"Master Xu!"

"Don't come unharmed, owner."

"Master Xu hasn't seen him for a long time, and he even misses it."

"Brother Xu, Brother Xu, I'm Zeng Zhaoming, can you remember Zeng?"

Xu Yuangang stepped into the main hall.

The sound of greeting, the sound of flattery, and the sound of approaching, one after another, all the merchants behaved very politely.

Xu Yuan stood on the small high platform above the main hall, glanced around, pressed his hand against them, showed a smile, and said: "You merchants have come from afar, hard work, the environment of the manor here is simple, and there is neglect, I hope you will understand......

exchanged a few polite words in exchange for a 'where, where' voice.

"I won't say more nonsense."

Xu Yuan entered the topic, and said loudly: "This year's agent bidding, the rules are the same as last year, the four states and fourteen prefectures of the South Zhili, divided into 18 agency areas, in addition to the fourteen political envoys (provinces) of the South Zhili, divided into 14 agency areas, a total of 32 agency areas, the use of hidden bidding, each businessman can bid for one or more agency areas, the highest price gets, after winning the corresponding agency area, shall not be distributed across the region, once there are violations, will be disqualified agents, stop supply. ”

After introducing the rules.

The housekeeper Zhao Jinde clapped his palms and asked his subordinates to bring in a bidding board, as well as paper, ballpoint pens and bidding boxes, and distributed the corresponding materials to the hands of the merchants present.

Before the final decision is made, there is a customary product presentation.

There is white sugar that is as white as fine sand.

There are glasses ranging from palm-sized to life-size, transparent and rounded glass beads, myopia glasses for people with myopia, and reading glasses.

There are soaps, shampoos, and shower gels that leave a fragrance on the body after bathing.

There are mechanical watches and table clocks for precise timekeeping.

There are lighters and matches that are easy to use.

There are penicillin pills that are effective in treating a variety of terminal diseases.

As well as pressed oil, canned luncheon meat, canned fruits, canned distiller's lees fish and other non-staple foods produced in Xujiazhuang.

From daily necessities to food, there are nearly 100 kinds of food, and the variety is dizzying.

All the merchants also had extremely hot eyes, ready to move, and showed extremely eager expressions.

Because these are all good things that customers are rushing to want, and they are all high-profit products.

Taking white sugar as an example, the wholesale price is two dollars a pound of silver, and the terminal price is as little as one tael or as much as two or three taels of silver, and the gross profit is at least ten times.

Glass mirror is a luxury in luxury, the wholesale price ranges from five taels to five hundred taels, and the terminal price is less than five times and more than ten times, and due to the limited supply, there is a fixed number every year, so it is always in short supply, and it is not worried about not being able to sell.

Soon it officially entered the bidding process.

All the businessmen silently estimated the market size and profit prospects of the agent area, and then considered the situation of the competitors, and wrote down the block and bid price code they wanted to represent on a white piece of paper with a ballpoint pen, and then folded it and put it into the box.

Xu Yuan asked his subordinates to count it, and then announced the winning bid:

"Ying Tianfu won the bid agent, Lin Hongzuo, bid 58,000 taels."

"Fengyang Mansion winning agent, Shen Junqi, bid 49,000 taels."

"Songjiang Mansion won the bid agent, Zhang Yan, bid 61,000 taels."

"Nanjing Mansion won the bid agent, Xu Chang, bid 36,000 taels."

"Yangzhou Mansion won the bid agent, Qian Renyi, bid 210,000 taels."

"Beizhili won the bid agent, Wang Chongli, bid 38,000 taels."

“……”

There are a total of 32 agency areas, and the winning bid price ranges from thousands of taels to hundreds of thousands of taels.

Of course, there are also cats in it, such as the agency area of Nanjing Mansion, from the perspective of market size, the agency fee is at least more than 100,000 taels, but behind the businessman Xu Chang, is the Xu family of Xu Guogong, with a strong background, no businessman dares to compete with it, so he can win the bid at a low price.

Wang Chongli, a businessman in Beizhili, is also in a similar situation, and his background is hard to the court.

In the face of this kind of businessman, Xu Yuan has nothing to do, let alone offend him, but he has to be treated carefully and treated as a guest.

"Qian Renyi! How did you know my list price? Why is your price just 10,000 taels more than mine? How did you guess my bid, you treacherous villain? ”

There was a slight commotion among the businessmen, and Luo Houping, a salt merchant in Yangzhou who failed in the bidding, ran to Qian Renyi in a rage, grabbed him by the collar, and asked loudly.

"Brother Luo, the shopping mall is like a battlefield, and you are not tired of cheating, you can't blame me for being treacherous if you lose, you can only blame yourself for not doing business, or do your sea salt business well, don't come here to mix."

Qian Renyi said with the attitude of a victor.

"You-"

Luo Houping raised his fist, eager to beat someone, but was stopped by others.

Soon, several strong guards in the manor also entered the hall to pull away the conflicting personnel and avoid small things from making a big fuss.

As the owner, Xu Yuan also had to take a tweeter to persuade them to make money peacefully, no need to quarrel, did not win the bid this year, and can come again next year, and in addition to special commodities, Xujiazhuang's pressed oil, canned products and high-yield crop seeds, businessmen who did not win the bid, can also buy a batch back, not subject to agency qualifications.

Furthermore!

Xujiazhuang also provides silver for gold business, any businessman, can bring gold to come, in a reasonable exchange ratio, the gold in their hands, into a fine silver dollar, the fineness is sufficient, to ensure that there is no loss, can be exchanged at any time, and in the future, Xujiazhuang produced ordinary commodities, only accept to buy with silver dollars, other silver is not accepted.

Hear these words.

The merchants who did not win the bid were in a much better mood, and some said on the spot that they wanted to buy some canned food and go back with the improved seeds.

Even those merchants who have already won the bid have made requests to buy wheat, potatoes, corn and other good varieties that can significantly increase production.

As for the gold-for-silver dollar business, there are not many businessmen who respond, although they all like the silver dollar that blows as soon as it is blown, but gold is a high-value hard currency, convenient and easy to carry, and conducive to large-scale transactions, unless they encounter economic difficulties or have a lot of profits, they will not easily exchange for other currencies.

Xu Yuan is very eager for gold, because the ratio of gold to silver at the end of the Ming Dynasty is about 1:10, while on the Blue Star side, the price of 925 industrial silver is 3.5 yuan/gram, but the price of gold has soared to nearly 500 yuan/gram, with a price ratio of more than 1:100.

If a large amount of gold from the end of the Ming Dynasty is exchanged for silver from Blue Star, there will be more than ten times the profit margin in the middle.

However, gold was also very scarce in ancient times, and the rich people who really held a lot of gold were not rare to earn that bit of silver, so Xu Yuan's financial business has been in a tepid state for several years, and he has not obtained a large amount of gold.

At night.

Xu Yuan asked people to prepare a grand dinner, and in the staggered planning, announced the successful conclusion of this year's bidding meeting.

Whether it is a businessman who has won the bid or has not won the bid, they all feel that they have gained a lot, and they can make a lot of money this year, and they are in a very good mood.

Sitting at the head of the banquet, Xu Yuan, as the host, looked at these well-dressed shrewd businessmen, as if he saw compradors one by one, and he was destined to be unable to get rid of his dependence on himself in the future.

Although some of these businessmen have a well-established background and are arrogant in private, they ask Xu Yuan to 'take refuge' in them and show sincerity, but after being politely refused, they faintly threaten that Xu Yuan's business will not last long, and sooner or later they will be devoured by wolves, which is the way to self-destruction.

There are also those who want to invest in cooperation, willing to provide workshops and workers, and expand the scale of production, but the industrial products that Xu Yuan took out are all finished products produced by modern factories, and he did not provide technical information, and the idea of building a factory here for production is because with the ancient level of technical secrecy and the ingenuity of craftsmen, I am afraid that glass, white sugar, soap and the like have just been mass-produced, and all workshops in the world have secretly learned it, and there is no concept of patent protection at all.

If you want to do these profiteering businesses for a long time, the best way is to buy from Bluestar, and you must not build a factory here.

Of course, oil mills, furniture factories, brick kiln factories, canning factories, rice mills and other workshops that greatly improve production efficiency can still be built, and the scarcity of products is not high, and it does not matter if they are copied.

All in all.

It is not necessary to do business in person, Xu Yuan's current thinking is to use modern society as a production base, and import a large number of industrial products that are impossible for the ancients to produce to the base of Xujiazhuang, and then act as a businessman to attract comprador businessmen to come to buy goods and become an agent.