"The first number is five!"

"The second number is two!"

……

With the sound of crackling and shaking dice, every time Li Yue read out a number, there were those who sighed, those who smiled, and those who danced, and this tragicomedy seemed to be being staged in the Xiao Family Tavern.

"The last number is three!"

As Li Yue finished announcing the last number, this human tragicomedy finally came to an end. And the last laugh was Du Sanjin, who was lame.

"I'm in!"

Du Sanjin slapped the table and shouted, and for a while he was so excited that he forgot about his leg injury, and stood up without any external force. Fortunately, the two brothers next to him helped him in time, so he didn't stage a scene of happiness and sorrow.

Li Yue glanced around, except for Wang Teng, who only cared about gnawing chicken legs, the other brothers who did not win the lottery, the expression on their faces! It's not good, it's like a dead mom and dad.

In fact, the bonus is only a hundred yuan, which is just a day's expense for one person for the Holy Protector. But Daliang is addicted to gambling, catching up with the New Year's Festival, many Daliang people go to the street to buy wine and meat are the first to fight with the boss, win the wine and meat to take the festival, lose home and wait for the roar of the lion in Hedong. Li Yue's novel gambling method was unheard of before for them, so although it was only a prize of 100 yuan, they were all caught in the game, and they were like playing chicken blood.

"First of all, I did this toast for Team Du to win the jackpot!" Li Yue raised the wine glass and drank it all, then directly wiped his mouth with his hand, and continued: "You brothers who have not won the lottery do not need to regret the loss, this house is just a small test. In a few days, Li will issue a 'lottery ticket' in Lin'an, and the gameplay is similar to today. However, this bet number will be a little more complicated, and of course the prize money will be a lot bigger. ”

"Ahem!" Speaking of this, Li Yue deliberately paused for a moment, felt the expectant gaze of everyone, and secretly said in his heart: No matter the men in that time and space, their hobbies are always the same.

Li Yue said with a smile: "It is preliminarily determined that the first prize winner can get 5,000 yuan!" ”

"Buzz!"

As soon as Li Yue's words fell, the tavern suddenly exploded. For a while, all the soldiers exchanged heads and whispered.

"Is the cost of betting more than two pennies?" Wang Teng, who had just gnawed off a chicken leg, threw the chicken bone on the table, and his tone was calm without any waves.

"A bet is still two cents!" Li Yue glanced at Wang Teng, and had to admire this kid's excellent psychological quality, everyone else was carried away by the huge amount of money that had not been received, only this kid was still calmly calculating the investment cost.

Looking at Wang Teng's house again, he was still sitting there in honor and humiliation, gnawing on the second chicken leg.

The others were not so calm, and there was another commotion in the tavern, and all the soldiers and men were discussing:

"What? Did I hear me right? If you pay two pennies, you have a chance to win 5,000? ”

"Probably not, the head never lied to us, he did just say so."

"I'm not dreaming anymore, am I? Pinch me. ”

"Oops! You're really pinching! ”

……

"Brothers! When the eldest husband is alive, he should drink the strongest wine and gamble on the biggest game! Li Yue did not serve a glass of wine this time, but a bowl of wine.

All of them raised their wines and shouted, "Drink the strongest wine!" Bet on the biggest game! ”

Li Yue was glared at by Xiao Ning'er beside him, and whispered to him: "You are so shameless that you say gambling so righteously!" ”

Li Yue also smiled and whispered back: "Men are not bad, women are not loved!" ”

The next day, Li Yue began preparations for the issuance of lottery tickets.

The first is the printing of lottery tickets, the printing technology of the beam is quite advanced, and it already has the ability to print in color. Therefore, Li Yue simply came over directly to the two-color ball lottery in later generations.

It's just that in the printing process of the lottery, Li Yue inadvertently brought the Arabic numerals to the beam, more than ten years later, because this kind of number writing is more practical and faster than the Han number, so the court official documents, the people have gradually promoted the application, all use Li Yue created this peculiar number.

Later historians have been puzzled and debated why Li Yue could design such a simple and convenient number symbol to replace the previous Chinese characters.

And then there's the propaganda work. Li Yue is a talented man who moves Lin'an, and now he has the status of an official of the imperial court, which has helped a lot in this matter. As soon as I heard that it was a bureau set up by Li Dacai, the people of Liang, who were already good at gambling, flocked to this lottery.

And Li Yue took a brother of the Holy Protector Army to Ancheng again to distribute the lottery leaflets printed in advance, and the slogan on it is also quite tempting: two pennies can't buy a bun, but you can buy a chance to have a family fortune!

As soon as Li Yue's lottery betting station in the Xiao family tavern opened, the people of Lin'an who came to bet lined up in a long line, not only the people of Lin'an, but also the people of the counties under the jurisdiction of Lin'an Mansion came to visit.

Due to the tavern's proximity to the Royal Street, it almost caused a traffic accident in the Royal Street, and a postman who delivered the imperial edict galloped and almost killed several people who were queuing up to buy lottery tickets.

Lin'an Mansion even almost closed the Xiao Family Tavern for this, and Li Yue had to personally come forward to negotiate with the people in Lin'an Mansion.

In Li Yue promised that in order to avoid similar incidents again, he would guide the people who bought lottery tickets to line up in an orderly manner, and never occupy the royal street.

Lin'an Mansion saw that it was a popular fried chicken that had just been named a court invitation by the emperor, and it was happy to sell a favor. Due to the sales of lottery tickets are too hot,In order to divert the flow of people,Li Yue convened several relatively large shops in Lin'an City,After agreeing with them to share the profits,Lottery betting stations were opened in various places in Lin'an City.

Time is passing little by little, and there is only one day left before the draw time of the first lottery issued by Li Dacaizi. This has become the most concerned thing in the entire Lin'an City, from the princes and nobles to the common people of Limin.

The night before the lottery, inside the Xiao family tavern

"Brother Yue, the statistics are out, and the first phase of the lottery ticket has sold a total of fifteen million copies!" Xiao Ning'er took the account book and said excitedly.

"Even if there are five first-class generals, we will have at least 20,000 yuan in income." Li Yue said with satisfaction: "The next issue of new lottery varieties, increase the winning amount and the unit price of the lottery ticket. And in the counties of Lin'an Prefecture to open betting stations, within two months, it is not a problem to get together 200,000 yuan. ”

"Why didn't you find out that you were so good at making money before?" Xiao Ning'er asked curiously, looking at Li Yue's eyes that were almost adoring.

"That's where I don't want to be!" Li Yue casually made up a reason, he can't say that he is a second person.