My Daming New Empire

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Although the arena has just started construction, many people have already come to inquire.

Of course, these people are not ordinary people, they are all great nobles.

They basically have their own Cuju team. Not only do they want to rent a store here as the team's headquarters, but they also want to rent the stadium directly to hold games when the stadium is not in use.

Now there are more than [-] teams in Ying Tianfu. Although none of them are professional, every game can attract many people to watch. People have formed an atmosphere of watching football, and they can also use watching football to gamble.

However, because the inner prisoner earned one hundred thousand silver coins from gambling last year, now Zhu Di has dealt a severe blow to the private banker. Except for the inner prisoner, no one else is allowed to open a gambling game.

In an arena with 10 people, even if a person only receives [-] copper coins, he can earn [-] silver coins in a game.

Today's players only have a little salary and no other rewards. Even if they give half of it to the stadium, they still have an income of two thousand silver coins, making a lot of money.

The Ministry of Industry and Technology thought that spending [-] silver coins to build an arena was a money-losing act, but now it seems that the cost can be recovered before the arena is completed.

Of course, this is just their algorithm. Of course, it is impossible for a stadium to be used by dozens of teams, and it can only be used by two or three teams at most.

It will take at least a few years to pay back.

"Old Ka, the rocks here in the south have been excavated, and there is a sandy roadbed underneath. If you want to be safe, you need to add at least [-] cubic meters of cement."

"I'm afraid that two thousand square meters is not enough. I calculated that an additional four thousand square meters is needed."

"Will this be overspending?"

"You don't need to worry about the overspend. Your Highness requires us to focus on safety, so we must be perfect. Ask the inner eunuch for money, and let me do it."

Zhu Zhanji once promised him not to be afraid of overspending, so he didn't worry about it at all.His current goal is to build an arena that is more magnificent than the Roman Colosseum.

At noon, Wu Zhong, who came out of the palace, did not go back to Maqiao directly, but also came to Qingliang Mountain.

More than [-] workers were working hard on the construction site. He didn't disturb those people, and went directly to Qingliang Temple, which was used as the headquarters.

As soon as he entered the door, he heard Karl Soli arguing with Feng Hai, the accountant of the inner prison. "Feng Changsui, I know that [-] silver coins is already a lot, but if a building wants to be perfect and safe, it cannot strictly control the expenditure. Now that the foundation on the south side has collapsed, if the amount of cement is not increased, if something goes wrong in the future, who will take care of it?" Responsible."

"Old Ka, it's useless for you to tell me about this matter. There are treasury managers and managers above me. If they don't nod, how can I have the right to take out the money! Why don't you go to His Highness, as long as His Highness nods, don't say too much There is no problem with adding [-] silver coins to two thousand silver coins."

Wu Zhong shook his head with a smile. Carl Soli is indeed a man of affairs, but he doesn't understand the rules of Ming Dynasty's officialdom, and often does some useless work.

He smiled and crossed the threshold and entered the house. "Xiao Ka, don't embarrass Feng Changsui. This matter is not up to him. If you want to increase funds, you must first report to me, and I will tell His Highness that this matter must be arranged from above. It's not you who are tossing around here."

He is a minister, and everyone in the room did not dare to be sloppy, and all stood up to salute.

Wu Zhong waved his hand and said: "Everyone is busy, so don't be too polite. Come on, Xiaoka, tell me. How are you going to solve the upper and lower connecting support structure of the copper pipe."

Pengcheng Bo's Mansion has been busy preparing for Zhang Wei's marriage to Miss Song's family in Xining Hou Mansion recently.

Zhang Wu, an idler, needs to report to the army every two days, and he just waits for His Majesty to announce the date of the expedition.

So he went to Xiamaqiao Farm almost every day, even if he didn't do anything, just watching Sophia busy there was a happy thing.

Sophia's family has no servants now, and she has to wash the clothes of the three men, and then prepare two meals a day, morning and evening.

Zhang Wu has always wanted to arrange for one of the family servants to come over, but Sophia insists on refusing.

Just preparing two meals and washing clothes, she is actually not too busy.Every day, I can spare time to go to the lady training class where a group of court ladies act as teachers to learn some ability to adapt to Ming Dynasty.

If Zhang Wu didn't come to her every day, she would even want to enroll in a chef training class to learn how to make delicious Ming dishes.

After finally waiting for Sophia to finish cleaning at home, Zhang Wu couldn't wait to drag her out. "The North Korean mission just arrived in the capital yesterday, and today they will sell some exquisite leopard skins and lacquerware. If we go late, I'm afraid there will be none of them. Those are nothing, they are not rare, but their lacquerware is good. I bought it. It is most suitable to come back and put on jewelry."

When he arrived in the yard, Zhang Wu realized that the groom he had brought was looking at their holding hands in surprise, let go of his hand with some reluctance, bowed to her and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry for a while. impatient."

Sophia blushed, but whispered, "I like it very much!"

When Zhang Wu heard this, a flowery smile appeared on his face, and he said to the groom: "Hurry up and straighten the carriage..."

The groom was not annoyed, he turned around and left with a smile, and said, "Second Young Master, don't forget what Madam told me when she came..."

Sophia asked strangely: "What?"

Zhang Wu felt a little embarrassed, and said, "My mother is going to the Marquis Mansion of Xining tomorrow to arrange flowers for my sister-in-law, and she told you to go with her. Not only can I see our Daming's wedding process, but also let your sisters-in-law get acquainted."

Sophia's Chinese level could not understand the meaning of sister-in-law, so she asked, "What is sister-in-law?"

"It's the relationship between brothers and wives, which is called sister-in-law in Daming. You and your future sister-in-law are sister-in-law."

Sophia felt a little inferior. "I heard that she is still a princess. I don't know if she will like me."

Zhang Wu said with a smile: "I like you! Let's go, I'll lock the door for you..."

The two entered the city in a carriage and came to the downtown area between the Qinhuai River and the Drum Tower. The two got off the carriage. Zhang Wu gave the groom a fifty copper coin and sent him to a teahouse to listen to books. He took Sophia for a stroll. stand up.

Everything in Daming is new to Sophia, no matter it is sugar figurines, dough figurines, wooden hairpins, wooden combs and other gadgets.Or embroidery, silk brocade, these luxuries that she has never seen before, can all attract her to linger.

It was only when she came to Daming that she realized that there are so many types of silk. In terms of varieties alone, there are silk, yarn, silk, damask, silk, silk, brocade, satin, Kesi and so on.

The same thing can be divided into different categories according to the place of origin.

Although this is a bit like a bumpkin entering the city, Sophia is willing to go shopping with Zhang Wu and accept this new knowledge.

And Zhang Wu is also like a proud peacock, he likes to show his erudition in front of the people he likes, which gives him a sense of pride of being relied on, trusted, and admired.

Although there are quite a few Xiyi women in Yingtian Mansion, many people are no longer surprised by it.However, most of those women are singers and dancers who are being raised. They can go shopping with a young man like an aristocrat, and they are also like a young couple, which still attracts a lot of attention.

However, ordinary people did not dare to disturb, and those noble children also knew that the marriage was approved by the palace.So naturally no one would admit the wrong person and say something that made Sofia unhappy.

The two entered a store opened by North Koreans, which was already full of people.

Zhang Wu prided himself on his identity and was unwilling to squeeze in. He was dumbfounded watching this scene.

He came just to buy some novelty lacquerware for Sophia, to play with and put things on for her, but he had no interest in those leopard skins.

Seeing this scene, the two retreated.

"What kind of place is there, why are there so many people?"

Zhang Wu looked at it and said with a smile: "It's the inner prison's zoo, let's go, I'll take you to the zoo to have a look. You probably haven't seen many animals before."

This is true, Europe's special climate environment, there are no large animals.They don't even have tigers and lions, let alone elephants and giraffes.

Sophia really enjoyed watching it. Although the weather was cold and many animals seemed listless, she was still very happy.

In particular, there was a pair of black-eyed pandas, which made her so cute that she stood there watching the pandas eating bamboo for a quarter of an hour.

Zhang Wu couldn't help but think, she likes it so much, when she returns from the Western Expedition, she will send someone to go to Xichuan, catch two pandas and bring them back to raise.

At noon, Zhang Wu took Sophia to a restaurant opened by Zhang's mansion in the east of Gulou, and went to the private room on the second floor.