Datang romantic little landlord

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But when the evening drum sounded and the people dispersed, Li Er took Li Wangyou and asked him to wait with him for the Ministry of Civil Affairs to calculate the sales amount.

When the final lottery sales amount was announced, Li Er couldn't help but gasp.

240 million dollars!

Not only Li Er was surprised by this number, but Li Wangyou also did not expect it.

Dai Zhou's face was also wrinkled into a ball of smiles, like a chrysanthemum: "His Majesty, Huxianzi is really not lying, this lottery is really good. One day is 240 million yuan, this ten days Today, how much can be sold, I really can't imagine. The lottery is really a success, I congratulate Your Majesty!"

The reason why Dai Zhou said ten days is because Li Wangyou gave the lottery drawing plan once a ten days, three times a month.

If there is today's sales in ten days, it will be 400 million yuan.According to the distribution plan of the lottery amount, the national treasury under the control of the Ministry of Civil Affairs can take 720%, which is [-] million yuan.

One year is 20 yuan in income, and this is only the initial stage. As the lottery is promoted to Guanzhong Road, with tens of millions of people, its ability to amass wealth will be even more amazing.

Even 20 is an astonishing number.

During the Tianbao period, the most prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, the central fiscal revenue was only about 400 million yuan.

Among them, the income of corn is more than [-] million shi, the income of cloth and silk is more than [-] million, and the money is only more than [-] million.

In other words, even in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the country's income in copper coins was only more than two million guan.

However, there is almost no surplus in these funds. More than 140 million guan is the monthly salary of the court officials and Zhuzhou counties, school materials and post horses, and more than [-] guan need to be added to the military states and military rations.

There was not enough copper money, and there was a money panic. Datang still used silk as currency for payment.This is also a common problem in all dynasties, and it is also one of the reasons for the birth of banknotes such as Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty.

In the early years of Zhenguan, the annual income of the Tang Dynasty was only about one million guan. If it was possible to earn 20 guan annually through lottery tickets, it would be really amazing, and Dai Zhou, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, could not help but smile so brightly.

"Haha, Ziyou is truly talented, and he is my minister! When the lottery ticket is effective, I will reward Ziyou!" Li Er laughed, and brought up the matter of Li Wangyou's nobility. .

If the lottery sales can continue to be so hot, Li Er really has to give Li Wangyou a nobility.It is not the way of a king not to reward meritorious service.

Dai Zhou was secretly startled when he heard that, this Huxian son, now only sixteen years old, has already been granted the title of knighthood twice in just over a month.Now the sage wants to continue to confer the title, this kind of favor is really in the heart of the emperor, no one can match it.

But when Dai Zhou thought about it carefully, he felt that it was reasonable.

Huxianzi presented waterwheels, four-wheeled carriages, mirage mud, horseshoes and many other works, but all of them were good tools for the benefit of the country and the people, and their importance was no less than that of opening up territories.

After such a calculation, Dai Zhou even felt that Li Er was being stingy. Just being the founder of Hu County was really not enough to reward Li Wangyou for his achievements.

When Li Wangyou learned that the lottery tickets were sold for 240 million yuan on the first day, he was also very happy from ear to ear.

His 4% shares, according to this ratio, can earn more than 3 yuan a year, which is an astonishing wealth. It is estimated that Li Heng will have a headache again because there are too many gold and copper coins at home, and there is no place to pile them up.

It seems that I really have to urge the Ministry of Industry to take out some more copper coins to reward the craftsmen, and see if I can speed up the construction of my manor mansion.

Regardless of how excited Li Er and the others are, with the release of lottery tickets, the first thing everyone in Chang'an City says when they meet is: "Have you bought it?"

If anyone hasn't bought a lottery ticket, the neighbors will immediately be very enthusiastic, asking him about what a lottery is, how to play, how to choose numbers, and when will the lottery be drawn.

Even the illiterate people are now almost able to memorize the lottery's gameplay, drawing method, and time on the notice.

Those who dismiss the lottery are like heretics and are looked down upon.

The attraction of gold is so great that the people in Chang'an City are all bewildered.

There were all kinds of rumors about Li Wangyou in the past, but now no one mentions them anymore.

The government's notice clearly stated that the lottery ticket was produced by Huxianzi.The fickle Chang'an people no longer say that the founding son of Huxian County is a rich and unkind person, but instead regard him as the God of Wealth.

Someone even secretly enshrined Li Wangyou's God of Wealth tablet at home, and burned incense every day to worship him, trying to let Li Wangyou bless him to win the lottery and get 200 taels of gold.

The lottery sales point in Liufang City is crowded with people every day.

As the clerks of the Ministry of Civil Affairs became more and more familiar with the lottery sales process, more and more lottery tickets were sold every day.

Even the hundreds of officials above the court sent their family servants to queue up at the lottery sales point to buy lottery tickets.

This palm-sized lottery ticket became expensive in Luoyang for a while, and everyone flocked to it.

Ten days passed in a flash, and the first lottery of Datang came to the day of the lottery.In Chang'an City, the alleys were empty for a while, and they all ran to Zhuque Street to wait for the lottery draw...

360 lottery draw

In order to reassure the people of Chang'an, Li Wangyou, after obtaining Li Er's consent, decided that the lottery draws every ten days would be held on Zhuque Avenue, the gate of the imperial city Zhuque.

In order to allow everyone to witness the lottery draw directly, Li Wangyou had already asked the craftsmen who will be in charge to build a huge lottery machine, which was placed above the gate of Suzaku City.

The appearance is similar to the rollers that hamsters run in later generations, but this roller is very huge, with a diameter of about three meters.Standing above the city gate, the common people can see it clearly at a glance on Suzaku Street.

The drum used for lottery is made of thick iron wire, hollowed out, and the inside and outside conditions are clearly visible.

As for the lottery balls, Li Wangyou asked the craftsmen to replace them with cuju balls, paint them with numbers and write them on.

Datang Cuju uses an inflatable hollow ball, which is filled with air from the bladder of an animal and wrapped in eight pieces of leather. The ball is light and round.

Li Wangyou asked the craftsman to prepare thirty red balls and sixteen blue balls for today's lottery.

The time of the lottery has long been made public, and it was even copied at the palace gate for an unprecedented time.

On this day, the people in Chang'an City went out of their homes one after another to watch the lottery on Zhuque Avenue.

Nuoda's Suzaku Avenue was full of dark crowds, and people kept coming from all over Chang'an City.According to a preliminary estimate, the number of people who came here to watch the lottery today is no less than one hundred thousand.

The 150-meter-wide Suzaku Street stretches southward from Jinguangmen Street in front of Suzaku Gate for four or five streets. The distance of seven or eight miles is full of people.

In fact, in the era when there was no live TV broadcast, no matter how big the lottery machine on the gate of Suzaku City was, the crowd two miles away would never be able to clearly see it.

But even so, the people of Chang'an never tire of it.Even though they couldn't see the scene on the Suzaku city gate clearly, they all whispered to each other, discussing enthusiastically whether they could win the lottery.

With such a turbulent crowd, the left and right Jinwu Guards, who are in charge of the safety of Suzaku Avenue today, couldn't help but clenched their weapons tightly, and were fully on guard for fear of accidents.

At [-]:[-] p.m., after the end of the Chang Dynasty that day, Li Er also boarded the Zhuque Tower.

Today's lottery draw, he will personally draw the lottery.

Seeing the appearance of Li Er in a yellow robe, all the officials waiting here under the city gate bowed and saluted one after another.And the more than [-] people of Chang'an City on Suzaku Avenue also knew that His Majesty the Emperor had appeared, and they all fell to their knees and shouted long live three times.

With a bright smile on his face, Li Er waved his hand to indicate that he was ready to draw the prize.

He really couldn't help being unhappy, within ten days, Chang'an City's current lottery tickets sold a total of nearly 3000 million yuan!

Li Er could not wait to order immediately to spread the lottery to the entire Guanzhong Road.

It was Li Wangyou and Dai Zhou who persuaded the emperor who was dazzled by the huge amount of copper coins.After all, the lottery is a new thing, and it is better to operate it in Chang'an City for a while before making plans.

Fortunately, Li Er is an emperor who can listen to persuasion. After some impulsiveness, he didn't mention this matter again.