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Li Wangyou bought lottery tickets a lot in later generations.But obviously he didn't have any luck of winning the lottery. On the day he crossed over, the highest winning amount was only five yuan.
But this thing can be popular all over the world, of course there is a reason.
Gambling lottery tickets can satisfy people's curiosity and risk-taking psychology. Although the winning rate is very low, the temptation of huge bonuses and small investments still stimulates people to spend money to buy.
As a senior lottery player, Li Wangyou still knows lotteries very well.
This thing can be traced back to ancient Rome more than 2000 years ago, that is, Rome hundreds of years earlier than Tang Dynasty today.The earliest modern lottery was issued in Florence in the fifteenth century.
So even in the Tang Dynasty 300 years ago, if Li Wangyou wanted to issue lottery tickets, there would be no problem at all, at least technically.
The only thing that needs to be considered is the anti-counterfeiting function of the lottery ticket. After thinking hard for a long time, he thinks that only by studying the anti-counterfeiting method of the silver ticket in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it should be able to prevent someone from forging the winning lottery ticket.
The more Li Wangyou thought about it, the more he felt that it was feasible, and there were huge benefits to be gained from issuing lottery tickets. It is estimated that Li Er would be crazy if he knew how much money he could make.
Not to mention how profitable the lottery is in later generations, Li Wangyou knows that in the 500th century, Spain was the first to issue lottery tickets to amass huge amounts of money, with an annual income of about [-] million yuan, which is one of the country's huge financial resources.
Spain's 500 million pesetas in the fifteenth century was an astronomical figure at the time.
Given the richness of the Tang Dynasty, Li Wangyou estimated that the profits he could make through the lottery would also be a huge number.
Li Wangyou didn't dare to hold such a huge wealth in his own hands, it would cost him his head.
So Li Wangyou thought it over and decided to report the lottery ticket to Li Er. He is not greedy, as long as he can get a share of it.
Li Wangyou also thought that if Datang were to discover the lottery tickets, it would probably be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
After the beautiful boss stopped chasing him, Li Wangyou immediately confided his thoughts to her, which made the beautiful boss give her a thumbs up.
"Wangyou, the lottery ticket is really a good idea! I am afraid that once it is issued, it will cause a sensation in Chang'an City."
"Hey, that's natural. Don't they all want gold? I think the grand prize is 200 taels of gold, worth [-] copper coins. Every lottery ticket is worth two Wen, haha, I'm not afraid that the people in Chang'an City are not crazy." .”
The more Li Wangyou thought about it, the more excited he became, he simply took a pen and paper, discussed with his beautiful boss the specific details of the lottery issue, and listed them one by one on the paper.
From how the lottery is printed, how the bonus is distributed, how to draw the lottery, etc., the two wrote in detail based on their knowledge of the lottery of later generations.
Li Wangyou planned to go to Taiji Palace early tomorrow morning to discuss this matter with Li Er.He wants to make the city of Chang'an go crazy for lottery tickets!
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In Chang'an City, in the Lizheng Hall of the Taiji Palace, Li Erzheng was reading carefully, and Li Wangyou presented him with suggestions on issuing lottery tickets.
Li Wangyou sat proudly by the desk, sipping tea.
Ever since Li Er tasted the "Yao Wang Tea" prepared by Sun Simiao himself in Li's house, he became interested in this way of drinking tea.
After returning to the palace, Li Er ordered people to pick fresh tea leaves and process them according to the old way.
Most of the sencha in the palace have been replaced with this method of brewing tea.
What is good at the top will be worse at the bottom.Li Er's preference for tea has been learned by many courtiers. Now in Chang'an City, this way of directly brewing tea is gradually becoming popular.
However, without roasting the tea leaves, the aroma of the tea leaves is not strong, and the tea leaves have a stinky green smell.
While drinking tea leisurely, Li Wangyou was thinking about what was there and what was missing, wondering if it was time to get out the roasted tea leaves.
After presenting the lottery ticket sales plan to Li Er, Li Wangyou waited to see Li Er's shocked expression.
Wahahaha, Lord Ben is indeed a genius, he can think of such a way!Li Wangyou was very proud.
But Li Er on the throne, his brows became tighter and tighter, not only did not show the shock and joy that Li Wangyou imagined, but instead he looked confused and puzzled.
"Ziyou, I'm afraid your lottery ticket is inappropriate. I also know that you have been wronged recently, but you are not so prodigal. Are you really going to disperse the gold? Not to mention letting the court issue lottery tickets. It's absolutely impossible."
Nani?Li Wangyou thought he was hallucinating?Li Er, what is he talking about?
The lottery is a means of raising money, but it is actually a prodigal?
"Uncle, how can you be a prodigal? The lottery is a lot of money."
"Do you think I'm stupid? Buy a lottery ticket for two pennies, guess seven numbers, and win 200 taels of gold if you guess correctly. Aren't you giving gold to people?"
Li Er shook his head endlessly. In the past few days, the gossip and gossip about Li Wangyou in Chang'an City, of course, he had already learned about it through Baiqisi.
But for the aristocratic family to incite the hearts of the people and spread rumors, Li Er has nothing to do.
He can't send a copy of the palace gate, to help Li Wangyou explain and clarify, saying that Huxianzi's family doesn't have that much gold, and Li Wangyou didn't bully the market, rob people's daughters, or dominate the land... This is too ridiculous .
After seeing Li Wangyou's suggestion of issuing lottery tickets, Li Er just thought that his nephew had been wronged, and he couldn't think about it for a while because of the stimulation, so he scattered the gold he had so hard to get.
For Li Er's answer, Li Wangyou couldn't help being dumbfounded, Damn, this illiterate, failed elementary school math, right?
Can't even Li Er understand such a simple probability?
The lottery plan created by Li Wangyou and the beautiful boss basically copied the double-color ball of later generations.
只不过六个红球，最大数字不是1至33，而是1至20，蓝色球还是1至16。
A simple mathematical formula can calculate the probability of winning the grand prize.
20乘19乘18乘17乘16乘15，除以6乘5乘4乘3乘2乘1，再乘以16，得到的答案是620160。
One in 62 odds of winning!
Although this is much higher than the one in 700 million chance of winning a prize in the welfare lottery Shuangseqiu, the population of Datang is much smaller after all.If the rules of the lottery were completely copied, Li Wangyou was worried that no one would really win the lottery.
If there are 100 million people in Ancheng, each of whom buys a lottery ticket, they can earn 200 million yuan. Even if someone wins the first prize, they will not lose money.
What's more, it doesn't mean that if 100 million people buy it, you will definitely win the prize. This is a matter of probability.
If the lottery would lose money, the lottery issuing agencies in countries around the world would have gone bankrupt and closed long ago.
However, Li Wangyou opened his mouth, thinking that this matter must not be clear to Li Er, an illiterate person.
"Uncle, this matter, hehe, please invite Dai Shangshu, he must understand what's going on."
In Li Wangyou's mind, Dai Zhou's mathematics level is still acceptable, and he should be able to explain clearly.
Li Er looked at Li Wangyou suspiciously, and ordered his servant to pass on Dai Zhou.
The six yamen are all in the imperial city, not far away, Dai Zhou quickly walked into the palace led by the servant.
After seeing Li Er, Li Er handed him the proposal on issuing lottery tickets written by Li Wangyou, and asked Dai Zhou to study whether it was feasible.
To Li Wangyou's surprise, in his opinion, Dai Zhou, who belonged to Datang's "top mathematics talent", actually shook his head after seeing his lottery distribution plan.
"It's not right, Mr. Huxian, with all due respect to the old man, the risk of your lottery is too high. If there are many winners, wouldn't you have to pay a lot of gold in one go?"