Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 888
Hearing the greeting from the household clerk, the young man hesitated for a moment, then walked around the dozens of bidders in front of him and came to the front row. After looking around, he sat down on an empty chair under the eyes of everyone. superior.

After all this tossing, his expression and demeanor gradually relaxed, obviously showing that he has adapted to the new environment.

Taking advantage of the small vacancy in the bidding, several big tung oil merchants sitting in the front row whispered to each other. After the spoiler took his seat, the price on the field was once again quoted as "two for four!"

After a brief discussion just now, these big tung oil merchants reached a consensus, and finally set the bidding price within two-thirds. If the other party bids a higher price, then they will request the government to conduct an on-site silver inspection to prove whether the other party is Those who were hired by others deliberately came to drive up the price.

If the other party can't come up with the corresponding cash, then no matter how much the bid is, it will have to start again, and this spoiler should also be put in prison and punished by the government.

Calculated at the price of 20 cents per catty, the [-] catties of tung oil in this auction will cost nearly [-] silver coins. Only a few big tung oil merchants present have the financial resources. Come up with so much cash.

And this unremarkable young man didn't look like he had such great strength, so these big businessmen who had worked hard in the arena for decades quickly concluded that this person was most likely the Shuangliu County Government official. "Yingluohou (Tuoer)" came here to sell the tung oil at a high price.

Since the government acted like this, it must be that the elder of Shuangliu County had already known the final bid of their group and was dissatisfied with the price, so he thought of such a clumsy trick to deal with them in a hurry.

The reason why the government did not force the merchants to bid for high prices was because they were afraid that the big guys would collude and go away, so that large quantities of tung oil would have nowhere to sell, and if this practice spread, it would damage the reputation of the government. This kind of quack trick that can't be put on the table.

However, since the grand lord of the government wants a good price, it seems that the price of two cents is not enough, and the grand lord must come to Taiwan. Watermelon, otherwise the government will find some random reasons to manipulate everyone in the future, and maybe what to eat will be left behind.

Not much to say, it didn't take long, and the bidding quickly reached two-thirds, which is also the bottom line of the tung oil merchants.

When this price was reported, some small tung oil merchants who were not strong felt as uncomfortable as a knife.

Because the cash they brought was not too much, if the price was based on two cents, they could get some more goods this time, but seeing that the price was almost doubled in the blink of an eye, it meant that they could get the goods in their hands. There are fewer and fewer goods, and the profits from trafficking them will be greatly reduced.

Thinking of this, those small businessmen all looked at the young man with deep hatred in their eyes, and some even thought about finding the trace of the other party after the bidding was over, and beat him severely to eliminate The bad breath in my heart.

To the surprise of a few big merchants, after they called out two-thirds of the price, the young man still raised the price by one percent, without any intention of backing down. , looking around, as if they didn't take this bidding seriously at all, which made several big merchants furious.

"This master invites you!"

A middle-aged businessman in official uniform got up and saluted the household clerk before speaking.

"We are all merchants who have been dealing in tung oil for more than ten or twenty years, and we are familiar with all merchants selling tung oil in various parts of Daming.

Today, people who are not familiar with this face come here rashly and wantonly drive up the price. I am not in a position to ask further, but according to the rules of the court, all bidders who participate in the bidding must pay a false deposit, and they must have money equal to the goods. Otherwise, it is deliberate fraud, and according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, he must be imprisoned!

Therefore, the villain begs the Elder Lord to give an order, ordering this person to give the equivalent money, otherwise the villain will have to file a petition to the Chengdu government for fairness! "

After the middle-aged merchant finished speaking, the other two also expressed the same position. Those small and medium-sized merchants also took the opportunity to make a noise, shouting for the young man to pay the corresponding amount of money. The citizens also booed.

Seeing the noisy scene, the house clerk was upset, and was about to act like an official and lose his temper, when the young man reached into his arms, groped for a while, and took out a colorful When the paper came, several big merchants took a closer look and couldn't help but gasp.

Of course, everyone who does business knows that what this young man is holding in his hand is the bank notes issued by the Bank of the World. Judging from the size and color of the bank notes, each one is the largest bank note with a face value of [-] silver coins. , looking at the quantity, it should be around twenty.

That is to say, the young man took out more than 2 silver coins casually, but judging from his expression, he didn't seem to take it seriously at all.

The young man got up and showed the bank notes in his hand to the surroundings, and then said loudly: "Are you guys still asking for a price? I think it's not enough to ask for a price like this!

How about this, this time the tung oil produced in Shuangliu County will be sold at a price of five cents and two cents per catty!What do you think? "

After the young man finished speaking, he looked at the several big merchants around him with a playful smile on his face, showing a hint of disdain in his eyes.

"May I ask where this little brother came from?
Buying it for two-fifths, and then hiring artificial ships to transport it out of Shu, how can there be any profit!
What is your purpose in doing this? !Why do you humiliate me like this! "

Hearing such blatantly provocative words, the faces of these big merchants changed drastically. After a moment of silence, the middle-aged merchant asked unconvinced.

"This employee is invited! For the Four Seas Commercial Bank, earning money is not only from Daming customers, the price of tung oil in overseas Europe is not calculated by every penny!
There is nothing wrong with doing business to earn money, but if you always think about buying low and selling high to squeeze the people, that is not the way to do business for a long time!

In order to teach you a lesson, even if my Four Seas Trading Company does not operate tung oil, I will step in this time. If you are not convinced, you can call the price again! "

Seeing that these businessmen were still stubborn, the young man sneered and put down his harsh words.

His real identity is actually the son of the chief shopkeeper of the Chengdu branch. He was appointed by his father to come to Shuangliu. After meeting Sun Kedi, he learned that the county magistrate planned to severely humiliate these countless merchants. Then he pretended to be a young man who had never seen the world, and played a good show of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

When they heard the name of the Four Seas Trading Company, all the tung oil merchants, including several big merchants, suddenly felt like deflated balls, and they were extremely depressed.

This is a shopping mall giant with a royal background. No matter how powerful a businessman is, it is not worth mentioning in front of it. Meals for merchants.

(End of this chapter)