Chapter 250: Back to Cangzhou

As the number of mirrors in the auction is decreasing, the atmosphere becomes more and more heated.
The sound of on-site bidding came one after another. Five hundred mirrors were auctioned off one by one. Those merchants who bought the mirrors would get a small wooden sign. Then they would pay the silver at the Chamber of Commerce with the wooden sign and take the mirror away.
"Thirteen thousand taels."
"Sixteen thousand five hundred taels."
"..."
The auction lasted from the morning to the afternoon, and only one of the five hundred mirrors remained. At this time, the bidding became louder.
"17 thousand taels."
"Eighteen thousand taels."
"Twenty thousand taels!"
The last sound was finalized, the auction scene fell silent, and all the mirrors in this auction were sold.
Li Kaiyuan laughed so hard that his teeth were invisible. Five hundred mirrors brought at least six to seven million taels of income to the Chamber of Commerce this time. He also knew the cost of the mirrors. Among all the goods in Qingzhou, mirrors are really a huge profit. .
At the end of the auction, people on the spot left one after another, either complacent or sighing.
Five hundred people who had auctioned off the mirror stayed behind. At this time, they took the wooden sign to Li Kaiyuan to get the mirror.
Because this mirror is only 10,000 to 20,000 silver, most of these merchants buy directly with silver tickets, silver, or gold, but few merchants use the goods to offset it.
After all, this is not a big deal.
When it was time to collect the money, the staff in the chamber of commerce immediately became busy, counting the silver taels, carrying the silver taels, and handing the mirrors to the auctioneer.
It was busy until the evening that the auction really ended.
Only then did Pang Yukun and Xiao Ming appear, looking at the gold, silver and silver bills and other objects in one place, they laughed contentedly.
The treasury's money is abundant again this time.
"His Royal Highness, the amount of this transaction has been cleared. This is the account book. Take a look." Li Kaiyuan said to Xiao Ming holding an account book.
Xiao Ming opened it and looked at it. It recorded the records of each auction transaction. There were a total of 500 records, with a total of 7.2 million taels written on the back of the account book.
"7.2 million taels."
Pang Yukun's beard trembled and his face was full of smiles. These 7.2 million taels were enough for Xiao Ming to implement several major projects.
Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Send these money to the treasury for unified expenditure."
"Yes, Your Highness." Li San replied and immediately greeted the soldiers outside to Yin Liang to the warehouse in Qingzhou Mansion, where the Qingzhou Mansion Treasury was located.
All the taxes in the country of Da Yu are here, and the money made by the Chamber of Commerce is basically here, except for a part of the turnover, and the government pays according to the conditions of each state.
When the auction was over, Xiao Ming was relaxed, 7.2 million taels, enough for him to build another twenty or thirty Galen ships.
But obviously he can't give all of the money to the army. A large part of this money must be invested in the livelihood of the six states, so that money can be made with money.
Moreover, as his stall grew bigger and bigger, there were more and more places to spend money.
For example, in the Bowen College, all food and lodging are free for those who are admitted to the Bowen College. This is also to allow poor scholars to devote themselves to their studies without worrying about the future.
After all, the Bowen College is the core talent exporting place that will drive the development of Qingzhou in the future.
Leaving the Chamber of Commerce, Xiao Ming did not go through the main entrance of the palace this time, but entered through the side entrance.
Because he knows that at this time, many people must be asking to see him outside the door to discuss the mirror matter with him.
However, he made up his mind that this mirror would not sell the right to sell like perfume soap. He made a lot of money at that time, but for his monopolistic business, it was a loss.
It took another ten days for the mirrors to fade away in Qingzhou, when the Chamber of Commerce officially began to sell mirrors.
The merchants staying in Qingzhou immediately flocked to the Chamber of Commerce, but many were blocked by the door.
"Members of the Chamber of Commerce have priority." Li Kaiyuan explained to a group of businessmen.
The membership system of the Chamber of Commerce has been running. Now the number of members in the Chamber of Commerce has reached thousands. These people will get preferential prices for goods in Qingzhou.
Moreover, some members of the Chamber of Commerce have already considered the issue of settling in Qingzhou. After all, they bought members with a huge amount of silver, and only when they settled in Qingzhou can they always get information from the Chamber of Commerce.
For example, this time the mirror, their members visited the mirror before the fair.
Many conveniences made them gradually recognize the identity of members.
As Li Kaiyuan said, some members of the Chamber of Commerce smiled triumphantly. Among the crowd, they seemed to be superior.
Some businessmen who did not join the Chamber of Commerce now hesitate to join the membership.
The expressions of the businessmen were seen by Li Kaiyuan, and he secretly smiled in his heart. All this is in Xiao Ming's plan. The commercial center of Dayu State is gradually shifting to Qingzhou.
In Prince Qi's mansion, Xiao Ming no longer cared about these seven million taels of silver. In his eyes, these commodities were really pure low-end products, and the only mirror still had some technical content.
But this is far from what he is after.
Qingzhou’s industry is only in its infancy, and more products with higher technological content will be launched one after another.
These products are produced by the talents cultivated in Bowen Academy.
And his current task is to carry out several major projects, one of which is the reinforced concrete city wall in Cangzhou.
During this period, Zhan Xingchang has been preparing building materials in Cangzhou, and the steel workshop has also been producing steel bars. Now the conditions are met, only construction is needed.
The news that Wang Xuan brought the barbarians to study artillery really worried Xiao Ming.
Before Shanhaiguan was broken, this Cangzhou was just a small city. It wasn't until the barbarians came in that Niu Ben led people to build this wall. In fact, the wall was not very strong.
Later, Zhanxingchang's strengthening was only to increase the firing position of the artillery, and the city walls were still not reinforced much.
If the barbarians really came with artillery, this city wall would still be really dangerous, at least the city gate could easily be penetrated by artillery shells.
Therefore, after the silver liang was sufficient, he not only sent tens of thousands of slaves ~EbookFREE.me~, but also allocated silver liang to hire local people in Cangzhou to participate in the construction of the city wall.
This is also to fight for time with the barbarians, because with the national power of the barbarians, if you really find a craftsman who understands artillery technology, it is probably only a matter of time to produce artillery.
Based on this situation, Xiao Ming is going to personally go to Cangzhou to arrange the construction of the new city wall. After all, Zhan Xingchang and him are still far behind for the construction.
Outside the palace, aster had prepared a carriage for Xiao Ming.
Xiao Ming came to the door and said: "Weaving Workshop can't slack off. You must see the sails when the king returns."
Zixuan nodded and said, "Your Highness, you have to be careful when you go to Cangzhou."
After all, he looked at Niu Ben, Lu Fei, Luo Xin, and two thousand cavalry. After capturing a lot of barbarian war horses last time, the cavalry in Qingzhou expanded a lot.
It's just that Aster was not thinking about this, but she felt that Xiao Ming's trip to Cangzhou was not just for the city wall.
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