Goryeo, Gyeonggi-do, Gimpo-gun, Tamna Chamber of Commerce Pier.
Looking at the fierce-looking foreign soldiers, the meticulous staff, and the eloquent and smiling host! Song Shang, Wan Shang, and Liu Shang, represented by Huang Shunji, Hong Dexiu, and Lin Shangjiu, couldn't help but look at each other. They were all veterans who had been in business for many years. They knew that Chiyang's public bidding would greatly damage their own interests. !
However, they know what they know, but they don’t have any good way to deal with it! After all, those Nanman goodies placed on the wooden shelves are really valuable and really popular. As long as any merchant or store has the goods, they will be able to sell them within a few days and at a high price! In today's Koryo Yangban, if the rich and powerful don't have glassware, bright silver mirrors, blissful cigarettes, and palace jade liquor in their homes, they would be embarrassed to say that they are superior to others!
They are so in need of these "Southern Barbarian" luxury goods imported by Chiyang to show their unique status. In order to get enough good things to fill their insatiable appetite, they do not hesitate to spend a large amount of gold, silver, grain, minerals and official officials. The slaves were sent to the warehouse of Tamna Chamber of Commerce in Gimpo County in exchange for those novel and unique handicrafts! Among them, just a palm-sized silver mirror can be exchanged for one hundred taels of silver or two hundred dan of grain from the nobles of Goryeo! Therefore, these Korean pine merchants, Gulf merchants, and Liu merchants couldn't help but flock to this!
"Well, since our colleagues in Jishang have this request, then we, Songshang, will naturally agree to it! Anyway, even if we fight for financial resources, these guys from Yiju and Pyongyang are no match for us! This time, these good things from Nanman, we and others will Song Shang will eat them all! Others, huh, let’s wait until Ji Shang’s next ship arrives!”
"What, you want to eat all this batch of goods, what should we do, wait for the next Ji Shang ship to come? You Song Shang are too arrogant, you will exclude others with just one mouth! Lin! Brother, let’s unite our two families to fight them and see how these bastards from Kaicheng can compete with us!”
"Okay, Brother Hong, that's well said! Their Songshangs have been bullying our Gulf merchants and Liushangs. This time we must teach them how powerful we are! Hum, they are more powerful than Cai Xiong, their Songshangs are arrogant, Our Gulf merchants and Liu merchants are not much inferior to them. Isn't it just a competition for financial resources? If their Song merchants dare to draw a line today, we Gulf merchants and Liu merchants dare to join forces to continue! Fellow Ji merchants, let's get started now. …”
Faced with Huang Soonji's arrogance and rudeness, Lin Sangjiu and Hong Deokxiu couldn't help but become furious! Although the Gulf merchants and Liu merchants they represent are not as powerful as the Song merchants represented by the former, they are not soft persimmons that can be manipulated by others. Today, Huang Shunji wants to eat all the goods shipped by Ji merchants to Nanbar. It is clear that he intends to eat alone. And how could Lin Shangjiu and Hong Dexiu let them achieve their wish! The Wu side just put forward the suggestion of open bidding, and they immediately nodded in agreement. At the same time, they did not forget to give a few words to the big dog Huang Shunji!
"Okay, since you all agree with XX's opinion, let's get started! First of all, the glazed bowls and glazed plates. These glazed products are all exquisite Nanman products that came across the ocean. After you buy them, whether they are sold or It’s a good choice for personal use! The starting price is five taels of silver, and each increase must not be less than half a tael. Start bidding now!”
"Crystal clear, integrated! This glass vessel is truly extraordinary. I, Huang Shunji from Kaicheng City, am willing to pay six taels of silver to purchase such exquisite products..."
"You want to buy such a high-quality product for only six taels of silver. Shopkeeper Huang, you are really a bit fanciful! My colleagues in Jishang, I am willing to pay six taels and five cents of silver..."
"Assholes, do you businessmen in Taiwan have to be enemies of our merchants? Every time you increase the price, you get an extra five cents. Are you bidding or are you disgusting? This is too much! Fellow Jishang merchants, my merchants are willing to pay eight taels. silver!"
"Humph, that Songshang merchant can't afford it! Every time you increase the price, you only get one tael of silver, and you still have the nerve to laugh at us! Fellow Jishang fellows, I'm willing to give you ten taels of silver!"
"Bastard, are you insulting me, Huang Shunji, and Song Shang! Okay, you said you are willing to offer fifteen taels of silver, then I will offer you fifteen taels of silver!"
"If you say you can't afford it, you just can't afford it. For sixteen taels of silver each, we, the merchants from Guangzhou and Liuzhou, will pay for all those glazed wares!"
"How dare you, Shuzi! I'm going to go to the prison camp in Pyongyang and tell you about the malicious bidding and jacking up of goods! Brother Jishang, my Songshang is willing to pay twenty taels of silver per piece for this batch of glass wares!"
"Okay, since Brother Huang insists on eating all these glazed bowls and plates, then we, Song Shang and Liu Shang, will naturally not be able to take away their beauty! Today we will let Brother Huang take the lead first! Hahaha!"
"Okay, shopkeeper Huang from Kaicheng is willing to pay twenty taels a piece for all these glazed wares. Is there anyone who offers a higher price? No, okay, twenty taels for the first time, twenty taels for the second time. The second time, the third time in twenty-two! Now I announce that the new owner of this batch of glassware is Shopkeeper Huang from Kaicheng. Please congratulate him with warm applause!"
After a fierce competition, the first auction items, five glass bowls and five glass plates, were finally snapped up by Huang Shunji, the representative of Songshang, for a price of two hundred taels of silver! However, listening to the sparse applause from all around and the uncontrollable snickers of some people, shopkeeper Huang not only felt no joy in his heart, but instead felt that he had been severely tricked!
This guy is not a fool. Of course he knows that buying these glazed wares is expensive, but it is too late to say anything now. You must know that unless there is a quality problem with the items sold by Chiyang, no refunds will be given! And if you dare to rely on the power behind you to deny it, haha, then you won’t want to do business with Chiyang in the future!
Not only should you not think about doing business again, but you will also be blacklisted by Chiyang for dishonesty, and you will automatically lose the qualification to participate in commodity auctions! Thinking of this, Shopkeeper Huang Shunji could only order his men to take the shining silver and deliver it to Ji Shang's people, but today he has completely remembered this grudge! Those Gulf merchants and Liu merchants who are gloating over misfortune, as well as the Ji merchant bastards on the wooden platform shouting prices, don't let yourself find opportunities from now on, otherwise you must let them see how powerful our Song merchants are!
"Next is the mirror. The mirror sold at a sky-high price in Seoul, the capital of the country! Of course, the one being auctioned today is not that big, but it is still two inches in size. Now let's continue the auction! The starting price this time is twenty taels of silver, everyone. The price increase must not be less than one tael of silver, let’s start bidding..."
Regardless of Huang Shunji who is secretly venting his anger next to him, the auction on the pier is still going on! Then a gong suddenly sounded, and the gold medal auctioneer Wu Fang once again took out an object and started the second auction! As for Lin Shangjiu and Hong Dexiu, because they teamed up to trick Huang Shunji in the first auction, they still had plenty of funds at this time. Therefore, after seeing that Wu Fang came up with better things, they couldn't help but feel more confident. happy!
You know, silver mirrors made with modern technology are much more valuable than ordinary glazed products, and the biggest competitor of both parties, Huang Shunji, has already invested most of his money in glazed products due to lack of greed! Therefore, the pressure that both parties will face in the next bidding will become much smaller! As for the real traveling merchants and retail merchants, they have not yet taken them to heart. Lin Shangjiu and Hong Dexiu are even confident that they can completely drive the former out of the bidding circle with their own financial resources!
"It's so delicate and beautiful! I once heard my colleagues from the Gyeonggi Province say that the silver mirrors from Nanman have caused a sensation among the Yangban and the powerful. All the ladies and ladies there are proud to have a Nanman mirror." We are proud of the silver mirror! Even the nobles in the palace want to get a silver mirror to prove their status! So, as long as we successfully take photos of these five mirrors, we will make a fortune!"
When the well-made, clear and translucent silver mirrors, like works of art, appeared in front of the Korean merchants, the atmosphere in the auction room immediately fell into extreme frenzy! They first glanced at the exquisite assembly line products on the shelves with greedy eyes, and then gathered together in twos and threes and began to whisper and whisper in various dialects! Soon, these guys exchanged interests and formed temporary offensive and defensive alliances. They tried to raise funds to take down all the five two-inch silver mirrors leaked by Chiyang. Among them, especially Taiwanese businessmen Lin Shangjiu and Liu Shang Hong Dexiu’s performance is the most outstanding!
"There are five two-inch silver mirrors. I, Hong Dexiu, am willing to bid twenty-five taels of silver for each mirror! Brothers, is there anyone who bids higher than someone else?"
"Of course, I, Huang Shunji, am willing to pay thirty taels!"
"Thirty-five taels! Plus ten shi of grain!"
"Forty-five taels! Let's add ten more servants and servants!"
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After a fierce fight between you and me, the five silver mirrors on the shelf were quickly bought by Huang Shunji, Lin Shangjiu, and Hong Dexiu for eighty taels of silver! Next, since the price is close to the market value, the quotations from the three parties have gradually become more conservative! After all, in the eyes of businessmen, profit is the most important thing. They will not cause any real losses to their own interests just because of the dispute between the two parties!
Therefore, after successfully persuading other businessmen to retreat, the three immediately stopped the bloody fight! After all, these things are only worth 120 to 150 taels of silver at most. Now the auction price has soared to 80 taels. If you continue to ignore the increase in price, the profit margin left to you will be very small. It’s really not that big of a deal! And the three of them are not fools, they know this truth in their hearts! Therefore, when the price reached eighty taels of silver, it slowly began to stop moving forward! Seeing this situation, Captain Wu Fang Wu, who was in charge of the auction, couldn't help scratching his head with anxiety, but as the saying goes, a cow can't hold its head down if it doesn't drink water, and he couldn't take out a pistol and force Korean merchants to bid if they refused!
