After breakfast the next day General Duan and his men came to take Ji Jiu to the auction house. Yesterday evening, her men had already brought some jade to distribute. As for the Kangnang family, Brother Wenting was asked to wait for them when they got home.
Aunt Qiao and Uncle Yu didn't go with Ji Jiu. The two mothers and daughters saw the expensive things there and didn't want to go there again to cause lust. Today, only Ji Wenting followed Ji Jiu. The others rested at the inn before returning tomorrow. Third The young man is also responsible for taking care of the goat that Ji Jiu bought yesterday. They don't trust others to take care of their children's things.
Ji Jiu didn't intend to offend her people in the first place. So she went with the old man with a smile. In her small purse, there was only a bill of exchange of over three thousand taels left. If her red reishi mushrooms were auctioned at a good price today She probably had enough money to start a business. Ji Jiu still couldn't think of a good field of work to do. Heck, in an era without technological assistance, she would probably have to dig up the memories she had read through her eyes while designing work in her previous life. Otherwise, don't expect her to have a career in this era with her little talent.
When they arrived at the auction house, General Duan had his guards bring Red Reishi mushrooms to Long Zhu to prepare for auctioning. He followed his servants up to sit and wait for the auction in a special room on the third floor, which was his nephew Ji Jiu's private room. Ji Wenting obediently followed the old man. She didn't dare walk side by side with him and let others watch her. So he could only walk away, as if she were just a follower.
Their group sat in the chairs provided for them, directly in front of Ji Jiu was a window with a clear view of the auction stage. She also thought that the auction house was really well designed. They raised the stage so that people below and above could see without difficulty. The chairs were arranged and there were small tables with fruit and snacks for guests to count on. that the service here was the best that she had ever encountered when going to other shops. You must know that since she came to this era Ji Jiu had never eaten a single fruit. Maybe it was because she came during a drought. So there was not even a single bit of fruit found on the mountain. Today, when she had the opportunity to eat, Ji Jiu didn't have any consideration. She sat and ate the fruit while chatting with the old man with delight.
General Duan saw that Ji Jiu seemed to prefer fruit to snacks, so he signaled to the guards to order more for her until today's auction ended. Ji Wenting heard this and wanted to laugh. He also just knew that his young lady liked to eat fruit. She played around and ate, hardly stopping for a break. Who wouldn't know that she especially likes fruits? Next time if there's fruit on the mountain, He'd better get a little more for her. Since they had gone up the mountain behind the house, They never found any fruit on the trees. Waiting to see if next year there will be enough to collect or not. After all, that mountain is just behind their house.
Shortly after, the auction began. A beautiful young woman was the host, introducing items on the auction stage. Ji Jiu saw below that there were people who looked like ordinary people. There were also merchants, some of whom looked like nobles. General Duan also explained to her that on the second floor, there were five special rooms for wealthy customers. If anyone wants to use the extra room, they will have to pay 20 baht. Ji Jiu found out why the auction house looked so rich. Well, they play to save money with people who have bags of money and like to make faces with them. The more people who like to show off their wealth, the more they are willing to go out of their pockets and pay without holding back like this.
Most of the items being auctioned are from other regions. Whether it's jewelry Famous paintings, calligraphy, weapons, herbs, and various valuable texts are still available. Medicines from famous doctors are also auctioned. Most of the valuable herbs have not been auctioned for a long time. General Duan told her that the medicinal herbs were already considered the most valuable in each auction. Moreover, her Red Reishi Mushroom was nearly two hundred years old, just two months after the capital's auction. This is up for auction again. But General Tuan didn't ask her to make her angry. He didn't need to know where she got it from; he just facilitated her earning money.
Ji Jiu still didn't see that there was anything she was interested in. Sigh, she doubted she was thinking too much about the auction. She really didn't know what period in history this era could be compared to. Why would things that someone invented? Therefore, it never once appeared for her to see. When there was nothing she was interested in Ji Jiu sat and ate the fruit, calmly waiting to see the auction price for her red reishi mushrooms.
The rich people had already been notified yesterday that there would be an auction for red reishi mushrooms. They rushed to grab seats in the special room before Ji Jiu and General Duan had even arrived. Fortunately, the group of She walked up to the third floor through a private corridor, so no one knew that they were in a special room on the third floor. Apart from the stage host, Long Zhu, and the people taking care of them.
It's time to bid on reishi mushrooms. The starting price was two thousand taels. Ordinary people who came to have fun looking at rare items were shocked by the red reishi mushroom as big as a palm. They had only seen small red reishi mushrooms that were only a few decades old. This mushroom that they saw and the host said was almost two hundred years old was probably true as she said. Otherwise, how could this mushroom be this big? Plus, the person who put it up for auction picked it up without any damage. If not, this mushroom would be considered an item for today's auction. They didn't know what to say anymore.
Most of these millionaires were merchants in border towns. They were hardly affected by the war at all because Prince Jun had promised them in the first place that if
They already support the army. Their Hui Province stores will remain intact. But if there are any merchants who do not cooperate When the war ended, all those shops would immediately belong to Prince Prince.
There were many rich people who believed that the Hui Province had plundered for ten years and had never failed. Therefore, they did not agree to Prince Prince's request. As a result, they were now just ordinary villagers, with all of their property and residences having been confiscated by the Zhao Province officials.
They are the only group of millionaires remaining, making the trade that previously had so many competitors virtually non-existent. They traded comfortably for both regions. causing the assets that once existed to increase even more