On the tenth day of August in the first year of Longteng, this is a day that can be recorded in the history of Daliang. Because the first lottery planned by Li Yue was drawn on this day.

The dock of the Lin'an Canal finally ended a busy day of loading and unloading, and a group of sweaty coolies poured out of the dock.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Liang Dynasty, the canal from Lin'an to Fengzhou was organized to transfer the materials of the southeast generation to the imperial capital Fengzhou. After the change of Dingjing, the north fell, and after the Liang moved south, the northernmost canal could only be navigated to Yangzhou.

However, the official and commercial ships on the canal are still frequent, and Lin'an, as the southernmost point of the canal, naturally developed water transportation, but for grassroots coolies like Li Dashan, life is extremely difficult.

Li Dashan was one of these coolies, who refused the invitation of the other companions to eat and drink, and instead rushed to Lin'an City with a lottery ticket that had been soaked with his sweat. This was purchased one day when he delivered goods to the Liang family's carriage and horse shop in the city. Li Dashan's salary for a day was only 20 yuan, but that day he still gritted his teeth and took out two yuan to buy a lottery ticket. Although his companions laughed at him for being stupid, he still hoped that God would open his eyes once and let him get the first prize of 1,000 yuan.

When Li Dashan walked to the Liangjia car and horse shop, there were many people gathered in front of the store, some were redeeming prizes, and some were buying the second phase of lottery tickets.

Here is responsible for the lottery prize and sale is Du Sanjin's good leek, anyway, this business is pulled by Du Sanjin, bringing a lot of shares to the carriage and horse shop, so Boss Liang simply handed over the betting station here to Xiao Leek to be responsible.

"The first phase of the lottery is two dollars, why did the second period rise to twenty dollars?"

"That's because the bonus for the second installment has been increased to 10,000 yuan."

Little leek is patiently explaining the reason for the price increase to the people who buy lottery. Suddenly, she asked, a heavy, rancid smell.

Li Dashan's smell of sweat made the people in front of the betting station avoid him, and directly made way for him. Li Dashan smoothly walked up to Xiao Leek and handed her the lottery ticket in his hand.

Xiao Leek took the wrinkled lottery ticket, and glanced at it slightly, but still patiently took out the stub, opened a pair of Danfeng eyes and compared it carefully. Xiao Leek admired Li Yue very much at the moment, and the anti-counterfeiting method he came up with was seamless. The stub is printed on the same piece of paper as the lottery ticket, and it is all torn open by hand when it is sold.

Therefore, in addition to seeing whether the numbers on the lottery ticket and the stub are consistent, it is also necessary to see whether the lottery ticket and the stub can be stitched together.

The little leek suddenly screamed, "Oh my God! First Prize! A thousand grand prizes! ”

Xiao Leek was excited as if she had won the prize, because the first prize was sold from her. In this way, there were more people buying lottery tickets at the betting station of the Liangjia car and horse shop, and her monthly silver was also linked to the sales of lottery tickets.

"What? He was the one who won the first prize? ”

"This kid is too lucky!"

……

The front of the Liang family's carriage and horse shop suddenly boiled!

After about a cup of tea, Du Sanjin appeared in front of the Liang family's carriage and horse shop with two brothers on crutches and a basket of copper coins.

In fact, there are a lot of money banks in Lin'an City, and you can just give a silver ticket. However, Li Yue still felt that sending money directly could win more attention and cause a sensation.

"Here's your bonus!" Xiao Leek pointed to the copper coins piled up into a small mountain in the basket and said to Li Dashan: "But the number of your prize is 800 yuan, and Master Li said that this lottery ticket is a monopoly of the imperial court, so you have to pay 20% of the tax." ”

"I ...... Thank you, Lord Li! Li Dashan knelt directly on the ground and knocked his head several times.

It's no wonder that he was so excited that he was close to madness, eight hundred yuan was equivalent to eight years of money in Daliang's Qipinzhi County. With this money, Li Dashan no longer has to work as a coolie, he can go back to his hometown to build a house and sell land, and then marry a daughter-in-law to live a stable life.

"Hey!" Du Sanjin looked up to the sky and sighed, "What the head said is right, the first one is paper!" ”

It turned out that Du Sanjin bought a lottery ticket with all the 100 yuan in the tavern that day, but he didn't even win the lowest prize.

"The money is obviously made of copper, why does Master Li say that they are paper?" Xiao Leek asked puzzled.

Du Sanjin thought for a while and replied, "Actually, I don't know too much. But for the first time, after I was released from prison, I spoke like this, and although you couldn't understand it, I always felt that what he said made sense. ”

The little leek who didn't fully understand could only "Oh! "Yes.

The news that a dock coolie won the first prize, and the prize of 800 yuan could not be moved by anyone spread throughout Lin'an City that night. This is already hot for the second phase of the lottery sales market,It's tantamount to adding fuel to the fire! More and more Lin'an people have joined the army of lottery purchases.

And Li Yue was summoned into the palace by the emperor at this moment, because the imperial history platform impeached him during this period had been full of Zhu Chongli's imperial cases. The reason is nothing more than that Li Yue made this lottery to the people of Lin'an City only know how to chase Brother Kong Fang, and in the long run, the people will be impetuous, and the people's customs are not simple, so the imperial court is required to seal all the lottery betting stations in Lin'an City.

"Your Majesty! The minister was also ordered to raise the 200,000-year-old coins before he came up with this plan. Li Yue explained to Zhu Chongli, who had a black face: "And I haven't forbidden this before the law of Daliang!" ”

"Okay, you Li Yue! It's such a strong word! Zhu Chongli, who was sitting on the dragon chair, pointed his finger at Li Yue and reprimanded: "The law of the Great Liang was established by the Taizu, and there was your lottery at that time?" I asked you to raise New Year's coins, but I didn't let you panic Lin'an City. I don't know how many palace maids and eunuchs in this palace bought your lottery tickets, and even the emperor is worried today because he didn't win the lottery. The Emperor Taishang is very old, if you hurt your body because of this incident, what should you be guilty of? ”

"Oops! That Weichen really deserves death! The minister will stop selling this second lottery ticket when he goes back today. After speaking, Li Yue sighed and said, "It's just that if this second phase of the lottery can be put on sale, the 200,000 coins will be ready." ”

"What? How big is the profit? Zhu Chongli's eyes lit up and stars almost appeared.

"Back to the Holy Heavens! The first lottery made a profit of 20,000 yuan, and the second lottery prize and price were increased tenfold, and the profit of the two lottery tickets was more than 200,000. Selling three draws in three months shouldn't be a big problem. Speaking of this, Li Yue's face suddenly became full of grief, "But the minister feels that the emperor's body is still important, and the lottery ticket is still out of sale." ”

"Well! Cough! Cough! Zhu Chongli coughed dryly twice, and said with some embarrassment: "Hurry up and obey the power!" Hurry up and do the right thing! ”

"The minister can't afford such a big crime!" Li Yue said bitterly.

"If you say more, I will send you to Lingnan!"

"Ahh Li Yue had to stop the performance, "I think that this lottery industry should be issued by the royal family to the designated merchants for monopoly, and the royal treasury can share two percent of the profits!" ”

Zhu Chongli looked at the impeachment of Li Yue like a small mountain bag on the imperial case, and frowned: "This method is very wonderful, but this imperial historian is very terrifying!" ”

The actual motive of the imperial historians to impeach Li Yue is that they don't want Li Yue to monopolize the huge profits of the lottery, if the profits of the lottery are included in the treasury, they have nothing to say, but this belongs to the royal private treasury, then this piece of music against their own admonition is not like a snowflake.

"The profits of the lottery can be used to support orphans and widows and help the poor. In this way, you can block the mouths of the people! Li Yue was obviously prepared for this matter.

"Qing Zhen is a loyal minister!"