There are policies and countermeasures, and this phenomenon has always existed in human society. The Song Dynasty was no exception.

Although gambling is strictly prohibited and strict penalties are imposed. But both the emperor and the scholars themselves were gambling, and it was a bit fanciful to expect the people to consciously obey these laws.

Therefore, although there were no larger casinos in the Song Dynasty, some small gambling behaviors have always been very popular, and no one thinks it is illegal unless someone else deliberately frames and sues the official.

However, the law does not pursue this kind of spontaneous gambling behavior of the people, but it does not mean that Gao Yu can open a casino.

After all, if you want to attract a large number of gamblers to promote football, it will not work without a certain scale of gambling institutions.

But if a large-scale gambling institution is really established, even if Gao Yu is the palace marshal, once he is impeached by people with intentions and many ministers, then Gao Yu's situation will be extremely dangerous.

"Ahh Yu Xunze looked at Gao Yu and asked, "Do you think that if someone sues you for opening a casino, the official family will protect you?"

"If too many ministers join forces to impeach, no one will be able to protect the students. Gao Yu bowed his head and said, "Even if it is an official family, you have to think about your reputation." Once this kind of thing is written in the history books, then the official family will inevitably gain the reputation of a pro-villain Yuanxian minister in the future. ”

"But the problem is that your official family has a bad reputation in history, and it is a king of a dead country. ”

"But the officials themselves don't know about it. Gao Yu said with a wry smile.

In fact, he had long known that the era in which he lived was called the Northern Song Dynasty, and that it perished shortly after his death. Song Huizong was sent to the Jin people along with his son.

But what can you know.

He is a fortunate minister who started from the end of the micro and has neither family support nor backing, even if he learns the good strategy of governing the country from Xun Ze, he will not be able to use it when he goes back.

In this case, Gao Yu felt that unless he had something like the golden finger that Xun Ze often said to open a plug-in for himself, he would definitely not have the ability to support the building to the general.

It is precisely because of this that Gao Yu will promote football in the Song Dynasty according to the idea of being called Xunze.

Song Huizong must be the king of the dead country, but he doesn't want to be a minister of the dead country, he wants to leave his name in history, and let future generations always remember him.

Only by becoming the inventor of modern football and becoming the first person to play football in China will people remember his name until the 21st century.

"Then can you give a part of the points of the casino to the official family, in exchange for the protection of the official family. Xun Ze said whimsically, but then he wanted to retract his words.

After all, how could the emperor be short of money.

But before Xun Ze could speak, Gao Yu preemptively said, "It's not impossible, but the premise is that you have to find a good excuse." ”

"Huh?" asked Xun Ze who was stunned when he heard Gao Yu's words. "Will the official family take your money?"

"Yes. Gao Yu said with great certainty, "The official family has always been very short of money. Not only is there a shortage of private treasury, but there is also a shortage of national treasury. I've heard my family say that the treasury spends more than it earns every year. ”

"Why is this happening?" asked Xun Ze curiously, "The emperors of the Song Dynasty didn't have too extravagant." ”

"Because of redundant officials, redundant expenses, and redundant soldiers. Gao Yu said affirmatively. "Although the revenue is quite high, the expenditure is more. There is simply not much money left in the treasury every year. ”

"What do you know from the history books?"

"No, it's my family. In fact, all officials who have an official and a half-position in the imperial court know about this. But knowing doesn't mean having the ability to solve it. If redundant officials are to be resolved, they must be dismissed. Everyone has studied hard in the cold window, and rash dismissal will inevitably lead to the anger of the scholars.

If we want to solve the redundancy, it is necessary to reduce the army. However, a large number of soldiers were released back to the people, and if they were not given land, they would inevitably make trouble. But if the imperial court has enough idle land, how can it be redundant. Redundant officials and redundant soldiers can't be solved, let alone solved redundancy. ”

After listening to Gao Yu's explanation, Xun Ze also guessed why Song Huizong was short of money.

Because the people who collect money, manage money, and carry money are actually people who spend money. How is it possible for them to save their own expenses.

After all, 99 percent of people spend money, and there are only a few people who have no money. Rather than let other people's income decrease, it is better to let those few people continue to have a headache and no money.

"I hear you say it, it can be done. ”

Called Xunze thought about it in his heart, and felt that with modern gambling methods, then Gao Yu said that the casino he opened would definitely make money every day.

Part of this money went into the state treasury in the name of military spending to make up for the loss, and part of it went into the emperor's private treasury for the emperor's expenses in the name of filial piety.

Then the emperor's and ministers' mouths must be blocked with money.

There is a way to eat people with a short mouth and a soft hand, and when the emperor and ministers take the money, they will inevitably act as the protective umbrella of Gao Yu.

"That's it. "But at first, you can't open a casino blatantly, you can sell lottery tickets first." Starting today, I will teach you various ways to bet on balls. Let you know what it means to win, what is a handicap, what is a single ticket package, what is correct score, over/under, and goal odd and even. ”

At eight o'clock on Wednesday night, Xun Ze ended his teaching to Gao Yu, and asked Gao Yu to go out to play for a while, and he also took a short rest, preparing to teach Chi Yihan math later.

Although he did not call Xunze and did not make an appointment with Chi Yihan on the teaching time, Chi Yihan usually arrived at the cram school at eight o'clock.

However, today seems to be a bit of an exception, and until nine o'clock, Chi Yihan did not appear.

"It can't be that there was an accident on the road. Yu Xunze was a little worried and was about to call Chi Yihan, but at this time there were footsteps outside.

The door opened, and Chi Yihan walked in.

"Teacher. Chi Yihan looked at Xun Ze and said, "I'm sorry I'm late today." ”

"It doesn't matter. "Called Xunze liked Chi Yihan's attitude of admitting his mistake first and then talking about the reason, and motioned for Chi Yihan to come in. "Is there something delayed?"

"Yes. Chi Yihan said, "I went to the Sword Pavilion in the evening to submit my own information, hoping to pass the approval of the Sword Pavilion and participate in the special genius exam." ”

"Special genius exam?" asked Xun Ze as he looked at Chi Yihan.

"Yes. Chi Yihan said, "There are rules in the Sword Pavilion, if you fail to pass the math exam, but you have excellent swordsmanship talent. You can apply for the special gifted exam. The content of the exam is a one-on-one fencing match with three official kennel disciples. If you can win two of them, then you can ignore your math results and become a disciple of the Sword Pavilion directly. ”