Of course, literature and art will not give them too much time to scold, and announce the start of the secret shooting at the moment! In fact, the auction itself is a new flower made by literature and art, and it was only used once when auctioning the paper mill, and these tuhaha only knew a little about the rules, and now they have changed to a secret auction and are in a hurry. In the face of literature and art that represents the Qin Wangfu, it will definitely not work, no, the guy who jumped out to insult literature and art and threatened him to share the salt making method immediately has already broken his leg and thrown out. Everyone quickly gathered into a few small groups and began to discuss, although on the surface everyone unified the bidding price, but how much to write has their own thoughts.

After everyone wrote down the bidding price and handed it in, the patriarch of the Gu clan of Wu County, the hardcore of the Xiao family, said: "My Gu family is worried about the early construction of the Tang Dynasty and the prosperity of all kinds of waste, and I am willing to donate two million taels of silver to show loyalty!" ”

Literary and artistic joy: "Please rest assured that Patriarch Gu, your loyalty can be seen in the sky, and I will definitely report to the court truthfully!" ”

Before everyone could react, the Lu family, the Zhu family, and the Zhang family made patriotic remarks one after another and donated one million taels of silver each. Wenyi was ecstatic, and the faces of other families suddenly turned black as the bottom of a pot, they never expected that Wenyi would be so brazen that they didn't even give them time to discuss, don't think that they can't see that the donations are all discussed earlier!

But what can be done? Look at each other and grit your teeth to follow! It's just a few million taels, and after you take the salt farm, you can sell it to Goryeo and Turkic to earn back several times!

The scene was lively again. There were a total of 23 large and small scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, and the most donation was of course 5 million taels from the Xiao family, followed by 2.5 million taels from the Xie family, and the remaining 1 million taels were more, and there were 500,000 taels. After careful statistics of literature and art, but the donation alone made 2,700 taels of silver! More than he earned on a trip to Dongying! These families that have been inherited for a hundred years are indeed strong, and you must know that Datang's annual tax revenue is only more than 10 million taels.

The auction price of literature and art also looked at it roughly, the big families all offered a high price of 2 million taels, and the small and medium-sized families basically had about 1.5 million taels, but there was a special bid that made the literature and art shine, with 4 million taels written on it and the names of three small families signed below. Wenyi immediately called Xiao Jian over and instructed: "Brother Xiao, you go and inquire whose idea is this offer, this person is very business-minded and a talent, see if you can win it over." ”

Xiao Jian glanced at it and said: "This is the idea of the second son of the Zhao family, it is our own people, who are relatively shrewd and in charge of the family's business, and now the Zhao family's business is doing very well." It's a pity that he is not the eldest son, otherwise he will definitely be able to take the Zhao family to the top family. His brother is a nerd, and it would be nice to keep the family business. ”

Literature and art are musical, and the traditional descendants can be stupid to the point of abandoning talents and choosing stupid people. But it's just the right time to take the opportunity to get all the talents to your side and let those fools play by themselves! So let Xiao Jian get close to him a lot and try to dig him to his side. Xiao Jian patted his chest and assured that he was just the second child in a family, and it was easy to get it!

Wenyi took the information and found Xiao Jing to start the last plan - to win over the family!

The waiting time passed very slowly, and Xiao Jing deliberately sharpened their temperament and extended the review time to a month. Xiao Jing is behind the scenes, and Xiao Jian is already a well-known secret in front of the stage, but so what? What else can the Jiangnan Shi clan do besides weighing the interests of taking refuge in Li Shimin or following Li Jiancheng?

In just one month, the seemingly ironclad alliance collapsed. When the list was officially announced, it was discovered that the original alliance was still the same alliance, but the object of allegiance had changed. Except for the brainless Xie family, who is unwilling to lower the Xiao family, the rest of the families are all under the command of Li Shimin! Literature and Art also generously increased the amount of the winning bid, ensuring that the families who took refuge had their own salt farms.

After the patriarch of the Xie family sprayed a few mouthfuls of old blood in Jiaxing, he was carried into the carriage by the servants and left this sad place in a gloomy manner. The 2.5 million taels donated were also lost.

Finally, the "First Datang Salt Field Shareholders' Meeting" presided over by Literature and Art was grandly held. The meeting finally decided that in order to facilitate the government's salt management, all salt farms will be built in a centralized and unified manner. Zhao Wuji, the second son of the Zhao family, served as the first chairman of the board of directors and was fully responsible for the affairs of the salt farm. The price of salt is determined by the Salt Bureau, and salt is not allowed to be sold privately. The scale of the salt farm was initially set at 20,000 acres, and the location was set in Jiaxing.

Wang Xian Ling is really a blessing from heaven when he sits at home! After the completion of the salt farm, how many people will come to Jiaxing and how much wealth it will bring can be imagined with your ass! Happy that he openly disobeyed the orders of his wife at home and went to the flower building to listen to the music all night...

When everything is done, it will be early autumn. Xiao Jing had already returned to Hangzhou, Xiao Jian stayed behind to help Zhao Wuji improve the salt farm, and Wenyi took more than 34 million taels of silver and three little guys on the road. He wanted to bring the silver to Hangzhou, and the Xiao family organized people to transport it to Chang'an and hand it over to the imperial court. Of course, his own labor fee of 5 million taels will be sent to the Qin Palace, and it will be handed over to Shu'er for safekeeping.

Along the way, he enjoyed the various worships of the three apprentices: Li Ke: "Master, you are so powerful!" As soon as he made a move, he got more than 30 million taels of silver, which is worth three years of taxes in Datang! When I grow up, I want to be like a master, if I don't make a move, I must be at the level of tens of millions! ”

Li Tai: "Master, why can such a simple drying method produce such high-quality salt?" Why hasn't anyone thought of it for thousands of years? ”

Li Chengqian: "The master is mighty! Playing with the clans of Jiangnan and applauding, take down the entire Jiangnan in one fell swoop! Can the master teach me how to do this? ”

Wenyi said with a smile: "There are many political methods, and this is what I don't understand the most." That's why I didn't enter the court. It is much better for you to go and see more of the thirty-six strategies, and then carefully observe the behavior of your father than to learn from me. I can only teach you some of the basics. As for Xiao Ke and Xiao Tai, if you want to be like me, you have to learn more. You haven't even learned derivatives and integrals yet, it's still early. ”

Li Tai heard the new term and said even more excitedly: "Master, it is you who are biased, and you have been slowly teaching the eldest brother and the second brother, and I have learned that you don't teach more." ”

Wenyi touched his dog's head and said, "Xiaotai, do you know what the most important task of a child is?" ”

Li Tai shook his head obediently, and said leisurely: "The most important task of children is to play!" If you can't have fun in childhood, you will regret it for life when you grow up. And it's also important to stay childlike, a carefree childhood is what you need now. Now is a critical time for you to build your personality, and this is more important than anything else. ”

The brother nodded understandingly, looking at the brother who seemed to have grown up a little more, the literary old man was very relieved, but unfortunately soon the brother realized that it seemed that he just had to play happily, so the three of them became annoying bear children in a blink of an eye.