During the banquet, Qin Zheng also received many invitations for events, including three of which Qin Zheng agreed on the spot. The first invitation was made by Li Hongzhang to invite members of the negotiation team to attend a banquet held by Shanghai officials on behalf of the Qing government in Shanghai. Although the time travelers do not have the official position of the court, the Qing court has officially issued an order to recognize the time travelers as descendants of China, which is equivalent to identifying the time travelers. Moreover, the Qing court also needs the help of time travelers in this negotiation. Therefore, for reason, the Shanghai government should also invite the time travelers' negotiation team. And for this invitation, the time travelers naturally cannot refuse.

The second invitation was sent by the Shanghai Public Concession Bureau of the Industrial Department, inviting time travelers to attend a dance. The Industrial Department is the highest authority in the Concession and is two institutions with consulates of various countries. The main responsibility of the Industrial Department is to do a good job in economic construction of the Concession. After the Time Travelers occupied Tianjin, they have been focusing on restoring Tianjin's economy. They have not violated the commercial banks and factories opened by various countries in Tianjin, and have also carried out extensive economic cooperation with various countries. Economic exchanges with Shanghai have also increased significantly. This is of course a good thing for the Shanghai Concession authorities.

Because the time travelers have now occupied Weihai and Qingdao, countries basically have no intention of coming back, which means that the time travelers will have more opportunities to cooperate with other countries. Therefore, the Ministry of Industry and Technology invited the negotiation team to attend the dance, hoping to further strengthen economic exchanges with the time travelers to obtain more and greater benefits.

As for the time travelers, the time travelers have not yet obtained the authorization of the Qing court to govern Tianjin, Weihai, Qingdao and other places, but all countries have seen this clearly. The places occupied by the time travelers will never be easily vomited out, and the current Qing court does not have the ability to bring these places back from the time travelers, so the final result can only be to default to the time travelers occupying and ruling these places. In fact, the Qing court has really taken back these places, and all countries are not afraid. It is difficult for the Qing court to dare to touch the interests of various countries?

The third invitation was made by Zhao Weizhong, representing Chinese businessmen from Shanghai, who invited negotiation groups to attend the banquet of Shanghai Chinese businessmen. Their purpose was similar to the Shanghai Public Concession Industry Bureau and also hoped to engage in economic exchanges with time travelers. After all, after more than 30 years of Westernization Movement, a group of national capitalists have been cultivated in China. Although the number of people is not large and the capital strength is very weak, this is indeed the spark of the Chinese national bourgeoisie and represents the advanced productivity of this era. However, under the dual oppression of feudal forces and imperialism, it is quite difficult for Chinese national capital to be developed at this time.

In this regard, Zhao Weizhong also played a significant role. He vigorously promoted the time travelers in Shanghai to attach importance to business, industry, and strict government orders. Of course, these businessmen are all worldly-wise, and of course they will not easily believe Zhao Weizhong's statement. However, Zhao Weizhong only took a few months to squeeze into Tianjin's first-class businessmen. This is certainly because he has the dual agents of overseas Chinese and Li Hongzhang, but it is also related to the policies and systems of overseas Chinese. Moreover, in the past few months, overseas Chinese have indeed purchased a large amount of supplies in Shanghai, and have trade with many foreign merchants in Shanghai. A large number of machines ordered from abroad also passed through Shanghai, which proves that overseas Chinese do attach importance to the development of industry.

Since there are such business opportunities, the businessmen naturally would not have calculated it, so they decided to jointly organize a banquet and invite overseas Chinese negotiation teams to participate to see if they can get any opportunities from overseas Chinese.

Zhao Weizhong was naturally happy. Now he has become a top businessman in Tianjin. After this banquet, his status in the business world in Shanghai will also increase significantly. Through this banquet, he can also make friends with a large number of Shanghai Chinese businessmen, which will be of great benefit to his future business exhibition in Shanghai.

Qin Zheng naturally wants to give Zhao Weizhong a face. In addition, through this banquet, he can also meet Chinese businessmen in Shanghai, promote the political concepts of time travelers, and even attract them to invest in Tianjin and Qingdao, which is also beneficial to the time travelers' exhibition.

There were some other invitations, but Qin Zheng did not completely refuse. He only said that he would participate if he had time, or sent other people to participate, which also made the invitees very satisfied. At least he felt that the attitude of overseas Chinese was much better than that of the Qing court officials.

In this way, the banquet was held in a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere until the end.

Wang Hailong and Martinez formally negotiated the details of the football match in a conference room under the arrangement of the hotel. Although the two had a gunpowder-like battle at the banquet just now, both of them knew that no matter how fierce or fierce the words were, it was useless. The real victory or defeat was still tied on the court. Before that, both sides had to reach an agreement on some game details, so both of them sat down calmly and negotiated seriously.

The first thing to determine is the location of the competition. Shanghai does not have a real football field, so the public concession decided to set up the football field at the Shanghai Racecourse because the racecourse has enough venues and stand facilities. With a slight renovation, it can be converted into a football field.

The current Shanghai Racecourse is the third racecourse built by foreigners in Shanghai. It was built in 1861. Its address is the People's Park in the old time and space. The total area is about 50 acres. In the old time and space, the Shanghai Art Museum, located at No. 325 Nanjing West Road, is the Shanghai Racecourse Building of this era. It is only about 350 meters away from the Licha Hotel, which can be said to be the most suitable place.

Wang Hailong had no objection to the location of the game. After all, this can only be arranged by the Shanghai Concession. It only requires 2-3 times to be adapted to the competition venue, each training will take no less than half a day, and there will be a place for daily training. Martines agreed to this, because the Shanghai Racecourse can not only hold football matches, but also provide enough training grounds. In addition, the Racecourse can also provide temporary rest and change clothes in the Racecourse Building.

After the game location is determined, the rules of the game are determined. The original football rules were born on January 26, 1863, with a total of 14 items, so this day was also designated as the birthday of modern football. The subsequent time and the 14 rules were revised and improved. Until now, the basic content of football rules is basically the same as that of modern football rules in the old time and space. Of course, there are some differences. One is that there are no red and yellow cards yet, but the referee has the right to expel the player from the game; the other is the offside rule. The current offside rule is "at least two defensive players in front of the receiver except the goalkeeper", and the offside rule in the old time and space "at least one defensive player in front of the receiver except the goalkeeper" was modified in 1925.

Wang Hailong did not want to change the football rules of this era, but just wanted to understand the differences between the football rules of this era and the old time and space. After listening to Martinez's introduction, Wang Hailong was relieved because only the offside rules were different, and it basically had no impact on the Time Traveler team.

Martinez has no objection to other things such as jerseys, sneakers, furniture, etc., and can wear anything with other time travelers.

The key to determining the referee's issue, Martinez suggested that the French or Italians be invited to serve as referees, of course, Wang Hailong rejected this. What a joke, aren't France and Italy all members of the Eight-Nation Alliance? It would be better to just find a British man as a referee.

Martinez also estimated that Wang Hailong would not agree to such an arrangement, but he could not think of a better solution, so he asked Wang Hailong what to do. If Wang Hailong could not come up with a good solution, he could only do it according to Martinez's arrangement.

However, Martinez obviously underestimated Wang Hailong, because Wang Hailong had long come up with a solution, which is to adopt a double referee system, that is, each side will produce a referee and a lineman to jointly manage the game, and the two referees will each manage one half. In this way, both sides will be equal and no one will suffer a loss.

After listening to Wang Hailong's solution, Martinez was stunned for a long time. To be honest, he really didn't expect Wang Hailong to come up with such a solution. However, after thinking about it, Martinez still agreed to Wang Hailong's suggestion, because Martinez could not come up with a better plan than Wang Hailong, and this plan was indeed equal to both sides, and no one would suffer any loss. More importantly, this was the suggestion put forward by Wang Hailong. There was no excuse for overseas Chinese to lose this game.

Finally, Wang Hailong made another request to Martinez, which was to ask Martinez to provide at least ten game balls to the time traveler to ensure training. Because the football used by the time traveler was an inflatable football brought by the old time and space, and the technology of this era could not create inflatable football, but filled with football. The outer skin was made of animal skin, stuffed with cotton flowers and rags inside.

Of course, the foot feeling of these two footballs is different. Wang Hailong estimated that this game must be made of football from this era, and he was too lazy to compete with Martinez. He only asked Martinez for ten footballs to ensure his training.

Originally, the rules and referees negotiated by Wang Hailong and Martinez just now attracted some attention from Martinez, because the questions raised by Wang Hailong were not only detailed, but also very Guan Jian. He was not someone with enough experience and could not raise such questions. But in the end, Wang Hailong asked Martinez for football, which made Martinez completely relieved because they didn't even have formal football, so there was nothing to be afraid of. So Martinez also expressed very readily that he could provide 15 footballs to the time traveler.
Chapter completed!