League of Legends

Chapter 56 Hold an Auction to Collect Money!
Although there were 500 million gold coins sent by Brogg, they were all taken away by debtors the next day, and even with the only 300 million gold coins left in the treasury, there were only hundreds of thousands of gold coins left.

Almost all the people who came to ask for money were domestic nobles, and there was no room for negotiation, they just wanted gold coins back.

Looking at the empty vault, the whole family was in a hurry.

However, things turned around the next morning.

First, a caravan with 200 million gold coins wanted the exclusive right to sell the three counties of Dunshi County, Yale County and Martin County in the south of Demacia.Immediately afterwards, another caravan arrived, carrying more than 100 million gold coins, wanting the exclusive sales rights of Sta Port and Cannes City.

As a result, quite a few caravans came here, and many caravans were even competitors, almost fighting for the exclusive sales rights in the same area.

It seems that the leaflets distributed by Lux have already had an effect, and some caravans in the vicinity have received the news and rushed over.

These businessmen are indeed more business-minded than the nobles, and they know what the exclusive right to sell represents.As long as you get the exclusive right to sell, it is equivalent to being the only seller of spices and magic paper in this area in the future, and the money will not roll in.

But those nobles came all the way to get the money back.

Seeing these businessmen in front of the City Lord's Mansion fighting for the right to sell in the same area, Ye Liangchen's eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of a better way.

"Xin Zhao, please inform Zhao Xin that due to too many competitors, the City Lord's Mansion is going to divide the sales rights of spices and magic paper by region, and hold an auction in five days." Ye Liangchen said to Xin Zhao.

"Auction? What is an auction?" Xin Zhao stared blankly.

"It is the right to sell in the same area. We give a reserve price. If there are two caravans competing, then the caravan with the highest bid will get it." Ye Liangchen explained.

"That's a good idea. If they don't get too noisy, I'll inform them." Xin Zhao ran over with a happy face and informed the caravans.

Throughout the day, Xin Zhao had already been quarreled by the people in the caravan.

The caravans who were still arguing at first had no objection when they heard that the method of auction was used to determine the ownership of the exclusive sales right. They felt that this was the most reasonable method, and they stopped arguing one by one.

As a result, the only inn in Campbell City was overcrowded, and even many residents had caravans running to stay overnight. Many residents took advantage of this opportunity to make a small fortune.

"Kane, how did you come up with such a method?" Xin Zhao asked Ye Liangchen curiously after notifying the caravans.

"I figured it out with my brain." Ye Liangchen said proudly.

"..." Xin Zhao glared at Ye Liangchen, "It's fine if you don't say anything, I'll tell Jiawen and Galen to strengthen the patrol in the city. There are so many businessmen in Campbell City all at once, so if something happens, it will be troublesome." gone."

"Yeah." Ye Liangchen nodded: "Also pay attention to the patrols outside the city, the city wall has not been repaired yet, so many merchants live in the city, maybe there will be robbers coming to attack."

"Yes! I almost forgot about it." Xin Zhao slapped his head and hurried to inform Galen and Jarvan.

With so many merchants sending money, Ye Liangchen finally breathed a sigh of relief, Campbell City should be able to tide over this difficulty, and even develop smoothly.

Drawing lessons from last time, this time Ye Liangchen no longer adopts the method of investment, but adopts the method of auctioning the exclusive sales rights of each region.Although the money obtained in this way will be much less, all the money from the auction belongs to the City Lord's Mansion, and it will not take two years to return it.

For the City Lord's Mansion, time passed quickly, and five days passed in the blink of an eye.

But for those caravans, every day was tough.

Although Campbell City is different from before, it is still extremely backward. How can these merchants get used to it, and they are anxiously waiting to get the exclusive right to sell it so that they can earn a lot of gold coins.

In the school yard in the military area in the northwest corner of the auction site, this school yard was planned to be used by two thousand soldiers when it was built, and it was more than enough to hold the auction.

Xin Zhao has already set up the auction site, but because Xin Zhao, Galen and others don't understand auctions, this is completely a novelty in Waterland Continent, so Ye Liangchen has to be the host of this auction.

When the businessmen saw that a kid under four years old was on stage, they were all dumbfounded.

Looking at the nearly a thousand businessmen sitting under the stage, Ye Liangchen took a breath, took out a black cylinder, and said to the cylinder: "Everyone, I am Kane, the host of this auction, I believe Everyone knows the purpose of this auction, so I won't talk nonsense, I will directly talk about the rules of the auction."

The loud sound resounded throughout the school grounds, shaking everyone's ears.

"What is this?"

"Why do I hear voices all around me?"

"How could there be such a loud voice?"

"Is this some kind of magic?"

Everyone didn't care about the rules that Ye Liangchen was going to say, but they first cared about the voice that resounded throughout the school grounds.

Hearing these people's comments, Ye Liangchen shook the black tube in his hand helplessly: "Everyone is very curious about how I can speak so loudly, this is actually the function of the loudspeaker in my hand, as long as With this loudspeaker, you can even spread your voice throughout the city."

"Do you want to sell the exclusive right to sell this loudspeaker?" Immediately, the president of the chamber of commerce stood up and asked.

Ye Liangchen took a look at this man, he was a shrewd uncle, this uncle seemed to have some business sense, he only said the function of this thing, and immediately knew the business opportunities in it.

Ye Liangchen thought about it, and suddenly realized that he could do more things, so he took the megaphone and replied: "This megaphone is just our display, and it is not in this auction. If this uncle If you are interested, you can discuss it further with Xin Zhao, the manager of our Campbell City. In the future, we will develop more good things in Campbell City, such as magic machines that allow people from hundreds of miles away to talk to you. Let’s start with the auction of spices and magic paper.”

Ye Liangchen flickered for a while, and the businessmen below all opened their eyes wide, and were very interested in what Ye Liangchen described.

Seeing that the following finally quieted down, Ye Liangchen continued: "In this auction, we will auction off all the permanent exclusive sales rights of the 120 seven counties in the Demacia Empire. Any chamber of commerce or individual can participate in the auction, and the one with the highest bid will win the auction." .In the future, the spices and magic paper in this area will only be sold by chambers of commerce or individuals who have obtained the exclusive right to sell them. Any merchant who sells spices and magic paper to a non-regional area will be revoked from the opportunity to cooperate with Campbell City for life! "

As soon as Ye Liangchen's words came out, many businessmen who originally planned to auction off the exclusive sales rights of a county, and then privately sell the spices and magic paper to other regions, all dropped their shoulders in disappointment.

"Okay, now the auction starts! The permanent exclusive sales right of Bubing County has a base price of 5 gold coins, and each offer must not be lower than [-] gold coins!" Ye Liangchen announced decisively.

As soon as Ye Liangchen's words fell, the president of a chamber of commerce in Bubing County who had already been impatient made an offer.

Soon, the president of another Chamber of Commerce in Bubbing County also offered to compete.

After a while, businessmen from neighboring counties also participated in the quotation. It turns out that there has always been competition between businessmen from these two counties.

In the end, the permanent exclusive sales rights of Bubing County were obtained by a local chamber of commerce for [-] gold coins.

After paying [-] gold coins, the chairman looked at those competitors proudly, and signed an exclusive sales right contract with Xin Zhao.

The auction continued. The exclusive sales rights of some small counties also fetched 10,000 to 69 gold coins, while the exclusive sales rights of some large counties even fetched [-]+ gold coins, especially those from Fasil City, where the capital is located. The price of the exclusive sales right even reached [-] gold coins!
However, the price of sales rights in overseas countries is not very high.

Because under the Imperial Trade Act, there are very few chambers of commerce that can obtain overseas trade documents. The rights were divided up tacitly by several chambers of commerce that had a close relationship with the imperial government at the reserve price. Adding up the whole, even the total auction price of the sales rights in the empire was less than half.

In the end, a total of more than 120 million gold coins were sold for the exclusive sales rights of 300 seven counties, while only 540 gold coins were sold for the overseas trading rights.However, there are nearly 2000 million gold coins in total, which is much more than Ye Liangchen expected.

After the members of the Chamber of Commerce got the right to sell, they rushed to the business district in the southeast of Campbell City to purchase spices and magic paper and submit orders.

Looking at the refilled vault, Katerina couldn't keep her mouth shut: "We are rich, we are really rich."

"Haha, Kane, you are so smart, they won't ask us for money this time." Galen also happily pulled out his giant sword and danced.

Seeing the excited Katerina and Galen like two children, Ye Liangchen also showed a smile on his face.

It was a relief to solve the economic crisis in Campbell City.

After these gold coins are used to repay the debt, there will be at least 1000 million left, which is enough for the development of Campbell City.

That night, Campbell City held a city-wide carnival. Galen was happy to distribute ten gold coins to all the residents of the city, including slaves and children. As a result, the streets and alleys of the city were full of drunk people all night.

Especially those slaves, they never thought that they could also get gold coins, and they were even more excited.

During the carnival in Campbell City, the atmosphere in the study room of the palace dropped to freezing point.

(End of this chapter)