Chapter 386: Football Match (7)
As soon as the game ended, the players of the British team, as well as Martinez, and the players on the bench all ran away and left the stadium like thieves. The www.biquge.info were all still on the court, including coach Wang Hailong and other substitutes, all came to the court and circled the court to greet the Chinese audience.
As soon as he came to the court, he greeted the gongs and drums, dragon dances, and lion dances on the scene, and followed the team members to circulate the stadium, gongs and drums rang out in unison, and lions and dragons danced together, which added a bit of festivity and joy.
In the stands, the foreigners were basically gone, and the remaining Chinese audience seemed to be still in the same game as before, waving their arms and chanting in unison the slogan of "revitalizing China and striving for self-improvement". If it weren't for the large number of police and soldiers present, I am afraid that a large number of spectators would rush down the stands. And at this time, there was even the sound of firecrackers "remote and li" sounded, it turned out that the Chinese gathered outside the venue had already known the news of the victory of the traverser, and lit firecrackers to celebrate.
As soon as the game ended, Huo Bilan hurriedly got off the VIP stage and went down to find Martinez. First, he couldn't stay on the VIP stage for a moment, and second, Huo Bilan couldn't defend other people's accusations, but he could unceremoniously reprimand Martinez, after all, Martinez patted his chest and assured him that he could win this game.
However, when Martinez came to the players' lounge, it was empty, it turned out that Martinez also felt that the game was like this, and he had no face to see Huo Bilan again, so as soon as the game was over, he took the players without even changing their jerseys and ran back to the warship to hide, while the players of the traverser circled the field on the sidelines, thanked the audience, and were not in the lounge. Huo Bilan stayed for a while, and finally didn't have the face to go back to the VIP stage, so he sneaked out of the stadium and went back to the consulate to find another way. Huo Bilan knows very well that this game is undoubtedly a major blow to his prestige and political future, and if he does not find a way to make up for it as soon as possible, his political career may come to an end.
After Huo Bilan got off the VIP stage, the other consuls also got up and left, after all, Britain represented all foreigners in the game, and the British team lost so badly, the other consuls also felt disgraced. However, the consuls are all diplomats after all, although they are unhappy, but there is still etiquette on the surface, except for the Russian consul Dmitriev, several other consuls came to say hello to Qin Zheng, Li Hongzhang and others, and the American consul Guna and the French consul Bai Zaotai also congratulated Qin Zheng.
The German consul Knappe even shook hands with Qin Zheng and said: "Political Commissar Qin, congratulations on your team's victory, this is really a wonderful game, it is impressive, it is not easy to make the British lose face." ”
Qin Zheng smiled and said: "Thank you, Mr. Consul, but this is just an ordinary game, don't over-interpret it, and we are also welcome to be able to have such a game with other countries to enhance the friendship and exchanges between us and other countries, and Germany is the same." ”
Knappe also nodded and said, "I believe that this day will not be too far away." ”
At this moment, I saw Huo Ge, the chairman of the Shanghai Horse Racing Association, running to the stands sweating profusely, and came directly to Qin Zheng, panting and saying: "Political Commissar Qin, Political Commissar Qin, please help and persuade the people outside, only you can dissuade them, otherwise he will step on the racecourse." ”
It turned out that at the beginning of the game, only a few thousand people gathered outside the field to wait for the news of the game, and with the traverser scoring a goal and leading all the way, the news also spread to the main areas of the Shanghai concession and Shanghai county, so more and more people rushed to wait outside the racetrack, fortunately, the first time to know the information of the game, and at this time it was the New Year approaching, every household basically prepared a few firecrackers, so many people also brought firecrackers, ready to wait for the traverser to win after the fire celebration, but until the second half is more than half, the traverser has basically locked the victory, some people can't help but put off the cannon, while cheering and celebrating。 By the end of the race, nearly 40,000 or 50,000 people had gathered outside the racecourse, and the sound of cannons and fireworks was endless. If you don't know, you still think that today is the New Year.
And this kind of momentum is also the first time that several directors of the Jockey Club have seen it, and everyone is frightened, because so many people gather at the gate of the racecourse, if there is trouble, the racecourse will not be flattened. And even if the Chinese don't make trouble, but these people are blocking the door, waiting for a while for the people watching the game to appear, and the two groups of people crowd each other, the consequences are unimaginable. And now the only people who can persuade these people are overseas Chinese, so the directors arranged manpower to strengthen the guard of the racecourse, and hurried to the VIP desk to find Qin Zheng for help.
After listening to Hogg's speech, Qin Zheng was also a little surprised, he didn't expect so many people to come outside the field, it seems that the impact of this game is much greater than he expected, of course this is a good thing, but if it causes an accident, it will be a good thing to turn into a bad thing.
So Qin Zheng immediately called Wang Hailong and asked him to try his best to stabilize the audience in the stadium, and he took a few players to the door of the racecourse and shouted to the Chinese gathered outside the stadium. Qin Zheng first thanked the Chinese people for their support to the traversers, and also wished them a good year this year, and then persuaded them that the competition was over, let them go home to rest, and the family was still waiting for them.
And Qin Zheng's apologetic and amiable attitude made the Chinese people's favorability towards the traverser further increase, and they all remembered the things in their respective families, and now they had enough trouble, so they left the racecourse in twos and threes and went home. Then Qin Zheng returned to the stadium and said the same thing to the audience, and persuaded all the Chinese audience to leave the stadium and go home.
Because there was a time lag between the Chinese on and off the field, it did not cause any confusion.
After the people were almost gone, the directors of the Jockey Club were relieved that nothing had happened, and at the same time they were very grateful to the traversers, if they hadn't come forward, the consequences would be unimaginable. Therefore, Hogg immediately said that the traversers should have dinner at the Jockey Club to celebrate the victory. However, he was rejected by Qin Zheng, and only said that he would talk about it later if he was free.
At this time, Li Hongzhang and the others also got up to say goodbye to Qin Zheng and left, and Qin Zheng also returned to the Licha Hotel with the others. And it was agreed that the day after tomorrow would be the time to officially start negotiations with various countries, and then meet at Jing'an Temple.
Nazhi waited for everyone to return to the hotel only to find that there were more than 50 Chinese gathered in the Licha Hotel, the leader was Zhao Weizhong, and all the others were famous Chinese businessmen in Shanghai or famous local squires, and many people had met with the travelers in the past few days. And this time, of course, they are all here to congratulate the traverser.
It turned out that at this time, the news of the victory of the game has spread all over the Shanghai concession, the county, and the whole Shanghai is also boiling, and in the past few days, the traveler has frequently attended the activities of various sessions in Shanghai, with the image of apologetic, enlightened and civilized, won a lot of goodwill, this time defeated the foreigner on the court, not only greatly increased the prestige of China, but also increased the popularity of the traveler. So several major merchants and squires in Shanghai immediately found Zhao Weizhong and asked him to come forward to the Licha Hotel to congratulate the traveler.
Zhao Weizhong was naturally very happy, this was the first time he appeared as a leader in Shanghai, and the higher the reputation of the traverser in Shanghai, the higher his status in Shanghai, so he happily obeyed his fate, and immediately assigned people to invite other businessmen and squires, and the traverser was delayed a lot of time because of the persuasion of the Chinese inside and outside the stadium, so the people in the Licha Hotel also gathered more and more, and there were more than 50 people.
Before the traverser returned, Zhao Weizhong and several major businessmen came forward to arrange a banquet in the Licha Hotel, preparing to celebrate the victory of the game and cover the next expenses. The efficiency of the Recha Hotel is quite high, and by the time the traveler returns to the Recha Hotel, everything is ready, just waiting for the traveler to take a seat.
Seeing that everyone's hospitality was difficult to resist, and this was also a good thing, it showed that the positive social efficiency brought by this game to the traverser had begun to appear, so Qin Zheng did not refuse, and led the negotiation team and all the members of the football team to participate in the banquet.
In fact, the social efficiency caused by this football match was far greater than Qin Zheng expected, and the next day almost all the newspapers in Shanghai reported the game in large pages, and published a number of photos of the game, and in the following days, many pages were arranged to carry out other reports on the game, and further extended the topic to such topics as "Chinese are not the sick men of East Asia", "overseas Chinese are stronger than foreigners", and "overseas Chinese have greatly increased the prestige of China".
And for more than a month after this game, almost all the Chinese in Shanghai are talking about this game, and the people who have watched the game have also become the object of people from all walks of life, and they will repeatedly tell others about the process of this game every day, and of course, they all praise and praise the traverser without exception.
There is even a storyteller who compiles this game into a storyteller and talks about it in a wine shop tea house, although the storyteller does not understand the rules of football at all, and makes this game unrecognizable, and exaggerated beyond recognition, but at this time, the real process of the game is no longer important, the important thing is that this game is represented by overseas Chinese Chinese to win foreigners, and grow China's prestige, so every time it can attract a large number of listeners, some people listen to it several times, but still enjoy it, and later if the storyteller does not talk about this game, no one will listen to his book, and there is no wine shop tea house to invite him。