"Did you hear that? Tonight, Jubaoge will hold a rare auction in our largest restaurant in Bianzhou and Yunda Restaurant? I heard that the scale is quite large this time, the entire Heyun Restaurant has been contracted, and all the top brands of the Agarwood Pavilion have also been contracted, I heard that Xiao Yang Concubine is the gold medal commentator of this auction. Pedestrians came and went in the city of Bianzhou and began to talk about the major events that were about to take place that would cause a sensation in the whole of Bianzhou and even in several nearby states and counties.

"That's, I heard, this treasure pavilion is starting to be quite small, you know? The sons of our lords are all guests, and I heard that many officials from the DPRK and China were invited to participate in this auction. I don't know what rare treasures need to move such a big battle, and our grandfather didn't make such a big move when he fought Xuzhou. The person next to him also praised this incident, and at the same time was very curious about the origin of this treasure pavilion.

In fact, not only these ordinary people are curious, but also the upper-class people in Bianzhou are also very curious, this treasure pavilion has not been in the Bianliang area for a long time, but every time it goes out, it will bring a lot of eyeballs. The jewelry on display at each auction can also be called a rare treasure, but this time it is the biggest, not only the battle is big, but also the magnates invited are very large, many insiders are saying, even Liang Guogong, who is now Liang Wang Zhu Quanzhong, was shocked and prepared to observe the auction secretly. Whether this news is true or not, it is enough to show that this Treasure Pavilion really caused a sensation in the entire Bianliang and even the Central Plains.

However, not everyone is optimistic about the behavior of the Treasure Pavilion, and Zheng Fan is one of the few people who are unwilling to face up to this great businessman who specializes in cherishing treasures. But he is not good at this kind of purely commercial operation, and he has no handle to check it out, plus Xie Tong was busy repairing the canal during this time, digesting the spoils of the battle of Xuzhou, and accelerating the integration of internal strength, so he was busy not being able to find a figure, so Zheng Fan, who had no clue between them, put down this matter and concentrated on the recently emerging canal trade.

But in fact, he can not interfere in the canal trade, because in the system of the Xuanwu Army, there was originally no leading department to manage this kind of cross-border trade, and generally each state and county was in charge of its own affairs, after the rise of the Tiance Army, Zhu Quanzhong and Xie Tong also imitated the establishment of the Tiance Mansion, and set up a department similar to the hybrid of the Department of Industry and Commerce and the Department of Finance, which carried out unified jurisdiction over all commerce in the territory. But Zhu Quanzhong's advisers are almost not good at business, and they usually don't pay attention to this part. At this time, Zhu Quanzhong's son Zhu Youshu took the initiative to ask Ying to go on this troubled water. And Zhu Youshu's biggest competitor, Zhu Youjue, couldn't ask for his younger brother not doing his job, so the two who had always been competing with each other unexpectedly reached an agreement on this point.

When Zhu Youshu officially took office, which was named the Ministry of Commerce, his first order was to take all the power to collect taxes from commerce in various places into his own hands, and imitated Tiance Mansion to formulate a series of tax policies, adding more than a dozen new taxes of all sizes, such as transaction tax, vehicle and vessel tax, cattle and horse tax, etc., on the basis of the previous taxes. As soon as this policy was introduced, it brought a heavy burden to the merchants in the Central Plains, and many originally profitable merchant groups gradually exceeded their means, and the profit level was greatly compressed.

But these are nothing to Zhu Youshu, relying on the increase in taxes, the treasury of the Xuanwu Army has increased a lot in a short period of time, these were praised by Zhu Quanzhong after Zhu Youshu intensified, for the past Xuanwu Army merchants also began to increase taxes, and mandatory tax increases several times the previous transit tax, the beautiful name of the Xuanwu Army This is to ensure the safety of their business, is a reasonable and legal protection fee.

In addition to increasing the treasury of the Xuanwu Army, the large amount of tax revenue also quickly made Zhu Youshu's own pockets bulge, and Zhu Youshu, who became more and more bold, began to hand over the previous big head to the government treasury and keep the small head himself, and began to operate in reverse. However, due to the large number accumulated in the early stage, this kind of behavior of enriching one's own pockets and abusing power for personal gain in a short period of time has not been discovered.

This is also the reason why the merchants of Tiance Mansion suffered a setback in the Central Plains some time ago. But soon after Murong Hanhai and Hu Xiaosi discovered this situation, they began to instruct Xuan Yingwei to prepare to stumble Zhu Youshu, and took out the previous plan to corrupt Zhu Quanzhong again.

This time, Biaozi, who absorbed the previous lesson, operated in reverse, and collected the evidence of Zhu Youshu's crime and brought it directly to him, under the mountain of ironclad evidence, Zhu Youshu collapsed, and if these criminal evidence fell into the hands of his third brother, he would definitely put himself to death. Thinking of this, Zhu Youshu didn't even have the courage to cry.

But at this time, Biao Zi let go of a good old man who was kind and seductive and whispered in Zhu Youshu's ear for a moment, and the desperate expression on the latter's face gradually faded with Biao Zi's words, and later he glared and asked, "Is this true?" ”

"What's wrong with that? We just want to make more money, and we can do it against Childe? And I can also guarantee that as long as Childe is willing to cooperate with us, we will do our best to support Childe to ascend to the throne as soon as possible. Biaozi's face was filled with a weird smile, but in Zhu Youshu's eyes, all this came so fast that until now he didn't know if the other party was teasing him.

"So what should I do?" Zhu Youshu was silent for a long time, then slowly stood up from the ground and asked: "To be honest, I am not the best among my father's several heirs, and I am not even as good as his adopted son Zhu Youwen, I don't know what Mr. can do?" ”

"I can't go into detail here at this time, but what I want to say is that this matter may be difficult for Childe, but I have thought of a wonderful way to talk about it another day." Seeing that the goal was achieved, Biao Zi pretended to be a master of the world and floated away.

In the following days, Biao Zi often went in and out of Zhu Youshu's mansion, instilled his plan in his heart into Zhu Youshu little by little, and used Xuan Yingwei's manpower near Bianliang to send Zhu Youshu to work for free many times, helping him to complete several major things, and after successfully winning Zhu Quanzhong's trust, Biao Zi also began to hand over the core plan to Zhu Youshu. At the same time, in order to increase the pressure on him, Xuan Yingwei arranged a beautiful encounter for Zhu Quanzhong and Zhu Youwen's wife, Wang. At this time, Zhu Quanzhong's external pressure was greatly relieved, and the materials in Xuzhou also greatly enhanced the strength in his hands, and it was also a fluttering time, Wang's beauty made him feel lost, until Wang left for a long time inexplicably sounded this daughter-in-law.

Biaozi had been in the middle and lower classes of Xiazhou for a long time before, and naturally knew that this kind of encounter was the temptation and power of releasing the wisp of evil in Zhu Quanzhong's heart, so while not giving Zhu Youshu a set, he also paid attention to Zhu Youwen's body, this Zhu Quanzhong's adopted son seems to be much more difficult to handle than Zhu Youshu. But he couldn't stand the other party's wife's abnormal beauty, so he was the first to make a breakthrough.

However, after Zhu Youshu heard about this matter, his face suddenly became extremely ugly, and Zhu Youshu stayed in his wife's room all night that night, and no one knew what the two said, but since then, Zhu Youshu's wife Meng has often been in and out of Liang Wang's mansion, and if she has nothing to do, she will go to her father to say goodbye.

After these news reached Chang'an, Li Xuanqing was also surprised, he just mentioned a little shadow that day, but he didn't expect Xuan Yingwei to really do this matter, according to Zhu Quanzhong's temperament, it won't be long before this kind of thing can be done. It's just that I'm very curious about this Zhu Youshu, if I remember it well, there doesn't seem to be this person in history, and Zhu Quanzhong's youngest son doesn't seem to be called Zhu Youshu, but what exactly is it called Li Xuanqing can't remember now. However, these just flashed in Li Xuanqing's mind and disappeared, and Li Xuanqing didn't care about these anymore.

Thinking of this, Li Xuanqing did not interfere with Xuan Yingwei's arrangement, and Hu Xiaosi saw that Li Xuanqing did not say anything, and followed Li Xuanqing's example, ignoring Biaozi's actions in Bianzhou, but instructed Biaozi and Zhao Si to use the opportunity of Zhu Youshu to take advantage of Zhu Youshu's supervision of Xuanwu Army's domestic business to accelerate the process of exporting goods and goods, and the base camp also began to accelerate the export of luxury goods.

At this time, Qiaoxi has also prepared the big killer that Li Xuanqing said, and after half a month of factory starting, the first batch of finished products was finally qualified, and the secondary products were also produced. Under the emergency transportation, he rushed to Bianzhou to participate in the auction of the Treasure Pavilion, which was regarded as the finale.

And Qiaoxi couldn't help but smile when she saw Li Xuanqing's eyes: "Big brother, do you guess what is the unit price of our big killer after this auction?" ”

"I heard that during the Ming Dynasty, the price of Quanzhou Port in Fujian was one hundred taels of silver, so how about we set the price of fifty taels of silver?" Li Xuanqing said with a smile.

"Fifty taels a piece? Wow, rich, big brother. Qiaoxi snapped his fingers and glanced at the look of a wealth fan, and smiled: "Let's build a yacht and travel around the world." ”

"Okay. Let's go now. Qiaoxi's appearance also made Li Xuanqing's heart full of tenderness and sweetness, remembering the bold words of later generations, and he couldn't help but laugh and said: "Let's go back and order a larger cruise ship so that we can travel at that time." ”

Qiaoxi snuggled in Li Xuanqing's arms and smiled: "Okay, maybe we can go to Hokkaido to have a look." ”

"Don't worry, it'll be our place then." Li Xuanqing smiled, hugged Qiaoxi and said with a smile: "Those who are running around with me this year must be tired, let's go back to Lishan to have a good rest and give ourselves a holiday, okay?" ”

"Okay, the hot springs in Lishan are the best to soak at this time." Qiaoxi smiled: "What about the new factory here in Weinan?" Do you want to keep it a secret? ”

"It's going to be a secret. I've already sent a message to Xiao Si, just let Xuanyingwei send someone to watch it, at least keep it secret until we unify the Central Plains. Li Xuanqing said with a smile, "In the future, we will sell it to foreigners at this price." ”

The two did not alarm the others in Weinan, and rode on the jade lion and headed directly towards Lishan. With the departure of the two, the auction in Bianzhou officially began. In the case of the five wealthy merchants collectively taking out their treasures to cash out, this treasure pavilion backed by Tiance Mansion can be said to be full of confidence, and the two pearls the size of pigeon eggs at the beginning alone blinded the eyes of the high-level Xuanwu Army and the wealthy merchants and nobles in the Central Plains who were invited to come. This opening line is so powerful, so how precious should the rest be? Everyone present is not calm, what is the origin of this treasure pavilion?

But unlike others, Zhu Youshu stared at the auction scene below, his eyes gradually flashed with greed, according to the agreement between himself and Biaozi, one percent of the auction proceeds from the Treasure Pavilion would be automatically assigned to his name, so for everyone present, he was undoubtedly the most supportive of the auction The more successful the better, there is no one.

And these two pearls with pigeon eggs are not known to others, but Biaozi knows very well, this is the Xu family on a big island called Liuqiu overseas with a few horses of silk and the local people in exchange. This is the Xu family three generations ago, these years of the interruption of the route of this thing is naturally precious, when Xu Xingxia took it out, Mrs. was reluctant, but Xu Xingxia knew the allusion, forced a smile to tell his wife the reason, and then ignored the latter's expression and threw it out decisively.

"Boss, how much do you think this pearl will fetch later?" One of Biaozi's subordinates asked curiously.

Biao Zi shook his head and smiled: "How do I know, but since Xuzhou was taken, the dignitaries and nobles in Bianzhou have collectively fattened a lot, and the gold and silver treasures of Xuzhou have all been swallowed by these guys except for being sealed by the army, if we don't scrape off this layer of fat, wouldn't we be sorry for the lord?" After finishing speaking, he sighed and said: "We really met Mingjun, who is like the lord of our family in this world, he has nothing, and a little money has been given to the people." ”

Biaozi is still sighing here, the auction in the huge hall outside has officially begun, the top brand Xiao Yang Concubine from the Agarwood Pavilion is dressed in a red palace dress, with a beautiful figure, and her voice is like a natural sound falling from the sky, she herself is a legendary figure in Bianzhou, and her gold medal docent naturally makes the popularity of the scene rise sharply again. Many people didn't even pay attention to what the treasure was, and focused all their attention on Concubine Yang.

"First of all, thank you for your support and love for the Treasure Pavilion. On behalf of all the people in the Treasure Pavilion, I would like to thank His Royal Highness King Liang for allowing us to set up a platform here to sell treasures from all over the world and strengthen our Central Plains spirit. First of all, I would like to introduce today's first auction treasure - the tears of the mermaids in the South China Sea and the two pearls of the night. ”

"This is said to be a night pearl condensed from the tears of the merman, from the Antarctic Sea, which was brought into the Central Plains by overseas feudal states during the Xuanzong period, and was purchased by my treasure pavilion with a lot of money, and is dedicated to everyone today." Concubine Yang's beautiful voice is obviously an exaggerated introduction, but the two pearls placed on the auction table are indeed genuine, so everyone can't believe it.

"This time the two Night Pearls are auctioned together, and the starting price is 1,000 taels of gold, which is equivalent to 10,000 taels of silver, and each increase shall not be less than 1,000 taels of silver." After Xiao Yang Concubine introduced the last point, the field exploded again.

"Husband, can these two night pearls be auctioned? I heard that mermaid tears can stay and maintain their beauty and stay young forever. There was a box on the largest and highest floor of Heyun Restaurant, and a woman's soft voice suddenly sounded.

Originally, this was just the most common sentence, but it quietly planted a time bomb on this already problematic building.