The Huaihuang Exchange is located in the west of the Huaihuang Sanlian City, in the bustling area of the crossroads.

In this prime location, a brand new exchange has sprung up and covered a huge area, but many people in the city did not know what the building was all about, until a few days ago the sign of the exchange was hung here, and the first exchange bidding auction was held. After a few days, even now, the traders and people in Huaihuang City were all excited when they mentioned the auction that day. The first auction of the exchange attracted hundreds of people, and it is said that the exchange finally accommodated more than 3,000 people that day. There are also countless people who have been kept out and can only listen to the excited praise of those who have returned.

Xu Gai, who had just come back from Henan, looked at the newspaper in his hand with great interest, then looked at the huge exchange, and smiled at Yi Feng: "This business newspaper is quite interesting, but isn't your exchange a tooth shop?" ”

Yi Feng stood in the auction house, looked at a group of workers busy, and said with a smile: "The exchange is somewhat similar to the tooth shop, but it is not the tooth shop. ”

This exchange covers an area of more than 30 acres, with a length of 120 steps, a width of more than 80 steps, and a height of 18 zhang. The whole exchange has three halls, one main and two deputies, the main hall has five floors, a total of 3,000 seats, and also has 180 private rooms, in addition to a large stage that can accommodate 400 people, and has a backstage and lounge. There are also two small halls with more than 1,500 seats each, and a stage that can accommodate more than 100 people. In addition, there are many supporting buildings still under construction, and in Yifeng's plan, the entire exchange is actually equivalent to a large theater. There will be supporting buildings such as a library. The main function of these three halls is the auction hall, which can also be used as a conference hall and a theater.

At this time. Shops are concentrated in a special market, in the market for the buyer and seller to agree, introduce transactions, and extract commissions of the middlemen, these middlemen are called Yaren, also known as Yu in the Han Dynasty, from the Han to Sui, these Ya Yu generally obtained the monopoly rights given by the government. Tooth dealers are the same as shops. There are also peer organizations, called trades, and the organizations of tooth dealers are called tooth shops.

Dental Shops are designed to introduce deals to buyers and sellers in the market. An intermediary who assesses the quality of goods, as well as the price.

For example, many shops now also have dental dealers, but Yifeng's exchange is definitely not a dental shop. Tooth Shops are only intermediaries, but exchanges are more complex than intermediaries.

Xu Gai is also a big businessman. It is quite familiar with dental lines. He glanced at Yi Feng and said with a smile: "Oh, then what's different about your exchange, let's hear it." ”

Ling Yun pointed to the newspaper in Xu Gai's hand, "Third brother has seen this business newspaper, this is also part of our exchange." ”

"What does the exchange have to do with Handelsblatt?"

"Of course, it is related, Huaihuang established a border city, and merchants came from all over the world. There are people from the Central Plains and Hu people, and they come to Huaihuang to trade. In the past, it could only be intermediated by dental dealers, but the way of dental shops was too scattered and chaotic, and the nature of trading all dental shops was more than theirs. If you look at the advertisements in this newspaper, there are not only news of all kinds of commercial goods, but also all kinds of prices. We make a list of all kinds of goods entering Huaihuang, and then use newspaper advertisements to tell all Huaihuang vendors, so it is much more convenient, right? ”

"Well, it's clear indeed. I haven't entered Huaihuang today, but I bought a business newspaper in Wild Fox City, and I immediately saw that there were cheap horses and the news that Huaihuang's specialty snow salt was ready for sale. Xu Gai was still a little strange about the news published in the business newspaper, "The price of the horse I received from you last time is not cheap, hundreds of yuan per horse, why is it only twenty-five yuan per horse this time?" Is this true or false? The price fell by three-quarters all of a sudden, and Xu Gai took the opportunity to ask Yi Fengxing for his guilt.

"Although they are all horses, there are differences between horses and horses." Ling Yun said with a smile, "Last time, I gave the third brother a hundred horses, and that's because those horses are all war horses, war horses that have been trained for a long time." And although this horse is also a military horse, but it has not been trained, you also know that if a good horse wants to be trained to become a qualified military horse, it is not enough to be a good horse, and it takes a lot of time and manpower training to do it. ”

"Even so, the price difference is too much, one hundred yuan, and one is only twenty-five yuan." Xu Gai did not relent.

Ling Yun said helplessly, "You've been gone for so long, and we've changed a lot." "Huaihuang Town has won two big battles in a row, and it has swept hundreds of cottage fortresses, which is naturally a great thing. But this also brought about a chain reaction, first of all, a large number of people moved into Huaihuang, and then the construction of more than a dozen new cities in Huaihuang, various infrastructure and the influx of a large number of people, leading to the rapid rise in prices in Huaihuang, especially food, the original rice five yuan, now it is twenty yuan of rice. At the same time, the amount of cloth and silk that had to be transported from the Central Plains also rose sharply. On the contrary, the caravan that Pei Zeng and others went north to return and brought back a lot of grassland furs, as well as a lot of grassland caravans, plus many of the materials obtained from the sweep of hundreds of cottages, most of them were mainly livestock and leather goods.

This is the market price determined by the relationship between supply and demand, and it is impossible for Yifeng to forcibly change it.

"I saw you say this auction above, what's going on?" Xu Gai didn't really think that Yi Feng had deliberately tricked him before, so he quickly changed the topic.

"This is the characteristic of our exchange, you passed by our inspection department when you came, right?"

"Yes. The inspection department set up a card, but the fee is still very cheap, and two pennies are charged for one stone, but they specifically asked for my manifest. ”

"This is also a requirement of the exchange, whenever a caravan enters Huaihuang, we will ask for a manifest in advance, and then immediately upload it back to the Huaihuang City Exchange. After the exchange obtains these manifests, it will immediately make statistics, and then make advertisements and distribute them in the form of advertisements and newspapers, posters and distribution, etc., and organize an auction of the goods. We first set a starting price for the goods according to the market conditions, and then wait for the auction, the merchants who enter the auction to participate in the auction will increase the price on this basis, and finally the highest price code can get the goods. Of course, we also have a reduced auction method. In addition, there is a bidding mode, and the bidding also has open and hidden bids. In general, our auction house is able to take advantage of the advantageous channels. It is very convenient to grasp the abundant supply of goods and to be able to ship goods as quickly as possible, which is very convenient for both merchants who want to sell goods and merchants who buy goods. ”

Yi Feng is a market, so although Huaihuang also has salt, wine, tea, sugar, horses, iron and other goods, he still attaches the most importance to how to make the market bigger. Make this platform bigger. Only when the platform is bigger can it attract more people. The more prosperous the trade here, the more Huaihuang can win.

Xu Gai also felt that what Yi Feng said was very reasonable at this time. smiled: "The way of this exchange is good, but in the end, you are still a strengthened tooth line." ”

"But it's really better than teeth." Easy air duct.

While he was talking, a guard outside came to report. "Great. Outside, it was reported that Sun Ping, the chief steward of the caravan of the Sun family in Shanggu, asked to see him. ”

Sun Ping was brought in by the guards, and he had already seen the huge size of the exchange, especially after entering the main hall, seeing that many people were decorating the hall inside, he estimated in his heart that this was preparing for tomorrow's auction meeting. Seeing the thousands of seats in the hall, he finally no longer doubted the news that the ten houses of the Taiyuan royal caravan were sold out at once.

Sun Ping gave Yi Feng a salute, and when he looked up, he saw Xu Gai standing on the side holding a business newspaper in his hand, the Sun family and the Xu family were both big businessmen in the Kanto region. Therefore, Sun Ping is no stranger to Xu Gai, on the contrary, he is very familiar. hurriedly stepped forward to salute as well. Xu Gai said with a smile: "I heard that Steward Sun brought ten houses of goods over this time, is this going out of the plug?" ”

Sun Ping replied: "Back to Xu Guanren, this time the ten houses are not the goods of the Sun family, and there are also a batch of goods from the Zhang family and the Cui family in Qinghe. ”

"It does." Yi Feng smiled and said about the sale of the goods of the Wang family's caravan here, "The Wang family brought ten houses of goods, which were originally going to go out of the fortress, but later they were all sold directly here, and those goods were finally eaten by a group of caravans of the Khitan tribe." The Wang family sold the goods here, and the hard work of the province ran the grassland, and the Khitan people bought the goods here, and they also gave up going to Youzhou to Taiyuan, a win-win situation. ”

Sun Ping listened and thought at the same time, "Yi Shuai, please forgive me for being rude, I don't know what price the Wang family's caravan sold the goods?" These were originally related to trade secrets, but Yi Feng just waved his hand and didn't care, "The auction is public, and everyone knows the final transaction price." Yi Feng beckoned and asked the guards to bring the transaction price tables of the various commodities auctioned that day to Sun Ping to see. Sun Ping looked at it carefully, and the more he looked, the more surprised he became, although the auction price of the Wang family's batch of goods was lower than the price of running the grassland, it was not much lower, after all, they also saved a lot of time. In addition, he also saw that the Wang family also took a batch of goods back, including horses, cows, sheepskins, ginseng, mink and other goods, and even salt, sugar, rock sugar and other goods in demand.

He quickly calculated it in his heart, and soon came to the result that the Wang family caravan had made a lot of money this time. If the Wang family's caravan went out of the fortress as in previous years, it would be out of the fortress now, and it would not be able to come back until eleven or February, but now, the Wang family will go back and forth in a month.

"Yi Shuai, I also want to buy a batch of dam salt and dam sugar, I don't know if Yi Shuai can help?" The salt and sugar that came out of Huai Huang are all because they are unique, and now they are quickly becoming in demand in the north, especially those sugars, which make people unbelievable that there are still such pure sugar cubes as ice in the world. Such a sought-after commodity, buying and selling to the Central Plains, especially Chang'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou and other big cities, must be a lucrative business.

"Of course there is no problem." Ling Yun said with a smile, "However, the output of dam salt and sugar is not high now, but the sales volume is excellent, and countless merchants want to buy it." For the sake of fairness, both Dam Salt and Dam Sugar will participate in the auction, and Steward Sun can participate in the auction to bid for the auction. In addition, there is also something I want to ask Steward Sun, I hope that Steward Sun can put your goods up for auction at our auction, what do you think? ”

"Can't you pull some out and give it to you, the price is negotiable." Sun Ping asked tentatively.

"It's very difficult to do, you see we sent out all the news, it's not good to backtrack." Easy air duct.

Sun Ping is actually reluctant to sell the goods here, after all, they all go to the depths of the grassland, and the farther they run, the higher they can sell. What's more, they not only have to sell goods, but also go to the grassland to buy goods, sell the goods, and then bring back a batch of grassland goods. Of course, he would not directly refuse Yi Feng, so he muttered, "I have to go to the grassland to get some things back on this trip." ”

"Now a large number of grassland tribes have come to Huai Fa to trade with goods, what do you want to buy, why bother to go far." Xu Gai said on the side.

"I didn't bring much money this time, and I was going to barter the goods, but if I participated in the auction, I was afraid that I wouldn't have the money to auction the goods."

Yi Feng smiled, "This is simple, it doesn't matter if Steward Sun doesn't bring money." Didn't you bring so many goods, Mr. Sun can hand over the goods to us, and we will set a minimum transaction price for your goods first, and then the goods will be temporarily handed over to us for escrow until the end of the auction. During this period, we can ask the dealer and the auction house to write Mr. Sun a cheque with the same minimum transaction value of the goods, with which you can participate in our auction and bid as long as you see something, as long as your bid is within the amount of the cheque you hold. ”

"What if I photographed the goods, but my goods didn't get out?" Sun Ping immediately asked.

"If this happens, it doesn't matter, your bank will pay for you."

"Then I don't owe money for the goods, but money to the bank, right? How do you pay back the money you owe? ”

"There are two solutions, one is that you take the goods as collateral, and the money is considered a loan, and it is good to do it as a loan. On the other hand, you can eat your goods directly at the starting price we have agreed in advance, and then we settle the accounts. Yi Feng said with a smile. This bank was prepared for such problems, and many caravans generally did not carry much money, and they were more likely to barter for trade. Therefore, Yi Feng's establishment of a money bank is to provide an intermediate guarantee for them to participate in the auction transaction. Of course, this is secured by collateral, and their goods are collateral, so there is no need to worry about losing money.

Sun Ping was a little moved when he heard this, but he was still a little uneasy about this new way, and asked again, "This starting price?" ”

"Rest assured, although the starting price will not be too high, but it will not deliberately lower the price of the goods, the formulation of this reserve price, we will be based on your opinions, to formulate a relatively reasonable price. In the end, this reserve price needs your consent. ”

After hearing this, Sun Ping's worries in his heart were put down a lot. As long as you have the final right to deny the starting reserve price, then you don't have to worry about your goods being taken advantage of to lower the price. He finally nodded and agreed to hand over the 1,600 camels he had brought to the exchange for auction, which, in his opinion, was a necessary condition for Yi Feng for those who wanted to buy the sugar merchants of the dam salt dam. And now that he has agreed to put the goods up for auction, he is also eligible to bid on these in-demand goods.

On the same day, the Huaihuang Exchange immediately produced a batch of posters and distributed the news that the goods of the Sun family and several newly arrived caravans participated in the auction. (To be continued......)