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Chapter 61 Auction

"500 taels!"

"550 taels!"

"600 taels!"

"650 taels!"

"700 taels!"

……

"950 taels!"

"1000 taels!"

"Is there anyone else bidding? 1000 for two times, 1000 for two times, 1000 for two or three times, deal! Lot No. 108 belongs to Zhang Yuanwai of Nanjing City, congratulations!"

With the knock of a small wooden hammer, the final word was finalized.

Seeing that the sky-high price of the lot was sold, everyone in the auction room immediately talked about it.

A small bunk was sold for such a high price.As for the land auctioned this time, there are hundreds of pieces of land in such a lot alone, not including some large industrial land and residential buildings used for factory construction.

"It is said that businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the richest in the world. Today is really an eye-opener. Zhang Yuanwai of Nanjing City has already bought more than ten lots."

"I heard that many people come here for the factory area. This will be a great port in the future. If the factory is located here, it will save a lot of labor for transportation."

"You all know what a fart. Although it is expensive now, as long as it is still under the control of the Fuliao Army, the value will appreciate sooner or later. If I don't have the principal, I will buy a few houses."

"Stop yelling, the auction of the factory lot has started, and the starting price of the first lot is 5000 taels. Let's see who can get this lot."

The auction house went crazy because of the auction of the land in the industrial area.Businessmen kept throwing a lot of money, especially the No. 1 lot, which was a symbol of status, was even [-] taels!

Chu Yun watched the crazy crowd with satisfaction from the high platform next to the auction.According to Wang Changyuan, a businessman from Wuhu, many businessmen from the southeast coast sensed business opportunities and came here to sail across the ocean overnight on a large ship.And the craziest people throwing money at the scene were wealthy businessmen from the southeast coastal area.

Even if the investment fails, it is not a problem at all for their net worth of tens of thousands of taels of silver.

"My lord, these businessmen are crazy. We received 10 taels just for the commercial land! The 10 taels can fully recover the cost of the first phase of construction." Chen Ting kept the account, "You can't remember even the small ones. gone."

"When you go to the Academy of Sciences and learn how to count in Arabic numerals, you will feel that memorizing these things is nothing." Chu Yun saw that Chen Ting was using a brush to write tens of millions of numbers one by one, and was speechless for a while.

It turns out that what I learned in elementary school enlightenment is so important.

"Arabic arithmetic? It sounds amazing. It seems that I really need to go to the Academy of Sciences to study in time. It's just that I am middle-aged, so I don't know if I can learn it." Chen Ting has always known Chu Yun's recommendation Things are all unconstrained good things.

"What are you afraid of? Aren't you only in your 40s this year? You'll have to work for at least 20 more years before retiring." Chu Yun said.

"My lord, please spare me..." Chen Ting put on a bitter face.Seventy is rare since ancient times, this is the real devotion to death.

With the auction of industrial land and residential land, another large sum of cash and cash has entered the account.But Chu, who was poor and scared, still wanted to make a big fortune.

"Everyone, today in Dalian Port we auctioned a total of 180 yuan for shops, 36 yuan for factory land, and 1000 yuan for residential land. However, General Chu has another thing to auction, which is much more expensive than land," said the auctioneer.

"What is more expensive than land worth ten thousand taels of silver?"

"Could it be the reserve of Dalian Port?"

For a moment, everyone thought of the land in Dalian Port that had not been auctioned.These lands were left by Chu Yun to his Maritime Safety Bureau, Ordnance Bureau, and government-run textile factories. They were all high-quality land and would not be auctioned at all.

"Everyone, please be quiet. The last thing our Liao army will auction is an ocean-going merchant ship." The auctioneer got a hint from Chu Yun and knocked hard on the wooden platform.

"What kind of good is a merchant ship? Our Nanjing Zhang family has ten [-]-year-old merchant ships." Zhang Yuanwai from Nanjing City laughed.

"Yes, yes, although the Wu family in Quanzhou has fallen, there are several large merchant ships, and the cost of one is only ten thousand taels. How can it be more expensive than the land in Dalian Port?"

The merchants in the auction house talked one after another.Although the imperial court has always banned the sea, but in the late Ming Dynasty when the control was loose, the sea ban was just a joke for the aristocratic families, and sea ships were available.

"Everyone, don't be impatient. What we are going to auction is not a merchant ship with a big belly and no power to fight back when encountering pirates, but a merchant ship armed with the most advanced large Franco cannons! A first-class merchant ship has 5 heavy cannons , Second-class merchant ships, with twelve heavy guns! First-class merchant ships start at 3 taels, second-class merchant ships start at [-] taels, and you only need to pay a [-]% deposit, and you can pick up the ship at the end of the year!"

A merchant ship equipped with a Franco cannon?And there are still twenty doors in one go, the warships of the imperial navy don't even have such firepower now!

buy! buy! buy!
Almost all businessmen are hysterical!If they could restrain their urge to auction the land just now, they are completely crazy at this moment, they just want to take this merchant ship with firepower comparable to that of a warship into their pockets!
"The Zhang family in Nanjing paid 10 taels for those two first-class merchant ships!" Zhang Yuanwai, a wealthy man, took the lead and was about to swallow two merchant ships with twenty heavy guns in one go!

"Our Quanzhou Wu family bid 10 taels for the three second-class merchant ships!" Wu Yuanwai followed closely behind.

Wow - the crowd was in an uproar.

The auction has just started, so five merchant ships were sold out for 20 taels of silver so quickly!

"The Wang family of Datong paid 5000 taels to buy a first-class merchant ship."

What is even more surprising is that Shanxi merchants, who have rarely made a move, raised the price by 5000 taels!

"The Royal Family of Datong? Huh, why don't you do your business well on land and come to grab our merchant ships? Do you want the merchant ships to be put on wheels and run on the ground?" Zhang Yuanwai sneered, "I will offer 6000 taels of silver .”

"Your uncle, why can your Nanjing Zhang family sell this and sell that to Nanyang, but my Datong Wang family can't? I still want to buy it! Fifty-nine thousand taels of silver!"

……

As several businessmen raised their voices, the price skyrocketed as if it couldn't be contained.

"Ahem, I forgot to tell everyone that only members of the Far East Trading Company are eligible to buy the merchant ships of our Fuliao Army." Just when everyone was crazy about it, the auctioneer said again.

Far East Trading Company?What's this?Some businessmen who came to invest were dumbfounded.

"What is the Far East Trading Company? How can I join the Far East Trading Company?" a businessman shouted.

"About the Far East Trading Company, we have invited the company's honorary member, Wuhu businessman Wang Yuanwai, to introduce it to you."

Chu Yun looked at a group of suspicious businessmen from all over the place on the high platform, and smiled gratifiedly.Auctioning merchant ships is one of the main purposes, and another main purpose is to attract more merchants to join the Far East Trading Company.

(End of this chapter)