"The reserve price is two hundred and fifty yuan, and the price is increased by at least ten yuan each time, and now those who are interested can start raising their cards."

As soon as the words fell, many people immediately raised signs.

After all, it is the slave of the first group of auctions, and everyone is more interested in the form of auctions, and they think it is quite interesting, anyway, it is quite fun to raise a sign.

In the auction hall, which can accommodate more than 3,000 people, almost half of the people held up signs.

The shopkeeper was a little shocked and speechless.

"There are too many people holding up cards, so I'll just add ten guan directly, and will anyone increase the price of two hundred and sixty guan?"

The voice fell.

Suddenly, someone in the VIP seat next to the hosting stage shouted, "Three hundred!" ”

This scene attracted the attention of many people, after all, the rule is to add ten times at a time, but this person directly added forty.

Of course, it is also permissible to directly open a high price, which has long been explained in the manual, but such behavior still attracts attention.

"It seems to be the son of Xingyang Zheng."

"It's that guy again, and he was the first to grab the street in front of the pier that day."

"Dog Zheng!" Someone snorted dissatisfiedly.

"Is 300 a lot of money? Shout so loudly, come to Fu, hold up the sign for me, shout five hundred. It was a young man in another VIP table not far away.

There was a small sign in front of this person's seat, which said Lanling Xiao Clan.

Although the Lanling Xiao clan is not as famous as the Xingyang Zheng clan now, the Lanling Xiao clan was also a Jiangnan Chinese clan at the beginning, and it was also a top scholar family, but since the Sui Dynasty dominated the world, the Jiangnan Shi clan has long been inferior to the beginning.

But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Lanling Xiao clan is still good today, after all, Xiao Yuna of the Lanling Xiao clan was also the prime minister of the two dynasties during the Wude and Zhenguan dynasties. I think that when I was in the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang's favorite Empress Xiao was also their Xiao family.

Now in the famous city of Yangzhou, many industries are in the hands of the Xiao family of Lanling.

Five hundred yuan is really a drop in the bucket.

"Does the Lanling Xiao clan have any grievances with the Xingyang Zheng clan?" Li Xiao sat on the side and watched this scene, and asked Zhao Zhiman next to him thoughtfully.

"Haven't you heard of it?"

Lanling Xiao people called the two dynasties of the Son of Heaven, the Southern Liang and Southern Qi of the Southern Dynasty were established by the Lanling Xiao family, in today's Tang Dynasty, there are six surnames known as the most noble family, namely Xingyang Zheng, Hedong Pei, Jingzhao Wei, Zhaojun Li, Lanling Xiao and Boling Cui.

Among these six families, Bo Cui Zhao Li Xing Zheng ranks among the five surnames and seven sects, and Jingzhao Wei and Hedong Pei are also the four surnames in Guanzhong, and their status is undoubted, but Lanling Xiao is the surname of the Southern Dynasty overseas Chinese with a slightly inferior status in the minds of the northern scholars.

It can be said that the Xingyang Zheng family is the representative of the five surnames and seven families in the Kanto region, and the representative of the famous family in Guanzhong is the representative of the Jingzhaowei Hedong Pei Na, but this Lanling Xiao is the representative of the Jiangnan family.

Lanling Xiao and Xingyang Zheng don't deal with each other, and it seems that there is no reason.

Zhao Zhiman said to Li Xiao with a smile, "In fact, the Lanling Xiao clan has already been integrated into the Guanlong aristocratic group, and the Guanlong nobles have always looked down on the Shandong scholars, and they despise the five surnames the most. ”

In the past, the Lanling Xiao clan originally lived in Lanling County in Henan Province during the Jin Dynasty, and later moved to Jiangnan with the Sima clan with the Yiguan Nandu, and since then it has become a Jiangdong overseas Chinese family. Later, the Southern Liang and Southern Qi dynasties and the Western Liang dynasties were established successively.

But after the Sui unified the world, the Western Liang descended to the Sui, and the Western Liang Emperor Xiao Yunu married Yang Guang, the son of Emperor Wen of Sui, as a concubine.

Later, Yang Guang ascended the throne and canonized Xiao as the queen. So the Lanling Xiao family jumped into a foreign relative, and the Xiao Kundi Bulie Imperial Court, the Lanling Xiao family not only became a foreign relative, but also married everywhere. For example, actively marrying with the Guanlong Group, Hou Mo Chen's family, Tong'er family, and other Hu nobles are Xiao Cong's in-laws; Xiao Yu, the prime minister of the early Tang Dynasty and Xiao Cong's brother, also married Dugu as his wife, so Li Yuan called him "Xiao Lang".

The royal Yang family, Hou Mo Chen family, and Dugu family are all the core families of the Guanlong group, and the Lanling Xiao family has been integrated into the Guanlong group step by step after entering the Sui Dynasty, and its status in the Tang Dynasty is also related to this.

Empress Xiao's younger brother Xiao Yu joined Li Yuan in the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty and served as prime minister in both the Wude and Zhenguan dynasties, and his son was also the princess of Shang Taizong.

The current emperor Li Zhi married the daughter of the Xiao family, and now the concubine Xiao Shu, who is one of the four concubines in the court, is the daughter of the Xiao family in Lanling.

It is precisely with this practice of actively integrating into the Guanlong Group and at the same time marrying extensively that the Lanling Xiao family can become one of the strongest six families today with the surname of Jiangnan Qiao.

Xingyang Zheng actually has a similar path to Lanling Xiao's, for example, when Xingyang Zheng married his daughter Xu to the eldest son of Xingyang Thorn Li Yuan, Li Yuan became his wife, and later Li Yuan was called the emperor and built as the prince, and Zheng Guanyin, the daughter of the Zheng family in Xingyang, was the crown princess.

After the Xuanwumen Change, Li Shimin became the master of the Tang Empire, and the Zheng family of Xingyang also quickly sent a daughter into the palace to Taizong as a concubine, and even in the harem of the current emperor Li Zhi, there is actually a Zheng concubine.

"A thousand kans!"

The son of the Zheng clan in Xingyang turned his head and looked at it, and after seeing that it was the VIP seat from the Xiao clan in Lanling who raised the sign to report five hundred yuan, he sneered and directly doubled.

Ten slaves, shouting a thousand, this is already vindictive.

After all, no matter how valuable a slave is, it can't be worth a thousand. The market price is at most about 300 guan, 1,000 guan, which is more than three times.

"Is there a good show to watch today?" Li Xiao smiled and took a sip of the teacup, looking like he wanted to watch a good show.

"A thousand times is nothing to them, ten slaves are nothing, but their own face is the most important thing."

After the Zheng family's price of 1,000 guan was shouted, the seat of the Lanling Xiao family was silent for a while.

"Hahaha, can't you afford to play?" Zheng Shizi seemed to be talking to his entourage, but the voice seemed to be a little too loud, so loud that almost everyone heard it.

"Three thousand runs, my Lanling Xiao clan will accompany you to the end!" That Xiao Gongzi seemed to be a little annoyed, and now shouted out a high price of three thousand yuan, which was already the price of a hundred slaves, which was ten times higher.

"Stupid, really stupid, such a good thing Lanling Xiao family dares to release it? Is there no one in the family? The young fat boy of the Zheng family in Xingyang laughed, and then stopped raising the sign and shouting the price.

Obviously, this person cheated Xiao Gongzi.

Xiao Gongzi also knew that his face was ugly, but he mocked the Xing family seat without falling into the frame.

"It's just 3,000 yuan, which is not enough to buy a boat. Yesterday, the master just ordered ten new Jiaolong-style boats, and it cost 50,000 yuan, if the Zheng family doesn't have any money, go home as soon as possible, don't come out and be embarrassed. ”

The fat brother of the Zheng family in Xingyang and the white-faced son of the Xiao family in Lanling had a fighting spirit, but it ignited the auction, and the subsequent auction really became even more popular.

Although no one paid 3,000 more for ten Goguryeo slaves, the competition was fierce, making the auction venue extremely popular.