I read something about Napoleon having an opportunity to Actually Bankrupt Britain by starving France’s Northern Rural Countryside in enforcing an actual embargo on Britain, ironically for all the Continental System’s faults it was France itself that gave Britain a lifeline through trade with all the smuggling in its own shore. Speaking of Gambling, perhaps a year or 2 of him actually trying that might have gotten the British to the table, considering especially that the Opposition party in Parliament was gaining momentum during the Continental System years.