On New Year's Eve, Queen Zhou was not so serious. Besides, life was getting better and she felt a lot more comfortable.
After hearing Concubine Tian's suggestion and seeing that his daughter and others were in agreement, he smiled and said, "I have no objection, but your Majesty still needs to make a decision on this matter!"
"Your Majesty will definitely agree!" Upon hearing this, Concubine Tian immediately said with a smile, "Let's organize the program better, so that your Majesty can record it and send it to Liu Weichao, which will increase your Majesty's face!"
As soon as she heard this, Queen Zhou immediately started to think seriously. After all, this was a matter involving the royal family's face. Dangjie suggested: "If you really want to do it, you must prepare in advance. Not only my sister has to prepare, but also the last one."
I would also like to ask His Majesty to issue a decree that all those with special talents must be invited to praise them. Such a concentration of my Ming Dynasty’s power must have surprised Liu Weichao!”
When Concubine Tian heard this, she immediately said happily: "My sister is very thoughtful and will mention it to Your Majesty soon. There is no problem in keeping this matter!"
After finishing speaking, she enthusiastically began to list some programs she could think of. Zhu Yuluo and others also participated with great interest.
They were chatting, and Emperor Chongzhen was still talking to Liu Weichao.
I heard him smile at Liu Weichao and say: "The hemisphere experiment was carried out by me the day before last, and I ordered my subordinates to do it. There were still sixteen people, but they were all strong men who were stronger than horses and oxen. You know in the end, a hundred people were removed.
After two rewards of silver, how much silver did you get in total?"
"How much?" Liu Weichao asked curiously after hearing this.
"You definitely can't guess it!" Emperor Chongzhen heard his question and said with a smile, "It's a total of five thousand one hundred and twenty-five taels!"
Having said this, he shook his head and sighed: "I was really surprised when I heard this! It was only ten cents at the beginning, but I didn't expect that I would get so much money in the end!"
"This is actually not surprising!" When Liu Weichao heard this, he said to Emperor Chongzhen, "You are actually a lottery, so you can naturally make a lot of money!"
Emperor Chongzhen was stunned when he heard this, and then asked with confusion: "What do you mean? What is the nature of the lottery? Can you make a lot of money?"
He is absolutely sensitive when he hears about making big money.
When Liu Weichao heard his question, he immediately thought of Emperor Chongzhen's character traits, and explained with a smile: "Lottery is a game that uses small things to make big gains. For example, you can win a reward of 100 taels for ten cents."
Silver. For most people, people's hearts are greedy. They will imagine that they may have good luck and can exchange small money for big money."
After a pause, he continued: "You are just taking advantage of their ignorance of atmospheric pressure to offer a reward. The lottery of our time is simply a game of money and money!"
"What game of money and money? Tell me, tell me!" Emperor Chongzhen asked immediately after hearing this.
When Liu Weichao heard his questioning, he naturally couldn't help but explain to him: "Ours is called a welfare lottery, that is to say, it is a lottery issued for a certain charitable purpose. For example, if I issue this lottery, I will
How many schools will it be used to build, how many lonely elderly people will be subsidized, etc., and then you will be given prizes, draws, etc. You spend a penny and you can draw once. You may get nothing, or you may get two pennies.
, ten cents, or even one hundred taels of silver or something like that.”
At this point, he saw Emperor Chongzhen's surprised look and continued: "Think about it, if I spend a penny, I might win a hundred taels of silver. Wouldn't many people try it?"
What’s more? Besides, buying this lottery ticket is tantamount to doing good deeds, helping the court to build more schools, subsidizing more orphaned elderly people, etc. Doesn’t that make it easier for people to buy this lottery ticket?"
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help but nodded, but he couldn't help but asked doubtfully: "But, can we make money in this way?"
Having said this, he quickly added: "This is somewhat different from mine. I am sure that they will never be able to pull apart if there are fewer people!"
"You're stupid!" When Liu Weichao heard this, he laughed and scolded without thinking, "You don't know how to calculate the probability in advance. This is a matter of making sure profit without losing money!"
In this world, he is the only one who dares to talk to an emperor like this!
In other words, only Liu Weichao dared to talk to Emperor Chongzhen like this.
Maybe he knew that Liu Weichao didn't actually mean to curse, or maybe he was adapted to Liu Weichao's way of speaking. Anyway, after hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about calling him stupid, but concentrated on the second half of the sentence. He still couldn't understand, so he continued
Asked: "What do you mean? What do you mean by calculating the probability in advance?"
"This is a mathematical concept!" Liu Weichao explained after hearing this, "For example, if you sell a hundred lottery tickets and each one costs a penny, then you can set the probability of winning the lottery so that one person in ten can win.
If you win the lottery, the prize is five cents, eight cents or something, so you can definitely earn five cents or two cents? In short, the more people buy lottery tickets, the more money you can make by selling lottery tickets!"
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he was very excited and immediately said: "This is good, I can definitely do it. I want to promote science, starting with children, especially the most basic pinyin literacy, etc. I have always wanted to do it.
But I haven’t really done it yet.”
At this point, he said to Liu Weichao with that you-know-what expression: "My money is now concentrated on the army and post-war reconstruction, and I can't take care of these things. If I can have extra money, then
I can also build more schools so that all school-age children, regardless of gender, can start reading and literacy!"
Liu Weichao said that winning the lottery was equivalent to giving Emperor Chongzhen another way to make money. No wonder he was so excited.
When Liu Weichao heard that he wanted to use it for this purpose, he was very supportive and said to him: "You can have this. But if you want to continue to implement it, you must do a good job of supervision to make everyone feel fair. There will be more people buying in this way."
.I can design a lottery method for you to help you raise money to repair the school."
"Okay, okay, okay!" When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately cheered. Seeing his overjoyed expression, he almost jumped into the phone to shake hands with Liu Weichao. Of course, if he could jump into the phone!
This is not a one-time deal. According to Liu Weichao, it comes from a cornucopia. In this way, funds for promoting scientific methods and building more schools will be guaranteed.
While he was happy, Liu Weichao said to him: "Actually, you make money on one hand. On the other hand, you still need to vigorously develop productivity so that Ming can produce more materials. This is the kingly way!
"
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately thought of his future plans and said quickly: "You are right, I am just trying to discuss this matter with you!"
"Oh?" When Liu Weichao heard this, he asked with a little curiosity, "Tell me!"
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen said to him: "I have already arranged the spinning machine and shuttle, and there are enough people in the palace. Next year, I will purchase a large amount of cotton, wool, etc., but I am worried.
This purchase will still not be enough!”
Upon hearing this, Liu Weichao laughed and immediately said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Based on the cotton and wool you have in the Ming Dynasty, after installing the spinning jenny and flying shuttle, the production efficiency has been greatly improved, and the raw materials must be
It’s not enough!”
After a pause, he further said: "This is actually easy to solve. Just ask people to plant a large amount of cotton and raise sheep."
At this point, I remembered the British sheep eating people in history, and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "The existing cultivated land cannot be moved, and the area of cultivated land must even be increased, at least to ensure that you have enough food. Because you
You know, after the world is at peace, the population will definitely grow explosively, and you have to have enough food!"
"That's right, I definitely take the matter of food very seriously!" After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded with a serious expression and said, "Don't worry about this, I know it well!"
After hearing this, Liu Weichao reminded him: "In terms of grain, in the south, rice is harvested three times a year. If we occupy the Nanyang side in the future, we can have a variety of grains there. And in the north, including the Yellow River
In the river basin, that is, the Hetao area, as well as the Western Region, large-scale cotton planting and sheep raising will not have any impact on the existing ecological system of the Ming Dynasty."
Having said this, he added: "At least in my world, the main producing area for cotton and so on is the Western Region. The vast area is full of cotton, with mechanized sowing, harvesting, etc."
Emperor Chongzhen was very excited after hearing this, but also a little confused and said: "Is it the Western Regions?"
The Western Regions, under his influence, should be a very desolate place. However, from Liu Weichao's description, it seems to be a place rich in products.
"That's right, it's the Western Region. It's a great place west of Jiayuguan!" Liu Weichao nodded and said, "But I don't know if the cotton you had at that time could be grown in the north. You can have someone try it.
.If we can, there will be enough cotton production areas."
At this point, he thought of something, and continued: "If it is not realistic for you to occupy the Western Region at this stage, the Hetao area that is closer can always be occupied first. It is also a fertile land.
Baotou is a place with big mines!"
Although Emperor Chongzhen didn't know where Baotou was, based on Liu Weichao's words, he probably guessed that it was also in the Hetao area, and he suddenly became excited.
Now that the border troops in Qin have been reorganized, and the Tumote tribe in Hetao is very weak, it is really a good time!