Chapter 725 The Royal Family’s Playboy [Subscribe Please]

Winter has gone and spring has come, and another good season has arrived.

As the cold and wet winter goes further and further away, the weather in Nanjing quickly warms up, and the football league is reopened. This sport has developed to the present, and under the secret promotion of Chen Ming, it has formed a game mode similar to the league system in later generations in Nanjing.

After all, transportation is not well developed. Teams in big cities can play among themselves, but it is unrealistic to form a league with outsiders and play games every now and then.

There are dozens of teams of all sizes in Nanjing, forming the A and B leagues. Many big businessmen sponsor this event, and some big companies even invest in and establish shares in those first-class teams. For example, the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce has three teams under its umbrella, two of which are in the A league.

The players wear jerseys with advertising during every game, which is very helpful for the promotion of the reputation of the companies under the Chamber of Commerce. They also sponsor the stadium and have endless advertising means, because they have Chen Ming, the time traveler, behind them. The effect is excellent!

So it has attracted many people to imitate and learn. As long as Chen Ming does the first grade, someone will soon follow him to learn the fifteenth grade.

In the era when the league was just launched, the salary of football players was higher than that of ordinary industries, but the cost of supporting a football team in this era was not worth mentioning for large enterprises. Even if the investment in the stadium was larger, the income from the stadium was also good, and it would also receive support from the country. The publicity effect that a good football team can play is difficult to achieve with ten times the money.

However, the lively football matches have been reopened, and the horse races and polo matches under the scenery are still not affected at all. Nowadays, the two royal horse races and polo conferences during the Mid-Autumn Festival and Lantern Festival have become a routine every year, which has an unimaginable driving force for the development of the two sports.

Especially the children of the nobility. They always hope to maintain a high degree of consistency with the royal family with a red heart facing the sun.

And what about the civilian class represented by the vast number of Nanjing citizens? Since ancient times, the common people in human society have longed for the nobles' food, clothing, housing, transportation, speech and behavior, and everything about them. This plot is not only reflected in the present, but even in the 21st century, the noble style has become a high-end style pursued by countless people. Therefore, horse racing and polo, which are so popular among the royal family and nobles, naturally attract the attention of countless rich or poor common people, especially those merchants who are not short of money.

They have time, money and energy to pursue a higher level of life.

In addition to the attraction of the sport itself, silver is the most indispensable for the promotion of a sport.

Horse racing and polo, in addition to their own strong attraction, the halo of the royal family's love itself adds a layer of buff to them. Now silver is not a difficult thing, so it is natural that these two sports are rapidly promoted.

The racecourse is 20 to 30 miles away from the capital. It was originally a very remote place, but with the continuous increase in Nanjing's population in recent years and the rapid expansion of its area, the distance between this venue and the capital is only 15 or 16 miles. When the land was expropriated to build the racecourse, the surrounding area was still a piece of farmland. Now, with the racecourse, thousands of families have gathered here. From a distance, it is completely a prosperous town.

Chen Jing is a direct descendant of the Chen family. His father Chen Min is in a high position, but he is a famous playboy in the whole city of Nanjing. This kind of "playboy" is completely different from the crazy "rogue" of Chen Zifeng at the beginning. Chen Jing plays much more high-end than Chen Zifeng.

He holds an idle position in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and receives a salary, but he is rarely seen in the palace in a year. Instead, he spends half a year in the racecourse. His favorite sport is horse racing, and he even participated in it himself, but was severely beaten by a professional jockey.

Chen Min now has more than ten good horses in his mansion, and the worst ones are Mongolian horses that are selected from thousands of miles away. These are all Chen Jing's treasures.

On weekdays, he is very knowledgeable when talking about horse racing, but when it comes to military affairs, he is completely clueless.

"Dad, does Fourth Uncle really want to send Xiao Jing to North America?"

The development of North America is based on years, whether it is the operation of the west coast of North America or the development of the gold mine in Xiangzhou [Alaska].

Now that the new year has arrived, Chen Ming is ready to relax and select a few clan members as managers to go to North America first.

"I am going to select a few capable people to go." That place is not a place for Chen Ming to exile people. Now he needs to send a few people with real skills. "Besides, I estimate that the war in North America is about to start. The Spanish have been preparing for a year." A hundred thousand troops.

"It doesn't matter if Chen Jing is one more." Chen Hui coughed twice while speaking. As the temperature warmed up in this spring, Chen Hui's chest tightness was relieved a little, but he was still pale, short of breath, weak and tired.

Chen Ming patted his back gently.

"That child can't be indulged anymore. Your fourth uncle plans to leave the North American foundation to Chen Jing."

"What about Chen Sheng?"

Chen Min has many children, including four sons, but except for the eldest son Chen Sheng who is very capable, the second son Chen Jing is a waste, and the third and fourth sons are still young and have not yet reached school age.

Chen Min also made a great determination to enter Yanshou Palace and confide his thoughts to Chen Hui.

"Chen Sheng doesn't want to go to North America?"

"He has already become a fourth-rank inspector. He doesn't want to leave the country and go to America thousands of miles away to start from scratch." So, Chen Jing must first exercise and become a talent as soon as possible.

Chen Ming had no objection. As long as Chen Min was willing to give up and Chen Sheng's work was done smoothly, everything would be ok.

Just as Chen Hui said before, he is not a big deal!

Chen Ding, who is almost ten years younger than Chen Jing, can do real work, but Chen Jing is playing with the title of "Jockey Club Executive Committee". It is true that he can't indulge himself anymore and needs to be well tempered.

There are many second-generation children in the Chen family, and Chen Ming does not expect them all to become talents, but Chen Jing belongs to the category of close relatives. In the case of opening up in America, every close-brother's son is precious.

At this time, Chen Jing had no idea how big a decision his father had just made. He was excitedly taking a car to the racecourse, and today he also brought his wife Yan out.

Yan was born in Lianping Yan Clan, Guangdong Province. She was the niece of Yan Xishen. She had a gentle temperament and elegant appearance. She married into the Chen family when Chen and Han were both sweeping across the Central Plains. Chen Jing was one of the best second-generation children of the Chen family.

But now Yan was frowning her pair of soft eyebrows, looking at her husband helplessly, her whole heart was about to be overwhelmed by helplessness and troubles. Since she married Chen Jing, her outlook on life has been refreshed again and again by her man. With such a good background, she is destined to have a prominent position in the future. How can she develop a character that is greedy for pleasure and has nothing to pursue?

She has no interest in horse racing and polo. But her husband is so excited that he wants to soak in the racecourse all day. Yan had also advised Chen Jing before, but not only did it not work, but it made Chen Jing so angry that he didn't even go home.

Yan just let it go.

Now Chen Jing has bought a house near the racecourse. This time he brought Yan out and left the child in the mansion, which meant that he had to live well in the racecourse for a while.

He didn't want to miss any game in the entire spring season.

This kind of thinking and enthusiasm really made Yan speechless.

In the first eighteen years of her life, Yan was taught about family and home. She was blessed by Yan and was born in a large family with an extremely bright and beautiful history. She enjoyed the wealth and honor that ordinary children could not enjoy. She had to contribute her own strength to the prosperity of the Yan family.

So she obediently married Chen Jing, a member of the royal family who was said to be very unlearned.

Before getting married, Yan had heard that her fiancé was more active, not doing his job, and unlearned. After entering the house, she realized that this was not unlearned at all, but not following the right path!

In the past few years, her husband has squandered a lot of the assets belonging to the second house, but he only got a dozen horses in the other courtyard and the title of a Jockey Club executive. Yan really wants to ask Chen Jing, what's the use of this?

To be honest, every winter is the happiest season for Yan, because there are fewer horse racing and polo events in winter, and Chen Jing will not only have more time to accompany her at home, but also spend less money. And every spring, that is when Yan's face is full of worries. The convening of the spring race will make her husband's hands and feet as vast as the sea...

Sometimes Yan can't help but think, why is it so unlucky to meet such a husband without big ambitions and goals? She would rather marry an ordinary rich boy.

Now the old man in the mansion is still in good health, and he can still chase Chen Jing with a stick in the yard, and Chen Jing is still honest. But the old man will go one day. When the eldest brother goes to North America, won't the husband who has no one to suppress and discipline become even more outrageous? How could she live at that time? It is impossible that her family would become a poor family by the time her children reach that generation?

The Chen Han clan has no iron-clad farmers of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty.

The biggest desire of the Yan family now is that the old man can earn a title for Chen Jing at the last moment.

The Chen Han Empire is now in its heyday, and as long as the court is not defeated, the title conferred by the emperor will be as solid as Mount Tai. This title is silver, a golden rice bowl that cannot be exchanged for millions of banknotes!

Even if Chen Jing loses money in the future, he will have active money coming into the account every year, right?

Chen Jing was the first clan member to intervene in the Jockey Club because he likes horse racing and he likes pleasure. The Jockey Club also needs such a loyal "second generation of the clan" to show its own style, so he has the title of Jockey Club executive. Other executive committee members use their personal connections to act as brokers, and they don't know how much money they can make every year, but Chen Jing is a fresh and unconventional executive member who never gets involved in the brokerage industry, so he always spends money on the racecourse.

A tiger father and a dog son is the unanimous evaluation of Chen Min and Chen Jing.

Chen Min has always been a very important member of the Chen Group, firmly holding the power of logistics, and his ability is recognized by everyone. And what about Chen Jing? This performance of not doing his job properly is not Chen Jing's disguised appearance, but his true personal character. Among all the Chen family children of the same generation as Chen Ming, he is the least competitive and the least reliable.

However, Chen Jing brought a surprise to Yan today. He let his wife see that his family made money at the racecourse.

When the carriage arrived at the destination, Chen Jing did not go to the racecourse immediately, nor did he go to see his own residence immediately. Instead, he took Yan to an open space around the racecourse. He pointed at the racecourse and said, "See? From here to the racecourse, this piece of land belongs to us." Last year, Chen Jing borrowed 500,000 yuan and bought this piece of land. It was only the New Year, and before half a year had passed, the price of the land had risen to 700,000 yuan.

Yan was really surprised, but after thinking about it, she felt more terrified. Just as she was happy, she was overwhelmed by fear: "When did you borrow money? 500,000 yuan, God, why didn't I know?"

"Of course you didn't know. Do I need to tell you specifically when I borrowed money?"

Chen Jing didn't care about Yan's inner fear. "What's the big deal about 500,000? Don't underestimate this place. If I sell all the land now, I can make at least 100,000 yuan. The price of this land will continue to rise in the future. Our family will leave a steward to be responsible for the sale of this land and the shops in the town. The racecourse will not fail. The emperor wants the racecourse to prosper, and the land price here will continue to rise."

"Don't worry about the 500,000 loan."

"It's only 5% interest a year." That's 5%. Chen Jing, the second young master, didn't care.

But Yan thought it was a lot. 5% interest is 25,000 yuan a year, which is comparable to the salary of Marquis Chen Min.

"It's too much to sell it now. Besides, we don't need that much money. I've held it in my hand for less than half a year, and it has increased by 30% or 40%. Wait for a year or two, it will double." Chen Jing knew that he was not as capable as the eldest brother, so although he spent money generously, he was not completely ignorant of money. He also had a certain sense of economy.

The entire racecourse covers an area of ​​more than 100 hectares, or tens of thousands of acres. There are hundreds of shops and restaurants around, and tens of thousands of people live here. Businessmen from all walks of life can be found here. A prosperous town market was born at an extraordinary speed! Every month, these shops pay millions of normal business taxes to Nanjing, and the taxes paid by the Jockey Club itself are in the unit of "millions".

The prosperous competition and the large number of people have made the land here soar like a rocket. Chen Jing fully believes that in time, the land price here will definitely be comparable to the most expensive land in Nanjing!

Chen Jing walked and talked with Yan, and people came and went on the street. Couples and lovers are very common here. But the steward on duty today at the Jockey Club soon appeared in front of Chen Jing and his wife, and said humbly and flatteringly: "Second Master Jing, Second Madam, I am sorry for not welcoming you in person. Please forgive me!

Turn around and you will see the entrance. I will lead the way for you two."

The Jockey Club is definitely a huge interest group. As far as Chen Jing knows, the Jockey Clubs in Suzhou, Yangzhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Wuhan, Lushan and other places have been opened one after another. The Jockey Clubs in each city are crowded with local wealthy merchants. It is like a large-scale Monopoly gathering, and there are close connections between the Jockey Clubs in various places. Even if Chen Jing is not competitive, he knows that the development prospects of the Jockey Club are very bright.

Once the Jockey Clubs in each place solve the land use problem, they can evolve into money-making beasts after landing. He has been hanging around the Jockey Clubs, allowing his reputation to be tied to the Jockey Clubs, but he still tends to be dark, for future development.

There are interest groups of different sizes and different parties within the Jockey Club. Now, apart from the official interests, the main interests of the Jockey Club are taken by these people, and Chen Jing never takes a share of them, because his plot is bigger. He wants to consolidate his personal connections and connections with various interest groups bit by bit. Chen Jing does not touch the interests of the Jockey Club now because his grand goal is to directly point to the throne of the chairman of the Jockey Club. This is a grand wish that Chen Min's father does not know.

Then he must make everyone accept and tolerate him, and giving up interests is his choice at the moment.

The emperor's will is to withdraw from the Jockey Club sooner or later. The Kyushu Chamber of Commerce will certainly divide a large part of the vacant dominance, and Chen Jing also hopes to have a place for himself.

Of course, Chen Jing does not know now that his grand goal is destined to fail because he is about to go to North America.