Li Shimin

Chapter 429 An Interlude at the Auction
"Your Majesty, those people from the family exchanged [-] mu of land with those farmers near Jinwang Lijiazhuang, and gave it to Jinwang. They asked Jinwang to forgive and agreed to auction liquor, one hundred bottles at a time. !"

Li Xiaogong said.

"What's the joy in this matter?"

Li Shimin was a little depressed. He had been greedy for the liquor in Li Family Manor so many times. If Li Xuan sold more bottles, he would get one less!
"Returning to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Jin is asking those aristocrats to use grain for the auction this time, and it is new grain!"

Li Xiaogong hurriedly reported.

"Auctioning liquor with grain?"

This time, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and the others were all shocked, and then they were overjoyed.

Although the grain that Li Xuan auctioned off with liquor did not belong to the imperial court.

However, in the end, who can say for sure.

"How soon will the liquor auction start?"

Li Shimin asked quickly.

"Return to Your Majesty, according to the time, it should be five days later!"

After thinking for a moment, Li Xiaogong quickly replied.

"So, those aristocratic families are starting to transport food to Chang'an City again?"

Li Shimin murmured.

"Your Majesty is wise, according to the news I found, the families in Hedong, Henan, and Jiangnan have already started to deliver food to Chang'an City!" Li Xiaogong said.

"Hahaha, Xuan Ba ​​has made another contribution to Tang!"

Li Shimin was overjoyed.

Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others also nodded with joy on their faces.

But Li Xuan didn't know that Li Shimin had already started to sell the food he had auctioned off the liquor.

At this moment, he, Cheng Chusi and the others were riding horses around his newly acquired [-] mu of land.

Li Xuan finally realized Tian Duo's happiness!

Fifteen thousand mu, five times the size of his Li Family Village.

Looking around, there is no end in sight.

After riding a horse for a whole afternoon, Li Xuancai walked around his family's [-] mu of fertile land.

"Housekeeper, let those households make more cement and small stones during the winter break!"

Standing on the bank of the fast-flowing Ju River, Li Xuan ordered.

"May I ask my lord, the production of these cements is to build cement houses for these newly added households?"

Li Chang asked.

"houses?"

Hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help being startled.

Seeing this, Li Chang was also shocked, "It's the villain who misunderstood the king!"

200 mu, at least more than [-] new farmers have been added.

If they are all built into concrete houses, it will cost more than 6000 or even [-] guan.

"It doesn't matter, this king originally wanted to build a dam for the Juhe River, dig ditches, and build a reservoir to prevent severe drought, so as to water these fields in a sudden, but this king neglected these new households. us."

Li Xuan chuckled, and continued: "Although these households are newcomers, they should be like the households in Lijiazhuang. They all have houses, and the children of the households can come to Lijiazhuang's school to study!"

"Your Majesty is merciful!"

After hearing this, Li Chang was overjoyed, "The villain will arrange it now!"

"Ok!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly, then walked aside.

In the next few days, Lijiazhuang did not change much because of the newly added [-] mu of fertile land.

Is it just some farmers who come to Li Chang every day and want to share more fields.

For one mu of land, they can get at least two stones of grain every year.

Then, in the private school in Lijiazhuang, there were more than 100 school-age children again, and occasionally some young and strong farmers came to learn to read.

Li Chang will be in charge of all these, and will not have any influence on Li Xuan.

Soon, it was the day of the liquor auction.

The Jinwang teahouse on Zhuque Street was overcrowded at first, but they were all from aristocratic families.

The lobby on the first floor of the teahouse has already been set up by the shopkeeper of the teahouse as a standard auction venue according to the previous method.

The stewards of the aristocratic families sat on the table expectantly, staring closely at the [-] bottles of liquor neatly placed on the auction stage.

Even some people from aristocratic families are still swallowing saliva looking at the liquor.

And on the third floor, there was another familiar scene.

When Li Xuan came up with Cheng Chusi and others, he saw Li Shimin leading Fang Xuanling and others, sitting there with a cup of tea in each hand, very leisurely.

"Meet Your Majesty!" "I have met Your Majesty, I have met Aye!" "I have met King Jin!"

After meeting each other, we haven't said much yet.

Li Chang below started the auction according to the estimated speed of Li Xuan going upstairs in his heart.

"My lords, today's King Jin Baijiu auction starts now, the first batch of a bottle of baijiu, and ten stones of grain will be auctioned!"

"Twelve stones!"

"Fifteen stone!"

"Twenty stone..."

In the end, a family used 26 shi of grain to auction off the first bottle of baijiu, which is equivalent to thirteen guan!

However, Li Xuan, Li Shimin and others who were sitting on the third floor watching were very satisfied.

In terms of value, the 26 stones of grain are much more valuable than the thirteen strings of grain.

Afterwards, the second batch of liquor, two bottles, was sold for fifty shi.

The third batch of liquor, three bottles, and 65 shi grains were sold.

The fourth batch of liquor, four bottles...

There was a joint bid by an aristocratic family, and after calling forty shi, no one bid again, so the old man in civilian clothes sitting in a corner looked at it for a while, then stood up and bid for ninety shi. With a look on his face, he took pictures of the four bottles of liquor.

The fifth batch of baijiu, five bottles, was also offered by aristocratic families. After the bidding reached [-] shi, the old man in civilian clothes stood up again and bid for [-] shi, and bid for the baijiu again.

Seeing this, not only those aristocratic families understood.

Above, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others also looked at Li Xuan in astonishment.

"Xuan Ba, is this old man from the Li Family Village?"

"It's just a servant in the palace!"

Li Xuan chuckled lightly and didn't hide it.

joke!

He didn't know how much he knew about bid rigging and collusion in his previous life.With such a big loophole, if he didn't leave a dark hand behind, he might as well just jump off the third floor.

"But in this way, if those aristocratic families find out..."

Before they finished speaking, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others helplessly shook their heads and smiled.

"The baijiu belongs to me, the teahouse also belongs to me, and the auction is also hosted by me. Since these aristocratic families want to make small moves and auction the baijiu dishonestly, it's fine if I don't auction the baijiu. At worst, take the baijiu. go back!"

Li Xuan sneered.

What I'm afraid of are those aristocratic families!

below.

Li Chang also responded indifferently to those aristocratic sons who showed anger and even stood up to question.

"Your Majesty said that the baijiu auction is a public auction. Anyone who is present and has a table number can be auctioned. As for the elders, if they are unable to deliver the corresponding food in the end, the baijiu auction will be voided, and participation will be prohibited from now on. auction!"

Hearing this, all the aristocratic families couldn't help but be full of anger.

And the old man in commoner clothes stood up, smiled apologetically at the people of the family and Li Chang, and kept cupping his hands.

Next time, he will definitely not come.

There are so many idlers in Lijiazhuang and Wangfu, changing one at a time is enough to change hundreds of times!

A group of idiots who want to make small moves at the auction, and don't even look at who proposed the auction!
Seeing this, although the eyes of the people of the aristocratic family were red with anger, there was nothing they could do.

Had to restore calm, and urged Li Chang to continue the auction.

Next, no aristocratic family dared to make small moves.

The auction price for each bottle of baijiu was more than [-] shi.

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(End of this chapter)