Beginning on December 18, a major event named "Christmas Carnival" began to spread the word in Washington.
Almost overnight, "Christmas Carnival" posters covered the streets of Washington.
Before the Civil War, Washington was a small city inhabited by only a few thousand people, but after the Civil War, Washington officially became the political center of the United States, and Washington's population increased rapidly and dramatically, to more than 50,000 people today.
In the history of the United States, during Grant's tenure, the US government was most famous for all kinds of extravagance and waste, and the US government paid $200,000 for this national shooting competition organized by the National Rifle Association.
Of course, it was not possible to spend all of this money on the shooting competition, and given the level of bureaucratic corruption at the time, it would be nice to spend half of it on the competition itself.
Washington is a standard political center, and for most of its residents are working for the federal government, which pays them a decent salary, as well as a lot of benefits, so the purchasing power of Washington residents is still good, and every household has a little money.
Li Mu's goal is to let these 50,000 people in Washington know about the "Christmas Carnival" and participate in the "Christmas Carnival" as much as possible.
"Christmas carnival feast" is indeed a gimmick, Li Mu in order to attract people's ideas, a total of ten first prizes, the prize is a four-wheeled carriage including two quart horses, the unit price is more than 1,500 US dollars, in addition, there are bits and pieces of other prizes, the total value of more than 20,000 US dollars, and the price of a lottery ticket is 20 cents, with 20 cents to win 1,500 US dollars, this gimmick is still more tempting.
On December 24th, Christmas Eve, the sale of welfare lottery tickets officially began.
Prior to this, Li Muming set up a huge stage near the Washington Monument, on which a team of performers urgently invited from New York were to perform on this public stage for a week to stimulate lottery ticket sales.
Throughout the venue, more than 20 blonde beauties dressed in bunny girl costumes roamed around and sold, and those who wanted to buy lottery tickets only had to wave and a bunny girl would come and offer their services immediately.
Each bunny girl has two armed security guards in charge of security work, and if anyone has bad intentions, then they must be weighed first, and the hundreds of police and militia around the venue are not vegetarians.
The overwhelming publicity still worked, and the crowd began to gather near the Washington Monument at 8 o'clock in the morning, and by 10 o'clock in the morning, the crowd had reached tens of thousands of people.
"How is the preparation of the repertory troupe, when it is ready, it will be on" Li Mu supervised the stage backstage, he also has a desk here, and all the instructions are issued from here.
It's still a bit rushed, the accident is inevitable, the original performance team on the first day is a circus, but the lion of the circus absconded last night, and the organizing committee and the circus members dispatched hundreds of people and did not find it, so it was temporarily replaced by a repertory troupe today.
"Sir, please think about it again, the equipment on site is not perfect, and we can't achieve the expected results when performing in this environment."
The head of the repertory troupe was still begging at Li Mu's desk.
It's already December, the weather is quite cold, it has been snowing for the past few days, and although it is already 10 o'clock in the morning, the temperature is still below freezing.
It's true that the equipment is not perfect, there is not even basic amplification equipment, if it is a circus, then the audience may still be interested, but if it is a drama I'm sorry, I guess the audience can't hear the lines clearly.
"Don't worry about the effect, today you are just a supporting role, the protagonists are those carriages on the stage" Li Mu is not worried about the effect, the people on the scene are not braving the cold to go out of the house to gather here for the sake of watching the drama, the ten golden four-wheeled carriages on the stage are the protagonists today.
"Okay sir, as you wish" The head of the repertory troupe had no choice but to do as Li Mu requested.
"Tony, did I arrange for the person you found to be in place, don't go wrong, if something goes wrong here, then your dividends will be gone" Li Mu couldn't sit still in the chair, stood up and walked around to move his body, it was really cold.
"Don't worry, Ream, it's all arranged, but Ream, are you sure that the carriage belongs to me" Tony still felt unbelievable, but he ran with Li Mu for a few days, and Tony felt that the reward given by Li Mu was too generous.
"That's right, that carriage is yours, but make it clear, if you find someone to steal the carriage, then I'm not responsible."
Li Mu smiled weirdly, from the very beginning, Li Mu had found the owner of the ten carriages, there was no first prize in those lottery tickets on the spot, and there was no way to win 1,500 dollars with twenty cents with the normal procedure.
"Don't worry, Li Mu, I tied that kid's family in the living room, poured kerosene on his body, if he dares to run, I will invite him to eat barbecue meat" Tony grinned, his mouth full of white teeth was very eerie.
Li Mu couldn't stand it, so he simply didn't look at Tony's face distorted by excitement, and focused on the venue in front of the stage.
Maybe Americans are not used to the "lottery" this new thing, the purchase situation on the scene is not hot, only sporadic Americans buy, and there is no big prize, the prizes are some daily necessities, bed sheets and quilts are covered with pots and pans or something, it looks a little tepid.
Li Mu is not in a hurry, the big drama will be staged soon, and Li Mu is looking forward to it.
Soon, around eleven o'clock, a young man in a shabby cotton jacket suddenly exclaimed after buying a lottery ticket: "Oh God, look what this is I did, I did it" This scene immediately aroused the minds of others, and the blonde beauty in the bunny girl costume carefully looked at the lottery ticket in the young man's hand, covered her mouth with surprise and exclaimed, and then invited the young man to the stage.
The drama that was going on on the stage came to an abrupt end, and the host from New York held a tin horn to give a brief interview to the young people, asking them to talk about their feelings.
"I felt normal, well, normal, and from the beginning I believed that if I insisted on buying it, then there would definitely be one of those carriages that belonged to me" The young man spoke eloquently, without the slightest stage fright.
While the interview was going on stage, the off-stage sales finally started to boom
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