When Xu Jing shouted the auction price of 30,000 taels, the entire people at the Royal Exposition looked at him in shock.

How rich would it be to take out 30,000 taels of silver to buy a glass night pearl in one go?

The whole royal exposition became very quiet, and the noisy and bustling chessboard street suddenly became audible.

Emperor Zhu Houzhao stood up, he really wanted to see which local tyrant was so stupid to spend 30,000 taels to buy a glass night pearl of his Royal Industrial Company at less than a tael of cost price.

Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao had the same idea, but he also looked at Xu Jing with a hint of appreciation, after all, the fat Confucian in front of him who shouted a high price of 30,000 taels was equivalent to the God of Wealth who gave him 600 taels of silver!

"Which little brother is so arrogant and dares to rob my business, Gu admires it!"

Gu Dayong also asked loudly with a smile, he was naturally happy, after all, the Royal Industrial Company also had his shares, and even he hoped that the more such wrongs, the better.

The other people looked at Xu Jing with a look of surprise.

Some people also think that he is rich and generous, and he can get a high price of 30,000 taels to buy a glass night pearl.

But some people think that Xu Jing is smart and knows that this thing is valuable, and they buy it at a high price first and then make money, and even envy Xu Jing a little.

Even because of this, some of the rich businessmen among the people regretted it, thinking about whether they should say that the price was higher and grab this treasure.

But because 30,000 taels is too high, few people dare to do it like Xu Jing.

Emperor Zhengde's personal eunuch Wei Bin personally greeted Xu Jing with a smile in the corner of his eyes: "This friend dares to ask for a name?" ”

"Nanzhili raised Xu Jing to see this father-in-law", Xu Jing returned the salute with a smile, and hurriedly took out the silver ticket: "This is a bill of exchange of the Taichang, one is 20,000 yuan, and the other is 10,000 yuan, please check it with the father-in-law." ”

Xu Jing saw that His Majesty the Emperor and several eunuchs in front of him were looking at him curiously, and seemed to have a good impression of him, just like a girl looking at Mingyue Tower, so Xu Jing felt a little cold in his back and hurriedly took out the silver ticket.

"Why are you in such a hurry, since you have come to power, you have to give a salute to Your Majesty! Isn't it, Xu Juren? ”

Wei Bin grabbed Xu Jing's hand and walked to Zhu Houzhao as he spoke, Xu Jing hurriedly withdrew his hand, and smiled awkwardly: "The student is just a mere person, and he is not worthy of such courtesy from his father-in-law." ”

As he spoke, Xu Jing bowed to Zhu Houzhao and bowed.

"Get up, it turns out that your name is Xu Jing, do you know Tang Bohu?"

Zhu Houzhao remembered that during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a Xu Jing who was involved in the imperial examination fraud case with Tang Bohu, and he also knew that Xu Jing's family was wealthy, so he couldn't help but ask more.

Xu Jing is indeed the one Zhu Houzhao guessed, Tang Bohu's friend, and even now he can be regarded as a confidant of the common adversity.

Therefore, when he heard His Majesty the Emperor mention his friend, Xu Jing did not hide it: "Back to Your Majesty, the student knows Tang Bohu, and now he is a righteous brother." ”

"Then you write to him and tell him that he will come to Jingshi, and I want to use him, I heard that he is good at painting, especially painting the Spring 0 Palace, I am very interested."

Zhu Houzhao said again: "You don't have to leave in a hurry, but do you want to be the director of the chamberlain next to me and hang the rank of review officer of the Hanlin Academy?" ”

Zhu Houzhao has always had the idea of recruiting some royal literati, especially Xu Jing and Tang Bohu, who have experienced setbacks and are dissatisfied with the powerful, because they have a sharp pen and must be full of a sense of struggle, and they will inevitably have to fight with civil officials in the public opinion circles in the future, and they must always cultivate a few good "war generals" who are playing with the pen in advance.

Although Xu Jing didn't know what the official position of the director of the chamberlain was, he knew that the review of the Hanlin Academy was an official position that could only be had after the top three jinshi selected Shu Jishi to stay in the museum.

This means that as long as he agrees, he can change the fate of being a servant (he was sentenced to be a petty official in the 12th year of Hongzhi's fraud case).

So, Xu Jing hurriedly made another big salute: "Student thank Your Majesty for your appreciation!" ”

"You should call yourself Weichen, tell your righteous brother, and let him come to Beijing to see me quickly, otherwise you can't be the director of the chamberlain, you can only be a squire!"

Zhu Houzhao asked Xu Jing to step down, and then ordered Liu Jin to continue to preside over the luxury auction of the Royal Exposition.

Xu Jing had already received the voucher from Wei Bin here, and then personally instructed his servants to carry back the glass night pearl that he had bought with 30,000 taels of silver.

Xu Jing didn't feel that he was stupid to do this, because he actually wanted to use this to have a relationship with the emperor, but he didn't expect the emperor to be so generous, and he really rewarded him with a review of the Hanlin Academy, thinking about it, Xu Jing felt that even if it cost another 30,000 taels, it was worth it.

So, Xu Jing hurriedly instructed his servant: "You can go to the store and get a hundred thousand bills of exchange!" I'm going to buy it again, sir! ”

Here, Liu Jin has already ordered someone to bring out the second luxury item produced by the Royal Industrial Company - the crystal lotus Guanyin.

The so-called crystal lotus Guanyin is actually made of glass, but the production cost of the crystal lotus Guanyin is higher, almost two taels of silver, mainly because this requires the glass liquid to be completely solidified into glass before the carver quickly carves the crystal lotus Guanyin with a knife.

Because once the glass solidifies, even if it is partially solidified, it will lead to the failure of this piece of glass to make crystal Lotus Guanyin, once the glass is solidified, it is very hard, although the ordinary glass is brittle, but the hardness is high, after all, the main ingredient is silica, which generally needs to be cut by diamond.

Therefore, the carver needs to carve before the liquid glass solidifies, so it also costs a lot of glass to make this crystal sitting lotus Guanyin, so it is worth two taels of silver.

Zhu Houzhao originally set the starting price at 10,000 taels, but because the glass night pearl was successfully auctioned at a high price of 30,000 taels, he asked Liu Jin to change it to 15,000 taels.

Here, Liu Jin pointed to the crystal lotus Guanyin held by the two eunuchs and said: "This is the royal collection version of the Tang Dynasty crystal lotus Guanyin, after Master Xuanzang opened the light, you see that this luster is the light of the Buddha, and the owner can be guaranteed to be disease-free and disaster-free, and have many children!" ”

What ordinary people pursue is nothing more than no disease, no disaster, more children and more blessings, so this crystal lotus Guanyin was auctioned at the beginning, and it was scrambled by the people in the audience.

"Seventeen thousand taels!"

"Eighteen thousand taels!"

"Twenty thousand taels!"

In the end, under the coaxing of Gu Dayong, it rose directly to 28,000 taels!

At this time, Xu Jing shouted again: "Thirty thousand taels!" ”

Gu Dayong decided to coax again: "Thirty-five thousand taels!" ”

"Forty thousand taels!" Xu Jing was raised again.

"Forty-five thousand taels!" At this time, a monk also shouted, and it could be seen that this Guanyin statue was also very attractive to the monks.

"Forty-six thousand taels!"

"Forty-seven thousand taels!"

"Fifty thousand taels!"

There are still many people scrambling to buy, enough to see that there are still a lot of good men and women in the Ming Dynasty, and because of the worship of Guanyin, they may also regret not grabbing the glass night pearl and scrambling, after all, they saw with their own eyes that Xu Jing bought the glass night pearl and then won the official It can be said that the official luck is prosperous, which shows that if you get the royal crystal ****, you can really be disease-free and disaster-free, and have many children.

"You go away, my old lady will bid 60,000 taels!"

At this time, a sedan chair stopped in the middle, and someone had already begun to exclaim: "Isn't this the old lady of the Shoufu family?" ”