Pirates: I Created the Murloc Empire Single-handedly

No one knows what Aaron said to King Liku that day, and even King Liku himself would remain silent about it in the future.But since then, King Riku has adopted Aaron's suggestion and is preparing to sell welfare lottery tickets in Dressrosa.

Selling lottery tickets is not a simple matter. The first thing to solve is the printing problem of lottery tickets.

Fortunately, there is a printing factory affiliated with the World Economic News Agency in Prodence, a neighboring country of Dressrosa. In addition to printing newspapers and periodicals, it also provides external printing services for leaflets, books and other documents.

So King Liku sent Tegu Repante, the commander of the king's army, as a special envoy to Prodence to supervise and complete the printing of the first welfare lottery.

For this reason, he also specially sent electricity to his old friend King Elizabello II of Prodence, hoping to get the other party's assistance and support.

After the printing of lottery tickets is solved, the next problem is sales.

Aaron's recommended retail price for the welfare lottery is 50 berries, 1 first prize with a bonus of 30 berries, 2 second prizes with a bonus of 10 berries, and 5 third prizes with a bonus of 5 berries, a total of 75 Vanberg!

This means that the first phase of the welfare lottery must sell 15000 tickets just to make back the money!

We must know that the total population of Dressrosa is just over 10. Taking into account the printing and transportation costs of lottery tickets, 2% of the citizens need to purchase lottery tickets to ensure profitability.

Regarding this problem, Aaron's solution is to increase the ticket price of the bullfighting arena and give each guest a free welfare lottery ticket.

After research, Aaron found that the people of Tokushima are very keen on watching fighting competitions. The daily passenger flow of the bullfighting arena is more than 2000 people, and the annual passenger flow is conservatively estimated to be 80!

Today, the ticket price of the bullfighting arena is 200 beli, of which 7% is used for the daily expenses of the arena and the prize money of the sword fighters, and the remaining 3% belongs to the Riku royal family.

If Aaron's plan is followed and the bullfighting arena tickets are bundled with lottery tickets, it can ensure annual sales of 80 tickets and bring in revenue of 4000 million berries.

"The increase in ticket prices will certainly affect the enthusiasm of some viewers, but once the lottery is drawn, everyone's psychology will change. You have to watch the game anyway, and now there is a chance to win the big prize, so why not?"

For the same product, 50 yuan for wallet postage and 40 yuan plus 10 yuan for postage give people completely different feelings. The former makes people feel like they are making a bargain, while the latter makes people feel like they are at a disadvantage. This is consumer psychology.

Aaron couldn't instill such a statement directly into King Liku. The other party could only choose to trust him unconditionally.

With an anxious mood, King Liku waited for Tegu Repant, who had returned from Prodence, a week later. Along with him came 5 fresh lottery tickets.

three days later.

There was a long queue at the ticket window in front of the entrance to the bullfighting arena early in the morning. A man at the front of the queue came to the ticket window with his wife and children.

"Please give me 3 tickets!"

"A total of 750 beli!"

"Has the ticket price increased?" the man asked in surprise.

"The notice was issued three days ago. Now each ticket is priced at 3 beri, and a welfare lottery ticket will be given as a gift!" the conductor explained patiently.

"Welfare lottery tickets can also be purchased individually, and each ticket only costs 50 Beli!"

"Welfare lottery, what is that?"

Although the ticket price has increased, you still have to watch the game.The man took the three tickets and three lottery tickets, handed the tickets into his wife's hands, and picked up the so-called lottery tickets to observe.

A welfare lottery ticket is only half the size of an adult man's palm, with a light red pattern printed on the front and the words King Dressrosa's first welfare lottery written on it. Numbers such as 5 are written in the five rectangular grids, and the small characters below contain the lottery draw time, draw location, lottery amount, etc.

There is a text written on the back of the lottery ticket.

[The Dressrosa Welfare Lottery is certified and issued by Riku Dold III, and all proceeds will be used for infrastructure construction and national welfare in Dressrosa. 】

[After the lottery sales of this period end, 1 first prize, 2 second prizes, and 5 third prizes will be drawn! 】

[First Prize Prize: 300000 Berry]

[Second Prize Prize: 100000 Berry]

[Third Prize Prize: 50000 Berry]

"All the proceeds will be used for infrastructure construction and national welfare in Dressrosa. Is His Majesty King Riku raising funds in this way?"

"It's really, quite interesting!"

In Dressrosa, where gambling is prohibited, lottery is definitely a new thing.The enthusiastic people of Dressrosa have always been very receptive to new things, and the bundled sale of lottery tickets and arena tickets did not arouse people's plans.

On the contrary, someone bought 100 lottery tickets in one go after seeing that there was a chance of winning the jackpot.

Such behavior further stimulated the audience's enthusiasm for purchasing. Before the first game even started, more than 4000 welfare lottery tickets had been sold.

"What, more than 4000 lottery tickets have been sold? How could this happen? Are there more than 4000 people coming to watch the game today?"

In the backstage lounge of the arena, King Riku was really shocked when he heard the lottery sales reported by Captain Taigu.

"That's not true. Some viewers purchased some lottery tickets in addition to tickets. Some people even bought 100 tickets at once! To be honest, I was shocked when I heard the news!"

"In just over half an hour, the income from the lottery alone has reached more than 20 berries! The money came so fast, it's incredible!"

As the commander of King Dressrosa's army, Captain Tegu's annual income is less than 300 million beli, which averages over 20 per month.And this number is just half an hour’s worth of welfare lottery sales!

"It seems that we have underestimated people's enthusiasm for gambling! According to this situation, it will not take a month to sell out 50000 lottery tickets. This shows that Aaron is really discerning!"

"He also suggested that I use the rent raised to level the pier, dig entry tunnels, provide public carriage services, and improve the comfort of national life. Who would have thought that all of these things were proposed by a pirate?"

At this moment, King Liku only has admiration for Aaron in his heart.It's a pity that Aaron didn't come to the arena on the pretext that he had other things to do, otherwise King Liku would have really wanted to thank him in person.

"Your Majesty King Riku, the first game is about to begin! Are you ready?"

An announcer came to the lounge and reminded King Riku to prepare for his appearance.

"Get ready, this time I want to thank all the citizens for their support of the welfare lottery! Let's go, Captain Taigu!"