travel through the past to be emperor

Chapter 175 Don't Haunt Me

"What are you looking at?"

Zhao Fei rolled his eyes and shouted loudly.

Zhao Xiaobai, who was staring wide-eyed and looking around, was so frightened that he looked at Zhao Fei sadly and said, "Your Majesty, don't scare me. I almost knelt on the ground just now."

"Hehe." Zhao Fei smiled, although he knew that Zhao Xiaobai's expression was all fake, but seeing him like this still felt a little complacent after teasing others.

After instructing Yue Xiaobao to pick someone to "take care" of Zhao Xi's daily life, Zhao Fei thought that the cuju competition was about to start, and the most important thing was to have a good commentary whether a game could attract people, so it was necessary to meet Zhao Xiaobai, so Then he ordered someone to slip Zhao Xiaobai over.

This time Zhao Xiaobai was wearing the court clothes of the prince of the county, which looked quite strange.

And Zhao Xiaobai himself didn't seem to have the consciousness of being the son of the prince of the county, and he didn't have the slightest thought of trying to save face for his grandfather. Since he entered the room, he looked around and his eyes rolled around.

Zhao Fei looked amused, so he shouted and asked.

"Have you prepared everything you need to do?" Zhao Fei asked.

"What?" Zhao Xiaobai was stunned for a moment, then said, "Your Majesty is talking about the commentary of the Cuju competition?"

"Yes." Zhao Fei nodded and said, "Your position is very important, so I want to know how your preparations are going."

"It's okay." Zhao Xiaobai shrugged.

"What's okay, is it good or not?" Zhao Fei said.

"Your Majesty," Zhao Xiaobai curled his lips, and said, "This Cuju competition, I have seriously studied it in the past few days, just like I used to play on the stage. People order food, encouragement, ridicule, ridicule, self-deprecating and other methods are all used. I don’t care if I say the wrong thing. It can make the audience laugh.”

Zhao Fei looked at Zhao Xiaobai with some surprise. If Zhao Fei was still worried before, then when Zhao Xiaobai said the above words now, Zhao Fei was no longer worried.

At least one thing Zhao Xiaobai has achieved is that he understands his own position, what he should do and what he should not do.

Knowing this, the rest is just to see the situation on the scene.

Zhao Fei nodded secretly to Zhao Xiaobai's words, and then said: "Seeing what you said, I feel a little relieved. Remember, this game is very important, and you must do a good job of explaining and guiding."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Zhao Xiaobai nodded, and then whispered: "Your Majesty, there is something you should tell me, right?"

"What is it?" Zhao Fei asked.

"What about the score!" Zhao Xiaobai whispered: "What about the score of the first game, only if I know the score, can I better mobilize the atmosphere of the game."

"Score?" Zhao Fei shook his head and said, "How could I know the score? The score was scored by two teams on the pitch. The game has not started yet. How could I know the score?"

"Don't lie to me." Zhao Xiaobai said with an expression of 'I understand', "If Your Majesty doesn't know the score, what will the lottery say?"

"Lottery ticket?" Zhao Fei was stunned for a moment.

"Don't pretend." Zhao Xiaobai said: "Although I am not a native of Chang'an, I have heard a little about what happened in Chang'an City in the past two days."

"Oh?" Zhao Fei smiled and said, "I don't know what you have heard?"

"What I have heard the most these two days is the sale of lottery tickets by the imperial court." Zhao Xiaobai said, "Don't fool me, Your Majesty. If you really don't know the score, how can your Majesty run this lottery ticket?"

"If you don't know, you can't do it?" Zhao Fei asked curiously.

"Of course, the lottery sounds good. It is to raise funds for the country's construction, but in its essence, it is definitely a gamble." Zhao Xiaobai said: "Since gambling, there is a banker, and Your Majesty is the head of the court." , naturally it is the big banker, may I ask which casino the banker doesn't make money from?"

"What does this have to do with whether the banker makes money or not?" Zhao Fei said calmly.

"Of course it has something to do with it. One of the reasons why the banker makes money is that he has good skills, and the other is that only the banker can make money without anyone noticing." Zhao Xiaobai glanced at Zhao Fei, and said quickly: "Shu Chen said bluntly, at this moment The imperial court, if you say that the technology is good, it is definitely unrealistic, so if the imperial court as a banker wants to make money, there is only one way left, and that is to spend thousands of dollars."

"How to make a thousand?" Zhao Fei said.

"Take the simplest draw of the Cuju lottery as an example. If there are more people who bet on the home team to win and more money, then let the visiting team win or tie. If there are more people betting on the away team, then bet on the home team to win. As long as the court allows If the team plays the result you want, the court will be able to make money." Zhao Xiaobai said simply: "So I am sure that the court will definitely manipulate the game."

"Why?" Zhao Fei asked.

"The imperial court is not a good hall. Since it sells lottery tickets and is a banker, there is absolutely no reason to lose money to do business. What's more, the imperial court does not have much money today." Zhao Xiaobai said here, stunned for a moment, and looked at Zhao Fei With a pale face, he said: "I'm telling the truth, Your Majesty, please don't be angry. If you are angry, take what I said as a fart."

"You..." Zhao Fei shook his head and smiled lightly. It really made Zhao Xiaobai very angry, but he also laughed very hard. This person is indeed a wonderful flower of this era.

Zhao Fei was very curious about what kind of environment could cultivate a wonderful character like Zhao Xiaobai.

However, although people are weird, their analysis is very powerful. It is true that I am planning to manipulate the game, but this manipulation has a way of manipulation. If you want to attract people to join this lottery feast, you must not just focus on immediate interests and make a killing. things to come.

After thinking about it, Zhao Fei looked at Zhao Xiaobai and said, "Xiaobai, you are right, the imperial court can indeed manipulate the game."

"I knew I guessed it right." Zhao Xiaobai said excitedly: "Your Majesty, tell me the score quickly. If you eat meat, at least let me have some soup."

"Drink the soup?" Zhao Fei said with a chuckle; "I'm afraid you won't be able to drink the soup then, you can only drink cold water."

"Ah?" Zhao Xiaobai was stunned for a moment, and said, "How do you say it?"

"What do you think?" Zhao Fei looked at Zhao Xiaobai and said with a smile, "Guess what I'm planning."

"Your Majesty said that I can't drink soup and can only drink cold water, which means that if I really buy lottery tickets according to the score His Majesty gave me, then I will definitely lose." Zhao Xiaobai said to himself: "So, the court's No. A game is to prepare for a big profit, so that more people can win money."

Speaking of this, Zhao Xiaobai looked at Zhao Fei with some surprise and said: "Your Majesty is taking a step to see a hundred steps, and you are not going to take the matter of killing chickens and taking eggs?"

Zhao Fei chuckled, and said: "That's right, I really don't plan to kill the chicken to get the eggs, the meal needs to be eaten bite by bite, and the road has to be walked step by step. The lottery income has always been an important source of income for the court in the future, so I don't plan to Go and interfere with him at will."

"I do have the ability to manipulate the game, but I will not use this method casually." Zhao Fei continued: "After all, this person is doing it, the sky is watching, and the common people are watching even more. Is it a means? I don’t think you think you are the smartest person in Song Dynasty, do you?”

"Of course I am not. Your Majesty, you are the smartest person in the world." Zhao Xiaobai said with a playful smile.

"Don't flatter me, it's useless." Zhao Fei spread his hands and said, "I really don't know the result of the first match, because the imperial court didn't intend to pay attention to the first match at all, and even the imperial court made a decision. In order to lose money, I do have the power to manipulate, but I will only use this power in key games, and I will not use it indiscriminately in some non-key games."

"Excuse me, Your Majesty, what is a key match?" Zhao Xiaobai said: "Don't get me wrong, Your Majesty, I just hope that next time Your Majesty will let me drink some soup when eating meat."

"Hehe." Zhao Fei smiled and said: "Then you will be disappointed. The so-called key games are those games with huge prize pools on the spot, because those games are likely to make the imperial court drink cold water, and may also make a lot of money. The common people drink cold water, in this kind of competition, I will take action to find a balance point, try to make the court lose less money, or the common people lose less money."

"Your Majesty is truly a sage!" Zhao Xiaobai grinned.

"I can't talk about a holy king." Zhao Fei said lightly: "I am the emperor, and my duty is to ensure the stability of the country first, so I will definitely intervene in anything that may affect the stability of the country."

"Uh..." Zhao Xiaobai said in amazement, "Don't tell me your majesty really doesn't want to make money by manipulating the game?"

"What do you think?" Zhao Fei asked back.

"I don't think it's possible." Zhao Xiaobai said, "Even if His Majesty doesn't plan to make a lot of money, if you think about it, His Majesty is willing to use some means to earn a little money."

"That's right." Zhao Fei nodded and said, "I will indeed select some games to earn a small amount of money, but these games will not be key games or evenly matched games."

"Then why don't you give me some inside information first, Your Majesty?" Zhao Xiaobai pestered Zhao Fei again.

"No." Zhao Fei shook his head.

"Don't be so stingy, why don't you just give me some soup?" Zhao Xiaobai said.

"I don't even eat meat, so where is the soup for you?" Zhao Fei said.

"Your Majesty, I'm working for you anyway, so you can't be too stingy." Zhao Xiaobai looked at Zhao Fei with a face full of fear.

"It's not that I'm stingy, but that I really don't know." Zhao Fei spread his hands, shook his head and said, "As I said, I will decide whether to intervene based on the amount of the prize pool. Now that the amount of the prize pool is still increasing, how could I know the final result?" the result of."

"Ah?" Zhao Xiaobai said with a sad face, "Your Majesty, don't you have any news at all?"

"No, no." Zhao Fei said coldly: "Don't pester me, I won't follow your tricks, you are a big man with a sad face, what do you look like?"

"Your Majesty..." Zhao Xiaobai called Zhao Fei, and actually knelt on the ground, hugged Zhao Fei's leg and said, "Your Majesty, just tell me!"

"Get out!" Zhao Fei said angrily.

"His Majesty……"

(End of this chapter)