This person didn't know where Xiao Lingyan came from, his eloquence was good, his witty words were full of witty words, and his speech was humorous, and he made everyone laugh a few times without saying a few words.

After saying a few opening words, Xu Zhou spread the truth: "Everyone knows that this auction is hosted by His Royal Highness the Five. The purpose of the Fifth Highness to hold this auction is not to compete with the people for profit and make money for himself, but to do charity. Eighty percent of the proceeds from today's auction will be used to build the Salesian Home for sheltering and raising homeless beggars under the age of 13 in Beijing and Bac Ninh County. The remaining 20% is used to operate and maintain the operation of the auction house and to build new auction venues. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Ruxi's heart suddenly relaxed.

Xiao Lingyan's move is good.

Although there is no explicit rule in the royal family, there has always been an underlying rule that there is no competition with the people. Otherwise, the prince uses his identity to make money, and no amount of people's fat and ointment will be enough to scrape. If the emperor is reluctant to beat his own cubs, it will be a disaster for the civil and military officials and the common people.

Xiao Lingyan opened this auction house, because it is a new thing, whether it is Xiao Qi or civil and military officials, for a while I still don't know what is going on with this thing, I heard that it is in the form of a commission to obtain profits, and these auction items are high-end luxury goods, and making a little profit from their transactions is not considered to be competing with the people, so Xiao Qi did not object, and the imperial history was temporarily unmoved.

But when they see that the profits are huge, and Xiao Lingyan's auction houses are blooming in various places, calculate his income, jealousy makes people ugly, not to mention the minister, several princes will definitely be red-eyed, and when the time comes, they will have to stumble openly and secretly.

There is no need to do more, as long as a few imperial histories are impeached, saying that the five princes compete with the people for profit and wantonly collect money; Concubine Jin pretended to be pitiful for her son in front of Xiao Yu again, and Xiao Lingyan's business had to be lost.

But now it's different to do it in the name of charity. Eighty percent of the profits are used for charity, no matter how jealous others are, they can't impeach Xiao Lingyan. The Manchu dynasty still has to praise the five princes for their benevolence and righteousness.

A good reputation can't be bought with money.

Xu Zhou continued on stage: "...... Holding this auction is convenient for everyone to sell the items that are idle in their hands and no longer like them, and exchange them for things they like, which is a buying and selling platform. The auction does not participate in the bidding, and only charges a commission of 10% of the transaction price of the auctioned items. ”

"Let's say you have an object in your hand and you like it when you buy it. But time has passed, and you don't like it anymore. At the beginning, you spent a lot of money to buy it, and when you see something you like more and don't have enough money, you can't buy it. But you want to take this object to the pawn shop, the price is too low, and you lose too much; Second, it will also lose face, and if it spreads, people may think that you are so poor that you have to pawn your family property. ”

This made everyone laugh "boom".

"Arsenic of A, honey of B. If you don't like something, someone might be able to get it. That's why we've held an auction where you can take out your idle treasure and put it up for auction, so that those who like it can get it, and it will not be in vain your love for this object in the first place. ”

"So......" Xu Zhou raised his voice slightly, "for the sake of fairness, in order not to mix more personal emotions and grievances in the auction, and for the sake of safety, we will keep the identity of the owner of the items that are about to be auctioned confidential, and at the same time, we hope to allow the bidders to compete fairly." You don't want to take a picture of an object and get a grudge against someone or be targeted, right? Confidentiality is the premise of fairness, justice and security. ”

"So before the auction, ask the guests who participate in the auction to draw a number plate, and we will bid on this number plate for a while, rather than according to the box and seat number. At that time, the news will be delivered by the auction house arranged by us. ”

After he said this, everyone began to talk about it.

A small percentage of people think it's bad, but most people agree.

Even the people in the box upstairs are not sure if they will take things out for auction in the future, and it would be great if the auction house could keep the identity of the original owner secret.

In addition, if there is no stealth auction, the people in the box can take advantage of their identity when bidding. But as long as they are not the ones with the highest status, they will also be suppressed by others. And in the bidding process, because the things are too expensive, I want to shrink my hand and not buy them, and my status is there, and I will be laughed at if I retreat halfway, and then I will be embarrassed.

Therefore, it is also beneficial for them to participate in the auction by hiding their identity.

And for the people in the seats downstairs, this is a great thing.

"That's a good idea." Wu Huaisi said, "So as not to fight for a contradiction." ”

Kang Yannian nodded, and was about to echo two sentences, when he saw two small guys wearing the uniform costumes of the auction house come in with a box, and smiled at Kang Shilin: "Mr. Deadwood, please draw the number plate." ”

Kang Shilin didn't speak, he directly reached out and touched a wooden card in the box and handed it to the little guy.

The little guy looked at the numbers on it clearly and said with a smile: "Mr. Deadwood, you are the eleventh." ”

The guy next to me wrote down the number.

After writing, he raised his head and looked at Wu Huaisi, and said with a smile: "Lord Wu, the number drawn in your box is twenty-three. If you want to bid on something, you can ask the guy at the door to spread the word, and then you can say the 23rd. ”

Wu Huaisi nodded: "Got it."

Wu Huai Temple is the head of the six departments, and the auction house naturally arranged a box for him, and the location was in front of Kang Shilin's box.

Xiao Lingyan also asked Kang Shilin how to arrange the location before arranging the box.

Kang Shilin, as the teacher of Wuhuai Temple, has no problem arranging the location of the box before Sanqing and Liubu. In addition to this identity, he is also the son of the eldest princess who has long passed away, although he is not the eldest son and has no title, but he is also a royal relative, and the arrangement is barely reasonable before the three secretaries and six departments.

As a result, Kang Shilin refused.

Kang Shilin is a person who understands very well.

The reason why his status is transcendent is the honor given to him by the previous emperor and the respect given to him by the current emperor. But really speaking, he has no title, no rank, and his son Kang Yannian is not Honglu Siqing, and if he is placed in front of the Sanqing and the Sixth Division, there will definitely be people who are not convinced.

After all, who doesn't have a teacher? If you also put their teachers in line, wouldn't it be messy? As for the royal relatives and relatives, there are few people who are related to the royal family.

Since Kang Shilin refused, Xiao Lingyan followed the original rules, and the leaders of the six departments of Sanqing were all ranked in turn, and Wu Huaisi was directly at the top.