With Zheng Boxin and Wang Yu's bidding, Li Yuntian couldn't help but come back to his senses, and smiled at the white-clothed boy, never expecting to meet each other here.

Seeing this, the white-clothed brother's smile suddenly became even brighter, and two blushes couldn't help but appear on his cheeks, looking a little shy.

"Be still!" As the scene became a little chaotic, Li Yuntian then looked away, looked at the people in the audience who were talking one after another, and cheered confidently.

Seeing Li Yuntian speak, the Fushun Teahouse suddenly fell silent, and people looked at him curiously, wondering what would happen next, could this bizarre bidding continue?

"This official just said that this auction is more precious than harmony, since several people are interested in the cloth franchise, then this official will set an upper limit for you to bid, 250,000 taels of silver, if the number of people competing at that time exceeds four, this official will use the method of drawing lots to decide who can get these four places."

After glancing around at the scene, Li Yuntian looked at Zheng Boxin and the others who participated in the bidding, and asked quietly, "Do you agree with this proposal of this official?" ”

"The adult's method is very good, and the villain fully agrees." When Zheng Boxin heard this, he arched his hand at Li Yuntian and replied loudly.

"The villain obeys the words of the adult!" Wang Yu then followed closely to express his attitude to Li Yuntian.

"The villain agrees with the adult." The bearded man holding the No. 66 number plate glanced at the white-clothed boy beside him, and saw that the white-clothed boy bowed slightly, so he also agreed.

When Li Yuntian heard this, his eyes couldn't help but fall on the three big cloth merchants of the cloth merchants' association, and there was a subtle smile on the corner of his mouth, he believed that 200,000 taels was already the psychological limit of these three big cloth merchants.

This is not to say that the three big cloth merchants have no money, but that the cloth franchise of Cochin has a huge risk, and no matter how high the price is, it will not be able to get it.

The people at the scene looked at the three big cloth merchants with great interest, wondering if the three would choose to continue bidding like Zheng Boxin, Wang Yu and the boy in white, and push the bidding for the Jiaozhi cloth franchise to a sky-high price of 250,000 taels.

Obviously, once you choose to continue bidding under the current situation, you will not withdraw again, and you will definitely push the price to 250,000, otherwise you will be ridiculed by the outside world.

"My lord, the villain has little financial resources, and he is willing to withdraw from this bidding." The three big cloth merchants immediately felt the pressure, and after glancing at each other, one of the big cloth merchants bowed to Li Yuntian and said.

"Adults and villains are willing to quit." Immediately afterwards, another big cloth merchant chose to quit with interest, not wanting to go down with Zheng Boxin and the others.

Although he is optimistic about Jiaozhi's cloth business, if he wins the Jiaozhi cloth franchise by lot and Li Yuntian fails to settle Jiaozhi, then 250,000 taels of silver will be wasted.

"My lord, the villain is willing to pay 200,000 taels of silver to obtain the franchise of Jiaozhi cloth." Due to the retreat of the two big cloth merchants, only one big cloth merchant was left in the cloth merchant association with the qualification to bid for the franchise of Jiaozhi cloth, and the big cloth merchant with a national face obviously did not expect the other two big cloth merchants to shrink so quickly, so he was slightly stunned, and then bowed his hand to Li Yuntian and said stubbornly.

To tell the truth, the price of 200,000 taels has exceeded the expectations of this big cloth merchant, but the cloth merchant association is now the only one left, and if he quits in front of everyone, then the cloth merchant association will lose face.

Fortunately, with the abandonment of the other two big cloth merchants, the number of bidders is exactly four, as long as no one kills out as coldly as the boy in white, 200,000 taels is the final bidding price, and there is no need to continue bidding.

"Now I declare that the Woven Fabric franchise belongs to Bosses No. 1, No. 2, No. 35 and No. 66!"

Because the price of 200,000 taels has exceeded the psychological limit of the rest of the merchants on the scene, so no one raised their cards to bid, the master of ceremonies counted three times and suddenly waved down the small red flag held high, and then pointed at Zheng Boxin, Wang Yu, the boy in white and the big cloth merchant with the national character face announced loudly.

The big cloth merchant with the national character face is the owner of the No. 35 number plate, and he was relieved when he heard this, and his face showed a relaxed look, although the price of 200,000 taels was a bit high, but it was still within his bearing, and the next thing he had to do was to pray for Li Yuntian to succeed in quelling the rebellion, otherwise the 200,000 taels of silver would be wasted in vain.

Wow......

There was warm applause at the scene, and people applauded one after another, whispering with interest in private about the bidding just now, and Yangzhou had never had such an exciting and wonderful thing before.

"Uncle Zhenwu, what did you do that they bid so enthusiastically?" Zhang Ben clapped his hands and asked Li Yuntian beside him in a suspicious whisper, Li Yuntian got an extra 480,000 taels of silver from the franchise of Jiaozhi cloth alone, which was incredible.

"Elder Ge, merchants are profit-seeking, as long as they are given enough hope, they will take risks." Li Yuntian smiled slightly and explained softly.

Zhang Ben nodded thoughtfully when he heard this, and couldn't help but glance at the young Li Yuntian a few times, and was impressed by Li Yuntian in his heart.

Although Li Yuntian said it easily, he knew that it was not easy to really give the merchants enough hope, especially in the period when the Jiaozhi War was in trouble, it was even more commendable to do so, and I am afraid that no one in the court could do it except Li Yuntian.

Zhang Ben finally understood at this time, why Li Yuntian dared not want the military expenses of the imperial court, it turned out that he had already made up his mind about how to raise military expenses.

After the bidding for the cloth franchise ended, the next step was the sale of the imperial court monopoly on materials, which was also a highlight of the Jiaozhi commercial franchise, mainly the monopoly of tea and salt, and the other was wine.

The reason why the imperial court monopolized tea and salt was because they were important strategic materials that had to be controlled by the state, so they brought huge profits.

Wine is different, because wine requires the consumption of grain, and the ancient grain production is usually not able to be consumed by the people, so the imperial court wants to control this waste of food, and there are different policies in different periods, mainly prohibiting wine, wine and tax wine.

Prohibition of alcohol, that is, the imperial court issued a prohibition of alcohol.

Prohibition of alcohol is also divided into several types, one is absolute prohibition of alcohol, that is, both official and private prohibitions, and the production and circulation of alcohol are not allowed on the market; One is the local prohibition of alcohol, where wine can be made in areas with a bumper grain harvest, while alcohol is prohibited in areas with poor grain harvests; One is to prohibit koji without prohibiting alcohol, and the koji is a government monopoly that is not allowed to be made privately, and without koji, it is naturally impossible to make wine; There is also a prohibition of private brewing, transportation and sale of alcohol when the state monopoly is implemented.

The production and sale of liquor is monopolized by the state, and private individuals are not allowed to engage in liquor-related industries.

Due to the state's monopoly on production and sales, the price or profit of liquor can be set at a higher level, which can obtain high income on the one hand, and can also be used to regulate the production and sale of liquor on the other hand.

Alcohol tax refers to a special tax on alcohol, which is much heavier than other goods because it is considered a luxury product.

In history, the prohibition of alcohol is extremely common, whenever there is a natural disaster**, the imperial court will issue a ban on alcohol when there is a shortage of food, and when the grain harvest ban will be lifted.

Alcohol is forbidden with strict penalties, ranging from confiscation of koji or brewing tools to capital punishment.

The Ming Dynasty adopted a method of liquor, in which the government did not intervene in the production and sale of liquor, and the licensed merchants or liquor owners paid a certain amount of money to make liquor and sell it under the official management, and merchants who did not obtain the concession were not allowed to engage in the liquor business.

Since the profit of wine is the lowest among tea, salt and wine, the master of ceremonies first launched the franchise of wine, with a reserve price of 50,000 taels and three places.

Although the profit of wine is lower than that of tea and salt, it is higher than other ordinary materials, so it is also a high-profit commodity, so Li Yuntian set the price at 50,000 taels.

Perhaps stimulated by the previous bidding for grain and cloth, the Jiaozhi brewing franchise also set off a round of bidding, and finally Zheng Boxin, Wang Yu and Brother Baiyi won the three places at a price of 100,000 taels.

This made the businessmen on the scene have a lot of discussions about this, and they were surprised that Zheng Boxin and Wang Yu had such strong financial strength, they would never have thought that Zheng Boxin and Wang Yu actually represented the interests of many members of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, and the bidding funds would be shared by the members of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce.

As for the boy in white, everyone didn't know where he came from, because no one had seen this person before, and he must be a powerful son with a deep background.

After the franchise of liquor, the franchise of Jiaozhi tea was launched, because the tea has the effect of removing oiliness, clearing heat and detoxifying, so it is welcomed by the people in the southwest region, and thus also gave birth to the tea and horse market, that is, to exchange tea for horses.

Later, the content of the tea and horse market was extended to exchange tea for other items, forming a unique trade route, which was called the "Tea Horse Trade Road", and the more famous one was the Ancient Tea Horse Road in the southwest region.

In view of the importance of tea, Li Yuntian also set its reserve price at 80,000 taels, which was the same as the reserve price of cloth, and the name was set at three.

It is worth mentioning that the common people are not allowed to engage in the tea business if they do not have the tea of the government, so although the sales volume of tea is not as good as that of cloth, the monopoly is much greater than that of cloth, so it is reasonable to set the reserve price at 80,000 taels.

Like the previous grain and wine, Zheng Boxin, Wang Yu and Brother Bai once again joined the competition for the tea franchise place.

At this moment, in the face of this high-profile move of the three of them, many businessmen have come back to their senses and realized that investing in the Jiaozhi commercial franchise may bring huge benefits, otherwise Zheng Boxin, Wang Yu and the white-clothed brother would not have thrown money into it in vain?

Therefore, driven by Zheng Boxin, Wang Yu and the white-clothed boy, some businessmen who had previously held a wait-and-see attitude decided to take a chance, so they joined the competition for the franchise of Jiaozhi tea, which made the price of the bidding soar and a fierce competition began.