Small merchants can't hold on and can still be regarded as a daily situation, because some small merchants are not prepared enough in daily life and have closed down their business, which is normal.

But Dasheng Restaurant is not a small vendor.

This is the first restaurant opened by Annan Protectorate when he chose the capital in Ningmi City, and it is very meaningful for the entire Ningmi City.

It can almost be used as a microcosm of Ningmi City's prosperous business.

Although Dasheng Restaurant is no longer the most luxurious, expensive and best-selling restaurant in Ningmicheng today, people still think Dasheng Restaurant is a symbol.

Now this symbol has fallen.

In fact, Sima Yi also knows some internal information about this symbolic bankruptcy, which is not entirely the cause of the economic crisis.

The son of the shopkeeper of this restaurant is ignorant and always skips school from the official school. Because his family has money, he likes to gamble in private.

Gambling is strictly prohibited in the Wei Empire.

Guo Peng was extremely disgusted with gambling, so the Wei Empire explicitly ordered the people not to gamble or set up casinos, otherwise they would be severely punished.

If there are casinos, it depends on the size of the size. The smaller family will be distributed to the canal and work as a coolie on the construction site of Shu Road. The larger ones will directly confiscate their property, the main culprit will be beheaded, and the family will act as a coolie.

At the beginning of the implementation of this policy, several officials from the Ministry of Finance submitted a statement to Guo Peng.

They say gambling is difficult to ban. It has been popular among the people since ancient times. Sudden bans may trigger resistance among the people. It is difficult to implement it thoroughly and the cost is also high.

It is better to lose money than to block it. You can set up an official casino, and it can relieve people's emotions. You can make steady profits without losing money. If you make money into the treasury, then the treasury will be full. Wouldn't it be beautiful?

Guo Peng looked at the memorials of these officials and was furious and issued an order to rebuke these officials.

The world is settled, and people only have small savings in their families, and gambling can cause damage to their muscles. How can a family with small savings deal with the bottomless pit of gambling?

If you are not careful, your family will be destroyed. Gambling sticks are not worthy of sympathy. How innocent are their families?

And the official casino!

Is it worth glorious to let the treasury fill the blood and tears of the deceased?

How can you bear it?

Guo Peng got angry, the officials of the Ministry of Finance were silent, and no one raised any objections. So this policy was implemented, and the Wei Empire completely banned gambling.

All the casinos left over from the pre-Han period were demolished and leveled? A large number of private gambling tools were confiscated. They set fire to fire. They also stipulated that those who possess gambling tools were illegal. They needed to be fined, whipped, and jailed.

The orders were placed in every administrative village, township, village chiefs and township chiefs took action to widely publicize the harm of gambling. They called on everyone to resist gambling and encouraged the reporting of private gambling. Once verified, they would be rewarded immediately.

Gamblers need to be severely punished, even if they are on duty, and basically have to work as hard labor. Even if they are lucky enough to get pardons, they still have to move to the border area to live? They are not allowed to return to their hometowns? Therefore, the whistleblower does not need to worry about retaliation.

For a time, many people reported it and were found to have hidden gambling tools and set up private casinos tens of thousands of people.

Guo Peng strictly ordered officials from all over the country to implement the government orders to the end, ordered central officials to come to inspect and guide, and insisted on punishing every person who violated the ban.

So during that period, everyone was cautious and gambling sticks disappeared. The Wei Empire could hardly see any casinos, gambling tools and gamblers again.

But this instinct hidden deep in human genes is really not so easy to curb? Severe punishments and laws are shocked for a moment, but not for a lifetime.

In the early years of Yande, the world was decided? No one had much money? In addition to the severe punishment and laws, the customs of the late Han Dynasty, which became popular, were eliminated in one fell swoop.

As time went by, around the eighth and nine years of Yande, the world was peaceful and the empire's prosperity first showed signs. Guo Peng kept reducing taxes to the people and increasing the income of farmers, making the people gradually become rich.

Once a person reaches the point of keeping warm, he will have many more bad ideas, and gambling is one of them.

With the stimulation of small profits and big gains, the legend of getting rich overnight greatly stimulates people's nerves and makes people involuntarily addicted to it.

As long as you have come into contact with it once and win money once, it will be hard to resist such temptation. Even if you lose, you will believe that you can still win again, and keep pouring your wealth into it, and even selling your children and girls will never repent.

Although the Wei Empire official has zero tolerance for gambling and will immediately punish and refuse to lend money once it is discovered, it cannot withstand the number of people, money, and desires, and more games.

Some people even hide in the mountains to run private secret casinos. If you want to go, you must have a reliable person to introduce them, otherwise you will never let them go. They will be extremely strict with each other.

At the end of September of the ninth year of Yande, a private casino incident was exposed in Bo County, Taishan County, Yanzhou.

The cause was not a human report, but the gamblers did not dare to set up casinos on the flat ground, for fear of being sued, so they went up the mountain to set up a private casino without knowing their lives.

After gambling for several months, they relaxed their vigilance. One day, their secret casino was touched by a bear on the mountain. The two bears bit seven or eight gambling sticks to death. The rest ran back to ask for help in a terrible in a daze.

The village chief and the village instructor immediately took the villagers' self-defense team to the mountain with their weapons to capture the murderous bears. While killing the murderous bears, they exposed their private casinos in one fell swoop.

After this incident happened, it had a huge impact.

Guo Rui, the governor of Yanzhou, was scolded by Guo Peng, and the governor of Taishan County was fined two years of salary. The magistrate of Bo County, the township chief involved, and the village chief were dismissed from office. All the gamblers who survived were pulled out to be coolies. The lucky ones who survived were beheaded and their families were punished to be coolies.

One penalty to the end.

Later, Guo Peng realized that the trend of civil gambling was revived, so he ordered a large-scale operation to go up the mountain to sweep private casinos nationwide.

Not to mention, in addition to killing a large number of beasts, we actually found hundreds of private casinos, and killed a group of heads, enriching the coolies on the construction site.

After this wave of sweeping at the end of the ninth year of Yande, the trend of civil gambling became clear.

But this kind of thing is the same as corruption and corruption. It is one after another, and you will never think about it once and for all.

However, Guo Peng believes that no matter whether such a thing resurrects or not, it must not be recognized at the official level.

Once certain things that break through the bottom line of social morality are admitted, regardless of whether this is beneficial to the national economy or whether it is beneficial to the crime rate or not, they will become scars on the national spiritual and moral level.

It is difficult to persist in some persistence, but once you give up, it is like a dam collapse and floods spread, and the far-reaching impact of it is by no means that it is not that simple.

If you don't admit it or agree, you have to punish the crime, even if it still exists in secret, as long as the official determines that it is wrong and the law has provisions to sanction it, then everyone in society will at least retain the most basic understanding.

Regardless of whether you admit it or not, you know in your heart that doing so is wrong.

Especially for young children and teenagers who have unclear cognition, these people represent the future, they will also think that this is wrong, no matter whether they will make mistakes or not, it is wrong.

If restrictions are relaxed and legalized in order to reduce the crime rate or reduce administrative burden, or even for the sake of the economy, it is in itself the official determination that this is correct.

The right and wrong determined by the law brings to everyone more than just a simple impact.

Therefore, although such things exist, they are not allowed to exist. They can only survive in the cracks, unable to see the light or the world.

Of course, it does exist.

In Annan Protectorate, under Sima Yi's nose, it exists like this.

Although Sima Yi has led the destruction of five or six private casinos since taking office and made a wave of political achievements, he is a little embarrassed for some special situations.

For example, in the matter of Dasheng Restaurant, Chen Xiang, the son of the shopkeeper Chen Jiu, was ignorant and did not like to read, and became involved in gambling.

At first, it was a small gambling, but later it turned into a big gambling. Not only did I gamble all my pocket money, I also tried every means to cheat money from my parents to gamble.

Chen Jiu is very busy on weekdays and has no time to discipline his son. Chen Jiu's wife is more indulgent to her son and always gives him a lot of money to let him go to have fun. Even if she knows that he is gambling, she doesn't punish him, but just asks him to be careful.

As a result, one day, people from the casino came to the door and said that Chen Xiang lost 480,000 yuan in the casino in one day and asked them to pay back the money.

Chen Jiu was shocked and quickly found Chen Xiang. After asking, he learned that it was true. He also learned that his wife had helped Chen Xiang hide the matter for a long time and kept giving him money, which led to such a big disaster.

"So what's wrong? Anyway, you're so rich, just give it to him!"

Chen Xiang Zhenzhen said something, and she didn't think what she did was wrong at all.

Chen Jiu was very angry and beat Chen Xiang with a stick. His wife stopped him and was beaten by him. He almost beat them to death. Then he gasped and told the people in the casino that he had no money and asked them to go back, otherwise they would report to the official, let them lose their heads and be cool.

Unexpectedly, the people in the casino were not afraid at all. They said they were not afraid at all. They had something to do, and they were not afraid even if the incident happened.

Find a few younger brothers to blame him.

Give them enough pensions and support them well to support their family, ensure that his son can take the imperial examination for five years after studying, and give him travel expenses, and have a few years of hard work. He is lucky and can come back alive.

But their family is not sure. Chen Xiang was accused of gambling and must have worked as a hard worker. If he is lucky, he will come back, but if he is bad, he will not come back.

Chen Jiu has a middle-aged son, and she is just a precious son. If the son is gone, who will such a big family business be left for?

Do you want to wait until this son dies before taking a concubine and giving birth to another concubine?

Can you give birth to it?

Heng and Xu mean that people who are barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes. I even have a lifeless younger brother. What about you?
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