Pengzhou Mansion.

The prefect's Lin family compound.

Lin Shiren sat in the first seat, and in front of him was a servant with his head on the ground.

"Haven't you found that seed yet?"

"Back to my lord, not yet. We searched all the surrounding counties, and also went to the capital, but we couldn't find any trace of him. The servant replied tremblingly.

"Rubbish!!" Lin Shiren couldn't help but feel angry when he thought that his family had been stolen by that evil seed and that he had disappeared with that dead old man.

The servant knelt there and did not dare to move.

"Forget it, don't look for it." Anyway, eight months have passed, and the matter of the abandoned woman suing the officials has long since subsided, so it must be very difficult for Link to sue him, and he is the prefect, and his father-in-law is a member of the third grade, so do you need to be afraid of a little ghost who doesn't understand anything?

He knew Link's character, he was cowardly and short-sighted by nature, and it was impossible to endanger himself.

At this time, the son walked in striding in with a smile on his face: "Dad, I want to organize a football team, I want to enter Beijing!" ”

"Soccer team?" Lin Shiren's attitude towards Lin Zijun is quite fatherly, and he basically meets his needs.

"Dad, I just heard the news, the football team in Dujing is very hot, the Son of Heaven and the prince are all paying attention, and the prime minister, the cabinet scholars, Shangshu, and the sons of the king are all playing this now, so I want to form a football team by myself, and then go to Beijing to play with them, and befriend them by the way."

"Really? Are the emperor and the crown prince paying attention? ”

"That's natural, the caravans coming back from the capital all say so."

Pengzhou Mansion is thousands of kilometers away from Dujing, and the trip is very inconvenient, so generally all kinds of news will be a few points behind, and the sources of news are basically only post stations and caravans.

"I heard that there was a commoner named Zhang Ke on the side of Dujing, who invented football, and then successfully befriended the sons of those first-class and second-class officials. I'm thinking, since a commoner can rely on football to make friends with that group of young masters, there is no reason why I, the prefect, can't make friends. ”

"Well, you're right." Lin Shiren was also said to be moved, if his son really made friends with the sons of these ministers, wouldn't his future career be smooth?

"I really envy that guy named Zhang Ke...... Lin Zijun said.

Zhang Ke...... Wait, you said that person's name is Zhang Ke? When Lin Shiren heard this name, he suddenly had a whim, as if this person was related to him.

"That's right, it's called Zhang Ke, this person is awesome, I heard the people in the caravan say, this humanistic style, poetry and songs, many famous prostitutes are eager to recommend their pillows, I really envy the dead man......"

Lin Shiren didn't pay attention to his son's vulgarity, but said a little distractedly: "Zhang Ke...... Link...... Zhang's ...... Could it be him? But how is that possible? ”

Lin Shiren shook his head and smiled, secretly blaming himself for being too careful, how could a kid who was kept in captivity in the yard be able to write poetry and songs?

However, Lin Shiren soon didn't want to think about this, he received good news from his father-in-law today, there is a vacancy in the ministry this year, and the secretary is very satisfied with his local governance in recent years, so he asked the emperor for instructions at today's court meeting to promote him to Beijing to fill the vacancy, and the result should come out this month.

As soon as he thought of the news, Lin Shiren was so excited that he couldn't sleep.

After five years in this Pengzhou Mansion, it is great that I finally got the opportunity.

Lin Shiren is already fantasizing about the beautiful scene of entering Beijing in the future, becoming an official and becoming a knight, and finally worshipping the prime minister.

"By the way, we can't be negligent yet, we have to dot, dot." Lin Shiren hurriedly greeted his wife and asked her to prepare the silver to enter Beijing and hand it over to her father-in-law to help with the cabinet and officials.

When Lin Shiren was in a good mood, Lin Zijun easily got 100 taels of silver, and then gathered a group of pig friends and dog friends to start organizing the team. At this time, there were quite a few caravans coming back, so the rules of the football game were also passed on.

After training for 2 weeks, Lin Zijun felt that the team's skills had passed, so he directly led the team to the north, ready to tie up the young masters in the capital.

What he didn't know was that at the same time, people from all counties and prefectures of the Daqian Dynasty organized football teams to go north one after another, some with dreams, some ready to do what they liked, and some ready to tie up.

If there is something good at the top, it will be very bad at the bottom, that's what it means.

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Outside the capital.

Millennium Longquan Football Stadium.

After more than a month of construction, a solid and huge stepped football stadium was built here, which cost nearly 100,000 silver and was jointly funded by several large merchants.

At this time, there were nearly 10,000 fanatical fans sitting in the surrounding spectator seats, constantly shouting and cheering for the two teams in the stadium.

The Daqian Dynasty is now prosperous and prosperous, and the country and the people are safe, so the wind of entertainment has gradually spread, and football has hit the key point of the people at this time.

In a self-contained box on the edge of the football field, Link and his family are sitting in comfortable leather chairs watching the game. Today, in addition to Lin Ke and Huang Ting'an, there is also a bigger boss - the crown prince of the dynasty.

"Brother Zhang Ke, I've always wanted to see you, and now I've finally met you." The prince looked at Link with a smile.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said this, and the grass people are really ashamed."

The prince's character is notoriously mellow, but not pedantic, he belongs to the king of seven points and three points of progress, and his reputation among the people has always been very high.

After the game, the caretaker of the football stadium began to report the day's income to the bosses present.

"The number of visitors is 11,000, and the entrance fee is 10 wen per person, and a total of 1,100 taels of silver are charged. In addition, a total of 4,000 drinks and snacks were sold, and the income was 800 taels of silver. So the competition earned a total of 1,900 taels of silver. ”

The prince was taken aback: "That's all for one game? ”

The stadium steward smiled: "Today's game is not the most popular, so there is still less income, yesterday's game had a lot of fans, and our single game income was 3,100 taels of silver." ”

The prince's face was moved, he knew that this competition was profitable when he listened to the report of his subordinates, but he didn't know that it was so profitable.

The stadium steward smiled: "This is not 10,000, just after the game, 4 big merchants from other places bought 4 advertising spaces, and won a total of 30,000 taels of silver......

"Hiss~~~~~ "The prince is really moved now, Nima, it's so easy to get 30,000?"

When he was participating in politics, he often heard the household department complain about how difficult the state finances were, and sometimes they were all blushing over the plan of tens of thousands of taels.

And it's really rare to make money and earn a reputation and be praised by the people.

The prince was even more satisfied with Link: "Brother Zhang Ke is really a talent, why don't you enter the court......"

Link kept shaking his head with a bitter face: "Forget it, I'm used to being lazy, and I can't stand it if I am an official......"

Seeing that Link's words were not hypocritical, the prince sighed: "It's a pity, businessmen are lowly after all. ”

Link smiled and said nothing.

After the crown prince returned to the palace, he reported today's events to the emperor as soon as possible. The emperor was already getting old at this time, and it was inconvenient to walk, so even if he was interested in football, he couldn't watch it, so he could only listen to the description of the eunuch and palace maid to satisfy his hunger.

After hearing the prince say that football is so profitable, he was also a little surprised, and when he thought that the emperor and the prince had half of the dividends in it, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "This young man is quite interesting, he knows how to advance and retreat, and he is not greedy." ”

The prince also smiled: "I also think he is a good person, although he is a common man and a merchant family, but he has an extraordinary bearing." ”

"It's not quite right to say that he is a merchant family." The emperor called the eunuch in, "I checked his background, and it was interesting." ”

The prince took the document in the eunuch's hand, looked at it, and soon his face became strange.

Framing a woman's name? Plotting to seize the family property? Abandon your wife? Threatening the old father-in-law? Confining a son?

When the prince finished reading the book and closed it, his face was very ugly: "If the guess on the book is true, then this Lin Shiren is really an unfilial and vicious and hypocritical person." Some time ago, there was a minister who wanted to promote Lin Shiren, and praised him for his virtue and humility, father, you still want to promote him, I didn't expect it. ”

Unfilial piety, this is the biggest crime in the world, and the vicious hypocrisy also makes the mellow prince very disliked. At this moment, the prince wanted to immediately peel off the official skin of Lin Shiren.

"So, you can't just look at your subjects...... you look at your subjects," the emperor taught.

Link didn't know that his information was being watched by the emperor and the crown prince at this time, and he successfully tricked Lin Shiren.

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