A.D. 1638, the beginning of the first emperor's calendar in 1858.

It's another year of Chinese New Year, and unlike in the past, there are a lot of 'foreign' people in Chang'an City. These football team members from various forces have completed the most basic training and have a full understanding of the rules of the game.

At the same time, in order to show the generosity of the Chinese People's Republic and the attitude of compatriots who do not distinguish between you and me, in the New Year of 1638, the teams of various forces are not only eligible to watch the Spring Festival Gala together, but also can get a good Spring Festival condolence payment.

Helplessly, they all chose to send the money back to their loved ones instead of enjoying it themselves. I think they also know that their life here is not bad, at least they can eat and clothe themselves, but their relatives at home are still struggling to support themselves in hunger and cold. They need the money more than they need it.

The first quarter of the league has begun, and this is the best time for football teams to pick up points. People from other forces also planned to join in, but the Congress banned them from participating in the first quarter of the league on the grounds that they were not familiar with the rules and regulations of the game, let alone the actual competition of the system.

This reason is a bit far-fetched, but it can also be seen as a kind of protection for the team of the Republic. However, this is someone else's territory, even if they know this, the teams of other forces can only endure it silently. However, Zhang Hongbin didn't know what the reason was, and he authorized them to participate in this league.

Congress is having a headache, but the teams of the various forces are cheering.

It is not denied that with their joining, the game has truly entered the hot battle stage. The new style of football was created in the Republic, and the football teams here practiced and became familiar with these 'foreign' teams before them. If you lose to this group of novices in the quarterly competition, what face do you have?

Perhaps because of the large number of participants in this competition, the entire Chang'an had to build at least 20 sports fields in various places some time ago. This is not only for the event, but also to give ordinary people a chance to compete in ordinary times. And in the future, because of the improvement of the team's means of transportation and communication, the local branch of the Football Association can also arrange events for them, and then they basically do not need to continue to gather in Chang'an City, they only need to fight in various places or expeditions to other cities. At that time, there will also be a distinction between home and away games.

The first quarter lasted for two months, and the corresponding team names began to appear in the three rankings of A, B and C. Of course, there are many more teams that are eliminated in this quarterly tournament and have to disband their teams. Moreover, many of them come from various forces in China.

With the list, there are naturally special venues and funds for the competition, and of course, if you want to watch the game, you must pay a certain amount of money to buy tickets.

Among them, to watch the game of the C-division team, you need to pay a three-penny ticket fee; To watch a second division team play, you need to pay 10 cents for the ticket; If you want to watch a first-division team play, you need to pay 30 yuan for the ticket. In general, this price is very insignificant for most of the people of the republic. Even if it doesn't cost money, the next day, the sports section of the "Weekly" will be dedicated to commenting on the first-class matches, and when the time comes, you can read guò text to see the situation at that time. However, it is naturally not as enjoyable as seeing it with your own eyes.

The first time the funds were issued, many teams were happy. The most speechless thing is that individual teams in the first division even advertise for some businesses openly, and then earn advertising fees. But amazingly, it's not a forbidden thing. Because the game will have the advertising sponsorship required for the game, this kind of advertising contract for the football team itself, as well as the football players themselves, the country and the Football Association will not care.

This seems to have given the football team a means to make a fortune, and the competition for the sub-league table has become even stronger. After all, only by entering the first grade, especially in the top three, can it be possible to get advertising money.

Almost all of the 12 first-division teams today are Republican teams, but they are still a little variegated in them. There are at least two teams from Daming, namely the 10th-ranked Daming Royal Team and the 12th-ranked Daming Supreme Team. Other than that, they are all the ranks of the Republic. Moreover, there are no active military personnel in it at all. After all, between the mobilization of professional football players and the mobilization of professional soldiers, there is only one choice.

Amateur teams are not eligible to enter the list.

As for the teams of the other forces, they were either recruited by the Republic, or something happened to the forces behind them.

For example, the Guangxi team, whose ruler has been eliminated by Li Zicheng. Therefore, their team can only announce its disbandment, and then be absorbed by other teams. After all, they are not dismissed by minus five, so their players can join other teams directly. However, there are quite a few such deposits, and they choose to go back because they are worried that something will happen to their loved ones.

Not only Guangxi, but also other places have different changes.

For example, Cao Cao of Huguang drove Lao Hui away, and Lao Hui Hui began to enter the scourge places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang; Another example is that the Ming Dynasty lifted the ban on going to sea and has begun to build a shipyard in Shandong. But first, a pier was set up to facilitate the docking of ships. Of course, the city department was also set up and renamed the customs to collect customs duties. When he saw this information, Zhang Hongbin had to admire Li Luo's wisdom.

Yunnan's Muwangfu is about to move, and it seems that it has the intention of counterattacking Sichuan. After the people below reported this, the people in the Congress were more or less unhappy.

A small Mu Wangfu, located in the wilderness of Yunnan, is not good at guarding Yunnan, but dare to pick up the tiger's whiskers? If you don't teach a good lesson, others are afraid that they will think that the Chinese People's Republic has been established, but they will become weak and afraid!

The Congress sent Zhang Hongbin an application for war, and Zhang Hongbin naturally agreed. Seeing that Daming has begun to have an outlet to the sea, it is too inferior if he has not yet entered the sea. The policy of first laying down Yunnan, then the southeastern peninsula, and finally using this as a foundation to expand maritime business was decided several years ago.

As for the national league in two months, it can naturally be continued, after all, it does not require much troops and material resources to deal with small places like Yunnan and the Southeast Peninsula. In terms of manpower, Zhang Hongbin has also saved a lot, no matter how bad it is, learn from Daming to recruit temporary workers!

In this way, the Congress passed Guò's application for the use of troops in Yunnan, and the 50,000-strong army began to assemble, and then went south.