Zhao Ran took the scroll from Liang Xingxia's hand and slowly opened it, but there was a picture: "The sea is wide enough for fish to leap, and the sky is high enough for birds to fly."
Why does it look so familiar? His eyes turned to the lower left corner, and he almost choked on his tea. Isn't this what I wrote when I was in Wujiyuan a few years ago?
I heard Liang Xingxia proudly say: "This is an authentic work of a mountain traveler. I just bought it from a friend. It was said that merchants from the Ming Dynasty brought two paintings to our Daxia. Princess Rou'an asked for them by name, and my friend kept them.
One piece. I always felt that this teahouse was missing a painting and calligraphy, so I simply bought it, but my friend refused to sell it, which cost me a lot of money."
Zhao Ran couldn't help but ask: "How much money did it cost?"
"One hundred and eighty taels!"
Zhao Ran was speechless for a while, and wanted to ask clearly on the spot, did you, Liang Xingxia, pay for this money, or did you leave it to the public account?
But Gao Yanei suddenly said: "Third brother, give me this word? I will pay 300 taels!"
Hearing that Gao Yameni wanted to pay 300 taels for this calligraphy, Liang Xingxia hurriedly waved his hand: "If the Yameni wants it, just take it. A small amount of money is not worth mentioning, it's just a picture of calligraphy."
Gao Yanei smiled, took the banner and played with it in his hand.
This style of painting is not consistent with Gao Yanei's usual playfulness. Zhao Ran couldn't help but wonder: "Yanei also studies calligraphy?"
Yeli Huaide on the side threw a few roasted peanuts into his mouth, chewed them, and explained to Zhao Ran with a wink: "Old man probably doesn't know that our yamen is a famous young talent in Xingqing Mansion, but
All his 'talent' is used to deceive beauties. This time he wants to borrow flowers to offer to the Buddha - Princess Rou'an likes calligraphy, and we in the office plan to cater to her likes!"
Zhao Ran was filled with a strange feeling as he watched Gao Yanei re-roll the calligraphy and stuff it into the wooden box. He thought to himself: I didn't expect that my calligraphy was worth so much. How about I secretly write a few at night and exchange them for some?
Money? Well, we can’t let Liang Xingxia know about this, let Li Laoshi handle it!
Several people joked with Gao Yanei about Princess Rou'an again, and Zhao Ran took up the topic again: "I just mentioned the issue of shipment. I mean, we can start, but we need to control the quantity. Everyone has
There are quite a few snow lotuses of various colors. In addition to the Kunlun Mountain snow lotus, there are a total of 4,800 other varieties of snow lotus..."
Looking at Liang Xingxia, Liang Xingxia confirmed: "4160 sixteen-leaf flowers and 720 eight-leaf flowers, the total value should be more than one hundred thousand taels."
Zhao Ran took the auction house account book handed over by Liang Xingxia, flipped through it, and said to Gao Yanei and Yeli Huaide: "In the past two months, in order to raise the price of Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, Yan Huilou has completed auctions one after another.
12,000 flowers. They bought and sold them by themselves. They bought 6,300 flowers and spent 70,000 taels of silver. Lao Liang had been working hard recently and sent people to various medicine shops to inquire about the market. He even sent people to go to Kunlun Mountain.
, inquire about Xuelian’s situation..."
Liang Xingxia hurriedly said: "This is all arranged by Cheng Dong's family, I just follow the rules."
Zhao Ran continued: "We did some calculations. According to conservative estimates, Yan Huilou has at least 10,000 snow lotuses on hand, accounting for more than 60% of the Kunlun snow lotus on the market in Xingqing. The purchase cost of each flower is about 8 taels."
Gao Yanei couldn't help laughing: "It's really not low, our cost is less than 2 taels."
Liang Xingxia nodded: "This is the effect of the targeting strategy we implemented. In addition to spending some money at the beginning to raise the price with the Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, we hardly invested much money afterwards, and the various types of Snow Lotus followed the Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus.
Wait, if Yan goes back to the building, the Li family will use real money to help us raise the price..."
Gao Yanei slapped his legs and laughed: "Every time he helps us raise the price, we charge him a handling fee, hahahaha!"
Yeli Huaide thought for a while and said with a little worry: "If they sell at the current price, they can earn at least 100,000 taels of silver..."
Zhao Ran took a sip of tea: "It depends on how much money they have to put into it. To put it bluntly, this is still a game of capital after all. If the other party has a lot of capital, we can't beat it."
At the tenth spring auction held by Jinbo Auction House in early March of the 18th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty and the first year of the Zhenguan year of the Xia Kingdom, the transaction price of the sixteen-leaf Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus exceeded the 20 tael mark per flower, reaching a high price of 22 taels.
This has made countless people more enthusiastic about pursuing this product. All the big merchants in Xingqing Prefecture are talking about Snow Lotus, predicting when its price will exceed twenty-five taels, thirty taels or even forty taels!
Driven by the Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, the price of the Tianshan Snow Lotus subsequently exceeded 18 taels per flower, the Tanggula Mountain Snow Lotus was sold at 16 taels and 5 taels per flower, and the Bayan Hara Mountain Snow Lotus was sold at 16 taels per flower.
Ertai Mountain Snow Lotus also hit a new high with a price of 15 taels.
In the auction three days later, Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus soared to 26 taels per flower. Driven by this, Tianshan Snow Lotus and Tanggula Mountain Snow Lotus both exceeded the 20 tael mark. Bayan Hara Mountain Snow Lotus and Ortai Mountain Snow Lotus were only one step away from the 20 tael mark.
far away.
But few people have noticed that, except for the Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, the transaction volume of other types of Snow Lotus has exceeded 100 each, which is more than 50% more than before.
The crazy market is still going on. At the 18th spring auction, the unit price of the sixteen-leaf Kunlun snow lotus rose to 27 taels. Other types of snow lotus also continued to rise. At the same time, the number of transactions continued without anyone noticing.
Increased by half.
Such a crazy market situation made Gao Yanei, Ye Li Huaide and Liang Xingxia stunned. In response, Zhao Ran could only remind these people repeatedly: "Calm down! Calm down!"
In Zhao Ran's mind, this is nothing. In the world he traveled to, the Dutch speculated on tulips and the Chinese speculated on clivia. It was much crazier than this!
In the next few auctions, Zhao Ran, Gao Yanei, Yeli Huaide and others sold more than half of the various snow lotuses in their hands according to the original small batch and multi-batch plan, and made a lot of money.
Full, Zhao Ran alone made a net profit of 30,000 silver!
In the private room in the secret room of Yanhui Tower, Li Bingchun and Li Xingjiu looked solemn. In addition to the two of them, there were two more big businessmen from Yinzhou in the private room. In order to raise the price of Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, Li Bingchun and Li Xingjiu had already
A huge amount of silver was invested, and the total amount was more than Zhao Ran expected, because in addition to supporting the price at the Jinbo Auction House, they also had to continuously sweep up goods in the Kunlun Mountain origin and big cities such as Xingqing and Yinzhou to create a gap in the market.
Out of stock status.
The Li family has spent 150,000 taels of silver, and the unit price of the sixteen-leaf snow lotus in their hands is not 8 taels, but close to 10 taels! With such a huge investment, even with the Li family's wealth, they still feel the difficulty in capital turnover.
A huge burden.
Li Zhizhong was in the central position and controlled the imperial edict, while Li Liangfugui was the commander-in-chief of the Shun Supervisory Army in the right wing. He held the Iron Kites Cavalry in his hands. The two brothers were regarded as the top nobles of the Xia Kingdom, and the wealth in the mansion was astonishing. But with such wealth, it was necessary to
It's absolutely too much to take out more than one hundred thousand taels of silver in one go.
It is true that the two brothers own large tracts of pasture and herds of cattle and sheep. It is true that they have Fenglin mines. It is true that they occupy thousands of acres of fertile land in the Hetao irrigation area. It is also true that their annual salaries and rewards are extremely generous. The Li family's mansion is also furnished with lavish and rare furnishings.
The treasures are dazzling, but there is only so much money that can be used in a hurry.
Therefore, in desperation, Li had no choice but to introduce these two wealthy businessmen from Yinzhou, so that you can further increase the price of Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus. At this point, the two wealthy businessmen from Yinzhou have also invested fifty or sixty thousand silver.
At the current price, the snow lotus in everyone's hands is worth four to five hundred thousand taels of silver, with a profit of more than two hundred thousand!
But Xuelian has not made a move, it will always be wealth on paper. If it is not realized, everything is fake, just numbers!
What worries everyone now is that during the recent period, after spending 30,000 taels in a row, the unit price of Kunlun Snow Lotus has only increased by less than 2 taels, making it increasingly difficult to raise the price. The reasons for this current situation
, which is due to the stagflation in the price of snow lotus from other producing areas.
Taking sixteen-leaf snow lotus as an example, the price of Tianshan snow lotus has been hovering around 21 taels recently, while the price of Tanggula Mountain snow lotus fluctuates between 20 taels and 19 taels. The prices of Bayan Hara Mountain snow lotus and Ortai Mountain snow lotus are even higher than those of Shitian
The price dropped by nearly one tael before. Affected by this, Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus has never been able to break through 30 taels, which is still 10 taels short of Li's previous psychological price.
Now that he has found the crux of the problem, Li Bingjin must work hard to solve it. The purpose of everyone's gathering today is to collect a sum of money to pull up the snow lotus produced in various mountains that is holding them back, so as to drive the Kunlun Mountain snow lotus to continue
Sprint upward.
Li Bingjin had already reported this matter to his father Li Zhizhong and his brother-in-law Li Liangfu. It must be said that the power of these two brothers in the Xia Kingdom was really staggering. In just three days, they reported to their close relatives
Relatives and friends from all parties loaned 40,000 taels of silver to Li Bingchun and Li Xingqing, and promised that another 100,000 taels would arrive within a month.
At this point, the Li family is already burning the boat, or to put it another way, they have been stimulated by the expected huge profits and are quite unable to stop.