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Chapter 224 0221 [You don’t understand businessmen]

The auction is nothing new. It is obviously not the first time for these wealthy businessmen to participate. They are very clear about the procedures and rules.

The reason why I didn't speak immediately was to calculate in my mind what price should be appropriate.

In fact, they are no strangers to refined salt.

After all, Han Zhen started to deal with refined salt and white sugar within a few days after occupying Xiaowang Village. Now, refined salt is no longer a rare thing in the county.

"Fifty-five thousand strings!"

Suddenly, a voice broke the silence of the hall.

For a moment, everyone's eyes fell on the person who spoke.

The speaker was about forty years old, with a goatee on his slightly thin face.

This person's name is Lu Zhilai, who runs brothels and gambling stalls in the city, and has an unclear relationship with the Shahu Gang.

However, in the severe crackdown some time ago, the Shahu Gang has been wiped out. All the leaders, big and small, were killed. The remaining gang members are in jails and doing corvee labor.

Facing everyone's gaze, Lu Zhilai smiled, cupped his hands and said, "I'm offering fifty-five thousand guan. Please, brothers, show your noble hands and give this place to me."

Fei Jicai and others remained silent, but sneered in their hearts.

Raise your hand high?

How shameless are you, Lu Zhilai, that you want to get the dealer qualification in Gyeonggi Road with just a few nice words?
"Lu Yuanwai offered [-] yuan. Is there anyone else who bids higher?"

Han Zhen said with a smile: "Fifty-five thousand guan for the first time, fifty-five thousand guan for the second time..."

When the second shout came, a businessman lost his temper and shouted: "I will give you fifty-six thousand strings!"

Lu Zhilai turned his head and glanced at the man. Although there was a smile on his face, there was a fierce look in his eyes.

However, the other party was not afraid at all and even raised his eyebrows provocatively.

After all, the wealthy businessmen who can come to this auction have some connections behind them, so no one is afraid of anyone.

Otherwise, without any background, Zhao Ting and Liu Mi's family would have been ruined long ago.

The second bidder was like throwing a stone into a calm pool, causing ripples to appear.

Immediately afterwards, quotations sounded one after another.

"Fifty-seven thousand strings!"

"Sixty thousand strings!"

"Twelve thousand guan!"

"..."

The price kept rising and soon exceeded [-] yuan.

Xiaochong glanced at Han Zhen without any trace, thinking that the request from Brother Han had worked.

Han Zhen did arrange for child care, but he hasn't taken action yet.

The main reason is that Gyeonggi Road is the richest place in the entire Zhao and Song Dynasties. Anyone who is not a fool knows what kind of business opportunities this road contains.

Especially in the prosperous city of Tokyo, not to mention the price of refined salt that costs two guan per pound, even if the price is increased to five guan, there are a lot of people rushing to buy it.

Hearing the quotes constantly ringing in his ears, Fei Jicai glanced at Zhang Yuanwai beside him and chuckled: "Brother Zhang is not interested in the qualification for selling on Gyeonggi Road?"

Zhang Yuanwai gave a wry smile: "To tell you the truth, Brother Fei, my business on Liangzhe Road has had some twists and turns recently. I spent a lot of money in the south a while ago. Although I am greedy for the qualifications of Jingji Road, I am powerless. If you can pick up some, you can pick it up. The remaining bits and pieces are good enough to drink soup."

"That's a pity."

Fei Jicai chuckled, feeling doubtful.

He was aware of the remnants of the Fangla revolt on the Liangzhe Road a while ago. Although they were quickly suppressed, they had an impact on many counties.

But Zhang Yuanwai has a strong family background. Who knows if this old fox has a hidden agenda.

Thinking of this, Fei Jicai patiently continued to sip the tea.

As the quotation exceeded [-] yuan, fewer and fewer businessmen participated in the quotation.

Although all the businessmen in this industry have rich families, not everyone can afford to spend [-] yuan to buy the exclusive sales rights of an area for five years.

Besides, aren't there other 23 routes that haven't been filmed yet?

"Wang Yuanwai bid 15 guan. Is there any higher bid than this? 15 guan for the first time, 15 guan for the second time..."

"20 sticks!"

Suddenly, a loud shout sounded in the hall.

20 million guan!

This bid shocked all the businessmen present.

For a moment, the entire hall was silent, and everyone looked at Fei Jicai in unison.

Seeing this, Fei Jicai stood up and cupped his hands around him, saying with great satisfaction: "Thanks to your support, Fei accepted the qualification of Gyeonggi Road!"

He has been holding back until now, and even increased the price by more than [-] yuan, just to scare everyone and win it in one fell swoop.

Otherwise, with a slight increase in price, 20 yuan may not be affordable.

Sure enough, when he heard the quotation of 20 yuan, Wang Yuan's eyes twitched and he hesitated for a moment. Finally, he sighed and said, "Brother Fei's courage is amazing, I feel ashamed."

"Brother Wang is too polite."

Fei Jicai smiled lightly and glanced around the crowd with a stern look.

In fact, he was not as calm as he appeared, and his heart was surging at the moment.

This [-] yuan was scraped together from various pawn shops by mortgaging many assets and fields.

It's a big gamble!
He was betting that Han Zhen could repel the Western Army and gain a firm foothold.

Once the bet is won, the Fei family will reach a new level with the refined salt business on Gyeonggi Road, truly reaching a new level of wealth.

20 yuan buys the exclusive sales rights for five years, which is an average of [-] yuan per year.

With the prosperity of the city of Tokyo, it would even take less than two years to recover the capital, and the remaining three years would be pure profit.

Just when everyone thought that the selling rights of Gyeonggi Road fell into the hands of Fei Jicai, Zhang Yuanwai, who had been silent for a whole period, put down his tea cup and said unhurriedly: "I bid 22 yuan!"

Whoa!

There was an uproar in the hall.

The smile on Fei Jicai's face froze, and he turned his head sharply, staring at Zhang Yuanwai.

"Ha ha!"

Zhang Yuanwai chuckled: "Brother Fei, please don't mind. Brother Fei suddenly remembered that there is still some extra money at home that can be used."

Fei Jicai naturally didn't believe these nonsense, gritted his teeth and said: "22 strings!"

"25 sticks!"

Zhang Yuanwai's tone was calm and he looked calm and confident.

Fei Jicai could barely make up 22 guan by mortgaging some assets, but 25 guan was beyond his bottom line.

The key is that he doesn't know where the opponent's bottom line is.

Fei Jicai's expression was gloomy and uncertain. Under Han Zhen's urging, he had no choice but to give in: "Brother Zhang, what a trick!"

"Both each other!" Zhang Yuanwai cupped his hands and said with a smile.

"25 guan for the first time, 25 guan for the second time... 25 guan for the third time! Congratulations to Zhang Yuanwai for winning the five-year exclusive distributorship in Gyeonggi Road for 25 guan!" Han Zhen used his hand instead of a hammer. It hit the wooden table hard, making a crisp sound.

"Thank you so much, county magistrate, and thank you all for your support!"

As the dust fell to the ground, Zhang Yuanwai couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief and held his hands in thanks.

In fact, 25 yuan is already his limit.

Fang La's remnant caused his business on Liangzhe Road to suffer a heavy blow and cost him a lot of money.

The calm look before was all faked. When selling, it is not only about financial resources, but also momentum and timing of entry.

The income of 25 yuan made Han Zhen feel good.

You must know that this is just a sale of regional dealer qualifications, and the subsequent refined salt is the bulk of the money.

Han Zhen reassured: "Don't be discouraged, you still have the qualifications for No. 23."

Hearing this, Fei Jicai and others' faces improved a lot.

Indeed, although Gyeonggi Road is gone, there are other prosperous roads. If you shoot a few more, the money you make in the end may not be less than on Gyeonggi Road.

"The next thing to be auctioned is the qualification for Kuizhou Road. The starting price is [-] guan, and each increase in price must not be less than [-] guan."

When they heard about Kuizhou Road, everyone couldn't help but secretly cursed Han Zhen as a chicken thief.

Han Zhen watched everyone's reactions and smiled secretly in his heart.

All the tricks from later generations’ auctions will be used, but they still can’t cure you?

At the beginning, we should shoot Gyeonggi Road to stir up the atmosphere and emotions. Then we should not sell off prosperous roads like Liangzhe Road, otherwise, by then, the remaining remote and remote rural areas will not be able to fetch high prices.

Just change the order and the effect will be completely different.

Because no one knows who will end up with good areas like Liangzhe Road, so to be on the safe side, these businessmen will first take over one or two remote roads to avoid losing everything.

In this way, even a remote and poor road like Kuizhou Road can fetch a good price.

A group of wealthy businessmen scolded each other, but the film still had to be filmed.

It was actually Han Zhen who took advantage of it.

"Eight thousand one hundred."

"Eight thousand five hundred strings."

"..."

"Twelve thousand strings!"

Finally, Kuizhou Road was auctioned off for twelve thousand guan.

Compared with the previous Gyeonggi Road, it is more than [-] times smaller, but what kind of quality is Kuizhou Road? How can it be compared to my Gyeonggi Road?

"The next person to sell is Qin Fenglu..."

"One time for 16 guan, two times for 16 guan... Congratulations to Mr. Fei for winning the exclusive sales rights of Liangzhe Road!"

Amidst Han Zhen's congratulations, Fei Jicai forced a smile with a dark face.

He never expected that each of these bitches would be so treacherous. When they ventilated in private, each one of them acted upright and sternly, patting their chests and promising that they would never raise each other's prices. As a result, after the auction started, they immediately Stab each other.

The further you go, the more intense the competition becomes.

So much so that he spent a full 16 guan to win the two Zhejiang roads.

The shills arranged by Han Zhen played a big role in this, and the other part was the result of the intrigues of wealthy businessmen.

To put it bluntly, businessmen have no concept of unity in the face of absolute interests.

The auction lasted for nearly two hours.

Zhao and Song 24 sold a total of 180 million yuan, which was enough to buy [-] war horses!
The wealthy businessmen will send this money to the treasury within ten days. If it exceeds the time, an additional one-cent late payment fee will be levied.

If you exceed the time limit for ten days, you will be disqualified.

"The auction ends here, thank you all for coming."

After Han Zhen finished speaking, he winked at Xiao Chong.

Xiao Chong understood and immediately ordered Dr. Jiu to start serving wine and food.

Although Zhang Yuanwai was very hungry, he did not even look at the food and wine served on the table. Instead, he stood up and said: "County Magistrate, we have also obtained the dealer qualifications. When can we buy refined salt? Is the quantity available? limit?"

"After paying the qualification fee, the government treasury will issue an invoice, and you can go to the Business Academy with the invoice to get a regional sales business license."

Han Zhen paused and continued: "After getting the business license, you can go to Guangling Salt Service to buy refined salt at any time. The tentative price is [-] kilograms per trip in the first month, and there is no limit in the future."

The refined salt workshop in Guangling has been under construction for a while, with hundreds of thousands of kilograms piled in the warehouse.

This is because in winter, the sun-salting method cannot be used. Otherwise, if the production of coarse salt keeps up in summer, the production of two to three million kilograms of refined salt in a month will be like a joke.

"So good!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yuanwai and others were so happy that they did not even bother to drink and have fun. After quickly filling their stomachs, they left in a hurry.

Pay the money one day early and buy refined salt one day early.

After spending so much money to buy sales qualifications, they were under great pressure and needed to sell refined salt as soon as possible to collect funds.

After the businessmen left, Han Zhen asked Zhu Ji and Xiao Chong to sit down, and ordered Dr. Jiu to serve another table of food and eat and drink.

After a auction, Han Zhen was really tired from the battle of wits and courage with these wealthy businessmen.

After picking up a glass of fruit wine and drinking it in one gulp, Han Zhen let out a sigh of relief.

Zhu Ji put down his wine glass and said with admiration: "The county magistrate is so good at it. I have gained some knowledge today. I actually have so many skills in selling!"

Han Zhen waved his hand: "The reason why these wealthy businessmen are like this is nothing more than profit. If they can really unite, even if I use all kinds of means, it will not help."

"It makes sense!"

Zhu Ji nodded with deep understanding.

These wealthy businessmen have definitely passed the news before, but what is the result?
Businessmen attach great importance to profits but despise righteousness. The ancients will not deceive me!

Xiaochong took a chopstick of beef and stuffed it into his mouth, and expressed his doubts: "These wealthy businessmen know that the Western Army is coming, but they still dare to spend thousands of dollars to buy qualifications. Aren't they afraid that we will lose?"

Before Han Zhen could speak, Zhu Ji on the side helped to explain: "They are betting that the county chief will defeat the Western Army and gain a firm foothold!"

Xiao Chong frowned and said, "Then why don't they wait until we win before buying qualifications? Wouldn't it be safer then?"

Zhu Ji shook his head and laughed: "Because by then, it won't be this price anymore, let alone doubling it, even tripling it!"

Han Zhen said with emotion: "Xiao Chong, you still don't understand businessmen."

Businessmen will become active if they have a profit of 20.00%, they will take desperate risks if they have a profit of 50.00%, they will dare to trample all laws if they have a profit of [-]%, and they will dare to risk hanging their heads if they have a profit of [-]%.

What's more, these businessmen are not mindless gamblers. They have seen the power of the Qingzhou Army.

Some time ago, the great victories in Shouguang and Changle counties gave them a little more confidence.

In addition, during this period of time, Han Zhen was expanding his army, building an ordnance workshop, and purchasing war horses, infantry armor and other ordnance.

In the eyes of these businessmen, Han Zhen did not even need to defeat the Western Army, just a few years of stalemate was enough.

It is precisely based on the above that wealthy businessmen dare to place bets.

(End of this chapter)