Late Tang

(Thanks to Black Willow for the vote!)

After the binoculars are reading glasses and a magnifying glass. Neither of these two things are too rare, but when the beautiful Sword Dance Pavilion dancer walks down with these two things and let many people use them on the spot, it is also the same. Aroused the likes of many people.

Especially for some very old people, old eyes and dizziness are a common phenomenon, but these gold-rimmed glasses hanging on the ears and on the bridge of the nose are really magical. After wearing them and looking at those teeny lowercase letters, they can see very clearly. Those dizzy old eyes Miraculously regained clarity.The effect of the magnifying glass is similar, especially when Gongsun Lan held the magnifying glass in front of a lamp, and after a while, he directly lit a piece of white paper, which attracted even more exclamations.

Amazing, amazing!

This time not only the merchants were amazed and moved, especially the old scribes, officials were also moved.Which civil servant and patriarch has never read a book. When he was young, he read too much, and his eyes were ruined under the lamp. Now, when he is old, he can read books and work hard.With these two things, it is simply an extra pair of eyes.

"These reading glasses and magnifying glasses are good news for the elderly. With these two items, reading and writing will not be a little difficult in the future. There are one hundred of each of these two items, and the reserve price is one for each." Baiguan, please bid."

As soon as the auction started, it became lively immediately, and almost all the older people participated in the auction.However, due to the large number of these items, the bidding was not too intense. The auction started with one hundred pieces, one hundred pieces for each item, and it only took more than half an hour before they were all sold out.The price of [-] was finally sold for [-] guan, with an average price of [-] guan.Although everyone knows that since Li Jing can take out two hundred pieces at once, there may be more in the near future, and the price will definitely be cheaper then.

But which one here is not worth hundreds of thousands or millions, and those who are worth a lot can only barely qualify for admission.Therefore, they really don't care about the price of several hundred guan, what they care about is that they can have this magical thing right away.

Later, various glassware were auctioned, including glass wine glasses, teacups, jugs, teapots, etc., all of which were small pieces.But the crystal clear appearance is still admirable.Especially when displayed in sets of glassware, it is even more charming.The transparent wine bottle containing the bloody red grape wine has a unique style and is very beautiful. Matching the goblet, it has a strange beauty.

There are also perfume bottles, small bottles, which are also unique in shape.The combination of fine wine and wine glass, perfume and beautiful glass bottle immediately increased the original price by more than ten times.What is sold here is not only wine, but also perfume, but rare treasures.Dozens of wine glasses, bottles, teacups, teapots, and perfumes of various styles were sold out immediately.Looking at the appearance of these people, Li Jing reckoned that they would not be able to drink those wines.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of glass ornaments were displayed. Although the various glass ornaments are small, they are also very expensive. Even the price of glass bead necklaces is ten times that of pearl necklaces.A glass bracelet is even several times more expensive than a gold bracelet.

Two hours passed by without knowing it, and it was finally time for the finale.

Gongsun Lan summoned the dancers and kabukis from Jianwu Pavilion to perform singing and dancing.At this time, many people in the theater finally felt that they couldn't hold back, and hurriedly got up to change their clothes.The water is released, the air is ventilated, and many people even saw the fierce auction just now, and expected that the auction for the mirror behind will be more intense, so they quickly sent people to the shopkeeper of the Four Seas Bank to exchange for more flying money, just in case. just in case.

After a song and dance in the theater, the auction continued.

After the auction started again, there were dozens of different types of glass mirrors, most of which were small mirrors, and there were also mirrors measuring one foot square.These mirrors have various shapes and are beautiful, Li Jing regretted a bit, if he invited some noble ladies to come to the auction today, he would definitely earn more money.

Since Li Jing stated that each of these mirrors is [-] pieces, and there will be more sales in the future, the reserve price is not high.However, although the unit price is not high, but the final number of pieces is large, if you add them up, the harvest is still huge.

When the last floor-to-ceiling coat mirror came out as the finale, those rich and wealthy who had already prepared to spend a lot of money were eager to try.

Whoever can win this treasure will undoubtedly become the protagonist of the people singing in the coastal land for a long time.For these wealthy people, what they are fighting for is face.

"The base price is [-] guan, and the price will be increased by [-] guan each time. The auction begins!" Gongsun Lan's tone was full of seduction, as if she was not talking about the glazed mirror, but herself, as if whoever bid the highest price today, who can take her away.

"11 guan!" Immediately someone bid, it was the Cui family in Qingzhou. As the largest family in Ziqing Town, the Cui family maintained their momentum.

The appearance of this finale treasure will almost be a competition among the major families, and everyone else shut up and watched with interest.

"The Cui family is very powerful now. Cui Anqian is serving as the military envoy and minister, and Cui Yunqing has just been promoted to be the envoy of the Taining Army. Especially Cui Anqian. Cui Anqian's brother Cui Shenyou was the prime minister of Xuanzong. Served as Jiannan Jiedushi and Hezhong Jiedushi, and the previous generation, Cui Cong also served as Huainan Jiedushi. In addition, the Cui family has many children serving in the central and local areas, and the momentum is booming." Li Zhen sat beside Li Jing , said to Li Jing with a smile.The Cui family is indeed very powerful, and there is more than one Cui family. Among the five surnames and seven families, the Cui family has two branches. These two branches have branched out over the years, and Cui Yunqing's Qingzhou House is the same. Very strong, there have been several prime ministers.

"12 guan!" The maidservant of the old lady of the Xiao family in Lanling loudly added [-] guan, adding [-] guan, but her tone was not excited, as if it was just an ordinary person who bought vegetables worth more than ten yuan.

The Cui family is very strong, and the Xiao family is also not weak. The Xiao family has always been the leader in the south of the Yangtze River, but since the cooperation with Li Jing, the relationship between Li Jing and the Xiao family has become closer and closer.At the beginning, the Xiao family didn't take Li Jing seriously, and wanted to release Li Jing's usury, but with Li Jing's rapid rise, the Xiao family usually had an equal cooperative relationship.But now, the Xiao family has begun to lower their figure, seeking Li Jing's support.

A million dollars is nothing to the Xiao family.Li Jing's auction is to raise money to buy food, this is a big event, of course the Xiao family is willing to fully support Li Jing.What's more, now it's not just the Xiao family who want Li Jing's support, the Cui family, the Yu family, and even the Han family, Du family, Wang family, etc., all of them want to strengthen their relationship with Li Jing.Especially for the Xiao family, the Xiao family has not made much progress in the court and official circles these years, so they especially want to use Li Jing's support to allow more children from the family to become officials. At the same time, they also hope to borrow Li Jing's support. Business plan, cooperate with Li Jing to make more money.

Qingzhou Cui family and Lanling Xiao family started together, and the rest of the families who think they can be mentioned together with them are naturally unwilling to show weakness. At this time, it does not matter whether they can win the mirror or not. strength.

The Han family, Wang family, Li family and other families spoke one after another, and in the blink of an eye, five or six rounds of price had been raised.

A glass mirror has been auctioned for more than 80 yuan and is still being bid.This price is already equivalent to the price of a small ocean-going fleet.

Various companies are still quoting, but it is not as hot as before. Every time you make a bid, you have to think for a while.On the contrary, a wealthy businessman from Balhae State kept asking the price, and several giant businessmen from Silla, Dashi, and the Byzantine Empire insisted on it.

Li Jing took a look, and continued to yell, if a few foreign merchants withdraw, then the transaction will be a little troublesome.After all, several major families are supporting him now, so there is no reason for them to spend millions of dollars for a piece of glass mirror.It's not that they can't afford it, but that they will sell it in the future, which will definitely make them feel dissatisfied.

Seeing that the wealthy businessman in Bohai State shouted a price of 100 million guan, Li Jing immediately signaled to Gongsun Lan.Gongsun Lan's palms were sweating while holding the small silver hammer. She never thought that this mirror would fetch 100 million coins at auction.Guessing that the Bohai businessman bought this mirror, he must present it to the king of Bohai, Daxuanxi. He immediately understood Li Jing's meaning, and after asking three times quickly, he made a final decision and finalized the auction.

With the sound of a hammer, many big clans in the field were relieved.If they really want to spend 100 million guan to buy a mirror, they are really not happy in their hearts.It's better to give this money to Li Jing directly, the name is better.

The last auction item was sold, and this auction was considered to be over. Li Rang excitedly ran to Li Jing with the ledger in his hand, "I made a fortune, I made a lot of money."

"How much?" Li Jing was not too excited.

"Thousands of items in 300 categories were auctioned today, and a total of 60 million coins were sold. The ticket price is still 370 coins, plus our tax money of 300 yuan, and the money exchanged by the Universal Bank. With this sum, we earned more than [-] million in one day." It's not that Li Rang has never seen money, as the richest man in Bian Song Dynasty, his family fortune is tens of millions.But he did not earn this money alone, it was earned by their Li family ancestors from generation to generation.But today, he saw that Li Jing made more than [-] million yuan in one day.

"This amount of money is still far away. Don't forget, the food we want to buy is 500 million. The money we have now is only enough to buy half of it. If we keep some spare turnover, we are at least 500 short." [-] million coins."

"Don't we have an auction in a month's time. I believe that more people will come and more money will be auctioned."

Li Jing shook his head: "Scarcity is the most precious thing. The first auction will definitely earn a lot of money, but the subsequent auctions will not be so valuable. Even if we increase the number of items in the next auction, we can finally earn another 500 million. It will not be so easy in the future. I plan to expand production and sell these glass products to overseas countries.”

Li Rang's eyes lit up. If glass products were auctioned twice in Dengzhou, it would be really difficult to sell them at a high price.But if you ship it further overseas, you can make a lot of money.

Although it is said that the price of glass products will definitely drop in the future, Li Jing believes that the cheapest, this thing will also sell more expensive than porcelain.As long as the secrecy is kept, the business can go on forever.This glass is easier, quicker and larger than firing porcelain.Now what Li Jing is thinking about is to make this business bigger and stronger quickly. It is definitely not enough to suppress [***]'s own caravan.

"Qilang, I plan that we will only be responsible for making porcelain in the future, and the sales process can be handed over to other caravans, so that more caravans can be tied up with us, so that everyone can make money together." Li Jing pondered.

Li Rang thought for a while, and immediately understood Li Jing's meaning. If only [***]'s family does this business, it will be difficult to expand the scale, so it is suitable for high-quality goods, small businesses, and high-end routes.And what the commander-in-chief is planning now is undoubtedly to complete the glass business.Then the ability to town [***] caravans is not enough, but if you pull other merchants on the same boat to do this business, you can rely on the business network of other caravans to quickly open up the market and sell this glass product to the world. go everywhere.

Although in this way, the output increases, the price will inevitably fall, and the profits will have to be shared with other caravans, but the business is getting bigger, and the stalls are getting bigger and the money will be more. Even if everyone shares it together, the money that can be obtained in the end There will be more as well.

And it is conceivable that after the scale of glass manufacturing increases, it can immediately drive many other developments in the town [***].This is a good name chain, a very good idea.

"I plan to implement a distributor model just like our liquor, perfume, and rock sugar products. Divide the entire market into countless pieces, and then recruit distributors from various places. In this way, we can use those local distributors without us expanding the market. The network of merchants directly sells our products. Not only can the territory of the Tang Dynasty be divided into different distribution areas, but also the overseas foreign countries can be divided in this way."

Originally, Li Jing also considered the agency model, but finally decided to choose the dealer model.The agent sells on behalf of Li Jing, and gets the agent sales commission.As for the dealers, Li Jing sold the products to them, and they resold them according to their own regions.Except that they are all divided, the products sold by the agents are still Li Jing's, while the products sold by the dealers are their own products that have been bought from Li Jing.

But compared to taking commissions, there is no doubt that dealers have more independent sales, which also means greater profit margins.

For Li Jing, by selling the goods directly to the dealers, Li Jing can save a lot of links and get the money faster.No matter how much the dealers want to sell, as long as he sets the profit he wants, it will be fine.

"You go to make preparations and convey the news of recruiting dealers to those powerful merchants. After the auction is over a month later, we will hold a dealer meeting to allow merchants to bid for the places of dealers in various places. .”

Li Rang nodded, "No problem, I'll do it later. In addition, I don't think we have to pay for the food of those caravans. I can make an appointment with them to see if we can directly replace the food with glass products."

Li Jing thought about it, and felt that this plan was feasible. Although it was a huge sum of money, glass products are very popular now, and these merchants should be willing to exchange grain for glass.However, in this way, the glass workshop on Dazhu Island has to speed up its progress and burn glass in a hurry. (To be continued.)