I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Yi Bowen picked up a copy of the "Beijing-Shanghai Railway Feasibility Study Plan", blew the dust, put it on the shelf, and said indifferently: "Don't worry, King Chu, Long Live is a person with the most affection and nature. Sometimes he would say... some vulgar language, you see, he didn't say 'Niang Xipi', he didn't even speak his native dialect, which means he wasn't very angry."

"This……"

Zuo Zongtang was surprised, "But the Holy Majesty smashed all the vases. Something must have happened. Did the British, animal and law ghosts invade my side wall again and kill my compatriots?"

"Ah? No, no, Lord Chu, you misunderstood! Long Live Lord got angry for another reason..."

Ibowen slapped his head and sighed, "Don't mention it, just before you came to the Olympic Village, the Daming Men's Football Team once again failed in the quarter-finals, and they have not been in the quarter-finals for two consecutive years.

When Lord Long Live was watching the game in the private room in the morning, he scolded much worse than this, and now he is very elegant.

This is how the fans watch the game, Lord Chu, don't be offended...

By the way, your Xichu men's football team seems to have entered the semi-finals, congratulations!

But my lord, please don't bring this up in front of the Long Live Lord, otherwise he will really turn his back..."

Chapter 687 The Unexpected Spoiler

As Ibowen said, Zhu Fugui couldn't believe it, the Daming men's football team lost again.

Or can't say "again".

Four years ago, the football team still fought to a draw with the British, but this time, they really lost, purely technically.

This made him full of confidence, and with a small amount of private money, Zhu Fugui, the stud champion of the Ming Dynasty, spewed out a mouthful of old blood in the Suzhou casino still under the rule of Li Hongzhang.

Although Zhu Fugui doesn't like gambling, he also hates gambling.

But this time is different.

In Zhu Fugui's mind, the business of beating Daming to win the championship is not a gambling, but a killing game for the landlords of the former Qing Dynasty.

Although most of the landlords and old fortunes gathered in Suzhou and Shanghai are betting on Daming to win the championship, there are always young people who want to give it a go and change their bicycles into motorcycles.

What they bet on is nothing more than the variable of whether the Germans will participate.

Great powers such as Britain, France, Russia and their dependent countries will definitely not come to Shijiazhuang to compete.

Only the German men's football team is likely to cause a little trouble for the Ming men's football team.

As long as the odds are attractive enough, there will inevitably be some fools who will pressure the Daming men's football team to lose.

But the wise Zhu Fugui said that he already knew the inside story.

In the exchange of telegrams between the heads of state, Brother William has clearly stated that the German men's football team trained in the last World Cup has all been machine gunned into sieves in the Belgian campaign, and there is no way to come to Ming Dynasty to compete.

On the European battlefield at this time, the bloody Belgian front has cost both sides more than 100 million lives.

Among them, several football players died, which is normal.

After all, among the major powers now, only the Ming Dynasty and the British Empire did not implement the universal military service system under full mobilization.

In the course of the previous war of more than a year, the strength of France surged from 70 before the war to 330 million;

Germany surged from 75 to 470 million;

Russia surged from 120 million to 550 million;

Austria-Hungary swelled from 40 to 300 million.

Even the Ottoman army of Abdul's younger brother has sold their iron, increasing from 100 million to 280 million.

In contrast, as the real engines of the two major imperialist blocs, the Alliance and the Entente, those with the same heart and mind did not explode their troops in full force, but supported their allies through technology, materials, money and other means.

At present, the total strength of the British army has exceeded 100 million.

Counting the servants of the colonies, there are more than 200 million, less than 300 million.

Compared with his huge body, it is extremely limited.

On Daiming's side, the current total strength of the commanders and envoys in major cities is 120 million.

Counting the Chu Army, Tang Army, Song Army, and Taiping Army, the total number is more than 200 million.

It can be said that it is on par with Daiying.

It's just that the pressure on Dai Ying from the three core regions of Europe, North America, and South Asia is increasing, and it is almost overwhelmed, and a plan for a full-scale explosion has also been launched.

In short, Daming is now in a favorable position where it can be attacked and defended. It is similar to the Yankees who were up for grabs and fished for fish during the two world wars in history.

In general, because France is much weaker than in history, the Iron Triangle combination of William I, Bismarck, and old Moltke is much stronger than William II's team, and Ming Liangzong continues to transfuse blood from the 2B main artery, so The European battlefield of this World War is developing in a direction favorable to the Germans.

But even so, the Germans have absolutely no mood and spare energy to participate in the shitty Olympics.

So, since the Germans can't come, wouldn't I, Daming, be able to capture the champion?

Zhu Fugui said, please pour Auntie Victoria a cup of coffee, no one will beat me in this wave!

however……

A spell is a spell.

The accident still happened.

Zhu Fugui has calculated thousands of times, but he didn't calculate that in this anxious and tragic war, there is another guy who is as idle as himself, who has the leisure to respond to the call of the International Olympic Committee and send a representative of the establishment The team came to Daming to compete.

Moreover, it is also a quasi-ally of Da Ming, so Da Ming has no reason to reject him!

That's right!

It's the Italian guy!

When the Italian cruise ship "Milan" slowly arrived at Tianjin Port a month ago, Zhu Fugui had a bad premonition in his heart.

The ship brought a letter of greeting from King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy to His Majesty Zhu Fugui, Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Along with the letter, there were several boxes of refined Italian caviar, instant macaroni, and Roman Pizza!

Victor Emmanuel II said happily in the letter: "Thanks to the ingenuity of Ming scientists and engineers, under their prompting, Italy has now invented and perfected advanced food processing technology, and the taste of Italian soldiers' military rations has reached Continental advanced level, Italian cuisine will definitely make outstanding contributions to our just cause! Lunga vita!"

Zhu Fugui couldn't believe his eyes.

This Apennines old miscellaneous hair actually spent several years, consuming a lot of manpower and material resources, and handed over Daming's canning technology, preservative technology, and even instant noodle technology to the cottage!

While the Germans were trying to imitate Daming's tractors, Italy spent all its energy on this kind of ghost!

Zhu Fugui checked the cans produced by the Italians, and found that the airtightness is quite good, and the quality is already close to that of Wajima cans.

Properly the first in Europe!

but……

This is useful!

You can't do industrialization like Daming to keep costs down!

You are still semi-handmade, right?

How many man-hours is this wasted?

Isn't fried noodles fragrant with Alpine snow?

Zhu Fugui can even imagine that when Brother William learned that he was tough against the British and French allied forces and the Russians on the Eastern Front, one of his allies was playing football, the other was studying how delicious macaroni was, and the other was spending a lot of foreign exchange on fermented grape juice , I don't know if he will vomit blood in anger and die early.

So Zhu Fugui didn't have the mind and position to accuse the Italians of not doing their job properly.

At this time, Zhu Fugui's mind was full of that terrible curse.

In the next half month, there are always two villains in Zhu Fugui's mind, one is the birdman Zhu Fugui, and the other is the demon Zhu Fugui, they pull each other.

In the end, Fuguiniao won.

Zhu Fugui felt that my Daming man is also a strong team in the world, a strong seed team, and there is no need to use outside tactics to deal with a mere bunch of Apennine sick men.

Then, the tragedy happened half a month later.

In the group stage, the Daming men's football team, who punched Ke Lima, kicked Seattle, and abused vegetables so that they flew, won all three games and qualified as the number one in the group.

Then, in the ensuing quarter-finals, the boys of the Daming men's football team met the Italian team.

Chapter 688 Ibowen's determination

This is an intense game.

Objectively speaking, the boys of Daming performed very well.

Under the on-the-spot formation under the guidance of Gao, the Daming team took advantage of the opponent's short stature and relied on their physical advantages to pass long passes and hit high, which was quite the shadow of the Germanic chariots of later generations.

However, perhaps from some kind of mysterious curse, several threatening shots from Daming's side all missed the post and crossbar.

The Italian side set up the bus and played ugly defensive football.

This may be the bad start of Tongliao team's 10-0-0 formation winning the World Cup four years ago.

It will mislead the development of world football for a long time.

In the end, the game ended in overtime, and the two sides scored a goalless draw without a single goal.

In the penalty shootout that followed, if the Italian goalkeeper Umberto had a divine help, it seemed that he was not fighting alone, but was possessed by the souls of countless younger generations.

In a moment of suffocating tension, Umberto actually saved two penalty kicks from Daming.

In the end, Daming Men lost 4 to 5 regrettably, ending the second World Cup trip.

The Italian team suddenly became the dark horse to win the second World Cup.

But after a few days, the final champion was not Italian.

In the group stage, the Lahua Zhongwang team, which was easily beaten by Daming and scored four goals, ranked second in the group. In the final, they defeated the Italian 3-0 cleanly.

The Delaware Kings team won the third place.

Because South America is so rich and vast, the kings of the Taiping Hua Kingdom were able to separate peacefully, become independent, and establish a loose alliance. (South America is much larger than it appears on the map, in fact it covers an area of ​​260T.)

It can be said that this time the team from the Lahua region presented a wonderful visual feast to the audience in Shijiazhuang.

Although the vast majority of farmers in Hebei who watched it for free didn't understand anything.

……

Ibowen gently pushed open the door of the office, and saw Lord Long Live lying on the sofa with his eyes closed.

It's just that the muscles on Long Live's face twitched, and sometimes his hands moved involuntarily.

Yi Bowen felt that the Lord Long Live seemed to be really pissed off.

Xiao Gao's year-end award may be suspended.

What Ibowen didn't know was that Zhu Fugui seemed to be resting with his eyes closed, but he had actually started a game of live football.

In the game, the Daming men's football team he pinches his face, under his delicate manipulation...

Didn't even appear in the group stage.

But it's not a big problem.

After several live rounds, Zhu Fugui's mood improved.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that Yi Bowen was holding a small bamboo basket and carefully packing up the smashed pieces of high imitation official kiln porcelain piece by piece.

"Bowen... It's a worthless thing anyway. If it breaks, it will be broken. Just take a broom and dispose of it. Don't pick it up with your hands. If your hand is injured, who will replace the manuscript for the opening ceremony of Shijiazhuang No. [-] Primary School?" I write?"

Zhu Fugui knew that this guy had a solid foundation in Sinology and a high level of appreciation of cultural relics.

Porcelain is no better than those ancient cultural relics that the ancients have never seen before, so they cannot be fooled, so I will tell the truth.

But who knows, Yi Bowen sighed: "Long live, I have admired the culture of the Central Plains for a long time. If this porcelain from the official kiln of the Song Dynasty was placed in the Japanese and puppet imperial palace, it would be regarded as a treasure.

Of course, it was a blessing for it to be dropped by you, Long Live. In fact, I feel that it is even more valuable after being dropped by your dragon claw.

Lord Long Live please allow me to take it home and find a good craftsman to slowly repair it as a family heirloom. "

"what?"

Zhu Fugui jumped up from the sofa, "What are you talking about? This is the porcelain from the official kiln of the Song Dynasty? How did I remember that on the purchase list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, this is the new porcelain allocated from my internal funds?"

Yi Bowen was stunned, pointed to a porcelain vase in the corner of the wall that was similar in size but with a different pattern, and said, "Long Live Lord, where is your vase? This one was just sent by Tang Wang Li Hongzhang. Dear Ruci..."

"Huh? Is this Ruci?"

Looking at the fragments in the bamboo basket, Zhu Fugui felt dizzy for a while. After a long time, he nodded and said, "Sure enough, I have good eyesight. Of course I know that it is Song Dynasty porcelain, but Song people are too timid. I don't like it. Tell Li Hongzhang not to give it to me in the future." It is a cultural relic of the Song Dynasty."

"If you want to send it, you can send it to the Han and Tang Dynasties, or the Shang and Zhou Dynasties!" Zhu Fugui added after a pause.

Ibowen nodded and made a note, and it will be arranged in a while.