"Your Majesty, those aristocratic families exchanged 15,000 acres of farmland with farmers near King Li's Village of Jin, and gave it to King Jin. In order to ask for forgiveness from King Jin, he agreed to auction liquor, one hundred bottles at a time.
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Li Xiaogong said.
"What's so exciting about this?"
Li Shimin was a little depressed. He had been greedy for the liquor in Lijiazhuang many times. If Li Xuan sold one more bottle, he would get one less!
"Back to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin is going to auction the liquor this time. He wants the noble families to use grain to auction it, and it's still new grain!"
Li Xiaogong quickly reported the incident.
“Auctioning liquor with grain?”
At this time, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were all surprised, and then their faces were overjoyed.
Although the grain that Li Xuan auctioned off with liquor did not belong to the imperial court.
But who can say for sure what will happen in the end.
“When will the liquor auction start?”
Li Shimin asked quickly.
"Return to Your Majesty, according to the time, it should be five days later!"
After Li Xiaogong thought for a moment, he quickly replied.
"So, those aristocratic families are starting to transport grain to Chang'an City again?"
Li Shimin murmured.
"Your Majesty is wise, according to the information I have discovered, a number of aristocratic families such as Hedong, Henan, and Jiangnan have already begun to transport food to Chang'an City!" Li Xiaogong said.
"Hahaha, Xuanba has made another contribution to the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Shimin was overjoyed.
Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others also nodded with joy on their faces.
Li Xuan didn't know that Li Shimin had already begun to buy the grains from his liquor auction.
At this moment, he, Cheng Chusi, and others were riding horses and wandering around the 15,000 acres of land he had newly acquired.
Li Xuan finally realized Tian Duo's happiness!
Fifteen thousand acres, five times as much as his Lijiazhuang.
Looking around, there is no end in sight.
After riding a horse for a whole afternoon, Li Xuan walked around his family's ten thousand acres of fertile land.
"Steward, take advantage of the winter leisure and ask the farmers to make more cement and small stones!"
Standing on the edge of the fast-flowing Jianhe River, Li Xuan gave instructions.
"May I ask, sir, to produce this cement is to build cement houses for these new farmers?"
Li Chang asked.
"houses?"
Hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help but be startled.
Seeing this, Li Chang was also surprised, "The villain has misunderstood the king!"
Fifteen thousand acres, at least two hundred new farmers have joined.
If they were all built into cement houses, it would cost more than 6,000 yuan or even 10,000 yuan.
"It doesn't matter, I originally wanted to build a dam, dig ditches, and build a reservoir for the Yanhe River to prevent a severe drought and water the fields in case of sudden drought. However, I neglected these new farmers.
They."
Li Xuan chuckled lightly and continued: "Although these villagers are new members, they should be like the villagers in Lijiazhuang. They will all have houses, and all the children of the villagers can come to the school in Lijiazhuang!"
"Your Majesty, please be merciful!"
After hearing this, Li Chang's face was full of joy, "I'll make arrangements now, little man!"
"Um!"
Li Xuan nodded slightly and walked aside.
In the next few days, Lijiazhuang did not change much because of the newly added 15,000 acres of fertile land.
Are they just some farmers who come to Li Chang every day and want to allocate more fields?
If they plant more crops per acre of land, they can get at least two stones of food every year.
Then, there were more than a hundred school-age children in Lijiazhuang's private school, and occasionally some young villagers came to learn literacy.
Li Chang will be in charge of all these and will have no influence on Li Xuan.
Soon, it was the day of the liquor auction.
The Jinwang Teahouse on Zhuque Street began to be overcrowded, but they were all people from aristocratic families.
The lobby on the first floor of the teahouse has already been set up as a standard auction venue by the teahouse shopkeeper in the same way as in the past.
The stewards of the aristocratic families were all sitting on the table with expectant faces, staring closely at the one hundred bottles of liquor neatly placed on the auction table.
Even some people from aristocratic families were still swallowing their saliva when looking at the liquor.
On the third floor, there was another familiar scene.
When Li Xuan came up with Cheng Chusi and others, he saw Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling and others, each holding a cup of tea, sitting there very leisurely.
“I’ve met your Majesty!” “I’ve met your Majesty, I’ve met Aye!” “I’ve met King Jin!”
After greeting each other, they didn't say much.
Li Chang below started the auction according to the estimated speed of Li Xuan going upstairs according to the time stuck.
"Dear gentlemen, today's Jinwang liquor auction starts now. The first batch of bottles of liquor starts with ten shi of grain!"
"Twelve stones!"
"Fifteen stones!"
"Twenty stones..."
Finally, a wealthy family used twenty-six stones of grain to auction off their first bottle of liquor, which was equivalent to thirteen strings!
However, Li Xuan, Li Shimin and others who were sitting on the third floor and watching were very satisfied.
In terms of value, these twenty-six stones of grain are much more valuable than thirteen tons of grain.
Afterwards, the second batch of liquor, two bottles, was sold for fifty dan of grain.
The third batch of liquor, three bottles, and sixty-five shi of grain were sold.
The fourth batch of liquor, four bottles...
Some aristocratic families jointly bid for 40 dan, but no one bid again. So the old man in cloth clothes who was sitting in a corner watched for a long time, then stood up and bid 90 dan. All the aristocratic families looked confused.
With a look on his face, he took pictures of these four bottles of white wine.
The fifth batch of liquor, five bottles, also had aristocratic families who wanted to bid together. After the price reached sixty dan, the old man in commoner clothes stood up again and bid another hundred dan, and took the bid for the liquor again.
Seeing this, not only those aristocratic families understood.
Above, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others also looked at Li Xuan in surprise.
"Xuanba, is this old man from Lijiazhuang?"
"Just a servant in the palace!"
Li Xuan chuckled lightly and didn't hide it.
joke!
He didn't know how much he knew about bid-rigging and bidding-stringing in his previous life. With such a big loophole, if he hadn't left behind a hidden hand, he might as well have jumped off the third floor.
"But if this happens, if those aristocratic families find out..."
Before they finished speaking, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others shook their heads helplessly and smiled.
"The liquor belongs to me, the teahouse also belongs to me, and the auction is also hosted by me. Since these aristocratic families want to engage in small tricks and auction liquor honestly, then I just don't auction it, and the worst is to take the liquor away.
go back!"
Li Xuan sneered.
It’s just those aristocratic families that I’m afraid of!
below.
Li Chang also responded calmly to those members of the aristocratic family who looked angry and even stood up to question.
"The king has said that the liquor auction is a public auction. As long as you are here and have a table number, you can auction it. As for those elders, if they are unable to deliver the corresponding food in the end, the liquor auctioned will be invalid and they are prohibited from participating from now on.
auction!"
Hearing this, all the aristocratic families couldn't help but feel angry.
The old man in cloth clothes stood up, smiled apologetically at the people from the aristocratic families and Li Chang, and kept holding his hands.
Next time, he will definitely not come.
There are so many idle people in Lijiazhuang and the palace, and changing one at a time is enough to replace them hundreds of times!
A group of idiots still want to make small moves at the auction without even looking at who initiated the auction!
Seeing this, the people of the aristocratic family, although their eyes were red with anger, could do nothing.
He had no choice but to regain his composure and urge Li Chang to continue the auction.
Next, no aristocratic family dared to make small moves.
The auction price of each bottle of liquor is more than twenty shi of grain.