Wang Wan in the court was very angry.
This is naturally attributed to Zhao Hao.
From the time when the Da Qin Patriotic Lottery was proposed, to how to operate the lottery, to how to face the pressure from the court, Zhao Hao made detailed plans.
Today, there are four lottery sales points in each direction of the four gates of Xianyang City.
A total of sixteen lottery points are selling at the same time.
In order for everyone to see clearly and hear clearly, Zhao Hao issued a new order as soon as Wang Wan was summoned into the palace.
He ordered people to use bright cinnabar red to mark the location of the sign on the wooden board, supplemented by arrows, and asked officials from the Prime Minister's Palace to go to each store to act as shopping guides.
In addition, the Imperial Guards were also asked to allocate some manpower to maintain order on the scene.
Of course, for something as new as lottery, there are naturally many people waiting to see it.
Everyone is curious and wants to see if anyone really wins the lottery before deciding whether to buy it.
In this case, the official in charge of shopping guide did not encourage everyone to buy, but patiently introduced the lottery purchase rules and winning rules.
At this time, a young man jumping with a bucket in Ximen, Xianyang, stood on tiptoes at the patriotic lottery sales point, eagerly watching.
In his ears, the words of introduction from shopping guides came from time to time.
For example, one and a half taels can be exchanged for one hundred yi gold.
The young man's name is Qi. He lives outside Xianyang City and is a farmer on a farm outside Xianyang City.
In addition to farming on the farm every day, he also helps people carry water to survive. Life is not very rich, but he can survive.
No, today I just helped a big family jump in a few loads of water and got some reward money, so I'm going back to the farm to make a fire for cooking.
By coincidence, I came across a strange thing about Daqin Patriotic Lottery Point selling lottery tickets.
So, when he was supposed to go back to the farm to make a fire, he stopped and watched.
Zhi's family has five or six brothers and sisters, and the whole family doesn't expect him to live alone, so the pressure is not too great.
At this moment, he was holding two reward coins in his hand, and he was mumbling:
"One and a half taels... can be exchanged for one hundred yi gold..."
"A hundred 镒 gold can be exchanged for..."
Thinking of what one hundred yi gold could exchange for, Qi didn't dare to think about it any more.
I saw him looking down at the two and a half warm coins in his hand again, lost in thought.
One and a half taels can be exchanged for a corn steamed bun, and two and a half taels can be used to buy a pot helmet and teeth.
If one Guokui Yazi is shared, the whole family can have a meal.
But if you use this one and a half taels to fight... what if you win a hundred yi gold...
If you have a hundred yi, you can buy a house in the city or even buy land instead of helping others farm...
If there is a hundred yi gold, the little flower next door will also...
Thinking of this, Zhi's eyes gradually changed from hesitant to extremely determined. Then he squeezed the coins in his hand, squeezed through the crowd, and strode forward.
"Well... Well, I want to ask you, if you win the lottery, can you really get one hundred 钿 gold?"
After mustering up the courage to ask this question, Zhi lowered his head in fear.
The officials in the Prime Minister's Office who were in charge of sales were all professionally trained and naturally knew how to answer the lottery players, so they explained in a pleasant manner;
"Don't worry, this lottery selling shop is opened by the Prime Minister's Palace, and it is guaranteed by the imperial treasury. Just show your identity for verification, and you can buy a lottery ticket. The lottery will be drawn one hour before the city gate closes. !」
"Winners, someone will take you to the Prime Minister's Mansion to claim your prize, so there is no need to worry!"
After hearing the official who was selling lottery tickets explain it so carefully, I no longer hesitated.
After all, the strict laws of Qin were known to everyone in the world, not to mention that the officials of the imperial court were selling them in person.
For the sake of a mere one and a half taels, the dignified Qin officials would not deceive themselves.
"Then...then I'll buy one..."
Qi said and spoke at the same time
He hurriedly handed over the two and a half taels of money in his hand.
The official selling lottery tickets looked at his rough palms and said with a smile:
"One and a half taels buy a daily lottery ticket. If you give me two, do you want to buy a seven-day lottery ticket?"
"ah?"
He froze in place, suddenly at a loss.
The official who sold the lottery tickets did not show a mocking expression, but still explained in a friendly manner: "I just heard you ask if one and a half taels can get a hundred yi gold. I guess you are buying daily lottery tickets, right?"
"Huh? Oh, yes, yes, I buy the daily lottery!"
"good!"
The official smiled and nodded, then picked up one and a half taels of money from his hands and pointed at the wooden sign hanging on his chest: "Do you see the numbers on it? You choose five numbers yourself;
Tell me after you have chosen, and I will record it on the lottery ticket for you. As long as the number is consistent with the lottery number, it proves that you have won. Do you understand? "
Zhi looked at the wooden sign carefully. Although he didn't know much about the numbers on it, he understood what the official said.
"Um."
Zhi nodded seriously.
The official smiled and said: "Now start choosing the number you like!"
"OK."
He responded without raising his head, staring at the wooden sign with burning eyes, his expression still very nervous.
"Shangguan, I want this, this, and that, yes, this, that..."
After staring at the wooden sign for a long time, he picked five numbers with a dance.
"Okay, your choice is, nine, two, five, six, eight."
After the numbers were broadcast over and over again, the colleagues behind the officials immediately typed the corresponding numbers on the typewriters.
Soon, a very unique lottery ticket was released.
The official took the lottery ticket, handed it to Zhi, and carefully instructed again:
"Put it away, this is your lottery ticket. Only with this lottery ticket can you go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to claim the prize. In addition, it is worth noting that you must bring it with you in order for it to be valid;
If the prize is not claimed for more than five days, it will be deemed as giving up the prize and the lottery ticket will be invalid. Do you understand? "
"I understand!"
Zhi clenched the lottery ticket in his hand, nodded heavily, and felt even more excited, as if what he was holding was not a lottery ticket, but a hundred gold coins.
In fact, this is not only the case, but also the sixteen ticket sales points in the four gates of Xianyang.
Although only a dozen tickets were sold at each ticket office in one morning, the popularity outside the ticket office was still very high.
In the afternoon, more and more people knew about it, and the number of people buying it also increased a lot, but the total number of sixteen ticket sales points was only a few hundred tickets at most.
A large number of them still lost money from major gambling houses in Xianyang and were so poor that they only had a few copper coins left.
They also have the mentality of "treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor" and are just joking.
The seven major trading houses who learned the news, as well as the court officials of the scattered dynasty, will pay close attention to the lottery.
From time to time, people are sent to inquire about the situation at each ticket sales point.
...
"How is the situation now?
Wu Shiluo was sitting in the hall, looking forward with a dull expression, with small, shining eyes hanging on a pair of skinny jeans, showing no emotion or anger.
"Did many people buy the lottery ticket that the old prime minister created?"
"Hahaha, Mr. Wu is joking, how many people will actually buy that thing? Our people have been counting all morning, and there are only two to three hundred in total!"
Bai Li laughed and danced: "I think this lottery ticket was probably made by that Young Master Hao. The old prime minister wouldn't go to such trouble..."
"And I also heard that the old prime minister threatened in court that he would raise money and food for hundreds of thousands of troops within three days. Is this possible? It's a joke!"
"If we fail this time, I'm afraid the old prime minister will have no shame in relying on his position anymore. I think Li Tingwei has a good chance this time, so he said
Maybe we have to prepare gifts in advance! "
Seeing Bai Li talking and laughing, Wu Shiluo's twinkling little eyes narrowed slightly.
In his hand, there was another lottery ticket that he was rubbing repeatedly.
At first, he thought that Zhao Hao would do something about the national debt and asked people to find ways to contact Zhao Hao. He did not expect that Zhao Hao would use Wang Wan's help to create some kind of patriotic lottery.
This made him overwhelmed and at the same time full of curiosity.
From the beginning to the end, Wu Shiluo never looked down upon Zhao Hao.
Because when he was very young, his father told Guo Duo that when hunting prey on the grassland, the herds would not howl or show their sharp teeth.
Only when the prey pounces under it will it reveal its sharp teeth, bite the prey's throat, and kill it with one blow.
Now Zhao Hao is like the alpha wolf who is the first to catch up with his prey. He doesn't know when he will show his fangs and give his prey a fatal blow.
The more times like this, the less we can relax our vigilance.
In case the prey Zhao Hao pounces on is him, he must prepare in advance.
"enough!"
Recovering from his silence, Wu Shiluo stopped Bai Li in displeasure, looked at him with squinted eyes, and said coldly: "Let the people below continue to observe, and don't let down the slightest bit!"
"this...."
Bai Li suppressed his laughter, hesitated for a moment, and then respectfully responded: "Yes, I understand."
In fact, not only Wu Shiluo did not despise Zhao Hao, but people from other trading companies also sent people to monitor every move at the ticket office.
However, most of them, like Bai Li, think the lottery is just a joke.
If anyone was to say who valued the lottery the most, apart from Wu Shiluo, it was only Ba Qing.
As for the courtiers.
Feng Quji, Feng Jie, Yao Jia, Li Si, including Lao Zheng Guo and Hu Mujing, have all been paying attention to the lottery sales.
Time passed little by little, and throughout the whole day, the lottery sales situation was very miserable.
And this did not affect the strict review at the city gate.
It seems that the inside of the city and the city gate are two different worlds.
In the prime minister's house.
Zhao Hao was sitting in the empty courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion, watching the sunset, looking very comfortable.
The few office officials who passed by all around saluted him respectfully and left in a hurry.
"Sir, are you still in the mood to watch the sunset? The day has passed. We only sold 500 lottery tickets at our 16 lottery sales points. That's only 500 and a half taels!"
Wang Wan said anxiously from the side.
When he came down from the court meeting, he was like a proud rooster who had won a fight. He was as arrogant as he could be in front of Li Si and others.
He simply vented all the unhappiness of more than ten years on Li Si and others.
Even when facing the First Emperor, he still had a mentality of "In the past, you looked down on me, but today I will make it impossible for you to climb up."
But now, after only one afternoon, he was already frowning and anxious.
An already senile face looked like an old chrysanthemum.
"I said, Old Prime Minister, why are you in a hurry? It's only been one day, there are still two days..."
Zhao Hao was lying on his back on the chair. His small body looked weak and boneless. He crossed his legs and comforted Wang Wan with a smile.
"But...it's only five hundred and a half taels a day..."
"It's smaller, the layout is smaller..."
Zhao Hao slowly turned his gaze to Wang Wan and said with a smile on his face: "Old Prime Minister, what is your dream?"
"dream?"
Wang Wan was stunned.
Zhao Hao: "Yes! It's a dream! Our Daqin dream!"
Wang Wan: "..."
.......
the other side.
The central area of Xianyang City is crowded with people.
Everyone is waiting for one thing, and that is the lottery draw.
Although not many people bought lottery tickets, there were a lot of spectators.
At this time, a huge disk appeared on a temporarily built high platform that some people seemed familiar with and some people had never seen before.
In this disk, there are many small balls with numbers written on them.
Some people who bought lottery tickets recognized the numbers on the ball at a glance and clenched the lottery tickets in their hands with anticipation.
At this moment, the lottery platform has been surrounded by three floors in the middle and three floors in the middle. There are a lot of people outside.
Among these people, only a very small number came to redeem their prizes.
Most people came to watch the fun.
Of course, this also includes the informants sent by various forces.
On the high platform, lottery officials are waiting for the lottery order to draw the lottery on time.
Under the high platform, in an inconspicuous corner, Zhi, sweating profusely, was waiting anxiously.
Although there is still one and a half taels of money in his pocket, no one's money comes from the strong wind.
He felt that the lottery ticket in his hand was heavier than the water he carried in a day.
And there are hundreds of people who feel the same way as him.
Many people are like Qi, holding on to the lottery tickets in their hands and staring at the lottery table without blinking, waiting hard for the lottery moment.
I don’t know how long it took, but I just heard the sound of a gong.
clang--
The sound of gongs is loud and shocking.
Everyone cheered up in an instant and listened to the official shouting in charge of the lottery.
"The auspicious time has come, the lottery is about to begin!"
"The auspicious time has come, the lottery is about to begin!"
"The auspicious time has come, the lottery is about to begin!"
As more than a dozen officials with loud voices communicated continuously, the entire central area of Xianyang City could hear clearly.
The Imperial Guards waiting around the lottery platform were solemn and solemn, holding spears and looking around to maintain order on the scene.
With the anticipation of countless people, the lottery official placed a wooden board on the disc and began to rotate quickly to perfection.
"Clatter--!"
As the disc keeps rotating, the sound of the ball hitting the disc sounds rhythmically.
Countless people couldn't help but feel excited when they heard this sound.
It didn't take long for the lottery official to slow down the speed of turning the disc.
Soon, a small ball with numbers suddenly fell out of the small hole on the side of the disc.
Everyone looked closely and found that the number on the ball was nine.
At this time, an official came forward and shouted loudly: "The first lottery number is nine!"
Immediately afterwards.
Another official picked up a pen and wrote a big number nine in black and white on the most eye-catching position on the high platform.
Wow!
The whole place was in an uproar!
Some people danced excitedly when they saw nine on their lottery tickets.
Some people become dejected when they see that their lottery tickets do not have a nine.
There are also people who watch with interest even if they have not bought lottery tickets.
But Zhi, secretly happy in his heart, calmly squeezed the lottery ticket in his hand without saying a word.
After the first number came out, the second number also came out one after another.
"The second number in the lottery is two!"
"The third number in the lottery is five!"
"The fourth number in the lottery is six!"
"Nine, two, five, six..."
Everyone was silently reciting the lottery numbers, and the atmosphere around them was extremely tense.
