Gu Qing knew that raising a battalion of Mo knife hands was a money-burning job, and he was mentally prepared for this.

Gu Qing, who has been a successful businessman in both lives, what is money in his eyes? Money is a bastard, and you will earn it after you spend it.

But he didn't expect that Mo Dao's hand could burn money to this extent, Gu Qing didn't even have time to make money, and his originally rich and solid family foundation was burned out almost instantly.

Now that he has reached the point of being visited by Li Siye to collect debts, this kind of experience has never been encountered in two lifetimes, Gu Qing is really embarrassed.

"Again...... Give me a little more time. Gu Qing stroked his hair irritably, if he had a cigarette in his hand at this time, he would be like a middle-aged scumbag who was forced by Xiao San to divorce his original wife.

Li Siye, the little three, is really pressing step by step: "Master Hou, the additional soldiers and horses sent by Chang'an are about to reach Qiuzi, and the last general will start to choose Mo Dao Men again, at that time, the number of Mo Dao Battalion will be more and more, and the drill will become more and more rigorous, if the soldiers can't even do a Mo knife in their hands, how will the last one practice?" ”

"I'll leave her ......," Gu Qing said bitterly.

"Huh?"

"I mean, I'll get Modao, and I'll have money right away."

At this moment, I finally understood why Gao Xianzhi refused to expand the number of people in the Modao Battalion, no wonder the last time Gu Qing went to the Jiedu Embassy to report to Gao Xianzhi that he was about to form the Modao Battalion, and the number of people might break a thousand, Gao Xianzhi had a rather strange smile on his face at that time, and agreed without saying a word, as if Gu Qing had snatched a hot potato from him.

This...... Is it considered to be cheated by Gao Xianzhi?

Gu Qing gritted his teeth and thought to himself.

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In the afternoon, Gu Qing summoned Li Sima of the Jiedu Embassy and told him that an auction would be held in the front hall of the Fuzhi Inn tomorrow, and the news of the auction would be pasted all over the city in the form of a clerical notice.

As the project of expanding the city of Qiuci City is nearing completion, many businessmen have gathered in Qiuzi City in the past two months.

Gu Qing was anxious, and the businessmen were even more anxious than him, they were in a hurry to grab the beach and occupy an important position.

Art knows no borders, and in fact, businessmen have no borders. No matter which country's merchants, their sense of smell is extremely sensitive, the news of Qiuci's expansion of the city and the establishment of the city spread among the countries of the Western Regions very early, and the merchants of various countries immediately set off to Qiuci without hesitation after hearing the news.

Officials may not quite understand Gu Qing's purpose of insisting on expanding the city and building a city, because they stand on different positions and cannot see the subtleties in it.

But the merchants were different, they soon understood that Qiuzi City would definitely be a pearl in the Western Regions desert in the future, and it might even be possible to rewrite the business model of the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions countries.

With the completion of the four major bazaars of different types, the commercial center of the Western Regions Trade Road will gradually move to Qiuci City from now on.

Judging from the map, Qiuci City is guarded by the heavy soldiers of the Anxi Protectorate, and it happens to be in the middle of the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food Empire and the Three Kingdoms of Tubo, and the straight-line distance between Qiuci and the Three Kingdoms is about the same, and it is naturally suitable as a commercial center between the Three Kingdoms.

The distance is reduced, the cost is reduced, and the specialty is still a specialty, so the money will naturally be more.

The city of Qiuzi was so important to the merchants. Before Gu Qing took office, Qiuzi City was already a well-known cargo transit station on the Western Regions Trade Road, and after Gu Qing came to Anxi to take office, he greatly expanded the city and built a city, which highlighted the commercial role of this city.

After wiping the dust on the pearl, this pearl of the Western Regions finally bloomed with dazzling brilliance.

In the past two months, more and more merchants from various countries have gathered in Qiuzi City, and everyone is looking forward to waiting for the day when Gu Qing announces that the market shops will be sold to the public.

When government notices were plastered all over the city, the merchants in the city were boiling.

Everyone excitedly ran to tell each other, and all kinds of massive funds were quietly gathered, diverted, and transferred overnight. Every merchant is determined to get the shop, and some big merchants with a large reserve price have already silently selected the best location of the shop, only waiting for the government to announce the sale price of each shop, and then the merchants will start a bloody and tragic battle between them.

However, to the surprise of all the merchants, the Jiedu Embassy in Qiuzi City did not announce the price of each shop, but what kind of "auction" was to be held.

What the hell is "auction"?

The bewildered merchants saw the latest gameplay at the end of the notice.

After reading it, the businessmen suddenly realized that to put it bluntly, the one with the highest price will win, but the fight will be more tragic than buying alone.

The businessmen who understood the key scolded, scolded the officials of the Jiedu Embassy for their black hearts, scolded Gu Qing for eating people and not spitting out bones, and some businessmen were indignant and formed groups to say that they would never participate, and immediately left Qiuci City and gave up the shops in Qiuci City.

However, what a huge benefit the city will bring to the merchants in the future, everyone is not stupid, they have a book in their hearts, they scold fiercely, and there are many people who swear never to participate in the group, but there are very few people who really leave the city, and the very few businessmen who leave the city are also because of their weak family background, and they are expected to be unable to compete before they quit.

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Gu Qing didn't know how many times he sneezed this day, you can imagine how the ancestors of the Gu family were scolded by the merchants behind their backs.

It doesn't matter, I'm not familiar with the ancestors of the Gu family, just scold.

"Eat people without spitting out bones? Hehe, those businessmen are still too naïve after all, I'll let them see what it means to really eat people without spitting out bones......" Gu Qing sneered, and his unfestive face became distorted by poverty: "I really think that the auction is for you to call a price, and I will call a price again?" There are so many famous halls in it, and just using one or two routines is the end of bankruptcy......"

Han Jie looked at Gu Qing and smiled strangely, and couldn't help but remind: "Master Hou, please respect yourself, you look like a bad guy now......"

Gu Qing pointed at him and said, "If there is an auction tonight, I won't toss you, I will write it down for you first in the ten circles of the school field, and then run to ...... after this matter is over."

Han Jie sighed numbly and clenched his fists: "Yes." ”

"Find someone from the guards who has a good eye and a good mind...... By the way, is Wang Gui's injury healed? ”

"It's good, I can walk on my own, and I can't see the clues from the outside."

Gu Qing nodded and said, "Then Wang Gui, disguise yourself as a businessman and enter the auction hall and be a nursery for me......"

"Master Hou, what is 'childcare'?"

"Childcare is, when the bid of a certain shop is too low, does not meet my psychological expectations, Wang Gui pretends to be a businessman, the price to me to speculate, when some businessmen have a rich family, bold shots, Wang Gui will compete with him, raise the price again and again, forcing those who are determined to win the businessmen have to follow the high price, at the same time, if the location of some shops is too remote, no one is willing to bid, Wang Gui shouted the reserve price so that the auction will not be cold......"

Han Jie carefully touched Gu Qing's words, and then was shocked.

According to Lord Hou's play, I am afraid that there will really be many businessmen who will go bankrupt unknowingly in tonight's auction.

"Master Hou, let's not really let those businessmen go bankrupt, right?" Han Jie couldn't bear to say authentically.

"Of course I won't really let them go bankrupt, if I have this idea, I won't only arrange one nursery for Wang Gui, believe me, if three nurseries are arranged on the spot, the gameplay will be more high-end, and there will be more bankrupt people, I only arranged Wang Gui today, which is already soft-hearted."

Gu Qing sighed and said, "They are all hens who lay eggs, how could I do that stupid thing of killing chickens and taking eggs?" A little blood is enough for them, and I'm waiting for them to lay eggs for me. ”

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At night, Qiuzi Chengfu went to the inn.

The inn is full of people, and the guests are like clouds. The female shopkeeper Huang Fu Sisi beckoned the men to carry water and wine, like a hard-working little bee collecting honey, flying around in the crowded crowd of merchants from all over the world, tired and sweaty, and miserable.

Thinking that Gu Qing had set the auction location at her Fuzhi Inn without saying hello, Huangfu Sisi was both angry and funny.

Could it be that the young marquis thought that he would take care of his business in this way, and he could eat and drink for nothing with peace of mind?

At the same moment, with the sound of the gong, the auction officially began.

The round Li Sima rolled onto the makeshift platform like a huge ball of meat, and started tonight's auction with a harmless and environmentally friendly green smile.

As soon as the first shop shouted the reserve price, the competition between the merchants instantly became white-hot.

The mouth says no, but the body is too honest.

When scrambling for shops, this group of merchants was like a lone wolf on the grassland to grab food, biting each other more cruelly than anyone else, and countless alliances that had just been formed during the day turned against each other in an instant, all kinds of betrayals, all kinds of stabs in the back, all kinds of unexpected earth-shattering reversals.

The competition between businessmen even threw away the basic fake harmony and bottom line, and they became enemies who did not share the sky, and for the ownership of a shop, the businessmen not only shouted higher and higher prices once and more, but also directly rolled up their sleeves and prepared to fight each other.

Having just sold five shops, the auction scene was already chaotic and gradually becoming uncontrollable.

It wasn't until the smiling Li Sima suddenly changed his face and ordered the city guards to enter to maintain order that the merchants stopped fighting with each other, but they were still not to be outdone and kept raising the prices for the competition and bidding of the shops.

Huangfu Sisi had been watching the merchants scramble from the side, and couldn't help but admire Gu Qing more and more.

Huangfu Sisi is also a businessman, she knows very well how much the shops in the new bazaar are worth, but the so-called "auction" that Gu Qing made has unknowingly increased the unit price of all the shops by more than two times.

This guy's ability to make money is really amazing......

Looking at the enthusiastic bidding of the merchants, it can be expected that the Jiedu Envoy will make a lot of money tonight.

Huangfu Sisi's originally smiling pretty face suddenly gradually became lost.

So, he won't be short of money in the future, right? So would he still consider himself a friend?