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

Chapter 98 Stirring up the storm
Liu Si stood there blankly, listening to the familiar strings of numbers. He had memorized these numbers deeply in his heart over the past few days, and even repeated them in his dreams.

The number Qin Ming reported was one of his three strings of numbers.

He instantly felt the place on his body where the lottery ticket was placed become hot. He felt that this light lottery ticket had the weight of thousands of pounds.
He didn't know where he got a huge amount of strength from, but he pushed the person in front of him away and rushed into the field, shouting, "It's me! It's me! I won the jackpot! I won the jackpot!"

"Eighty-one-zero-nine-seven-five! I am eight-one-zero-nine-seven-five!" Liu Si shouted madly.

Although he rushed in, his long-standing professional instinct still made him hold tightly onto the broom head on which he was sticking the candied haws.

“It turned out to be a candied haws seller!”

"A man selling candied haws actually won the first prize, a full twenty thousand taels!"

"Why not me? I'm just one number short!"

"He's not trying to bluff us!"

The people around him cast murderous glances at him, and the scorching gazes seemed to burn him to death, but he was still unaware.

His entrance interrupted the subsequent lottery draw, and the soldiers who were maintaining order in the venue didn't know what to do.

Zhu Houxuan quickly asked someone to check the lottery tickets, and the lottery drawing had to continue.

Liu Si held his pocket tightly, he now regretted his recklessness. He rushed out like this, and wondered if the organizer of the event would swallow his lottery ticket!

The person who checked the lottery ticket persuaded him for a long time before he made up his mind and took out the lottery ticket. The lottery ticket was verified quickly. No one could have counterfeited such a lottery ticket in such a short time!

When the results were announced, the entire school ground was in an uproar, and everyone witnessed the birth of a miracle.

Zhu Houxuan recognized Liu Si, the man selling candied haws. He didn't expect it to be such a coincidence, but he wasn't going to show up. He just pretended not to know this person so as not to affect the authority of the lottery.

This is the result he wants to see most.

He waved his hand, and the ceremonial guard that had been prepared long ago came out immediately. Two people in front led the way with gongs, and trumpets and other instruments behind them also started to play. Liu Si was dragged onto the sedan chair in the team, with a big red flower tied on his chest. Behind him were eighty men in uniform, each with a box hanging on his chest. The boxes were opened, and inside were five ingots of fifty taels of silver ingots. Because the distance of the parade was relatively long, Zhu Houxuan did not dare to let everyone carry too much silver for fear that they could not hold on. Behind them were written the words "Da Ming Welfare Lottery".

Zhu Houxuan quickly pulled another person over to give him instructions, asking him to put Liu Si's candied haws broom head on the sedan chair and to make sure to show Liu Si's professional characteristics.

The parade set off quickly, with as many as three hundred people, including more than two hundred soldiers from the Beijing camp who were there to protect the silver.

Firecrackers were set off with a crackling sound. The person clearing the way with a gong struck the gong vigorously and shouted, "Young and old gentlemen from the capital! Come out and see!"

"Liu Sixi from Nancheng won the first prize! The prize money is 20,000 taels of silver!" The other one hammered the gong and continued the next sentence.

Two people behind him were holding signs, one sign read "Da Ming Welfare Lottery" and the other read "First Prize of the First Period". Then came the band, and behind the band was Liu Si sitting on a sedan chair, with a broom head with candied haws stuck on it behind him. Finally, there were 80 men holding silver boxes. The whole team was over a hundred meters long.

The people of the capital city flocked to the roadside to watch this lively scene.

"Isn't this Liu Si from South City? I often buy his candied haws." "From now on, you have to call him Master Liu Si."

"I am so lucky to have such good luck"

"Master Liu, lend me some money."

Liu Si has been selling candied haws in the capital for more than ten years. Many people know him. Those who recognized him were almost shocked and were blinded by the team behind him holding silver boxes.

Countless people stopped to watch this team, including people from all kinds of professions, and they cast all kinds of looks at Liu Si.

Liu Si, who was the center of attention, had a strange smile on his face and waved his arms mechanically. He was so happy that he went crazy. This was something he had never dreamed of in his life. He had only seen this kind of scene during the parade of top scholar every three years.

He never thought that he would be able to enjoy the treatment of the number one scholar in his lifetime. (Of course, he was overthinking it. The number one scholar parade was very ceremonial. He just wanted to enjoy the excitement.)

The onlookers also felt more involved, because the number one scholar was too far away from them, but most of them participated in the lottery, as if every one of them could do it.
Many people's views on Daming Welfare Lottery have quietly changed at this moment
All the prizes were drawn, and the winning numbers were copied onto lists and posted throughout the capital.

There are three lists for the three awards. Think carefully about whether you feel like you have been on the list. Do they correspond to the first, second and third lists?

Of course, Zhu Houxuan didn't dare to make it so obvious, he just secretly had that intention.

The way the first lottery was distributed meant that most of the winners were ordinary people, which brought widespread publicity to the lottery.

Many people are extremely jealous when they see people they know win awards, and this also makes them think that they can do it too.

In this atmosphere, Zhu Houxuan took advantage of the situation to launch the second phase, which lasted for 10 days and each lottery ticket was sold for 10 cents.

10 wen is generally a person's daily meal money, and most people can afford it if they grit their teeth. There are many middle-class people in Beijing, so it is easier for them to buy it.

In the second period, Zhu Houxuan only dared to issue 15 lottery tickets, but they were sold out in two days. Finally, he printed another million tickets, which were also sold out. The sales of the second period were taels of silver.

The first prize this time is 6 taels of silver, which makes people even more crazy.

The cost of Zhu Houxuan's lottery was as follows: 70% was given out directly as rewards, 10% was printing and sales costs, and the remaining 20% ​​was his profit. In the second period, he made a net profit of 3 taels of silver.

People in the entire capital city calculated the profits, because the number of lottery tickets sold by Zhu Houxuan was transparent. If the sales data was the same every 10 days, the lottery industry would make a profit of over one million taels a year.

Some people in the capital began to become active.

Just before the second lottery draw, the Minister of Revenue Liu Ji received a letter and after reading it, he hurried to the cabinet.

"My Lords, the Prince of Jing sent a letter saying that he wants to donate half of the lottery profits to the Ministry of Revenue."

(End of this chapter)