Datang romantic little landlord

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Seeing Li Er's order, a team of guards at the gate of Suzaku City shouted in unison: "The lottery!"

Immediately, loud cheers came from under the Suzaku gate. The sound was so loud that the birds in the sky above Chang'an panicked and scattered.

The officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs held thirty red Cujus and threw them into the drum of the lottery one by one.

Li Er rolled up the cuffs of his yellow robe, stepped forward and began to shake the handle on the drum.

The drum is three meters in diameter and is made of thick iron wire, so it is naturally very heavy.Originally, Li Wangyou was going to let the strong soldiers of the imperial army shake him.But the face-saving Li Er, how can he give up the first lottery chance to others?

Rejecting the request for assistance from others, Li Er blushed, exhausted all his strength, and finally shook the huge roller.

As the drum began to rotate, all the people on Suzaku Street who were still full of voices held their breath, staring at the drum that was spinning faster and faster with burning eyes.

In the drum, thirty red balls kept colliding and rolling.

Seeing this, Li Wangyou quickly asked someone to remove a baffle under the drum, exposing a hole for the ball to exit.Thirty red balls continued to rotate under Li Er's shaking drum, and finally one red ball fell down along the hole on the drum.

The officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs immediately stepped forward, picked up the red ball, raised their hands, and showed it to the crowd below.

At the same time, the guards on the city gate also shouted in unison: "No. [-], No. [-]!"

The call to announce the first lottery number was also chanted by the guards on both sides of Suzaku Avenue and passed to the rear.After a while, the crowd on the entire Suzaku Street heard clearly.

When the first number was shaken, a huge sound wave erupted again on the Suzaku Street, which was still extremely quiet just now.

Those anxiously waiting people bought their own lottery tickets, some cheered and screamed, and some sighed in frustration.

"No. 29! No. 29!..." The lottery numbers kept being drawn out, and the number burst out from time to time on Suzaku Street below, causing waves of commotion.

When the last blue ball number was drawn, the streets of Suzaku were crying and howling, with all kinds of sounds.

"I won! I won! The second prize! Daozu, I won! Hahahaha, 50 taels of gold!"

"Congratulations, Dalang, you deserve a treat!"

"Today at Pingkangfang, I'm treating guests, you won't return until you're drunk!"

"Haha, I won too. The third prize is not bad! Five taels of gold!"

"What about the first prize? Has anyone won the first prize? That's 200 taels of gold!"

However, some people wept with joy, some shouted, but no one admitted that they had won the jackpot.

Li Er and Li Wangyou stood on the city gate and looked at the crowd below, and suddenly asked, "Ziyou, is it possible that no one will win this first prize? If no one wins the prize, wouldn't the common people think that this lottery ticket is a lottery ticket?" Is it all a scam?"

When he said this, Li Wangyou also scratched his head a little.

When he demonstrated the lottery game with Li Er in the main hall of the Taiji Palace that day, there were only twenty red balls, and the chance of winning the lottery was more than one in 60.

But after returning to Dingzhou Village, he was mercilessly ridiculed by the beautiful boss.

The beautiful boss just asked him to do a simple calculation. If there are 1000 million lottery tickets, how many people will win the first prize.

Li Wangyou's calculation made him break out in a cold sweat.

According to what I thought at the beginning, if there were only twenty red color ball numbers, then he would have to lose even his underwear.

So when the lottery was officially issued, Li Wangyou changed the twenty red ball numbers into one to thirty, thirty red ball numbers.

In this way, the chance of winning the first prize has changed from one in 64 to one in 950 million.

He replied uncertainly: "Uncle, it shouldn't happen, right? A total of more than 400 million lottery tickets have been sold, and the chance of winning is one in 900 million. It is said that at least one or two people will win the jackpot."

"What if no one wins the prize, so what?" Li Er made some calculations in his mind, and still felt that it was very likely that no one would win the prize.

Li Wangyou chuckled: "Well, hey, uncle, my nephew has just asked Dai Shangshu to prepare a lottery ticket, and the number is the one you drew just now. What if..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Er already understood what he meant, so he couldn't help but glared at him.

This bastard is planning to cheat, get a fake first prize, and fool the common people!

361 false advertising

Li Er naturally understood what Li Wangyou did, and it was just in case.

After all, it was the first lottery draw, and Li Er planned to publicize it with great fanfare, so that the lottery could continue to develop.

If no one really wins the jackpot, it will indeed make people distrust the lottery.So Li Wangyou's operation can't actually be called cheating, it can only be called "false advertising".

Li Wangyou set Datang's lottery prize redemption rules, the same as later generations, within one month, the winners bring the public inspection and winning lottery tickets to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to receive the prize.

After discussing with Dai Zhou, he planned to wait and see, if no one came to claim the prize within five days, he would arrange for someone to take the fake lottery ticket to claim the prize.At that time, the palace gate will be copied and publicized again, so as to ensure that future lottery sales will not be affected.

Of course, it is best not to cheat, after all, a fake is a fake, and it may not be possible to hide it for a while.

For the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth prizes of the lottery, you can go directly to the lottery sales point in Liufang City to redeem the prizes.

Ever since Li Er publicly drew the prize at the gate of Suzaku City, in the past two days, there has been an endless stream of people going to Liufang to claim the prize.

Among them, there are as many as seven or eight winners of the second prize of 50 taels of gold, and there are countless other small prizes.

The people who received the bonus by virtue of the lottery tickets not only smiled happily, but also turned around and went straight to the counter selling lottery tickets to continue buying the next lottery ticket.

The people who came to receive the prizes aroused the envy of the surrounding people. People who were just waiting and watching couldn't help but walked into the lottery sales point, spending a few copper coins and buying a few lottery tickets.

However, two or three days passed, and the winner of the first prize never appeared, which inevitably made the people who bought lottery tickets in Chang'an city discuss a lot.

There are skeptics, and there are those who question the cheating of officials... The chain reaction is that a few days after the lottery draw, the sales of lottery tickets in Liufang City have declined to varying degrees.

During the peak period, the lottery sales points in Liufang City could sell more than 200 million yuan of lottery tickets, but in the past two days it has dropped to more than 100 million yuan, which made Dai Zhou very anxious to see it.

Not to mention how anxious Dai Zhou, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, got angry and wanted to let the fake winners go to receive the prize immediately, but there was a commotion in a residential house in Yanshoufang on the east side of the West Market.

Because Yanshoufang is close to the West Market, most of the wealthy merchants live here, and the house price here is only lower than that of Lifang where those noble officials live in the north of the city.

Outside a residential house in Beili, Fangnei East Street, many people surrounded them, knocking on the door and shouting non-stop.

"Open the door! Open the door quickly! Shopkeeper Ren, we will know you are at home, open the door quickly! Today's debt must be settled, otherwise the old man will go to the Chang'an County Yamen to file a complaint!"

"Yes! Shopkeeper Ren, I have given you three days to raise money for the goods. What's the matter with hiding now? Come out and speak!"

This group of people obviously came to ask for debts, and there were several people in filial piety gathered around the house, who were also crying and knocking on the door.

"Shopkeeper Ren, return my Dalang! My son died so badly!"

"Don't think you'll be fine if you hide at home. If you don't give my family an explanation today, I'll report to the county government!"

"Ren, come out and pay back my elder brother's life! My elder brother worked for you, and now he is dying in flames. How can you just give us ten copper coins and send us away? Don't think about it!"