The 11th auction of the winter of Jinbo Auction House was held as scheduled, and the No. 7 lot was particularly interesting, which is a batch of snow lotus from Kunlun Mountain, which was recorded as No. 1 Longshankou of Kunlun Mountain according to the standardized process of Jinbo Auction House, indicating the origin and lot.

There are a total of 80 snow lotuses in this batch, each of which is in the condition of 16 leaves, and they are all held separately in a sandalwood box, which is extremely high-grade.

Snow lotus has a better curative effect, so the market is not cheap, especially in the past month, the market price of snow lotus in Kunlun Mountain has risen by 30%. However, when the starting price of this batch of auction items came out, it still surprised many rich and wealthy high-rollers who participated in this auction——— with a total price of three hundred and twenty taels, equivalent to four taels each!

This price is comparable to the current market price!

What is this concept? The current market price of four taels is the retail price, and the general wholesale price is five cents of silver lower than the retail price, and the bulk wholesale price is one tael lower than the general wholesale price. As soon as this low price comes out, it means that the price of Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus has doubled!

As an auctioneer, Liang Xingxia asked twice in a row, and the audience was cold, and everyone was obviously a little unacceptable to such a high price. The owner of the goods is Li Xingjiu, a businessman from Zuochuan Village at the foot of Kunlun Mountain, and after he took the stage, he blew the snow lotus in his hand into the sky.

This Li Xingjiu was not in a hurry, it seemed that he had expected it, and he always had a smile on his face.

Zhao Ran, Gao Da Yanei, Yeli Huaide and others sat in the west wing room and watched coldly, drinking tea leisurely.

After a while, a merchant in the audience finally raised a sign and quoted a reserve price of 320 taels. Li Xingjiu's face was slightly surprised, and his eyes wandered around the audience, as if he was looking for something.

But Liang Xingxia, the auctioneer on the stage, suddenly sped up and quickly made a final decision.

Gao Yanei in the wing room clenched his fists and muttered "360 flowers", Zhao Ran and Yeli Huaide raised their glasses and touched each other lightly, looking at each other and smiling.

The next eleventh lot is a snow lotus again, but it is not a snow lotus of Kunlun Mountain, marked as No. 1 Gongcifeng of Tanggula Mountain, with a total of 30 flowers, and the starting price is 60 taels of silver. Affected by the price of 4 taels per flower just reached by Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, it was finally sold at a total price of 80 taels, an increase of 60% over the market price.

Lot 15——— Ortai Mountain No. 1 Snow Lotus, was also affected, with prices rising by 50% to 3 taels of silver each.

That night, Li Xingjiu, a businessman from Zuochuan Village, hurried to Yanhui Building. Yan returned to a secret room in the building, Li Bingol hugged left and right, and was laughing with two young and beautiful prostitutes, and when he saw Li Xingjiu coming, he motioned for the two prostitutes to go out.

Li Xingjiu took a sip of the wine cup on the table and licked his lips: "My mouth is cracked with what I shouted on the stage, and now I admire Liang Xingxia's house, this job is really not so easy to do!"

Li Bingol smiled, filled Li Xingjiu, and asked, "What's the matter? Look at you like this, should it be done?"

Li Xingjiu nodded and shook his head again: "The price has been raised, but it is someone else who has raised the price." ”

"Oh, someone eats it at such a high price, who is it?"

"I don't know this, I haven't seen it before, I came down to inquire once, and I heard that it was a merchant from Lingzhou. ”

Li Bingol Yun said lightly: "This person has some brains, so let him make a profit." What was the final price?"

"It's 4 taels and one flower. ”

Li Bingol was stunned for a moment, and then complained: "Why don't you increase the price and compete for the purchase? Someone is bidding, such a good opportunity...... How did you arrange it? If you take the opportunity to raise the price to 5 taels or even 6 taels, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort?"

Li Xingjiu's face flushed: "My nephew went out for the first time, and I originally intended to let him go through it, but it wasn't a difficult thing to do...... Who knew that someone had inserted a bar...... He's inexperienced......"

Li Bingol said: "Okay, it's not wrong, I understand your thoughts, and it's not wrong to want to promote the juniors, but I need to mention a little more, so that he can be smarter." ”

Li Xingjiu nodded again and again, and then asked cautiously: "Erlang, what do you think should happen next?

Li Bingol waved his hand: "The plan has been decided, what more do you want to order?" The adults have spread out the stalls, you and I will do it, continue in three days, the starting price is 6 taels, 100 flowers!"

In the first month of the eighteenth year of Jiajing, the entire Xingqing Mansion was boiling over two major events.

One of them is that Li Qianshun, the current lord of the Western Xia, changed the concept of Yuan Zhenguan and abolished the era name Yong'an, which had been in force for three years since he ascended the throne. Zhenguan is the name of the era used by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and the seventeen-year-old lord of the Western Xia Dynasty changed to Zhenguan, in which the ambition is self-evident.

The entire high-level of Xingqing Mansion is busy with the change of yuan. The grand ceremony, the worship of the heavens, and the promulgation of amnesty were more lively than one another, and when the Gaotai Temple located in the north of Xingqing Mansion held a large Dharma meeting, the entire Xingqing Mansion was boiling.

Second, it may not be as vigorous as the change of the country's lord in terms of political influence, but it is also known to everyone who is noisy among dignitaries and nobles, rich gentry and wealthy businessmen. The price of the snow lotus in Kunlun Mountain has begun to soar all the way on the water card of the Jinbo Club, and the price of the snow lotus in the sixteen-leaf condition has reached 18 taels each, and the price in the market has reached 24 taels!

Affected by this, the snow lotus of Tanggula Mountain, the snow lotus of Ortai Mountain, and the snow lotus of Bayan Kala Mountain have also gone all the way, ranging from seven to eight times.

Snow Lotus is different from the dromedary camel that Jin Bo Club has hyped before, grows on the top of the high mountains, is born in a cold ice and snow environment, and there are not many in itself, although this world is full of aura, Snow Lotus is not as rare as Zhao Ran's world, but it can be regarded as precious, so the price can be said to be immediate when it is fried.

People are social animals, with a strong herd mentality, in the price of snow lotus all the way up the market, not only high-ranking officials and dignitaries, but even the family of a small rich businessman with a few surplus money at home also took out the silver and began to look for it in various pharmacies. After all, the curative effect of Snow Lotus is there, who doesn't have three diseases and five disasters? If you can't buy Snow Lotus at the moment when you urgently need it, wouldn't it be a rush to death?

Only those poor families, or the people of Pinghu who have just received food and clothing, have not been involved in this wave of snow lotus speculation, the price of snow lotus is one tael per flower and 10 taels and 20 taels per flower, and they can't afford it.

In the speculation of the snow lotus, the most contributors are those who are quite speculative and gambling, they go around looking for snow lotus, and then hoard it, sit and watch the price of snow lotus on the water card of the Jinbo Club change day by day, and then happily calculate how much their wealth has increased. Some people even pawned their property and even borrowed money everywhere, eating all the snow lotus that appeared on the market, in order to get rich overnight.

Zhao Ranmao was in the tea room in the back garden of his club, the charcoal on the small red clay stove was burning red, and the water in the copper kettle boiled after a while. Zhao Ran plucked the copper kettle from the fire and brewed three cups of hot tea on a coffee table carved from natural teak roots, the green leaves in the teacup stretched out soothingly, dancing gently in the boiling water.

Gao Yanei picked up the teacup and sniffed it deeply on the tip of his nose, and couldn't help sighing: "Chengdongjia makes good tea, this color, this fragrance, it is really refreshing, although it is bitter, but the bitterness is sweet, and the aftertaste is endless! Since I drank Chengdong's tea, I can no longer get used to eating tea at home, put some messy accompaniments, and make milk, what kind of things! Unfortunately, the adults in the family are used to it, and I have to endure it." ”

Zhao Ran tightened the snow leopard coat wrapped around his body, praised with a smile, "Gao Yanei has been an elegant person since then", and said to Yeli Huaide: "Are you ready for the little marquis? When will you go on the expedition? ”

Yeli Huaide pulled out a bunch of peanuts from the ash layer under the stove with an iron hook, and said while peeling the shells: "It's almost, I'm just waiting for the last batch of leather armor to see if I can catch up with this shipment...... The peanuts from this far west didn't feel good before, but now the way to eat them is not as fragrant as I expected......"

As he was talking, Liang Xingxia lifted the thick curtain and came in, holding a scroll in his hand, and said to Zhao Ran with a smile: "Chengdong, see I received a good object today." ”