I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 97 The prize is drawn!

Li Dongyang stopped writing, looked at Yang Tinghe and said: "The King of Jing is the most business-savvy person I have ever seen. It can be seen from the Cuju League. He easily used the forces of various parties to create such a big scene, and he himself calmly reaped the greatest benefits. Today's lottery matter has become so big, and he has also taken out so much capital. I am afraid it is just for money. I feel that he has only used half of his tricks now, and the other half has not been used yet. Let us see what his other half of tricks are."

Yang Tinghe nodded in agreement. "King Jing is indeed good at business, but his behavior has begun to corrupt the simple folk customs of the people in the capital, making people think about money. It is probably not a good thing to let people's hearts be unsettled in the long run!"

"You can find a few censors to impeach Prince Jing. I still say that Prince Jing's current behavior has not crossed the red line. The problems caused by Prince Jing are much smaller than those caused by Liu Jin. Our current goal is to defeat Liu Jin." Li Dongyang said, twirling his beard.

Yang Tinghe nodded silently.

The fact that King Jing is good at business has unknowingly become deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Zhu Houzhao also heard about the lottery. He immediately grabbed Zhu Houxun who had just entered the Leopard Room and said, "Great! My good brother! You got into such a big trouble and didn't even take me with you. I heard that you lost 35,000 taels at the beginning of this business?"

Zhu Houxuan glanced at Qian Ning on the side and knew that it was this cheap nephew who was plotting against his uncle again.

"It's only thirty-five thousand taels, a small amount of money. Would you like to play lottery, brother?" As he said this, he took out a handful of lottery tickets from his arms.

"Haha! My good brother still understands me. Come on, let's go place bets." After saying that, he pulled Zhu Houxun to change clothes and go place bets.

Zhu Houzhao threw down a bunch of ticket stubs amid the envious gazes of the people around him, then grabbed Zhu Houxun and said, "Can you let me win the first prize? I suddenly feel that winning the first prize is so interesting!"

"I will send 20,000 taels of silver to my brother right now!" Zhu Houxuan said simply.

"No! I just want to try the feeling of winning the jackpot." Zhu Houzhao said quickly.

"Leave some chance for others. Besides, you have just invested so much, so your chance of winning the jackpot is still quite high." Zhu Houxuan advised.

"Okay! Brother, why did you make such a big fuss?" Zhu Houzhao hugged Zhu Houxun and said with a smile.

"You'll know after the prize draw tomorrow. It's pointless to tell you now."

"Okay! This big ball you made is quite interesting. Save a spot for me when you draw the prize tomorrow. I want to see how you draw the prize."

"Okay, I'll reserve the best seat for you, brother. I'll be giving a speech tomorrow."

The next day, Liu Si got up early. He stuck the candied haws he had made yesterday on the broom head. He was much more sober now and not as enthusiastic as before. He planned to watch the lottery and sell some candied haws at the same time. After all, there would surely be a lot of people watching the lottery. Whether he won or not, life had to go on.

The lottery was held on a parade ground of the Beijing Camp.

The soldiers of the Beijing camp began to restrict the flow of people early on, because the number of people pouring in had exceeded expectations, but even so, three to four thousand people still poured in.

Liu Si was lucky enough to sneak in, but unfortunately, the people who came in had no appetite and he didn't sell any of his candied haws.

The glass balls from all the betting points in the capital were delivered. The whole process was fair and open. Behind each vehicle transporting the betting balls were people placing bets on the balls. They felt relieved only after seeing the betting balls being delivered to the parade ground.

The lottery tickets in each betting ball were poured into the big glass ball.

The big glass ball immediately began to spin slowly, causing a commotion in the crowd. The soldiers who were maintaining order around quickly explained that this was to shake out the lottery ticket, and only then did the crowd calm down.

The lottery draw concerns many people in the capital. Many people have lost their focus on work and are only thinking about the lottery draw.

It was not until noon that Zhu Houxuan slowly walked onto the platform in front of the big ball. He arranged all the dignitaries who were interested in the lottery to sit on the second floor of the surrounding houses, including Zhu Houzhao, who had the best seat.

Today Zhu Houxuan did not wear his dragon robe, but was dressed as a nobleman, looking very neat, clean and handsome.

Liu Si just felt that the person on the stage looked very familiar. He always felt that he had seen him somewhere, but he couldn't remember where.

Zhu Houxun was holding a tin horn in his hand, and the soldiers who were maintaining order around him quickly asked everyone to be quiet.

He put the tin horn to his lips and briefly explained the lottery rules.

Finally, he said loudly: "I, Jing, have only three principles when I come to Beijing to do business: fairness! Fairness! Or damn fairness!"

After saying that, he posed coolly on the stage, feeling great about himself.
"My dear little sir, you have been nagging for a long time. Are you still here to delay our fortune-making?!"

"You're young, but you have a lot to say. Start now! Get off the stage!"

"Yes, yes! Hurry up and start! Get off the stage!"

First there was a clamor of one voice after another, and finally everyone was shouting in unison, "Step down! Step down!"

There were even rotten eggs thrown at him, but luckily Zhu Houxuan dodged them with his quick eyes and hands.
Zhu Houxuan was dumbfounded. The quality of the people in the capital is worrying! This group of ungrateful guys, I worked hard to make this thing to make you rich, and you are here to drive me out of office. Although he knew that "stepping down" in ancient times was different from modern times, he was still depressed that he didn't get a good start.

Zhu Houxuan had no choice but to step down in disgrace, and this scene made Zhu Houzhao laugh so hard that he bent over backwards.

The lottery started, and Zhu Houxuan decided to draw the first prize first. He pulled a handle, and saw that as the glass ball turned a little faster, countless lottery tickets rolled in the glass ball.
No one knew who shouted first in the audience, but in less than a moment, the people below all followed suit. Everyone called out their own lottery number. It seemed that whoever shouted the louder would be favored by the god of fate. For a moment, the sound shook the sky.

Zhu Houzhao was also infected by this atmosphere and said to Qian Ning: "Quick, quick, quick! Let's shout out our lottery numbers too."

Qian Ning took out a handful of lottery tickets and said with a bitter face: "We have too many lottery tickets."

The dignitaries around were also quickly looking for their lottery tickets.

A lottery ticket was shaken out and fell at the exit. Everyone stared at the lottery ticket and everyone in the audience held their breath.

There were 50 lottery witnesses who were randomly selected in advance. They were closest to the glass ball and could see the lottery drawing process most clearly. They all expressed that they had no objection to the lottery process.

Then Qin Ming stripped himself shirtless, raised his hands high and spread them out to show everyone that he did not bring any lottery tickets with him.

After carefully taking the lottery ticket, he showed it to the 50 witnesses, and then slowly announced the numbers on the lottery ticket after they saw it clearly.
Zhu Houxuan didn't want to play any tricks in the lottery, so he took into account every link that could cause problems and had corresponding countermeasures.

He really didn't care about the tens of thousands of taels of silver. What he cared about was his reputation in the hearts of the people in the capital.

Yes, Zhu Houxuan planned to use lottery to establish trust in the hearts of the people in the capital!

In ancient times, Shang Yang moved trees to establish trust. Now, the King of Jing shakes flags to establish trust!
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