Chapter 700: The thousand-year-old family foundation is empty
"Smack!" a precious beast-patterned white jade bowl was thrown against the wall and shattered.
The smooth inner walls of the white jade bowl, shattered into countless pieces, reflected an angry face.
"Nonsense, nonsense!" Wei Chaotian scolded seven or eight nonsense in a row, and then slapped the monk standing in front of him: "Did you collude to deceive the old man? Say, which of my unscrupulous sons instructed you? Want to anger me? No way!"
The monk was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, but he didn't dare to resist and dodge in the slightest, he trembled and said, "The head of the family...... This...... It's true......"
"You make me believe that the entire Tiantong Mine is gone?" Wei Chao was so angry that he felt that one of his unfilial sons was really going to succeed, and he was really going to be angry.
Even if you want to lie to me, please take a moment and come up with a more reliable reason, okay?
Do you really think this kind of strange reason can make me believe it?
"The head of the house...... "The monk didn't know how to convince the head of the house, and even he himself doubted his eyes.
But in the image reflected by the water mirror, the Tiantong Mine is really completely gone, along with the garrison stationed there, and the entire ground.
The current Tiantong Mine is a cliff with a blade of tens of thousands of miles, and the water gushing out of nowhere, is gradually filling the terrifying abyss with a radius of thousands of miles, turning it into a huge inland lake.
But how is this kind of thing possible? He could only say, "Certainly...... It must be the people from the Tiantong Mine who are joking with us, I must have been deceived by them, it must be like this......" Even the monk who came to report was a little unconfident.
"Hmph, these bastards, their wings are really stiff!" Wei Chaotian stood up suddenly, "Come on, cast a water mirror on me, let me see with my own eyes what happened......"
A quarter of an hour later, Wei Chaotian's eyes were glazed, and he sat down on the chair, unable to move for a long time.
"Impossible, impossible, it must be something wrong with the Water Mirror Technique! Who performed the Water Mirror Technique? Come out of here, get out of here!"
Wei Chaotian's crazy roar spread far away, causing countless people to be suspicious and look at each other, an unbelievable news spread far and wide, how the people of the Wei family could not stop it, almost in the blink of an eye, it spread throughout Shangjing, and then spread outward.
"Home...... Head of house. After several vents, Wei Chaotian finally calmed down, or rather, collapsed in his chair and stopped talking. A gray-haired old butler walked out in the midst of everyone's pushing, and said cautiously: "Master, there are still two hours, and our auction is about to start, are you...... Going to an auction?"
"Auction?" Wei Chaotian laughed, but the laughter was not a little joyful, but full of pathos, "What else do we have to auction......?
"The head of the family, although the Tiantong mine is gone, but over the years, our Wei family has also accumulated a large number of precious ores, and it is not a problem to support them for some years, anyway, the ore has always been in our hands, as long as we raise the price of ore and control the output of ore, our Wei family is still the Wei family that controls the ore, during this time, as long as we continue to look for ore veins and work hard to replenish, the family can be completely unaffected and continue to maintain. ”
The old housekeeper has served the Wei family all his life, at this time his words are sincere, reasonable, and clear, after speaking, let Wei Chaotian wake up like a dream, he suddenly stood up, and said: "Quick, come on, go and prepare for the auction immediately!
As soon as he came to his senses, he immediately regained his bearing as the head of the Wei family, and issued a series of orders: "Immediately count the treasury, I want a detailed reserve of all ores, and then let the accounting room calculate for me how much money we need to spend every year, and then redraw the price of these ores!"
Everyone took the order one by one, and before they knew it, the uneasy atmosphere just now gradually disappeared.
After all, the Wei family is the Wei family, and the family that has stood in Shangjing for countless years is not so easy to be crushed.
But soon, the man who had been ordered to check the treasury stumbled back and said in a panic: "Master, no...... Oh no...... Storeroom...... Warehouse ......"
The treasury is empty.
Originally, the treasury of the Wei family was piled up, guarded by countless heavy soldiers, and the treasury that was as tightly guarded as the imperial palace was already empty, cleaner than Wei Chaotian's face.
This news is like the last straw that broke the camel's back, after some chaos, a report was finally presented in front of Wei Chaotian, the emptied warehouse is only the main warehouse of the Wei family, and there are still a small amount of inventory in several small warehouses, and the ore to be auctioned at the auction house this time has also been transported to the auction house and has not been emptied, which is the only place worth gratifying.
"Come on, we've increased the price tenfold for this auction...... No, improve a hundredfold!" After a long time, Wei Chaotian suddenly slapped the handrail, smashed the handrail that he didn't know how many times he had rubbed, and stood up, "Immediately redraw the price list for me and send it to all the people who come to participate in the auction!"
"However, the head of the family, the reference price has been sent out before, and it will be changed temporarily......"
"No, let's go!" Wei Chaotian drove the man away, then sat down again, and after a long time, he said: "Come on, go and take stock of the family's jade reserves, we will spend more effort on the supply of jade in the future......
Without the economic pillar of precious metals, only jade is left to support the Wei family.
After all, the jade market is too huge, even if the elders of the Ping Shang are manipulating and suppressing, now they have not revealed too many clues, Wei Chaotian did not find the changes in the jade market, under his orders, the entire Wei family began to increase investment and energy in the jade market, and was gradually swept into the whirlpool that could not be seen.
Wei Chaotian would never know what kind of situation his order would bring the Wei family into.
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The Wei family auction house is the third largest auction house in Shangjing, as its name suggests, it is an auction house established by the Wei family, and its main business is the monthly auction of rare metals.
And today, it is the monthly rare metal auction of the Wei family.
Before the auction began, someone stood in front of the door, looking left and right, talking to each other, and what they were discussing was the rumors about the Wei family and the Tiantong mine.
The vast majority of people felt that this was definitely a rumor, and that even Jin Xian would not be able to do such a thing.
But some people swore an oath: "You don't believe it, okay, you will know the price of this auction later, I bet that this time the Wei family will definitely increase the price of ore tenfold!"
Everyone said anything, arguing and arguing outside the door, the person in charge of the Wei family's auction house saw that things were not good, so he simply opened the auction house in advance and asked them to come in quickly, so as not to make noise outside the door, but it would be even worse.
"This is the Wei family's auction house. As soon as he had driven the large number of people into the auction house and sat them apart, a man and a half with two little dolls, a man and a woman, walked to the door of the auction house, and asked the guard who was standing outside the door, with his chest and belly bulging.
"Can't you see such big words?" The guard had a very big temper today, glaring at the half-sized boy angrily, and he didn't have a good air.
In fact, he is not to blame, the various rumors circulating now have completely messed them up.
"So what are you doing, let's go in!" the half-grown man glared at him, and raised his head to go inside.
The guard grabbed him by the collar and said, "You, you, you can enter if you say it, where is your family?"
"We came on our own. ”
"You came on your own?" the guard frowned, "What about the invitation?"
"It's just a broken auction house, and you still need an invitation to get in?" the half-grown man was suddenly unhappy, "You think you are here for the palace!"
"Boy, are you looking for a fight!" The guard has a bad temper, and he is about to beat someone when he rolls up his sleeves.
The other guard was still a little conscientious, and hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Why do you know like a child...... Hey, little one, we must have an invitation to enter here, and if you don't have one, we won't let you in, so hurry up and go home to your family. ”
"Hmph!" the half-sized man turned around angrily and said, "What a broken place, if you don't enter, you won't enter, isn't it just an auction house?
"That's it, these people are bad people!" Two little guys, a man and a woman, helped beside them.
Seeing that these two little guys were very cute, the good-natured guard said: "I said you three little guys, don't make trouble here anymore, it's troublesome to get into trouble, go home quickly, ah?"
Who would have thought that the three little guys were really on it, but they just refused to leave, the half-sized man looked at the opposite side, didn't know where to take out a brush, and stretched out his hand to write five words on the opposite wall: "Stone Auction House".
The clothes worn by this half-grown child are very ordinary, not expensive clothes, one of the two little guys wears a collar, and the other wears a red belly pocket, all like ordinary children, but at this time, as soon as the half-grown child's handwriting comes out, even if these two guards don't know calligraphy, they suddenly know that these people are definitely not ordinary people.
The five words "Stone Auction House" are vigorous and powerful, and the dragon flies and the phoenix dances, and I can't see that this half of the size is still very good at calligraphy.
"They auction things, and we auction them!" Who is this half-sized child, not a small stone?
The two little guys beside him were the iron baby copper girl, he originally planned to come to see the excitement and see how these people were going to be embarrassed and unlucky, who would have thought that after eating the closed door, he would simply fight with the other party.