On Monday morning, Li Bai and Gao Yu, who had already returned, sat in the classroom and listened quietly to Xun Ze to arrange the week's teaching tasks.

"This week, Li Bai will study on his own. Yu Xunze said to Li Bai, "I don't think I have anything to teach you." So you make your own study schedule for the week. ”

"Good teacher. Li Bai nodded and said, "Then can I go out at any time?"

"Just come back and sleep at night. Yu Xunze looked at Li Bai and said, "By the way, try not to cause trouble when you go out, you don't have a hukou, and it will be very troublesome once you are taken to the police station." ”

"Understood. Li Bai nodded obediently.

Seeing Li Bai walk out of the classroom, Xun Ze turned his head to Gao Yu and said, "Did you read any information about football last night?" ”

"Looked. Gao Yu replied, "Although I have completed the tasks assigned by the teacher, Huaxia football has not risen until now." ”

"The main reason for this is that the teachers are not thinking about it. "You did create a football league and promote modern football. However, because you promoted football in the name of military training at the beginning, football was limited to the military, and did not bring a complete league system into the people. ”

"What does the teacher mean that the next time I go back, I will try to establish a football league directly in the people, not in the army?"

"It doesn't work either. "It is difficult to establish a complete football system with your efforts alone." Even if you spend your whole life building a football league in the capital. But once the war sweeps through and people are displaced, the soccer league you built will disappear into history. ”

"What should I do then?" Gao Yu asked in confusion as he looked at Xun Ze.

"My father taught me a lesson from a young age. Yu Xunze looked at Gao Yu and said, "When you especially want to do something, but you can't do it alone." You need to lure a large group of people with capital to join with some benefits. As long as this group doesn't go away, then what you want to do won't stop. ”

"Teacher, I still don't understand. ”

"Don't worry, I'll tell you slowly. Asked Xun Ze to sit opposite Gao Yu, took out a piece of paper and a pen, and then asked Gao Yu, "Are you Song people good at gambling?" ”

"That's right. Gao Yu replied, "From the emperor, to the ordinary people, to the ruffians, the three sects and the nine streams, it can be said that no one does not gamble." ”

The Song people are good at gambling, which is very famous in history. From Zhao Kuangyin losing Huashan because of gambling with Taoist priests to Song Huizong losing 2,000 gold gambling with Li Shishi, every emperor of the Song Dynasty had more or less several folk tales about gambling.

Even Song Renzong, who has a good reputation, has a story of losing 1,000 yuan in gambling with the palace maid, and cheekily asking for 500 yuan.

As the saying goes, what is still in the top, the people will still be in it. When the emperor took the lead in gambling, the subjects were even more careless.

In the battle of Lanzhou, which was closely related to the fate of the Great Song Dynasty, the prime minister Kou Zhun, as the commander-in-chief before the battle, did not forget to drink with others. The famous idiom "All or Nothing" comes from "The Biography of Song Shi Kou Zhun": "If a blogger loses all his money, he will run out of everything, which is called a desperate bet." ”

In addition to Kou Zhun and other ministers, the literati of the Song Dynasty were also very fond of gambling, including the female lyricist Li Qingzhao, who once introduced more than 20 ways to gamble money in her article, such as the rich people love to gamble on ball (the ball here refers to the juju), and those who have no money can gamble on chess, which Song Huizong and Song Qinzong may agree, because when they were taken away by the Jin people, they still did not forget to bring chess in a panic.

Of course, these are relatively high-end gambling methods, and civilians generally like cockfighting, cricket fighting, gambling on the front and back of coins, throwing dice and so on.

As an independent-minded young lady, Li Qingzhao thought that throwing dice, cockfighting, and crickets were too vulgar, and it was inconvenient to gamble on balls and the like, so she invented a gambling method called horse fighting.

Because this thing has been lost, no one knows how to play it, but some people speculate that playing horses may be the predecessor of mahjong.

asked Xun Ze to write the word gambling on a piece of paper, and then wrote the word football next to the word gambling son.

"Since everyone is good at gambling, and football is very good for gambling. So, can we combine gambling and football? Establish relevant gambling establishments, and then pull a large number of gamblers and casinos into the water. In this way, once the trend of gambling prevails, it is natural that some people will set up their own teams in the private sector, and several football leagues will form a joint football league to tempt others to gamble. ”

Gao Yu listened to Xun Ze's whimsy, and his face did not show any surprise and admiration for 'it turned out that there was such an operation'. He whispered, "Teacher, this method sounds right. But gambling was forbidden at the imperial court. Gambling without authorization, depending on the seriousness of the circumstances, can be punished with cane, or dismissed and exiled from official positions, and those who have no official position and fame may even be beheaded. ”

"What?" asked Xun Ze to be stunned when he heard Gao Yu's words.

Is there any mistake, you Song Dynasty, from the emperor to the scoundrels, everyone likes to gamble, but you tell me that gambling is illegal there, and you even cut off your head?!

You're making trouble!

"You wait first, I'll check the information. He motioned for Gao Yu to sit down first, and then he stepped aside, opened his laptop and began to check the information about illegal gambling in the Song Dynasty.

As the so-called small gambling pleasure and big gambling hurt the body.

Once gambling is prevalent and there is no relevant law to restrict it, it can easily lead to social problems.

Because in the Song and Yuan dynasties, gambling was serious, so there are many historical records of gambling, corrupt the law, disrupt society, and kill people and goods.

For example, "The History of the Song Dynasty: The Biography of Wang Anshi" contains: "There is a young man who fights a quail, and his nephew does not want to meet him, so he holds it with him, and the young man chases and kills it." ”

"Yan Yi's Conspiracy Record" contains: "There are evil scoundrels in the world, and they are reckless. The small is gambling, and the big one is slaughtering cattle and horses to sell copper coins, and the public is not taboo. If the money is not compensated, it is a piercing. If there are many parties, it is robbery, arson, rape, and murder. ”

Song's "Minggongshu Judgment Qingming Collection" has countless murder cases caused by gambling.

The court officials were not stupid, although they themselves gambled, but they could also see the harm that gambling brought to society.

Therefore, at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the laws and regulations related to gambling were formulated: 100 rods for each person who gambles and plays property, and those who have stolen goods are divided according to their own shares, and they are allowed to steal. And the one who ceases to be the master and the one who comes out of the nine harmonies, each is the same.

That is to say, in the early days of the Song Dynasty, once someone was caught gambling, it was directly sentenced to theft. But even so, because the upper class did not stop their gambling behavior, the people are still up and down, and the gambling trend is becoming more and more popular.

So in the period of Taizong of the Song Dynasty, in order to prevent someone from organizing gambling on a large scale, he directly issued an edict: "Those who are Pubo in the capital will be arrested by Kaifeng Mansion and beheaded." ”

Of course, these laws and regulations are not just talk, in the Song Taizong period, there are detailed records, a group of idle scoundrels because of the opening of a casino, directly beheaded. and those who dare to ventilate to these are also guilty of the same sin as them.

In addition to beheading civilians, there were also quite severe punishments for gambling among literati. For example, in March of the fifth year of Song Dazhong Xiangfu, Ding You, "The person who sealed the seal said, Jinshi Xiao Lizhi, whose real name is Liu, was punished by gambling and cane." Now the name was changed to the first place, and the edict was called by the division. Stand up for it. He was ordered to take away his edict, ransom forty pounds of copper, and send him away. ”

In other words, if you have been convicted of gambling and have broken the law, even if you have achieved fame, you will be revoked on the spot, and you will be told to go back and forth from where.

This is really magical, on the one hand, the emperor and the common people who are addicted to gambling, and on the other hand, the law that will be beheaded if you open a casino at will.

How did the people of the Song Dynasty survive in such a magical society?