When Zhang Bin accompanied Li Shunju to arrive, Prime Minister Wu Chong had already arrived, and the big grain merchants in each room hurriedly came out to give Wu Chong a respectful salute, and then stood around the high platform, not daring to go back.

At this time, seeing Zhang Bin and Li Shunju coming, he hurriedly greeted him while saluting, and at the same time hurriedly got out of the way.

"This is the angel sent by His Majesty the Emperor, Gonggong Li, who is here on behalf of the Son of Heaven, personally staring at today's bidding, you don't have to worry about someone doing something unfair." Zhang Bin first saluted Wu Chong, and then said lightly.

When the businessmen heard this, they hurriedly gave a big salute to Li Shun, but Wu Chong only bowed his hand slightly to Li Shunju, and Li Shunju first returned the salute to Wu Chong, and then said condescendingly to the merchants: "Get up!" The government attaches great importance to this bidding, and what you are doing is also doing your best for the country. ”

Not just anyone can use the word "official" to call His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Shunju, the most trusted chamberlain around the emperor, obviously has this honor and qualifications.

A group of businessmen suddenly showed flattered expressions on their faces, Yu Jianshu had married the county lord, and he was already a half-official and half-businessman, so he hurriedly took the lead and said: "My emperor Shengming." ”

The other merchants hurriedly shouted, "My Emperor Shengming." ”

Li Shunju no longer paid attention to the merchants, and Wu Chong humbly conceded to each other on the high platform and sat in his place.

There were only Zhang Bin and the twenty inner guards behind him left in the audience, these big businessmen were as good as monkeys, knowing that although this young man's official position was not as good as that of several bigwigs, he was specifically presiding over the bidding, not to mention that he saw Zhang Bin accompanying the palace attendant just now, and at this time, the twenty inner guards stood behind Zhang Bin again, looking like an entourage, all of them were shocked, and they surrounded him again, wanting to say hello again at close range, and make a familiar face.

"The prince has arrived!" Zhang Bin was about to say something, when the voice of the third official in charge of communication outside.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Anshi, who had a resolute face, walked in, followed by two officials, Xue Ju, the transfer envoy on the left, and Wang Yan on the right.

Zhang Bin didn't care about the big grain merchants, stepped forward and bowed down and said, "The lower officials will meet the prime minister and the transfer envoy." ”

Wang Anshi looked at Zhang Bin with a complicated expression and said, "Zhang Bin, don't make a mistake in this bidding." ”

Zhang Bin hurriedly said: "Don't worry, there will be no mistakes." ”

Wang Anshi nodded to Zhang Bin, waved his hand to let the businessmen get up, and then took care of himself and went to the high platform.

Xue Xiang stepped forward with a smile and said to Zhang Bin: "Ziyu will shine today." ”

When Xue Xiang spoke, Wang Yan glanced at Zhang Bin coldly, didn't say anything, went to a few tables on the side of the high platform, and found a place to sit down.

There were already two officials from the Imperial History Observatory and several officials from the Transit Division and the Third Division seated, and at this time, these people also stepped forward to salute Wang Anshi, and when they came back, they talked and laughed with Wang Yan.

didn't wait too long, Sima Guang and Prime Minister Han Qi also rushed over, everyone hurriedly got up and saluted the prime minister, Sima Guang avoided the side in a hurry.

Han Qi let everyone get up, their eyes stayed on Zhang Bin for a moment, the two looked at each other, Han Qi nodded slightly, and sat in the middle of the high platform.

Feeling Sima Guang's cold gaze, Zhang Bin was too lazy to salute him, at this time Cai Jing walked in from outside and whispered to Zhang Bin: "Ziyu, Sima Guang deliberately calculated the time and came with Han Xianggong." ”

Zhang Bin had already told Cai Jing, Su Guo, Sun Guodong and Zhang Santao about his bet with Sima Guang, Cai Jing was a smart person, so he was more concerned about Sima Guang, and when he saw this scene outside, he immediately knew that Sima Guang deliberately let some grain merchants, especially the Chen family, watch him come in with the prime minister, and the purpose was self-evident.

By this time, the officials and businessmen involved in the bidding for the right to transship and sell the grain had already arrived.

Zhang Bin gave an order, and the door of this mansion was closed. The forbidden army outside the gate surrounded the place, and ordinary people could no longer enter.

Han Qi first said some words of encouragement to the merchants on behalf of the imperial court, and then motioned for Zhang Bin to start.

Zhang Bin stepped forward to salute several bigwigs on the high platform, and then stood behind the table specially prepared for himself, emphasizing the agenda and rules of the bidding.

These contents are on the official notices received by various businessmen in advance, and they have naturally been studied repeatedly, so Zhang Bin simply mentioned them again, and then announced the start of the bidding.

The territory of the Great Song Dynasty is now divided into 23 roads, and the transfer and purchase of Gyeonggi Road, where the capital is located, has always been directly managed by the Kaifeng Prefecture.

Therefore, the bidding that needs to be made is 22 roads, and it is a bidding all the way.

Of course, Zhang Bin knew that Chen Wen of the Chen family had secretly connected with these big grain merchants in private, and divided the way for bidding with each other, so that they would not bid and raise prices with each other, thus saving a lot of money.

Now that he already knows about this matter, Zhang Bin will naturally have countermeasures.

In fact, it is actually very simple to break the secret tandem of the businessman, he only needs to instruct Yu Jia and Mi Fat to rob the road set by other businessmen, and the big businessman who was robbed of the target does not want to return empty-handed, so he can only rob the target road of others.

Zhang Bin had no doubt about this, because he knew that it was determined by the profit-seeking nature of the merchants.

"The first bidding is the right to transfer and sell grain on Jingdong East Road, and the intended grain merchants write the bid in accordance with the rules, seal it in a kraft paper bag, and send it to the bidding hall, each family has only five bidding opportunities, and the final price is the highest one." After Zhang Bin finished speaking lightly, his eyes swept over the businessmen who bowed at the door of the seventeen small rooms, and shouted: "Hit the gong!" ”

"Qiang ......" a small official of the third division struck the big gong hanging on one side.

The merchants bowed to the bigwigs in the field, then returned to their respective rooms and began to discuss.

A quarter of an hour later, the bidding for the purchase of grain transshipment on Jingdong East Road ended.

The Sun family, a big grain merchant in Beijing, was dumbfounded, because according to their secret series, this Jingdong East Road is their goal, because it is close to the capital, the main transshipment destination is Jingshi, the distance is not far, and the profit is not as big as Huainan, Jiangnan, Shandong and other places, so the highest price they set is 1,000 guan.

I have to say that the tandem still has results, except for Mi Fatzi and Yu's family, all the others stood by and did not bid.

But these two are enough.

When the Sun family first came out with 500 guan, Mi Fatzi came out with 800 guan.

In the second bid, the Sun family gritted his teeth and directly offered 1,000 yuan, and as a result, the fat man made another 1,500 yuan.

The Sun family naturally calculated the profits, and two thousand guan was the highest price they could accept in their hearts, so while secretly scolding the fat man for being shameless, he directly went out to two thousand guan on the fourth time.

The Sun family had already thought about it, if Mi Fat made another bid this time, they would give up.

But Mi Fatzi did not increase the price again.

In the end, the Sun family won the right to transfer and sell Jingdong East Road at a price of 2,000 yuan, and signed a treaty with the three divisions on the spot, and then sent 2,000 yuan.