In the North Bank Stadium, many of the boxes were occupied by dignitaries from the local area and even surrounding cities. Even Wen Xiyuan, the newly arrived governor of Songjiang Prefecture, came to the stadium in person and watched the game in one of the boxes with several dignitaries.
As a new prefect who had only been in office for a few days, he chose to watch a football match that had extremely special significance in the local area. Naturally, it was not to watch the match, but to show his closeness to the people and his attitude of having fun with the people.
Mr. Fu Zun and many other big shots were watching the game in the box, but this did not affect the North Shore team's preparations and competition.
Because in almost every game, dignitaries will come to watch the game!
Last year, when the prince, Prince Zhao, and his family were passing through Shanghai when they returned to Beijing on an edict, they specially took their family to watch the North Shore team's game.
It’s not just him. In fact, when many lords returned to Beijing from overseas with orders, most of them would stop in Shanghai because they had to pass through Shanghai. Therefore, many lords actually went to watch the North Shore team’s game.
Therefore, it is normal for the North Shore team that these dignitaries come to watch games. Now they are more concerned about their opponents.
West Lake Motors Team!
As the players entered the field one after another and the referee announced the start of the game, people saw an extremely intense scene!
There are fourteen people on one side, and there are twenty-eight people on both sides together!
Wearing thick protective equipment and holding hockey sticks, they competed for the small white ball on the field. The scene was extremely heated, and every time the ball kicked off, people turned upside down.
The whole scene seemed like a battle between armies of both sides!
And this is also an important feature of football that is attractive and enjoyable to watch: the scene is extremely hot!
Even when many people come to watch the football, they don’t pay attention to the football itself, but focus on the melee on the field. They revel or yell about it to vent their frustrations in daily work and life.
When the captains of both sides mobilized personnel to constantly try to break through or intercept or perform other tactical maneuvers, they were always accompanied by body collisions, and then people were turned upside down.
The scene feels like a battle between heavily armed sword and shield soldiers!
Of course, this just looks very similar. Although collisions are frequent, the safety is actually very high, at least many times higher than that of polo.
After all, this is a popular sport, and safety must be guaranteed. As long as the players are trained, strong, and protected in place, there is basically no risk of injury.
At the same time, the rules related to football are very strict, and all types of foul actions are strictly controlled. Therefore, in the game of football, the scene looks extremely hot, but in fact, the safety is very high.
Of course, everything has accidents, so player injuries are also very common, but there are very few cases of death. Death cases only occurred in the early days when the rules were not perfect and protection was not in place, but there were no cases in the later period.
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The fiery match gave the spectators in the stadium great sensory stimulation. At the same time, the process of the match also continued to send relevant information to the outside world through the wireless telegraph machine specially arranged by the telegraph office.
Reporters in many cities squat directly in the wireless telegraph room, constantly recording the situation of the game in order to write articles for subsequent official newspaper reports.
At the same time, people from several teams were also squatting in the local wireless telegraph room, paying attention to the game in the distance.
Especially Jinling Third Athletic Team, which has already defeated its opponent in the quarter-finals and successfully advanced to the semi-finals. Third Athletic Team's next semi-final opponent will be the North Shore Team or the West Lake Automobile Team.
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Therefore, Third Athletic is also paying close attention to today's battle between North Shore Team and West Lake Automobile Team.
This is the second round of the final between North Shore and West Lake Auto. Last time, they won a small victory against West Lake Auto at home. This time, North Shore faced West Lake Auto at home. If they cannot win a big victory at home, then
Based on the total score of the two rounds, the winner will be the West Lake Automobile Team.
No matter who wins between the two, it is actually not a good thing for the third competition.
Because whether it is the North Shore Team or the West Lake Automobile Team, they are both strong players in the first echelon of domestic football teams. As for the Jinling Third Athletic Team, although their results have been good in recent years, they are still a little behind.
Facing traditional strong teams such as North Shore Team or West Lake Automobile Team, the confidence is still somewhat lacking.
Just when countless Chinese people were paying attention to the football duel between the Shanghai North Shore Team and the West Lake Automobile Team at the Shanghai North Shore Stadium.
In the Jinling Palace, Li Xuan, who was seventy-six years old and obviously looked old, looked at the lifeless Crown Prince Li Hao on the bed!
Behind him, several imperial doctors were kneeling, and next to them were the wailing Empress Dong and the Crown Princess!
His prince, after all, couldn't survive this old man and went ahead of him!
This is not the first of his children to die in these years.
He, Li Xuan, is still alive and well, but several of his sons have passed away one after another!
In the forty-sixth year, the twelfth son of the emperor, King Wu, who was only nineteen years old, had an accident while riding a horse while hunting in Gohe Prefecture, India. He fell off his horse and died on the spot, leaving behind an heir apparent who was only over one year old.
In the forty-nine year, Princess Wei, the emperor's eldest daughter whom he had loved since childhood, died of cerebral hemorrhage.
In the fifty-third year of his reign, the seventh son of the emperor, King Song, died of a heart attack in the fiefdom of Nanhe Province in America.
The year before last, King Qi, the eldest son of the emperor who had moved to the Pomu Prefecture in India, fell down the stairs and was injured. Although emergency treatment was provided and a high-speed warship was used to transport him back to Shanghai for surgery, he still could not be saved.
But unexpectedly, only a few months later, the fourth prince, the eldest son and the crown prince, Li Hao, was diagnosed with lung cancer. When he was discovered, he was already in the middle stage.
More than a year later, even if Li Xuan used the power of the entire empire, he still could not save his prince!
Although this was life, old age, illness and death, Li Xuan gradually got used to his relatives leaving one after another.
However, this is not only his son, but also his eldest son, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty!
This is the foundation of the country!
This is inconsistent with Li Xuan's plan. According to his plan, after his death, Prince Li Hao, who has accumulated many years of experience, will succeed to the throne. Even if Li Hao's ability is slightly mediocre, he can still suppress the brothers of overseas vassal kings. As long as he survives the early stage
In a few years, the subsequent empire will be stable.
However, the death of Prince Li Hao broke his plan!
Li Xuan, who has gone through countless trials and hardships, knew almost instantly that after the news of the prince's death was exposed, it would definitely cause a huge sensation and even turmoil in overseas territories!
How will outsiders view this matter?
It is estimated that countless people will think of a series of things that happened after the death of Prince Zhu Biao in the early Ming Dynasty!
However, as long as he is alive, the order of the empire cannot be destroyed!
Even if the independence of overseas territories is a major trend in history, you still have to shrink in front of him, Li Xuan!
Li Xuan single-handedly established this empire. He knew that he could not guarantee that this empire would last long. The overseas territories, especially in North and South America, were becoming increasingly independent, and this was not the idea of the local vassal kings, but
It is the idea of the local mainstream group, that is, the middle and upper classes.
They were no longer satisfied with being farmers and engaging in re-export trade. They wanted to get involved in more profitable fields, especially those industrial fields that the empire had to guard against day and night and were not allowed to operate in the Americas.
And the local vassal king is actually just a flag representing their interests!
To put it bluntly, in fact, many of the empire's overseas vassal kings may seem glamorous, but in fact they are only representatives of some local interest groups.
Unfortunately, the current situation of the vassal king becoming the representative of the interests of overseas fiefdoms was promoted by Li Xuan himself!
The reason is that even if the empire collapses, the vassal kings in various places still have huge prestige in their own fiefdoms and can gain the support of local interest groups to continue their rule.
This situation also leads to the complexity of the current situation of the empire!
When the North Shore team in Shanghai defeated the West Lake Automobile Team with a big score, Li Xuan ordered all local and overseas troops to be on alert and not to move without purpose.
The next day, the empire officially announced that the crown prince Li Hao had passed away.
Later that day, Li Xuanzhao announced to the world that he officially conferred the title of "Emperor Grandson" on Li Hongxu, the eldest son of Prince Li Hao. This "Emperor Grandson" was not a customary verbal title, but was of the same nature as the prince and belonged to the official title of prince.
While canonizing Li Hongchuo as the emperor's grandson, he also ordered the emperor's grandson Li Hongchuo to act as the imperial study room.
Finally, the kings were telegraphed to return to the capital for the funeral!
The first few were fine, but the last telegram ordered the kings to return to the capital for the funeral, which frightened many vassal kings.
Now that the prince has just died and the situation is in turmoil, the vassal kings are worried about whether they can return to their fiefdom alive after returning to Jinling. It is hard to say. The possibility of death is unlikely, but they are afraid of being put under house arrest!
But if you don’t go back, that’s a dead word!
Therefore, the overseas vassal kings are very entangled now. It is not a matter of going back now, and it is not a matter of not going back!
It was a struggle, but there were a total of twenty-five vassal kings, big and small. Except for eight vassal kings who were still studying in Jinling because of their young age, the other vassal kings all came together.
Twenty-five vassal kings from all over the world gathered in the capital for a funeral, so accidents were naturally impossible. No matter how good the local side was, they would not be able to risk the disapproval of the world and kill them all collectively, or prevent them from going back.
But even so, many vassal princes still made backup preparations, and each one of them kept the crown prince in their fiefdom.
Looking at their coping methods, Li Xuan wanted to laugh!
You bunch of bastards, I just want you to stop rebelling so quickly. I don’t want you to do anything else. Why are you guarding me like a thief every day?
If I didn't want to give you land and give you a chance to rebel, I would have raised you like pigs.
Li Xuan called them all over, mainly because he wanted to give them a beating. I'm not dead yet, so don't bother.
An honest feudal king managed his fiefdom well.
As for the rebellion, we will wait until one hundred and eighty years later.