"Sir Hou, Lord Hou, should we start?"

Hou Fangyu was still imagining how the ocean-going fleet would go out to sea, and perhaps the feat of Zheng He's voyage to the West, but he didn't know that he had already prepared almost now.

The Western merchants below were also looking here to see if it was time to start. They did not come here for tea.

Although the tea is very good, they still want to finalize the trade matter as soon as possible, which can calculate how much money they have made this year.

For these Western businessmen, it was difficult to calculate how much money they could make in a year. After all, there were many opportunities to see how lucky you were.

If you encounter a batch of good goods, you can make more money. If you are not lucky and encounter a bad goods, you may even be hard to say for your capital.

Now the court implements a centralized trading system. Regardless of your luck or not, everything is placed here, it depends on whether you have the strength or not.

This is certainly cheaper for those big businessmen, but it also brings certain opportunities for these small businessmen.

Although they alone cannot compete with those big businessmen, they can form one group after another and gather the funds in their hands, which is also a considerable force.

Zhu Cixuan adopted this auction system, on the one hand, in order to earn their money, and on the other hand, it caused them to have internal conflicts.

Although the colonists of this era had various contradictions, they could still find common interests when facing local indigenous people most of the time.

Zhu Cilang just cannot let them find common interests, so they have to let them compete with each other, so that we can benefit.

Hou Fangyu sorted out his clothes and what he thought about just now was indeed a little fascinated. It was not a fault for himself. The future depicted by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so beautiful. Who can't think about it more if you take a boat to get money to the Ming Dynasty?

Before this auction, the two parties had already conducted a porcelain transaction, but all the previous ones were private kilns, with a number of about 3,500 pieces.

Although there are a lot of numbers, the grade is not very high. After being pulled back, it will be sold to some middle-class people, or some small landlords, and the profit is extremely limited.

This batch of exquisite things is so exquisite that it can be sold to those great nobles when taken back, which is also their profit.

Although the number of 3,500 pieces is quite large, this number still seems a bit short of money for the huge European market.

However, this is the number set by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. No matter how unwilling these foreign merchants are, we will never change it anyway.

Of course, Zhu Cixuan did this for a reason. Although Gao Li and Fusang were able to fire porcelain, their ability compared to ours was the relationship between the master and his disciples.

They have not even learned any real skills. If our porcelain could be replaced, they would probably not spend a lot of money to come here to participate in any auction.

"Everyone, please be quiet. We are about to start the auction now. The first thing we want to auction is the exquisite official kiln porcelain."

Hou Fangyu also knew that these people were unwilling to listen to him talking nonsense at this time, so he made a brief opening remark and immediately brought the official kiln porcelain.

A total of ten pieces of official kiln porcelain.

These foreigners look at me and I look at you, but they are unwilling to take the lead in bidding. According to the price they purchased in the past, just such an official kiln porcelain was about 400 taels of silver.

This price is considered to be fair in the Ming Dynasty, after all, there are many such things in the Ming Dynasty.

"The first piece is at a price of 1,000 taels of silver, and the second piece is at the auction price of the first piece..."

Hou Fangyu began to talk about the rules and the rules surprised them again.

For example, if the first official kiln porcelain is sold for 1,500 taels of silver, then the price of the second official kiln porcelain is based on 1,500 taels of silver. If this price is not reached, all the subsequent ones will be sold out.

Hou Fangyu explained very clearly, but the faces of these foreign merchants were very bitter. Although exports were controlled in the Ming Dynasty in the future, the official kiln porcelains in the past year were extremely limited, but you can't play this way.

Hou Fangyu was also very nervous. If these people didn't buy it, it would block the way. Although the export method in the past did not make much money, it was at least a way to make money.

Now that they don’t offer any price, the Ming Dynasty officials present are a little nervous. Could it be that the foreigners don’t value our porcelain very much? This is completely different from when selling tea. His Royal Highness also miscalculated it?

"We Portuguese paid 1,200 taels of silver."

Just as Hou Fangyu was considering whether to reduce the price, a Portuguese businessman sitting in the last row suddenly stood up.

This guy has never been to the Ming Dynasty to do business. This time he heard about this auction. He has found a profit point in the rules, that is, the Ming Dynasty will restrict exports, which means that such things will become less and less in the future.

Everyone understands that the principle that rare things are precious is that the Ming Dynasty restricted exports to Europe without even half of them. As long as the profits obtained by transporting this one to Europe will be amazing.

Moreover, they had already thought about the slogans about packaging. This thing was publicly auctioned by the Ming Dynasty. It was much more expensive than the porcelain shipped in the past. Just this label was placed on it. It would be absolutely fine to increase the price by three times.

The golden age of Portugal is already past, but they still occupy several huge silver mines every week, and they and the Spaniards are the richest people in the world.

And they also like these things from the Ming Dynasty the most, and they have always been the most powerful buyers of these things.

"One thousand six hundred taels of silver."

English businessmen are not willing to be outdone. The reason why they did not bid just now was to see other people's attitudes.

Since the fight has started, there is nothing to say. If you have this kind of thing in your hands and others don’t have it, it will be crucial to opening up sales. In the future, it will be a famous brand in European countries.

Besides, they have calculated that even if the price is high, if the Ming Dynasty could really control the export quantity, it would still be a sky-high price after shipping. At worst, they would just hold an auction, but at that time they became sellers, and the buyer was the European landlord Laocai.
Chapter completed!