Chung Geng Sheng's method of "cleaning up the mess" was simple and effective.
That was to find a reasonable reason for Jiang Wang's lifespan to be fulfilled.
Chung Geng Sheng was very efficient. He quickly selected a "singing and selling" event.
Singing and selling were generally divided into "official selling" and "charity selling". The former was usually auctioned by the government to subsidize the government's income. The latter was usually used to collect money for disaster relief. Furthermore, the State of Qi's business was prosperous, and trading was very popular.
"Commercial selling" was held purely for profit and was despised by some old-fashioned Confucians and Legalists. However, it was the appearance of "commercial selling" that made "singing and selling" really popular.
Using profits to drive people away was the essence of the business.
There was a saying, "If you don't sing three times, the price should be higher", "If you don't compete after three times, the price won't infringe." (1) This was the rule of "singing and selling", which was also the origin of the name "singing and selling".
As long as you didn't sing three times, you could increase the price to participate in the transaction. After three times, the transaction was completed.
The organizer of this singing and selling event was Baibao Pavilion. Their headquarters was in the offshore islands. It was said that they had many branches in many places. They mainly sold all kinds of treasures and also did singing and selling business.
In Qi, singing and selling events under the Four Seas Business Alliance and even Jubao Merchants were much more powerful than Baibao Pavilion. However, Chung Geng Sheng chose Baibao Pavilion because it didn't belong to the two above. His "tricks" were also less likely to be discovered.
Chung Geng Sheng's operation was very simple. He sent people to disguise themselves and sell "longevity treasures" in Baibao Pavilion's singing and selling. Of course, it was fake, but the fake was very real. At least, it was hard to tell just by looking at the appearance.
Then, he would buy it during the singing and selling. He would use the non-existent "longevity treasures" to fulfill Jiang Wang's lifespan.
Baibao Pavilion would take a large sum of money from this transaction. However, it was worth it in exchange for peace on Tian Anping's side.
Furthermore, Chung Geng Sheng had just extorted a large sum of money from the Bao Family, so he didn't really care about this.
Throughout the entire process, the buyer was real, the seller was real, and the transaction process was also real. Only the item being sold was fake.
The Hundred Treasure Pavilion was more than happy to have a treasure that could extend one's lifespan. Not only could it raise the level of singing, but they could also gain something from it.
Jiang Wang and Chung Geng Sheng sat in a private room and observed the items being sold through a huge Water Moon Mirror. For "big customers" like them who were rich and powerful, Jubao Pavilion had people guarding the door to help them participate in the sales at any time.
The Water Moon Mirror was an artifact used to reflect distant scenes. Because of its level, it was easily interfered with by Daoist techniques, so it was not very useful in battle. However, as a small object in life, it was still very useful. They were usually very small in size. For such artifacts, the larger they were, the harder it was to maintain their clarity, and the more expensive they were.
The effect was similar to the Red Makeup Mirror, but there was a world of difference in terms of level. At least, he had never been disturbed when using the Red Makeup Mirror.
The person in charge of the singing was a beauty invited from Three Fragrant Brothel.
The four famous brothels would not easily allow their beauties to "appear in public". The price for them to appear in public was very expensive.
Three Fragrant Brothel was not cheap either, but its reputation was indeed weaker in Qi. It was probably because they used this kind of activity to display their beauties. In comparison, it seemed a little low-end, but there was no other way.
In order to prevent people from competing at all costs, they increased their expenses. Chung Geng Sheng's fake longevity treasure was the most common one in the market. Those who had the ability to buy longevity treasures had basically already used them, so they could not sing at a high price.
The only thing that was ignored was the Life-Nourishing Pill and Longevity Fruit that Jiang Wang had consumed. It was tailor-made for Jiang Wang's "needs".
The Hundred Treasure Pavilion was located in the coastal islands. There were many strange things. However, there were very few things that were valuable to Jiang Wang at his current level.
The items were sold one by one. Jiang Wang only sold a few very rare secret techniques.
He spent less than five hundred Dao Origin Stones. Of course, it was Chung Geng Sheng who paid for them.
"This dao technique is not worth this much. It's much more expensive." Chung Geng Sheng said.
Jiang Wang intended to collect these secret techniques to complete the unsealing of the three levels of the Dao Platform. He said casually: "The singing will inevitably raise the price."
"No." Chung Geng Sheng shook his head: "It exceeds their value by too much. Besides being rare, these secret techniques have no power to speak of. "
He concluded: "It's possible that more and more people know about the Great Illusionary Realm."
Besides the Great Illusionary Realm's Dao Platform, he really could not think of any other place that would need this kind of secret technique. For example, a dao technique that could turn water red was simply crazy. Did the creator pretend to vomit blood at any time so that he could conveniently?
This kind of dao technique was something that would definitely be eliminated. Now, it had appeared openly in the singing event. There were even people bidding for it!
Jiang Wang wanted it because of the Dao Platform. What about the others?
Chung Geng Sheng saw the big picture from the small.
When the needs of the Great Illusionary Realm affected the real world. Perhaps the day when the Great Illusionary Realm was completely opened was not far away.
At this time, the attendant in charge of their private room knocked on the door: "Young Master, the item that you need to pay attention to has already been sold."
It was the "longevity treasure" that Chung Geng Sheng had arranged, the Seven Tassels Flower.
They had already seen it from the Water Moon Mirror. Chung Geng Sheng only waved his hand: "No matter how much others bid, I will pay an extra thousand Dao Origin Stones."
The attendant of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion was used to seeing extravagance, but he was also shocked by this spending. He was stunned for a moment before retreating.
"Twenty thousand Dao Origin Stones!"
"Twenty-one thousand Dao Origin Stones!"
"Thirty thousand! Thirty thousand Dao Origin Stones! "
"Thirty-one thousand Dao Origin Stones! The honored guest of the Sky First Room did not hesitate to raise the price again!"
"Fifty thousand Dao Origin Stones!"
"Heavens, fifty-one thousand. Legend has it that the Seven Tassels Flower blooms seven autumns and bears fruit eight years of spring! I wonder who will be able to pluck this beauty. Let us wait and see! "
The voice of the beauty of the Three Fragrances Pavilion resounded in the room through the sound transmission stone, and her beauty was reflected in the Water Moon Mirror.
The Seven Tassels Flower was placed in a crystal bottle. Not only would it not affect one's observation, it would also preserve its medicinal effects very well. It was bright yellow and full of vitality.
This time, the standards of the auction were not very high. It was just that the existence of the longevity treasure, the Seven Tassels Flower, might attract some rich customers.
Chung Geng Sheng naturally occupied the Sky First Room, and was extremely rich and imposing.
After a while, the attendant wiped his sweat and knocked on the door. "Young master, it's already two hundred thousand Dao Origin Stones! Do you still want to add? "
Chung Geng Sheng acted extremely rich and imposing. "Did I set an upper limit for you?"
"I understand!" The attendant hurriedly lowered his head and left.
The Hundred Treasures Pavilion did not know that the Seven Tassels Flower was fake, except for the master who had been bribed by Chung Geng Sheng and was in charge of appraising the Seven Tassels Flower. To him, the risk was not high, because this fake would not have a victim.
The Seven Tassels Flower had a nice name, but it was actually a longevity medicine cultivated in the East King Valley's herb garden. Its effects were very ordinary. Its current reputation was all due to the East King Valley's good publicity. "The flower blooms in seven autumns and takes eight years of spring" was said beautifully, but it had indeed become one of the East King Valley's biggest sources of income.
Two hundred thousand Dao Origin Stones had already exceeded the value of the Seven Tassels Flower by a lot, so the attendant of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion came to remind him.
Of course, the Hundred Treasures Pavilion wanted to earn more money, but it also depended on who the target was. Although it was wonderful to take advantage of the young masters' wallets, they were afraid that these young masters would not be happy about it and cause trouble instead. Therefore, people who had been doing business for a long time knew when to stop.
However, since they had already reminded Chung Geng Sheng, and he still insisted on "competing in wealth", they could not be blamed anymore.
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PS:
One said that this sentence came from the "Law of Ten Friends", but I did not find the full text of the "Law of Ten Friends", so I can't be sure if it's true or not.
However, in the "Zen Garden Clear Rules" of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a rule of "singing clothes", which was to sing and sell monk robes. It could be seen that auctions existed in ancient China, and it was not out of place for it to appear in ancient novels.
Chixin was a fictional world, and I wrote a non-historical textual criticism, so I did not spend too much time on textual criticism.
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