Fang Zheng always keeps his word!
In the following days, a wave of new dramas with different skins 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 failing the exam, Yan Xiucai working in Xianheng, Yan Xiucai's one-night stand, The Adventures of Little Yan... spread like wildfire in the capital.
The people in the capital city were frantically trying to find out who Yan Xiucai and Xiao Yan were, and why the father and son were so despicable?
It is said that Yan Guoan and his son smashed a lot of valuable porcelain at home during those days, but they did not show any signs of violence in the court.
After all, Fang Zhengyi didn't name the names of Mr. Yan and Xiao Yan in the play...
Yan Guoan was too embarrassed to go to the court to complain. If he did, wouldn't that be admitting that it was him, even though everyone in the court knew what was going on.
During this period, Fang Zhengyi was not idle. He bought a large number of shops in the surrounding backward towns for the purpose of selling lottery tickets.
Of course the lottery is no longer called a lottery, it has been renamed the No. 1 Prize Ticket!
The lottery method used is the same as the previous lottery method of the double-color ball. There are a total of 49 numbers, and the lottery machine determines the winning numbers. When the lottery is drawn, six red ball numbers are drawn first, and then one blue ball number is drawn.
The first prize was 2,000 taels, the second prize was 200 taels, and the sixth prize was only a few dozen taels.
With Taoyuan County’s technical encryption, no one should be able to imitate the anti-counterfeiting problem of lottery tickets in the short term, and it is still being continuously iterated and upgraded.
Taoyuan Paper Mill presses three sheets of paper into one, sandwiches two different special anti-counterfeiting lines on the left and right, prints complex patterns on it, and has a row of Arabic numerals and Chinese characters at the bottom for comparison.
As for the problem of digital printing of lottery tickets, it is actually simple to solve. Just use a stamp and special ink to stamp it directly.
Lottery paper, ink and seals are all kept strictly by designated personnel.
The numbers printed in advance on lottery tickets allow buyers to compare them by themselves, which also helps promote Arabic numerals.
The most exciting part is the one hundred specially trained lottery salesmen in Taoyuan County.
All of these people are well-educated and can even memorize many classics.
According to the original idea, such rare jobs should be provided to one hundred poor people.
However, external recruits are not reliable.
Fang Zhengyi was worried about many things, the most important of which was that poor people were prone to gambling! Most of the educated and wealthy people were more rational. Even if they were attracted to the lottery for a while, they would realize that the so-called lottery was actually a "scam" after a long time.
Therefore, these one hundred people from Taoyuan County are crucial.
People who buy lottery tickets are required to take a temporary test on the spot by the salesperson who takes out a book and simply reads a passage from the book. If you can recognize the words and read it, then the ticket will be sold to you. If you don’t know any of the words, sorry, don’t buy it.
Illiterate and poor people won’t sell!
Of course, no matter how rigorous the design is, it is still vulnerable to scalper intrusion.
It is conceivable that there will be poor people who pay a higher price to buy lottery tickets through scalpers.
However, they also need to study and take literacy tests when redeeming the prizes, and the lack of trust between people will greatly weaken the scalpers.
At best, there will be some small-time scalpers left, but I think it will not affect the overall situation and is not a cause for concern.
Fang Zheng directly handed this part of the problem to Master Ji. There was probably no one more suitable to deal with the scalpers among the people than these ruffians.
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Subsequently, the lottery business developed vigorously.
The sales cycle is every half a month, and the prize draw will be held at Mid-Levels Plaza!
With a ticket worth fifty cents, you have a chance to win a huge prize of two thousand taels! The winner can live a comfortable life.
Countless people were talking about it, and the court officials naturally realized what was going on... It turned out that Fang Zhengyi, that bastard, was actually planning to monopolize the business... No wonder he submitted such a memorial to the emperor for no apparent reason!
Li Yuanzhao squatted on the street with his hands in his pockets, looking at the crowded lottery station opposite and feeling a little confused.
He nudged Fang Zhengyi next to him and said, "Old Fang, do you think your method can really make money? Buying a lottery ticket is so troublesome. I think it would be 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 incoherently: "Your Highness, how many people do you think will win the first prize?"
Li Yuanzhao counted on his fingers and frowned: "I think it should be at least a hundred or eighty! Just a few dozen balls...hiss~ then we lose money!?"
Fang Zhengyi chuckled: "You are right to think so. If you do the math, you will know that even if everyone in the world buys our top prize tickets, there will not be more than a few dozen first prize winners."
"The probability of winning the first prize is 1 in 17.72 million. It is unlikely that a first prize will be awarded in the entire city in a year."
"What is probability?"
"It's just the odds. There are 17.72 million combinations to get a first prize... Do you think anyone can win? Haha."
Li Yuanzhao stared at the lottery station with wide eyes: "This... If no one wins the prize, who will buy our number one prize ticket?"
"Why didn't anyone win the prize? Whoever I said would win will win!"
"I knew you were going to lie again." Li Yuanzhao said with disdain.
"Haha! Since no one is buying, we have no choice but to do this. If no one wins the first prize in a year, wouldn't the second year be a waste?"
"So we have to arrange a few winners every now and then... Besides, how can this be called cheating? This is called marketing. I dare to guarantee that even if two thousand years have passed, the people selling the top prize tickets will still do this!"
Li Yuanzhao smacked his lips, still feeling a little disdainful.
Bullshit! People two thousand years later are still so shameless? Can this world still be good?
Then he hesitated, "With such a high prize, if the ticket buyer gets lucky, won't we lose money? Can we really make money?"
"I roughly calculated that if everything goes well, we can earn about 6,000 taels per half-month period. After deducting the cost of operating materials and the half for Your Majesty, we should be able to have 3,000 taels left."
"At this rate... 6,000 taels a month shouldn't be a problem. No matter how lucky the people in the capital are, it's impossible for them to win three first prizes in one month."
Li Yuanzhao began to count on his fingers again, then suddenly stood up with an indignant look on his face: "There are so many! Damn it, why does the emperor need so much money? He doesn't spend it!"
Then he turned around and said, "Old Fang, let's hurry up! Let's sell the top prize tickets all over the country, then the money will roll in. By then, let alone Banshanfang, it won't take long for us to transform the entire capital!"
As soon as Fang Zheng finished eating the candied haws, he saw a child in open-crotch pants passing by. He casually inserted the stick into the crack of the child's buttocks.
He stood up and said, "No, we will definitely make a lot of money in the early stage, but later on... our sellers are all smart people, they react quickly!"
“I’m afraid it won’t take more than two months for profits to fall.”
"We have to teach people to read and write later, so we can't do it! Just make a quick buck for a year or two."
"We can still control this thing in our hands, but if we let it out there, we're afraid it will cause some trouble!"
"We still have more than a month left to renovate Banshan Square and defeat Yan Guoan!"
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