Kai Fu Han

Chapter 164 Auction
After receiving the order, the translator led the dozen merchants who boarded the ship towards the cabin on the bottom floor of the Qizhou. Liu Xinqi could vaguely hear him introducing the goods that the Xinghan League planned to sell to the Korean merchants one by one.

The Weizhou has been picking up three waves of people, and the Laizhou has just sent a signal. There are no merchants on the ship or on the shore for the time being.

After receiving the signal, Liu Xinqi immediately began to organize the merchants who had boarded the ship to come to the deck.

There are 41 merchants in total.

Gathering these businessmen together, Liu Xinqi began to introduce the rules of the sale.

Liu Xinqi's plan is to divide all the goods brought this time into small portions and then sell them to these merchants through auction.

The manpower of Xinghan League this time is not enough to directly face individual consumers, so it can only distribute.

And in the future, if we want to sell Xinghan League's industrial products to various places in Goryeo, we can only rely on these local distributors.

Start identifying and cultivating them bit by bit now so that you can use them in the future.

"This sale takes the form of an auction. A group of goods is put on the stage, and everyone starts bidding, and the one with the highest price wins."

"If you have specific questions or don't understand, let's bring a few groups of low-value goods first. After a few times, I believe everyone here is smart and will understand."

After Liu Xinqi explained, he asked someone to send ten kitchen knives, all of which were made of steel, but belonged to low-carbon steel.

The disadvantage is that higher carbon steel is softer. The advantage is that it is easy to sharpen. If the blade is old, you can sharpen it yourself.

"Let our soldiers demonstrate it to everyone."

The soldier who brought the knife carried a big fish one foot long.First, knock the fish on the head with the back of the knife to knock it out. Then, without scraping the scales, just cut off the fish tail with one stroke.

The businessman watching below didn't show any surprise. It was normal to remove the tail with one knife. The part where the fish's tail connects to the body has no hard bones and is the thinnest.

Then the soldier raised the knife and continued to cut, one knife after another, and quickly and easily cut the whole fish into finger-wide fish pieces, all with one knife, even the fish scales at the bottom attached to the chopping board were all cut off with one knife.

This operation directly suppressed all the Korean merchants on the scene.

"Can I try it?"

A Korean businessman said.

"can!"

Liu Xinqi agreed.

After the Korean businessman came to the stage, he took the knife from the soldier and was about to test the knife on the fish block on the chopping board. A soldier from the Xinghan League next to him handed over another fish, cleaned up the scattered fish blocks on the chopping board, and vacated it. chopping board.

This Korean man must be used to using a knife. He also knocked the fish unconscious with the back of the knife, and then slashed towards the belly of the fish with one knife.

But in the end, he did not cut the fish into two sections with one knife like a warrior, and the scales on the side of the fish that were close to the chopping board were not cut off.

This is because the strength of warriors is three to four times that of ordinary people. It is normal for ordinary people to not be able to do this.

"I want all ten knives." The Korean businessman pulled out the knife and looked at the blade. He found that there was no damage or chip visible to the naked eye and shouted directly.

"You go down first and follow the rules."

Liu Xinqi did not agree to his purchase request.

After the man went down and sat down, Liu Xinqi started the auction.

"The knives have been tried, and now the auction begins. These ten kitchen knives are all made of steel. Each one costs one tael of silver. The starting price is ten taels. The base price is ten taels of silver. Each increase in price must not be less than one tael of silver."

"11 taels." As soon as Liu Xinqi finished speaking, the Korean businessman who had just come on stage to test the knife shouted directly.

This man is really more like a Tuo than a Tuo.Liu Xinqi simply did not continue to be wordy:
"This person bids 11 taels. Is there any higher price?"

"12 taels."

"13 taels."

...

Finally, after Liu Xinqi confirmed three times that no one had raised the price, the price was set at 17 taels, and the highest bidder was the Korean businessman who had tried the knife before.Other Korean merchants were quite sensible and did not increase prices indiscriminately.

A translator presented the voucher to the merchant with the highest bid.

"With the voucher, you can pay the money and deliver the goods on the shore after disembarking from the ship. The transaction is completed within six days. We will return to Zhao after six days. The voucher expires and becomes invalid."

"If the transaction is completed within the limited time limit, the 100 taels of silver deposit will be fully refunded. If the transaction is not completed within the limited time limit, the 100 taels of silver will be confiscated as liquidated damages."

"I hope everyone can raise money as soon as possible after disembarking and complete the transaction."

"Businessmen with good reputation, next time we come here, we will give priority to trading with them."

"The auction method of selling Xinghanmeng's goods will only be used for the first few times. After we identify enough merchants with good reputation, we will trade with these merchants with good reputation for a long time in the future and directly price and supply goods. And we will only trade with these merchants with good reputation. Merchants we recognize will not trade with other merchants."

“I hope everyone will cherish these auction opportunities.”

Then Liu Xinqi began to auction the next item.

Five items of lower value were auctioned in succession, and two more Korean merchants joined the venue midway.

After feeling that these people had clearly understood the auction rules, Liu Xinqi began to change the host, and the value of the auction items began to rise.

Starting from long sword weapons, the starting price of a single item has increased to ten taels of silver.

As more and more treasures were brought out, the atmosphere at the scene became more and more enthusiastic, and the transaction price exceeded the starting price by an increasing amount.

After the auction of the long knives, the auction of vanity mirrors slightly larger than a palm began.

Then there are glassware, glass ornaments and so on.

Today Liu Xinqi only spent [-]% of the total number of goods he planned to sell in Goryeo. Because today was the first day, neither party had established trust, and the merchants who came must not have the same weight, so the price would definitely be affected, so he only sold a small part.

On the one hand, mutual trust is established, and on the other hand, businessmen with greater power and strength are attracted to participate.

The last item in the auction was cement. Since the price of food in Kaijing was not low and was higher than that in Dengzhou, Liu Xinqi also raised the starting price of cement.

The starting price for a thousand kilograms is one tael of silver, which is [-]% higher than the price preset before departure.

However, for a new thing like cement, the participating businessmen did not have high recognition and did not actively participate.

For a set of cement, one hundred stones, only one businessman tried to quote a starting price of "twelve taels", but no one raised the price, and then it was sold to him at the starting price.

Seeing this situation, Liu Xinqi immediately stopped the follow-up cement auction, and planned to wait for two more days until the effect of the cement was confirmed by these people before mass auctioning.

The auction lasted until noon, and both the organizers and the participating Korean merchants were hungry. Liu Xinqi did not leave these merchants to eat, but directly sent a boat to take them off the ship.

Now is not the time to get close, and it is estimated that no one has such thoughts.

The Korean merchants immediately returned to Kaijing after disembarking.

(End of this chapter)