Liu Jun's first phase of the subsidy lottery tickets sold very hot, it was a little cold at the beginning, but suddenly it became popular, and 10,000 were quickly sold out, so that Jiangnan Qianzhuang, which sold lottery tickets, had to print another 10,000, and then 10,000 were gone, and finally it was printed until 50,000, all of which were sold out.

On the last day of August, the much-anticipated lottery tickets were finally drawn publicly.

The lottery ceremony was placed in Yunyang, which was originally supposed to be in Huangzhou, because Liu Jun arrived in Yunyang and the sales of lottery tickets increased, Liu Jun finally put the lottery ceremony in Yunyang.

As early as three days ago, Liu Jun asked people to build a high platform at the riverside wharf in Yunyang as a stage for the lottery. Many people were also sent to print and distribute a lot of propaganda leaflets in Yunyang, Xiangyang, and other places.

Due to the increase in sales, the jackpot amount of the first phase of the lottery ticket also increased, from 10,000 taels of silver to 50,000 taels of silver. If you don't already know about the Sponsorship Ticket, you're outdated.

"Fifty thousand taels, this fortune coupon is really a big deal."

Early in the morning, countless people came to the Yunyang River, and even many people came by boat from Xiangyang, Nanyang, and even Hankou, Wuchang, Jingzhou and other places, all wanting to see this new thing.

"The second prize is 15,000 taels!" A pot-bellied Fujian businessman got off the boat, shook his fan and smacked his tongue.

"This donation can still make money by lottery, or the first time I heard it, you said, will there be anything greasy in this?" A wealthy Hakka businessman asked his companion, the so-called no business is not treacherous, businessmen like to play gimmicks, play cats, he feels that this kind of lottery ticket is a kind of gimmick, there must be a cat greasy in it.

"It is said that 50,000 tickets were sold. Each piece of five taels of silver sold a total of 250,000 taels of silver, and judging from their bonuses, they had to give out 175,000 taels of silver as a bonus in the end. ”

Although it is said that 250,000 taels are drawn and 175,000 are drawn, there are still 75,000 left, which is also a lot of silver. But the fat man thinks that he has already saved people, and he always feels that it is too unbelievable to take the money in and then give it away.

"It is said to be an open lottery. The lottery will be drawn under everyone's public witness, and there will be no cats. ”

"Who believes that? It's too easy to play with the flower head. The fat man said, "For example, set the winning number in advance, get a jackpot, and the money will come back after a turn." ”

"This lottery ticket was issued by Zhennanhou, Zhennanhou shouldn't do this, right?"

"Didn't you say that it was issued by Jiangnan Qianzhuang?" The fat man asked.

"Jiangnan Qianzhuang is Zhennanhou's, but his father-in-law Lu Weizhang is standing at the front desk. Think about it. If it weren't for the planning and drill of Zhennan Hou, the now red and purple Hou Ye, ordinary people would have come up with this, and the government would not have careless, and all parties would not have intervened? ”

A group of Fujian businessmen got off the ship without saying a word. Climb to the dock and come to the stage.

The five-mile-long Yunyang Wharf has gathered countless people, and it is crowded. There are businessmen like fat people. There are also many boatmen in short clothes, and even barefoot slender men.

Many people want to witness the rise of the 50,000 taels jackpot.

The way of the draw is simple. But it's also very transparent.

Since a total of 50,000 lottery tickets were issued, and when each lottery ticket was sold, there would be a secondary ticket, and when the lottery ticket was sold, the secondary ticket would be torn off from the top, and the secondary ticket would have half a riding seal on it, and there would be a serial number like the main ticket.

Now the lottery is to check the 50,000 lottery tickets one by one in front of everyone, and then put them into a large cage under the attention of everyone, and then keep stirring, and finally shake the winning numbers like the lottery.

However, today is the first time to draw the lottery, of course, it will be more lively and grand.

When the dock was crowded with people, the first to appear on the stage was a performance team, but it was not an ordinary music class dancer, a troupe or something. Rather, it is a group of nine-headed bird warriors, dressed in real armor, wearing helmets, holding swords and other weapons, and begin the performance to the performance of the bands on both sides.

In the sound of drums, the soldiers danced a war dance, passionate drumbeats, powerful dance steps, and the war dance performed a battle, a fierce battle.

The opening dance was performed for half an hour, and a team of soldiers took turns on the stage, followed by the corresponding background canvas from time to time.

Some of the soldiers who happened to come to watch the excitement on vacation were surprised to find that the war dances of the comrades on the stage were the battles since the establishment of the nine-headed bird, the first battle of the nine-headed bird, the later defensive battle of the tiger head fort, and the later battle of the bandits in Sichuan, the battle of Wushan, the battle of muddy ditch and so on.

Looking back on the battles they experienced in this peculiar way, the team members were fascinated by it.

After the atmospheric opening dance, several famous opera troupes came to the stage, and there were some famous kabuki musicians, and even a group of beauties such as Dong Xiaowan, Li Xiangjun, Li Zhenli, Shen Man, etc., also joined forces on stage and cooperated with Chen Yuanyuan to make a cameo performance in the West Chamber.

"Next, this subsidy award will be drawn, and now, Zhennan Hou Liu Dashuai is invited to the stage."

Liu Jun strode onto the stage, and countless people below were applauding.

Standing on the stage, Liu Jun waved his hand, and more than a dozen soldiers came to the stage, holding a large scroll that was one person high. Liu Jun untied the red rope on the scroll with his own hands, and the soldiers slowly unfolded the scroll, with rows of names on it.

"On this, it is recorded that every good person who has purchased lottery tickets and donated salaries, Liu Jun is here to express his gratitude to you. In order to remember forever, we will build a commemorative monument on which the name of each good person will be inscribed, so that future generations will always remember your good deeds. ”

Liu Jun's words caused a burst of surprise and praise from the audience.

It is undoubtedly a very happy thing that the subsidy can also be engraved on the stele and passed on to the next generation. What's more, the name of the stele does not matter how much money is donated. And maybe you can win the lottery today.

"Now, let's start the lottery."

The time has come for all eyes to be watched, and countless people have widened their eyes and began to stare at the stage.

A large box was brought to the stage, and the box was covered on all sides with fine fishing net lines. So that people outside can see that the box has no camera obscura.

Dozens of people on the scene were specially invited to come forward to watch the prize box, and after confirming that there was no dark box, boxes of lottery tickets were lifted up, and all of these coupons were locked in the box, and then boxes were opened under the witness of countless people, and then checked one by one.

This process took a lot of time, and at the end of the day, after all the coupons were checked, they were double-checked, then folded and poured into a large box.

Although this method of drawing is quite primitive and backward. But after all, it can be more open, just and fair.

The first draw is the jackpot.

Under the watchful eye, the prize box was rummaged and shaken countless times, and the jackpot was finally opened.

In order to prevent cheating, so after the final jackpot was shaken, the person who stepped forward to pick up the lottery was a naked-naked little boy, and the tiger-headed child stepped forward, picked up the paper ball, and then opened it and raised it to everyone.

"The jackpot is open!"

"Zero-three-seven-nine-eighty-four. Zero three seven nine eighty-four, zero three seven nine eighty-four! ”

The people in the front row had sharp eyes, saw the numbers on the coupons, and shouted excitedly. It's as if I've won the lottery. Some people who bought lottery tickets hurriedly looked down at the six digit numbers on the lottery tickets in their hands.

However, the winning rate of the jackpot is 1 in 50,000, and it is not so easy to win.

After a long time, I didn't hear anyone say that I was hit.

The jackpot numbers are drawn. It was quickly recorded, and someone wrote down the jackpot number on a large whiteboard arranged on the stage, and countless people witnessed it. This jackpot number will not change again, and the winner can redeem it at the sales offices in Huangzhou, Wuchang, Hankou, Xiangyang, Yunyang and many other cities with the lottery ticket.

After the first prize, the second prize will be held, and three winners will be drawn for each of the two prizes, each with 15,000 taels of silver.

When the second second prize was drawn, a loud roar soon sounded from the audience, "Won, won, I've won!" ”

Then countless people next to him shouted together, "I won the second prize, I won the second prize here, 15,000 taels!" ”

The lucky guy was immediately invited to the stage, and then checked his winning ticket, and sure enough, he won the second prize, 15,000 taels of silver.

In this unexpected situation, Liu Jun immediately instructed the audience to immediately carry the silver to the stage and distribute the prize silver to the lucky guy on the spot.

This lucky guy is a native of Xiangyang, who has been running boats on the Han River for a long time, has his own wooden boat, and is considered a small boss. The last time I went to Yunyang to order the goods, I saw that Yunyang was promoting this kind of subsidy lottery ticket, and I bought one at that time. I spent five taels of silver, and when I returned to the ship, I regretted it a little and felt that I had spent money indiscriminately.

Later, he talked to his crew, and then he persuaded six crew members to buy six from him, and he kept four in the end.

Now, this lottery ticket actually won the lottery, and the owner of the ship who came to the stage only had a small half of the lottery ticket, and soon, he told the truth, and there were six crew members who shared the other six of this lottery ticket, and then Liu Jun immediately sent someone to his boat to pick up the six boatmen who stayed on the riverside boat.

The six sailors still didn't understand what was happening, and when they walked to the stage where everyone was watching, they thought they had done something, and their legs trembled with fright.

"Do you still have your tickets?" Someone asked them.

It took a while for the six of them to understand that they were asking about a few fortune coupons that they had bought from the owner of the boat many days ago, and they all took them with them, took them out and checked them one by one, and there was no problem with riding the stamps, etc., and the numbers were also correct, and finally announced that they were valid.

"Congratulations, you won the second prize of 1,500 taels of subsidy lottery tickets!"

When the silver was placed in front of them, the sailors, who were still barefoot, were stunned.

"Are you really hungry for this money?"

"Yes!" He received a clear answer.

The owner of the ship owned four of the second prize tickets, so he finally received six thousand taels of silver, although this was a large sum of silver, even more than his entire net worth, but he was happy and regretted it. If he hadn't felt that he had spent too much money at the beginning, he would not have found a way to persuade his crew to buy six from him, otherwise, he would not have taken six thousand taels now, but fifteen thousand taels.

The tens of thousands of onlookers and businessmen, looking at the seven living winners, were all excited, they could really win the lottery, they could really win the lottery.

The lottery continued, and several winners went to the side to fill out the formalities and sign the pledge, and their prize money also had to pay a tax, which was very heavy. Twenty percent. In addition, the remaining eighty percent can be taken all.

The ship's owner paid 1,200 taels of silver for 6,000 taels of silver, and he was given a tax slip detailing the amount of tax he had paid, as well as the name of the collector. In the end, he got four thousand eight hundred taels of silver!

At this time, the third prize has been opened, the third prize was originally one thousand taels, there were ten places, and this time because the sales have increased fivefold, so the final third prize prize is still a thousand taels, but there are fifty winning places.

Someone won the lottery again. However, this time, they will not directly present the awards, but will have someone on the side to help them go through the procedures for receiving the award and paying taxes.

Fifty third prizes, each with a silver prize of 1,000 taels. Five hundred fourth-class prizes, one hundred taels each, and five thousand fifth-class prizes, ten taels each.

The lottery was drawn from the morning to the afternoon, and all the winning numbers were publicly copied on the big whiteboard, and finally handed over to the printing house to print thousands of tabloids. All the winning numbers are posted on it, and then they are sent to the cities where the tickets are issued and announced to the public.

On this day, the entire city of Yunyang was talking about lottery tickets. Talking about those lucky winners.

Then, many people were scrambling to buy the new lottery tickets, and at the end of the just-concluded lottery ceremony, Liu Jun personally announced the start of the new lottery tickets. Lottery tickets are available at many large cities in Huguang and even in the surrounding provinces, and they can be purchased.

The new phase will sell 100,000 lottery tickets, which will still be five taels each. A raffle ticket can be purchased in 10 pieces, either as a whole or separately.

The sales volume of the new phase has increased again, so the jackpot of the new phase will reach 100,000 taels, the second prize will also be as much as 30,000 taels, and the fifth prize will still be 10,000 taels, but there are 10,000 winners.

"Dashuai, this lottery ticket is really magical, after increasing the lottery, there are really a lot of people who help the lottery." Fu Shan looked at the results of the first phase of the lottery and was shocked. The first phase of the lottery ticket sold 50,000 pieces, with sales of 250,000 taels of silver, and finally awarded 175,000 taels, and the nine-headed bird feathers earned 75,000 taels.

Seventy-five thousand taels were partly invested, but not much. And out of the prize money of 175,000, the last nine-headed bird recovered another 35,000 taels of taxes.

This is equivalent to the sale of 250,000 lottery tickets, and finally the income and tax income of the nine-headed bird reached 110,000 taels, excluding the printing and sales of lottery tickets, the nine-headed bird netted 100,000 taels in less than half a month.

"It's a gold mine." Fu Shan sighed, a new issue has been issued, according to Liu Jun's plan, one issue per month in the future, even if it only maintains the sales of 100,000 lottery tickets every month in the future, then the income of each issue will be 120,000 yuan.

Liu Jun is not as optimistic as Fu Shan, "The lottery tickets will definitely be imitated and issued by businessmen soon, and it will definitely divide some of our sales, and even if we have the money from the income, we still have to take out a lot of it for dotting." ”

If you want to monopolize the lottery business, it is basically impossible, Liu Jun ate the first crab, and then there must be countless people competing for the appearance, and there must be many powerful people waiting for these imitators, it is impossible to put an end to it.

"We must hand over a lot of those taxes to the emperor."

If the sales of about 50,000 pieces of the first phase can be maintained, then the tax of each issue will be 30,000 or 40,000 taels of silver, and Liu Jun plans to hand over this silver to the emperor. In addition, we have to take out one or two percent of the income from the seventy or eighty thousand taels to share the benefits of this lottery ticket, so as to ensure that this lottery ticket can continue to operate for a long time.

"We don't care about those who have too strong backgrounds to move, but those ordinary businessmen with no background want to imitate the issuance of lottery tickets, we must crack down, especially within our jurisdiction, we must strictly investigate and prohibit lottery tickets." Liu Jun planned to only allow the state officials to set fires, and not allow the people to light lamps. He issues lottery tickets, which is a subsidy, and if others dare to issue them, it is a gamble, and it must be cracked down. Unless it's too big to move.

"Brother Fu, I'm going to let you go to Jingshi."

"To Jingshi?" Master Fu Qing was a little surprised.

Liu Jun sighed, "Let Yunsheng accompany you then, if you want to do something well, it is really difficult to be unrestrained." I'm going to let you pledge a lot of money into Beijing. ”

"What about the Minister of Kyochu?"

"It's not enough to just call on the ministers of the court, and those eunuchs in the palace can't miss their share."

Although Liu Jun asked Fu Qingzhu to give gifts and bribes, this method is not bright, but Fu Qingzhu has been following Liu Jun for a while, and knows that Liu Jun is indeed a person who wants to do things, and he also recognizes many of Liu Jun's methods. Just like the lottery ticket in front of him, Liu Jun played a trick to get a lot of silver, but it was not put in his pocket, but used to pay for the food and salary of the soldiers, used to train the new army, and suppress bandits to protect the people.

"I'm also familiar with the Jingshi, leave this matter to me, how much silver are you going to bet on Beijing?"

"Three hundred thousand taels!"

"Three hundred thousand?" Lord Fu Qing was surprised, "We're not rich in silver now, are we?" ”

"But some silver can't be saved, these 300,000 200,000 to the emperor, directly to the emperor, another 50,000 to Cao Huachun, 50,000 to Wang Chengen, Yao Minggong to 20,000, Liu Qiao to 20,000, Zhou Yanru 20,000, the remaining 40,000 taels, used to dot the Beijing Division, in short, the silver must be in place, I hope that in the future we will do something in Huguang, and will not be interfered with from the palace and the court!"

After the conflict with the governor Zhu Dadian, Liu Jun realized that although he had the support of Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng and others, as well as the emperor's appreciation, he still needed support from the court, at least not an attack. For this, Liu Jun had to grit his teeth and take out a large sum of silver to give gifts.

"After you arrive in Beijing, you will have an important task, that is, after the silver is sent, by the way, let them support Yanru to re-enter the cabinet next week!"

Fu Shan was more and more shocked, but he didn't expect Liu Jun to have intervened in such a big thing.

"I understand!" (To be continued......)