For the "Qingxing Star", the most important thing they are to complete this global voyage and turn some places into places that "since ancient times...". What happened in New England is just a small episode in their voyage.

When the "Qingxing Star" set sail and embarked on a voyage around the world, there were not even many people in the Ming Dynasty, and not many people would pay attention to the world outside the Ming Dynasty.

For many people of the Ming Dynasty, the world is the Ming Dynasty. Of course, their self-confidence is not arrogance, but a kind of self-confidence. They believe that the Ming Dynasty is the center of the world and the entire world.

Compared with the South Ocean, which is very close to the Ming Dynasty, the North American continent is so far away from the Ming Dynasty that for most people, they have never even heard of any nouns such as Yuzhang County and New England.

Yuzhang County?

This place sounds like the place of Ming Dynasty. As for New England? What kind of hell is that? Since it is a hell, what does it have to do with us?

In fact, the people of the Ming Dynasty did not care about overseas affairs at all. For the people of the Ming Dynasty, they only needed to enjoy the peaceful years.

The past twenty years of peacetime people will make people forget all the old things, such as wars, famines, and refugees. For many young people, all this seems to not exist. Even if it is written in history books, it is also a very distant thing for them. For them, the "singing" in the theater and the Cuju competition in the stadium are far more attractive than other things.

What is a peaceful day?

This is Taiping!

It’s better to listen to a song and play football. Compared to the rich people’s things like “singing”, Cuju competition is more popular in the Ming Dynasty. In history, Cuju was a competitive sport that was loved by the people and was a very popular entertainment activity. Whether ordinary people or high-ranking officials or officials, they regard this activity as a way of entertainment. Not only do brothel women like Li Guijie in "Jin Ping Wu" will play Cuju. Women from good families also like Cuju.

Qian Fu, the top scholar in Hongzhi for the third year, wrote a poem specifically to describe a woman playing football: "The February sky was in Cuju on the spot, and the fairy wind blew the two beautiful moons. Sweat was covered with pink face, flowers were covered with dew, dust blew the moth eyebrows and willows with smoke. The green sleeves were lowered and the jade bamboo shoots were hung down, and the red skirt was slanted to reveal golden lotus. After several times, I was so weak that I hated to kill the beautiful young man in Chang'an."

Some people explain that the woman who is facing the verge of the face is bound, but can the woman who is bound in the foot play football? Can she run and compete for football?

Isn't this nonsense? The foot binding was just a bad habit of breaking the foot bones in the Qing Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the foot binding was just wrapped with cloth, similar to socks. The foot binding of a man was actually a disguised "socks".

Historically, the sport of football has been popular in China for thousands of years. Whether in peace and prosperity or in troubled times, Cuju has been continuing on this land.

It was in full decline in the Qing Dynasty. Because Shunzhi was afraid that the Han people would rebel in the name of Cuju, he ordered "immediately prohibition". Later, Qianlong stipulated that the Han people should not have more than 30 private gatherings, let alone Cuju, even literary gatherings such as poetry gatherings were lost. These two Qing emperors directly destroyed the football that had been popular in China for hundreds of years.

Then, there was nothing. Well, then, then, in the late Qing Dynasty, the Westerners brought football to this land.

However, during the Gansheng period, the trend of Cuju did not decline, and there was no need to wait until it was introduced again from abroad hundreds of years later. Moreover, with the praise of the royal family, Cuju became more popular in the Ming Dynasty. After all, the emperor himself liked Cuju competitions. He had built a stadium and formulated the rules of the game as early as Jinan. In fact, it was the football rules of another time and space. He also designed a new style of football.

With the support of the emperor, from the first year of Gansheng, new-style football matches with more intense confrontationality quickly became popular everywhere. Yuanshe, that is, the competitions between football clubs in the Ming Dynasty, were also increasing. In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, Yuanshes from all over the country would often go to other places to "show", but those fancy performances became confrontational competitive competitions.

With the development of the football match, Zhu Guoqiang introduced the rules of later generations and created the football league during the Gansheng period. During the league every year, he even organized nobles to watch Cuju, and many of the honorary ministers themselves were loyal fans of the football league. They even organized their own teams, including many of the first-tier league teams.

After years of development, the Cuju competition in the Ming Dynasty has become an event where everyone participates, with a broad mass base.

During the Cuju competition every year, although there are not many people in the competition area, it is normal for everyone to talk about Cuju in the city. Of course, some people talk about the competition and some talk about the betting odds.

Taichang Stadium in Anqing Prefecture is the home court of Taichang Society. Even if Taichang Society ranks among the more than 700 Yuanshes in the Ming Dynasty, it does not hinder the locals' pursuit of it. Tomorrow will be a match between Qiyun Society and Taichang Society in Huizhou Prefecture.

Although the game will be until tomorrow, there are already some bricks in front of the ticket office of the stadium, with bricks arranged in a row one by one, and these bricks represent the position occupied by the people in line. Near the ticket office are full of young people, who are looking at every passing person unrestrainedly. These young people have a common characteristic. They wear short clothes in military style. The reason why they wear such clothes is because they are more flexible when fighting. When they look at others, their eyes are full of provocation and disdain. These people are typical gangsters.

The exciting football game not only attracts ordinary people, but also young people, including some local gangsters. Therefore, every day around the game, it is the busiest time for the policemen. At this time, they even invite nearby Jinyiwei Tiqi to help maintain public order.

However, tomorrow is game day.

Now, people come to occupy the place early. The people at these positions are often gangsters on the streets of Anqing. They have different identities, including coolies on the docks and teenagers. One thing that is certain is that they all come here to compete for tickets and resell scalpers tickets at high prices tomorrow.

No matter at any time, gangsters can always find business opportunities. Of course, only some gangsters make such small money.

Everything seems to be normal.

There were a few policemen staring next to them, and no one wanted to be locked up in the police room.

...

All night was safe and sound.

The morning finally came, and people who had been waiting all night automatically lined up in a long queue. The policemen on duty began to disperse. The tiqi who came from outside the city also rode high-headed horses, maintaining order near the long queue of vigilant.

At this time, chaos will always occur.

The window of the ticket office opened, and the ticket seller looked out. She seemed to have gotten used to the dense crowds outside the window.

"How many tickets do you want!"

"Five rows of first row!"

In order to prevent scalpers from reselling, Yuanshes in various places have a cap of five tickets, and a person can only buy five tickets at most.

Tickets are sold!

The crowd began to get restless, and everyone in line was close to the previous person, fearing that someone would get into the line.

The people in the front are often gangsters, so naturally no one competes with them. Even if they buy all the front-row tickets, it doesn’t matter. Those who can afford the front-row tickets will not mind spending more money, at least they don’t have to queue up.

Soon, the stadium became lively near the stadium, and scalpers who reselled tickets were shouting and selling tickets. It was normal for a ticket plus a few dozen cents. In some places, they could even add one or two silver coins.

In this regard, whether it was the police or the tiqi, it seemed as if they had not seen it, but they just continued to maintain their order.

There are also reasons for the existence of scalpers, and... they are not able to give the police more filial piety in private, and the court has no laws to crack down on scalpers, so they naturally ignore it.

Sitting at the tea stall near the stadium, Li Chengdong held a tea cup in his hand. Whether buying or selling tickets, his little brothers were going to do it.

After being out for so many years, it has only become a few names in recent years. However, for him, the only useful thing about this name is to settle some things on the street or resell some scalpers during his days in Bisai. Just earning a little change. As for other tricks, to be honest, he hasn't found it until now, and there is any way to make a lot of money.

From early morning to noon, to when people are about to disperse.

Li Chengdong was also ready to leave. After waiting for a long time, he had already obtained the ticket sales money from his subordinates, hundreds of silver notes of different sizes and face value, as much as hundreds of taels. He said goodbye to his acquaintances. He turned around and was about to leave, but he suddenly froze.

A short gun was pressing against his lower abdomen, and Li Chengdong, who was pushed by the gun, showed a surprised expression on his face.

No one dared to treat him like this even though he grew up so old.

Who doesn’t know that Brother Dong is so powerful!

Could this person be impatient?

Looking at the hideous face in front of him, the other party was staring at him tightly. The scar on the man's cheek silently showed that this man was definitely a cruel and ruthless character.

Li Chengdong, who had been in the dock since he was a child, had seen the wind and waves. He stared at the man without changing his face. He was still panicked at all. But his subordinates were shocked and showed the knife in their hands, but they all stood there, and no one dared to move.

Scarface growled fiercely:

"Whoever dares to touch me will break him up."

The four men behind him took a step at the same time, showing off the dagger, axe, and even a short gun in his hand.

These guys actually brought guns out!

Li Chengdong's subordinates were all stunned by the aura of the Scarface group, and their movements were frozen. Everyone knows that fighting on the streets is a fight, but the gun must not be moved. If the gun is moved, the police will definitely catch people, so everyone uses sticks, axes, etc.

As long as no one dies, the police will turn a blind eye.

But now, the group of people fired their guns!

This is bound to happen.

"What do you want to do?"

Scarface sneered:

"You are Dong Ge from the Wharf? I have heard of Daming for a long time. These brothers of mine are just a shortage of money. I want to ask Brother Dong how about borrowing two money to spend money. Do Brother Dong borrow it?"

Li Chengdong said calmly:

"Is there anyone who borrowed money like this? Less nonsense, what do you want to do?"

"I am worthy of being the famous Dong brother. He is so arrogant and speaks so arrogantly. I have nothing else to do. If I hadn't borrowed money, what would I do here? Just leave the money for me."

Scarface said with a smile.

This is borrowing money, and it is obvious that he wants to put his face down! When he comes out to make a living, face is the most important thing. If he takes out the money today, he will probably be fine on the streets of Anqing Mansion tomorrow.

"What if I don't give it?"

Li Chengdong said.

"Then I will knock you down with one shot!"

Scarface said viciously.

"If you have the ability, you can shoot! If I frown, I will be your grandson..."

Li Chengdong shouted without fear.

If the other party takes a knife, he may be really scared, but he takes a gun. Everyone has it, but how many people dare to shoot?

Who dares to shoot these days? He really deserves his life? He fires a gun! Most people really can't handle this matter!

At this moment, a girl who had just bought the tickets left the ticket window and walked to the side of the road. She was stunned when she saw this. She was stunned for a moment, and suddenly shouted.

"Robbery! Someone robbed with guns, police, police..."

The woman shouted, and the scene suddenly became chaotic. The Jinyiwei, who was on duty in the distance, heard someone robbing, immediately whipped the horse and rushed towards this side.

Daoshi's face obviously didn't expect someone to call a policeman, and didn't expect the Jinyiwei Tiqi to come over. When he was stunned,

Seeing this, Li Chengdong punched him and the two sides immediately started to fight.

The noise and curses were intertwined and gathered together. The two groups of people engaged in a bloody fight. The crowd was suddenly in chaos. The Jinyiwei Tiqi, who were on duty in the distance, immediately rode over on horseback. The policemen here also rushed forward with short sticks to stop the fight. The two sides of the fight started fighting with the policemen again.

Suddenly, a gunshot started...

When the gunshots sounded, the streets suddenly became quiet. Whether it was the Jinyiwei, the police, or even the gangsters, they were stunned.

Someone shot!

Everyone was stunned when the gunshots rang out.

The scarred face holding the short gun in his hand, but as if he had no scruples at all, waved the short gun in his hand and forced Li Chengdong and the others to the scared silly. He raised the gun and shouted.

"I'll kill you!"

At the same time, a harsh whistle echoed on the streets, and more and more policemen and ti cavalry rushed over from all directions.

In such a peaceful day, someone dared to shoot!

Something must have happened...
Chapter completed!