Dongzhu has been in Shanyang City for many days, and her identity is no longer a secret, for a grassland Hu person like her, Li Ao's gaze is obviously useless, in fact, it is only Sun Xiangfu's gaze that can make Dongzhu put down the bidding card, Xiao Tuotuo is not looking for it in vain, her identity as the representative of Xue Yantuo's department is enough to dispel everyone's doubts.

"Three hundred and eighty words."

"Four hundred wen."

"Four hundred and ten."

The bidding price of the first piece of land is very critical, this is to set the example for the transaction price later, Dongzhu's bidding card is firmly held, and the role is not to raise the price of a certain family, which is also an encouragement to other small and medium-sized families who want to bid for this land, anyway, it is not my family that is competing, since the price I can afford, why not continue to bid.

Li Ao's temper is getting worse and worse, and he is a smart person, and he sees the key to the problem, it is because this Hu Nu Dongzhu has been holding a sign, and several others have been following, if she does not bid, then, the other few are forced by their own threats, and it is estimated that they will soon die down.

"Wait, the old man has something to say."

Sun Xiangfu was still waiting to shout, but Li Ao raised his hand and stood up from the auction seat.

As a big family that is related to the Li royal family, Sun Xiangfu naturally didn't dare not give him face, and said to Li Ao, "I don't know what Old Patriarch Li has to say?" ”

"The old man wants to ask Sun Dudu, when will my land in the Tang Dynasty be sold to foreigners?" As he spoke, Li Ao also pointed to Dongzhu Road, which was still holding a sign.

Seeing that someone was angrily pointing at him, Dongzhu made a naughty face at the man, which immediately made Li Ao even more unhappy.

"Uh, this, kid, let's ask Lord Wei to answer for you!"

Sun Xiangfu made a gesture of invitation, and Wei Zheng, who was a little reluctant, stood up from his seat.

Sun Xiangfu had anticipated this situation early on, and discussed with Wei Zheng about some possible situations, and the task of his trip was to maintain fairness and justice on behalf of the imperial court. Whether it is a Hu person or a Han person, if they can help the court cultivate land and create taxes, the court welcomes it. ”

Hearing this, Li Ao was a little dumbfounded, Wei Zheng's statement was really said in the past, why did the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate hold an investment promotion conference and auction off these lands? It is precisely because the people under the rule of the Anbei Protectorate are unable to develop this place that the imperial court uses such means to achieve the goal of development, which is agreed by the emperor and all civil and military officials, otherwise, he would not have come here to participate in this auction today.

But he was unwilling to let this little girl stir up trouble here, so he said, "As we all know, the Hu people outside the Guanwai are not good at farming, and before the auction, it was said that these lands should be developed into fields within a certain period of time. ”

For such a question, Sun Xiangfu had already made a good deal with Wei Zheng, and almost without thinking, Wei Zheng replied, "Old Patriarch Li, the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate has long spoken in advance, and will guide the development and planting technology of all the auctioned out land outside the Guan, you don't need to worry about this, in addition, even if they don't plant well, we will have corresponding penalties at that time, and the agreement to recover the land, whether they can plant it or not, we have to wait until they buy the land." ”

Listening to Wei Zheng's explanation without hiccup, the elders of several major families knew that this guy was only afraid that he had been prepared, and among the bidders, the brand that had been withdrawn on behalf of the Shandong family was raised again, and they had only taken down the brand because they received a warning gaze. With Wei Zheng's support, they are no longer as afraid of the big families as before.

Therefore, Li Ao's interruption of the auction not only did not reduce his competitors, but increased them.

Looking at the extra bidding cards, Li Ao pointed at Wei Zheng a few times with his hand, but he didn't say a reason to convince the public.

"If Old Patriarch Li has no doubts, then Bendu will continue to bargain."

"Keep bidding, keep bidding, if you can't afford it, don't shout."

Dongzhu's shout almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood from Li Ao's anger, and stomped the crutches in his hand, Li Ao sat down on the auction seat again, but the guy next to him who helped him hold up the sign understood what he meant, and raised the auction sign high.

"Four hundred and twenty wen."

"Four hundred and fifty."

"Five hundred wen."

Soon, Sun Xiangfu's shouting price reached an integer threshold, and he knew that if he shouted higher, if the actual money invested was comparable to the price of buying an acre of land in the pass, many people would not bid for it, so he looked in the direction of Dongzhu.

Dongzhu suddenly understood what Sun Xiangfu meant, and removed the bidding sign, and at this time, the rest of the families who were still bidding also showed hesitation.

"Five hundred and ten."

"Five hundred and twenty."

When this price was shouted, in the field, there were only the signs of Wei Shuhuan, Yang Hong and Li Ao, seeing that Li Ao looked like he was bound to win, Wei Shuhuan and Yang Hong glanced at each other and removed the signs.

"Five hundred and twenty wen once, five hundred and twenty wen twice, five hundred and twenty wen three times. Deal. ”

"Congratulations, Old Patriarch Li won the No. 1 plot at a total price of 52 million yuan."

Sun Xiangfu's excited shout sounded again, the little guy who held up the card for Li Ao had already stepped towards the auction table, at a price of 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, if he bought 100,000 mu of land in Guanzhong, it would be a big profit, but if he bought 100,000 mu of barren grassland outside Guan, it would be a bit high, but there was no way! Li Ao was put on the shelf, he didn't want it, others would want it.

Auction is one of the most pitiful sales methods in later generations, with the first piece of land to lay the foundation, the later plots, basically at such a price, will be won, this is more than the budget made by the five surnames and seven families, but it is several times higher, especially a few good pieces of land close to Shanyang City, and the bidding has not yet begun, but the million acres of land in the western edge of the area let them spend five or six hundred thousand yuan.

Moreover, these big families buy things, where do they need to do what installments, pay directly in full, for a while, Wei Zheng led the imperial history team, became a money counter, in front of them, a large iron box, these bearer cabinet exchange bills are loaded, and the few who get the land are obtained a land purchase agreement, in the next three years, they can develop the purchased area into a field, and the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate will issue a land deed to them.

Sun Xiangfu announced that the auction would be closed for an hour, and everyone could go to a nearby restaurant to finish their meals and then conduct the afternoon auction, so whether it was auctioned or not, everyone hurriedly withdrew from the venue, and Sun Xiangfu led Wei Zheng to the backstage behind the stage.

"The old man has seen your Sun Zhengming's ability to turn his hands into clouds and cover his hands into rain today, just by selling one million acres of land, there are 600,000 more yuan in your account, and this money is almost enough to solve Chang'an's urgent needs."

"Lord Wei, don't think so, that's where it is? Do you know how much money these people have saved in Shanyang's cabinet shop during this time? Twenty million guan, the court of the palace for seven or eight years of taxes. ”

"Two, twenty million?"

Even Wei Zheng, who is serious, also took a breath of cool air when he heard this data, a century-old family, a thousand-year-old family, the accumulation of wealth year by year, the capital at hand is really strong enough, and his Shandong Wei family can really only be ranked at the bottom of this.

"Well, so, don't be complacent about the income of five or six hundred thousand yuan, our task is very difficult!"

"You mean, get all this money out of them?" Wei Zheng was shocked when he heard this, and said with a bright look in his eyes.

When Sun Xiangfu heard this, he shook his head with a smile and said, "It's impossible to get it all, at least get half of it!" If I'm not mistaken, the seven sects and five surnames are only afraid that they will not be able to eat this lunch, and part of the money in their hands will flow to those small and medium-sized families. ”

Wei Zheng was puzzled and asked, "Why?" ”

Sun Xiangfu spread his hands and said, "Serf! Although they have a lot of money in their hands, but the serfs are definitely not enough, usually they will not let the serfs idle, but now they suddenly have so much land in their hands, they will definitely be drawn out of the serfs who originally planted the fields, which will cause the serfs under their names in the customs to need to cultivate more land, and even have a tendency to be unable to load, so they need small and medium-sized families to share their pressure. ”

Wei Zheng thought for a moment and wondered, "In this way, wouldn't those small and medium-sized families have more money to bid for land with them?" ”

Sun Xiangfu shook his head again and said, "No, if the small and medium-sized families don't have serfs, they are not qualified to bid for land, and the five surnames and seven families get the serfs in their hands, so they don't have to worry that these small and medium-sized families will bid for land with them, they take the land at a very low price, and they will save the money to buy the serfs, so they just spend the money corresponding to the purchase of the field, but they also buy all the serfs." ”

"He, are they so smart?" Wei Zheng was stunned.

"Don't doubt their wisdom, when there is a plan, they will do it, and when there is no plan, they will play scoundrels, let's watch!"

"Looking? What's the use of looking? We can't let their plan succeed and cause the court to suffer. ”

Wei Zheng is not stupid, he has already thought that if the five surnames and seven families buy all the serfs in the hands of the small and medium-sized families, then, when bidding for the land, if they collude and do not compete with each other, Sun Xiangfu will have to sell the land at a low price, in the whole process, the small and medium-sized families sold the serfs at a high price and benefited, and the seven clans and five surnames used the money to buy the serfs and fields with the money that was supposed to be used to take the land, and they also benefited, then, the only loss is the imperial court, he has already felt at the moment that there are loopholes in the rules of this auction, How can the imperial court be tolerated to suffer losses!