Wentang

Chapter 403 Money Like Dung

"Everyone, this piece of glazed ware cost hundreds of thousands of precious materials, and it took hundreds of skillful craftsmen a year to make it. There is only this one in the world, and only this one will be made. There will be no second one in the future. Two identical treasures."

Looking at the glassware covered by the red cloth, Jin Rushan's introduction voice lost the pride and calmness of the past, and became a little ethereal and dreamy.

He is just the shopkeeper of the Liuli Pavilion and doesn't know how to make Liuli. Like ordinary people, he also thinks it is difficult to make it.

When he first sold glazed wares, he was very excited and a little bit reluctant, but he got used to it as he handled more.

But the glassware in front of him shocked him too much. Even though he handled countless glassware, he still couldn't sleep at night after seeing it. He still hasn't recovered from the shock. .

He couldn't understand why the sage and empress were willing to put such a treasure up for auction. Don't they want to keep it for themselves?

"Treasurer Jin, you've been talking a lot of nonsense today, quickly lift the cloth and let us see what it is." Someone shouted.

Jin Rushan's lips moved, and he wanted to say something to arouse people's emotions, but he felt that any words of praise were not as powerful as a glance in person.

So he swallowed the words that came to his lips, and changed his words: "Okay, everyone, please take a look."

After speaking, he tore off the red cloth violently, and the glassware that had been hyped for two months finally appeared in front of everyone.Then everyone fell silent throughout the auction, and no one made a sound.

A huge glazed vessel with a blue theme.There is a slender blue palm on the huge blue lotus platform, holding a huge white and white colored glaze Ruyi on the palm.

At this time, eight white lights suddenly shot from the roof to the glazed vessel. Under the light, the glazed vessel shone with countless stars, which looked as beautiful as a fairyland.

Everyone in the arena was fascinated by the scene in front of them, even the children of the aristocratic family who had ridiculed Liuli Pavilion for mysteries at the beginning were dumbfounded, and their mouths opened wider and wider.

If it was the past, seeing these people's ugly appearance, Jin Rushan would definitely laugh in his heart, but this time he didn't, because he himself was not much better than others.

Especially when he thought that such a treasure would soon belong to someone else, his heart was pierced.

Fortunately, he did not forget his mission. After waiting for a while, he saw that everyone gradually regained their sanity before saying:
"This treasure is called Qinglian Buddha's Hand Ruyi. I won't introduce the details for everyone to see. Now that the auction has started, there is no reserve price for this round of auction, and each increase must not be less than [-] guan. Now you can bid."

Unexpectedly, no one raised their placards. Some of them were thinking with their heads down, and some were looking at others, waiting for others to bid.

Jin Rushan was not in a hurry, he knew that these people didn't want to buy it, but they didn't know what price to offer.If it is too low, it will disrespect this glazed vessel, and it will cause people to laugh at it, but if it is too high, it will not be reconciled.

At this time, someone finally raised his hand, and when everyone was waiting to see his bid, they found him saying: "Treasurer Jin, what if you don't have enough cash?"

Jin Rushan smiled and said: "Of course, cash is the priority, but considering that the transaction volume may be too large, we will reserve five days for everyone to raise money. If you can raise enough money within five days, it's still yours, baby. However, if it exceeds five days, it will be regarded as a waiver, and the deposit will not be refunded."

Many people let out a sigh of relief, and their eyes lit up.

"Okay, everyone, is there any bid? Once." Jin Rushan asked for the first time.

Still no bids.

"Any bids? Twice."

Now someone started to worry, because after three times no one bids, the auction will be passed.

Immediately someone raised a placard: "One hundred thousand guan."

"No. 43 bid [-] guan. Is there a higher price? If not, this green lotus bergamot will be returned as you wish..." Before Jin Rushan finished speaking, five or six cards were raised.

"There are so many people raising placards, so we will call names according to the size of the number. How much is the NO.17 customer bidding?"

"12 sticks."

"How much is Mr. NO.20's bid?"

"13 sticks."

"Mr. No. 29..."

"..."

One bid was higher than the other, and the price was directly raised to 19 after one round.

As soon as this price was released, the audience was silent for a moment, and the next moment there was a louder noise.

Usually, a set of glazed wares is only a few hundred to thousands of guan, rarely more than [-] guan, and so far only appeared in the first auction of more than [-] guan.

Now the price has been raised to nearly 20 in one breath, which is amazing.

Not to mention those who participated in the auction, even Jin Rushan was stunned.Although he said that the material cost of this thing would not be less than [-] guan, but that was just for bragging and raising the price, and he didn't know the actual cost.

But it still shocked him that someone really called the starting price of [-] guan, and there were so many people following the price.

Although he knew that Datang never lacked rich people, he never expected that there would be so many of them, and they would not regard money as money.

In fact, this is not an exaggeration at all. Chinese people have had curious stones since ancient times, and it is not uncommon for a good strange stone to sell for tens of thousands of prices.In the eyes of early Tang people, the price of colored glaze naturally far exceeds that of strange stones.

What's more, Liuli can also make money, and strange stones can only be sold to people who are interested in this field. The circle is relatively small, and even if there are good things, it is not easy to sell them.

Liuli is different, because everyone likes this thing, and it is easy to resell it for money when the circle is big.In fact, everyone can see how profitable the glass business is. If you buy it from the Liuli Pavilion and sell it to those in need, you can earn at least double the profit.

If there are foreign channels, it can even be sold at several times or ten times the price, which can be called a huge profit.

Therefore, most of the merchants with some capital in the Tang Dynasty will send a few representatives to come to pan for gold.If you buy one or two sets at a more reliable price, you will pay them half a year or even a year's profit.

In particular, marine merchants come to compete for it almost every issue, and it is precisely because of their presence that the price of colored glaze can remain high.

Usually, a set of glassware consists of a few plates, cups and small bowls, which together are not as big as this Ruyi lotus petal. Not many people doubt that it is worth 20 to [-] guan, so some people are willing to bid.

But 20 guan also exceeded the bottom line of most people. Basically, 90.00% of the people had given up bidding, and the remaining [-]% of people were also lost in thought.

For such a big thing, most people don't plan to collect it themselves, but are going to resell it.But it's not so easy to sell, after all, few of the hundreds of thousands of businesses can afford it.

Those who did not have such high-quality customer resources in their hands also shook their heads secretly and gave up their plans to bid.

As a result, there are less than ten people who really have the purchasing power, not including seven families with five surnames.Although the aristocratic family is not short of money, they will not spend hundreds of thousands to buy a plaything.

It would be fine if it was the only one, but knowing that the colored glaze is artificially made, I still think it's worthless.If you can make one, you can make the second. Who knows if this thing will depreciate one day.

So after hearing that the first round of quotations was close to 20 guan, they had already given up bidding.

Zhu Ying and Qian Duoduo belonged to the kind of people who intend to buy. When they heard the price of 20 guan, instead of hesitating, they smiled.

The more expensive the competition, the fewer talents there are.

"30 guan." Qian Duoduo raised the price to as high as 30 guan, trying to scare off competitors with this figure.

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