The System Made Me a Fool

　　"Your Majesty's move is simply good news for my businessmen!"

　　"I never wanted to wait for a businessman to be able to get a title and be admired one day!"

　　"Yeah, my royal family has been in business for generations and has a lot of wealth, but I'm looked down on everywhere. Now that I can buy a decent title, it's not in vain for the hard work of my ancestors!"

　　The wealthy businessmen who were sitting were discussing in twos and threes, and almost all of them praised Yan Ge.

　　"The Emperor is here!"

　　At this time, with the loud cry of the eunuch Slijian, the emperor Yan Ge finally appeared.

　　"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

　　Yan Ge waved his hand, indicating that the conference can officially start.

　　So Ge Jianzhang motioned his subordinates to pull out a screen, and on the screen was a notice of the sale of the official title, saying:

　　"Everyone, the official titles for sale this time have been listed on the notice. Please write down the names of the official titles you like on the paper according to your needs and hand them in. After that, the officials of the Shangshu Province will conduct a unified review of the list, according to your family background. , Fame determines the final candidates for the distribution of official positions..."

　　"Stop, stop!" The more Yan Ge listened to Ge Jianzhang's words, the more he felt that something was wrong, and finally interrupted rudely.

　　Yan Ge thought to himself: What is Ge Jianzhang talking about!

　　This set of his is obviously still at work in the old Confucianism. What kind of family background, fame and the like should be considered when selling an official, if it is according to his ideas, how can it be possible to make money!

　　"Your Majesty, what are your orders?" Ge Jianzhang, who was interrupted by Yan Ge, bowed and asked for instructions.

　　"You can't do this!" Yan Ge shook his head and said, "Do you have a mallet?"

　　Ge Jianzhang shook his head, and the other ministers present were also dumbfounded, not knowing what Yan Ge wanted to do.

　　Yan Ge glanced around, grabbed a wooden inkstone and said, "Forget it, just use this."

　　Let's talk, he walked to Ge Jianzhang's position and said, "Get out of the way, I'll sell this official."

　　Ge Jianzhang was shocked and said, "Your Majesty is absolutely impossible, you are the emperor, how can you do such a lowly thing?"

　　Other officials have also spoken out to dissuade them.

　　Yan Ge scolded impatiently: "Shut up! Are you the emperor or am I the emperor?"

　　When everyone saw Yan Ge getting angry, they dispersed angrily.

　　Yan Ge then said to the merchants: "Everyone, today's official sales meeting

　　Change a form, and I will announce the official titles and titles to be sold. Anyone who is interested can bid as much as you want, and the one with the highest price will get it, and the deal will be done on the spot! "

　　As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the businessmen present lit up, followed by cheers.Businessmen like to deal with money the most, and they are most familiar with using money to solve problems. Yan Ge’s approach is obviously more in line with businessmen’s wishes than Ge Jianzhang’s approach.

　　At this time, Yan Ge picked up the ink inkstone and patted it heavily on the table, and said, "The official position of the first auction is the 8th rank Taimiao Secretary Cao, and the starting price is 3 taels of silver. Please raise your hands and make a bid!"

　　As soon as Yan Ge's voice fell, a large small hand was raised from underneath.

　　A businessman in black said, "Your Majesty, I will pay 4 taels!"

　　"5 taels!"

　　"6 taels!"

　　The merchants showed great enthusiasm and all offered offers.

　　At this time, a thick voice sounded in the crowd: "I'll give you [-] taels!"

　　At first glance, everyone saw that he was a businessman who was full of jewels and rich in wealth.

　　"Okay, the highest bidder is currently [-] taels. I will take the table three times, and a higher bidder can submit it within three times. If not, the official position will be settled!" Yan Ge said.

　　Everyone looked at each other in dismay, and no one proposed a higher price.After all, all the official positions that Yan Ge took out this time were empty positions and basically had no real power, and the position of Cao Cao of the Taimiao Temple was mainly responsible for assisting the sacrifices and tribute affairs in the Taimiao Temple, and it was more leisurely.It is not worth paying too much price for this kind of office.

　　Seeing this, Yan Ge said, "Okay, then ask the bidder to register in the side hall."

　　The businessman who bought it couldn't help but grinned and walked to the side hall under the leadership of a small official.For him, to be able to become an 8th-rank official in his lifetime is already a glorious ancestor.

　　Seeing his happy appearance, the others were even more looking forward to the official position in the next auction, and many even regretted not bidding just now.After all, the higher the price of official positions sold later, some small businessmen with limited financial resources can basically only target the few official positions auctioned in the front.

　　As a result, the atmosphere of the next auction became more lively, and the merchants smashed tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of silver like flowing water.In some of the more critical positions, there are still people who are red-faced.

　　The ministers of the Shangshu Province on the side were stunned when they saw this scene, and shook their heads and sighed: "Absurd, absurd! Your Majesty, as the monarch of a country, actually presides over the sale of officials and titles in person, making the palace look like a vegetable market. An unheard of spectacle in Wei!"

　　Only Ge Jianzhang was thoughtful, he understood that although Yan Ge's approach was indecent, he could charge an unbelievable amount of silver more than his own form just now!

　　With the advancement of time, the sales official meeting has also entered its final climax!

　　Yan Ge said: "You can be optimistic, the next few official titles and titles I want to sell are the most important ones, and you will definitely have a long face when you buy them back!" Yan Ge didn't care about his status as a king, talking about it. Sounds like a salesman.

　　"Nanyuan County male, baron, the starting price is 50 taels of silver!"

　　As soon as these words came out, all the merchants present went crazy.

　　Baron, this is a baron!

　　Although the baron is the lowest title among the princes and uncles, this is an honor that businessmen have never even thought of!

　　In theory, a baron has the right to report his thoughts and requests directly to the emperor. When a baron sees officials below the 3rd rank of the court, he does not need to give a big ceremony. Even when the baron's parents die, the local chief executive needs to attend the funeral.What an honor this is for a businessman who is bullied by bureaucrats and aristocrats on a daily basis!

　　Almost as soon as Yan Ge finished speaking, there were bidding voices one after another.

　　61, 62, 65, 70, the bids of the merchants rose steadily like sesame blossoms.

　　At this time, a voice that was determined to win came over: "80! This title, I, Jiannan, Chen Lipin, are going to decide!"

Chapter 34 Two million!

　　Everyone looked up and saw that this person was tall, with a towering nose, and he had a kind of heroic demeanor. This person was Chen Lipin, a famous businessman in Jiannan Road.

　　Just when everyone thought that the baron title was about to fall to the Chen family, a man in white suddenly stood up from his seat.

　　"One million!" The man said an explosive number, concise and to the point, without a single extra sentence, but it was enough to shock everyone.

　　Chen Li frequently saw that someone could compete with him in front of the emperor, and suddenly felt that he couldn't hold back his face.

　　You must know that the reason why he made a high-profile bid to buy this title, besides the title itself is attractive enough, there is another important reason, that is to attract the attention of Emperor Yan Ge!

　　These businessmen are so long-sleeved and good at dancing, they can accumulate wealth to the point where they are today. It is impossible to say that they do not have extraordinary eyes and long-term vision.

　　They understand that as long as they can attract the emperor's attention and win a little favor, it is possible to make a qualitative change in their fate.

　　Therefore, Chen Lipin immediately shouted back at the man in white: "Then I will give out 120 million taels of silver!"

　　In Chen Lipin's eyes, this duel is no longer a competition for the title, but a competition for who can show the most profound strength in front of the emperor.

　　The man in white looked at Chen Lipin. He looked far less sharp than Chen Lipin, but his eyes were as firm as anyone else's. Obviously, he couldn't give up the title!

　　So the man in white immediately reported another number: "Two million!"

　　"You're crazy!" Chen Lipin exclaimed.It is easy to pay a huge sum of two million for a baron title, even if his Chen family almost monopolized half of Jiannan's tea business, he still felt very difficult.

　　Chen Lipin hesitated again and again and did not quote a higher price.

　　"Who is this person who can force Chen Lipin to back down?"

　　Many people below were also shocked by the wealth of the man in white.

　　"You don't know him, he is one of the most famous horse traders in our northwest, Ning Ke!"

　　"Yes, there are few people who do business in our northwest who don't know him. But he is low-key, unassuming, and has always been very mysterious." A businessman from the northwest explained to everyone.

　　Yan Ge glanced at the man and nodded slightly. He also understood the purpose of this white-clothed businessman's high price, and he immediately became interested in this man.

　　"Two million for the first time, two million for the second time...the deal!"

　　In the end, in the eyes of everyone's envy, the baron title still fell to the Northwest Horse Merchant

　　Nink's hands.

　　Since then, several heavyweight officials have been auctioned, but the transaction amount has not exceeded [-] million, but the price of about [-] million is already ridiculously high.

　　Several officials in charge of statistics in Shangshu Province were already trembling. They never thought that they could use this unheard-of method to auction off officials, and the amount accumulated in the end was even more astronomical.

　　Those officials who were still mocking Yan Ge's actions just now didn't dare to say a word.

　　The official minister Ge Jianzhang looked at Yan Ge sitting high on the dragon chair with reverence. His Majesty is really unfathomable.

　　1427 million taels of silver!This is the final figure obtained at the auction.

　　You must know that the current deficit in military salaries of the national treasury is only 2000 million taels of silver. The more than 1400 million taels of silver are still closely related to the income of this sales meeting in the Liangyi Temple. This number is multiplied by 2.

　　That is to say, Yan Ge's selling of officials solved the problem of military salaries and alleviated the urgent financial needs of Dawei.

　　At this moment, no matter how shameless the officials were about Yan Ge's humiliating and gentle actions, they couldn't help but admit the role of this sale of officials in filling the treasury.

　　When the congress of selling officials was over, all the officials kneeled in front of Yan Ge and shouted long live.

　　As for the businessmen, they regard Yan Ge as a bright moon in the sky. In the high-ranking Wei Dynasty, with officials and nobility in their bodies, even if they do not have real power, it will help them in their future career development and personal safety. And metaphor.

　　Seeing the fiery eyes of the businessmen looking at him, Yan Ge immediately felt that this was a good opportunity to bring him closer to the business class.

　　He is familiar with history and the modern economic system and understands that the merchant class played a vital role in the production relations of feudal society, but their role was long despised by the ancient officials of the Celestial Dynasty. The reason for the inability to develop new relations of production.

　　Of course, as a modern person, Yan Ge would not foolishly make any changes in capitalist production relations in Dawei. With systematic help, he could develop a superpower that disdains the world under the framework of the feudal system.

　　But it is also necessary to change the backward thinking of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce.

　　So Yan Ge amiably delivered a speech to these important businessmen of the Wei Dynasty, to the effect that the state had treated the merchants badly for a long time, and in the future, they will protect the interests of the merchants, and hope that they can support the construction of the country more and strengthen the same Government cooperation.

Chapter 35

　　The merchants never thought they would be treated so amiably by the high-ranking emperor, of course they were grateful and kept kowtowing to show their loyalty.

　　After the meeting, the white-clothed businessman Ning Ke was stopped by a eunuch.

　　"Lord Ning, Your Majesty invites you to the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

　　Ning Ke showed a surprised but expected expression, nodded and said, "Follow the order."

　　In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, when Ning Ke saw Yan Ge, he immediately knelt down and bowed his head: "Your Majesty, you are really the savior of my merchants."

　　Yan Ge asked, "Where did Ning Qing say this?"

　　After listening to Ning Ke, tears welled up in his eyes: "Your Majesty, if you didn't have your policy of selling officials, how could I, Ning Ke, a lowly trader, get the word 'Qing'!"