Zhao Ran took the scroll in Liang Xingxia's hand and opened it slowly, but it was a word: "The sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the sky is high and the birds fly."

Why does it look so familiar? His eyes turned to the lower left corner, and he almost choked on a sip of tea. Isn't this what I wrote a few years ago when I was in Wujiyuan?

I heard Liang Xingxia say proudly: "This is the authentic work of the mountain guest, I bought it from a friend, saying that the Ming Dynasty merchant brought two paintings to our Great Xia, and the lord of Rou'an asked for it by name, and my friend intercepted one." I always thought that this tearoom was missing a painting or calligraphy, so I simply bought it, and my friend refused to sell it, which cost me a lot of money. ”

Zhao Ran couldn't help but ask, "How much money did you spend?"

"One hundred and eighty taels!"

Zhao Ran was speechless for a while, and wanted to ask clearly on the spot, did you Liang Xingxia pay for this silver, or did you go to the club's public account?

But I heard Gao Yanei suddenly say: "Third brother, give me this word, I'll give 300 taels!"

Hearing that Gao Yanei wanted to pay 300 taels to buy this character, Liang Xingxia hurriedly waved his hand: "If you want it, take it, a little silver is not worth mentioning, just a word." ”

Gao Yanei smiled, took the text panel and played with it in his hand.

This style of painting is not quite consistent with Gao Yanei's Su Ri's performance, and Zhao Ran can't help but wonder: "Yanai also has a study of calligraphy?"

Yeli Huaide on the side threw a few roasted peanuts into his mouth and chewed them, and explained to Zhao Ran: "Lao Cheng probably doesn't know, our Yanai is a famous little talent in Xingqing Mansion, but his 'talent' is used to deceive beauties." This time I want to borrow flowers to offer Buddha - the lord of Rou'an likes calligraphy, and we plan to do what he likes!"

Zhao Ran was full of a strange mood, watching Gao Yanei re-roll the text and stuff it into the wooden box, and secretly calculated in his heart: I really didn't expect Lao Tzu's words to be worth so much money, why don't you secretly write a few pictures at night to exchange for some silver? Well, this matter can't be let Liang Xingxia know, let Li Laoshi do it!

A few people took the lord of Rou'an County and made fun of Gao Yanei, and Zhao Ran retracted the topic: "When it comes to the problem of shipment, I mean, we can start, but we need to control the quantity, there are already a lot of various colors of snow lotus in everyone's hands, in addition to Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, there are a total of 4,800 other varieties of snow lotus......"

looked at Liang Xingxia, and Liang Xingxia confirmed: "4,160 sixteen-leafed and 720 eight-leafed, the total value should be more than 100,000 taels." ”

Zhao Ran took the auction house account book handed over by Liang Xingxia, flipped through it, and said to Gao Yanei and Yeli Huaide: "In the past two months, in order to raise the price of the snow lotus in Kunlun Mountain, Yan Huilou has sold 12,000 flowers at auction before and after, and they have eaten 6,300 flowers and spent 70,000 taels of silver in the trick of buying and selling. Lao Liang has been working hard recently, and sent people to inquire about the market in various medicine stores, and he even asked people to go to Kunlun Mountain to inquire about the situation of Snow Lotus......"

Liang Xingxia hurriedly said: "This is all the arrangement of the Cheng Dong's family, I just do things according to the rules." ”

Zhao Ran continued: "We have calculated, according to conservative estimates, Yan Huilou has at least 10,000 snow lotuses in his hands, accounting for more than sixty percent of the Kunlun snow lotus on the Xingqing market, and the purchase price of each flower is about 8 taels. ”

Gao Yanei couldn't help but smile: "It's really not low, our cost is less than 2 taels." ”

Liang Xingxia nodded: "This is the effect of the pegging strategy we have implemented, except for spending some money to raise the price with the Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus at the beginning, and then we almost didn't invest much silver, and all kinds of Snow Lotus will go up with the Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, and if Yan Huilou Li's family is taking real money to help us raise the price......

Gao Yanei slapped his legs and laughed: "Every time we help us raise the price, we also charge him a handling fee, hahahaha!"

Yeli Huaide thought for a while, and said with a little worry: "If they sell at the current price, they can earn at least 100,000 taels of silver......

Zhao Ran took a sip of tea: "Then it depends on how much silver they fill in, to put it bluntly, this is still a game of capital after all, if the other party has a solid capital, we can't smash it." ”

At the tenth spring auction held by Jinbo Auction House in the eighteenth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty and the first year of Xia Guozhenguan in early March, the transaction price of the snow lotus of the sixteen-leaf Kunlun Mountain broke through the single 20 taels and reached a high price of 22 taels, which made countless people more enthusiastic about the pursuit of this commodity, and the merchants of the entire Xingqing Mansion were talking about the snow lotus, predicting when its price would break through 25 taels, 30 taels or even 40 taels!

Driven by the snow lotus of Kunlun Mountain, the transaction price of the Tianshan Snow Lotus auctioned immediately after exceeded 18 taels per flower, the transaction price of the Snow Lotus of Tanggula Mountain was 16 taels and 5 yuan each, the unit price of the Snow Lotus of Bayan Kala Mountain was 16 taels, and the price of the Snow Lotus of Ortai Mountain also hit a new high with a price of 15 taels.

Three days later, the Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus soared directly to 26 taels each, driven by this, the Tianshan Mountain Snow Lotus and Tanggula Mountain Snow Lotus all broke through the 20 taels pass, and the Bayan Kala Mountain Snow Lotus and the Ortai Mountain Snow Lotus were only one step away from the 20 taels pass.

It's just that few people have noticed that in addition to the Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, the number of transactions of other snow lotus has exceeded 100 each, more than 50% more than before.

The crazy market continues, in the eighteenth auction in spring, the unit price of snow lotus on the sixteen-leaf Kunlun rose to 27 taels, and several other snow lotuses also continued to rise, and at the same time, the number of transactions continued to increase by half without anyone noticing.

With such a crazy market, Gao Yanei, Yeli Huaide, Liang Xingxia and others were dumbfounded, and Zhao Ran could only remind these people repeatedly: "Calm down! Calm down!"

In Zhao Ran's heart, this is really nothing. In the world that crossed, the Dutch fried tulips, and the Chinese fried Junzi orchid, much crazier than this!

In the next few auctions, Zhao Ran, Gao Yanei, Yeli Huaide and others sold more than half of the various snow lotuses in their hands according to the original small batch and multi-batch plan, making a lot of money, and Zhao Ran alone made a net profit of 30,000 silver!

In the private room of Yan Huilou's secret room, Li Bingol and Li Xingjiu had solemn faces, in addition to the two of them, there were two more big businessmen from Yinzhou in the private room. In order to raise the price of snow lotus in Kunlun Mountain, Li Propanol and Li Xingjiu have invested a huge amount of silver, and the total amount is more than Zhao Ran expected, because in addition to supporting the price in Jinbo Auction House, they also have to continuously sweep the goods in the Kunlun Mountain production area and big cities such as Xingqing and Yinzhou, so as to cause a state of shortage in the market.

The Li family has already smashed in 150,000 taels of silver, and the unit price of the sixteen-leaf snow lotus in their hands is not eight taels, but close to ten taels! Such a huge investment, even with the rich Li family, also felt a huge burden on capital turnover.

Li Zhizhong is in the center, in charge of the command, Li Liangfugui is the commander of the right wing of the Shun Supervision Army, holding the Iron Harrier Cavalry in his hand, the two brothers can be described as the top nobles of the Xia Kingdom, and the wealth in the house is amazing. But with such wealth, it is absolutely unbearable to take out more than 100,000 taels of silver in one go.

It is true that the two brothers have a large pasture and a herd of cattle and sheep, it is true that they have Fenglin Mine, they occupy thousands of acres of fertile land in the Hetao irrigation area, and it is also true that they have a very generous annual salary and reward, and the Li Mansion is also luxuriously furnished and full of rare treasures, but it can be taken out of the silver used in a hurry, which is so much.

Therefore, in desperation, the Li family had to introduce these two wealthy businessmen from Yinzhou so that you could raise the price of the Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus step by step. At this point, the two wealthy merchants of Yinzhou also smashed in 50,000 or 60,000 silver. At the current price, the snow lotus in everyone's hands is worth four or five hundred thousand taels of silver, and the profit is more than two hundred thousand!

But Xuelian didn't make a move, it was always wealth on paper, and in the absence of realization, everything was fake, just numbers!

What worries everyone now is that in the recent period, 30,000 taels have been smashed in a row, and the unit price of Kunlun Snow Lotus has only increased by less than 2 taels of silver, and it is becoming more and more difficult to pull it up. The reason for the current situation is the stagnation of the price of snow lotus in other producing areas.

Taking the sixteen-leaf snow lotus as an example, the price of the Tianshan Snow Lotus has been hovering around 21 taels recently, the Tanggula Mountain Snow Lotus is floating between 20 taels and 19 taels, and the Bayan Kala Mountain Snow Lotus and the Ortai Mountain Snow Lotus have fallen nearly a tael compared with ten days ago.

Now that the crux of the problem has been found, of course, Li Propanol must work hard to solve it, and the purpose of today's gathering is to make up a sum of money to pull the snow lotus produced in the mountains that are dragging its feet up, so as to drive the snow lotus of Kunlun Mountain to continue to sprint upward.

Li Bingol had already reported this matter to his father Li Zhizhong and uncle Li Liangfu before, and I have to say that the energy of the two brothers in the Xia Kingdom is really staggering, and in just three days, they lent 40,000 taels of silver to relatives and friends from all parties who were close to each other and handed it to Li Bingol and Li Xingqing, and promised that 100,000 taels would arrive one after another within a month.

At this point, the Li clan already smelled of a ruin, or to put it another way, they had been stimulated by the expected huge gains, and they were quite a little unstoppable.