Hearing this, the scene gradually fell silent, and everyone waited with great interest for what would happen next to see if anyone would continue to bid.

After all, 300,000 taels is not a small amount of money, and the person who can still bid at this time must have a great background, and everyone wants to know who will make a move at this time.

There was silence in the hall, as if no one wanted to increase the price, Li Hongyu was not in a hurry about this, he was slowly tasting the teacup in his hand, and eighteen people had already reached his expectations by bidding 300,000 taels, it seemed that the wealth of the Ming merchants exceeded his imagination, and the salt merchants and grain merchants had already gained a lot before they made a move.

"Since there are no bids, let's start drawing lots to determine the last two places in the southern quota......"

Chai Shixiu glanced around the scene, and saw that no one responded for a long time, so he raised a drumstick in his hand and struck a gong on the side, as long as the gong sounded, the bidding event would be over, and even if someone wanted to bid, they would be disqualified.

"Three hundred thousand taels!" Before Chai Shixiu finished speaking, the crowd at the front of the hall invariably raised two red number plates.

"Interesting!" Seeing this, a subtle smile flashed at the corner of Li Hongyu's mouth, and after taking a sip of tea, he slowly tasted it in his mouth, and the more he tasted, the more flavorful it became.

With a bang, with the lifting of the two red number plates, the scene suddenly became commotion, and the people in the hall pointed to the two people holding the cards and whispered to each other.

He ...... How did they make a move? Han Wenkui glanced at the two people holding the signs, and looked at Li Hongyu and Yang Li'er with a surprised expression, looking very surprised.

"It's worth floating in the business sea for decades, this vision is really vicious."

Li Hongyu put down the teacup in his hand and said to Han Wenkui with a smile, "It must be that they saw the huge returns of overseas trade, so they decided to take a chance, anyway, if they fail, it will only be 300,000 taels, and it will be just a piece of cake for them." ”

"Will the others come to this murky water?" Han Wenkui suddenly became nervous, and his face became a little ugly.

The reason why Han Wenkui was nervous was because one of the two bidders was a salt merchant from the Salt Merchants Association, and the other was a grain merchant from the Grain Merchants Association.

"I'm afraid they won't have that chance." Li Hongyu knew what Han Wenkui was worried about, smiled slightly and looked at Chai Shixiu on the stage, "General Chai has already given them a chance just now, but they didn't catch it, so they can't blame others." ”

Li Hongyu is very satisfied with the current result, twenty places are sold at a price of 300,000 taels, and he has six million taels in his hands, which is enough to hand over to Emperor Wanli and start his next plan.

To tell the truth, Li Hongyu did not want the salt merchants and grain merchants to get too involved in overseas trade, because their backgrounds were too deep and complicated, and they might have dragged him back.

"Ben will hereby announce that the quota bidding for overseas trade suppliers has ended, and 20 places will be sold at a unit price of 300,000 silver."

Chai Shixiu had naturally already been instructed by Li Hongyu, and when he saw that the salt merchants and grain merchants had made a move, the drumsticks raised in the air immediately fell, and the "dang" sound struck on the gong, ending the bidding activity.

Han Wenkui, who was nervous, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and patted his chest with palpitations, once those rich salt merchants and grain merchants had the idea of joining in the fun, then he had no power to parry.

Boom, the people in the hall began to talk one after another, before that, everyone thought that few people participated in this bidding, but they didn't expect that in the end, twenty places were sold at a price of 300,000 taels, which was really unexpected.

What is particularly surprising is that the people of the Salt Merchants Association and the Grain Merchants Association actually came to join in the fun at the last moment, if they hadn't been closed by Chai Shixiu too late, then I am afraid that more grain merchants and salt merchants would have joined them.

For those salt merchants and grain merchants who have too much money to spend, overseas trade is just a game in Vanity Fair, and since someone takes the lead in playing, then others will definitely not sit idly by, not just spend some silver, and the last thing they lack is money.

Therefore, many people were a little disappointed that Chai Shixiu ended the bidding, but they were looking forward to those salt merchants and grain merchants joining in and fighting the dragon and tiger, so that this trip to Yangzhou would be worthwhile.

But for Li Hongyu, he didn't want those salt merchants and grain merchants to spoil the overseas trade, so naturally he wouldn't let them get involved easily, otherwise Chai Shixiu would definitely continue to let people bid instead of ending the event.

Anyway, Chai Shixiu has already given those salt merchants and grain merchants enough time, and they have not made a bid, so it is no wonder that others missed this bid, can they let Chai Shixiu wait forever?

"Miss Yang, come with us." As the auction ended, several soldiers of the New Army came to Yang Li'er's side, and the leader said with a blank face.

"It's okay, I don't think Lord Qincha is an unreasonable person." Hearing this, Yang Li'er subconsciously looked at Li Hongyu, her expression was a little flustered, and Li Hongyu smiled and comforted.

Yang Li'er breathed a sigh of relief, and after bowing her head slightly to Li Hongyu and Han Wenkui, she got up and left with the new army soldiers, feeling a little apprehensive along the way, not knowing what Lord Qincha would do with her.

"Brother Li, let's get together in the next night, and introduce the businessmen from Guangdong to Brother Li."

After Yang Li'er left, Han Wenkui smiled and said to Li Hongyu, he cared more about Li Hongyu than Yang Li'er, and now that Yang Li'er was called by Lord Qincha, he couldn't do anything about it, so he could only wait and see what happened.

"Thank you, Brother Han." Li Hongyu smiled when he heard this, and agreed in one bite, he also wanted to know more about Cantonese businessmen, and Guangzhou would be a bridgehead for overseas trade in the future.

"Big brother, look, the eldest lady has been arrested!" Zhang Tieniu noticed that Yang Li'er was taken away by the soldiers of the new army, and immediately showed joy on his face, and said to Zhang Tieshan on the side.

"Big brother can finally sleep peacefully." Zhang Tieshan also saw the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, Yang Lian'er couldn't sleep and eat if he wasn't caught by the people of the government for a day, for fear that this little girl who didn't know the height of the sky would cause some big trouble.

In fact, the most important thing is that with Yang Li'er's arrest, Yang Xiaotian's forces in the Cao Gang will be leaderless, and the loss of a person who can give orders will inevitably make those forces scattered, so that he can defeat them individually.

Now although Yang Xiaotian and his two sons are in prison, Yang Xiaotian is still under the henchmen of the five major branches, this is the largest force in the Cao Gang, and Zhang Tieshan is naturally afraid.

Yang Li'er was taken away by the soldiers of the new army was seen by the businessmen at the scene, and the well-informed people already knew that she was Yang Xiaotian's daughter, and secretly shook their heads.

After the bidding, the merchants left the teahouse in groups, and those who bid today, especially the salt merchants and the grain merchants who made the last bid, became the focus of everyone's discussion.

There is no doubt that the biggest winner of this auction is Chincha-sama, and the price of 300,000 taels is completely beyond people's previous expectations, and Chincha-sama has raised a lot of money this time.

Next, everyone wiped their eyes and waited to know how Li Hongyu would use the six million taels of silver he raised, whether he secretly swallowed it or really invested all the money in overseas trade and related matters of the new army.

Chai Shixiu left behind the nineteen merchants who had obtained the supplier qualifications, and he wanted to hold a banquet on behalf of Lord Qincha to entertain these nineteen suppliers, and discuss related matters, the most important thing was to send personnel to learn the new bookkeeping and accounting mode, that is, new accounting and tax knowledge.

At that time, each supplier will send five literate young people to report to the Customs Division, who will be trained by the Customs Department as a tax officer to facilitate the management of the accounts and taxes of the suppliers' overseas trade.

Of course, when it comes to financial matters, suppliers naturally send trusted henchmen to the Customs Department for training, and this kind of financial matter will definitely not be poached.

At the same time, Chai Shixiu also announced an important thing, that is, the Yamen of the Customs Department will be established in Yangzhou City, and Lord Qincha has already been optimistic about a luxury house for sale and the surrounding land, and the Yamen of the Customs Department will be expanded on the basis of that luxury house.

In this way, there will be a new imperial court yamen in Yangzhou City, which will inevitably make the officialdom of Yangzhou City more lively.

In the evening, Li Hongyu went to Han Wenkui's invitation, and met Han Wenkui and several Guangzhou businessmen he brought in a green building in Yangzhou.

Because the Ming business community was controlled by Jin merchants, Hui merchants and Zhejiang merchants at this time, the Cantonese merchants who had always relied on the sea for food were not yet in the climate, and even the smuggling by sea could not be compared with the Zhejiang merchants located in the prosperous and rich land south of the Yangtze River because of the lack of goods.

To the surprise of Han Wenkui and others, Li Hongyu was able to speak fluent Cantonese, which made them feel shocked, you must know that people in the north of the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains and even the Jiangnan region all call Cantonese an incomprehensible bird language, and Li Hongyu was able to master it proficiently at a young age, and immediately shortened the distance between the two sides and won the favor of Han Wenkui and others.

As for why Li Hongyu knew Cantonese, Li Hongyu naturally would not tell them how the commerce of Guangzhou in later generations developed, and casually inferred that he learned it from a descendant whose ancestral home was Guangzhou.

Han Wenkui and the others naturally did not tolerate fraud, because those businessmen were not good at official language, so Li Hongyu drank and laughed with them in Cantonese during the banquet, and the conversation and laughter were lively, which made the scene staggered and a happy scene.

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