I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

Jiang Yuan blinked his eyes, and without blushing or beating his heart, he spoke again: "Dudou, is there any problem?"

Li Hu looked Jiang Yuan up and down, looked at the bellyband in his hand with disdain, and said incoherently: "You, you, what can I say to you!"

"You're getting engaged to Bai Wei soon. Even if you want to take a concubine, you have to tell someone."

"It would be fine if you didn't say anything, but why did you go looking for a married man?"

Kong Xuan also nodded solemnly: "Sir, what Li Hu said makes sense. We have a grudge against Long Guangxian. It's okay for you to beat him and scold him."

"But we in the underworld all believe in not letting our families suffer any harm. This matter was indeed a bit dishonest of you."

Jiang Yuan looked at them with a frown on his face: "What the hell are you thinking? Am I that kind of person?"

"It's very similar."

"Yes."

Kong Xuan and Li Hu spoke without hesitation.

Jiang Yuan took a deep breath, then took the bellyband and pointed at it, saying, "Open your eyes wide and look carefully. This is inlaid with cat's eye. Do you know what cat's eye is?"

"Just a few cat's eyes can be sold for at least several thousand taels of silver."

"Besides, I asked Long Guangxian about this thing. Because it's quite expensive, his wife has never worn it once. Do you understand?"

"Oh, I see. I misunderstood you, sir." Li Hu said, and took the bellyband back directly, looking at the cat's eye stone above in amazement.

How can just these few things be worth so much silver?

Based on my salary, I can never afford this bellyband in my lifetime!

"Okay, pick it up first. We'll entrust it to the Chamber of Commerce for auction later. Let's get everything ready. Our Taiping Lottery will be open tomorrow."

"Everyone, get out and hand out flyers!"

"Immediately, immediately, set off!"

After Jiang Yuan finished his words, he immediately asked Li Hu to hang lanterns at the door of Taiping Lottery. Soon, the workers who were hiding outside rushed back.

"Then the four of you will be responsible for distributing the maps at the four city gates. The rest of you will each take a map and distribute it door to door on the streets."

Soon, only Jiang Yuan and his four companions were left in the store.

"Sir, how can I help?" Li Hu rubbed his hands excitedly. It has been more than a month, and it is finally time to earn money.

"You? Just sit back and do nothing."

After Jiang Yuan finished speaking, he simply put a few chairs together and lay down. It wasn't just Long Guangxian who didn't get enough rest these days. As someone who worked too hard, he also woke up every once in a while, and his condition wasn't much better either.

While Jiang Yuan was sleeping, the Taiping Lottery was spreading in Caiyun City at an exaggerated speed.

Most people knew that such a store would open tomorrow, and that by spending only a hundred coins, they would have a chance to win the grand prize of one hundred taels of silver.

Even though most people who see the flyer don't believe it, the gap is really too big.

One tael of silver can be exchanged for one thousand copper coins. How many copper coins would be needed to exchange for one hundred taels? Only a fool would do such a thing.

But this did not affect the continued fermentation of Taiping Lottery in Caiyun City. Many people were already standing in front of the Taiping Lottery store and discussing it.

Jiang Yuan, who was completely unaware of all this, was still asleep. When he woke up, it was already the next morning.

By the time Jiang Yuan finished washing up, Wang Gang had already brought breakfast to the table.

"Master, those two generals are already waiting outside the door. I asked them to come in, but they insisted on waiting for you to speak."

"Ha! You're quite sensible." Jiang Yuan sneered and nodded towards the door, signaling Wang Gang to let the two in.

After a while, Long Guangxian, who was refreshed after a night's rest, brought Wang Kuo into the store.

"Mr. Jiang."

"Well, have you eaten? Let's eat together?" Jiang Yuan said with a smile.

These two people are the local bosses of Caiyun City after all, so it is beneficial to have good relations with them. As the saying goes, kindness and power should be used together. The power has been used, and now we have to show some kindness.

"We have already eaten, thank you for your kindness, sir." Long Guangxian said a little stiffly.

This guy is someone that even the adult said is not easy to mess with. It's not shameful to behave yourself in front of him.

"Okay, do you know why I called you here today?" Jiang Yuan said slowly after drinking a mouthful of porridge.

"I know. We delayed Mr. Jiang's opening of the business, so this little money is our small token of appreciation." As Long Guangxian said this, Wang Kuo beside him hurriedly took out a stack of banknotes from his arms and put them on the table.

Jiang Yuan looked up and saw that there should be about 100,000 taels of silver.

"Well, as long as the thought is there, I won't accept the money."

"Sir, we will compensate you later." Long Guangxian said quickly.

Jiang Yuan waved his hand: "Alright, I said I don't want it, so I don't want it. Take back the compensation and everything. I called you here this time to give you two a little benefit."

"Benefits?" Long Guangxian was a little confused. It would be fine if he didn't ask for compensation, but could he get any benefits?

Is this the same guy who was rummaging through the drawers in the general's mansion a few days ago looking for someone related to the imperial edict?

Why the hell am I so unconvinced?

"Well, I've been delayed for so long, so I have to go back in a few days. But the store isn't stable yet, so I'd like you two to join me, each taking half of the profits. How do you think?"

Long Guangxian immediately understood that they wanted to use his name to do business. But this was also a good thing. If the business grew bigger, he would indeed make money.

"If Master Jiang says anything, we will definitely obey. But since we have already joined, how about these banknotes be considered as our capital?" Long Guangxian whispered.

Jiang Yuan nodded. Now that things had come to this, it would be a bit pretentious to refuse it anymore.

"No problem. Since you can be a shareholder, there should be no problem for you to help promote our store, right?" Jiang Yuan put down the spoon in his hand and wiped his mouth with a handkerchief.

"You are right, sir. This is of course no problem, but we two have no business experience, so please explain in detail."

Jiang Yuan smiled and wiped his hands slowly.

"Okay, okay, you two, let's just do this..."

After a moment, Long Guangxian nodded with a strange expression: "I understand. I will do as you ordered. Wang Kuo, go quickly."

"Yes." Wang Kuo responded and quickly turned around and ran out of the store.

Not long after, as the ground shook, a large number of soldiers stopped at the Taiping Lottery Shop.

"General, Young Master, everything has been done as you instructed. When do we begin?"

Jiang Yuan waved his hand: "No need to wait, just start now."

After saying that, Jiang Yuan reached out and called Wang Kuo, who was about to turn around and leave, and casually took out a silver note with a face value of one thousand taels from the table.

"Give it to your men to drink as tea to moisten their throats."

"Thank you, sir." Wang Kuo agreed immediately. After going through so many things with Jiang Yuan, he had figured out Jiang Yuan's style of doing things. He didn't like to drag things out, so since he had given it to him, he would just take it honestly.

Not long after Wang Kuo walked out of the store, a deafening roar came from outside.

“Buy Taiping Lottery and enjoy a life of sudden wealth!”