When the price of the jade seal soared all the way to 200,000 taels, something was wrong.

As everyone knows, Xia Chao purely used this auction to find allies, and gave up early. It's just that because of Tan Yuyu's rules, even if you give up halfway and want to quit, you can't leave the room. Only when the results come out and the winning side leaves smoothly with the jade seal, can the other five families leave.

If someone violates the rules, then the 100,000 taels of silver will not be refunded. The envoy of the Xia Dynasty has been scolding and scolding in the room for this reason, and he is very unconvinced.

Because each family originally only pledged 100,000 taels of cash and property in Qiuchi. When the price of the jade seal exceeds 100,000 taels, each family must also give the property deed apostille to the maid in the house at the same time as bidding. Then the maid checks and puts it into the bamboo tube. Slide along with the wooden balls to the next level.

On the ground floor, there are not only people who count the bids of each room, but also a few big shopkeepers sent by Zhu Tancheng. They are well-informed, where the land, where the grange, where the treasure beads are antiques, and how much they are worth, they know at a glance.

All the deeds are estimated by them, and after deducting 10%, the rest can be used as the property of the bet and apostille.

Because the accounting takes a long time. Since 100,000 taels, almost every round of bidding has to pause for a while to let a few old shopkeepers evaluate the price. The larger the amount, the longer it will take to reconcile. So the speed of the auction is getting slower and slower.

"Girl," Qin Zhongzhi's voice was a little anxious, "I'm afraid things have changed." Why haven't the three small countries of Xiqin, Beiliang, and Beiyan given up yet? It's already 200,000 taels......"

Tan Zhaoyu's ears were about to be stuffed into the copper pipe in Beiyan's room, "This Beiyan is so strange, from the time of the shooting to the present, the eleven people who went in added up to no more than twenty words." Except for the amount of money charged to the maid in the room, nothing else was mentioned. They didn't even talk to each other. ”

Although Tan Invite Yu originally allowed each chief envoy to bring ten guards. But often out of the ten guards who came, one or two were staff officers. When several other countries made their bids, there were whispers of discussion coming from the brass pipes. Even if Liu Song and the four of them don't like each other, they will inevitably have to discuss a few words. Beiyan is so quiet, it is really abnormal, there must be demons.

"Haven't I been poor for too long?" Tan Zhaoyu looked at Qin Zhongzhi suspiciously, "Could it be that 200,000 taels is a small amount in the eyes of other countries?" ”

Qin Zhongzhi used to be a strategist of Tuoba and Po Army, and he was in charge of Qiu Chi's finances, so he had a better concept of silver money than Tan Yingyu. He shook his head, "Two hundred thousand taels is not a lot for the monarchs, but it is not a random number. At least the Western Qin and Northern Liang, they have been in turmoil, and even with the financial resources of the whole country, it is impossible to compete with the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty. ”

Tan Zhaoyu picked up the deed handed over by the bottom floor, the mortgage of Xiqin and Beiliang, "unless they deliberately raised the price......"

"Deliberately?" Qin Zhongzhi frowned, "Are you saying that they want to take the opportunity to trap the Northern Wei Dynasty or Liu Song?" ”

Invite Yu breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, "Now only this explanation is reasonable." Frustrated Meng Xun already knew that he couldn't hold this jade seal, otherwise he would have snatched it directly from me. Now he has sent people to participate in the auction, and he has raised the price so high all the way, just hoping that the two big countries will make a blood. ”

Qin Zhongzhi hurriedly went to see the records of several bids in each room, and sure enough, the Northern Wei Dynasty, like the Southern Song Dynasty, had always bid only one thousand taels more than the highest price last time. This is just to guarantee the bottom and not let people buy it at a low price. Obviously, the rivalry between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty had not yet begun.

And the first few price jumps, all of them were the three companies of Xiqin, Beiliang and Beiyan. The purpose of Beiyan is still unknown, and the other two are afraid that they are here to muddy the waters.

Invite Yu said lightly: "If the Northern Wei Dynasty wins the jade seal at a high price, I am afraid that there will be no extra silver money to raise grain and grass in a short time, and the northern countries will be peaceful for a while." If Liu Song wins, it won't hurt them. Maybe he can also take the opportunity to get in touch with Liu Song and jointly suppress the Northern Wei Dynasty. ”

"But," Invite Yu added with some sarcasm, "the wool comes out of the sheep. The sacrifices made by the two big countries will ultimately be won back in the plundering of the smaller ones. Maybe what the Three Kingdoms thought they were smart did turned out to be their talisman in the end. ”

As the two were talking, a notice came from the door, "Xian Ji, a palace person has come to report that there are thieves in the west palace. Zimo Langjun and Zhurong Langjun are struggling to resist. ”

"Resisting?" Tan Yuyu raised his eyebrows and repeated, "This is the man's original words?" ”

Outside the door, he replied, "Yes." It's the exact word. ”

Tan Yuyu put the deed in his hand and replied coldly: "Take the person into custody, hand it over to Liang Weng, and interrogate it well." Where did you come from to fish in troubled waters, and I didn't even find out a code, so I came to pretend to be someone in my palace. ”

Immediately outside the door, there was a "whoosh", and then a series of footsteps followed.

Qin Zhongzhi sighed: "It seems that someone can't sit still and wants to turn the tiger away from the mountain." It is not easy to find out where Brother Zimo is. ”

Invite Yu thought for a while and ordered, "You are guarding here." I'll go to Beiyan from the secret passage to take a look. ”

He Lu immediately stood up when he heard this, "The minister will lead the way for Xianji!" Now that he and his mother's lives are in the mind of Xianji, in order not to annoy Xianji, he has held back until now and dare not speak. Now you have to behave.

Invite Yu saw through He Lu's careful thinking at a glance, and didn't stop it, nodded, let him lead the way in front, and didn't forget to advise, "Don't make any movement, if you startle the snake, it will be a crime!" ”

He Lu hurriedly covered his mouth and nodded desperately.

The two walked to the left side of the room, He Lu opened a flap, revealing a secret passage behind him that was one person wide and half a person high, and he turned back to Invite Yu and said, "Hardship Xian Ji crawled behind the minister for a while. The layout of this building is compact, and there is no way to build a large secret passage, so I can only ......"

As soon as He Lu wanted to continue to explain the origin of the secret path, he was glared at fiercely by Tan Yuyu and quickly shut up.

Invite Yu followed behind He Lu, crawling forward little by little, until he reached the mezzanine of the wall on the second floor, before he barely stood up.

He Lu whispered: "From here, the second peephole is the room of the Northern Yan people. ”

Invite Yu nodded, leaned over and said in a smaller voice: "Don't go over, you walk too loudly, and you get up like a big mouse." Just wait for me right here. ”

At this time, Ling Yu heard Qin Zhongzhi's humming voice from the brass pipe in the mezzanine of the wall, and asked each room to put a new round of bidding wooden balls into the track.

Tan Invite Yu happened to take advantage of the sound of the wooden ball rolling, quickly moved to the room of the Northern Yan people, and carefully opened the partition of the peephole.