Chapter 427: Face is the most valuable

And when Guo Dan read the information of those who passed the exam, he immediately overturned Aunt Xu's statement that she was "crooked".

He took it for granted.

The reason is that many of them are names, he has seen them before, and some of them are from Weihui Mansion, and the rest are also from Daimyo Mansion, Shanxi, Kaifeng and other places, almost all of which are around Weihui Mansion.

Only a small number of places were won by people from Jiangnan and Jingshi.

It turns out that the current litigator actually originated in Weihui Mansion, and a year ago, many scholars wanted to go to Weihui Mansion to serve as a litigator, because they gradually discovered that this litigator's power is not small, it is easy to establish prestige in the local area, and the people know it.

Isn't this prestige, fame, and money what they are after?

Although it is not as good as Jinshi, if you go to Jinshi, it will be to compete with the geniuses of the whole country.

The competitive pressure of litigators is much less, and the power they exercise is no different from that of officials, except that they are not given fame by the imperial court, but if they can accumulate fame through this, they still have hope of becoming a politician in the future.

It's a good springboard.

It's just that Weihui's Mansion was full at that time, and Guo Dan didn't plan to recruit more people in order to save expenses.

This was very disappointing for them.

How did you know that Guo Dan contracted these three mansions again, and opened the three-house system.

These people are applying because they are very well prepared, so many of them are accepted.

There is a way that the emperor lives up to his wishes.

However, this added a touch of uncertainty to the already complicated situation in Kaifeng Prefecture, because they represented more of the poor class, and the descendants of the scribes and merchants were almost all lower classes.

No matter how smart Su Xu was, he didn't expect the poor class to enter the market.

In fact, Guo Dan and Aunt Xu didn't expect it.

Originally, they had designed a territorial balance, but now that the poor class has risen and controls most of the right to litigate, the situation is confusing.

Unfortunately, this is already a fact that cannot be changed.

After the admission quota came out, Guo Dan posted a notice.

But this is not a list, the notice only states that there are 232 people in the examination, and he will issue litigation qualification certificates to these people, but for the time being, only 200 people will be admitted, so the 32 people with the lowest scores will become alternates, but he also said that he will be inaugurated soon.

With the increase in the number of outsiders, 200 litigators may not be enough.

After this result came out, many people who ate melons were surprised, and more than 20,000 people took the exam to obtain more than 200, which was too far from what was expected.

Doesn't that mean it's easy?

How......?

You must know that the people who participated in this exam are said to be elites from all over the world, not those who are unknown.

And this acceptance rate also directly leads to the letter becoming precious.

When the notice went down, the scene was really like the imperial examination and the first, and even more exaggerated than ...... imperial examination.

If someone in this village passes the examination, the local squire will immediately come to congratulate him, and he will send money and food.

When people from other places passed the examination, doctors from their hometowns also hurried over to meet and woo them.

Those who passed the exam didn't expect to be held by the stars, most of them just wanted to get a decent job.

But this is inevitably a little too decent, and it scares them.

There is no way, this right of action is crucial for all parties.

Most of them are actually not interested in litigators, they are trying to make a name and a face, if they know that there will be this meeting, even if it is a cantilever stabbing stock, they have to be admitted.

What a misstep into a thousand hatreds!

Guo Dan took a look at this situation, it was really an opportunity not to be missed, so he hurried to wave advertising first.

He informed everyone that he was going to establish a law school in Changde Province for the study of the law.

And also explained, said that all walks of life must respect the laws of the country, if you do not understand the law, it will suffer a great loss, such as a Nuoya Bank has a large number of legal personnel, the future demand for this kind of talent will be higher and higher.

At the same time, the salaries of some legal staff are listed, which really attracts many people.

Among them are many local rich people, they think to themselves, now that Guo Dan has contracted here, their privileges in the law have gradually disappeared, if there is one in this family who understands the law, at least they can avoid being pitted by Guo Dan, and they have so many sons, and they may not all be able to be admitted to Jinshi.

And the entry of the poor class has intensified another thing, that is, the competition of private colleges.

This right of action has been lost, and the private school can no longer lose it.

And all this is in Guo Dan's calculations, he struck while the iron was hot and immediately held a private college auction.

Except for colleges with a size of less than 100 people, the number of bidders for the rest of the colleges is far more than the limit.

This can only be solved in the form of an auction.

The location of the auction was set at Zhao Qinghe's restaurant, not for anything else, because Zhao Qinghe was willing to lend the restaurant to Guo Dan for free as the venue for the auction, because in his restaurant, at least he had a home advantage.

Of course, Guo Dan can save and save.

The first auction is about four colleges with a scale of 10,000 people, including two in Kaifeng Prefecture, one in Zhangde and one in Huaiqing.

There are no so-called private parties participating in the auction, and all of them are large groups of a regional nature, with as many as 20 in total.

When these famous people, scholars, and wealthy people came to the restaurant, the scene was really unusually harmonious, and they were all low-key to say that they were just focusing on participation.

No matter how hypocritical it is, it can be heard here.

This regional battle is really unavoidable, people may admit each other's strength and weakness, but regions will not easily admit defeat.

After greeting each other, they entered their own private seats, and the restaurant immediately became very quiet, and they could smell the slightest smell of gunpowder.

First of all, of course, Zhao Qinghe came out to speak, all of which were some scene words, but between the words, they all revealed that he was the host and welcomed all foreign guests.

Su Xu and the others all knew that Zhao Qinghe was swearing sovereignty, but no one took it seriously, who asked the imperial court to put the private academy here.

After Zhao Qinghe finished speaking, the auction began.

Guo Dan did not go down in person, he asked Cao Xiaodong to preside over the auction, he felt that Cao Xiaodong had been well trained in his work, and it was time for him to get in touch with some big scenes.

There is a lack of talent around him who can take charge of himself.

After a polite greeting, a maidservant came up to the stage and pulled down a map.

Cao Xiaodong said: "What you see now is the college land in Xuzhou, with a total of 4,800 acres of land, and the starting price is one or two. However, before the auction, I have to reiterate that this is a college site, and if it is to be used for non-college purposes, it must be applied for, and cannot be moved to other ..... without authorization. ”

The reason why the price starts at one or two is because it was originally free, and it was only because there was competition that it was put up for auction, and it was reasonable for anyone to take one or two.

Zhou Feng, who was sitting on the third floor with Guo Dan and watching, looked at Cao Xiaodong and said: "This kid is really good, in this way, he is not stage frightened at all, if I go up, I may tremble." ”

"Barely enough." Guo smiled faintly.

This is not stage fright, but it is not stage fright, but it is still less passionate.

Gao Shang suddenly asked: "Guo Dan, if you also go down to fight together, have you won them?" ”

Guo Dan said: "I must have won it at the cheapest price." ”

Zhou Feng hurriedly asked, "Virtuous nephew, what do you do?" ”

Guo Dan said: "Actually, it's very simple, you only need to give a very amazing price for the first bid." ”

Zhou Feng was curious: "Why is this?" ”

Guo Dan said: "Because there are still three pieces of land behind, they all have a way out, in this state of mind, they are so strong when they see me coming up, they may not be able to fight with me, but as long as I take it, the next three pieces of land will definitely be higher than my price."

Because my price will cause them another psychology, that is, there are already people who spend so much money, so it is natural to spend so much money, so the further they go, the higher the price, because they have fewer and fewer ways to retreat. ”

Zhou Feng suddenly realized: "No wonder the virtuous nephew auctioned the two colleges of Kaifeng Mansion first, if the colleges of Zhangde and Huaiqing were auctioned first, everyone would keep a hand, and the price would not be very high, but if it was placed later, they had to take it." ”

Guo Dan made a silent gesture.

Gao Shang looked at them and was afraid, and said, "You merchants are really treacherous, and it is so complicated to sell land. ”

"My lord will pay 10,000 taels."

This shout caused an uproar in the building.

Guo Dan and the others turned their heads to look at the same time, only to see a small guy on the second floor on the opposite side shouting.

Zhou Feng said: "It seems that Mr. Su is asking for the price." ”

Guo Dan immediately said to Gao Shang: "Father-in-law, you have also seen it, this scholar is not much better." ”

Noble is speechless.

The starting price is one tael, and Su Xu is directly ten thousand taels, you are really too capricious, which suddenly caught all parties off guard.

Although many people are bound to get it, in fact, everyone does not have a specific price in their hearts, because this is not a land, but just a quota, which cannot be estimated, and naturally I don't know what price it will call.

Therefore, no one thought that someone would directly get 10,000 taels.

It wasn't until three times later that the mallet fell, and the building was silent.

The Nanjing Group, represented by Su Xu, won the private school in Zhengzhou very smoothly.

After Su Xu took it, he also lifted the bead curtain and glanced at Guo Dan.

Guo Dan hurriedly handed over two grateful glances, but said in his heart, this old man is really powerful, he actually knows how to use this trick.

Suddenly, Gao Shang, Zhou Feng and the others all looked at him with strange expressions, Guo Dan couldn't help but sneer: "This has nothing to do with me, and I also retract what I just said, if I end up, I will never let him succeed, as long as someone raises the price, this situation may be different." ”

But the problem is that he didn't end up, so the auction process is not much different from what he just said.

The second piece of land was in Zhengzhou, and was bought by the host Zhao Qinghe and other local gentry for 15,000 taels.

For example, the people who eat melons like noble people have adrenal hormones that increase rapidly.

10,000 taels is already a big surprise, and I never thought that the second piece of land would directly break through 15,000 taels.

Cao Xiaodong was infected by this amount, and his speech became more and more passionate, completely letting himself go.

Zhao Qinghe and they are really determined to eat the soil and take it, because they are the hosts, if the three universities in Kaifeng do not even belong to the people of Kaifeng, then who will think that they are the hosts, Fang Cai did not come back to his senses, and when he came back to his senses, he found that there was only one school left, and they had no way out.

Fortunately, they are fighting locally, and these rich men are all present, and everyone has confidence in their hearts.

However, what everyone never expected was that the more exaggerated was still to come, and then the school in Zhangde Mansion was won by the Beijing Group at a price of 21,000 taels.

During this round of bidding, everyone held their breath and jumped by one thousand and two, which was really exciting.

You must know that when Guo Dan threatened to take 10,000 taels to build an academy in the capital, the price shouted by Shilin in the capital was 20,000 taels.

It's too bad!

And Zhao Qinghe and they were immediately comforted, this fifteen thousand taels is really cheap.

It can be seen that the price is really not high or low, it is completely compared.

It turned out that the Beijing Group was thinking that the schools in Kaifeng Mansion must be very competitive, but for them, Zhangde Mansion was close to the capital, which was a better choice, and their plan was to take Zhangde Mansion.

Where do you know that Shandong Group, Su Xichang Group, Jiangxi Group, Shanxi Group, etc., also think so, Kaifeng Mansion is too competitive, although Zhangde Mansion is not as good as Kaifeng Mansion, but it is closer to the capital, and their words are easier to be heard by the rulers of the capital.

This is tantamount to forcing the Beijing Group to a dead end, but they have no way out, because Nanjing has won a university, if Beijing can't take it, it will be a real shame, this literati has the best face, gritting his teeth and taking it down.

In the end, the university house of Huaiqing Mansion was won by the Shanxi Group for 18,000 taels.

Although the price of Zhangde Mansion has fallen, in fact, this price is already very terrifying, because the geographical location of Huaiqing Mansion is not as good as Kaifeng Mansion and Zhangde Mansion, Guo Dan deliberately left it at the end, just hoping that they can fight to the death.

The Shanxi Group represented by the Jin Shen spelled down this Huaiqing Academy, completely because Huaiqing Mansion was bordering Shanxi, and it was also the only way for Jin merchants to go south.

However, the show did not stop there, and the second auction had to be an academy with more than 1,000 people.

Most of them were divided by Shandong Group, Suxichang Group and Jiangxi Group.

The reason why the three of them finally decided not to compete for Huaiqing Academy was because they temporarily changed their plans and wanted to concentrate their financial resources to compete for those thousand-person colleges.

The smaller level was taken down by some school groups, because Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty was divided into many schools, and this private school could promote its own ideas and ideas very well.

After the auction, everyone was dizzy, suffering from gains and losses, and they didn't know whether they were making money or losing money.

But Guo Dan must have earned it.

There is no doubt about it.

With a wave of his sleeves, he lightly pocketed 150,000 taels.

That Huang Daxiao was already dead-faced, he didn't expect that this private academy could earn so much money just by giving him a place?

It's really a day dog.

But this is actually just the beginning, after the ownership of the college is determined, the next step is construction, but unfortunately, there is only one construction group in Sanfu, that is, the Marseille Construction Group under the name of Guo Dan, which is monopolized by Guo Dan from raw materials to manpower.

Two million taels?

It's short... Ahem... It's low.

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