The Beverly Restaurant has put up a closed sign outside again.
This is an expensive and very secretive members-only restaurant with not many tables. The golden sand beach outside is privately owned by the restaurant, with green palm trees and blue sea and sky forming a beautiful tropical beach landscape.
At the private grass tennis court behind him, Lu Ming sat on a bench, breathing heavily and wiping the sweat from his forehead with a snow-white towel.
Beside her, Christine, wearing a snow-white tennis skirt, drank water slowly, pretending not to see Lu Ming's embarrassment.
This made Lu Ming even more depressed. He was defeated by Christine and his physical strength could not keep up with her. He was really humiliated.
I just came on the court and I don't know how I sprained my ankle. It hurts so much now. It's just like Biju said, the pain is ten times that of a normal sprain.
I haven't seen Christine for a few months, and this was the first time I took the initiative to ask her out for dinner. I was also very excited to play a few games of tennis with her, but the result was this embarrassing situation.
"Do you want to see me for something?" Christine suddenly asked, and then said, "I'll see when you'll take the initiative to see me."
It was impossible to tell whether there was joy, anger, sorrow or happiness in her tone. Lu Ming felt ashamed in his heart. He really did need her advice on something.
He did not hide it, "Jiangning Province and Andong Province are going to jointly host the Imperial Games which are held every five years. I want to get the exclusive television broadcasting rights."
Kristine was slightly surprised and looked at Lu Ming: "You also invested in a TV station?"
Lu Ming nodded: "Kunluntai, I am the largest shareholder."
In fact, if Christine wanted to investigate herself, she couldn't hide this kind of obvious stuff from her.
However, she would not do so. Even if she wanted to introduce herself to her daughter, if she had investigated herself, she would have known at the first moment that I had a concubine. But she only found out about it after a long time.
"Oh, I'm just wondering where this Kunlun station came from? It does things in a weird way and is always a few steps ahead of other stations. And it was you who started it!" Christine laughed. "It's messy, that should be your style."
Lu Ming rubbed his nose and said nothing.
"Oh, I don't need to apologize?" Christine looked at him.
Lu Ming smiled bitterly, but he was also slightly relieved. It seemed that the arrogant words of asking Yin Shabel to call him "Father" did not reach her ears. Also, Han Annie would never tell her eldest niece about it, not to mention that the eldest niece and her mother had a bad relationship, so there would be no private conversation.
"If I can get the broadcasting rights for this sports meeting, I would also like to broadcast the Kingdom Western Football League on TV to see the effect."
"The premise is that I hope to acquire a stake in the Western Football Association League."
In my previous life, also in the 1950s, TV stations began broadcasting the Italian Football League, marking the beginning of live football matches on television.
In this world, football is more popular in the western states. There is a Western Football Association league, with twenty-one participating states, almost all of which are traditional Western states.
For some reason, the people of Central Asia are also not interested in football.
"Do you want to commercialize sports? Turn a good competitive sport into a plaything for money, and you come to make money?" Christine looked at Lu Ming with a little dissatisfaction.
Lu Ming thought to himself, you are amazing. You immediately knew what I wanted to do. You are worthy of being the best candidate for the public reserve.
For a man of this era, he was truly intelligent and far-sighted.
"Someone will do it sooner or later..." Lu Ming defended in a low voice.
Christine smiled and said, "Your appetite is still too small. This is your first time asking me for help, and you don't even have a big goal. Even if I give you all these broadcasting rights, how much money can you make?"
Lu Ming nodded. Indeed, nowadays, with the commercialization of sports, the money earned is really meaningless. What he values most is its influence, the influence on ordinary people.
"What's the most profitable now? Oil and steel. Almost all billionaires are in these two industries." Christine looked at Lu Ming with a half-smile, "I think you're suitable for steel. You could be more masculine."
Lu Ming was helpless and rolled his eyes.
"Why don't you invest in a steel plant in Jiangning? I can help you make the connection. Jiangning has half the say in the broadcasting rights for the Imperial Games. You are a big investor, so you have the confidence to negotiate with them."
Lu Ming smiled bitterly.
In the past two days, I have gained a deeper understanding of both Anton and Jiang Ning.
Jiangning is rich in resources, including coal mines and iron mines, but almost all large steel mills are out of business, and most of the factories and mines are small workshops.
Because the governor twenty years ago sold almost all of those minerals to private individuals.
The governor who took office five years ago was called Chaxon. He was a member of the Kingdom's House of Lords and an idle earl. He was very old, and for some reason he went to Jiangning, causing even more complaints in Jiangning and even bandits in the mountains.
However, although he was quite unpopular, he was still a royal relative and Jiangning was a foreign land. Therefore, even though there were voices of impeachment against him, he remained in power.
Christine sighed helplessly at this time, "Uncle Chuckson is a fool. He listens to his second wife in everything. His wife is from Jiangning. So, he was once a carefree person, but now he is burdened by the secular world."
"I am now worried that he will have a great reputation in his lifetime, but in the end, his title will be stripped away."
"I remember him as a very good person."
Christine looked at Lu Ming: "How about trying to help him? I feel that your messy tricks should have a miraculous effect."
Lu Ming smiled bitterly, but he didn't hesitate. "What else do you want me to do? I will do my best."
But, he shook his head in his heart. Women are really hard to deal with. I originally asked her to do something, but now I have to run errands for her
"If you handle this matter well, I will nominate you to be the chief councilor of Beiguan in four years." Christine smiled.
Lu Ming was helpless, "It's a pity that I don't have a recorder now, otherwise I would definitely record it." She was obviously teasing him, but he was probably the only one who could be joked by her like this.
After all, if such words were to spread, even if they were just jokes, they would immediately cause a huge uproar.
Christine will instantly lose the qualification to compete for the public reserve.
Looking up, he saw Christine looking at him with amusement again, "It seems that you have to fight for the broadcasting rights yourself. If you do a good job on this matter, I think Uncle Chuckson will help you."
Obviously, she felt that she had originally asked her for help, but with just a few words, she ended up being the one doing her a favor, which she found very interesting.
"Sir, you have changed. Now you have a lot of staff around you, right? They give you advice based on your best interests. You have become an egoist and are no longer the wise and powerful sir you used to be!" Lu Ming sighed helplessly.
Christine smiled but said nothing.
"Okay! Let's go, take a shower and have some tea!" Christine stood up and looked at Lu Ming again: "Is your foot okay? It looks like you're seriously injured?"
"It's okay, it's okay." Lu Ming forced himself to get up. After all, he just sprained his ankle. It would be too exaggerated to make a fuss about it. Although, he was in great pain.
"Don't move. I'll ask someone to bring you some ice." Seeing Lu Ming move slightly and frowning in pain, Christine waved to the waiter.
…
It looked like the ankle was just a little red and swollen, but when the waiter placed ice wrapped in a white towel on the red and swollen area of Lu Ming's ankle, Lu Ming gasped.
"Let's go to the hospital." Christine looked at him in surprise.
Lu Ming shook his head.
Christine sat down, motioned for the waiter to leave, took a towel and ice cubes, and gently applied them to Lu Ming's ankles, moving them very gently, and said, "Apply it like this."
Lu Ming was startled. His bare feet on the bench seemed to be touching Christine's white skirt. Moreover, although her hand did not touch his ankle, the ice cube on the towel was icy and cold. As her hand moved gently,
Hmm? And it really doesn't seem to hurt that much anymore, not even ten times as much, which is weird.
"I read the booklet left by our ancestors, which is full of secret rumors, saying that it is the legend of the Zhongzhou royal family..." Christine suddenly paused and looked at Lu Ming: "You should know that there was a Zhongzhou Dynasty in the past?"
Lu Ming nodded calmly.
Christine smiled and said, "That legend is also absurd. It is said that it is a legend of the royal family of Central Continent. In their family, a chosen child will be born in the future. There are many magical things mentioned, one of which is that before the end of puberty, the child will enter the reverse scale period. Even the slightest injury will be like touching his reverse scale, and it will be extremely painful. Do you have this kind of physique?"
Lu Ming was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Maybe, I am really a prince or a grandson of an emperor?"
"It seems that it is..." Christine nodded to Lu Ming: "I taught you how to apply it, but you still don't take it over? You are really used to being a master! You are the prince of the emperor, right?"
Lu Ming was startled and hurriedly took the towel and ice cubes. Indeed, what was he thinking? He was not polite at all and really let her rub him
Christine frowned and continued, "In a few days, new regulations should be proposed. Judicial practitioners should set an example to purify social customs and put an end to all slavery practices! Some people are really addicted to abusing their power. It's outrageous!"
Lu Ming lowered his head and didn't dare to speak.
Although Christine's tone became increasingly harsh, seeing Lu Ming taking the scolding obediently, a hint of a smile already appeared in her beautiful eyes.