NOVEL WEB Chapter 110
"Very good, congratulations to guest 76 for winning this 60-year-old wild ginseng!"
With the opening words of the auctioneer,
He Daqing finally got off to a good start and successfully bought this 60-year-old wild ginseng.
Then there is the 90-year-old wild ginseng, with a reserve price of 1-150 yuan.
"One thousand two hundred yuan!"
He Daqing was still as imposing as ever, bidding at a price far exceeding the market price, directly raising the price by more than eight times.
This also made those who were interested in precious medicinal materials frown, thinking that He Daqing was a bit aggressive and too greedy.
""One thousand and five!"
It seemed that someone was not satisfied with He Daqing's behavior and directly called out the price.
After he finished calling out the price, he did not forget to turn his head and look at He Daqing, giving him a provocative look.
Others also looked at the two with interest, as if they wanted to witness a fight between dragons and tigers.
However, just when everyone thought that He Daqing would continue to call out the price.
He Daqing sat there with a calm face, not even looking at the man, without any reaction.
In fact, He Daqing also knew the person who called out the price. He was a shopkeeper of Baicao Hall. It seemed that Bai Jingye, the eldest son of Bai Qiye of the Bai family, was in charge of the business of Baicao Hall on Qianmen Street in Sijiu City.
Once, in order to collect the medicinal materials needed for the Jinwu medicinal tea eggs, He Daqing had also been to Baicao Hall on Qianmen Street, and happened to meet this person at that time.
Of course, He Daqing knew Bai Jingye, but Bai Jingye did not necessarily know He Daqing.
After all, the two had only met once. How could the eldest son of the Bai family, a pharmaceutical giant in Sijiu City, know the owner of a steamed bun shop like He Daqing.
He Daqing did not have a very good opinion of Bai Jingye.
Because when he went to Baicaoting on Qianmen Street, he happened to meet Bai Jingye checking accounts with the shopkeeper and clerk in the store.
He Daqing's evaluation of this man was: unlearned, sloppy, and not doing his job properly.
In short, he is a second-generation with high expectations but low skills.
He did not treat Baicaoting as his own industry at all.
The Bai family is a pharmaceutical giant in Sijiu City. It almost monopolizes the production and sale of donkey-hide gelatin in the country. It has built several donkey-hide gelatin factories in Dongshan Province. Together with the Rong family in the south, one in the south and the other in the north, they are known as the Rong in the south and the Bai in the north. Do you want to ask how much money the Bai family has?
I'm afraid no one knows this question except the head of the Bai family.
But there is one thing. to be sure.
He Daqing's family background is undoubtedly not worth mentioning in front of the Bai family.
Even Lou Zhenhua, who has the title of Lou Bancheng, is far inferior to the Bai family.
This inferiority is not only in financial resources, but also in influence and official status.
Therefore, even if He Daqing looks down on Bai Jingye, he will not fight with the Bai family for a 90-year-old wild ginseng.
Since Mr. Bai likes this 90-year-old wild ginseng and is willing to pay ten times the price to buy it, let him buy it.
Although in the Bai family's medicinal material procurement channels, a 90-year-old wild ginseng like this only costs one or two hundred yuan, but who makes Mr. Bai like it?
There is a saying that a gentleman does not take away what others love. Since Mr. Bai likes it so much, just give it to him.
But after He Daqing was silent.
Bai Jingye was dumbfounded.
Even if he is unlearned, I also know that a 90-year-old wild ginseng is not worth 1,500 yuan.
Even in the price list of Baicao Hall, a 90-year-old wild ginseng is only 500 yuan, and the acquisition cost is only more than 200 yuan.
Otherwise, do you think the reserve price of this underground auction is randomly marked?
It is definitely impossible.
Generally speaking, the reserve price of underground auctions is one-third of the market price of the item, so that customers feel that it is profitable and there are leaks to be picked up. If it is really too cheap or too expensive, neither the seller nor the buyer will be willing.
So the price of 1,500 is definitely far beyond the real price of this 90-year-old wild ginseng.
He Daqing bid 1,200 because the 90-year-old wild ginseng on the market has been monopolized by the rich and powerful and large pharmacies. He has no purchase channels at all, so he has to pay multiple times the high price to buy it.
But Bai Jingye bid 1,500, which is a pure sucker.
Therefore, when He Daqing was silent and gave up the bid,
Bai Jingye was immediately dumbfounded.
Because if this matter were to spread out, others would definitely laugh at him and call him a fool. Even the other branches of the Bai family would laugh at him.
Thinking of this,
Bai Jingye's provocative look changed instantly. He sat there, looking at He Daqing pitifully, almost crying and begging him to continue bidding. Seeing that no one in the auction hall raised the price, Old Wang said in a deep voice:"Guest number ten, bid 1,500 yuan, is there anyone who can bid a higher price?"
"If not, this sixty-year-old wild ginseng will belong to guest number ten!"
A ninety-year-old wild ginseng was sold at a high price of fifteen hundred.
For the auction organizer, it is undoubtedly a good thing.
So Lao Wang didn't care about Bai Jingye's thoughts. Seeing that no one spoke, he said loudly:"Congratulations to guest number ten for bidding for a ninety-year-old wild ginseng at a high price of fifteen hundred yuan."
In one sentence, the matter was nailed down, and Bai Jingye was not given a chance to regret.
Of course, there is no such thing as regret in this underground auction.
Even if Bai Jingye's face was ugly, he could only swallow the bitter pill and glared at He Daqing fiercely, obviously holding a grudge against him.
Facing Bai Jingye's threatening eyes.
He Daqing didn't care at all.
Because the Bai family and the Lou family are not much different, they are both big businessmen with a little power.
There is a little power, but it doesn't work very well in this era. (Read the violent novel, Just go to Faloo Novel Network! )
In this red era, some shady means simply don’t work.
And after more than a decade, the Bai family, whether they are from the Bai family or not, will all be rats crossing the street, and everyone will shout and beat them. It’s not certain who will retaliate against whom.
And if he is really forced into a corner, the worst that can happen is that he can just hand over the recipe for the Jinwu Medicinal Tea Eggs.
At that time, it depends on which one the higher-ups will choose.
Of course, this is also the worst case scenario. In fact, the Bai family is not Bai Jingye’s Bai family. There is Bai Jingqi, the person in charge, and there are several other families below, and even other brothers and sisters competing for it.[]
Bai Jingye is not as important as imagined in the Bai family. He is just an uneducated second generation.
The Bai family can't do anything to He Daqing because of Bai Jingye.
After all, He Daqing is not without connections. Both Guan Shan and Zheng Wentian are not ordinary people. In addition, Chen Xueru's family is related. If they really fight, it is hard to say who will win or lose.
So He Daqing really doesn't care about Bai Jingye's threatening eyes. Instead, he thinks that the Bai family is really lonely. The famous Bai Qiye is really not good at cultivating his descendants.
"Next auction item!"
"The starting price of a 150-year-old wild ginseng is 500 yuan, and each bid must not be less than 100 yuan. Friends who are interested can bid now!"
The auction of the 60-year-old wild ginseng has ended, and we have finally waited for the most precious item among the precious medicinal materials.
A 150-year-old wild ginseng.
Facing such an old ginseng, not only He Daqing, but also other people in the auction who were not interested in medicinal materials, all perked up their attention, and their eyes were shining, obviously they were determined to get this century-old ginseng.
Because this thing can really save lives, it is very rare.
Even if everyone present is not short of money.
But no one has ever dared to guarantee that he can buy wild ginseng that is more than a hundred years old.
In fact, the price of wild ginseng has been high as early as the Qing Dynasty.
There is a book"Ginseng Spectrum" written by a Qing Dynasty person:"The price of ginseng is ten times that of gold, and one hundred and fifty or sixty times that of platinum!"
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" This is just talking about ordinary ginseng. If the ginseng is over a hundred years old, once it appears, it will attract the fight of the powerful and the rich, and will often be sent to the court as a tribute, and it is rare for ordinary people to have it. In this era, although ginseng has been planted.
Even as early as the early years of the Republic of China, Fusong, which is located in a remote area and has just been opened up, has seen the emergence of many ginseng growers of all sizes.
Because ginseng is commonly known as a club, these ginseng planting areas are called club camps.
《According to the Fusong County Chronicle, there were more than 740 bangchuiying in Fusong County at that time, producing 280,000 jin of ginseng every year, accounting for about 70% of the national output, with total sales in Yingkou and distribution worldwide.
However, there is a world of difference between artificially cultivated ginseng and wild ginseng. Artificially cultivated ginseng is relatively of poor quality and weak in medicinal properties.
Therefore, the emergence of artificially cultivated ginseng has highlighted the characteristics and value of wild ginseng.
This characteristic and value lies in the"wildness" of wild ginseng. In people's eyes, wild ginseng has no human intervention, no human intervention, and has the spirit of heaven and earth, and gathers the essence of the sun and the moon. It is a product of natural creation.
Therefore, wild ginseng has all kinds of incredible effects, and its medicinal effects are not a little stronger than artificially cultivated ginseng.
Even in ancient times, there were special laws strictly prohibiting the artificial cultivation of ginseng, because those in power believed that ginseng was produced by the spirit of the earth, and artificial cultivation was close to forgery, which was tantamount to murder for money.
Therefore, before the end of the previous dynasty, most of the ginseng people dug was wild ginseng.
The three wild ginsengs that appeared in the underground auction this time were obviously not fake, which was why everyone was determined to get this 150-year-old ginseng.
At this time, He Daqing was also thinking about what price should be offered for this 150-year-old old ginseng.
He remembered that there was a plot in the TV series"The Mansion Gate" in his previous life.
It was about that when Bai Jingqi first arrived in Anguo, he learned the power and simplicity of Mr. Tu and Mr. Xu, witnessed a dumb person eating Coptis chinensis, and saved a sum of money for Baicao Hall.
When they arrived at the ginseng and antler shop, Mr.
Tu was really good at looking at ginseng.
He had his own tricks in his sleeves.
He bargained back and forth and finally got it at a low price.
Everyone sighed that Mr.
Tu's eyes were really powerful.
Although it was said to be fake ginseng, it was not wild.
When they went out, they met an old man who stopped the three of them.
They opened the layers of packages and saw that it was indeed a good thing.
It was a 100-year-old ginseng, weighing seven or eight taels.
The old man knew that these three people were from the Bai family of Baicaoting in Beijing, so he let Bai Jingqi and the other two bid themselves and said directly that they would take whatever they were offered and would not bargain.
This made Tu Erye a little embarrassed to make an offer, and explained that he would sell ginseng at the local price, and gave the other party two thousand taels of silver.
It was still the end of the previous dynasty, and it was not yet the Republic of China.
The price of a ginseng weighing seven or eight taels and more than a hundred years old is two thousand taels of silver, which is equivalent to two hundred taels of gold.
According to the current gold price, that is thirty thousand yuan.
Of course, this weight is for fresh ginseng. If it is really dried, it is only about two or three taels, about seventy or eighty grams.
And now this ginseng that appeared in the underground auction has a dry weight of one tael and nine cents, which is about sixty grams. It is definitely not as good as the one Bai Jingqi had in the mansion.
Originally, He Daqing thought that he could buy it for about ten thousand yuan.
Now, after seeing the generosity of the people in the field, he had to give up this idea.
Because once the ginseng is over 100 years old, its efficacy, price, and rarity will all change. It is impossible to buy this 150-year-old wild ginseng for 10,000 yuan.
Thinking of this, He Daqing looked at the people in the auction who were bidding and had raised the price to more than 5,000 yuan. He took a deep breath, raised the sign in his hand, and shouted,"30,000 yuan!".