Da Qin: Self-destruction and time travel, I will extend my life for Qin for a thousand years

Chapter 193 The auction begins, crazy Liuli

In Yingtian Mansion, as the Lan family received the Lu family's glazed treasure, all the wealthy families who learned the news were in extreme shock!

They couldn't understand why the two families with such deep hatred would accept each other's gifts.

This is almost unprecedented. Are these glass carvings so precious?

"It's not good! It's not good! Something bad has happened to Mr. Hou!"

In the Yongchang Marquis's residence, Lan Yu, who was feeling depressed, was drinking wine. Not far in front of him was the glazed glaze sculpture of a horse and a flying swallow that the Lu family had sent that day.

Although this was a valuable treasure, he couldn't help but feel extremely depressed when he thought of the scene when he was forced to "accept" it a while ago.

At that time, he really didn't intend to accept it. After all, he gave such a luxurious gift for no reason. No one knew what the Lu family was thinking about.

As a result, Lu Shou saw that he did not accept it and actually took out an imperial edict with a special trade license.

The superiors actually asked him not to block any of Cui Yuan's business activities, and Lu Shou explained that sending the glazed sculptures to the Lan family was also Cui Yuan's business plan.

If you don't want the blue jade, just smash it here.

At this moment, Lan Yu was unable to do anything, and the CPU was about to break.

If he hadn't recognized Zhu Yuanzhang's handwriting, he might have thought that Lu Shou was forging imperial edicts to amuse himself.

Since ancient times, business has been all about buying low and selling high. Now that Cui Yuan is doing business, he still forces himself to give it away for free?

Is he out of his mind?

Although Lan Yu could still refuse, and doing business was not a forced sale, Lu Shou also said that it didn't matter if he didn't want it.

But thinking that such a beautiful treasure would be wasted, Lan Yu couldn't help but feel pity.

'What exactly is going on? What is the origin of Cui Yuan? Why did the old man give him a trade license? ’

Lan Yu was drinking wine when a servant from the gatekeeper hurried over and looked at him in confusion.

"What happened?" Lan Yu put down the wine glass and asked dissatisfiedly.

"Master Hou!"

The servant let out a cry of sorrow and immediately said: "It is now rumored that Lu Shou of the Lu family has a lot of money, and gave the glazed treasure worth thousands of gold to the Marquis, just to resolve the grudges between us."

"And after you accepted the Liuli Diao, Lord Marquis, you have decided to put aside your grudges with the Lu family and completely reconcile."

"Huh? Damn it!"

After listening to this, Lan Yu stood up immediately and stayed there.

Good guy, I just accepted a glazed sculpture, and I did it half-heartedly, and now I am being rumored to want to reconcile with the Lu family?

What is this?

He and the Lu family have conflicting positions and principles, so how can they reconcile easily.

And although this glass sculpture is indeed very precious, it is not worth ten thousand taels of gold, at least several zeros less. After all, it is too fragile.

Apart from anything else, if someone paid ten thousand taels of gold to buy this glass carving, Lan Yu would definitely sell it immediately and treat the other person like an uncle.

"Fuck! These people who have enough to eat and nothing to do like to make up random things!"

"You ask everyone in the house to clarify the situation... Oh~ forget it, it's really troublesome."

Lan Yu originally wanted to stop the rumors, but soon developed a toothache.

After all, if this matter is completely clarified, wouldn't it make the conflict between himself and the Lu family public?

What the old man dislikes the most is party fighting. Hu Weiyong's blood has not yet dried. He has been cautious in going to court these days, for fear that the old man will punish him if he gets angry.

Although it was impossible to execute him, the pain of his flesh and blood was definitely inevitable.

"This is a conspiracy! It's irritating! It's so irritating!"

The more Lan Yu thought about it, the more annoyed she became. She felt like she was being tricked: "What other related rumors are there? Anything related to Liuli."

"Indeed there are more."

After hearing this, the servant thought for a while and responded respectfully: "I heard that there are scholars in the south of the city who have written this matter into opera scripts and novels, praising the glass carving as a symbol of reconciliation and friendship."

"And the Lu family is still recruiting a troupe. They plan to tour this book back and forth in the countryside during the farming days and let all the people see it for free."

"There are several stalls at the city gate that are setting up stalls to give away food. As long as you say that you don't give gifts during the holidays, if you give gifts, you will give Cui's glazed sculptures, and you can get two taels of rice."

"The queue has circled the moat several times."

Lan Yu: "..."

His mind was completely shut down. Lan Yu originally thought that he could learn more about the situation by getting more information.

As a result, I never expected that now that they knew everything, they didn't understand the purpose of what the Lu family and that Cui Yuan did.

In fact, it's okay if he doesn't understand. If he understands everything, that would be the biggest abnormality.

Because what Cui Yuan is doing now is the most common marketing method in modern times in the future - advertising!

As a time traveler, Cui Yuan knows very well what saturated advertising is. This method can make a person or thing become popular in a short period of time.

The most obvious example is the many talent shows in later generations. Almost no one knew about the so-called champions and artists before they were broadcast.

After the show starts airing, in just half a year, they will become well-known to everyone, and some of them will become popular stars immediately.

Of course there is a reason for this, but various promotional resources are also indispensable - the fragrance of wine is also afraid of the deep alley!

Although the Ming Dynasty did not have the Internet and television as developed as later generations, communication was relatively backward.

But in contrast, the people of the Ming Dynasty did not experience the information explosion like people in later generations, and they were still in a very simple blank slate state.

Cui Yuan only needs to create a "hot spot" artificially, smear it on the white paper, and then use it as an opportunity to publish a book, build an opera platform, and hire storytellers.

Then within a month, all the common people and wealthy families in Yingtian Mansion will know about this matter.

Not to mention that when the Lu family sent the glaze carving to Lan Yu yesterday, they went around the Yingtian Mansion for a large exhibition, with the purpose of deliberately letting all the common people and wealthy people see it.

It can be said that Cui Yuan's plan was very successful.

Although almost everyone, including Lan Yu, did not understand the meaning of Cui Yuan's actions.

But their effects have already begun to show.

Just half a month later, less than half the time Cui Yuan expected, all the people in Yingtian Mansion were discussing the matter of the glazed carvings, and it seemed to be getting more and more intense.

As for the Lu family, its door edge was even stepped on by the wealthy people who came to visit. The purpose of these wealthy families is to buy glazed carvings.

When Lu Shou went to send Lan Yu a horse to ride on the flying swallow glazed sculpture, everyone could clearly see that there were two glazed sculptures of Hongtian Jugu and Dayu's Water Control in the Lu family's motorcade!

They are all exquisite glass carvings on the same level as Ma Tafeiyan!

Those wealthy families saw that the popularity of glass carvings was so high now, and Yongchang Hou Lanyu was taking advantage of it to make a big splash. They were all envious, and they all wanted to get one that would increase their prestige.

Isn’t fame and wealth what rich people seek?

However, although these wealthy people came here with great interest, their hearts froze when they heard the price!

Ten thousand taels of gold!

Oh boy, the outrageous rumors are actually true!

The Lu family seems to regard these glazed sculptures as rare treasures. They really want 10,000 taels for each!

Upon hearing this price, many wealthy people slammed their doors and walked out, and some even started to curse.

Ten thousand taels of gold can buy tens of thousands of acres of land and dozens of houses, and can even launch a large-scale rebellion!

And now, it actually needs to be used to buy a glazed sculpture?

Are you crazy, or are we crazy?

We sincerely come to you to do business, but you just entertain us like this! ?

Cui Yuan, who was stationed at the Lu family to check, did not get used to this situation and directly asked Lu Shou to drive them out.

If there are many people, he will cover his face and take action himself. As long as Cui Yuan is serious, almost no one can stop him!

"Cui Shenxian, isn't this bad?"

"No one can afford the price of ten thousand taels. These glass sculptures are worth four to five hundred taels of gold at most."

Lu Li was also here, and she looked very anxious when she saw another wealthy man and his entourage being driven out.

Since being snubbed by Zhu Biao, it has been difficult for her to see Zhu Biao, let alone favor him.

She simply came to Lu's house with Cui Yuan, intending to help Cui Yuan handle this matter so as to change Zhu Biao's attitude towards her.

It can be said that Lu Li is even more eager to succeed than Cui Yuan in this matter.

As a result, there was nothing Cui Yuan did that she could understand. The rich man just now spent a thousand taels, which was more than double the price of the glazed carving.

In the end, Cui Yuan was still not interested in talking, so he kicked him out directly.

"Crown Princess, there is no need to worry."

Cui Yuan is still the old god: "Things that are not available will always be in turmoil. They are indeed only worth four or five hundred gold."

"But as long as we don't sell, they will be forced to raise the price. In this way, when we hold an auction in the future, we can get twice the result with half the effort and let them drive up the price."

"And a trading market will be formed secretly. By then, let alone one thousand taels, even five thousand taels may be sold."

"In later generations, this was also called hunger marketing."

"What!? What if they buy someone else's glass sculpture?"

"There's no need to worry about this anymore."

When Cui Yuan heard Lu Li's question, he became even more unconcerned: "If they want to buy it, go ahead and buy it! Anyway, these are not our Cui's glazed sculptures, they just bought them as ornaments."

The other two glazed sculptures from the Lu family are so valuable.

Not only because they are colored glaze, but also because of their added value, the value of so many advertisements, that is the real big deal.

Without explaining too much to Lu Li, Cui Yuan was just preparing for the auction in an orderly manner, slowly selling the two colored glaze sculptures and the second batch of colored glaze sent from Da Qin.

The auction lineup this time was very luxurious, with three royal families taking turns serving as auctioneers.

They have never tried such a novel thing before, so they naturally want to experience it.

Cui Yuan didn't have any objections. The three emperors were all people who had seen strong winds and waves, so they could be used to calm the situation.

As for guards and other matters, Cui Yuan did not hire too many people except for necessary maintenance of order, even though the Lu family had been trying their best to cooperate.

If there was any accident, Cui Yuan could take action himself and cut their butts with a knife - show his hand.

News of the auction spread quickly. When they heard that two other glazed sculptures were about to be auctioned, the wealthy families in Yingtian Mansion became very excited.

Cui Yuan is right, the nature of human nature is like this - what you can't get is always in turmoil.

Although the Lu family has a bad attitude towards them, this does not reduce their enthusiasm for glass carving, but in fact makes them stronger!

You don’t want to sell it, right? “Then we have to buy it!”

On the day of the event, all the major wealthy families came to the scene one after another. It was very lively, and the onlookers also gathered in three circles, inside and outside.

"That's Marquis Yongchang? Doesn't he have a glazed sculpture? Why do you still want to come here?"

"The Duke of South Korea is here too. Hu Xiangke was executed just now!"

"And the Duke of Wei has returned in triumph!"

The wealthy families who arrived at the scene at the beginning were all dumbfounded when they saw Lan Yu, Li Shanchang, Xu Da and other important figures in the court arriving in person.

Although they are somewhat powerful in Yingtian Mansion, compared with these big guys, they are still far behind.

"Yongchang Hou, you have been stealing the show recently!"

"Tell me how you reconciled with this guy Lu Shou!"

Xu Da, a general with white hair on his temples, walked into the auction house and was very happy when he saw Lan Yu arriving.

Xu Da and Chang Yuchun were both powerful generals under Zhu Yuanzhang. They traveled south and north and made numerous conquests.

As Chang Yuchun's brother-in-law, Lan Yu was also extremely brave, but Chang Yuchun died early. Therefore, in the army, Xu Da took great care of Lan Yu, almost like half a father.

At that time, many people thought that this was Xu Da's nepotism for the sake of brotherhood. But Xu Da was able to defeat Mongolia, the strongest army on land at one time, and his vision was also very accurate.

Xu Da could see Lan Yu's talent at a glance, and Lan Yu later proved that he did not rely on nepotism to get to the position. His future military exploits would even surpass Chang Yuchun's.

Lan Yu was already in a bad mood, but when she heard Xu Da's words, she became even more speechless.

Since I accepted the Liuli Sculpture, I haven't even passed by the Lu family's gate. How does this look like reconciliation?

As for why he came here, he naturally wanted to buy these glazed sculptures at a high price so as to return the Ma Ta Fei Yan given to him by the Lu family and Cui Yuan.

The market price of these glass carvings is at most five hundred taels. As long as I spend a thousand taels, I can naturally prove to everyone that I have returned all the gifts from the Lu family.

Seeing that Lan Yu was silent, Xu Da laughed and was not angry.

Instead, Youya walked forward and asked in a low voice, pretending to be casual: "Yongchang Hou, since you don't want to answer this question, can you tell me why you accepted the Lu family's glazed sculpture at that time?"

(End of this chapter)