This phenomenon of having policies from above and countermeasures from below has always existed in human society.
Gambling is officially prohibited and severe penalties are imposed.
But the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats themselves were gambling, and it was a bit fanciful to expect the people to consciously abide by these laws.
Therefore, although there were no large casinos in the Song Dynasty, some small gambling activities have always been very popular.
Unless others specifically framed the officials, no one thought it was illegal.
However, the law does not pursue this kind of spontaneous gambling behavior by the people, but it does not mean that Gao Qiu can open a casino.
After all, if you want to attract a large number of gamblers to promote football, it will not work without the guidance of a gambling organization of a certain scale.
But if a large-scale gambling institution is really established, even if Gao Qiu is the commander-in-chief, once he is impeached by someone who is willing to unite with many ministers, then Gao Qiu's situation will be extremely dangerous.
"Qiu."
Jing Xunze looked at Gao Qiu and asked, "Do you think the government will protect you if someone sues you for opening a casino?"
"If too many ministers unite to impeach, no one can protect the students."
Gao Qiu lowered his head and said, "Even the officials have to consider their own reputation.
Once this kind of thing is written down in the history books, then the officials It is indispensable to gain the reputation of being a loyal minister and a wise minister in the future."
"But the problem is that your official family has a bad reputation in history.
He is a king who subjugated his country."
"But the officials themselves don't know about this."
Gao Qiu said with a wry smile.
In fact, he had long known that the era he lived in was called the Northern Song Dynasty, and it perished not long after his death.
Song Huizong was sent to the Jin people together with his son.
But so what if you know.
He was a humble minister who had no family support or a backer to rely on.
Even if he learned good strategies for governing the country from Xunze, he would not be able to use them when he returned.
Under this situation, Gao Qiu felt that unless he had something like a golden finger that Xunze often said to give him a cheat, he would definitely not have the ability to help the building collapse.
It is precisely because of this that Gao Qiu followed Xunze's idea to promote football in the Song Dynasty.
Song Huizong must be the king of subjugation, but Gao Qiu does not want to be the minister of subjugation.
He wants to leave his name in history and let future generations remember him.
Only by becoming the inventor of modern football and the first player in China to play football will people remember his name until the 21st century.
"Then can you give part of the income from running the casino to the government in exchange for the government's protection of you?"
Jing Xunze said whimsically, but immediately wanted to take back his words.
After all, how could the emperor be short of money?
But before Xunze could speak, Gao Qiu said first, "It's not impossible, but the prerequisite is that you have to find a good excuse."
"Eh?"
Jing Xunze was stunned when he heard Gao Qiu's words and asked.
"The officials will take your money" "Yes."
Gao Qiu said with great certainty, "The official family has always been very short of money.
Not only is the private treasury short, but the national treasury is also short.
I heard my family say that the national treasury's expenditure is greater than its income every year."
"Why is this happening?"
Jing Xunze asked curiously, "The emperors of the Song Dynasty did not live very luxuriously."
"Because of redundant officials, redundant expenses, and redundant soldiers."
Gao Qiu said with certainty.
"Although fiscal revenue is quite high, expenditures are even higher.
There is not much money left in the treasury every year."
"You know this from reading history books"
"No, my lord said that.
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In fact, all officials who hold an official position in the imperial court are aware of this matter.
But knowing it does not mean that they are able to solve it.
If we want to solve redundant officials, we must abolish them.
Everyone is Having studied hard in Hanchuang and abolishing it hastily will inevitably lead to anger among the scholars.
In order to solve the problem of redundant troops, the army must be disbanded.
But a large number of soldiers were released to the people.
If they were not given land, they would definitely cause trouble.
But if the imperial court had enough idle land, how could it possibly have redundant troops?
Redundant officials and redundant soldiers can't be solved, let alone redundant expenses. " After listening to Gao Qiu's explanation, Xunze also guessed why Song Huizong was short of money.
Because those who collect money, manage money, and transport money are actually people who spend money.
How is it possible for them to save their own expenses?
After all, 99% of people spend money, and there are only a few people who have a headache and have no money.
Rather than letting other people's incomes decrease, it would be better to let those few people continue to have a headache and no money.
"Listening to what you said, this can indeed happen."
Ming Xunze thought about it and thought that with modern gambling methods, the casino Gao Qiu said would definitely make money every day.
Part of this money went into the national treasury in the name of military expenditure to cover losses, and part of it went into the emperor's private treasury in the name of filial piety for the emperor to spend.
Then the mouths of the emperor and ministers must be blocked with money.
Youdao is short-tongued and soft-handed.
If the emperor and ministers take the money, they will inevitably act as Gao Qiu's protective umbrella.
"That's it."
Xunze said, "But you can't blatantly open a casino at the beginning.
You can sell lottery tickets first.
From today on, I will teach you various methods of gambling.
Let you know what is a single win and what is a win-win.
Handicap, what is a single ticket package, what is a wave, big or small goals, odd or even goals.”
At around eight o'clock on Wednesday night, Xunze asked Gao Qiu to finish teaching Gao Qiu and let Gao Qiu go out to play for a while.
He also took a short rest and prepared to teach Chi Yihan mathematics later.
Although Xunze did not ask him to make an appointment with Chi Yihan for teaching time, Chi Yihan usually arrived at the cram school at eight o'clock.
But today seemed to be an exception.
Chi Yihan didn't show up until nine o'clock.
"Maybe something happened on the road."
Xunze was a little worried and was about to call Chi Yihan, but at this time there were footsteps outside.
The door of the room opened and Chi Yihan walked in.
"Teacher."
Chi Yihan looked at Xunze and said, "I'm sorry I'm late today."
"It doesn't matter."
Ming Xunze liked Chi Yihan's attitude of admitting his mistakes first and then giving reasons, and motioned for Chi Yihan to come in.
"Is there something that's delaying you?"
"Yes."
Chi Yihan said, "I went to the sword hall to submit my information in the evening, hoping to pass the sword hall's approval and take part in the special genius examination."
"Special Genius Examination" Jing Xunze looked at Chi Yihan and asked.
"Yes."
Chi Yihan said, "The Sword Hall has regulations.
If you fail to pass the math test, but have excellent swordsmanship talent, you can apply to take the special genius examination.
The content of the test is to be conducted with three official swordsmanship disciples.
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If you can win two of the one-on-one fencing matches, you can become a disciple of the sword hall regardless of your math scores
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