When Xiao Gan came, Xiao Wanyu came out with her big belly. As soon as she entered the door, she heard the old man losing his temper. She smiled and said, "Grandpa, if you have something to say, don't get angry."

When Xiao Gan saw Xiao Wanyu, he said nervously: "Wanyu, don't run around with a big belly."

Xiao Wanyu said, "It's okay, I happened to go out for a walk, and I'm always bored in the room."

Seeing Li You looking at her, she said, "You talk, don't worry about me, I'll sit and leave." As she said that, she sat next to Xiao Gan.

Xiao Gan turned his head and said to Li You: "Your Highness, you have seen all the school plans formulated by me. Today I got the morning court. The Ministry of Revenue said that there was not that much money to reduce the number of schools by half. As a result, the plan was not passed."

The old man is very enthusiastic about running schools. He has been busy for half a month and often stays up late in order to write a school plan.

In order to comfort Xiao Gan, Li You pretended to be angry and said, "Gao Jingming is so stingy. As the saying goes, talent is the first, education is the first. You can't stop any funds from being blocked.

Baihu, go and call this guy for me."

Gao Jingming's favorite thing is that His Highness King Qi calls him. In his eyes, His Highness King Qi is a money tree. As long as he calls himself, there will be a lot of extra money in the warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue.

When Gao Jingming saw the white tiger, he suddenly became excited and said, "Create horses for me quickly, I'm going to see His Highness the King of Qi."

Baihu said, "This time I will call you not only Lord Du."

When Gao Jingming heard that he called Du Xinyuan, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, he knew that His Highness the King of Qin would make a big move this time.

The Palace of King Qi.

Zhang Baogui returned from the Eastern Expedition Army and gained two major gains. The first was to be a father and a fat son. The second was that he was now an earl because of his military merits, and he was now a higher title than his two older brothers. His current identity is the deputy director of the Institute and a guerrilla general in the fifth rank.

He was not interested in the industry, commerce and technology affairs in the institute, and Li You did not ask him to go to work on time and live a free and easy life.

At this time, he and his wife Du Mei brought their children to the Qi Palace and met their father-in-law Du Xinyuan and Gao Jingming at the gate.

When Du Xinyuan saw his fat grandson, he was so happy that he stretched out his finger to touch his face. The fat boy stretched out his fleshy little hand, grabbed his finger and stuffed it into his mouth.

Du Mei quickly pulled his little hand away and said to her father angrily: "Look at you, you don't wash your hands, you're so dirty."

Du Xinyuan didn't care, and laughed happily. He said to Zhang Baogui: "Baogui, I have specially cleaned up the house for you. You and Xiaomei and you come here to live with their children for a few days."

"Yes, my father-in-law, I'll go in a few days." Zhang Baogui said. He asked, "Father-in-law, Mr. Gao, are you talking about the matter with Your Highness?"

Du Xinyuan said: "Yes, it was His Highness who asked us to come."

Zhang Baogui knew that they would talk about things for a long time, and it would be boring if he went there, so he said, "Father-in-law, Mr. Gao, please be busy, Xiaomei and I won't go in. Please tell your highness and say I'll come over again when I have lunch." After that, he went shopping with Du Mei.

Gao Jingming and Du Xinyuan walked and said, "Mr. Du, your son-in-law is not simple. He is less than 20 years old and has become an earl by virtue of military merit."

Du Xinyuan said happily: "I became an earl when I was 4 years old. I will follow His Highness the King of Qi and make rapid progress."

Gao Jingming said: "Your Highness King Qi is a god-like man, nothing to say. My son will graduate next year, and I will let him follow His Highness to work."

When they arrived at the guest room and saw Xiao Gan also, the two of them were in a good mood and were slightly hit. They thought that it was because Xiao Gan complained to His Highness King Qi that they were asked to come.

Gao Jingming took the initiative to say: "Your Highness, Lord Xiao, it's not that I don't support the Ministry of Education's projects, but that I have built so many new schools at the same time, and the Ministry of Revenue really can't afford so much money."

Xiao Gan said dissatisfiedly: "You don't have money to run a school, can you get so much money by renovating the imperial city?"

Not long ago, Li Shimin saw that the offices of various departments of the court had not been repaired for more than ten years, so he issued an order to ask the Ministry of Revenue to pay for the Ministry of Works to renovate it.

Li You shook his head secretly. Mr. Xiao is indeed not perfect enough. Renovating the office spaces of various departments and improving office conditions is something that everyone supports, but running schools is only the responsibility of the Ministry of Education. Which one is easier to get the support of the ministers? If his words are spread, they will offend many people.

It seems that I had the foresight to let the old man get off the position of the servant.

Li You said: "Mr. Xiao, Lord. Gao, Lord. I'll come to you today. There are a few things. The first thing is to invest in and run schools. This matter is very important. It is related to the future of the Tang Dynasty and must be supported.

However, the Ministry of Revenue also has difficulties with the Ministry of Revenue. I have a solution to it. Let’s discuss it with you.”

"What's the solution?" Xiao Gan and the other three asked together.

Li You said: "Please wait a moment."

He walked to the table, picked up a few pieces of paper, tore it into small pieces, wrote some numbers on it, and folded it straight into 10 small squares.

He walked back, spread the small squares in his hand on the table, pointed to the small squares and said, "Please pick up three of them each." He picked up one himself.

Xiao Gan saw that the small square was written "10 cents" on the outside. He opened the three small squares in his hand and saw that they said: "Thank you for supporting the education cause" and "Congratulations on winning the prize, 10 cents".

After everyone opened it all, they saw a total of eight of them, "Thank you for supporting the education cause", one "Congratulations on winning the prize, 10 cents", and the other "Congratulations on winning the prize, 50 cents".

Gao Jingming's mind was quickly turned, and he immediately understood and said, "Isn't this just a lot? Oh, 10 cents a day, a total income of 100 cents and a total expenditure of 60 cents can be made 40 cents."

Li You said: "It's almost the same. This is called lottery, and it was first invented by the ancient Romans."

Ancient Rome was a social system with citizens as the main body, which emphasized equal opportunities and fair competition. In all aspects of social life, the method of drawing lots was adopted. For example, in order to rectify the Roman army defeated by Spartacus, Pompeii needed to punish those fleeing soldiers. Because there were too many soldiers, the fleeing soldiers were asked to draw lots. One out of every ten soldiers caught the word "death" and was hung. As a result, in the subsequent battle, the number of Roman soldiers fled greatly decreased.

The prosperity of lottery only began in modern times. In order to make everyone better accept it, Li You first started from ancient times and then popularized them with various rules of the issuance method of lottery.

Gao Jingming and Du Xinyuan were both very excited. Gao Jingming said: "Your Highness, I understand. You can use this as an example. You can do this. A lottery ticket costs 2 cents and the investment is less. The grand prize is 100, 100, or even 100,000, and it will be of great attraction. It will definitely attract many people to participate."

Du Xinyuan smiled and said, "Mr. Xiao, now you won't have to worry about the money you have to run the school."

Xiao Gan muttered a little in his heart. He felt that these people were feeling a little uncomfortable with using this method to make money. However, he was also very happy. No matter where he got the money, as long as he could run the school, he would have no objection.

After research, based on printing technology, sealing means, transportation conditions, etc., it is decided to issue instant welfare lottery at outlets:

The return rate shall not be less than 65; the education fund ratio is 20, of which: 10 is paid to the Ministry of Revenue, and each sales unit retains 10; the issuance fee ratio is higher than 15, of which: 285 is paid to the Ministry of Revenue, and 215 is retained to the State Administration and below, and the agency fee for the agency sales station is 10.

It is decided that from the first day of next month, the Education Lottery will be first piloted in Chang'an area and will be officially implemented nationwide from January 1 next year.

After the negotiation of this issue, Li You started to get hungry, and Zhang Baogui had been waiting outside for a meal.

Li You said: "Food is the most important thing for the people, and eat first. After the meal, there is another major event to discuss with you."
Chapter completed!