Although there were a lot of people who didn't sleep well on this night, there were a lot of people who were busy, and even some people didn't sleep all night, and there was such a big thing happening in the city of Suzhou, the second rì of the new chūn tender of the inner library still arrived as scheduled.

This is the rule, this is the rule of the imperial court.

Therefore, even if Huang Gonggong and Guo Zheng asked the transfer department to postpone the bidding period for a few days on the grounds of the strict ban in Suzhou City and the assassination of Xia Qifei, Fan Xian was still categorical and insisted that the bidding must start on time and not be postponed for a moment.

The Ming family had already bought a night's time, and if they were given more time to react, who knew what else would happen?

Fan Xian rubbed his sour eyebrows, forcibly hid the tired face on his face, and looked at the merchants who rushed in. He found that although the expressions of these Jiangnan giants were still calm, there was still a strange feeling hidden in their eyes, and it seemed that the assassination of Xia Qifei last night had also brought them great trouble. Fan Xian just couldn't judge for the time being whether this change was good or ...... for his plan Bad.

The father and son of the Ming family were the penultimate group of people who walked into the inner mansion, followed by the chief of the clan and the account man, saluting around with a gentle face, and the officials and businessmen looked away with a little perfunctory, and no one dared to be too intimate with the Ming family in front of Fan Xian.

When the father and son of the Ming family saluted in front of the main hall, Huang Gonggong and Guo Zheng treated each other gently, obviously showing their support for each other, Fan Xian looked at it coldly, nodded with a smile, and waved his hand to let the other party sit - Ming Qingda's eyes were very strange, and he seemed very calm, it seemed that the other party didn't know for what reason, and he was not very afraid of his revenge for Xia Qifei's assassination last night.

Before the gate closed, the people from Jiangnan Water Village also arrived.

Behind Xia Qifei, in addition to the few old officials of the household department sent by Fan Xian, there were only three personal guards left, and the rest of the brothers had already been buried on the long street last night.

Xia Qifei's face was pale today, and it seemed that there was no way to recover from the serious injuries he had suffered, but today was a matter of importance, so he had to come over.

Compared with the bandages on his body, the white belt on his forehead was particularly dazzling and shiny, and the subordinates behind him also wore white cloth bands on their heads, and in this chūn season, there was a chill like ice and snow.

Bringing filial piety into the inner library door, for the first time in decades, this is the first time.

The eyes of everyone in the house were on such a group of robbers with filial piety and murderous spirit, and the businessmen led by the Lingnan Xiong family and the Quanzhou Sun family walked out of the room, greeted Xia Qifei, and comforted them softly.

With the support of his subordinates, Xia Qifei slowly walked to the front of the main hall, and without glancing at the father and son of the Ming family in the first room, he said softly: "Xia is still here." ”

The faces of Gonggong Hong and Guo Zheng are a little strange.

The corners of Fan Xian's eyes twitched, and he immediately returned to normal, calmly spread his right hand, and said calmly and firmly: "As long as you come, there is a place for you here." ”

Everyone understood the meaning of Fan Xian's words, but Huang Gonggong and Guo Zheng couldn't accuse Fan Xian of anything from this sentence, today Xue Qing, the governor of Jiangnan, said that he was sick but did not come, and now in the mansion, Fan Xian's official position is the highest, and it is clear that Xue Qing is letting Fan Xian do things.

But the backers of the Ming family will not see the whole situation being controlled by Fan Xian, and Huang Gonggong said after a little hesitation: "Mr. Xia, I heard that the fighting in the rivers and lakes in Suzhou City last night broke out again, and your family suffered a lot of losses...... However, this Dai Xiao was admitted to the hospital, and it was not in line with the ceremony. ”

Xia Qifei's background is disgraceful after all, so the old lady of the Ming family dared to invite the master of the Junshan Association to carry out the work of sniping, after all, if Xia Qifei can be killed, too many problems can be solved, and it can also be pushed into the chaos of the rivers and lakes afterwards.

Huang Gonggong's statement at this time is nothing more than wanting to confirm this.

Fan Xian didn't bother to care about these nominal things with the other party at all, but listened to Huang Gonggong say that Dai Xiao was admitted to the hospital, and after Yu Li didn't fit the eight characters, his anger gradually rose, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he said softly: "Huang Gonggong, don't force this official to be angry." ”

Although the words were soft, the sound seemed to be scraped out of the cracks of the iceberg and out of the abyss underground...... It was so cold that it made those who heard it shudder.

Don't make the official angry!

This sentence got into Huang Gonggong's ears, making the old eunuch shudder involuntarily, and quickly stopped his mouth - don't be angry with this girl, let him go, anyway, the Ming family has been preparing all night, as long as he stares at it for a while, there will be no problem, if Fan Xian takes the opportunity to launch a biao at this time, who can stop him? It's not good to break the big thing.

Guo Zheng, who was about to speak, was also cold, and quickly choked back what he was about to say, last night they all thought that Fan Xian would be angry and recklessly attacked, so they had already written a chapter for each other, and when they were ready, they were ready to seize Fan Xian's handle...... Unexpectedly, Fan Xian kept calm, which not only disappointed him and Huang Gonggong, but also knew that the evil fire in Fan Xian's heart had been holding back, and he didn't know when it would break out.

Thinking of the ministers of Shangshu who fell under Fan Xian, Guo Zheng also retreated, the eldest prince mainly wanted to protect the share of the Ming family, not the face of the Ming family.

............ There was another cannon shot, and the confetti outside the courtyard of the inner library mansion flew wildly, and the smoke gradually filled.

Fan Xian squinted, looking at this somewhat familiar scene, but somehow thought of last year, on the day he left the Northern Qi Dynasty and went to Beijing, the moment he heard the news of Zhuang Mohan's death, on that day, the firecrackers outside the gate of Shangjing City to see him off were also like seeing off everyone in Zhuang.

Are today's firecrackers a send-off for those who died last night?

Xia Qifei walked back to room B 4 with his subordinates in silence, took off the white belt tied on his head, and carefully spread it on the table, straight one, and the brothers behind him also took off the white belt with the eldest brother, laying it straight, one by one, strong and powerful.

Fan Xian's brows furrowed imperceptibly, not knowing what he was thinking.

The official in charge of the singing ceremony in the inner library once again stood on the stone steps, and the opening of the second rì of the inner library officially began.

Yesterday, there were a total of five bids, a total of sixteen bids in the inner library, in addition to the last two points bundled eight bids, there are still three bids, which are sung at the beginning.

The Ming family still did not shout according to the agreement between the Jiangnan merchants, but Xia Qifei did not seem to be disturbed by the events of last night, and began to bid very calmly, seizing one of the bids, and the other two bids were won by the Lingnan Xiong family and the Hangzhou Chen family, which was probably discussed in Jiangnan last night.

After Fan Xian got the offer from the flower hall, he confirmed that Xia Qifei had won the bid, and couldn't help but nod secretly, Xia Qifei was not willful, which made him appreciate it very much.

The bidding of these three bids was unremarkable, and the price was basically the same as in previous years, there was nothing surprising, but all the businessmen and officials in the venue did not react much, because everyone knew that today's heavy scene was behind, and it was in the last eight bids that the Ming family was bound to win.

............ "line southeast road and sea road two square goods, a total of four bids, began to publish books, the price is high...... Got ......."

The official of the Inner Treasury Transfer Division stood on the stone steps, shouting expressionlessly, he didn't know how many years he had been shouting this sentence, every year after this sentence was shouted, only the Ming family would respond to the standard, and no one would rob the Ming family, so he felt tasteless and tasteless when he shouted it.

But, this year is different.

When the salute fell, the first one to push open the door and hand out the kraft paper seal was the fourth room!

There was a buzz in the mansion and countless discussions, Xia Qifei, the seventh young master who was rumored to have been abandoned by the Ming family, finally began to make a move against the Ming family.

In the past few years, because of the strength of their own family, and the eldest princess watching in the later trial, no one in the Jiangnan businessmen dared to bargain with them, so the Ming family in the last eight bids and the Cui family in the first six bids, are singing a one-man show.

After singing this kind of drama for a long time, I will eventually get tired of it, and now I finally have someone to fight with the Ming family, and Ming Qingda is slightly afraid, but also has a trace of excitement.

He smiled and said to his son beside him, "Duo Er, press him down." ”

Ming Lanshi was shocked, what his father meant was that the first round of bidding was twenty percent more than last year's set price?

Ming Qingda picked up the teacup beside him, took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "The extra two percent, it's not Xia Qifei who is pressing, it's someone else." ”

Ming Lanshi was puzzled, thinking that in today's inner library mansion, except for Xia Qifei, who has the support of Lord Qincha, who else dares to compete with his own family for these two major standards? In the heart of this young master of the Ming family, he still firmly believes that Xia Qifei's confidence comes from the silver that Fan Xian has transferred from the household department, and the rest of the people do not have this strength at all.

Ming Qingda didn't say anything, but he was like a mirror in his heart, Fan Xian asked Xia Qifei to sweep the goods around yesterday, this is to make the rest of the merchants in Jiangnan become a hungry wolf, and a hungry wolf, anyone dares to bite two bites of meat.

............ When the two brown paper envelopes were handed into the flower hall, all the merchants and officials who were concerned about the matter dropped their butts back to their seats, and let out a breath of turbidity, knowing that the show was officially staged.

But there seem to be a lot of people who didn't guess where the play was going.

The door of Room B No. 1 was also slowly pushed open, and a piece of brown paper was handed out and sealed into the hands of the official in front of the door.

Quanzhou Sun family!

There was a big uproar in the hospital, and no one thought that the Sun family in Quanzhou would come to grab this hot soup when the two tigers were fighting!

"Sun family!" Ming Lanshi looked at his father in shock and said, "Where did their family get so much silver?"

Ming Qingda's face remained unchanged, and said: "The Sun family is not enough, can't a few families make it up? Don't you think that Xiong Bailing, the old thing, has become too quiet today? And those families who have been staring at us all the time, if there is not a ghost in their hearts, what are they doing for so long? The old man has no flowers on his face!"

Above the main hall, the officials sitting in the three Taishi chairs also had their own thoughts in their hearts, Fan Xian had expected this development, so he was not very surprised, but Huang Gonggong and Guo Zheng gritted their teeth, thinking that the Quanzhou Sun family was too bold to dare to come out and make trouble at this time!

While everyone was watching nervously, the results of the first round of bidding came out. Fan Xian took the quotation from the flower hall and compared the list, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it is not unreasonable for the Ming family to be able to stay in Jiangnan for so many years.

In Fan Xian's plan, the last four bids are the moment when he and the Ming family are desperately rushing the price, because although the amount of silver moved from the Northern Qi side is huge, but the turnover requires too long a route, after all, there is still an upper limit, and after Xia Qifei won five bids in a row, he also paid a huge amount of fixed silver.

If he could fake the rush without limits, Xia Qifei could completely call the price empty, making the Ming family vomit blood one after another. The problem is that Fan Xian has never understood that Ming Qingda, the nominal master of the Ming family, seems to be more than just as simple as the name. Fan Xian couldn't judge that if he really made a fake rush, would Ming Qingda ignore the eldest princess's strict order and kill his hands!

With the silver taels currently in Fan Xian's hands, if they are used to hedge the price, they can only be sure that Ming Jiachong will be seriously injured in the second four consecutive bids.

In case the Ming family really plays a ruthless game in the third round, let go and don't want these four consecutive bids...... Xia Qifei rushed the price too high, there are only two endings, one is that he can't get forty percent of the fixed silver at all, and the other is that after successfully winning the previous four consecutive bids, he has no strength left, and he watched the Ming family effortlessly win the four consecutive bids behind.

The second ending is not what Fan Xian wants. He had no way to control the delivery line to Dongyi City, so in the eyes of the Ming family, it was an indispensable four-link standard, which was a chicken rib for him. He didn't want Xia Qifei to really win this bid at all, but if he saw the Ming family win the next four consecutive bids so easily, Fan Xian ...... I can't swallow this breath.

As for the first possibility...... If the price really exploded, under the watchful eye of Huang Gonggong and Guo Zheng, under the eyes of so many people, the matter of the inner library would really have to be wasted, and Xia Qifei was afraid that there would be no way to live.

............ To sum up, in Fan Xian's plan drawn up in advance, this first four-consecutive bid was to prepare for the Quanzhou Sun family to come out and fire the cannon, while Xia Qifei's bid was just a false shot, and he didn't plan to fight for his life.

But looking at the quotation handed by the flower hall, Fan Xian knew that the old man of the Ming family had already guessed his arrangement, so the first round of bidding turned out to be such a terrifying amount!

The Sun family dared to make a move today because they passed on the information of the past through Guò Shi Li last night.

But in the face of the Ming family's overwhelming attack, and then thinking of the Ming family's brazen dispatch to assassinate Xia Qifei last night, the fire of civil and military forces attacked each other...... Fan Xian began to worry that the Sun family might be frightened by this round of bidding and dare not raise the price again.

The development of the situation really slipped towards the situation that Fan Xian did not want to see, and when the official who sang the salute shouted the Ming family's offer of up to 3.8 million taels of silver, the whole court was in an uproar.

And the door of No. 1 B has never been opened since, and the Sun family was really frightened.

Fan Xian squinted slightly, looked at the Ming family and the two masters in room A, and began to think about whether the two of them were really as found in the investigation of the Supervision Yuan in the assassination incident last night, and they did not participate much, and the person in charge was purely the old lady Ming.

The assassination of Xia Qifei seems to be reckless, but when paired with today's ferocious offer, it can deter the Ming family from many enemies who want to take advantage of the chaos to get millet.

If Ming Qingda is really such a person who will take advantage of the situation and even use his mother, Fan Xian feels the need to re-examine the other party.

As soon as the first round of quotations came out, Huang Gonggong and Guo Zheng brushed their beards and smiled, but Huang Gonggong didn't have any beard under his chin, so it seemed a little funny, but at least it could be seen that the two were quite satisfied with the Ming family's shot and everyone's reaction.

Room B No. 4 was calm, and through the window lattice, Xia Qifei glanced at Fan Xian with an inquiring look.

Fan Xian sighed a little helplessly, and smoothed the flying hair on his forehead with the palms of his hands, this code means to let Xia Qifei slowly figure it out, since the Sun family has withdrawn, Xia Qifei must continue to bid, but the proportion of this bid must be mastered.

Not only does it hurt the Ming family, but it can't be too ruthless, and it has to make the other party take over the first four consecutive standards very satisfied, and will not suddenly give up with water in the brain and throw these four consecutive standards to himself.

This is a very difficult situation, even if Xia Qifei has a few old household officials behind him, it is difficult to deal with it.

The official who sang the salute stood on the stone steps again, and if it was the same, the expected family battle between the boss of the Ming family and the seventh did not happen, and the robbers of the fourth room completely lost the ferocity of yesterday, and bid with great caution and caution.

However, despite being cautious, the price of the first four consecutive bids has been slowly raised to a jaw-dropping level!

This is of course because the Ming family's first round of bidding was 20% higher than last year's winning price, and the other reason is that the fourth room is wrapped up like kraft candy.

The final bid was successful...... Sure enough, it is still the Ming family, and this result is the same as for so many years, but the price marked has changed too much from previous years.

Five million 120,000 taels!

Everyone opened their mouths wide, listening to this price, thinking that if the bidding rules of the inner library were five rounds, they were afraid that Xia Qifei of the fourth room and Ming Qingda of the first room would raise this price to twice the price of last year!

This price is really a bit outrageous.

But Fan Xian knows that this can only show that a few years ago, under the cāo of the eldest princess, the price of the marketing power was a little ridiculously low, and at this price, the Ming family would not lose money, and maybe there would be a lot of money - of course, this must be that the Ming family still dared to do pirate business, and still dared to smuggle to Dongyi City under Fan Xian's nose.

So Fan Xian smiled, very satisfied with this result, the Ming family is waiting to throw money into this bid this year.

"A room, the Ming family, five million 120,000 taels, got!"

There have always been some officials who can't afford to beat the god of the inner treasury, and at this time, the largest bid amount of the inner library has been open for bidding for more than ten years, and finally it seems that the voice of the quotation is sonorous and powerful, and the sound is loud, and the word is not spoken, without delay, and it seems to be extremely simple.

The merchants, regardless of their attitude towards the Ming family, also felt a trace of excitement and sang for this number.

On the contrary, there are two fathers and sons of the Ming family in room A, but there is no joy on their faces, especially Ming Qingda's eyebrows are shallow and worried.

What he thinks is the same as what Fan Xian thinks, if there are no shady means to help, this four-link standard ...... It's a reparation.

And the most important thing is that Xia Qifei seems to have the help of a master over there, and he will handle the proportion very well, this bid is 5.12 million taels, and he will leave more than 2 million taels of silver just for a while...... What's more, the other party's real bid must be at the end.

Last night, Mingyuan raised money overnight, and the six rooms only raised a total of 600,000 taels, far less than the share of 1.35 million taels set by Ming Lao Taijun, and this four-in-a-row standard has exceeded Ming Qingda's psychological budget too much, what should I do later?

There is still half of the Taiping Money Bank's silver supply left, but no one knows what will happen next. Ming Qingda's hands gently pressed on the wooden box beside him, thoughtful.

Ming Lanshi glanced at his tired father, extremely distressed, he knew that his father didn't sleep all night last night, and went to several big money houses in Suzhou City overnight to transfer silver, until the early hours of the morning, he finally got the reassuring amount, in this box, it was the cash ticket that China Merchants Bank 100,000 yuan was urgently opened.

"You say, will Lord Qincha still want the four consecutive standards behind this?" Ming Qingda sighed tiredly.

Ming Lanshi didn't know how to speak.

Although the food provided by the official family is not as beautiful as the food at home of these huge rich people, these merchants still eat with relish, and gather next to the Sun family in Quanzhou, who has a decadent face, and asks what is going on.

People are looking forward to the afternoon, which is the final battle, and the terrifying amount of five million taels of silver has been opened in the morning.

No one noticed that Ming Qingda walked up to the main hall in silence and came to the side hall where several big people were eating, and he didn't avoid suspicion very much, and said with a smile: "I've seen Gonggong Huang, Guo Yushi, the old man has something to say to Lord Qincha, and I also ask the two adults to make it convenient." ”

Gonggong Huang and Guo Zheng were stunned, thinking to themselves which play this is this? Could it be that the Ming family wants to fall to Fan Xian in front of themselves? But it can't be so upright and bright...... Ming Qing has long held the Ming family, and has a lot of dealings with the big officials in the DPRK, and has a majesty in his chest, Huang Gonggong and Guo Zheng glanced at each other, convinced of their people, and retreated with a smile, leaving him with room to talk to Fan Xian.

............ There was no one in the hall, and Ming Qingda lifted his placket with some difficulty, knelt in front of Fan Xian, and did not speak.

Fan Xian held a bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other, looking for something delicious in the lower abdomen between the meals, and his eyes didn't glance over there, but said: "The four consecutive standards in the back, this official ...... It's still going to be grabbed. ”