The money finally came! Xue Zhi’s eyes were bright: “I hope the principal can give me some advice!”
"I call this thing 'Chang'an Ticket'."
"What is a Chang'an ticket?"
Li Mu took out a piece of cardboard from his sleeve, handed it to Xue Zhi, and said, "This is exactly it."
Xue Zhi took it in his hand and looked at it carefully. It was just a piece of hard paper, and there was nothing strange about it. The principal called it 'Chang'an Ticket'. What's the point of this Chang'an Ticket?
Li Mu pressed his finger on the Chang'an ticket and rubbed it vigorously a few times. Something magical happened. A pattern appeared on the Chang'an ticket, which was the shape of a mouse.
"It's amazing!" Xue Zhi was dumbfounded. He picked up the Chang'an ticket and looked at it carefully. Even when he looked at the light, he couldn't tell how the mouse was drawn on it. There was no trace at all.
"This kind of ink is my latest invention. It will appear only when rubbed hard. I am the only one in the world who has mastered this formula, and no one can copy it." Li Mu flicked the piece of paper and said, "I
My plan is to use this ink to draw patterns on hard paper, like this mouse, or money, or even any shape. Different patterns correspond to different bonuses. Chang'an tickets are only issued in Chang'an, priced at ten cents each.
There are other awards: the first prize is one hundred essays, the second prize is ten essays, the third prize is one hundred essays, the fourth prize is one hundred essays, and the fifth prize is ten essays."
"Those who win the lottery will not lose any money, and their income may be ten thousand times as much. Those who don't win the lottery will not lose much money. They can only think of it as a donation to the Salesian Bureau. It is only ten coins, which is the effort of the coolies from the West City."
Batu won't feel bad. What do you think?"
"This..." Xue Zhi looked at Li Mu and thought to himself, has the Marquis lost his mind and gone crazy? Do you know that a hundred coins is ten thousand times more than ten coins? If you buy a Chang'an ticket, you can win a hundred coins and you will be compensated.
Losing 10,000 times the money at one time, is this really stupid?
"Master Hou, this seems inappropriate."
Li Mu looked at him: "What's wrong?"
"The students understand what the principal thinks. There are just a few issues. One is the issue of publicity -"
"There is Datang Daily. If you place an advertisement on it, everyone will know about it in a few days. Bai Guan is not a small fortuner to anyone. As long as there is one lucky person, the whole Chang'an will know the news in less than a day."
Li Mu looked at Xue Zhi and said, "With this 10,000-fold interest rate difference, how can anyone still come?"
"What the principal said is absolutely true, but there is still one problem." Xue Zhi was not suppressed by Li Mu's momentum and continued: "Chang'an City has a population of one million, spread over 108 squares. If this Chang'an ticket is sold, all
Use people from the Salesian Bureau to do it, as the Salesian Bureau simply doesn’t have that many manpower.”
"You can let the newspaper sellers do the selling as well, or you can set up an agent in each of the 108 squares. The problem can be easily solved."
"What about the redemption of prizes? How to solve the problem of redemption of prizes? Also, how many prizes are there? What if the sales are not good and we cannot make ends meet? Have these principals thought about it?"
"Of course I have thought about it." Li Mu explained: "When redeeming a prize, it must be safe. When redeeming a prize, make a cloth bag and put the person in it, leaving only a pair of eyes and a pair of nostrils to ensure safety.
No one can recognize it. The prizes are set up in ten-day units, and prizes are given three times a month. There is no need to worry about losing money in the lottery, Chang'an City has a population of one million, and there are many people who are willing to spend ten cents, and some are rich.
Master, you don’t have to buy just one piece. Assume that each issue can sell 100,000 pieces. Each piece costs ten cents, and the income is one thousand guan. From this thousand guan, after deducting 10% of the cost and 15% of the labor, there is still
Seven hundred and fifty guans. Among the 750 guans, I will take out one hundred guan first prize, ten ten guan second prizes, one hundred one hundred guan third prizes, one thousand hundred guan fourth prizes, and one
Ten thousand five-level prizes. This is only 500 guan, a net profit of 250 guan!"
"Three installments a month, that's seven hundred and fifty guan. This is just a way of playing, a conservative estimate. In the future, it is basically a certainty that you will earn 1,000 guan a month." Li Mu looked at Xue Zhi and said, "And you
Look, this Chang'an ticket has two sides. Only one side is needed to display the pattern, but what about the other side?"
Xue Zhi was not in vain at Datang Technical School. When he heard this, his eyes lit up and he said: "The students understand what the principal means. On the other hand, we can follow the example of Datang Daily and advertise!"
"Absolutely!" Li Mu's voice was full of confusion: "Think about it, only literate people buy Datang Daily. They buy it to know what happened in Chang'an City. This limits the number of customers.
, shopkeepers of nobles, students, traders, they will buy the Tang Dynasty Daily, but the traders and lackeys will not care about supporting their families. They are not interested and illiterate, so they will not buy it. But the Chang'an ticket is different. Who doesn't want to make a profit of ten thousand times?
It's not expensive. If you win, one hundred guan is enough to settle a family fortune. There will definitely be more people buying it. Each issue has 100,000 tickets, and there are only one million people in Chang'an City. In other words, on this Chang'an ticket
, the effect of printing your own advertisements is ten times or a hundred times better than that of Datang Daily!"
"We hold an auction for each issue, and the one with the highest price wins. The lowest estimate is that someone paid for the printing costs, isn't it? Isn't this a profit?"
Xue Zhi's eyes were already glowing with gold, and he kept nodding: "The principal really has a clever idea, it is really feasible-" Suddenly he was stunned, shook his head again, and said: "Principal, there is another question, let's sell these Chang'an tickets
, what if others follow suit?"
"Imitate?" Li Mu laughed and said: "I hope who can imitate it. The key to Chang'an ink is that others cannot imitate it. Only I can make this kind of ink. Others can imitate it as long as they have the ability.
, If there is such a talent, I don’t mind if he makes my money.”
Xue Zhi stared blankly at Li Mu, seeing the confidence radiating from his face, and his soul was taken away by it. This is the principal, what courage, how arrogant, how——
Suddenly, Li Mu's expression changed and he said fiercely, "I have already informed your majesty that you have ordered the Haizhi Yuan to legislate. All bills will be under the control of the bank. Anyone who makes private bills without the permission of the bank will be punished as treason."
Whoever dares to copy it will kill his whole family!"
Xue Zhi trembled with fright and said in a trembling voice: "Principal, is this a bit..."
"What the hell?" Li Mu glared at Xue Zhi and said, "These businessmen are only interested in profit! They have no ability to think of their own solutions and are just imitating me. I didn't care about them in the past, but how do they think about me? It won't happen in the future.
Come on, you have your own ideas. If you want to beg for food from behind me, there is no way! Besides, what are we earning this money for? Is it to put it into our own pockets? It is for the children.
Now! This is called charity, do you understand?"
Xue Zhi swallowed and thought to himself, that's what you said, but the principal you are using vulgar words now, you really don't see the meaning of charity at all, it's more like a rogue in the market.
"Chang'an tickets will be printed in a secret place. On the first, eleventh and twenty-first of each month, Mr. Chen from the West Factory will send someone to deliver them. Starting from the next day, they will be distributed to various shops for sale. The accounts will be straightened out and clear.
Don’t think about greed for money in your mind! Remember these five words, the more you accumulate, the less you gain!”
Leaving this paradoxical statement for Xue Zhi to ponder, Li Mu went to the front yard to talk to Zheng Guanyin and his daughter for a while, and then left from the Salesian Bureau.
I passed by Dongshi and bought two boxes of rouge, planning to take them home to Bai Qiaoqiao and Jin Chen. The two rouges were exactly the same, except that Bai Qiaoqiao's had an extra jade hairpin in it. Thinking of how much Bai Qiaoqiao saw in herself, I bought two boxes of rouge.
Li Mu also giggled when he thought that he might be happy when he was with Hosta. In fact, Bai Qiaoqiao never cared about this. She was just trying to make him happy, but isn't that what love is all about? Either crazy or stupid, or stupid together.
Silly, it's just a matter of life, not a calculation.
"parking!"
Suddenly he heard a scolding outside, and before the coachman could say anything, the iron whip came in like a snake. Li Mu quickly dodged to avoid it, but the carriage was damaged. When the whip was whipped back, the carriage was also taken with it.
The top is gone.
"Who is so bold as to ram into the Marquis of Luoyang's car?"
A group of officers patrolling the city happened to be passing by. When they saw what was happening, they immediately gathered around. They all raised their spears and pointed them at the perpetrators.
"stop!"
When Li Mu saw the whip, he knew who was coming. He quickly stuffed the two boxes of rouge under the seat, which delayed him for a moment and allowed the guards to surround him. He hurriedly came out of the carriage, and the guards saluted.
Li Mu stopped in front of the assailant's horse and said: "Everyone, don't get excited. This is my wife, the fourth wife that Ming Media is marrying. We and I are just having fun. Let's break up. Let's break up."
"Master Hou..." The leader was still worried. Li Mu took out a gold ingot from his arms and threw it over: "There is so much nonsense, hurry up and go have a drink with the brothers."
"Hey, thank you so much for the reward, Lord Marquis." A large ingot is worth ten taels of silver. They, the policemen patrolling the city, couldn't earn so much in two months. They didn't bother to ask, so they all bowed and left.
Li Mu turned around, looked at the woman dressed in red and opened her arms: "Madam, give me a hug?"
"Who is your wife!" Zhang Tianai glared at Li Mu and said, "Let me ask you, is that woman at home the one who kidnapped you and made you suffer so much?"
"Uh..." Li Mu laughed dryly and said, "Have you seen it before? Oops, it's a long story."
"Needless to say, I have already killed her!"
"Ah," Li Mu's heart skipped a beat, then he smiled again and said, "It doesn't matter, just kill him."
Zhang Tianai jumped off the horse: "Why are you indifferent? She is also your woman... Although, although she has no status, how can you be so ruthless and unjust? If I had known you were such a person, I would never like you!"
Li Mu reached out to hold Zhang Tianai's hand, but she dodged it. Li Mu reached out again and took her arm: "Then if I get angry with you, you still have to blame me. You blame both sides, what should I do?
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"Then you are heartless too."
"Oh, I'm not heartless. I know you are angry. How can I not understand my woman? You have a hard mouth and a soft heart. You know she is my woman and cares about my feelings. No matter how angry you are, you can't do anything.
Such a cruel thing happened." After saying this, he still said something in his heart. Of course he understands his woman, and he also understands Jin Chen. Jin Chen has now moved to the third level, even if his body skills are lacking.
If he can't beat Zhang Tianai, he can still run away. Besides, Qiaoqiao is here, how can they let the two of them fight.
Zhang Tianai didn't know what Li Mu was thinking, she just thought her lover was praising her, and felt happy in her heart. Seeing Li Mu's attitude of acknowledging the punishment, she lost most of her anger, put away the whip, and held his hand.
He said angrily: "You just took advantage of my temper and bullied me."
Suddenly, he saw many people around him looking over. His face turned red. He glanced at the broken-roofed carriage and tried to drag Li Mu into the carriage.
There are two boxes of rouge in the car! Zhang Tianai likes rouge the most!
Li Mu quickly grabbed her and said, "Madam, what are you afraid of? I want to tell all the people in Chang'an City to know you. We are not afraid to look. It's not far anyway. Let's walk back."
"This..." Zhang Tianai didn't expect that Li Mu would say this, and he was deeply moved. Thinking about it, she was the fourth wife he was marrying, so what should he be afraid of? Just watch it. At most, he can be said to be a bit aggressive, but he can compete with his own.
If your husband is aggressive, doesn't it mean that you are favored?
Thinking of this, Zhang Tianai no longer cared. He held Li Mu with one hand and the horse with the other, asking the carriage to follow behind, and strode towards Fengqiuhuang.
But Li Mu felt a little awkward. Zhang Tianai was walking so fast that he had to keep up. This reminded him of a poem by Xin Qiji, "Leading Huang on the left and Qingcang on the right. He happened to be on the left. The girl was hunting with a leopard."
Big yellow dog?
"Let's go? Why are you walking so slowly? Qiaoqiao told me to catch the wind and prepared some delicious food."
"Hey, let's go!"
Li Mu hurriedly took two steps, thinking, a big yellow dog is just a big yellow dog, why should he care about his wife?
After a while, they arrived at the door, and to Li Mu's surprise, Jin Chen stood at the door to greet him. Li Mu subconsciously glanced at Zhang Tianai's expression, which did not look angry, and understood in his heart that he had been set up. It was just the two of them.
How was the reconciliation achieved?
"When I said goodbye to you, I fled to Zhangjiaji and met Tian Ai once." Jin Chen whispered as we passed each other.
"Ah." Li Mu nodded and didn't ask any more questions. As long as everything was fine, it would be bad if he asked too many questions and caused trouble.
Just as he crossed the threshold, the coachman's voice sounded behind him: "Master Marquis, you forgot the rouge you bought for your wife!"
Li Mu instantly froze as if he had been stabbed on an acupuncture point. Jin Chen and Zhang Tianai looked at him simultaneously. Jin Chen did not speak, but Zhang Tianai frowned and said quietly: "My husband is so powerful. You guessed it."
I will come. I know I like rouge and have bought it in advance. I have to see what kind of rouge your husband bought me!"
Li Mu turned around and glared at the coachman, and said with a smile: "I bought it for Qiaoqiao."
"Oh, really?" Zhang Tianai had already turned out the rouge: "Qiaoqiao has never been very interested in rouge, gouache or anything like that, and has never asked for it. How could you think of it? Even if you buy it for Qiaoqiao,
Then there's no need to buy two copies of the same thing..." Seeing the uncontrollable affection in Jin Chen's eyes, she added: "Oh? It seems different, there is an extra hosta in this box!"