Between the Daxiangguo Temple and the Jingling East Palace, there is a place called Jucheng.
As the name suggests, Jucheng is a venue specifically used for Cuju, but this Jucheng was specially prepared for the royal family. For example, the matches between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty were generally held here.
In addition, there are some competitions organized by the royal family itself.
Of course, the competitions of the Tokyo Eighteen Clubs would occasionally be arranged by the royal family to be held here.
After Queen Mother Cao expressed her desire to watch the game, Zhao Xu immediately arranged the charity match in Jucheng. Of course, Zhang Fei was also involved.
Now Zhao Xu's trust in Zhang Fei is no less than that in Wang Anshi.
Zhao Xu was still very generous towards his own people.
"You little brat!"
When Cao Ping saw Zhang Fei, he cursed with gritted teeth.
Zhang Fei bowed awkwardly, "I greet Inspector Cao."
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Cao Dongdong asked curiously: "Dad, why did you scold Zhang San?"
Cao Ping glanced at Cao Dongdong and said, "You go and do your work first. Daddy has something to discuss with Zhang San."
"oh."
After Cao Dongdong left, Cao Ping said to Zhang Fei: "Actually, you can do better with the Taifu Temple matter."
Although the case did not ultimately implicate the General Police Department, it still made Cao Ping break out in a cold sweat. The key point was that the procuratorate did not succeed. If the procuratorate had sued Taifu Temple again, he might have been implicated.
Cao Ping was very dissatisfied with Zhang Fei's performance in this case.
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"Don't blame me, Superintendent Cao. This is my first time encountering something like this. I don't have much experience. Besides..."
Zhang Fei hesitated, "There is something I want to say, but I don't know whether I should say it or not."
Cao Ping didn't buy it. He snorted, "Is there anything else you dare not say?"
Zhang Fei smiled awkwardly: "I just think that this lesson is also very valuable for the police station."
Cao Ping immediately knew what he wanted to say, so he said, "You don't have to worry about the social etiquette in the court. Of course, you can talk without any pain in your waist."
Zhang Fei said, "But according to my understanding of the public security, prosecution or not is up to the procuratorate, and the judgment is up to Kaifeng Prefecture, Silusi, Dali Temple, etc. Unlike before, from investigation to judgment, everything was done by Kaifeng Prefecture, so Superintendent Cao may not need to worry too much about human relationships."
Yes! There is the Procuratorate above, and many things are beyond my control. Cao Ping thought for a while and said, "But after all, our General Police Department hired your firm, so you have the responsibility to give us advice."
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Zhang Fei nodded repeatedly, "In the future, we will strengthen our cooperation with the General Police Department."
Cao Ping nodded slightly with satisfaction, and then said, "By the way, you deliberately arranged for the guards to compete with the police station, right?"
Zhang Fei chuckled: "Superintendent Cao saw through it."
Cao commented: "You are really smart, kid. I heard that the entire Three Yamen are very concerned about this game. Marshal Ma and the commanders of the Imperial Guards have given out hundreds of strings of cash to motivate the players, saying that they must win against our General Police Department."
Zhang Fei asked, "What does Superintendent Cao think?"
"What else can we do? Of course we can't lose!"
Cao Ping suddenly said in an excited tone: "When the police station was established, most of the power was taken away from the three yamen. They were very dissatisfied with this and wanted to use this to prove that the three yamen were stronger than our police station. Now that the emperor and the queen mother will come to see it, they will go all out. But our police station can't afford to lose. This will really hit morale."
This is the best way. If there is no grudge, how boring it would be to play! Zhang Fei nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes."
Cao Ping suddenly glanced at him and said, "Humph! Isn't this what you wanted?"
Zhang Fei chuckled and said, "If you have grievances against each other, you need to vent them out. That will make you feel better. If you keep it in your heart, firstly, it will be very uncomfortable. Secondly, resolving it on the court is at least much better than those intrigues."
Cao Ping asked again: "You made this football, who do you think is stronger?"
Zhang Fei said: "In terms of overall strength, the opponent is stronger, but Yanei and Xiao Ma are better than everyone else in terms of skills. It's about the same. It depends on their performance on the spot."
Cao Ping nodded slightly and thought, at least the loss wouldn't be too ugly.
Zhang Fei added: "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 San Ya for a long time. First, I want to rent several of their training grounds as football fields. Second, I hope San Ya 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 matter."
Zhang Fei said: "Aren't the three yamen short of money? This can bring a certain amount of income to the three yamen."
Cao Ping wondered, "This football is not much different from Cuju, maybe even less interesting than Cuju. How much money can it make?"
Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Inspector Cao, can you see that I have done a business that lost money?"
Yes! This guy is very smart, how could he do such a loss-making business. Cao Ping thought for a while and said, "Well, you first prove that there are people who like to watch this game, and then I will go and discuss it with them."
Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Okay."
Cao Ping added: "By the way! You have to leave fifty tickets for me."
Although the venue was provided by them, the ticketing rights were in Zhang Fei's hands.
Zhang Fei said: "Yanei has just told me."
"He is who he is. What does it have to do with me?" Cao Ping snorted.
You two are really too ruthless. You two want a hundred tickets. Zhang Fei didn't dare to agree easily. "Superintendent Cao, I don't know how many people this place can accommodate after the renovation. Besides, I have to plan for the future. I hope people from all walks of life can come and have a look. You have to save these tickets."
Cao Ping hesitated for a moment and said, "Just fifty votes, just hand them over to me."
Fifty votes is not a small amount, but there is no other way. He needs the help of the Cao family to develop his football career. Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Okay!"
After talking with Cao Ping, Zhang Fei went down to the middle of the venue again until those people transformed the venue.
Because the current Cuju field is only half the size of a football field, the lines have to be redrawn, the tables and chairs have to be rearranged, and the goals have to be installed.
Fortunately, Jucheng is big enough, and all the seats are VIP seats. After all, those who can watch the game here are dignitaries. If these VIP seats are separated, the seats will still be very objective, but it is still unknown at the moment.
After arranging the work here, Zhang Fei rushed to a workshop in the west of the city without stopping.
This workshop is where the match balls are produced.
At present, Zhang Fei has spent three hundred strings of cash to buy 90% of the workshop, while the original owner only owns 10%.
In fact, Zhang Fei could have bought them all. The workshop was not worth three hundred strings of cash. What he actually bought were the craftsmen. However, because he lacked experience in managing these workshops, he still needed the original owner to help him keep an eye on them.
"Here comes Saburo."
But a hunchbacked man came towards them.
This man's name is Liu Huai. He is the owner of this Ju-making workshop. He was introduced to Zhang Fei by Ma Xiaoyi. He has four or five apprentices and his skills are very good.
Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Uncle Liu, how is this ball?"
Liu Huai said: "Zhang Sanlang, come with me and I will show you around."
Seeing how excited he was, Zhang Fei also became very excited 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, take a look. I made this myself. It's made of twelve pieces of cowhide and a double pig bladder. I also asked Aunt Liu from Ma Xing Street to make it with the inner stitching."
Zhang Fei took it and looked at it carefully. It was already very round, and the thick thread that was previously sewn on the outside was almost invisible on this ball. He patted it again.
Bang bang bang!
“The flexibility is very good.”
Zhang Fei couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.
Now it is an inflatable ball, but the inner capsule is made of animal feces, and then a blower is used to pump air into it. Of course, this also leads to the fact that today's football is much smaller than the future football. Zhang Fei asked them to make it as big as possible.
Large balls are even harder to find, and football games are much more intense than cuju, and the quality of the ball is also required to be high, so you can only use two balls of similar size together.
Zhang Fei asked Liu Huai again: "Uncle Liu, how many of these balls can be produced in a day?"
Liu Huai said: "This requires extremely high skills, and cowhide and such a large pig bladder are also difficult to obtain. In this day, I can't even do it."
Zhang Fei said: "Then think of a way. For example, this kind of cowhide can be used for competitions. The sheepskin balls we used before can be sold to the people for fun. Money is not a problem. Hire more people for me."
If money is not a problem, then there is no problem. But Liu Huai still has 10% of the shares, "Our current scale is enough to handle the competition."
Zhang Fei asked with a smile: "Can you handle playing hundreds of games a year?"
"That's too much to handle." Liu Huai shook his head repeatedly, "But can you play so many games in a year?"
Zhang Fei chuckled and said, "No matter if you can do it 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 awkwardly, "I can't just waste Sanlang's money."
Zhang Fei said: "As long as it can improve technology and increase production scale, don't save money for me, work hard for me."
Liu Huai wiped his sweat and said, "Okay, I...I'll try my best. I'll try my best."
Bosses these days are the kind that don’t know how to spend the money you give them.
For example, Fan Li and Hou Donglai had both gone through this stage. After Zhang Fei took over, they recruited people on a large scale. It was not bad at the beginning, after all, Zhang Fei didn't have much money, but even that scale made them feel uneasy, not to mention Liu Huai now.
Afterwards, Zhang Fei inspected the workshop again, mainly to make sure that there were enough balls for the day's match. After all, today's balls are not that reliable. It would be embarrassing if there were no balls to play halfway through the game.
It was not until the evening that Zhang Fei returned home.
"Zhang San, you're back."
"You must be tired! Wipe it off quickly!"
"Are you thirsty? Have some tea. If you don't want to, how about... eat an orange. I'll help you."
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Zhang Fei looked at Xu Zhiqian who was busy running around in a daze, and then looked at Gao Wenyin who was standing next to him. He rubbed his eyes hard and thought to himself, I am not seeing things, the madam is standing next to me.
He looked at Xu Zhiqian again, "Zhiqian, have you taken on another life-threatening lawsuit?"
Xu Zhiqian said: "No!"
"I don't believe it."
Zhang Fei shook his head.
Xu Zhiqian said, "Really not. So many people have donated land recently, and I've been busy with the charity's accounts. I don't have time to take on the lawsuit. It's Mr. Fan who's busy."
That's right! She's been busy with the charity's accounts recently. Zhang Fei thought for a moment, "Don't eat the orange yet, you...you should explain the matter clearly first. If you don't explain it clearly, I really can't eat this orange."
He had a deep understanding of Xu Zhiqian. This kind of meticulous service from her must be a big deal.
Xu Zhiqian bit her red lips lightly, "Actually...it's not a big deal."
Zhang Fei said: "You are taking precautions, I am even more panicked!"
Xu Zhiqian glanced at him with her beautiful eyes, opened her red lips slightly, and said in a vague voice, "I want a few tickets."
"What did you say?" Zhang Fei looked at Xu Zhiqian in confusion.
Gao Wenyin really couldn't bear to watch it anymore. She didn't know she just wanted a few tickets, so she had a hard time speaking. "Mrs. Xu just wants a few tickets for the charity game."
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Xu Zhiqian nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
Oh... So that's what it is. Zhang Fei asked, "What do you want the ticket for?"
Xu Zhiqian said: "Some of my good sisters asked me for some tickets."
Zhang Fei laughed and said, "Just tell them that this competition is not interesting and it's a waste of time. Wouldn't it be better to go and play on the swing?"
Xu Zhiqian pouted, "I did say that, but...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 match, and look at you, you've caused a lot of trouble in the city."
Zhang Fei exclaimed: "Zhi Qian, with your attitude, can you get a ticket?"
Xu Zhiqian asked: "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 snorted, "Why should I be ashamed? I'm doing this for your own good. If you can succeed, I'll be so happy."
It's for my own good again? Zhang Fei said depressedly: "You are being shameless!"
Xu Zhiqian said: "That's the truth, but I still think it's only temporary. It's just that you promoted it well. When they see your new style of football, they will definitely be disappointed."
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Zhang Fei nodded repeatedly, "Just keep your attitude. I like it."
Xu Zhiqian said: "Okay, let's wait and see."
"Ahem, they're all here!"
I saw Xu Zun walking in leisurely.
Zhang Fei said: "Father-in-law."
“Daddy!”
"Mr. Xu En."
The three younger generations immediately bowed.
Xu Zun nodded and looked at Zhang Fei again, "We have to have a good talk when we have dinner later. I'm really at a loss as to how to build this procuratorate."
Zhang Fei said hurriedly: "I am really ashamed. I have been busy with the charity competition recently. Okay, let's have a good talk tonight."
Xu Zun nodded and coughed, "By the way, your charity match......!"
Xu Zhiqian asked, "Dad, are you here to ask for tickets too?"
Xu Zun blinked, "Are there a lot of people who want tickets?"
Zhang Fei smiled and said, "It's not a small amount, but my father-in-law's ticket will definitely be no problem."
Xu Zun was quite embarrassed, "Actually I don't want to trouble you, it's really about my good friends..."
Xu Zhiqian wondered, "Dad, why do so many people want to watch this charity game?"
Xu Zun was also a little confused as to why his good friend was also interested in this. "I guess he is just joining in the fun. It is also possible that the Emperor and the Queen Mother will go to see it."
Xu Zhiqian immediately looked down on Zhang Fei: "So you invited the emperor and the queen mother, no wonder...!"
Zhang Fei was too lazy to explain, he just smiled and said: "Please keep your attitude."
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