Liu Zhaocai's victory caused a lot of shock in Chang'an City, one is that the people don't know that this Tang Royal Academy actually has a group of students with special majors, and the other is that the people are still very curious about this snooker, after all, not everyone can go to Zhang Nan's private club to experience the feeling of snooker.

There are very few entertainment activities in Datang, and the trend of the people is to follow the imperial court, so this time, the people of Chang'an City know what this snooker is.

From the newspaper sent out the article "On How a Merchant's Son Gets a Crown", people with a heart began to play copycat snooker in the fields and streets and alleys.

And Zhang Nan, the initiator of this trend, is now invited by Li Er to the imperial study for tea.

At this time, Li Er had already stared at Zhang Nan for about a cup of tea, but he didn't say a word. Zhang Nan, who watched it, was furious in his heart.

"That, Your Majesty, if you have something to say, just say it's okay, as long as the minister can do it, the minister must do everything possible to help you complete it, you look at the minister like this, the minister always feels that something bad has happened." Zhang Nan said, and rubbed his arm with his hand, and Li Er saw Zhang Nan's goosebumps.

"I sometimes really want to see how your brain grows, and you tell me the truth, what kind of attention do you pay to recruit those merchants' children into the academy." When Li Er heard Zhang Nan say this, he withdrew his gaze, picked up the tea that had already been cooled and took a sip.

"Well, make money."

"Gone?"

Li Er was a little strange, how could Zhang Nan give such a simple reason.

"Then what do you think the emperor is recruiting the children of these merchants to study in the academy? Isn't it just to make money, after all, although the academy is officially established by the imperial court, if it can be self-financed, isn't it a disguised reduction of the burden on the imperial court? Besides, this academy will eventually be promoted to the whole of the Tang Dynasty, and when the time comes, the royal academies will be established in various places, and you will only allocate funds to Chang'an City, I'm afraid it is a little unreasonable. Zhang Nan said.

"You mean, are you making a way to collect money for the establishment of the academy in the future?" Li Er asked a little strangely.

"You can also say that, after all, it is already a feat for the state to be able to afford compulsory education, and it is not an exaggeration to say that you are the first emperor of the ages based on this article, Your Majesty." Zhang Nan sent his own sycophants in a timely manner.

Li Er was naturally very helpful when he heard it, so Li Er said with a smile: "Okay, don't slap the horse in front of me." ”

"But if the national treasury alone is to cover the cost of schooling for all the country's school-age children, that's an astronomical amount. You must know that there are not a few external troubles in Datang now, and even if there are, they are now in a state of peace and quiet, so the population of Datang will definitely rebound significantly, so it is unrealistic to want the state to bear the entire education funding. ”

Zhang Nan actually wanted to tell Li Er that if he didn't carry out a colonial war, pierced his veins to other countries, and wanted to rely on Datang's annual taxes to complete all the education funds, it would be absolutely unrealistic, let alone another hundred years, even if it was another two hundred years, Datang would not be able to do it.

Free education, even in the future generations, no country has truly accomplished this feat.

"So you came up with this method to charge the academy in disguise?" Li Er pinched his chin and said.

"That's right, that's it, Your Majesty, you must know that not every child is suitable for studying and being an official, ministers do this, if everyone is an official, then who will be the people? You say no. The main purpose of establishing the academy is to cultivate talents, and the second is to improve the quality of the people, not to train every student to become an official. Zhang Nan said.

"Well, that's what you said, but you held this snooker competition with such fanfare, I know that you didn't get a penny, but on the contrary, you spent some of it." Li Erdao.

"Your Majesty, what you said, the minister didn't fall into the eyes of money." Zhang Nan rolled his eyes at Li Er in his heart and said.

"Didn't you say you wanted to make money?" Li Er directly rolled his eyes at Zhang Nan and rolled it back.

"Hey, isn't this to make snooker famous, after all, when the newspaper was not published, our people in Datang didn't know that there was such a thing in the private club." Zhang Nan said with a smile.

"But what is your purpose in doing this?" Li Er asked a little strangely.

"The minister intends to introduce to the emperor a new type of thing that can improve the economic development of the Tang Dynasty." Zhang Nan said with a smile, after saying so much, he finally got to the point.

"Something, tell me about it." Li Er's face showed a hint of curiosity.

He called it the "gambling industry." Zhang Nan said.

"The gambling industry? That's something. "Li Er is a little strange.

"To put it simply, well, the emperor has gambled money." Zhang Nan said.

"This ...... I played some when I was younger. Li Er's face flushed, although Li Er is a relatively good emperor, but what the rich son did when he was young, Li Er must be a good one, after all, Li Er likes a novelty.

"It's simple if you have played, let's put it simply, if you talk about betting on horses, now the emperor is the banker, the emperor controls all the horses and players in your hands, the emperor, do you think you can make money?" Zhang Nan asked.

"Of course, it's okay." Li Er glanced at Zhang Nan, as if to say, I'm not a fool, if anything can be controlled, how can the dealer lose money, if the dealer loses, then how can the nearly 100 gambling houses and some black gambling houses in Chang'an City continue to operate.

"That's not it, that's what the minister wants to say." Zhang Nan patted his thigh and said.

"You're going to say again, let me open the casino?" Li Er asked in disbelief.

"Well, that's pretty much what it means. Anyway, you have to hang your name on the emperor, so it looks more formal. Zhang Nan nodded.

As soon as Li Er heard this, he pointed at Zhang Nan with his hand and said, "You, you, tell me about you, what are you thinking?" Let me open the gambling house? I also want to hang my name, what do you think, no, I don't agree, I didn't discuss. ”

"Not negotiable?" Zhang Nan asked tentatively.

Li Er pointed to the outside of the imperial study with his hand, Zhang Nan knew what Li Er meant, and Li Er wanted him to leave his imperial study mellowly.