Chapter 17: Novelty Victoria's Secret Furniture Auction (Celebrating the Successful Signing)
The delinquent teenagers who rushed into the store were obviously coming for the flyers. As soon as they entered the door, a few teenagers shouted loudly, "Where is the beauty, don't come out quickly to pick up customers." "It's the rhythm of treating this place as a guild hall.
This time, the cold eyes of the big men in the store were completely useless. The boys don't take them seriously at all. A young man even shouted at the big men unruly: "Look at what to see, and then watch the master gouge out your eyeballs." ”
Ever since the boys entered the store, the atmosphere inside the store had changed, and some people in the crowd had begun to hide outside the store.
The big man in the shop, with a gloomy face, slowly surrounded him. The young men are undaunted, seeing that a conflict is about to occur. A teenager in the circle suddenly hid behind his companion.
At this time, a slightly chubby middle-aged man was being led to the staircase by Shopkeeper Xue, and he was about to step upstairs. The arrogant shouts of the young men attracted the attention of the middle-aged people. The middle-aged man saw the young man hiding at a glance, his face instantly darkened, and he snorted heavily in his nose. The young man saw that he couldn't hide, so he had to slowly move out from behind his companion and exclaimed, "Dad? ”
The middle-aged man glared at him fiercely, waved his hand and drove away with some disgust: "This is a place where you can mess around?" Hurry up and get rid of Lao Tzu and go home. ”
The boy didn't dare to say more, and turned away stupidly. Seeing that the situation was not good, the other young men all left the store with them. The middle-aged man arched his hand at the shopkeeper Xue who led the way, and said apologetically: "Shopkeeper Xue, I'm sorry, the dog is unreasonable, please bear with me." ”
"Where, where." Shopkeeper Xue said very politely, "Who hasn't been young and frivolous, the children are just playing, Dingguo Gong doesn't need to worry about it." This side please. The two of them talked as they walked up the ladder.
At this time, the second floor has been divided into many single rooms, which are distributed in a circle. A small high platform was erected in the middle of the field. According to Zhu Youzhen's instructions, this place is used as a small auction house. Today's first auction is the work of Mingzong master Zhu Youxiao.
The surrounding private rooms were already full, and the bamboo curtains at the door had been lowered. Sitting in a single room, 8CD is the Daming noble family.
In the Ming Dynasty, the nobles were a very wealthy group of people. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, they except for a limited number of families, such as the Xu family, the Zhang family, and the Zhu family. Others were gradually squeezed out by civilian officials and slowly faded out of the political arena. And in exchange for fading out of the political arena, the nobles gained a lot in the economic aspect. The civil officials are also happy to see the nobles busy making money, and the civil officials are the imperial historians who can fight no matter how much they can fight, and they will never attack the nobles in the economic aspect.
In this way, in the late Ming Dynasty, a very strange phenomenon was formed: the orthodox generals were busy making money, and the army was blindly commanded by civilian officials who did not understand military affairs. And the civil servants themselves are still busy with party disputes, and the internal friction is very serious. There is an unexpectedly internal civil service, and it is better not to do things than not to do them. Often, those who do things can't get good results, but those who don't do things can stand on the moral high ground and spray everywhere.
Zhu Youzhen's purpose in opening "Zhenmutang" is to make money. So when he fooled his eldest brother Zhu Youxiao into joining, he began to tell others quietly. "I have a little secret, I'll just tell you one, and you must never tell anyone. I've heard that Master Mingzong may be the current saint. ”
The power of little secrets is amazing. Coming and going, if you don't know who Master Mingzong is, then I'm afraid you will be teased by insiders, and he will be too lonely and unheard of.
On the day of the opening of Zhenmutang, a set of novel furniture made by Master Myeongjong himself will appear in the store. This novelty will be auctioned at the time, and the highest bidder will be awarded. The news of this auction also spread with a little secret. In this era of the supremacy of imperial power, the emperor personally created it, and the shock brought by this name can be imagined.
Today, almost all the families with some economic power in Beijing are present, and they are eagerly waiting for the auction to begin.
As a burst of melodious music played, the two men carefully lifted out a recliner and gently placed it on the high platform. The auction officially began.
In order to show the charm of the new furniture, Zhu Youjian imitated the Victoria's Secret catwalk in his previous life and made careful arrangements for the display of products.
On the high platform, although it was daytime, Zhu Youzhen also arranged to light candles, and used a bronze mirror to reflect the light behind him, so as to focus the light on the position of the recliner. He also deliberately selected a few well-mannered palace maids from the palace and underwent professional training as models to display products. In the melodious sound of string music, the palace maid used a variety of beautiful postures to show the comfort and luxury of the chaise longue. In the end, the palace maid also guided everyone's attention and specially displayed the special inscription formed by the word "Mingzong" on the side of the recliner. If this ornament had not been revealed, no one would have thought that it was a specially designed inscription.
Seeing this special pattern, everyone suddenly remembered that this chaise longue has small decorative patterns everywhere. The whole recliner is full of artistic conception against the backdrop of the spotlight, and it is indeed a rare handicraft.
The auction instantly entered a climax, and there was no need for an auctioneer to drive it again. All the auctioneer can do is shout: "First time, second time." "The auctioneer's third time was delayed in exporting. The auction price jumped all the way up. In the end, this chaise longue was auctioned for a high price of 6,800 taels of silver.
For a while, even Zhu Youzhen, the initiator, was a little dumbfounded.
Zhu Youzhen never thought that a little advanced display method, a little gimmick, and a novel product would burst out with such a big energy.
Waiting until the excited voices around him calmed down a little, the guys from Zhenmutang gently moved the next auction work, the rocking chair, to the high platform. Unlike the chaise longue, the model who came out to show was not a palace maid, but a thin old man. The old man lay comfortably on the rocking chair, holding a book in his hand, and the rocking chair shook gently, and a leisurely feeling diffused.
This different display scene was specially designed by Zhu Youzhen. He carefully designs different pieces of furniture and for different purposes. The display on the field looked simple, but the old man just lay down, and the old man practiced for 5 days before Zhu Youzhen reluctantly accepted it.
The nobles and wealthy who participated in the auction seemed to have watched a silent pantomime show. Behind the rocking chair, the chaise longue where the begonia sleeps in spring; a sofa coffee table for friends to get together; is sitting on the solemn Eight Immortals table and Taishi chair. There are also children's jumping, brown trampolines with amazing elasticity, and chests of drawers. Although there is no complete story in the whole show, the beautiful pictures make them addicted. As a result, the auction prices of individual furniture have also risen.
To Zhu Youzhen's surprise, the most sought after piece of furniture was the combination of the Eight Immortals Table and the Taishi Chair. This combination is a sky-high price of 32,000 taels of silver. A total of 104,800 taels of silver were sold in the whole auction, breaking through the 100,000 taels mark.
Zhu Youzhen was also extremely excited when he saw this auction amount. You know, these furniture are only a few hundred taels of silver if they are counted as wood alone, which is how many times the profit, which is terrible.