By the time Zhou Xu received the report, everything had already been dealt with.
He had clearly been prepared for this. In an era when technology was not yet so advanced, lotteries were far too easy to fake.
The people in the core regions of Great Zhou lived prosperous lives and were relatively simple-hearted. But over the years, Great Zhou had annexed too many countries, and all sorts of people had become mixed in among them.
The football lottery involved no small amount of profit. It was hard to guarantee that no one would try anything crooked.
Once counterfeit lottery tickets became rampant, they would not only suffer financial losses, but their government departments would also easily face a credibility crisis. He definitely had to guard against that first.
Holding the counterfeit lottery ticket in his hand, Zhou Xu examined it carefully.
It was actually quite obvious. The workmanship was extremely crude, and it was easy to tell that it was fake.
The key was that the workload was too great. In their pursuit of efficiency, the staff would not inspect each ticket too closely, making it easy for people to fish in troubled waters.
With that in mind, the solution Zhou Xu came up with was both simple and effective.
It was the seal stamped on the lottery ticket.
That was no ordinary seal, but a Mana Mark.
The Mana Mark was extremely simple. In nature, it was equivalent to pressing your fingerprint onto something. It could not even be considered a proper enchantment, and using it consumed so little mana that the cost was negligible.
Yet it possessed an extremely useful property: a person's Mana Mark was like their fingerprint. Only their own fingerprint could match it perfectly.
Thus, when a lottery ticket was sold, they would stamp