The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

At this time, Concubine Murong said coquettishly, "Officials, leave as soon as you say, this letter is not finished yet."

Zhao Ji smiled and said: "Then you can take it to your palace, and I will finish writing it later."

Concubine Murong happily agreed, and the emperor would spend the night in her palace with this calligraphy, and asked the maid to put away the pair of calligraphy and bring them to his palace.

Gao Ming finds that Zhao Ji is indeed a veteran in the field of love, and has a knack for coaxing women.

Afterwards, Zhao Ji led Gao Ming and his team to kick off with high spirits.

Yang Jian acted as a member of the cheerleaders. Although he didn't participate, he waved flags and cheered very hard on the sidelines.

Fortunately, his father has been training him since the past few days, Gao Ming was able to grit his teeth and play with them for a while, otherwise, if it was before, he would probably be exhausted right after playing.

But after all, he couldn't beat this group of professional people, so he persisted in kicking for a few rounds, and Gao Ming was out of breath and couldn't move.

Zhao Ji also saw that Gao Ming's game skills were not as good as his father's, so he couldn't help laughing and said, "It's said that the tiger father has no dogs, so he played with me for a while. Why can't you do it?"

At this time, of course, you can't be so stupid as to kneel down and apologize, let's say a bunch of apologies that the emperor heard eight hundred times a day.

Gao Ming wiped his sweat with his backhand, and panting, he said, "The official is a genius, my father is a talent, and I am a rotten wood. Besides, it's not that I don't work hard, but that the official's dragon body is too strong. Qiu, I feel that I am not this year, but 80 years old, and I can't keep up with your pace. Officials, please forgive me and let me rest."

This horse is so perfect, like Zhao Ji, who hangs around in the flowers, what he likes to hear most is to praise him for his excellent body and spirit of dragon and tiger.

Especially when these compliments came from people who were much younger than him, the effect was doubled.

Coupled with Gao Ming's innocent and sincere eyes, Zhao Ji was convinced. Not only was he not angry at Gao Ming's poor golf skills, but he was in a happy mood, "Then I will give you some supplements. It's not good to be so weak at a young age." Yang Jian said: "You all remember to pick some good supplements and deliver them to his home."

Murong Yanze thought in amazement, Gao Ming, you are amazing, you never leave empty-handed, every time you make a move, there must be something to gain.

Just as he was thinking, he saw a cuju flying towards him, and immediately raised his foot to catch it, and continued to play ball with the official's family. Occasionally, when he was taking a break, he saw Gao Ming standing on the sidelines, smiling at him triumphantly.

However, Zhao Ji is most interested in Yan Qing, most of them pass the ball to him, and Murong Yanze can relax a lot.

Gao Ming could tell that Zhao Ji liked Yan Qing very much.

Sure enough, after Zhao Ji had a good time playing and left the field, he took the handkerchief handed over by Yang Jian to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and asked casually, "Where does Yan Qing live?"

Yan Qing replied truthfully, "Going back to the official's house, the villain is temporarily renting a family."

Zhao Ji stroked his beard and said with a smile: "It's inconvenient to live outside. I will give you a house, so you can have a place to stay in Tokyo."

Yan Qing kowtowed immediately.

Zhao Ji threw the handkerchief that had wiped off his sweat to Yang Jian, "Gao Ming, how long will it take for your Cuju competition to end?"

Gao Ming hurriedly said: "A rough calculation, less than half a month."

Zhao Ji nodded and asked with a smile, "Is Yan Qing the leader?"

Gao Ming said: "I don't know, and I can't guarantee it. It all depends on Yan Qing's performance that day and the performance of other players."

Zhao Ji was very satisfied with this answer. After all, cheating games are very boring, so he said to Yan Qing: "You have to work harder and don't disappoint my expectations."

Yan Qing kowtowed again.

At this time, Zhao Ji saw Murong Yanze, and seemed to think of something, "By the way, you told me just now that you will hold a bigger competition, and I think it is very good. Since Gao Ming said that the competition will end in half a month Now, let’s start preparing for next year’s competition.”

Gao Ming was startled, and looked at Murong Yanze, when I was not around, what did you blindly promise to the officials? !

Murong Yanze explained: "I told the officials just now that playing games for nothing is just a warm-up. What we really want to do is build a ball game."

The so-called building the ball is also a confrontational style of play, which is very similar to the modern football style familiar to later generations. Two groups of players, twelve each, kick the ball into the hole in a net erected on the field. Whoever has more balls wins.

"I feel that the venue is too cramped this time, and the venue for the Zhuqiu competition must accommodate at least ten times the current audience. It must be a national competition to show my grandeur. I am very much looking forward to next year's Zhuqiu The game, when the time comes, I will definitely watch the first game live."

The emperor was immersed in the conception of the future, with a smile on his lips, and did not speak for a long time.

After a while, he probably finished making up his mind, and then he continued to smile and said: "Gao Ming, you and Yan Zebai played very well in the game, especially Yan Ze said that you came up with many ideas, I didn't know you were such a fool." Talent. If you do well in the next thing, I will greatly praise you."

Zhao Ji said to Gao Qiu back then, "I want to promote you." He promoted Gao Qiu to the position of Taiwei.

Now that Zhao Ji said this to Gao Ming again, Gao Ming saw the hope of the future all at once, and this hope had a dazzling light.

"If the ball building competition is held next year, half a month later, when the free play competition is over, we will immediately publicize it to attract talents from all over the country to sign up. In fact, this time, the free play competition does not have enough publicity, and many people have never come. Attracted players from nearby Hebei."

"That's what I mean." Zhao Ji said longingly: "I can't wait to watch next year's competition."

Murong Yanze said: "Don't worry, the officials, this matter is on our shoulders."

Gao Ming also said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty."

Zhao Ji Longyan was very happy, and he was thinking of rewarding these two children, because he was in Genyue, the royal garden at this time, so he pointed to a piece of Taihu Lake stone in the garden, and said: "I will reward you with this exquisite piece of jade. "

This piece of Taihu Lake stone called Yulinglong was about two people tall. It was riddled with holes and its posture was distorted. It was a veritable ugly stone.

But this is Zhao Ji's favorite. He specially set up the Yingfeng Bureau to ask people to collect strange rocks for his enjoyment.

Gao Ming looked at this ugly stone and thought to himself, please give me the vulgar gold, I can't appreciate this thing.

But Zhao Ji looked very distressed, "You have to do things for me well, don't let me down."

Murong Yanze hastily declined, "It's too precious for the officials to be willing."

Whether it is expensive or not is another matter, but the weight is for sure.

Judging by his appearance, he didn't want this broken stone either, so Gao Ming also begged: "Officials, please take it back, we absolutely dare not take it."

The way they refused was so real that Zhao Ji thought that they "loved so much that they didn't dare to open their mouths", so he reluctantly gave up their love and gave it to them, "I want to give it to you, you just accept it, this is my heart."

The emperor said so, who would dare not accept it.

So, with Zhao Ji's distressed expression, and Gao Ming and Murong Yanze's unspeakable expressions of distress, Yang Jian sent someone to pull up the big rock and send the three of them out of Genyue.

After leaving the garden, Gao Ming said to Murong Yanze, "This stone is for your home."

"No, let your house go."

"Leave your home."

"your home."

"your home."

Neither Gao Ming nor Murong Yanze wanted this reward.

If you don’t appreciate it, let’s not talk about it. The key is that this is a gift from the emperor. It must not be placed in the garden with your own rockery. You must find a house to place it, and you must have two maids to take good care of it. Every time you take a bath, wipe and maintain it.

Thinking about it is annoying, tiring and not beneficial.

...

But in any case, you have to find a foothold for the stone.

In the end, a rock-paper-scissors decision was made in the carriage. Unfortunately, Gao Ming lost.

Murong Yanze comforted with a smirk on his face: "This treasure is a reward for us two, you keep it first, and after 50 years, I will move it in and keep it for 50 years. This rotation can last for tens of thousands of years." Year."

After all, the imperial gift cannot be split in the middle, half for each person.

Seeing that Gao Ming was silent, Murong Yanze continued: "Don't underestimate this stone, it's very valuable. Last time Yang Jian spent 300 million yuan to buy a fast Taihu stone for the official family. It's a total of 300 million! Look at this piece, how can it be worth it?" Worth 150 million."

Hype the price, inflated!Either Yang Jian lied about the price, "Then I will find a stone tomorrow, saying it is a female snail repairing the sky stone, and it is worth five hundred guan to cheat some money from the court to spend."

"You don't know that. Eunuch Yang bought the stone with his own money, and didn't spend any money from the official family, so the official family is happy."

Gao Ming frowned, because he had a bad feeling.

Murong Yanze also realized it, and looked at Gao Ming with a solemn expression.

The two exchanged glances, and said in unison: "The government didn't say to allocate funds from the Ministry of Household Affairs to organize the ball building competition. Do we have to pay for it ourselves?"

According to the officials, the Zhuqiu competition must be held with the grandeur of the Great Song Dynasty, so it is obviously not possible to make small troubles.

Anything in this world, from eating, drinking, and messing around to national wars, needs a word of money to open the way.

Murong Yanze calmed down for a moment, "The Ministry of Household Affairs doesn't allocate money, so let's raise it ourselves. There are many rich men in Shandong and Hebei. With this gifted Taihu Stone, we don't have to worry about them not paying for it."

Gao Ming was not so optimistic, "I'm afraid it's not enough. If you want these rich men to contribute money, you have to give them corresponding benefits. One or two is fine, but it's okay to be a backer for them. You can't have a hundred or two hundred. Refuse, give them a favor."

Murong Yanze grinned secretly, "That's right, but no matter what, let's pick the nice ones to raise money first."

Both of them were thinking about it, and they soon arrived in front of Taiwei's mansion. Gao Ming got out of the carriage first, looked at the Taihu stone tied on the carriage behind, with a somewhat helpless expression on his face, as long as this thing can be realized, it's okay.

Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration and laughed.

When Murong Yanze saw Gao Ming smiled, he felt relieved, because he knew that Gao Ming must have a solution, "What did you think?"

Gao Ming approached Murong Yanze, "We have to make good use of this imperial stone. In this way, we will build a small temple outside the Zhuqiu stadium, enshrine this stone, and then take the rich man who sponsored him to this temple , Tell them, as long as you sponsor us to build a ball game, there will be a monument of his merits and virtues in the temple, and you will eat incense with this stone. No one dares to steal this Taihu Lake stone, and no one dares to move it , Their meritorious deeds will be preserved for tens of thousands of years just like the Taihu stone, and their names will last forever for future generations to admire."

Once people have satisfied the basic needs of life, they will pursue higher-level things.

Businessmen with money but no status hate themselves for not being high enough. They think about how to be famous in history every day, but they don’t have the mentality of being a scholar when they are officials. They hold a lot of money. Buying one for appearance, and when the politics are clear, you can only hold a lot of money and die in obscurity.

Now I have the opportunity to leave my name in Tokyo, and I can still get the incense of the imperial bestowal. Imagination makes the rich people excited.

When Murong Yanze heard it, he was immediately happy, "This is good! This is good! Those guys must be rushing to pay."

Gao Ming made the plan more carefully, "The number of places should not be too many, one or two places for each state capital, tell them, come late, there is no such shop after passing this village, once you miss it, it will be forever."

I don't know how many rich people like Lu Junyi in Hebei are in the whole country.

Besides, this is a real benefit for them. They are local tyrants, but they are scumbags in the whole country. They have the opportunity to build a monument of merit and virtue in Tokyo. This monument of merit and virtue is still next to the imperial bestowal of the emperor. Find such a good thing to go.

Murong Yanze nodded hastily, "Yes, we won't wait after the expiration date. When I go back, I'll calculate how much money I need, and share it among the quotas, and how much each person should pay. According to this method, first go to the bank to borrow money to start the project. Then slowly sell the monument of merit and pay back the money, and there is a lot of time to spare.”

Gao Ming said: "Then go back and do the math. Put the stones here first, and move them in after the temple is built."

Murong Yanze was full of energy, resigned from Gao Ming, and rushed home, preparing to call all the guests in the house to calculate the budget.

Gao Ming stood in front of his mansion, put his hips on his hips and said with a smile, "I'm really talented!"