Chapter 851: Dragon and Tiger Fight (Central)

Although Fu Nai and Yiduli are elders, neither of them has serious personalities, so several juniors are easy-going.

A moment later, there will be a pen to hand in today's auction order. There are four pieces in total, each stack is thick and there are about ten pages of paper.

Cao Xiang and Cao Fu looked at a copy, and Cao Fu handed the upper half of the stack to his brother, and read it from the lower half of the stack. As he thought, the upper half of the stack was a small object, and the real estate was in the second half of the stack.

The first half of the stack is all small items, but they are turned into wholes. For example, this one is a box of ten gold hairpins, with a total weight of two pounds and two taels, a quality of 95%, and a base price of 270 taels of silver.

Not counting as handmade styles, just counting gold heavy, these gold hairpins can also dissolve nearly thirty taels of pure gold. If you exchange it for silver, you will get 300 taels of silver.

The low price for this auction is only 270 taels.

However, Cao Xiang did not stop. Such a discerning person was cheap and many people were thinking about him. Although the lowest price was low, it might not be cheap if he wanted to get it.

Cao Xiang has heard from his younger brother about the main task today.

Although the eldest son's family has been separated for several years, my cousin has taken care of them a lot over the years. Now he even thinks about buying a house and buying property. Cao Xiang is ashamed in gratitude.

He has already become an official, a seventh-rank editor, with an annual salary of 45 taels of silver and 22 shi and 5 dou of rice. Not to mention subsidizing the family, even his own communication is not enough.

The Hanlin Academy is also a famous Qingshui Yamen. Those who come to Beijing to respect charcoal and ice are not doing anything about them.

Although there is a lot of external tasks, Cao Xiang is not able to do anything. Otherwise, Luoyang would not have been so difficult in those two years.

The left and right people have to finish this post, and as for this in the future, Cao Xiang is also hesitating.

Cao Fu put the land property aside and looked at the houses. There were many relatives in this way, and even if they wanted to buy the property, they would not like small houses. There was a high possibility of large houses and land property, so there would be more competition.

I have been used to living in big houses since I was a child, and I have seen other people's second-hand houses. Some of them have few houses, but they feel crowded. Do they have three-hand houses? In the future, they live in small families and have a good idea of ​​the servants, so they can't use too many houses.

Thinking about this, Cao Wu looked at the total number of houses marked with the property, which were more than twenty or less than forty, so he used a brush to mark the front and handed it to Cao Xiang next to him to copy the property information on a piece of paper.

As for the location, I will wait for a while before selecting it.

Fu Nai just wanted to join in the fun, but at first he didn't plan to buy anything, but seeing that there were many small items in front of him, there were many cheap ones, so he was a little moved.

After a while, he chose a pair of gold-shell pocket watches, with the lowest price being only 600 taels of silver. He bought a new one outside, a gold-shell pocket watch, ranging from a few hundred taels of silver to thousands of taels.

The introduction of this list only wrote one sentence, each weighs three taels and six coins, which is 90% new. Pocket watches are precious things, even if they are not new, I think they are very caring.

Fu Nai hesitated for a moment, wrote down the number in front of the pair of tables, wrote an offer of 800 yuan on the paper, and wrote three "Bizi-A" at the end, which were considered his own secret mark.

Yiduli was much more casual. His family had more real estate and silver houses. Naturally, he looked down on these small objects, so he chose some antique calligraphy and paintings that were rare in the world.

When he saw the one he looked at, he was not stingy in terms of price.

Because he knew that among the masters in the capital, there were many people who were swollen and fat, and there were some spare money. If he wanted to save some money and missed the object he liked, wouldn't that be upset?

However, this antique is not something that can be attractive just by introducing a few words. You have to look at the quality of your eyes to be at ease.

He didn't have to worry about this, because the antiques and calligraphy and paintings with a minimum price of over 1,000 taels were all placed outside, so everyone could go upstairs to see them.

If you have any objections to this valuation, you will see the several valuation masters noted below from several large antique calligraphy and painting shops in Liulifang, and the movement will be extinguished.

Whether it is entertainment or taking advantage of small gains, they all need it. However, this is different from buying things in a shop, because no one knows what the price others give. Even if the lowest price is cheap, you have to wonder if others are also attracted to these things.

It would be fine if you don’t have something you like, but if you really look at something, you’d be really good at thinking about it.

I feel a little nervous.

The most nervous one is Cui Hua, the doctor in charge of the bank's internal affairs department.

Cui Hua didn't take this auction at first. Although the auction results were not good and formed a backlog, it was very unfavorable to the bank's money flow, but it was not a big deal, because in the past year the bank opened, there were many deposits, and it could last for half a year. Those pledged industries, including antique calligraphy and paintings, and other valuables, can't be sold out, and it's better to take out slowly in the future.

You know, many people in the bank are staring at these pledged items.

After all, real estate and land are pledged at a price of 60% to 30% off. Antique calligraphy and paintings are all more important.

For example, antiques worth 500 taels of silver outside can be used as 200 taels of silver in pawnshops, and loans from banks are also 200 taels. The bank is not higher than the price given by the pawnshops outside, but the interest rate is low. Those who are looking forward to redemption are naturally willing to pledge them to the bank.

If these things can be processed at the pledge price, the amount of oil and water in them will be tempting to think about.

However, Dong Hua just thought about it.

He was in his fifties and worked as a doctor for thirty years in the Interior Department before he could get into the position of a doctor. He was not incompetent, but was timid and responsible. He was a person who was extremely steadfast in his work. He was not impatient or impatient, he was not greedy, he was not charming, and he did not involve those useless things.

The same is true for the Sixteenth Prince to choose him.

Now, he felt sweating in his forehead and was a little anxious.

You should know that the Ministry of Revenue withdrew 800,000 from the bank a few days ago, accounting for almost half of the bank's bank. At the end of this year, the time when the bank's money flows the most. If the auction of these collaterals is not successful, it will take a few months before the bank will have no money to borrow money in the future.

Thinking of this, he wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, looked at the list in his hand, and carefully said to the Sixteenth Prince sitting next to him: "Sixth Master, the one in front is okay, is the bottom price behind the back a little higher?"

The sixteenth prince shook his head and said, "Not high. The estimated price is 80% lower than the ones outside... As for the final selling price, it depends on everyone's luck..."

The seventeenth prince sat down at the sixteenth prince, and also had a list in his hand.

He is also a shareholder of the bank and is qualified to participate in the auction. In fact, the Sixteenth Prince is also qualified, but in order to avoid leisure, the Sixteenth Prince did not intend to join.

Seeing that the Seventeenth Prince looked carefully, the Seventeenth Prince turned his body, leaned over and said, "What are your seventeenth brothers planning to choose?"

The seventeenth prince pointed to the antiques he saw in his hand, looked at the reserve price of more than 10,000 yuan, and frowned and said, "Brother Sixteenth brother, it's a good thing to beside him. The antique calligraphy and paintings on these pictures are so high, which is exactly the same as the estimated price. There are few people who can bear to spend these money. I am afraid that they will fail to sell them. Will they be worth the money?"

After the Holy Lord returned to Beijing, the "vacation life" of the Seventeenth Prince ended. Now, he is working in the Ministry of War and knows that the Ministry of Revenue borrows silver from the bank, so he is worried about the Sixteenth Prince.

The bank did not know how to deal with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and even captured all the relatives in the capital. If they really couldn't continue due to lack of money, the Sixteenth Prince would offend many people.

Seeing the concerns of the Seventeenth Prince, the Sixteenth Prince added a smile on his face and said, "They have no money, and there are always some people with money. There are fewer people in this capital. Good things are not worried about selling them. Since I asked the masters of those antique shops to estimate the price, there are many people who are thinking about these things. If you ask for help, it will be worn out. It's just that the clans are not willing to accept it. After today, there will be an auction for the items that have failed to be sold at the end of the year, and it is open to bidding. I also hope that these items will add more money to the bank, and that the filial piety emperor Ama is more confident at the end of the year."

The seventeenth prince felt relieved when he saw that the sixteenth prince had other plans.

The time when everyone selects the items and subscribes is one hour, from the beginning of Si (9:00 am) to the beginning of noon (11:00 noon). The time when the Ministry of Internal Affairs organizes the dark mark is also one hour, and the bid starts at the beginning of Wei (1:00 pm).

Today, the two eunuchs who were in charge of the Qianqing Palace were the two young eunuchs. One was Wei Zhu's disciple Sun Changqing, and the other was Wang Taiping, both known to the Sixteenth Prince.

As for the clan relatives in this prison, it is the fifth prince and the seventh prince.

In a large warehouse next to the venue without partitions, white paper was pasted on all four walls, with today's name pasted on top and a spare place left below.

Thirty pens and posts temporarily borrowed from six departments, three people in a group, one person sang the bidding, one person monitored, and one person filled in the price and invitation number of the secret tag written by everyone under the subject matter.

The reason why I borrowed people temporarily was not using the letters from the Office of the Internal Affairs was because I was afraid that the letters from the Office of the Internal Affairs were favoritism. The letters I borrowed came from three yamen. Even if I had posts at home and participated in the bidding, I didn’t have time to think about tampering with statistics. After all, there were still people watching them.

Not to mention anything else, more than ten people bid for the box of gold hairpins in the first row of the list. In a short while, the place left to the west of the gold hairpins was full.

The sixteenth prince happened to see it, pointed at that, and said to everyone: "If the price in hand is lower than what is written on the wall, then there is no need to write it on the wall anymore."

Everyone responded and continued to sing the logo, writing the logo.

Because the arrangements were orderly, the statistics here were very neat.

In half an hour, the sing was finished.

Looking at the four walls, they are all written almost the same.

The sixteenth prince again ordered people to copy the bids in the same order as the highest price, the bid post number, and the order was copied.

He himself was with the fifth prince and the seventh prince to watch.

As he expected, there were few people who participated in the bidding for antique calligraphy and paintings with a reserve price of more than 10,000 taels of silver, but it was not said that there were no one. Just like a Warring States Ding, someone offered to pay 18,000 taels of silver. Looking at the marked invitation number, it was "Jia Ding-A", which made the Sixteenth Prince stunned.

The post that started with "Jia Ding" was leaked from his hands. The one marked "Jia", he remembered that it was given to the concubine. The concubine mentioned that it was what Concubine Yi wanted. One or three.

The Sixteenth Prince has three posts about Zhang Peng. The relatives he has contacts with all his own posts, and it is not his turn to worry about it.

The Sixteenth Prince didn’t agree with it at the time. If you want to say the post, the Ninth Prince could have six pieces of it. What does it mean to ask him for it?

I’m afraid it’s not what Concubine Yi means, but what Prince Ninth. There are many wealthy merchants and households under the Ninth Prince, but their status is limited, so it’s normal to need a few more posts.

It was just a personal favor. The Sixteenth Prince didn't think much about it and sent all his posts to Concubine Yi.

These businessmen are willing to spend money. When the Sixteenth Prince thought of the fabrics that the Ministry of Revenue was going to take, his eyes lit up and pressed on the Cheng family, it was always inappropriate. If someone mixed it, it would be even better.

It’s just that merchants buy such expensive things and keep them in their hands to enjoy them. Isn’t it a waste of life?

In addition to this calligraphy and painting, this person who holds the "Jia Ding-Jia" post also marked a calligraphy and painting from the Tang Dynasty, with a price of 3,000 taels higher than the lowest price and 23,000.

The sixteenth prince looked at it and immediately touched his forehead. It seemed that this person's vision was not bad. He had paid attention to the Warring States Ding and Tang Hua before, and even the valuation master did not dare to underestimate it.

Which one is it? All the elegant things you buy are? Even if you are a businessman, you will be considered a Confucian businessman.

The fifth prince stood next to the sixteenth prince. Seeing the familiar post number, he smiled and pointed it to the seventh prince: "Lao Qi, I got a good plum vase from Tiansheng Official Kiln, a serious and good thing. Lao Qi will have to take a good look later."

The seventh prince replied with a smile, his eyes falling on the items he had cast, without his own post number. The price above was much higher than the price he gave.

He was silent on his face, but he had to admire his sixteenth brother in his heart.

The auction order, the first small item written in the first book, has a low price, and it looks like you can take advantage of it. Even if there are those with prices that exceed the outside or remain the same, it will not be conspicuous.

Half of the bank's profits belong to the inner treasury. It seems that the emperor's bank treasury, which was empty due to the war in the Northwest, could be rich for a while.

The sixteenth prince usually laughs and laughs, but he can relieve the emperor's worries and cannot be favored by the emperor's father.

For a while, the pen and post styles have already copied the first few columns together.

He took out his pocket watch and saw that it was almost time to start. The sixteenth prince sent Cui Hua to hold it and took a few loud pens and posts to the venue to sing the sign.

This transaction is different from the Ministry of Internal Affairs there. It is not only a secret bid, but also no deposit is paid.

However, I am not afraid of Lai Biao, because when the post was released, the Sixteenth Prince had something to explain. If Lai Biao said that, equal amount of silver would be deducted from shareholder dividends as a fine. If Lai Biao holds posts from relatives and friends, Lai Biao will also deduct the dividends of the relevant shareholder clans.

Someone has urged me again at the venue.

The venue finally calmed down when I saw someone coming out to sing the signboard.

No one noticed that outside the private room with "A and B", the two pens with pale faces were pale and their bodies were trembling. The eyes occasionally turned back and looked at the private room with a bit of fear.

On the stage in the middle of the venue, the loud pen style has begun to sing.

Those who are impatient have already come out of the private room and stand outside the private room to listen. If you get the bid, you just smile; if you lose the bid, you don’t curse.
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