In the banquet, Qin Zheng also received a lot of invitations to activities, of which Qin Zheng agreed on the spot there were three, the first invitation was by Li Hongzhang, on behalf of the Qing court government in Shanghai to invite members of the negotiation team to attend a banquet held by Shanghai officials, although now the traveler does not have the official position of the Chunting, but the Qing court has officially issued a decree, recognizing the identity of the traveler as a descendant of China, which is also equivalent to identifying with the traveler, and this negotiation, the Qing court also needs the help of the traveler, so it is reasonable that the government in Shanghai should also invite the negotiation team of the traveler。 Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info and for this invitation, the traverser naturally can't refuse.

The second invitation was issued by the Ministry of Industry of the Shanghai Public Concession, inviting the travelers to a ball. The main responsibility of the Ministry of Industry Bureau is to do a good job in the economic construction of the concession, and after the traversers occupied Tianjin, they have been focusing on restoring Tianjin's economy, and they have not infringed on the commercial banks and factories opened by various countries in Tianjin, and they have also carried out extensive economic cooperation with various countries, and their economic contacts with Shanghai have also increased significantly, which is of course a good thing for the Shanghai Concession authorities.

Since the traverser has now occupied Weihai and Qingdao, the countries basically have no intention of coming back, which means that the traverser will have more opportunities for economic cooperation with other countries, so the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau invited the negotiation team to attend the ball, hoping to further strengthen the economic exchanges with the traverser in order to obtain more and greater benefits.

As for the current time-travelers, they have not yet been authorized by the Qing court to govern Tianjin, Weihai, Qingdao and other places, but all countries have a clear view of this, and the places occupied by the time-travelers will never be easily spit out, and the current Qing court has no ability to get these places back from the hands of the time-travelers, so the final result can only be to default to the time-travelers occupying and ruling these places. In fact, the Qing court really took back these places, and the countries were not afraid, so that the Qing court still dared to touch the interests of all countries?

The third invitation was made by Zhao Weizhong, on behalf of the Chinese businessmen of all walks of life in Shanghai, to invite the negotiation team to attend the banquet of the Chinese businessmen in Shanghai, their purpose is similar to that of the Shanghai Public Concession Ministry of Industry, and they also hope to have economic exchanges with the traversers, after all, after more than 30 years of Westernization Movement, a group of national capitalists have been cultivated in China, although the number is not large, and the strength of capital is also very weak, but this is indeed the fire of the Chinese national bourgeoisie, representing the advanced productive forces of this era. However, under the dual oppression of feudal forces and imperialism, it was quite difficult for Chinese national capital to develop at this time.

And Zhao Weizhong also played a big role in this regard, he vigorously publicized in Shanghai that the traverser attaches importance to business, attaches importance to industry, and the government decree is strict. Of course, these businessmen are all old and sophisticated, and of course they will not easily believe Zhao Weizhong's statement, but Zhao Weizhong went from a small businessman in Tianjin to a first-class businessman in Tianjin in just a few months, which is of course because he has the dual agent status of overseas Chinese and Li Hongzhang, but it is also not unrelated to the policies and systems of overseas Chinese. Moreover, in the past few months, overseas Chinese have indeed purchased a large number of materials in Shanghai, and have trade contacts with many foreign businessmen in Shanghai, and a large number of machines ordered from foreign countries have also passed through Shanghai, so it also proves that overseas Chinese really attach importance to the development of industry.

Since there are such business opportunities, the businessmen will naturally not count it, so they decided to jointly organize a banquet and invite the negotiation group of overseas Chinese to participate in it to see if they can get any opportunities from overseas Chinese.

Zhao Weizhong is naturally happy, now he has become a first-class businessman in Tianjin, and after this banquet, his status in the Shanghai business community will also rise significantly, and through this banquet, he can also make friends with a large number of Chinese businessmen in Shanghai, which will also be of great benefit to his future business development in Shanghai.

In addition, through this banquet, you can also get acquainted with Chinese businessmen in Shanghai, publicize the political ideas of the traversers, and even attract them to invest in Tianjin and Qingdao, which is also beneficial to the development of the traversers.

There were some other invitations, Qin Zheng did not completely refuse, only said that if he was free, he would definitely participate, or send others to participate, which also made the inviter very satisfied, at least he felt that the attitude of overseas Chinese was much better than that of Qing court officials.

In this way, the banquet was held in a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere until the end.

Wang Hailong and Martinez formally negotiated the details of the football match in a conference room arranged by the hotel. Although the two had a gunpowder war of words at the banquet just now, both of them also knew that it was useless to talk about how ruthless and fierce they were, and the real victory or defeat was still on the court, and before that, the two sides had to agree on some details of the game, so the two of them also sat down calmly and negotiated seriously.

The first thing was to determine the location of the game, and there was no real football stadium in Shanghai, so the public concession decided to set up the game at the Shanghai Hippodrome, because the racecourse had enough space and grandstand facilities, and with a little modification, it could be converted into a football field.

The current Shanghai Hippodrome is the third racecourse built by foreigners in Shanghai, built in 1861, the address is the location of the People's Park in the old time and space, with a total area of about 500 acres, and the Shanghai Art Museum located at No. 325 Nanjing West Road in the old time and space is the building of the Shanghai Jockey Club in this era. It is also only about 3,500 meters away from the Recha Hotel, which can be said to be the most suitable place.

Wang Hailong has no objection to the location of the competition, after all, this can only be arranged by the Shanghai Concession, but it is required to have 2-3 adaptation training on the competition venue, each training session is not less than half a day, and there is also a place for daily training. Martinez agreed to this, because the Shanghai Hippodrome can not only hold football matches, but also provide enough training grounds, and also provide temporary rest and change rooms in the Jockey Club building.

After the venue of the competition is determined, the rules of the competition are determined. The original rules of football were born on October 26, 1863, and there were 14 rules, so this day is also designated as the birth date of modern football. In the following time, these 14 rules have been tinkered with and improved, and the basic content of football rules is basically the same as the modern football rules in the old time and space. Of course, there are some differences, one is that there are no red and yellow cards, but the referee has the right to expel players from the game, and the other is the offside rule, which is now "at least two defenders in front of the receiver in front of the goalkeeper", while the offside rule in the old time and space "at least one defender in front of the receiver in front of the goalkeeper" was amended in 1925.

Wang Hailong didn't want to change the rules of football in this era, but he just wanted to understand the differences between the football rules of this era and the old time and space.

As for others such as jerseys, sneakers, protective equipment, etc., Martinez has no objection, and he can wear whatever he wants.

On the issue of referees, Martinez proposed that a French or Italian be invited to be the referee, but of course Wang Hailong vetoed this, what kind of joke, aren't France and Italy both members of the Eight-Nation Alliance? It is better to ask them to be the referee, and it is better to directly find an Englishman to be the referee.

Martinez also estimated that Wang Hailong would not agree to such an arrangement, but he couldn't think of a better way, so he asked Wang Hailong what to do, if Wang Hailong couldn't come up with a good way, then he could only do it according to Martinez's arrangement.

However, Martinez obviously underestimated Wang Hailong, because Wang Hailong had already come up with a solution, that is, to use the two-referee system, that is, each side has a referee and a linesman to jointly manage the game, and the two referees are in charge of one half of the court, so that the two sides are equal and no one suffers.

After listening to Wang Hailong's method, Martinez was stunned for a long time, to be honest, he really didn't expect Wang Hailong to come up with such a solution, but after thinking about it, Martinez still agreed to Wang Hailong's suggestion, because Martinez couldn't come up with a better plan than Wang Hailong, and this plan is indeed equal to both sides, no one will suffer, and more importantly, this is Wang Hailong's suggestion, and there is no excuse for overseas Chinese to lose this game.

In the end, Wang Hailong also made a request to Martinez, that is, to ask Martinez to provide at least ten game balls to the traverser to ensure training. Because the football used by the time-traveler is an inflatable football brought by the old time and space, and the technology of this era cannot create an inflatable football, but a filled football, the outer skin is made of animal skin, and the inside is stuffed with soft fillers such as cotton flowers and rags.

Of course, the foot feeling of these two kinds of football is different, and Wang Hailong estimates that this game must be the football of this era, and he is too lazy to compete with Martinez, so he only asks Martinez for ten footballs to ensure his training.

Originally, the rules and referees negotiated between Wang Hailong and Martinez just now attracted some attention from Martinez, because the questions raised by Wang Hailong were not only detailed, but also very important, and people who were not experienced enough could not ask such questions. But in the end, Wang Hailong asked Martinez for football, and Martinez completely put his mind at ease, because they didn't even have official football, so what else was there to be afraid of, so Martinez also said very happily that he could provide 15 footballs to the traverser.

In this way, the two sides discussed for almost an afternoon, and all the details of the football game were determined, and both sides were very satisfied with the results of the negotiations, and both believed that all the objective effects were minimized, and whether they could win the game or not depended on their own strength.