Jinyi champion

Chapter 617
The teahouse where Yang Shen, Zhu Hao and Yu Chengxun are located.

After the auction starts.

The three people standing at the window on the second floor stopped talking and watched the bidding process with bated breath. Unexpectedly, after Tang Yin showed the reserve price, no one bid in the square below for half a day.

Yu Chengxun laughed: "Your Majesty still intends to participate in the competition even though you know that the auction is for a coal kiln belonging to a foreign relative. Who would be so idle as to cause trouble for the family? They are all waiting and watching."

Zhu Hao said: "There will always be someone who will come out to bid, right? Maybe those people don't know the rules well yet, and they want others to be the first bird."

Yang Shen thought for a while, although Yu Chengxun's words were not unreasonable, but obviously Zhu Hao understood the essence of the matter... It doesn't matter if others don't come out to bid, at least the emperor and Yang Ting and the merchants he found will definitely participate in the auction.

"Twenty thousand taels of silver!"

While everyone was looking around, someone in the crowded crowd finally raised his hand and shouted.

Yang Shen cast his eyes immediately, but he didn't know whether it was Huizhou merchants or Shanxi merchants, and he didn't know which one the next bidder belonged to.

Tang Yin frowned, and said loudly: "Okay, someone bids [-] taels, who else bids?"

Someone started it, so let's talk about it.

"Twenty-one thousand taels..."

"Twenty-three thousand taels..."

"Twenty-four thousand taels..."

The bids continued to rise until someone called out the figure of [-] taels before the scene quieted down again.

For most people, [-] taels of silver is already an astronomical figure. Unless they really want to start a mine and feel that they can make a lot of money from it, and they must have a solid background to support them, otherwise they will not participate in the competition .

"Thirty taels, is there anyone else bidding?"

Tang Yin continued to shout loudly.

Yu Chengxun pointed to the merchant below who was asking for "[-] taels", and hesitantly said: "That person... seems to be the steward of the residence of Marquis Qingyun and Uncle Changning?"

Both Marquis Qingyun and Uncle Changning came from the Zhou family.

Empress Dowager Zhou was the mother of Emperor Xianzong, and Emperor Hongzhi was taken care of by this grandma when he was young, so that the two relatives of the Zhou family have always been the core figures of the nobles in the capital since the Chenghua Dynasty. The Zhang family challenged, and even the large-scale fighting incident did not suffer, and the Zhou family was the only two.

Right now, Hou Qingyun Zhou Ying and Changning Bo Zhou Dajing are both grandchildren of the Empress Dowager Zhou, but the Empress Dowager Zhou passed away in the seventeenth year of Hongzhi. After the Zhengde Dynasty, the Zhou family now lacks a strong support in front of the new emperor.

Participating in this bidding for coal kilns, the Zhou family wanted to slap their competitors in the face.

Aren't your Zhang family brothers very capable?

In the past, when you were strong and strong, our Zhou family was not afraid!Now that you have been plucked out of your wings by the new emperor, and you are disgraced, our Zhou family will buy your coal mine back and operate it to see what you can do to us.

"It's lively now."

Yu Chengxun was delighted to see it, and hoped that this auction would be a dog-eat-dog show.

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Not only Yu Chengxun who found the Zhou family upstairs, but also Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling who were hiding in the crowd.

"Wow, I'm so angry, the coal kiln with the largest output in Xishan before, the surname Zhou wanted to snatch it from me, I finally hired people from the green forest to take it, this time they actually want to fish in troubled waters... Hmph, If you want to take over our coal mine at [-] taels, are you looking for death? Hurry up and ask someone to bid, we must not let them succeed!"

After Zhang Heling found out that his relatives, Zhou's family, had come forward to make trouble, he was immediately furious.

This loss must not be eaten!
Jiang Lun also belonged to the type of fanning the flames. He winked at a merchant not far away who had invited him to ask for a price. The merchant understood it and immediately raised his hand: "Thirty-one thousand taels."

"Forty thousand taels!"

The Zhou family bid again.

"Kill him!"

This time Zhang Yanling couldn't bear it anymore, if it wasn't because he didn't bring many servants with him when he left the Marquis's Mansion this time, he would have rushed to fight with the other party now.

Tang Yin on the stage said: "Okay, [-] taels, someone has called for [-] taels, is there any bid?"

"Crush him to death!"

Zhang Heling said arrogantly.

Jiang Lun said with a smile: "Two Marquises, please be safe and don't be impatient. Their high price is tantamount to giving you money. Why are you nervous?"

The Zhang family brothers thought about it after hearing the words, yes, we are not at a disadvantage anyway, so we couldn't help but look at each other, as if seeing white money in each other's eyes.

"Forty-one thousand taels."

Before Jiang Lun's men could bid, Shanxi merchants finally made their bid.

The people present were actually very secretive about the news. At this time, merchants gathered, and they could not determine who the bidder was. In short, each of them followed the established strategy and bid at a price that they could bear psychologically.

Zhang Yanling grinned: "Does this mean that we are going to get rich?"

Zhang Heling scolded: "Second brother, have you never seen silver or something? You can get rich with only a few tens of thousands of taels? It is said that the market price of the coal mine is worth [-] taels, and it will be a loss if you don't sell it for [-] taels. "

Jiang Lun looked over with disdainful eyes.

How about two hundred thousand taels, why not say one million taels?
Are you brothers crazy about money?

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Subsequent auctions are gradually on the right track.

The bidders from all parties were basically very restrained. Even the Zhou family stopped participating in the auction when they reached [-] taels.

And the one who overwhelmed the Zhou family by offering a high price was the Shanxi merchant who called out [-] taels.

"It seems almost there."

Seeing this scene, Yu Chengxun also saw that no one was asking for a price for a long time, so he said something to Yang Shen.

Yang Shen frowned slightly: "It can't be so easy, can it?"

Now Yang Shen has figured out who is on his own side, but he is very unfamiliar with other merchants who are calling for prices, let alone who was introduced by the emperor.

"Seventy thousand taels!"

Someone broke the silence again, but it was a new face, not familiar to those present.

In fact, this person was arranged by Zhang Heling again.

Zhang Heling couldn't help it. Seeing that the coal kiln he expected to sell for [-] taels was about to be taken away by someone for [-] taels, he was naturally unwilling. Despite Jiang Lun's strong objections, he still asked for a bid.

"Seventy-one thousand taels..."

"Eighty thousand taels!"

This sudden bidding method really made the Shanxi merchants participating in the auction unbearable.

The value of [-] taels obviously exceeded the mental capacity of Shanxi merchants.

Zhu Hao, who watched coldly, was like a bright mirror. Although the Zhang brothers hid in the crowd and did not show up, with their greed, they couldn't calm down at all, and they would definitely come out to make trouble.

That's fine, it's just a chance to try Yang Tinghe's determination and Shanxi merchants' loyalty.

If only [-] to [-] taels of silver are used to win the coal mine, Shanxi merchants can still take advantage of it, but [-] taels is definitely more than the value of the coal mine itself, and there is a huge risk.

The question now is if no one came out to fight, wouldn't Yang Tinghe doubt it?
The Zhang family brothers took the initiative to raise the price, which is much better than the emperor's people.

If it is ruined, that is the problem of the Zhang family brothers themselves, and there is no need to use the money from the inner palace... Who is to blame if you Zhang family brothers don't want the auction to be successful?

Will these coal kilns be put up for auction next time?
No need!
Just seal it there and see who loses the most!

For Zhu Hao, today's good show is yet to come.

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"Eighty-one thousand taels."

Shanxi merchants gritted their teeth and bid again.

This is almost the limit they can bear.

Even if someone offered another one thousand taels, they would resolutely refuse to follow. Even if they wanted to make a political contribution to Yang Tinghe, there must be a limit, and the loss of twenty thousand taels was already the limit.

Zhang Heling was about to ask people to continue bidding, but was stopped by Lu Song who rushed over.

"It's you?"

Zhang Heling glared at Lu Song who was holding his hand tightly. He had seen this Jinyiwei Qianhu in Shouninghou's mansion before, and knew that the other party was from Xingwang's mansion, so he asked sternly.

Jiang Lun hastened to persuade: "Shou Ninghou, don't bid anymore, if you raise the price again, it will exceed the value of the coal mine itself, no one will be taken advantage of!"

"If you don't come out, don't come out, I thought the Marquis was afraid of them..."

Zhang Yanling still wanted to persevere.

Lu Song said with a straight face: "Your Majesty has orders, don't bid!"

The Zhang brothers didn't listen.

"Where is His Majesty?"

Zhang Yanling looked around and asked.

Lu Song said: "I have no way to tell you, but please restrain yourself, the two princes."

The Zhang family brothers really wanted to make another bid, but they were a little apprehensive, completely offending the emperor, and were stunned for a moment.

Tang Yin on the stage seemed to feel that he couldn't delay any longer. According to Zhu Hao's established arrangement, he made the final countdown: "... If no one bids again, it will be [-] taels. Once, twice...deal! Bring someone up!"

At the scene, Jin Yiwei had already stepped forward to lead people to prevent people from making trouble. After bidding, he turned around and ran away.

Today is the first time to hold an auction, and the preparation is not enough. If we hold this kind of auction in the future, we must be fully prepared. Number plate or something... Right now, that's the only way to be informal.

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"ended."

Yu Chengxun smiled and said, "Eighty-one thousand taels, pretty good."

Yang Shen nodded.

He was wondering in his heart whether the person who shouted [-] taels and [-] taels in succession before was sent by the emperor.

Why didn't the other party persevere at the critical moment?
Zhu Hao asked with a smile, "Brother Yongxiu, do you think there is anything wrong?"

Yang Shen looked at Yu Chengxun who also looked at him with a puzzled expression, and seemed to feel that there was no outsider at the scene, and sighed: "In fact, the money that the inner government can dispatch is at most [-] taels."

Yu Chengxun suddenly realized: "Doesn't this just mean that His Majesty wanted to buy the coal mine, but found that he couldn't do it...haha."

"I'm afraid it's not that simple."

Yang Shen always felt that something was wrong.

Especially seeing that the square below is still crowded with people, and they have not dispersed.

"There are a group of people over there... they are clearly merchants. They gathered here. They thought they would stand up and compete, but no one would have thought that there was not a single bidder. Now that the auction is over, they are not in a hurry to leave..."

Yang Shen pointed to a group of people at the edge of the square.

At this time, the situation in the square changed again.

Tang Yin asked the Shanxi merchant who won the coal mine to enter the armor factory to apply for a "mining license", but he himself picked up the loudspeaker and shouted:
"Everyone, there is also a coal mine here, which was explored by the official with people after the year. The reserves are extremely rich and have not yet been formally mined. Due to the use of advanced technology provided by the imperial court and the investment in early exploration, this coal mine will be produced in the future. Twenty percent of the coal produced will be handed over to the imperial court..."

"what?"

The merchants who were about to leave without knowing it were shocked when they heard it.

Is there such a thing that sells mines?
Why don't you go and grab it?

Someone immediately questioned: "Didn't it be good to sell a few coal mines in Xishan today, why sell other mines?"

Tang Yindao: "The coal kiln that will be auctioned is also in Xishan, but it is different from the previous Cheng kiln, because only one will be auctioned each time, so the starting price will not be too high, so the starting price is five thousand taels of silver. It's a price increase of one thousand taels of silver."

Many people present looked at each other in blank dismay.

A broken coal kiln has just been explored and can't produce coal yet, so dare to put it up for auction?

Do you really think we are being taken advantage of?

But Yang Shen upstairs felt that something was wrong: "It's broken, it's broken. Your Majesty's move may not be to sell the coal mine of Zhang's relatives, but to have other plans."

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