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Chapter 369 Auction House

Li Changxian was not idle at this time. In addition to going to the commercial bank every day to inform him about the issuance of national bonds, he also had bigger plans that were still being prepared.

As early as a few days before the issuance of national bonds, he had someone buy a large piece of land in the prosperous East Market and began to build a large commercial venue, similar to the auction house of later generations.

Li Changxian plans to auction everything he thinks can be auctioned in the capital, not only gold and silver treasures, antique calligraphy and paintings, house title deeds, but also the salt and iron monopoly rights and mining resources that he just obtained from His Highness the Crown Prince.

Moreover, he has also set his sights on overseas gold and silver mountains, various mineral resources, and even overseas land. As long as someone is willing to take it, he dares to auction it. If the overseas indigenous tribes do not agree, then he will send troops to plunder it directly.

In addition, he also wanted to auction off his maritime navigation rights, so that all the sea areas of the Jin Dynasty could be controlled by himself, and outsiders would never be allowed to go to the sea privately. Even if he wanted to go to the sea, he would have to buy the sea navigation rights in his hands.

The auction house plans to build three floors. The first floor is an ordinary auction venue that allows ordinary people to come to auction.

The second floor is the mines of the Jin Dynasty, the salt and iron monopoly and the auction of items prohibited by the Jin Dynasty.

The third floor is for overseas auctions, and ordinary people are strictly prohibited from entering here. If you want to join the overseas auctions, you must first be rich, and secondly, be powerful.

Of course, it is most popular after the first level, and ordinary people can call in that part of the deposit. The threshold is very low, and it is suitable for the auction of bulk goods.

The second floor is a semi-public auction, which was approved by the prince's palace in order to raise funds for the court and attract big businessmen from other places.

As for the third floor, it is Li Changxian's private property and is a very secluded place. Those who come to the third floor are all well-known people.

The third level was where Li Changxian wanted to make a fortune. If the people of the Jin Dynasty had enough money, he would not mind auctioning off all overseas lands and minerals, even in Nanyang, Japan, and even the New World just discovered a few years ago.

It has always been Li Changxian's dream to let everyone in the Jin Dynasty go out and develop overseas markets, and now he wants to realize this dream step by step.

Several princes were fighting back and forth in the Jin Dynasty, making the people of the Jin Dynasty miserable for one throne. Li Changxian really couldn't stand it anymore. He wanted to tell all the people of the Jin Dynasty and the aristocratic families that in this world, not only

There is the Great Jin Dynasty, and there is a vaster land waiting for you outside.

If you are rich and powerful, I won't care about you even if you go outside to seek hegemony, as long as you don't fight within the Jin Dynasty.

Although the auction house used new cement to build it, it still took three months to complete due to manual construction.

Next, Li Changxian had people renovate the entire auction house. The only idea behind the decoration was to decorate it as luxuriously as possible. Anyway, Li Changxian was not short of money, and there were tens of millions of taels of silver available in the business bank at any time.

The first and second floors are paved with marble, and they are polished so that people can be seen in the light. The third floor is even more expanded. Li Changxian transported a large amount of jade, which is not only used to pave the floor, but also dotted around the auction house.

The tables and chairs in the auction house are made of precious wood. Everything on the table is a tribute that can only be used in the palace. Moreover, the auction house is surrounded by famous posters from past dynasties. The level of luxury is higher than that of the auction house.

The palace is even worse.

Even outside the auction house, it is magnificent. Two three-foot-tall stone lions are placed on both sides of the door. Above the door is a huge gold plaque: Dajin Auction House.

In front of the auction house is a large square where tens of thousands of people can wander around without feeling crowded.

As for the dignitaries who want to attend the auction, they will not stay in the square, but enter the backyard of the auction house from one side of the square, where carriages and sedan chairs can be parked, and even the accompanying servants can rest in the backyard.

There are also gates in the backyard that can directly reach the second and third floors, without having to go to the square in front and crowd with ordinary people.

From the day the auction house was built, Li Changxian had people from all over the Jin Dynasty invite big businessmen and powerful forces to come to the capital to participate in the first auction of the Jin Dynasty auction house.

Even overseas, far away from the Jin Dynasty, small countries such as Japan, Annan, Bo, and Zhenwa sent people, and even some big businessmen from the Western Regions heard the news.

As for the big businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, they did not dare not come, because at this time Li Changxian completely controlled the waters of the Jin Dynasty.

If you don't come, you won't give Li Changxian face. If you don't give Li Changxian face, the consequences will be very serious.

Even in the territory controlled by the third prince, some big businessmen dare not neglect it. Most of their goods are now shipped overseas from the port of Wanling County. Of course, they do not dare to offend the de facto master of Wanling County.

While waiting for the big businessmen from other places to have some free time, Li Changxian began to arrange the issuance of lottery tickets.

At first, Li Changxian asked people to design two lottery styles, one similar to the later lottery. Because the population base of the capital was small, Li Changxian did not ask people to set number combinations of more than thirty.

It is directly a number within twenty, and the special number is still a number from one to five. The winning method of five plus one is implemented.

Li Changxian had calculated in advance that the probability of winning the first prize using the five plus one winning method was one in 550,000, so even if everyone in the capital went to buy lottery tickets, it would not necessarily mean that a few people would win the first prize.

The instant lottery is simple, you can set number combinations or pattern puzzles.

Although Li Changxian had people vigorously promote the lottery in the capital and set up many lottery retail outlets, there were only a few buyers. In the end, Li Changxian bought all the remaining lottery tickets with his own money and distributed them to Petronas' men, so that they could also buy them.

It can be a fresh picture.

In order to show fairness, Li Changxian built a lottery platform in the square outside the auction house, drew the lottery balls from the black box on the spot, and then announced the winning numbers one by one.

As the six colored balls were taken out one by one, the supervisor on the stage wrote the numbers on a large piece of paper and pasted it on the side of the stage for everyone to see.

"Ha, I won, five taels of silver!"

"I also won, ten taels of silver!"

"I won a hundred taels!"

"I just won a tael of silver!"

"I was the last prize, and I only won five cents. I just earned back the money I spent on the lottery tickets."

……..

As more and more people won the prize, many people flocked to the prize receiving area.

No one took away the first prize of one thousand taels of silver, but several people took the second prize of two hundred taels of silver.

As for the remaining prizes, there were many, so those who won the prizes happily went to the front desk to receive their prizes, while those in the back who did not win the prizes gritted their teeth and cursed.
Chapter completed!
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