At the beginning of August, just after the golden wind was cool, the Chengbei Stadium was crowded every day, because the annual rugby league in Bianliang opened.

Ever since the Zhenwu Army performed a rugby game in Jinmyeongchi, this kind of ball game has gradually spread in the capital. Because it is more confrontational than the traditional Keju, it is more in line with the Song people's gambling temperament, every time there is a rugby game, the streets and alleys are set up to gamble, and it can be regarded as a scene of Bianliang. Coupled with the secret promotion of the Fu'an consortium, it took less than ten years for this rugby game to become popular in the capital, not only many clubs appeared, but also many schools and tiles also had their own teams, and there were twenty or thirty teams that people could name.

If there are more teams, you will be able to organize games. Li Buqi wanted to promote this kind of collective sport in the Great Song Dynasty, and the Fu'an Consortium also spared no effort, bought a piece of land in the north of the city, built two stadiums with stone cement that could accommodate more than 2,000 spectators, and organized leagues every autumn for the past three years, selling tickets and opening gambling games to make a small profit.

This year's league is divided into junior and senior divisions, with a total of 30 teams participating, and since the beginning of August, as long as it doesn't rain, the two stadiums are full, and even the business around the stadium is booming.

There are a total of ten teams in the junior league league, under the arrangement of Li Buqi, it is considered a warm-up field, and the game is played before the adult group, after half a month of group stage, four teams entered the finals were finally produced, namely the Royal Martial Arts Academy team, the Qingyuan Academy Youth Team, the bull running team belonging to the north of the city and the good fighting team under Yang Shilang. Three of the four teams are related to Li Buqi, but Li Buqi absolutely dares to guarantee that he did not do anything, and in the end, it was the Royal Martial Arts Academy team that won the final.

Li Buqi really invested money in order to beat Zhao Sheng's reputation, and the gold medal was made of pure gold when the award was issued. This time, Li Buqi, as the inventor of rugby, was invited by the Fu'an Consortium that hosted the event to give out awards, and after hanging the gold medal for the captain of the Wubei Academy, the next one was Zhao Sheng, who was the vice captain.

Just as Li Buqi was hanging the gold medal on Zhao Sheng's neck, he suddenly heard a loud sound like a landslide cracking, and he felt that the ground trembled several times. Li Buqi shuddered, and said in his heart: "Although I was ready to do something this time, I didn't put it into practice, did I?" Could it be that this will also thunder and thunder? ”

Fortunately, Li Buqi asked the stadium to leave enough evacuation channels, and the Kaifeng Mansion and the stadium staff evacuated the crowd in time to avoid a stampede. Li Bu gave up the heart to kill, and finally forced a smile to finish the award. Let Zhao Sheng enter the palace to report the good news to Zhao Zhen, and then lead people to the place where the black smoke is billowing to see who is so bold as to dare to sabotage the rugby match he has carefully prepared.

The streets near the place where the explosion occurred had already been surrounded by the people of the Terracotta Division and Kaifeng Mansion, and no one was allowed to approach, but Wang Su, who knew Kaifeng Mansion, heard that Li Buqi had arrived, and hurriedly ordered someone to invite him in to check it out. Wang Su really couldn't think of anything that exploded with such great power. At first, he thought that someone had secretly hidden gunpowder, but the people below him said that he could not smell the sulfur at all, so he had to ask Li Buqi, a man of known erudition, to help determine the cause of the explosion.

After Li Buqi went in, it turned out that the True Immortal Temple had been blown up, and it was blown up very badly, and not a single complete house of the small Taoist Temple was gone, and it also affected several surrounding families. The servants extinguished the fire, tore through the blown down walls, found a few Taoist priests who were still angry, and dragged them to Wang Su for interrogation, one of the middle-aged Taoist priests admitted that the place of the explosion seemed to be the Danfang, and his master should have been refining Dan at that time.

Fortunately, this person knew the general recipe of his master's alchemy, and Li Buqi asked him to say it again, with a shocked face on his face. Wang Su saw Li Buqi's expression and hurriedly asked him if he knew anything. Li Buqi had no choice but to say that the explosion should be the pill refined by the Taoist priest, and suggested that the Taoist priest should be forbidden to make alchemy in the city in the future after Kaifeng Mansion.

Damn, where is this elixir? This Taoist priest made it clearly thunder mercury! The Taoist priests were originally good at fiddling with lead and mercury in alchemy, but now with sulfuric acid, these Taoist priests must have also made nitric acid, alcohol has been around for a long time, and it is not uncommon to make thunder mercury.

Thundermercury is a very good ignition powder and is very useful, but in the case that safety cannot be guaranteed, Li Buqi still decided to stay away from these Taoist priests, so as not to let the Taoist priests be burdened without knowing it.

Although this explosion somewhat affected the celebration of the Wubei Academy winning the championship, under the publicity of the newspapers, all the subjects of the Great Song Dynasty that could be covered by the newspapers knew that the three princes of the official family were wise and martial, and led the rugby team to win the league championship. The Song people are good gamblers, so they naturally pay attention to various events, and it is much easier for the people to remember a league championship than it is for a literati who has written a few poems of incurrence. Wen Yanbo: What is the use of the poems they took and said to have been written by the Four Princes and published them in the newspaper? Ordinary people don't read it, and even if they do, they can't remember it.

Let Zhao Sheng be in the limelight enough, Li Buqi resigned to the emperor and went to Shaanxi with Zhao Sheng to take office. Zhao Sheng originally had the official title of the Jiedu Envoy, but at this time he was replaced by the Jiedu Envoy of Dunzhou, and he was justifiably the highest governor of the party.

Since Zhao Zhen got this disease, it seems that his ambition has decreased a little, and he has repeatedly warned Li Buqi to be serious, and he is completely incomparable with the high-spirited Zhao Sheng. However, Zhao Zhen still agreed to Li Buqi's request to give priority to the supply of granular gunpowder and arquebuses that had just been developed to Shaanxi in addition to the needs of guarding the Beijing division.

In mid-September, Li Buqi, as the envoy of Shaanxi, was satisfied with Zhao Sheng and set off for Shaanxi. Before setting off, he also sent a message to Zhou Qing in Hokkaido, asking him to send a ship to the east to find the land of Haizhou.

As soon as Li Buqi moved here, Shaanxi was already jubilant, because of the reputation established by Li Buqi in Guangnan, and the civil and military officials of Shaanxi regarded Li Buqi like a walking gold brick. Not to mention anything else, well-informed people already know that the trading houses in Qinzhou that have a relationship with the Fu'an consortium have been buying wool and yak hair and yaks from the various departments of Qingtang and Tubo since the summer, and the commercial houses in Yanzhou and Fuzhou are also buying cattle, sheep and wool from those who are attached to the Great Song Dynasty while building factories, and the Fuzhou Zhejia has purchased quartz sand from the Fanren. Two million guan, wherever it falls, it's a piece of fat.

In mid-October, when Li Buqi arrived at Jingzhao Mansion slowly, it was not surprising that he was greeted with a grand welcome. At the grand reception banquet, people from all walks of life wanted to find out the details of Li Buqi, but Li Buqi just smiled and said nothing, just hinting that he came to Shaanxi regardless of the past, and he was not to blame for what happened in the past, but if anyone dared to let him Li Buqi not be happy in the future, not only would he not take him to make money, but Li Buqi would also make him unhappy for the rest of his life.

Such a domineering statement made some people who received the task from Beijing to give Li Buqi a stumbling block and a fluke in their hearts, and Li Buqi wanted this effect of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger.

Li Buqi is now fearless, who let him be lucky, the Empress Dowager of Western Xia was killed on the way back to the city from hunting in Helan Mountain in October, and the power of Western Xia is now fighting for power. It is estimated that there will be chaos in Western Xia for a few months, and during this time, Li Buqi can concentrate on sorting out the internal affairs of Shaanxi.

At this reception banquet, Li Buqi once again left the opportunity to be in the limelight to Zhao Sheng. Zhao Sheng said that he saw a lot of stone monuments along the way, many of which were inscribed by everyone in the previous dynasty, but now they lack protection and are buried in the wilderness, so please Li Buqi will concentrate on the protection of these stone carvings, so as to give Shaanxi students a place to see the demeanor of their predecessors. It takes a lot of money to transport the stone carvings, and Zhao Sheng says he will donate his own money to do this.

Zhao Sheng has had an official title since he was born, and he can receive a lot of money every month. There have never been many people around him, and there is no place to spend money in Li Buqi and the Martial Arts Academy, but he has saved a lot of money in the past ten years.

This protection inscription is definitely a grand event for the rejuvenation of culture and education, and no one can refuse to admit it. Soon, the newspapers that Li Buqi could influence reported the deeds of the three princes who donated all their money to promote culture and education, and even the retreat of the Western Xia army was said by the advertorial that the Western Xia people were afraid that the prince would personally lead the army to conquer. At this time, Zhao Sheng's popularity among the people has risen again, but it is not comparable to the four princes who can only publish a few plain poems in the newspaper from time to time.