Chapter 360

In order to reassure the people of Chang'an, Li forget worry, after obtaining the consent of Li Er, decided to open the lottery every ten days on Zhuque street and the gate of the imperial city.

In order to allow everyone to visually witness the lottery lottery, Li forget worry has already asked the craftsmen who will be the supervisor to create a huge lottery machine and place it on the gate of rosefinch city.

The appearance is similar to that of the later hamster running drum, but the drum is very huge, with a diameter of about three meters. Towering above the city gate, the people can see it at a glance on the rosefinch street.

The drum used for lottery is made of thick iron wire and hollowed out. The inner condition is clear.

The winning ball was Li Qieyou, who asked the craftsman to replace it with a Cuju ball, brush it with paint and write the number.

Datang Cuju uses an inflatable hollow ball, which is filled with air with an animal's bladder and wrapped in eight pieces of leather. The ball is light and round.

Li Qieyou asked the craftsman to prepare 30 red balls and 16 blue balls for today's lottery.

The lottery time has long been made public, and even went to the palace for the first time.

On this day, people in Chang'an went out of their homes to see the lottery on Zhuque Avenue.

The rosefinch street of nuota is full of dark crowds, and people are pouring from all over Chang'an city. According to a preliminary estimate, the number of people who come here to watch the lottery today is no less than 100000.

The 150 meter wide rosefinch Street extends four or five blocks south from the Golden Gate Street in front of the rosefinch gate. For a distance of seven or eight miles, it is crowded with people.

In fact, in the era of no live TV broadcasting, even if the lottery machine on the gate of rosefinch city is big, the crowd two miles away can't see clearly.

But even so, Chang'an people enjoy it. Even if they couldn't see the scene on the rosefinch gate clearly, they all whispered to each other and warmly discussed whether they could win the prize.

Such a surging crowd made Jin Wuwei's forbidden army, who was responsible for the safety of Zhuque Avenue today, couldn't help but hold the weapon in their hands and guard against accidents.

At a quarter past midnight, after the end of the Chang Dynasty, Li Er also boarded the rosefinch tower.

Today's lottery, he will draw the lottery in person.

Seeing Li Er in a yellow robe appear, all the officials who have been waiting here under the gate bow down one after another. And more than 100000 people in Chang'an City on Zhuque Avenue also know that it is the emperor's majesty who appears, all Hula and kneel down, long live three times.

Li Er, with a bright smile on his face, waved his hand to prepare for the lottery.

Indeed, he was not happy. In ten days, the lottery in Chang'an City sold nearly 30 million yuan!

Li Er wanted to order immediately to promote the lottery to the whole Guanzhong road.

It was Li forgetful and Dai Zhou who persuaded the emperor who was dazzled by the huge amount of copper money. After all, lottery is a new thing. It's better to operate in Chang'an City for more time and make plans.

Li Er was the emperor who listened to the persuasion. After some impulse, he didn't mention it again.

Seeing Li Er's order, a team of forbidden guards on the gate of rosefinch shouted: "open the prize!"

Under the rosefinch door, there was a sky shaking cheering immediately. The noise was so loud that the birds over Chang'an were frightened and scattered.

Officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs held 30 red Cuju and put them into the lottery drum in turn.

Li Er pulled up the cuffs of his yellow robe and began to shake the handle on the drum.

The drum is three meters in diameter and woven with thick iron wire. Naturally, it is very heavy. Originally, Li forget worry is to let the strong soldiers shake. But Li Er, who has a good face, is willing to give the chance of winning the first lottery to others?

Refusing the request for assistance, Li Er flushed his face and finally shook the huge roller with all his strength.

As the drum began to rotate, all the people who were still noisy on the rosefinch Street held their breath and stared at the faster and faster drum.

In the roller, thirty red balls collide and roll constantly.

Seeing this, Li forgot to worry and quickly asked someone to pull out a baffle under the drum, revealing a hole for the ball. Thirty red balls kept rotating under Li Er's shaking drum, and finally a red ball fell down along the hole on the drum.

The officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs immediately came forward, picked up the red ball, raised their hands and showed it to the crowd below.

At the same time, the forbidden army on the gate also shouted in unison: "No. 3, No. 3!"

The call for the first number of the lottery ticket was also shouted by the forbidden army on both sides of Zhuque street and passed to the rear. In a moment, the whole crowd on the rosefinch Street heard clearly.

When the first number was shaken out, a huge sound wave broke out again on the very quiet rosefinch street.

Those people who waited anxiously and bought lottery tickets with their hands, some cheered and screamed, and some sighed in frustration.

"No. 29! No. 29!..." the lottery number was constantly shaken out, and the number burst out from time to time on the Zhuque street below, causing waves of commotion.

When the last blue ball number was shaken out, there were ghosts crying and wolves howling in the rosefinch street.

"I've won! I've won! The second prize! The Taoist priest is on the top, I've won! Ha ha ha, fifty Liang gold!"

"Congratulations, Dalang, you have to treat!"

"Today's pingkang square is my treat. If you don't get drunk, you won't return!"

"Ha ha, I won the third prize, too! Five Liang gold!"

"What about the first prize? Does anyone win the first prize? That's two hundred liang of gold!"

However, some people cried with joy, some shouted, but no one admitted that they had won the grand prize.

Li Er and Li forgetful worry stood on the gate, looked at the crowd below, and suddenly asked, "Ziyou, won't no one win the first prize? If no one wins, won't the people think the lottery is a fraud?"

When he said this, Li forgot to worry and scratched his head.

On that day, when he demonstrated the lottery with Li Er in the hall of Taiji palace, there were only 20 red balls, and the chance of winning the lottery was one in 600000.

However, after returning to Dingzhou village, he was mercilessly ridiculed by his beautiful boss.

The beauty boss just asked him to make a simple calculation. If there were 10 million lottery tickets, how many people would win the first prize.

Li forgot to worry about this calculation and couldn't help sweating.

If he had only twenty red ball numbers as he thought at the beginning, he must have lost even his pants. He really became a loose money boy

So when the lottery was officially issued, Li forgot to worry about turning 20 red ball numbers into one to thirty, thirty red ball numbers.

As a result, the chance of winning the first prize has changed from one in 640000 to one in 9.5 million.

He replied uncertainly, "uncle, I don't think so. The lottery has sold more than 14 million notes, and the chance of winning is one in nine million. It is said that at least one or two people have won the grand prize."

"What if no one wins the prize?" Li Er calculated in his heart, and still felt that no one might win the prize.

Li forgot to worry and smiled: "well, hey, uncle, my nephew has just asked Dai Shangshu to prepare a lottery ticket. The number is the number you just shook out. In case..."

Before he finished, Li Er understood what he meant and couldn't help staring at him.

This bastard is going to cheat and get a fake first prize to deceive the people!