Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

Xu Youjia reacted quickly and immediately came to a conclusion:

"Your Majesty, even if we speed up the construction of this canal, it will take at least ten days to half a month to start. How can it be possible that the construction period will not be delayed as you said?"

Their investigation will not be wrong. Qin Ming is probably saying this now to temporarily stabilize them.

"It won't delay."

Qin Ming repeated it again.

"If you all feel that the court is short of money and that your own construction schedule is different from the one assigned to you, and therefore it is unfair, I can guarantee you now that the court will never be short of money."

Qin Ming's words were so decisive and coupled with his determined eyes, everyone didn't know how to argue with him for a moment.

Xu Youjia reacted more quickly.

"Your Majesty, if the construction of the imperial court will not be put on hold, then naturally neither will we. But how can you prove it?"

"No proof is needed. Just stay in the capital for three days."

Qin Ming turned his head and glanced at the street outside the window.

At this time, there were already several stalls set up on the street, all of which were run by people from the Lingnan Chamber of Commerce.

"It should have started already."

These words were incoherent and immediately made Xu Youjia and the others confused.

"Alright, that's it for today. After three days, you can all go back on your own. I won't mind."

Qin Ming's explanation did not solve the actual problem at all. He even left without giving them the promises he should have made.

Looking at his departing back, everyone felt puzzled.

The Liu family's envoy quickly asked Xu Youjia:

"What should we do? His Majesty has already left."

Xu Youjia pondered for a moment, then looked up and said:

"Didn't we say three days? Let's wait for him for three days. After all, the monk can run away but the temple cannot. If there is still no movement after three days, we will go back and stop working."

"Row."

With Queen Xu Youjia's promise to stop work, everyone nodded.

After walking out of the conference room, Xu Youjia waved and called over several guards.

"A few of you will go to the capital to gather intelligence and see what the imperial court has been doing these days?"

"Yes!"

Xu Youjia's intuition told him that Qin Ming was so confident now, he must have a backup plan.

Fortunately, I didn't get angry with Qin Ming just now.

In order to find out his true strength, Xu Youjia planned to give him three days to see what was going on.

After arranging everything, Xu Youjia left the Capital Chamber of Commerce and prepared to return to the inn where he lived.

As the young master of the Xu family, Xu Youjia has also eaten many delicacies from land and sea.

But when it comes to the real delicacies in the world, only what he eats in the capital can make him feel amazing.

This is mainly due to the Lingnan Restaurant.

Just like this time when he came to the capital, Xu Youjia came here because of its reputation, and was ready to find some new things that he had never eaten before to try.

But just when he had walked through a few streets, he suddenly found that the corner ahead was crowded with people.

"What are they doing?"

Confused, he turned and spoke to the guards.

There haven't been any special events in Beijing recently, so why are there so many people gathered on the streets?

"It seems like he's buying bills."

"Bills? Does the imperial court still have the courage to issue bills now?"

Xu Youjia came here fully prepared.

According to his understanding, the bills issued by the court now amount to tens of millions of taels of silver.

The issuance of so much silver has reached the limit. If it continues, the debt owed will be huge.

The dividends alone are a huge expense every year.

He didn't believe the court would continue to issue bills.

The subordinate scratched his head and said:

"Yes, the bills issued this time are not the original ones. Instead, they are a kind of luck-based bills called lottery tickets."

"Try your luck?"

"Yes, there are several. The first is the number selection method, and the second is the lottery method."

As they were talking, several guards pushed through the crowd and helped Xu Youjia squeeze to the front.

"You'll know if you try it."

"Ah."

Xu Youjia was also quite interested in this novel gadget.

He nodded slowly, then came to the front of the team.

The helper from the Lingnan Chamber of Commerce immediately greeted him warmly:

"Sir, do you want to choose a number or draw a lottery?"

“How do you play it?”

Xu Youjia listened to the descriptions of these helpers with great interest.

There is no need to say much about the lottery.

What he found very interesting was that there was a big box in front of him for the lottery.

There are said to be two hundred small balls in the box, with different numbers written on them.

There were prizes of one, five, and ten taels, but most of them were empty.

It’s thirty cents per time, whatever you touch counts, and you can settle the bill on the spot.

At first glance, the game seems fair.

But in fact, Qin Ming and his team applied the knowledge of probability theory. As long as the game is played enough times, the dealer will definitely make money.

"Let me touch it a few times."

Xu Youjia took out a few taels of silver and bought a few lottery tickets first.

Then the rest of them bought the number of times for the lottery in front of them.

"Please."

At their invitation, Xu Youjia reached out and touched a small ball.

"Congratulations! Two taels of silver!"

As the person counting the votes spoke loudly, many of the winners standing in front of other boxes around him all turned their eyes to Xu Youjia.

"This kid is really lucky."

"Hey, you know what, the chances of winning are really high. I made over thirty taels of silver this morning."

"You guys are so lucky! I lost seven taels of silver this morning."

"Go back and worship the God of Wealth. Your luck is really bad."

Because this lottery was quite fair, some people even earned dozens of taels of silver in just the morning, which made them extremely excited.

Xu Youjia was inspired by them. Seeing that everyone around him was congratulating him, he immediately became more interested.

After the worker here put the balls back and stirred them again, Xu Youjia reached out and took out a few more balls.

"Empty ball, empty ball, three taels... ten taels!"

"Congratulations, sir. You have directly earned fifteen taels of silver this time."

"Quite fast."

Xu Youjia took a deep breath, and a glimmer of light appeared in the eyes of several guards around him.

"Master, you are truly blessed by the God of Wealth!"

This fast-in-and-out gameplay quickly heated up the atmosphere.

Before he knew it, Xu Youjia had thrown in hundreds of taels of silver, and it was already evening.

"Okay everyone, we're done with the proofs today. Come play again tomorrow when you're free."

When Xu Youjia and several guards around him came to their senses, they suddenly found that the sky had darkened.

"Is it evening already...?"

Xu Youjia murmured to himself, but his mind was still lingering on the ball box.