After staying at the Military Academy for a while, Li Yan went to the Government Affairs College again. However, in comparison, there are more people who sign up for the Government Affairs College, and scholars still like to be civil servants.

Now all the ten prefectures in Shu are his fiefdoms, and what they urgently need is talents from all walks of life. As long as students from these two colleges graduate successfully, they can allocate these people to each prefecture and completely take charge of Chengdu Prefecture.

In addition to the college and Taoyuan affairs, Li Yan did not ignore the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce. This was his capital for starting his business. In the past, he could separate public and private affairs. Now the expenditure of the entire Chengdu prefecture depends on himself. He had to pay for the salary of officials and various infrastructure funds. So Li Yan planned to introduce other new industries based on the existing industries.

After Tong Nian returned to Yizhou, she immediately became Cui Yingying's follower, responsible for the management of the workshop and the sales of goods. Today, he received the order from Cui Yingying to hold a monopoly sale auction at the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce Auction House. Li Yan and Cui Yingying discussed the idea of ​​this specialty store a few months ago, but in order to attract more merchants, Cui Yingying promoted it in the business newspaper for several months. It was not until she felt that the heat was almost right that she decided to hold the auction.

On this occasion, Cui Yingying is not suitable for showing up, so this task was handed over to Tong Nian.

On the way to the Chamber of Commerce, Tong Nian had been thinking about the issue of monopoly rights and admired Li Yan in a state of admiration. He did not expect that he could even think of such a way to make money.

The Shengtang Chamber of Commerce Auction House, a two-story building just completed, covers an area of ​​about 2,000 square meters. Five thousand seats were placed in the auction hall on the first floor. In front of the seats was a high raised platform. At this time, merchants from all over the Tang Dynasty gathered here, whispering and whispering.

"Oh, Manager Wang, you are here too."

"Shopkeeper Zhao, no see for a long time."

"Is Manager Wang here this time planning to buy such a monopoly right?"

"My family has made wine for generations, and this is of course the Chang'an sales right of Xinghua Wine."

"Chang'an sales rights! This is not cheap. You can't get it without a 300,000 yuan. I heard that the Dou family, the richest businessman in Chang'an, is also preparing to buy the sales rights. Manager Wang must be careful."

"Ah! It's over now."

On the other hand, Dou Yun had already let the servants occupy the closest position to the auction table in the front row. Beside him was a handsome young man, looking around at the auction hall curiously, while Dou Yun was sitting in his seat without moving.

"Father, there are many acquaintances here. The richest businessman in Yangzhou has also come. He claims that his family's capital is ten times better than my family, and this time it will embarrass him." The young master was dissatisfied when he spoke.

Dou Yun glanced at his daughter and shook his head. This was his daughter Dou Hairuo. "Hey, this is exactly what the King of Shu... No, the King of Chengdu is willing to see now. Let us merchants fight each other and make profits. The rules of this auction house are that those who have the highest price will be obtained. Isn't this obviously asking us to raise prices with each other?"

"My daughter understands, but there is nothing we can do about it. A bowl of soup from the Chamber of Commerce of Shengtang can make a person make a fortune, let alone this monopoly and even a fool can see the profit, otherwise there wouldn't be so many businessmen today." Dou Hairuo said in contemplation.

Dou Yun nodded and suddenly remembered something, "I asked you to deposit 300,000 taels of gold in the Shengtang Money House in Chang'an, you can save it."

"Save it, are you still worried about doing things for your daughter? Look, this is the money ticket." Dou Hairuo asked the guard to give her the package, and she took it and opened it and placed it in front of Dou Yun.

Dou Yun picked up a money ticket and looked carefully. The money ticket was as big as the palm of the adults. It was colorful and exquisite. The front of the money ticket was beautiful mountains, rivers, and the back was the scenery of Baihuatan, Yizhou City. In the middle of the pattern, there were 10,000 yuan stamps and the seal of the prosperous Tang Dynasty money house.

"Father, this money ticket is not afraid of water!" Dou Hairuo accidentally let the money ticket fall into the water when he was playing with the money ticket, which scared her. However, when she picked it up, she found that the words and patterns of the money ticket were not damaged by water at all.

After Li Yan made an idea for Cui Yingying, she soon held the opening ceremony of the Shengtang Money House and invited many wealthy business officials in Yizhou to make it known to everyone in Yizhou City. After the opening of the money house in Yizhou City, Cui Yingying opened money houses in several wealthy states, such as Chang'an and Yangzhou, and said that when using money tickets to trade with the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce, she would get some discounts. However, this idea was not what Li Yan thought of, but Cui Yingying's own fantasy idea. When she told Li Yan to listen to Li Yan, Li Yan was also quite surprised. Unexpectedly, she learned to bundle sales.

Li Yan of Shengtang Money House wasted a lot of effort and set up a separate workshop for printing money tickets outside the printing factory. The equipment in this workshop was re-customized by Li Yan and prepared specifically for printing money tickets. Among them, the printed paper and ink were purchased by Li Yan from modern times, and no one could fake it.

The process of saving money is also very strict. Both parties have to sign and stamp it, and they have to press their fingers. When withdrawing the money, they need to check and confirm that it is correct before they can pay.

"We will never be able to surpass the Tang Dynasty Chamber of Commerce with this money ticket." Dou Yun sighed with emotion.

As he was talking, Tong Nian walked in from outside, and all the merchants were quiet. Many of these merchants had dealt with Tong Nian. The Tong Nian's native chicken turned into a phoenix made many people envious, jealous and hated him, but when they saw Tong Nian, they all gathered around and greeted each other.

"Does Zhanggui Tong remember me? We drank together when we were in the business world."

"I am Liu Changmin, the one next door to your house."

“…”

Tong Nian returned the gifts one by one, and felt secretly happy. Once upon a time he had to look at the faces of these people, but now these people have to look at the faces of his faces. It’s really thirty years from Hedong to Hexi and thirty years from Hexi.

With greetings all the way, Tong Nian walked up to the auction table and took out a list of pre-prepared items from his arms. The list recorded the reserve price of the monopoly rights of each state, which was confidential. A few days ago, many people asked him to find him, but he refused him when he was convenient. Li Yan specifically told him that the reserve price should not be disclosed in advance, otherwise it would affect the income of the auction.

After clearing his throat, Tong Nian said, "First of all, thank you for your admiration for coming to the Tang Dynasty Auction House. This monopoly was proposed by the Sixth Prince a few months ago. I have been waiting for today to let all the merchants of the Tang Dynasty know about this, so as not to let some people who don't know suffer."

Tong Nian stood on the auction table, and the merchants sat down and listened to Tong Nian intently. For a moment, except for Tong Nian's voice, no other sound came out of the venue, for fear that they would miss any information.
Chapter completed!