And to put it bluntly, it is still a hugely profitable industry.
even,
In the past life of the auction house industry itself, due to the business model, going to the auction house was still a great opportunity to make friends with princes, relatives and expand your network.
It’s not that Europeans and Americans don’t practice humanistic sophistication. In fact, starting from the discovery of the New World, in the long history of capitalist development, they not only practiced this practice, but also formalized it and commercialized it. There were a large number of venues and practitioners dedicated to humanistic sophistication.
One of them is the auction house!
It can be said that each of the famous auction houses in Europe and the United States has countless connections with the upper-class wealthy families in the European and American world.
Of course, Li Sheng doesn't have much pursuit of things like connections.
But that doesn't matter, because the connections of an auction house are all turned into connections using certain intangible assets.
This intangible asset is the popularity and brand of the auction house!
If you remain neutral and always maintain your position as a commercial organization, your business will naturally be more prosperous...but there will be fewer side benefits.
Li Sheng had no interest in it before, and now he doesn't need these fancy influence. Naturally, the main thing is to realize it quickly.
Seeing Wu Meiniang looking confused and worried...
Li Sheng smiled slightly, "Don't worry, things like auction houses are indeed difficult to operate at the beginning, and the income will be limited. So, we started by selling our own things first. After selling a few items at sky-high prices,
Business will naturally come."
"People...are always chasing the rise and fall of popularity, just stay calm."
After Li Sheng finished speaking, he smiled and drank a cold drink.
Wu Meiniang was deeply worried. After all, if this matter failed, the follow-up would affect the construction of the entire West Lake Shipbuilding Industrial Zone...
I don’t know when the pile of rammed foundations will be built to achieve great things for the young master...
Wu Meiniang looked at Li Sheng and wanted to think about it again, but she couldn't think of any way.
In the end, I could only sigh softly and pray silently that Li Sheng's matter would come true...
Yang Yuhuan remained silent, took out the spoon, looked at Li Sheng with a smile, "Master, open your mouth..."
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But it’s Li Sheng’s side.
Because of the ideological stamp formed since Zicheng Zhai.
No matter what Li Sheng does, the profits are always high and the benefits are good.
And naturally, as a clerk... No, in Shenghou, they should be called "employees", and the rewards they get... That's wrong, that's right, this is called "performance pay", and naturally it's quite a lot.
In fact, in the year since the opening of Zichengzhai in Chang'an, the performance salary of almost all employees has significantly exceeded the regular salary, which is the basic salary.
This impression makes the guys in the store extremely confident in all Li Sheng's decisions, and they can run very fast in everything they do, and at the same time...
Relying on this strong mobilization ability, all of Li Sheng's decisions are executed with extremely high efficiency.
Execution efficiency brings higher benefits, and higher benefits in turn affect the team, improving efficiency even higher.
After a few days' work, Li Sheng saw that there were still two or three large open spaces beside the West Lake, so he simply took them.
The price is certainly not cheap, but compared to several very large shipyards, the future will have to be both military and civilian. It will not only build a navy for Datang, but also provide commercial ships for the large-scale growth of maritime merchants...
The cost is a drop in the bucket.
Within a few days, an auction house was built on one of the vacant lots.
This time Li Sheng directly used cement to build it, and the efficiency was naturally exaggerated.
This astonishing speed quickly attracted the attention of the entire Hangzhou, and even a large number of prefectures and counties near Hangzhou...
The wave of enthusiasm originally caused by the launch of the big ship for trial voyages quickly disappeared in the past few days.
After all, when ordinary tourists look at large ships, they often just look at the appearance to see how fresh they are. In the final analysis, the sea trials are not as popular as the launches.
But this time the use of cement turned up the heat again.
News spreads so fast that one almost thinks this is the Internet age.
Not only was this strange building completed in a few days, but it was definitely not small in scale. This was a hall that Li Sheng built directly to the size of an indoor basketball court. Compared to the small buildings built with civil engineering in this era, you can imagine how shocking it was.
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What is even more shocking is some news that spread during the construction process.
The main hall of this stadium-like auction house is not only huge and gorgeous, but it also does not use any beams!
On the contrary, the entire ceiling inside is constructed in a truss manner using steel bars shipped from Chang'an.
The so-called truss structure is actually the arch bridge structure used in the famous "Zhaozhou Bridge", which is also the "Cambridge" structure that later Europeans claimed to be original.
Get huge support capacity with simple materials without using a single pillar!
In the Song Dynasty's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", it can be seen that the technological remains of the truss-structured arch bridge were spread throughout the world on a large scale.
But the Zhaozhou Bridge was built in the Sui Dynasty. In other words... In the development of construction technology in China, truss technology not only became extremely popular in the Song Dynasty, but actually developed in the Sui Dynasty and even further back.
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but……
Although this strange truss technology is powerful, it is often only used to build bridges.
Used in construction to build large stadium-type buildings.
Li Sheng is the first auction house!
The original truss structure arch bridge was used to allow larger ships to pass under the bridge.
Now that Li Sheng is using it for construction, it naturally has other uses.
In China's traditional architecture, because of the existence of load-bearing structures such as beams, columns, and rafters, the space utilization rate is often not very good.
Most of the time, the lighting is not very good, and you always live in a small house instead of a big house, so the price-performance ratio has not changed.
Nowadays, when this truss building comes out, it is still based on cement as a load-bearing...
Immediately, the news spread throughout Hangzhou.
This construction technology is so amazing!
All the civilian workers who worked on Li Sheng's construction project were full of praise for the design after returning home.
Although the construction is a bit complicated, the person who takes the lead is a serious scholar, and he speaks a lot of new words, which always makes it difficult for everyone to understand...
But the effect of the finished product is real, so on the day of completion...
In front of the entire auction house, there was a huge crowd of people who were walking and sightseeing.
This popularity is simply legendary, and the server is fully booked within seconds of opening!
Li Sheng was quite satisfied with this effect.
Although Wu Meiniang is a little worried, with such a big start, it would be embarrassing if the subsequent business does not go well...
"Hehe... Mei Niang, do you think this building is well built?"
Li Sheng, leading Wu Meiniang, was standing at the back of the auction house hall in an inconspicuous warehouse, and suddenly asked with a smile.
