Chapter 386 Football Match (7)
As soon as the game ended, the British team members, Martinez, and the players on the bench all ran away like thieves and left the stadium. The time travelers were all still on the stadium, including coach Wang Hailong and other substitutes, all came to the stadium and circled around the stadium to greet the Chinese audience.
Wang Hailong knew how to build momentum. As soon as he arrived on the court, he greeted the gongs, dragons, and lions on the scene. He followed the team members around the court, and gongs and drums were roaring together, and lions and dragons danced together, which added a bit of festive and joyful color.
In the stands, most of the foreigners had been exposed, and the remaining Chinese audience seemed to be still in the game just now. They waved their arms and shouted the slogan "Revitalize China and strive for self-improvement". The sound shook the clouds and the earth seemed to be trembling. If it weren't for the large number of policemen and soldiers guarding the scene, a large number of spectators would have rushed down the stands. And at this time, the sound of firecrackers was sounded. It turned out that the Chinese gathered outside the field had already known the news that the time travelers had won and lit up the firecrackers to celebrate.
At this time, on the VIP stage, there were two kinds of sadness and joy. As soon as the game ended, Huo Bilan hurriedly got off the VIP stage and went down to find Martinez. First, he could not stay on the VIP stage for a moment; second, it was someone else's accusation that Huo Bilan could not defend himself, but he could rebuke Martinez without hesitation. After all, Martinez patted his chest and promised him that he could win the game.
However, when Martinez came to the players' lounge, there was no one. It turned out that Martinez also felt that the game was like this and had no face to see Huo Bilan again. Therefore, as soon as the game ended, he took the players with him and didn't even change his jerseys and ran back to the warship to hide. The crosser players circled around the sidelines and thanked the audience, but were not in the lounge. Huo Bilan stayed for a while, but finally had no face to go back to the VIP desk. So he sneaked out of the stadium and went back to the consulate to think of other ways. Huo Bilan knew very well that this game would undoubtedly be a major blow to his reputation and political future. If he didn't find a way to make up for it as soon as possible, his political career would probably end.
After Huo Bilan got off the VIP station, other consuls also stood up and left. After all, Britain represented all foreigners. The British team lost so badly that other consuls also felt their faces were dull. However, the consuls were all diplomats after all. Although they were unhappy, there were also superficial etiquette. In addition to the Russian Consul Dmitryev, several other consuls came to say hello to Qin Zheng, Li Hongzhang and others. American Consul Guna and French Consul Bai Zaotai also congratulated Qin Zheng.
German Consul Knapesh also shook hands with Qin Zheng and said, "Political Commissar Qin, congratulations to your team for winning. This is really a wonderful game and it is impressive. It is not easy to embarrass the British."
Qin Zheng smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Consul, but this is just an ordinary game, so don't interpret it too much. We also welcome such competitions with other countries to enhance our friendship and exchanges with other countries, by virtue of it."
Knappe nodded, saying, "I believe this day will not be too far away."
At this moment, Hog, the chairman of the Shanghai Jockey Club, ran to the stands sweating profusely and came directly to Qin Zheng. While breathing, he said, "Political Commissar Qin, Political Commissar Qin, please help me and persuade people outside. Only you can dissuade them, otherwise he will level the racetrack."
It turned out that at the beginning of the game, only a few thousand people gathered outside the field to wait for the news of the game. As the time travelers scored and led the way, the news also reached the main areas of Shanghai Concession and Shanghai County. More and more people rushed to the racecourse to wait outside the racecourse. Fortunately, they knew the information about the game at the first time. It was approaching the New Year, and every household basically prepared a few firecrackers. Therefore, many people also brought firecrackers to celebrate after the time travelers won. However, after the second half was halfway through, the time travelers had basically locked in the victory, some people couldn't help but set off firecrackers and cheered and celebrated. At the end of the game, nearly 450,000 people had gathered outside the racecourse, with cannons and fireworks, and the sounds were endless. If you don't know, you would think today is the New Year.
This momentum was the first time that several directors of the Massachusetts met. Everyone was scared because so many people gathered at the entrance of the racecourse. If something went wrong, they would not flatten the racecourse. Moreover, even if the Chinese did not cause trouble, these people were blocking the door. Waiting for the people watching the competition to appear, the two groups of people crowded each other, and the consequences were unimaginable. Now the only people who could persuade these people were overseas Chinese. Therefore, the directors arranged personnel and strengthened the guards of the racecourse, while quickly went to the VIP desk to find Qin Zheng for help.
After listening to Hogg's statement, Qin Zheng was also a little surprised. He didn't expect that so many people came outside the court. It seemed that the influence of this game was much greater than he expected. This is of course a good thing, but if an accident occurs, it would be a good thing to turn into a bad thing.
So Qin Zheng immediately called Wang Hailong and asked him to try his best to stabilize the audience in the stadium. He brought several players to the door of the racecourse and called out to the Chinese people who gathered outside the stadium. Qin Zheng first expressed his gratitude to the Chinese people for their support for the time travelers, and also wished them a good New Year this year, and then advised them that the game had ended and they were asked to go home to rest, and their family was still waiting for them.
Qin Zheng's apologetic and friendly attitude further increased the Chinese's favor for time travelers, and they all remembered the things at their own homes. Now they had enough trouble, so they left the racecourse in groups of three or three and went home. Then Qin Zheng returned to the stadium and said the same to the audience in the stadium, and persuaded all Chinese audiences to leave the stadium and go home.
Because there is a time difference between Chinese people leaving on the field, so there is no confusion.
After the people were almost gone, the directors of the Max and Race Association breathed a sigh of relief. Finally nothing happened. At the same time, they were very grateful to the time travelers. If they had not come forward, the consequences would be unimaginable. Therefore, Hog immediately said that he would ask the Max and Race Association to have dinner to celebrate the victory of the game. However, Qin Zheng refused and said that he would talk about it if he had time in the future.
At this time, Li Hongzhang and others also stood up and said goodbye to Qin Zheng and left, and Qin Zheng also brought the others back to the Licha Hotel. He also agreed that the day after tomorrow it would officially start negotiations with various countries, and then meet at Jing'an Temple.
Nazhi only found out after everyone returned to the hotel that more than 50 Chinese people had gathered in the Licha Hotel. The leader was Zhao Weizhong. All the others were famous Chinese merchants in Shanghai or famous local gentry. Many people met with time travelers in the past few days. This time they naturally came to congratulate time travelers.
It turned out that at this time, the news of the victory of the game had spread throughout the Shanghai Concession, the county town, and the entire Shanghai were also in full swing. In the past few days, time travelers have frequently attended various events in Shanghai, winning a lot of favor with their apology, enlightenment and civilization. This time, defeating foreigners on the court not only greatly increased China's prestige, but also increased the popularity of time travelers. So several major businessmen and squire in Shanghai immediately found Zhao Weizhong and asked him to come to the Licha Hotel to congratulate the time travelers.
Zhao Weizhong was naturally very happy. This was the first time he came forward as a leader in Shanghai. The higher the reputation of the time traveler in Shanghai, the higher his status in Shanghai. So he readily obeyed and immediately assigned people to invite other businessmen and squires. The time traveler wasted a lot of time because he persuaded the Chinese inside and outside the stadium. Therefore, more and more people gathered in the Licha Hotel, and more than 50 people had already reached.
Before the time traveler came back, Zhao Weizhong joined forces with several major businessmen to arrange a banquet at Licha Hotel to celebrate the victory of the game and take all the fees. Licha Hotel is quite efficient. When the time traveler returns to the Licha Hotel, everything is ready, just waiting for the time traveler to enter the seat.
Seeing that everyone's kindness was hard to refuse, and this was also a good thing, it showed that the positive social efficiency brought to time travelers had begun to appear, so Qin Zheng did not refuse and led the negotiation team and all the football team to attend the banquet.
In fact, the social efficiency caused by this football match is much greater than Qin Zheng expected. On the next day, almost all newspapers in Shanghai reported the game on a large scale and published many photos of the game. In the following days, many pages will be arranged to report other reports on the game, and the topic will be further extended to topics such as "Chinese people are not the sick husbands of East Asia", "Overseas Chinese are stronger than foreigners", and "Overseas Chinese have greatly increased the power of China".
Moreover, in more than a month after this game, almost all Chinese in Shanghai were talking about this game. Those who watched the game on site also became popular targets for people of all generations of society. They would repeatedly tell others about the process of this game every day, and of course, they would also highly praise the time travelers without exception.
Chapter completed!