Chapter 21 A lot of money
For these foreigners, the officials of Chang'an did not expect that they were so rich that they could even afford to buy thousands of things.
Xue Yantuo's chamber of commerce representative is a strong man in the prime of life, and he also breathed a sigh of relief after Xu Yang finally knocked on the hammer, 10,000 guan plus 200 cattle, which is also the largest price that Xue Yantuo can offer.
Fang Xuanling stared directly at the card in Xu Yang's hand, until now, he couldn't understand why that small gold medal was worth 12,000 yuan.
Sitting next to him was Du Ruhui, the two of them have always been good friends, and now their daughters-in-law are in the box, so the two old men are also sitting in the front row of the hall.
In fact, Du Ruhui is also helping his old fellow, Fang Xiang's wife Lu Shi's jealous name is famous in the Manchu Dynasty, and Lao Fang is really afraid of his wife, so when he goes out, Du Ruhui separates Lao Fang and his wife, so as not to make a fool of himself in front of outsiders.
"I said Lao Du, is this gold leaf really so valuable?" Fang Xuanling stared at the card in Xu Yang's hand not far away and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Du Ruhui shook his head, "It's not those cards that are valuable, but those discounted goods." ”
"What does that mean?"
"Lao Fang, you have been dealing with state affairs for a long time, but you don't know much about these businessmen, I took over the management of the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce a while ago, and I realized that my Datang's business has now reached the point where there is no one before or after me." Du Ruhui sighed, as if he had fallen into a memory, "At the beginning, Xu Guigu put forward the idea of a federation to standardize the transactions of the entire Chang'an, especially those Hu businessmen who came to Beijing to do business. It is necessary to limit them. It can't be bought and sold as casually as before. In addition, paper money has slowly begun to gain popularity. Presumably, it won't be long before not only businessmen, but even ordinary people will use paper money. ”
What Du Ruhui said was that there was no match, and what Fang Xuanling heard was also in the clouds.
"After becoming the president of the Chamber of Commerce, the first thing I dealt with was a bunch of merchants from the Western Regions, and their leader seemed to be called Rum or something, and he was very far-sighted, when Xu Guigu first started selling merchant cards. Everyone is waiting, including those merchants in Silla, only he spent 2,000 yuan to buy a business card with priority in supply and two discounts on goods, and then in just half a month, he relied on this card to earn more than 3,000 yuan, and he envied those foreign merchants for a while, and now they are waiting for Xu Guigu to continue to launch business cards. But it's been half a month, and there hasn't been any movement on Xu Yang's side. It also made those barbarian businessmen very disappointed, I didn't think about it, I auctioned another one at the auction today, I feel that this thing will continue to auction this kind of business card in the future with the increase in the number of outsiders who come to my Datang to do business. ”
After Du Ruhui said this, Fang Xuanling finally understood, a profitable business, as long as someone came to the door, he made 10,000 taels of silver in vain by taking a card, he deserved to be the heir of Guigu, and there are few people in the world who can compare to him in this ability to make money.
Just when the two were chatting, Xu Yang started a new collection auction, this time, the auction was a glass peacock, glass is now rotten on the street, glass teacups, glass teapots, and glass windows, who wants to have one or two pieces are embarrassed to say that they are Chang'an people, but Xu Yang is Xu Yang, very business-minded, only use glass as daily necessities, never made into animal character models, so today to see this glass peacock, everyone is also quite curious.
"This glass peacock, is the use of mature mold watering, in one go without half a flaw, the feathers behind it are inlaid with rubies and amethysts, the lantern will flash colorful, is a rare treasure in the collection, the reserve price of five hundred, each increase is not less than one hundred, well, then please give the price."
Some people in the audience began to sigh, and there were even more people who did good deeds, stood up and shouted: "There are many such glass products on Chang'an Street, each piece only costs ten yuan, why is it sold here for five hundred?" ”
Xu Yang's face was relaxed, and he clapped his hands and said, "This brother Tai said well, why is this only sold for five hundred yuan?" Because this thing is rare, everyone is a businessman, and there is no need to say more about this kind of thing, you go to the street of Chang'an to see, if you can see other glass artworks in addition to dinner plates and teacups, Xu immediately gave him this glass peacock. ”
As soon as Xu Yang said this, the hall was quiet, not to mention, except for glass plates and bowls, there was really nothing else selling glass on the street in Chang'an.
However, in this atmosphere, a deep-eyed and high-nosed monk walked to the stage, clasped his hands together and said: "Xu Junhou Mo wants to call this Buddha statue like a glass peacock and a glass peacock, be careful that you will go to the hell of infernal misfortune after death." ”
"Huh?" Xu Yang squeezed his eyes, looked the monk in front of him up and down, turned his head to Teng Jianhu behind him and asked, "Who is this monk?" ”
Teng Jianhu squinted his eyes and hurriedly said: "This is the senior monk who followed the Tianzhu mission, Master Dakuma, who has been practicing Buddhism in Chang'an for more than ten years, and this time the business group that followed Tianzhu came to take a look." ”
"Uh......" Xu Yang was slightly stunned, so he had to arch his hand as if he had a sudden realization, "I've seen the master, the kid really didn't know that this was a Buddha statue, and asked the master to solve his doubts." ”
Da Kumo also bowed, and said eloquently: "Xu Junhou is a worldly person, I don't know and I can't blame you, this peacock statue is the Peacock King of Esoteric Buddhism, and this statue is said to be the body of Virujana Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha." The secret name is the Buddha Mother Vajra, the Protector Vajra. In Esoteric Buddhism, those who practice with the Peacock King as the deity are called the Peacock King Sutra, also known as the Peacock Sutra. It is one of the four great laws of Esoteric Buddhism, this is my Buddhist deity, and it is already very humiliating to suffer from the smell of copper here, and the poor Tao is willing to take it away with a thousand times. ”
Xu Yang didn't know that this thing was made according to a Buddhist statue, although he didn't understand, but it sounded like a powerful thing, Xu Yang felt that it was a good thing that could be sold very expensive.
"Oh, master, I also want to give you this Buddha statue, but today is an auction, the highest price is the one, if someone has a higher price than you, the kid can't do anything." Xu Yang stumbled falsely, and at this time, someone in the audience shouted at the right time: "One thousand and one thousand." ”
The monk named Dakumo seemed to be trembling a little with anger, and a devout believer like him couldn't see that the faith in his heart was tainted by these copper stench, and he said angrily without blinking his eyes: "Two thousand guan! ”
For a while, not only Xu Yang was stunned, but even the entire hall was stunned, it was really a poor monk, everyone thought so, only Xu Yang was shocked not by the price of two thousand guan, but by the fact that this old monk actually had two thousand guan of private money? Just said that he was a poor monk, how much sesame oil money the hell had to collect to make up two thousand yuan.
The glass peacock was finally sold at a price of two thousand guan, and no one wanted to tease the poor monk anymore, after the glass peacock withdrew, Xu Yang immediately put on a pair of glass goods, not to mention, sometimes when he encountered an animal model that his tribe liked, those Hu merchants really intended to spend money to buy it back, such as the glass eagle bought by the Kangguo merchant group surnamed Zhaowu Jiu, the glass bear bought by the Uighur merchant group, and the glass dog bought by the Western Regions mission.
It seemed that under the influence of the poor monk, more than a dozen auction items were auctioned at good prices, and Li Er sat in the box, staring at the stage with blazing eyes, and at this time it was already the last auction item.
Five or six servants carried up a glass wolf, only to see that this wolf was in the shape of a howling moon, and its eyes were inlaid with emeralds, and it looked really like a wolf, revealing a sense of loneliness and pathos.
The emerald reflected the brilliance, it really looked sharp and terrifying like the prairie wolf's ghostly eyes, and most importantly, this glass wolf was unusually large, and it would take at least three big men to fully lift it.
When they saw this wolf, the Western Turks, who had not moved much, boiled, and the wolf had always been regarded as a god on the steppe by the Turks, and after death, it was eaten by the wolf before the soul could return to Tengger. This is also what the Turkic people yearn for.
So when they saw such a big glazed wolf, those Western Turks were clasping their hands tightly, with a posture that no one wanted to grab with them.
Of course, no one grabbed this thing from them, and no one liked this kind of animal that looked evil, except for Li Er, of course.
Li Er also looked at the giant wolf with some emotion, and said in his mouth: "I want this giant wolf, Bai Mei, go down and tell that kid, I don't care what he does, I will send one such wolf to the palace tomorrow." ”
Bai Mei received the order, Li Er soon saw him on the stage, whispering something in Xu Yang's ear, only to see Xu Yang's face with a relaxed expression, Li Er also smiled, knowing that this kid would stay behind.
"It seems that everyone likes this wolf very much~ That's right, this is indeed a good thing, such a huge glass product is also the first time that the glass factory in Xujiazhuang tried to fire, well, because of the rarity, plus it is the first time to fire the meaning, the reserve price of this thing is 5,000 yuan, and the price increase shall not be less than 200 yuan each time, okay, please bid."
There seemed to be a disagreement within the Turkic merchant group, with a dozen Turkic merchants arguing, and then a puzzling scene appeared, with a big man dressed in steppe clothes shouting, "Five thousand two hundred guan." Then an old man not far from him stood up tremblingly and shouted, "Five thousand four hundred." ”
Li Er's brows furrowed slightly, he also couldn't understand what these Western Turks were doing. It wasn't until Bai Mei walked up that he whispered in Li Er's ear: "Your Majesty, it seems that these Western Turks have a disagreement about whether to give this wolf tribute to the Turki Khan or the high priest, so they have divided into two camps............ (To be continued......)
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