Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 449 A Good Place in the Western Regions

On New Year's Eve, Queen Zhou was not so serious.Besides, these days are getting easier, and naturally I feel a lot more comfortable.

Hearing Concubine Tian's suggestion, and seeing her daughter and others agreeing, she smiled and said, "I have no objection, but His Majesty has to make a decision on this matter!"

"Your Majesty will definitely agree!" Concubine Tian Gui immediately said with a smile when she heard this, "Let's make the show better, so that His Majesty can record it and send it to Liu Weichao, which will make His Majesty look good!"

Upon hearing this, Empress Zhou immediately began to think seriously. After all, this is a matter involving the face of the royal family. Dang even suggested: "If it is really going to be done, it must be prepared in advance. It is not only the younger sister who needs to prepare, but also Well, let Your Majesty make an order that all those with special talents should be invited to praise them. Liu Weichao must be amazed by concentrating the power of my Great Ming like this!"

Upon hearing this, Concubine Tian Gui immediately said happily: "It's still my sister who is thoughtful and will mention it to Your Majesty in a while. It's no problem to keep this matter!"

After speaking, she excitedly began to list some programs she could think of.Aimee Zhu and the others also participated in it with great interest.

They were chatting, and Emperor Chongzhen was still talking to Liu Weichao.

He said with a smile to Liu Weichao: "The hemispheric experiment, I ordered the people to pull it away the day before last. There are still 16 people, but they are all strong men. You know that the 100 two rewards will be removed in the end. After the silver, how much silver did you get in total?"

"How much?" Liu Weichao asked curiously after listening.

"You can't guess it!" Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile when he heard his question, "It's as much as five thousand 120 five taels!"

Speaking of this, he shook his head and sighed: "I heard it at the time, and I was really surprised! It was only ten pennies at the beginning, but I didn't expect that I could get so much money in the end!"

"It's not surprising at all!" Liu Weichao said to Emperor Chongzhen when he heard this, "You are actually in the nature of a lottery ticket, so you can make a lot of money!"

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned when he heard it, and asked with doubts: "What do you mean? What kind of lottery? Can you make a lot of money?"

He is absolutely sensitive when he hears about making a lot of money.

Hearing his question, Liu Weichao immediately thought of the character traits of Emperor Chongzhen, and explained with a smile: "The lottery is a kind of game with a small fortune. .For most people, the human heart is greedy, and they will imagine that they may have good luck and can exchange a small amount of money for a large amount of money."

After a pause, he continued: "You, you are just using their ignorance of atmospheric pressure to offer rewards. The lottery in our era is simply a game of money and money!"

"What money and money game? Tell me, let's hear it!" Emperor Chongzhen immediately asked after hearing it.

When Liu Weichao heard his questioning, he naturally would not stop talking, so he explained to him: "Ours is called a welfare lottery, that is to say, a lottery issued for a certain charitable purpose. For example, if I issue this lottery, How many schools will be used to build, how many orphans and widowed elderly will be funded, and then it will be scratched for you, lottery draws and the like. You can draw once for a penny. There may be nothing, or you may get two pennies. , ten Wen, or even 100 taels of silver."

Speaking of this, he saw Emperor Chongzhen was very surprised, so he continued: "Think about it, if I spend one penny, I may win 100 taels of silver, will many people try it?" What’s more, buying this lottery ticket is tantamount to doing good deeds, helping the imperial court to build more schools, subsidizing more widowed elderly, etc. Does that make it easier for people to buy this lottery ticket?”

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help nodding his head when he heard this, but he couldn't help asking in doubt: "But, can you make money in this way?"

Speaking of this, he quickly added: "This is somewhat different from mine. I can be sure that if there are fewer of them, they will never be separated!"

"You're stupid!" Liu Weichao laughed and scolded without even thinking about it, "You don't know how to calculate the probability in advance, this is a sure-fire thing!"

In this world, he is the only one who dares to talk to an emperor like this!

In other words, on Emperor Chongzhen's side, only Liu Weichao dared to talk to him like this.

Maybe it was because he knew that Liu Weichao didn't mean to curse people, or maybe he got used to Liu Weichao's way of speaking. After all, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about calling him stupid, but concentrated on the second half of the sentence. Asked: "What do you mean? What is the probability calculated in advance?"

"This is a mathematical concept!" Liu Weichao explained when he heard it, "For example, if you sell [-] lottery tickets and each lottery ticket costs [-] penny, then you can set the probability of winning the prize so that only one out of ten people will be able to win the lottery. If you win a lottery, the bonus is five pennies, eight pennies or something, so you can earn five or two pennies steadily? In short, the more people buy lottery tickets, the more money you can make selling lottery tickets!"

Emperor Chongzhen was very excited when he heard this, and immediately said: "This is good, then I can do it. I want to promote the way of science, starting with babies, especially the most basic pinyin literacy, etc. I have always wanted to do it. But it hasn’t really been done yet.”

Speaking of this, he said to Liu Weichao with that expression you know: "My money is now concentrated in the army and post-war reconstruction, and I don't care about these. If there is extra money, then I can also build more schools so that all school-age children, regardless of gender, can begin to read and write!"

Liu Weichao said that winning the lottery is tantamount to giving Emperor Chongzhen another way to make money, no wonder he is so excited.

When Liu Weichao heard that he was going to use it for this purpose, he was very supportive, so he said to him: "You can have this. But if you want to keep implementing it, you must do a good job of supervision to make everyone feel fair. There are many people who buy it this way." .I can design a lottery method for you to help you collect money for school.”

"Okay, okay, okay!" Emperor Chongzhen applauded repeatedly when he heard it. Seeing his overjoyed expression, he almost threw himself into his mobile phone to shake hands with Liu Weichao.Of course, if he can jump into the phone!
This is not a one-shot deal, according to Liu Weichao, it is a cornucopia.In this way, the funds for promoting the way of science and building more schools are guaranteed.

He was happy on his side, but Liu Weichao said to him: "Actually, you make money on the one hand, on the other hand, you still need to vigorously develop productivity so that Daming can produce more materials, this is the kingly way! "

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately thought of his future plans, and quickly said: "You are right, I just want to discuss this matter with you!"

"Oh?" Liu Weichao asked with a little curiosity when he heard it, "Say it!"

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen said to him: "I have already arranged the spinning machine and the shuttle, and there are enough people in the palace. I will purchase a lot of cotton and wool next year, but I am worried. This purchase will still not be enough!"

Hearing this, Liu Weichao laughed, and immediately said to Emperor Chongzhen: "According to your existing cotton and wool in the Ming Dynasty, after using the jenny spinning machine and shuttle, the production efficiency will be greatly improved, and the raw materials will definitely increase." It's not enough!"

After a pause, he went further: "This is actually easy to solve. You can let people grow a lot of cotton and raise sheep."

Speaking of this, thinking of the British sheep eating people in the past, he said to Emperor Chongzhen: "The existing cultivated land cannot be moved, and even the area of ​​cultivated land must be increased. At least you must ensure that you have enough food. Because you You know, after the world is peaceful, the population will definitely grow explosively, and you have to have enough food!"

"That's right, I definitely attach great importance to the matter of food!" Emperor Chongzhen nodded solemnly after hearing this, "Don't worry about this, I know it well!"

After hearing this, Liu Weichao reminded him: "As far as grain is concerned, in the south, rice is cropped three times a year. If you occupy the Nanyang side in the future, you can grow more grain there. And in the north, including the Yellow River The river basin, that is, the Hetao area, and the Western Regions, all plant cotton and raise sheep on a large scale, so it will not affect the existing ecological system of Daming."

Speaking of this, he added: "At least in my world, the main production area of ​​cotton and so on is the Western Regions. The boundless area is full of cotton, mechanized sowing, harvesting, etc."

Emperor Chongzhen was very excited when he heard this, but he also asked a little doubtfully, "Is it the Western Regions?"

Under his influence, the Western Regions should be a very barren place.However, according to Liu Weichao's description, it seems to be a place with rich products.

"That's right, it's the Western Regions, west of Jiayuguan, that's a good place!" Liu Weichao nodded and said after listening, "But I don't know if the cotton you had at that time could be planted in the north. You can ask someone to try it." .If you can, you can have enough cotton production."

Speaking of this, he thought of something, and then continued: "If it is not realistic for you to occupy the Western Regions at this stage, the Hetao area, which is closer, can always be occupied first. It is also a place with fertile land. Baotou is a place with big mines!"

Although Emperor Chongzhen didn't know where Baotou was, according to what Liu Weichao said, he probably guessed that it should also be in the Hetao area, and he was immediately excited.

Now that Qin's frontier army has been rectified, and the Tumote Department in Hetao is very weak, it's a good time!

(End of this chapter)