Chapter Seventy-Three: Fierce Bidding

"I'll give 10,000." As soon as the host's voice fell, someone made an offer. In the Zheng years, the price of a horse was about ten ingots, converted. It's five hundred taels of silver each, and if you say five hundred, you'll get two hundred and fifty thousand pieces of silver.

"I'll give 100,000." This is an emissary from Majapahit, who was also ordered to attend the auction this time, and he raised the price to dissuade some of the competitors, who were bound to win the horses.

"I'll give 110,000." This is Ayuthya's emissary, they don't have any need for horses, they all ride elephants, mainly because this time in addition to the purchase of weapons, there is also a mission to stop Ayuthaya's bidding.

"Two hundred thousand."

"Two hundred and one thousand."

"Three hundred thousand." The two sides kept raising prices, and to the surprise of others: can this Majapahit still come up with so much money after the war? But think about it, a country the size of Majapahit also controls multiple trade nodes and the port of Malacca, so the income naturally cannot be compared with ordinary countries.

"Three hundred and one thousand." Ayutthaya continued to bid, the Majapahit envoy was not annoyed, horses are very precious in Southeast Asia, only nobles and above can use horses in the country, the unit price of a horse is more than 1,000 taels of silver at the highest time, the horses in this auction are not trivial, they are trained military horses, they expect to take it within 600,000, if it exceeds, then let it go.

"I'll give 500,000." The envoy of the Majapahit said.

The Ayuthia envoy accepted it when he saw it, he was not prepared to compete any longer, and if the other side did not want it, he would have to buy these horses, and their country did not have a great demand for horses.

"Five hundred thousand once."

"500,000 twice, is there anyone else bidding?"

Seeing that no one had bid, the host said, "Five hundred thousand three times." Deal! ”

"Congratulations, sir, 500,000 won 500 Mongolian military horses."

After the host asked the horses to be pulled down, they were asked to carry a few cannons.

Everyone was in good spirits in an instant, and that was the purpose of their trip.

"The third lot, the Xi'an firearm used by the Yuan army, has 100 auctions in this round, with a starting price of 1,000 taels, and each increase has to be less than 1,000 taels." The moderator said.

"I'll give a thousand." Someone held up a sign.

"Can you still get a thousand? I'll give 10,000 taels. ”

"Can you still get 10,000 taels? I'll give 100,000 taels. "The price is very high very quickly, and even if the starting price and price increase requirements are very low, it will not slow down the rate of its growth.

The host didn't expect it, but he didn't expect the price to be raised to 100,000 yuan after three price increases, which has exceeded the estimated estimate of 50,000 yuan, and now he can get a lot of points.

"One hundred thousand taels once."

"Is there a higher price than 100,000 taels? One hundred thousand two times. ”

"I'll give you one hundred and one thousand taels." This is the northern neighbor of the Sukhothai Kingdom, the Lanna Kingdom, and the further north of the Lanna Kingdom is Yuan Liang, this time Liang did not participate in this auction, the King of Liang has no ambitions, just protect Yunguang for the imperial court. Since the Lanna Kingdom returned to the Yuan Dynasty in 1327, it has always wanted to break free from the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, at first the Lanna Kingdom refused to pay tribute to the Yuan court, although it borrowed a strategy to protect itself, with the Yuan court set up the Marshal Mansion of Xuanwei Sidu in Lanna, Lanna formally became a Tusi of the Yuan.

On the good side, the establishment of the Marshal Xuanfu Situ Mansion has largely ensured the security of the northern border of Lanna. It also brought the golden age of Lanna, because the country was stable, the economy and society have been greatly developed, and Buddhism in the country also flourished, Lanna also had a population of only more than 100,000 people, and more advanced medical technology was introduced from Yuan, which increased to 500,000 in 30 years, of course, the growth of 400,000 not only came from the birth population, but also the population who moved into Lanna because of the war.

"This gentleman paid 101,000 taels, is there anything higher than this price?" The moderator said.

"I'll give you 102,000 taels." The person who spoke out was an emissary of the Sukhothai kingdom, and their situation was not good, the south was directly bordered by Ayuthya, and Ayutthaya had coveted them for a long time, and if they got advanced weapons, they also had more confidence to resist the invasion of the Ayutthayas.

Lanna looked at the Sukhothai messenger who was competing with him, and did not hesitate to increase the price to compete, if Sukhothai got the cannon, I don't know what would happen to Lanna, in history Lanna helped Sukhothai resist the invasion of Ayutthaya, and when Ayutthaya attacked Lanna, Sukhothai not only did not help, but even beat a rake and attacked Lanna. It's not that Sukhothai doesn't have many such behaviors, after all, the national interests are paramount, where are there permanent friends, it's just a trend of interests.

"One hundred and three thousand taels."

"One hundred and four thousand taels." The two sides conducted several rounds of bidding, and the price was raised to 150,000.

The others didn't bid, 150,000 to buy a hundred artillery, one cost 1,500 taels, which was far beyond their budget, they were not ready to increase the price anyway, Lanna and Sukhothai were still struggling, after all, they had no channels to get advanced weapons, Ayutaya, Majapahit and other countries themselves have many weapons, and the full men do not know that the hungry are hungry.

In the end, the 100 guns were purchased by Lanna at a price of 166,000, and Lanna was naturally very rich after more than 30 years of economic precipitation.

"The fourth lot, the armor of the Yuan army." The Mongols absorbed and upgraded the armor technology of the former Song Dynasty, forming a very advanced armor manufacturing technology, the weight of the armor of the Mengyuan Dynasty was far lighter than that of the Song Dynasty, which greatly facilitated the cavalry combat, and because of the advanced manufacturing technology, the armor of the Central Plains has been very popular with everyone, and now it is divided, and the exchanges between the countries and the Central Plains countries have become very rare, although there has been trade, the trade is some basic materials such as grain, that's all.

"A total of 10,000 pairs of armor were sold in this round of auction." It's boiling below, 10,000 pairs of armor, 10,000 pairs can equip an entire formation, and then you can form a powerful combat force.

"The starting price is 300,000 yuan, and each price increase shall not be less than 10,000 yuan, and the auction will begin."

As soon as the host's words fell, no one made a bid, and everyone was silent, they knew that these armors would inevitably require a lot of money to take, so countries formed small teams and wanted to use the financial resources of many countries to take these armors.

The vassals of Majapahit formed a group, as for Majapahit, he was rich enough, and for those vassals, he had to pay him half of his income every year, and the Khmer and Ayutthaya formed a group, both of which were large populations, and their incomes were naturally not low, and the two countries were ready to join hands to eat 10,000 pairs of armor.