Royal Gold Medal County Magistrate

Fang Zheng always kept his word!

In the following days, a wave of reskinned dramas appeared in Banshan Workshop, but it also mixed in many exciting dramas that the common people loved to watch.

Yan Xiucai Failed the Exam, Yan Xiucai's Salty Fish Tavern Work Diary, Yan Xiucai's One Night Stand, Little Yan's Adventures... A series of eye-burning plots spread like wildfire in the capital.

The people in the capital were frantically inquiring about who Yan Xiucai and Little Yan were, and why the father and son were so despicable?

It is said that Yan Guoan and his son smashed many valuable porcelains at home in those few days, but they did not get angry in the court.

After all, Fang Zheng did not name who Mr. Yan and Little Yan in the play were...

Yan Guoan also didn't have the face to run to the court to sue, wouldn't that be admitting it was him? Although the people in the court all knew what was going on.

During this period, Fang Zheng was not idle either. He purchased a large number of shops in the surrounding backward workshops for lottery sales.

Of course, the lottery was not called a lottery, but changed to 'Number One Scholar Ticket'!

The lottery method used was the double-color ball lottery method of the previous life. There were a total of forty-nine numbers, and the lottery machine determined the winning numbers. When drawing the lottery, first draw six red ball numbers, and then draw a blue ball number.

The first prize is two thousand taels. The second prize is two hundred taels, and only a few dozen coins are left for the sixth prize.

The anti-counterfeiting problem of the lottery tickets was encrypted by the technology of Taoyuan County. No one should be able to imitate them in the short term, and they are still being continuously iterated and upgraded.

Taoyuan Paper Mill pressed three sheets of paper into one sheet, and added two different special anti-counterfeiting lines on the left and right, and printed complex patterns. At the bottom, there was also a comparison of Arabic numerals and Chinese characters.

As for the number printing problem of lottery tickets, the solution was simple. Just use a seal and special ink to directly stamp it on.

Lottery paper, ink, and seals are all strictly kept by special personnel.

The numbers pre-printed on the lottery ticket can be compared by the buyer, which is also a convenient way to promote Arabic numerals.

As for the most exciting part, it is the one hundred lottery salespeople in Taoyuan County who have been specially trained.

All of these people have read books, and can even recite many classics.

According to the initial idea, such rare employment opportunities should be provided to one hundred poor people.

However, externally recruited personnel are not reliable.

Fang Zheng had many worries. The main one was that poor people are more likely to gamble! Most scholars and rich people are more rational. Even if they pursue it for a while, they will definitely realize that the so-called lottery is actually a kind of 'scam' over time.

Therefore, these one hundred people from Taoyuan County are crucial.

People who buy lottery tickets need to have the sales staff take out a book for an on-site exam. Just simply extract a paragraph from the book and read it out. If you can read and recite it, then sell it to you. If you don't recognize the words, then sorry, don't buy it.

Illiterate, poor people are not allowed to buy!

Of course, even the most rigorous design cannot be without scalpers.

It is conceivable that some poor people will buy lottery tickets through scalpers at a higher price.

However, when redeeming the prize, you also need to read and test words. The distrust between people will greatly weaken the scalpers.

At most, there will be some small-scale scalpers left, which should not affect the overall situation and are not worth worrying about.

Fang Zheng directly threw this part of the problem to Second Master Ji. I am afraid that there is no one more suitable to deal with folk scalpers than these local ruffians.

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Subsequently, the lottery business was launched vigorously.

The sales cycle is once every half month, and the lottery will be drawn in Banshan Square!

A fifty-cent lottery ticket has a chance to win a huge prize of two thousand taels! The winner can live a life of carefree food and clothing.

Countless people were talking about it, and the courtiers naturally reacted to what was going on... It turned out that Fang Zheng, this dog, was planning to monopolize it... No wonder he inexplicably submitted such a memorial to the emperor!

Li Yuanzhao squatted on the street with his hands in his sleeves, looking at the crowded lottery station opposite, and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

He poked Fang Zheng next to him: "Lao Fang, do you think your method can really make money... Buying a lottery ticket is so troublesome. If you ask me, it's better to let everyone buy it."

Fang Zheng took a bite of the candied haws, stared at the crowd and counted the number of people, and said vaguely: "Your Highness, guess how many people can win the first prize?"

Li Yuanzhao calculated with his fingers, and then frowned: "I think there must be hundreds of them! There are only dozens of balls... hiss~ then we will lose money! ?"

Fang Zheng smiled: "That's right if everyone thinks like you. As long as you calculate it yourself, you will know that even if everyone in the world buys our Number One Scholar Ticket, there will not be dozens of first prizes."

"The probability of winning the first prize is 1 in 17.72 million. It is unlikely that there will be a first prize in the whole city in a year."

"What is probability?"

"It's the chance, 17.72 million combinations can only have one first prize... Do you think someone can win the prize? Hehe"

Li Yuanzhao stared at the lottery station: "This... If no one wins the prize, who will buy our Number One Scholar Ticket?"

"How can no one win the prize? I said whoever wins the prize will win the prize!"

"I knew you were going to lie again." Li Yuanzhao looked disdainful.

"Hehe! If no one buys it, we can only do this. Think about it, if there is no first prize in a year, wouldn't it be useless in the second year?"

"So every now and then, we must arrange a few winners... Besides, how can this be called lying? This is called marketing. I dare to guarantee that even after two thousand years, people who sell Number One Scholar Tickets will do the same!"

Li Yuanzhao smacked his lips, still a little disdainful in his heart.

Nonsense! Are people two thousand years later still so shameless? Can this world be better?

Then he hesitated and said: "If the bonus is so high, and the people who buy the tickets are particularly lucky, won't we lose money? Can we really make money?"

"I have roughly calculated that one issue is half a month. If everything goes well, one issue can bring in about six thousand taels. After deducting the operating material costs and half of it for His Majesty, we should be able to save about three thousand taels."

"In this way... six thousand taels a month should not be a problem. No matter how lucky the people in the capital are, it is absolutely impossible to have three first prizes in a month."

Li Yuanzhao started counting with his fingers again, and then suddenly stood up with a face full of indignation: "There is so much! Damn it, what does Father want so much money for? He doesn't spend it!"

Then he turned his head and said: "Lao Fang, then let's hurry up! Let the whole country sell Number One Scholar Tickets, wouldn't that be a flood of wealth? In that case, let alone Banshan Workshop, we can transform the entire capital in a short time!"

Fang Zheng finished eating the candied haws, and just happened to see a child in open-crotch pants passing by, and casually inserted the stick into the child's butt crack.

He stood up and said: "No, the initial profit will definitely be a lot, but later on... We are selling to smart people, and they react very quickly!"

"I'm afraid that the profit will decline in less than two months."

"Later, we will have to teach the people to read and write, so we can't do it! It's enough to make quick money for a year or two."

"We can control this thing in our hands, but if it is put outside, I am afraid that I don't know what kind of disaster it will cause!"

"Let's take advantage of the fact that there is still more than a month to renovate Banshan Workshop and defeat Yan Guoan!"

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