After Tan Tianming's speech, most people present did not actually know his true identity. Many people are asking around to find out who this young man who stood up to speak is, who can stand up and speak on behalf of the Sing Tao official.
Of course, more people are still focusing on the lottery in front of them. Even if only one hundred final prizes are drawn today, it is still a huge gain for ordinary people. These people who came to the square early to queue up all hope that they can be lucky enough to be one of them.
At the end of the registration form filled out by each participant is a lottery ticket printed in advance, with the same number as the registration form. There are five boxes printed on the lottery ticket, corresponding to the five rounds of the lottery set this time. The last box will be cut off for each round of participation and stamped on the registration form as a record. If the stamp is not stamped, you will not be able to participate in subsequent rounds of draws.
After the lottery tickets were cut by the staff on site, they were immediately put into a lottery cage made of barbed wire next to them. The reason for using this method is to avoid being criticized for secret operations during the lottery process.
For every group of 100 people, a winning lottery number will be drawn and the prize will be announced and redeemed in public. Then empty the lottery cage and proceed to the next group of draws.
The lucky draw guest in the first group is naturally Tan Tianming, who organized the event on behalf of Xingdao.
At this time, the on-site registration activities were also suspended, and everyone's eyes were focused on the lottery cage. Tan Tianming stepped forward and first shook the crank outside the cage to make the cage rotate. One hundred lottery tickets were flying up and down in the cage, and it took a while before they stopped.
Tan Tianming opened the buckle on the cage, reached in and touched a random lottery ticket. Then he took a tin trumpet and read out the number printed on the ticket: "The winning number is... Ding Wu Chou San!"
Huo Dechuan next to him immediately repeated loudly: "Please check your numbers. Where is Ding Wu Chou San?"
After a while, someone in the crowd shouted: "I'm hit, I'm hit!"
Immediately, a middle-aged man squeezed to the front, waving his registration form in his hand, and shouted: "I stepped on dog poop today, and I knew I was lucky!"
After Tan Tianming personally verified that it was correct, he congratulated the winner and nodded to Huo Dechuan next to him.
Huo Dechuan banged the gong that he had prepared long ago and announced loudly: "Congratulations to this dear friend for winning the prize! The prize is five years of tax-free income from thirty acres of land in the Xingdao region. Please register to claim the prize!"
Although tax is exempted, if it is entrusted to the official operation of Sing Tao, the income will still have to deduct various basic costs, such as labor, seeds, natural losses, sales discounts, etc., and finally the actual income will be in the hands of the winner. Five scores is pretty good.
But no one would think about these minutiae things right now. The emergence of the first lottery winner immediately raised the excitement of the scene to another level. Almost everyone is thinking about how to use the wealth that fell from the sky if they win the lottery.
Even the other 99 participants in the first group who failed to win cannot be said to be very frustrated at this time, because they can still participate in the next round of draws and have the opportunity to win bigger prizes.
This round of bad luck may turn into the next round of luck.
Of course, this also means that they must continue to pay attention to this event, otherwise they will sigh with regret if they miss the next draw.
As the event progressed, more and more people came to the square. Fortunately, there were police and soldiers to help maintain order. Otherwise, it would be difficult to ensure that the lottery could proceed smoothly with thousands of people watching just relying on the manpower deployed by several dental shops.
Tan Tianming had already left the event site, but he didn't go too far. He found a teahouse next to Victory Square and kept a closer look. Huo Dechuan contacted several literati who wrote the manuscript for him, and it happened to take this time to meet and communicate.
Huo Dechuan originally recommended that Fu Qiqiang, who had wider connections, take the lead in this matter. However, Tan Tianming was extremely dissatisfied with Fu Qiqiang's repeated efforts to speak out for the Portuguese and was unwilling to invest too much in Fu Qiqiang, so Huo Dechuan had no choice but to find another one. Some literati were hired to work for Tan Tianming.
These literati were not as famous as Fu Qi, but they were also regular readers of articles published in various newspapers. As long as Tan Tianming was willing to spend money, he could get a few articles published in newspapers.
Tan Tianming’s requirements are also very clear. The first is to introduce the many contributions of Xingdao to the country to the domestic people in conjunction with this event; the second is to show the competitive pressure that Xingdao faces in the South China Sea, and use this to win The support of domestic people; the third is to publicize the favorable treatment of settling in Xingdao, and take this opportunity to attract more people to actively immigrate to Xingdao.
Of course, if you want to cast this publicity net and achieve greater coverage, you will definitely have to spend a lot of money. Calculating the maintenance fees for these pens and the management fees from various channels, the expenses will probably not be much worse than the one hundred prizes drawn today.
It is probably impossible to make up for all the debt incurred in the previous twenty years at once, but Tan Tianming firmly believes that after this one-shot combo is completed, it will definitely change the internal publicity field of Sing Tao for a long time. weak situation.
Especially when other countries guide public opinion and deliberately slander this kind of situation, after this battle, it should not happen as frequently as before.
After the matter was discussed, Tan Tianming originally wanted to treat these scholars to a meal and build some friendship, but at this time an officer came directly to him and asked him to go to Fort Victory immediately.
Tan Tianming couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, whether it was because the battle he created was too big and some big shot was dissatisfied with it. He did not dare to neglect, so he could only put down what he was doing and follow the officer to Fort Victory.
Tan Tianming really didn't expect that it would be Ning Qi and Tao Donglai, two senior officials, who summoned him.
"Do you know why I came to you?" Ning Qi asked first.
Tan Tianming responded: "The two adults have many things to do, and they took the time to summon the juniors. It must be related to today's lottery."
Ning Qi nodded and said: "The planning and organization of the event are well done, the young people are awesome!"
Tan Tianming couldn't help but feel a little ashamed when he heard the praise, and he quickly said a few words of humility.
There are specialties in the industry, and he only plays the role of funding and making decisions. The people who are really busy in the middle are actually those people from Huo Dechuan and Yaxing.
If you really want him to organize and implement this event, it's really hard to know where to start. If you are not careful, you will mess things up.
However, he could also guess that Ning Qi and Tao Donglai had summoned him specially, probably not just to praise them in person.