Chapter 368 (2/2)

Ming Qingda didn't say anything, but his heart was as clear as a oods yesterday to turn the other Jiangnanould take a bite of anyone's meat

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When two sealed leather envelopes had been handed into Flower Hall, all of the merchants and officials placed their buttocks back in their seats and let out a turbid breathThey knew the good show had officially begun

It seeuess the direction in which this shoas going

The door to room B1 was slowly pushed open and a sealed leather envelope was handed to the official outside of the door

The Quanzhou Sun family!

The entire yard exploded into a claht that the Quanzhou Sun faers were fighting

”The Sun fa Lanshi+ looked in shock at his father and said, ”Where did his fada's expression did not change”The Sun fahCan a few fa, that old bastard, has beco at our family? If they didn't have a secret rown on my face yet!”

In the rand chairs all had their own thoughtsFan Xian had long expected this develop and Guo Zheng were gnashi+ng their teeth, thinking, that Quanzhou Sun fa to come out at this azes of everyone, the results of the first round of bidding came outFan Xian held the price contrast sheet fro in his heart, thinking that the Ming faood reasonIn Fan Xian's plan, the last four lots hen he and the Ming fah the amount of silver moved fro of a route, so there was still an upper limitFurthermore, Xia Qifei had taken five lots in a row and paid out a huge amount in deposits

If it was possible to falsely raise the price with no limits, Xia Qifei could si family continuously vo QingdaHe see only a master in nameFan Xian was unable to determine if he actually falsely raised the price or whether or not Ming Qingda would disregard the Eldest Princess' orders and wisely cut his losses

With the amount of silver Fan Xian had in hand, if he used it to raise the price, he was only certain of being able to heavy hurt the Ming fa family actually did play it ruthlessly in the third round and let go of the four bound lots…and Xia Qifei raised the price too high, there could only be two results: One, he would completely be unable to pay the 40 percent depositAfter successfully winning the first four bound lots, he would have nothing left and could only watch as the Ming family easy took the last four bound lotsThe second result was not one that Fan Xian wantedHe had no way of controlling the route used for s family, it was a bid they could not lose out onAs for hi of little valueHe did not want Xia Qifei to truly win that bidBut, if the Ming family easily took the last four bound lots, Fan Xian could not s that either

As for the first possibility—if the price really did explode—under the covetous eyes of Eunuch Huang and Guo Zheng and the gazes of all these people, all of the previous efforts for the palace treasury matter would have been wastedXia Qifei would probably have no way to survive

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In the plan Fan Xian made earlier for this first set of four bound lots, he wanted to have the Quanzhou Sun fa was just a ruse and was not intended to be seriousSeeing the price sheet the Flower Hall handed over, Fan Xian knew that that old uessed his plans, so he bid such a terrifying number on just the first round

The Sun fae he had sent last night through shi+ Chanli

Faced with such a powerful suppression by the Ming fa fah both civil and an to worry that perhaps the Sun fa as to not increase their bid

The situation indeed developed in the direction that Fan Xian did not wish to seeWhen the announcer called out the Ming fa of silver, the yard filled with noise

FroainThe Sun family had indeed been scared

Fan Xian narrowed his eyes and looked at the two an to calculate whether or not these two ated, participated very little in the assassination incident last nightTheXia Qifei see today, it was able to scare away ht to profit froda was truly a person who used opportunities like this, and even used his own mother, then Fan Xian felt there was a need to re-evaluate the other party

After the bidding fro stroked their beards and s's chin, so it appeared a little funnyBut, it could be seen that these tere very pleased with the actions of the Ming fah the , Xia Qifei gave Fan Xian an inquiring look

Fan Xian sighed helplessly and used the palm of his hands to snal for Xia Qifei to go slowlySince the Sun fa, but these bidsfamily, but it could also not be too ruthlessIt had to make the other party take over these first four bound lots in a satisfactorythese four bound lots to hih Xia Qifei had the old officials from the Ministry of Revenue to help, it was still difficult to handle the ain stood on the stone stepsWhat they had twice expected, the fierce fa family and the Seventh, did not happenThe bandit in rooression froh they were being cautious, the price of this first four bound lot was still slowly raised to a shocking price that left people bug-eyed and du family had bid a price in the first round that was already 20 percent higher than that of last year's final priceThe other reason was because room B4 wrapped around the other party like sticky candy

In the end, the successful bid went, as expected, to the Ming familyThis result was the sa price was very different

5,120,000!

Everyone's ht that if the palace treasury's rule for bidding was five rounds, Xia Qifei in rooda in room A1 would probably raise this price to twice that of last years

This price was truly absurdly high

Fan Xian knew this only showed that when the palace treasury was under the control of the Eldest Princess, the price for the right to sell palace treasury goods was absurdly lowAt this price, the Ming faht even still be able to turn a large profit, Of course, this was under the condition that the Ming fa business and continue their sht under Fan Xian's eyes

Thus Fan Xian s fa but throwfamily, 5,120,000 wins!”

As the usually listless official announced the highest bid in the dozens years of the palace treasury opening bid, he finally appeared spiritedThe voice he used to announce the price was powerful and resonatingThe ”wins” word left his , it appeared very clean

Nofamily, the merchants also felt a thread of excitement and cheered for this amount

On the contrary, it was the father and son in roon of joyParticularly Ming Qingda, who had a thin line of worry between his brows

He was thinking the same as Fan Xian, if there wasn't the aid of some shady methods, these four lots…were certain to be a loss

Most i Xia Qifei oodIn a moment, the deposit for this bid of 5,120,00 would be 2 million…furthermore, the other party's true battle for the bid would definitely be at the end

Last night, the Ming Garden had pulled together silver through the nightThe six houses only pulled together 600,000 liang, far re the old matriarch had setThis bid for the four bound lots had far exceeded Ming Qingda's esti to do later?

There was still half of Taiping money house's silver left, but no one kneould happen nextMing Qingda's hands gently pressed on the wooden box beside hilanced his exhausted looking father and felt his heart wrenchHe knew his father had not slept at all last nightHe had gone to a few of the big money houses in Suzhou to transfer silverNot until the early hours of the h to put his heart at easeIn this box was the cash banknotes that the Zhaoshang ency

”Do you think that the i Qingda sighed tiredly

Ming Lanshi+ did not kno to reply

The sun had shi+fted to into thetook a break with the bailiffs of the Suzhou govern in food for the various h the food provided by the officials was not as delicate and sophisticated as it usually was in the houses' of these giant merchants, they still ate with relishThey moved closer to the dispirited Quanzhou Sun faerly anticipating the afternoon; that was the final battleIn the iant su level would the afternoon reach?

No one noticed Ming Qingda silently walking up to theat the side hall where the i to avoid suspicion, he s and Is I want to report to the i and Guo Zheng were greatly shocked, thinking: What is he playing at? Was the Ming fa to lean to Fan Xian's side in front of everyone? But it wouldn't be so public…Ming Qingda had long nificant relations with the officials at courtHe also had his own dignityEunuch Huang and Guo Zheng da, so they s him and Fan Xian space to talk

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There was no one else in the hallMing Qingda lifted the front of his robe with some difficulty and knelt in front of Fan XianHe did not say anything

Fan Xian had a bowl in hand and chopsticks in the other, and he was currentlydelectably to eatHis gaze did not drift to that side at all, he only said, ”The four bound lots at the end, I…will still bid for them”

Chapter 368 Pride Was Not As Heavy As GoldTranslator Nyoi Bo Studio Editor Nyoi Bo StudioAlthough ht s sleep, one to bed for the entire nightThe palace treasury spring bidding still opened on ti despite the major event that happened in SuzhouThese were the past rules of the courtEven though Eunuch Huang and Guo Zheng had cited the lockdown on Suzhou and Xia Qifei s assassination attempt in their request to postpone the date of the transport co for a few days, Fan Xian remained resolute and decisiveHe valiantly requested that the bidding start on ti faht of tiiven more reaction time, who knehat else could happen Fan Xian rubbed the sore point between his brows and forcefully hid the tiredness on his face as he watched the h the expressions on these Jiangnan giant e emotion hidden in their eyesIt seemed that the ht had brought enormous complications for themFan Xian was teood or bad for his planThe father and son of the Ming family were the second last to enter the courtyardBehind them followed the clan s close servant and accounts masterHis face wore a warm smile, and he saluted all aroundThe officials and merchants skiazeNo one dared appear to be overly friendly in front of Fan Xian with the Ming fa fa and Guo Zheng greeted the their support of the other partyFan Xian watched coldlyHe s his hand for the other party to take their seatsMing Qingda s expression was very strange but appeared to be calmIt seemed that, for so revenge for the matter of Xia Qifei s attempted assassinationBefore the front doors closed, the Jiangnan water bandits also arrivedBehind Xia Qifei, other than the few old officials of the Ministry of Revenue that Fan Xian had sent over, there were only three close guards leftThe other brothers had died last night on the streetXia Qifei s face was deathly paleIt seemed that the heavy injury had not had a chance to heal at allToday s reat importance, so he had to coes on his body, the white cloth on his forehead appeared to be particularly piercing and brightHis subordinates behind hi white strips of cloth on their foreheadsIn the spring weather, it emanated an ice like coldThis was the first tih the palace treasury doorsThe gazes of everyone in the courtyard were ai and carried afamily and Quanzhou Sun fareeted Xia Qifei, quietly offering words of comfortWith the support of his subordinates, Xia Qifei slowly approached the lance at the father and son in the first roo and Guo Zheng s faces were a strange colorThe corner of Fan Xian s eye twitched, but he iht hand and said fir as you come, there will be a seat for you hereEveryone understood thewere completely unable to use these words to accuse Fan Xian of anythingThe Jiangnan governor, Xue Qing, had excused himself due to illness, so in the courtyard, Fan Xian s title was the highestIt was clear that Xue Qing was giving Fan Xian free reign to do as he likedThe Ming family s supporters would not just watch as the situation came under Fan Xian s controlAfter a quiet whisper, Eunuch Huang said, Sir Xia, I heard that the fighting aht in Suzhou, and you suffered many losses but, it does not confor into the yardXia Qifei s birth was, after all, dishonorable, thus thefa Conference carry out the killingAfter all, if they could kill Xia Qifei, it would solve many proble on the jianghuEunuch Huang s words were nothing more than to make this point realFan Xian did not care to bicker about such no s does not conforrewIn a quiet voice, he said, Eunuch Huang, do not h these words were spoken quietly, his voice was like it had been scraped out of a crevasse in a glacier, like it had coroundThat icy chill caused all those who heard it to shi+ver without being coldDo nots ears and caused him to involuntarily shi+verHe quickly shut his et in a huff with the wretched youth he would let hihtAs long as he kept an eye out, nothing would go wrongIf, at this time, he let Fan Xian use this opportunity to flip out who could stop hier pictureTo the side, Guo Zheng, who had been about to open his mouth, also felt his heart chillHe quickly sed the words he had been about to sayLast night, they had all expected Fan Xian to act ier they had all already written their ainst Fan XianUnexpectedly, he had, on the contrary, reatly disappointed hi, and they were both aware that they didn t knohen that nefarious flame Fan Xian kept bottled up in heart would explode outThinking of thealso retreatedThe Eldest Princess only wanted to protect the Ming family s shares, not their reputationThere was another cannon boomThe confetti fleildly outside in the courtyard, and the sradually thickenedFan Xian narrowed his eyes and looked at the somewhat familiar sceneFor sojing, Northern Qi, theMohanOn that day, the firecrackers on Shangjing s city gates that were sending hiWere the firecrackers today sending off those who had died last night Xia Qifei led his subordinates silently into room B4 and removed the strip of white cloth froht as a brushHis brothers behind him followed their boss and removed their white cloths and spread them outLine by line, bold and powerfulFan Xian s brows furrowed his brows very slightly, as to be barely noticeable, as he thought about soThe palace treasury official responsible for announceain stood at the top of the stone stepsThe second day of the palace treasury bidding had officially begunYesterday, there had been five lots the palace treasury had 16 lotsOther than the last two portions that were bound eight lots, there were three lots left and placed at the start to be announcedThe Ming fanan merchants and did not bidOn the contrary, it seeht s incident and made bids very steadilyHe took one of the lots, and the other ton by the Lingnan Xiong fa that had been agreed on last night at the Jiangnan RestaurantThe lots that Xia Qifei had taken were still on the Northern routeWhen Fan Xian received the bid from Flower Hall and confirmed that Xia Qifei had won the bid, he couldn t resist secretly nodding his headXia Qifei had not let his ereatly approved of thisThe bidding on these three lots progressed without excitementThe prices were about the sa about them at allNone of the merchants and officials present had much of a reaction at all because everyone knew today s iht lots that the Ming faoods of the Second workshopA total of four lots, bidding beginsThe highest bidder wins The official of the palace treasury transport company stood on the stone steps and called out with expressionHe had no idea howthese wordsEvery year after the words were called, only the Ming family would bid no one would co, without interest and dullBut, this year was not the sameAfter the sound of the announcement landed, the first to push open their door and hand out the leather envelope was room B4The courtyard burst into noise as countless voices rose in discussionXia Qifei, this abandoned Seventh young ainst the Ming faeIt see expected this situationIn previous years, because of the strength of his fa fronanfaht lots was the same as the Cui fa rolesAfter playing these roles for too long, it would eventually feel tiringToday, there was finally so a slight fear, Ming Qingda also felt a thread of excitehtly and said to his son beside hi Lanshi+ paled in shockHis father intended to raise last year s final price by 20 percent in the first round of bidding If, in a h silver and continued on how could they hold it Ming Qingda raised the tea cup beside him and drank a mouthful, and slowly said, The extra 20 percent isn t to crush Xia Qifei it s to crush othersMing Lanshi+ was confusedToday in the palace treasury courtyard, other than Xia Qifei, who had the support of the imperial envoy Who else dared to coe lots In the heart of this young master, he was still convinced that Xia Qifei s confidence ca silver from the Ministry of Revenue, and the others did not have this power at allMing Qingda didn t say anything, but his heart was as clear as a oods yesterday to turn the other Jiangnanould take a bite of anyone s meatWhen two sealed leather envelopes had been handed into Flower Hall, all of the merchants and officials placed their buttocks back in their seats and let out a turbid breathThey knew the good show had officially begunIt seeuess the direction in which this shoas goingThe door to room B1 was slowly pushed open and a sealed leather envelope was handed to the official outside of the doorThe Quanzhou Sun faht that the Quanzhou Sun faers were fightingThe Sun fa Lanshi+ looked in shock at his father and said, Where did his fada s expression did not changeThe Sun fahCan a few fa, that old bastard, has beco at our family If they didn t have a secret rown onin the three grand chairs all had their own thoughtsFan Xian had long expected this develop and Guo Zheng were gnashi+ng their teeth, thinking, that Quanzhou Sun fa to coazes of everyone, the results of the first round of bidding came outFan Xian held the price contrast sheet fro in his heart, thinking that the Ming faood reasonIn Fan Xian s plan, the last four lots hen he and the Ming fah the amount of silver moved fro of a route, so there was still an upper limitFurthermore, Xia Qifei had taken five lots in a row and paid out a huge amount in depositsIf it was possible to falsely raise the price with no limits, Xia Qifei could si family continuously vo QingdaHe see only a master in nameFan Xian was unable to determine if he actually falsely raised the price or whether or not Ming Qingda would disregard the Eldest Princess orders and wisely cut his lossesWith the amount of silver Fan Xian had in hand, if he used it to raise the price, he was only certain of being able to heavy hurt the Ming fa family actually did play it ruthlessly in the third round and let go of the four bound lots and Xia Qifei raised the price too high, there could only be two results One, he would completely be unable to pay the 40 percent depositAfter successfully winning the first four bound lots, he would have nothing left and could only watch as the Ming family easy took the last four bound lotsThe second result was not one that Fan Xian wantedHe had no way of controlling the route used for s family, it was a bid they could not lose out onAs for hi of little valueHe did not want Xia Qifei to truly win that bidBut, if the Ming family easily took the last four bound lots, Fan Xian could not s that eitherAs for the first possibility if the price really did explode under the covetous eyes of Eunuch Huang and Guo Zheng and the gazes of all these people, all of the previous efforts for the palace treasury matter would have been wastedXia Qifei would probably have no way to surviveIn the plan Fan Xian made earlier for this first set of four bound lots, he wanted to have the Quanzhou Sun fa was just a ruse and was not intended to be seriousSeeing the price sheet the Flower Hall handed over, Fan Xian knew that that old uessed his plans, so he bid such a terrifying number on just the first roundThe Sun fae he had sent last night through shi+ ChanliFaced with such a powerful suppression by the Ming fa fah both civil and an to worry that perhaps the Sun fa as to not increase their bidThe situation indeed developed in the direction that Fan Xian did not wish to seeWhen the announcer called out the Ming fa of silver, the yard filled with noiseFroainThe Sun family had indeed been scaredFan Xian narrowed his eyes and looked at the two an to calculate whether or not these two ated, participated very little in the assassination incident last nightTheXia Qifei see today, it was able to scare away ht to profit froda was truly a person who used opportunities like this, and even used his own mother, then Fan Xian felt there was a need to re evaluate the other partyAfter the bidding fro stroked their beards and s s chin, so it appeared a little funnyBut, it could be seen that these tere very pleased with the actions of the Ming fah the , Xia Qifei gave Fan Xian an inquiring lookFan Xian sighed helplessly and used the palm of his hands to snal for Xia Qifei to go slowlySince the Sun fa, but these bidsfamily, but it could also not be too ruthlessIt had to make the other party take over these first four bound lots in a satisfactorythese four bound lots to hih Xia Qifei had the old officials from the Ministry of Revenue to help, it was still difficult to handle the ain stood on the stone stepsWhat they had twice expected, the fierce fa family and the Seventh, did not happenThe bandit in rooression froh they were being cautious, the price of this first four bound lot was still slowly raised to a shocking price that left people bug eyed and du family had bid a price in the first round that was already 20 percent higher than that of last year s final priceThe other reason was because room B4 wrapped around the other party like sticky candyIn the end, the successful bid went, as expected, to the Ming familyThis result was the sa price was very different5,120,000 Everyone s ht that if the palace treasury s rule for bidding was five rounds, Xia Qifei in rooda in room A1 would probably raise this price to twice that of last yearsThis price was truly absurdly highFan Xian knew this only showed that when the palace treasury was under the control of the Eldest Princess, the price for the right to sell palace treasury goods was absurdly lowAt this price, the Ming faht even still be able to turn a large profit, Of course, this was under the condition that the Ming fa business and continue their sht under Fan Xian s eyesThus Fan Xian s fa but throwfamily, 5,120,000 wins As the usually listless official announced the highest bid in the dozens years of the palace treasury opening bid, he finally appeared spiritedThe voice he used to announce the price was powerful and resonatingThe ord left his , it appeared very cleanNofamily, the merchants also felt a thread of excitement and cheered for this amountOn the contrary, it was the father and son in roon of joyParticularly Ming Qingda, who had a thin line of worry between his browsHe was thinking the same as Fan Xian, if there wasn t the aid of some shady methods, these four lots were certain to be a lossMost i Xia Qifei oodIn a moment, the deposit for this bid of 5,120,00 would be 2 million furthermore, the other party s true battle for the bid would definitely be at the endLast night, the Ming Garden had pulled together silver through the nightThe six houses only pulled together 600,000 liang, far re the old matriarch had setThis bid for the four bound lots had far exceeded Ming Qingda s esti to do later There was still half of Taiping money house s silver left, but no one kneould happen nextMing Qingda s hands gently pressed on the wooden box beside hilanced his exhausted looking father and felt his heart wrenchHe knew his father had not slept at all last nightHe had gone to a few of the big money houses in Suzhou to transfer silverNot until the early hours of the h to put his heart at easeIn this box was the cash banknotes that the Zhaoshang encyDo you think that the i Qingda sighed tiredlyMing Lanshi+ did not kno to replyThe sun had shi+fted to into thetook a break with the bailiffs of the Suzhou govern in food for the various h the food provided by the officials was not as delicate and sophisticated as it usually was in the houses of these giant merchants, they still ate with relishThey moved closer to the dispirited Quanzhou Sun faerly anticipating the afternoon that was the final battleIn the iant su level would the afternoon reach No one noticed Ming Qingda silently walking up to theat the side hall where the i to avoid suspicion, he s and Is I want to report to the i and Guo Zheng were greatly shocked, thinking What is he playing at Was the Ming fa to lean to Fan Xian s side in front of everyone But it wouldn t be so public Ming Qingda had long nificant relations with the officials at courtHe also had his own dignityEunuch Huang and Guo Zheng da, so they s him and Fan Xian space to talkThere was no one else in the hallMing Qingda lifted the front of his robe with some difficulty and knelt in front of Fan XianHe did not say anythingFan Xian had a bowl in hand and chopsticks in the other, and he was currentlydelectably to eatHis gaze did not drift to that side at all, he only said, The four bound lots at the end, I will still bid for them