Chapter 34 The National Team
On the morning of the reopening of the auction, several shareholders such as Zhao Ran, Gao Yanei and Yeli Huaide all arrived and sat together in a tea room on the second floor opposite the auction table.
Looking at the full seats in the courtyard under the stage, Zhao Ran explained to the other two: "The reason why the previous auction put the auction of Snow Lotus at the beginning was to create momentum, and this one put Snow Lotus at the back is also to create momentum. As you will know when the auction starts later, the auction house has been closed for ten days, and it is not only Snow Lotus who has been affected. ”
Seeing Gao Yanei and Yeli Huaide thoughtful, Zhao Ran raised his hands and gestured in an embracing posture, emphasizing his tone: "The entire market will be impacted, the entire market!"
With the fall of Liang Xingxia's hammer on the stage, the first lot was successfully auctioned, and 200 pieces of Dongshan goatskin were sold for a total price of 80 taels, down 10% from the previous auction record.
This was followed by lots such as purple gold wood and kidney beans, each falling by one to two percent. Then the prices of more than ten batches of various goods fell across the board, and the Daming Shu brocade, which fell the most, fell by half!
The thick cloud weighed on everyone's hearts, almost suffocating.
After a short break, the eighteenth auction item began to be auctioned, and it was 200 sixteen-leaf Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, which opened the prelude to the second half of the Snow Lotus Special Session.
Liang Xingxia quoted the auction reserve price - 5,200 taels, and the unit price was 26 taels. reported twice in a row, no one raised a card, and just when Liang Xingxia was preparing for the third and final offer, someone in the audience finally responded to the price, avoiding the tragedy of the first batch of Kunlun Snow Lotus being auctioned.
The 19th lot that debuted next was still the 16-leaf Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, this time with a starting reserve price of 25 taels and a total price of 7,500 taels, a total of 300 flowers, which was also sold before the third bid.
Next is the same 300 flowers, and the starting floor price continues to fall, and the unit price of 23 taels is sold.
When Liang Xingxia reported the fourth batch of snow lotus, the audience was in an uproar, and many people were lamenting in unison. 400 snow lotus, the unit price is 20 taels, no matter the number and price, it is like a hammer to the eyes of the people.
So far, Zhao Ran and others have completely emptied the snow lotus, of which the first three batches of 800 flowers were hoarded before, making a net profit of more than 12,000 taels, and the latter batch of 400 flowers were purchased from the market at a high price these days, specially used to smash the plate, with a net loss of 1,600 taels.
The smashing of the 1,200 snow lotuses completely caused panic, and the auctioneers hurried to the registration room to revise their starting reserve prices.
Tianshan Snow Lotus, Bayan Kala Mountain Snow Lotus, Ortai Mountain Snow Lotus and other varieties fell all the way, and soon fell below ten taels, and the price of Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus was only on 20 taels, which was able to maintain less than two teas, and finally fell below the important threshold of 20 taels.
Li Xingjiu, Pu Guatai, Ale and others in the audience were as pale as earth, and the nearly 70,000 taels of silver that they had managed to get together in their hands in the past few days had been exhausted, and they could no longer stop this surging selling frenzy.
The monk Aslan from Tianmatai Temple was completely stunned, he even went to the registration room to revise the starting price of the reserve price disappeared completely, and now it is not his turn to take the snow lotus to the stage for auction, but the price of the sixteen-leaf Kunlun Mountain snow lotus has fallen to 12 taels each, which is less than half of his purchase price!
There are only four words to describe his current mood, the so-called "want to cry without tears", nothing more than that.
The worst is finally here. Lot 42, 80 sixteen-leaf Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus was auctioned at a unit price of 12 taels of silver, when the auctioneer Liang Xingxia shouted three times, no one in the audience responded to the price, so the goods were declared unauctioned. The owner of the Snow Lotus, a fat merchant from the Uighurs, could not help but burst into tears on the stage, and then burst into tears, which caused the final collapse of prices.
10 taels, 9 taels, 8 taels, 6 taels, 4 taels, 2 taels, 1 tael, all the snow lotus were unsold, and even the price of the eight-leaf snow lotus fell to 2 taels - this is already one-third of the normal market price half a year ago!
In the face of such an extremely panicked market sentiment, Zhao Ran, Gao Yanei, and Yeli Huaide urgently negotiated on the second floor, and then announced the temporary suspension of the auction.
The businessmen in the field waited at a loss, anxious, some cried, some laughed, and some thought of ending their lives - for example, Aslan, who really didn't know how to face the uncles and uncles who raised him when he went back, how to face the brothers who were full of expectations, and how to face the young children who were waiting to be fed.
After urgent discussion, the auctioneer Liang Xingxia returned to the stage, and in the eyes of countless anticipation and anxiety and even despair, Liang Xingxia made the following statement on behalf of Jinbo Auction House.
The market is ruthless and cold, it can bring people huge wealth, but it is also full of huge risks, and everyone should be in awe of the market.
As the only auction house in the country and the authoritative guidance agency for the market transaction price of Xingqing Province, Jinbo Auction House is a conscientious, responsible, responsible and powerful market trading guild.
At this critical juncture, Jinbo Auction House decided to invest a huge amount of silver to implement the market to maintain the stable development of the entire market. There are a total of five major items and thirteen categories of commercial goods in the market, and the price of the market refers to the average price of the three-year winter auction in Yongan, as follows:
First, the price of a single 16-leaf snow lotus is 1 tael 3 yuan of silver, and the price of a single support of eight-leaf snow lotus is 2 taels of 8 yuan of silver, regardless of the origin of the variety.
Second, Lingzhou silk embroidery is 3 taels and 2 coins per horse, Yinzhou brocade is 3 taels and 7 coins per horse, Ming Shu brocade is 4 taels and 6 coins per horse, Ming Su embroidery is 5 taels per horse, and Mingguo Lake silk is 5 taels and 5 dollars per horse.
Third, the 3-year-old bactrian camel has 8 taels per peak, and the 3-year-old dromedary camel has 10 taels per peak.
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Above, Jinbo Auction House will be open to acquisitions, in order to stabilize the current price, in order to stabilize the market.
Jinbo Auction House's policy of supporting the market was strongly introduced by Zhao Ran, and based on the confidence gradually established in the "Cheng Dongjia" in the past six months, other shareholders still agreed to Zhao Ran's suggestion.
Zhao Ran knew what these people were worried about, so he explained it in detail.
It may sound like the auction house's bail will cost a huge amount of silver, but it is not. The announced reserve price itself is very low, and it can be optimistically estimated that except for Snow Lotus, it will basically not be received.
If someone is really willing to sell the goods to Jin Boxing at this reserve price, Zhao Ran doesn't mind eating them all, and after the market sentiment eases, he can sell them casually.
Zhao Ran estimated that maybe it wouldn't cost 10,000 taels of silver in total to support the market at the floor price. The key is to make the most of the good reputation and position of Jinbo Auction House in the hearts of merchants.
Zhao Ran smiled strangely when he said this: "This is called the national team entering the field...... Well, there's no national team here, let's be a national team!"
Gao Yanei: "......"
Wild Wild: "......"
Seeing that Gao Yanei and Yeli Huaide looked dazed, Zhao Ran was slightly depressed, and felt that the chicken and the duck were talking, and after thinking about it, he still pointed it out in a way that the two of them could understand.
To put it another way, it is only necessary to temporarily take out 10,000 pieces of silver, which can raise the confidence and reputation of Jinbo Auction House to the highest level, and thus establish the authority of Jinbo Auction House to rank first in Xia Kingdom.
After Liang Xingxia announced his commitment to the merchants of Xia on the auction table, the prices of all kinds of bulk goods stabilized, especially the commercial goods listed in the list of five kinds and thirteen categories, such as dromedary camels, Daming Shu brocade, etc., the prices bottomed out and rebounded, and even rose slightly.
These commodities themselves belong to daily consumables, with their own value and demand, which were completely killed by market panic before, and now the price increase is also a matter of course.
At the same time, Jinbo Auction House negotiated with the owner of the previously unsold goods, either to eat at the bottom price, or to re-register, and wait for three days to auction again, and the trading sentiment further stabilized.
Aslan completed the auction of his sixty snow lotuses in a state of confusion, and sold them at a unit price of 1 tael and 8 yuan, and after the auction was over, he seemed to come to his senses, and after thinking about it, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and it was less than two months later, and there were only more than 100 taels left for 1,500 taels of silver, and it was really ten pavilions to nine pavilions!
The three of them returned to Longmatai Temple, each sat in the monk's house, speechless for a long time, heartache and remorse, only to feel that the world is vast, and it seems that there is nowhere to go!
It wasn't until it was dark that Aslan slammed the table: "I went to Master Liang, he said that Jinbo Auction House is an auction house with a conscience and responsibility, and I will beg him to think of a way......
The two little shamen, Zhuben and Zhuhui, looked at their uncle, and didn't know what to say for a while, but the despair on their faces stung Aslan's eyes, and he said with red eyes: "You guys wait here for my news, if there is anything wrong, ...... Return to Tianmatai Mountain by yourselves, and speak to the abbot and abbot...... Let's just say I'm sorry everyone. ”