Small supermarket welcomes visitors from all directions

Chapter 88 Preparing for the Auction

"Miss Xiaoyue, I guarantee that there are only minerals inside." Duke Lu wanted to say, this thing is not valuable, why would they use other things to deceive you?
"Can I open it and take a look?" Wang Yue asked, very curious about what kind of mineral could be so light. Even a bag of water like this wouldn't be able to be lifted so easily by herself!
"Look!" Duke Lu didn't care.

"Come on, Sister Liu, let's take a look at what this is." Wang Yue opened the tied strap.

He took out an irregular lump about one foot long from his pocket. It was white and had many irregular honeycombs on it.

"Let me see! Wow! It's so light!" Liu Xuehua took the object from Wang Yue's hand and was surprised at the light weight in her hand.

"This thing doesn't look like mineral at all. Is it really that magical? Can it really not be melted by fire?" This thing looks like a honeycomb no matter how you look at it.

"Okay, it's useless for you to just look at it. Let's find someone who can look at it. Pack it up so that we can connect it with Public Security Bureau Lu." Song Ji Yang took the ore from Wang Yue's hand and put it in his pocket.

After Song Ji Yang and Duke Lu confirmed the weight of the two ores, Duke Lu went back.

"Ayan! Where should we send these ores?" Wang Yue was quite curious.

"I just checked. This is a substance that does not exist on Earth. The density of the black ore is really very high. If my estimate is correct, it should be two or three points higher than gold and silver. There is no substance with this density on Earth at present."

"I feel that these things are not simple. I have contacted Wanjie Company to come and take them away. They will be sent directly from here to the Chinese Academy of Sciences later." Song Ji Yang has already made arrangements.

"I didn't expect these minerals to be so important." Come to think of it, they are unique to other dimensions after all.

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The supermarket is busy delivering ore to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Tang Qiao is also busy at the moment, so busy that he has no time to spare!

All transactions with the supermarket have been handed over to Prince Fu. After Tang Qiaozhi participated in the modern auction, he returned to the Ming Dynasty to prepare for their own auction.

Actually, I wasn't that busy originally. Didn't I discuss with the supermarket that I wanted to go there to study for a while? At that time, Song Jiyang applied for it, and now the leader has approved it.

Tang Qiao can attend classes at University A in Wang Yue's city as an auditor.

A University is a comprehensive university with more than 50 disciplines, including economics, metallurgy, art, medicine, agriculture, forestry, etc.

It meets Tang Qiao's needs very well, so Tang Qiao has to finish the work at hand quickly and then go to modern university.

Many auctions are held at night, but this time due to weather reasons, the temperature at night was not very friendly, so we had no choice but to choose to hold it in the afternoon.

The venue chosen was the Royal Villa, which was large enough and had hosted large banquets in the past. It had complete facilities and all we needed was to set up a stage.

Of course, Tang Qiao, who has been influenced by modern culture, would definitely not simply build a platform and call it a day.

It is originally in the Chinese garden style, and there is no way to add too many things, otherwise it will easily become neither Western nor Chinese.

For a large-scale event like this, flowers are indispensable, but it is very difficult to find flowers now that the temperature has dropped for three months. Even with a large greenhouse, only one in ten flowers survived, and those that survived had lost all their leaves and were dormant.

There are many cheap and beautiful flowers in modern times, but in this freezing weather, Tang Qiao dared not buy them, as these beautiful flowers might turn into ice sculptures in an instant. Wang Yue recommended artificial flowers to him. In Wang Yue's words, as long as they are not cut with a knife or burned with fire, they can live for a hundred years, and they are very cost-effective.

So I ordered 200 pots of artificial flowers from the supermarket, and I estimate that I will order more after this auction.

I also ordered 100 rechargeable LED lights from the supermarket, but I can’t sell them to the people in Daming. There is no place to charge them! Even the most commonly used solar energy can’t be used. They don’t have the sun now!

Tang Qiao placed these one hundred rechargeable LED lights on the roof and surrounding walls.

For the sake of effect, Tang Qiao also ordered 100 full-length mirrors, which were also placed around the hall and at the entrance. Each mirror was priced from 500 to 1,000 taels. The sizes were all the same, the only difference was the decoration of the frame.

There are also price tags on the artificial flowers. If you like these two things, you can take them away directly.

The original plan was to hold a purchasing meeting before the auction, that is, to sell those items that could not be included in the auction first, so that customers could have a look at them while waiting for the auction to start. Moreover, not everyone who came to the auction had the ability to participate in the bidding, but those who did have good financial strength did not want to lose these customers.

Now, because the decision to add moissanite was made just two days ago, Tang Qiao wanted to make a splash at the auction, so he moved the pre-auction purchasing meeting to after the auction.

There were no diamonds in the Ming Dynasty, let alone moissanite. The only similar thing was crystal, but crystal cannot be compared with moissanite.

It was because of moissanite that Tang Qiao thought of buying a hundred LED lights, which can only emit that shocking light under light and sunlight.

The sun is not interested, and the lights are also annoying. These lights were fully charged in the supermarket. I guess after this use, these lights will be left in the warehouse to gather dust.

It can be said that Tang Qiao has great expectations for moissanite. If he cannot auction it off at a satisfactory price, Tang Qiao will vomit blood.

The main purpose of this auction is to make money, so those who come are powerful and wealthy.

Those fallen nobles and officials who relied on their salaries to support their families were not invited this time.

There are also powerful businessmen from all over the country. No matter what is being sold at the auction organized by the Prince Fu’s Mansion, the invitation letters have been sent to their homes. Why wouldn’t they go?

This resulted in one-third of the population being dignitaries and two-thirds being businessmen.

Even two days ago, Prince Fu blatantly said that I hold auctions just to make money. Those who have received invitations should give me a good offer. If you feel that you do not have enough strength, you can return the invitation letter.

All the money I get from the auction this time will be used to sell rice. If you don’t have money, you can donate some rice. And then there’s the saying that extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.

Who is Prince Fu? He is the brother of the current emperor, and they have a very good relationship. What Prince Fu said is no different from what the current emperor said.

Of course, Emperor Yonghui would definitely not say this, at least not from his own mouth, so he still had to keep this fig leaf.

So, both good and bad things have been said, and it is up to you how you understand it.

For the sake of the auction, Prince Fu fought hard and even threatened. In fact, Prince Fu was also forced. The disaster had happened for so long, and the future was unclear. Many people did not dare to spend money.