Datang romantic little landlord

A thousand taels of gold is naturally not attractive to those bigwigs, but it does not prevent them from finding this game very interesting.

But for those ordinary officials, a thousand taels of gold is not a small sum.

The salaries of Datang officials are really not high, and it can even be said to be very low.

Compared with the Song Dynasty, the salaries of officials in the Tang Dynasty were almost the same as those of migrant workers.The same is the first grade, the monthly salary in the Zhenguan period was only 12 yuan, while in the Song Dynasty it was as high as 150 yuan, and there were also [-] shi of Lumi and other benefits.

Except for officials from aristocratic families, or those with business acumen who would let their family members do business to subsidize their families, ordinary officials in the Tang Dynasty were really poor.

Historically, when Ma Zhou was a censor, he wanted to buy a house worth 200 million yuan, but he was too shy to pay for it.

As for 1000 taels of gold, that is 600 million yuan, which is equivalent to the monthly salary of more than 800 months for the first rank of the dynasty.

Li Wangyou's words made most of the officials in the hall feel eager to move.

"Huxianzi, are you kidding me?"

"Really give you two coins, if you guess the number drawn by His Majesty, you will give 1000 taels of gold?"

"Haha, it's even interesting. Mr. Huxian, if I give you ten essays, can you write five sets of numbers?"

"I will write twenty essays and write ten sets of numbers!"

Li Wangyou repeatedly confirmed that what he said was correct, and asked Li Er to testify for himself.And there is no limit to the amount of bets that the officials can bet, as much as they are willing to pay.

All of a sudden, the Tai Chi Palace hall was full of voices, and it was extremely lively...

355 Get out

After Li Wangyou proposed the color ball game, even Li Er, who had always opposed him to engage in a lottery, became interested, and reached out to recruit the servant, asking him to give him a piece of paper, and he also wanted to place a bet.

All the ministers in the main hall donated their pockets one after another, ranging from two liters to as many as a hundred and ten liters, and they wanted to place bet numbers.Even Ma Zhou and Yan Liben smiled at their little teacher, threw out copper coins and started betting.

While all the officials placed their bets, there were also discussions about Li Wangyou's move.

Two pennies for 1000 taels of gold, isn't this county going crazy?If many people guessed the number right today, wouldn't he have to pay tens of thousands of taels of gold?

Such an unequal game, in the eyes of the gamblers Tang, is simply crazy.

"What is Hu Xianzi's intention? Do you guys know?"

"Haha, maybe there is too much gold, and the mansion can't put it down. There are rumors that all the horses in the house of Hu County are gold, and it seems to be true." Some people used the rumors to make fun of Li Wangyou, although No one will take it seriously.

"Two pennies fight a thousand taels of gold. I have never heard of such a thing."

"I think Hu Xianzi is going to lose badly today, so many people are afraid that no one will guess the seven numbers? If there are really many people guessing correctly, can Hu Xianzi get so much gold?"

"What is there to worry about? Isn't there a sage to testify? Are you afraid that Huxianzi will fail to repay his debts? Besides, Huxianzi has prepared 2 taels of gold to build a fighting field. Are you afraid that you will run out of money?"

"Haha, I'm afraid that after today, the gold that Huxianzi plans to build a battle field will have to change hands, right?"

"The old man still can't figure out what the intentions of this county household are, it's very weird."

"Cui Gong, you don't care what he wants to do, anyway, as long as you have gold at that time, you can get it. Maybe it's because Mr. Hu has lost his mind, hehe."

Some of the officials ridiculed and made fun of, but this did not prevent the officials from placing bets.

Even the servants in the main hall who helped distribute the papers and collect the copper coins couldn't help asking Li Wangyou if he and others could place bets.

In this regard, Li Wangyou naturally smiled and nodded in agreement.He smiled and watched all the officials placing bets, feeling very happy.

He didn't believe that in this hall, there are four to five hundred people who can win the lottery. If anyone is so lucky, the chance of meeting them is one in 500, and he will admit it.

In fact, Li Wangyou proposed this game, if he meets future generations of lottery players, he will lose out.

Because the chance of winning is one in 62, in other words, if someone buys all the numbers, only 62 bets are required.

Calculated in this way, it only takes more than 120 million copper coins to win his 1000 taels of gold for sure.

You must know that 1000 taels of gold are worth 600 million copper coins.

So when Li Wangyou issued lottery tickets, the grand prize was only 200 taels of gold, which in conversion was 120 million copper coins. If someone really did that, he would have to lose a lot of copper coins. Naturally, he was not afraid that someone would do this.

Today, Li Wangyou deliberately increased the prize money by 1000 taels of gold in order to attract the attention of all the officials. He was betting on the mathematics scumbags like Datang, and the probability of winning the prize could not be calculated at all.

It didn't take long for the servant to help Li Wangyou collect all the copper coins that the officials had bet on.These officials carry more or less scattered copper coins. According to this statistics, there are more than 3 coins, which is [-] copper coins.

Li Wangyou smiled and asked the servant to put away the copper coins for him, and he walked to the imperial steps with the box of two-color balls in his arms, and asked Li Er to come and draw the lottery in person.

Li Er didn't refuse either. Under the eager eyes of all the officials, he reached into the wooden box and casually pulled out the first red wooden ball.

Li Wangyou reached out to take it, glanced at the number on it, and shouted loudly: "NO.17!"

After shouting twice, he handed the wooden ball to the eunuch, and asked him to show it to the officials to show justice.

After the number was read out, all the officials were busy looking at the small pieces of paper in their hands. When someone found that the number they bet had the number NO.17, they were very happy, as if a thousand taels of gold belonged to them. .

And those who didn't guess the number, looked frustrated, and threw away the pieces of paper in their hands helplessly.

Since Li Wangyou just wanted to demonstrate how the lottery works to Li Er today, there were no first prizes or second prizes, and anyone who guessed a wrong number would be void.

As soon as the first red ball was drawn, half of the officials in the hall already dropped the small pieces of paper in their hands. Obviously, none of them guessed the number seventeen.

Li Er continued to draw red balls from the wooden box, while Li Wangyou kept calling out the number, "No. 19!" "NO.11", "NO.[-]"...

Before Li Er took out the blue ball in the wooden box, he was surprised to find that all the officials in the hall had dropped the small pieces of paper in their hands.Obviously, none of the six red ball numbers were guessed correctly.

Just now he was laughing at Li Wangyou's officials, but now he is silent.Everyone who was full of confidence and wanted to win a thousand taels of gold from him was shocked to find that it was Li Wangyou who won them thirty thousand taels of gold in the end.

Everyone couldn't help feeling cheated, but they didn't know what went wrong.

Li Er was also stunned. Is this the lottery ticket that Li Wangyou mentioned?He seems to have tasted some taste from it.

He gestured to the servant to dismiss the court, and pointed to Li Wangyou, signaling him to follow him.

The servants and eunuchs shouted "Sanchao", and all the officials bowed to Li Er, then they discussed the game called "Double Color Ball" and went to the outside of the main hall.

Li Wangyou hurriedly followed Li Erzuo's Yuyu, all the way to the Lizheng Hall.

"Ziyou, is that the lottery ticket you mentioned just now?" Li Er finally became interested, and asked impatiently as soon as he returned to the Lizheng Hall.

"Uncle, that's right, this is how the lottery is played. Use a very small price to win huge prizes, so as to attract people to pay for it. The money for buying lottery tickets may seem small, but it accumulates into a tower and accumulates into fur .This inconspicuous two pennies will be gathered into a terrible fortune."

Li Er nodded thoughtfully, and he also saw that just now, just above the main hall, there were 500 people, and Li Wangyou charged [-] yuan.

What if this lottery ticket was purchased by millions of people in Chang'an City?What if it is the tens of millions of people in Guanzhong Road?

Seeing that Li Er was tempted, Li Wangyou hurriedly struck while the iron was hot, and analyzed and calculated the possible profits from the lottery for him. This time Li Er finally listened to it.