.The Chinese New Year is very close, and when Long Hao arrived, it happened to be in time for the football school to organize students to make dumplings, and was planning to have a handmade dumpling feast in the evening!

The appearance of Long Hao naturally made the football school's principals and young players all excited and excited. Long Hao was also approachable, and accompanied these students to have a "eight party dumpling banquet"!

Cabbage stuffing, leek stuffing, kelp stuffing, sauerkraut stuffing... In short, any stuffing you can think of.They are all here, and they are all wrapped in dumplings. Long Hao even ate a piece of coral stuffing strangely. Fortunately, Long Hao is invulnerable to all poisons and his teeth are good. I'm afraid it will poison people to death!

Thanks to Long Hao, if it were another leader.Perhaps by tomorrow, there will be rumors that the leader was forced to end up with gastric lavage due to a prank by a young student.

The mischievous student who wrapped coral reefs into dumplings was quickly picked out by the perceptive Principal Breeze, a little boy less than ten years old.With a delicate face, he just entered school three months ago. Breeze carried him to Long Hao to make amends.

In this regard, Long Hao waved his hand and said with a smile that it's okay.And he also encouraged the little boy who was scared and a little bit at a loss, saying that it is good to have imagination. After all, no one used coral reefs as dumpling fillings before, right?

But Long Hao went on to say that everything must have a beginning and an end. Since you have wrapped coral reefs in dumplings, you must be careful what will happen if someone eats them and becomes indigestible or poisoned?There must be a plan for everything, which is commonly known as plan-b. This is the responsible and conscientious way of doing things.

Except for Breeze, the other teachers of the football school were very surprised by Long Hao's approach: he is a British nobleman, and now he is the lord of a country. Reason, hey, this kind of tolerance is really heartbreaking.

However, these external teachers who are in charge of teaching how to play football are thinking about it. The reason why Long Hao communicates with the young students so patiently is because these people are all possible future disciples of the Alchemy Sect.

Long Hao wants to carry forward the alchemy thread in the future, so he must take good care of these precious "seeds" and encourage them to use their imagination and be eclectic, so that they can understand the heart of metal, the heart of nature, and even the heart of elements in the future. Very helpful.

The dumpling banquet was just an episode, and the main event was naturally the first graduation ceremony, performed by the first batch of graduates.

Under the introduction of Principal Breeze, a total of 37 graduates put on zss tailor-made good-looking jerseys, short-sleeved shorts, stood on the lush turf, and posed various ostentatious poses. Take a precious photo.

The football school in Shanyi City has a total of eight standard football turf, which is enough for more than [-] people in the school to carry out daily training and fight in groups. There are dormitories, canteens, gyms and other supporting facilities beside the turf. The consideration is very comprehensive... …According to some students who are about to graduate privately, they really don’t want to graduate, if only they could stay in this paradise forever.

This is also human nature. 90.00% of these football students are Chinese. Most of them are from the United States, and a small part of them are the three major ethnic groups who fled from China. There are no rich second generations among them, and they are all from poor backgrounds. If you can eat all you can eat every day, you are already a family with good conditions.

In the football school in Alchemy Kingdom, food and housing are included, and there is a monthly subsidy of a few dollars. While having fun (yes, most of the young students still play football as fun), they support themselves and get subsidies by the way. Where can I find good things for home use?

Therefore, at today's graduation ceremony, the 37 graduates were not ecstatic in their hearts. Instead, after Breeze announced that 'you have graduated with honor', there was a lot of confusion in their eyes: have you left the football school?How do I make a living?

Do you want to go to the street to juggle balls for a living as some classmates said?

"I know you are worried about your future after graduation."

Long Hao walked up to the rostrum beside the football field, and played the electric loudspeaker: "However, I will tell you now. You don't have to worry about this little thing at all, because I, Long Hao, will represent football Alliance, sign a contract with you!"

Football league?

what is that?

Isn't His Majesty Hao the king of the Alchemy Kingdom?

Why does it represent the football league again?

37 graduates, the oldest is only 17 years old.After they listened, they stood on the turf in a daze and did not speak. They all raised their heads and looked at Long Hao, and their confusion became more intense.

What is a football league?

It may be very strange to people of this era, but it is quite ordinary to Long Hao, a person who has come back from time travel.

The football league, like FIFA before the third world war, is responsible for organizing football matches and formulating football rules.Responsible for arbitrating the transfer of players, responsible for protecting the welfare of players, responsible for attracting sponsorship, and promoting football... It can be said that the football league can be the master of all matters related to football!

It can only be decided by the football league!

And now, the Football League is newly established as a department under the Alchemy Kingdom.

The first department manager was personally held by Long Hao.Because apart from him, no one in this era can truly understand the potential and charm of football, and the amazing changes it will bring to the world.

"After you sign the contract, you are players under the Football League. Of course, you can also be understood as employees!"

Long Hao explained the football league in as concise a language as possible: "You will get a salary every month, and you have to follow the league's arrangement to participate in football matches. If you get good grades, you will get extra bonuses..."

hear this.A bold graduate interjected and asked, "Your Majesty Hao, may I ask how much money we can get a month?"

"Presumptuous, who asked you to interrupt? What about the agreed discipline?"

Principal Weifeng was very dignified, and immediately scolded him when he saw this.

"It's okay, I can understand your concern about salary, you are the first batch of graduates of the football school, I will definitely not treat you badly!"

Long Hao waved his hand with a smile, indicating that it was okay for Breeze, then threw away the electric horn, walked off the high platform, and walked into the team of 37 graduates: "I promise, as long as you play hard and play hard, the money you get will It will definitely not be less than those who work in the factory, and on the contrary, if you perform well in the competition, you will get far more money than them, and you will become stars!"

star?

what is that?

A twinkle star in the sky?

Unlucky, isn't that where the dead go?

The 37 graduates didn't understand the concept of star, so they all looked at Long Hao with hopeful eyes, hoping to hear the specific value of salary from him.

As for the stars, just ignore them.

"Everyone, according to your performance in school, you are divided into three grades: a, b, c. Players in grade a can get 1500 dragon coins every month, grade b is 1200, and grade c is 900... ..."

Dragon coins are now equivalent to 1.3~1.4 US dollars, so this figure is already quite high for the boys who have just graduated. Many of their parents may not be able to earn so much money in a month !

This group of students, who have contact with people in Shanyi City and Qianji City on weekdays, know that children of their age do not have high cultural knowledge. If they enter the factory, they will only get 400~600 dragon coins a month.

Therefore, as soon as the salary standard came out, there was deafening jubilation on the court. The 37 graduates all jumped on the spot, cheered and embraced.

Some even want to hug Long Hao and throw this God of Wealth up!

This excitement, this explosive scene, even Principal Breeze couldn't stop it.

Fortunately, Long Hao didn't care. With his skill, unless he was willing, there was absolutely no way for these kids to catch him.

Seeing that human beings could no longer stop these graduates from going crazy, Breeze simply let them go and run away from the turf to share the good news with their fellow students!

Presumably, the whole school will be a sensation, and the students who have been a little uneasy recently will let go of the big stone in their hearts, right?

In the principal's office of the football school, the breeze closed the door, leaving only him and Long Hao inside.

Breeze has also grown up now, not only is he a handsome young man, but also because he has been the principal for a while, so his demeanor has become more and more stable. Standing in front of him, it is easy to ignore his age.

"Master, what's the matter with the football league?"

Breeze asked Xiang Long Hao, and now he dared to ask Long Hao his own questions.

"Hehe, I didn't tell you beforehand that the football league is the future destination I arranged for the graduates of this football school!" Long Hao smiled lightly, admiring at Breeze's desk: "I will put the football league Get on the right track, when the time comes, you can recommend someone to manage, Breeze, we have taught them how to play football, so we have to think about their future development."

"Where to go in the future... Young Master, isn't the purpose of your establishment of this school to train reserve talents for the Alchemy Gate? Why, do you really want them to play football? Can playing football make money?" Breeze expressed deep puzzlement.

"That's right, it can make money! Besides, establishing a football league and cultivating alchemy talents are two different things, and they don't conflict!"

"Master, I, I don't understand."

"It's okay if you don't understand, Breeze, let me ask you, how many of these 37 graduates have reached the potential to become my alchemy disciple?"

"...There are less than thirty, to be precise, twenty-eight."

Those who graduate are not necessarily excellent students, some of them are judged to be insufficient in alchemy potential and have little hope of training, so they are forced to 'graduate' by Breeze.