Chapter 45 National Welfare Lottery, Worth Selling
He doesn't have to go to the winery. It hasn't been built yet, so it's useless to look at it. His most important thing now is to run the lottery. What is the most important thing about the lottery? It must be anti-counterfeiting and printing.
If you create a fake lottery ticket to redeem the prize, then I will suffer a huge loss.
A group of workers were recruited to the paper mill. Lu Yao carefully explained to them how to add watermarks to the paper, and then asked them to immediately buy raw materials to make paper.
Then Lu Yao came to a blacksmith shop without stopping.
When the blacksmith boss saw the official in red robe coming, he immediately put down his work and came to inquire.
Lu Yao asked him to continue blacksmithing while he drew a sketch of the rotating shaft.
The lottery must have a reel.
After receiving the sketch, the boss said he could do it.
Lu Yao had to make four rotating shafts in two days before going to him, and the manufacturing technology of the rotating shafts must not be leaked.
The last one was definitely movable type printing.
The stonemason who carved Lu Yao's tombstone wrote out the numbers he needed and asked the stonemason to carve them out. The size of each movable type must be the same size, so that it can fit perfectly when placed on the stone plate. In the end, he also designed a shop himself
Let the masons carve out the logo at the same time.
Cao Yi's shop has been renovated and only needs slight changes to the layout before it can be opened.
When Lu Yao returned to Lu Mansion, he fell asleep and went to the factory the next day to see how to make paper. This was his biggest concern.
They also worked three shifts just to make more lottery tickets, so as not to have no lottery tickets to sell when they opened. That would be too miserable. As long as one more piece of paper is made, it will be money.
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Finally on the third day, everything was ready.
Lu Yao personally opened the store's plaque with the words "National Welfare Lottery" written on it, and there were many extremely exaggerated advertising slogans on both sides.
"It's a small thing that makes a big difference, it's exciting."
"If you don't buy it, when will you make a fortune?"
"With two cents, you will win a future."
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In the Northern Song Dynasty, when gambling was not allowed, various gambling methods flourished. Lu Yao's new method immediately attracted everyone's attention.
The waiter in the shop was still shouting with all his strength, "You can't lose money when buying for two pennies, and you can't be fooled when buying. As long as all the numbers you buy are correct, you can get a bonus of five hundred pennies."
The temptation of five hundred guan is not small. For example, a sixth-grade official's annual salary is not 500 guan. It is also the income of an ordinary farmer in fifty years. No one would be jealous of it.
A farmer who was about to set up a stall to sell vegetables came over and asked, "Young man, what you said is true. You can really win 500 coins for two cents."
The boy nodded and smiled and said: "Uncle, what I said is true, and we have posted the winning amount and how to win the lottery on the door. Even if you don't know the words, you can understand it at a glance. I will demonstrate it to you again.
How to win."
Two wooden shaken discs have been placed at the entrance of the store for a long time. They are made of some small wooden sticks. From the outside, you can see that there are wooden balls inside, and each ball has a swingable disc.
There is a separate number, thirty-one balls in total.
The boy shook the disk quickly, then gradually slowed down after two minutes. When the speed slowed down to a certain level, a wooden ball rolled out of the gap in the disk and rolled down the slide into a box.
After the boy saw the ball, he accelerated his shaking speed, and so on.
After another boy took out the wooden ball and showed the numbers on it to everyone, he wrote the numbers on a piece of white paper. The white paper was laid vertically on the wooden board so that everyone could see it.
In order to prevent people in the Northern Song Dynasty from understanding Arabic numerals, Lu Yao used Chinese capital letters.
One is 1.
Thirty-one is thirty-one.
The wooden ball that just rolled out has the number five written on it.
The clerk wrote the word "five" on the white paper.
As the wooden balls continue to appear, more and more people are watching.
After the first wooden plate shook out six numbers, the boy came to the second wooden plate to pay. There were only eleven balls in it, and only one ball came out.
All the numbers have been written out.
The boy shouted: "As long as you buy the six numbers 'five, nine, one two, eighteen, two three, two seven, and Lu', then congratulations, you will win the first prize of five hundred coins."
If there is one mistake among the six numbers, it will be the second prize of thirty strings."
So simple, so easy?
This idea instantly flooded everyone's mind.
A handsome young man shook his paper fan and asked: "After I buy your lottery ticket, when will I win like you?"
The young man smiled and said: "Our National Welfare Lottery draws prizes once a day, and we draw prizes on time. The lottery location is at the entrance of our store, and everyone can see it. We ensure that all children are clean and open and transparent."
Some people asked: "If more of us win the lottery, can your store afford the bonus?"
The young man said proudly: "The owner of our shop is the newly knighted Lu Xianzi. Do you think our shop can afford the payment?"
They all knew that Lu Yao had made some money recently. Even if Fan Lou gave Lu Yao 10,000 guan, he could win twenty first prizes. They felt relieved instantly.
"I'll buy one."
"I'll buy one too."
Several lottery printing areas in the store suddenly came alive. According to the numbers reported by the customers, the clerks took out the movable type seals and arranged them, brushed a layer of Lu Yao's special ink, printed the lottery paper on it, and used soft paper to print the lottery tickets.
The cloth-wrapped roller gently rolls around on the lottery paper, and the numbers are printed on the lottery paper.
This printing method also arouses some people's curiosity.
While the guests were waiting for the lottery tickets, someone also introduced the method of choosing one of three. This is not a lottery draw every day, but a lottery draw immediately after 200 people.
But the bonus is not that big, it just doubles the money sold, just for fun.
This also aroused some interest, and they immediately spent money to sell it.
Two hundred people immediately gathered.
Then the guy started drawing the lottery, and the last number that came out was three.
The winners were all happy and excited, and one bold person bought three numbers. After a while, the number turned into two numbers.
People who didn’t win and didn’t participate were very excited to see it.
After the unitary hour, the winning numbers of the seven-color ball appeared. One person won the first prize, and ten others won the second prize. The total bonuses did not exceed 900 coins, which was still within Lu Yao's acceptance range.
The person who won the first prize was the vegetable seller. After receiving the money, he didn’t even want the vegetable stall or the car, and ran away with the money. With this money, if he didn’t spend it arbitrarily, his family would
It's enough for a lifetime.
This is the beauty of lottery.
Those who saw that the National Welfare Lottery was really redeeming bonuses couldn't sit still. Who doesn't want to get rich suddenly and only spend two cents? Their dream is too close to them at this time.
The number of people buying lottery tickets increased sharply on the second day. Some people bought more than ten tickets and chose different numbers to increase their chances of winning.
Lu Yao looked at the account books for the past two days and lamented that Bianliang's purchasing power was too strong. He earned more than 25,000 yuan from all the games together, and the one that made the most money was not the colorful balls but one of the three.
This made him confused.
Choosing one of the three seems to have a high chance, but there are few winners.
Perhaps most of the reasons for winning the prize make them flock to it.
It seems that he and Zhao Zhen said he could earn 300,000 yuan a month, and said it was less. Even if it is doubled now, it will be more than doubled. Next month, excluding his 20% dividend from Lu Yao, Zhao Zhen conservatively estimates that he will receive
Of the 600,000 guan, he can also get 150,000 guan, which is like picking up money.
Roughly calculated, Lu Yao's annual income from lottery tickets alone is 1.8 million guan. Add in the business of selling wine and paper mills, and it is easy to earn 2 million guan a year.
Two million Guan is equivalent to two billion Chinese coins in future generations. Twenty small goals have been achieved casually. Don't be too happy. This is the first time he has felt that money is so easy to earn.
Lu Yao called Lu Geng, another cousin of the Lu family, to be the shopkeeper of the store. He explained clearly to Lu Geng how this was going to work, and he was to be the hands-off shopkeeper.
He also asked people to dig a deep cellar in his yard just to store the money he earned.
Lu Geng was a little reluctant at first. It would be better to eat, drink and have fun at home.
When Lu Yao said that he would be given a thousand gu as salary every year, Lu Geng agreed without hesitation and said righteously that he would take care of the National Welfare Lottery.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival.
Lu Yao refused Su Shi's invitation to participate in some literary poetry meeting.
The Han and Lu families had a reunion dinner together. Lu Yao was no longer thinking about poetry. He only thought about two things, making money and love.
I don't think about anything else. I just wait until the first few days of spring to study questions like crazy.
There is no exam that you can't pass by just answering the questions. If you fail, it means you didn't answer enough questions.
After the Lantern Festival, Lu Yao immediately called over the six cousins introduced to him by his second uncle.
The new year is over and his factory will be opened soon.
Spring plowing must also be prepared in advance. After a while, we can start loosening the soil and weeding, and all food must be planted in March. Only in this way can we achieve two harvests a year.
At the factory, he asked his four cousins to recruit people like crazy.
The victims outside Bianliang City can also be recruited. For the homeless, he can build employee dormitories, which can be built together with the pig farm.
Now he has plenty of money, and once he has the funds, he dares to do anything.
Their cousin also acted vigorously and resolutely, and almost all the young victims outside Bianliang City were recruited by them.
There are more than 4,000 people in total, and they thought they had recruited too many people.
After hearing the numbers, Lu Yao laughed loudly. He just wanted so many people, and there would be more in the future. Moreover, the wages required by these victims were not high. After ensuring that they had enough to eat for a day and giving them 20 cents in wages, these victims would
He was so excited that he almost knelt down to Lu Yao.
It is said that Lu Yao is their reborn parent. They sleep outside the city wall every day. The government can only give them a bowl of hot porridge every day to ensure that they can survive.
However, Lu Yao's factory still provides vegetables and rice for three meals a day, and meat and fish every five days. Even when there were no disasters before, they could not eat such good food.
After arriving at the factory, they didn't want to leave here at all.
Some of them brought their families with them to escape the disaster, so they asked if they could borrow their families to live with them.
Lu Yao said that the place to live has been arranged for you, and they will eat whatever you eat. However, the twenty cents of wages given to you before have been reduced to five cents. After all, they are not given to you in vain.
Those men in their thirties who immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Lu Yao cried like tears.
They had been living in fear, fearing that one day they would not even be able to drink a bowl of hot porridge. Now they were finally saved and finally saw hope of living.
Lu Yao couldn't see these men crying, so he ordered his cousins to build the workers' dormitories. It was not a problem for all these workers to sleep in the factory.
After saying that, Lu Yao walked towards the brewery.