Chapter 147: Prologue - Foresight

"In Xia Xu Chen, there must have been many people here who have seen it. ”

In the Qiushui Pavilion, Xu Chen appeared to greet everyone after the guests arrived, and said.

"A few days ago, I happened to get some land by the river, but after all, he was a useless scholar, and he didn't know about farming, and it was a waste to keep these lands, so today I wanted to invite you to discuss it together, and see if you can inherit these lands from your hands, and save these lands from being wasted. Xu Chen said with an unhurried smile.

Everyone present was on the scene, watching Xu Chen talking nonsense seriously, and still listening with a smile on his face, but the occasional "hehe" sounded like a different taste.

"Xu Gongzi, since we came here today, we are here with sincerity, I think we should avoid these false things!" The middle-aged man surnamed Wang, who was angry in Meiyun Mansion a few days ago, saw that Xu Chen still refused to enter the topic at this time, so he couldn't help but speak out directly, and said: "Let's talk straight! Xu Dongjia, how are you going to sell these lands?"

"Hehe, since Wang Dongjia has talked about this, then Xu someone won't go around in circles with everyone!" Xu Chen's lines have not been finished yet, and he was picked apart by such a stunned person, and now it will be a bit humiliating to pretend again, so Xu Chen had to skip the first link of the original design and directly move out today's main drama.

"This time, we will also use the auction method to determine the ownership of the land, the old rule, the highest price wins!" Xu Chen said.

"Then what are you waiting for, let's get started!" the middle-aged man surnamed Wang immediately shouted loudly.

"Hehe, don't worry, Wang Dongjia! This time our rules have to be changed!" Xu Chen said with a smile.

Xu Chen's previous auction was very successful, and this novel method was also praised by more and more people, so Xu Chen fortunately made the auction of Qiushui Pavilion a regular practice. In the month of Xu Chen's absence, the auction of Qiushui Pavilion was also impressive under the control of Mu Chun, the shopkeeper.

Therefore, the rules of the auction on Xu Chen's side have already spread in Yuzhang City, and most of the businessmen present have also come to observe it in person, and they are already familiar with the process of the auction, and at this moment, they are naturally very surprised to hear that Xu Chen wants to change the original rules.

"Xu Dongjia, what are you doing here? It seems that it is a loss of business duty to change hexagrams like this, right?"

"That's right! If Xu Gongzi is not sincere, then there is no need for us to stay! I think we should go!"

"That's it!"

……

When the merchants saw that someone was taking the lead, they also began to make a commotion!

Seeing this, Xu Chen on the stage just calmly looked at the noisy businessmen, as well as the merchants who sat at the tables under the stage and never said a word.

These people are the leaders of these merchant gangs, and the chaos in front of them is naturally the result of the connivance of this group of people.

The businessmen in the audience saw that Xu Chen had not reacted, and after looking at each other, the tone of their voices gradually lowered.

After these calmed down, Xu Chen began to say lightly: "If you don't want to participate in this auction, you can leave at will, the door is there!"

After speaking, Xu Chen slowly raised his right hand and pointed towards the door.

The businessmen in the audience didn't expect Xu Chen's attitude to be so tough, and they were a little speechless for a while, and then they couldn't help but move their eyes to the heads of the tables.

The people at the tables still looked calm, as if nothing had happened, and they did not respond to everyone's eyes, but none of them stood up and sat quietly in their places.

In this way, the merchants understood the meaning of their respective leaders, so they sat quietly as well, and continued to drink tea in silence, and continued to make a contemplative appearance in silence, as if the qiē just now had never appeared.

Seeing this, Xu Chen naturally didn't care about anything anymore, and after smiling, he continued to explain: "Although there are some changes in this auction, it hasn't changed much!"

"It's just a change from the original open auction to a dark auction! What is a dark auction? That is, you don't have to quote your own price as before, and you don't need to bid again and again, you only need to write the price in your heart on a note, and then put it into the box next to me, and you don't need to sign it, and finally, the one with the highest price wins!"

"In this way, you don't have to fight for a piece of land, after all, if you hurt the harmony between each other because of this, it will not be beautiful!"

"I think that such a humble way of bidding will better reflect the demeanor and bearing of the business leaders. ”

Xu Chen finally said.

As soon as Xu Chen finished speaking, the businessmen in the audience fell silent for a while, but those who reacted quickly had already furrowed their brows deeply at this moment.

As for the leaders of the merchant gangs sitting at those tables, they laughed one after another at this time: "Good! Good! Good! Xu Gongzi is really a good method!"

"What a bearing! What a demeanor! Those of us who have lived for half a lifetime no longer dare to talk about any business in front of Xu Gongzi!"

……

Xu Chen didn't say anything more modest this time, just looked at everyone with a smile, and after these people calmed down, he said again: "Later, all the land on the edge of Ganshui will be divided into pieces, and the distribution map will be sent to you, and you can consider which piece will be auctioned." ”

"Of course, if you feel that the hall is inconvenient for you to think, the private room on the second floor is ready for you at this moment!" Xu Chen pointed to the top and said.

"Okay, I'm sure you'll have to spend some time, then I'll be out of company for a while, and after an hour, I'll be back to accept your shots. ”

Xu Chen arched his hand to everyone in the audience and said.

Just as Xu Chen was about to step down, he suddenly stopped, and then as if he had just remembered, he added to everyone: "By the way, if you feel that your copper money is insufficient, you can also use your own house, shops and other properties as collateral, and you should be given a fair price in the next decision!"

After saying that, he left without looking back, leaving behind a group of stunned merchants.

A moment after Xu Chen left, there were guys from Qiushui Pavilion holding trays with stacks of papers on them, and the guys began to distribute the papers to the merchants present.

When the merchants present got the paper, they only glanced at it, put it in the wide sleeves of their coats, and then asked their leaders with their eyes.

After a while, the merchants present came to the private room on the second floor in batches under the leadership of their respective leaders, and after closing the door, the qiē in the private room was not known to outsiders.

Of course, this outsider naturally does not include Xu Chen and others!

After Xu Chen left the hall, he appeared in the dark room of Qiushui Pavilion again, and in the dark room at this moment, there were more than ten teenagers hidden in the small space.

The teenagers were listening carefully with their ears to a copper earpiece beside them, and their hands were constantly writing down the paper with a pen.

These teenagers are naturally not the brothers beside Xu Chen, but the young men with flexible minds and innocent family backgrounds that Xu Chen has collected in Yuzhang City and even the entire Yuzhang County in the past few months.

And this is just the first batch of dozens of people, and there will be several other batches of teenagers in the future.

In Xu Chen's plan, nearly two hundred people will be used, and only this number can ensure that the final plan can be carried out smoothly.

"What's the matter, is there anything unusual about these people?" Xu Chen asked Lu Hao who was standing there as soon as he entered the dark room, and at the same time looked up at the things on the wall.

I saw that the wall was densely packed with pieces of glass, to be precise, it should be a glass mirror!

After having a glass with high purity, it is not much difficult to add a layer of tin foil to the back to make a glass mirror.

At this moment, a figure magically appeared in these mirrors, sitting or standing, or bowing his head to drink tea, or excitedly telling something. It looks like magic, revealing something incredible.

For outsiders, it may be called a magical immortal method, but for the teenagers in the dark room, this is just a thing called "periscope" done by the owner!

At the moment there are rectangular wooden cylinders diagonally above this small glass mirror, and a glass mirror is placed at every corner of it, and when the angle is adjusted, a mirror hidden in the upstairs private room will reflect the scene in the private room again and again on the wall of the dark room downstairs, as if a camera was installed in each private room.

Coupled with the copper microphone installed in the dark, Xu Chen can truly understand what happened in the private room!

"No, they're just arguing about which piece of land to want, how much money to pay, and scolding us. Lu Hao replied.

"Hehe, let them go! there is a time when they cry!" Xu Chen said with a smile.

"Big brother, although we used the method of secret shooting this time to make these people feel unfounded, for the sake of insurance, these people will naturally increase the price a lot, but according to the initial estimate, this will also increase the income by up to two percent, but in this case, this money is still not enough for us to carry out the next plan?" Lu Hao then asked Xu Chen.

"That's why I just added one more sentence!" Xu Chen said with a smile.

When Lu Hao heard this, he lowered his head and thought about it, and said, "Big brother means that we will eat directly into the mansions and shops in the hands of these people?"

"However, these people are all rich people in Yuzhang City, and the houses and shops in their hands are all valuable goods, even if we can take the opportunity to lower some prices, it is impossible to make too much profit!" Lu Hao asked suspiciously.

"Hehe, I didn't say that I wanted to eat into the houses and shops of these people, no! I should say that for the time being, we won't eat directly, but use an indirect method!" Xu Chen said with a smile.

"How do you do it?" Lu Hao asked curiously, Xu Chen's impromptu move had not been discussed with him in advance, so Lu Hao became very interested when he heard it.

"Hehe, the mountain people have their own tricks!" Xu Chen said with a mysterious smile.

Then, seeing Lu Hao's frowning brows, he added another sentence and said, "Have you forgotten the information I asked Zhu Da to inquire about the traffic of the shops in the city a few months ago?"

"I'm going to have to rely on this information for this trick!"