All the preparations in the early stage are for the final offer, and whoever makes the offer in line with the intentions of the Dongting faction and the Longquan Taoist Academy will be able to win the bid. The most difficult thing to grasp here is the question of degree.

If the joint bidder of Huaixian Pavilion and Baihuamen offered a high price, such as paying 100,000 yuan to the Dongting faction and handing over 50,000 spirit stones to the Longquan Daoist Academy every year, it would naturally be easy to win the bid, but the premise of doing so was that the spirit stone vein of Nanwu Mountain was determined to be a super-large vein.

Even Gu Zuo, because he had never been in contact with a spirit stone vein before, he didn't dare to be 100% sure that the brilliant white light he sensed with his Spirit True Qi was a super-large ore vein.

What is big, what is small, what is oversized, what is generally big? Without practice, this question is something he cannot answer. The only thing he could be sure of was that there was indeed a mine under the hillside identified by the deacon of the Dongting Sect using the Dragon Searching Cave Exploration Method, and it was not small, and it was even larger than the ore veins in the cave that the various sects were concerned about.

Therefore, the process of quotation is actually the process of betting, betting on the size of this spirit stone vein. It can be said that the bidders who have passed the second review of the Longquan Provincial Institute all believe that the Nanwu Mountain vein is a real mine and has a certain scale, but anyone who thinks that it may be a fake mine or a small mine even if it is a real mine is a small mine is all out.

The bid will basically be based on the three grades of medium-sized mines, large mines and super-large mines, that is, bet on the annual output of spirit stones in this spirit mine.

Is it 20,000 yuan, 60,000 yuan, or 100,000 yuan? On this basis, the quotation is made according to the bearing capacity of the own sect.

For example, Gu Zuo, he himself estimated the bearing capacity of the Huaixian Pavilion. If the Lingshi vein of Nanwu Mountain is a medium-sized mine, with an annual output of 20,000 Lingshi, his mining costs are as follows:

Labor costs: The annual salary, board and lodging expenses of the 32 monks (two shifts) are 2,000 yuan, an average of a little more than 5,000 yuan per person, and the cost of recruiting 16 prisoners through high-paying employment and renting prisoners from the Chongxuan Department is also about 2,000 yuan. The total of the above is 4,000 per year.

Amortization of the cost of the mining circle: the service life of a mining circle is usually 20 years, if the simple linear depreciation method is adopted, the annual depreciation cost is 1,000 yuan; in addition to depreciation, it is also necessary to calculate the cost of maintaining the spirit stones of the magic circle, according to the use of the magic circle, when it is fully activated, the sixteen magic circle nodes, the annual consumption of more than 570 spirit stones, the conversion is about 740 yuan. The total of the above is 1,740 per year.

The tax cost of Nanwu Prefecture: 10,000 guan per year to pay the imperial court, 5,000 spirit stones to pay the Chongxuan Bureau, converted into 16,400 guan.

The total burden of the above three items is more than 22,000 per year.

If the output of spirit stones is 20,000 pieces per year, which is converted into more than 25,000 guan, the spirit ore can only achieve a slight surplus, that is, a surplus of more than 3,000 guan per year, and it must be quoted on this basis.

At this time, the quotation plan that can be selected is: hand over 1,000 spirit stones to Longquan Taoist Academy every year, send 20,000 guan to Dongting (also priced at 20 years of cost recovery, equivalent to paying 1,000 guan per year), and Huaixian Pavilion and Baihuamen keep a surplus of 1,000 guan per year.

If the annual output of spirit stones is 30,000 pieces, the quotation plan that can be selected is: 5,000 spirit stones to Longquan Taoist Academy every year, a one-time bid of 100,000 yuan to Dongting, and a surplus of 5,000 yuan per year. Considering the demand of the Longquan Daoist Academy and the Dongting Party for bidding, such an offer will definitely be rejected by the Longquan Daoist Academy, and it can be adjusted between the two, and the spirit stones handed over and the one-time bid are 8,000 spirit stones and 40,000 guan respectively.

By analogy, it is estimated that for every additional 10,000 pieces of spirit stone production, the quotation can be increased by 7,000 spirit stones and 20,000 pieces.

When the annual output of spirit stones reaches 60,000 pieces, the quotation can be 27,000 spirit stones and 100,000 guan, and the self-retained surplus can reach nearly 20,000 guan per year. If you can really be sure that there is so much surplus, you can even continue to increase the quotation and hand over 30,000 spirit stones to the Longquan Daoist Academy every year!

As for the annual output of spirit stones reaching 100,000, there is basically no need to consider this problem, as long as this output is predicted, the veins of Nanwu Mountain will definitely belong to you. At present, no one dares to make such a prediction, including Gu Zuo.

On the other hand, if the annual output of the Lingshi vein is less than 20,000, bidding for this vein is a loss-making business.

In the Hundred Flowers Gate, it is the owner of the Dragon Altar of Nantan who is responsible for the bidding of the Lingshi vein of Nanwu Mountain, and the master of the Dragon Altar was not present for the second review of the qualifications this time, so Gu Zuo can only ask Zhang Fugui for the time being.

Not to mention the extremely deep friendship between the two, just in terms of the closeness of the current cooperation, it was originally to be quoted through the Huaixian Pavilion, so Zhang Fugui said: "The Lord of the Dragon Altar originally planned to come over and talk to Senior Brother Gu in person, but there is something important in the door, and I can't get out for a while, so let me discuss a rough plan with you." ”

The two of them talked, walked, and went up the mountain, seeing that there was no one left and right, Zhang Fugui said: "Since the first month of this year, our Baihuamen has begun to care about Nanwu Mountain, there is nothing to hide between you and me, and I will tell you the truth, between Nanwu Prefecture and Nanwu Mountain Mineral Vein, the head of Qingshan and the master of Longtan are more eye-catching Nanwu Prefecture. ”

This was very unexpected by Gu Zuo, other families regarded Nanwu Prefecture as a burden, but they didn't expect Baihuamen to take it seriously. However, after a little silence, Gu Zuo figured it out, nodded and said, "This is a dignified way." ”

What is the way of the dignified house? This is the way of the dignified house. The identity of Baihuamen is actually very embarrassing, although their business is not prohibited by the imperial court and the Chongxuan Department - the imperial court even has a special teaching department, but after all, it is not on the table. To put it bluntly, this is what everyone needs, but it is not easy to spread it around after the need is completed.

Because of this, Baihuamen will never be able to gain the respect of all sects and factions in the world, let alone be recognized by the Chongxuan Administration, and become the authentic Xuanmen with a license. After they were confiscated in the crystal palace of the largest Qinglou in Lishui, they could only become the talk of other families after dinner, and at most they were sorry, and they were more likely to be jokes, and no one would "stand up" for them.

There are countless such encounters, which make everyone in Baihuamen have a headache and anger. If you can win the entire Southern Wu Prefecture, it is equivalent to having a piece of your own military state, which can be described as a curve to save the country in terms of identity, even if you can't get a ticket, you can squeeze into the imperial court economic system.

So Gu Zuo said that this is a dignified way to enter the house.

I heard Zhang Fugui say again: "After taking Nanwu Prefecture, Baihuamen is ready to invest a huge amount of money to make Nanwu Prefecture a place of pastime that everyone yearns for." On our own territory, no one can obstruct, slander or even confiscate for any reason, and all guests who come to Nanwu can spend money and enjoy themselves here. We hope that whether it is the Six Edicts or the Central Plains, or even the Northland, as long as there is money, the first good place that comes to mind is Nanwuzhou!"

Gu Zuo immediately applauded and applauded: "Senior Brother Zhang, your family is really ambitious, with 100,000 yuan in your waist, riding a crane down to Wuzhou, this is exactly the ideal of my generation of monks!"