Wentang

Chapter 274 The Self-righteous Leek

June [-]th has entered midsummer, and it is also the busy season for summer harvest and summer planting.But Chang'an City has become lively——Chang'an City is very lively every day, but today is especially lively.

"Have you heard? The Liuli Pavilion will hold an auction today." Passerby A said with a mysterious expression.

"Brother, how many days have you not gone out? Everyone in Chang'an probably knows this news, right?" Passer-by B said.

"No, I think most people in Tang Dynasty know about it." Passerby C took a sip of his wine and said.

At this time, there was a lot of noise outside, and someone could be vaguely heard shouting: "Look, that's from the Wang family in Taiyuan. The leader I taught is Wang Yuanzhuo, the steward of the Wang family."

"Taiyuan Wang? What are they doing here?" Passerby A asked suspiciously.

"Hehe...Of course I came to participate in the auction. Liuli is the most precious treasure that can show everyone's style. Naturally, Wang is not willing to let it go." Passer-by B said.

"It's not just the Taiyuan Wang family, I heard that the five surnames and Qiwang have sent people here." Passer-by Ding deliberately loudly said.Seeing that the eyes of the people around were attracted to him, he immediately felt complacent, and said, "I heard that when the people with five surnames and Qiwang entered the city, they loaded several carts with gold alone, and they are bound to win Liuli."

"Ah? Then other people will have no chance, what kind of auction will be held, just sell them all." Passer-by C said.

"How is that possible? If only things were that simple." Passer-by B said disdainfully: "The nobles who are closed will not give them face, there are so many wealthy gentry in the south, and it is not so easy for five surnames and Qiwang to buy glassware. "

"But the south is far away from here, so it's not so easy to raise money, right?" Passerby A asked.

"The people in Liuli Pavilion have thought of this a long time ago. They have adopted a method called credit mortgage to facilitate those who have the strength but cannot afford to participate in the auction." Passer-by B said as if I understood everything.

"What is credit mortgage?" Passer-by Ding asked at the right time.The people in the tavern also paid attention to them, wanting to hear what was going on.

"Those rich and powerful businessmen, as long as they can prove their identities and write a guarantee letter, they can buy Liuli without cash, and they can pay back the money within half a month." Seeing that he has attracted everyone's attention, Passerby B Very proud, said loudly.

"But, isn't Liuli Pavilion afraid of someone reneging on the bill?" Passerby A asked in surprise.

"Repudiation?" Passer-by B sarcastically said: "The rich and powerful want face, who would smash their own signboard for something outside of themselves?"

Passerby A hid his face in shame and left, leaving only the crowd laughing loudly.

"I can't help but want to go and have a look. Let's go to the Liuli Pavilion together." Passer-by Ding got up and said.

"Let's go, let's go." Passers-by B and C also left, leaving only the chattering crowd.

The three of them turned a corner when they went out and saw a person, who was obviously a passerby.The four looked at each other, smiled, turned around and entered another teahouse...

Wang Yuanzhuo was bowing respectfully to a young man in a mansion in Chang'an City, "Yuan Zhuo has met Mr. Shaolang."

"Mianli, have you gone to see it? How's the situation?" Wang Lu asked.

"It's not so good. More than 40 families from Shandong gentry came, and more than [-] families came to close the powerful. The biggest threat is the wealthy businessmen and Hu merchants in the south." Wang Yuanzhuo shook his head and said.

"Hu merchants dare to intervene, aren't they afraid of being torn to pieces? The road to the south is far away, how can those rich merchants have time to raise money?" Wang Lu said displeased.

"The Liuli Pavilion guarantees that no matter who buys the glazed wares, they will be protected for fifteen days. As for the rich merchants in the south, the Liuli Pavilion has adopted a credit guarantee..." Wang Yuanzhuo said in a low voice.

After listening to Wang Lu, he was angry and helpless. Liuliguan really took everything into consideration, leaving no room for it.At the same time, he despises the royal family even more, sending troops to protect those who buy glazed wares, and the food is too ugly.

He is the third son and seventh grandson of the Wang family in Taiyuan, with a distinguished status.I happened to travel to the vicinity of Chang'an, and immediately went to the city to check after hearing about the Liuli Pavilion.

As a result, it was no surprise that I was deeply attracted by the exquisite glassware.This kind of precious and beautiful treasure is only qualified to be used by a family like Qiwang with five surnames.

At that time, he found the steward of the Liuli Pavilion, and wanted to use the power of the Wang family to buy all these things.It's a pity that people don't give him face at all.

It was only later that he learned that the Liuli Pavilion had a royal background, and then he thought of Li Shimin's frequent actions recently, and heard that the national treasury was empty.Immediately thought of many things.

When the new emperor Li Shimin ascended the throne, his nonsense exhausted the national treasury, so he had to sell his collection of glazed wares to make up for the shortfall.As for where did the royal family get so many glazed wares... After all, it is the royal family, so there must be many ways to do it. Maybe it was lucky to dig out someone's ancestral grave.

It doesn't matter where the glazed wares came from, the important thing is that they are going to sell them now.

Wang Lu immediately wrote his guess and told the elders in the family. He believed that the family would also be tempted.

As expected, the owner confirmed his guess and told him not to miss this opportunity to buy as many as he could.Wang Yuanzhuo was also sent to assist him.

Is Liuli rare in the Wang family?Of course it's rare, but this is colored glaze, it's rare to see one as big as a bean.Now these are all pieces of utensils, and they are even more valuable.How could they not be interested.

But willing to pay so much money to buy it is not just to get a few pieces of glassware, but also to humiliate the royal family.

You, Li Shimin, have made the national treasury run out of money by your nonsense, and you have to auction off the rare treasure glassware, which is a shame.These glazed vessels are a mark of disgrace.

When you buy it, you can enjoy it at home. If you are happy, you can even hold a colored glaze exhibition or something, and tell everyone the origin of these colored glazes... It’s the best thing to whip corpses.

There are quite a few people who hold the same idea as the Taiyuan Wang family, and most of the Shandong gentry such as the Qinghe Cui family, Fanyang Lu family, and Xingyang Zheng family have this idea.

Wang Lu also contacted these aristocratic families in private, hoping to form a united front, and these aristocratic families also agreed.

But he doesn't fully trust these comrades, just as he himself has made plans to use them for profit, other aristocratic families will definitely want to use him.It's time to see who is more skilled.

The closer the auction day was, the busier Chang'an City became, and all kinds of rumors and rumors spread everywhere, and it was not known whether it was true or not.

Why did a certain family and a certain dignitary want to reach an agreement in private to jointly bid for the auction, but the negotiation failed and they fought so hard that their noses were crooked.

Why did a certain wealthy businessman prepare one hundred thousand guan at one go, just to buy a glazed ware.

A certain Hu merchant sold all his property at a low price, and planned to buy glassware and return it to the country to present to the king in order to obtain the title of nobility.

Because there were too many buyers, the Liuliguan was forced to take out ten more exquisite glazed wares, and the number of glazed wares in this auction reached twenty.

No one knows which news is true and which is false, anyway, Quan Chang'an's eyes are attracted.

On the afternoon of June [-]th, the much-anticipated auction finally started.

(End of this chapter)