In name only: In the name of Zhao Mengsheng's son!

Han Chao has been working on this for over two months, and the final is tomorrow. At the provincial party committee meeting, Li Dakang is giving a report!

"The reports from various airports and high-speed rail stations for this quarter are out. It's not peak tourist season now, and Handong isn't a tourist hotspot either, but the number of tourists visiting Handong this quarter alone is three times that of last year! So, Governor Zhao's initiative to promote tourism in Handong has been a great success! We haven't calculated Handong Province's tourism GDP yet, but I estimate it to be three to five times that of last year!"

The Standing Committee members looked at Zhao Zhongxin with surprise. Handong was not a major tourist province to begin with, so how did Zhao Zhongxin, the "Han Chao," manage to bring so many people here?

"What a great idea from such a young person!"

Now everyone really dared not underestimate this young master. Zhao Zhongxin was the youngest here, but as the saying goes, if you can boost GDP, that's your skill! You're awesome!

Sha Ruijin nodded in agreement. The better Handong was doing, the better it would be for him too!

Zhao Zhongxin turned his head and smiled at Sha Ruijin, saying...

"Secretary Sha, I'd like to invite you to watch the Hanchao final in Yantai City tomorrow!"

"Oh, haha, in that case, I'll gladly accept your offer!"

Sha Ruijin is also currently very popular in the Hanchao competition. Tomorrow is the final, and Zhao Zhongxin said that he will definitely go. Moreover, Zhao Zhongxin invited him again, so he definitely has to go and watch!

After the meeting, Zhao Zhongxin urged Gao Fangfang to fly over quickly and bring his nephew Liu Tai with her. To be honest, it was Liu Tai who suggested this idea to him.

Gao Fangfang would never have imagined that the popular Han Chao was created by just one sentence from her son!

The next day, at 7 p.m., the final match of the Hanchao tournament finally began, between the Yantai City team and the Lincheng City team!

The Yantai City team, nicknamed the Handa team, is the football team of the Handa clique! That's what the officials say anyway!

The Lincheng team was a dark horse, having defeated all twelve other teams, perhaps because they had better team cohesion! So the Lincheng team members looked down on the so-called Han University team!

I am a madman! All heroes under heaven tremble at the mere mention of my name!

The Yantai team looked at the Lincheng team with excitement. They hadn't played very well at first, suffering two consecutive defeats, but luckily they had gelled well and played better and better. They had first defeated Jingzhou and then kicked Luzhou! They stumbled and bumped their way into the finals!

But the Lincheng team is too strong, just like Tyson standing there, they haven't lost a single game in all these matches! But pressure is motivation!

Zhao Zhongxin sat in the best seat, with Sha Ruijin to his right. Liu Tai watched all this with excitement. He had been watching the Wuhan Super League recently, and tickets were incredibly hard to come by! Now his uncle had brought him to this best spot to watch the game!

Now, scalpers are driving up the prices of Han Chao's tickets!

"Who are you supporting? Place your bets!"

Li Kangjian laughed, and everyone looked over, then at Sha Ruijin and Zhao Zhongxin. Sha Ruijin didn't say anything, but Zhao Zhongxin just smiled and said...

"Alright! I've already called the lottery bureau staff. If you want to place your bets, hurry up, or it'll start right away!"

Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent and opened their wallets to place bets. This was the only legal way to gamble!

"Secretary Sha, are you interested? Which team?"

Zhao Zhongxin said with a smile!

"Lin Cheng, five hundred yuan!"

Sha Ruijin doesn't gamble, but everyone else has placed bets, only a few thousand yuan, and no one is betting tens of thousands of yuan!

"Hahaha! Great! I think my juniors can win! I'm betting 500 yuan!"

Zhao Zhongxin has suppressed Yantai City! Don't ask, just know that this is his junior!

Li Kangjian also bet 500 yuan without hesitation. Don't ask why, just bet on whoever Zhao Zhongxin bets on, and Qi Tongwei and Zhao Donglai too! They all started betting together!

In the first half, Yantai team was already down 2-0. Zhao Zhongxin shook his head helplessly. Lincheng team was indeed awesome! And this was Yantai City's home game, but almost everyone who came supported Lincheng team because locals couldn't buy tickets!

In the 82nd minute, the Yantai team was awarded a penalty kick! The ball went in, and Zhao Zhongxin stood up and pumped his fist in celebration. Then the camera came over, and the Yantai team players, seeing their governor and senior celebrating with their fists, were all ecstatic!

Who could be so thrilled? That night, even the provincial governor gave him a fist bump in celebration! The Lincheng team originally wanted to control the pace and slowly drag it out for those few minutes, but the Yantai team had already gotten carried away! They started relentlessly pursuing him.

So, in the last minute of stoppage time, the Iwata team equalized the score! Zhao Zhongxin, just like Maradona in France, took off his jacket and started throwing punches in his shirt, shouting something, but the camera couldn't record the sound!

Sha Ruijin nodded in agreement. That's what young people are like—never giving up an opportunity! This Han Chao truly exceeded his expectations. So Sha Ruijin walked over to Zhao Zhongxin and applauded the group of students from the Yantai team!

The entire stadium erupted in cheers! The Party Secretary and the Governor had appeared at the same time! Those so-called Football Association officials were also somewhat distressed by this scene. Could they still intervene? The two strongest players in Handong had both supported the so-called Handong Super League. No matter how powerful their Football Association was, they dared not provoke the two of them. But the mission was still the mission!

Extra time was actually not very exciting anymore; these young players were almost exhausted, and possession was constantly changing hands! But nobody said anything! This game was truly exciting; these young players clashing together showed the fighting spirit of Chinese football. Those with cramps, those who couldn't run anymore, all persevered!

Then came the penalty shootout! Lincheng team took the first penalty, followed by Yantai team. Lincheng team scored five penalties, while the last boy from Yantai team missed the shot. He was dejected and immediately knelt on the ground and cried! Although his teammates were sad, several of them came to comfort him.

However, the Lincheng team started cheering! Zhao Zhongxin didn't think it was the boy's fault either, after all, there are no cowards within twelve yards.

Finally, Sha Ruijin presented the gold medal to the team members from Lincheng City, and Zhao Zhongxin presented the silver medal to the team members from Yantai City!

Zhao Zhongxin offered a few words of comfort to his junior classmates.

"You played very well. You failed this year, but try again next year! I'll come to Wuhan University to see you tomorrow night! Keep it up!"

Zhao Zhongxin's words also made these young people, whose average age was nineteen, look at him with fervor! Zhao Zhongxin did not act like those arrogant and unapproachable officials; he was just like a senior student!

(Chapter 2 today!)