Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 849 Dragon and Tiger Fight
The warehouse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the auction venue, and the "Jiashen" private room.

Brother Thirteen took a sip of the teacup, and said to Cao Yong: "You have only been out of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for three years, and no one recognizes you. How does it feel?"

Cao Yong sat down with him, and said: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs has a lot of writing styles, and they are frequently replaced. Even when I am on duty in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I know those in this hall."

Brother Thirteen seems to be lamenting Cao Yong, but he is actually lamenting himself.A dignified elder brother of the prince, who has been silent for more than ten years, rarely comes out once, and few people remember it.

The thirteenth elder brother complained, and he felt that it was boring, so he didn't talk about it.

Cao Yong looked at the list in his hand, and there was no silk silk worth several 10 taels of silver from the household department.Before, he didn't want to participate in this, so he didn't inquire carefully. It seems that Elder Sixteen has other arrangements.

Today, he was called by the thirteenth elder brother Linla.

Elder Brother Thirteen had just recovered from a serious illness and came here out of breath. Apart from wanting to watch the fun, he also wanted to help Wang Lusheng.

That's right, it is Wang Qiye, the head of the Wang family in Rizhao, Shandong.

Wang Lusheng happened to come to Beijing yesterday. He originally visited Cao's house, but Cao Yong happened not to be at home, so he didn't meet him for a few minutes.Afterwards, he went to the Thirteenth Prince's Mansion to pay his respects.

Because of the Nanyang business affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Thirteenth Brother's Mansion can be regarded as half of his backer.

It happened that Zheng Woxue came here to report to Thirteen Fujin.Knowing that my husband's uncle is coming, I go to the front to say hello.

The thirteenth elder brother mentioned the bank auction. He also had invitations here, but no one came to ask for it, and the thirteenth elder brother had no plan to go.

Seeing Wang Lusheng, the thirteenth brother changed his mind. Among other things, only a big merchant like Wang Lusheng can eat the silk that the household department puts on the bank.There is also the Nanyang commercial road, so there is no need to worry about sales.

If the silk problem is solved, it can be regarded as helping the sixteenth elder brother.

Naturally, Wang Lusheng had nothing to say, he came to Beijing this time just to make some contacts, so that he could continue to do business under the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs after the expiry of the authority of the Nanyang Commercial Road.

Silk brocades are sold to Nanyang and Dongyang, and the profits are very rich.Not to mention, this bank is an industry under the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

So, Brother Thirteen took Wang Lusheng to arrest Cao Yong the next day, and they went to the venue together.Impatient to see other people, I intentionally pressed the time, after Sichu (nine o'clock in the morning), and after everyone had seen the box, they were late.

Singing outside, has been singing for a long time.The selling price of this target has ranged from a few hundred to tens of thousands of taels of silver.

It’s nothing if it’s houses and fields, but it’s antiques and curios. Even Wang Lusheng, the richest man in Shandong, followed suit and sighed: “After all, if you are a relative of the emperor, you can spend more than 1 taels of silver to buy a small thing. Only people in Jingli are willing to do so.”

"There are a lot of classic houses, and many of these antiques are used as pledges. This is only 1 taels, and there are still [-] or [-] reserve prices later..." Cao Yong picked up a piece of paper and said to Wang Lusheng.

Although Wang Lusheng is a rich man in the local area, he doesn't look obvious at all. He doesn't look like those nouveau riche, with hands full of gold pots, gold teeth inlaid or something.

Before coming to Beijing, he stayed in Guangzhou for half a year. His complexion was slightly dark, and he dressed plainly, making him look like a farmer in the mountains.

The thirteenth elder brother looked up at him, and was looking at Cao Yong who was wearing fine clothes. A businessman is not like a businessman, and uncle is not like uncle, but he wants to be at ease.

For a while, he had a lot to think about.

It's been more than ten years by the emperor's father, why can't he hold his breath?Why care about what others think, it's better to feel comfortable in your heart.

In the venue, the voice of the chanting pen post style was a little hoarse due to the high voice for a long time. There was a pause, and another loud voice Bi post style continued.

"Yan Wang Ding? Is this thing still being filmed?" Brother Thirteen was a little surprised when he heard this, and looked at Cao Yong puzzled.

Cao Yong thought for a while, and said: "Brother Sixteen has always acted cautiously. Since he thinks he can shoot, maybe he asked for instructions, and maybe it is not a national weapon."

Cao Yong doesn't like antiques, but living in a powerful family, he knows more or less.

After all, it is the era of royal power, and the royal family is very sensitive to seals and tripods that have imperial power.What's so rare, the tripod has been used as a ritual vessel, but it has also been used as tableware.

Most of the antiques circulating in the world today are from the hands of tomb robbers from all over the world, and Cao Yong is even more uninterested.

If you are a member of the clan, you should know this rule, even if you get a tripod occasionally, you will probably donate a lot to the palace.

Buy a Yan Wang Ding for [-] thousand. There are not many people in the clan with such a handicraft. It is a bit hard to guess for other powerful people.

The room here is quiet, and no one is greeted and handed over the post.

According to the rules, if you see the number of your winning bids, you can hand in the post to the pen post arrangement and pay the money.

In another private room, someone was already holding an invitation card and went out to go through the formalities in a pen-style manner.

After a while, the man came in with a red satin velvet box and placed it respectfully on the table.

On the chair facing the curtain, sat an old man dressed in royal blue, with a long, thin face.Sitting on his left hand is a young man, 25 or [-] years old, with a short beard, looking very steady; on his right hand, sitting is a young man, [-] or [-] years old, with long eyebrows and slender eyes, looking elegant and heroic .

"Mafa, is this the King Yan Ding?" Seeing the red box, the boy asked curiously.

The old man was none other than Kangxi who had just returned to the palace from Changchun Garden a few days ago.Hearing Elder Sixteen's report to the bank about the auction a few days ago, I became interested and brought my two grandchildren over for a stroll.Because the micro-service came out, the word "Huang" was removed from the title, and it was only called by ordinary banner people.

Sitting on his left is the emperor Sun Hongxi; on his right is Hongming, the son of the fourteenth elder brother.These two grandchildren are the most proud of the emperor's grandchildren.

Hearing his grandson's question, Kangxi nodded and ordered Wei Zhu, who was standing beside him, to open the box.

The palm-sized tripod is made of black jade, and the carving is simple and simple, with tripod inscriptions engraved all over the body.

Kangxi picked up the tripod, looked at it, and looked at the two grandchildren from the corner of his eye.

Hongxi seemed respectful, but when he saw the tripod, his eyes still fluctuated; Hongming was a little dull, he looked away after just one glance, and listened to the singing signs outside.

"This is the first good item I found today. Which one of you brothers wants it?" Kangxi asked his two grandchildren while rubbing the Yan Wangding.

Hong Ming listened and looked at Hong Xi, both brothers stood up.

Then I heard Hongxi reply: "Ama's loving heart, the grandchildren know it all. Since it is Mafa's favorite thing, how dare the grandchildren take away Mafa's love?"

Kangxi looked at him, unable to see any joy or anger, turned his head to look at Hongming, Hongming bowed and replied: "Mafa, this thing is expensive, how can the grandchildren bear it? If Mafa wants to reward grandson, grandson would rather directly Ask for money, buy more badger oil, and send it to the northwest to save Ama from suffering."

Hearing that Brother Fourteen was mentioned, Kangxi waved his hands and asked the two to sit down, saying: "It's hard to have such a heart, you are all good boys."

There was nothing on Hong Xi's face, the fists in his sleeves were clenched tightly.The one who has the heart is probably Hong Ming, who is only 15 years old and knows how to behave in front of Huang Mafa, and because of the 1th elder brother leading the army, he has already replaced Hong Xi's position, faintly becoming the No. [-] among the emperor's grandsons.

The room was a little dull for a while, and Kangxi listened to the singing outside.When he sang the serial number of the Tang painting he took, Kangxi listened carefully, but the price he sang was not the 3000 taels he bid, but 5000 taels of silver.

When he wrote the mark, Hongxi and Hongming saw it.Now that it is not grandfather, the two of them are also very surprised.

Although Kangxi was a little disappointed, he didn't take it too seriously.After all, the money from the auction goes out to the bank for principal and interest, and the remaining half goes into the internal treasury.

When the sixteenth elder brother mentioned this idea to him, he mentioned it with a bit of bragging, it looked like it was cheap, but in fact these things would earn more money than selling them outside.

Kangxi also laughed and scolded Elder Sixteen for being unseemly and stinky.Looking at it today, as expected.

As for the calligraphy and painting, the antique master gave an estimate of 2 taels in the world, but sold them at a high price of 5000 taels of silver.

However, when the third and fourth items he voted for failed to be shot, he was still a little disappointed.

The total price of these three items is more than 5 taels of silver. Kangxi is not squandering wantonly, but thinking that it is not easy for Brother Sixteen to support the bank. Bank cash.That's why I bought a few curios that had a high reserve price and were not easy to sell, so as to give my son a lot of money.

Unexpectedly, there are wealthy people among the clan and dignitaries. Thinking of the empty treasury, there are still a bunch of deficit books.Kangxi's eyes turned a little cold.

How many members of the royal family have not borrowed treasury money from the Ministry of Households?
As far as today's auction is concerned, there are quite a few with a base price of more than 1 taels of silver, most of which are land properties.Nowadays, the price of fertile land outside Beijing is high, and 1 hectares of Zhuangzi cost more than [-] taels of silver.

Buying a house and land, spending ten thousand eight taels is nothing.This toy is only tens of thousands of taels of silver, how can Kangxi not be annoyed?
He frowned slightly, and told Wei Zhu, "Go out and find out who took these pictures."

Wei Zhu went in response, still wondering how to find out.They're all private rooms, so it's hard to find someone to ask.If you go to Elder Sixteen, you won't be able to hide the news of Sheng Jia's arrival.

Just as he was hesitating, he saw two healthy servants coming out of a private room in front of him, following the brushwork.

Wei Zhu took two steps forward, took note of the signs of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches hanging on the private room, and wondered what to do next.At this time, hearty laughter came from the private room, saying: "I am lucky today, except for the Yan Wang Ding, the other three pieces have been photographed...Xiao Cheng, it cost you money..."

Wei Zhu had served in the Imperial Palace for more than ten years, and was familiar with all the clan kings. Hearing this voice, he turned around, retreated to the private room, and said in a low voice, "My lord, the three antiques just now were bought by Prince Zhuang. .”

"Bo Guoduo?" Kangxi heard this, and his face turned darker when he thought of the imperial censor's impeachment two months ago.

If the household department is short of money, they have to make decisions from the internal treasury, but this Prince Zhuang pretended not to see it, and he should be greedy for greed.Although there was a shy young doctor who swept away his interest, but he was Prince Heshuo after all, and there were still quite a few people who flattered him.

Thinking of Boguoduo's richness today, all obtained from the household department in the past few years, Kangxi felt disgusted as if he had eaten a fly.

It is said that the treasury of Prince Zhuang's Mansion is full of gold and silver. In addition to the farm in the early years of the Prince's Mansion, they also have several Zhuangzi in Zhili with hundreds of hectares.In terms of wealth, he is the head of the clan kings.

Thinking of the embarrassment of the imperial court, and looking at Boguoduo, Kangxi became strange to this cousin of the same generation.Thinking of the fact that he had no heir in his rare years, and his nephews were making a fuss over the requisition of an heir, he couldn't help gloating a little.

No heir... Kangxi snorted coldly when he thought of this...

Hong Xi and Hong Ming also sensed that something was wrong, and they both became a little more careful.

Kangxi had lost the interest he had when he came here, he just felt a little dizzy, stroked his forehead, and said, "Go back to the palace..."

As soon as I got up, I heard someone shouting outside: "The reserve price is 22 taels!"

22 taels?That is the silk and dyes from the household department, and Kangxi sat back in his seat.

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On Cao Yong's side, he didn't pay attention to the outside until the singing was finished.

The main event will only be staged at this time.

Sure enough, after singing the bid, there will be a written post, which is about the silk and dyes from the three warehouses of the household department.

The base price is 22 taels of silver, which is still a hidden bid. Those who participate in the bidding will directly write the price, and then hand it over to the pen post outside their private room.

Wang Lusheng put all his mind on silk and was not very interested in dyes.

After talking about dyes, it is silk.

The silk is divided into two pieces, one is fine silk and satin, and the other is plain silk coarse cloth. The base price of the former is 50 taels, while the latter is 8 taels.

Wang Lusheng wanted to trade in Nanyang, so he naturally wanted good materials.

It's just that when he wrote the price, he hesitated.He had already heard that the Cheng family in Yangzhou was also in the capital.Hesitating, he looked up at Brother Thirteen and Cao Yong.

These two can only do nothing to help them.

Who knows how big the Cheng family will be, if it is true that they miss 2 or 8000 taels and lose the bid, the affected profit will not be [-] taels.

"Master Thirteen, Lord Cao, this time I went to Beijing, I didn't expect to encounter such a thing. The money I can raise from the capital, 50, is already the sky..." Wang Lusheng said with some difficulty.

Others Cao Yong can't help, but this one can help one or two, and said with a smile: "Don't worry about this, I don't have too much, tens of thousands of taels can still be scraped together."

Elder Brother Thirteen also said: "For the past two years, I have deposited Nanyang's profits in the bank, and I have 5 to [-] taels of silver. I have no place to use the silver. If you want to use it, I will ask someone to pay it out tomorrow."

Wang Lusheng laughed silly twice, clasped his fists to the two of them and said, "In this way, I feel at ease. It's better, even if you spend tens of thousands of taels of silver, just treat it as a filial piety to the court, and you can earn it back in the future." After finishing speaking, he Take a brush and write on paper.

"60 taels", [-] more than the reserve price.

Even Cao Yong can only praise his courage.

If it were someone else, they would know that most of the people in the meeting would be clan relatives, and the only merchants would be the Cheng family, so they might only add tens of thousands of taels.After all, the Cheng family didn't know he was there, so the price they offered would not be much higher than the reserve price.

Seeing this amount, Brother Thirteen was a little startled.

After a while, he turned to Cao Yong and said, "Fu Ruo, let's mix the 8 taels of cloth?"

Cao Yong didn't understand his intention, but seeing that he was so solemn, which was completely different from usual, he nodded in a strange way, and said: "Okay..."

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