Chapter 351: The Benefits of Falling from the Sky
Zhao Shuo is worried, and he can only be worried, after all, for the fleet that sails, he can't do anything else except for worrying. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the midst of worry, Zhao Shuo is still vigorously developing the gambling industry in the area under his control. Because now, in addition to waiting for Zhao Cheng to bring back the food as soon as possible, he also has to maintain the current situation and prevent the refugees from making trouble.
The gambling industry is now the only way to raise food from the rich to subsidize the poor.
Of course, there is another reason for the comprehensive connection with gambling, which is Zhao Shuo's foreshadowing for the future.
Gambling continued, and Zhao Shuo relied on this gambling to solve the inevitable problem, so that the surrounding Jin Kingdom, Western Xia, and Great Song Dynasty were all in their eyes.
These countries have all experienced wars, and there are refugees everywhere, and if gambling can solve the refugee problem, then why not learn about it.
But this kind of thing, the princes and nobles are naturally not good to come forward directly, so many merchants from the Western Xia and Jin countries flocked from the border lands. In the south, many refugees crossed rivers or crossed mountains.
For these people, Zhao Shuo waved his hand, as long as he had capital, he could participate in it.
After such a long period of 'practice', the people in Zhao Shuo's control area have already figured out some tricks. Some people have even begun to study gangs in multi-person gambling such as fighting landlords.
The merchants of the Jin Kingdom and the Western Xia, as well as the 'refugees' from the Great Song Dynasty, these people did not understand anything at all.
Two very different states have created a one-sided result. The Jin people lost again, the Western Xia lost again, and the refugees of the Great Song Dynasty were also losing.
The rules seem to be very simple, and they are completely learned, but when you really step into them, you will find that they are broad and profound. The displaying of each card will result in a different solution. If one is wrong, it is likely that this one will fail.
After losing a large amount of grain, the Western Xia, the Jin Kingdom, and the Great Song Dynasty all realized a problem. That is, you can't send people to gamble. The situation of the three countries is not good, and if they continue to lose, then the situation will be even more difficult in the future.
But Zhao Shuo did use gambling to improve the situation in the area under his control. After much deliberation, the three countries made a decision almost simultaneously - reform.
It is said that it is a reform, but it is actually very simple, that is, from the territory controlled by Zhao Shuo, Zhao Shuo's policies and gambling things are bought, and then promoted in the country.
Since gambling with you is a loss, I will go back to my country to promote the head office. In this way, it is not the same as being able to obtain food from the rich to help the poor and alleviate social conflicts. Moreover, those who lost their armor from Zhao Shuo's control can just play a little role. Although they lost badly, they also figured out the rules of the new gambling technique designed by Zhao Shuo.
The gambling tools designed by Zhao Shuo are very simple, so they are particularly easy to imitate. In just one month, the Great Song Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom, and the Western Xia successively promoted the policy of gambling competitions.
At this time, Zhao Shuo felt that the opportunity had come. Since you can send someone to me to learn how to gamble, then I can also send someone out.
Zhao Shuo quickly spread the news of the gambling tournaments in the surrounding Western Xia, Jin Kingdom, and Great Song Dynasty, and encouraged all the people to go out. For the people who go out, Zhao Shuo can sell some grain at a low price as gambling money. Of course, the only people who can apply to buy food can only be civilians with four walls.
Under Zhao Shuo's publicity, many well-known people who are proficient in gambling have chosen to go out to seek development.
For a time, many people in Zhao Shuo began to move. For the Jin State and the Western Xia, the people on both sides can only have national borders, and the Great Song Dynasty is a little troublesome, the Great Song Dynasty sent people in the form of refugees, and Zhao Shuo also concocted the same method, and the number of people is much more than that sent by the Great Song Dynasty. After all, the land mountains close to the boundary of the Great Song Dynasty have the largest number of refugees.
In this way, what was originally an inevitable thing to rescue turned into helping Zhao Shuo. Da Song was the first to act. Zhao Gou first ordered the border guards to prohibit all refugees from entering the country, and those who could not be driven back could be killed on the spot. In addition to not allowing refugees to enter the country, Zhao Gou also did not allow ordinary people to leave.
The people sent by Zhao Shuo have already entered the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and these people have won a large amount of grain in the territory controlled by the Great Song Dynasty by relying on their superb gambling skills.
Let them leave, and Zhao Gou will lose a lot. But leave them here and give them some land, and they will become Zhao Go's people. These people are the people of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Shuo and Zhao Gou both support a Great Song Dynasty, since they don't go back, now they can only stay. Their only hope is that they can return to Zhao Shuo's side in the future, after all, their parents and brothers are still there.
It can be said that Zhao Gou adopted a very good strategy, but what Zhao Gou didn't expect was that among these people, there were some people specially sent by Zhao Shuo. These people came over, firstly, to be responsible for bold news, and secondly, Zhao Shuo gave them a special task.
After the Great Song Dynasty took action, the Jin State also took action, but the Jin State was different from the Great Song Dynasty, because of the rise of the Hamuhei Mongol State in the north, it did not dare to offend Zhao Shuo too much. So, they sent people to Luoyang and begged Zhao Shuo to spare the Jin State, and as a condition, they were willing to sell a batch of grain to Zhao Shuo at a low price.
Zhao Shuo thought about it, how much could the people sent out win if they won, besides, the wins were all private, and they were not under his control. The grain he bought from the Jin country, he can dispatch it freely. In addition, most of the people who went to the Jin Kingdom were Luoyang, the Qi generation and the north of the Huai River that needed the most help - the Dasanguan generation all went to the Great Song Dynasty.
The newly recovered land north of the Huai River, the Dasanguan, is the boundary with the largest number of refugees. The refugee problem that Zhao Shuo wants to solve the most is the problem here.
Therefore, after Jin Guo made this proposal, Zhao Shuo nodded and agreed after thinking about it.
The Jin State has acted, and Western Xia naturally can't bear it. This time, Xixia still sent Li Yuanhao, and the purpose was naturally to play the emotional card.
After Li Yuanhao arrived, it was a burst of crying. First of all, the Western Xia attacked the Uighurs in Gaochang and suffered heavy losses and a shortage of food. Then he said that Xixia and Zhao Shuo were military alliances, and Zhao Shuo couldn't watch Xixia collapse like this.
Li Yuanhao didn't say anything explicitly, but he was expressing a meaning between the lines, that is, there was no food and poverty in Western Xia, and many people starved to death.
Zhao Shuo didn't plan to win much grain in Western Xia, and besides, Li Yuanhao's relationship with him was indeed good. For the strategy of Western Xia, Zhao Shuo just knocked it. The ultimate goal of the beating was to completely subjugate the Western Xia.
Therefore, after listening to Li Yuanhao's words, Zhao Shuo generously said that he would not only call back all the people sent to Western Xia, but also let them hand over all the grain they won to Li Yuanhao.
This time, it was natural for Li Yuanhao to owe Zhao Shuo a favor in the second time.