Have you read this issue of the newspaper? "
"I saw it. It was said that the imperial court was going to launch a football league where everyone would play Cuju together. Now private people are allowed to form teams."
"What's the use of these things?"
"Who knows, but it sounds like it's quite interesting. You can go and see it then."
"But the first place in the two divisions will receive a thousand gold prizes!"
"Yes, Qian Guan, my dear, even if it is divided among twenty people, everyone can do it!"
With the high bonuses and the propaganda in Datang Weekly, the news that the court was organizing a football match soon spread throughout Chang'an and Luoyang.
It even spread to Honglu Guesthouse.
To say that this Honglu Guest House is actually equivalent to the embassy district in Chang'an.
Even in this world, the Tang Dynasty is still the most powerful capital in the Central Plains. Although it has not yet reached the point where thousands of countries come to visit it, there are still many envoys from various countries who have lived here for a long time.
Their task is to pass some official news from the Tang Dynasty back to their own country, or when there is something in the country that needs to be negotiated with the Tang Dynasty and it is too late to send out a delegation of envoys, they are needed.
The envoy Fusang left here is also a master of Cuju. When he saw this newspaper, his heart moved. The last time the Tang Dynasty used the Tang Dynasty Shenwei Cannon, it shocked all the envoys from various countries.
Although I am convinced verbally, I may not really be convinced in my heart.
If I can lead a team and beat all the teams in the Cuju competition held in the Tang Dynasty, will it be regarded as giving them Fusang face?
As for twenty people, although there are not so many Cuju masters in the Tang Dynasty, he can immediately ask for help from the country!
Thinking of this, he picked up the Tang Dynasty Weekly and rushed towards Prince Zhao's Mansion.
After arriving, I realized that there were actually a lot of people here.
Because the page of Datang Weekly is limited, the introduction is not too clear, but outside Prince Zhao's Mansion, a large notice has been posted, which not only clearly states the requirements for the team, but also explains the rules of football. It's all written down.
It can be said that although football is still played, the entire rules have undergone earth-shaking changes.
Those who came here did not back down, except for a few who came here just for the reputation, like the Fuso envoy.
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More people came here for the thousand-guan bonus.
There were even many people who knew how to play football and formed a group of twenty people and signed up.
This was something Li Yuanji didn't expect. He didn't expect to set such a high bonus at the beginning, and he couldn't come up with so much cash.
But Tang Ping said that he could provide the money.
Now, Tang Ping's property in Datang is not just a restaurant like Xihe House.
There are also Wangshu Building, the children's amusement center next to it, Xiahe Village Resort, and most importantly, the Cui family purchases a large amount of luxury goods such as mirrors and perfume every month.
This brought Tang Ping a lot of cash, not to mention that he had a rich woman at home.
So in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Ping was already a completely wealthy man.
In addition to investing the money in new industries, he plans to take the rest and use it for the people.
The first was to donate money to the Ministry of Industry and ask them to build schools in many villages and towns around Chang'an and Luoyang, and then hire talented scholars to teach the locals how to read.
Don't teach anything else, just teach literacy. Tang Ping didn't expect everyone in the Tang Dynasty to be able to recite Si. What he wanted was to spread the literacy rate as much as possible.
As the literacy rate increases, more and more of their descendants will be truly educated.
Moreover, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued regulations that all students who have been taught literacy in local schools for two years can add a few points when taking the exam.
Sometimes, a few points can determine whether a student will fail or not, so before these schools are completed, many students from poor families have already signed up.
Tang Ping simply invested the remaining money in this football league.
This time, after almost a month, thirty-two teams were finally selected.
After Tang Ping's lobbying, these teams basically have sponsors.
Of course, during the selection process, those teams that perform well will naturally be sought after by wealthy businessmen in Chang'an, and there will even be several competing to pay high prices to endorse the team.
As for those teams that perform at the bottom, they can only ask their grandfathers and grandmothers to attract sponsorship from some small businessmen.
Li Tai's former research institute on the edge of Shanghe Village has been bulldozed and turned into a large stadium, just for competitions.
Now thirty-two teams are wearing their respective uniforms,
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Gather in this ballpark.
Today will be the first match of the Super League, with Zhao Wangfu Xihe Restaurant team playing against Japan Fuso Team.
"Ahem!" As the opening match, Li Shimin was also invited.
The arrival of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty made the players from each team below even more excited.
In addition to the team of the Sixteenth Guards, the remaining teams here are teams formed by big nobles like Li Yuanji, and there are two teams from outside the Tang Dynasty, one from the Turks and the other from Fusang.
The remaining nine teams are all from Chang'an or Luoyang civilian teams. These people usually have no chance to see the emperor.
After a burst of warm applause, Li Shimin looked at the speech Tang Ping wrote for him with a headache.
This manuscript was originally written by Yu Shinan, but Tang Ping said it was not down-to-earth. Many people who came today are ordinary people in Chang'an. If you read it according to Yu Shinan's manuscript, some illiterate people will probably be the same as listening. It’s the same as the heavenly book.
In terms of literary talent, Yu Shinan was not convinced by anyone, but he was convinced by Tang Ping, so when Tang Ping said this, the old man nodded in agreement and said that he had not considered it.
In the end, after a few drafts were revised, there was still a draft written by Tang Ping himself. In Li Shimin's opinion, his draft was really... he was down to earth.
"In this beautiful time of late spring and early summer, the first Tang Cup men's football match organized by the Datang Government has grand opening here. First of all, on behalf of the Datang Government and the competition organizing committee, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the athletes, The referees and staff express warm congratulations! I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the Chamber of Commerce for their strong support of this competition!”
This time the grand prize was paid for by Tang Ping, and the rule was that whoever paid the money would get the naming rights for the game.
Tang Ping offered a consistent total of one thousand dollars to the Super League and a thousand dollars to the A-League as a bonus, which directly scared away the wealthy businessmen in Chang'an.
The naming rights are naturally his.
As for this speech, there is no doubt that during the annual sports meeting of Tang Ping, the school leaders basically said this. He was very familiar with it.
Moreover, such a down-to-earth opening speech is much more popular than the one written by Yu Shinan. Just look at the applause of the audience next to you.
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