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Because there were too many people gathered, the officials in charge of selling lottery tickets were worried about accidents, and it was too late to set off the explosive poles, so they hurriedly announced the start of the lottery sale.
Seeing the government servants scattered in front of the shop selling lottery tickets, the common people with money bags in their hands immediately poured into the shop.
Datang double-color ball lottery, officially launched...
357 Choose C if you don’t know how to do the questions
Datang's first lottery ticket was handwritten by the scribes of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and handed over to the people who bought the lottery ticket.
When this Chang'an citizen took the lottery ticket excitedly, he was shocked to find that the lottery ticket in his hand was actually colored.
Anyone who has studied history in high school knows that there is such a question in the history exam, asking when the earliest color printing technology in our country appeared.
A- Sui and Tang Dynasties
B- Tang and Song Dynasties
C- Song and Yuan Dynasties
D-Late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty
According to the principle of choosing C if you don’t know how to do the questions, C, the Song and Yuan Dynasties is the correct answer.
Therefore, although woodblock printing appeared during the Zhenguan period, the technology of color printing would not appear until another three or four hundred years later.
In the Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province, three pieces of "Shakyamuni Saying Phrases" were found in the Song and Liao Dynasties, which are also recognized by historians as the earliest engraved and color overprinted prints in China.
There is no doubt that the color overprinting technology for printing lottery tickets was invented by Li Wangyou again.
In fact, the principle of color overprinting is not complicated. Just like engraving printing, the window paper will be broken as soon as it is poked.
According to the needs, three engraving blocks of red, blue and black are engraved respectively, and a piece of paper can be printed three times to overprint the color on a piece of paper.
The reason why Li Wangyou came up with this color overprinting technology was to prevent counterfeiting.
Because lottery tickets require a lot of printing, Li Wangyou even made copperplate printing.This is not difficult, just replace the wood used for engraving with copper plates.
The advantage of using copper plate printing is that the copper plate has a long service life, and the patterns that need to be printed can be carved very finely. The printed lines are clear and fine patterns can be reproduced.
With Li Er's words, all the best craftsmen in the supervisor were shot, but in just a few days, they produced this set of complicated copperplate engraving and printing.
The printed lottery ticket is the size of a palm, but it has complicated and delicate colorful patterns on it.These patterns were not drawn randomly. When Li Wangyou asked Yan Liben to draw the base map, he deliberately designed a code to hide it. Of course, this was also for anti-counterfeiting.
The same is true for the treasure banknotes of the Qing Dynasty, which used cumbersome patterns and red and blue three-color overprinting to prevent counterfeiting.
Another anti-counterfeiting technology of the lottery is the anti-counterfeiting seal, which Li Wangyou learned from the treasure banknotes of the Qing Dynasty.
Specially invite skilled craftsmen to engrave the seal with micro-carving techniques and stamp it on the lottery ticket.A small seal can actually engrave the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" with three to four hundred characters, and even deliberately engraved a few wrong characters as an anti-counterfeiting mark.
The lottery ticket even has the following words printed: "The counterfeiter will be executed, and the first accuser will be rewarded with twelve taels of gold." It is used to warn those who try to take risks.
There are color overprints, copperplate printing, dark lines, and anti-counterfeit seals. If the lottery ticket can still be forged, Li Wangyou can only recognize it.
On these lottery tickets, the scribes of the Ministry of Civil Affairs used small script and handwritten Chinese numbers to fill in them.A lottery ticket, you can write up to ten sets of lottery numbers.
As for the sales income of lottery tickets, officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs registered and kept accounts, and Yushitai sent Yushi to supervise them.
In order to prevent the officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs from cheating, Li Er even sent people from Baiqisi.There are six lottery sales outlets in Chang'an City, all of which are supervised by people from Baiqisi.
Every blank lottery ticket has a strict record, and even the numbers of the sold lottery tickets are registered and compiled by special personnel from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so that someone can check after winning the first prize.
It can be said that with the experience of the later generations of Li Wangyou and the beautiful boss, Datang issued lottery tickets for an unprecedented time, but there was no confusion at all, and everything was in order.
The only thing that needs to be criticized is that it is necessary to manually fill in the lottery numbers. Even if there are more than 20 clerks at each lottery sales point, it is still a drop in the bucket to face the flood of Chang'an people.
Filling in manually, and not sloppy, even though these clerks were tired with sore wrists and layers of sweat on their foreheads, the crowd outside the lottery sales point still did not decrease, but increased.
Even the [-]-meter-wide avenues outside the East and West Cities and Pingkangfang were blocked by crowds, as if the entire Chang'an city had crowded here today.
When Li Er was still in court, he got Tong Bing, a servant, who informed him of the booming lottery sales, which made Li Er feel unbelievable.
Regardless of Chang Chao's still discussing matters, he directly announced the dismissal of the court, and then went out of the palace in light clothes, changed into casual clothes and took a few guards.
Li Er was still worried if he didn't see the sales of the lottery ticket with his own eyes.
Li Wangyou naturally came to Chang'an City early today, and led Niu Wu to patrol the six lottery sales outlets, preparing to check and make up for omissions.
Behind him, Cheng Chumo waited for a group of dandies, each of whom was still complaining, it was really not interesting for Li Wangyou not to invite them to join such a fun thing.
Fang Yiai also shamelessly asked Li Wangyou what the winning lottery numbers were, and he wanted to buy a lottery ticket too.
Regarding Fang Yiai's stupid talk, the dudes actually followed suit, clamoring for Li Wangyou to give them the winning number of the first prize.In this regard, Li Wangyou could only silently roll his eyes, and raised his middle finger at them.
These bastards are really annoying!
Too lazy to pay attention to the idle dudes, Li Wangyou was also a little anxious after seeing six lottery sales outlets.
He also didn't expect the enthusiasm of the people in Chang'an for the lottery to be so great. The more than 100 clerks prepared by the Ministry of Civil Affairs were not enough to make ends meet.
The attraction of 200 taels of gold is really not small. Li Wangyou thinks that the people in Chang'an City came to buy lottery tickets after reading the notices and advertisements?
Li Wangyou hurriedly rode to the imperial city, planning to go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to discuss with Dai Zhou, see if he could send some clerks to help the six lottery sales outlets.
A group of people had just arrived at Suzaku Gate, but happened to meet Li Er who was pretending to be on patrol, and everyone hurriedly saluted.
"Ziyou, you came just in time. I'm going to visit Liufang City. How is the situation now?"
"Uncle, there are too many people." Li Wangyou wiped the sweat from his forehead, "My nephew and Dai Shangshu both underestimated the people's enthusiasm for buying lottery tickets, and now Liufang City is full of people who want to buy lottery tickets. The clerks of the Ministry of Civil Affairs are too busy at all, and my nephew is planning to go to Dai Shangshu to see if he can send some more people to help."
"Are there really that many people buying lottery tickets?"
"Indeed, my nephew estimates that there are no less than 8 to [-] people gathered in the six cities, waiting to buy lottery tickets."
Li Er was a little nervous when he heard so many people gathered, so he stretched out his hand to summon the servants around him and said: "Order the Jinwu Guards, and immediately send the imperial army to Liufang City to maintain order. Then ask Dai Shangshu to call the scribes and go to the Liufang City The city helps sell lottery tickets. Ziyou, let’s go, you can go with me to have a look.”
The last sentence, he said to Li Wangyou, the two uncles and nephews led Cheng Chumo's group of dudes to the nearest Pingkang Square...
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Li Er acted decisively and transferred the left and right Jinwu Guards to maintain order, which was a very wise choice.Otherwise, the sale of this lottery ticket might cause a big trouble in Chang'an City today.
The six lottery lottery markets are already overcrowded.
Whether it was the yamen servants of the two counties of Wannian in Chang'an, or the Marquis of Wu in the workshop, even if they yelled out their throats, they failed to stop the people from continuously crowding forward.
With so many people crowded here, if something unexpected happened, a large-scale stampede caused by crowd panic would cause unimaginable consequences.
If this is the case, I am afraid that Li Wangyou will feel uncomfortable and feel guilty for the rest of his life.