Because Fang Bingsheng is a wealthy man, he can buy a five-yuan lottery without blinking his subordinates. The boss was very enthusiastic and took out a bunch of lottery tickets and pointed to the promotional advertisement to introduce to Fang Bingsheng in turn.

There are two types of lottery tickets here: the first type is called monthly tickets; the second type is called annual tickets.

The first type of monthly tickets naturally refer to the monthly lottery draw, while the second type is irregular lottery.

The first category of monthly passes include the following two types:

The first type of lottery is called "Yangma". The lottery is mimeographed, with symmetrical sides and connected with pinholes like stamps. Each page has 7 rows from top to bottom. Each row consists of 1 to 10 circles. Each column has 1 to 10 codes on each row. After the customer selects the number, the lottery shop's shop pierces the holes of the corresponding digital with a needle cone, tear off one pair and hand it over to the customer, and keep the one pair and mail it back to the parent company. After the lottery draw, the bonus is received with the codes of the two pairs and the needle-punched numbers.

Twenty thousand copies will be issued every month, each with a minimum of 50,000 yuan. If no one wins, it will automatically roll into the next issue;

The second type of lottery is called "bumping the first prize". There is no need to be such a hard work on the above ticket. There are only a few lottery books of different prices in the lottery point, ranging from one cent to ten yuan.

If you choose a piece of ocean, you will take out a booklet similar to a stamp set, which is full of different numbers. This is both a lottery number and a serial number. You choose one, tear it off, and use the stub to redeem the prize.

20,000 copies per month, the first prize is 10,000 times your purchase price.

Hearing this, Fang Bingsheng had already secretly plotted against him. According to this calculation, the court could get nearly 200,000 yuan in gross income every month. He asked with a smile: "You are so developed, you are so rich, and you can make money by sitting on the ground."

"Don't say that to the guest. We are also serving Jesus and doing well for the Song Dynasty," the boss put away a lottery book in his hand and smiled and said, "The rebate rate set by the court for our company is 75%, which means that 75% of the silver will be returned to customers, which is much higher than that of the private lottery! And the private lottery cheats a thousand, right? In this case, the court also needs to draw 10% of our taxes. In the end, we have to work hard to get 15% of the income. If we don't work hard, we may lose."

Fang Bingsheng curled his lips disdainfully, and remembered the evaluation of the modern era in the big newspaper "Haijing Jiwen": my country should also learn the other party's etiquette and spirit of etiquette when learning the West. What about now? Learn everything, learn good things, learn bad things, and the whole country is still engaged in pigeons (racecourse, boxing ring, dog racing, lottery gambling), harriers (state-owned opium, re-export trade), and swallows (organized labor towards Southeast Asia, and the United States exports labor) to make money. So I feel embarrassed to say that we are building a country with gods?

Fang Bingsheng deeply agreed with this comment: Chinese people like gambling, and it was strictly prohibited throughout the ages, and the late Qing Dynasty was particularly strong. At that time, the Qing Dynasty ruled gambling as a strictly prohibited, and stipulated that if gambling was not divided, the soldiers and civilians would be shackled for two months, and if one hundred sticks were slaughtered, officials would be dismissed from their posts and shackled them, and they would not be redeemed.

Of course, the Qing Dynasty could not resist at all. Both prefectures and counties regarded the laws and regulations as if they were written. The gambling trend was fierce and the situation was prosperous in the early stage.

However, Hai Song also claimed to be "building a country with gods". Although Hong Xiuquan was called a heretical cult, the "Kintian Spirit" was also encouraged by the emperor. Therefore, opium and gambling were all listed as serious crimes, and court officials were never allowed to participate in these three major crimes.

However, for diplomacy and wealth, this guy strictly prohibits opium from being abolished, and makes the opium price abolish. The poor in China cannot afford to attract opium at all, and they ignore the dealer in the futures casino, causing countless speculators who dare to play opium to die;

For money, he sells his own people, he specially established the "Hairen Insurance Company" to encourage people to travel across the ocean to make a living and make money for him. He also implied that the tabloids used old news from decades ago as news: What about gold in the United States, when you walk and step on the sand, you can find gold nuggets when you swim in the river - this is the matter of the Year of the Monkey? The gold mine? Are you still waiting for you to dig? When you walk and step on the sand? When you step on the yellow rattlesnake!

Gambling and ** are still resolutely banned, which makes the sheriffs excited and investigate black casinos every day, and all kinds of fairies are emerging one after another, causing the gamblers and prostitutes to be in chaos. The protection fees for black casinos and secret prostitutes to rise year by year.

Isn’t this official lottery ticket a gamble? The emperor took it out and made money again, and he still monopolized it! If this continues, in two years, can he be a prostitute and apply for a license to openly openly?

Of course money is not a bad thing. If you can make money, Fang Bingsheng also hopes that the emperor will make more money, otherwise it would not have been built for a full ten years with a 500-kilometer railway.

But the imperial court's lowly money-making method always made him feel like he was walking on a golden rattlesnake.

If you just put a gambling on the cloak of Western learning, you won’t know you anymore?

Be a bitch, at least set up a better arch.

Look at the Qing Dynasty! The archway is higher than the sky: the way of Confucius and Mencius! Etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame! The ladies go out and fool the people, at least they have a lot of face.

Of course, there are all birds in the Qing Dynasty, which are even more complete than the Song Dynasty. But with a arch, everything is easy to say. If you can’t do it, you will say that the emperor is wise and corrupt officials are shameless. This is good for the Song Dynasty. The emperor is shameless than the corrupt officials in the Qing Dynasty. He takes over everything himself, so don’t have the arch!

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a arch, but the Confucian construction team that specializes in archways will be unemployed!

The more I thought about it, the more depressed he became. Fang Bingsheng had to divert his attention. He turned his head and asked Shan Ji, "What lottery did you buy? The prize was awarded once a month. Do you know that you were still in this small place at that time? What should I do if I won the small prize? Let's run back?"

"I must be the first prize, right?" Shan Ji stammered: "The first prize of this lottery ticket must be used to go to the capital."

"This customer bought the New Year's ticket," the boss pulled out another lottery book with Chinese landscapes on the cover and smiled: "It's this, the Haishan Immortal Hall ticket, the first prize is the private garden Haishan Immortal Hall of the former wealthy businessman Pan Shicheng of the 13th Qing Dynasty."

"No way? Then the garden is the first prize?" Fang Bingsheng was dumbfounded.

In 1869, Pan Shicheng, a former wealthy businessman in Guangzhou, lost 3 million yuan in opium futures, and declared bankruptcy because he had a large amount of loans from the Song Dynasty Ocean Bank. Will the "official usury" let him go?

The property was immediately copied into the bank, and Pan Shicheng's private garden Haishan Fairy Pavilion in Xiguan, Guangzhou was also managed by Ocean Bank and sold to the public as a debt-paying asset.

The Haishan Fairy Hall covers a vast area, with its corridors and veranda, and is rich and elegant. There are countless famous paintings, ancient artifacts and stone carvings in the garden, so no one can afford it solely, so it cannot be sold for a long time. The bank officials were very anxious and entrust the Dasong Lottery to issue 300,000 lottery tickets, each of which is five yuan in silver coins. The first prize is the ownership of the Haishan Fairy Hall, and the small prize is a set of tuxedo.

"Yes, can you not buy one? It will expire in two months." Shan Ji looked intoxicated, and it seemed that she had moved into the Haishan Immortal Hall.

"Do I want to buy one too?" Fang Bingsheng felt relieved. You should know that Zhong Jialiang has been so happy recently that he even has a private bank. The large part of the capital comes from Pan Shicheng who was eaten in the futures market. Every piece of silver dollar this guy also has blood.

Seeing the change of expression on Fang Bingsheng's face, the boss asked with a smile: "Do you want to buy it?"

Fang Bingsheng still shook his head and asked, "Is there any other annual ticket?"

"Yes." The boss took out another book. The cover of the book was as exquisitely printed as it was painted with a smoke warship riding the wind and waves. The boss explained: "This is Rongshen Patriotic ship buying lottery tickets, which were specially issued for naval ship purchases. The money received is used to purchase foreign warships! A total of 50,000 pieces were issued, each of which was five yuan, and the first prize was 20,000 silver dollars! Judging from your outfit, I thought I was also a successful businessman in Haijing. Can merchants not like the navy? Without the navy, how could our Haisong establish a foothold in Asia?"

Unexpectedly, Fang Bingsheng was stunned after hearing this. He raised hundreds of people with rice, and there must be some merchants in Haijing who hate the Navy.

Fang Bingsheng is exactly the type of person who hates the navy the most - the railway construction.

The reason is very simple: two companies rob money.

The money is only one, the court: if you give it to the navy, you can’t give it to the railway; if you give it to the railway, you can’t give it to the navy.

Both families are very big tigers who make money.

And both companies are also very upright:

Railway said: All powerful countries in the world have railways. Only with railways can there be economy, and only with economy can there be money. First, give it to us. When the Song Dynasty has a railway network like Britain and France, we will be rich. At that time, we will buy two identical warships, one to shoot cannons and the other to fish;

The Navy said: The Song Dynasty is reliable in the sea, and the Qing Dynasty also bought ships and formed a fleet! Without us, how can national defense be guaranteed? We can shoot the military branch of Beijing with one shot. You ask the army to try to reach Beijing for a month? Will your railway tracks fire guns and land? Without the Navy, the Qing Dynasty will explode our heads and land in Haijing! First form a navy. When the country is strong and there will be more war compensation, we will ask you to repair two railways side by side, one transport passengers and the other transport cargo;

Originally, the Army did not interfere with the debate on the imperial railway and ship purchase, and was a passerby, but the senior army officials were smashed by flower pots on the Navy's stairs when they walked.

When the navy said this, the army was furious: Damn it! Destroy Beijing, when did the founding of the Song Dynasty be all the credit for your navy? Do you want shame? Can your warships go to the land to fight bayonets with the Qing army, climb over the city wall to occupy the city? You are just a little sniper to pick up the bargain, the mainstay is still us! If we were not for us, the Qing army would attack our country from three sides by land, burning your military port nest, see how you shot your head! Let's see how you land!

The court understood very well, so it was very difficult: Do you want money or death?

Railways are money, navys are fate;

If you have no life, you will definitely not make money, but if you have no money, you will soon lose your life.

I can only lament that it is easy to say that we are an island, and it is easy to say that if we are an inland country, it is half based on the sea and half inland. And the most important thing is: it is too poor.

But Fang Bingsheng certainly ignored these things. The senior naval officials didn't care about them. Both families only recognized money and never considered where the imperial court's money came from. They also got involved with the navy's money-grabbing army in anger: "We must oppose it if the navy supports it! We must support it if the navy opposes it!"

However, the Railway did not dare to form a rash alliance with the Army, because everyone was staring at the emperor's pockets, so the few families would bite each other.

If the railway could be built into the sea, the Navy would definitely smash the money that robbed the ship purchase money at night, and it would be better that there were senior army officials on it;

As for the railway's reaction, it's good to say: The Federation of Retired Officers of the Royal Navy of the Song Dynasty has not received railway coupons so far. The company's excuse is very powerful: Damn! We are Song You, who are going to Jiangxi to build a railway! There are no Jiangxi people in you! What are you discounts? I want to take a train to Songbei, and Song Zuo's small company! It's enough for two hours to go back and forth!

This made Jiangxi people, who were discriminated against by the navy, applauded.

"Hey, the French-Popular War is over, and there is still exercise. Is it just that the army wants to support us? Maybe we can build relationships in the future. With the railway, won't they also reach the Yangtze River within one or two days? Isn't it the same headshot? Is there money here!" Fang Bingsheng's eyes lit up and he slapped his thighs.

"The guest likes naval tickets?" The boss saw Fang Bingsheng's eyes lit up, and his own eyes lit up, and hurriedly said, "Buy one?"

"Tsk..." Fang Bingsheng opened the naval lottery book in front of him with the expression of pushing away a pile of dead cockroaches. When he saw the warship, he was disgusted. He asked, "What else?"

A hint of disappointment flashed across the boss's face, and then he became happy again, saying, "Looking at your temperament, you must have a noble son soon. Your son must be a hero. Will he participate in the Crown Prince's study tour this year and choose Enko? We have a vote for the surname of the boudoir!"

Wei surname: It is a bet on the surname that won the imperial examination. The bet is not big. Whoever participates in the Haisong imperial examination? If you guess this surname is the winner, it is a winner. Because it is natural and fair, there are many people who buy it. No matter how stupid the dealer is, it is impossible to manipulate the winner. The surname Wang or Zhang.

The gambling method for the surname Wei is that before the exam, the ticket office sets a policy for guessing and buying, which stipulates that more than 100 surnames such as Mai, Ma, District, and Hu are "small surnames" and are used as targets for guessing and buying. Other "big surnames" such as Zhang, Huang, and Li are not allowed to guess and buy because there are people on each list. Because the surname "Zhao" is an imperial surname, in order to avoid taboos on the royal family, they are not allowed to guess and buy.

Regardless of the big surname or small surname, they are announced in advance, and the "small surname" is written in front of the ticket book for the buyer to choose. Before the imperial examination, the buyer will choose 20 votes from the "small surname" as one vote. The ticket value of each ticket varies, divided into half yuan, 1 yuan, several yuan, and 10 yuan. When the ticket office receives the money, it will issue a receipt. The receipt is composed of a number as a certificate for winning the lottery. At the same time, the ticket office compiles 1,000 votes with the same ticket value into a ticket book. After the imperial examination is issued, the lottery is divided into the ticket book. In the same ticket book, the person with the most surnames who guess the number of surnames will be won, followed by the second lottery, three lottery, and three lottery is the loss. Usually, 60% of the total income of the ticket is used as the prize, the first lottery accounts for 50% of the prize, the second lottery accounts for 30%, and three lottery accounts for 15%.

This year, the Crown Prince is coming of age, and he is already the example of all citizens and takes the lead in studying abroad. Qin State! Great Britain!

When he heard the imperial examination, "Oh?" Fang Bingsheng immediately pondered. The pheasant next to him looked excited and shouted: "Brother Sheng bought one and helped my nephew with the exam!"

In order to celebrate the adulthood of the Crown Prince and study abroad, the emperor prepared to amnesty for prisoners, so that the first session of the newly built Haisong Christian Union University would start enrolling students, and contact the embassy halls of powerful countries around the world to increase their study abroad quotas, which means increasing the global admission rate of seaweathers and college students this year, the so-called accompanying enrollment rate.

"How can I claim the prize after I buy it? Who knows if I am still on a business trip here after they finished the exam?" Fang Bingsheng smiled bitterly.

"Isn't this just a good fortune? Come on, come on, take a book, first choose a 'fang', Mr. Fang; the boss can't forget it, then choose a 'weng'," Shan Ji expressed his loyalty impatiently. He was not very literate, so he directed the boss to fill in his surname and smiled at Fang Bingsheng: "I just chatted with them who sold the lottery. They said that this lottery can be developed because it depends on the newspaper list and supervision of the lottery draw. Our railway and post office have all the connections, newspapers and mails can be reached, so that we can play. How could we do the lottery ten years ago?"

Shan Ji smiled proudly, and could tell that she was proud of her work, saying, "Since we see a lottery shop, those who work in railways and telegraphs must buy a lottery ticket. Even if we don't win, it will be a credit for us!"

"Tsk, after a long time, I have made some contributions to this lottery." Fang Bingsheng smiled in disgrace.

At this time, the boss at the counter suddenly raised his head and looked at Fang Bingsheng and suddenly asked: "Your name is Fang Bingsheng? Longchuan Fang Bingsheng?"
Chapter completed!