According to Wang Yuncang.

At this time, Tongzhou belonged to Huainan East Road.

That is, the state, the status of which was equivalent to that of the later prefecture-level city.

According to historical development, to the Yuan Dynasty to the fifteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Tongzhou will also be promoted to Tongzhou Road, and later restore the state, which shows that this is an ancient big city.

Tongzhou City.

Wang Chen entered smoothly with the message.

In a few years, after the complete unification of the Song Dynasty, not to mention that there is no need for various certificates to enter and exit the city gate, even if it is okay to do business across provinces, this is thanks to the household registration system of the Song Dynasty, and it is the reform of the household registration system that weakens the personal constraints of the people of the Song Dynasty and promotes the development of the commodity economy in the Song Dynasty.

Not now, if you don't have an identity certificate, you will be regarded as a spy of another country, after all, you are still at war.

At this time, it was already past eleven o'clock in the afternoon.

The two of them had a casual meal in a nearby restaurant, spending eight cents and two bowls of noodle soup with meat.

Speaking of copper coins, I have to mention here that from the first year of Song Taizu Jianlong to the fourth year of Zhirenzong's Qingli, the coins minted in the past 80 years are all normal small flat coins that do not lose weight, and a text is a text. Later, after the Qingli five years of minting the Qingli heavy treasure as ten coins, since then the inflation coinage of "folding two", "folding three", "when five" and "when ten" has become regularized.

Fold two, when five As the name suggests, one can be used as two and five texts.

Finish eating the noodles.

Wang Chen followed Wang Yuncang to the government's sales building, which was a two-story wooden building with a large area.

Walking in, there was no one inside, except for the shopkeeper who was like a shopkeeper, only two or three small servants left.

Someone came up to greet him, and it was estimated that it was an ancient waiter, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy wearing a square hat, "Two masters, what are you doing?"

Before he could speak, Wang Yuncang acted as a dog's leg, straightened his chest, pointed at Wang Chen next to him, and said, "My young master wants to sell a treasure." ”

The little girl's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "What is it?"

Wang Chen took out the glass mirror that had been taken out a long time ago from the baggage, "Glass...... Glass mirror. He remembered that in ancient times, glass was not called glass, but was generally called glass.

Before the little guy could speak, the eyes of the middle-aged man in his thirties sitting behind the counter had already looked straight at him, and he immediately stood up and said with a moving face: "Guest officer, your glass mirror is pure and flawless, and you want to take it out and sell it?"

The little guy introduced: "This is my shopkeeper. ”

"Shopkeeper Yan is good. Wang Chen said hello.

But I was wondering in my heart.

Is there anything wrong with taking out the glass mirror and selling it?

The next moment, Shopkeeper Yan explained the true meaning of selling. In fact, the sale is based on coins as props, and the winner is determined by letters, and if the buyer wins, he can buy at a discount.

After listening to the introduction, Wang Chen: "......" He glanced at Wang Yuncang, this old boy didn't know how to pretend to understand and almost cheated his buddy.

Wang Yuncang looked embarrassed, laughed twice and didn't say anything more.

Definitely not selling.

Is it only a pawnshop?

Before he finished thinking about it, the shopkeeper Yan smiled and said: "If you really want to sell this item at a good price, our shop provides singing and selling, but you have to charge a certain deposit, and after the matter is completed, you will collect a commission and return the deposit." ”

Singing and selling?

What the hell is this?

Wang Chen blinked and said, "Singing and selling?"

"Yes. Shopkeeper Yan said that he had turned out from behind the counter, and scolded the little guy, "Don't you want to serve good tea to your guests?" Seeing the little guy hurriedly walking in, he looked at Wang Chen again and explained: "Singing and selling means that we openly let people bid, and the one with the highest price in the end will win, and after the transaction, we will collect a 10% commission from it, and the rest will belong to you." ”

Oh, it's an auction.

I can't imagine that there were also in ancient times.

In fact, the earliest auctions appeared in Indian Buddhism, and gradually spread in Chinese Buddhist temples around the 7th century, as recorded in the Ten Friendship Laws:

"Selling clothes from among the monks in today's audience, and not singing three times, should be profitable. ”

"The three songs are not competitive, and the price is not committed. ”

The "three songs" here refer to the last three bids.

"Benefit" means mark-up.

"Guilty" means to resist.

Roughly speaking, when auctioning clothes, if the bid does not exceed three times, the bidder can continue to increase the price without restriction until the auction object is sold at the third bid.

Later, the singing and selling slowly spread to the ancient society, and the government and Yizhuang presided over the singing and selling more.

Wang Chen understood, and immediately said: "Okay, then I'll put the glass mirror in your shop to shoot ...... Singing and selling?"

Shopkeeper Yan smiled, stretched out his hand and pulled Wang Chen inside, "Come on, let's talk inside." He said as he walked: "Your glass mirror is worth 100 gold, and I am ready to open 50 gold at the reserve price if you sing and sell, according to the regulations, you only need to put a deposit of 25 taels of silver, and I can issue you a record sale paperwork, and you will be sold on the singing day after five days." ”

Yes?

Want a deposit of twenty-five taels of silver?

I have no money in my pocket, and even the money to rent a donkey is from Wang Yuncang, what can I do?

Wang Chen was slightly dumbfounded and said, "I don't have any money." ”

Shopkeeper Yan smiled for a moment, frowned and said, "Gold is fine, two taels and five dollars." ”

Wang Chen smiled dryly: "There is no gold." ”

Shopkeeper Yan was speechless and said, "What about the copper coin?"

Wang Chen coughed, "That, penniless underneath." ”

Shopkeeper Yan: "......"

In the end, before the tea was served, Wang Chen and Wang Yuncang hurriedly fled from the sales building.

There is no way, it is opened by the government, and everything must be done in accordance with the rules and regulations.

……

Walking on the streets.

On the bustling streets, Wang Chen looked at Wang Yuncang, "Fifth brother, do you have twenty-five taels of silver?" borrow it from me first, and wait for the glass mirror to be auctioned off for you." ”

"Yes. Wang Yuncang said cleanly.

Wang Chen was overjoyed.

Wang Yuncang continued: "At home." ”

Wang Chen almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, it had been more than three hours since he rode a donkey, and if he rode back on a donkey, wouldn't it be a waste of time?

If twenty-five taels of silver were in other dynasties, ordinary people might not be able to take it out, but the per capita annual income of the Song Dynasty was relatively large, which was nothing.

Let's put it this way, now the annual income of the Northern Song Dynasty government is 20 taels of silver, 40 taels of horsemen, 20 taels of oil sellers, and about 36 taels of butchers who kill pigs.

And although Wang Yuncang is a fisherman, it is not a problem to earn twenty or thirty taels of silver a year.

"Brother Chen, why don't I go home and get it for you?" Wang Yuncang said flatteringly.

Wang Chen thought for a while, waved his hand and said, "No, you can find me where there is an immortal library nearby." ”

Far water can't quench the thirst of the near.

Besides, his body was really a little unbearable, he had traveled through the Northern Song Dynasty for more than 11 hours, returned to the modern society for more than 10 hours, and added more than 4 hours in the morning, in fact, Wang Chen had not slept for 256 hours.

Very sleepy.

Forget it, go to the pawnshop first to get something, and then go to the auction of things when you have the money, as for then, he doesn't want to rush anymore, and is ready to find a place to sleep well.

Wang Yuncang pointed to the front and said, "Well, Xu Ji Pawnshop is the largest immortal warehouse in Tongzhou City. ”

Wang Chen rubbed his swollen and aching temples, and said forcefully: "Okay, let's go over and ask." ”

……

Xu Ji pawnshop.

Walking in, it's a little different from the pawn shop you see on the TV, and it's not just the shopkeeper.

Perhaps this is the largest pawnshop in Tongzhou City, and there are many people in it.

There were three or five small men in Tsing Yi, and seven or eight people who looked like customers, and as for the short-bearded shopkeeper who looked like Sven, he sat behind a very high wooden counter and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Seeing them come in, a young man in Tsing Yi with a big black mole on the corner of his mouth stepped forward and said, "Guest officer, please come in." ”

Wang Chen and Wang Yuncang were received to the square table.

The little guy asked the two to sit down, poured a small bowl of tea each, and then asked, "Do you want to be big, press, or charge?"

Wang Chen didn't understand these professional terms, so he said directly: "Die." ”

"What?" asked the little guy again.

Wang Chen looked left and right, and saw that there were more people nearby, and he was going to sell a set of glass tea sets, which was not good. Glass tea sets are nothing in modern society, but they are definitely treasures in the Northern Song Dynasty, and if they are targeted by someone with a heart, it will cause unnecessary trouble.

"I'm going to be more expensive. Wang Chen leaned into the little girl's ear and lowered his voice, "Can you find a clean place?"

The little girl's eyes lit up, and he immediately turned his head and said, "Shopkeeper, there are distinguished guests." ”

The shopkeeper, who had been looking sleepy, immediately opened his eyes, stood up with a smile on his face, stretched out his hand and said, "Please come inside." ”

Looking at the shrewd appearance of the shopkeeper, a joke that Guo Degang said in his cross talk suddenly popped up in Wang Chen's mind: A person went to the pawnshop with a brand-new leather robe, but after the second shopkeeper of the pawnshop inspected the goods, his mouth immediately became a diaper with "an old sheepskin jacket, insects and rats, missing short sleeves, few buttons and no buttons, no placket, no hem, no collar, no sleeves"!

The cross talk is a little exaggerated, but at the same time, it also reveals that the pawn industry is arrogant and unreasonable, taking advantage of people's danger.

Wang Chen had a heart, and when he entered the inside, he must not be caught in the shopkeeper's way, he should ask for the price fiercely, and he must not be wronged.