The clean-up work of the Yixian Hall is not going smoothly, because for more than 100 years, the Yixian Hall has been a landmark place for the open discussion of politics in Xianguo, so there are a large number of clans and sour literati, and if they are asked to leave, there must be a place for them to continue chewing their tongues. And it's not a day or two, it can take months, so it takes a lot of effort to clean it up.

In view of this, Bailiyan plans to open a trading house in the location of Chenling, and will be responsible for the trade between Jin Xuedi and Xianguo and even the Central Plains for a long time, and completely build Chenling into the economic and financial trade center of the Central Plains.

Mooney's transaction will not be the first time, nor will it be the last, long-term transactions in the future, it is impossible to attract the princes every time to cause disputes, this precedent bidding transaction, is a good start, so as to open a long-term trading bank, is conducive to the establishment of the Central Plains basic economic and financial trading order.

In addition, the Jinxuedi people sold goods from the south to the Central Plains to the Xianguo, and the middle was 20,000 miles smaller, and the traditional horse team could not afford the time and transportation costs of such a long journey. Now both the north and the south have such resources as unicorns, and Xianguo also has four-wheeled baggage vehicles and 10,000 stone ships, which make it possible to prevent thousands or even hundreds of thousands of unicorn horse teams from transporting a large number of goods to and from the north and south each time.

Mooney only established trade relations with the Xian State, which was not only the most commodity produced by the Xian State in the Central Plains, but also the reason why he was frightened when he killed him back then, which made Jin Xuedi people respect him. Taking advantage of these two points, the establishment of a full-time trading house and the long-term operation of North-South trade commodities will undoubtedly yield more economic and political benefits.

Of course, in terms of geographical advantages, Xianguo is too far away, and it seems that the trading line is closer to Qianyue Mountain, but the climate there is too harsh, and it is more suitable to open in the southern part of Xu or Zhiguo. But politics is often a position established by force, and if there is no vicious war back then, who can convince you.

The preparations for the bidding were in full swing, merchants from all over the world flocked to the Central Plains, and Mooney did not dare to transport a large number of goods directly into the Central Plains, but after the caravan arrived in the south, it sent a pioneer team, and arrived in Chenling in the near future, and sent some samples of goods to the department store and the envoys of various countries to display the quality of Jin Xuedi's goods.

However, as expected, Wei Guo's did not restrain because of the reaction of public opinion, and the Chenling newspaper published the news of the businessman's beating in two consecutive issues, but Wei Guo turned a deaf ear and continued to commit unscrupulous night attacks. In addition, when the news of Bo Yuanjun's compromise with Xianguo came out, Wei Guo was angry and openly spread threatening remarks to intimidate other countries.

However, in Bai Liyan's view, it is just a weak and incompetent act.

On May 17, after careful preparation, the auction will officially open at the Yixian Hall, and the auction will be divided into three stages.

In the first stage, the princes and the Jinxuedi people traded, giving priority to the trading of second-class commodities in the Central Plains, followed by the middle and high-grade commodities, and then the trading of other ordinary commodities, and the country of the transaction provided herbal medicine transactions, otherwise it would be regarded as a default, and the country's trading would be immediately suspended.

On the other hand, when trading Jinxuedi bulk goods, the order is just the opposite, first trading high-grade commodities, then second-class commodities, and finally other ordinary commodities, so that the money just spent can be earned back.

The second stage is the bidding transaction between the wealthy merchants, the nobles and the powerful and the Jin Xuedi people, and the remaining Central Plains commodities are still traded, and since the personal cost is much higher than the official cost, the transaction price with the princes will be made public as a reference.

In the third stage, the surplus goods of Jinxuedi will be sold by auction, but all private individuals can participate in the auction to buy.

The successful bidder signs the deed on the spot, and if he repents or fails to deliver the goods to the designated place within the time limit, the transaction will be terminated in accordance with the contract and the buyer will be compensated for the loss, and the seller will also be bound by this clause.

The bidding rules were announced three days in advance, but it did not cause much turmoil, after all, the rules are fair to the princes, especially to the princes of large countries "particularly fair".

This incident highlights who has a large territory, who has high productivity, who has low costs, and who has the largest profits, and there is much more room for lower prices. The big countries can afford it, and the small countries are definitely making less money, and they can't compete with the price of cabbage.

The auction was conducted by Gudapa, Figosun's son-in-law, and their resident Jinxuedi in Chenling, with Mooney and the Mission's craftsmen inspecting the goods.

All parties involved in the transaction provide samples in advance for display, and the samples are divided into the same grade as the Central Plains according to their fineness. This is not a problem, the biggest problem is that it can only be traded with gold and silver collars, or gold and silver coins.

The reason is also very simple, Mooney has already known the situation in the Central Plains from the mouth of Gudapa, the fineness of gold and silver in various countries comes and goes very much, and the gold and silver content of Jin Xuedi people is generally higher than 90 percent or even 95 percent, and in recent days, there is a shortage of two gold and silver in the short catty, if the alloy silver coins are converted into gold and silver coins, it will definitely suffer a big loss, and the Central Plains only has the same fineness as gold and silver collars, and it is more reasonable to trade gold and silver collars.

But the situation in the Central Plains is different from Jin Xuedi, the Central Plains gold and silver are scarce, so gold and silver have always been on the currency, only very rarely circulated in the market, Xianguo due to the development of commodity trading, high productivity, coupled with the war reparations obtained by the coalition in recent years, gold and silver have been released one after another, the gold and silver trading in Xianguo has radiated from the upper layer to the middle layer, and the situation that it is difficult to see an inch of gold on the market no longer exists, so the domestic gold and silver trading market in Xianguo is far better than that of other countries.

It is precisely because of the scarcity of precious metals in various countries that the number of gold and silver involved in the transaction is far more than the gold and silver collars, because the fineness of gold and silver collars is better than that of gold and silver, so the gold and silver collars are less than the gold and silver collars.

The gold and silver collars are mainly traded at the official level, and the people are relatively rare, even if they are big businessmen, they still hold mainly inch silver, and every inch of gold is very small, and Mooney only trades with gold and silver collars, which undoubtedly hits the enthusiasm of all parties to trade.

However, the rules are not dead, the first to trade will be the Central Plains commodities, which means that the Jinxuedi people export precious metals first, so the Central Plains traders can first obtain the gold and silver coins of the Jinxuedi people to trade.

Subsequent transactions can use gold and silver coins to purchase the goods of the Jinshedi from Mooney, and the gold and silver coins are returned to Mooney's hands. It stands to reason that the Jinxuedi people need more Central Plains products, so the Central Plains can get more gold and silver coins without having to export their own gold and silver collars.

But this is an official transaction, and it is almost impossible for private businessmen and local magnates to hold large amounts of gold and silver collars, and two pieces of gold and silver are already a lot. To this end, Bailiyan convened Qianfang overnight to discuss with the Department of Taxation and Finance to increase the business of exchanging gold and silver for gold and silver collars, so that individuals can participate in transactions and seek benefits from it.

The fineness of gold and silver is mostly between 85 percent and 80 percent, and the fineness of gold and silver collars is higher than 90 percent.

Of course, in practice, due to technical limitations, it is impossible to test the purity one by one, whether the content is 80% or 85%, all countries will charge a discount. Qianfang opened an exchange business, and the merchants who flocked to the city needed to exchange a small amount of gold and silver, even if there was only a discount of one percent, the total amount of the difference in the middle was very considerable.

But the development of the matter is far from the end of the world, the swarm of businessmen from all over the world, carrying a variety of gold and silver, gold and silver short catties are two major in the way, the money shop after sufficient preparations, but where the exchange of gold and silver collars, every inch of gold and silver are all weighed, so that the problem of the shortage of catties and two catties that is still fermenting in various countries before is completely detonated, and suddenly some people find that the gold and silver they carry are less than half of them, and public opinion is in an uproar.

It's all fair, some people are only a little less, and some people are less, so it's no wonder that others are headed.

Bailiyan did not forget to fan the flames and stir up the chaos, especially added a newspaper, exaggerating the news of the shortage of gold and silver, and did not forget to piggyback on the balance scales that advertised the market sales of department stores, as for the price, everyone understands.

On the first day of the bidding on 17 May, the envoys of various countries in the Lingling Tomb and a number of entourages poured into the Yixian Pavilion to bid for the bidding, and the Xianguo participated in the bidding, including all the cabinet and important relatives of the foreign courts, as well as civil and military officials, totaling 56 people, but the crown prince did not come.

The prince wanted to come, but was stopped by King Xian, who did not want the prince to participate in commercial activities, and at the same time, the prince of a country pulled down his face and accompanied the envoys of various countries to participate in bargaining activities hysterically.

The first item was not surprising that the inferior silk and the inferior cotton cloth, since no one knew how low the amount was, Mooney opened his mouth to 400,000 inferior silk really surprised everyone, and the eldest grandson country could not eat it.

It's not that the eldest grandson can't produce 400,000 horses, but the treasury and the magnates can't get 400,000 horses. It is impossible to recover the market stock in a short period of time, so the amount of goods that the imperial court can participate in selling is mostly the inventory in the hands of the treasury and the magnates, as well as private goods.

Because the eldest grandson's family was dominant, although he could not eat more than 400,000 horses, no one could bid with him, and in the end, the eldest grandson shared 310,000 horses of inferior silk, equivalent to 250,000 inches of gold and silver coins, and the remaining 90,000 horses were subcontracted by the four countries of Liang, Yan, Xian, and Jin.

The average of 310,000 pieces of inferior silk is about 0.8 inches of gold per horse, which is not much cheaper than the inferior Luo, yarn and silk fabrics on the market.

Inferior commodities continued to trade for two days, involving 19 products, and the actual bidding link was very short, and most of the time was spent negotiating, communicating and negotiating, inspecting the fineness and signing the deed.

When everyone thought that they should go according to the previous script, the style of painting suddenly changed, and the total transaction volume of medium-grade silk products was sharply reduced to 40,000 horses, and the medium-grade cotton cloth was only 100,000 horses, as far as this amount was concerned, it was not enough for a large princely state, and finally the Jin Kingdom divided all the medium-grade silk and 100,000 medium-grade cotton cloth.