travel through the past to be emperor

Chapter 179 I Have an Idea

Seeing each other in one day is like every three autumns.

Above the court, the situation is changing, if you don’t keep an eye on it for a minute, when you go back, things are already very different.

When Zhao Fei rushed to the military aircraft office, several military ministers had already packed their things and were about to leave.

Seeing Zhao Fei approaching, several ministers knelt down to pay their respects.

"Is there anything going on today?" Zhao Fei asked.

Qin Hui hurried forward and said, "There is one thing that His Majesty needs to know."

"What is it?" Zhao Fei asked.

"The sales of the football lottery yesterday increased tenfold compared with the previous day. Just an hour ago, the document sent by the Ministry of Accounts has now sold nearly 300 million taels of silver." Qin Hui looked at a document in amazement. Handed it to Zhao Fei, said: "Originally this news was intended to be sent to His Majesty yesterday, but..."

"Well, I got it." Zhao Fei took the document with a face full of shame. Of course, no one knew better than himself what he had done all day and night.

Just because he knew it clearly, Zhao Fei absolutely did not want Qin Hui to tell this embarrassing thing about himself.

Opening the document casually, Zhao Fei was dazzled by the series of numbers on it.

Frowning and closing the document, Zhao Fei said, "Why did you suddenly sell so many, shouldn't you?"

"I also think it's not that simple." Qin Huidao: "So I asked someone to check it out."

"What's the result?" Zhao Fei asked.

"The result surprised me!" Qin Hui whispered: "Your Majesty will never guess who made such a big deal in it."

Someone is haunted?

Can't guess it yourself?
Zhao Fei was stunned. From Qin Hui's words, he got the above two messages and frowned. After thinking for a while, Zhao Fei pondered, "Could it be Zhao Xi?"

"Your Majesty is unparalleled in wisdom, and it is Prince Luo." Qin Hui praised: "Although the methods used by Prince Luo are relatively secret, I still found out that Prince Luo ordered people to buy a total of 100 million taels of tickets at [-] lottery stations yesterday." Lottery."

"Whoever he buys wins?" Zhao Fei asked.

"Zhengding Army." Qin Hui spat out a name carefully.

Zhao Fei looked at Qin Hui with a face full of surprise, and sighed: "He wants to win all the money on the board! And he also wants to win all the money in my treasury!"

Qin Hui didn't dare to answer Zhao Fei's words, and neither did the others.

Because everyone present knew that in the first match, Zhengding Army vs. Guang'an Army, the situation originally set by the imperial court was that Zhengding Army would win.

Zhao Fei did not intend to interfere in the game, but in order to ensure that the game was controlled within a manageable range, he tried his best to give all parties a satisfactory result.

When the court considered the game, it actually considered who would win and who would lose.

As the first game of the opening match, it undoubtedly attracted the attention of all parties, and Zhao Fei hoped to make the court's lottery business bigger and stronger through the first game, so naturally he paid special attention to it.

The result of the attention is that the imperial court decided early on that the Zhengding army would win!
Now that Zhao Xi has bought 100 million Zhengding Army, this is definitely not a means of gambling, but is sure that the Zhengding Army will win!

This is a means to move all the imperial treasury into his palace.

"Should you all talk about what to do?" Zhao Fei looked at the ministers and said a little tiredly.

Qin Hui pondered for a moment, and said: "I have thought about this matter for a long time, and I feel that since Prince Luo did this, the court will do the opposite and let the Guang'an Army win!"

"Impossible!" Liu Yong interjected: "Your Excellency should know that most people on the board have bought the Zhengding Army, and from the historical situation, the strength of the Zhengding Army is far superior to that of the Guang'an Army. If the Guang'an Army wins, then It’s an obvious cheating, in this way, how will the subjects of the world view the imperial court.”

"Since Mr. Liu thinks it's not possible," Qin Hui said with a sneer, "I wonder if Mr. Liu has any solution?"

Liu Yong's expression brightened immediately, and he said: "If I have a good solution, I would have already proposed it to His Majesty, and you still need to say it."

Zhao Fei ignored the two guys who were disrupting each other, and looked at Wang Qinian.

Although Wang Qinian half-closed his eyes and seemed to be asleep, the old man was really a god. When Zhao Fei looked over, the old man's eyes opened.

"Your Majesty, the veteran thinks that we can start from two aspects." Wang Qinian said: "The first is to increase the propaganda of the Guang'an Army as much as possible, and the second is to lower the odds of the Zhengding Army again."

"I basically agree with this point of publicity." Zhao Fei said, "But for the odds, if the odds are adjusted too low, the common people will not want to gamble."

"I really didn't expect this." Wang Qinian said: "If not, the court would try to publicize some powerful news about the Guang'an Army and unfavorable news about the Zhengding Army. Turn it down."

"This is indeed a good way." Zhao Fei nodded. Wang Qinian's idea is basically close to some modern ideas of gambling, which is a very remarkable thing.

Qin Hui glanced at Wang Qinian and sighed in his heart, knowing that if Wang Qinian was not too old, he would not be able to take the position of prime minister anyway.

"Your Majesty." Qin Hui stepped forward and said.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Fei looked at Qin Hui.

"I just thought of something." Qin Huidao: "This time, the court will not let Prince Luo win no matter what."

"Why?" Zhao Fei said, in fact, Zhao Fei originally wanted to lower the odds so that Prince Luo would win less.

"Because it's Prince Luo who bet." Qin Hui said seriously: "It's okay if Prince Luo loses, but if Prince Luo wins, then no matter how the court explains it, in the hearts of the people, Prince Luo is also to some extent On behalf of the imperial court, or more accurately, Prince Luo represents the imperial court and cheats the common people's money, at that time, the imperial court's reputation will inevitably be greatly damaged, and the imperial court's lottery plan will also be in vain!"

Although Qin Hui's words sounded harsh, when Qin Hui's Huaying fell, the whole room suddenly lost their voices, and everyone was thinking about what Qin Hui said.

Although above the imperial court, the discussion of money and food expenses has never been less than 1 taels, and most of the time it is hundreds of thousands or millions, but for the people at the bottom, one and a half taels of silver is what they live on main theme.

The imperial court has already accepted millions of taels of bets. Although many of them are bets by the court dignitaries, there are still millions of taels of silver cast by the people of Chang'an City.

Chang'an City is the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty. To ensure the stability of the Great Song Dynasty, we must first ensure the stability of Chang'an. To ensure the stability of Chang'an, we need the people of Chang'an to have confidence in the court.

This kind of confidence comes from the people's trust in the court, and from the court's love for the people.

Although the lottery is small, it is a major event related to the people of Chang'an.

Prince Luo made a bet of millions. If the information about his heavy bet was leaked after he won, it would be true that the imperial court partnered with Prince Luo to defraud the money.

People are often simple, but this kind of simplicity is very easy to be used by some people with ulterior motives.

Once the simple people are used by others, in just a moment, the original simple people are likely to become extremists with extreme ideas.

Zhao Fei glanced at Qin Hui approvingly. If Qin Hui hadn't reminded him, Zhao Fei wouldn't have thought of this in a short time.

It is true that Zhao Xi cannot win money!

Zhao Fei sighed in his heart, raised his eyebrows slightly, and thought carefully about what to do to solve this matter satisfactorily.

The other ministers knew that Zhao Fei was thinking about something, and they stood there quietly, not daring to make any noise to disturb Zhao Fei.

Zhao Fei thought for a long time, but still couldn't figure out why.

He waved his hand a little angrily, and ordered: "Anping, send someone some tea!"

Anping responded, and quickly ordered someone to serve tea.

There is never a shortage of people running errands around the leaders, not to mention that there are so many leaders here.

Hearing Anping's order, the little eunuch serving outside the door immediately came in with tea.

Because of frequent leaks of secrets in the palace, the eunuchs in the places where Zhao Fei often haunted changed one after another.

Today, the eunuch in Shangshui still looks a little tender, with a silly look on his face, maybe because he wants to see the emperor, maybe because it's the first time in his life to see so many big men.

Carrying water, walking and passing by was sweating profusely, with a tense face, and walked unsteadily.

An Ping, who was standing beside Zhao Fei, was furious, and couldn't help scolding: "Whose eunuch are you, why are you so slow in doing something, and your Majesty's water is delayed, can you bear it?..."

"Clap clap clap!"

Before Anping finished speaking, he was suppressed by the sound of broken porcelain.

The little eunuch holding the water was a little nervous at first, but Anping was startled, and his legs and feet tilted, throwing all the things in his hands out.

Anping stared wide-eyed at the little eunuch who threw the porcelain cup on the ground, raised his right hand for a long time, his face was pale, and he almost fainted out of breath.

"Get out of here and fight hard!"

After Anping for a long time, he scolded, and suddenly several strong eunuchs rushed in, arrested the young eunuch who committed the crime, and walked out without saying a word.

"and many more!"

At this time, Zhao Fei's eyes lit up, and he suddenly stopped.

Anping immediately asked people to stop, then turned around and knelt on the ground to plead guilty: "The slave was in a hurry, and sent this eunuch to His Majesty before he had been there, please His Majesty punish him."

"Punish you, stand up." Zhao Fei waved his hand indifferently, and said: "I told you to stop, just let you hang him out, and don't let him come here to be on duty in the future. As for the reason , you will understand in a while."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Anping nodded, waved his hand and said: "Your Majesty heard everything, take him out and send him to Eunuch Li, so that Eunuch Li can teach you well, you can't wait to beat him!"

After the maids entered the house to clean up the ground in the house, the neat palace servants brought in the tea.

After taking a sip of tea, Zhao Fei looked at the officials with a smile and said, "I have an idea!"

(End of this chapter)