Between Daxiangguo Temple and Jinglingdong Palace, there is a place called Jucheng.
As the name suggests, Ju City is a venue specifically used for Cuju, but this Ju City is specially prepared for the royal family. Competitions between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty are usually held here.
In addition, there are some competitions organized by the royal family itself.
Of course, competitions from Tokyo's Eighteen Clubs were occasionally arranged by the royal family to be held here.
After Empress Dowager Cao expressed her desire to watch the match, Zhao Xu immediately arranged the charity match in Jucheng. Of course, Zhang Fei was also responsible for this.
Now Zhao Xu's trust in Zhang Fei is no less than that of Wang Anshi.
Zhao Xu was still very generous to his own people.
"Brat!"
When Cao Ping saw Zhang Fei, he gritted his teeth and cursed.
Zhang Fei bowed and said, "Young people have met Superintendent Cao."
Cao Dongdong asked curiously: "Dad, why did you scold Zhang San?"
Cao Ping glanced at Cao Dongdong and said, "Go and do your work first. Daddy has something to talk to Zhang San."
"oh."
After Cao Dongdong left, Cao Ping said to Zhang Fei: "Actually, you can do better regarding Taifu Temple."
Although the case did not involve the General Police Department in the end, it still shocked Cao Ping. The key is that the Procuratorate failed. If the Procuratorate prosecuted Taifu Temple again, he might be implicated.
Cao Ping was very dissatisfied with Zhang Fei's performance in this case.
Even if Lu Huiqing is found temporarily, you can delay it for a while, but the worst you can do is to notify him in advance. There is no need for him to learn the news in the newspaper.
"Superintendent Cao, don't blame me. This is my first time encountering this kind of thing. I don't have much experience. Besides..."
Zhang Fei hesitated to speak, "There is something I don't know whether to say or not."
Cao Ping did not accept this trick and hummed: "Is there anything else you dare not say?"
Zhang Fei smiled: "I just think that this lesson is very valuable for the police department."
Cao Ping immediately knew what he wanted to say, so he said: "You don't have to worry about the people in the court. Of course you can stand and talk without pain."
Zhang Fei said: "But according to my understanding of the Public Prosecution and Prosecution Law, whether to prosecute or not depends on the Procuratorate, and how to make a decision depends on Kaifeng Prefecture, Si Lu Division, Dali Temple, etc. Unlike before, from investigation to judgment, everything is done by Kaifeng Prefecture, Cao Cao
The superintendent may not need to worry too much about human nature."
Yes! There is a procuratorate above, and many things are beyond my control. Cao Ping frowned and thought for a while, then said: "But after all, our General Police Department hired your firm, and you have the responsibility to advise us."
"Yes Yes Yes!"
Zhang Fei nodded repeatedly, "We will strengthen cooperation with the General Police Department in the future."
Cao Ping nodded with some satisfaction, and then said: "By the way, you deliberately arranged for the guard horse to compete with the police station."
Zhang Fei chuckled: "Superintendent Cao noticed it."
Cao commented: "You are really smart. I heard that the entire Sanya attaches great importance to this competition. Then Ma Shuai and the commanders of the Imperial Army spent hundreds of dollars to motivate those players, saying that they must beat us.
Headquarters Police Station.”
Zhang Fei asked: "What does Superintendent Cao think?"
"How else can we look at it? Of course we can't lose!"
Cao Ping suddenly said with excitement: "When the police station was established, most of the power was taken away from the San Yamen. They were very dissatisfied with this. They just wanted to use this to prove that the San Yamen were stronger than our main police station. But now the official
, the Queen Mother will come to see them, and they are going all out. But our police station cannot afford to lose, as this will damage morale a lot."
This is the passion. If there were no grudges, the game would be so boring! Zhang Fei nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes."
Cao Ping suddenly looked at him and said, "Humph! Isn't this what you want?"
Zhang Fei chuckled and said: "If you have grievances against each other, you have to vent them out to feel comfortable. You should always keep them in your heart. Firstly, it will be very uncomfortable. Secondly, solving it on the court is at least much better than those intrigues."
Cao Ping asked again: "You created this football. Who do you think is stronger between the two sides?"
Zhang Fei said: "In terms of overall strength, the opponent is stronger, but the skills of Yanei and Xiao Ma are better than everyone else. It's about the same. It all depends on their performance on the spot."
Cao Ping nodded slightly, thinking that at least the loss would not be ugly.
Zhang Fei said again: "By the way, Superintendent Cao, there is something I want to discuss with you."
"What's the matter?" Cao Ping asked.
Zhang Fei said: "I want to cooperate with Sanya for a long time. First, I want to rent several of their school fields as football venues. Second, I hope that Sanya can form a football team to participate in my football games."
Cao Ping immediately said: "I can't help you make the decision on this kind of thing."
Zhang Fei said: "Isn't the third government office short of money? This can bring a certain amount of income to the third government office."
Cao Ping wondered: "This football is not much different from Cuju, maybe not as good-looking as Cuju. How much money can you make?"
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Superintendent Cao, can you tell me that I have done a loss-making business?"
Yes! This kid is very smart. How could he do such a loss-making business? Cao Ping thought for a while and said: "In this way, you first prove that some people like to watch this game, and then I will discuss it with them."
Zhang Fei nodded and said: "That's fine."
Cao Ping said again: "That's right! You have to leave fifty tickets for me."
Although they provided the venue, the ticket rights were in the hands of Zhang Fei.
Zhang Fei said: "Yameni just told me."
"He is him, what does it have to do with me." Cao Ping hummed.
You father and son are a bit too cheating. Two people want a hundred tickets. Zhang Fei didn't dare to agree easily, "Superintendent Cao, I still don't know how many people can be accommodated after the renovation of this place. In addition, I have to
To plan for the future, I hope people from all walks of life will take a look and save some money."
Cao Ping pondered for a moment and said, "It's just fifty votes. You can hand them over directly to me."
Fifty votes is actually a lot, but there is no way. If he wants to start this football career, he cannot do without the help of the Cao family. Zhang Fei nodded and said: "Okay!"
After talking with Cao Ping, Zhang Fei went down to the middle of the field and waited until those people modified the field.
Because the current Cuju field is only half the size of a football field, the lines have to be redrawn, tables and chairs rearranged, and goals installed.
Fortunately, this Jucheng is big enough, and the seats are all VIP seats. After all, the people who can watch the game here are all dignitaries. If these VIP seats are taken apart, the seats are still very objective, but it is not yet known.
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After arranging the work here, Zhang Fei rushed to a workshop in the west of the city without stopping.
This workshop is the production workshop for game balls.
At present, Zhang Fei has spent 300 yuan to buy 90% of the workshop, while the original owner only owns 10%.
In fact, Zhang Fei could have bought it all. This workshop was not worth three hundred coins. What he bought was actually a craftsman, but because he lacked experience in managing these workshops, he still needed the original owner to help him look after it.
"Sanlang is here."
But I saw a hunchbacked man coming up to me.
This person's name is Liu Huai, he is the proprietor of this Ju-making workshop. He was introduced to Zhang Fei by Ma Xiaoyi, and he has four or five apprentices. This craft is very good.
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Uncle Liu, how is this ball made?"
Liu Huai said: "Zhang Sanlang, come with me, I will show you."
Seeing that he was excited, Zhang Fei was looking forward to it and followed him into a room.
Liu Huai rummaged through a large wooden box for a while and took out a gray leather ball, "Sanlang, look, I made this with my own hands. It is twelve pieces of cowhide and double pig sacs. Please come to Maxing Street."
Aunt Liu’s made it with internal sutures.”
Zhang Fei took it and took a closer look. It was already very round, and the thick thread sewn on the outside before was almost invisible on this ball. He patted it again.
Bang bang bang!
“The flexibility is very good.”
Zhang Fei couldn't help but said in surprise.
Nowadays, it is an inflatable ball, but the inner bag is made of animal bladders, and then a blower is used to inflate the inside. Of course, this also leads to the fact that today's footballs are much smaller than future footballs. Zhang Fei asked them to try their best to
Make it bigger.
It is more difficult to find a large bladder, and football games are much more intense than Cuju, and the quality requirements for the ball are also high, so two bladders of similar sizes can only be used together.
Zhang Fei asked Liu Huai again: "Uncle Liu, how many balls of this kind can be produced in a day?"
Liu Huai said: "This requires extremely high skills, and cowhide and such a large pig sac are also difficult to obtain. At the end of the day, I couldn't even make one."
Zhang Fei said: "Then think of a way. For example, this kind of cowhide is specially used for competitions. The previous sheepskin balls can be sold to the people for playing. Money is not an issue. Recruit more people."
If money is not an issue, then there is no problem. But after all, Liu Huai still has 10% of the shares, "Our current scale is enough to cope with the competition."
Zhang Fei asked with a smile: "You can't handle playing hundreds of games a year?"
"That's unbearable." Liu Huai shook his head repeatedly, "But can he play so many games in a year?"
Zhang Fei chuckled: "Whether it's possible or not, you have to do it on this scale. I'm the one spending the money anyway, so what are you afraid of?"
Liu Huai said sarcastically: "I can't spend Sanlang's money indiscriminately."
Zhang Fei said: "As long as you can improve technology and increase production scale, don't save me and work hard to death."
Liu Huai wiped his sweat and said, "Okay, I'll do my best, I'll do my best."
The bosses these days are the kind of people who don’t know how to spend money if you give them money.
For example, Fan Li and Hou Donglai have all gone through this stage. After Zhang Fei took over, they recruited people on a large scale. But it was okay at the beginning. After all, Zhang Fei didn't have much money, but even at that scale, they felt
Terrified and uneasy, not to mention Liu Huai now.
Zhang Fei then inspected the workshop again, mainly to ensure that there were enough balls for the game that day. After all, the balls today are not so reliable. It would be embarrassing if there would be no more balls to kick halfway through.
It was not until evening that Zhang Fei returned home.
"Zhang San, you are back."
"You're tired! Wipe it down quickly!"
"Are you thirsty? Have some tea. If you don't want to, why don't you eat some oranges? I'll help you pick them."
Zhang Fei looked at Xu Zhiqian who was busy in a daze, and then looked at Gao Wenyin who was standing next to him. He rubbed his eyes vigorously and thought to himself, I saw that right, my wife is standing next to me.
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He looked at Xu Zhiqian again, "Zhiqian, have you received another fatal lawsuit?"
Xu Zhiqian said: "No!"
"I do not believe."
Zhang Fei shook his head.
Xu Zhiqian said: "It's really not the case. So many people have donated land recently. I'm busy with the charity's accounts. I don't have time to take on the lawsuit. Fan Yuan is busy outside."
That's right! Recently, she was busy with the accounts of a charity. Zhang Fei thought for a while, "Don't eat the oranges yet. You'd better explain the matter clearly first. If you don't explain it clearly, I really won't be able to eat the oranges."
He has a deep understanding of Xu Zhiqian, and it must be a big deal for her to receive such meticulous service.
Xu Zhiqian bit her red lips lightly, "Actually, it's not a big deal."
Zhang Fei said: "You have taken preventive measures, and I am even more panicked!"
Xu Zhiqian glanced at her beautiful eyes, opened her red lips slightly, and said vaguely: "I want some tickets."
"What did you say?" Zhang Fei looked at Xu Zhiqian confused.
Gao Wenyin really couldn't stand it anymore. She didn't know how many tickets she wanted, so it was so difficult for her to say, "Ms. Xu just wants a few tickets for the charity match."
Xu Zhiqian nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
Oh. So that’s what happened. Zhang Fei asked: “What do you want the votes for?”
Xu Zhiqian said: "Some of my good sisters asked me to get some tickets."
Zhang Fei chuckled and said, "Just tell them that this competition is not good to watch. Wouldn't it be nice to waste time on the swing?"
Xu Zhiqian pouted, "I said it, but they just kept pestering me for tickets. It's so annoying."
At this point, her expression suddenly changed, "This is all your fault. It's just a charity competition. Look at you, you've caused a storm in the city."
Zhang Fei exclaimed: "Zhiqian, can you get votes with your attitude?"
Xu Zhiqian said: "What do you want?"
Zhang Fei smiled coldly: "Of course I will give you a ticket. I want you to witness with your own eyes how glorious my football is. I want you to be ashamed of what you said before."
Xu Zhiqian hummed: "What am I ashamed of? I am doing it for your own good. If you can succeed, it will be too late for me to be happy."
Are you doing it for my own good again? Zhang Fei said depressedly: "You are so shameless!"
Xu Zhiqian said: "That's the fact, but I still think it's just temporary. It's just that you publicized it well. When they see your new football, they will be disappointed."
"Yeah!"
Zhang Fei nodded repeatedly, "Just keep your attitude, I like it."
Xu Zhiqian said: "Okay, let's see."
"Ahem, they're all here!"
I saw Xu Zun walking in leisurely.
Zhang Fei said: "Father-in-law."
"Daddy!"
"Xu Engong."
The three juniors immediately saluted.
Xu Zun nodded and looked at Zhang Fei again, "We have to have a good talk over dinner later. Regarding how to build this procuratorate, I am really the leader of the two."
Zhang Fei said hurriedly: "My son-in-law is really ashamed. He has been busy with charity competitions recently. Okay, let's have a good talk tonight."
Xu Zun nodded and coughed, "By the way, your charity competition!"
Xu Zhiqian asked: "Is daddy also here to ask for tickets?"
Xu Zun blinked, "Are there many people asking for tickets?"
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "It's not a lot, but my father-in-law's ticket will definitely be fine."
Xu Zun was quite embarrassed, "Actually, I don't want to trouble you, it's just my friends!"
Xu Zhiqian wondered: "Dad, why do so many people want to watch this charity match?"
Xu Zun was also a little confused as to why his good friend was also interested in this. "I guess it was just to join in the fun. It's also possible that the officials and the Queen Mother would go to see it."
Xu Zhiqian immediately looked at Zhang Fei with contempt: "So you invited officials and the Queen Mother, no wonder...!"
Zhang Fei didn't bother to explain, he just smiled and said: "Please maintain your attitude."