Chapter 44 Gambling profits

"The wood removed from the back of Zhao's main store has been sold?" Zhao Qian asked hurriedly.

Zhao Cai was stunned and said, "No! It's already July now, and the weather will turn cold in three months. In addition, wood is also needed at the Tokyo Grand Stadium, so I'm going to put the wood on the construction site of the Tokyo Grand Stadium."

Zhao Qian nodded fiercely and said, "Very good! You let me right now... By the way, what is the name of that Ministry of Works?"

"The boss! Huzhou Huangjiang is also!" Zhao Cai couldn't help but feel a little cold sweat. The boss's boss is too shy!

"It turned out to be from Huzhou! Let that guy rush to work immediately. Even if it is not a matter of building a wooden shed, it is not a matter of building a seat for at least one thousand people behind the audience stand!" Zhao Qian said this and asked, "How many people can accommodate in the first row?"

The audience stand of the Grand Stadium is similar to the Colosseum and is oval, so the first row of seats is quite impressive.

Zhao Cai thought for a while and said, "Let's have 150 seats!"

Zhao Qian frowned and said, "Well! These seats are now 150 cents per seat! Anyway, the tickets are thirty. If you push these back, you will reduce the amount of ten cents per row in the back!"

Zhao Cai calculated secretly in his mind and said, "Boss, even if this is the case, there will be thirty cents and one hundred and twenty cents tickets in the middle seat. I'm afraid those audiences will cause trouble!"

As the saying goes, don’t worry about poverty, but worry about inequality. The same is spent, one is thirty cents, the other is 110, twenty cents, but you sit in the same seat. How can you convince people?

Zhao Qin said confidently: "There is no need to mix, so that the number of people is an integer, so that they will not mix together. In addition, in the audience seats between the tickets sold by the letter and the old tickets, a private room is built with wooden boards. The private room is sold for three jin of money per room!"

Zhao Cai said, "The boss has a good idea, but the price of the private room is too low! It's only three cents!"

Zhao Qian said in surprise: "Sanguan is still young? It's enough to buy rice with good quality at ten stones!"

Zhao Cai explained: "For the lower class, these three sects are naturally quite large, but who are the people who enter the private room? They are all high-ranking officials. Although the children of powerful and nobles are mostly not rich, their elders use a lot of money. The price is lighter, I am afraid they are not willing to buy tickets for the private room, thinking that they will reduce their net worth!"

After a pause, Zhao Cai added: "The private room cannot be simply watched inside. The weather is hot now, so ice cubes are needed. There are also some seasonal fruits or pastries, iced cooling drinks, such as iced mung bean soup, iced sour plum soup, iced watermelon juice, etc. In this way, it costs ten cents of money but is not expensive at all!"

Zhao Qian already felt that he was living a good life, but now he realized that Concubine Yang and Concubine Yang had always been restraining themselves. In fact, Liu E and Concubine Yang were relatively cheap when using money.

For the first time, Zhao Qian felt that recruiting Zhao Cai was a very critical thing. "Okay, I am not familiar with this matter, so I will leave it to you to deal with it! There is insufficient staff in building the stadium. Go to Zheng Shouzhong, commander of the Palace Front Office. He will arrange some soldiers to help!"

Two days later, the Tokyo Stadium was finally slightly built. It was used for a big fight. This big fight was really like a war, which made the audience scream excitedly, especially those folks in the city. Everyone has a dream of heroes in their minds. Of course, for those civil servants, they were very disgusted, but it was hard to say anything about this matter.

But Zhao Qian also left a "watching martial arts" evaluation to the civil servants. Civil servants have always been hostile to military generals. For this reason, Zhao Qian was not embarrassed by civil servants in the future. Zhao Qian still didn't know that he was shot while lying down.

The big fight provided Zhao Jin with an income of 2,000 guan! Naturally, these incomes are not all tickets. In fact, the income of tickets is very low. After all, each ticket costs 30 cents per ticket, and two thousand tickets are only sixty cents!

The real big head comes from the gambling hall, that is, the Dasong gambling, and this is only the 60% that Zhao Chen gets! In addition, there are some rents, which come from peddlers who bring things in to sell. The weather is hot now, and many people are willing to spend a few cents to buy a cup of cool tea, or spend more than ten cents to buy a bowl of iced mung bean soup and sour plum soup.

After the big battle, the top 72 also emerged.

Given the need to renovate the stadium, the game date was postponed to August.

Although the sword contest in Bianliang has temporarily stopped, a martial arts competition has also set off in Bianliang City. The gambling halls are also jealous of the popularity of sword contest in Bianliang, and they take the opportunity to hold martial arts competitions to make money.

But this has angered the censors. These censors are most afraid of warriors. How can they grow stronger for you? I immediately submitted memorials one by one, such as the hero who violated the ban on martial arts and the people who respected martial arts. A large number of memorials were sent to the Five Dynasties Rebellion.

Both Song Renzong and Liu E were afraid. Although Song Renzong was considered a wise ruler, he was not vague about consolidating his throne.

Song Renzong ordered the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture to prohibit private competitions from the people. Zhao Qian knew that this matter could not be changed, but I thought that Song Renzong would not have given him face and dismissed the Bianliang sword contest. Although many of those censors took the opportunity to make such a proposal.

Zhao Jin submitted a memorial saying that the reason why there are so many martial arts competitions in Bianliang City is that the gambling house takes the opportunity to make money from it.

Song Renzong was naturally furious and asked Kaifeng Prefecture to seize these gambling houses. Although there were many ministers behind these gambling houses, the limelight was tight at the moment and he could only endure this anger.

Zhao Qian was naturally very worried. The Song people like to bet. Now that the Bianliang swordsmanship is in the limelight, other gambling machines are careful to behave, so naturally they have an opportunity to take advantage of the big Song betting. In the top 72 competitions, the bets alone are as high as 380,000 yuan! Now that the Song Dynasty has not reached its peak, its fiscal revenue is about 50 million yuan.

But this is a huge force and has not yet calculated the expenditure. Zhao Qian's gambling house is only 72, and he has almost one percentage point of the annual fiscal revenue of the Song Dynasty.

Of course, these bets cannot all fall into Zhao Jin's trouser bags. But if Zhao Jin is lucky, it would not be a delusion to get 100,000 guan.
Chapter completed!