Chapter 131: The Lottery
Du Chen's words were not false at all, which made Xun Yu really not know how to refute. From the prime minister's choice of the soldiers of the Golden Viper Force, to Du Chen's personal training of the soldiers of the Golden Viper Force, it can be known that Cheng has high hopes for the Golden Viper Force.
Although Xun Yu knew these and knew the importance of the Golden Viper Force in the future, Yanzhou's financial situation at this time did have some problems. If it wasn't really critical, how could Xun Yu come to Du Chen with a hard head.
"Si Lang, you know all these words, but now Yanzhou is really very difficult, if you don't really know what to do, how can Yu come to face you." Xun Yu said very helplessly, today's move is really forced to be helpless.
Seeing Xun Yu's expression, Du Chen put away his cynical smile, and then asked, "What Wen Ruo said is true?" Judging from Xun Yu's expression, his words should be true, which made Du Chen very headache.
According to Xun Yu's words, Yanzhou's finances are indeed in a situation at this time, but from their own standpoint, this finance really can't go down. The soldiers of the Golden Viper Force are trained rigorously every day, and if they can't meet the needs of the Golden Viper Troop in terms of supplies, how can they continue to train. You must know that according to your own expectations, the soldiers of the Golden Viper Force have not even completed half of their training.
"For the sake of Yanzhou, for the sake of the Golden Viper Army, my Xun family even took out the old bottom." Xun Yu almost burst into tears, which convinced Du Chen that Xun Yu was indeed in trouble. But Xun Yu is in trouble, and he has it. If you cut your salary, you will not be able to continue your training.
Thinking of this, Du Chen suddenly felt a headache. It's really hard to refuse this matter, Rao is Du Chen's ingenuity, it's hard to think of a good way to get the best of both worlds. After all, the two are only in essence of confrontation. It's definitely not something that can be solved lightly.
"What the hell should I do?" Du Chen pinched his chin and fell into endless contemplation. I would never agree with Xun Yu's concept, but there was indeed a problem with Yanzhou's finances. The two are irreconcilable, so one can only choose one to solve.
Let yourself agree to Xun Yu's conditions, it is absolutely impossible. At present, the only thing left is to find a way to solve Yanzhou's financial crisis. But how to solve it? I don't have the secret art of turning stones into gold. There is no way to get a lot of money in a short period of time.
"How do I get money in a short period of time?" Du Chen muttered quietly, and then said with a light in his eyes: "Lottery!" "Half an hour later, inside the Taiwei Mansion." Sillang, what are you doing here? Guo Jiajia's eyes widened, looking at Du Chen fiddling with a pile of pieces of paper full of strange symbols, this Si Lang, there will always be something strange to come up with. And these things are often never seen in Chinese history. For example, the still, and mahjong.
"Lottery!" Du Chen looked at Guo Jiajia and the two proudly, and replied: "I'm working on something called a lottery, this thing should be very profitable!" In order to quickly train and equip the Golden Viper troops, as well as to build a more powerful Shenwu Machine Crossbow, the money was spent like running water, and the income of the Welcome Pine was far from enough to pay for this speed. In the past two months, I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, sitting on a mountain of empty finances. We won't be able to hold on for long, and now we have to find new ways to make a fortune. ”
"Rich?" Guo Jia tilted his head. Is it possible to make a fortune with this kind of paper full of symbols? This thing doesn't seem to have any effect, it can't be eaten or used.
"Yes, make a fortune!" Du Chen was full of ambition: "You will definitely get rich, in this world, the most difficult thing to restrain is the greed of the human heart." As long as there is greed, you will inevitably pay for it! It's an iron law! "There has been a boom in Xuchang, Yanzhou, recently, and the streets and alleys are discussing about the extravagant spending of money by Du Chen, the imperial lieutenant of the dynasty. Originally, Du Chen's "Welcome Pine Bar" in Yanzhou has as many as 80, and now it is expanding, according to rumors, the slogan is "open 100 stores." Create a century-old brand", the extra 20 stores, will be in Yanzhou in the blank town have been arranged storefronts.
That's it, expand the scale of business. However, what is puzzling is that Lord Taiwei did not hesitate to spend a lot of money in each of his chain stores to build a post station. Only the establishment of the post station of 100 stores, Du Chen invested 300,000 yuan!
"Is Lord Du crazy? Even if his 100 stores make more money, I think the annual income of 200,000 yuan is already a great initiative. That's worth the whole year's taxes in Yanzhou! "In a certain family in Yanzhou City, a white-bearded bookkeeper leaned lazily on a chair and said to the person next to him.
The housekeeper next to him was a middle-aged man who looked a little capable, and looked at Mr. Whitebeard's bookkeeper: "In short, I think Master Du must have his reasons for this behavior." Post station, but it requires financial and manpower, you calculate, these 100 post stations, if the news is transmitted frequently, the consumption of horses alone, I am afraid that it will cost nearly 100,000 yuan a year. If there was no money to be made, would that Lord Du do this? ”
"This one too, but what can the post station do? Unless ......"
"Unless what?"
"I've heard that this kind of thing is usually used by the military to transmit military information, isn't it ......" Whitebeard was shocked by his own thoughts.
"What do you think?" The lean middle-aged man felt that Whitebeard was stupid: "How can the military post station be so close, as soon as the army swings out, it fills the distance of dozens of miles in the middle." Even if there was a war, it would not have built a post station like this. ”
"Oh......"
The low-level characters of the two families almost scratched their heads, and they didn't figure out what these hundred post stations were for-- the cost of 300,000 yuan! Nearly 100,000 yuan of maintenance costs per year! This Lord Du, who is unexpected everywhere, what does he want to do?
After the station was built, the mystery was quickly revealed. Du Chen held a "press conference" in front of the Taiwei Mansion - a press conference? What is it? This Lord Du has always been able to come up with these tricks, but it's so lively, you must go and see it!
"Please listen, this thing in my hand is called a lottery ticket! He can bring everyone the dream of a lifetime of great wealth. Du Chen stood on the high platform that had been erected, and after completing a ceremony called "ribbon cutting", he issued a speech to the onlookers, the main purpose of which was to explain the meaning of the lottery thing, in short, to agitate. Xuchang City is the political and economic center of Yanzhou. And because the land in Yanzhou is fertile and the people are rich, the people's life is very leisurely. The people who came to watch this press conference today, at a glance on the stage, there was a black pressure on the ground, I am afraid that there are as many as five or six thousand people, I am afraid that it is usually a town market or a festival, and there is only so much density of people concentrated.
Du Chen wore a classic Hanfu and spoke impassionedly on the stage, foaming at the mouth, and a series of "social welfare undertakings" and "vigorously developing people's welfare", which made the audience under him dizzy.
"Dear friends, my lottery pool will be injected with 100,000 yuan at one time, for the welfare of the people!" Du Chen showed everyone a large sign with "100,000 dollars" written in advance. He almost concentrated all his efforts and fully carried forward all the press conferences, hypermarket publicity activities, and so on that he knew in his previous life, and it was hateful that there was no so-called notary office at this time.
Although Du Chen talked a lot about the truth, there was not much introduction to "welfare", and the people below couldn't understand it anyway. He just deliberately infiltrated the message to the attendees: as long as you spend a few small dollars, you have the hope of winning the jackpot and making a fortune!
Many years later, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. WEI Zhi. Du Chen's Biography" reads: "Lang evil waiting for the genius of the sky, in the first month of the spring of the fifth year of Zhongping, starting with the lottery in Xuchang City, thousands of people are like a flock." A few years later, the lottery is the road of the country, so that between the people and the wild, the grass woman and the village, there are those who do not know the year name of the country, but those who do not know the lottery, everyone thinks it is heretical. (To be continued......)