Fortunate Young Gentleman

"I just went into the palace. His Majesty has agreed to your idea. We can use merchants to prepare for this competition."

Before leaving the court, Lu Ding came back from the palace and told Tang Ning the news.

In this way, the "Tangren Cup Sixteen Guards Championship" has been finalized. As long as Emperor Chen agrees, Tang Ning can let go.

"But..." Lu Ding changed his tone and said, "The Sixteen Guards Competition is related to the dignity of the court. Even if there are some changes compared to previous years, there must be a limit. The most important thing is still the competition itself. Don't lose the big picture for the sake of small things."

Tang Ning nodded and said, "Don't worry, Minister Lu, I know what I'm doing."

Lu Ding looked at him, but he didn't know what he was doing. Merchants pursue profits. Even the richest merchants would not take out so much money to help the Ministry of War for no reason. There must be a purpose.

However, this matter is already tricky. The Ministry of War can't take out the money, and His Majesty is reluctant to give up the money, so he has to take a step back. No matter what his purpose is, as long as it doesn't delay the competition, it's fine.

He looked at Tang Ning. Even though he still felt a little uneasy, he had no choice but to trust him.

After Lu Ding left, Tang Ning sat back and continued to refine the plan.

It was already early November. The Sixteen Guards would give the final list of the group stage at the latest in mid-December. Tang Ning had divided them into groups based on the comprehensive rankings of previous years and gave them a month to train. In early December, the four groups A, B, C, and D would start the internal group stage.

Xiao Jue's Zuo Xiaoqi Guard was a dark horse that he had his eyes on. Unfortunately, this dark horse was still a useless horse. Even Tang Ning was not completely sure that they could improve their strength within a month.

In addition, this month would also involve pre-promotion, venue construction, ticket pre-sales, etc. Although not everything needed to be done by him personally, these were unprecedented in the Ministry of War, so he still had to keep an eye on everything.

Recalling his past in the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Rites, he settled accounts, compiled books, tried unjust cases, and went on diplomatic missions to the State of Chu. Now that he has arrived at the Ministry of War, the most troublesome tasks have also fallen on his shoulders. It can be said that he was born to be busy...

After leaving the yamen, Tang Ning did not delay. Today, he made an appointment with Xiao Jue to visit his Zuo Xiaoqi Camp.

Tang Ning walked into the courtyard and saw Xiao Xiao and Tang Yaoyao.

"Hmph!"

Tang Yaoyao was originally talking to Xiao Xiao in the courtyard. When she saw Tang Ning coming in, she snorted coldly and turned her head away.

When she was angry, she liked to ignore people. Tang Ning had long been accustomed to it.

Xiao Xiao came over, raised her head and looked at him, and whispered: "Brother, did you make Sister Yaoyao angry again?"

"No." Tang Ning sat down on the stone bench and said, "Xiao Xiao, you should rest for a while before practicing. Brother will teach you a song."

"Okay." Xiao Xiao sat beside him and blinked at him.

Tang Ning looked at Tang Yaoyao, and then sang: "Follow me... Let's learn to squeal like pigs, hum hum hum hum hum hum..."

Tang Ning only sang two sentences of his song, and he couldn't sing anymore. Tang Yaoyao grabbed him and took him down, obviously angry.

Xiao Xiao looked at them, and then moved away step by step.

Tang Yaoyao twisted his arm behind his back and said angrily: "How dare you scold me!"

Tang Ning said innocently: "What did I scold you?"

Thinking of her "hum" just now, Tang Yaoyao said angrily: "You called me a pig!"

"I didn't..."

"That's what you meant!"

...

Women are really unreasonable. They can easily find excuses to accuse someone. Tang Ning saw Xiao Jue standing at the door from the corner of his eye. While watching him being pressed by Tang Yaoyao, he was actually cracking melon seeds.

He turned his head to look at Tang Yaoyao and whispered: "Someone is coming, let me go."

Tang Yaoyao looked back, glared at him fiercely, and then let him go and flew back to his yard.

When there were outsiders around, Tang Yaojing still gave him face, so he would never be like a certain Xiao, who was beaten black and blue by a woman in public.

Xiao Jue's expression was actually a little disappointed. Tang Ning snatched all his melon seeds and said, "Go to the Zuo Xiaoqi Camp!"

Xiao Jue followed behind him and shook his head and said, "If Lu Ya could be like Miss Tang, she wouldn't be unmarried until now."

As a woman, she beat Xiao Jue from childhood to adulthood, and she still agreed to go on a blind date with him. With her hot temper, she didn't beat Xiao Jue to death in the restaurant last time. What else can this be but love?

If Xiao Jue could be like Zhao Yuan, maybe he would have married Lu Shangshu's daughter now.

This time when he went to the Xiaoqi Camp, in addition to Lao Zheng, he also brought 20 Beggar Gang disciples with him, just to test the strength of the Xiaoqi Guards so as to formulate the next plan.

Xiao Jue turned his head to look at him and asked, "Did you really accept the job of the Sixteen Guards Competition?"

Tang Ning said, "Why, is it impossible?"

"Not impossible." Xiao Jue shook his head and said, "It's just that the big competition every four years is different from the small competition every year. At that time, not only will the officials in the court go to watch, but the court will also invite envoys from the State of Chu and envoys from the Western Regions. In the early years, even the State of Liang would send people to watch the ceremony. This is a more important event than the grand court meeting. If it is not done well, it will not only lose the face of the court..., do you dare to accept such a job?"

As long as he is brave, there is no job he dare not take. He is also going to sell tickets for the Sixteen Guards Competition. Not only will he sell them himself, but he will also drag the emperor into the water and sell them openly.

However, he didn't know that the Sixteen Guards Competition was so grand that it was equivalent to a military parade.

But a competition is a competition after all, and it is different from a military parade. In the future, we can try to play more tricks, invite other countries to participate, compete in battle formations, horseback archery, short-distance running and so on, and upgrade the Sixteen Guards Championship to the Olympic Games...

Of course, this is just a preliminary idea at the moment, and it is too difficult to realize. The Sixteen Guards Competition alone is enough to keep Tang Ning busy.

Xiao Jue seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly looked at Tang Ning and asked, "Do you think the wound on my face has healed?"

"No." Tang Ning shook his head. It was only a few days since he was beaten, and the bruises on his face would take a few days to disappear at the earliest.

"Then I won't go. You go by yourself." Xiao Jue said, "I'll give you a sign. When you go, go directly to General Chen Zhonglang..."

"Okay, everyone in the capital knows that you were injured by Lu Ya?" Tang Ning waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter whether they can see the wound on your face or not."

Xiao Jue sighed and said, "How can there be such a woman in this world? She has bullied me since I was a child, snatched my things, and didn't let me play with other girls... When she fell into the river when she was a child, I saved her. This ungrateful woman..."

Tang Ning looked at him and asked, "Does she only bully you?"

Xiao Jue thought about it and nodded sadly.

In a sense, when boys are young, they always bully a specific girl. They do this not because they hate her, but because they like her, but they don't know how to express this love, so they can only get her attention by bullying her...

He wrote about this when he wrote a book a while ago.

However, he didn't know if girls were like this too, and he had never seen a girl who used this method to attract attention.

Xiao Jue looked at Tang Ning and sighed, "Compared to Lu Ya, Miss Tang is so gentle. You really don't know how to appreciate your blessings..."

Tang's house, Tang Yaoyao sat in the room, her pretty face full of anger, gritting her teeth.

Xiu'er walked in and asked in surprise, "Did he make the young lady angry again?"

"I'm so angry!" Tang Yaoyao stood up and slapped the table, saying, "He only knows how to make me angry!"

Xiu'er looked at her and said, "Even if he is angry, he only makes the young lady angry. The young lady should be happy."

"Happy?" Tang Yaoyao pinched her knuckles and said, "Next time, I will make him remember this lesson."

Xiu'er shook her head and said, "The book says that if a man always bullies a woman, or a woman always bullies a Men, it is very likely that they like each other and want to use this method to attract each other's attention..."

Tang Yaoyao glanced at her and asked: "Where did you see this fallacy?"

"This is not a fallacy." Xiu'er shook her head and said: "He wrote it in a book himself."

Tang Yaoyao was stunned and asked: "What book?"

Xiu'er thought about it and said: "It seems so..."

Tang Yaoyao looked at her and said suspiciously: "There is this paragraph in the book, why don't I remember it?"

Xiu'er said helplessly: "Miss, you always read ten lines at a glance, of course you don't remember it..."