Of course, Wenyi will not give them too much time to curse, and immediately announced the start of the secret auction! In fact, the auction itself is a new trick created by Wenyi, and it was only used once when it was auctioning a paper mill. These idiots only know a little about the rules, and now they

When I changed to secret shooting, I was in a hurry.

It will definitely not work to use force against the literature and art that represents the Qin Palace. No, the guy who jumped out to insult literature and art and threatened him to immediately share the salt-making method has had his legs broken and thrown out.

Everyone quickly gathered into a few groups and began to discuss. Although everyone agreed on the bidding price, everyone had their own ideas about how much they would write down.

After everyone had written down the bidding prices and handed them in, the head of the Gu clan of Wu County, a die-hard member of the Xiao family, said: "My Gu family is worried about the early establishment of the Tang Dynasty and the prosperity of all wastes. I am willing to donate two million taels of silver to show my loyalty!"

Wenyi was overjoyed: "Please rest assured, Patriarch Gu, your loyalty can be seen from heaven, and I will definitely report to the court truthfully!"

Before anyone could react, Lu, Zhu and Zhang made patriotic remarks one after another and each donated one million taels of silver.

Wenyi was ecstatic, and the faces of the other families suddenly turned as dark as the bottom of a pot. They never expected that Wenyi would be so shameless, not even giving them any time to discuss. Don’t think that they didn’t care that the donations were all agreed upon in advance.

Yes! But what can be done?

They looked at each other and gritted their teeth and followed up! It was only a few million taels. After taking over the salt field, you could sell some to Korea and Turks and earn back several times! The scene became lively again.

A total of 23 noble families from Jiangnan were present. Of course, the Xiao family donated the most with 5 million taels, followed by the Xie family with 2.5 million taels, and the remaining 1 million taels were more, as well as 500,000 taels.

After careful calculation by Wenyi, the donation alone earned 2,700 taels of silver! More than what he earned from a trip to Japan! These families with centuries of heritage are indeed powerful. You must know that Datang's annual tax revenue is only more than 10,000 taels.

Wen Yi also took a rough look at the bidding prices. Large families all offered a high price of 2 million taels, and small and medium-sized families basically offered around 1.5 million taels. However, there was a special bidding letter that made Wen Yi's eyes shine. It said 4 million taels on it, and below.

It was signed with the names of three small families.

Wenyi immediately called Xiao Jian over and said, "Brother Xiao, go and find out whose idea it was to make this quotation. This person is very business-minded and talented. See if you can win over him."

Xiao Jian took one look and said: "This is the idea of ​​the second young master of the Zhao family. He is one of our own. He is a shrewd person and is in charge of the family business. Now the Zhao family's business is very big.

It's a pity that he is not the eldest son, otherwise he would definitely lead the Zhao family to become a top family.

His brother is just a nerd, so it’s good if he can keep the family business.”

Literary art is fun, but the traditional method of passing down talents rather than passing them on to children can be so stupid as to abandon talents and choose fools.

But it was a good opportunity to get all the talents to his side and let those fools play with themselves! So he asked Xiao Jianduo to get close to him and try to recruit him to his side.

Xiao Jian patted his chest and promised that he was just the second eldest son of the family, so he could handle it easily! Wenyi took the information and found Xiao Jing to start the last plan - to win over the family! The waiting time passed very slowly, and Xiao Jing deliberately tried to temper their tempers.

, extending the review time to one month.

It is a well-known secret that Xiao Jing is behind the scenes and Xiao Jian is in front of the stage, but so what?

What else can the Jiangnan gentry do besides weighing whether it would be more beneficial to join Li Shimin or follow Li Jiancheng?

In just one month, the seemingly iron-clad alliance collapsed.

When Wenyi officially announced the list, we discovered that the original alliance was still the same, but the allegiance had changed.

Except for the stubborn Xie family who did not want to be inferior to the Xiao family, all the other twelve families joined Li Shimin's command! Wenyi also generously increased the amount of the winning bid to ensure that all families who joined him would have their own salt farm.

After the head of the Xie family sprayed several mouthfuls of old blood in Jiaxing, he was carried into a carriage by his servants and left this sad place in despair.

The donation of 2.5 million taels was wasted.

Finally, the "First Datang Salt Farm Shareholders' Meeting" hosted by Wenyi was grandly held.

The meeting finally determined that in order to facilitate the government's salt management, all salt fields will be centralized and constructed in a unified manner.

Zhao Wuji, the second son of the Zhao family, served as the first chairman of the board and was fully responsible for the salt farm affairs.

The price of salt is determined by the Salt Bureau, and salt is not sold privately.

The scale of the salt farm was initially set at 20,000 acres, and the location was determined to be in Jiaxing.

Magistrate Wang is really blessed from the sky at home! You can imagine how many people will come to Jiaxing after the salt field is completed, and how much wealth it will bring! He was so happy that he openly disobeyed the orders of his fierce wife at home and went to Huahua

I listened to the music all night...and waited until everything was over until early autumn.

Xiao Jing had already returned to Hangzhou, Xiao Jian stayed behind to help Zhao Wuji improve the salt farm, and Wenyi set out on the road with more than 34 million taels of silver and three little guys.

He wanted to bring the silver to Hangzhou and the Xiao family would organize personnel to transport it to Chang'an and hand it over to the imperial court.

Of course, his own labor fee of 5 million taels must be sent to the Prince of Qin's Mansion for Shu'er to keep.

Along the way, he enjoyed all kinds of admiration from the three apprentices: Li Ke: "Master, you are so amazing! You got more than 30 million taels of silver in one move, which is enough to pay the taxes of the Tang Dynasty for three years! I will also want it when I grow up.

Just like the master, if you don't take action, it's enough. Once you take action, it must be at the level of tens of millions!"

Li Tai: "Master, why can such a simple sun-drying method produce such high-quality salt?

Why hasn’t anyone thought of this for thousands of years?”

Li Chengqian: "Master is mighty! He toyed with the various noble clans in Jiangnan and conquered the entire Jiangnan in one fell swoop! Master, can you teach me how to do this?"

Wenyi said with a smile: "There are many political methods. You have to figure it out on your own. In fact, this is the one I don't understand the most.

That's why I didn't enter the court.

Go and read more about the Thirty-Six Stratagems. No matter how carefully you observe your father's behavior, it will be much better than learning from me.

I can only teach you some basics.

As for Xiao Ke and Xiao Tai, they have a lot to learn if they want to be like me.

You haven't even learned derivatives and integrals yet, it's still early."

Li Tai was even more excited when he heard the new term and said: "Master, you are biased. You have been teaching the elder brother slowly. Second brother, I have learned it and you don't teach me more."

Wenyi touched his dog's head and said, "Xiao Tai, do you know what the most important task of a child is?"

Li Tai shook his head obediently and said in a leisurely manner: "The most important task for a child is to play! Learning must also combine work and rest. If you can't have fun in childhood, you will regret it for life when you grow up."

And it is also important to maintain a childlike innocence. A carefree childhood is what you need now.

Now is the critical moment for you to shape your personality, and this is more important than anything else."

The three brothers nodded as if they had some enlightenment. They looked at the three brothers who seemed to have grown up a bit, and were greatly comforted by the arts. Unfortunately, soon the three brothers figured out that all they needed to do was play happily, so the three of them changed again in the blink of an eye.
Chapter completed!