After fierce bidding, the 10 large bronze vessels were finally sold for 1,200 yuan.

The transaction will be settled within three days after the banquet. "Okay, ladies and gentlemen," Sun Shen stood up, just looking at his grinning smile, he didn't know whether it was joy or pain, but he was quite generous to the Quartet, and said with a smile, "Concession, concession." ”

The ten megs, who displayed the bronze objects, stepped back and replaced them with ten more. In each tray is a glazer.

This time, the utensils brought up made everyone a little less surprised. Glass is something that is difficult to see in ordinary people's homes, but the nobles who can go to the ninth floor of Wanghai Tower to go to the banquet, even if there is no glazed ware at home, it is also the glaze that most of them have seen and played. Everyone recovered a little from the excitement of bidding for bronze objects, and whispered as they looked at the glassware on the tray.

"This glassware looks pretty good." Nie Siwei smiled: "Lord Zhao is also good at this thing?" ”

"It turns out that Nie Dongjia is a person who knows the goods." Zhao Xingde nodded and said, "If you are interested, you can get started and have a look." ”

"Thank you, Lord Zhao, but, there are still some in the old man's house, so I won't fight with the owners." Nie Siwei stroked his beard and smiled gracefully, "There are several strings of colorful glass beads, and a few bottles imported from overseas, which are still worth seeing." Another day, please come to the house and have a taste. "Slightly smug. Nie Siwei likes to hide the glaze, and to put it bluntly, the glazed ware taken out by the sailor is actually not as good as the one he treasured at home.

"Xiao Ke saw it with his own eyes," Sun Shen next to him joked, "The glazed ware in Nie Xing's first collection is a gem among the treasures, but there is a string of colorful glazed prayer beads, the beads are round, nine minutes in size, crystal clear, and similar to the night pearl." His eyes flashed with fine light, and he said with a smile, "Sun Mou is not self-conscious, and he is also happy to see the hunting, and he wants to have a string of similar ones from the Pujia market, but he only knows that a string of glazed prayer beads alone requires twice the weight of gold to be exchanged, obediently, Sun Mou is not as big as Nie Xing's first family, so he can only swallow his saliva and give up." His self-deprecating remarks eased the hostility of the unsuccessful bidders.

"Everyone has their own good," Nie Siwei also smiled: "Just now, Sun Dongjia won the first mark, and it is also terrifying." ”

"Yo, this thing is so valuable!" Zuo Nianyuan was surprised, "Brother Luo, it seems that you also have a piece of the best at home." ”

"It's just a good thing," Luo Huan shook his head and said casually: "If it wasn't for the things left by the ancestors, I would have sold it as a military supply in the first place." "The piece of glazed jade in his house is something handed down from the Tang Dynasty. Luo Huan promised himself as a gentleman that he liked the jade pendant more, and the piece of glass was placed in the study as an ornament, and he didn't know that this thing was so valuable.

"Tsk, you're going to lose a lot." Zuo Nianyuan smiled, but he didn't doubt Luo Huan's words in his heart.

"Everyone, and Zhao will say a few words first, and then start bidding." Zhao Xingde stood up, looked around, as far as his eyes could see, the whispering stopped immediately, and the entire ninth floor of Wanghailou was quiet, he walked to the front, picked up a glass vessel casually, stood under the candle flame, and said slowly, "The glass is produced by the Great Food Persia, in my dynasty, the high-grade glass is comparable to gold, which everyone knows." He glanced meaningfully at everyone present, many of whom had a collection of high-quality glazed ware, unconsciously straightened their waists, as if enjoying the envious gaze of everyone. Zhao Xingde sighed and said slowly: "However, as far as Zhao knows, in the land west of the Great Food, although glass is rare, it is not very rare. The people of Xiyi like to use glass, in addition to using glass to make utensils, it is also used on doors and windows, or inlaid with stone carvings, and even the entire wall is inlaid with glass for huge murals and decals. ”

Nie Siwei, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, had a modest smile, and his smile gradually became stiff and even a little ugly.

He took a deep breath, but his heart seemed to be throbbing and aching, twice as much gold as glass, and he also gritted his teeth before making a move, ready to be a family heirloom. But listening to Lord Zhao's description, this glaze is almost as popular as the porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty in the Xiyi country, and at most it can be regarded as porcelain fired in a good kiln. Porcelain, as long as it is not a remnant of the previous dynasty such as a firewood kiln, it is absolutely impossible to be equivalent to gold, let alone twice as much as gold. What Lord Zhao said is true, and there is still a sale of glazed ware here, and there is absolutely no reason to dismantle the stage by himself.

"These unscrupulous profiteers!" Many people gritted their teeth in their hearts and cursed that they bought glass from the big cannibals.

"The truly precious glass is the flat, translucent, and colored glass." Zhao Xingde said calmly, put the glazed ware back on the tray, "I have the honor to visit Lumei and see the magnificence of its Hagia Sophia, which is used in the dome of the Western Great Hall and all around, the glaze pitch is all over, it is really magnificent and magnificent." ”

"Pitching all the way? That's still not that rare. Sun Shen secretly thought to himself.

He stole a glance at President Nie's face next to him, which was already as cold as ice. If it weren't for the fact that the big food merchant had already been driven out of the city of Guangzhou, I was afraid that he would have to go to the Pu family to settle accounts after the banquet, right? However, there is only Wang Po in the world who sells melons and boasts. What about the Great Eclipse and the Persian Patho? Lord Zhao has been there, but no one has been here, why did he make it public and lower the price, could it be that Lord Zhao is really a sincere gentleman, and he came to expose the face of the big food profiteer today? Many people had doubts on their faces.

"No, never!" Sun Shen touched his purse, just now he willingly bought ten pieces of gold-plated and silver-inlaid bronze ware for 1,200 yuan, which made him shake his head very soberly, and his eyes returned to Zhao Xingde, listening to what he was going to do.

"Mencius saw King Hui of Liang and said, be happy alone, be happy with everyone, who is happy? The king said, 'It is better to be with the people.' 'Believe! ”

Zhao Xingde shook the glass cup in his hand, letting it emit a colorful flow of brilliance under the candle flame, and said with a slight smile: "Cairo and Damascus over there, and Venice in the west, are all rich in glazed ware. The big food merchants came across the sea, and although they sold this thing for more than gold, it was so expensive that even the Sun Dongjia was discouraged by it, how many pieces could they sell? If we go the other way, when the sea road is unblocked, if we buy a large number of glazed ware from there, with millions of households in our Great Song Dynasty, as long as the middle-class family can buy a piece of glaze, we will make a lot of profits, dozens of times, a hundred, or even a thousand times that of a big cannibal! ”

"Joy alone, joy with everyone, familiar music?" Zhao Xingde said meaningfully, "Now, let's start bidding." ”

There was silence in the Accord again, and the merchants chewed on the meaning of Zhao Xingde's words, and no one was asking for a while.

Everyone is a thoughtful person, and what they are best at is guessing people's opinions. In this bidding, first bronze, then glass, Zhao Xingde's words, as if directly unveiled the purpose, in the future, the sea route will be unimpeded, and the southwest maritime trade will no longer be exchanged for ivory, incense, gems, rhino horn and other luxury goods such as tea and porcelain in the Middle Earth, but also a large number of copperware, glazed ware, or other things that at least the middle-class family can afford. This kind of business seems to be not as lucrative as the incense gems, but once the market is opened, the quantity of goods is huge, and the accumulation of small amounts will also be amazingly profitable. Most of the people have never been to the other side of the Southwest Sea, and their knowledge of the Great Food is only hearsay. Thinking about it this way, Zhao Xingde arranged this bidding, undoubtedly with his understanding of both Dashi and Da Song, to point out the categories of bulk goods that they might be able to operate in the future.

"Bronze ware, glass, what else?" Many businessmen were secretly thinking.

"The old man is out of a hundred times." Nie Siwei broke the silence, and the old businessman looked at everyone's surprised eyes, and said slowly, "Lord Zhao is right, it's better to be happy alone, it's better to be happy with everyone." The old man liked this Persian glaze, so he bought it and gave it to a few old shopkeepers in the bank. Alas - I haven't figured it out after living for so much age. He sighed and looked at the people in the Accord, his eyes seemed to be filled with infinite emotion. Nie Siwei deserves to be the head of the Chamber of Commerce, and he has a very high reputation among the maritime merchants in Guangzhou, and Zhao Xingde explained clearly just now that the glazed ware is not worth gold at all, and then raise the price with him, isn't it awkward to find yourself?

After waiting for a while, there was still no one bidding to compete for, and Nie Siwei gave up his hand and said, "Nie has thanked all the owners for it." ”

"Lord Zhao," he asked again, "Is the price of a hundred guan enough?" ”

"Nie Xingshou is generous." Zhao Xingde smiled and said, "These ten pieces of glazed ware have to earn a lot." ”

"It's good to make money." Nie Siwei nodded, and he took a deep look at those glassware.

One or two pieces of gold per piece of glazed ware, according to Zhao Xingde, is indeed a lot of money, but it is surprisingly cheaper than the price of the big cannibal in the past. He bought these glazed objects, and he was indeed going to pass them on to the shopkeepers, so that they could know a little more about these objects before the large-scale glass trade. Nie Siwei knew that there were many doorways in the glazed ware, and the utensils were also divided into three, six, nine and so on. And the people are interested in a lot of glass, if this kind of medium-quality glass can lower the price a little more, a glass ware sells for five or six taels of silver, the middle class should be generous. "Don't be greedy for huge profits, repeat the mistakes of the past, and make a good big deal into that pit and abduction, and have the strength? Destiny?! He looked at the glassware and shook his head slightly.

After the maid with the glass ware withdrew, ten more people came up, but this time it was not Mei Ji, but a burly servant, and the sword in his hand was not an ordinary object, but a sword of different sizes and shapes. The short sword is only the length of the palm, and the long sword is half a human height, especially the large scimitar. However, these knives have a common feature, the cold light is shining, and the blade is covered with strange patterns.