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The sound of on-site bidding came and went, and five hundred mirrors were auctioned off one by one, and these merchants who bought the mirrors would get a small wooden plaque, and when the time came, they would pay the silver at the Chamber of Commerce with the wooden plaque and take away the mirrors.

"Sixteen thousand taels."

"Sixteen thousand five hundred taels."

“……”

The auction lasted from morning to afternoon, and when only one of the 500 mirrors remained, bidding became louder.

"Seventeen thousand taels."

"Eighteen thousand taels."

"Twenty thousand taels!"

The last voice was final, and the auction scene fell silent, and all the mirrors in this auction were auctioned off.

Li Kaiyuan smiled so hard that his fangs were blind, five hundred mirrors brought at least six or seven million taels of income to the Chamber of Commerce this time, and he was also clear about the cost of this mirror, among all the commodities in Qingzhou, the mirror was really a million profits.

At the end of the auction, the people on the scene left one after another, either complacent or sighing.

Five hundred people who auctioned off the mirror stayed, and at this time they took a wooden card to find Li Kaiyuan to lead the mirror.

Because this mirror is only one or two hundred thousand silver, most of these merchants buy directly with silver tickets, silver, or gold, but few merchants use goods to offset it.

After all, this is not a large transaction.

When it was time to collect the money, the people in the chamber of commerce immediately got busy, counting the silver taels, carrying the silver taels, and handing the mirrors to the auctioneers.

It was busy until the evening that the auction really ended.

At this time, Pang Yukun and Xiao Ming appeared, looking at the gold, silver, silver tickets and other things in one place, and the two let out a satisfied laugh.

The treasury has plenty of money this time.

"Your Highness, the amount of the transaction this time has been counted, this is the account book, you can take a look." Li Kaiyuan said to Xiao Ming with an account book.

Xiao Ming opened it and looked at it, which recorded the records of each auction transaction, a total of five hundred records, and a total of seven and two hundred taels were written at the back of the account book.

"Seven million two thousand taels."

Pang Yukun's beard trembled, and his face was full of smiles, these seven million two hundred thousand taels were enough for Xiao Ming to implement several major projects.

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction and said, "Send this silver to the treasury and spend it uniformly." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Li San responded, and immediately called the soldiers outside to escort Yin Liang to the treasury in the Qingzhou Mansion, which was where the Qingzhou Mansion Treasury was located.

All the taxes of the Great Chongqing Kingdom are here, and the money earned by the Chamber of Commerce is basically here, except for a part of the turnover, and the government government spends it according to the situation of each state.

As soon as the auction was over, Xiao Ming was relaxed, seven million and two hundred thousand taels, which was enough for him to build another twenty or thirty Galen ships.

However, it is obvious that he can't take all the money to the army, and a large part of this money must be invested in the people's livelihood in the six states, and the money is used to make money.

Moreover, as his stall grows bigger and bigger, there are more and more places to spend money.

For example, in this liberal arts college, all those who are admitted to the liberal arts college have free room and board, which is also so that poor scholars can devote themselves to their studies without worrying about the future.

After all, this liberal arts college is the core talent output place that will drive the development of Qingzhou in the future.

Leaving the Chamber of Commerce, Xiao Ming did not take the main entrance of the palace this time, but entered through the side door.

Because he knew that at this time, there must be many people outside the door who wanted to discuss the matter of the mirror with him.

However, he made up his mind that this mirror would not sell the right to sell like perfume soap, and he made a lot of money at that time, but it was a loss for a monopoly business like him.

The matter of mirrors in Qingzhou was noisy for more than ten days before it gradually faded away, and at this time the Chamber of Commerce began to officially sell mirrors.

Merchants who stayed in Qingzhou immediately flocked to the Chamber of Commerce, but many were blocked out.

"Chamber of Commerce members are preferred." Li Kaiyuan explained to the merchants.

The membership system of the Chamber of Commerce has been running, and now the number of members in the Chamber of Commerce has reached thousands of people, and these people will get preferential treatment for both speed and price when they get goods in Qingzhou.

Moreover, some members of the Chamber of Commerce have already considered the issue of settling in Qingzhou, after all, they have bought members with a huge amount of silver taels, and they can get the information of the Chamber of Commerce at all times by settling in Qingzhou.

For example, this time, these members visited the mirror before the fair.

Many conveniences have gradually made them identify with their membership.

When Li Kaiyuan said this, some members of the Chamber of Commerce showed smug smiles, and among the crowd, they seemed to be one level higher.

Some businessmen who did not join the Chamber of Commerce began to hesitate to join the Chamber.

The expressions of the businessmen were seen by Li Kaiyuan, and he smiled secretly in his heart, all of this is in Xiao Ming's plan, and the commercial center of the Great Chongqing Kingdom is gradually shifting to Qingzhou.

Qi Wangfu, Xiao Ming has long stopped thinking about the seven million taels of silver, these goods really belong to pure low-end products in his eyes, and the only mirror is still somewhat technical.

But that's far from what he's after.

Qingzhou's industry is only in its infancy, and more high-tech products will be launched one after another.

These products are produced by the talents trained in the Faculty of Liberal Arts.

And his current task is to carry out several major projects, one of which is the reinforced concrete city wall of Cangzhou.

During this time, Zhan Xingchang has been preparing building materials in Cangzhou, and the steel workshop has also been producing steel bars.

The news that Wang Xuan brought the barbarians to study artillery, to be honest, really worried Xiao Ming.

Before the Shanhaiguan Pass was broken, this Cangzhou was just a small city, until the barbarians came in, and Niu Ben led people to rush to build this city wall, in fact, this city wall is not very strong.

Later, the reinforcement of Zhan Xingchang was only to increase the firing position of the artillery, and the city wall was still not reinforced much.

If the barbarians did come with artillery, the walls would still be really dangerous, at least the gates would be easily penetrated by cannonballs.

Therefore, after the silver taels were sufficient this time, he not only sent tens of thousands of slaves, but also allocated silver taels to hire the local people of Cangzhou to participate in the construction of the city wall.

This is also to compete with the barbarians for time, because with the national strength of the barbarians, if they really find a craftsman who understands artillery technology, I am afraid that it will only be a matter of time before they produce artillery.

Based on this situation, Xiao Ming was ready to go to Cangzhou in person to arrange the construction of the new city wall, after all, engaged in construction, Zhan Xingchang and him were 108,000 miles away.

Outside the palace, Aster had already prepared a carriage for Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming arrived at the door and ordered: "The textile workshop must not slack off, and when the king returns, he must see the sails." ”

Aster nodded and said, "Your Highness, you have to be careful when you go to Cangzhou." ”

After that, he looked at Niu Ben, Lu Fei, Luo Xin and the two thousand cavalry, after capturing a lot of war horses of the barbarians last time, the cavalry in Qingzhou expanded a lot again.

It's just that Aster is not thinking about this, but she feels that Xiao Ming's trip to Cangzhou is not just for the city wall.

(To be continued.) )