"A thousand taels of silver?" The three beauties were taken aback, one thousand taels of silver, this is a huge amount of money, you must know that the annual cost of an ordinary family is only a dozen taels of silver, this thousand taels can be said to be enough for them to spend a lifetime!

"Childe, just let them go on stage to write a few poems, so that you can give them a thousand taels of silver, this is too much, right?" Ren Yuanyuan stroked her chest to ease up, but she was still very surprised.

"Without enough gimmicks, how can you attract the attention of the whole world? Now is the era of strife in various countries, in order to win, everyone is eager to seek talents, but now those high-ranking officials in the court are basically people from wealthy families, and those who are from poor backgrounds have no way to serve the country, and there is no opportunity for them to show their talents! Therefore, we hold such a competition to gather talents together, and then give those wealthy families who want to get talents have the opportunity to choose the talents they admire! So we can earn a lot of referral fees from it! Xiao Yao smiled like a profiteer again.

"Referral fee? You mean we can make money in poetry contests like this? Although the third girl didn't quite understand Xiao Yao's cross-era words, she couldn't help but be very curious when she heard that he could make money in such a money-burning competition!

"Of course you can make money! Do you think that a person like me, who is unprofitable and cannot afford to be early, will really give a thousand taels of silver to others for nothing? This competition we organize, whether it is those talented people from wealthy families or those from humble backgrounds, you can sign up for free! Then, after our screening, we will pick out ten people who are particularly talented, and they can compete for them! Of course, the topic is formulated by us, whether it is poetry and songs, or the classic doctrines of the hundred schools of thought, or even the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, Buddhist scriptures and Taoist collections, in short, we just want to let these talents show their talents! Xiao Yao said proudly, you must know that those talent shows in later generations have attracted the attention of countless audiences!

"But how can we make money from it? These talents are free to attend, and we even have to provide them with room and board, which will increase our costs! Song Keer knew that Xiao Yao would spend a lot of money if he wanted to do big things, so he had been thinking about money for Xiao Yao, and worked hard to take care of the business of Beauty Fang, so as to make more money for him!

"Haha, don't worry, the so-called small wealth does not come out, and the big wealth does not come in! As long as we draw everyone's attention to this poetry contest, we have a great chance to make money from them! At the time of the competition, we set up a voting link by the public, as long as the customer spends a certain amount of money in the general casino, we will give them a vote, for example, spend one or two silver, spend a hundred taels is a hundred, and then they can use these votes to vote for the best ten talents selected by our masters, and finally the one with the highest vote among these ten talents is our first place, and you can get a bonus of 1,000 taels! Xiao Yao proudly talked about these most greasy voting sessions.

"In that case, will someone deliberately buy a ticket to win the first place? If he is a talented man from an aristocratic family, in order to get the honor of first place, of course he will do everything possible to get as many votes as possible, for example, spend his own money and then sell as many votes as possible! After all, some children of wealthy families only care about reputation, not money, so in order to get this No. 1 false name, they may spend a lot of money to buy votes! Xu Miao thought of the loophole in this voting link.

"Absolutely! Miao Miao is really smart, and she thought of this point at once! Xiao Yao smiled sweetly at Xu Miao, and then smiled treacherously: "But we just want to use this loophole to make money!" I know Miao Miao is worried that if she does this, it will damage the reputation of our competition, but I once said that there is no first, and there is no second! Therefore, the first place in this poetry competition, in fact, does not reflect the real strength of those talents, and these ten talents are all after Xu Shangshu and Baoliang monks, these great writers have been investigated, carefully selected to stand out, I believe that each of them is the dragon and phoenix among the people, the strength of the extraordinary talent, so who can win the first place at that time, largely depends on their luck and on-the-spot performance, in this case, why don't we earn the money we need in this ambiguous link? Xiao Yao was talking about his crooked reasoning again, and it seemed reasonable to say that the shady scene of this competition was a very reasonable thing.

And according to what Miaomiao said, such a talented man who has been inspected by Xu Shangshu, and his family is a wealthy nobleman, and he can afford to buy a large number of votes, shouldn't he be the first with such a background? You must know that the selection of officials in our Chen State now attaches great importance to those who come from a family! Xiao Yao continued, making Xu Miao feel very reasonable for a while.

"Although Shiro makes a lot of sense to say this, I always feel in my heart that it will be unfair to those who don't have the money to buy votes! Will this affect the reputation of our general trading house? Xu Miao sighed and said worriedly.

"It's normal for you to have such thoughts, because you are a kind-hearted and righteous person! But you can look at this matter from another angle, the children of wealthy families can use their own money to spend in our general casino, and then exchange for a large number of votes, but those who don't have the money to buy votes, they have actually achieved fame on the stage of our poetry contest, and made the world well-known, even if we create some controversial topics and make others feel that there is a shady scene in it, isn't that better to attract the attention of others, so as to make these talents more famous? Another key point is that our poetry contest is an unofficial competition, even if they win the first place, in fact, the imperial court will not necessarily let him be an official, our role is just to make them famous! So from this point of view, even if the competition process is controversial, and some people even fight for those who have the strength but have no money to buy votes, our goal has actually been achieved, that is, to let more people know the names of these talents, so that it will be more helpful for their future development! Xiao Yao patiently explained.

"That's right, Sister Miaomiao thinks that our competition is too formal, so she thinks it's a very disgraceful thing for us to use these loopholes to make money! But Childe is right, we hold such a poetry contest, in fact, is to give those who love to be in the limelight of the wealthy talents or the poor children who have no way to serve the country a stage to satisfy their vanity and let the world know, rich people can win vanity in our competition, satisfy their vanity, people without money, their talents have also been shown, I believe that even if they fail to get the ranking, but they will also be able to make those ministers or governors of states and counties known, This will also be very helpful for their future development! So as long as they can stand on the stage of this competition, they have actually made money, and it is estimated that it is too late to thank us, where do they dare to have opinions on our internal operations? Song Keer also helped explain on the side, she analyzed from the perspective of interests, and of course it was easy to understand Xiao Yao's intentions.

"Therefore, the most fundamental purpose of holding this poetry conference is to let those rich people spend money to buy happiness, we get money, they get false fame, so this kind of competition is beneficial to everyone, why don't we do it? We are not choosing talents for the imperial court but becoming officials, why do we have to be so serious and fair, this is just a performance, everyone is happy! Xiao Yao said comfortingly.

"Well, it's true that I'm thinking too much! This poetry conference is just a famous Jinling performance we held for Sister Yuanyuan, I really shouldn't care too much about these so-called voting rankings, and the people who can pass my grandfather's test must be very talented people! But I believe that no matter how talented they are, they must not be as good as Shiro, in my heart, you Xiao Shilang is the number one talent in the world! Xu Miao, who had turned her mind, looked at Xiao Yao with admiration on her face and said with love.