Fang Zheng means what he says!
In the following days, a wave of new dramas appeared in Banshanfang, but there were also many exciting dramas that people loved to watch.
A series of eye-catching plots such as Yan Xiucai's failure to pass the exam, Yan Xiucai's work story at Xianheng, Yan Xiucai's one-night romance, Xiao Yan's adventures, etc. spread like wildfire in the capital.
The people in the capital were frantically trying to find out who Yan Xiucai and Xiao Yan were. Why were the father and son so mean?
It is said that Yan Guoan and his son smashed a lot of valuable porcelain at home in those few days, but they did not have an attack in the court.
After all, Fang Zhengyi did not name Mr. Yan and Xiao Yan in the play...
Yan Guoan didn't have the shame to go to court to complain. If he said that, wouldn't he admit that it was him, even though everyone in the court knew what was going on.
During this period, Fang Zheng was not idle at all. He purchased a large number of shops in the surrounding lagging markets for lottery sales.
Of course the lottery is no longer called the lottery, it is renamed the No. 1 pick ticket!
The lottery method used is the lottery method of the two-color ball in the previous life. There are forty-nine numbers in total, and the lottery machine determines the winning number. During the lottery, six red ball numbers will be drawn first, and then one blue ball number will be drawn.
The first prize is two thousand taels. From the second prize of two hundred taels to the sixth prize there are only a few dozen coins left.
The anti-counterfeiting problem of lottery tickets is something that no one can imitate in the short term through Taoyuan County’s technical encryption, and it is still being iteratively upgraded.
Taoyuan Paper Factory pressed three sheets of paper into one, sandwiched two different special security threads on the left and right, and printed complex patterns. There was a row of Arabic numerals and Chinese characters at the bottom.
As for the problem of digital printing of lottery tickets, it is easy to solve. Just use a seal and special ink to cover it directly.
Lottery paper, ink, and seals are all kept strictly by dedicated personnel.
The numbers printed in advance on the lottery ticket can be compared by those who buy them, and it can also be used to promote Arabic numerals.
As for the most exciting part, it is the one hundred specially trained lottery salesmen in Taoyuan County.
All of these people have read books and can even memorize many classics.
According to the original idea, such rare jobs should be provided to a hundred poor people.
But the personnel recruited from outside are not reliable.
Fang Zhengyi was worried about many problems, the most important one being that poor people have a tendency to gamble! Most educated and wealthy people are more rational. Even if they are attracted to it for a while, over time they will definitely realize that the so-called lottery is actually some kind of "scam".
Therefore, these one hundred people from Taoyuan County are crucial.
People who buy lottery tickets need to have the salesperson take out a book and take a test on the spot. They simply extract a passage from the book and read it out. If you can read and read it, then I will sell it to you. If you don’t know the words, then I’m sorry, don’t buy it. .
Illiterate and poor, I won’t sell it!
Of course, no matter how rigorous the design is, it cannot be separated from the invasion of scalpers.
It is conceivable that there must be poor people who increase the price to buy lottery tickets through scalpers.
However, you also need to study and take a calligraphy test when redeeming prizes. The distrust between people will greatly weaken the scalpers.
At best, there will only be some small scalpers left, which will probably not affect the overall situation, so there is nothing to worry about.
Fangzheng has always left this part of the problem directly to Mr. Ji. I am afraid there is no one more suitable to deal with the small scalpers than these local ruffians.
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Then the lottery business started with great vigor.
The sales cycle is once every half month, and the lottery is held at Mid-Levels Plaza!
A ticket worth fifty cents will give you a chance to win a grand prize of two thousand taels! The lottery winner can have no worries about food and clothing.
Countless people were talking about it, and the courtiers naturally realized what was going on... It turned out that Fang Zhengyi, a bastard, actually planned to monopolize... No wonder the emperor was given such a trick inexplicably!
Li Yuanzhao squatted on the street with his hands folded, looking at the crowded lottery station opposite and couldn't help but feel confused.
He poked Fang Zhengyi next to him: "Lao Fang, do you think this method of yours can really make money... It's so troublesome to buy a lottery ticket, so I think it's better to let everyone buy it."
Fang Zheng took a bite of the candied haws, stared at the crowd and counted the number of people, and said vaguely: "Your Highness, how many people do you think will win the first prize?"
Li Yuanzhao counted on his fingers, and then frowned: "I think it must be one hundred and eighty anyway! Just a few dozen balls... Hey~ Then don't we lose the money!?"
Fang Zhengyi chuckled: "You are right if you think so. As long as you do the math, you will know that even if everyone in the world buys our top pick tickets, we will not be able to get dozens of first prizes."
"The probability of first prize is 1 in 17.72 million. It is unlikely that there will be a first prize in the whole city in a year."
"What is probability?"
"It's just odds. There are 17.72 million combinations to get a first prize... Do you think someone can win? Haha."
Li Yuanzhao looked at the lottery station with wide eyes: "This... If no one wins, who will buy our top pick ticket?"
"How come no one wins the prize? Whoever I say wins the prize wins the prize!"
"I knew you were going to lie again." Li Yuanzhao looked disdainful.
"Haha! Then we can only do this if no one buys it. Think about it, if no one wins the first prize in one year, won't it be useless in the second year?"
"So we have to arrange a few winners every now and then... Besides, how can this be called cheating? This is called marketing. I can guarantee that even after two thousand years, people selling No. 1 tickets will still do this!"
Li Yuanzhao smacked his lips, still feeling a little disdainful.
Nonsense! Are people still so shameless two thousand years later? Can the world still be okay?
Then he hesitated and said: "If the bonus is so high and the person who buys the ticket is very lucky, won't we lose money? Can we really make money?"
"I'll give it to you. It's half a month. If everything goes well, we can get about 6,000 taels in one period. After deducting the cost of operating materials and the half given to His Majesty, we should be able to have 3,000 taels left."
"At this rate... six thousand taels a month should not be a problem. No matter how lucky the people in the capital are, they will never win three jackpots a month."
Li Yuanzhao counted with his fingers again, then suddenly stood up with an angry look on his face: "There are so many! Damn it, why does my father want so much money? He doesn't spend it!"
Then he turned around and said: "Old Fang, let's hurry up! If the whole country sells the top pick tickets, then won't it be a huge source of money? By then, not to mention Banshanfang, we will be able to transform the whole capital in a short time!" "
As soon as Fang Zheng finished eating the candied haws, he happened to pass by a child wearing crotchless pants, and casually inserted the stick into the crack of the child's buttocks.
He stood up and said, "No, I will definitely make a lot of money in the early stage, but later on... we are selling to smart people, and they react very quickly!"
"I'm afraid profits will fall within two months."
"We have to teach people how to read and write later, but that won't work! Just make quick money in a year or two."
"We can still control this thing in our hands, but if we put it outside, we might cause trouble!"
"First, while there is more than a month left, renovate Banshanfang and overthrow Yan Guoan!"
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