When Liu Jiyang and Zhang Fengmin arrived at the bidding venue, it was already crowded.

They also saw many familiar faces here.

There are several of them, although on the surface they are just ordinary businessmen. In fact, they are all those noble people who just put it on the surface to hide from others.

If it weren't for His Royal Highness the King's new bidding rules, small businessmen like them would really have no chance at all.

"Hey, Brother Zhang, Brother Liu, you two are here too, but what are your ideas?"

The somewhat fat businessman waved to them and squeezed through the crowd to come to the two of them.

They were relatively familiar with this person, but they had no business dealings with him.

This person's name is Shen Xiong.

Although his name is very impressive, he himself is broad-minded and fat. Especially when he smiles, he looks like a Maitreya Buddha.

"Brother Shen, from the look of you, do you think you have any thoughts on this bidding?"

Shen Xiong didn't hide it either.

He looked around cautiously, then lowered his voice and said to the two of them: "To be honest with you two dear friends, I am indeed interested in getting involved."

"After all, this is a big deal to participate in the construction of our Ming Dynasty capital. If you can get in touch with the big shots above, haha..."

Liu Jiyang asked Zhang Fengmin and the two of them also laughed knowingly.

And such laughter, on this occasion, does not appear too much.

For businessmen at the bottom, what they lack most is not money, but various connections.

This kind of project, which is personally hosted by the court, has to be involved no matter what, just in case there is an opportunity, right?

Just smiling, Shen Xiong sighed helplessly and said, "But this time, I don't think our chances are really good."

After all, this is Yanjing, and it was also the capital of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, with countless wealthy merchants.

In addition, there are not as many projects in this bidding process as expected.

Shen Xiong, who was originally in high spirits, is now more and more unsure.

Zhang Fengmin's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this. He was still worried just now. It seemed that he didn't have enough money just to recruit Liu Jiyang alone.

"Brother Shen, if you are interested, how about we cooperate?"

Shen Xiong thought for a while, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Brother Zhang, I understand what you mean, but with just the three of us. Even if we hug each other, we can't compare to the wealth of those wealthy businessmen. For example, Shen Wansan, who is extremely rich, he If you want to take action, no one can outbid him."

Liu Jiyang, who was originally very interested, looked a little unhappy when he heard Shen Wansan's name: "This Shen Wansan, why does he want to get involved in every business? He doesn't want to give us a way to survive at all."

Zhang Fengmin opened the folding fan with a snap, covering half of his face.

Liu Jiyang and Shen Xiong understood each other and knew that he had something to say, so they hurriedly came over to hear his opinions.

This kind of sneaky movement would definitely attract a lot of people's attention in normal times.

But at the bidding conference, no one paid any attention to them.

Because there are simply not too many people who do this.

Many people arrive at the venue and suddenly find that they are not sufficiently prepared.

Or discuss countermeasures, or find a temporary partner with a familiar businessman.

"My dear friends, haven't you noticed? The King of England's bidding fair has actually given us a great opportunity. As long as we can seize it, there is absolutely no problem in making a small fortune, let alone a career. .”

"Want to hear the details!" Liu Jiyang and Zhou Xiong asked in unison.

They also know that this tender will be their opportunity.

But what they don't understand is how on earth they can snatch a piece of meat from the mouths of those wealthy businessmen.

Zhang Fengmin chuckled and explained: "Let me ask you two dear friends, if you have a business that requires you to work from dawn to dusk for half a month, and you can earn a hundred taels of silver, would you do it?"

"Nonsense!" Liu Jiyang said angrily: "Isn't one hundred taels of silver money? Why not do it?"

Zhou Xiong hesitated for a moment: "I should be able to do it."

Zhang Fengmin then asked: "What if you can only earn ten taels of silver?"

This time Zhou Xiong shook his head decisively: "Having been busy with business for ten taels of silver for half a month? That's not enough for my hard work."

Even Liu Jiyang hesitated for a while: "You shouldn't do it, right? Although he only runs a small grocery store, his monthly income starts from two to three hundred taels of silver. He won't work hard just for ten taels of silver."

Zhang Fengmin nodded vigorously: "Do you two understand now?"

…

The other two people were immediately confused.

What is this? How come they should understand?

Liu Jiyang said anxiously: "Brother Zhang, if you have anything to say, just say it directly and don't play riddles with us."

Shen Xiong vaguely grasped something, but he didn't fully understand it for a while.

Zhang Fengnian looked outside the fan and saw that the bidding meeting had not started yet, so he patiently explained.

"My dear friends, why don't you understand? A few hundred taels of silver is not a small business for us, but it may not be a small business for those wealthy businessmen. They will not work so hard for such a small amount of money. A few months.”

"So..." Zhang Fengnian paused deliberately. Seeing that Liu Jiyang and the others' ears were about to stand up, he continued with a smile: "As long as our quotation is low enough, those big businessmen will not compete with us for these mosquitoes." It’s meat.”

Shen Xiong frowned: "That's what I say, but if the quotation is too low, we won't make any profit."

"That's right, Brother Zhang. If we work so hard to lower the price, we will earn less, and we may even have to lose money. Doesn't that mean the gain outweighs the loss?"

Zhang Fengnian laughed confidently: "That's why I say, dear friends, you have not seen the power of His Royal Highness's tender meeting."

"Think carefully about the bidding process for those residential houses. First, the highest bidder wins. After the bid is successful, we report the number of residential houses we bid to the bidding team. A businessman, or a group of businessmen together, can only bid in one round. Once. If one round of bidding is not completed, choose to start a second round of bidding.”

Liu Jiyang and Zhou Xiong both blinked in confusion.

I kind of understand it, but I don’t seem to understand it a little bit.

Regarding their IQ, Zhang Fengnian really didn't know whether he should be depressed or happy.

But overall, I should be more happy.

After all, if the partner is relatively less smart, his right to speak will naturally be greater.

"I have calculated before. If the residential houses in this bidding meeting are built strictly according to the standards of Anjuke City Hall, the cost of one building will be about one thousand two hundred taels of silver."

"As long as our quotation can be lower than one thousand five hundred taels, I believe those wealthy businessmen will not compete with us."

"The quotation is low. The more residential houses they contract, the less money they will make. If they contract fewer houses, it is not worth the trouble."

"If it really doesn't work, we will offer one thousand, four hundred taels. In this way, we can earn two thousand taels by contracting ten houses. When these residential houses are being built, the imperial court will have to work throughout the process..."

Zhang Fengmin suddenly felt a little stuck. After thinking for a while, he suddenly said: "By the way, I think I called the engineer."

"As long as we build according to the engineer's requirements, we will be able to successfully complete the acceptance."

"The most important thing is that this is different from our usual business. Basically, you can make a profit without losing money. It's just a little harder, and it's easier to make a little less."

After Zhang Fengmin's detailed explanation, Liu Jiyang and Shen Xiong finally understood.

He couldn't help but admire him and said: "Brother Zhang has a burning gaze. I didn't think of this before. If that's the case, then it's up to Brother Zhang to make the decision."

Liu Jiyang also quickly echoed: "Like Brother Shen, I follow Brother Zhang's orders in everything."

The three of them reached an intention to cooperate. There were also many businessmen at the bidding conference, and they all cooperated for various reasons.

Zhu Han had actually arrived before the merchants arrived.

It's just that he didn't show up with any moves, but observed the situation of these businessmen in the dark.

I found that small businessmen started to connect in series everywhere.

Instead of being angry, Zhu Han was very satisfied: "That's right, I'm not that stupid after all."

Liu Ji frowned, feeling very unhappy with the businessmen who were colluding with each other: "It's true that there is no evil and no business. These small businessmen really racked their brains for this bidding meeting."

These words immediately met Zhu Han's eyes: "I say Liu Ji, this idea of ​​​​you is unacceptable."

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Liu Ji was baffled by what he heard. The Central Plains dynasty has been focusing on agriculture and suppressing business since ancient times. For a scholar-official like him, it is completely normal to despise businessmen.

I never thought that someone would speak for a businessman.

If this guy wasn't his deputy, and although he was a little wavering, he still pretended to be Ming in his heart, and his abilities were pretty good, Zhu Han would have told him to get out.

Now, since Liu Ji needs to be used, naturally he cannot be allowed to mess around.

"The reason why I have not started bidding is to give these small businessmen an opportunity to connect."

Liu Ji became more and more confused.

He didn't understand why Zhu Han paid so much attention to these ordinary businessmen when he protected the king.

"My lord, even if these small businessmen unite, I'm afraid they won't be able to make much money. Even if they can contract part of it, I'm afraid most of the residential buildings will still have to be left to those wealthy businessmen. In this case, wouldn't the imperial court have to allocate excess money? energy to manage those small businessmen."

"I think this is not worth the gain?"

Zhu Han stared at the businessmen: "Liu Ji, do you really not understand, or are you pretending to understand?"

"Please give me some advice, Your Majesty." Liu Ji trembled all over and hurriedly respectfully bowed to Zhu Han for advice.

"You have been in Yanjing for so long. I don't believe it. You don't know the connection between those wealthy businessmen and some people in the court."

"If these projects are all handed over to them in the end, what's the difference from before? Aren't these people trying to enrich their own pockets?"

"But these small businessmen are different. They are not deeply involved in the interests of the imperial court. Moreover, they themselves have little experience in this area, so as long as they win the project, they must re-hire craftsmen and civilian laborers."

"The most important thing is that these small businessmen do not have a complete community of interests. Now that there are so many projects starting at the same time, they want to hire civilian laborers, so they must increase the salary of civilian laborers."

"And when civilians have money, they will inevitably buy things in Yanjing. This forms a huge and recyclable system."

"At that time, there will be merchants bringing goods, and there will also be people coming to Yanjing to look for opportunities. In this way, the entire Yanjing will come alive. Do you understand now?"

boom!

Liu Ji felt as if a thunderbolt came down from the sky and hit him directly.

What an enlightenment.

Liu Ji is Liu Ji after all.

People who can leave their names in history will naturally not be ordinary people.

Before, Liu Ji was just a fan of the authorities, so he never thought about it that way.

Now that I heard Zhu Han's words, I suddenly became enlightened.

Before, he thought that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han wanted to build Yanjing City into the largest city in the world, which was a great achievement.

Now I finally understand that His Royal Highness has good intentions.

Limited by the times, Liu Ji still doesn't understand what stimulating domestic demand means, and he has only a limited understanding of economic principles.

But this does not prevent him from being able to figure out the relationship.

"Your Majesty!"

Liu Ji suddenly patted his sleeves with a serious face, took two steps back and knelt on the ground and said: "On behalf of the people of the world, I would like to thank His Highness the King of England. Your Highness is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old."

This is not flattering, Liu Ji truly admires Zhu Han from the bottom of his heart this time.

He could even vaguely feel that as long as he could understand everything Zhu Han did in Yanjing, he could enter a new world.

Although the scholar-bureaucrat class also has various shortcomings, it has to be said that this class is after all the most capable group of people in the world today.

Although the descendants of Confucius Sheng are not doing well, the scholars who have been influenced by Confucius and Mencius for thousands of years still have their own ambitions.

I also want to imitate the sages, achieve meritorious service, establish virtue, and establish immortality through words.

Although Liu Ji was working hard before, he never found a direction.

This time, he finally saw the goal in his heart more clearly.

Zhu Han rolled his eyes: "Young master, you can't represent the people of the world."

"Furthermore, I have done all this to allow my Han people to stand on top of the world forever. I don't need your thanks."

"Those small businessmen seem to have almost reached an agreement. The bidding will start soon."

"Let me see if these small businessmen in Yanjing can detect my painstaking efforts."

Zhu Han didn't say anything else. If this tender meeting does not satisfy him.

Next time, they won't have such a chance.

The tender will be divided into two stages.

Those bidding in the first phase are all large-scale projects. The financial resources of ordinary businessmen basically cannot afford it.

Even if there are more than a dozen of them working together, they can't compare to Shen Wansan casually picking out a little bit from his fingers.

This guy didn't disappoint Zhu Han either.

In the first game, Zhu Han directly won the big library project that Zhu Han had high hopes for.

"One million six hundred thousand taels!" Shen Wansan said, shocking everyone's jaws.