didn't wait too long, Xue Qing, the governor of Jiangnan, also rushed over, and Guo Zheng, the imperial historian who had been grinding in the backyard, finally walked to the front hall. At this time, the Quartet who presided over and supervised the opening of the bid for the inner library finally gathered in one place. Guo Zheng is no longer the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Beijing, but he still has a certain amount of power to inspect all walks of life, and he and Fan Xian's old grievances have not been removed, so it is inevitable that they will be embarrassed when they meet, and when the four adults salute each other, they always feel that Fan Xian's calm and indifferent eyes hide a little danger.

Among the four members of the present rì, Huang Gonggong from Beijing naturally represents the palace, Xue Qing, the governor of Jiangnan, represents the court official system, Guo Zheng, the imperial historian, represents the speech official system, and Fan Xian ...... There are many forces on the represented, such as the Inner Treasury Transfer Division, such as the Supervision Yuan, and even the Taichang Temple, an institution that manages the imperial family.

Of course, everyone is representing the imperial court and representing His Majesty.

Fan Xian sat on the second chair, smiled and talked to Xue Qing, but he saw today's situation clearly, there are too many people staring at this matter, no matter who it is, no matter which force it is, it is difficult to complete the transaction under the table alone, and the bid opening procedure of the inner treasury formed by history is extremely effective in ensuring fairness.

At least on the surface, it is fair, as long as the businessman has money, he can fight for the right to sell the sixteenth item of the inner treasury.

He thought so, and the other three people thought the same, Huang Gonggong and Guo Zheng glanced at each other, although they were faintly uneasy, but in their opinion, Fan Xian was always impossible to play any tricks in front of everyone, what they wanted to guarantee was that the Ming family could still get the same share as in previous years.

The father-in-law and the imperial history were originally two classes that were incompatible in history, but today they are very tacitly standing in the same camp, but these two people don't know a lot of hidden secrets, and they don't pay enough attention to the Xia Qifei Xia master who finally entered the inner Kumen.

Xue Qing is different, the governor of Jiangnan has the mentality of watching a play, looking at the giant businessmen and the people around him with a peaceful face, watching a play is not afraid of the high stage, it is always easier than the person who acts.

Several people sang on one stage.

............ The thick door of the inner mansion slowly closed again, and the soldiers and officials of the Supervision Yuan outside the door set up a tight defense. In previous years, the bidding for the treasury generally ended in one day, but the rules of the imperial court actually allowed each merchant to use two days to shout the price.

There was a loud bang.

Fan Xian smiled and covered his ears, looking at the chūn thunder that rose into the sky outside the mansion.

The chūn thunder soared into the sky, exploding under the shallow clouds, and the sound was clear and crisp, and it spread far to the ground, shocking the hearts of countless people.

The girls in the Qinglou who worked hard last night in Suzhou City were awakened by this thunder, cursed a few swearing, and fell into the quilt and fell asleep. The child who was begging his parents for a lot of money on the street to buy candy to eat, thinking that God said that he was not well-behaved, thundered and punished himself, and he was frightened and cried. The black dog in the backyard, who was peeing on the roots of the old tree with his legs crossed, trembled by the thunder, fell to the ground with his forelimbs, buried his head in a furry package, and learned to be an ostrich.

Human reactions are already different, and the chūn thunder that falls on some people's ears has a different meaning. Whether it was the shopkeepers of the various masters who gathered on the wharf in the north of Suzhou City, or the residents of Suzhou City who were discussing the opening of the bid in the teahouse, everyone looked in the direction of Nancheng, looked at the invisible house, and knew that the bidding for the inner library had begun.

In the sixth year of Qingli, the opening of the new Chūn Inner Library was actually carried out particularly unsmoothly from the beginning.

First of all, the Inner Treasury Transit Department summarized the surplus and loss of each business last year, which naturally had many words of encouragement, and Ma Kai, the deputy envoy of the Transit Department who was in charge of the speech, finally reported the investigation and punishment of the Cui family by the imperial court.

This is all rì rules, no one cares, but when Ma Kai said the specific matters of today's bidding, the house exploded, and those merchants stood up to express their opposition, and even the four dignitaries sitting in the main hall began to argue.

This is because the Transshipment Division has suddenly decided to subdivide the original 16 items into 34 sub-items, and will no longer conduct bundled tenders this year.

This change may seem like a small change, but for the following businessmen, it is simply unacceptable!

The reason is very simple, three months before the bidding, these giant businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River have already privately connected and drawn up the boundaries and divisions between each other, and the well water does not interfere with the river water, so as not to hurt the harmony between each other, and even more because of the price hike. For example, what the Lingnan Xiong family will compete for this year is the northbound standard of wine, while the Sun family in Quanzhou wants to take the overseas marketing rights of porcelain goods.

Today, if according to the meaning of the transshipment department, the ** item is divided into 34 small items, although on the surface, everyone can still hold the bottom line, but it is expected that the eight major items that should have belonged to the Ming family will be divided into two bundled bidding, and after all are refined, who can know if there will be any businessman who suddenly has red eyes and wants to grab some of the Ming family's share? After all, after no longer being tied, those most profitable items seem to require not too much silver.

And once someone is tempted by the Ming family's share, what should the Ming family do? They will definitely go back and grab other people's shares, which is decided by the businessmen's profit-seeking nature, and I am afraid that today's opening of the Inner Treasury for bidding will be chaotic.

These Jiangnan businessmen ...... What I am most afraid of now is chaos, the Ming family has already said that they will not interfere with the share that originally belonged to the Cui family, these businessmen can already eat several more bowls of fat today, of course, they don't want anyone to disrupt their plans.

In their opinion, the reason why Lord Qincha has such a change is actually very simple, one is to let the big guy kill the red eyes in the chaos and raise the price, and the other is to subdivide the items and dilute the fixed money required for each item, so that ...... Xia Qifei, who was the last to enter the hospital, can also get a piece of the pie!

These businessmen had already realized that Room B, which had been silent, was the spokesperson of Lord Chincha's wishes.

It's just that you want to make money, we can all understand, but you can't use this kind of seemingly fair, but actually vicious method!

............, "Master Fan, this is not appropriate. After Huang Gonggong was cut off by Fan Xian, he was still calm enough, and a smile appeared on his fat face, and said: "In previous years, sixteen items were sixteen, why do you suddenly have to draw them in detail? ”

Fan Xian frowned, said a few words, and then turned back to Xue Qing and whispered: "Lord Governor, divide it into a detailed item and no longer tie it up, in fact, all I want is to make more people eligible to enter...... This is always good for the imperial court. ”

Xue Qing pondered for a while, his face was embarrassed, and said: "Having said that, it's just that this matter is not trivial, I think Lord Fan is still the Ming court, and after handing it over to the palace for discussion, it will not be too late to slowly implement it next year." ”

Seeing that Xue Qing also objected, Fan Xian felt a little unhappy in his heart, looking at the chaotic businessmen in the hall, a trace of pity flashed in his mind, in fact, the reason why he had to prepare for the division today was not the reason why these businessmen did it at all.

Indeed, he wanted to test whether it was possible to dig out the two most profitable items for Xia Qifei from the eight major items that were tied up in one place by the Ming family. But the really important reason is actually for the sake of these businessmen.

At this time, these businessmen always thought in their hearts that the six items left by the Cui family were in their own pockets, so they would not fight with the Ming family...... But after a while, Xia Qifei will definitely swallow all the six items of the Cui family into his stomach, and these businessmen can only eat the pitiful two. There was information in advance, the Lingnan Xiong family and the Quanzhou Sun family have prepared a large amount of silver this time, sharpening their knives and preparing to accept the Cui family's line.

Due to the collapse of the Cui family, there are three times more businessmen who come to the inner library to open bids today than in previous years, Fan Xian originally thought that these businessmen would also have something to eat, so there would be a subdivision of this mentions, but he didn't expect that no one would appreciate it - although he understood that it was because these businessmen didn't know the development of the situation for a while, so they would oppose it so strongly, but Fan Xian still couldn't suppress the feeling of grievance in his heart Lu Dongbin, and he was with Huang Gonggong around him. Guo Zheng argued for two sentences, explained for a while, and found that the businessmen still insisted on handling it according to the practice of previous years, and the other three officials also stubbornly held on to the word rules and did not dare to let go.

Deputy envoy Ma Kai glanced back at Fan Xian in embarrassment, and Fan Xian waved his hand and signaled to stop the discussion.

The merchants were overjoyed, and bowed down one after another, saying that the Lord was wise. Fan Xian looked at these businessmen coldly, and couldn't help but shake his head, thinking that you just don't cry for a while.

Xue Qing sat next to him, smiling and speechless, but in fact, his eyes were fixed on the room closest to the main hall, and the room farthest away. He knew that Xia Qifei was Fan Xian's person, but he didn't know where Fan Xian prepared the silver from, and how the Ming family was going to deal with it.

Not long after the ―――――――――――――――――――― bidding was underway, some businessmen began to regret it, and the head of the Lingnan Xiong family became the first poor guy who almost cried.

The officials of the Inner Treasury Transit Division stood on the high steps and sang a salute, and then the houses began to bid, and naturally the bids could not be shouted like the girl in the green building--fifty taels!One hundred taels!-- There are always some rules for doing things in the imperial court, so there is a certain standard, for example, the merchants of the North Cotton Yarn Road will calculate last year's profits and this year's trend after the officials sing the salute, and the old shopkeeper will make a detailed calculation, and then write down an accurate number on the paper, seal it in a brown paper bag, and hand it over to the flower hall on the left hand side of the main hall by the official of the transfer department under the stairs.

Merchants have a total of three opportunities to bid, and the opening is a clear bid, so if the first time someone shouts the price exceeds their own, these merchants also have the opportunity to increase the price, and finally the third time shall prevail, the very simple principle of winning the bid - the highest price wins. Then the merchants who won the bid had to take out as much as forty percent of the fixed silver in the first time, either with joy or with a painful stomach, and handed it over to the flower hall - in the flower hall were the accountants of the transfer department, as well as the old accounting officials transferred from the Kyoto household department, who were responsible for comparing the number of merchants to be brought up, and checking the silver tickets handed over by the final winning bidders, and there had been many years when no merchant had stupidly carried a dozen boxes of silver to open the bid...... From this point of view, the bidding of the inner library is actually not much different from the bidding of the red man in the green building, but the girl of the inner library is a little expensive. Both the merchants and the busy officials are no strangers to this scene.

At this time, in the courtyard, the officials were busy walking around, holding the envelopes handed over by each family, and the officials of the Supervision Yuan watched with great attention to the qiē to prevent fraud, which was already difficult to occur.

At this time, the northbound bidding for alcohol was opened, and it was already the third time that the price was shouted.

The person who came to the Lingnan Xiong family today is Xiong Bailing, who is now in charge, he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, looked at the previous two offers, the muscles of his face twitched, and he felt a little crying without tears. The Lingnan Xiong family has always been doing business in the south of Qingguo, due to the problem of geography and opportunities, there has been no opportunity to extend the tentacles to the north, so the business situation is extremely difficult to open, and this year due to the fall of the Cui family, giving these businessmen the opportunity to seize the marketing rights in the north, so Xiong Bailing is determined to win this standard, and he is the most energetic in opposing Fan Xian's subdivision project before.

...... However, at this time, he began to regret it, obviously he had prepared enough silver in the clan, but the first two bids were actually suppressed by others!

Xiong Bailing's eyes were red, and he was in a hurry, if he couldn't win this standard, it was not a question of how much money he would earn less this year, but the family's pace of bypassing the big mountain of the Ming family and marching to the north was forced to slow down, so he really hated the person who didn't follow the rules and dared to grab the bid with him, but in addition to the hatred, there were also countless jǐng fears, because he knew that person had Lord Qincha as a backer, but the problem was ...... Where did the other party get so much money?

"Yi Si!" He hated to look at the quiet room at the back, Xia Qifei and his party in room B 4 had been extremely quiet, but they grabbed the bid, but they were very ruthless, the most important thing is that the other party didn't know what masters were helping out, but they calculated the profit of the wine industry Beiquan for a year so clearly, and they also estimated the bottom line of their family very clearly.

Xiong Bailing couldn't help but feel a sense of frustration in his heart, could it be that he who has been in business for generations is not as good as a robber leader?

The old shopkeeper beside him was full of defeat, and reminded: "Master, you can't add it anymore, add it again...... But there's nothing to be gained. ”

Xiong Bailing thought for a while, and his eyes were fierce, it was a trivial matter for the Xiong family to make money by relying on this standard, and it was a big deal to open up the trade route, so he decided to fight with the robbers in the fourth room.

"Quote the price directly. Xiong Bailing made a gesture, made up his mind to break the boat, gritted his teeth and said: "When the robber is not distressed about the silver he robbed...... But there's no need to lose money and steal business with me. ”

At this time, the courtyard was already quiet, and for the third time, no one else cared anymore, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the Lingnan Xiong family and Room B. 4.

Although Gonggong Huang and Guo Zheng had doubts and glanced at Fan Xian, they still didn't pay enough attention to it, because after all, this was just a small item, maybe Fan Xian wanted to make some oil and water, as long as it didn't hurt the Ming family and hurt the interests of his own people.

The two officials took out two brown paper bags from each of the two rooms and entered the flower hall in silence.

Everyone was nervously waiting for the result, although this bid was not the biggest and most profitable bid among the sixteen, but the people in the courtyard had begun to feel the strangeness of the fourth room at this time, so everyone wanted to know whether this fourth room was here to grab the bid, or if Lord Qincha used it to raise the price.

............ "B four rooms, Xia family, 370,000 taels, get ......"

The official of the transfer department in charge of the singing ceremony stood on the stone steps and sang the result expressionlessly, singing extremely beautifully, and even the last word was fluttering, singing a little bit of the taste of the stage.

The courtyard fell into a deathly silence, and after a few moments, people seemed to wake up from the shock and let out a shocking exclamation.

370,000 taels! Just to sell alcohol to the north...... If calculated according to previous years, this must be a loss-making price, Lingnan Xiong's family reported 300,000 taels, this is already smashing the pot and selling iron land to compete for the bid, but I didn't expect that I still lost to B Sifang!

However, in this way, the merchants are also clear about the fact that Xia Qifei in Room B is definitely not a childcare used by Lord Qincha to raise prices, but really wants to compete with his own people for business.

For a while, everyone didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

At this moment, there was a muffled sound in the room of Lingnan Xiong's house, and it seemed that something heavy fell from the chair to the ground.

The crowd stared at the room with trepidation.

Xiong Bailing, the owner of the Xiong family, got up from the ground, poured a cup of cold tea into his stomach very hard, and said breathlessly: "What a rotten boy...... Fuck, it's actually 370,000 taels, this robber is a robber, and he is still so arrogant when he starts business, you are ruthless. ”

Fan Xian sat on the Taishi chair in the hall, bowed his head slightly, and was a little unhappy with this price, this price was indeed too high, the first two bids, Xia Qifei's call was extremely beautiful, just overpowering the Xiong family, this last price, but it cost 70,000 taels of silver.

No matter how rich he is, he can't help spending it like this-he sighed in his heart, but he also knew that the matter of asking for money was definitely not Xia Qifei's master, and he put a few old Jiān giant slippery household officials in the fourth room, which he secretly asked for from his father in Kyoto, but it seemed that those household officials still overestimated the determination of the Lingnan Xiong family.

―――――――――――――――――――――― not long ago, a brocade box had been taken out of the fourth room and handed over to the flower hall for inspection, which was indeed a full 150,000 taels of silver tickets, issued by Taiping Qianzhuang, and the seal was not fake, and Lao Suo was not deceived.

At this time, everyone knew that sitting in the quiet room B 4 was a merchant among robbers, and a bandit among merchants, who would not give half a cent to grab the bid, but would only smash people with silver in blood, and the other party did have so much silver.

I just don't know the robbers in the fourth room...... How many bids are still ready to grab.

The next development of the situation made everyone except the Ming family desperate, and Xia Qifei, the leader of the Jiangnan Water Village, perfectly carried forward the style of the robbers, using the silver ticket as a knife and the wonderful bidding as a fist, and fought a bloody way in the confrontation of the merchants. In the sound of officials singing on the stone steps, the brocade box kept being handed to the flower hall, and people seemed to see countless beautiful silver tickets flying in the air, and Xia Qifei was holding a big knife, yín shouted incomparably: "Who is richer than me?"

Two hours passed, in addition to missing a small standard that was not too important, Xia Qifei actually won four bids in a row, which also included the three bids that originally belonged to the northern route of the Cui family, not only killed Xiong Bailing and sat on the ground, but also killed the Quanzhou Sun family's face was miserable, and the rest of the merchants were even more frightened, thinking that they were not here to win the bid today, but to see the robbers and kill people.

It was only at this time that the merchants regretted a little, and did not accept Fan Xian's initial mentions, if they were separated, there would be ten major items in the back, even if the Ming family was eyeing them, they would have the opportunity to eat some into their mouths.

I'd rather fight with the Ming family than with the robbers in room B4, this is the biggest feeling of Jiangnan businessmen today.

Fan Xian sat on the Taishi chair with a calm face, and talked to Xue Qing without a match, but in fact, he was jealous of Xia Qifei in his heart, thinking that this kind of cute game of smashing people with silver, why couldn't it be his turn to appear on the stage, but it was so good to kill you.

Huang Gonggong and Guo Zheng had already gotten rid of the shock of the previous moment, and looked at each other with a smile, thinking quite the same thing, you Fan Xian...... Where did all this money come from? I'm afraid that the Tobe Shangshu in Kyoto will not be clean.

The fifth bid began, which was originally a Xingbei glass product belonging to the Cui family.

The door of room B and room 4 was pushed open again, and another brown paper bag was handed out.

At this time, there were no merchants who were willing to play with the robber, so they were all quiet, hoping that the robber would be well fed sooner.

At this moment, the door of Room A, which had been unusually quiet, was pushed open, and the Ming family ...... For some reason, I made a move in advance!

............" does not seek to win the bid, but it will delay time, at least until the end of today. Ming Qingda closed his eyes and said to his son beside him: "The other party has made a noise, we have to be careful and leave enough time for ourselves to deal with it one night." ”

Ming Lanshi was silent, knowing that his father was also beginning to worry about the seemingly bottomless amount of silver in the fourth room, and was ready to raise it again at night.

Ming Qingda didn't open his eyes, but he was thinking in his heart about the robber in the fourth room, why did he make himself so uneasy?