To organize such a large delegation, the athletes are secondary, and the more important is the funding. No matter what era it is, it is difficult to do things without money. However, from the very beginning, the official was more ambiguous about the funding of this mighty division.

First of all, the All-China Sports Association (hereinafter referred to as the "Sports Association"), which organized the expedition, was founded in 1924 and was actually a non-governmental organization, but at that time it played the role of the sports department to a certain extent. In 1931, the Association was officially absorbed as a member of the International Olympic Committee and became the de facto "Chinese Olympic Committee". When the hosting rights of the 11th Olympic Games were decided to Berlin, the International Olympic Committee sent a letter to the Sports Federation, inviting China to participate in the Berlin Olympic Games. But after all, the Sports Association is only a non-governmental organization, and many of his actions have not been communicated with President Jiang's national government, and he has not received full support from the top since the beginning.

However, the experience of the "first Olympic person" in Los Angeles has become an opportunity, and although Liu Changchun's Olympic trip was very unsuccessful, the attention of the Chinese people to the Olympic Games has greatly increased. It was discovered that sports competitions play a huge role in building the national spirit together – such as football and basketball, which are undefeated in Asia. On the other hand, the Olympic Games were held in Germany, which was the honeymoon period of Sino-German relations, and Germany helped and cooperated very closely with China militarily, such as building a defense line against Japan, and Lao Chiang even sent his second son to Germany to study. Therefore, the national government has changed its indifferent attitude in the past, and its enthusiasm for this Olympic Games is quite high. On August 3, 1934, the All-China Sports Association held a temporary board of directors to discuss participation in the "11th World Games". At this time, Mr. Wang was not a big traitor who saved the country, and everyone believed in him, but although his words were beautiful, when the Sports Association handed the budget report to the Executive Yuan, the national government still dropped the chain.

Although the Sports Association is unofficial, it is still very serious and reliable, and the budget is very meticulous, from the training expenses of the athletes, the ferry and train tickets for the delegation to and from Berlin, and the pocket money of the members during their stay in Germany, and the tips for the car and boat attendants. The amount of money required is about 1780,000 fiat currency. However, the original 90 to 100-strong delegation eventually swelled to 141 (according to some opinions, the number of "state-funded tour groups" to Germany, which was forced to cram nearly 40 people into Germany) increased by a third, and the budget was not sufficient in any case. The Executive Yuan didn't care about this, and only approved 170,000 yuan with a stroke of the pen, and let the Sports Association find its own way for the rest of the shortfall. The Sports Association has no income from wool, so it can only stare dryly. Seeing that the departure is imminent, the Sports Association can only go around to "turn fate". It is not right to say that President Jiang did not give support at all, when the Sports Association handed the emergency letter to Jiang's desk, Lao Jiang took out his office funds...... 3000 yuan. Well, less is less, but looking at the chairman taking the lead in donating, there is still a little bit of publicity, and in the end, the sports association received a total of more than 40,000 yuan in donations from home and abroad. However, these are still not enough, and the lack of funds for the Olympics is far more than these tens of thousands of yuan.

The people who finally came forward were Lee Hye Tang and his teammates. He said that the football team can go to Nanyang to sell their performances to subsidize the travel expenses of the team and athletes in other sports - this is the origin of Lu Zhuhu and everyone all the way.

In the past two months, Lu Zhuhu and his entourage have gone to 6 countries (4 at that time), have played 26 games, achieved 23 wins and 3 draws, and earned more than 200,000 Hong Kong dollars in travel expenses. When the real money arrived, everyone felt that the hardships they had endured along the way were completely worth it. The team decided to remit 100,000 Hong Kong dollars to China for the passage - which was more than promised, and everyone was looking forward to the upcoming trip to Berlin.

As a result, the team ushered in an uninvited guest.

The person who came was Zhou Jiaqi, the secretary of the All-China Sports Association.

"I heard that Captain Li and the team members have been making gold recently, and I am gratifying."

"I'm ashamed, if we can really make money every day, we will all fly to Europe." Li Huitang was in a good mood, because the things promised to other athletes could finally be completed, and a big stone fell to the ground in his heart: "We are preparing to remit 100,000 Hong Kong dollars to China." “

But Zhou Jiaqi didn't come to congratulate them.

"I heard that Captain Li already has no less than two or three hundred thousand on hand, but your football team, twenty-two players, plus coaches, team leaders, team doctors, and team photographers, there are only thirty people in total, and there are more than one hundred other members of the delegation, so many people, only 100,000 yuan, not as much as your team's funds, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right?"

Only then did everyone realize that this guy was here to ask for money. In fact, after the national government knew that the football team had raised more than 200,000 Hong Kong dollars, it was quite red-eyed, and it didn't want to think that it was unreasonable, so it directly asked Zhou Jiaqi to come and ask for the account.

To be honest, most of the players felt very angry, the team ate and slept openly, saved money, and did not see the government at that time, but now they think of us! Taking out 100,000 from it is already a large number, and the other party is still too little!

If Lu Zhuhu is still there, it is estimated that he will be given a kick when he goes up.

Dai Linjing said bluntly: "The Olympic funds should have been provided by the government, but the government not only did not give them enough, but instead remembered the money we had worked so hard for!" Emotional Lao Tzu's family doesn't do business, and he is reluctant to eat or wear for tens of thousands of miles, is it for him to work for the Jiang family? “

The other players were of the same opinion and simply did not agree to give more money to each other.

Seeing that they were going to break up unhappily, captain Li Huitang enlightened everyone that although the football team had the money to go to Berlin, the travel expenses of other teams, if we didn't take action, they really didn't get it. Football is the leader of Chinese sports, the most well-developed and the best, and it is reasonable to make more sacrifices to help those less popular sports. If you don't set an example as a national skill, it will be difficult for other sports to develop and achieve results. The country is already very difficult, I hope we strive for honor to boost the morale of the country, this time the Chinese World Games delegation to Berlin is a whole, it is useless to rely on a certain person and a certain team, we should take into account the overall situation!

His words touched the team members, and Dai Linjing sighed and said, "Guangliang, sooner or later, you will suffer a loss in this foolish loyalty to the country." “

Zhou Jiaqi, or the authorities behind him who wanted to cut leeks but refused to contribute, achieved their goal.

Although there was still an indescribable awkwardness in their hearts, everyone unanimously agreed to remit 30,000 Hong Kong dollars to the original 100,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Not for the sake of the face of someone who controls the "fate of China", but to take care of the athletes who are still stranded in Shanghai because they have no travel expenses.